A foreigner's journey

The town of Kam is about 85 kilometers away from Midgar, and a wide road connects the two places.

At the beginning, the area around the highway was completely deserted, with no existence that could be called 'plants' at all. Occasionally, there would be living creatures moving, and hungry monsters would look at them with eager eyes.

Perhaps it was because the war golem [Red Comet] loaded on the truck looked quite intimidating. Even though those monsters were very hungry, they just stood still by the roadside and had no intention of attacking at all.

The further away from the Midgar wilderness, the better the weather and environment become.

As we approached Cam Town, not only did the clouds in the sky become normal, but we could even see some grass near the huge Mako Pipeline.

As a transfer station and mining town for transporting mako, the residential buildings in Cam Town are not as large as the Shinra Factory and the mako furnace. The architectural style is very close to the eighteenth-century British suburban style in the original world of Heather. Of course, the messiness is about the same.

The supply operation in Cam Town was not affected in any way. Seventh Heaven's money is usually kept by Tifa. With Heather's permission, the entire team shared this huge amount of money, so whether it is energy supply or food, weapons and ammunition, Not a problem.

What makes the group feel strange is the attitude of the people in the town.

It was as if everyone was wearing a mask, and everything they passed was praising Shinra Corporation and Mako Energy, as if anyone who dared to disobey Shinra was a treasonous sinner. Naturally, the Avalanche organization that resisted Shinra Company was also judged by them as "idiots" and "fanatics".

If it weren't for being pulled by Heather and Claude, Barrett would have really planned to swing the metal rotating machine gun on the spot and give those guys who were talking arrogantly a 'blow in the head'.

After replenishing supplies, Heather and others did not stay in the town longer, but drove away from the town and headed east under the strange eyes of the townspeople.

If you want to go to Junon, you either need to take Shinra's special freight train directly from Midgar, or you have to enter the mithril mine from the swamp southeast of Cam Town in the ranch area, and then pass through the mine to reach the Junon area.

In the wilderness, several convertibles stood against the hillside. Trucks and motorcycles were parked aside. The war golem [Red Comet], which had replenished its energy, was meticulously performing vigilance missions around the camp after receiving instructions from Jesse.

The tents were erected around the bonfire, and a group of people sat in front of the bonfire, with the red firelight reflecting on everyone's face.

"What a long night..."

Jesse sat next to Claude with a coat on his back and yawned: "If it were to be written as a novel, there would have to be at least 50,000 words of plot tonight, right? I'm so sleepy, please squint a little..."

Claude fiddled with the fire with a wooden stick and felt Jesse leaning on his shoulder. He adjusted his position to make Jesse lean more comfortable, and then looked at Heather: "The citizens of Cam Town have a bad attitude. It’s too right, is it because of pressure from Shinra?”

"In the past, Cam Town relied on the mineral resources of the mithril mines and its life was not too bad. However, since Shinra established the Mako Reactor in Cam Town, Cam Town has been completely controlled by Shinra."

Heather was sorting out the magic crystals in the box and said without raising her head:

"The main energy source is controlled by Shinra, and more and more young people in the town are giving up their ancestral mining industry and joining the Shinra army or maintaining the magic furnace. In the end, Kamu Town is nothing more than It is just a microcosm of the many small towns destroyed by the Mako Reactor. In comparison, they are relatively lucky. Some towns and villages were even completely wiped out by Shinra. No one mentioned or retained their memories anymore, and completely disappeared in the world. into the long river of history.”

Tifa, who was sitting next to him, lowered her head slightly. Her and Cloud's hometown of Nibelheim was a living example.

On the other side, Barrett also remained silent. His hometown of Kore Village was also completely wiped out because of Shinra, leaving only him and Marin alive.

Jesse, who tilted his head and leaned on Cloud's shoulder, rolled his eyes: "The topic is too heavy! Let's change it to a lighter topic? Heather, I didn't expect you and Tifa's 7th Heaven to be so profitable. ?”

Not that I didn't know, everyone gathered together to raise money to buy some supplies when they were in Cam Town. Barrett and Claude are completely paupers. Alice's pocket money is earned from working in restaurants or selling flowers, which adds up to only more than 3,000 GIL. Jesse does have some money, but it's less than 10,000 GIL. If he wants to buy all the supplies, everyone will have to drink the northwest wind.

Then, the rich woman appeared.

Tifa almost blinded everyone when she took out her self-made thunder wolf dragon wallet, which cost a total of 240,000 GIL. This was only the working capital of Seventh Heaven this month. After Heather made the decision, the funds were shared among the entire team. However, considering that the others were either boys and girls who were ignorant of the world or old fritters who spent money lavishly, the small treasury was ultimately left to Tifa for safekeeping.

Hearing Jesse's joke, Heather glanced at her and said lazily: "If you don't go to Bafan Street to buy those useless junk, you can save money."

"My situation is different. I am responsible for the maintenance and development of the weapons and equipment of the Avalanche Branch. Those so-called 'junk' can be turned into very useful parts by repairing or dismantling the discarded parts, and they can even be sold. Where's the money! I'm telling you, Claude, I made all the water purification devices in the Qifan Street slum!" As he spoke, Jesse turned to her boyfriend to claim credit.

Claude showed a surprised expression in a very cooperative manner. I don't know if he was really surprised or if he had gained emotional intelligence and knew how to coax his girlfriend.

Next to her, Alice finally spread a thick layer of strawberry jam on all the slices of bread and handed them to everyone diligently. Everyone thanked them one after another and then took the bread and ate it.

When they first arrived in Cam Town, they knocked on the door of the bakery in the middle of the night and bought all the cold bread that the store had kept for themselves during the day. Heather, the bargaining expert, also took away four big... Jars of homemade strawberry jam.

Although the bread was already cold and the edges were a little tough, it was still a very delicious meal for everyone who made a fuss at the Shinra headquarters and ran away overnight.

"Brother, are you going to the Mortal Swamp next? What to do with the truck?" Tifa looked at her beloved pickup truck with some worry.

"Actually, Shinra also built a road near the swamp, but due to some objective reasons, the road was abandoned as soon as it was built. Hmm...a lot of jam?"

Heather took a bite of the bread, and the corners of her mouth were immediately stained with a lot of red jam. The piece of bread in his hand was obviously covered with much more jam than the others, which seemed to come from the apprentice's sincere care.

"Abandoned? Then it's still useless?" Barrett doesn't want to give up trucks and motorcycles. Having these means of transportation can save a lot of trouble.

Heather shook her finger: "Abandonment does not mean that the road is damaged. As I said, it is because of some objective reasons. This objective reason is not a problem for me, but we need to go to the pasture area first. Bird Home.”

Chocobo? Others subconsciously turned their gazes to Claude, who was confused.

There is no other reason than that Cloud's hairstyle and hair color are too similar to Chocobo's.

Barrett scratched his hair frantically: "Heather, stop showing off. Why are you going to the Chocobo House?"

"Some chocobos can fly long distances if they are bred properly. I need to get one of these high-quality chocobos."

Heather smiled: "And if we are going to the Western Continent, then the Golden Butterfly Playground is a must. There is a Chocobo Competition there, and you must have your own chocobos to participate. Looking at the entire Eastern Continent, only The chocobo breeding level at Chocobo House is the best.”

"The prizes in the competition are great?" Tifa knew Heather very well. Her senior brother was a typical profit-oriented person. If there were no good things in the Chocobo Competition, his senior brother would not be interested.

"The Chocobo Competition is just a [process] of getting what I want. My ultimate goal is to cultivate the strongest golden chocobo. Because the thing I want can only be obtained through this method."

From the beginning, Heather had no intention of leaving the precious recast magic crystal quota to relatively common summoning stones like Shiva or Ifrit. Even the Dragon God and Water God were only among his options. within.

He had only one goal from the beginning, and that was the strongest summoned beast in FF7 - [Knights of the Round Table].