this is my ark journey

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Skadi couldn't understand the riddle, and thought she was a weirdo, but she didn't care about it, as long as she sent the other party to Long Beach Town, she would wander aimlessly.

As a passer-by, why bother to ask more questions, he walked towards the desert with his sword in hand.

"Let's go, we can arrive tomorrow if we go fast."

Ren turned his eyes away from the setting sun and turned to the slender and tall figure in front of him with a thoughtful expression.

There is one thing that he has always kept in his heart. It has nothing to do with the familiarity of the name, but as an expert in the field of souls, he found that Miss Skadi feels different from those dead people underground.

very different!

Chapter 3 Am I becoming a human? ?

As night fell, fire flakes flew.

The temperature difference between day and night in the wilderness was huge. Ren, who found a place to rest in the lee, lit a bonfire, then listened to the whistling wind outside, and looked at the fire for a while.

The machete full of gaps was flicking the firewood, while the other hand was holding a few broken stones, which were 'picked up' on the road, and he and Skadi encountered some strange creatures.

Those creatures called origin stone worms were very weak. Without Skadi's shot, Renn killed them all with a few knives, and then put these stones into the cloak regardless of the girl's advice.

"The breath is the same as those of the 'orcs', or more varied and richer."

The flames flickered on his face, and Ren was fascinated by it. He already knew that the people in those holes were suffering from a disease called 'Ore Disease'. He heard from Skadi that many people in the wilderness were infected.

No, those in protective suits also had the same aura, but it was a little weaker. Only Skadi's aura was completely different.

The tattered machete fiddled with the firewood, and Ren seemed to be looking for firewood too. He had already killed infected people, non-infected people, and Originium creatures after coming here for almost a day. No doubt.

"It's the same soul, why is there a difference between high and low when it is contaminated with the breath of origin stone?" Ren didn't understand, but looked at the twinkling starry sky and two bright moons, one red and one white, and the strange feeling came to mind again.

This world is not easy...

After coming out of the black soul of the Riddler, Ren became a master of deciphering. Even after he came here for a long time, he felt that he had plunged into the ocean of secrets, and he could not see the bottom of the sea at a glance.

But it's still the same old saying, guessing without clues is useless, a girl who just jumped out of this hellish place is so strong, self-protection is a problem.

'Is it still like a candle in the wind?Hey, it seems to have grown a little bit. '

Ren closed his eyes and carefully sensed the flame in the 'body', and he realized that it was not an illusion. The flame really grew stronger. He swayed in the darkness, spreading a faint light around, illuminating some things that had been silent for a long time.

He could vaguely 'see' those things illuminated by the faint light of the fire, they were arranged in a disorderly manner, and Ren by the fire let go of the machete, trying to hold one of the straight sword-like weapons by the light .

"I should have told you that too much contact with Originium products can cause ore disease."

At this time, a cold voice came, and Ren's open hand quickly clenched his fist, and his eyes opened accordingly.

The experiment was terminated. Even though he knew that Miss Skadi was kind in nature, Ren didn't want to make unexplainable movements. He opened his eyes and saw the girl walking out of the night with a huge beast on her back.

Ren laughed, quickly threw the stone aside, pointed to the beast on Skadi's back and asked, "What kind of animal is this?"

"Wild pack animals, you can eat them."

"You killed it?" Ren saw the wound on the beast's body, which was very thin, not like a big sword.

"I don't know who killed it, it's still fresh."

Skadi didn't explain too much, threw the pack beast on the ground, then skillfully dismantled it into eight pieces, put them on a tree branch and roasted them on the bonfire.

Is this place where you can get food at your fingertips?

Ren shook his head speechlessly, and looked up at the sky as if he felt something, but he saw nothing except Hongyue, so he lowered his head and went to play with the origin stone.

The night breeze was blowing, and the girl's side face was illuminated by the flames, which looked very peaceful. Skadi didn't care about Ren's weirdness, and Ren was also used to Skadi's silence. They all stared blankly at the bonfire until the pack animal meat was roasted with fat.

"It's ready to eat." Skadi reminded, picked up a huge pack animal leg and started to eat. She took small bites, but the speed of eating was very fast. When Renn was in a daze, he had already eaten nearly half of it. .

Eating is a heroine.

Ren secretly gave a thumbs up in his heart, picked up a small piece of meat, and prepared to eat it. He had no requirements for food, and Ember couldn't taste it anyway. If it didn't work, he could eat the source stone worm raw.

It's just that when he took the first bite, he was stunned.

This is......

The touch of fat exploded in his mouth, and the faint taste of salt revived the taste buds that had been silent for a long time, reminding him of a word that he had almost forgotten——

Food!

"What's the matter with you?" Skadi saw Ren holding the meat skewers in a daze, his eyebrows were slightly sloppy.

"It's nothing, I almost forgot what 'salty' tastes like." Ren came back to his senses, biting with big mouthfuls, as if to wake up the sense of taste completely.

"What a weirdo," muttered Skadi, throwing the bare leg bones aside, who gave her the feeling that she had no common sense when she first landed.

"Hey, it's strange that you are the same." Ren replied, drying the corners of his mouth and saying, "You are different from those who died before, more like deliberately being a lone ranger."

Skadi paused and raised his head expressionlessly: "I thought you didn't like to talk."

"I'm already familiar with the Iberian language, and it's okay to hold back for so long to chat." Ren tried his best to appear gentle, and that world really suffocated him.

No way, which sentence did I step on the thunder?

He was a little stunned, but saw that Skadi didn't use his big sword to slash, but just got up and walked to the distance, walked a few steps and then turned his head slightly.

"It's not good for you to know too much, I'll hand you over to old Jose in a few days, and I won't see you again."

After finishing speaking, the silver hair flicked, leaving only a cool back view for Ren.

It seems that Miss Skadi has more secrets than I imagined. She keeps keeping me at a distance. Is there something chasing her?

Turning his eyes around, Ren had already guessed something, but Skadi, acting like no stranger to enter, forcibly approached and was careful to be blown away.

'Anyway, I owe her a favor. Without Skadi to lead the way, I would probably be trapped in this wasteland, and she didn't find out about me from the beginning to the end. '

Ren is very good at being a man, so he doesn't want to annoy people just to find out the secrets. He also understands that although Skadi is a bit naive, his IQ is definitely not a problem, but he suppresses his curiosity.

Just take care of yourself first....

He lowered his head to look at his somewhat pale hands, the lost sense of taste had returned, this was still the ashes of wool.

From human to ashes, and from ashes to human?What the hell happened in front of the stove?

This was the biggest confusion, but he couldn't think of anything. Ren sat there for a long time and finally rubbed his face and chose to give up.

Forget it, let's take a closer look at the world first.

Ren didn't bother to think about it. He wrapped his cloak tightly and leaned against the rock wall to rest. He happened to be sitting opposite Skadi across the campfire, and naturally set his eyes on the girl.

The silver hair spread out like a waterfall, and the girl leaned against the rock wall to embrace the huge sword, the blade just sank into the center of the slightly undulating towering chest.

Tranquil and beautiful, it would have been even better if it hadn't punched the rock wall out of cracks when turning over.

Ren seemed to be admiring a work of art, and thinking of the salty taste before, he felt something revived in himself, the deepest obsession in the Black Soul world, a certain knight even brought shit with him for this kind of thing.

Desire and instinct!

Looking at the beautiful girl who was peacefully sleeping, Ren felt that his body was undergoing some kind of change. From the beginning of the fire-passing sacrificial ground, he couldn't stop the turmoil in his heart from spreading to his body.

"I... am turning into a human!?"

Chapter 4 Lonely people are always attracted to each other!

Early the next morning, the two continued on the road, heading east along the indistinguishable dirt road. Along the way, Ren always had the cheek to chat with Skadi, completely ignoring the warning of 'stay away from her'.

Perhaps because he was annoyed, or because he was moved by his thirst for knowledge, Skadi, who had just landed ashore, had to use half a bucket of knowledge to make up for the other party.

"Well, it turns out that this is a wilderness. I thought this world was a doomsday survival."

"People on land don't talk about the world, they just call it the land of Terra." Skadi corrected a sentence, and then complained in a low voice: "Although the civilization developed by land countries is insignificant, at least it is not like the wilderness with flush toilets nothing."

The land, land civilization, Terra...

Ren turned the cloth bag containing the animal meat in his hand a few times, and said with a silent smile: "You mean the sea is very technological?"

"Don't ask, knowing too much is not good for you." Skadi's face froze, and his pace quickened.

This Skadi is really a bit naive, with the power of a monster, but his mind is very simple, and it is obvious that he doesn't understand the land of Terra.

Getting along for more than a day is enough for the old riddleman to figure out the character of the girl. If she is really a "three noes", she will not be stereotyped at all. The appearance of the Lone Ranger is more like pretending. Every time she says "don't approach me", The body is very honest, as long as it does not touch the sea, it basically answers all questions.

Terra has a developed civilization, and there are countries of all sizes, but these countries do not border each other, and there are a lot of blank areas in the center, and these blank areas are the wilderness at the foot of Rennes.

Barrenness and disorder are the themes here. Mercenaries, scavengers, robbers, and refugees come and go. Of course, countries let the wilderness go unchecked not because they think their land is too big, but because there are "natural disasters" in this world.

Volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, falling meteorites, and the mighty force of nature tear everything apart, forcing most cities to move, just like the migration of nomadic tribes, which blurs the concept of national borders, and countries are not willing to develop wilderness soil of.

"It's not easy in any world. I have to find an opportunity to see what the country on Terra is like."

Just when Renn set a new goal, the figure in front of him suddenly paused, and stretched out his left hand to point into the distance.

"There is someone in front, let's hide."

Ren walked forward quickly, and by the height of the slope, he could see a team of nearly a hundred people struggling in the wind and sand in the distance.

Most of them were dressed in rags, and they were driving a caravan pulled by pack animals. There were men, women, young and old. Some people fell down on the way and no one helped them. They were like walking corpses, wandering aimlessly in the wilderness.

"Those are the infected?" Ren noticed something was wrong from a long distance away, and his brows frowned as if he had seen through their essence.

"Well, most countries will expel the infected, and the towns in the wilderness are the same. They will migrate in the wilderness, either killed by robbers, or annihilated by flying ash." Skadi drooped her long eyelashes, her tone was inaudible joys and sorrows.

Infected people will become a new source of infection at the end of their development. She heard old Jose say that expulsion is considered a relatively civilized approach.

But she was a little surprised, how the strange man next to him could see that the travelers who were tightly wrapped in clothes were infected from a few hundred meters away.

Ren was speechless, staring closely at the moving team in the distance. He held the machete at his waist, but finally chose to let go.

Although he urgently needs strength, he hasn't bothered to massacre a group of desperate patients. He is just greedy for souls, which is different from brainless living corpses.

"Are you pitying them? It's better not to go up to help, they will take all your food, and in the end they can only kill people." Skadi looked ahead, her drooping hair covering all her expressions.

"I'm not that naive." Ren looked at the infected people who were thrown out, his eyes gradually deepened: "There are weak people in any world, and most people are struggling to survive. The despair of some people is better than the despair of all."

!! ?

Skadi turned her head quickly, and looked at the man beside her in surprise. For a moment, she was a little curious about the man's past, because this sentence made her feel the same.

Monsters, hunters, desperate battles, self-sacrifice to protect more people, and the loneliness of fighting against fate alone.

Her lips moved, but she didn't ask a word in the end. She glanced at the sun that was setting again and took a step forward and jumped down the tens of meters high slope lightly.

"We're staying here tonight."

"Ah?" Ren, who had deep eyes just now, glanced at Gao Po, who was enough to kill a dozen fire spreaders, and hurried after him.

..........

In a shallow cave, the bonfire was lit again, and the dancing flames dispelled the cold night, and the two sat facing each other to feel the warmth brought by the flames.

It has been almost two days since I got along with Skadi, and Ren quite likes this straightforward girl. At least she can suppress her curiosity and never ask her identity, and she is quite reliable.

'It's a pity that this good day will end tomorrow. Ren sighed, the situation is very complicated now, and it is very important to have a reliable person.

"Tomorrow I will hand you over to old Jose, and then we will go our separate ways." Skadi carried the firewood with a stick to make the flames more vigorous.

"Who is old Jose?"

"An intelligence agent who knows more than I do." Skadi replied casually, and then remembered Jose's son Juan, that little boy who always wanted to go out with him.

Ren pursed his lips, thinking about making a last effort and said simply: "Then you continue to wander aimlessly?"

Skadi fiddled with the fire for a moment, and replied without raising his head, "I can only do this, and that's the only way to do it."

Dude, you've started to tell riddles too.

Ren sat up straight, glanced at the ground quietly, as if holding back something, and asked directly: "Miss Skadi, what are you afraid of?"

This kind of narrow cave is the most suitable for going directly to A, and the awkward atmosphere makes it difficult to keep silent.

Sure enough, Skadi dropped the wooden stick and raised his head, looking at the man opposite him calmly, his red eyes made people feel a little flustered, and he shook his head after a long time.

"You're too weak, it doesn't make sense for me to tell you."

you......

Ryan almost broke the defense. This is the natural nemesis of the Riddler, and every word hits the heart.

"Miss Scarty, your logic is really unexpected Jane... No, simply."

"This is a fact."

"Actually, I'm not as weak as you imagined." Ren scratched his gray hair, thinking that no matter what he said, he also walked out of a sea of ​​blood.