Chapter 67: The Big Environment

Through a brief conversation, both of them determined and acknowledged each other’s wisdom, since neither of them had anything to hide, speaking frankly was the common need for both.

“Tell me, what do I need to do?”

Xiao Fen asked straightforwardly, “Tell me what trouble you have encountered, then tell me what I should do in exchange for your help.”

“You can gain limited freedom, in this rebuilt city, but the premise is that you must stay in this city and guarantee to be available on call, I am very interested in your combat skills, at this time, we need more helpers, not enemies.”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “Deal, if this city has problems, I probably won’t have a good time either, now tell me, what exactly has happened in this place?”

“We’d better go to the outside world and look at the actual situation, that will be better for your understanding and judgment.”

While saying this, Sabova signaled the guard to open the prison’s iron door, this request seemed to make the guard somewhat difficult, but under Sabova’s insistence, the guard finally took out a document and asked Sabova to sign it, and then reluctantly opened the iron door.

Xiao Fen keenly sensed the abnormality in this, he glanced at Sabova, and then thought of the previous sneak attack, the corner of his mouth slightly twitched.

He didn’t know who said it, where there are people there is strife, this sentence is really true.

He thought for a moment and asked, “What are you mainly responsible for in this city?”

Sabova answered while leading the way, “I am the chief person in charge of the city’s security, I can ensure your safety within a limited scope.”

Xiao Fen smiled bitterly and said, “Limited scope, hey, can you give a rough idea, what is it that makes you worried about the changes happening outside?”

Sabova looked ahead and said in a low voice, “Recently, abnormal phenomena have been discovered in many places in this city, just a few days ago, the big city closest to us, Bofu Castle, cut off all contact with the outside.”

Hearing Sabova suddenly mention another city, Xiao Fen frowned, he thought for a moment and suddenly asked, “How far is it from here?”

“About 300 kilometers, three days ago, Bofu Castle lost all contact with us.”

“Human factors or natural factors?”

Xiao Fen asked subconsciously.

“It’s hard to say, in any case, Bofu Castle is the center and bridgehead for us to maintain contact with the Far East on the Siberian plain, once lost, the 33rd Komsomolsk where we are now will bear the brunt of the next attack.”

“So you are using every bit of resource as much as possible, even someone as suspicious as me?”

Sabova turned her head to look at Xiao Fen and said, “Being able to obtain so many weapon s from the mountains is enough to explain your strength, at this time, maintaining suspicion of you while keeping enough distance and reaching a conditional exchange with you as much as possible is the best choice.”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “Okay, keeping enough distance from each other is a good thing for both of us.”

The two walked in the prison passage for a few minutes, it could be seen that this prison was empty so far, but in those empty cells, a large amount of dried black-brown bloodstains were still very clear, seemingly silently telling of the former madness and struggle in this prison.

“Riot, no, it should be the desperate madness before death, after the nuclear war started, the ground buildings of this prison were completely destroyed, along with the exit part of the underground prison, those prisoners locked in this underground prison eventually fell into madness and killed each other, one year later when the nuclear war ended, when people returned here, there were still a few prisoners alive in the underground prison.”

Sabova introduced casually, like a dutiful tour guide, but Xiao Fen’s communication with her did not last long.

Just as they were about to pass the fourth iron gate and could already see the steps extending upwards, a middle-aged man wearing a navy blue standard uniform that was completely different in style from the uniform on Sabova’s body, and whose eyes looked incredibly tired, blocked the way of the two.

“You can’t take him up, Sabova, he will bring danger to the above, not help.”

This big man with curly sideburns stared tightly at Xiao Fen while saying.

Sabova swept a glance at the big man and replied, “Comrade Ilyenko, please note that the security work of this city is my responsibility, what you need to be responsible for is the safety of the entire city, the military had better not interfere too much in civilian security matters.”

The bearded man named Ilyenko shook his head and said, “No, Comrade Sabova, as the garrison of this city, we also have to consider the safety of this city, before this guy’s official identity is determined, I hope you can consider more, for the sake of this city’s residents, as well as your own safety.”

“Consider what? Consider the garrison’s slow reaction? 12 days ago, a scavenger reported to the garrison of Bofu Castle that abnormal creatures were found in some mountains, as a result, this news was only notified here through another channel yesterday, and during this period, the 33rd Komsomolsk knew nothing about the possible danger, if Bofu Castle hadn’t lost contact with the outside for such a long time, perhaps the 33rd Komsomolsk still wouldn’t know until now that there are those Monsters in the surrounding mountains.”

Ilyenko quieted down, re-examined Xiao Fen, and asked in a low voice, “Hey, mountain man, so, you saw those things?”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “Killed a few, but I think I didn’t find the important thing, that nuclear bunker shouldn’t be the origin of these Monsters, to be honest, I’m looking for the ‘Source of Mutation’, it should be inside such a Monster’s body.”

Ilyenko’s face clearly changed, he stared at Xiao Fen and asked, “You just said, what are you looking for?”

“Source of Mutation.”

Sabova was also moved by this conversation, she turned her head and asked Ilyenko, “It sounds like you seem to know what the Source of Mutation is?”

[A type of crystal, a creature possessing such a crystal will continuously create pollution and radiation for the surrounding kindred, and eventually make these kindred become the same as itself, this kind of crystal is not a natural product.]

Sabova froze, and after a few seconds asked, “Not a natural product?”

Ilyenko nodded and said, “So, you should understand why the military is so cautious in this regard, the enemy we are facing is not some radiation-mutated Monster, but a man-made Monster.”