Little Six turned her head and hurriedly ran toward Mono. Although she didn't understand why mono wanted to stand on the box without moving,
she did not
hesitate.
With a leap, she flipped herself onto the wooden box.
The two adults with distorted faces followed closely, seemingly wanting to pierce through one's heart, causing one's blood to surge.
Mono didn't hesitate; he supported Little Six with one hand while gripping the cable tightly in the other.
Light and shadow fell.
The piercing sound waves-
-then he directly threw it down.
"Snap!"
The broken end, emitting white light, was submerged directly onto the damp floor. In just an instant, an invisible field suddenly solidified the moisture on the ground. The two huge figures rushing over had their outstretched hands freeze in mid-air. Their feet also seemed to be nailed to the floor, unable to take another step forward.
Their bodies trembled constantly, smoking and heating up.
Then, like paper, they slowly folded and fell heavily to the ground. Upon looking, they had completely lost all signs of life.
The surroundings fell silent again.
Looking at the two scorched figures on the floor, Little Six silently turned her head and stared blankly at Mono.
Mono pulled the cable away from the floor, silently placed it on the edge of the box, and then jumped down to the floor.
Turning back to see Little Six staring at him blankly again, Mono felt a bit helpless.
"What are you still looking at? Let's go..."
Isn't it just electrocuting someone... is there a need to be so surprised?
Six snapped out of it, nodded, and also jumped off the box.
Stepping onto the slippery floor with her bare feet made her lower her head again.
Then, unable to help herself, she raised her eyes and glanced at the half-broken wire still hanging in the air.
Why is mono always... so smart?
As they got closer to the Signal Tower, Mono's feelings became worse and worse. Because the magnetic field around them was becoming increasingly chaotic and cluttered.
Various turbulent flows filled the surroundings, constantly attempting to disrupt one's thoughts and cause carelessness.
His perception was too strong, which was also one of the drawbacks of the Wave of Intent.
However, despite feeling terrible,
Mono still had to concentrate all his attention on the things around him...
So he didn't notice Little Six's surprise, or else he would have definitely laughed proudly again.
He continued forward.
Looking at the small figure in front of her still vigilantly looking around, Little Six took a few quick steps, caught up, and silently took his hand...
"mono... where are we going now...?"
"Shh... shut up, just follow me obediently..." "Mm..."
As the words fell, two figures slowly faded into the darkness.
Inside the room, complete silence had returned...
Time passed slowly...
It was unknown how much time had passed...
One minute... one second...
Suddenly, movement stirred within the originally dim and silent hall.
The stillness in the darkness was broken...
The television set placed in the hall... actually began to flicker again...
White, snowy light bars shimmered faintly on the screen...
Upon closer inspection, one could still see the TV power cord that Mono had yanked out, still hanging silently in mid-air...
For several consecutive days, Mono had been leading Six, constantly circling and weaving around the Signal Tower.
He still hadn't recklessly approached the Signal Tower directly.
He had already figured out most of the terrain surrounding the Signal Tower.
Apart from the layers of towering, dilapidated, seemingly-collapsing-any-moment residential-like buildings they had passed initially, in front of the Signal Tower was a commercial district.
Not far behind the Signal Tower sat a railway platform.
Furthermore, beyond that was once again that bottomless, massive abyss.
The entire city presented a concentric circular structure, with all buildings erected around the Signal Tower.
The outer layers were already devoid of people. Everyone had moved closer to be more conveniently... watch TV.
The place with the highest concentration of people was the cluster of buildings directly in front of the Signal Tower. That was the commercial district.
The buildings in the commercial district contained many goods.
Although, due to the passage of time, many things had long been corroded by air and water into pitiful states of rust or covered in mold.
The televisions in the commercial district... surprisingly, most could still function normally.
This also led to a significantly larger number of people holed up here compared to other places.
Unlike those one or two people staying in their rooms, the people here were clearly more fond of liveliness.
Even under the pouring rain from the sky, their enthusiasm remained undiminished as they stood in streets and alleys, huddled together in clusters, crowding around to watch TV.
This scene reminded him of the World Cup.
It was probably only when watching the World Cup that people would gather around a small television like this.
Unfortunately, these people wouldn't cheer.
"C"
...mono...
While he was observing, someone tugged on his sleeve.
Mono turned his head.
"Mono, I've finished moving all the things you asked me to..." Six Ye pointed at the boxes of items piled in the corner and said quietly.
Mono collected his thoughts and walked over.
Their current location was inside a room of an equally dilapidated building.
The room was piled with boxes, all containing alchemical items.
Mono silently opened a box, picked up one of the items, and examined it.
The wax-yellow ceramic bottle was oval-shaped, with a fibrous tail-like protrusion on top.
*Ding!*
"[Pain Molotov]: (Composition: Corpse Oil, Fluffy Cotton, Ceramic Bottle, Grudge... etc. Contains a specially refined preparation using particular techniques, slightly crude. Evaluation: The person who made this is clearly a rookie.)"
Looking at the prompt flashing before his eyes, Mono's mouth twitched. A rookie? Have the guts to make one yourself and see? He was really annoyed by the system's continued evaluation.
This was something he had painstakingly created after days and nights of hard research, combining his limited knowledge with [Alchemy].
Could this still be considered rookie-level?
Cursing inwardly a few times, Mono couldn't be bothered to argue with this damn system anymore. "Six... come here."
Mono pulled Six Ye over.
"Hold it well, don't drop and shatter it..."
As he spoke, Mono picked up a box and placed it directly into her arms.
Seeing this, Six couldn't help but feel puzzled again.
"Mono... what exactly is this thing..."
Ever since seeing those people on the street corner, she had watched everything Mono had done these past few days.
He had seen it all.
Firing pottery, mixing preparations, collecting... from those people they had killed by dropping or electrocuting...
He had practically buried his head at the table all day, only stepping out when necessary. And the reason was to refine these little things she was now holding in her arms.
They looked almost nothing special... so why was Mono so concerned about them...
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