Jared gazed at the man in front of him, who did not lower his scythe, but stared at him coldly and in silence .
Faced with such a gaze, obviously the man is a little uncomfortable, his forehead beads of sweat, twisting his fingers. Surrounding the burning flames of bright red set off the tragic image of all this, as if the whole world changed into a hot hell like let a person fearful.
"And ... your companions should need to rest, right, if you continue to stay like this, it is only a matter of time to attract the hunting party, I think your companions should need to rest more quietly, is not it?"
A dark shadow passed by.
The cold wind pressure even made the man subconsciously shrink his head, fearing that his head would fly away from his body like a ball of skin, fortunately Jared obviously had no intention of fighting, he withdrew his scythe, never looked at the man half an eye again and turned around to walk towards the square. Coming to Caroline, who was holding Gina tightly in her arms, he first reached out and caressed Gina's face before asking in a low voice.
"What's the situation?"
(Finally cured ...)
Caroline spread her palm, the girl's originally bloody and festering fingers looked white and smooth, without a single scratch. But Caroline's face was not very good, obviously she had consumed a lot of power on the girl's body. So much so that she didn't even have the strength to maintain her peak physical ability by condensing her Tectonic Harmonization, and was just barely supporting the girl.
Jared was silent, taking Gina from Caroline's hand as Wendy duly handed over a cloak to wrap around the young girl's body.
"Jared, what should we do now?"
Kylie's spirits suddenly seemed much better, or at least the tone and expression of her questioning was close to what it would have been if she had been normal.
"We're getting out of here."
Jared stood up and didn't look at the burning city for more than half a second. Instead, he turned his attention to the man who had been following him and keeping a discreet distance from him.
"You lead the way, and if I find out you're up to something, I'll have no more trouble crushing you than I will burning down this city, understand?"
"Yes ... Honorable Lord ."
The man bent his head and paid his respects to Jared appropriately, while not far away, the wagon rushed through the fire toward Jared and the others.
Yuri and the others were lucky to have survived such an attack of near-indiscriminate destruction.
Silence reigned in thecarriage as Yuri skillfully maneuvered it smoothly away from the ruined city that had been caught in flames. Behind them, the destruction continued, the roaring undead looking for new alternatives to vent their anger. The earth grew weaker and weaker, and even the walls of the fortress began to crumble.
No one can escape this city of death except them. No one.
Gazing at the tragic scene of corpses all along the way, Jared didn't say a word, and Caroline didn't even care about it, both of their minds were focused on the young girl who was curled up in Jared's arms, still unconscious. After using the Tectonic Coordination to maximize the girl's regenerative ability to complete her recovery, although the physical scars had all been removed, but what about the mental stimulation?
Kura leaned back against the side of the wagon and fell into a deep sleep, as if she had accomplished nothing more than a trivial task.
Kylie eyed the young girl curiously, and it was clear that everyone had questions about her. In any case, Jared and Caroline were willing to make an enemy of a nation and turn a city to ashes in a fit of rage over such a girl. No one could ignore the girl's role in this, it was obvious that they knew her, but the relationship between the three was unknown.
Jared stroked the young girl's hair, her cheek, but his mind was racing with something entirely different.
(What's Gina doing here?)
Caroline's question was also in Jared's mind, according to the original plan, Gina and the girls should have escaped, could it be that their escape was a failure in the end? What about the rest of his companions? Did they die in the explosion, or did they end up in the same world as Jared? Jared's heart was restless and filled with a deep anger, an emotion that had been quiet and thought to be sealed away forever.
"Woo ..."
At that moment, the young girl's body suddenly trembled slightly, and then she slowly opened her eyes, which were as beautiful as the black shining stone's pupils, flashing with a strange and charming luster. After seeing the person in front of her clearly, Gina's eyes widened in surprise, as if she couldn't believe this was true.
（Gina, how's your health?)
"All right?"
"Well ..."
Gina nodded slightly, obviously not having regained her strength. But she was clutching Jared's shirt as if it was the only place she could feel at ease.
"Dad ... mom ... is this a dream ...?"
She whispers, then falls back into a deep sleep.
In an instant, the crowd turned to Jared and Caroline's eyes have become quite surprised, and the two seemed to completely not feel the crowd's doubts, just look serious and serious attention to the young girl in their arms. At that moment, the carriage gradually stopped, and then the man's voice sounded from outside the carriage door.
"My lords, we have arrived."
Even in this humble hall, Jared still could not associate the fat man with a face full of vulgarity with the name "Commander-in-Chief of the Free United Liberation Front", and he seemed to be completely unaware of Jared's and the others' dissatisfaction, and was simply praising their achievements and Tearfully describing the plight of his men.
"Heroes, wherever you come from, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you ..."
"I've heard enough."
Poor fat bastard hadn't even finished his welcome speech when Jared cut him off.
"Look, I'm not interested in your Free Combined Army, and I can tell you clearly that even without your help, I can still make it all the way to the palace from here. I don't need any help, if you're willing to follow me and cut down the roots then I'm more than happy to do it, if you don't want to do it then I don't care. In short, although I never object to the power of many, I do not want to fight on the same front with someone who does not even know the time, place and color of the eyes."
"I'm terribly sorry, heroes."
A female in leather armor, looking like an archer, stepped forward and bowed in apology, and after a brief observation of the young girl's face in Jared's arms, she reached out and made a gesture of invitation.
"Please come with me, I'll arrange for the young lady to rest."
Jared's face changed for the better when Gina lay down on the soft bed and went to sleep.
"That fat fuck is your commander?"
He questioned the archeress who had brought them here in disbelief, with no hint of politeness in her words.
"Then I truly feel heartfelt sorrow for you all ... Your death and injury rate must be very high."
"Mr. Buka is just a little slow, he's still a good man at heart."
The archeress didn't dismiss Jared's suspicions, which were obviously true.
But Jared obviously had no interest in finding out what kind of unlucky organization this united underground organization was at the moment, and he kicked everyone out, leaving only Caroline behind. Even Kura, who was trying to sneak in by pretending to be asleep, was unceremoniously thrown out of the room; this was their space, and Jared wasn't going to allow anyone to intrude, at least not for a while.
When everything had quieted down, Jared gasped and pulled out a chair. Caroline was already sitting beside Gina, gazing at the girl with sadness mixed with a hint of joy. It was obvious that although Gina had suffered unspeakable pain, if Jared and the others had not been there to watch the execution, Gina would have become part of the charcoal and died a painful death amidst the frenzied cheers of the people.
Nothing in the world is equal.
No one could calculate whether a young girl's pain could be healed by destroying a city, a country, tearing apart countless families, creating countless new tragedies. But Jared didn't have to think about it, there was no fairness, there was no justice, there was no reasoning, the world was a circle, full of creation, destruction, re-creation, and destruction. Human beings will always be a race that never learns, and cannot be expected to recognize what is wrong and what is true through short periods of bloodshed and sacrifice, and that is why history repeats itself forever, and there is never any innovation.
"She hasn't been done anything by those people, has she, Caroline, if she's been done ... by those people?"
Jared watched Gina uneasily, his anxious tone hiding a concern he couldn't help but feel. Obviously, Gina's initial "Daddy" wasn't really Jared's name, but it wasn't far off.
（Calm down, Jared.)
Caroline wasn't as agitated as Jared, but instead comforted him.
（Gina's fine, she's fine, but you should be quieter so you don't wake her up.)
Caroline, like a loving mother, stroked Gina's hair, while addressing Jared with a slight reproach.
Of course, the two of them weren't Gina's actual parents, and in any case, trying to have a 16-year-old daughter at the age of 17 or 8 was a bit of a stretch anyway.
Gina has no parents.
Both spiritually and practically.
Gina is not an ordinary human being, she is a human being created by science and based on regenerative embryo research, the so-called "Bioroid." A product of scientific tragedy, a prop destined to be discarded from birth. Though she seems to be sixteen years old, in fact, it's only been five years since Gina was "born". She was one of many replicas, and the only one with special abilities. Because of this, Gina was able to escape her own tragic fate of being injected with the virus, observed, studied, and then dying or developing antibodies and being injected with the virus again. They were born for a research program to "create a vaccine that will prevent human disease forever", and they died for the same reason.
That was the fate of the Ginas, a fate that fortunately didn't really manifest itself in her case.
Four years ago, she was rescued from the institution by Jared and Caroline, and has been living by their side as a matter of course. Although she was already sixteen years old physically, the closed life in the institution had made Gina no different from a normal child mentally, and she regarded Jared as her father and Caroline as her mother, although both of them had a certain degree of resistance to this name, and because of this, she had been the laughing stock of the team for a period of time, but right now, apparently, it was not the time to care about this kind of thing. But now, it's obviously not the time to care about such things.
"This country must perish ..."
Jared's words were coldly judgmental, and there was not a trace of sympathy in them.
"These people must pay the price for their values and for their actions, and that is what they deserve ..."
(You don't want to join forces with these people, do you?)
Caroline frowned slightly, the fat man obviously not making a good impression on her either.
"... Let's listen to the Lord of Cthulhu first ."
Jared was silent for a moment, then laughed bitterly.
"In any case, there has to be an explanation for us ruining her original plan ... if she really will abandon us ..."
"Well ..."
Jared hadn't finished his sentence when suddenly a slight moan came and the two men turned to look, only to see Gina slowly opening her eyes and gazing with delight at Jared and Caroline in front of her.
She's awake.