Chapter 16 Jasmine
On the other hand, while Jiang Xia asked Liu Laosi to take him to deal with the "debt" problem, Pit No. 7 of Fengshan Mine was still dead silent under the night.
There would definitely be no miners coming to mine at night. This remote area is in the mountains and is also the territory of Ruyifang. No petty thieves would dare to work here.
Therefore, there was no one on duty in the mine, and naturally no one knew what was happening at the bottom of the mine.
Jasmine was leaning against the cold stone wall, dozing off.
Under her messy hair, on her face and eyes, she still wore her worn-out goggles, which were the only memory left to her by her parents whom she had never met.
He has been with her since she was taken in to the orphanage under the jurisdiction of the Eternal Life Society.
The style is very old and does not have many functions.
I once heard my knowledgeable mentor say in a casual chat that Jasmine's goggles were a product before the nuclear war and were a very popular decoration at the time.
Jasmine knew about the nuclear war, and it was that war that destroyed the world.
But she didn't understand what popular meant, and wanted to ask, but her tutor had a bad temper and heard that she had injured her brain while doing an experiment.
He was smiling a second ago.
He will be furious in the next second.
She was unlucky. After receiving "training" in basic mechanical knowledge, she was assigned to be an assistant under her tutor. She had just been "working" for less than two months when she encountered today's incident.
The mentor died.
He died right in front of her. The helmet that symbolized his identity exploded along with his head. Jasmine could feel the warm blood as long as she closed her eyes.
Her body trembled, and she opened her eyes again. Her sleepiness was washed away by the memories in her mind. She reached out and touched her cheek, and it seemed that the blood was still there.
But it has been cleaned.
He washed his face with purified water from the bottle he brought with him, which was an unacceptable luxury in the City of Free Citizens.
Water is the most precious resource.
But now, no need to worry about that.
Jasmine turned her head and looked at the four jars beside her. They were filled with clean water, real clean water, the kind of water she had never seen before, and it was not polluted in any way.
That was a feeling she had never experienced since she was a child.
The girl's throat moved, so she picked up the can, put it to her mouth, and took another small sip. With the delicate perception unique to girls, she felt the cold water flowing through her throat and moistening her mouth.
no taste.
There is no greasy sweet smell, no rusty smell.
But it tastes good.
It tastes a hundred times better than the purified water I brought with me.
"A can of clean water like this can be exchanged for many things in Free Citizen City."
Jasmine thought in her little head that if she handed it over to the military supply department of the Eternal Life Society, she might be able to exchange it for a machine tool of her own?
At least I can raise my status to level three, right?
Maybe you can even get a small research project led by yourself.
What a luxury, Jasmine!
These resources should be used in better places to give ourselves a better tomorrow!
She scolded herself in her heart, but did not stop drinking. She tilted her head back and drank the whole can of water, as if she was addicted.
"Fu"
Finally, she let out a comfortable moan.
She rubbed her stomach and could even hear the rumbling of her stomach. She had drunk too much. The girl put down the can, stood up and stretched her body.
Under the goggles, the brown eyes looked at the quiet mine curiously.
The brain chip is connected to Jasmine's eye prosthesis. As the pupil of her left eye glows slightly, information waves continuously scan the surrounding environment and summarize them in the form of data into Jasmine's mind.
Temperature 24.5°.
The humidity is moderate.
No wind.
There is slight dust pollution, but it does not affect the respiratory system.
No magnetic field interference.
The most important thing is that there is no radiation in the air!
Geiger number 0!
Not at all.
Pure and incredible.
She stretched out her hand and pressed it against the stone wall. Through this contact, she changed the chip's scanning method to microwaves, and transmitted the waves of a special frequency band through the prosthesis in her palm into the rocks.
A few seconds later, the structure of the mountain within a hundred meters was also analyzed by Jasmine.
Unfortunately, she was using the Eternal Life Society's lowest-level brain chip, which had mediocre functions. Also, because she was not a combatant, the chip had no expansion slot, and naturally there was no fire control system for her to use.
“It’s too quiet.”
Jasmine rubbed her head and spoke in the language of the wasteland.
The quietness she mentioned did not mean that there was no noise in the environment, but a deeper expression: there was no radiation, no interference, and the operation of the brain chip had entered a perfect state.
There was no noise in her mind at all, not the weird sound of electricity that she had been accustomed to hearing since she received the chip when she was a child.
That sound is annoying.
As long as I was active in the wasteland, the sound would keep echoing in my mind and I couldn't block it out.
Many people are driven crazy by it.
Jasmine once suspected that the reason why the mentor was so irritable was probably because he was driven crazy by the noise in his head for many years, but now, it is gone.
Instead of having that disturbing voice in her mind, Jasmine felt a little uncomfortable.
It's so quiet here.
The silence made her feel a little uneasy. She didn't even need to use her prosthetics to sense her own heartbeat, echoing bit by bit in this dark mine.
And the abdomen.
She touched her flat belly and felt mixed emotions.
She understood now.
The bad guy was not born in the wasteland at all, so he naturally didn't have a brain chip, and it was even more impossible for him to control the bomb through the chip and make it explode in his abdomen.
That man was lying to her!
She was so stupid that she was fooled. In fact, at the beginning, when that person did not use the chip frequency band to communicate with her but used stick drawings, Jasmine should have understood it.
But the disaster was imminent at that time, which made her very nervous and she even lost her composure for a moment.
After all, she was just a fourteen-year-old apprentice who had just joined the Eternal Life Society. She had never experienced a proper battle, nor had she been taught combat knowledge through a learning device.
The life plan that Yongsheng would give her is to exist as an auxiliary staff.
To put it bluntly, she is just a moving gear on a machine tool.
No one needs her to think, and no one needs her to study. She only needs to do her own thing according to the knowledge instilled in her mind.
think……
This is a luxury in the Eternal Life Society system.
Jasmine brought her thoughts back to reality. This kind of time-wasting fantasy was not allowed in the past.
As an apprentice, her schedule is packed.
But it's still a good experience to daydream occasionally.
Jasmine thought so.
While Jiang Xia was away, she had used the instruments in the tool box to do a simple check on herself and found no bomb in her stomach.
No worries about life.
But now she didn't know what to do.
She turned her head to look at Su, who was lying beside her with his prosthetic hands removed. The wounds of that wasteland warrior, who came from the same place as her but belonged to a different camp, had begun to heal.
The Black Hand Society is indeed an expert in biotechnology. The healing effect of their polymer therapeutic fluid is much better than that of the Eternal Life Society's standard therapeutic fluid.
Moreover, the Eternal Life Society’s style of doing things is also very rough.
If Jasmine had been injured like this, her mentor would never have wasted time waiting for the wound to heal naturally. He would have directly replaced Jasmine's lung with a prosthetic one.
The Eternal Life Society studies machinery, and they are true experts in the research of prosthetics.
Although she usually complained in her heart that her instructor assigned her all kinds of tedious tasks, this time no one assigned her any work, and Jasmine quickly felt bored.
After completing Jiang Xia's instructions, she didn't know what to do.
After checking Su's condition again, Jasmine's eyes fell on the ladder leading out of the cave. She touched the old pulse pistol in her hand and reached out to scratch her messy hair.
How about going out and taking a look?
Once this idea came to mind, it became unstoppable.
It didn't take Jasmine a few minutes to get up and walk out. She really wanted to see what this strange world looked like outside.
This world is not polluted. Maybe she can find a flower...
Her name is a flower.
It was automatically generated by the orphanage's system. Her group of children were named after various herbs, and no one paid attention to the meaning of these names.
They are just code names anyway.
"Maybe, I can find a jasmine flower."
Jasmine thought so. She searched the database of the Eternal Life Society for the appearance of jasmine flowers. They were very beautiful, but unfortunately, in the wasteland, that kind of flower had long been extinct.
She really wanted to see with her own eyes what kind of beautiful thing her name represented.
But after taking a few steps, Jasmine's brain waves perceived a few small red dots, moving quickly in the dark, which attracted Jasmine's attention.
She changed direction and went there, tiptoed a few steps forward, and after adjusting her left eye prosthesis to night vision mode, she saw something moving in the dark.
Jasmine's expression immediately became one of surprise.
——
Jiang Xia walked back to No. 7 Pit from Fengshan Street without stopping, which took about ten minutes.
At the entrance of the mine, he bent down, carefully removed two plasma grenades from the soil, and collected the polymerization wires connected to them.
This simply laid booby trap was not triggered.
This proves that no outsiders entered and the people inside were very obedient and did not go out.
This made him feel relieved.
However, as Jiang Xia went down into the mine, he smelled a strange smell, like barbecue. His expression became a little strange, and he hurriedly quickened his pace and rushed into the depths of the tunnel.
The first thing he saw was the wasteland girl, with her back to him, squatting beside the fire, holding three sticks of wood in her hands, roasting something.
This made him feel relieved.
so far so good.
Not roasting a corpse.
He had seen with his own eyes how harsh the environment in the wasteland was. The people there had done everything they could to survive. He had just killed a few villains, and their bodies were piled on the other side of the pit.
just in case……
Fortunately, things were not as dark as he expected.
Jiang Xia's footsteps startled Jasmine, who hurriedly stood up and looked at him warily with a hint of fear. The thing she was baking in her hand was also hidden behind her back.
This is probably a habitual reaction.
However, he did not pull out the gun, which proved that the child had become more accepting of Jiang Xia.
"What are you grilling?"
He asked.
After he asked the question, he realized that the child couldn't understand him, so he communicated with gestures and stretched out his hand towards her. Jasmine's expression was a little confused.
But he still lowered his head and took out the thing hidden in his hand.
Three skinned rats were worn on three wooden sticks.
The head was removed and the internal organs were gutted.
The technique is very skillful.
It seems that this is not the first time he has done this.
"well."
Jiang Xia sighed and shook his head.
He definitely won't eat this.
He reached out his hand and rubbed Jasmine's hair, then threw the three roasted rat skewers aside, bent down, and picked up the sleeping Su.
This young man has prosthetic limbs and weighs more than the average young man. Jiang Xia's body comes from a scholar, so it is very difficult for him to carry it.
"gone."
Jiang Xia called out, but got no response.
He looked back and saw Jasmine squatting on the ground, picking up the mouse skewers that Jiang Xia had thrown, and blowing them in front of her like a treasure.
She comes from the wasteland.
Supplies were scarce there and rats were a rare sight. In the City of Free Citizens, encountering rats was a real feast.
The girl was wearing goggles, so her face couldn't be seen clearly.
But she didn't seem to feel offended by Jiang Xia's actions.
It seemed like this was just a normal thing.
She carefully placed the mouse skewers in tin foil, wrapped it up, and put it in her waist bag. She also picked up the unfinished cans of water, took one last look at the place, and followed Jiang Xia out.
Jiang Xia really wanted to tell her that she didn’t need to bring water.
There are plenty of them out there.
There is no need to bring the rat meat, Mrs. Niu has already prepared the food.
But when the words came to his lips, they turned into a long sigh.
