Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

"Yes, you are going to Caraton?"

Xia Li handed the salt to someone who was walking by, then turned around and asked

"Well, I'm traveling. I heard that Caraton is one of the few places in Victoria that recruits infected people for work. If I don't go and see it, then my trip would be in vain."

Xia Li was a little surprised by Cuixiang's answer. She didn't expect it to be such an answer.

"Indeed, Karaton doesn't reject infected people. On the contrary, they will give them a job. Of course, the salary for this job is lower than that of ordinary people, and the work content is more strenuous."

Xia Li was going to Karaton with these people this time, so he explained to her after hearing what Cuixiang said.

"But are you really not afraid of the infected?"

"What's there to be afraid of the infected? And as an operator from Rhodes Island... are you afraid of the infected?" Suika asked while eating meat.

After hearing what Cuixiang said, Xia Li finally felt relieved.

Just as a few people were eating and chatting, a child in the crowd suddenly fell to the ground, and everyone started to riot.

Xia Li rushed over, looked at the other party's trembling body and the visibly growing source stone particles on the body surface, and immediately shouted for everyone to evacuate far away.

She ran to her bag to look for medicine.

"I'm experiencing an acute Originium disease attack. The medicine you have might not be able to control it. Use this one I brought!"

Suika opened her backpack and took out an injection from a medicine box at the deepest part. These medicines were given to her by Tallulah when she left the Reunion.

Although there are only a few of them, they are also the best batch of potions learned by the Integration Movement to Eight Senses Eirin.

At this time, Xia Li didn't care about anything else. He ran to the child with the injection and then injected it directly into the heart.

The movement was so smooth that Suika, who was standing by, was grinning.

It must be so painful to have such a long needle stuck into the chest...

This blocking potion is worthy of being the best potion on the market as claimed by Bayi Yonglin.

The effect was immediate. Two minutes after the injection of the medicine, the child stopped crying out in pain. Five minutes later, his breathing gradually became smoother, and the Originium on his body surface stopped growing.

Xia Li, who had been standing by and observing the child's condition, had to admit that this was the most effective Originium blocker she had ever seen.

"This medicine..." Xia Li looked at Cuixiang with a surprised expression.

“The special medicine newly developed by Rhodes Island has not yet been mass-produced.

I got a few from my friends in Rhode Island, so please don’t tell anyone about it…”

Suika believed that Kal'tsit would definitely research and produce the pharmaceutical product after she got the pharmaceutical booklet she gave to Logos.

After all, the materials used for this thing are cheap enough and the effect is quite good.

During the Reunion Movement, Alina calculated that the materials and losses of a potion would not exceed one thousand Lungmen coins.

And a potion can make the Originium in the body of an infected person who does not use Originium techniques enter a period of inertia for one year.

Even people like Froststar and Bozhucasti who often need to use Originium skills in combat can ensure that the concentration of Originium in their bodies remains stable for six to three months.

This cheap and effective medicine is also very important to Rhodes Island.

After all, there are many severe Originium disease patients in Rhodes Island, including elite operators.

"The child is too young to find a suitable job in Caraton."

Suixiang walked over to the child and looked at him. He looked younger than her, probably about eleven or twelve years old.

Judging from his pale and skinny appearance, he probably doesn't eat well.

Suixiang felt that the capitalists in Karaton would probably not accept this kind of infected person with poor health and young age.

After all, those guys hired the infected because they were cheap and tough.

This kind of child has very poor physical fitness and can do even less. Unless he meets a capitalist who needs to do a face-saving project and uses him to gain the trust of the infected, he may get a good job in the short term, but in the long run, children of this age are not qualified to be the lowest-level labor force in a capital-dominated place like Caraton.

Hearing Cuixiang's words, Xia Li pursed her lips. She knew this kind of thing, but it was even more difficult for children of this age to survive in the wild.

Going to Caraton at least gives you a glimmer of hope.

"Or, let's send him to Rhodes Island... At least they won't refuse to take in a child like this."

Seeing Xia Li was a little hesitant, Cuixiang suggested.

Xia Li's eyes lit up when he heard Cuixiang's words.

Suika was right. It would be difficult for the child of Karaton to survive, but it was different in Rhodes Island.

During her visit to Rhodes Island, she learned that there was a special children's area that housed young infected people.

The child in front of him was indeed within the scope of Rhodes Island's acceptance.

Although Rhodes Island does not take in children for free, after training, these children need to work for Rhodes Island when they grow up until the debt is paid off.

But only by living can you have the opportunity to think about the future, and if you die, there is nothing.

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten. When I left Rhodes Island, the people there mentioned this."

Thinking that these children had a safe place to go, Xia Li felt relieved and more at ease with Cuixiang.

The crowd that had moved away only came back after the child was completely safe.

We can't blame them for being cold-blooded in this matter. After all, in the past, there was a high probability that the person could not be rescued under such circumstances.

Those who died from acute mineral sickness were like an uncontrollable Originium bomb. Ordinary people would avoid them, and infected people, who were more likely to have their condition aggravated, would naturally not dare to approach them.

"Weren't you scared just now?" Cuixiang asked Xia Li, who had covered the child with a blanket and then sat next to her again.

Xia Li shook his head and nodded

“Fear, who wouldn’t be afraid?

But with a living being in front of you, you should always try to save it...

If you run away when you see an acute oripathy attack, the person you could have saved may die.

This kind of thing is so depressing that I don’t want it to happen to me.”

The firelight illuminated Xia Li's face, which looked tough and sad.

Chapter 119: Man is born evil

By the time everyone finished dinner, it was already dark.

Suika sat back in her seat and continued flipping through her notebook.

The people on the other side were whispering around a huge fire.

After a while, two people who looked malnourished came to Xia Li and started talking to her. It was unclear what they said, but they became more and more excited.

They looked like they were about to fight, but luckily another infected person nearby noticed something was wrong and quickly came over to stop them.

Listening to the noise here, Suika frowned but didn't say anything.

Because she found that Xia Li acted very calmly throughout the whole process, as if he was used to it.

When things quieted down again, Xia Li came over with an apologetic look on his face.

"Sorry for making you laugh."

Suika shook her head and looked at the crowd not far away.

"You don't look like a leader."

Hearing what Cuixiang said, Xia Li smiled bitterly.

"Is it so obvious... Indeed, I can only be considered a guide."

"Guide?"

"The wilderness is full of dangers, and communication is difficult. If a natural disaster occurs, it is easy to cause casualties.

This also leads to the fact that the number of infected people living in the wilderness is far greater than those living in and near mobile cities.

In the past, when people became infected, many of them could only wait to die because they could not afford the inhibitors.

Now Karaton accepts infected workers to work for it, which is a very considerable source of funds.

Therefore, many infected people will intend to go there.

However, if you don't have some skills, it's easy to die in various accidents when traveling alone in the wilderness. Therefore, the infected near Karaton will organize themselves, and then an experienced person will lead everyone to Karaton."

Xia Li talks about the difficulties faced by ordinary people in the wilderness.

"That's strange. If that's the case, why are those guys arguing with you?"

Cuixiang was a little curious. If that meant Xia Li could be considered a team leader. Aren't those guys afraid of angering others and then just quitting and leaving them here like headless flies?

Xia Li looked at the child who was still in a coma and said with some helplessness

"That child had always been the sickest of all.

Originally everyone said not to bring him up, but I couldn't bear it when I saw his eyes longing to live, so I brought him up.

When his Originium disease broke out before, those people were afraid and stayed away, resulting in the loss of some things. They asked that child to compensate them..."

"Are these people crazy?" Suixiang couldn't help but take a breath after hearing this. What kind of thinking do these people have?

You lost your own things, but instead of looking for your own fault, you ask others to compensate you.

This is like seeing a beautiful woman on the street, and falling down because you pay too much attention to her, and then blackmailing her by saying that if she wasn't so beautiful that your attention was drawn to her, you wouldn't have fallen down...

No, if it were me, getting a beautiful woman’s phone number would be a huge profit... Bullshit... Suixiang, Suixiang, what on earth are you thinking about?

Cuixiang shook her head, then slapped Zi in the face while Xia Li looked at her in astonishment.

"Don't worry, this fire is too hot and makes me feel dizzy. I'm just refreshing myself.

But are those two guys really so shameless?"

Cuixiang looked at Xia Li speechlessly.

Xia Li opened his mouth and was about to say something when he saw the two people walking straight towards him.

As soon as he walked in front of the two people, one of them said in a tone that the king was the most important and he was second only to him.

"Have you explained it clearly to her?"

"Ah?" Suika tilted her head, not knowing what was going on with this guy.

Xia Li stood up and said seriously

"That's impossible. You're both healthy. Even if oripathy strikes, I have potions to treat it. There's no way she'd sell you the medicine."

The other person saw that Xia Li was a little angry and said with a playful smile:

"Miss Xia, look at you, it's not like we don't want to pay, right... Little sister, we pay...

Look, here are 500 gold coupons. I see you still have five in that box. Why don’t you sell them all to us…”

Suika blinked. She knew that there were always short-sighted and greedy people in this world, and she also acknowledged the diversity of species, but she didn't expect that she would really meet such an ungrateful person.

"How dare you say such things!" Xia Li saw the shameless look of the two men, his hand almost reaching for the backpack next to Cuixiang. He stood up and pushed the man away, saying angrily.

"Miss Xia, what you said is... You should know that we are thinking about everyone. After all, the potion you brought is far less effective than this little sister's.

If anything happens to anyone on the road later, her injured ones will be the ones that can save everyone's lives, don't you think? "

The man was not angry after being pushed away by Xia Li, but deliberately raised his voice and yelled.

None of the people who heard his words not far away refuted him. Instead, they all turned their eyes away and fell silent.

"interesting…"

Suixiang couldn't help but clap her hands and grinned with great joy, as if she had just watched a good show.

Her smile made Xia Li feel a little scared, because although she was smiling, there was no smile in her pupils, but only murderous intent that could make people feel cold even in this summer.

At this moment, Xia Li remembered what Cuixiang said. If a person dares to dress so extravagantly and wander around in the wilderness, then her abilities are definitely not as simple as they seem.

Just as she was about to speak, Suika disappeared and appeared behind the two of them.

"If you want my stuff, you can, as long as you have the ability... Take my punch, and if you survive, I'll give you this backpack and everything inside. If you don't catch it... then there's no need to discuss other terms."

They also sensed something was amiss when Suika suddenly disappeared from her spot and reappeared behind them.

But it was too late to beg for mercy.

"Second brother..." The leader swallowed and looked at Suixiang who was standing not far away in the darkness. He felt a chill running from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

"Brother, don't be afraid. Didn't she say she would only throw one punch? We're on the left and the right, so at least one of us can dodge it."