Chapter 3352: Hold Back, Don't Let the Tears Fall

At 11:00 AM that day, less than a kilometer south of their own base camp, in a space excavated within the mountain, this place had been named Warehouse No. 2. The large teleportation array inside could teleport the Pig-Headed Men from Warehouse No. 1 on the Free City side to this location.

At this time, in Warehouse No. 1, the light of the teleportation array lit up, and Hunting Tide, with her abdomen wrapped in a large amount of bandages, fell to the ground.

The 135 Wild Boar warriors guarding here were all on high alert. Dorothy stepped forward quickly to support Hunting Tide and walk toward their base camp.

Hunting Tide's route back was chosen well. She hadn't headed straight for the base camp fortress before. After escaping the dangerous situation, she treated her wounds and rushed to Free City at full speed, then found Caesar, meaning to have Caesar find a doctor there because she couldn't hold on much longer.

Caesar told Hunting Tide that there was a teleportation array and let Hunting Tide return to Doomsday Fortress at the fastest speed, where there was a more brilliant "doctor."

At this moment, in the command room on the top floor of Doomsday Fortress, Hunting Tide leaned on the sofa, her aura weak, her face without a trace of blood, and the bandages wrapped around her abdomen slowly soaking with blood.

"The doctor Caesar mentioned, is it you?"

When Hunting Tide was in the Alliance Star, although she had been treated by Su Xiao, that time was just injecting medicine + stitching wounds.

In Hunting Tide's cognition, no matter how she looked at it, Su Xiao didn't fit the temperament of a doctor. Her current injuries were particularly severe, and she could die from the serious injuries at any time, relying entirely on the Source Power in her body to hold on.

Su Xiao sat on the sofa opposite Hunting Tide, judging Hunting Tide's injuries.

"I'm seriously injured now, don't kill me, I don't want to die a second time at your hands."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, having a rough medical plan in his heart.

"How is it? My current situation, is it... still savable?"

Hunting Tide let out a long breath; her vision had been a bit blurry just now.

"It's savable, but surgery is required."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha on the side all shivered.

"Then perform the surgery as soon as possible, I can't hold on for long."

"Is this your own request?"

"Ah, yes, hurry up and perform the surgery."

"As you wish."

Su Xiao got up and pushed open the secret door of the alchemy laboratory. Hunting Tide, who could barely walk, walked into the alchemy laboratory and lay down on the operating table herself.

After moving the instruments and other things nearby, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha all slipped away.

Su Xiao put on a mask with tubes as thick as a dozen fingers, as well as medical rubber gloves. Considering the blood loss, he put on a plastic coat.

The surgery process went smoothly. Under the stabilization of alchemy potions, Hunting Tide's vital signs gradually stabilized. Except for potential psychological shadows, everything else was fine.

The crescent-shaped gap on Hunting Tide's side abdomen was too severe; organs, bones, nerves, flesh, skin, etc., all needed to be restored. After stabilizing Hunting Tide's condition, Su Xiao took out the 【Source】 Stone.

On the operating table, Hunting Tide's body gradually turned into azure water, merging into the 【Source】 Stone. Inside the 【Source】, Hunting Tide's body could gradually recover. According to the agreement, after Hunting Tide's injuries recovered, she would be released to continue fulfilling this contract.

Just as Hunting Tide entered the 【Source】, Su Xiao decisively closed the connection between the 【Source】 and the outside world, then threw it into the storage space. Vaguely, he heard a sound from inside, a sound that was both unwilling and astonished.

Su Xiao didn't intend to summon Hunting Tide in this world. Judging by Hunting Tide's injuries, it would take at least 10 to 15 days for her to fully recover her combat power inside the 【Source】. By that time, either they would have been defeated, or they would have developed enough and started a chaotic battle with the enemy.

Summoning Hunting Tide then wouldn't be of much use. How she looked wasn't the most important thing to Su Xiao; being useful was the key.

Hunting Tide belonged to the particularly useful type. Her drowning ability was simply a boss killer; even the Supreme Insect had been beaten by the drowning ability.

Now closing the 【Source】, in the judgment of the contract, it was because Hunting Tide was seriously injured and could not continue to fulfill the contract. In other words, this contract would be reset, and Hunting Tide would need to serve as a high-level cannon fodder for Su Xiao one more time before she could gain her freedom.

In the previous few days, what Su Xiao ordered Hunting Tide to do, in layman's terms, was a free ride; the experience was excellent.

There was one thing Su Xiao couldn't figure out: why Hunting Tide was attacked. According to Hunting Tide, among the several people who attacked her, one was a girl with metal markings on her face, and the other party looked very much like a Kindred.

After listening to Hunting Tide's description, Su Xiao found that the girl with metal markings on her face only resembled a Kindred.

Kindred had parts of their bodies made of metal, and it was active metal. Simply put, it was a type of metal with vitality, replacing flesh, bones, nerves, etc., with normal blood flowing inside.

More accurately, that was a type of metal cell, not a metal category in the true sense.

Su Xiao first ruled out that the Tribunal had attacked Hunting Tide. Li Xiniwei was already serving in the middle level of the Tribunal. At present, their side and that old vampire from the Tribunal were in a period of mutual appreciation. If someone moved that old vampire, Su Xiao would assist immediately.

Conversely, if someone moved Li Xiniwei, that old vampire would also help immediately. This was the mutual progress and retreat brought by common interests.

Assuming it was an opponent of that old vampire, wouldn't it be better to make a move on Li Xiniwei? Attacking Hunting Tide? Without 30 years of cerebral thrombosis, one couldn't come up with this brain-dead operation.

The suspicion of the Tribunal was ruled out, which was very confusing. Hunting Tide's strength in the 8th Tier could not be underestimated. Raiding her carried significant risks. At least in the 8th Tier, the maximum percentage health damage attached to each arrow of the drowning ability could be said to be equal to all living beings.

Who was bored enough to provoke Hunting Tide? This was really too confusing. For a moment, Su Xiao felt that he had fallen into a thinking trap.

"Boss, it wouldn't be done by contractors, would it?"

"Contractors? Hunting Tide has summon characteristics and won't drop treasure chests..."

Su Xiao's words were halfway through when he suddenly thought of a particularly funny possibility. First, assume that "Luoyashi," where the "Tribunal" was located, had become the territory of Holy Light Paradise or Watcher Paradise.

At this time, his own brand was disguised as the brand of Apocalypse Paradise, and the aura was also the same. This meant that Hunting Tide had the unique aura fluctuation of a summon of an Apocalypse Paradise contractor, which was just like perceiving other Paradise contractors.

For example, when perceiving contractors of Apocalypse Paradise, the other party's brand would faintly reveal sky blue; Reincarnation Paradise would reveal blood red; Holy Light Paradise would be a gentle light gold; Sanctuary Paradise would be a deep dark gold.

The aura of the brand, except in very special circumstances, would not change.

Su Xiao estimated that there was an 80% or higher probability that Hunting Tide was attacked by contractors from Holy Light Paradise or Watcher Paradise.

This matter was temporarily shelved. Continuing to develop their own base camp was the primary thing at the moment. Regarding the analysis of the 【Cataclysm Solution】 used to improve the fortress tier, Su Xiao already had a clue.

According to his analysis, 【Cataclysm Solution Type V】 was divided into two parts in total: one part was used to promote the fortress's transformation, and one part was used to suppress the fortress's improvement range. The ratio of the two was about 1 to 9.

Among the components of 【Cataclysm Solution Type V】, only one-tenth was to help the fortress advance, and the remaining nine-tenths were to suppress the fortress's transformation, allowing the fortress to only transform to T4 tier, and not appear the small-probability event of jumping from T5 to T3.

One could know with their butt that this was a means used by the Kindred rulers to increase the value of 【Cataclysm Solution】 and reduce its effect.

According to Su Xiao's analysis, 【Cataclysm Solution】 originally only had one type, without the messy grading of Type V, Type IV, Type III, etc.

The fortress actually only needed one injection of 【Cataclysm Solution】 to open up growth potential. Afterward, if it wanted to advance to a higher level, having enough active ore would be enough. It was no problem to raise the fortress to T0 tier, which was the level of the Immovable Fortress.

After analyzing all this, Su Xiao understood the Kindred's thoughts. The Kindred were worried that once the true 【Cataclysm Solution】 was leaked, it would lead to the appearance of a fourth T0-tier fortress.

The three T0-tier fortresses were the foundation of the three major Kindred factions and were also the ultimate trump cards.

The problem was that fortress advancement was necessary, and it was accompanied by huge benefits. It should be that a certain genius figure of the Kindred invented the "suppressant," and based on the content of the suppressant, graded the 【Cataclysm Solution】.

The more "suppressant" it contained, the lower the type of 【Cataclysm Solution】.

The Kindred would not provide 100% pure 【Cataclysm Solution】. The reason was that once that kind of 【Cataclysm Solution】 was injected into the fortress core, the fortress would have the qualification to advance to T0 tier. For the current rulers, this was absolutely intolerable. Beside the couch, how could others be allowed to snore?

What Su Xiao had to do now was to restore the 100% pure 【Cataclysm Solution】. At that time, after injecting it into the Doomsday Fortress core, he would only need active ore in the future to continuously improve the fortress's tier.

Apart from the benefits it brought to himself, although this thing couldn't be sold, it could be used to unite allies.

The current terrain was that the position Su Xiao occupied was on the far east side of the Kindred territory, which was:

Alienated Beast Territory -> Border Area (Su Xiao's location) -> Kindred Territory -> Human Territory.

The Alienated Beast Territory and the Kindred Territory sandwiched Su Xiao in the middle, and Su Xiao's territory and the Human Territory sandwiched the Kindred Territory in the middle.

On both sides of the various factions, which were the north and south directions, were the "South Cold Sea" and the "North Sea." The shape of this continent was elongated rather than circular.

As long as he could formulate 100% pure 【Cataclysm Solution】, Su Xiao could use this to form an alliance with the Human side. The first bottle would be a gift, the second bottle would be at a high price, making up for the loss of the first bottle, and he could also earn a huge extra profit. He had to let the trading party taste the sweetness first before the other side would spend heavy money.

On the Human side, let alone two bottles of 100% pure 【Cataclysm Solution】, even 10 bottles would be accepted without hesitation. They were too eager to have a T0-tier fortress.

In recent years, the Kindred had been oppressing the Humans more and more severely. As long as the Kindred showed a slight decline after starting a war with Su Xiao, the Human side would immediately make a move, sandwiching the Kindred from east and west to beat them.

Looking at it this way, 100% pure 【Cataclysm Solution】 was crucial. Su Xiao sat in front of the laboratory bench, thinking. There was a ratio of materials whose characteristics he still couldn't figure out.

Just at this moment, the parchment on the table floated up on its own. The winding red line on it represented Morey, who had traveled across mountains and rivers to deliver her head. This was truly a good person.

Su Xiao took the five Wild Boar brothers, which was the Wu Huoqiu Team, and left the base camp fortress.

Border Area, the Gobi Desert on the north side.

The gale raged, sand and gravel flew everywhere, making a crackling sound on the earlobes.

A figure wearing sportswear and a hood was running on the Gobi Desert. She was wearing headphones, listening to music while on the road. This was very common. Everyone captured attacks by perception; if relying on hearing, by the time the sound was heard, the attack would have already landed on the body.

Morey's pace gradually slowed down. She was hungry. She took out a compressed biscuit and bit down hard, as if biting on the guy named "Morey's Old Father" in the communication platform, which was particularly satisfying.

Morey's heart was bitter. She was playing PS6 underground with Moon Apostle, but disaster fell from the sky. She inexplicably signed a contract by speaking.

Morey immediately did two things: 1. Dissolved the team with Moon Apostle, 2. Immediately left the hiding place. She, Morey, never implicated friends.

Originally, Moon Apostle wanted to force her to stay, but she forgot the gap between herself and Morey in hand-to-hand combat and was pressed into a "Ying-Ying" cryer on the spot. Her summons could only be anxious on the side.

"That guy, don't let me catch you."

In the gale, Morey spoke hatefully. She was different from before now. In the last world, she and Moon Apostle found the Beast Heart, which was a scarce resource that Apocalypse Paradise specifically needed.

With the wealth of Apocalypse Paradise, one could imagine how many benefits Morey and Moon Apostle could obtain. Moreover, these resources were scarce materials, permissions, etc., all used to improve strength.

Perhaps in the judgment of Apocalypse Paradise, Morey and Moon Apostle's overall performance in the Painting World was indeed good, but their performance in combat power was not worth mentioning, so they were rewarded with many resources that directly improved strength.

The current Morey was no longer on the same level as before. If it weren't for being arranged by Su Xiao and Caesar to the point of almost autism in the last world, she would definitely be taking the initiative to attack now.

The gale blew the sky into a dim yellow. Morey's footsteps stopped. Five figures of different heights appeared in front. After staring, she found that these seemed to be Pig-Headed Men? Or rather, more like Wild Boar Men?

"Eh? Are there wild Pig-Headed Men?"

Morey had an expression of having gained knowledge. Just as she was about to say hello, she found that among the five Pig-Headed Men, one raised the "wooden stick" in his hand. After a roar, a fireball with a diameter of one meter flew over, moving particularly fast, dragging a flame tail.

Morey didn't dodge or evade, swinging her fist sideways to smash the incoming fireball. Although it was hot, the feeling of showing off was quite good.

"So it's a wild monster, using fireball magic is too looking down on me..."

Morey's words had just fallen when she found at least twenty fireballs flying over. Those five Wild Boar Men, as if blessed with a berserk spell, pointed their staves, and 5 fireballs were shot out *tut-tut-tut*.

*Boom! Boom! Boom... *

In the dust and smoke rolled up by the gale, the earth shook. Morey never expected that after there were many fireballs, it would be so difficult to deal with.

Ten minutes later, Morey stood with her arms crossed in front of the fallen five Wild Boar brothers. She didn't kill them, the reason being that these five Wild Boar brothers were simply talents. She wanted to try if she could trick them into becoming temporary summons to deal with "her old father." Thinking of this point, Morey felt a burst of madness in her heart; this name was taking too much advantage of her.

"Who! Come out."

Morey perceived someone in the wind and sand in front, but immediately, she also sensed the power of the contract. It was the person in front who had signed a contract with her.

Morey secretly praised that it came well. She stepped on the ground and pounced forward, her momentum quite strong.

The further forward she went, the lighter the blown-up smoke and dust became. Morey first perceived the blood aura, which made her heart tighten, bad memories flooding into her mind, and then she saw the figure holding a long blade, as well as a pair of eyes revealing blue light.

After noticing these characteristics, Morey's heart rate increased suddenly. She immediately changed her posture, changing from pouncing forward to leaning back and braking with both feet. As a result, the braking was too fierce, and she sat on the ground with a thud.

"So... so, the old father is you."

Morey's little eyes were exceptionally desperate and helpless. Only by slightly tilting her head could she keep the tears from falling.

Morey didn't know yet that something even more desperate was coming from behind. A figure walked out from the wind and sand behind Su Xiao and said to Su Xiao:

"My dear friend, Caesar is 5 minutes late. Didn't keep the client waiting, did I?"

Caesar stood beside Su Xiao, grinning cunningly. The combination of Su Xiao + Caesar appeared again. Seeing this scene, Morey's tears burst out immediately.

PS: (Two chapters today, almost 9000 words, so I won't split it into three chapters.) ===== CHAPTER 3353 =====