Chapter 254

"Didn't disappear?"

"Transferred?"

Joel repeated the two sentences and looked at the stranger, hoping to get the corresponding answer from him.

But the other party just nodded without speaking.

It seemed that he didn't want to explain too much.

Joel didn't feel disappointed because of this. During this time, he had experienced enough disappointment and frustration.

Compared to hunger, cold, and monsters, this was nothing.

"I'll help you treat your wounds, but I don't have anesthetics or painkillers here." He said calmly.

Robert accepted Joel's kindness.

Before he could thank him, his thinking ability was immediately washed away by the hydrogen peroxide poured on the surface of the wound, and evenly spread after being soaked in medical alcohol.

Indescribable sharp pain came from the wound, following the nerves upward, stirring his brain.

As if his skull was pried open, a basin of boiling mercury was poured down, and then high-voltage electricity was passed through it.

Robert gasped, inhaling more than exhaling, his hands clenched into fists, blue veins bulging, his face pale.

He had heard a story that in an ancient eastern country with deep ties to the Administrator, a general was poisoned by an arrow, and he was actually awake while letting the doctor scrape the bone to treat the poison.

Robert couldn't help but feel admiration and tried to imitate the sages.

So, he failed in the next second.

"Oh, oh, oh—hiss—"

Joel tried to help Robert distract some attention, so he chatted about the other party's origin, but he just gritted his teeth, covered in sweat, and didn't answer.

Joel bandaged Robert's wounds with clean bandages. Fortunately, Robert didn't have any large open wounds, just needed simple disinfection and treatment.

But Joel's professionalism still exceeded Robert's expectations. He thought the other party would just bandage him casually, but he didn't expect the technique to be very professional.

"Ah, long illness makes a doctor."

Joel explained.

"If you want to survive in this hellish world, you can't do it without this skill."

Saying this, Joel turned his forearm over and showed it to Robert.

The scars were like small insects, crawling on it, like the medals of this lonely man.

Robert thanked Joel, and when the treatment was over, he suddenly cursed:

"Damn it...!"

11 "My orders might never be useful again."

Saying this, he took off his headphones and put them aside.

After a while, he said:

"I work for the Foundation."

"A hellish place that is a combination of a prison and a research institute."

Joel was tidying up medical supplies.

These things were very precious, and they would be less if used.

"Foundation? I've heard of this organization, the TV broadcast mentioned it not long ago."

"Yes, the Foundation."

"I am an agent of the Foundation. If there were no damn apocalypse, my main task would be to travel around, find abnormal items in the process, and keep them from hurting people."

Robert said so.

Joel teased:

"Then you are really bad at this job."

The entire world had been destroyed by anomalous existences.

"Hahaha—"

Robert laughed loudly.

He felt that he could be a little better now, maybe he let go of some things and no longer deliberately hid anything.

"Yes, extremely bad."

He recalled the O5 meeting's explanation of this apocalypse, omitted the content that couldn't be said, picked and chose, and told Joel the truth.

"Something happened inside the Foundation, and at the same time, the guarding of some things was lax, causing the Foundation to lose control of a certain place."

"This led to a very bad situation..."

"In the Foundation, we call it..."

"GH-0 'Dead Greenhouse' condition."

Joel couldn't understand.

Perhaps these strange word combinations were simple for agents who were immersed in the Foundation all day.

But he couldn't understand at all.

It was a bit like a teenager with excessive self-consciousness, creating phrases to show his own existence.

"Buddy, what do you mean? I don't quite understand."

Robert stared at Joel's light brown eyes for a while, and his expression became serious.

"This means that all humans on Earth have been wiped out, but the Earth itself is still intact and can carry life."