Chapter 408 The Predator Trapping Plan (7)
Chapter 408 The Predator Trapping Plan (7)
Yan Zhen sighed.
Shen Rong asked, "And you?"
Yan Zhen paused, quickly reviewing his current situation in his mind.
With a harsh environment and no relatives or friends around, she needs to find a partner to team up with in order to survive in N613 and find a way to leave.
Shen Rong is undoubtedly a great teammate.
She guessed that Shen Rong had the same idea, which was why he told her the details.
Since the other party was being honest, Yan Zhen didn't hide anything and briefly recounted Jiang Ti's experiences.
"I want revenge too." Yan Zhen touched the three wounds on her wrist that represented the progress of the mission. The original owner of the body, Jiang Ti, had asked her to leave this place, survive, and kill Xu Xingzhan to avenge her.
Thinking of this, Yan Zhen took a deep breath and, as if making up his mind, extended an invitation to Shen Rong: "Let's cooperate, survive together, and find a way to leave this place together. Unless death comes, no matter what happens, we will never abandon each other, okay?"
After a long silence, Shen Rong solemnly said, "Okay."
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Yan Zhen slept inside the spaceship wreckage for one night.
In the morning, Yan Zhen was awakened by the sound of raindrops hitting the cabin.
She opened her eyes; it was already daylight outside. Shen Rong was already awake and had placed a metal can outside to collect rainwater.
Yan Zhen sat up. She had been traveling for more than ten hours yesterday, and today her whole body ached.
Seeing that she was awake, Shen Rong brought in a half-filled can of rainwater and handed it to her: "Here, for washing up."
Yan Zhen took a look and saw that the rainwater was murky and yellowish, and had a rusty smell.
However, given the conditions on this garbage planet, she had no choice but to carry the tin can to the bathroom to wash her face.
Yan Zhen rubbed his face with rainwater and turned to face a mirror with a missing corner in the bathroom.
At first glance, she was slightly amazed by her own face.
A smooth oval face with evenly distributed facial proportions, a full forehead, deep-set eyes, and a straight, three-dimensional nose.
Her classic M-shaped lips, with a slightly upturned upper lip and a full lower lip, combined with her alluring fox-like eyes, make her look stunning and sophisticated while also exuding a fierce edge.
This is a beautiful face that appears as an innocent, pure flower when her aura is weak, and as a cold and aloof queen when her aura is strong.
No wonder Sister Mei said she was "the prettiest among all the women in this batch" when they were in the red-light district.
After washing up, Yan Zhen came out of the bathroom and asked Shen Rong, "Do you have scissors?"
Shen Rong pried open the cabin floor, pulled out a toolbox, took out a rusty pair of scissors, and handed it to Yan Zhen.
Yan Zhen took it, and while cutting off her beautiful, jet-black hair that wasn't suitable for competing for food with humans and other creatures in a garbage dump, she said to Shen Rong, "You seem to know this place very well."
Shen Rong didn't hide anything: "Two years ago, my sister and I were tricked into coming to N613. This is where we stayed."
The words were clear.
The scissors weren't sharp, so Yan Zhen barely managed to cut his long hair into a dog-chewed buzz cut.
She had no time to take care of her appearance; she took out the nutritional supplement and drank a bottle with Shen Rong.
Although this stuff tastes awful and is expired, it's a good thing for N613, who is facing a shortage of supplies.
An 80ml bottle of nutritional solution can provide an adult with the calories they need for 24 hours.
After finishing the nutrient solution, Yan Zhen put on his guard uniform, changed into the military boots he had picked up from the garbage dump yesterday (both boots were for left feet), slung his backpack over his shoulder, grabbed his gun, and prepared to go out for a stroll.
Before leaving, she told Shen Rong, "Take good care of the house and recover well. I'll be back before dark."
Shen Rong replied, "Okay."
Yan Zhen embarked on a new journey, this time not to find supplies, but to explore the surrounding environment.
After wandering around for more than ten hours, they encountered a human who was robbing them on the road. There were two groups of aliens. Yan Zhen was armed with firearms and dealt with them in no time.
The alien species in this world are divided into two main categories: native alien species and infected and parasitic alien species.
Native xenogenes are like pathogens, which can infect and parasitize humans or animals.
Humans infected and parasitized by native alien species will mutate, either becoming ugly half-human, half-beast forms, or losing their minds and becoming cruel and bloodthirsty.
Neither native alien species nor infected parasitic alien species are accepted by interstellar civilizations, and they will be shot dead once discovered.
Some infected mutants, who become neither human nor monster but retain their sanity, have no choice but to flee to abandoned, garbage planets like N613 in order to survive.
Yan Zhen spent the whole day traversing the metal forest, returning to the abandoned spaceship before dark with a large iron can half the height of a person and a pile of metal parts.
Shen Rong opened the door and saw that Yan Zhen was covered in things, looking like a walking parts rack. She reached out to help carry the things into the cabin.
Yan Zhen dodged her hand: "It's okay, I can do it myself. These things are heavy, don't reopen your wound."
Shen Rong didn't stand on ceremony with her and stepped aside to make way for her.
Once inside the cabin, Yan Zhen unloaded his belongings, which clattered and scattered all over the floor.
Shen Rong asked, "What are these things used for?"
"Let's get a rainwater collection filter," Yan Zhen said. "We can install it on the spaceship so we can collect rainwater for bathing."
Shen Rong frowned: "Do you plan to live here long-term?"
Yan Zhen didn't even look up: "Anyway, we can't leave anytime soon."
"Then we need to think of a way!" Shen Rong suddenly became agitated. She kicked the parts on the ground aside and shouted angrily, "What we need to do now is find a way out of here, not install some kind of filter and prepare ourselves to live in this hellhole for a long time!"
Yan Zhen paused in assembling the filter, looked up at her, and said with a sharp gaze, "I have a way. It may not work, but if it does, you can not only leave, but also gain permanent residency on other planets. Do you want to give it a try?"
Shen Rong instinctively felt there was something fishy about the "method" she mentioned, and her eyes widened warily: "What method?"
“Go back to the red-light district, use your body as a bargaining chip, and try to get close to the customers there,” Yan Zhen said coldly. “You and I are both good-looking. As long as we can swallow our pride and lower ourselves, and make one of the customers happy, it’s just a matter of a word for him to take us away.”
Shen Rong: "..."
Her already pale face looked even worse.
"See, you're unwilling again." Yan Zhen, who was sitting on the ground, bent one leg and leaned against the bulkhead. "I'm unwilling too, so what other way do we have besides relying on ourselves?"
Shen Rong slowly slid down to the ground, tearing at her hair with both hands: "Self-reliance... There's nothing here, how can we leave by 'self-reliance'?"
"Who said there's nothing here?" Yan Zhen kicked a piece of the parts on the ground. "There are so many ready-made spaceships and parts here. We can just take a little from here and a little from there, repair a spaceship, and leave this place."
Shen Rong's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "You can repair spaceships?"
Yan Zhen: "No."
Shen Rong: "..."
“But I can learn.” Yan Zhen’s eyes were burning. “Isn’t N613 still three to five years away from dismantling? As long as we start taking action now, what can’t we accomplish in three to five years?”
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