Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 543 - 372: Continue (4)

Chapter 543: Chapter 372: Continue (4)

The next four videos were all shot during and between battles. In the first video, the military personnel were orderly, and although they had just experienced a battle, their morale was still pretty good.

Malin also saw the infantry equipment of the Earth Union—some big guys were using single-soldier Power Armor, fully enclosed, with heavy automatic weapons in their hands.

There were also some using light Power Armor, which resembled exoskeletons with protective shells, armed with light automatic weapons.

The reason he knew they were automatic weapons was that, in the second video, they had set up barricades on the streets and repeatedly eliminated the mutated zombies.

In the second video, the girls expressed surprise and fear at the sight of zombies surging like waves, until artillery fire landed among the zombies, flattening their charge to the ground.

"So you were fighting against these terrifying monsters in the Dark Zone before," Faye asked Malin, her face filled with deep concern, "That’s too dangerous, Malin, you must take me with you next time. My Spell Formation can help you guys."

"It’s okay, I usually don’t go to the Dark Zone, besides, haven’t we returned?"

In the third video, Malin and the girls felt desperate. The Earth Union’s military should have been scattered by then. Kayn Cade and one of his squad members were moving together, accompanied by Number Seventeen and another spherical machine, which looked like a reconnaissance robot.

Who knows where that sphere ended up getting lost later on.

"Kayn, where are we heading now?"

"Across the border between Switzerland and Italy, we’ll head to Austria, how about that?"

"The East, but I’ve heard that the fighting there is also very fierce. We’re just two light infantry, plus a combat robot and a reconnaissance robot—we need more reinforcements."

"Friend, we don’t have any more reinforcements," he said, and at this point, the video switched from filming the distance to focusing on Kayn’s squad member, and Malin saw an East Asian with black hair.

"Thanan people!" the girls exclaimed.

"Yeah, before the era of the great destruction, you can imagine... the whole world was a single nation, with everyone as close as a family," Malin explained, "Back then, language was not a barrier to our communication. You see, there’s no problem with their conversation at all."

"That’s true, now there’s only the two of us left. We’ll follow your lead to the East. If possible, I want to go home too... even if there is no home left." The East Asian cursed in Chinese.

Malin smiled and shook his head—this guy seemed like one of his own people.

"It’s really Thanan language, though it sounds a bit different in pronunciation from the current Thanan language," the girls continued to chat. The fourth video showed Kayn sitting in the aftermath of a battle, his comrade lying in a pool of blood; they had killed at least seventeen zombies, and his teammate had been impaled through the chest by a steel rebar.

"Li Yaming is dead, I’m the only one left now. The reconnaissance robot’s thermal sensor is broken; otherwise, we wouldn’t have entered the ambush circle of zombies. It was Li Yaming who saved me..." At this point, sobs could be heard off-screen.

The girls’ eyes were also reddened—they might not understand Kayn’s accented English, but the screen’s grim scene said it all. Similarly, although there were no more videos, what followed was a complete continuation of the final two segments of the previous videos.

"Although we just said that the era before the great destruction was just a paradise for some, compared to that time, except for us orcs who would become pets, everything else doesn’t seem so bad; at least it wasn’t as dangerous as it is now," Clovis lamented again, leaning into Malin’s arms, "It’s too sad, their joys, angers, sorrows, and pleasures are all in front of our eyes..."

"Don’t be sad, silly rabbit. Destruction doesn’t believe in tears," Malin comforted the girl in front of him.

After watching the photos and videos, Malin flipped through again. As expected, he found a notebook—yes, it must be the most epochal human and elf book of that era.

"It looks like it’s true that there was no Evil God before the great destruction. If an Evil God got ahold of this thing, it would certainly give a ton of medals to the guy who drew it," Clovis remarked.

The girls unanimously agreed and urged Malin to delete the dangerous items. Malin naturally obliged and swept them all out of the hard drive.

Speaking of which, now that Malin himself had a car, what use was there for canvas shoes? What a shameful item, Mr. Kayn.

Then Malin flipped through for a while and found some unimportant stuff—like advertisements for some furniture, some landscape photos from the old era, and what Malin liked most were the orbital elevator and the Star Ring.

This was also the most surprising existence for the girls, who specially made the carriage roof transparent for this purpose, looking at the full sky of stardust. Faye expressed a certain respect for the Star Ring, "I retract my previous view that the people of the old era were distracted by playthings; they truly conquered the world and shed the shackles of gravity. It turns out that beyond the sky lies a broader Starry Sea, and they have earned the privilege to be distracted by playthings."

"But distracted by playthings is distracted by playthings, Faye." Malin reached out and patted Faye’s head: "I still can’t accept the crime of the people of the old era treating you as pets."

"Mr. Malin, don’t worry, we won’t be easily defeated by such a problem. A long time ago, humankind’s civilization was destroyed, and now, each of our species is joining hands, hoping to create a better future together." After Faye finished speaking, she raised her head to look at the starry sky: "The era before the great destruction is far from us, but we have reason to believe that one day, our descendants will also take this step, and our descendants will once again free us from the sense of bondage that gravity brings."

"Yes, I share that belief," Clovis said with a determined expression, looking at Malin: "Mr. Malin, can you find any technology we could use from this?"

"Not at the moment, but I think we could give it a try, after all, it seems we’ve only looked at a very small part of this thing."

"That would be best, but for now, let’s sleep, it’s already midnight," Faye said.

The girls agreed with her statement, so Malin turned off the tablet, tossed it toward the coffee table, and Fio caught it mid-air and then placed it steadily on the coffee table.

Malin lay down and then reached out to embrace Maya. The bushy tail wound around Malin’s waist, and the warm touch drove away the chill of the deep night—it’s always like this near the coast.

.........

Malin opened his eyes to find himself lying in a big bed.

The girls were gone. Had he delved deep into sleep?

With such a question in mind, Malin sat up.

"Good morning, guest. There’s still some time before sunrise. Would you like to have breakfast on the balcony?" As expected, there was an electronic sound like Isabella’s.

"What should I call you?" Malin asked, lifting his head.

"Ansa, guest, you just named me that yesterday, have you forgotten?" the electronic voice replied.

Malin scratched his head: "Alright then, Ansa, please prepare breakfast and the balcony for me, I’m going to take a bath first," Malin said as he stood up looking for the bathroom.

Then Ansa pointed out the bathroom was in another direction, and she even laughed saying that Malin must still be asleep, fumbling about.

Malin smiled embarrassingly and entered the bathroom, took a shower, and then put on his robe.

Speaking of which, this room was very much like his own room from before.

It’s just that many of the furnishings are different—it must be because the styles were too old to satisfy.

That’s enough.

Thinking so, Malin also asked about the time.

The date was September 23, and Ansa’s reply made Malin somewhat puzzled—according to the video time on the tablet, the date of Kahn’s death should have been around September 12.

With this in mind, Malin left the room and heard the whispers of zombies from below as he arrived at the balcony.

He truly never would have imagined it.

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