Is this the beginning of the mission?
Saving people?
Treating illness? Dust Fog Disease?
Living in this toxic thick fog, it would be difficult for ordinary people not to get sick.
Ye Qiyan didn't believe he had any particular talent for treating illnesses and saving people.
If he had to say, it was only through watering special nutrient solutions that the vegetables and fruits in the cultivation carriage gained some slight healing effects.
But could that really treat the Dust Fog Disease that Nate spoke of?
That wasn't important.
Ye Qiyan wanted to understand this station world.
Whether he could cure it or not, he could only say, let's give it a try?
"I need to stay in this city for a while to resupply. You're a local, right? Serve as my guide, and I'll consider whether to treat your sister."
Hearing this, Nate immediately became excited.
He waved his arms and danced around as if witnessing some kind of miracle.
"Thank you, sir! Please rest assured, I collect garbage in every part of the city daily. I know everything about this city and absolutely won't let you down!"
"Then lead the way. Let's go to your home first to see your sister."
Ye Qiyan wore a gentle smile on his face, even though Nate probably couldn't see it clearly.
This time, he didn't store the train in the matrix.
According to Nate,
his home wasn't far from this long-abandoned station, just a ten-minute walk away.
This station also didn't seem to require extensive traveling like the arena had.
At least for now, it wasn't necessary.
So Ye Qiyan left the train here, activated the Wealth Protective Barrier. With Eve plus the somewhat useful Goshawk, the train's safety didn't need to be worried about.
Under Nate's guidance, they arrived beside an extremely dilapidated two-story building.
The reason for calling it dilapidated was because the small building showed corrosion marks everywhere, appearing tattered, rickety, and as if it might collapse at any moment.
There were many similar small buildings here, with fearful, envious, and even jealous gazes coming from various directions.
Occasionally, some pedestrians could be seen, all wearing gas masks similar to Nate's.
"Sir, please excuse the poor conditions... this is my home. Ah, would you like some water?"
Entering the small building,
in the dim environment, Nate gritted his teeth and lit an oil lamp that looked like it hadn't been used for a long time.
He removed his gas mask, revealing a face beneath it covered with numerous corrosion spots.
He brought over a cup that looked as clean as possible, containing somewhat turbid water.
"I'm not thirsty. Where's your sister? And this building? Such a dwelling looks pretty good?"
Nate quickly waved his hands, afraid that Ye Qiyan might develop some unnecessary misunderstandings.
"Sir, what Obolun City has most abundantly is housing... These kinds of broken houses are everywhere with nobody living in them. That's why I brought my sister to live here."
From Nate's accounts, Ye Qiyan roughly understood some background about this city called Obolun and the entire Fog Nation.
The Fog Nation wasn't originally called this name.
Decades ago, through a special industrial revolution, the entire country fell into a steam frenzy.
Countless factories sprang up from the ground, and the entire population entered an extremely fanatical steam worship.
Large quantities of steam machinery were continuously manufactured.
Different cities also began increasingly fierce steam machinery competitions.
The sky was covered with factory smoke and dust.
Rivers were filled with viscous wastewater.
Cities everywhere were permeated with strong, pungent odors.
Nate didn't know what happened at the end of this competition. He only knew that ultimately, the Fog Nation experienced intense internal warfare. After years of continuous war, the entire country fell into a nearly paralyzed state.
Since then, the air has always been filled with highly toxic waste fog.
Residents living here must wear heavy but not fully protective gas masks to survive.
Only the Fog Nation's nobles, through high-end factories, produce special gas masks that can block all the waste fog's effects on the body.
From appearance, it looks like they're not wearing anything at all.
Moreover, because of the thick fog, the world outside the cities is completely impassable for ordinary people. Only through the trains owned by the nobles can they travel to other cities for material exchange, or go to the legendary clean lands where no waste fog exists.
Ye Qiyan silently noted down the term "clean lands."
Playing with Bewitchment in his hand, he stored it in the Void Card Repository.
Having gotten answers to some questions, Ye Qiyan looked toward the second floor.
"Your sister is up there?"
Nate quickly nodded in affirmation.
"Take me to see her."
"Okay!"
Following Nate upstairs, Ye Qiyan gave a meaningful look to Lisette, who had been quietly unnoticed until now.
His appearance now
had apparently stirred some special intentions in certain people.
Lisette slightly bowed toward Ye Qiyan's retreating back.
She only stood up after he had gone to the second floor, smiling cheerfully as she looked outside.
In that waste fog,
a group of "humans" holding shabby weapons were closing in on this location.
Human needed quotation marks.
Because these fellows' bodies
were filled with various strange steam modifications.
And also, some mechanically driven creatures of different forms using steam power.
Tick—
The spikes behind Lisette began to differentiate.
Hour, minute, second~
When she stood at the door, extending a finger to her lips.
"Shh~"
"Need to, keep it quiet~"
Silent slaughter, thus began.
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Second floor of the small building.
In a small room that was unusually warm and clean compared to other places,
a little girl wearing a ventilator powered by a special steam device lay there in pain.
Every breath she took was accompanied by granular sounds.
Nate's eyes reddened, and he actually knelt before Ye Qiyan once again.
"Sir, I beg you! I'll do anything, you can even sell me as a slave! Please save my sister!"
Steam machinery?
What amazing mechanical devices, using just steam to create robots, prosthetics, and various technological products?
This world was truly interesting.
"Stand up."
Walking directly to the little girl's side, he reached out to touch her.
The system's identification light screen appeared before his eyes.
[Naxi]
[Dust Fog Disease]
[Starvation, near death, pain]
Already in a near-death state?
Ye Qiyan took out a carrot from his backpack, hesitated slightly, then switched to a tomato and tossed it to Nate.
His vegetables and fruits all had certain healing effects, though whether they could handle this Dust Fog Disease was probably unlikely.
But, having a full meal was good medicine for a patient.
"Feed it to her."
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