It’s very harmful (v1ch61)
Ye Sheng picked up the object and held it up to the torchlight. It was an iron badge, about the size of her palm. It had a square shape, with a bird carved on one side. The bird looked like it was perched on a treetop, its eyes staring straight at Ye Sheng. It gave her a creepy feeling, especially in the dark.
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She turned the badge over and saw some strange patterns on the other side. They were incomprehensible to her.
What is this?
It didn't seem like something that belonged in the mitigation zone...
Ye Sheng couldn't figure out what it was, so she decided to stop worrying about it. She took the badge with her and went back to the shack. As she closed the door, she noticed that the wooden door was still loose and wobbly. She would have to fix it tomorrow.
Those gangsters deserved to die!
They had brought even more misery to this poor family!
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At least she had managed to salvage some weapons and shields from the battlefield. They should fetch a good price at the swap shop tomorrow.
She placed the torch on a fixed iron bracket on the wall. It would burn out soon, but it wouldn't ignite anything else.
She was too excited to sleep. She felt like chatting.
"Gu Luoyu, we don't have to worry anymore. All the gangsters have been captured... The mercenaries were amazing. They took them down with just two people. The gangsters didn't stand a chance!"
She sat next to the straw bed and spoke cheerfully.
She had stayed in the shack and hadn't gone out, but she had heard everything that happened outside. The sounds of Ah Mu's fists and feet hitting the gangsters, and the gangsters' cries and pleas for mercy, had made her blood boil.
She admired Ah Mu's skill with the hand crossbow. She wondered when she would be able to fight like that.
Gu Luoyu's expression was calm, almost bored. She curled her lips in a faint sneer, but quickly hid it behind a gentle and harmless smile.
They were just low-level mercenaries.
Ye Sheng was such a naive fool.
She thought that before she killed Ye Sheng, she should let her see for herself what real strength was. Killing S-level polluted creatures, that was something to be proud of.
She felt a surge of competitive spirit.
She didn't want to talk about the mercenaries anymore, so she changed the subject. "Are you sure they got all the gangsters?"
"Ah Mu and the others are in a hurry to hand them over to the base authorities. They should come back tomorrow and tell us what happened. I think they caught them all. It was a revenge mission, after all. I killed their son. The gangsters would have sent their whole clan to fight."
Ye Sheng tried to imagine being in their shoes. If she were a gangster, she would hate them too.
But she couldn't be sure of anything. She had to wait for Ah mu and the others to confirm it.
She remembered the iron badge she had found. She hadn't seen anything like it when she tied the iron can rope outside the shack. It was probably something the gangsters had brought with them.
She picked up the plate again and showed it to Gu Luoyu.
"Gu Luoyu, I found this strange iron badge outside. The bird and the patterns on it are very intricate. Do you want to see it?"
"Um."
Ye Sheng's curiosity caught Gu Luoyu's attention, and she quickly placed the iron badge on the straw bed. Then she took Ye Sheng's hand and let her fingers trace the iron badge carefully.
As Gu Luoyu felt the lines of the plate with her fingertips, Ye Sheng said, "Maybe we can ask Ah Mu tomorrow. He is a well-informed mercenary. He should know what this is."
If it was valuable, she could exchange it for points.
But keep it as a souvenir?
She was barely scraping by. No matter how exquisite and beautiful the plate was, it couldn't feed them like a bottle of nutrient solution.
She'd be better off selling it to some rich collector.
"Ye Sheng, you can't let anyone see this token."
"???"
While Ye Sheng was fantasizing about getting millions of points and buying a house in the safe zone, Gu Luoyu's expression turned serious. She flipped the badge over and rubbed the pattern on the back.
After confirming her suspicion, she said, "This is the identity token of the Black Spring Freemasonry. If the base officials find out, they'll take you away and torture you for information. And then, even if you're innocent, they'll kill you... just to be safe, they'd rather kill the wrong person than let one go."
"Ah!"
Gu Luoyu's words terrified Ye Sheng.
Her eyes widened in shock, and she sat up straight.
She had just picked up something!
Why was it so dangerous?
And what was the Black Spring Freemasonry?
Seeing Ye Sheng's confusion, Gu Luoyu quickly explained, "The Black Spring Freemasonry is a secret organization. In short, they're rebels who hunt down base officials and mercenaries."
The origin of the Black Spring Freemasonry was linked to the change of power in the base.
The losing faction, out of spite, formed the Black Spring Freemasonry.
They had been growing and gathering strength for generations, with the goal of overthrowing the base. They were the biggest headache for the base officials.
But after the base officials signed contracts with various mercenary groups, the base became much stronger. The Black Spring Freemasonry couldn't openly challenge them, so they resorted to covert tactics.
Like assassinating mercenaries who worked with the base...
They were cunning and elusive. They would strike once and then vanish.
The base officials couldn't catch them, no matter how hard they tried.
The existence of the Black Spring Freemasonry was not public knowledge, so Gu Luoyu didn't tell Ye Sheng too much, in case she exposed her unusual identity. But she still scared Ye Sheng a lot.
She was lucky she only wanted to ask Ah Mu about the badge.
If they had seen it, she would have been arrested and locked up, and eventually executed.
This badge was a curse! ! !
"I'll throw it away in the wilderness tomorrow!"
The badge she had hoped to trade for points turned out to be a hot potato. If the wilderness wasn't so dangerous at night, she would have tossed it right away.
She had to get rid of it before it harmed them..
“Be careful. Some of those gangsters might belong to the Black Spring Freemasonry. Ye Sheng, you should ask the mercenaries about the gangsters’ identities and their recent activities.”
“Little… Gu Luoyu, what are you afraid of?”
“The Black Spring Freemasons are ruthless. They don’t care who they hurt when they go after the base officials and the mercenaries… If they show up in the wilderness, they’ll be as dangerous as Class A polluted creatures.”
Ye Sheng nodded. She understood.
If the Black Spring Freemasons were on the hunt, the wilderness would be no place for scavengers.