When Rachel came out after changing her clothes, Du Yuanyuan stopped whistling.
The so-called national costumes of the land of food are actually beautiful, with a fitted cut, soft texture, and the ability to show off the wearer's body curves to the maximum extent.
When worn on the body, it is lifted where it should be and gathered where it should be, which is pleasing to the eye.
But Du Yuanyuan felt that if it were her, she would probably not accept wearing such clothes.
It is not a garment prepared for warriors. Most of the vital parts that should be protected during combat are deliberately exposed, just for visual pleasure.
Rachel had a beautiful figure, with golden proportions, the physique of a first-class warrior, strong muscles and a taut waistline, sea-blue eyes, and long golden hair tied into a braid and hanging behind her.
The tall mantis ladies at the scene all showed loving eyes and lingered their unscrupulous gazes on the key parts.
Rachel was originally a very powerful warrior, but when he came here, in the atmosphere of such a strange city, he suddenly felt like he had become some kind of object.
He shook his long braids and tried his best to appear calm amid those impolite looks.
But his steps still subconsciously moved closer to the three girls from Lin Yuan.
It happened suddenly, without any sign, warning, or even any dialogue.
A tall monster appeared beside Rachel. Her movements were so explosive that they were almost like teleportation.
Suddenly he approached, with huge compound eyes and a smiling mouth, and stretched out his hand to touch the key area in front of Rachel.
Speed is the innate ability of their race. There are few people in this world who can be faster than them.
The golden lion frowned and retreated quickly, with its long golden braids flying up, but it was obvious that it could not completely avoid this unscrupulous humiliation.
Fortunately, there is something in this world that is faster than action.
That is consciousness.
When this mutant had obscene thoughts, someone had already captured her thoughts.
The moment she approached, a pair of golden pupils seemed to appear in the void.
Mysterious golden eyes blocked her outstretched oiled hand, staring at her coldly.
The mutant felt a sharp pain in his mind for a moment, stopped, stretched out his hand to grab something, but only felt a hint of air.
She failed, so she shrugged her shoulders, giggled, and walked back to her companions fearlessly under the glares of Rachel, Du Yuanyuan, and Nicole.
"Why are you back? It's a pity that you have a humanoid arm."
"It's rare that I would miss."
"No, I don't know why. I suddenly lost interest in my mind, so I just thought about it and gave up."
"Haha, forget it. After all, they are guests, don't scare them away."
Those people shook out the feather fans in their hands to cover their faces, laughed and discussed, behaved elegantly, and called each other guests, but their behavior just now did not show any real politeness.
When Yun Luo came out, he saw this scene where the smoke had not yet cleared.
His face was livid, and he was even more uncomfortable than Rachel. The clothes here had no sleeves, and even deliberately exposed his shoulders, leaving the connection between his mechanical arms and body completely exposed to others.
This was nothing, he was already able to face his physical disability calmly. No one would want to have their clothes torn a few times on the battlefield.
What made him uncomfortable was the gazes from those people. Such sticky gazes lingered on his arm, which was bare and exposed, causing the wound on his broken arm, which had not hurt for a long time, to ache again.
"Wow, look at that human male. Bionic prosthesis, I love it."
"She's pretty, and if her limbs were broken, she'd be even more lovable."
"Hehe, he gave me an appetite. I feel hungry again."
"Be patient and don't make a fool of yourself. You are already a mature person."
Ni Ji came out just one step later than Yun Luo. He didn't have long blond hair or mechanical arms. Wearing such scarce fabric, he looked extremely thin.
The muscles covered the bones, stretched tight, and there were many obvious scars on his exposed ankles, arms and abdominal muscles - he had received comprehensive treatment not long ago.
Thin, bony, with scarred and tightly stretched muscles, he looked like a wild beast, full of the smell of gunpowder from the abyss, wasteland, and bloody battlefield.
There is a very primitive hormone permeating into his bones, making it difficult for people not to look at him.
Even Lin Yuan couldn't take his eyes off for a moment.
She looked at the tall and thin sentry and suddenly remembered what Xunhua said when she was sitting on the tree.
"You don't need to think too much about it. Your body's instinct will tell you whether you like him or not."
The scene became quiet. Lin Yuan smelled a slight odor and saw the shadows of several huge mantises projected on the wall.
Lin Yuan's tentacles had captured a similar scent before, a scent they had sensed in the sealed utility room of the White Tower. In the spring, they could capture the same consciousness in many wet bushes.
Huge dark red tentacles suddenly appeared, intertwining and squirming, instantly encircling several male sentinels.
The sentinels' spirits of all sizes appeared. Nicole's silver python spat out its tongue.
The mutants waved their feather fans, and the reflections of their jagged sickles swayed on the wall.
The situation is tense and the battle is only a moment away.
"Hey, don't be so nervous." Green Wing, who had just returned from handling formalities, separated the two parties and said with a smile, "They are just joking with you."
She waved her sickle-shaped arms in the air and said to her companions, "Be restrained. Don't get excited when you see a good-looking person of the opposite sex. Can't you see that there is already a girl next to him?"
The huge mutants standing in the shadows with their faces half covered stared at the three men for a while, then finally snorted and dispersed.
Green Wing led Lin Yuan and his party to the border, smiling and instructing them,
"Keep an eye on your men when you get in. It's spring now, and everyone is prone to being restless."
She disappeared at the border with her skirt half lifted. When she turned around, she did not forget to complain, "If you ask me, you shouldn't bring men when doing business."
It seemed as if all the faults were caused by Lin Yuan and the others themselves.
Compared to the tense situation at the intersection, the interior of Food City is more like a fairy tale world.
The buildings here are very low and built underground. The only thing exposed above the ground is the beautiful roof, which is made of a stone of a very special color.
It was night in the city, and lights were on everywhere. There were large fields of flowers and vegetation. A huge Ferris wheel, roller coaster and carousel stood among the flowers.
The deformed species walking among them have different appearances. Some have mantis heads and green compound eyes, and some have physical features that are very similar to humans. Some are huge and burly, three or four meters tall. There are also petite and slender ones, about the same height as Lin Yuan.
Most of them are women, each of them wearing beautiful dresses, carrying small decorations, and wandering in a colorful world like an amusement park.
After Green Wing brought them in, he gave each of them an ID card and left.
The mantis that took the initiative to lead the way for them here called herself Green Ant. She was very cute and petite, and was not even as tall as Nicole.
She smiled and claimed that she would take them to find buyers who would buy the clothes at high prices.
"That family is having a wedding. They love the exquisite handmade clothes you humans make. They will probably buy a few more pieces, and I can earn a little commission."
The expression and manner in which Green Ant spoke reminded Lin Yuan of Xiaosuo and Xunhua at home.
Her facial expressions were even more expressive than mine, and she spoke in rapid succession without stopping.
"Don't be too nervous. Only those outside the border will be overbearing to you humans."
Green Ant walked on the street paved with colorful stones, holding up her skirt. She would jump and turn twice with each step. Her skirt was a little old, but she was very beautiful.
"If you want to get in, you have to go through them. Many humans will try to please them and silently endure their groping. This has caused them to develop some bad habits."
"I really like making friends with humans. Most people here like you. The humans that come in always bring a lot of interesting merchandise. It's very exciting."
"So after coming in, men won't be treated like that?" Nicole asked her curiously.
"That's not the case. Boys have a harder time living in this world." Green Ant said, "You'll get used to it after staying here for a long time. You're a girl, so why should you think about these things?"
At this moment, night is falling, the lights in Shipang City are bright, the low green plants are full of vitality, and countless flowers are vying to bloom and smell fragrant.
There are neatly stacked small roofs on the ground nearby. It looks like the residential area here.
Further away is a brilliant sea of flowers.
The boundless land is covered with flowers and fragrant grass. Large recreational facilities stand among the flowers. Everywhere is beautiful, like a dream, a fairy tale world.
There was a burst of booing coming from the square ahead, and many people were watching.
"Wow, it's a proposal."
The green ant was very excited. It spread a pair of thin wings on its back and flew lightly in the night sky, forgetting about Lin Yuan and his group.
It was a square full of red roses and colorful stones paved in a heart-shaped pattern.
A well-dressed and beautiful woman was kneeling on one knee, singing to a man wearing a dress with "ethnic characteristics".
The young boy's face turned pale, he shook his head and turned away.
The suitor stood up again, changed his angle, and knelt before him once more, showing deep affection and persistence.
"Promise her! Promise her!" All the onlookers cheered loudly.
The boy's face became even uglier, as if he was about to cry. He bit his lips tightly and turned his face away.
The green ant ran back at some point and landed beside Lin Yuan and his group.
She introduced it dutifully, "This is the specialty of our food city."
"During this season, there are always a lot of marriage proposals. Sometimes there are also some violent incidents."
"If a boy doesn't want to get married, he should never go out alone during this season."
Lin Yuan and the others all had strange looks on their faces as they thought about the three rules for women before they came in.
You shall not kill, you shall not set fire, and you shall not force anyone of the opposite sex.
This place may look no different from the normal human world.
A complete set of imitations of human language, human clothing, and human etiquette.
The colorful lights and the rotating Ferris wheel make this a beautiful fairytale town, but it always feels like a nightmare.
"If someone proposes to you, you must think carefully." Green Ant said this to the three men in the team, "The marriage here is a little different from your human marriage."
She smiled sweetly, crossed her hands in front of her chest, and was intoxicated by beautiful imagination.
"But sometimes it's like this. When love comes, it's hard to resist, right? Even if it means sacrificing your body and life."
What kind of engagement requires the price of one's life
The terrain here is flat, the buildings are low, and the view is unobstructed.
While Green Ant was speaking, a small bright spot rose silently on the distant horizon across the huge Ferris wheel.
In the night, a small bright spot dyed a line of the sky white.
At that moment, the noisy voices and music in the square disappeared, and everyone turned their heads to look at the rapidly expanding white spot.
"Hurry, the sun is rising." Someone shouted.
As if a starting gun had been fired, the roofs of the colorful low buildings on the ground opened one after another.
The densely packed mutants were like termites passing through, either flying low or running wildly, swarming towards the open roofs on the ground like a tide.
Ni Ji climbed to a high place and looked over the horizon. A huge sun was slowly rising.
On the flat land, a clear boundary is drawn between day and night.
The long golden arc, flashing with jumping sparks, swallowed up the darkness at an extremely fast speed and advanced rapidly forward.
That is a line of death.
The scorching sun brought extreme high temperatures. All the ground licked by the sun, whether it was green grass or flowers, was quickly withering and turning yellow, turning into ashes.
Those mutants who ran too far stretched out their slender and powerful legs and raced madly against the rising sun.
To win is life, to be slow is death.
Before being licked by the boundary of death, someone jumped into the opened underground house and closed the roof with a snap.
The glowing morning sun passed over the house, scorching the surrounding ground.
Among the crowd of people running wildly, there was a figure far away who was obviously too late.
He was a boy, still very young, who seemed to have seldom been out, and who had accidentally wandered too far beyond safe limits.
There was no time to escape back to the residential area.
As he was about to be caught up by the sunlight, he panicked and hid under a tall cartoon sculpture. In the shadow of the sculpture, he curled up his hands and feet in pain and cried out for help.
Many people were standing high up on this side of the night, watching him.
It was too far away, and no one had the ability to cross such a sea of fire to rescue him.
The shadow of the huge sculpture was gradually shortening. The cry for help from the distant shadows became more shrill.
In this half of the night, countless people watched the process of his death.
The twilight zone was approaching, the heat wave was rushing towards her, there was an open roof on the ground, and the heads of green ants popped out. She shouted to Ni Ji who was standing on a high place,
"Come down quickly, why are you still up there? Everyone has come in, we can't wait for you."
The sentry took one last look at the colorful sculpture, which had become silent, and leaped into the underground house.
The moment the roof closed, he smelled the smell of burnt flesh and blood in the distance.
Waves of heat rolled over my head.
In the dark basement, the six companions looked at each other.
Food City, they came in.
(End of this chapter)