PS: The Sentence Polishing System and Google Adsense will come soon in one or two days. If you see the webpage's layout disordered, it might be because I'm testing them. The Reward System is not done yet (The recent chapters are too long, which took me too much time. I don't even have time to continue the old novel I'm translating on ZenithNovels. People asking if that novel is dropped. Lol, I just don't have enough time). I will complete the Reward System after confirming that there are no bugs in the previous functions.
Chapter 92: The Moon Didn't Appear
The sky was gray, it was clearly night but they couldn't see the moon, only some blurred light mapped down through the thick clouds. Around them were all broken walls, as if this place had experienced a missile wash. A cool breeze blew by, and Ange sneezed with a jolt.
"That's why I said that your driving suit is too revealing, look, to catch a cold, right?" Ade said taking off the driving suit he was wearing, "Put it on."
"Thanks." Ange blushed and took the clothes and gestured, realizing that she had to take off her own driving clothes first, "Turn around, no peeking!"
"Can't you find a hidden place to change? Isn't making me turn around an invitation to peek?" Ade turned towards the wreckage of Hyzenthlays, "You change here, I'll go and take Alice down."
The moment Hyzenthlays was hit by TurnX earlier, he and Ange somehow suddenly appeared in another sky, and the Minovsky nuclear reactor was also somehow not working, which made Hyzenthlays straightly fall to the ground. He opened the cockpit and jumped out, Ange caught him, and Hyzenthlays fell hard to the ground from a high altitude and was completely scrapped.
They had to go out to explore, and since Hyzenthlays had scrapped, the only reliable means of transportation left was Ange's Villkiss, for which he chose to take Alice off and take it with him. After a while of working, he finally managed to get the data disks out of the cockpit that recorded Alice's main program and memories, and then found a backpack to put the data disks and other useful things in.
It's a good thing to enter an unfamiliar environment at a time like this, because it will force you to think about something else, and you won't have to think about TurnX for a while, which is too desperate to think about. Ange also seems to have read his mind and has been deliberately making an optimistic appearance. When he went back, Ange had already changed her clothes.
"The chest is so tight." Ange tugged hard at the collar, "You don't know how much work it took me to wear it."
"Don't show off, this dress is elastic, unisex." Looking at her suddenly dressed so properly, the clothes covered her thighs, her belly, and her chest, Ade felt unaccustomed, "How about you take it off again?"
Ange began to undress without saying a word, Ade was so frightened that he pulled her hand to stop her.
"It's so cold, we need to find a place to stay for the night first, as well as finding water and food." He changed the subject as if nothing had happened, "This place was supposed to be a city, these shouldn't be difficult to find."
"Humph, just talk and don't dare to do it." Ange grunted contemptuously, straddling on Villkiss and patting the back seat, "Come on up."
Ade skillfully sat on the back seat to hold Ange. This driving suit was a little hard, not as soft as the driving suit before. Starting Villkiss, Ange also said, "It really does not feel comfortable. Maybe I should change it back."
He held Ange a little tight and did not speak, Ange also did not go deeper into the topic. Villkiss flew into low altitude, with a relatively slow speed through the ruins of the city. The two observed the ground, looking for something useful. This is a medium-sized city built on a mountain, and the ground is full of dilapidated buildings.
Several minutes passed, the entire ruins were like a dead city, not to mention the living, even traces of humans can not be found. It was almost completely dark, and the two had flown the city right through. Just when they were ready to give up, Ade finally saw something suspicious, "Ange, the mountain outside the city over there, fly over and land there!"
Villkiss stopped at the foot of the mountain and Ade led Ange to what he had just spotted. Embedded in the wall of the mountain was a huge rectangular metal wall, and in the middle of the metal wall was a huge gear-shaped metal door.
Ange and he stood in front of the door, looking at the suspected camera above the door, and before he could speak, an electronically synthesized voice rang out from across the room, "Welcome to Vault 76, the vault is not yet complete, please wait until the work is finished. If you are an employee of the vault, please show your identity."
There is a display-like thing by the door lit up, Ade while muttering to himself, "I do not have a bottle cap", while walking to the front of the display. The electronic voice kept repeating, "Iris, fingerprints, and DNA don't match, residents, please wait for the completion of the vault to visit again."
"Ange, how about you give it a try?" He said to the young girl behind him, "Well, although I don't think it works, it's no harm to have a try."
"What the hell? Is this the attitude to ask me for help?" Ange stood in front of the display, and after a while, the display suddenly turned green, "Huh, what did I do? Why is it green?"
At this point, the electronic voice again, "Confirmation of the highest authority, the entire vault welcomes your arrival." Then the huge metal door slowly moved to one side, revealing the space inside.
"I suddenly find that my IQ is not enough." Ange poked her head in and looked inside, "Are we going in?"
"When has your IQ ever been enough? Of course, we should go in." Ade silently stood behind Ange, "You go ahead, and, get your gun out, and watch out for the giant cockroaches."
"Stay close, I'll protect you, and watch out for yourself." Ange took out her pistol, made a posture of vigilance, and carefully walked inside the vault, "What are the giant cockroaches? Well, no need to answer, it must be your random bullshit again to fool me."
The moment they enter, the door of the vault began to close automatically, while the surroundings lit up. At least, it seems that the energy and oxygen supply system is still running. Inside the vault is very large, seems to have hollowed out most of the mountain. But no one was inside.
This place is obviously not yet completed, with many circuit pipes exposed on the wall. The duo first found a place that looked like a food warehouse, which was stocked with a large amount of sealed pure water and canned food, not knowing how long it had been sitting there. Then they found an office-like place with the only computer they found.
The computer's encryption was a bit tricky, which took Ade a little effort to crack. This computer controls the main system of the vault, including the door, everything is under the control here. The main board's clock battery should have malfunctioned, and the time was surprisingly calculated from 0 when it was turned on, making it impossible to locate the current time.
"The builder of this vault is OZ, one of a series of vaults built in response to the World War. the two top leaders of OZ are Chief Treize Khushrenada and …" he tried to spell that phonetic name. "Dr. Yang Wen-li?! I've never seen such a shameless transmigrator!"
"Totally unintelligible." Ange wandered around the room bored, "Tell me when you've figured it all out, I won't bother to waste my brain cells. And it's so hot in here, but it's so cold outside."
"The World War's information is not recorded here, maybe it had finished before the vault had been done? Then the city was abandoned after it was destroyed in the war?" He looked hard for a while longer, "No, the rest are plans for the construction of the vault, they're useless to us."
"Then what do we do?" Ange found a seat and sat down casually, looking like she had given up thinking, "You are smarter than me, the smart one is in charge of figuring out what to do."
"There's so little intel on hand right now, I can brainstorm a dozen versions of the story." He helplessly left the computer and patted Ange's shoulder, "Get up and find a room that can at least let us sleep. We can stay here this night and explore the city carefully during the day tomorrow, or at least figure out what's going on with OZ and Dr. Yang Wen-li first."
"Oh." Ange nodded and took out her gun to walk ahead of him, "There is electricity, food, and water here, and Villkiss can not fly too far anyway. If we really can not find living people around here, we can just live here… "
Of course, he knows what Ange means. She sacrificed her life to save him, even he understands what it means. He thought of TurnX, and a kind of desperate emotion rushed to his heart. He really doesn't know how to defeat that thing. Under the impulse, he blurted out, "Okay."
Ange suddenly turned back with a glowing smile blooming from her face and disappearing in the blink of an eye. She turned around and continued walking, and her voice became sullen, "Don't show a contrite look after saying that, it's too much. Forget it, it's useless to say that. I'm used to it."
Ade followed behind her in silence, and the two of them didn't say anything all the way after that.
After a bit of exploring, they finally found a barely habitable room in the completely unbuilt dormitory area. The two spent some effort to make up a bed, and although they didn't find a quilt, it was warm enough in the confined environment so they didn't really need it.
"It's late, I'm going to bed." Ange said, took off her driving clothes and sat inside the bed, wearing only his underwear and leaving half of the space for him, "Do I need to beg you blushed, and then you pretend to be polite and finally act like you have no choice but to go to bed with me?"
"Is your IQ getting higher and higher?" He turned off the light and sat down on the edge of the bed, lying down with his back to Ange, "I'm not used to this."
"My IQ is not low, I have told you many times, but you don't believe it. I'm a princess, I have excellent genes, okay? Momoka also praised me for my intelligence." Ange untied her corset and put it to the side, also lying down with her back to him, "It's just …"
"… just what?"
Ange shifted a bit, her bare back pressed against his, "It's just that I can't help but give up thinking when I'm with you."
"…"
"I know it's not right, you have wives. I'm a princess, okay? I'm not a cheap woman who has to fall in love with you." Ange's voice trembled a little, "But I just can't help it, I feel so close when I see you, I become easily provoked, I can't help but give up thinking, I want to be closer to you, it's like, it's like …"
"…"
"But you're also way out of line! You obviously have lovers, obviously see that I'm trapped, obviously know that this is not right, and still come to tease me." Ange's voice carried a hint of imperceptible sobbing as she rolled over to face him, "I couldn't help controlling myself. You're smarter than me, and why would you do something like that? Just to bully me?"
He did not answer. Ange all of a sudden sat up angrily and forcefully turned his body over to face her. The young girl's big eyes shone brightly in the darkness, and she grabbed one of his hands and pressed it to her heart, asking in anger, "Anyway, we have come to this point. Want to do it?"
The wonderful sensation from his hand literally shattered his sanity, and he pulled his hand back with the greatest determination he had ever had, while restraining himself from lunging. He rolled over and turned his back to Ange again, "It's late, go to sleep, we have to go out to explore the city tomorrow."
"I'm so cheap." These words seemed to have drained her entire body of strength. Ange fell heavily on the bed and did not say a second word.
After another unknown period of time, Ade heard the sound of steady breathing finally coming from behind him, He judged that the young girl should be asleep.
"Yeah, just to bully you," he whispered to himself, "Alice is right, I'm really too abnormal because I'm just like you, I just can't control myself."
Ade silently thought about various things for a while longer in the darkness, took off his clothes before going to bed, and gently rested them on Ange's stomach.
"Thanks," Ange said with her eyes closed.
The next morning, Ade and Ange both tacitly pretended that nothing had happened yesterday, and the two walked to the city to continue their exploration. Spending a whole day, they didn't find anything useful. All the electronic devices were destroyed, and did not find other useful information. The next days, the two explored the city during the day and slept in the same bed at night.
Ange is used to sleeping naked, and every day that passes, his will becomes weaker. He thinks he will turn into a beast at any time. What's even more frightening is that neither he nor Ange proposed to sleep in separate beds, and both seemed to be looking forward to the day when his self-control was depleted. He even deluded himself into thinking that there was nothing wrong with that.
The change came on the morning of the sixth day, when Ade got out of her octopus-tangle-like hug with difficulty and dressed to go out early. For some reason, the times before bed and in the morning are the most difficult time for him. Being woken up, Ange also can not sleep, she pouted and began to look for her clothes in a daze.
When Ade passed by the door, there seemed to be a sound from Villkiss by the door - he had left the public channel on for the past few days just in case. He walked quickly to it and heard an unfamiliar voice was blaring on the public channel, an automated announcement that kept repeating, "This is Iserlohn Nadesico, if any survivors hear me, please respond. This is Iserlohn Nadesico, if any survivors hear me, please respond…"
"There are survivors here, please respond if you hear me."
"Whoa! Live people!" The voice over there was a young boy with a very surprised tone, "Finally! After all these years, there are living people! Where are you? Are you the only one? What are your identities?"
"There's a man and a woman over here, we're …" Ade hesitated, he didn't want to lie but couldn't explain his identity, "We're in Vault 76."
"Oh, you are in the vault, no wonder we didn't find you before." Under his misdirection, the boy convinced himself, "Understood, we are not far from Vault 76, we will immediately set off to your side."
Ange finally came out and looked at him curiously. Ade made a "shh" motion to her and asked tentatively, "May I ask how the World War is going?"
"Did you go there before the war ended?" The other side sighed, "Prepare yourself, I know it's hard to accept, but we lost the war, the world is destroyed."
Hearing these words, Ange suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at Ade. Her mouth opened and closed without saying anything. She lifted her head to look at the still gray sky and let out a long breath, revealing a smile of relief, as if resigned to her fate.
"What time is it now?" Ade didn't see the look of the young girl behind him and concentrated on asking, "I mean, what is the year of A.C. now?"
"A.C.? That was the way of dating before the war, and it changed to AfterWar, A.W. after the war." There was a correction, "It's A.W. 42 now."
"And how is Dr. Yang Wen-li doing?"
"Oh, little brother, you are also a fan of the doctor? I will personally drive Gundam to pick you up later!" The young man there sounded excited, but his next sentence became frustrated, "The defeat of the war ended with the suicide of the Doctor. The Doctor has been dead for forty-two years."
