Arknights: Sea Goddesses of Terra

Chapter 3: Towards Freedom

Two days later

At night, torches were lit around the stronghold, and various boxes were placed on the ground.

Some boxes were open, revealing the various goods inside, and many of them contained wine.

It was a party, a carnival. Five consecutive days of high-intensity robbery made some smarter robbers start to feel that something was wrong.

In order to dispel the doubts of these clever individuals, the robber leader decided to suspend his original plan, take out the wine from the cargo, and hold such a party.

The robber leader looked at a group of robbers who were drunk and laughing loudly.

"Just wait. If you want to take me down, just wait until there are fewer people. By then, the doctor will be in good shape, hehehe."

Under the stimulation of alcohol, the desire in the robber leader's heart seemed to be aroused.

At the entrance of the cave, the cat-eared robber yawned, looked at the fire that was lit a little further away, and smelled the drunken scene over there.

"How long will it be before we take our turn? Is it necessary to watch so closely? The chains have been put back on. Hurry up, I want to drink too."

While the cat-eared robber was concentrating on the carnival over there, he didn't notice a person walking slowly towards him from behind.

Just when the cat-eared robber could no longer bear his desire for drinks and was about to go over and pull someone over to watch Reinette for him, a dark shadow suddenly wrapped around him and dragged him into the cave.

He subconsciously called for help, and as soon as he opened his mouth, a large amount of water instantly poured in through the gap.

"It's water!"

The cat-eared robber's body kept spasming. He tried to move his body, but he couldn't break through the water ball no matter what. It was as if the water ball had its own consciousness and wanted to drown him in the center.

Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a figure slowly walking across the glass-like surface. With the help of the faint firelight from the outside world, he could clearly see the figure outside the water curtain.

"It's you!"

The person who came was Reinette, who was imprisoned deep in the cave by them. However, he was no longer wearing the tattered clothes he had worn in the desert before, but a brand new black windbreaker.

There was still that gentle smile on his face, but considering his current situation, that gentle smile not only failed to warm his heart, but instead a chill arose from within.

Reinette looked at the robber struggling in the water. Tiny bubbles kept pouring out of his mouth and nose as he struggled, but his waving limbs could not get him out of the floating water.

"Drowning is a very beautiful way to die. It also makes people realize the preciousness of life. You can't help but struggle and greedily use every breath of air you have left."

Reinette looked at a huge ball of air flowing out of his wide-open mouth, and Reinette knew that was the only air left in his lungs.

"It looks like you are doomed. How pitiful! There is a party going on outside, with the aroma of wine everywhere, but you are trapped in this mass of water."

Reinette looked at the cat-eared robber who was gradually losing his struggle in the water and said with a little compassion.

"I'm sorry, I can only use this slow and somewhat painful method to send you off. After all, I still can't control the force of the water flow very well, so I can't do the water blades in the fantasy stories before."

"I hope you can forgive me, but you have abused me for a month, so this is just a small return of my gratitude. Of course, the others can't escape either."

Reinette is now like the final villain in various detective works, telling all his crime plans to the captured protagonist.

"Remember this morning you told me you were going to have a party? Even the woodpile was ready, so I was in the woodpile and threw something in when you weren't paying attention."

At this moment, screams suddenly came from outside, and Reinette looked back with a smile.

At this moment, under the light of the fire, for some reason, one robber took out a weapon and chopped down another robber, and the attention of the other robbers was also attracted.

As they were surrounding the place, something was bound to happen, such as bumping into someone. Normally, the burly robbers wouldn't care at all.

But at this moment, the two men started swearing at each other, and it gradually developed into a physical fight, and the chaos they caused involved more people.

It was like a virus, spreading to more people, causing them to quarrel, fight, and finally chop each other down with weapons. Even the robber leader sitting on the chair did not miss this grand "carnival."

"It really worked immediately. I think I should thank you. If you hadn't kidnapped me, my system would have updated the combat module and there wouldn't be such a useful poison."

Reinette threw a piece of incense into the pile of matches he was playing with this morning. The incense had the effect of making people irritable and violent, and it spread over such a long period of time.

Coupled with the stimulation of alcohol, all the robbers who participated in the revelry turned into thugs who might hurt people with just a small conflict.

"It's quite useful, but it takes a long time for it to take effect. It took a full four hours for such a large piece of incense to start to have a noticeable effect, and it's so expensive."

[Item: Raging Incense]

[Quality: White]

[Type: Consumables]

[Effect: The fragrance released after lighting, after long-term inhalation, will make people irritable and eventually become manic until the effect dissipates. The duration of the effect depends on the amount inhaled.]

[Description: The incense was supposed to calm the mind, but it was mixed with poison that can make people manic and irritable. Inhaling it for a long time will make people irritable and manic.]

[Price: 1500 Medical Points]

[D-level medical rating can be unlocked for purchase]

It is worth mentioning that even if combat items or even poisons are unlocked in the mall, the prices of those items are at least three times more expensive than medical items of the same level.

The system's explanation for this is that it is still a doctor system, although the situation is not suitable for simple medical practice because of the world itself.

But the essence of practicing medicine still exists, and practicing medicine to save lives is still the main purpose of this system, so things related to combat are so expensive in the mall.

At the same time, if Reinette kills people indiscriminately, or in other words, kills people without self-defense, her medical rating and medical points will be deducted.

However, what happened now still conforms to what the system calls self-defense counterattack and killing.

If the other party had not searched his backpack first, Reinette's career as a time traveler might have ended at that time.

After another month of imprisonment and forced medical care, Reinette has the right to enjoy unlimited self-defense.

Reinette stretched and dispersed the water ball next to her, and the cat-eared robber who had already suffocated to death fell to the ground.

Only then did Reinette slowly walk out of the cave. This was the first time she walked out without carrying anything on her.

"The air of freedom, cough! Cough, cough, well, the air in the desert still doesn't smell very good."

After Reinette walked out of the cave, he wanted to take a deep breath and shout "freedom" to express his excitement of being freed from the trouble. However, he was choked by the dusty air in the desert.

"Now it's time to collect the spoils."

Reinette walked towards the carriages that they regarded as trophies and were piled up around them, as well as the various boxes that they had moved down from the open space.

Reinette walked to an open box, took out a bottle, opened the lid, smelled it, and was choked by the strong smell of alcohol.

"Vodka?" Reinette turned over the bottle and looked for the label and discovered that the wine was from Ursus, and judging from the name, it seemed to be vodka.

"It's quite potent, keep it."

Reinette threw the opened wine bottles away casually and stuffed the few remaining bottles of wine in the box into the inside of her black windbreaker.

The strange thing was that even though five bottles of wine had been stuffed into the windbreaker, there was no bulge at all, as if the wine had been swallowed up and disappeared without a trace.

This black windbreaker is certainly not an ordinary item, but a specially prepared space storage prop.

[Item: Lankai Windbreaker]

[Type: Long leather coat, windbreaker, black (cyan stripes)]

Durability: 97/97

[Effect 1: Storage. There is a 1×1×1 space inside the clothing that can store any item. Please note that this space does not have the conditions for most organisms to survive.]

[Effect 2: Lankai, after activation, the cyan stripes will emit a slight fluorescence. At the same time, airflow will slowly appear on the surface of the windbreaker,