Rebirth: Divine Machine-Making Master - Chapter 21
Chapter 21: If Word Got Out, They Would All Die
Victor smiled and said, “What are you saying? You’re being rude. Mr. Elrond is our guest. Come over and greet him.”
The young man was none other than the youth who wanted to rob Elrond but got beaten up instead.
At this moment, Elrond was also very nervous.
Victor did not look like a robber. Moreover, he was generous and open-minded. Why was his son acting like this?
However, the woman looked at the young man dotingly.
Victor also showed a satisfied look.
The young man stared at Elrond and sat beside the woman.
Victor raised his wine glass and said, “Mr. Elrond, the way you talk is extraordinary. It’s obvious that you have come from a big city. It’s rare to see someone like you here. Let’s have a toast— To Mr. Elrond, cheers!”
Victor directly chugged the entire glass of wine after his toast.
The young man suddenly smirked and asked, “Mr. Elrond, where did you come from, and where are you going?”
“Do you really want to know?” Elrond said with a smile.
The young man’s face turned slightly pale. He quickly stood up to conceal his expression and said, “Dad, Mom, I’m going out for a while.”
“This child.”
The couple did not notice that the abnormal expression on their son’s face.
They only felt that this kid seemed to be a little too obedient today.
After the youth walked out of the room, he panted heavily.
He was scared out of his wits.
He did not dare to expose that foreigner’s identity.
The reason was that he was the only one who had some fighting force in this family.
But he was subdued so easily.
If he exposed the other party’s identity, he did not know if the other party would harm his parents.
If Elrond were to start a massacre, no one in the nomads would be able to fight against him.
When the young man remembered the mechanical arm on Elrond’s back, he was still reeling in terror.
“Oh my God, why did this guy come to my house? What should I do?
“I have no reason to be afraid of him. There are so many people here, so why should I be afraid?
“Continue to stay in my house. Sooner or later, I will find a chance to take revenge.”
The young man carefully sorted out his plans.
Elrond did not know anything about this. In the room, he chatted happily with the passionate couple.
There were not many pure Caucasians left in this world.
Elrond felt as though he had met his family members.
“Buddy, you’re so lucky to be living in the mountains. That’s why you were not aware of what happened in the past hundred years.”
Elrond told Victor that he did not know anything about the world because he had been living in the mountains.
Victor and his wife did not believe him at first.
But as they chatted, they realized that Elrond indeed lacked knowledge about this world.
Was he really lacking knowledge? Absolutely not.
The world of Voyage was a game world but Elrond did not understand much about the details of this world.
But the more he found out, the more beneficial it would be for him.
Therefore, Elrond was willing to listen to the man in front of him.
He slowly got to know about a lot of things from Victor.
A story of revolutionary history slowly unfolded.
In order for humans to join the interstella era, a global change took place. A great war was inevitable.
In the end, this planet formed into six superpowers.
The former glorious and powerful Malkovia was completely wiped out and removed from history. Not many people could remember the name of that country now.
After the war ended, Earth was in ruins.
Humanity’s normal technological civilization had regressed by decades.
The grass and trees on Earth withered, and the mutated animals in the forest ran amok. To change and adapt to the arrival of the interstella era, humans started bottomless nuclear wars.
The sky became polluted, and the mutated monsters in the sea went on a rampage.
The lands became scorched earth.
A minority group of people, who yearned for peace, disagreed with the decisions made by the six major countries. Hence this group of people decided to lead a wandering life instead.
They were known as the nomads.
Just when everyone thought that everything was over, some nomads decided to form New Life Organization. Their slogan was to destroy the six major countries.
The world broke out into endless wars again.
The other portion of the nomads led destitute and homeless lives.
New Life Organization and the six major countries aimed to recruit these groups of people.
Both forces offered various conditions to entice them to join.
Some joined, but they had not appeared after that.
“You were a soldier?”
Looking at the calluses on Victor’s thumb and index finger, Elrond could tell that he used to operate a gun.
Victor said proudly, “Of course, I was still a General then, and I was in charge of 30,000 troops.”
Suddenly, he said dejectedly, “But so what about that? I was unable to protect my country. Neither could I protect my comrades.
“Actually, I’m just a piece of trash.”
“Hmm, your son must have picked up all your abilities,” Elrond said with a smile.
Victor said proudly again, “That’s right. These are one of the few things that I’m proud of. I taught him all the guerrilla warfare and concealment techniques that I learned from the army.
“But in this society, there’s no such thing such as an eternal land.
“This kid took the wrong path. He would regularly go to the forest to rob travelers. But fortunately, he does not kill anyone.
“You’re lucky. If you met this kid in the forest, wouldn’t you be in trouble?”
When he spoke about this, Victor’s face was full of helplessness.
What could he do with a son who failed to live up to his expectations?
“Hmph, isn’t all because you had spoiled him rotten since young?” Victor’s wife snorted.
“Why did it become my fault for spoiling him? Is it wrong for me to teach him how to handle guns for self-defense?”
“Of course it’s your fault. If you didn’t teach him that, he wouldn’t be robbing travelers,” said his wife.
Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel, Elrond quickly said, “Hey, everything’s okay. Both of you are not wrong. In a world like this, it’s not a bad thing to have the ability to protect yourself.
“In this world where resources are scarce, it’s understandable to do something that is a little extreme.”
Victor looked at him gratefully.
Elrond finally let out a sigh of relief.
At the same time, he realized that he had gone a little overboard with that kid in the forest.
He almost killed him.
He wondered how sad this kind-hearted couple would be if the kid really died.
Initially, Elrond did not want to stay overnight.
He was afraid that the youth might expose his identity and things would be awkward.
But the couple kept persuading him to stay.
Elrond felt bad for rejecting their kind intentions, so he agreed to stay.
They were even more hospitable and served large chunks of meat during dinner.
The food smelled so good.
Victor was delighted to find that Elrond and himself were from the same hometown. He was also a descendant of the same country.
They chatted until it was close to midnight, and Victor finally went off to bed.
After he left, a wave of sleepiness attacked Elrond.
It had been a long time since he had a good rest after his escape.
At this moment, his eyelids were so heavy that he could not keep them open.
But before he went to sleep, it was still necessary to put up security measures.
He made a lot of small markings with leaves on his backpack where he kept his gun.
He also tied a thin strand of hair on the zipper.
If one was not a professional agent, one would not notice such a small difference at all.
If someone touched his backpack, he would definitely notice it the next day.
After completing these, it only took Elrond two minutes to fall into a deep slumber.
Modified humans had their benefits.
Their physique was not something that ordinary people could compare with.
If one laid in bed, it would only take them a few breaths to enter deep sleep.
An hour of deep sleep was equivalent to three to four hours of rest for an ordinary person.
Elrond did not manage to get a full hour of rest for the past week.
It was imaginable how highly-strung he was.
The night slowly grew darker.
A man dressed in black came to Elrond’s door.
He tiptoed and was extremely careful. It seemed that he had gone through professional training, and he did not make a single sound.
He walked to Elrond’s backpack and said softly, “I couldn’t rob you during the day, but I can steal your stuff at night. Let’s see what you will do.”
The youth almost laughed out loud.
He borrowed the weak moonlight outside the window and carefully checked the surroundings around the backpack. There were no problems.
He took a bit of wax and gently applied it on the zipper of Elrond’s backpack.
There was a special way to apply the wax on the zipper so that there would not be any noise.
It would also not alarm the person who was asleep.
Thinking of the rewards that he was about to get, the young man showed a victorious smile.
He gently opened the zipper.
Under the moonlight, his eyes widened.
He used his hand to cover his mouth.
The backpack was full of bullets, guns, and all sorts of grenades.
The young man had never even heard of these items before, let alone seen them.
“Goddamn! There are so many treasures here.”
The young man took two guns and a lot of bullets. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, he retreated out of the room.
