Chapter 209: Say Whatever

Renault led a few people around his factory area.

Apart from the dormitories where some T-Dolls were already residing, they also inspected the vacant ones.

They even checked out the vertical farms and the breeding grounds. These were all pretty ordinary things with no need for secrecy.

Even the warehouses storing steel materials were visited.

However, when they finished the tour, Angelia's initially normal expression turned incredibly strange.

"Renault, are you really planning to continue being a security contractor? Instead of switching to farming or something?"

Whether it was the vertical farms or the newly occupied breeding grounds, Renault's factory area didn't look like a place for a security contractor to stay.

It seemed more like a regular businessman who found a place where he didn't need to pay rent or utility bills to run a farm.

"Farming is an option too, but that'll have to wait until we have more manpower, or all the facilities are fully automated. It's not feasible now. The output from these two farms probably isn't even enough for my own T-Dolls, let alone for selling," Renault replied, glancing at Maria and UMP40's repair time, placing the clothes G36 prepared for them on chairs in front of the repair pod, and pulling a curtain to cover the repair pod.

"Huh, have you really thought about that...? But this place is pretty nice. How did you find it?"

"Helian helped me find it. The original owner of this factory area wanted me to work for him, but I just came here and occupied the place. That guy was clueless and talked to himself."

Of course, Renault had no guilt about it. Moreover, that guy had recently recruited a large number of mercenaries to come and loot things. Although most of those mercenaries were probably not hired by the original owner, if he could easily hire so many mercenaries, he wouldn't have offered such a laughable price to Renault in the first place.

"Hmm... Aren't you afraid this area will suddenly turn into a green zone in the future?"

"Huh? Can it really happen? Can places that have become polluted areas be restored?" Angelia's question surprised Renault. He had never thought about the possibility of this area recovering.

"Of course, as long as there aren't too many ELID infected in the area, and there isn't too much contamination residue in the buildings, after the collapse of the particle clouds, places with less severe contamination can probably recover to some extent."

"Oh, that's good. There are so many ELID infected here, so there's no need to worry."

Underneath the ruins in this city, there were indeed plenty of ELID infected.

They weren't visible now simply because most of them hadn't gathered together yet. Otherwise, there would be those mutated ELID infected they had encountered before.

Renault planned to have his T-Dolls clean up those ELID infected under the ruins once the situation in the factory area stabilized. He consider it training.

"S-So many...? Are you sure?" Angelia was startled to hear this.

Before coming to this city, although she had done some investigation, apart from knowing that this city was in the red zone and was an abandoned city, she didn't have much useful information. Therefore, she had never heard about the number of ELID infected in this area.

"Of course. Did you see the ruins of the building across from the factory area? There are 479 ELID infected buried underneath there. If you're brave enough, you can go there and play around. Maybe the ELID infected inside will sense the movement of living people and desperately dig a hole to climb out from underground."

During the battles between the T-Dolls and the mercenaries, these ELID infected underground had shown some activity. However, the battles ended too quickly, and they didn't have a chance to fully dig up. But if the time lasted a little longer, half an hour or an hour, those ELID infected might really crawl out of the ground on their own.

"Huh... How do you know that?" With the help of the workshop's light, Angelia could vaguely see the ruins opposite the factory area, but she couldn't see any signs of ELID infected.

"I just feel it."

Nonsense!

Angelia rolled her eyes. Although she didn't want to believe it from the bottom of her heart, Renault wasn't someone who would easily deceive others... Sometimes, he could be a bit mischievous. Angelia suddenly remembered how Renault had watched her enter the powerless exoskeleton armor helplessly.

"Wait... What about that person at the gate...!? Could it really be an ELID infected?"

"Oh? Has one really climbed out?" Hearing Sier's surprised cry, Renault was also a little surprised.

But then he thought about it.

Today, two helicopters landed here in succession, making quite a commotion. Coupled with the continuous sound of those armed helicopters flying over before, it wasn't surprising that these ELID infected crawled out of the ground.

"It looks like we need to install a gate for the factory area in the future. Otherwise, won't these neighbors just come over whenever they want?"

There was no gate in the original factory area, only a broken electric telescopic gate. However, that thing had already been broken. Renault had just thrown it aside when he came here.

"I'm going out to take a look." With that, Renault put on his coat, picked up the slightly curled ax, and pushed the door open to walk out.

Seeing Renault's actions, Angelia's face also turned serious.

When they came, they hadn't thought there would be ELID infected here at all. It seemed staying here was definitely not a good idea. She regretted thinking about mooching a meal here just now.

"Let's go. Let's go out and take a look." Angelia waved her hand, leading Dier and Sier to follow Renault's footsteps.

However, when they reached the door, Renault went straight through the quarantine chamber and walked out, Dier was about to follow him, but was directly grabbed by Angelia's collar. "Do you want to die? Wear protective clothing!"

Sier, who was about to follow, also suddenly realized, "Right, wear protective clothing. This is a red zone... Ah! He! Commander Renault! He went out without protective clothing!?"

"Slow to react, aren't you? When we came, that guy wasn't wearing protective clothing either! Hurry up! Don't just stand there!" Hearing Sier's exclamation, Angelia sighed helplessly.

Sier hadn't noticed Renault's anomaly earlier.

She herself wasn't surprised, considering she had seen Renault operating freely without protective clothing in heavily polluted areas before.

But when the three of them put on their protective clothing and walked out of the isolation room, Renault had already gathered the bodies of four or five ELID infected and was squatting next to them, tinkering with the incendiary bomb in his hand.

Seeing the dismembered bodies of those ELID infected, Dier and Sier finally understood why Angelia was so anxious to come over herself.