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Chapter 233 Crisis in the City of Infected; 1 Name

"I'm back... Alina, how is the child?" Tallulah walked into the house, took off her fatigues of the day along with her coat, and hung them on a simple chair.

The Elafia girl came out of her room upon hearing the noise and closed the door carefully. "I was awake about an hour longer than yesterday... How was it today? Is the engine condition getting better?"

"It's still barely operational. Several fellow engineers have looked at it. Although they are not experts in this field, they said that even laymen can see that the engine system is in a very bad condition after the natural disaster."

"'It would be safer to lift the roof off the car and drive through the storm with an overload than to let this engine continue to drag this half-dead city.' Those are their exact words." Tallulah was helpless because she really had no way to do anything about it.

"What should we do in this situation…is it possible to seek help from the outside world?" Alina asked worriedly.

"… Ursus can't make any more moves, and we can't have any more interactions with the person in power. A contract signed with trust can't have any more negotiations on interests." Tallulah shook her head. The danger before her had already threatened the lives of everyone in the city, but she was powerless to do anything.

"We finally have our own city..." Alina's tiredness is evident in her words. Chernobyl is now in a state of disrepair in the truest sense of the word.

Apart from the large areas of Originium contamination, the relatively intact habitable areas are becoming increasingly cramped for the Integration Movement, whose members are still growing. In such an environment, the various infected people are encountering new conflicts every day. Relatively speaking, this is still a controllable situation. The engine damage problem mentioned by the two people just now is the most worrying crisis.

"It's not as easy as I thought... Xiaota, are you okay?"

Tallulah rubbed her temples, and hesitation slowly showed in her eyes. Alina saw that she had concerns, but she did not urge her or ask any further questions. She understood that was an area where she could not get a say and an area that she could not consider.

"Teacher Katyusha's medical class has officially started, but the progress is not very good. There is no other way. Learning medicine also requires talent, and the proportion of young people among us is not particularly high. However, Sasha and Ino are very serious, especially Ino. I heard from Katyusha that the child is learning very well and is the best student in this batch."

"Well... after all, if I remember correctly, when he was here, Ino watched him study a lot, right?" Tallulah sighed softly, seeming to be a little nostalgic.

"Xiao Ta... you really don't want Brother Bai to leave, right?" A complex look flashed in Alina's eyes, because she also wanted to, but every time she thought about it, she always felt irritated and uneasy, which made her very concerned... She hated herself like that.

Bai Ge saved her life, defended the bottom line of the Reunion Movement's atrocities, and pulled Tallulah back from that abnormal situation... How could she... hate him?

Where would such a person be? He was just pretending, or perhaps his motives were not pure.

wrong!

Such thoughts cannot possibly be mine!!

With such thoughts in mind, the sudden high pressure on her mind made her dizzy and painful, and behind this, there was a deep-seated...fear.

Fear of a boundless indifference.

In the end, Alina chose to escape and not think about him, burying all thoughts in the cradle. Perhaps the things that were about to sprout would disappear just like that, and the disgust gradually became less intense, but it still eroded the impression step by step.

"He can't be kept. No matter if I try to keep him or not, just like when he came to us that day, he has to go to another world..."

Tallulah whispered that she would still recall that before a period of high pressure, a certain boy stood under the cold sky and was the first person in her life who said to her, "Take a nap and I will keep watch for you."

Ever since she was abducted to Ursus by Koschei, she no longer had the right to play and slack off as she did in her school days.

How could she easily give up such a special friend?

Tallulah raised her eyes and looked towards the room, and she couldn't help but be distracted: according to what Kosice had said before, the child was her "daughter".

Koschei used her Drake genes to make this shady deal with an organization behind her back.

The original intention of creating this child was to be a "weapon".

She didn't know how to deal with the relationship between her and the child... She was a young girl, where did she get the experience? But every time the child looked at her, she couldn't help but stop, rub her cute little head, and take a moment to take her to look up at the horizon.

The closeness that comes from blood relationship cannot be deceived.

Silver hair, silver eyes, beautiful eyebrows, beautiful horns, really looks like her.

But she never forgot that when the child was first brought back by the Patriots, he had black hair and black eyes.

She couldn't help but think more.

And compared to her... As a Draco, the tip of this child's tail had no flame burning.

"By the way, Tallulah, have you thought of a name for the child?" Alina saw her eyes and remembered something else.

"Ah... I have an idea... Does Alina have any good names for reference?" Tallulah was cheered up. She naturally planned to fulfill her due obligations. Although she was very confused and the child was not born normally, she was indeed a mother.

"Well... How about Lexi... or Shifra?" Alina paced back and forth, then turned to Tallulah and suggested.

"They all sound good... But, Alina, what do you think of Vidaxia?" Tallulah didn't realize that she was smiling.

"Vidaishia...Xiaota, did you do this on purpose? You have already thought of such a suitable name, and yet you ask me..." Alina pouted.

"Just for reference, what if your name is more eye-catching?" Tallulah had a slightly proud look on her face. Alina couldn't help but smile when she saw this. This was a scene she had never seen before.

"My last name is Atelias, Vidashiya Atelias, um, qualified."

"Okay, now that the name is decided, we have to consider other issues..."

Hearing this, Tallulah couldn't help but sigh, her eyes flickering, and she spoke decisively almost as if she was exhaling, "Which is the nearest mobile city we can reach right now?"

"It's Lanston City, which is still undergoing renovation."

Tallulah nodded, turned on the communicator and found the target: "...Mr. Patriot, yes, let me confirm, what is the minimum expected bottom line time given by the engineers?"

"Well, okay, I see. I need to leave for a while to solve this problem. Can you guard this place for me?"

"Is that enough time?" The Wendigo warrior on the other side watched his daughter walk out tiredly and touched her head comfortingly. Now it has come to the point where the Yeti team needs to use external spells to cool down the overheated parts. Although this method is very messy and the strength of the bearing materials will be greatly tested, if they don't do this, there will be no way to delay and save the situation.

Fortunately, Ursus' military industry is quite developed, and the tolerance of the materials is much better than they thought, so there will be no problems in the short term.

"Two weeks is enough. Mainly, I need to go to Lanston City to do some preparations."

"Got it, I'm fine."

"Thank you for your hard work, sir."

“This is where the infected people live, and it’s also my ideal place.”

Bozhukas was breathing heavily, but the pressure in his heart was much lighter than during his previous marches in the tundra.

Perhaps, this is the first step to realize the ideal.