The Seventh Base-Chapter 93 - 2 The Future_2

Chapter 93: Chapter 2 The Future_2

“Okay.” Qin’s wife nodded and carried the vegetables into the house.

“It’s already evening. If you don’t have a place to stay, you’ll just have to make do outside tonight. However, I can’t help you get into the city; you’ll have to figure that out yourselves,” Qin Fu told Xu Mo and the others.

He could tell, Xu Mo and his group had nowhere to go.

“We’ve already troubled Uncle Qin enough,” Xu Mo responded.

Qin Fu’s children laid out a carpet outside, and the group sat around it, with dishes and wine quickly served one after another.

“Desert Hunters have more casual living habits; I don’t know if you’re used to it,” Qin Fu said.

“Not at all.” He had been an adventurer before and had often lived this way in some mountainous areas.

This feeling was even somewhat familiar, compared to the oppression of the Underworld.

This was much more comfortable here.

Ye Qingdie and the others also felt no discomfort, filled with a sense of novelty.

The Underworld was too oppressive.

Everything here was completely new and interesting to them.

It was as if they were experiencing a different kind of life.

Although Desert Hunters lived by the edge of the blade, compared to what they had done in the Underworld, it was nothing.

In the Underworld, they could hardly breathe and could die at any moment.

Elsa was the happiest among them, having been quiet but with a sparkle in her eyes all along the way.

Compared to the despairing Underworld, this place was filled with hope.

She looked forward to what the future might hold.

Fate, whether it would lead to a completely different path.

After the dishes and wine were served, Qin Fu’s son-in-law poured wine for Xu Mo.

“How much can you drink?” Qin Fu asked, looking at Xu Mo.

“Any amount.” Xu Mo’s alcohol tolerance was average, but he felt like drinking today.

Qin Fu’s son-in-law then poured wine for the others, but not for Ye Qingdie and Elsa. Considering they were young girls, he didn’t press them and offered them juice instead.

“I can also drink a little,” Elsa said softly.

She remembered her days at Xu Mo’s tavern.

Taken aback, Qin Fu’s son-in-law smiled and nodded, “Okay.”

He poured wine for Elsa.

“Here, meeting is fate, let’s drink together,” Qin Fu said heartily.

“Cheers!” Xu Mo also lifted his cup boldly and drank it all in one go.

A drink down, there was a burning sensation in his stomach.

“Handsome guy, let’s have a drink,” Qin Fu’s daughter suggested to Xu Mo with a flirtatious eye.

Xu Mo smiled and clinked cups with her.

Her man did not mind, so neither did anyone else.

The group was very open-hearted, and although Qin Fu’s eldest son had had some unsavory thoughts earlier, Xu Mo did not pay too much attention to it.

It was human nature, no need to dwell on it.

Elsa also drank a cup, her cheeks reddened, and looking at the red clouds in the sky, she murmured, “So beautiful.”

She had never seen such a beautiful scene before.

Indeed, the imagery in Xu Mo’s music was real.

Ye Qingdie and the others also looked up, marveling at the grandeur of the sky.

Such a scene was beyond what they had dared to imagine before.

Qin Fu and the others were used to it, thinking it was just the girls’ ‘poetic’ mood, and didn’t pay much attention.

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“Uncle Qin, is this city far from other cities?” Xu Mo asked.

“Far,” Qin Fu nodded. “After the alien invasion, Byron Star suffered a cataclysmic disaster. It took humans several hundred years to rebuild the cities one by one, but many were disconnected, turned into ruins dominated by monsters, and cities are now accessible only by Flying Devices, unless those large city clusters where cities are connected to each other.”

Xu Mo quietly digested this information.

Byron Star must be very large, and also very populous.

Just the nearby city alone had a population in the millions.

From Qin Fu’s words, there were even larger clusters of cities.

The war hundreds of years ago was not a war between nations but an interstellar war.

“Bro Xu Mo, do you understand?” Xiao Qi asked weakly.

Aliens, what are those?

Flying Devices, seems like he had never seen them before.

Ye Qingdie and the others, too, were trying hard to listen.

Xu Mo did not respond to him.

“Uncle Qin, when we were heading back to the base, I saw some injured people. In the long run, it’s inevitable to encounter dangers. Haven’t you thought about making some money and moving back to live in the city?” Xu Mo asked again.

The life of a Desert Hunter, even with caution, might still lead to slip-ups.

A slip-up very likely meant death.

Xu Mo’s words seemed to touch a sore spot for Qin Fu, who silently drank a glass of wine.

“How could I not think about it.” Qin Fu set down his wine glass and looked at Xu Mo, “I had another daughter once.”

Upon hearing this, everyone else also felt a bit sad.

Xu Mo was taken aback and said softly, “Sorry.”

“It’s okay,” Qin Fu said. “You’re right, kiddo. Over the years, I’ve seen a lot. Very few Desert Hunters meet a good end unless they can make it out.”

“But with the high cost of living in the city, it’s not so easy to make it out. There are so many Desert Hunters that the price of Class C monsters is very low, and encountering stronger monsters would likely be a dead end for us. The federal credits we make, wanting to own a house in the city is very difficult.”

As Qin Fu spoke, he looked at his children, “Look at them, they’re not young either, either single or afraid to have kids. What if they did? In the city, providing a superior condition for children requires a lot of federal credits, which is not something people like us can afford unless we risk our lives for others, but that’s even riskier than being Desert Hunters.”

Xu Mo understod Qin Fu’s words.

It seems the world is all interlinked.

If Qin Fu and his family hadn’t had the ability, perhaps they wouldn’t have fantasized but would have contentedly been at the lower echelons.