Chapter 43: Chapter 43: At This Point, Only Paying with the Flesh Will Do
After admiring his beloved horse, Mo Xuan de-transformed. The Rider suit and the motorcycle on his body returned to their original state like peeling color blocks.
After getting on his motorcycle, Mo Xuan went to the video store not far away. When he arrived at the entrance, he raised his hand and knocked on the door, only to find it was still locked. It was possible that Belle and Wise hadn't gotten up yet. But he didn't have time to wait, so he could only increase the force of his knocking.
"Who is it? Not subscribing to the newspaper."
Belle's voice came from above. Mo Xuan took a few steps back and looked up to find her standing at the second-floor window, looking sleepy and still in her pajamas.
"It's me. Help me with something."
Mo Xuan said. After Belle saw it was him standing downstairs, she closed the window. Then Mo Xuan waited downstairs for about five more minutes before he saw someone come to open the door.
"You're too slow," Mo Xuan complained. He had to rush to work. If he couldn't make it to the assembly time, Zhu Yuan would probably think he was a coward who was all talk.
"Don't girls need to get ready when they wake up? Are you that eager to see me come down in my underwear and give you a fanservice show?"
Belle glared at Mo Xuan and said. To start with such words left Mo Xuan speechless.
"This... okay, my bad," Mo Xuan felt that Belle was sometimes too flighty, causing him to forget she was a girl. She was pretty good-looking, but she always did some strange things that lowered her score.
"Spit it out. What do you need my help with?" Belle asked.
"After the Public Security Bureau people leave, have Stand-boo ride my motorcycle to Hollow Zero to meet up with me. With Fairy navigating, you should be able to find my location quickly."
Mo Xuan stated his plan. This was another demonstration of Fairy's power. Stand-boo didn't need to use the same entrance as him, which meant that without the Bureau's navigation, anyone else doing this would undoubtedly be courting death. But with Fairy, they would never get lost in a Hollow.
"I can do that, but why this bike?"
Belle tilted her head and asked with confusion. This small favor was no big deal to her. Anyway...
"How can a Rider not have a bike? You'll see when the time comes."
Mo Xuan didn't have time to explain too much to Belle. He gave her the car keys and then hurriedly took a taxi to the Public Security Bureau. Belle didn't think much of it. After putting away the car keys, she went home and had Fairy make preparations.
"Crap, I forgot to ask him for a fee."
Belle sat in front of the computer screen, looking at Fairy's large eyeball, and muttered to herself. Their Phaethon did not work for free. Although the fee standard could not be said to be ridiculously high, it was not cheap. The price of system maintenance was not cheap either.
"Master, remember to ask for my electricity fee too," Fairy suggested.
"You only know about electricity fees. Mo Xuan's identity can't be exposed. No matter how he performs, isn't he still getting a fixed salary?"
Belle seemed to have changed into a different person, suddenly standing on Mo Xuan's side and speaking for him. Fairy's large eyeball immediately turned upside down, expressing its confusion.
"Is the master preparing to... work for free? I find this very incredible. It makes my system spin."
"Dennies are easy to earn, but favors are hard to repay. Let Mo Xuan owe us a favor. Then we can use his power to do some bad things. How happy would that be?"
Belle felt that Mo Xuan's bank card balance was probably not as much as her pocket money. Asking him for money was not a cost-effective thing to do. For someone as capable as him, it was only fun to use him for herself.
"I've seen this trope in films. It's called paying with the flesh."
"Fairy!"
Belle's furious voice came from the screening room, followed by another round of mutual harm between this master and servant. By the time they finished, Mo Xuan was already on the Public an's armored vehicle.
The armored vehicle sped all the way out of New Eridu and towards the old capital. After leaving the city, the surrounding scenery was dilapidated. Dilapidated buildings, wild grass, and the bones of some unknown animals were scattered on the roadside. Coming here gave one a feeling of coming to the apocalypse.
As the armored vehicle continued to move forward, Mo Xuan could already see a wall through the window. It was a black wall, covering the entire field of vision. Although the news about Hollow Zero was often broadcast on TV, it was only after seeing it with his own eyes that he felt his own smallness in front of the Hollow.
Because its volume was too huge, the inverted bowl structure of Hollow Zero could no longer be seen as an inverted bowl. The dense blackness around it formed a wall that covered a large area. Looking at it at a glance, it was like an ocean that you couldn't see the end of. From an ordinary person's perspective, to want to be an enemy of such a Hollow, one would only feel a sense of powerlessness in their heart.
Even with the power of a Rider, Mo Xuan didn't know how to solve a unit as abnormal to the extreme as Hollow Zero and return a peaceful world to humanity. Fortunately, it just stayed there. Other than expanding from time to time, there were no substantial disasters. Otherwise, humanity would have probably gone extinct long ago.
The volume of Hollow Zero could be reduced. The seven Hollow Hunters had already proven this with practice. This represented that it could be defeated. It was just that the power required was incalculable. The Hollow Hunters couldn't do it, and of course, Mo Xuan would not be so confident as to think that he could.
"Little Mo Xuan, what are you thinking about?"
Qingyi was sitting opposite Mo Xuan. Seeing him staring blankly at the black wall outside the window, she asked, planning to give him a simple psychological counseling. It was inevitable for a child to be nervous. A good beating would fix it.
"I'm thinking that if I kill all the Ethereals in Hollow Zero, will it disappear on its own?"
Mo Xuan's words made Qingyi's expression a little stiff. She had thought he was nervous, but who knew he was already thinking about that. If Hollow Zero had consciousness, it might personally give Mo Xuan a question mark.
"This is what you're thinking on your first visit to Hollow Zero? For a newcomer, not being scared to death by the black wall is already considered qualified. But you're already thinking about eliminating Hollow Zero. A newborn calf is truly not afraid of a tiger."
Qingyi said with admiration. Now she knew why Zhu Yuan's evaluation of Mo Xuan was so high. Being heartless was sometimes an advantage.
"I've already thought about it. Anyway, I don't have to pay taxes, so I might as well be bold," Mo Xuan said with a smile.
"Well said. It's just that humanity can't leave the Hollows at this stage. Aether is only produced in the Hollows. Without it, the city would be instantly paralyzed. It's not easy to handle."
"That's true. I'm afraid we'll have to be with the Hollows for a short time."
Mo Xuan nodded and said. He had learned about the worldview of this world before. There was a pre-civilization before the appearance of the Hollows. This was probably the human society that Mo Xuan was once familiar with. There was no Aether there, only physics. Later, this world underwent a change, and Aether was brought by the Hollows.
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