Fang Zheng had said five days, but on the fourth day, Kate appeared before him, dragging her utterly exhausted body.
"What happened to you?"
Leaning back in a lounge chair and basking in the sun, Fang Zheng looked curiously at the ashen-faced woman before him, who looked as though she had been thoroughly ravaged by eighty or a hundred burly men using every kind of EROGAME technique until her eyes had gone blank. Normally, according to this sort of plot, Kate would have failed to infiltrate the place, been discovered by the Legion's musclebound brothers, then naturally suffered a defeat punishment and unlocked some defeat flashbacks before finally escaping through desperate effort.
Oh, perhaps she had tried more than once. Just like those little games Fang Zheng had played in his previous life, once you failed and were captured by the enemy, it was hehehe—every kind of hehehe. Tentacles, being swallowed whole, egg-laying... Of course, in games, failure only meant loading a save. Reality had no save files, but that did not rule out other routes. Like deliberately losing to accumulate H points and affect the ending branch...
"Sir..."
Seeing Fang Zheng lying in his chair under the sun, Kate opened her mouth, then lowered her head, looking utterly discouraged.
"Let's go."
"What's wrong? If something's upsetting you, tell us so we can all cheer up."
Fang Zheng stroked the Deathclaw's head beside him. It made a catlike purring sound. Hearing his question, Kate clenched her fists, then weakly loosened them without saying anything.
"What? Didn't you find your brother? Or is he dead?"
"If only he were dead!!!"
The moment that subject came up, Kate's anger flared. In the end, she indignantly told Fang Zheng what had happened.
Following the leads provided by those Legion soldiers, Kate had indeed