Days in Infinity

"I don't know."

Tsunade diligently mined the ore on the ground. Ore that would take Li Ke three or four strikes to break open was easily dealt with in a single blow by her, even damaging the surrounding ore. Her mining speed was remarkably fast.

She could understand why Li Ke wasn't building the fortress right away. At this rate, building a fortress would probably only take a day.

As they were talking, Li Ke finally came out. He waved at the two of them and quickly headed towards the mission location.

Kelly watched him walk away, pondered for a moment, and then asked Tsunade beside her.

"Hey, interested in taking a look?"

Kelly pointed to where the female merchant was, and Tsunade gave the well-endowed female gunslinger a speechless look before saying, "I have no interest."

"But I do!"

Kelly immediately dropped her pickaxe and headed straight for the female merchant. Tsunade glanced at her back and reluctantly followed.

The two quickly entered the female merchant's house. Although there was a strange smell, the female merchant's clothes were intact, and there were no particular marks on her body.

"She's really not moving."

Kelly looked at the motionless female merchant, curiously waved her hand in front of her, and even pushed her, but got no response no matter what she did.

Tsunade, with her arms crossed and her massive pecs on display, watched Kelly groping the female merchant and said speechlessly, "So what exactly are you expecting, and aren't you worried about touching something weird?"

The lingering smell in the air couldn't escape her, a medical ninja. She knew what had happened as soon as Kelly opened the door, so she simply didn't go in.

Kelly, on the other hand, was used to various unpleasant smells and wasn't as sensitive as Tsunade, who had just planned to leave the village. She just groped the female merchant up and down, then sighed helplessly.

"No cigarettes."

She sighed, then noticed something.

"Um, but it doesn't seem like he did anything to this female merchant?"

Kelly looked at the female merchant's clean body and couldn't help but say it, causing Tsunade to pause.

She took a look while Kelly was pulling at the female merchant's clothes and indeed found no signs of her being touched. But realizing this, she immediately facepalmed.

"So why do you care about such a thing?"

"Of course, to see what kind of person he is. It might sound like bragging, but you and I are quite good-looking, and we have good figures. If I'm ever sent away and you're left alone, and he does something to you with blood, I won't be able to help you. So I want to know if he's the type to be ruled by his desires, and if he has an outlet. But now it seems, he's a bit too pure. The calluses on his hands…"

Kelly thought about the calluses and wounds on Li Ke's hands and couldn't help but shudder.

Tsunade was silent because it was true.

"It doesn't matter. For me, even if I'm reduced to that state, it doesn't matter."

Tsunade said indifferently. She was already as good as dead, and she had left her own world. If she could live without dying, she would. If she encountered a situation where she was bound to die, she wouldn't care either.

"How can you say that? As long as you're alive, everything can change, and you should still have people who care about you, right?"

Kelly waved her hand dismissively and then opened the female merchant's Inventory, buying two beers.

She had just used the scrap iron she mined to buy Robot Turret Ammo, but her main purpose was to see if the female merchant sold her usual firearms.

And she did.

But they were super expensive, over ten thousand, completely different from the few hundred that she remembered.

"Ha…"

Tsunade laughed and said nothing.

Those she loved, and those who loved her, were basically all dead.

But Kelly was different from her.

She handed a beer to Tsunade.

"After all, I plan to go back alive."

Chapter 23: Kelly's Liberality

Li Ke quickly did his tasks. Thanks to the increased Stamina, he completed four tasks in less than two hours.

And luckily, he also found a cement mixer in a pile of ruins. Unfortunately, it was broken, but he planned to see if he could find a way to repair it.

The rewards for the four tasks were also good, even giving Li Ke a crucial item.

A Crucible.

Without this, he couldn't make steel ingots, and without steel ingots, he couldn't make reinforced concrete, so Li Ke was very happy.

The other three rewards didn't disappoint either, rewarding Li Ke with two wrenches and twenty antibiotics.

Antibiotics could greatly reduce infection, which was a good thing, because the Merchant no longer sold Honey.

However, Kelly and Tsunade's mining efficiency still shocked Li Ke.

"Your speed is really fast."

Looking at the mine that was at least ten meters deep and almost thirty meters long and wide, Li Ke was astonished. Kelly, carrying a Pickaxe with dirt on her body and face, didn't care.

"Two hits can knock down a cubic meter of soil. I think that's still pretty slow, especially since I don't know where you plan to build. I'm afraid you'll hollow out the foundation."

Kelly nonchalantly took a swig of her beer. Li Ke didn't ask where she got the iced beer from, but Kelly couldn't help but tug at the collar of her clothes, letting the stench of sweat directly affect Li Ke's nose.

She was different from Erina. Although Erina also had a sweaty smell after exercising, it was relatively faint.

But Kelly was different. When she wasn't sweating, it was fine, but once she started sweating, the smell of salted fish appeared, and not only that, but also a strong smell of gunpowder and machine oil.

Li Ke couldn't help but fan the air, looking at Kelly's chest, which was also stained with mud and covered in water droplets, with a disgusted expression.

It was tempting before, but not now.

"Hehehe!"

Kelly saw the disgust on Li Ke's face, immediately jumped to Li Ke's side, and then put Li Ke's head between her arms, so that Li Ke could smell the sweat on her body.

Li Ke only felt his head hit something soft, followed by a strong smell of sweat, a pungent smell of smoke, and the stench of alcohol. He could tolerate the others, but the stench of alcohol was unbearable.

He quickly broke free, but was still covered in dirt by Kelly, although he wasn't exactly clean to begin with.

Li Ke was about to complain when he saw Tsunade walking out with a disgruntled look on her face, also covered in dirt.

So he immediately changed his tone.

"I remember the store sells tailor's stations, and they're not that expensive. I'll buy one later so you can make some new clothes."

"No need for that. We've been through worse situations."

Kelly shook her head. The worst time for the rebel army was when they were bombed continuously by those bastards from Ghent for half a month. Not to mention changing clothes, even urine was almost a strategic resource. This was nothing.

"Besides, there should be some old clothes in those houses, right? We can just wear their clothes. After all, the money should be kept for more useful things, and I can make clothes myself."

Kelly flipped a Duke Casino Token in her hand, a smile on her face.

"Don't underestimate a child who grew up in Ghent! From mechanical repair to embroidery and taking care of children! Not to mention making grenade incendiary bomb by hand, I, Kelly, can even make a Gatling gun for you! You can say there's nothing I can't do!"

As she spoke, Kelly patted her chest boldly, causing her breasts to tremble constantly.

"Uh..."

Li Ke's gaze shifted subtly, and then he immediately remembered the cement mixer he had pushed back.

But, he immediately thought of something else, and that was...

"You said you can make grenade?"

Li Ke looked at Kelly with burning eyes.

"Uh, yeah, because a lot of times supplies can't be delivered, so we need to make some grenade ourselves."

Kelly felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Li Ke, and quickly moved away a little.

"Then what do you need?"

"Iron cans, Gunpowder and fuses, these are necessary... Uh, you don't want me to keep making grenade, do you? Forget it, that's impossible. You don't have enough materials here at all. At most, I can make some explosive or Landmines, but it's impossible to make good grenade. And there's no gasoline or machine oil here, so it's even more impossible to make incendiary bomb."

Kelly shook her head directly. Li Ke didn't have any tools here, not to mention matching parts, he didn't even have a lathe. How could she help?

With love?

"This..."

Li Ke's heart sank, but he immediately thought of something.

"I say, Kelly."

He reached out and pointed to the gasoline barrel on the side.

"If we modify the oil barrel and put the explosive pack in it, can it become a cannon?"

He vaguely remembered that there was something similar before.

"You're saying..."

Kelly's words stopped halfway, and she was stunned, because it seemed like it wasn't impossible to do, but she immediately shook her head.

"It seems like it could work? But it's too dangerous, it's easy to explode. You don't have a welding torch here, so it's difficult for me, but it's okay to try."

She spread out her hands, very helpless.

"I see... Then I'll have to trouble you to make some Landmines that can be detonated with firearms, Kelly. Otherwise, even if I build a fortress, I'll still feel uneasy."

Li Ke sighed. Kelly hadn't seen the zombie horde like him, so she couldn't feel the same fear of the zombie horde as him. He could understand.

The System's things were good, but there was a problem, and that was numericalization.

The same attack, a real wooden frame could block it, but a numerical one couldn't. The System wooden frame he made before was quickly broken by the attacks of those zombies.

He was worried that the concrete fortress would be the same result, so he couldn't help but look at the invincible wall.

If that didn't work, he would really make a suspended house, but not completely suspended, but leave a cliff island as a support, and a road for escape in case of emergency.

"Don't worry, this is still possible."

Kelly nodded. Safely used grenade were a bit troublesome, but this level was no problem.

"That's good, then let's continue mining."

Looking at the time, it was only about ten o'clock, Li Ke smiled and took out his pickaxe and shovel, and started mining with the two of them.

The accumulation of ore made Li Ke feel very secure. The constantly burning furnace also accumulated various materials. During this time, he went out to chop down some trees and continued to put the mined iron into the furnace to burn, and began to use all the iron resources to make steel ingots, an advanced material.

The three of them were busy until the afternoon before eating. Li Ke was full of energy after adding points, while Kelly and Tsunade were not ordinary people, so they just ate something casually at noon and continued to work.

By five o'clock in the afternoon, the three of them had exhausted almost all of their physical strength. To ensure their safety later, Li Ke and the others prepared to rest.

After eating and taking a shower, Li Ke realized that he had completely forgotten one thing.

Making a bed.

Fortunately, none of the three of them cared much about this, so they fell asleep in the little matchbox that Li Ke had built.

However...

In a daze, Li Ke felt like he was being wrapped by a giant python. The air in his lungs was constantly dissipating, giving him a feeling of impending death.

Choking, he struggled to wake up from his dream, only to realize that he wasn't being wrapped by a giant python, but that Kelly was holding his arm like a rag doll, and his head was buried in her chest.

Li Ke struggled to push Kelly away, gasping for breath to restore his normal breathing. But when Kelly rubbed her eyes and woke up, and he was about to accuse her, Kelly complained.

"Aren't you tired!"

Kelly looked at Li Ke with a displeased expression and couldn't help but yawn.

"No! You were hugging me just now! I almost suffocated!"

But Kelly twitched her lips. In her opinion, this was nothing compared to sleeping.

"Oh, is that it? You woke me up for this? Get over it! Wake me up when you've come all over me!"

As she spoke, Kelly wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth with displeasure, gave Li Ke the middle finger with her saliva-covered hand, and then fell back to sleep before Li Ke could react.

Li Ke didn't say anything. He just silently lay down and continued to sleep, but in less than twenty minutes, he...

He heard Kelly grinding her teeth and snoring.

He took a deep breath and covered his ears.