Chapter 39: Finally a New NPC?
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In fact, there was no choice at all.
Xia Yan was well aware that with only one leg left, even walking out of this street was difficult, let alone returning to Giant Stone City.
What's more, what would be the outcome even if she could go back?
Although she had been a mercenary for quite some time, she had barely saved any money. The better neurally-linked bionic prosthetics easily cost tens of thousands of chips, while the slightly inferior mechanical prosthetics still cost thousands.
The prices were comparable to a set of chemically-powered exoskeletons.
Even if she sold herself, she couldn't afford one.
Either go with these people or wait here to die.
The choice wasn't really that hard.
Sitting on the edge of a shaking wooden cart, jostling up and down with the bags packed full, Xia Yan quietly sighed in her heart.
Perhaps this journey was the last bit of freedom she had left.