"It's a good thing to be in a hurry to make money, but as I said, it's not easy to get into the inner city. Without you, I can get in in about ten days, but with you, it will take me twenty days. Believe me, this is already very fast."
Xie Xingzhi still has this confidence, after all, he is more familiar with the Mechanical City.
Bai Wu was thinking, is it possible that he was the one holding back? He suddenly thought of a question:
"What about Yan Zi?"
"Don't worry, there are no restrictions on the use of the return roulette here. And although they don't know the rules, they will naturally understand many things as the career list pops up. After all, they won't choose a high-risk career like you."
Xie Xingzhi still seemed very depressed about Bai Wu choosing the weird profession of twisted soul corrector.
Bai Wu was not in a hurry and continued to ask seriously:
"You mentioned twenty days, but you should know that how long you stay outside the tower has little to do with strength and everything to do with luck."
"You mean the negative attributes? Don't worry about that. There are indeed many distorted rules in the mechanical city, but there are no negative attributes here. Of course, correspondingly, the companion power here will not grow. And you also know that you can't even use flashlights outside the tower, but you can use all kinds of technological items here. This place has been transformed by Zero, so we don't need to worry."
Bai Wu understood.
Doomsday fragments... Zero must have more than one in his hand. At least this place distorts the rules, and Zero can purify it.
At the same time, Bai Wu discovered that as long as there were no negative attributes, the rule of the bonus of companion power would disappear.
These two seem to indicate that only by taking certain risks can you get returns.
"Let's take a look at the mission."
For things like query tasks, Zero gave native humans a very convenient consciousness implant.
As long as you have this intention, you can see the task. Of course, as usual, the task introduction that Bai Wu saw was different because of the Eye of Prell:
D-level missions, what the hell. Are there any players who think that it is interesting to design a bunch of boring missions such as asking the protagonist to dig wild vegetables and find small animals, or to go out of the novice village to kill ten gray wolves and collect ten wolf skins? No way, no way? As a psychologist, don’t I know you? I have marked all the high-risk missions for you, and blocked all the low-level missions. Adults know that the correct way for novices to familiarize themselves with the game is to choose the nightmare level from the beginning. Isn’t this the standard configuration of the Survey Corps
After this dialog box popped up, Bai Wu was stunned.
Because he couldn't see any tasks anymore. In other words, after the Eye of Prell blocked the tasks that could only earn a few contribution points at a time, his task list was filled with -
There are no more tasks.
At the same time, Xie Xingzhi said:
"Come on, I'll show you the mission procedures. We're heading to the garbage mountain now."
"Garbage mountain?"
"Yes, countless scraps arrive every day, and the homeless people gather the scraps in the garbage mountain. Various scraps in the garbage mountain form a lane, and the speeding gangs race cars modified from various scraps on the lane. I just accepted a task worth 12 contribution points, which asked me to treat an old craftsman in the garbage mountain. He is a car modification expert."
Xie Xingzhi was still very proud, as the task of twelve contribution points was beyond his expectations.
Bai Wu was now left with no missions to take because of "The Stupid Eye", so he asked:
"Logically, shouldn't Zero hate humans? Why does he give humans... well, native humans some special powers? Those homeless people shouldn't have such a task panel, right?"
"Zero hates humans? Where does that come from? You don't even know Zero." Xie Xingzhi said.
Bai Wu did not respond, and he suddenly realized—
Perhaps even the Xie family, the ruler who is closest to Zero, has no idea about Zero's past. To them, Zero is completely a god.
I learned about Zero when I was in Baichuan Middle School. Zero hated humans, or had extremely complicated feelings towards humans.
But these are unknown secrets to the Xie family.
"Well, I've watched too many science fiction movies. I thought that in a world ruled by machines, we should be outsiders? We should be enslaved."
"Native humans like us are rare outside the tower." Xie Xingzhi said with a smile.
"That's true. Is there any food in the vending machines in this place?"
"Yes, otherwise why do you think I would pawn my equipment? Survival here is difficult, but it's different with the starting capital."
When they walked out of the Red Hotel, the owner wearing a cowboy hat looked at Bai Wu and Xie Xingzhi in surprise.
Next to the boss was a burly robot with the same cable beard. They seemed to be drinking some liquid that looked like fuel liquid, and both looked very excited.
Bai Wu felt very strange because the boss looked at him in a very strange way.
But he didn't turn back.
Because after walking for a distance, the peeping Tom had already recorded the conversation between the boss and the burly man in the form of a dialog box.
Old Li, the young people nowadays are really no good. They finish so quickly.
No, when I was young, I exchanged information with Miss Huo from the garbage dump next door. I persisted for two hours and filled up her data storage!
Bai Wu's eyelids twitched. Is this the color joke of the mechanical race? Data fusion, information exchange, or information exchange for short
He was now certain of one thing: in the eyes of these mechanical races, although he and Xie Xingzhi looked like humans, they would not feel out of place. They would still regard him and Xie Xingzhi as mechanical races.
This may be the result of macro-control by Zero.
at the same time…
I must earn more contribution points, I can’t stay in the same room with Lao Xie tonight.
Otherwise, the news would spread in this small town—two friends who didn’t last long were staying in the red hotel.
"By the way, what is your mission?" The topic Xie Xingzhi started was exactly what Bai Wu wanted to talk about.
They passed through the town. Along the way, Xie Xingzhi showed the caution of a veteran. He walked in the shadows of the waste piled on both sides, and his steps were very light, trying not to make any noise.
Because they did not want to provoke the Steel Fang Pirates or the Beetle Group of the Virus Gang. These people were too fierce outside the Mechanical City. They were all equipped with powerful armed machines, and the danger level was no less than that of encountering the ninth level of evil in the red area.
"Brother Xie, are all the tasks listed on the task list?" Bai Wu asked.
"What? Don't tell me you don't like the tasks on the task list? Most of the tasks are on the list, but there are many hidden tasks that can only be discovered by yourself. Such tasks are generally very risky, but the rewards are unstable, so it is best not to bother with such tasks, and..."
"And what?"
"Besides, do you think these mechanical people are NPCs in the game? There won't be question marks above their heads."
As Xie Xingzhi was speaking, there was a slight vibration from the ground.
Bai Wu saw a burly man with a question mark on his head, shouting loudly, riding a vehicle that looked like a bat motorcycle and whizzing past.
The steel teeth on the vehicle were just as hideous as the demonic horns he had when he was corrupted, as if the vehicle came from hell.
Immediately afterwards, twelve similar vehicles also whizzed past, making Xie Xingzhi and Bai Wu, who were hiding behind the garbage dump, feel the airflow coming towards them.
Xie Xingzhi took two deep breaths and said:
"We almost ended our exploration early. These are the Steelfang Pirates. Like the infamous Virus Gang Beetles, they are the bullies here. Many mechanical people have died at their hands. Fortunately, we were alert and did not walk on the road blatantly."
Bai Wu said:
"The one walking in the front, riding the most imposing motorcycle, is he the pirate leader?"
"Yes, I don't know his name. Generally speaking, the garbage dump in the outer city is considered a novice village, but the pirate leader is also a feared existence in the inner city. This is a mid-term boss that must not be provoked. After we have enough equipment in the inner city, we can go back and kill it."
Xie Xingzhi hunched over and moved forward cautiously, observing his surroundings at all times. After making sure there was no danger, he continued:
"But I still don't recommend doing this. There are no pure good guys and bad guys here. We might attract a group of people chasing us just because we killed a minor character. The last time I came here, my teammate kicked the dog in the town. Guess what? The homeless people in the town raised rocket launchers and chased my teammate. I was so scared that I distanced myself from him on the spot."
Bai Wu remembered the biggest boss of a game in his previous life, which was a chicken in the Novice Village.
Xie Xingzhi was very eager to speak. As a member of the supervisory group, he spoke even more to Bai Wu than any other member.
Because Xie Yingjie's original purpose was to win over others.
In the eyes of Xie Xingzhi and Xie Yingjie, Bai Wu is worth winning over, even though this person... is very reckless and chose a dangerous profession.
The two walked for about an hour and soon arrived at the garbage mountain.
This is the place where Steeltooth Pirates, Drifters, and Beetles gather every night.
Tires, scrap iron, various metal pipes, and scrapped mechanical bodies are piled up into mountains, but these piled up garbage mountains do not appear messy at all, but are arranged into continuous S-shaped and W-shaped aisles.
The person Xie Xingzhi wanted to save was right at the entrance of the aisle.
According to Xie Xingzhi's experience, general treatment only costs three to four contribution points, especially since the materials from the garbage mountain are self-collected and there are waste materials for repairs everywhere, which are very cheap.
But the other party gave twelve contribution points, which is almost a day's performance for one order.
He was very anxious to make this money. The condition of the Xie family's ancestor was already quite bad, and only Xie Xingzhi knew about this.
But things don’t always go as planned…
When Xie Xingzhi and Bai Wu arrived at the scene, the rescue target - the garbage dump car modification master "Chen Muyu" was already dying.
Cracks appeared in the mechanical core, and energy was leaking out of the cracks.
Chen Muyu's original image was that of an old man with metal skin, smoking a pipe he found in a garbage dump, and he liked to brag to young people about how he had modified a jump-powered mobility device when he was young and had all the equipment.
He does have some skills. All along, the three forces, the Wanderers, the Virus Gang Beetles, and the Steel Teeth Pirates, have relied on Chen Muyu to modify their cars.
To some extent, Chen Muyu still has some status. Even though he lives in a garbage dump, he is very generous.
But at this moment, Chen Muyu was half dead.
The saying "it's not the lack of wealth that is worrying, but the inequality of wealth" makes a lot of sense. If it was fair, it could have lived a relatively comfortable old age until the lifespan set by Zero was up. But now it is different. It did a stupid thing. In order to allow the wanderers to postpone the protection tax for a few days, it added something to the cars of the Steel Tooth Pirate and the Beetle when it modified the cars, so that the cars of the Steel Tooth Pirate and the Beetle became slower.
Tell the little robot next to him that his 12 contribution points mission has failed, unless... unless you can come up with some cool moves
There are three forces outside the garbage dump, the wanderers, and the group of homeless mechanical people in the town where Bai Wu and Xie Xingzhi appeared.
As for the Beetles from the Virus Gang, our current situation is still unknown, so we can consider them as the second villain force for now.
A group of people riding hell motorcycles and beating Chen Muyu were the villain force - the Steel Teeth Pirates.
Xie Xingzhi's face was as ugly as it could be at this moment. He and Bai Wu both saw that the target of the mission was being beaten.
"It seems that we are not very lucky today... I said that the mission target asked for such a high price, there must be something fishy. Fortunately, we walked slowly... Otherwise, we would have been doomed."
Xie Xingzhi was helpless. He and Bai Wu were hiding in the distance, watching Chen Muyu being beaten continuously and slowly approaching death. He wanted to leave, but felt it was a pity.
At this time, Bai Wu felt that humans were really weak.
The Xie family is so powerful that they are like gods in the tower, but in the mechanical city, the guardians of the Xie family will linger around danger sources because of contribution points.
Thinking of this, Bai Wu did something that made Xie Xingzhi confused.
He stood up directly from the garbage bunker.
This action made Xie Xingzhi's mind go blank. Then Bai Wu did something even crazier. He shouted at the Steel Teeth Pirate:
"Stop it! What's the point of a group of people bullying an old man?"
Everyone actually stopped when they heard this. The leader of the Steel Teeth Pirates laughed wildly. The other brothers also whistled.
These titanium-white metal mechanical creatures really felt that there was no point in bullying the elderly.
They were actually surprised to see someone dare to stand up for injustice.
The Rangers are the exploited sheep, while the Steeltooth Pirates and the Beetles are wolves. It seems that because of resource issues, the three forces somehow ended up organizing a car race.
Whoever wins will gain the right to exploit the vagrants. If the vagrant forces win, they will be exploited less.
In this way, Chen Muyu became a key role.
The fact that this person would actually take risks for the homeless made Bai Wu feel that this old man from the mechanical clan at least had a kind soul.
Xie Xingzhi kept shaking his head. The countless gun barrels of the mechanical tribe were already aimed at the white fog.
He didn't know why Bai Wu suddenly became crazy, but his reason told him... he'd better leave immediately, because the ancestor had chosen the wrong person.
But Xie Xingzhi didn't leave in the end. At this time, Bai Wu said calmly:
"Even if you kill this old man, your Rawu virus infection will not be cured. Why don't we make a deal?"
Of course, Bai Wu had his own reasons for daring to stand out. There was a huge question mark marked with the Eye of Prell above the head of the leader of the Steel Teeth Pirates.
Sure enough, MVP is always MVP.
(I had a lot of things to do yesterday and today, so I'm not sure if I can update tonight... For now, I'll just assume I can't update, and let you know in advance. You don't have to wait. Of course, if I can update, I'll get it out as soon as possible.)