Chapter XXXVIII
Until everyone met Godzilla, Ling Qi still didn't think of anything that might be overlooked. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeใ info
The huge Godzilla appeared silently beside Ling Qi, and under the cover of the dark night, only a huge shadow like a mountain could be seen five meters apart.
Sunny was shocked by the sheer size of the Deathclaw Knight's mount, and sat down on the ground in fright, directly waking up Cheng Shao from the coma, and before he could see the slowly approaching giant beast, exhaustion and pain filled his consciousness again.
"Ah puppet~ man, it turns out that it's also your buddy, you're amazing, it seems that I really underestimated you. โ
Mr. Yes is worthy of being an intelligent being, and he does not understand the meaning of fear at all.
When it saw Godzilla approaching little by little, instead of being afraid, it dragged the pair of broken wheels, took the initiative to approach, and stretched out two small short hands to touch the wrinkled skin on Godzilla's calves.
"Wow~ Good guy, with this thick skin, it can resist cannonballs. โ
Completely ignoring Mr. Yes's curiosity and Sunny's fear, Ling Qi jumped onto Godzilla's shoulder, touching its pair of curved horns, which were nearly two meters long.
The huge horn of the thickness of the stake arched forward like ivory, and the tip of the left corner was obviously broken, even if it was only the size of a palm, it couldn't hide Ling Qi's sight.
Godzilla couldn't speak, and although his intelligence was already equivalent to that of a child of seven or eight years old, the thoughts that came from him were still not as clear as those of the Ice Guardian.
After checking its properties and listening to its "whimpering", representing "grievances", Ling Qi frowned and patted its head for comfort, and then jumped back to the ground.
"Let's go, let's find a place to rest first~"
Combined with Godzilla's unexpected encounter, a large number of mutated creatures began to show signs of secondary alienation, thinking about the information recorded in Dr. Michelle's PP boy, the deathclaws entrenched on Highway 8, and some of them have also had secondary mutations, and then linked to the basic laws of mutation of wild creatures recorded in PP boy, Ling Qi sighed helplessly.
In fact, at the moment when the platinum chip was acquired, Ling Qi guessed this situation, but he didn't expect it to really happen - the difficulty of the task increased?!
He was only sincerely afraid of the power of the master, it may not be omnipotent, but the grasp of the fate of the line is indeed almost omniscient!
It is the existence that lives on the long river of time and space and truly understands the direction of everything in the future!
And what about his future?
"Ding, congratulations on getting the platinum chip and successfully holding it for more than half an hour. You've completed the first part of the main quest, and the next quest is about to begin. โ
"The follow-up mission has been successfully opened, and the current main quest: The Price of Freedom. Description: You have successfully obtained the Platinum Chip, and you have learned the meaning and purpose of the Chip in advance. So, what choice do you have to make now? Do you want to help Mr. House achieve the independence of New Vegas? Or do you join the NRC, Caesar's Legion, and make House pay for this idea? or, instead, experience for yourself the price you have to pay to be free? It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is that you have to put the land back in order. Perhaps, you can destroy it completely!"
"Important, different choices will lead to different follow-up missions, and you will receive completely different rewards for completing them. โ
"Note: Quest rewards have been received so far, not yet. โ
"Note: After completing the current main quest, you and all members of your party can choose any special item to take out of this world, specify to keep any special skill to take out of this world, and you and all members of your party can designate any skill to get any friend, and that skill can also be taken out of this world. In addition, on top of that, as a mission trigger, you can get some additional rewards after completing the current main quest. โ
The Price of Freedom -
Ling Qi chewed on these five words, and the aftertaste and harvest of the meaning of the word itself had already exceeded the subsequent task rewards!
Little did he know that the newcomers in the casino were startling at the sudden hint of mission completion. He also didn't know that the follow-up quest they had gotten, and the description of the follow-up quest, was very different from his!
The sudden mission prompt did not wake Chen Shao up, nor did it change Ling Qi's original plan.
As early as half an hour ago, through Cheng Shao's description, he described in detail how someone relied on the chip in the "future" and Mr. Yes replaced Mr. House, the reason why Ling Qi was reluctant to return the chip was not only due to the previous demand for a holding time limit!
The price of freedom is immeasurably heavy! If there is no strength that is luxurious to the extreme, who would dare to hope for independence and freedom!
In this case, a well-armed army of machines, who can refuse?
Cheng Shao's prediction is too one-sided, but the prediction of success itself has already shown that this path does not conflict with the "mission" issued by the juggernaut!
At that time, Ling Qi was already vaguely aware of the present, and he had made a choice that he had to do.
How could he be willing to be subordinate, he never dared, let alone wanted to go against his heart, even if it was a dead end!
Ambitious men often pounce like moths on the hot throne of power. Probably the only difference between Ling Qi and those people is that he still regards the chair at the top of the world as a stepping stone, not a destination!
An hour later, Ling Qi and his party came to the edge of the ruins of Las Vegas, where the wood elves and the panting Tang Xiao were waiting for them.
Ling Qi suddenly stopped interrogating Cheng Shao, jumped directly from Godzilla, and patted the shoulders of the wood elf and Tang Xiao with a little excitement, which made the college student feel relieved.
And a newcomer who was also sitting on Godzilla's shoulders before quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately felt tired on all fours.
Ling Qi asked about the situation of the others, and only said to the wood elves that they had done a good job, and then there was no follow-up.
For him, being able to do this is already buying people's hearts. Otherwise, let alone asking those two pleasure-hungry things who don't know whether to live or die, even if these newcomers are all dead, how much loss can he really have?
Ling Qi's care for newcomers has always been just an investment, it is gratifying to win, it is okay to lose, and profits and losses are treated equally!
If you laugh and lose if you win, you are called a gambler, not a businessman.
Goodbye Cheng Shao, Tang Xiao had mixed feelings, not only glad for his choice, but also amazed and regretted his ability to predict.
When the team grew to the size of a combat squad, Ling Qi decided to take the group to find a stronghold in the nearby ruins first. Before dawn, he needs to make sure he has a safe shade for any battles that may ensue.
In the end, the plan was almost not completed, because in less than thirty minutes, Mr. Yes had planned for him more than one feasible way for him to replace Mr. House!
"Hey~ man, I think, we should go back immediately!"
"Go back immediately?!"
When Tang Xiao heard the strange, dilapidated robot's words, he almost jumped over and pressed it to the ground and beat it up.
It was so easy for him to "stand out" from the newcomers, and he could get closer to a certain unfathomable man, and this time he would not let all his thoughts and decisions be in vain!
"Of course~ man! Believe me, now is the best chance! Every second of delay is a loss! If you lose the first opportunity, even if you have this big guy-"
Mr. Yes pointed at Godzilla, and continued:
"You will never be able to hold House in his wrath. โ
"Besides, why let your future subordinates be devastated in unnecessary conflicts?"
It seems that the last sentence is the key!
"My own men... It's your men!"
Ling Qi was silent.
Even with the platinum chip, even if he knew how to use it, he didn't know how to control it at all.
In his plan and Cheng Shao's foresight, no matter from which point of view, Mr. Yes is the key!
It is up to him to upgrade Mr. House's mechanical legion with chips, and it is up to him to take control of the mechanical legion from Mr. House!
As a result, it is actually it, not him, that really controls the Mechanical Legion!
Cheng Shao may be convinced of his prediction, but Ling Qi will not!
A robot that listens to everyone's words? A set of data that knows how to evolve itself?
Ling Qi always believes in himself!
"No!"
Ling Qi gave his own answer, and it didn't matter to give people the bad impression of being arbitrary.
The experience of silver impact and the mini nuclear bomb in the storage space made him understand a most basic truth!
His ability is actually greater than he imagined! Who said that one person cannot start and win a war?
will fail, and that's just because, that person is not strong enough!
He needs help, the same is true, but he is no longer the Ling Qi who had to rely on poisoning to take revenge on catharsis!
If he had the strength he has now, he would have chosen a more direct, cruel, and violent way to make the world shake and mourn!
A dilapidated house, dealing with a few wasteland vagrants who had occupied the place, and in the midst of a thousand thanks to a white girl who had been nearly stripped naked by a few people, Ling Qi entered the only completely enclosed room alone at the last moment before dawn.
The killings of last night and the night before made him feel more and more in tune with the forces of darkness, and the Spirit Slayer had not even completed a third of the progress of his mission, but the destructive power he could burst out in the darkness increased day by day. At the same time, he is unwilling to even get close to any ray of light, which is no longer a unilateral spurning of the light, but a dislike for each other.
Outside, in the hall, a weeping girl was introducing her origins, asking a few strangers who seemed to be nice if they had seen their father.
Inside the house, Ling Qi curled up in the corner, and those two words that couldn't be forgotten rolled in his mind, freedom, price!
He held his head, his eyes were scarlet, and some things he didn't want to think of kept spreading ripples, reflecting the past he had never forgotten again and again.
The Ice Guardian could no longer maintain its shadow form, and stood beside him.
Leo outside also went to the second floor under the pretext of finding a broken bed to lie down and rest, and he didn't see the affectionate eyes of a girl he rescued.
Godzilla, who was wandering not far away, was frantically biting another deathclaw that came from nowhere, it was no longer hunting, but venting the desire to kill!
"If you don't die in silence, then go crazy in silenceโ"
"Hehehe, hahahahahaha!"
In the dark corner, Ling Qi muttered in a low voice, as if he had returned to the summer of that year, by the river.
That was the time when he was most energetic when he was young since his father was splashed with dirty water!
He, who was seriously biased and had always been despised by his teachers and classmates, was admitted to the best university in the country because of his outstanding talent in pharmacy chemistry!
In the eyes of many insiders, this is simply a fantasy and absurd nonsense!
He still remembered how he walked out of the classroom with his toes and dragged the girl who was also withdrawn in the eyes of outsiders to the river that was neither deep nor shallow, clear and smokeless and rainy.
He said to her in high spirits that in 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, he will definitely become a master in the future, wash away the stigma for his father, and trample all the high-ranking guys in the past!
He told her that he would buy the best car, live in the biggest house, have the most luxurious wedding, and marry the most beautiful bride!
She's not pretty at all, she's just like a weed.
And even though he was burdened with countless infamy, he was so brilliant at that time.
She smiled happily, and she told him that she didn't really need much, that she just wanted to be free, that she just wanted to be with him, and that she was already happy.
She really didn't want to go back to that place.
He stroked her cheek and told her that he would set her free because it was his promise.
But at that time, did he really understand the weight of commitment?
He didn't know that she loved him so much, because he didn't know love at all.
At that time, he was full of ambition, and he only had pity and sympathy for her!
At that time, what right did he have to commit to her? He didn't even know what he meant to her!
He had never liked her, but he easily took her most important things!
He didn't understand, he always felt that he didn't need to be fetters.
What he needs is success, progress, and a view of the whole world!
A year later, she didn't wait for him, she didn't complain, she only regretted.
When he learned of her, he was so resolute and devoted his life to her feelings for him, he was actually more than a friend in her heart!
He attended her funeral, and there were very few people at the funeral, really very little.
He didn't cry, he felt that crying was a compromise for grief.
He didn't try to get justice for her, on the surface, her suicide was so reasonable and perfect, not to mention that he hadn't done that kind of thing before, pinning his hopes on others, and finally in exchange for despair.
He added a piece of soil for her, and left a wild flower that had been folded by the side of the road, and he came in such a hurry that he didn't even buy money for incense and candles.
He took away her broken wings and dreams, and he also took away her promise to break her word.
He still doesn't understand, why did she do that, because of love?
At that time, the person who made him understand this unfamiliar word had not yet appeared, and what attracted her to him was not desire and love, but the kind of weak strength, the desire for freedom, paranoia, and stubbornness!
Until many years later, he had even forgotten the appearance of that ordinary girl, but he still remembered her extravagant dreams and stupid firmness.
He still remembers that he was just as stubborn at that time, holding a test tube and laughing wildly in the school laboratory, which was another prologue to another headless public case...
Those are the last things he wants to think of after he understands love, has a family, and meets the person who really obsesses him!
Later, her extravagant dreams were incompatible with what he had, so he had to hide the wings and fangs!
It was only to this day that he realized what he had received from that girl! What a weight, what a luxury! It was a hundred times heavier than love!
He had preferred to abandon it for the sake of his family.
But when he lost everything, he found that it had always been with him and never gave up!
People can lose their freedom, lose their loved ones, lose everything, but at no time can they lose a heart to seek freedom.
Freedom is a luxury.
The stubborn pursuit of the dream of freedom is even more precious.
Ling Qi reminisced about the past, and his staggered life gradually became inextricable.
Human nature and the human heart are so fragile that the wings of freedom that have been cut off are shackled, also called protection.
Many people say that if there is no order, if there is no shackles, man will become a wild beast that has been freed from the shackles, and will eventually lead to destruction.
But who would dare to say that, without one or two exceptions, what was originally bound will lead to brilliant success after being freed?
Their success needs to be paved with the destruction of hundreds of millions of people, and it will be a success!
Ling Qi is not ruthless, he just doesn't want to be that white bone!
The crowd is like a flock of sheep, and the ruler is the shepherd.
He is a vicious wolf who hides in the flock of sheep and lurks his minions, and he has been wearing sheep's clothing, almost getting lost, and being assimilated into a sheep.
Perhaps, it's just a little bit worse!
The misty eyes gradually became cold and gloomy, and the man in the corner had a little smile on the corner of his lips.
The ordinary and the pretty two faces overlap and finally all come to pieces!
The day dawned, the sun rose three poles, climbed into the sky, and gradually slipped down the west mountain.
The sun rises and sets, the moon is full and the moon is missing, it is the truth, nothing will always be as good as the sun, and people's life and thinking habits are the same, which will always change naturally and inadvertently.
Tang Xiao, who had slept all day, was not very energetic, yawning and looking at the personal attribute panel, there was basically no change.
Reversing black and white doesn't mean adapting just as you can adapt.
When he caught a glimpse of the new girl sitting in the corner, innocently staring at those big eyes and silent, he immediately came to his senses.
Beautiful things will always be liked by more people, and no one is exempt from this.
"Hey~Karina, stop thinking about Leo, trust me, he won't be interested in girls-"
Tang Xiao leaned over to the girl, squeezed her eyebrows and said.
The white girl who called herself Karina took a sip and scolded coquettishly:
"What nonsense are you talking about, who~who's thinking~ thinking about him!"
The girl's adaptation to the new environment is obviously good, she is not wary and defensive against everyone, and soon mingles with Tang Xiao, who is the most normal person in the team.
"Hmph~ I was worried about my father just now~ But why doesn't he like girls?"
At the mention of her father, Karina was worried. In the second half of the sentence, her expression gradually returned to calm.
"Oh~ I'm sorry, I'm sure your father will be safe. โ
Tang Xiao sincerely wished him, and the figure of a middle-aged security guard naturally came to mind, as well as hearsay about the tragedy of the atomic cowboy and the silver shock.
"As for Big Brother Leo~ Alas-"
Changing the topic in time, he sighed, and the girl pricked up her ears, thinking that the handsome and extraordinary man had some "hidden disease", but unfortunately he didn't wait for the following.
How did she know that Tang Xiao was lamenting her good luck and the pearl of the wood elf.
In his mind, the cold-faced and hot-hearted Wood Elf shouldn't be a follower of a ruthless butcher like Ling Qi at all. If Ling Qi had been asked to do this morning's affairs, probably this girl would have been cut by him...
With such a master, how can the wood elves still have the heart to fall in love?
After sunset, the rumbling footsteps woke everyone up with the shaking of the ground and the roar of monsters.
Godzilla has long been able to sneak silently like its "kind", and making such a big movement is obviously a sign of his arrival!
Tang Xiao covered Karina's mouth in time to prevent her from screaming.
For he had seen the gloomy man come out of the house, and he did not guarantee that she would be able to mingle with them so comfortably after annoying him.
Ling Qi didn't keep a straight face as Tang Xiao thought, but instead smiled at the strange girl who was so frightened that her face turned pale, and the sunny appearance immediately calmed her down.
Maybe there's a reason why she's not guarded against them, and everyone doesn't look like a bad guy.
"Let's go!"
Looking out at the sinking sky outside, someone turned a blind eye to Veronica's anger and said lightly.
On the side, he showed a weird smile, which made Sunny, who captured this scene, thrilling.