Chapter 61: New Harvest and New Direction
A guy who looked like the leader of the dozen or so shadows took a few steps in the direction of the brewing area and looked up.
I saw that he was wearing a metal mask similar to a skeleton, and at the position of the eye socket, two glass lenses were inlaid with them, and red light points crossed the lenses from time to time, making this metal surface quite extraordinary.
The leader stared at the brewing area where there was still black smoke and fire, and looked at it for a long time, the cold metal skull mask was separated, and he couldn't tell whether his school celebration was happy or sad, but he had been staring at it for a long time, and he should have been thinking about something.
All the black shadows slowly gathered around the leader, and waited silently for a while, the leader turned around, did not speak, just made a few brief gestures to the subordinates around him, in the dark night could not see how they moved, only felt that a dozen black shadows accelerated at the same time, three swaying and two, and disappeared into the vast night, on the side of the shoal, the boat that sent them slowly swirled, spit out a puff of black smoke, and sailed towards the sea.
At around 3 o'clock in the morning, all the aftermath work for the Wine Gang was basically over, and Lao Wang and Takenaka returned to the Rag Residence again, it turned out that the headquarters of the Holy Scouts, "Canary", had been burned down in the previous counterattack of the Wine Gang, and there were not many strongholds left, but then again, there were not many places to live in the entire wine area.
It will take some time to rebuild the facilities, and Lao Wang and Takenaka can't even have a place to rest, so they still live in Mrs. Lag's apartment for the time being.
Wang Mancang fought continuously, and he was originally sleepy, but after the work was perfected after the strong fighting spirit was perfected, the person was boiled up, and Takenaka was not sleepy like him, so the two of them simply chatted and took stock of the benefits of fighting the wine gang this time.
Wang Mancang killed Derek in a serious way, but because he chose memory retrieval, he didn't have any decent material gains.
In addition, he hasn't done anything in the past few days, and the income is basically some gadgets dropped by the wine gang miscellaneous soldiers, to sum up, they are basically goods that can be used to directly throw random space for points.
Unlike Lao Wang, Zhuzhong is considered a bumper harvest.
It may be that the current trial world is relatively rudimentary, and there can be no too difficult world exploration missions, and Mrs. Lag, who has a bitter feud with the Wine Gang, did not provide a world exploration mission related to killing Big Mouth or destroying the Wine Gang, in Takenaka's opinion, this did not maximize the benefits, but he killed Bloel and a dozen Wine Gang elites in Rag's apartment, and the drop of his own loot made Takenaka a lot of money.
First of all, it is the interaction value gain, even if there is no world exploration mission, killing Bloel will not delay the interaction value increase with Mrs. Rag.
Takenaka's interaction with the old lady now has 220 points, which is not estimated to be the maximum value that can be reached in the current world, and it is not much worse.
Lao Wang maliciously thought, and if he wanted to increase the interaction value, he would only really move with the "senior beauty" who was nearly seventy years old.
Takenaka hadn't had time to see what these values could be exchanged for, but he planned to use them to maintain his intimacy with Madame Rag first, and then exchange them when he was about to leave the world.
In addition to the interaction value, there is also a large amount of dry goods.
Don't forget, the two of them picked up rewards after killing The Macallan, and now it's the boss of the Wine Gang who has been killed, and it should be enough to say that it is a regional mini-boss, how can it not drop good things?
In the expectant eyes of Wang Caifan, Takenaka placed two items in front of him, directly sharing information, and showing the harvest to the person opposite whose eyes were about to fall out.
"Pendulum Boots: Excellent quality foot equipment, equipment requires stamina 8, agility 10, spirit 12, stamina +2, agility +3, spirit +2, evasion rate increased by 5%, running speed slightly increased, equipment comes with the skill 'pendulum dodge'.
'Pendulum Dodge': A B-level active skill, after activation, the picker's dodge rate against normal attacks is increased by 20%, and the active skill immunity rate is increased by 5%, and the duration is 30 seconds, after the release of this skill, the picker's running speed will be slightly increased again, and the skill cooldown time is 3 minutes.
Brief description: Bloor has always believed that in street fights, it is more important not to be beaten than to be able to beat people, and if you are lucky enough to get shoes that have followed him for many years, I believe you can also understand some of the tips for dodging in gangster fights. ”
Lao Wang look at this pair of boots, it is a simple cowhide boot style, from the description, it is indeed a good dodge prop, the important thing is that you can also open skills to escape at critical moments, it is very suitable for the bamboo that lacks life-saving means now, but at present, there is still a little problem.
"I said bamboo, what are you talking about when you look at your uncle, you don't listen to you to add some physical strength, and now you can't wear good things, right?"
The addition of the bamboo is too biased, has always been criticized by the old Wang, and now the physical attributes of the "pendulum boots" are two points higher than the physical attributes of the bamboo.
"Oh, I know, Uncle is so verbose" Takenaka rarely encountered a loss, and muttered a tough mouth: "It's not too much, I'll add it when the world ends this time." ”
Lao Wang saw that the little guy confessed, hehe laughed a few times, and continued to look at the second item.
"Blood Vial of Unknown Origin: Quasi-epic quality consumable item (unusable), consumption times: 1 (after use).
After the selector kills an enemy, this item can be used to extract blood essence, and the stronger the enemy killed, the more blood energy will be extracted, and when the blood energy is extracted to the maximum, the item will be turned into a usable state.
The use of this consumable requires the selector to have a certain bloodline and at least a low level, and the effect after use (insufficient information qualifications, it is not possible to know for the time being.) )
Description: Bloor doesn't know where to pick up this precious vial, but what do you expect a thug to understand? ”
"This thing?" Lao Wang looked at the explanation and couldn't help but say loudly.
To be honest, in addition to providing him with a little attribute point at the beginning, the hell bloodline in his body has not had a fart until now, Lao Wang tried to inquire, and was also told that Ted was not qualified enough to get detailed information, and now he suddenly saw a prop that was touched by the bloodline, Lao Wang was still a little interested.
"It's very suitable for uncle, it's better to take it on your body to extract blood first, anyway, we have to kill the enemy all the way down, even if it's done by the way." "Takenaka doesn't care, there are no clear drawbacks in the item description, there won't be any big problems with it, the two of them only have a hell bloodline on Lao Wang now, so Lao Wang will take it first, and extract the blood by the way.
Lao Wang nodded, accepted Takenaka's deal, took the small bottle into his arms, and said to Takenaka as if he remembered something: "By the way, Bamboo, remember what Uncle told you no, are we going to worry about the matter of the high-ranking Overseer Gambor, time is tight, Corvo will do it at any time." ”
Takenaka looked at Lao Wang with a smile, and the expression on his face was confident...
Barrel Alley - The ordinary alley of the wine district, if there is anything to be said, it is that this alley is very close to the water, and in the past, there were many smugglers' boats that docked directly here to trade.
In the chaos that had just ended, Barrel Alley was not spared, most of the houses were burned to rubble, and the remaining population itself had been drastically reduced by the plague so much that now, the whole alley is like a ghost street.
Speaking of ghosts, there are ghosts!
A dark shadow sped through the barrel alley, moving cautiously, occasionally retracting into the shadows of the building to hide his tracks, and after about 10 minutes he stopped in front of a two-story house that had been blackened by fire, but had managed to maintain its monolithic structure.
He went to the door, knocked on the front door of the house in a peculiar rhythm, and when the door opened, he quickly dodged in, and the streets of Barrel Lane were silent again.
"Protector, I'm back. The dark shadow entered the room and stood still, and said respectfully to the leader of the men in black sitting in the middle of the ruined hall, and several people around the hall who were dressed like him were retracting their daggers to their waists, which showed that their discipline was very high, and even the correct knock code did not make them completely let their guard down.
The leader known as the "Protector" had now shed his metal skull mask, and the flickering candle flame flickered on and off, barely illuminating a handsome middle-aged face with a slightly pale glow.
"What's the situation?" Corvo didn't say much, and went straight to the point.
"The power of the wine district has changed dramatically, the previous most powerful force - the wine gang, has now been completely wiped out, and the hand is a new gang called the Holy Scouts, a bit of religious brainwashing in the shadow, the boss is a 12-year-old child, known as the 'Holy Boy' Francis, the current news shows that they do not show a clear intention to fall to the regent. "The black shadow is back, the amount of information and generalization is very high, and it should have been trained in strict intelligence.
Corvo listened carefully, thought for a moment, and asked, "How about the second line we expect to sneak into the city?"
"I have already explored the perimeter of Madame Rag's apartment, and found a large number of members of the Holy Scouts coming and going, and the other party is heavily guarded, and there is no way to continue to get closer, however, judging from the information gathered as a whole, Madame Rag should be in alliance with the Holy Scouts, and Madame Rag also helped in the destruction of the Wine Gang, and..." The Shadow continued to reply, but his tone paused, as if he was unsure whether to say the rest of the words.
"Go on. Corvo frowned and ordered, his tone implied displeasure, the most important thing in the intelligence report is to be precise and rigorous, objective and truthful, and the lack of words largely means that the reporter has added his own subjective feelings to the statement.
"There is also information that the main combat strength of the Holy Scouts is a samurai who is accustomed to masking his face with a black handkerchief and skillfully fighting with a special axe. The shadow straightened up, raised his voice slightly, and finished speaking.
Corvo smiled slightly, waved away the black shadow that had finished reporting, and muttered softly, "'Dear Stone', you haven't come back for so many days, have you already mixed in with the Holy Scouts?"
The former protector of the country, "dear stone", was lying on the ground on all fours at the moment, and the carpet under him had been cleaned by the attentive girls, thick and fluffy, no worse than a mattress.
The half-guard of Takenaka sat next to him, added a piece of dry wood to the fireplace, and said a little hurriedly: "Uncle, you can guess it." ”
"Guess what, why did you say just now that Corvo would definitely come to us?" Lao Wang felt that the knife wounds on his back and chest were crispy and itchy, it seemed that new meat was already growing, and it was indeed a perverted selector physique.
"Yes, Uncle should have his own ideas, right?" Takenaka asked.
"I almost know, I guess that Corvo wants Gambor's life, and it is absolutely impossible to fight hard, he has a strong ability to stealthily assassinate, and this time he should also play to his strengths. ”
Lao Wang lazily rubbed on the blanket and got closer to the fireplace and continued: "Sneak assassination will not go to the main gate, if you don't go through the main gate, you have to find a way to sneak into the inner city, don't look at Uncle has not played the background game of this world, but I guess the way to sneak into the inner city should fall on the wine gang or Mrs. Rag's people, now these two are basically replaced by your kid's god stick group, Corvo will definitely come to you if he still wants to see his daughter." ”
"That's it, the uncle is getting smarter and smarter. Takenaka nodded with a smile.
Lao Wang glanced at Zhuzhong and said, "I said bamboo, uncle has something to be curious about, why do you think I'm a fool, and I will always be stupid?"
"Oh, Uncle is really stingy when he says that. The monkey in the bamboo came to Lao Wang's side and patted him on the shoulder.
"Let's get down to business. Lao Wang turned over and sat up, looked at the flames of the fireplace and said: "As I said, after the Outsider time, I think Corvo will definitely not be able to believe me, and according to our analysis, he will find us in less than half a day, if we still have to use his strength to complete the task of the two of us, then we must think of a way for him to believe in us." ”
The problem that Lao Wang said is very realistic, after experiencing the Outsider incident together, his crisis of trust in Corvo has become more and more obvious, and the relationship between the two people has not been torn for the time being, and the original solid robe relationship has now had very serious problems.
"If Corvo didn't know anything about mystical powers, I really wouldn't have much to do about it. Takenaka replied, "Well, now, I'm still a little sure about the former captain who persuaded you. ”
Lao Wang Du didn't have to look back now, and from his tone, he knew that Takenaka's face must be full of the iconic fox smile again.
In the living room of the Barrel Lane house, Cole, the former protector, was calculating with his chin resting his chin before a moment later, his frowning brow loosened, and he stood up and coughed lightly.
The noise was not loud, but it brought the ears of all the dark shadows in the living room of the house to his place.
Hearing the news, the shadows emerged from their dormant corners and quickly gathered around Corvo, standing in silence and solemnity, waiting for the orders of the former protector.
Corvo was silent for a little three or four seconds, looked at the black shadow in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Brothers, the situation is very clear now, if we want to not alarm Gambor's peripheral troops to enter the inner city, we must deal with the newly rising Holy Scouts, now everyone obeys my orders!"