3. Nest
"Our task is to regularly complete the copy given to us by the nest, of course, if you don't want to survive in the space of the nest, you can also choose to leave, but the conditions for leaving are very harsh, and ordinary people are not capable of leaving, but when one day you have the power to leave, I'm afraid you won't choose to leave." Kevin didn't have any expression when he said these words, and I'm afraid he wouldn't believe it himself.
"But if I have some unfulfilled wishes, can I go back for a while, for a short time?"
"That's okay, you can have the time to exchange the points for your mission, but the time is very expensive."
"Due to the relationship between the auxiliary awakened, our technology and strength have completely surpassed those attached spaces, let's go, follow me to see the full picture of the nest."
Liu Chen was a little wooden, and the amount of information in Kevin's words was a bit large, which would make it difficult for him to accept it for a while. He followed Kevin out of the room, which was a vast plaza. The whole looks like a thriving market, surrounded by a number of houses, which are even built above the square, becoming a spherical space, like a semicircle, with the plane below being a crowded market, and the buildings above forming a dome on it. There is a light source in the middle, which looks like the sun, and it should be an artificial sun.
"How's it going, do you feel the power of transcendence?" Kevin asked with a smile.
Liu Chen only nodded, and in the face of technology beyond his own cognition, Liu Chen was defeated.
"Let's go, let's take a look around," Kevin said as he walked.
"It's the market, you can buy everything you want here, provided you have enough points, of course."
"But where do the points come from?"
"Oh, I forgot about this, let's go, I'll get you to redeem points." As he spoke, Kevin looked in the direction and walked towards a building.
The two came to an ATM-like machine: "Stand up"
Liu Chen stood in front of the machine, a visible light swept from the top of Liu Chen's head to the soles of his feet, and a mechanical voice sounded: "Physique Awakener, Awakening Level, Combat Skill Earth Battle Armor, Talent Element Affinity, Ordinary Blood Purity, Test Score B+, Comprehensive Assessment B, Points 5000, Do You Want to Get It Now?" ”
After receiving the points, Liu Chen had an extra watch in his hand.
"This is the integrator, this thing has a lot of ways, it won't be displayed when it's not in use, and there will be a prompt when you make a transaction or hand over a task. Well, you can walk around, and if you are tired and want to rest, go to the rest area. Kevin gestured to the top of his head.
"Every awakened person has their own room, you can find the number with your record, I will pick you up in three days, the new awakened person will be accompanied by a guide on his first mission, and give you two pieces of advice, one is not to join the team casually, at least when you don't understand the role of the team, and the second is not to use your points easily, which plays an important role when it is critical."
After speaking, Kevin shook Liu Chen's hand and turned to leave.
Liu Chen first checked the time of exchange and return to Earth on the machine, and found that it was 3,000 points for a month. I checked the things that my points can be exchanged for, and found that there are really no surprises, all kinds of things emerge in an endless stream, what equipment, guns, vehicles, even satellites, and airplanes are available, Liu Chen thought about what Kevin said just now, and turned off the exchange mode.
First went to the resting place to find his room, ate something, thought about it or walked around the market to familiarize himself with the environment.
I just walked into the market and found that the market here is very different from the real one, most of the stalls are without owners, one by one simulation robots shuttle through them, and only a few and a half of the stalls have shopkeepers or standing or sitting on the side. Liu Chen saw a middle-aged shopkeeper, who looked very loyal, and just wanted to go up and talk a few words, when several pillars of light shot out from the artificial sun, a few fell on the square, and a few fell in the rest area, Liu Chen was still thinking about what these pillars of light were for, and a voice sounded beside him.
"That's a quest prompt, this is a reminder to notify the awakened to participate in the quest, it can't be heard outside the aura, and the person they take the task can hear the hint."
As soon as Liu Chen turned his head, he saw the middle-aged man who wanted to go up to say hello just now: "I'm just taking a look"
"It seems to be quite cautious, don't worry, I still take good care of newcomers, and the average veteran doesn't react to these, if you live long enough, you will gradually get used to these things."
"I was wondering, are these copies really that dangerous? Why do you all say live long enough? Isn't it just a matter of getting the job done? Seeing that he was vague, Liu Chen asked directly.
"I won't tell you how dangerous the dungeon is, you will experience it in the later dungeons, let's put it this way, do you know how much time you newcomers have to come?"
Liu Chen shook his head, he hadn't even been on a mission now, how would he know these things.
The middle-aged man sighed lightly, in fact, a group of new people will arrive every month, ranging from a dozen to dozens of people at a time, you calculate, how many people are in a year, and I don't know how many years this space has existed, I'm afraid that the number of awakened people has already been tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, but if you look at these stalls, basically every living person has some items that they don't need but can be exchanged with people, so you can see how much life is still alive in this space when you look at these stalls, right?
Liu Chen took a look at it, and it seemed that there were only a few hundred stalls in this market. Thinking about what the middle-aged man said just now, I can't help but smack my tongue, if what the middle-aged man said is true, I am afraid that there will be no more than a thousand humans in this nest, and then I don't know how many years this space has existed, and the probability of survival is really low and frightening.
The middle-aged man continued: "Actually, you don't have to worry too much now, the first copy of your newcomers is usually followed by a guide, so the first copy can basically be completed, but the future copies will become more and more difficult, and what you should be most worried about is not the danger, but us veterans." ”
Liu Chen looked at the middle-aged man a little stunned.
"Don't look at me like this, you must know that people are selfish, and when their lives are in danger, it is good for some veterans to give up newcomers, and some use newcomers as cannon fodder and use their powerful power to enslave newcomers."
"Thank you." Liu Chen was truly grateful to this middle-aged man, although Kevin also told him some dangerous warnings, but he was not as thorough as this veteran.
"It's nothing, I also see that you are a newcomer, just a relationship, maybe there will be something that you need to take care of in the future."
Liu Chen also just smiled, how could this be possible, he was just a newcomer, this middle-aged uncle didn't seem to be a new veteran who had just gone through a few missions, how could such a person need to take care of himself.
The middle-aged man looked at Liu Chen's appearance and understood what he thought: "Little brother, am I not telling a lie, I am an auxiliary awakener, although I can help others, but when it comes to the critical moment of life-saving, who will lose their chance to live in order to save a help?" ”
"Yes, who would give up their life for someone else?" Liu Chen thought of his comrades-in-arms, but who would know that Liu Chen was also protected by others?
When Liu Chen first became a soldier, he was like a brother with a comrade-in-arms, and the two of them performed many missions together, in an anti-drug mission, two people went undercover together to break into the drug lord gang, due to the accident let the enemy know the news that someone was undercover, in order to ensure that the task was successfully completed, his comrades-in-arms deliberately exposed themselves, and finally died in the hands of the drug lord, and afterwards Liu Chen killed the drug lord with his own hands in the process of arresting the drug lord, and almost carried the punishment for this. The greatest wish of his comrade-in-arms is his family living in the mountains, and Liu Chen committed suicide by drinking bullets to save his sister.
After talking with the middle-aged man for a long time, I learned that the middle-aged man's surname was Xu, and he was a Chinese-American, but it didn't matter what nationality he was in this space, Liu Chen called him Brother Xu, this guy is an auxiliary awakener, and he usually likes to study some drugs, but he is not a therapeutic class, and Liu Chen is very curious about what the awakening of the therapeutic class will look like.
Lao Xu told him that the healing class was definitely the rarest type of awakened person, and he had only seen this type of awakened person in some famous big team. Liu Chen temporarily gave up his interest in healing awakened people.
Lao Xu recommended a lot of things to Liu Chen that he studied, and most of them were rejected by Kevin's advice, but there were two things that made Liu Chen feel very good, one was some white powder, which was shallow and somewhat transparent, Lao Xu told Liu Chen that this was a semi-finished product of his own research, which could make the creature bloodthirsty and explode, but the side effect was that the time could only last for five minutes, and after five minutes, except for the particularly strong vitality, there was basically no possibility of survival, and it was impossible for the particularly strong existence to return to its original state. And the state is still unstable, maybe only two or three out of ten animals will work, originally intended to make a bloodthirsty medicine to sell to those summoners, but who is willing to use this kind of thing for their treasures?
Liu Chen is a figure who has participated in the actual anti-terrorism operations of many countries, and he thought of the preciousness of these things at that time, and after several discussions, he spent 300 points to buy the only few packs from Lao Xu's hands.
Another is a dagger, it looks inconspicuous, it should be a fragment of a weapon, but it is extremely sharp, Liu Chen is very strange why Lao Xu has such a thing, Lao Xu said that this is what he was assigned to him by the team in the last mission, and he knew at a glance that it was not a good product, but there was no way, his strength was not as good as others, and he didn't dare to fight with others, he felt very sharp, so he took it back and planned to buy it, but no one was willing to ask for it, Liu Chen always felt that this thing had a very strange feeling, I spent another two hundred points to buy it from Lao Xu.
In this way, the three days passed quickly, except for the pack of medicinal powder that Lao Xu bought at Lao Xu, Liu Chen never bought anything again, although many things he looked at very hot, on the third day, Kevin found Liu Chen in the market: "The task will be released in a while, and we will buy some necessities for the mission after hearing the task." ”
As soon as Kevin finished speaking, two pillars of light shone on them respectively, and a voice sounded in Liu Chen's head: "Imitation Earth No. 3 Copy, Mission: "Prevent the Gods from Descending", Background Nordic Era, Task Difficulty D, Enter after an hour, there are five missionists, including one guide, the mission fails, and each person will deduct two thousand points."