Chapter 1: An Inexplicable Beginning
After the teleportation light dissipated, Roger was slightly stunned to find that he and Xiangyue Xihu next to him seemed to be standing in a wilderness at this moment.
There were no human signs, and there seemed to be no signs of many moving creatures, slightly similar to the Vast Wilderness of the Great Sword that he had never seen seriously in his memory, but it was obvious that the difference was even greater.
There are no weeds, no trees, very little floating soil on the surface, and craggy rocks can be seen everywhere. The hills in the distance weren't too high, and they were still gray without looking at them......
However, these unexpected "landscapes" seem to be nothing compared to the women around him.
He had watched the "Xiangyue Xihu" in the previous plane for more than five years, probably because of the end of the mission, he no longer maintained the appearance of a genius female doctor in the Yokohama base. However, what she is using at the moment does not seem to be the image of the strong woman in Macross Fortress F that DG has specially collected.
Smiling and extending her hand to Roger, she looked rather ordinary in appearance, slightly thin, but tightly wrapped from top to bottom in a gray robe that resembled linen—or other material, of which Roger was a layman's in terms of texture.
"Let's get to know me, I'm Li Li."
A name that sounds ordinary, making it impossible to determine whether it is true or false.
"Roger." Although he didn't know what the other party was planning to do by playing the first meeting game so solemnly, but after five years of unpleasant cooperation experience, Roger still accommodated and stretched out his right hand.
As a result, he noticed that his appearance had also changed significantly.
is no longer the image of a long-trained guard in the previous plane, and the body is wearing neither a reinforced uniform nor a Shaozuo military uniform, but a strange one-piece robe that is the same as Li Li on the other side, and there is not much difference in style and material.
Then, although his body has not been looked in the mirror this time, judging from his obvious over-knotted right forearm, which is stretched out, and the slight overlooking line of sight from Li Li, what he Roger wants to play this time is probably a tall and strong man......
Well, why do you think there is something wrong with this detail?
"It seems that it didn't transform into a beautiful sword, which makes you feel sorry from the bottom of your heart." While Roger was still working on clue reasoning, which he was not good at at all, DG stepped in just in time.
This time, DG doesn't seem to be planning to keep the mini Demon Gundam look like the last one, and it's simply back in Roger's body. However, there seems to be no objection to this point on the side of Kazuki and Oh Bu Li, and DG's psychic communication seems to have included her. Because when the word "transformation" was mentioned, the corners of Li Li's mouth twitched briefly.
However, as a reincarnation on the intellectual side, Li Li still automatically took on the obligation of simple explanation, as for how much Roger's doubts before and after can be eliminated in this explanation, that is another question.
The basic concept of "sufficient time" was first proposed by Lai.
Although these words seemed meaningless at first, Roger quickly figured out that what Li Li said about having enough time was not just a matter of protecting the plane. Rather, it refers to what is shown on the watch, and it is a long, long time before the main story of the original book begins.
To be specific, it is at least more than a thousand years......
"What?"
In the last mission plane, Roger, who had basically been tossed to death five years before the start of the main story, felt like he had been struck by lightning when he heard a certain keyword.
Is there a mistake?!
Even if he doesn't have much interest in the big sword, he knows that this manga or anime revolves around a special female big sword, Gunia. Therefore, in his original psychological expectations, at most, he adjusted the timeline of this mission plane to the Denisha period, that is, the span of one or two decades.
He didn't know anything else, and he heard that the author often liked to step on his own initial setting, so he didn't take the specific time of the task seriously at all. It's nothing more than to endure it, although one or two decades has grown a little, but it should be able to hold on, right?
But this is too much nonsense "after a thousand years", right? I didn't exchange the tortoise bloodline in any main god space, although the main god adjusted his body this time, but no matter how you look at it, it is barely divided into human categories, and presumably there will be no advantage in lifespan...... Could it be that this is the punishment for failing two missions in a row, and directly murdering with time?!
"It's not as serious as you think, and since it's time to do so, it's not a problem to wait for thousands of years."
Li Li was stating some unreliable facts in a rather reliable-sounding tone, but the task had already been shown on the watch anyway, and Roger had never had a chance to reissue it, so he had to obediently listen to the female companion's fools.
But when it comes to flickering, it seems to start from the previous mission plane.
In the underground duel of the original HIVE, Roger obviously lost to Chen Yi in full state with Noah's wings fully open again. And this theoretically means that his mission has failed - although he and Chen Yi do not have watches, and they don't know what Lu Dao's previous mission was - but this situation has long been expected by DG, just as Li Li said after the last plane, DG has reached some cooperation intentions with her.
What exactly is cooperation? Just a few sentences don't seem like easy to explain. Roughly speaking, the infinite world they are in looks quite humane on the surface, and even if the mission fails, it will not directly lead to obliteration and the like - not to mention that if you follow an algorithm such as brushing points, even if the BETA killed by Roger is less, it should be enough to deduct points - what you really need to worry about is the same skill seal as last time.
Li Li has experienced several mission planes, and DG has not figured it out, but when the other party says that she may have a way to make Roger (in fact, in a sense, DG himself) escape the punishment of mission failure, this cooperation is already equivalent to a certainty.
In short, after Li Li and DG sign a contract similar to "hire" in Roger's name, Roger will not be randomly thrown to the next mission plane like last time, but will be temporarily bound to Li Li and enter a pre-known mission at the same time. Of course, what DG has to pay is to "cooperate" or obey orders as wholeheartedly as possible.
Under DG's intermittent explanation, it didn't take much time for Roger to understand this helpless fact, "Simply put, you sold me and helped count the money?" ”
"It's better than selling myself." One of the symbiotes replied quite calmly.
Of course, the so-called infinite space penalty and the like are not so easy to circumvent. Since Roger had violated common sense and followed Li Li, what he had attracted was actually distributed to the latter. The opening of the main line of "millennium waiting" seems to be one of the consequences at present.
But to be honest, Roger didn't feel the slightest bit guilty about his current situation, after all, he was cheated by Li Li more than once in the last mission plane. Now it's just that everyone is unlucky together, and it's not that he is high up to collect old accounts, so although he is still a little tired of time quantifiers such as millennium, he still tries to maintain the demeanor of a master who has gone through two missions and planes.
Then, a further explanation from Li Li completely relieved him of his related worries.
For example, this intelligence side reincarnation told him very frankly that although this point in time is a little different, according to the chronicle of the great sword, it is likely that the "organization" has not even been established, but this also means that there are only demon-level enemies in the entire world realm, and there is no need to worry about any super expansion and the like.
Of course, this is clearly fooling him, Roger doesn't know about the big sword, so he doesn't know that the purpose of the so-called organization is to deal with the so-called dragon country, and the biological weapon of that enemy country is at least equivalent to the existence of the abyss level. But then again, even the so-called abyss doesn't seem to be a threat to Roger now.
Because the second concept put forward by Li Li is the problem of difference in ability.
Take the previous World Realm as an example, although there are various tactical techniques that are slightly ahead of the times, but on the whole, the technological level of the plane itself, and other aspects, theoretically there is not much difference from the primordial world of Silver Martial Arts. If you look at the 21st century level, it's pretty much the same.
And Roger and Chen Yi's enhanced skills, one from the Gundam G plane and the other from the Ultraman Nexus plane, are much more advanced than the 21st century no matter how you look at them, so they have to wait five years before they can start the main story, which is a theoretical weakening balance setting - although I don't know what the meaning of the balance itself is.
And Li Li's previous enhancement came from the MF World Realm, which was higher than Roger and the others, and he had experienced more mission planes than the two of them, so he had been in the mission plane for a longer time than both of them. But on the other hand, considering the actual development of the mission plane, although the G element research or the 00 unit development and the like, it is needless to say that the degree of catching up is very high, so the gap between the two batches of reincarnators is about more than a year.
According to the simplest proportional function image, you can also vaguely understand it - of course, more complex logarithms or function images involving high numbers are not impossible, but as usual, it is just out of Roger's comprehension ability - then if you calculate it the other way, because the energy of the Great Sword World Realm itself is too low, even if Li Li and Roger waste thousands of years of time in vain, they may not be able to truly balance.
In the case of a large gap in strength, there seems to be no essential difference between driving the Macross Fortress and crushing the greatsword or driving the Demon Gundam to crush the greatsword. Therefore, let the reincarnator solve the problem of surviving for a thousand years on his own, which can be regarded as a little more difficult.
"But even if that were to say, I still didn't quite understand what we needed to accomplish in this plane."
Roger thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to tell the truth.
Therefore, Li Li gave the most difficult explanation, that is, the problem of the main line control of the task plane.
Continuing to take the previous mission plane as an example, although Roger and Chen Yi have changed a lot in terms of specific details, judging from the fact that Bai Yinwu did not find any difference when he crossed at first glance, the reincarnators have maintained the normal progress of the main story line of the plane to a certain extent.
The Gwangju Battle, the two prompts in the Star Battle, also seem to indicate this, and most of these are actually within Li Li's calculations. After all, whether it is an ordinary crossing or an infinite flow of worlds, the mastery of the plot can always be attributed to the advantages of the reincarnation.
This is not to say that you can be invincible if you are familiar with the plot, and anyone with a slightly normal IQ can understand how much change the "plot" will be brought to the "plot by the mere existence of a traverser or reincarnation" through the "butterfly effect" at the civil level. If you don't make any changes from start to finish, you're obviously not going to be able to complete half of the task. But if you change it indiscriminately in order to brush up the score or even directly cause the plane plot to collapse, the consequences are actually clear to everyone......
In short, in the last mission of the World Realm, the three reincarnators were considered to have passed the risk, and they also paid the heavy price of Chen Yi being directly hit by the G bomb in the middle. And what about the current Great Sword World Realm?
The time of a thousand years is not short, but it is not long, at least now the organization will always start to build on a "small island" far away from the war continent. Or even further along, the war between the country to which the organization belongs and the kingdom of the dragon is about to start, right? Even if there is no fighting, these two countries should always appear, right? Even if it doesn't appear, the dragon ......
This series of "evens" made Roger a little dizzy, but he finally figured out that if he wanted to get the most benefit from the main line of the mission plane as much as possible, he must first make sure that he was next to the main line. Another important problem is that the reincarnation will theoretically always appear near the protagonist.
This means that—
"Let's go find the dragon first."
That's right, that's how Li sums it up.
Although the organization in the big sword is not a good thing at first glance, the dragon kingdom is also a strange existence of the same level.
The entire Great Sword Plane is a standard low-martial low-demon plane when measured by popular standards. In this plane, if civilization remains at the level of the European Middle Ages for a long time, or even lower, there must be serious problems on both sides of the war, no matter how you look at it.
Considering that there may be some kind of forced partnership with the organization in the future, let's first investigate the Dragon Nation, which has become an "enemy enemy" by default.
But it's easy to say, and Roger always feels very suspenseful in terms of specific implementation. The endless wilderness is nothing, but you have to decide where to go, right? It is not impossible to go to the dragon and end up going deep into the hinterland of the tissue......
……
"Before you worry about this, Li Li has already sent the flying machine out of the city."
Every time DG's disdain is always so accurate and timely.
Although Roger didn't understand what a flying machine was at first, and probably because the previous mission plane was too brainwashed by the light blockade, he didn't think about high-altitude reconnaissance at all from the beginning.
Although he has thought about satellites and the like, who knows whether the composition of the world is based on the planetary system, and if there is a flat continent from beginning to end, wouldn't it be pure stupid to use satellites? What's more, the difficulty of launching a satellite is too high, and I don't know how long it will take to farm and climb a technology tree when I have nothing......
So someone has to admit that the trick of flying machines is really practical.
Li Li's side has all kinds of reconnaissance machine drawings from the previous mission plane to the MF world at his fingertips, with the transformation ability of DG, as well as the primary application skills of the G element obtained from BETA, and when Roger was still listening carefully, there were already a dozen reconnaissance equipment sent out. By the time Roger had really made up his mind, the nearest villages had been clearly marked on the electronic map that Li Li had just taken out.
As if playing some real-time strategy game shrouded in the dark curtain of war, with the gradual spread of reconnaissance aircraft, a large number of unknowns on the electronic map have now initially revealed a certain appearance of the plane.
"It is indeed in the style of the Middle Ages, and it seems that it is not much different from the original book after a thousand years, and the level of development of the productive forces is low enough."
"None of the reconnaissance planes have found any large human gathering points similar to the original 'Holy City'. So either those cities haven't been built yet, or we're not on that island, which is a good thing in theory. ”
Is it really a good thing? If we weren't on the island where the story took place, how would we find the experimental base in the future?
Roger didn't ask this sentence, because it was a thousand years or I don't know how long it would be after that. I'm afraid I don't have to wait for Gunya to be born, but if it is indeed a normal planet under my feet, the GPS will not know how long it will be on the road, and I may still be able to send text messages at that time......
"If we do happen to be in the Land of Dragons, and the timeline is not very different from what I expected, we will soon be able to see the Dragon ......"
Li Li's sentence was not finished, because at a certain location on the electronic map in front of the two of them, a large number of red light spots instantly appeared.
And eye-catching,
CODE991。
“CODE991?! How can it be?! ”
Why does it appear in this mission plane?! Li Li, you probably didn't get the wrong electronic map!
Roger didn't even have time to shout this sentence, and the video information transmitted from the direction of the reconnaissance plane destroyed his luck in an instant.
Although the image is not very clear due to the relationship between distance and bandwidth, Roger can recognize it at a glance after five years of habit, and the one in the center of the image at this moment, the behemoth calibrated more than fifty meters away, is clearly a fortress-level BETA.
Wait a minute!
Great sword, demon, purple blood......
Say?!
"Don't be nervous! That kind of thing isn't a BETA. A stark voice from Li Li's side interrupted Roger's thoughts.
But the latter apparently will not be so easily convinced, "No way!" How could it not? Look at the shape of the fortress level, and the key level next to it......"
Li Li did not continue to refute, but Roger's voice unconsciously lowered.
Yes, those alien creatures do look a lot like BETA, but they probably aren't - if they are BETA, with or without tactics, they are usually responsible for guarding the light level whenever there is a stronghold and a strike level, and they themselves are extremely targeted at electronic devices. And judging from the fact that the reconnaissance plane has been shooting in Youzai, not only is there no light-level existence on the ground, but even the BETA, which is considered to be a fortress-level attack level, has not looked up at all.
It turns out that it was just a false alarm?
But that's right, if there is a BETA-level difficulty suddenly in the big sword, then with the current strength of these two reincarnators, I'm afraid they will start the main story at most four years in advance, right?
"I know!"
While Roger was calming down, a rather indecent yelling suddenly came out from Li Li's side.
This time, though, she didn't explain much, and Roger was able to hear it more clearly than before.
To sum it up, it's simple:
The initial task that the two reincarnators have to complete now is
Build an organization.
At present, it is not possible to solve any problems by remote observation alone, and it is certain for the time being that the Dragon Nation as an enemy is not a BETA series, but I am afraid that it will not be able to get rid of it in any way.
Other aspects can be summarized by further detailed investigation, but since the position has been chosen, and the main line of the story has been basically determined, it is better to choose one by yourself from the beginning and build it directly on your own than to find an island on the edge of the continent where you don't know how much the road is.
This may seem like a no-brainer, but all the reincarnations need to do is find the country to which the organization belongs, and then show some of their abilities in order to gain access to an "island".
This can also be analyzed from the image just now - because the location of the large number of beta-like creatures that were captured seemed to be a battlefield in itself, with one side using the BETA and the other side seemingly filling with an ordinary number of humans from beginning to end.
According to the plot of the original Greatsword, this seems to be caused by the fact that there are no biological weapons that can fight against dragons in the organization country. Although I don't know how this problem was solved in the original book of Lu Dao, but now that the reincarnators are here, why not let Roger and DG pretend to be it?
The combat ability of those fortress-level attack levels in the image is also obviously weaker than that in the previous mission plane, I don't know how much there is to be done, not to mention tactical machines, killing a few ordinary people seems to be quite muddy. The only thing that's commendable is that this group of guys uses a lot of them even in skirmishes, and the Stronghold level looks like there are more than the Strike tier......
So there is no need to say anything next, first quietly and moderately study the customs and customs of this continent, and then pretend to be a hermit master to find the country of the organization, let Li Li fool, let Roger work hard, and all major events can be determined~~
Theoretically, right?