Chapter 18: Encirclement

The two of them walked around the garbage mountain but did not find a way up, and it is estimated that this disposal site never thought that one day it would be able to transport garbage out of the mountain, and the idea was to directly landfill it.

"I guess this is the hole that the Spider Ant Queen dug when she got into it." Su Jing didn't look at the road when he walked, and he stepped on the air and almost fell into a big hole. The excavated foundation section and the lower layer of ice and snow rock layers can be seen below, and Su Jing made up for the countless worker ants to dig through the obstacle more than ten meters thick, and couldn't help but feel a little chilly.

"Wait, how did these worker ants get out of the dump?" Gage asks questions.

The two of them approached the nearby wall to take a closer look, and found that there were many puncture marks on the wall with claws.

If this problem is solved, the problem of how to go back is solved. The two of them can play a rock climb and climb all the way up these holes.

"I don't need to go through that much trouble." Gai Qi pulled out a wrench from the mezzanine of the manipulator and jumped straight down from the spider ant hole, "The purple slag below is not very dense, and it is quite clean." I'm going to fix the death trap here, clean up the contaminants that have accumulated in the engine, and I'll be able to fly it back with us...... Hey? There's a good thing here. ”

Listening to the distance of the sound transmission, this hole is not very deep, Su Jing held the newly arrived Harold in his hand and jumped down.

There is indeed a cave under the garbage cave, and this passage was dug extremely wide in order to accommodate the giant body of the Spider Ant Queen. As soon as Su Jing landed, he was stepping on frozen ice under his feet and almost slipped. Not far ahead, there is a huge ice cave, which is supposed to be the place where the spider ant queen was frozen.

Gage is holding a portable flashlight to shine on several frozen corpses, looking at the costumes that should be former adventurers.

The frozen tundra geology changes rapidly, with frequent earthquakes or terrain modifications, and if you count the time when the refinery was built, the adventurers here may have been the first to arrive on the planet Pandora. Gage smashed the ice on the bones with a hammer, and searched carefully, and even the ECHO that everyone must have now, also confirmed this speculation from the side.

Su Jing left the demon hunting insect on it and continued to suck the blood of the ant queen, without the demon hunting insect by his side at the moment, he could only use the naked eye to identify the equipment left by these adventurers.

"Wow – this is the classic failure of Atlas's previous generation: the Chimera. Atlas's Legendary Collection firearms, I've only seen one in Lilith's collection. Now because Atlas has completely withdrawn from Pandora, it can no longer be bought...... I just don't know if I can still fire after I've been frozen for so long......"

Gage was more familiar with these firearms than Su Jing, and recognized the origin from the paint of one of the pistols. After cleaning the chamber with his side-worn tool, he replaced it with a cartridge of pistol bullets and fired two shots at the wall.

The first bullet flashed with electric light, and the second bullet was replaced with flames.

"It really works! And it's really a legendary random attribute effect!! It is said that when I made this gun, I wanted to make a weapon that could switch elemental attributes at will, but I only made this half-finished product......" Gage happily turned the pistol on his finger, "How?" Do you want to trade your Harold for me? ”

"Okay." Su Jing handed Harold to her.

".................." Gai Qi stopped talking, the difference in value between card-based equipment and non-card-based equipment is so big that everyone can calculate it.

"Uh...... Su Jing ...... Are you trying to soak me? ”

“…… Why do you think so?! ”

"Otherwise, why would you be so good to me! I warn you not to mess around! I'm 3 star! You can't beat me if it's really hard! I'll punch you to the refuge!! ”

"Hey...... I think you must have a big misunderstanding of my moral character......"

"Your moral character...... As soon as I saw the look on your face when you talked about little Tina's eyes that day, I knew that you were a lover of young girls who were morally depraved and had no shame! ”

"Enough! You, a seventeen-year-old girl, are already old! Just think I want to soak you! Bring the Chimera here, I don't want to use a violent gun like Harold, which has no aesthetic sense!! ”

"Here you go! I want to solemnly warn you, a mere Harold can't knock a girl's heart! ”

I don't really like it, do I...... Su Jing thought while holding a screwdriver to remove the screws.

In the past few days of teaming up with Gage, I have always been moved in my heart. It's like ...... The characters I see in comics and games are so touched that I stand in front of me and talk to myself.

The character you love can stand with you, talk to her, interact with her, and help each other...... There's a dreamlike unreality. Just being able to get this mood made me feel that it was really worth the risk in this world, so I ...... I can't help but help her.

Looking at Gai Qi's side face focused on the death mechanism, Su Jing couldn't help but reach out and touch it to confirm that he was not dreaming.

“……………… If you move my face again, I'll shoot your hand with one shot. ”

“…… Gage, I'm asking you something. ”

"Ask."

"How does it feel to know that you're a character in a game?"

Hearing this question, Gage's hand paused, picked up a rag and wiped the oil off his hands.

"By the time you asked the question, I thought you were really taking me for an adventurer. Help me move this board out of the way. ”

Su Jing moved the breastplate of the death mechanism to the side, and then Gage said:

"In the beginning...... I thought it was a little weird, but then I understood. Su Jing, let me ask you a question. ”

"For what you have to answer questions with questions."

"Shut up. You say, am I the same as Gage in the game? ”

"Are you trying to shut me up or do you want me to answer questions?"

“………………”

"Put the wrench down, have something to say, and I'll answer the question. Belch...... There's a little difference. Now you ...... Much more vivid than you in the game. ”

"You see, I just live in this world, I have my own life, and I don't follow the trajectory of the protagonist's life in the game you played. I, and all of us in the Borderlands, we all have our own lives, our own choices...... This is already a complete, real world. But you, Su Jing, how can you be sure that you're not from a game, a movie, or a novel? How do you know that you are not a character in a novel, manipulated by fate and unknowable? ”

"Interesting." Su Jing smiled, "If I am a character in a novel, then I must live a wonderful life enough for all readers to remember me." ”

"Shut up, give me that starter."

It took the unnamed Dragon Suit A and the popular protagonist Gage half an hour in the ice cave to clean all the engines and fuel pipelines of the Death Trap. After replenishing two blocks of high-energy fuel, the reactivated death mechanism carried the two men into the sky, leaving the ice cave and the landfill.

When he went out, Su Jing took the demon hunting worm back by the way.

The body of the demon hunting insect has not changed much, I really can't imagine where the liquid that exceeds its volume is digested by a hundred times, the snow-like background and purple red pattern, this insect is getting more and more beautiful.

According to the hint of the card in his mind, this demon hunting insect has almost advanced to the highest stage of the second star, and the skill of [elementalization] has been completely completed. Once completed, the Demon Hunter will be able to store more elemental energy and switch freely between the energy of the third line, plus the purple dregs, and now the fourth line.

It stands to reason that according to Su Jing's estimate, this demon hunting insect should be able to advance to three stars, why can't it succeed? It can't be because the Spider Ant Queen is not strong enough, not "extraordinary" enough, right?

Maybe more varieties of strong blood are needed...... Su Jing put these questions in the back of his mind and didn't think about him.

The journey back to the ground was smooth all the way, and there was no half-headed spider ant jumping out to make trouble on the road, and Su Jing didn't think much about it. Since the queen ant is dead, the escape of these miscellaneous fish is also the proper meaning of the question.

As evidence that the queen ant had been hunted, its remaining intact eyeball was lying in the bag on Su Jing's back. As an adventurous hunt in the ordinary sense of the word, this short trip is thrilling and rewarding. In one go, I pocketed three orange weapons and 1,000 universal points, and when I went back, I still had 2,500 universal points and two blank props waiting for me...... Su Jing is in a good mood now.

The moment he walked out of the factory door, Su Jing suddenly felt a little dazzled, half because he had stayed underground for too long and was a little uncomfortable with the twilight sunset that was about to set, and the other half was because there were more than a dozen long and short guns facing him.

"Go back!"

Gai Qi had just poked out half of his head when he was pressed back by Su Jing, and was about to ask, when a rainstorm of gunfire rang out, and the shield on Su Jing's body rippled with light waves, and the brightness dropped by more than half in just a few seconds.

The two of them ran into the depths of the factory as if they were fleeing for their lives, firing a few shots behind them from time to time to stop the pursuers.

"Damn! What's going on!! Su Jing pulled Gai Qi all the way to the ammunition storage room where he had come before, and put the smashed door on top of the box, and the two looked at each other.

"Yes...... Nezumi. Gage listened to the noisy squeaks outside, covered her face and said, "We're too unlucky, we just finished cleaning up the spider ants here, and we ran into the rat people who came up to rob us......"

Su Jing connected to Serena's correspondence.

"Miss Serena! Why are we going to be blocked by a bunch of rat people? ”

[What? You haven't come out of the factory yet? 】

Serena's voice sounded more surprised than the two of them.

[Didn't I tell you, don't go and alarm that spider ant queen? I thought you were gone. Then, in order to get rid of the spider ants, we used a satellite to drop a lure beacon to the refinery, and used infrasound waves to lure the nezumi here, so that they would lose both...... At least that's what we did at first......]

Su Jing didn't even have the strength to roll his eyes.

[You let me take a look at it with a satellite...... Belch...... Now there's good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear? 】

"Good news."

[The good news is that the beacon has been broken and will no longer attract nezumi to come over.] 】

"Where's the bad news?"

[Hmm...... The bad news is ...... There are already more than 300 nezumi gathered here in the refinery, which is probably all the nezumi settlements within a radius of fifty kilometers. 】

Su Jing cut off the communication.