Chapter 32: The Balance of the City (I)
"You'd better stop letting him run around, there's robots everywhere. Marcus said.
"Yes sir, thank you very much for the reminder. Shen Yi nodded to Marcus with a sincere expression, and he pointed at Xi Xiaofan: "If you don't mind......
"Of course. Marcus gentlemanly stepped back.
Shen Yi hurriedly came to Xi Xiaofan's side, squatted down and said to him, "Xiaofan, go back with my brother." ”
Xi Xiaofan just tilted his head and looked at the sky above his head.
His eyes were hollow, as if he were dead.
Shen Yi stepped forward and grabbed Xi Xiaofan's arm and hugged him, Xi Xiaofan jumped up like a cat with its tail stepped on, desperately twisting his body and shouting: "Mom...... Father...... Mom...... Daddy!"
The shout was terrible, and the tone was sharp, and the stabbing people were shocked in their hearts.
Shen Yi shouted: "Okay, okay, be quiet, I'll take you to meet your parents, okay? ”
"Go home...... ...... home."
"If you can be quiet, I'll take you home!"
Xi Xiaofan finally stopped moving.
Shen Yi walked back with him in his hands.
When he came to Zhou Yiyu and King Kong, he put Xi Xiaofan down, and the young man stood in a daze, without the slightest expression.
He was still muttering, "Go home......"
This made King Kong sigh, and he touched the boy's head and said in the most relaxed tone possible, "Hey, don't worry, when this mission is completed, we will take you home." ”
"That'...... No...... Home ......" Xi Xiaofan's sluggish voice floated like a ghost.
King Kong's heart shook.
He looked at Shen Yi, and Shen Yi was expressionless.
yes, that's not home!
No matter how good and safe Bloody City is, it's not home!
Maybe in this life, they won't be able to return home.
Shen Yi looked back at Marcus in the distance, Kylereth and the stars on the roof of the building had come down, standing behind Marcus, and the three of them looked at this side together.
After thinking about it, Shen Yi took out some food from the blood coat of arms and sent it to King Kong: "Give this to them." ”
King Kong strode over with the food and handed it to Marcus.
Kyle's two children were obviously hungry, and they quickly took over the food when they saw it.
"You don't look like you're being hunted down. Seeing the food, and then seeing the clothes on them, Marcus suddenly felt that something was wrong.
The food was nice, with fine dim sum from China, foie gras and caviar from France, and some canned meat. It was impossible for Marcus to eat them all before he fell asleep - he was a convict in a federal prison in the United States before he was transformed into a cyborg, was executed, and agreed to give his body to a scientific institute for study...... It wasn't the end of the world yet.
And now standing in front of him stood the four men, each dressed in clean and neat clothes, although there were some traces of dust, but the clothes were new, and each of them was very well dressed, even the autistic boy was wearing a clean white shirt, plus a black coat - it was not easy to find a fitting dress these days.
Even though Shen Yi's lies were perfectly woven, he still needed to explain why they could maintain such a life in this desperately chaotic era.
Just a few minutes ago, Marcus had been eating the meat of a wolf cub that had just been born for two days.
Shen Yi walked over quickly: "We stumbled upon a basement when we were running away from the Terminator. It was full of food and all kinds of household items, as well as guns, paper and weapons, many of which were unused. He who possesses it dies, dies of disease...... He didn't stock up on medicines for himself. So we took some of it and continued on our way. ”
"Is that basement far from here?" asked Kyleris.
"Far away, we've had several of our friends dead along the way. ”
This answer greatly discouraged young Kyle.
"Where are you going?" asked Marcus.
Shen Yi smiled: "Sir, I am very grateful to you for saving my brother's life, but I am not your prisoner and have no obligation to answer all your questions." As a thank you for saving people, I left you some food and ...... I think it's time for us to leave. ”
"Don't get me wrong!" Kyle shouted, "We just want to find the Resistance, to John Connor." He will lead us against the machine. Are you going to the Resistance?"
Shen Yi looked at the expectant expression on young Kyle's face, and he shook his head, "No, we're not going to find the Resistance. We're just wandering around, fleeing, hiding from the machines. I guess we're not on the same path. ”
"You can't hide from them forever, we have to stand up and fight!" Kyle yelled.
As the father of the "Future" of the human leader John Connor, Kyle Jr. shows his quite courageous side.
When Kyle Rees said this, the bloody crest on Shen Yi's hand suddenly sounded.
"Trigger the story mission: Kelris's invitation to protect the lives of Marcus and Kyleris. Marcus dies, deducting 2,000 blood points. Kylerees dies, deducting 3,000 blood points. Lack of bloody spots, obliteration. No coercive action may be taken against Kyleth and Marcus during the mission, otherwise Gorse points will be deducted according to the degree of coercion. This task is a collective task, which is accepted by one person and undertaken by all employees. Yes/No. ”
Shen Yi was stunned and looked back, only to see that Zhou Yiyu King Kong was also looking at the bloody emblem on his wrist, obviously receiving the same instructions.
In an instant, a thought suddenly flashed in Shen Yi's mind, he grabbed King Kong beside him, held his hand, and shouted at Zhou Yiyu at the same time: "Don't accept it!"
At this time, Zhou Yiyu's hand had already pressed to his bloody crest, and his expression was very excited, obviously happy that he had suddenly obtained the plot task.
Shen Yi couldn't care about everything anymore, the spirit fire gun in his hand suddenly appeared, and a shot was hitting Zhou Yiyu's side, he was so frightened that he rolled on the spot to dodge, and then found out that it was Shen Yi's gun, and shouted angrily: "What are you doing?"
Shen Yi strode over, grabbed Zhou Yiyu and shouted, "Don't accept this task!"
At the same time, he looked at Xi Xiaofan, only to see that he was still looking at the sky in a daze, and did not respond to the hint on the coat of arms, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Why? This is a rare hidden mission! We can get a lot of rewards. Zhou Yiyu shook off Shen Yi's hand and shouted.
"Failure is even more troublesome, can you afford to lose five thousand points?"
"We won't fail, with me, no terminator can catch up with us!" Zhou Yiyu said angrily.
Shen Yi shook his head: "You still don't understand, this may be the reason why we will receive this mission." ”
"What did you say?" Zhou Yiyu was stunned.
"I said there was something wrong with this mission! Don't you think it's strange? Why did it happen so coincidentally, Marcus didn't show up sooner or later, but here, at this time? The time, the place, the appearance was too coincidental. You know, the plot is not the main line of our mission!"
"We participated in the plot of Terminator 2018. Zhou Yiyu replied in a low voice, Marcus and the others in the distance were stunned by what they saw, obviously unable to figure out what was going on.
Shen Yi's shot had completely exposed his own lies.
However, Shen Yi couldn't care about it so much, he didn't want to say angrily: "Then why is it just us and not others? Marcus and Kylerees' meeting place can be anywhere in Los Angeles, why is it here? in our vicinity? At this critical moment?"
Zhou Yiyu froze, and he finally realized that something was wrong: "Are you saying that this is not a coincidence, but a deliberate arrangement by the city? This mission has a trap?"
"Yes!"
"Why?"
The answer to the question of why is complicated. But first I want to ask you a question, according to what we know, the difficulty of the missions in the Bloody City is increased according to the region, and only after crossing an area will we encounter a significant increase in the difficulty of the mission, right?"
"Yes, the difficulty of the tasks in the same difficulty area is about the same. ”
"That is to say, because adventurers improve their strength every time they experience the mission world. So as long as we improve fast enough, our strength can completely exceed the difficulty of the mission, right? If this is the case, we can only face strong dangers when we enter a new difficulty area, and when we go to the last mission in that area, it may be very easy, and under normal circumstances, the task in the same difficulty area should be better and better to complete, right?"
“...... Theoretically, yes. ”
"Then the question arises, why have I never heard an adventurer say that the last mission in a fixed difficulty area was so easy?
Zhou Yiyu scratched his scalp: "No, but so what? What does this have to do with our current task?"
"Absolutely. Shen Yi replied very seriously: "I have always been committed to the study of Bloody City, I am not interested in why it exists, but I am very interested in its work habits." The first time I did a full-fledged mission, it was a team mission, and our opponents were just ordinary German soldiers, but our mission was to defend the bridge, which meant we didn't have any room for manoeuvre! In fact, most of the adventurers who survived that mission had never even seen what Magneto was like! And this time our mission was to escape, and our mission was only to stay alive, because our opponents were a steady stream of robots! Haven't you noticed yet? In these three missions, all the world difficulties themselves are very different! The World War II world is not qualified to be compared with the world of the Terminator and the world of the X-Men. So why are they put in the same difficulty zone?"
"Because of the mission mode, the world is balanced in difficulty?"
"That's right!" Shen Yi shouted: "Bloody City has been adjusting the difficulty of the mission, but not through the difficulty of the world itself, but through the mission mode to balance, it makes an area of about the same difficulty. That's why even if we grow again and again, we don't feel how easy the task is...... When we were in the carrier, we have already confirmed one thing, that is, when the situation changes, the bloody city will definitely step in, and now we know that it intervenes for only one purpose - to create balance! From this point of view, if a few adventurers can easily complete the mission, it is very likely to cause some additional problems for such adventurers, and of course, it gives this practice a very nice name: extra mission!"
"Hell......" Zhou Yiyu and King Kong called out at the same time.