Chapter 31: The Price
Taking Sarah back to the slum and standing outside the woman's house, Shen Yi thought about it, and suddenly turned around and said, "You are waiting outside." β
Then he went into the house by himself.
The tattooed woman was already waiting for him
Seeing Shen Yi coming, the woman threw a box into Shen Yi's hand: "The goods you want are here, where is my money?"
Shen Yi opened it to see, the sample was fine, and he also threw out a box: "The money is inside, let's order it." β
The woman looked at the money in the box and smiled with satisfaction: "There's no need for that...... I think since you have 160,000, you will have more money, right?"
I saw that behind the woman, there were three sturdy men with dragon and tiger tattoos, fat and round bodies.
They walked towards Shen Yi, and the bald guy led by him shouted: "Put down the goods, take out all your money, if you know each other, you can still keep your two legs." β
Shen Yi looked at the woman: "It seems that you are not too satisfied with the price I offered." β
"Just want more. The woman let out a hoarse and ugly laugh.
"Since you're going to get the goods back, I don't think you need to do anything with the goods anymore, do you?"
"Of course. The woman said triumphantly.
"That's good. β
As if hearing movement, Sarah exclaimed, "What's going on?"
Shen Yi replied: "It's nothing, it's just that there are some details of the transaction that need to be discussed again." β
As he spoke, he closed the door softly.
Then Sarah heard a faint, thin cord sound, like a sharp blade slapping flesh, but it was not noticeable.
Immediately afterward, a terrible scream suddenly came out of the house, and came to an abrupt halt, as if something had choked the throat, causing the sound to be only half made and then disappear.
Sarah was startled and instinctively took a step back.
Then she saw the door open.
Shen Yi walked out of the door slowly and methodically, and gently closed the door.
"What did you do with them?" asked Sarah, frightened.
"Nothing, just a friendly consultation, an exchange of views on the basis of respect for both sides, and agreement on some aspects ......"
Sarah opened her mouth: "This ...... That sounds like an official. β
Shen Yi has come to Sarah's side: "Then let me put it simply, they think that I am a big customer and it is necessary to give me a certain discount, so they decided to reduce the original 160,000 US dollars." β
"How much?"
"Sixteen dollars. β
"It doesn't sound like much. β
"Pay the numbers. β
He didn't explain more, but directly stuffed a mask to Sarah: "Let's go, put this on, and change your clothes, so that those guys won't be able to find us for the time being, even if they use satellites." β
Sarah could only follow Shen Yi away.
Behind him, a large amount of blood flowed from the small door......
On the way back, Sarah was silent.
After walking for nearly twenty minutes, Sarah finally spoke: "They ......"
"Yes, I killed them. Shen Yi replied: "Because they want to rob me of my money." β
Sarah bit her lower lip, "I guessed, but it's not a capital offense." β
"I'm not a judge either. Shen Yi said leisurely: "I could have avoided killing them, but considering that woman is the maker of the mask, she may betray us to the authorities, so I think it is more appropriate to kill them." β
"But you are the guardian of the righteous dragon! shouldn't the Heavenly Court exist to protect mankind?"
"Do you really believe this?" Shen Yi looked at Sarah with a teasing gaze: "Exist to protect human beings?
Sarah looked at Shen Yi in a daze, and Shen Yi had already shook her head: "Don't be naΓ―ve, Miss Sarah." The protection of the strong against the weak comes from pity and sympathy, but never from responsibility. Yet some people have compassion, some don't. As for me, my compassion and sympathy only work without affecting my survival. Save people, I'd love to, be a good person, I'm happy too. But sacrificing oneself to save others...... Sorry, I'm not that noble. β
Looking at Sarah's wordless bitterness, Shen Yi smiled: "But at least you have changed my previous impression of you, and it can be seen that you have a good heart." Although I am not a good person myself, I still know how to respect people with good hearts. β
Sarah looked up at Shen Yi: "Then what was your impression of me before?"
"You want to hear the truth?"
"Of course. β
"Stupid, incompetent, self-righteous, and a little bit willful and ......" Seeing that Sarah's face had turned iron-blue, Shen Yi changed his words in time: "And kindness, you are a kind girl." β
"I'm not interested in your flattery at all!" said Sarah, already puffing forward.
Shen Yi smiled helplessly and shouted at Sarah: "If you are unhappy about this, I can apologize to you for what I just said!"
"I'm not interested in your false apologies!"
"Then how about a gift for you?" Shen Yi said suddenly.
Gift?
Sarah Daniel turned to look at Shen Yi, who had already taken out a necklace and came to her.
He put the necklace around Sarah's neck: "A small gift, I apologize, I hope you can accept it." β
Sarah looked at Shen Yi in surprise.
She had the impression that necklaces were such items that only lovers would give to her, but now, this hateful bastard who did dirty things in the name of justice actually gave herself a necklace?
As if seeing what Sarah was thinking, Shen Yi smiled: "Don't be so surprised, it's just a little bit of heart from a friend, let's go, it's time to go back, they're still waiting for us." Hopefully, these masks will allow us to spend even a day of peace. β
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"I lost them. Cage sighed and gave up on the attempt altogether.
Hercules sat on the couch, his face still calm: "Do you know where they last are?"
"The suburbs of Los Angeles. However, due to yesterday's fighting, there was a signal blind spot in that area, so it did not follow in time. By the time I had solved the problem, I had completely lost their whereabouts, but I was sure that they were not far from there. β
"Where's the police station?"
"They couldn't find anyone either. β
Hercules pondered for a moment: "They must have adopted some kind of camouflage trick...... There are always many ways for adventurers to disguise themselves. β
"And what now?" Claudia was a little irritated.
After chasing and killing the Broken Blade Team for a day, in vain, Shen Yi took the opportunity to attack and kill Adolf, which was quite bad for Claudia.
As if to see Claudia's uneasiness, Hercules whispered, "You're in a hurry, Claudia." Yes, yesterday we suffered a small loss at the expense of one member. But Claudia, let's not forget that we are still on the side of the advantage. From the very beginning, the family did not expect to be able to deal with this guy at a lossless price...... If just paying a few lives can make us see the horror of the other side, it will be worth it. At least until we arrived, many of you still didn't take your opponents to heart, thinking that you could crush them with absolute strength, but now you should know how to learn your lesson. β
You're the one who didn't have your opponent in mind, Hercules. Cage said something in his heart, but he also knew that Hercules had to find a way to fight no matter who he met, and it had nothing to do with whether he valued his opponent or not.
Claudia replied angrily: "If this is the lesson we paid for with a human life, then I would rather not, I don't think it will do much." β
"Not necessarily. Hercules suddenly laughed and said, "When you find that your enemies are so difficult, your expectations will be lowered. If the expectation is lowered, some necessary losses will be willing to pay, and of course the means can be taken......"
"What do you mean by that?" Gvart was puzzled.
Hercules replied: "It means that if we are willing to pay the price, we still have a chance to inflict heavy damage on our opponents." β
He snapped his fingers: "For example...... Kill Sarah Daniel. β
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked at the same time.
Ulrik Borman shouted, "Hercules, are you crazy? Our mission is to snatch Sarah Daniel, not kill her." What are we going to do if we kill her? Will the mission continue?"
"Absolutely. Hercules replied: "At best, it is just the loss of the reward of the first main story, but the Dragon Ball will still take shape, the second mission and optional mission will still continue, and the city will never give a mission that may give up halfway, and even if there is, it will correct the mission back to the original track through timely modification." β
Hercules is very sure that killing Sarah will not affect the development of the plot, and the Dane family's years of intelligence gathering have already taught him the way of doing things in the city and the consistent principles.
"But we're going to lose the rewards of the first main story ourselves. Cage exclaimed.
"Yes. Hercules nodded, "But we just lose the reward, and the opponent will deduct the points." I don't know if Shen Yi and the others have prepared enough fines, but it is certain that without the reward points of the first main line, they will not be able to get out easily, that is, they must complete the second main line quest. And that's exactly what I was looking forward to. β
Claudia somewhat understood: "The first main line is to protect Sarah, which allows the Broken Blade team to take her into hiding. However, the second main quest requires Imoji to obtain the Dragon Ball, and this quest requires a head-on battle, and they will no longer have room to maneuver. In this way, we have a chance to play to our positive advantage, unless they are going to give up even the second task, in which case they will have to go through two deductions...... They couldn't have prepared so many points. β
That's what Hercules means.
When you really recognize the terrible nature of your opponent, sometimes you have to pay some price if you want to choose to defeat your opponent.
Killing Sarah Daniel, fighting not to reward herself, but also to let Shen Yi fail their mission is the "price" that Hercules refers to.
If they had planned to do so at the beginning, then when Hercules met Shen Yi for the first time, he could kill Sarah Daniel, and at that time, Shen Yi would definitely not be able to stop him.
Suffice it to say, Hercules missed one of the best opportunities to sniper Breaker.
It was precisely because of this that he learned from the pain and gave up the idea of destroying the broken blade and completing the task in an all-round way - Shen Yi could take advantage of the task, why couldn't he?
"Understood, but the wanderers probably won't be happy. Claudia said.
"Then tell them that we will compensate for their losses...... They promise as much as they want, and we can be as generous as we can with the dead. β
"So there's one last question...... Now how do we find them?"
Hercules replied leisurely: "There are some things that you can't do yourself, so let those who can do it." Since Shen Yi can use the plot characters, then we can also use them. We can't find Sarah Daniel, doesn't mean ...... The Dragon Legion can't find it either. β
He raised his head and looked at the people in front of him, "It's time to ask our Lord Blaki and its army of dragons to come out, I bet our Lord Blaki must have an extraordinary perception of the existence of the Dragon Ball bearer." β
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Four o'clock in the afternoon.
In the steel plant, King Kong and Zhou Yiyu were still sweating profusely.
They are continuing to tinker with and improve the Extradimensional Killing Array.
Zhou Yiyu is responsible for the forming of the steel, and wherever he fingers, no matter what form of steel it is, it will automatically transform into the shape he needs.
King Kong is responsible for the riveting and assembly, especially the installation of the pulley system, which allows each room to be moved, thus increasing the labyrinth variables.
Zhuang Yu and Bei Ming were busy installing some traps in various rooms, making them full of killing machines.
The whole steel mill became very strange because of this, and there was steel flying everywhere, as if a pair of invisible hands were operating them, spontaneously completing the assembly, assembling and turning countless parts into a whole.
No patterns, no embellishments, every room is glowing with cold metallic primary colors, the design is rough but simple and practical, if anyone accidentally walks into the wrong room, it will be waiting for all kinds of sinister and vicious mechanisms.
"Alright! start moving!" King Kong beckoned upward.
Gently activated the mechanism, and the various rooms of the killing array began to move regularly along the tracks, and the fat man carefully observed the movement of each room, and then shouted, "I feel that the track of room 12 seems to be a little problematic, boss." β
Shen Yi had already jumped to room 12 and activated the activation ability on that room, and he didn't care what the problem was, once activated, all hidden dangers would be automatically solved.
"OK, it's done!" everyone cheered excitedly at the same time as the fat man announced.
"That's good?" said Akai wandering around in disbelief. It only took a few of them less than two days to completely complete this extradimensional killing array, and it really looked like a dream.
Shen Yi jumped down from it, wiped his hands and said, "It can only be said that the basic work is fully done, and in fact, many external facilities can be added." This killing array also needs a central control system, which can operate on its own according to the law, so as to avoid the need for manual operation. β
"How to deal with the CNC program?"
"No, you don't. Shen Yi shook the handheld computer in his hand: "Zeus can do it for you." However, it can only solve the problem of CNC itself, due to the poor facilities, some places still need to be operated by human hands, which is also a headache for me...... There are so few of us. β
"Let me do it. Sarah said suddenly.
"You?" Shen Yi was a little surprised.
"Of course. Sarah shrugged: "I have mastered all the operations, you are protecting me, and I should contribute my part." β
Shen Yi thought for a while, nodded and said, "No problem, Ethan, you and Miss Sarah are responsible for the security of the entire central control system, is there a problem?"
"I'll do my best. Ethan replied.
"Zhuang Yu, add a protective array to the underground control center and tell them how to use it. Honglang, you go and put the four Terminators in there, responsible for protecting Sarah and Ethan. β
Then Shen Yi took out a few weapons from the coat of arms, all of which were ordinary firearms, including a bazooka. Shen Yi handed the weapons to Sarah and Ethan: "Bring these weapons, although these things can bring little damage to those guys, but at least they can make you rely on it and have more courage...... Hopefully you won't need it. β
"I hope so. Sarah smiled and took the weapon.
Shen Yi looked at the time: "OK, rest for half an hour, and then find a place to eat, which is considered a celebration." β
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PS: On the question of language, let me answer, from a personal point of view, it is because I prefer the European and American way of speaking, which is a matter of interest, and has nothing to do with whether I love the country or not. From a story point of view, due to the habits of the earth, coupled with a considerable European and American background, especially American movies, many exchanges between adventurers are also done in English, and it is not surprising that Chinese speak American languages, after all, many languages themselves are related to the language environment. But this is not to say that I can't speak Chinese, friends who have seen my Tianfeng know that I still speak Chinese fluently. If nothing else, I will write Xianxia, and then this language style will change dramatically, and I will never do such a thing as a monk speaking American language.
In the end, this chapter still explains the plot, and I really want to get into the wonderful plot as soon as possible (I think), but it depends on today's state, it's a little stuck, and I don't dare to guarantee whether to add more...... Let's hope for a breakthrough.