Chapter 024: Neel's Trust
After this exchange, Su Hao also learned some of Niel's character.
This woman is too jealous and hateful, and once she encounters injustice, she will fall into great anger, and she will put aside the two things of "reason" and "thinking", not thinking about the cause and effect at all, but acting first and venting her anger first.
This is a character flaw, but Su Hao asked himself, and he had to admit that in today's era of capital prevailing, there are too many "sensible" people, too few "action" and "anger", and no one resists in the face of some obviously unreasonable phenomena.
This also leads to a lot of "unreasonableness", which has subtly become "reasonable" in people's daily life.
Although intellectually, Neil finally agreed with Su Hao's point of view, but from an emotional point of view, Neil still needs time to convince herself to accept this fact.
Neil was drenched in the heavy rain for five minutes, and Su Hao was also with him for five minutes, of course, this also means that his already unhealthy body has further deteriorated during this period.
However, in order to maintain his friendship with Neil, an important plot character, Su Hao decided to accompany her like this and get drenched in the rain.
Finally, Su Hao let out a "wow" and spit out a mouthful of blood, which pulled Neil out of his tangled thoughts.
"Kid, what's wrong with you?" Neil said with a discoloration.
Su Hao smiled, waved his hand, and said:
"It's just a spit of blood, and it's out of the way."
Although Su Hao said that he was fine, the blood between his teeth was completely unconvincing. Neil hurriedly walked up to Su Hao, helped him into the carriage, and then inserted another injection into the vein.
Watching the liquid slowly push into the blood vessels, Su Hao felt that the pain remaining in his body was rapidly weakening, and the rate of blood loss was decreasing even faster. I believe that in another hour, this damn state of "internal injury" will be cleared smoothly.
"Thank you." Su Hao looked at Neil and said.
Su Hao thanked him, but Neil was a little ashamed. She opened the storage box in front of the co-pilot, took out a towel from it, and then like a kind mother, carefully wiped the rain on Su Hao's face, wiped it and said:
"No, kid, it's not supposed to be you saying thank you, it's about saying I'm sorry."
Su Hao shook his head again and said:
"It's okay, Ms. Neil, as long as you calm down, it'll be fine."
Neil looked at Su Hao's sincere gaze, showed a kind smile, and said:
"Child, you don't have to comfort me, it's always my fault when it comes to the right people. Also, thank you for telling me about your experience, thank you very much... You saved my life, so to speak. ”
"But I know that as a demon hunter, a thousand words are not as good as a piece of demon hunting equipment... What can I thank you with? Is it dollars, or demon hunting equipment? ”
At this moment, the Nightmare Mark came with a prompt:
"You have successfully informed Unell of the news, and the bronze side quest [Rescue] has been completed."
You can choose the following:
"1. Ask for a reward from Neil, and Neil will randomly give you a white-purple quality demon hunting equipment (which can be carried out of this world), and some common currency of the current scene (USD, which can be exchanged for universal points), and the quality and amount of dollars of the gifted equipment depend on your and Neil's favorability.
If you choose this option, you'll also miss out on your chance to build a friendship with Neil. ”
"2. By refusing to ask for payment from Neil, you will strengthen your friendship with Neil, and your friendship will increase, which will be affected by Charisma.
In addition, based on that choice and your current situation, you have a chance to trigger the corresponding spin-off, depending on your friendship with Neil. ”
After Su Hao quickly skimmed through the hints given by the Nightmare Mark, he thought for a moment and suddenly burst into a bright smile.
"What are you laughing at?" Neil was confused by Su Hao's sudden smile.
Su Hao restrained his smile, rolled down the window, and then spit out a mouthful of saliva with a "tui" sound, and said in the same tone as Neil:
"Remember, even in the age of economic globalization, I wouldn't use the damn dollar to measure friendship in gold!"
When Neil heard this, she was silent for a long time, and then suddenly burst out laughing, and she said as she laughed:
"I'm sorry, child, it was me who was wrong, I saw you wrong, I shouldn't measure your nobility and sincerity with a mean heart!"
Just as Neil laughed, Su Hao once again got the hint of the Nightmare Mark:
"You rejected Neil's offer, and you succeeded in cementing your friendship with Neil. So, based on your charisma, you gain Neil's favor and your friendliness increases. ”
"Neil's friendliness to you right now is: trust."
"Please note that you will trigger a branching story later. Every choice, word and deed, and even your eye gestures will affect the direction of the plot! ”
Looking at the green hot friendliness, Su Hao was a little dizzy for a while.
Trust! It turned out to be trust! My friendship with her has been elevated to trust!
It's no wonder that Su Hao reacted like this, after all, the improvement of friendship is by no means a simple matter, and Su Hao was able to reach a relationship of trust with Neil in just two days, which is really a bit dreamy.
Maybe you think I'm exaggerating, so let's use an analogy:
Assuming that friendliness rises from neutral to friendly, the effort required to quantify it is a numerical value, which may only take 10.
Then to go from friendly to respectful, it takes 30.
And to go from respect to trust, it takes a full 100!
Now the friendship between Neil and Su Hao has risen to trust, so it can be said that Neil has regarded Su Hao as his own!
Correspondingly, Su Hao also unlocked a lot of interactions with Neil, such as buying high-grade equipment, searching for clues, accepting side quests, and even as long as Su Hao opened his mouth, she could assist Su Hao in a battle!
Of course, general requests, such as a phone call, a pick-up, Neil is happy to help, but similar to asking for free equipment, asking for free assistance in combat... and so on, although Neil will agree, but afterwards, it will inevitably lose a lot of friendliness.
So, don't take Neil and Su Hao's words too seriously, what friendship can't be measured in dollars, everyone is a smart person, and they all have rods and scales in their hearts. People with a bit of emotional intelligence know what to do to maintain a friendship for a long time.
At the end of the day, talking about money hurts feelings, Cash first!
Of course, there may really be a timely rain in the real world, but in the nightmare space, there is no room for a wronged person who is allowed to exploit benefits. Even though Neil is kind and easy to get liked, she can't go against the laws of nightmare space.
Yes, equivalent exchange, this is Su Hao's adventure so far, the most profound understanding of the nightmare space.
Finally, someone must ask, can the contractor break through the boundaries of friendliness and directly recruit plot characters?
The answer is yes!
The Nightmare Mark vaguely reveals that if the friendship with certain plot characters is raised to a certain level, if some harsh conditions are met, they can even be directly recruited to become their followers!
Neil put the red-painted Winchester M1887 shotgun back in its original position, then beckoned to Su Hao and said:
"Child, your clothes are wet, take shelter from the rain in my shop."
Neil warmly invited, Su Hao of course agreed, and the two got out of the car and stood under the eaves. Neil pulled the roller shutter door up, then flicked the roulette combination lock and entered a string of numbers, before pushing open the thick bulletproof glass door to reveal the two Western-style chest flap loose-leaf doors.
The two entered the shop, and for some reason, Neil suddenly closed her eyes. She seemed to smell something, and her strong nose fluttered, and then she took a deep breath, an expression of intoxication on her face, like a bee smelling a flower.
"What's going on? This taste... This is the purest demonic power... And the blood is noble... There is the breath of a demonic nobleman... Really... It's wonderful! ”
Neil couldn't help but sigh, her face ruddy, her expression intoxicated, like an old smoker sipping the finest Havana cigar.
Slowly, she locked the source of the smell on Su Hao, and her nose stopped at a distance of 10 centimeters from Su Hao's chest, and then stopped.
And when she opened her eyes to see who the guy who exuded this great taste was, she couldn't help but be surprised.
Hell, it's this kid!
What really happened to you? Why does it smell of demonic power? Are you hiding something, could it be that you made a deal with the devil? Or is there something unspeakable?
Seeing Neil's intoxicated expression transform into seriousness at the speed of the naked eye, Su Hao couldn't help but be stunned, and then contacted her previous actions, confused, and couldn't help asking:
"What's wrong?"
Neil pointed to Su Hao's right arm and asked solemnly:
"Here... How can there be demonic powers? What happened to you? ”
Su Hao looked at Neil's serious but complicated expression mixed with concern, and didn't know how to answer for a while. But then it occurred to him that something had broken through the shackles of the scroll as it melted, burrowed into the palm of his hand, and wriggled all the way to occupy his right arm.
After that, the Nightmare Mark reminded itself that the fusion was successful.
And just now, when Neil was searching for the source of the smell, the location he locked was also his right arm.
In this way, his right arm is where the demon's right arm really stays.