Why run away?

It's a straightforward question.

The opponent is too strong, and there is no hope of victory at all, so he naturally wants to flee!

If you don't run away, will you wait for death?

Andrew shook his head with a bitter face, and said, "My lord, you are powerful, of course you don't care about these, how can a little person like me compare with you?" ”

Su Xia said: "I used to be a small person. ”

"But you're a big shot now."

"I'm also slowly climbing up." Su Xia said seriously, "Escaping is not the solution to the problem, even if you can't fight now, it doesn't mean that you won't be an opponent in the future, you can't hide for a lifetime." ”

"My lord, you really should apply for a motivational lecturer." Andrew said from the bottom of his heart.

"Words are false, but actions are important."

"It's hard......"

"What's so hard?"

Su Xia said firmly: "To put it simply, in fact, there are three steps of 'being beaten', 'becoming stronger', and 'beating back', and one day, you will no longer need to go through the step of 'being beaten', because no one can bully you anymore." ”

"Your Excellency, you ...... right"

Andrew paid lip service to him, and of course his complicated look betrayed him.

From the perspective of a normal person, many people simply can't take the step of "fighting back".

They had already fallen hard at the step of "being beaten", and there was no chance to get up, let alone "become stronger".

And if you want to get to Su Xia's current position, you have to go through countless "beatings", who can guarantee that you won't be completely defeated one day?

】

"Looks like you still haven't figured it out."

Seeing his look, Su Xia suddenly remembered a very classic line in the movie "Rocky" - the meaning of life is not that you can swing multiple punches, but that you can hold multiple punches.

That sounds strange.

To put it simply, if you live, you have to be beaten.

"For more than ten years, you have a lot of innocent blood on your hands." Su Xia suddenly opened his mouth and changed the subject.

"I ......"

Andrew's face changed slightly, why did Su Xia suddenly mention this matter?

He has been working for the group for many years, and there is indeed a lot of blood on his hands, not to mention that the innocent lives that he personally sent to various torture bases are uncountable.

In his early years, he was indeed affected by the brainwashing indoctrination and education of the group, and he did not have a normal three views, and he couldn't distinguish between right and wrong.

In the education of the group, it is not a sin to kill people from the outside world, but it is a sin to betray the group.

Later, he understood a lot, and the bad things he did were just to save his life and give himself a chance to break away from the group.

Andrew often thinks that if he was born into an ordinary family, he must have a normal life.

But......

No amount of reason can wash away his sins.

After all, he killed people, and he was a bloody debtor, and he was an out-and-out executioner.

If there really is a hell, then he will definitely be dragged down by countless unjust souls after he dies.

Su Xia suddenly mentioned this, was he planning to deal with him?

"My lord, I ......" Andrew was uneasy.

"I said that as long as you cooperate with me, I will give you freedom." Su Xia said again, "I am a person who believes in my word, and I generally don't break my word, after all, it is about personal reputation, and mixing outside, relying on a reputation, but...... I have also told you that freedom comes at a price. ”

"Your Excellency, I am willing to bear any price."

Andrew gritted his teeth, as long as he could be free, he could give up anything but life.

In fact, he had nothing else to give up now.

"Really?" Susha asked.

"Yes!"

"Alright, I'll give you a chance."

Su Xia's tone remained unchanged, and he said to Andrew: "From now on, give up evasion, confront this group head-on, and remember, as long as you can disintegrate this group and make him completely disappear from the world, I will give you back your freedom." ”

"This ......"

"Is it hard?"

"My lord, this may take a long time."

"It doesn't matter, a year or two, or ten or twenty years, I have time." Su Xia looked at Andrew with a calm gaze, "No matter how much time there is, the moment this group disappears, it will be the moment when you are free!" ”

"I, I...... Freedom ......"

Andrew's expression changed for a while, and he quickly nodded vigorously and replied, "Okay, my lord, I will definitely do it!" ”

"Well, remember your words, I'm waiting for your good news."

After saying that, a task prompt suddenly popped up in front of Su Xia's eyes.

[Mission: Buried in Hell]

[Phase 2 Activated]

[Current stage content: With the help of information provided by Andrew, destroy the headquarters of the Left Eye Group, and destroy all branches of the group in all parts of the continent as much as possible]

[Since the group is based on another continent, there is no time limit for this mission]

[Task requirement 1: Rescue the kidnapped person, the overall survival rate shall not be less than 30%......]

[Requirement 2: ......]

【……】

【Reward: Good Guy Medal】

【……】

"Medal of Good Guys?"

Su Xia's eyes froze, staring at the line of the reward column.

What is it?

Listening to the name, it's just an ordinary medal.

However, Susha is not the leader of an alliance and has no hobby of collecting medals.

【View】

He clicked to see a specific description of the reward.

[Medal of the Good Man: A Magical Medal]

[After wearing it, you will get the title of "Good Person"]

[Under the effect of this title, your personal luck will be greatly improved]

From now on, the more evil forces you destroy, the more bad people you kill, and the more good you do...... The more the medal will add to your luck.]

Luck?

Su Xia didn't know why, could this kind of mysterious and mysterious thing still be increased by external forces?

He remembered that the AI Hal on the other side of the shipwreck said that in the starry sky, there are many research teams that specialize in "luck", but they have not found a result after thousands of years of research.

The biggest result of research seems to be that people who are lucky love to laugh.

This is a very speechless conclusion.

Can someone with bad luck still laugh?

But, Hal said at the time, this conclusion has spent tens of billions of dollars in research funds.

This made Su Xia can't help but sigh, there are also bastard teams in the starry sky who cheat research funds, and the funding agencies are inevitably too kind, and they were cheated out of tens of billions casually.

At the end of the description of this "Order of the Good Man", there is a line that adds:

[Note: How to judge your personal luck?] If you are constantly near the end of the day, in crisis, in calamity, in countless enemies, etc...... Then you may not be so lucky and need the help of the medal]

[Note: If you can't tell, you can use the simplest way to tell - do you often pick up money?] 】

Seeing this comment, Su Xia realized in his heart.

He hasn't picked up much money since he was a child, and the biggest one is five cents.

But when he was in elementary school, he had a tablemate, and he could pick up money every once in a while, often in large denominations of cash, and often invited him to snacks, which made him envious at the time.

Is this the embodiment of luck?

Su Xia thought for a moment.

It's all electronic payments on the other side of the planet, and who is still picking up money now?

"It's good to get this medal, since I came to this world, I've almost been beaten to death by the mechanical clan several times, most of it is because of bad luck." Su Xia thought about the situation in Seahorse City this time, and found that his luck was indeed a little bad.

Even if you think about a lot of details, there will always be problems.

If it weren't for the fact that Mercer was too arrogant this time and had to destroy Su Xia's psychological defense, Su Xia might have been planted in Seahorse City.

"Cash payment is still popular in this world, and after getting the medal, you can also experience the joy of going out and picking up money."

Su Xia had made up her mind to get this thing as soon as possible.

This is the improvement of invisible strength, which cannot be seen or touched.

But he had a hunch that after wearing this medal, the next time he faced the mechanical clan, it would probably not be as difficult as this time.

"My lord, what's wrong with you?" Andrew suddenly spoke, and found that Su Xia's eyes were blank, and he couldn't help but worry for a while.

"Nothing, think of a past." Su Xia shook her head.

"Your Excellency, you're a man with a story."

"Who doesn't have a few stories in this world?"

Susha shrugged her shoulders and stopped talking.

With a casual move, he slowly floated forward with the two of them.

During this time, they found several members of the group lurking outside the villa.

The front entrance, back door, secret door, windows, etc. of the entire villa are the objects of key surveillance, and even a mosquito cannot escape the eyes of these people.

This is just one of Andrew's permanent villas.

Most of his rest of his dwellings, as well as around the safe house, were also ambushed.

Every once in a while, these people would report to the base: "Lord Frank, there's no movement around Residence One. ”

After the debriefing, they will talk to each other for a while.

From their words, it can be heard that many people expressed disdain and incomprehension for Andrew's defection.

"The group has worked hard to cultivate him, and has poured a lot of resources into him over the years, and he actually wants to betray the group!"

"Does he think his current status is not enough?"

"He's probably been blown to rotten meat by now."

"Good death!"

"Mistress Frank is so much better than him......"

“……”

These people have a blind mood towards the Left Eye Group, which normal people cannot understand.

Few people would have the idea of leaving the group like Andrew.

Hearing the words of these people, Andrew didn't have much expression, thinking that he had long been used to it, but said: "Today on the base side, the happiest person is probably Frank, he has been my assistant for two years, and he has always wanted to become a regular, hoping that I will be transferred or have an accident." ”

"How's that guy?" Susha asked.

"The garbage man has worse methods than me, and from the bottom of his heart he likes and approves of all the actions of the group." Andrew replied.

"Looks like a damn one, too."

Su Xia remembered the name and slaughtered it when he had time in the future.

The more garbage people die, the easier it is for the world to set things right.

"Let's go, let's go and rest for a while, I'm also tired, you have an underground safe room in this villa, right?" Susha asked.

"Yes, yes."

"That's good."

Susha took Andrew, past the lurking group members, and slowly floated over the villa.

The doors and windows of the villa were closed, and if they were opened rashly, they would attract the attention of those watchers outside.

Therefore, with a slight move, he landed on the top of the villa with Andrew, and slowly descended along the chimney at the top.

During the fall, Andrew whispered in the chimney: "Sir, slow down!" ”

"What's wrong?"

"I'm a little fat, I'm getting stuck."

"You call that 'a little fat'?"

Su Xia was a little speechless, and poured some cooking oil on his head to help him slide down slowly.

This Andrew is a clone made by gene editing technology, the genes are perfect, there is almost no risk of disease, and it stands to reason that he can have the body of an athlete with a little exercise.

But he was stunned and grew into the short and fat appearance he is now, and even half of his hair is bald.

It can be seen that the so-called genes are not so important.

Are androids necessarily perfect?

"Don't be angry, my lord, I'll lose weight in the future." Andrew said.

“……”

Of course, Susha was not angry.

He was well-proportioned, not fat, and didn't have muscles exaggerated enough to explode, just right in this dark chimney.

Moreover, Andrew was below, and his fat body rubbed away a part of the protruding chimney soot, leaving a relatively clean passage for Susha.

Andrew complained bitterly, and his whole body was black, and he whispered: "I should have asked someone to clean the chimney road, and the children in the slums would not be able to find a job anyway......"

"Huh? Now clean the chimney or find the kids? Su Xia was a little surprised.

"Yes, most of them are looking for children, because they are cheap and easy to use, and if they don't do well, they can be scolded casually, which is much more convenient than machines."

"...... like this"

Su Xia raised her head, looked through the dark chimney and saw the narrow sky above.

The world is both progressive and backward, giving people a very distorted sense of unreality, and the tech tree is quite crooked.

You know, on the other side of the planet, this kind of industry has long been outlawed.

Going back in the 17th and 18th centuries, many boys would be bought to work as chimney sweepers.

The great poet William Blake described this in his "The Chimney Sweeping Child".

This poem is not well-known in the country.

But there is another more famous literary work that has been described, that is, Dickens's "Orphan of the Fog".

Most of the boys were four or five years old, and some were even three years old, because they were small enough to do the job.

They don't have any protective clothing, some of the chimneys are still hot when they are cleaned, and there are even fires, they are often burned, abrasions, and their bones become deformed, and many of them die of lung diseases because of the smoke-covered working environment, and some are suffocated or burned to death, and very few live to adulthood.

They're like tools, and when they die, they're replaced by the next batch.

Later, they came up with a collective name called "Chimney Boys", which became known to many people.

"This shouldn't happen again." Susha said.

"My lord, there are too many things in this world, how can you manage it alone?" Andrew said.

"You can see through it."

"It's not transparent." Andrew said below, "The whole world is like this, unless you let the world change its rules." ”

As he spoke, Andrew finally landed in the fireplace at the bottom, bent over, and crawled out of the fireplace with great difficulty.

This picture is inexplicably funny, and it reminds Su Xia of Santa Claus.

Can Santa Claus's fat body really get into the chimney and give gifts to children?

"Whew...... It's finally out, and it's almost squeezing me to death. Andrew patted the soot off his body, like a coal miner.

Although the surface is covered with a layer of nanobots, he is still uncomfortable.

Just one chimney climb made him want to die.

I really don't know how children who are only a few years old endure this long-term pain.

"Silence." Su Xia reminded.

"Yes, yes...... My lord come with me to the basement. ”

Andrew's heart jumped, and he glanced at the location of the window, for fear of being sensed by the group infiltrators outside.

……

At the moment, the many lurkers outside are ignorant of what is going on inside the villa.

Their life sensing devices showed that there was still no sign of life activity in the villa, which made them quite reassured.

There was a lurker lying on the tree and confidently said, "Even if Andrew is not dead, he will not dare to return to this villa." ”

This person is also one of Andrew's former subordinates, and he knows Andrew's personality better.

The person next to him reminded: "Don't be careless, pay attention to observation, be careful that he sneaks into the villa and plays a trick to get dark." ”

"No way, there's nothing on the instrument."

"Don't put too much faith in the machine."

"Don't worry, this is produced by Anluo Company!" The man was sure, "I know his character and abilities, if he can really sneak into the villa, then I will eat this life sensor on the spot!" ”