“…………”

Only for her, a long silence.

It was as if the hustle and bustle of the whole city had fallen silent at this moment.

The rustle of the cold wind on the ground, the roar from the depths of the alley, the whirring of hovercars speeding by, the numb quarrels, or the chaotic sound that the dark zone itself gives to each man and woman its own.

The two contradictory elements of chaos and order, but they are delicately maintained in a balanced world, but what can be brought is more reality with a sense of substitution.

"Listening to you, I really benefited a lot."

Exhaling and taking another long, deep breath, Bai Ye stood up and crossed his waist on the spot again.

"But my real purpose may not be what you think."

"Oh?"

When the old cat heard this, he rarely showed his first, subjective doubts from the beginning to the present.

Bai Ye stared at each other and said slowly: "With the help of your words, I can look at the problem from a higher perspective, and the result is that what I resist is not the dark age brought about by extreme private capitalism, but the change that the dark zone has made for me." ”

"Changes to you?"

Bai Ye looked back at the city scene in front of him, and this picture had changed three times in front of him.

The first time was when I inadvertently crossed over half a year ago.

From a peaceful country to this supernatural world that is deeper than hell for ordinary people, fortunately he has incomparably powerful power and plug-ins, and the novelty brought by crossing at that time makes him very adventurous.

The second time was when I experienced Han.

When I first intuitively understood the gap between ordinary people and myself, the human nature distorted by the amazing sense of class impact had a serious contradiction with some values in my heart, but this was not the main reason, the deeper reason was the perception of the change in the dark zone to myself.

I have never felt such a violent sense of disgust and resistance to the world I have seen in front of me for more than half a year, and it is also the first time that I have clearly felt that the dark zone is trying to change everything about itself.

Human nature, thought, morality.

The Dark Zone distorts all humans who come into contact with it into something like it.

The third time.

This time in the middle of the dark zone, with the help of Night Raven's script description that seemed to be performing a stage play, this impact was even stronger than Han's time, so strong that he could no longer forcibly choose to ignore it.

"Han's time, I couldn't accept the three views he obtained in the dark zone, and I couldn't accept his behavior."

"However, this time in the middle of the dark zone, the situation is completely different from Han's time, I suddenly found that I have begun to try to understand all the logic and positions behind this, and I have begun to learn to understand these issues like a high-level person in the dark zone, and this is the thing that I am most unwilling to face."

Bai Ye leaned back towards the door, her expression was very serious and serious with her hands in her arms.

The Dark Zone is like a man-devouring beast, and violence is of little value to it, because it is not enough to rely on violence alone to fight it.

It's not a city.

Nor is it a social system, much less a terrible order brought about by extreme private capitalism, which completely erases human nature and distorts human relations into an indescribable chaos.

The Dark Zone is an opponent countless times stronger than the Southern Cross, an opponent that no matter how hard your fists are, you can't defeat.

"I see, that's what you're really struggling with."

The old cat is not a stupid person, in fact, before Bai Ye finished speaking, he already understood what the other party wanted to express.

What a strange guy.

In the dark zone, people who can think like this kind of perspective are really rare, much rarer than the fact that she was promoted from a discrete mercenary to a regular Blood Rose in the dark rank mercenary like she was riding a rocket.

"But, this time, you've got a really strong opponent for you."

"In the lower layer of the dark zone, violence can solve 99% of the problems, and the value of violence is higher than that of any means, and the remaining 1% of the problems are difficult for you to encounter, and even if you encounter them, they will not be so strong, but in the middle of the dark zone, this is not the case."

"If you want to overcome this obstacle, it is not enough to be strong."

The old cat has its mechanical legs crossed.

Compared with Bai Ye's seriousness and seriousness, he behaved very relaxed and comfortable, as if this matter had nothing to do with him and he didn't need to think about it.

"I don't have the power to solve this kind of problem...... Forget it, I always feel like I'm talking about something very boring. ”

The first half of the sentence sounded like it was going to go into more depth, but the second half of the sentence suddenly changed the tone.

She shook her head and sighed, forcibly ending the topic.

I can't solve this kind of problem, at least I can't solve it now, I thought that the result of the formation of the hexagonal formation would be that I don't have a problem that I can't solve, and that kind of self-confidence allows me to fight against mongoose without fear, but in fact, the dark area has already put a target that I can't fight in front of my eyes.

The smooth sailing brought by the strong power has made me very confident in my heart, and under the action driven by this strong self-confidence, the backlash brought by the problem that I cannot solve will be more serious and obvious.

-- Here, violence isn't as valuable as it is --

This sentence from the Night Raven.

The moment I came down from above, it seemed to have been echoing in my ears, deeply imprinted in the depths of my mind, and I couldn't forget it at all.

"It's true that it's boring to live in the dark and discuss these issues."

Suddenly.

The old cat suddenly stood up, and glanced at the door of the shop behind him, which closed and locked automatically.

“？”

Bai Ye showed doubts, not knowing what the old cat was going to do.

"Let's go."

"I've known you for so long, and your fist has helped me solve a lot of troubles, so now that you're in trouble, even if I give you back a favor, I'll take you to change your mood."

The old cat walked in front of Bai Ye, looked down, and twisted his head again.

"Old cat, I'm not going to go to that kind of place."

"What kind of place?"

The old cat chuckled, but the kind of timbre chuckle that came with the mechanical synthesized sound could also turn into a cruel grin: "There's a nice snack restaurant nearby, and I feel good about their ramen, at least it can make me, the artificial taste buds on the mechanical synthetic tongue, feel the taste of being human." ”

………

A few minutes later - the delicious snack bar:

in the dark zone.

It's a great thing to have a restaurant with a fairly neat interior decoration, and Bai Ye and the old cat sit opposite each other by the window, and the arrival of the old cat makes the salesperson in the store take the initiative to come over.

"Yo, what kind of wind is blowing you here today, this is your little girlfriend?"

There is nothing wrong with the first half of the sentence, but in the second half of the sentence, even the old cat suddenly felt that the temperature of the air around her suddenly dropped a lot, but fortunately she could still tell what was a joke.

"No kidding, Belle."

"This is a mercenary friend of mine, the same old one, two tonkotsu ramen, mine with a little more spicy."

The old cat waved his hand casually, and after reporting what he needed, the latter skillfully pressed a few times on the terminal in his hand, and then left with a smile.

"Well, what do you want to say to me?"

Ignoring this little episode, Bai Ye couldn't understand what the old cat was thinking, and suddenly invited himself to dinner?

What exactly can't be said just now?

"Atmosphere, atmosphere is important sometimes."

The old cat replied mysteriously, put his hands on the table in front of him, and gently tapped the table with his sharp mechanical fingertips: "Do you remember Helosi. Mercer is the name? ”

"The orphanage one?"

"Yes, it's the orphanage."

Speaking of this, the old cat's tone changed slightly, but it was not anger but some kind of emotion: "This person is the person who was promoted by the upper echelons of the orphanage under my command behind the scenes, his family environment is very bad, his father left their mother and son early, and only he and his mother have been dependent on each other, but in a place like the dark area, do you feel that there are a few good endings in the end of this kind of family?" ”

"Huh?"

Shiraba snorted lightly and motioned to continue.

"One day, this person came to Chris's orphanage, and I happened to be in that place for a private visit, so you can think that I was secretly inspecting."

"I saw that this person was not bad, willing to endure hardships, and also knew some skills, so I recruited him, and after learning about his family's situation, seeing that he was doing well, I secretly instructed the people in the orphanage to promote him."

Speaking of which, two steaming tonkotsu ramen servings were served.

"Well, it still tastes like this."

The old cat smelled the smell and couldn't help but exclaim.

But he still reacted immediately, and continued the words that had just been interrupted: "However, his mother has been living in a highly polluted environment with a very serious radiation sickness like other ordinary people in the dark area these days, in fact, this disease is actually very simple to treat, but you also know that rich people in the dark area can even change out all the genetic sequences, and people without money can die at home if they get a cold." ”

"To treat severe radiation sickness, it takes a thousand credits."

Speaking of this, the old cat sighed and looked at the pedestrians outside the window: "This is a large amount of money, it is impossible to take out the income of the orphanage alone, and the scavengers are willing to give him this money for their own interests, on the condition that the children are it." ”

"So...... I'm not alone in this kind of problem. ”

Bai Ye hugged his hands and leaned on the seat behind him, and he also heard the meaning of the old cat's words.

You don't have to worry about it.

"But do you know how I deal with this kind of problem?"

“？”

"After you left, I approached the Hexes, and I told them to stop torturing him and kill the guy, and then I went to his house again and paid for his mother's radiation sickness."

When the old cat said this, his tone was not relaxed, but very serious and serious.

He said it word for word.