Looking at the listless crowd of people, the word "torture of life" suddenly popped up in Wang Shui's mind.

These walking residents of the Midtown District have accumulated immeasurable negative energy in their bodies.

And this group of people is not all helpless ordinary people.

Among them, there are transcendents with second- and third-order energy reactions, and there are humanoid races born with special physiques, and they obviously have power.

But at this moment, they are all living in the middle of the city and the outer city - according to Wang Shui's experience, there are few voices of resistance in this city.

What makes them unable to fight back and scold back?

Family? Self-desired? Or is it the instinct to survive?

Wang Shui cannot conclude that the formation of a "stable" society is very complicated, and the "stability" of some societies is also very fragile.

According to general experience, the more developed and convenient the society, the weaker the concept of family affection such as family and clan becomes.

In order to make up for these emotional gaps, people will have a strong pursuit of fast emotions such as love and friendship, and even excessive dependence.

In the inner city, Wang Shui rarely hears his classmates discuss family and clan, they all seem to be living the life they want, even if they want to make some achievements, they are not willing to use the strength of the family, let alone give back to the family.

They will only show strong, blind trust in love and friendship.

In Midtown, people here care more about their families and loved ones, because the roadside billboards are also mostly slogans for families to buy something - Wang Shui believes in the sensitivity of capital.

It's just that the concept of family here also seems to be distorted and interpreted as various gangs and organizations.

They can easily buy hot lives by using words such as "family" and "relatives".

Every society that operates according to a certain logic is a complex sociological and psychological experiment.

Wang Shui's psychological knowledge system is still at the half-baked level, and it is a large number of social observations that have given him a relatively clear understanding of those cold words.

This kind of cognition may not necessarily improve extraordinary abilities, but it can help Wang Shui better understand himself and maintain himself.

For example, under the shallow self-interpretation, Wang Shui will think that he is also a guy who "can't fight back and scolds back".

In the fantasy world, Wang Shui's courage is obviously much greater, and even when facing some high-power natives, he can maintain his prescient calmness.

Even if you really can't beat it, you won't show your timidity.

But if he encounters people and things related to reality, he will become overly cautious.

[Self-Giving Knower: Dunbabot], the daring killer of [Wasteland], and the attack by the cloudburst rocket today, he chose to swallow his anger and escape.

Aqua regia is not without the power to resist.

When those transcendents in the midtown area tortured and killed the survivors, Wang Shui roughly read their energy levels, and the highest was only about the third order.

In the case of mental calculation or unintentional, secretly taking the lead, Wang Shui has a lot of ways to deal with them, and it is the kind of treatment that does not leave a trace.

After all, Wang Shui is still an overly cautious nobody, and it is difficult for locals to find out his information.

In less than a second, Wang Shui was indeed murderous.

But in the end, he chose to escape, and chose the easiest and least troublesome solution.

Whether it is cowardice or fear of trouble, Wang Shui chooses to endure it like the residents of Zhongcheng District.

It's just that many things seem to have been avoided by patience, but in fact they have left a lot of loopholes, at least Wang Shui himself can foresee those loopholes.

Wang Shui hates things that are unplanned, and hates that ordinary lives are disrupted.

A faint irritability would always breed in his spare time, and now it seemed that he did not need to wait for all kinds of troubles to come to his door, and his own psychology was about to be abnormal.

Aqua regia needed a more direct way of catharsis - that's why he specially activated the [Sapphire] alchemy clone.

In his thoughts, Wang Shui subconsciously raised his head, and sure enough, not far away was already a block controlled by the system.

The [Spiritual Perception] of transcendent beings can sometimes be really more sensitive and accurate than professional fire control systems.

Whew——Wang Shui exhaled a soft breath of turbidity, he never regretted every choice.

After a while, Wang Shui, who had already changed his body to [Primary Color Sapphire], took out a silver-gray metal mask and put it on, and then jumped out of the self-service double-decker bus.

The long trench coat with a hood, coupled with lightweight tactical gloves and a full-coverage outfit, made Wang Shui feel a different kind of security, which he needed to change the way he thought and acted.

When I returned my attention, the neighborhood under the control of the system was still full of the smell of steel.

However, this block now is not the [ST1001 Dream Street] that Wang Shui went directly to after landing in the spaceport before.

The number here is [ST1004].

The Dream System has dozens of small blocks in the city to meet the needs of the Awakened for supplies and life.

This small neighborhood, known on the Internet as the "fourth floor", is a typical supply point.

In the narrow short streets, all kinds of shops grow up and down the road, but the overall environment is quite tidy, and Wang Shui likes the wild beauty of this metal wind.

Unlike the old neighborhood numbered one, it is small in size, but the overall active population is much larger, and of course, the vast majority of them are awakened.

After casually glancing at the various undisguised [Holy Seals] on the surrounding buildings, Wang Shui didn't pay too much attention to it, and didn't stop on the street for long.

He went straight to the street-namesake club, which was the center of the system's mission.

In a similar deep structure building, Wang Shui is much more familiar with the road this time.

After ordering a drink and sitting on the sofa by the window on the edge, Wang Shui began to browse through the recent backlog of tasks.

It has been more than two months since Wang Shui last came to the site to look for tasks, and many old tasks have been cleared, but there are also more tasks that have been backlogged.

There will be a backlog of tasks, either because the risk is too high, or there are too few leads.

If the rewards are rich enough, the Awakened will naturally not waste time to solve them slowly, so the backlog of tasks must have something disgusting about it.

Sure enough, I quickly went through the new tasks, and most of the tasks were extremely high-risk mosquito legs, and the publishers were all locals in Midtown, and the task rewards were similar to the local salary level, which made people gnash their teeth.

Naturally, missions will also be issued in the inner city, but those tasks are not yet the turn of a lone wolf like Wang Shui to do them, and the big hunting group of the local awakened has long been digested internally.

However, Wang Shui is not here to pick a reward, as long as he can complete the task.

So for the second browsing, Shui Wang added the filter conditions below the danger scale "2", and then turned off the reward sorting.

The mission of "2" on the danger scale means that a complete second-order seven-person hunting team is required to complete it relatively safely.

In fact, this configuration is not too demanding.

At least in the blocks controlled by the system, Wang Shui can casually pull up a temporary team of awakened people, and these lone wolves who will form a wild team basically have a third-order or even higher level.

But the wild team will not accompany Wang Shui to play with the backlog of tasks, and if you don't spend some money to hire someone to play with, Wang Shui will have to rely on herself.

Wang Shui thought that he was not down, or that he was extravagant enough to spend money to hire people to complete tasks.

If you really need manpower, it's too high to say it, he still has a lot of second- and third-order sisters, and Wang Shui is not an ordinary lone wolf.

Let's look at the tasks first......

Hmm-assassinating a small street boss of a gang, the reward is good, and the clues are all there, oh, the fifth-order transcendent, no wonder no one answers.

The initiator of the mission, citing the old age of the fifth-order boss and the extreme injury, suppressed the danger scale at "2...... Isn't this really a deliberate trick?

The awakened are not stupid, the target of the assassination is a spellcaster, the older they get, the more shrewd and powerful they will become, even if they are paralyzed, if you call a whole fourth-order team, at least you have to fold a few.

The old caster's dying throes are no joke......

Next!

Search for the missing in [F19· A8 Students? How strange is this mission description?

A group of students interned in Midtown, and after splitting up the activities, only four of them returned to the meeting point, and two of them were still the teachers who led the group?

Tsk, what kind of pheasant school is this? Even if it's a senior student, you can't be so casually scattered into Midtown, right?

Wang Shui's mind quickly flipped through many possible scenarios.

He didn't think that these students, who had been missing for more than ten days, would still be alive intact, so he turned the page without even reading the bounty reward.

The next one is......

After more than half an hour of reading, Wang Shui finally put down the second drink, put on the mask, and left here.

To be honest, Wang Shui is indeed a little optimistic, and the tasks behind are more abstract and magical than the other.

In the end, he still put the task of finding students in his task bar. Counting the unlimited roll call assassination mission he received two months ago, there are already two backlogs in his hands now.

Unlike the clueless assassination mission, the task of finding students is actually a benefit that Wang Shui did not expect.

Midtown【F19· A8] Zoning does not refer to a certain block, it is the construction of the zoning at the beginning of the establishment of the city.

Now this area has "grown" a lot of complex terrain outside the design, and a large number of small and medium-sized forces are entrenched here, and even the [Midtown Administration] is reluctant to come here to scrape the oil and water.

The reason why Wang Shui took on this task was because he bought relevant information.

To be exact, this quest was recommended to him by the intelligence dealers among the Awakened, and after listening carefully to the information, Wang Shui also felt that this quest was very suitable for him.

Intelligence is not complicated.

Different from Wang Shui's subjective guess, it was not the pheasant school that lost the students this time, but the [Origin Tree Higher Education Park], the fifth-ranked behemoth of the Thousand Academy.

Therefore, the rescue force this time is also powerful that Wang Shui does not understand.

Under the [City Council], the [Midtown Administration], which is specifically responsible for various affairs in the Midtown District, directly transferred forty percent of the armed forces to help the search, which is already quite face-saving.

In addition,[Origin Tree Academy] also hired a large number of private organizations to help search and rescue,Ten days of busy effect is remarkable,The vast majority of students,Have determined the state,Everything that can be saved has been saved。

Now only three students are missing, so the mission is almost over.

The backlog of tasks that are hung up in the system is actually done by several awakened people, but this kind of continuous task will only be settled when the employer confirms, so it will enter the backlog.

With the addition of Shui Wang now, it only needs a little help to complete the task.

This kind of good thing that can be met but cannot be sought, Wang Shui naturally added it after confirming it again and again.

Leaving the club-style mission center, Wang Shui, who had already been prepared, went directly to [F19· A8] partition – the edge.

There is no way, this area is too big, and Wang Shui, as a new search and rescue personnel, wants to find new clues by himself, so he looks down on the thousands of people who were busy before.

He now needs to show his face even more, go to the employer to brush his presence, and by the way, see if he can help anyone, as long as the system boss and the employer see that he is actively working.

By the time Wang Shui arrived at the "Temporary Command Center" marked by the mission, it was already dark, and Wang Shui had indeed spent a lot of time on transportation today.

The so-called "temporary command center" is just an old building along the street, with a sign of "Red Gun Hotel" hanging on it, which seems to be temporarily rented or directly recruited.

Outside, there is only a small four-story hotel, and there are many buildings that provide rooms in the back, but now the hotel seems to have become a temporary residence for search and rescue personnel.

Wang Shui walked directly through the small hall on the first floor and pushed open the half-hidden door with the sign of [Intelligence Integration Room], only to hear a hoarse but violent shout-

"Even if they are burned to ashes! I'm going to take them back to school too! If you want to go, you can go! ”

Wang Shui, who had just pushed the door in, had just locked on to the person who was speaking, and was gently pushed.

Wang Shui was forced to give way to a position, a figure slightly shorter than him, with a resolute temperament and a clear smell of sweat, and walked out quickly.

Different from the smell of sweat after physical exertion by ordinary people, it is the smell of extraordinary people who have difficulty controlling their metabolism after overload exercise.

Wang Shui looked at the only other person left in the room, it was a young man, looking at his clothes, he seemed to be the teacher of the [Origin Tree Academy].

"Is there any information at this time?"

The young teacher didn't seem to care about the person who had just rushed out, and there was no expectation in his tone when he asked Wang Shui, and even said that his attitude was a little perfunctory.

"I'm a new private armed force on a search and rescue mission, and I need props for identification and intranet clearance."

"This time? Are you alone? Hmm- Alright, show the quest panel and quest number, and leave your faction and soul code. ”

Although the other party was a little impatient, he did not embarrass Wang Shui for the confirmation process, and he didn't even ask Wang Shui to take off his mask.

"That's all there is to it? It turned out to be the Awakened...... If you join the search and rescue mission now, don't expect to get a share of the rewards ahead.

Hold, this is the [Rescuer ID Card] that contains the public channel, if you have a clue, come back here and ...... to us Alas, let's talk about it if there is intelligence......"

At the same time as he flew out of the card to Wang Shui, the young teacher was already sitting in a thick high-backed chair, and his voice became more and more casual, and finally it had turned into a mutter.

Wang Shui took the crystal card that flew over from the other party, and then inserted it into the security slot on his waist.

It is common sense that this kind of card that does not know the content, no matter who gives it, cannot be directly connected to a private computing device.

On the belt of aqua regia, there are twelve shortcut boxes, four on the left, four on the right. On both sides of the space, there are two gun holsters, and the second green-sided box on the right side is a dedicated [Sandbox Oasis] security data slot.

After confirming the contents of the card, Wang Shui nodded politely to the young teacher before leaving the "temporary command center".

If it was darker before, the streets are much brighter now.

Midtown, which has always been under lead clouds, has only two types of weather, cloudy and rainy, and both of them are accompanied by complex fog.

So the daytime here is always dark and terrible.

When the time came to night, those old street lamps gave this place much more light than daytime.

After the street lights came on, there were more pedestrians on the road.

On the streets of Midtown, there are also all kinds of shops, and even those who are struggling at the bottom have a variety of life demands.

They also need restaurants, they need taverns, they need all kinds of things that will relieve their physical fatigue and pain.

It is also when the street lights are turned on that the residents of Midtown feel alive.

(End of chapter)