Monsters exist in many forms, including their own mutations, corruption due to external factors, and visitors from other worlds.
If we use game vocabulary to classify them, "local" monsters that have mutated themselves and been corrupted by external factors can basically be divided into the categories of elites, mini-bosses and even bosses, while the categories of miscellaneous soldiers and bosses are basically classified by aliens. Visitors occupied it.
The main way in which the foreign visitors and miscellaneous soldiers, who are large in number and occupy 99% of the world's monster division, appear is the "monster lair".
At the same time, the entire 911 convenience store where Luke is located has shown a distortion as if it has been eroded by the digital world. The door that originally sounded familiar welcome music has become a pixel module-like door that invites you to enter the urn. Portal.
This phenomenon means that the 911 convenience store, which occupies a small area and is a flat-story building, is being eroded and transformed into a "monster's lair".
Under normal circumstances, the new monster lair will continuously refresh corresponding monster units, causing indiscriminate damage to the surrounding areas of the lair. However, there is a situation that will temporarily stop the spawning of monsters.
That is when there are humans in the monster lair.
The first target of a monster's attack is always the human group that is completely opposite to it, so when there are humans in the monster's lair, the monsters that spawn will give priority to attacking the humans inside.
After the human side inside was eliminated, the monster side began to attack the human world again.
Or maybe the whole incident will be over only when the brave men on the human side completely destroy the core part of the monster's lair while resisting the attack of the monster.
Theoretically, the monster lair transformed by the rules can only be destroyed by "destroying the core." At least so far, all external violent destruction cannot bypass this mechanism.
Of course, it may be that the equivalent is not enough.
However, at this moment, no new monsters spawned at the gate of the new monster lair.
In this regard, some experienced people near the nest immediately judged one thing.
That is, everyone who was still in the store should have been forced into the monster's lair at this time. The monster already has a priority target to attack. The monster will not come out of the portal until all the unlucky people in the store are killed. of.
And among this group of unlucky people, we included Comrade Luke, who just wanted to read some information.
Well, once you encounter something you are interested in, you will probably be even more crazy about information acquisition than when you were a student. In the past few days, Luke's desire for knowledge has been stronger than at any time in the past few decades.
Along with a sense of weightlessness, Luke felt that his body was falling rapidly, and his soft face and not-too-dangerous hairline were swaying in the wind.
But the lush ground is close.
Almost instinctively, Luke instantly recalled the plots of so many Jackie Chan movies he had seen. The moment he landed, he made a not-so-standard body-receiving movement of supporting the ground with his hands on his chest and rolling forward.
A slight pain emerged from the parts in contact with the ground such as the palms, wrists, neck, and back, but Luke still managed to land safely with only a few scratches.
But before he could get up, he heard a series of heavy objects falling to the ground from behind and to his side, followed by loud or small screams of pain.
As experienced people outside the nest judged, the customers and clerks who were originally in the store were all unlucky people like Luke, and after everyone was forcibly taken into the nest, they appeared in mid-air. .
It's just that not everyone else present had Luke's physique and reaction. Most of them fell solidly to the unusually flat ground.
However, judging from the fact that everyone can still scream in pain, it is not life-threatening... Of course, this premise is that monsters will not appear.
But this is impossible.
Without giving Luke and his group any chance to adjust their observations, the monsters in this lair had already entered Luke's field of vision.
It was a somewhat thin figure, wearing a relatively simple and plastic-filled red outer armor, with a bulging bulge on his back. He looked like some kind of humanoid soldier running at a constant speed in his direction.
Suddenly, the soldier in red stopped running, raised his hands, and pointed the object in his hands at Luke, who was first stunned, then shocked, and then his eyes began to light up almost visibly, and finally buttoned the Moved his index finger.
boom!
Luke, who had obviously realized something, rolled over in advance almost pre-judged, making himself covered with the scent of grass.
And where he was originally, there was already a medium-sized crater.
Assault gun shooter! The lowest level soldier in the Kestrel organization!
Luke, who had this name popping up in his mind, already had a stick of the right size in one of his hands.
There are certainly not many people who are familiar with the exclusive term "gun shooter", but when it comes to the most famous action shooting game on the Famicom/FC platform, players can encounter the hunchback red in all levels. When playing Yi Xiaobing, many people may have started playing the familiar 8-bit BGM automatically in their heads.
The star-studded sky, the calm sea, the large and small rock islands covered by green plants and scattered at different heights...
This scene alone gave Luke a strong sense of familiarity.
When the "hunchbacked" red-clothed soldier carrying a strange backpack shot at him, Luke basically determined the source of the game that the "monster lair" corresponded to.
Contra!
And there is a high probability that it will be a NES/FC platform, with the protagonists being "Stallone" in blue pants and "Schwarzenegger" in red pants!
The moment Luke established a firm understanding in his mind, his "Mission Record" panel lit up slightly. It was obvious that something had been activated, but he hadn't noticed it yet.
As one of the unlucky ones who was forcibly drawn into the lair and faced with the unfortunate situation of being besieged by monsters anytime and anywhere, the original panic and fear in Luke's heart were quickly overtaken by positive emotions such as excitement and excitement. Lost.
It may be really difficult for a non-game player to understand the weird mentality of Luke, who is a senior and hardcore game fan. For a moment, he really had the idea that "it's worth dying now."
However, this thought was fleeting because his body moved.
no! Can't die yet! I haven’t started playing it yet!
As a law-abiding adult man whose fights date back to the fifth grade of elementary school, facing monsters and gunshots, he had an extremely strong urge to smash the opponent's head with the stick in his hand.
Then he actually did it.
The mage's short stick, which was originally a noble magic weapon, used to mobilize the elements to release magic, was used by the savage Luke as a short javelin and thrown forward with all his strength!
Fire bomb? Ice bullet? Lightning bomb?
what is that?
Although there was nothing that could be called a sharp point at either end of the short stick, it still penetrated the unprotected neck of the Kestrel soldier quite accurately under Luke's adrenaline-filled full throw. And the remaining force dragged his body several meters backward.
Luke, who said he didn't want to become a mutated muscle tyrant in the future, still followed the instinct of a barbarian at the most critical moment.
If you want to make an analogy, Luke's behavior is similar to Harry Potter stabbing Voldemort directly through the throat with the wand in his hand.
Luke succeeded in the attack, but his hands and feet suddenly became weak, and his body began to tremble almost uncontrollably.
This is a typical stress reaction of non-fighters after a sudden conflict with others.
If Luke were to speak now, it would definitely be the extremely magnetic Yang Kunyin.
The barbarian template made Luke hard, but he only softened after a pinch.
Luke, who had killed something other than seafood for the first time in his life, was half-kneeling on the ground, looking beyond the corpse of the Kestrel soldier with the mage's stick stuck in his neck and looking farther away.
Over there, more soldiers have begun to appear.
Luke frowned when he discovered this situation. He was already planning to try to control his body and "jump off the cliff" as quickly as possible.
To be more precise, diving.
In the settings of the first and second generations of Contra, hiding in water equals being invincible in disguise.
Although he didn't know if this setting would be useful in the current lair of materialized monsters, Luke still planned to struggle. His weak hands and feet would not affect his water ability at the master level of diving for the time being.
But at this moment, the Kestrel soldiers who had originally arrived for reinforcements suddenly stopped when they saw their colleagues with staffs stuck around their necks, and then raised their large and small guns together, aiming at them. Luke was crawling on his hands and knees.
Done! The Kestrel Soldier AI that turned into a living creature is not as stupid as in the game!
Although he knew that this was almost inevitable, Luke, who was targeted by more than a dozen guns, still had this idea in his mind.
At the same time, even though he was not sure whether it would be useful, he still raised a not-so-strong arm to his ear, half-crouched and continued to rush forward, trying to reduce the damage he was about to suffer from the bullet.
Continuous banging sounds were heard, but what followed was not Luke's scream of pain, but a series of tinkling metal collisions.
Luke, who was running wildly with his head down, didn't know what the tinkling sound behind him meant. He just ran with all his strength until he ran to the edge of the island at his feet, which was as straight as a knife or an ax. Without hesitation, he jumped towards the shimmering sea at a height of more than ten meters. When he turned his head downwards, his field of vision was reversed 180 degrees, and he took advantage of the opportunity to take a look at the position where he had just passed by. There was a woman.
There was a strange woman with dark skin and messy hair, wearing a standard sailor suit, but holding a glistening pink shortsword in her left hand.
Luke's mind was instantly linked to the list of brave men he had been watching over and over again in the past few days, and he quickly found a being among the E-class brave men who had a high degree of overlap with the holder of the pink sword.
The new generation of black hot girl JK type brave - Pink Kodachi.
With this thought in mind, Luke tried his best to straighten his body, raised his hands above his head, and plunged into the calm sea water with a pop.
