Zhou Jinru, who chose to go deeper, encountered a strange scene. The transport truck was driving on the road at a constant speed. What he saw was a clean and tidy road, with all the gravel and bricks thrown aside. What was even more incredible was that they actually saw and heard something. A broadcast that echoed far away.
"Dear citizens, this is the Transportation Committee of Satellite City No. 1145. We would like to remind you to be careful when driving on frosty days in winter. Do not brake suddenly or step on the accelerator suddenly. Pay attention to driving safety. Your family is waiting for you to return home safely."
The beautiful background music came from the radio, giving Zhou Jinru an illusion, as if there were many residents living here, and the traffic was busy on weekdays, but the desolation now was just his hometown late at night.
"Miss Mostima, have you ever seen such a scene?"
Mostima shook her head, holding a slightly shorter staff in her hand, with a black cloth wrapped around the top of the staff. She stood by the car door, using the hazy skylight to carefully identify the outside environment, and finally said : "I have never arrived here. I should say I have never discovered this place."
"good."
Zhou Jinru turned around and whispered to the people in the car: "Now everyone is divided into two shifts to rest. Stay awake and maintain your strength. The observation holes cannot break people. You divide the work among yourselves. If you find anything unusual, report it as soon as possible. Driver, you can ask for a rest. I Find someone to take your place, and Broca, go to bed, I want you to ensure you have enough strength to deal with emergencies."
Broca turned his head and turned over to rest. Stewart and the driver exchanged positions, and the rest of the people went to rest separately.
Mostima asked: "You don't need to rest?"
Zhou Jinru smiled: "I stand here so that others can rest in peace."
He believes that his mind can play some wonderful uses, such as resisting some unknown harm, so he can detect abnormalities in time when he is awake.
"Usually, this city has always been in a state of silence, a silent dead city, with only drones in the sky and sweepers on the ground working silently, but today it gives me the feeling that it has come to life. To be precise, it should It is an effort to create the appearance of what it once was like.”
Mostima furrowed her brows and raised her staff slightly. A blue light emitted, and the clock mark on her back was looming. Standing next to her, Zhou Jinru felt inexplicably suffocated and couldn't help but want to retreat. Escape.
"Ah, I'm sorry. I used to act alone, so I don't pay much attention to those around me."
Mostima stopped casting the spell in time, she bowed slightly and apologized for her mistake.
Zhou Jinru coughed and beat his chest loudly: "I'm fine, what did you find?"
He looked at the empty street, but his eyes actually fell on the skill bar in his field of vision. The passive skill Mountain suddenly highlighted during Mostema's casting, and he saw a string of text prompts:
Resist abnormal status!
resistance!
resistance!
resistance!
The lower row was filled with the words "resistance" until she stopped casting the spell, and then another message was refreshed.
Mountain: Reduce sanity consumption, save some damage, immune to mental shock, resist abnormal status, your attack speed and movement speed cannot be reduced below the normal standard.
Zhou Jinru looked confused. He was slightly affected by Mostima, and his rigid shield was not lost, and his skills immediately improved. Why are you so cautious? Are you afraid that he will be beaten to death?
Of course, Mostima didn't know what Zhou Jinru was thinking. He pointed forward with his staff and said: "The flow of time here has not changed. It is like a ruins submerged under the water. When the tide recedes, outsiders can see some of its true appearance. , I didn’t expect that there are such magnificent treasures in the world. If I can collect some materials, it might be able to confirm some of my ideas.”
The more Zhou Jinru listened, the more uncomfortable he felt. He thought about Mostema's sentence and said slowly: "A city submerged under the water? It has its own trajectory. Are we considered intruders? I have heard a saying , only when the tide goes out will you know who is swimming naked. Oh, I don’t mean anything else. Don’t look at me like that. I don’t want to see naked swimming. What I mean is that when the tide goes out, there will be a high tide. If the tide rises, What will happen to us if everything goes back to the way it was?”
There was a trace of surprise on Mostima's calm face: "I said there is no problem with its time flow rate. At most, it will enter a state of silence as before. The mechanical intelligence will come out from time to time to maintain the cleanliness of the streets. They have always been That’s what it does.”
Zhou Jinru turned his head in embarrassment and whispered: "I thought we would all be trapped here and never get out."
At this time, Mostima rarely refuted. She was silent for a moment and breathed out: "At least the situation you mentioned will not happen here. I will always protect you before you return to Longmen. Wei Yanwu gave me a lot of money. , enough to allow Aneng to have a good rest for a while, there is no other way..."
"He gave too much?"
"He gave too much."
Zhou Jinru added something strangely, and the two of them said in unison.
Zhou Jinru lowered his head and touched his nose, and Mostima burst into laughter.
"Did Aneng ever say that you should smile more? Always keeping a straight face can easily lead to stiff facial muscles, wrinkles, and accelerated aging."
Zhou Jinru was speechless and suddenly heard Stewart's voice appearing in the car: "Doctor, there is something in front of you."
On a spacious road, there stood two behemoths with a height of three meters. They had a cylindrical body shape, strip-shaped limbs, oval hooks, and two orange-yellow lights on their goose-egg-like heads that served as eyes.
Zhou Jinru recalled that these two guys looked very much like the Android robots in another action game. I wonder if they were equipped with weapons.
"This is the Sweeper, look over here."
The people in the car took out their weapons and prepared for battle.
Mostima said without looking back: "I can kill them all at the same time, but it is impossible to attack again in the next five minutes."
"Kill them? Use your Ripple Sprint?"
"Ripple Speed?"
"True Woman Slayer, Key to Time, if you kill them, can you guarantee that no other mechanical intelligence will jump out and block the way?"
Mostima said truthfully: "No."
When their car drove a little further, the two sweepers were still standing on both sides of the road, and a crisp synthesized voice came from inside one of them: "Welcome to Satellite City No. 1145, please present your off-site pass or citizen authentication code. Or apply for a temporary city entry permit.”
The amount of information in this passage was so huge that Zhou Jinru couldn't digest it for a while. It turned out that they had walked for so long and couldn't even touch the gate of the satellite city!
Broca's head appeared on Zhou Jinru's shoulder. He looked at the cleaners with his head tilted up and whispered: "The core devices of these two big guys can be sold for a lot of money. If you want to fight, be sure not to break the cores." , selling with depreciation would be too much of a loss.”
