"Okay, I just think you're a little weird, and I just want you to wake up a little bit. Don't be angry with Brian. Your uncle is quite nice, even a little... um, weirdly cute?"
Liao Ji gave such an adjective after recalling the short but pleasant exchange with the bearded uncle in the box.
However, when this was heard in Yilin's ears, the girl rolled her eyes.
cute?
One of you says that the other is cute, and the other says that the other is a stupid good person... Okay, I am the most disliked bad guy in this book!
But in fact, these are secondary. There is another point that makes Yilin more concerned about now.
"Old...Old Antique, don't you really believe his lies?"
"That's not the case. After all, we are very calculated and we have only known each other for less than half a day. Although I am very confident in my charm, I am not narcissistic to this extent."
After Liao Ji shrugged, the conversation quickly turned around again.
"On the other hand, Miss Yilin, you are in such a strange state. Could it be that...you are indeed a nymphomaniac girl who fell in love with me at first sight and was fascinated by my handsome face?"
"I bother!"
After receiving the fragrance from the girl's mouth as expected, Liao Ji breathed a sigh of relief.
because...
"Just in case, I'd better tell Miss Yilin first that I already have someone I like." Liao Ji showed a serious expression when he said this.
Tens of thousands of hours of game play, even if you play twenty-four hours a day without eating, drinking or sleeping, it will still take more than a year. What's more, how is this possible? Liao Ji actually achieved this goal It must have been used for four or five years.
Spending such a long time on an unpopular standalone machine is actually not Liao Ji's style, but at that time, he happened to be at a relatively gloomy stage in real life, so it was more like a person than playing a game. A kind of... spiritual sustenance and a safe haven to escape reality, right?
Because of this, Liao Jicai has deep feelings for "Falling" and the characters he developed. During that time, they really brought happiness and healing to Liao Ji, the kind of person who gradually raised his beloved wife to become stronger. The feeling is really enjoyable. This may be the so-called character kitchen.
Although later on, after they helped him get out of the slump, he began to put more energy back into reality, and the game became more utilitarian, so he just wanted to clear it as soon as possible...
Phew, this really corresponds to the picture often posted by shady netizens.
[Don’t be fooled by a three-dimensional woman! 】
Liao Ji laughed to himself in his heart, but after all, it was a pity for the first week. He had already made up his mind when he chose the second week. This time, he would make up for them no matter what, and he must go to his wives no matter what. stick!
Liao Ji did not deliberately hide his expression, so Yilin could clearly see the girl next to her, the involuntary smile from the heart, the nostalgia and happiness when Liao Ji recalled her gaming experience. Chu, and the girl knew very well that this kind of emotion was difficult to fake.
"But didn't you say that when you came from the wasteland five hundred years ago..."
"That's right, so the person I like also lived five hundred years ago."
"Then...then isn't she already..." Erin's voice suddenly became softer, and the girl felt as if her chest was blocked by a big stone.
Through Liao Ji's few words, Yilin had already sketched the outline of a story in her mind.
Two people who obviously loved each other were separated due to various reasons. As a result, after the other party woke up, when they tried to find each other again, they found that the obstacle that hindered them was the farthest and most impossible to catch up in the world. distance - time.
When Erin thought of this, she was immediately filled with an indescribable feeling of sadness, as if she had returned to the time when she was a child, hiding under the covers, secretly reading romance novels, and then being tortured until she burst into tears.
Erin never expected that such a thing would really happen in reality, and it happened right in front of her eyes.
For a moment, the girl's eyes softened a bit when she looked at the young man opposite.
As for Liao Ji.
Well...
Seeing the distress and sympathy for him on the girl's face, Liao Ji thought for a while and decided that it would be better not to make it clear.
After all, if Erin knew that "they" were actually still there, and it was the plural quantifier "them", it would ruin the atmosphere a bit.
However, Liao Ji did not speak, but Yilin took the initiative and immediately asked:
"So you said you were looking for them...the five guards of the emperor. In fact, you were trying to find clues about the person you love through them, right?"
Well...
Liao Ji raised his head slightly and looked into the distance, the moonlight shining on the young man.
He first let out a long sigh, then shook his head and chuckled, creating the look of knowing that there was a dead end ahead, but still moving forward without hesitation, and finally nodded to Yilin and said:
"really."
After getting the same answer as she imagined, the girl nodded in understanding.
In this way, all the doubts in Yilin's heart were solved. Why was Liao Ji so obsessed with the emperor's personal guards? Why did Liao Ji still insist on the emperor's personal guards even after she had told her that the five personal guards now had such a high and noble status? Still unwilling to give up.
Yilin tried to exchange herself with Liao Ji. If the one she loved one day had to be faced directly by her, the five people at the pinnacle of power and strength in the world could save her...
In the end, the girl came to the conclusion that she would definitely make the same choice as Liao Ji. Even if they were the personal guards of the legendary emperor, Yilin firmly believed that she would be fearless.
Thinking of this, the girl instantly felt that the image of the young man opposite her in her mind had become a bit taller.
"Hmph, okay, okay, I admit that I was wrong before. I didn't expect...Old Antique, you are still such an infatuated person. With your feelings, I, Yilin, recognize you as a good brother!"
Yilin stretched out her pink fist towards Liao Ji, and then glared at the young man opposite who had not responded. After Liao Ji also stretched out her fist, the girl bumped her fist against the young man's.
"This is our contract as scavengers. From now on, you will be my brother, Yilin, and my brother's business is my business, so don't worry, I will help you! No matter how crazy it is, I will also go crazy with you!"
"Thanks."
"But what...ahem, before that, Old Antique, you have to help me cure my mother first." Yilin's face turned red, as if she also knew that she had just made a bold statement and praised Haikou. , but the next second it turns out that I have to ask for help from others, which is a bit embarrassing.
But after all, we are all buddies now, and it is normal for good brothers to help each other!
The other thing is...
"Actually, curing my mother will also help us find the goddess!"
"Oh? What should I say? Is your mother a member of the church?"
Liao Ji just asked casually, but to his surprise, the girl actually nodded.
"Humph, your mind is spinning very fast. You are right. My mother was once an official nun of the church. She even went to Michel City and was praised by the bishop of the church there!"
"That's a bishop. Do you understand? He's not at the same level as the bad priest here in the Black Cave!" Erin's face was full of pride.
This is indeed an unexpected surprise for Liao Ji. Halfway through the task, he suddenly found a hidden reward.
If I could get into the church through Yilin's mother and quickly establish contact, the time it would take me to see Scutia would be greatly shortened.
but...
Seemingly seeing Liao Ji's doubts, Yilin's expression darkened a bit, she turned her head slightly and said:
"Six years ago, my bastard father who became a Doomsdayer went berserk and was killed by the Knights as a corpse monster. After that, my mother was also implicated and deprived of her nun's rights by that damn **** priest. At the same time, we were charged with blasphemy and all the savings we had worked so hard to save were confiscated as punishment! Since then, our lives have plummeted. If Brian hadn't helped us, we might have even starved to death on the streets."
"So, since then, although my mother has always wanted me to study and become a nun in the church when I grow up, I have long recognized that the so-called church is also a bunch of *** bastards! What helps the suffering people, what brings us happiness, what a **** fart! After I dropped out of school, I went to the wilderness with Brian and began to learn the skills of scavengers from him. Our lives slowly got back on track, but who Thinking about it, everything was just about to get better, but my mother suddenly..."
Yilin finally gritted her teeth, and Liao Ji finally understood why the girl had so much resentment towards the priest and the church.
"Okay, you have already passed the most difficult part, haven't you? We will get to Auntie's place in a while. After curing Auntie's illness, we will leave the dark cave and you will welcome a new life."
"And what I want to say is, even if your mother is just an ordinary person, I will take her seriously and do my best to cure her. After all, this is what I promised you from the beginning, our work contract. ..Um, shouldn’t it be better to call it Brotherhood now?”
Liao Ji's serious words were like a strong electric shock. After hearing this, Yilin's chest began to pound. She quickly said in her heart that these are buddies, these are brothers. The other side said a little embarrassedly:
"Old antique, you must have deceived many little girls with your skills in picking up girls, right? You can fool people into dizziness with your words, you can just say them one after another!"
Liao Ji nodded at this and admitted generously: "Indeed, this may be the gold content from two hundred love comics."
"Haha, there are still two hundred romance comics. Not to mention the wasteland era five hundred years ago, today five hundred years later, just a bunch of authors who are too lazy to act like ***, update one more every day Zhang is just like wanting to kill them! Even if there are few updates, she is still squeezing out toothpaste! She keeps talking about that kind of supporting actress who has no shit skills and has a very bad temper. After a few chapters, the main plot has not changed at all. I am really convinced by these **** authors! I really want to lock them in a small dark room, and then whip them hard with a whip!"
"It's still like this after five hundred years. You told me that five hundred years ago, there were two hundred comics? Even a dog wouldn't believe it!"
It can be seen from Yilin's dangerous words through clenched teeth that online novels and comics have not developed very well in this era.
Liao Ji: "..."
"Okay, let's go quickly. Auntie's clinic should be just around the corner."
...
...
At the same time that Liao Ji and Yilin rushed to the clinic, maybe they could go a little further.
Sea Sand Bar.
It was dark inside the bar. Only through the moonlight could one see the scene that was in a mess after the battle and the knights' investigation.
Tables and chairs were staggered, broken wine bottles were scattered on the floor, the neon light tubes on the ceiling had long been broken, and several of them were still on the ground. A lot of dirt formed by the mixture of blood and alcohol could be seen on the floor.
It's such a lonely, deserted bar.
Sudden.
From somewhere in the corner, a red light flashed, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark bar.
That's a...
monitor.
The bar's original surveillance camera.
When Brian left, he had already turned off all the electrical appliances in the Haisha Bar. Later, he even turned off the main switch. The entire bar should be in a power outage. Logically speaking, it should never be restored. There are electrical appliances that work.
but.
Yes, surveillance cameras are part of the "security system". Even after a power outage, because there is an emergency backup power supply, it can be opened if forced to.
But the problem is...
It should be "broken".
Obvious things like surveillance records, when Liao Ji used [Ermagnetic Pulse], he had already destroyed them all. Otherwise, when the Knights came, they would know everything just by looking at the surveillance. .
The people in the Knights didn't have much doubt about this.
Because the doomed ones will release strong evil pollution when they go berserk, there are many case reports showing that the evil pollution will indeed affect dead objects such as electrical appliances, causing permanent malfunction and damage.
Therefore.
That's why the camera that suddenly "lit up" in the dark seems so weird and bizarre.
The surveillance camera that lights up in red is just the first step.
Immediately afterwards, the electronic screen corresponding to the camera in the monitoring room also lit up, and lines of text began to appear on the screen.
[Hack successfully...]
[Reboot the system successfully...]
[Trying to repair damaged data...The current progress is 14%...29%...40%...]
[Maximum amount of data recovered: 91%...]
[Start image analysis...]
The picture on the electronic screen changed, and the surveillance video of Haisha Bar in the past month flashed rapidly. Finally, the last scene of this video stopped at the moment when Liao Ji used [Ermagnetic Pulse].
The following scene belongs to the 9% of data that "it" failed to recover.
but...
that's enough.
I saw an empty monitoring room in the middle of the night, and the computer seemed to have autonomous consciousness and was operating on its own. It continuously enlarges a certain shot of the video and then enlarges it again.
Until the end...
What is magnified countless times by "it", and what fills the entire electronic screen now, is...
The slender and white neck of a girl.
Of course, this is not the point
The point is...
There is a complex and profound shackle-like pattern on the back of the girl's neck. Although it has been magnified countless times, the quality of the surveillance image has already become extremely blurry, and only the outline can be vaguely seen.
But that's enough.
【...】
【...】
[Number: 957956... The cumulative release time of this "observation object": 4,690,032 hours...]
[The "Ermagnetic" pulse ripple has been successfully retrieved...]
[A suspected "contract" structure has been discovered. After comparative analysis, it is 95% similar to the data in the library...]
[Determining... The highest calling conditions are met, requesting the execution of the "Ashes" procedure...]
[Request via...Call in preparation...]
[Temporary virtual platform construction...completed]
[Anti-virus network construction...completed]
[Brain-computer "S-11" combat chip pre-downloading...completed]
[Energy monitoring...completed]
【...】
【...】
[Awakening the maternal mastermind..."Zero"]
