Chapter 220: Thin-skinned, heavy-skinned, kills five birds with one stone.
Even though Wei XVI was forced into the game by them, and had already shown enough sincerity, the necessary caution was still indispensable.
Chi Xiaochi and Lou Ying answered in unison, "Twisted."
The duo lied so tightly and word for word that both froze.
Lou Ying's reaction was not slow, and added the unfinished words in a natural tone, "Uh ...... I can only distort steel and steel-like hard substances, there is no way to kill the human body."
That's not exactly a lie.
The complexity and intricacies of the human body are comparable to a supercomputer capable of performing one billion floating point operations per second. Even if Lou Ying could maintain its peak computing speed, it would take eight hours of sleepless computing on a human being to remove one of his arms.
"Attack Ability!" Wei XVI's eyes lit up, "Awesome!"
"...... also has limits."
Lou Ying raises his hand, lifting the mask on the left side of his face a little.
"It will become like this if it is moved without moderation."
Seeing the horizontal scars underneath, Wei XVI sucked in a breath of cold air, couldn't help but empathize and touch his own face, and then turned to Chi Xiaochi, waiting for his answer.
Chi Xiaochi replied, "Transient."
Wei XVI hit a high five with a smug look on his face, "I guess that's it! At that time you disappeared in the blink of an eye, I guessed that you could have been instantaneous ......"
As he spoke, Wei XVI intended to head out of the forest.
Passing by the corpse, Wei XVI showed a regretful expression, slightly sighed, cupped a leaf, sprinkled on the ground can not be distinguished from the head or ass of the broken pieces.
"Dude, you want to live, but so do we."
In Wei XVI's eyes, the two people who had suddenly appeared with the clear goal of killing him were two contestants who wanted to fight for a chance to live.
It is like a piece on a chessboard, thinking that it has escaped from life by its own strength, not realizing that there is a manipulating hand above the chessboard.
After a short burial, Wei XVI skillfully unfolded the porcelain business: "Where are you people ah. I, A City, turned out to be a programmer. Haha, can not see that I work it. Other people say I look at the face tender. Guess what, I used to do part-time work, into the high school delivery, the janitor put me as a high school student, but also asked me which class is ......."
On his stand-up stage, Wei XVI doesn't need anyone to talk to him.
Lou Ying carries Chi Xiaochi on his back and quietly follows behind the noisy Wei Magpie.
He turned back half his face to look at Chi Xiaochi, resting his left hand on the crook of his knee while raising his right hand and waving it in front of Chi Xiaochi's eyes.
Chi Xiaochi understands, and he wants to give the two a high five for the silent agreement they just shared in unison.
Chi Xiaochi clamped the leg that was coiled around his waist, raised her left hand and lightly touched his right palm, but subconsciously misplaced it, and her finger fell between Lou Ying's fingers.
Lou Ying's fingertips snapped forward just in time to catch a hand.
He didn't force him either, just held on loosely.
Chi Xiaochi, if you want to escape, you can do it anytime.
But Chi Xiaochi doesn't draw back.
Lou Ying felt that Chi Xiaochi's fingertips stiffened for a few seconds, then regained their softness, and her index finger probed forward, as if knocking on a door, and pecked the back of Lou Ying's hand lightly.
He whispered in his ear, "...... I'm going to drop it."
Lou Ying laughed out loud and gentlemanly withdrew his hand to hold Chi Xiaochi's clearly coiled knees, "Hold me."
Chi Xiaochi rested her face on his back to cool down and muttered, "Fine."
As he was walking, Wei XVI suddenly turned back, "Take the liberty of asking ......"
Lou Ying and Chi Xiaochi look up at the same time.
He said, "You two are a couple, huh?"
Lou Ying: "......"
Chi Xiaochi: "......"
Wei XVI also noticed that this question was a bit abrupt: "I don't discriminate against homosexuality. Ah, I mean, compared to hetero discrimination, homosexuality has long been a non-issue nowadays. ......"
After realizing that he was getting darker and darker, he simply broke down, "...... I'll just ask."
Chi Xiaochi: "No."
Lou Ying: "Yes."
The ...... duo's tacit understanding is officially broken.
Wei XVI looked back and forth between the two, a little silly.
Lou Ying said with an austere demeanor, "I think so. But clearly there is still work to be done."
It's also a way of giving Chi Xiaochi a leg up.
Wei XVI's reflex arc is a bit long, dragged his voice "oh", began to analyze the key points.
"You ......" he pointed a finger at Lou Ying and then at Chi Xiaochi with a fervent nod, "are after him."
Chi Xiaochi: "......"
Lou Ying: "Right."
Chi Xiaochi : "...... gone."
Wei 16: "Wow, shy."
Chi Xiaochi : "...... can you suffocate without talking."
Wei XVI said with incomparable seriousness, "Can."
Chi Xiaochi began to think seriously about which formula would increase the viscosity of the air that would stick to his mouth with pinpoint accuracy.
Lou Ying, knowing that the one on his back was not amused, spoke up to relieve him, "Where are we walking to?"
At this point, the three were already out of the woods, just when the way ahead was unclear.
Chi Xiaochi jumps off Lou Ying, takes two steps out against the heavy air pressure, sets his wrist watch to casino mode and stares.
Lou Ying made the same move with him.
Only Wei XVI confused, see the two are looking at the watch, he also raised to look at a moment, can not see a reason, simply came up: "What are you all looking at?"
Chi Xiaochi didn't even look up, "Seeking protection."
Wei XVI: "Huh?"
Chi Xiaochi tapped the screen with her knuckles, "Look at the available death toll and see if any of the people who just tried to kill you are there."
Wei XVI fixed his eyes to take a closer look.
Between noon yesterday and now, there were six suicides and twelve killings.
Out of 101, 83 remain.
Each person's area of death and time of death was marked by a line of red letters.
And in the D20 district, it shows 0 deaths.
In the real-time pop-up area, everyone was betting on the treasure, but no one was discussing a fiasco that had just happened in the D20 area.
Wei XVI: "Wait, that's not right."
Chi Xiaochi said, "It's not right. Your odds themselves are not low, which proves that quite a few people have placed a small bet on you after seeing your powers and finding them interesting. Since they had placed their bets, you had value to them. The scale of the battle just now wasn't small, but neither did your odds change in the slightest, nor did anyone discuss the value of your battle and alien ability, or even the two of us ......"
He paused, "I think the only explanation is that these gamblers, with a large number of participants in the early stages, would only choose areas where battles were taking place to watch. If we take a macro overview of the whole picture from their perspective, we might just be a group of scattered, and constantly moving, red dots."
"...... As far as they're concerned, you were the only red dot in motion in the D20 area when the fight happened, and nothing happened."
Wei XVI was a man of roughness and finesse, still somewhat clever, coupled with Chi Xiaochi's analysis, how could he still not understand what had happened?
He was shocked, "Those two people who came to kill me were not participants in the game?"
Chi Xiaochi : "Not to mention the first person you killed, do you think that the second person who came after you looked like a rookie in his first killing game."
Wei XVI frowned, "I thought he had been a soldier ......"
To be able to unknowingly teleport an alien alien into this world, one would think that only the "organizer" of this killing show could do it.
He couldn't figure it out more and more, "No, I haven't broken any rules ah, why would the organization want to kill me? Besides, if they really want to kill me, they can just stick a needle directly into my neck."
Chi Xiaochi, without mentioning that Lou Ying had managed to block the poison injection function on his collar, said without batting an eye, "That's your business."
Lou Ying watched in silence as Chi Xiaochi coaxed Wei XVI around step by step.
When they were waiting for "Bai Anyi" to return, but accidentally found Wei XVI entering the D20 area, Chi Xiaochi offered to take Wei XVI as a backstory.
At first, Lou Ying wasn't very favorable to the proposal, "We can inform him to leave with us when we leave."
Chi Xiaochi said, "If the agency finds that there is no one in the D20 area, they will most likely pull past videos to see who killed the three of them."
Lou Ying: "I don't think it's very likely that the video exists. I've read Bai Anyi's memories, and the technological development of this world is not that advanced. The map of this virtual world is very large, and it is already at the top level to achieve the effect of real-time viewing without lagging, and if real-time video recording is carried out, the information flow that needs to be processed will be too huge, and the server will not be able to support it."
Chi Xiaochi: "'It is unlikely that it exists' is still the same as having it."
Lou Ying was speechless.
Chi Xiaochi said, "So I can't take that risk."
"Beyond that, there are reasons why I must do this."
"First." Chi Xiaochi raised his finger, "Assuming that the video really exists, no matter what action we take, once we enter D20 during this time period, Wei XVI will be implicated: if we go and alert him now, the organization will likely see him as our accomplice; if we don't go and alert him, he's unlikely to leave D20 on his own accord, either. If we don't, he's unlikely to leave D20 of his own accord, and in the end, the agency may still kill him all together to get it over with. Therefore, it would be better to let his accidental intrusion turn into an opportunity to pluck us out smoothly."
"Second, we need an ally. I believe that an alliance after experiencing life and death is more solid than a nodding acquaintance in a state of peace."
"Third ......" Chi Xiaochi raised a third finger, "I doubt him."
Lou Ying, startled, poked his head out from their hiding place and looked at Wei XVI, who was scooping up water to drink by the stream, "What's wrong with him?"
Chi Xiaochi said, "Do you remember how far the mobile card moved us out?"
Upon his reminder, Lou Ying immediately understood: "...... fifty kilometers."
"Yes, fifty kilometers." Chi Xiaochi said, "How did he walk those fifty kilometers in less than twelve hours?"
At that time, Lou Ying did not know about Wei XVI's supernatural powers.
He said, "Suppose he could teleport? Or run fast like that 'observer'?"
Chi Xiaochi : "That's too much of a coincidence. How did the person sitting across from me in the car on such a big map manage to find me here?"
"He's so suspicious, do we still have to pull him in as an ally?"
"Isn't it good to pull suspicious people out of the shadows and into the light?"
Lou Ying is still more accustomed to speculate on people from a position of goodness: "...... If, if he is really a good person, aren't you afraid that his life is in danger if you pull him down like this?"
"If that's the case ah ......" Chi Xiaochi leaned against a tree, closing his eyes slightly, "Since he's in my game, I won't let him die."
......
Lou Ying, extricating himself from his memories, looked at Chi Xiaochi, who was carelessly fiddling with his wristwatch, rather hopelessly.
I don't know if the man is thin-skinned or heavy-skinned.
"The fact of the matter is that you were targeted by the agency for reasons unknown. And now, the agency has probably learned of the deaths of those two. And we, who saved you, became grasshoppers in the same boat."
Chi Xiaochi made a brief closing statement.
Wei XVI was straightforward, skipping the unnecessary questioning and directly asking the question he was most concerned about, "Then what should we do next?"
Chi Xiaochi said, "Didn't I say, seek protection."
Wei 16: "...... to whom? Who can protect us?"
Chi Xiaochi flipped his wrist over and flashed the gambling information on his wristwatch, "Them."
Wei 16: "Who are they?"
Chi Xiaochi: "Money."
He asked a dumbfounded Wei XVI, "How much is each bet they place worth, do you know?"
Wei XVI: "I've seen them chatting. According to our country's exchange rate, each bet is at least a thousand dollars."
Chi Xiaochi sighed, "Quite a lot."
Wei XVI was a bit anxious, "Yes, yes, yes, quite a few. How do we get them to protect us?"
"Those people, aren't they paying for their lives." Chi Xiaochi said, "Then I have to make them notice how much our lives are worth. The more people who buy our lives, the more eyes will be watching us. That way, even if the organizations want to do something to us, they won't find the opportunity."
For some reason, Wei XVI had some bad premonitions, "How do you plan ...... to make them notice us?"
Chi Xiaochi : "It's simple. Just make them lose their pants."
With that said, he clicked on the names of those odds-on favorites while keeping a close eye on the pop-ups on the sidelines, seemingly weighing his options.
Wei XVI dawned on him and sucked in a breath of cold air, "You're going to kill those people they paid a lot of money for the bet?"
Chi Xiaochi raised her eyebrows and asked rhetorically, "No?"
魏十六:"......You ...... In that case, what's the difference between you and those who wantonly kill people? We just need to form a squad and be ready to defend ourselves ......"
"Oh, and when these activists kill everyone else and finally come to kill you, and you kill them, you're acting in self-defense, and you won't have to have a conscience." Chi Xiaochi said, "That would comfort your good heart, wouldn't it."
Wei XVI choked.
"Keeping those people around will only create more death. Most of these 101 people are from the peaceful world, and how many people do you think would actually enjoy killing if these shit-stirrers didn't exist?"
Wei XVI hesitated, "Do you ...... want to solve the people who are ranked ahead of the others, and everyone will live in peace?"
Chi Xiaochi, however, smiled without saying a word.
Wei 16: "This is too romanticized. Didn't the organization say that only three people are allowed to go out ......"
"Those are the rules set by the agency." Chi Xiaochi said, "According to my rules, anyone willing to join my squad, I have a way to get them out alive."
Wei XVI categorically said, "That's impossible, you're talking in your sleep."
Chi Xiaochi was noncommittal: "Then you can pretend I'm dreaming."
Having said that, whether Wei XVI could understand it or not, Lou Ying understood it.
He used his 061 access, turned on his voice, and said to Chi Xiaochi in his head, "I agree with you."
"Mr. Six." Chi Xiaochi used that long-forgotten term of endearment, the tail end of it still rising upward, sounding almost a bit pouty, "You still understand me."
Lou Ying said in a deep voice, "Your real target, it's 'Catfish', right?"
Quickly, he amended his remark, "No, not just 'catfish' either. You're hitting multiple birds with one stone."
Chi Xiaochi didn't intend to hide anything from Lou Ying and said, "Firstly, killing the person with the best odds will make those who gamble lose everything. They are too happy. Sitting at home, blowing the air-conditioning, and making fun of people's lives and deaths, I'm not happy about it."
Lou Ying Solely mimicked his vigorous tone and said, ''Secondly, killing those with the best odds will safeguard the personal safety of the other low Exalted. I'm afraid that these people have already discovered the truth about the 'Protection Program'. The more they kill xenos, the more they'll realize the progress of their own strength, the more they'll understand the significance of the agency setting up this Battle Royale, and the more they'll turn aggressive and engage in endless slaughter - solving them will be able to save the lives of more xenos who are unwilling to kill."
Chi Xiaochi continued, "Third, catching 'fish'."
Lou Ying added, "Fishing for 'catfish'."
"Bai Anyi" went out and got valuable information.
Not only did he bring back information about the 'Alien Protection Program', but through his investigation, he also confirmed that the "observer" named Lu Qingshu was not lying.
The "catfish" are indeed divided into two groups, one of which is officially raised by the organization, while the other is arranged among the 101 people. These two groups of "catfish" do not communicate with each other, and no one knows the identity of the other.
The agency "Bai Anyi" has penetrated is the location of the official "catfish".
The "catfish" within the group are most likely still lying in the same secret place as Bai Anyi's real body, asleep together.
Chi Xiaochi said, "Since the 'catfish' in the team have secretly signed a cooperation treaty with the organization, they must be holding something like a teleportation aperture, a token that can save their lives at critical moments, just like the official 'catfish'. ...... like tokens that can save their lives at critical moments, that can briefly pull their virtual consciousness bodies back into their bodies, or something like that."
Lou Ying's thoughts flew, catching up with Chi Xiaochi without missing a beat: "You mean, the Iron Plate?"
Chi Xiaochi: "Think about why Bai Anyi had to die in his last life."
Lou Ying recalls what happened before Bai Anyi died, "...... because Bai Anyi took away the iron plates of the two 'catfish'. The two new 'catfish' came to reclaim the iron plates."
Chi Xiaochi : "So, our trio is going to kill the people at the top of the rankings and make the noise as big as possible. That way, 'Catfish' will come to kill us even if it's for self-preservation. We'll then have a chance to hold them hostage and see if there's a chance to utilize the Iron Tag to make ' Bai Anyi ' teleport one more time, go outside, turn off the controller, and liberate all the imprisoned Exalts."
Chi Xiaochi's decisive and determined charisma as he spoke word for word about his plans made him look as if he was shining.
Lou Ying's tone was already one of suppressed admiration and tenderness, "Restoring freedom to as many shifters as possible, this is the fourth bird you've shot down with a stone, isn't it?"
"There's one more." Chi Xiaochi said, "...... fifth, fishing out all the 'catfish' for ' Bai Anyi ' and Bai Anyi two, avenging a past life."
The two of them picked up on each other's words with an unbelievable smoothness.
By this point, the plan was taking shape and both men were silent.
After a brief moment of silence, Chi Xiaochi said, "This plan is still too risky, and like Wei XVI said, it will take dreamlike good luck to make it happen. Will you help me take that risk?"
Lou Ying was speechless for a moment.
...... He just hates that he can't kiss him right now.
Chi Xiaochi waited patiently for Lou Ying's reply until his soft voice rang in his ear, as if he were kissing his ear with his voice.
"As long as you want to." Lou Ying said, "...... As long as I can."
Published at: 12/21/2024 06:00