Chapter 32 Urban Balance (Part 1)

"You'd better stop letting him run around, it's full of robots," Marcus said.

"Yes sir, thank you very much for your reminder." Shen Yi nodded to Marcus with a sincere expression, and pointed to Xi Xiaofan: "If you don't mind..."

"Of course." Marcus took a step back in a gentlemanly manner.

Shen Yi quickly walked in front of Xi Xiaofan, knelt down and said to him: "Xiaofan, go back with brother."

Xi Xiaofan just tilted his head and looked at the sky above him.

His eyes were empty, as if dead.

Shen Yi stepped forward and grabbed Xi Xiaofan's arm and hugged him, Xi Xiaofan jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on, desperately twisted his body and shouted: "Mom...Dad...Mom ……dad!"

The scream was shrill and sharp, and the piercer's heart was shaken.

Shen Yi shouted: "Okay, okay, be quiet, let me take you to see your parents, okay? Don't make trouble anymore, there are robots everywhere, if you keep running around, I can't protect you."

"Go home... go home..."

"If you can keep quiet I will take you home!"

Xi Xiaofan finally stopped moving.

Shen Yi carried him back and walked back.

When he came to Zhou Yiyu and Jingang, he put Xi Xiaofan down, and the boy stood there blankly, expressionless.

He was still muttering: "Go home..."

This made King Kong sigh, he patted the boy's head, and said in as relaxed a tone as possible: "Hey, don't worry, we will take you home after completing this mission."

"That...not...home..." Xi Xiaofan's dull voice floated like a ghost.

King Kong's heart skipped a beat.

He looked at Shen Yi, Shen Yi was expressionless.

Yeah, that's not home!

No matter how nice and safe the bloody city is, it's not home!

Perhaps in this life, they will never be able to return home.

Shen Yi looked back at Marcus in the distance, Kyle Liss and Xing Xing on the roof had come down and stood behind Marcus, the three of them looked at this side together.

After thinking about it, Shen Yi took out some food from the bloody emblem and handed it to King Kong: "Give this to them."

King Kong strode over with the food and handed it to Marcus.

Kyle's two children were obviously starving, and when they saw the food, they quickly took it and ate it.

"You don't look like you are being hunted down." Seeing the food and the clothes on them, Marcus suddenly felt something was wrong again.

The food was good, nice dim sum from China, foie gras and caviar from France, and some canned meat. It is impossible to eat all of these things even before Marcus fell asleep-he was a criminal in a federal prison in the United States before he was transformed into a cyborg. He was executed and agreed to hand over his body to a scientific research institution. Research...it wasn't the end of the world then.

And now the four men standing in front of his eyes are all wearing clean and tidy clothes. Although there are some traces of dust, the clothes are new, and each of them is dressed very well. Autistic teenagers wear a clean white shirt and a black coat—even finding something that fits is hard these days.

Although Shen Yi's lies are perfectly woven, he still needs to explain why they can maintain such a life in this chaotic and hopeless age.

Just a few minutes earlier, Marcus had been eating the meat of a two-day-old wolf cub.

Shen Yi walked over quickly: "We accidentally discovered a basement when we were escaping from the Terminator. It was full of food, various daily necessities, and guns and paper weapons, many of which were unused. We have Its people died, died of disease... He didn't stockpile medicine for himself. So we took some of it and went on the road."

"Is that basement far from here?" Kyle Reese asked.

"It's very far away. We lost several partners along the way."

This answer greatly discouraged young Kyle.

"Where are you going?" Marcus asked.

Shen Yi smiled: "Sir, I am very grateful to you for saving my brother's life, but I am not your prisoner, and I am not obliged to answer all your questions. As a thank you for saving people, I will leave some food for you , and then... I think it's time for us to leave."

"Please don't get me wrong!" Kyle yelled. "We just want to go to the Resistance Army, to John Connor. He will lead us to fight against the machine. Are you going to the Resistance Army?"

Shen Yi looked at the expectant expression on the young Kyle's face, and he shook his head: "No, we're not going to find the Resistance Army. We're just wandering around, fleeing, and avoiding the pursuit of machines. I think we're on different paths. "

"You can't hide from them forever, we have to stand up and fight!" Kyle yelled.

As the "future" father of John Connor, the leader of mankind, Kyle Jr. showed his rather courageous side.

When Kyle Liss said these words, the bloody crest in Shen Yi's hand suddenly beeped.

"Trigger plot task: Kyle Reese's invitation, protect the lives of Marcus and Kyle Reese. Marcus dies, deduct 2,000 blood points. Kyle Reese dies, deduct 3,000 blood points. Insufficient blood points , Erase. During the execution of the task, no coercive measures shall be taken against Kyle Liss and Marcus, otherwise blood points will be deducted according to the degree of coercion. This task is a collective task, one person accepts it, and all members undertake it. Yes/No."

Shen Yi was stunned, looking back in astonishment, he saw Zhou Yiyu King Kong was also looking at the bloody crest on his wrist, obviously he had received the same instruction.

In an instant, a thought flashed through Shen Yi's mind. He grabbed King Kong beside him, pressed his hand, and at the same time shouted at Zhou Yiyu: "Don't accept it!"

At this time, Zhou Yiyu's hand was already pressing on his bloody coat of arms, his expression was very excited, obviously happy for the sudden plot mission.

No matter how careless Shen Yi was, the spirit gun in his hand suddenly appeared, and the shot hit Zhou Yiyu's side. He was so frightened that he rolled on the spot to avoid it, and then he realized that it was Shen Yi who fired the gun, and shouted angrily: "What are you doing?"

Shen Yi strode over, grabbed Zhou Yiyu and shouted: "Don't accept this mission!"

At the same time, he looked at Xi Xiaofan, only to see that he was still staring at the sky in a daze, and did not respond to the prompt on the coat of arms, so he was relieved.

"Why? This is a rare hidden mission! We can get a lot of rewards." Zhou Yiyu shook Shen Yi's hand and shouted.

"It will be even more troublesome if you fail. Can you afford a loss of five thousand points?"

"We will not fail. With me here, no Terminator can catch up to us!" Zhou Yiyu said angrily.

Shen Yi shook his head: "You still don't understand? This may be the reason why we received this task."

"What did you say?" Zhou Yiyu was stunned.

"I said there is a problem with this mission! Don't you think it's strange? Why did things happen so coincidentally? Marcus and the others didn't show up early, and they didn't show up later, but they happened here, at this time? Time, place, when It's all too coincidental. You must know that the plot is not the main line of our mission!"

"We participated in the plot of Terminator 2018." Zhou Yiyu replied in a low voice, while Marcus and others in the distance were stunned by the scene they saw, obviously unable to figure out what happened.

Shen Yi's shot had completely exposed his own lies.

But Shen Yi couldn't care less, he said in a bad mood: "Then why are we and not others? The meeting place between Marcus and Kyle Reese can be anywhere in Los Angeles, why is it here? Our vicinity? At this critical moment?"

Zhou Yiyu was stunned, he finally noticed something was wrong: "You mean this is not a coincidence, but a deliberate arrangement by the city? This mission has a trap?"

"yes!"

"why?"

"When it comes to why, the answer to this question is complicated. But I want to ask you a question first. According to what we know, the difficulty of missions in Bloody City is increased according to the area. Only after crossing an area, we Only then will you encounter an obvious increase in the difficulty of the task, right?"

"Yes, the difficulty of tasks in the same difficulty area is roughly the same."

"That is to say, because adventurers increase their strength every time they go through the mission world. So as long as we improve fast enough, our strength can completely exceed the increase in mission difficulty, right? If this is the case, we can only When you enter a new difficulty area, you may face powerful dangers, and when you go to the last task in this area, it may be very easy. Under normal circumstances, the tasks in the same difficulty area should be completed more and more easily, yes Is that so?"

"...in theory."

"Then the question arises, why haven't I heard any adventurer say that the last mission in the fixed difficulty area was very easy? Have you heard such a statement?"

Zhou Yiyu scratched his scalp: "No, but so what? What does this have to do with our current mission?"

"Of course." Shen Yi replied seriously: "I have been working on the study of the bloody city. I am not interested in why it exists, but I am interested in its working habits. When I first participated in the official mission, that It was a team mission. At that time, our opponents were just ordinary German soldiers, but our mission was to defend the bridge, which meant that we had no room for maneuver in that mission! The second time was when we faced mutants with special functions. At that time, our The mission is to hunt mutants, which means we can choose our opponents. In fact, most of the adventurers who survived that mission have never even seen what Magneto is like! This time our mission is to escape, Our mission is just to stay alive, because our opponents are a steady stream of robots! Haven’t you noticed yet? In these three missions, all the worlds themselves are very different in difficulty! The worlds of the X-Men are on a par. So why are they put in the same difficulty zone?"

"Because of the mission mode, the difficulty of the world has been balanced?"

"That's right!" Shen Yi exclaimed: "Bloody City has been adjusting the difficulty of missions, but not through the difficulty of the world itself, but through the mission mode, which makes the difficulty of a region roughly the same. This is exactly why even if our strength increases again and again, we don't feel the task is so easy... When we were in the aircraft carrier, we have confirmed one thing, that is, when the situation changes, the bloody The city will definitely get involved, and now we know that its purpose of intervention is only one - to create balance! Then inferred from this point, if there are a few adventurers who can easily complete the task, it is very likely to give such adventurers To create some extra trouble, of course, it gives the practice a very nice name: extra missions!"

"Damn..." Zhou Yiyu and King Kong yelled out at the same time.