Chapter 24 Cruel Record (Part 2)

"Ah! Sorry, sorry!" Yeyue quickly ran over and put some saliva on my arm. My arm and the guy's chest returned to normal, but the other parts of the guy were still the same. It's a stone.

"Ah...ah..." A miserable scream came from behind us. Rose was startled by the scream as soon as she entered this space.

It turns out that there is a huge factory area behind the space door, and the screams came from there. In addition to the white factory building, we also saw many Japanese ninjas running here, but because they were far away, they had not reached us yet.

"8731!" Rose covered her mouth in surprise.

"Why is 8731 here?" Lingling was also surprised to see the huge numbers marked with red paint on the huge factory building.

"What is 8731?" Among the four of us, only Yeyue asked inexplicably. Rose and I are both real people. Lingling also has a physical body and has received education in real-life knowledge, but Yeyue doesn't know this. She is a life in the game and knows nothing about the real world outside.

While we were stunned, the group of ninjas had already rushed forward. When Yeyue saw that we didn't answer, she had to fight with the ninjas first. These ninjas are only suitable for sneak attacks and assassinations. They are far less powerful than Japanese samurai in frontal combat. They are not on the same level as Ye Yue and can be defeated in a few seconds. As soon as Yeyue took care of the enemy, she swam back again and pestered me to ask what 8731 was.

"It's not a good thing anyway. Let's dismantle it first." I pulled Yeyue towards the factory area.

8731 is actually the name of a laboratory, and not everyone in the real world knows this name. The predecessor of 8731 was Unit 731, the bacterial force established during Japan's war of aggression against China. This sensational unit was completely destroyed after the war of aggression against China, but not all the personnel in 731 were killed. The scientists who broke away from this army were divided into two parts, and one of them formed the 8731 laboratory.

From a technical perspective alone, 8731 and Longyuan can be considered peers. We are both doing biological research, but our development directions are slightly different. Longyuan's goal is to decipher and re-encode the genetic code. The b13 in my body and the technology used to make Lingling belong to genetic code deciphering, and the lucky manufacturing technology belongs to recoding technology. As for the virus bomb dropped by the persecution expert last time in Japan, it is actually a low-level application of recoding technology. That’s fine. It's as simple as using the technology used to build a space shuttle to make a remote control airplane model for yourself. The research direction of 8731 is also biotechnology, but they are relatively low-level and cannot be compared with us. Japan's 8731 is actually conducting research on gene grafting and hybridization technology, which is why they need living organisms to conduct crazy biological experiments. Our Long Yuan's genetic coding technology only needs to draw some blood for experiments, and there is no need to conduct direct experiments on experimental subjects at all. It's not on the same level at all.

Although this 8731 is considered a confidential unit, there are still many people who know about it. It is like the U.S. Digital Soldier Project. Although everyone knows that such a thing exists, no one knows the specifics. This is also the case in the world. Everyone knows that there are 8731 researchers in Japan who are engaged in biological research. As for what they are researching, not many people know. Yeyue is not a real person at all. There was no way to explain it to her, so we simply stopped explaining it.

When we rushed to the outside of the factory, we encountered a large number of guards again. I simply released all the magic pets and eliminated all these guards in three strokes, five divisions and two divisions. We walked to the factory that no longer had any defense force, and luck and plague pulled down the door of the factory together. Everyone in the factory immediately turned around and looked at the door. For a moment, we and everyone in the factory froze.

Although this place looks like a factory on the outside, the inside looks more like the abdominal cavity of some giant creature. The surrounding walls and floors are all covered with dark red biological tissue, and huge blue-purple pipes crisscross the factory building like grapevines. Obviously these are things like blood vessels and nerves. There are even red muscle tissues beating continuously near some walls, as if huge hearts are trembling. Under the ground with red mucous membranes, there is a staggered skeletal structure, and blood vessels like pipes are intertwined like old tree roots. The huge muscle tissue hanging down from the roof was covered with tumors like the tentacles of an octopus, and green-yellow mucus was flowing on the surface of the red tissue. It was simply more disgusting than the creatures from hell.

There is a large group of people on the left side of this huge factory building, including men, women, old and young. Some of these people were wearing Japanese kimonos and some were wearing Korean clothes. Most of them looked like ordinary people. If there can be such a large group of people dressed up in daily life in the game, they must be free NPCs. Players generally rarely wear traditional clothing even in non-combat professions. Not to mention such a large group of people would show up. Freedom is everywhere, in every city and village in the game, large and small. Guilds can post announcements in cities to recruit troops and workers, and free NPCs can sign up to participate and then automatically evolve into labor NPCs or various combat NPCs. In-game player mission NPCs are usually mixed with free NPCs, which adds authenticity to the game. In previous games, there were only a few NPCs. If you asked all the NPCs for any tasks, you would definitely be able to find them. But here, it is impossible for you to find the task NPCs without using your brain.

The number of these free NPCs in front of us is more than 100,000. And they are all made of rope. They were tied together like animals ready for slaughter. Their clothing spoke of their origins, the ones wearing kimonos were obviously transported from Japan. As for those wearing Korean clothes, they are probably free NPCs in the two Korean cities. The battle lasted for so long and we didn’t see a single free NPC in the city. I thought they all ran away, but I didn’t expect that they were all here.

On the right side of the factory building is a huge colorful hill. At first I thought this was part of the factory building because it looked similar to the wall of the factory building. After a closer look, I realized something was wrong. These are not part of the factory at all. But a pile of corpses. They are said to be corpses, but in fact none of them are complete. What we can see here is a huge pile of rotten meat mixed with red, black, and white colors. In fact, if it weren't for the equipment and the work being done in the middle of the factory, I wouldn't even be sure of the origins of these piles of meat. They no longer have anything to do with humans. There are no parts that can be seen as human organs. Everything is blue and mushy, with no complete parts at all.

In the middle of the factory are ten huge red tables, each with a firmly fixed free NPC lying on it. The heads of these free NPCs are 'inserted' with a translucent flexible substance that looks like optical fiber. At this time, blue arcs continued to come out of the heads of those free NPCs. Along this fiber-like thing, I want to transmit it. Following the direction of the arc, you can see that these optical fibers merged into a relatively thick line on the roof, and then this thick line entered the red tissue on the roof, and was invisible behind it.

There are three to five Japanese standing around the free NPCs on these tables. Their armor shows that they are players rather than NPCs. These players all held various tools in their hands, some were saws, some were shovels, and some were daggers. Just looking at the tools, one would think they were carpenters. But the bloodstains on their bodies and the disemboweled free NPCs on the table showed that they obviously had nothing to do with the carpenter.

These Japanese are actually doing anatomy, and the free NPCs lying on the table are all alive. The wide-open eyes and twitching limbs showed that they were still alive, and the bulging meridians showed what kind of pain they were suffering. There was a naked little girl lying on the table relatively close to us. She was looking at us with her only eye and her head tilted, and her five little hands with abnormally bent fingers were shaking in our direction. . As if trying to catch something. Her chest to lower abdomen were completely open, and the purple-red internal organs were exposed in the air. A Japanese player's hand holding a scalpel was still in her abdominal cavity. This Japanese player seemed to be planning to cut off some organ, but was stunned when we suddenly opened the door.

"Alas..." Rose suddenly collapsed. Yeyue reacted quickly and caught her with her tail. Although Rose has been trained as a spy, her mental endurance has its limits after all.

"Yeyue, put Rose on Xiaoxue's back and send her to the Giant Mosquito Outpost first."

"It's better for me to go." A Di Na rubbed her temples: "I want to vomit, please go back and rest temporarily."

"If there are any of you who can't do it, please leave first." After I finished speaking, I shook the claws of both hands, and the claws were extended to the second length again. "You bunch of beasts!" I jumped directly in the air, and a guy trampled a Japanese player next to this poor little girl to the ground, and inserted the blades and claws of his hands from between his ribs. Got in. "It's great, isn't it? Is it enjoyable?" I turned the blade claw slightly. The guy roared in pain like a killing pig.

Ling shouted to everyone around him: "Why are you still standing there?"

The other demon pets immediately reacted and rushed forward together. The Japanese in front of these tables were all rubbish in fighting ability and were no match for the Demon Pets. They were all subdued within a minute.

I threw those guys to my magic pet and turned around and walked to the little girl. She still looked at me with one eye open. The blade claws of both hands retracted into their sheaths with a click, and he took off his helmet and handed it to Ling, switching the translation system to automatic recognition mode. "How can I help you?"

The little girl's only eye closed weakly for a moment and then opened slowly, while red blood was still flowing in the other eye socket. She opened her mouth, only to spit out a mouthful of blood. "Kill...kill...I...cough...puff...!" After barely speaking a few words, she began to vomit blood violently.

Xiaochun walked to me. "She is hopeless. Free NPCs are not like us. Resurrection is ineffective."

I nodded and slowly raised my right hand, and the blade claw popped out with a clang. A red blade flew past. A little heart flew out, and the little girl closed her eyes with a smile. Ling and the others immediately imitated me and asked the half-dead free NPCs on several other platforms. In the end, they were all forced to help them relieve the unbearable pain.

I turned around and walked over to the guy who was still howling on the ground. I kicked him on the chest and stabbed his left eye with the blade claw still covered with blood. The guy immediately covered his eyes and howled like a ghost. stand up. "Why do you do this?" My voice was as cold as a polar storm. These guys were so shocked that they forgot that they could force themselves offline to avoid me. Although you will definitely lose all your physical equipment and be killed two levels, it is definitely better than being tortured by me. Unfortunately, they had completely forgotten about it because of their nervousness.

The guy was still whining, and I suddenly turned my blade claw and pulled out his entire eyeball. "Say quickly." I moved the blade claw to his other eye.

"It's Matsumoto-kun's request, it's none of my business."

"Yes! This is Yu..." A guy next to him suddenly shouted. He must have thought that this was a game that could be offline, but he was a step too slow, and Yeyue had already petrified him.

I turned back to this guy again. "Why does Masamoto Matsumoto want you to do this?"

"Because...because creating a ghost army requires pain."

Ling also came over. She pointed to the roof. "It's those lines that extract the pain, right?"

"Yes."

“Where does the line end up?”

"On the second floor. There's a room."

"I'll go." Yeyue quickly turned around and ran towards the stairs.

Although the guy was petrified just now, as soon as the shock passed, the Japanese immediately remembered it and ran away one after another. I have no interest in these soulless bodies. I will kill them all after stripping off their equipment.

Yeyue quickly came back with six things that looked like water bottle bladders. "There are two more on top, I can't get them."

Ling looked at these bottles and said: "The negative energy inside is incredibly powerful and has the same function as the wronged souls."

"Why does Little Japan collect these things?"

"The devil knows."

I pointed to the group of people tied up over there and said, "Send these people out first."

Ling quickly led everyone over to help, and the person who was rescued first helped others untie the rope. After all, the number of people is huge and it cannot be done in a short time. In the end, I had to call some Tyrannosaurus Knights from outside to come in and help to get all these people out.

While everyone was untying the rope, I took Ling, Xiaochun, and Yeyue to inspect the factory. The huge biological tissue in the factory is not a complete organism. It only has an internal organ-like organizational structure but no other parts. We searched for a long time but still didn't find out what the purpose of this thing was. I don’t know what’s special about this thing other than it’s extremely disgusting. Ordinarily, even if Little Japan is a pervert, he shouldn't put such a creature in a factory for no reason. That would be too strange.

We couldn't find the reason, so we had to go back to the factory first, but we found those free NPCs standing together outside the factory without leaving. "Why are they still here?"

The little dragon girl in human form handed me a piece of paper: "They said they wanted to mess with you."

"Ah? Why do I need so many free NPCs?"

"Look at that piece of paper and you'll understand."

I looked at the paper in confusion. There are only four words written on the front: "Wanmin Zhongbiao", and the back is densely covered with red marks. I don't know what they are. It suddenly occurred to me that Xiao Longnu might not just want me to read the words on the paper. Maybe this thing has properties.

Not to mention, this thing really has properties. This ordinary piece of paper is actually a rare guild equipment. The function of this piece of paper is loyalty, not player loyalty, but NPC loyalty. As long as the guild has this thing, the free NPCs in the cities established and controlled by the guild can fully support the guild. Although free NPCs have no combat effectiveness. But don't underestimate them. The group that accounts for the largest proportion of the population in the game, even if it is ants, is very powerful together.

Free NPCs in normal cities only work in the city and will not show any special reaction to guilds. If someone attacks the city, free NPCs will not intervene at all. Anyway, if another guild controls the city, they will still live their lives. But with this piece of paper it's different. The free NPCs in the city under the control of the guild will show a sense of belonging to the guild, and they will spontaneously use their own strength to help the guild.

The way free NPCs help is first of all a labor issue. These NPCs will be more diligent than free NPCs in other guild cities. Work efficiency will be greatly improved. When a foreign enemy invades. Free NPCs will pick up farming tools and anything and join the battle. Essinger has a military formation. Free NPCs can be temporarily added to the army, but that is only available to Essinger. With this piece of paper, all cities to which our guild belongs can have this function.

In addition to participating in the war, free NPCs can also help their guilds catch spies and collect intelligence. Most players would not think of guarding against free NPCs because they are basically neutral. But this piece of paper can make free NPCs no longer neutral. If spies from other guilds are operating in your city, any clues will be discovered by free NPCs. They will take the initiative to report to the regular defense forces in the city. This is equivalent to turning all free NPCs in the city into the eyes and ears of the guild. And the features don’t end there. There are also merchants and travelers among free NPCs, who travel between other cities. This loyalty contract allows these free NPCs who leave the guild's city to automatically report all the useful information they collect to the city defense team of the guild when they come back, which is equivalent to hundreds of thousands more free spies.

In addition, a voluntary militia organized by free NPCs will appear in the city where the guild that owns this paper belongs. The militia does not consume guild resources and is mobilized by the city guard during peacetime. During wartime, it is automatically incorporated into the city guard and accepted by senior guild personnel. Although the combat effectiveness of the militia is not that of the regular army, they are more numerous. The properties of this paper say that the number of militiamen is one-tenth of the number of free NPCs in the city. Essinger has a population of nearly 100 million, and free NPCs account for more than 95%. There are nearly 90 million people. Doesn't this mean that there will be more than 9 million militiamen? It's really fierce. With more than nine million, even ants can bite many people to death. Also, if the city to which the guild belongs is occupied by others, all militiamen in the city will automatically transform into guerrillas. If you cause destruction in this city at any time, there will be no peace even if others take down your city. Even if these militiamen are killed, they will still develop new members in the city, unless others kill all the militiamen at once. Otherwise, even if there is one left, it will return to the original number soon, which is more troublesome than all-purpose glue.

Such a small piece of paper has so many functions, which is an unexpected bonus. But to be honest, if I had a choice, I would rather this thing not happen than not get this thing. Although a professionally trained person like Rose fainted, I was actually not completely unresponsive. Although I have always been quite nervous. But it's not unlimited. Now I always feel that my heart is blocked, and whenever I close my eyes, I can see the little girl's eyes asking for help. Everything was good in the last game upgrade, but the open bloody mode was not so good.

By the time we came out of this hyperspace, the battle was already over. Because we wasted some time and moved a step too late, the ghost army manufacturing machine was still taken away by Matsumoto Masaru through the tunnel. But there is no need to worry about this ghost thing for the time being. Among these free NPCs who have taken refuge with me, there are also some Japanese free NPCs wearing kimonos who were captured in Japan. Ling Yuanbuki reported that Black Dragon would collect free NPCs in Japan, but in fact they all were sent here. That hyperspace machine has similar functions to the space gate of the Earth Mother. The Japanese used this thing to load their troops in their sneak attack on South Korea this time. Then it was shipped to South Korea in one trip. It was because of this machine that Koreans were caught off guard.

Free NPCs from Japan said that they had seen the working process of the ghost army manufacturing machine. The people of the Black Dragon Society first tortured and killed these free NPCs. The huge pipes in the factory were used to collect pain. When they were dissected, the pain actually produced negative energy, which was collected and put into things like water bottles. The things Yeyue found were used to store negative energy, and these energies were the necessary materials to create the ghost army.

The ghost army manufacturing machine needs to consume crystal coins and this negative energy when manufacturing the ghost army, and it also needs to consume a lot of water. Masamoto Matsumoto's ultimate goal of letting people collect free NPCs to produce negative energy was to create a ghost army. As a result, these free NPCs were in bad luck.

In this way, even if we grab the manufacturing machine, it will still be a pile of scrap metal for us. That thing requires painful energy. I can't torture people to extract negative energy like Little Japan, so to me, the machine is just scrap metal. On the contrary, this hyperspace warehouse is more useful. After demolishing that disgusting factory building, it can be used as a mobile military station.

We withdrew to the camp and prepared to take a rest before continuing to attack the city in the middle, but Matsumoto Masa seemed to be very aware. Before we could regroup, they had already begun their retreat. What the Japanese rely on is the ghost army. Without this thing, they can't stop the Koreans, let alone us here. The presidents in South Korea requested to pursue the enemy while they were retreating, but I refused. Although I dissuaded them from pursuing it, they still pursued it. Pu Yin was very obedient, and the people in her guild wanted to chase them, but she scolded them and went back to squatting on the ground to count ants. Koreans are like this, one level will crush people to death. It is common for superiors to insult subordinates and teachers to beat students.

Initially, those who were scolded back were still a little unconvinced, but soon a loud noise washed away all their dissatisfaction. Little Japan planted bombs in the city. After the Korean guilds rushed into the city, they only encountered a small number of cheap troops hired by the Japanese to resist. Then there was a big explosion. Those cheap troops and the last few heavenly soldiers purchased by the Korean guilds also came together. Reimbursed.

The last time we fought in Fulcrum City in Japan, our guild was forced to abandon the city. As a result, a bomb wiped out the city and tens of millions of Japanese troops. Little Japan is very good at learning. They also learned this trick and used it against the Koreans this time. Su Mei had already guessed that Little Japan was going to do this, but the guild presidents just refused to listen, and now it was too late to regret.

Before the war started, the Korean guilds ordered a total of more than 3.5 billion heavenly soldiers from us worth more than 3.5 billion crystal coins. After the war, except for the beautiful Tianji League who still had some unorganized heavenly soldiers, the rest were all reimbursed here. Su Mei, this little naughty boy, had an idea. Since Heaven hasn’t discovered that we are reselling Tianbian, we might as well sell some more to Koreans.

Not to mention, the Korean guild really couldn’t wait to agree. Firstly, they have seen the strength of the heavenly soldiers in this battle, and secondly, they have suffered heavy losses and really need to replenish their strength. However, the Koreans' pockets were basically wiped out last time, and this time they are unable to do so. Linlin Zongzong and these guilds only had a total order of 300 million crystal coins, which was less than one-tenth of the last time. But I won’t be dissatisfied with the lack of money. Besides, 300 million is not a small amount.

That night we had another party with the Koreans. Although it was a bit miserable, we drove the Japanese away after all. During the celebration, we signed another construction contract with the Koreans. Our bank will undertake the reconstruction work of two destroyed Korean cities. This project is worth 200 million crystal coins. According to the productivity level of our guild, we can earn at least 100 million in net profit.