Chapter 113:
He pointed to the corner, but found that the person in charge had run away quietly.
No. 001 looked serious and indifferent, and his tone was calm, "Arrest them all and interrogate them one by one."
The scene suddenly turned into a pot of porridge.
The process of the ceremony was forced to be interrupted. When NB Company urgently dispatched additional personnel to test the new players' abilities, Tang Xiao was nowhere to be seen.
At the other end, Tang Xiao followed the floor guide to the twelfth floor of the player center.
This is what Mary said, the only place where the radiation can be removed from the player. What I saw was an empty hall. Behind the service desk stood a female intelligent life form, waiting quietly.
Tang Xiao walked over: "I want to buy radiation removal services."
A screen appeared in the air, which was a program to detect the existing radiation concentration and remaining life time in the player's body. After scanning Tang Xiao's body, a line of data appeared.
The receptionist said softly: "You have 48 hours left."
Tang Xiao raised his eyebrows: "48 hours?"
When Mary tested her before, it was obvious that there were only 24 hours left. Why is it suddenly doubled now?
She suddenly thought of the two filaments of light that fell from the huge light curtain in the hall on the first floor just now. When the light enveloped her, her mental power vaguely felt a warm current pouring into her body.
…It should be those two filaments that heal the body and remove radiation.
Each time the light filament falls, it can prolong the life of 12 hours. It seems that the arrival of the "oracle" is indeed beneficial to the player, not aimless.
Receptionist: "Are you sure you want to buy?"
gave a positive answer, the screen in front of me changed, and it became a price interface, listing different package services.
"Our radiation cleaning service is divided into four different modes, namely cheap package, ordinary package, noble package and king package, and the course of treatment is one hour. According to your current physical condition, you can The corresponding course of treatment is: the cheap package price is 5 life points/time, which can extend the life time by 24 hours, the normal package is 10 life points/time... The king mode is 100 health points/time, which can extend the life time by 100 days."
At this moment, Tang Xiao finally understood the deep meaning in Mary's tone before she left.
She looked around silently for a week, looking at the empty hall: "When was the last time someone bought a treatment here?"
The receptionist said softly: "According to the record, it was 3 years, 9 months and 12 days ago."
“…”
No wonder all the other areas are artificially received, only this hall has only one intelligent life form, and no human hands are needed at all, because only one guest will appear for three years!
Tang Xiao was speechless.
She looked at her life balance and asked, "Does your service technology belong to NB?"
Although the expensive price was expected, the extremely uneconomical price/performance ratio that "every fool can see" still made her feel that things were a bit weird.
NB Company will provide its affiliated players with the service of cleaning up radiation and extending their life for free. Although there are many restrictions, there will never be a situation of "adding only one day at a time".
The same is to clean up the radiation. Not only is the price amazingly expensive, but the effect is only for a few days. What is the difference between telling everyone "don't come to me"?
The receptionist shook his head and replied, "Our technology has nothing to do with NB, but is obtained from the convention. The special energy used to clean up the radiation also comes from the convention."
After her explanation, she introduced the mechanism of cleaning up the radiation.
The original so-called cleaning is to use a more powerful energy that does not harm the human body to devour the radiation received by the player, and then dissipate itself, and use the limit to achieve the goal.
And this energy came from the gods who first obtained the alliance domain from the mysterious universe race, and later retained part of it within the convention. Among the cosmic energies that have been detected so far, only this one can beat doomsday radiation.
This devouring method is somewhat similar to the devil seed, Tang Xiao moved slightly, and an idea suddenly came into being.
—If you evolve your own spiritual power or karmic fire to a certain level, can you also devour radiation and clean up like this energy?
Of course, this is just an idea, and she can't practice it with her strength. Therefore, Tang Xiao just pressed his thoughts to the bottom of his heart for a moment, and continued to listen to the receptionist's introduction.
Seems to realize that the price of the package is too expensive for the alliance field, the receptionist also added an explanation seriously: "The price of the package we set is strictly based on energy consumption and It is set by the equivalent replacement of the value of life points. The price has not changed for 127 years and 9 months in a row, and because there are no human employees, all equipment and materials are from the convention, and there is no profit or inflation. Please Customers can rest assured.”
If you are an ordinary player, you may not only feel uneasy when you hear this sentence, but you may even be anxious.
In several ordinary dungeons, the life and death add up, I am afraid that I will not save five life points without eating, drinking and exchanging skills, but here I can only extend the life of one day, whoever listens Will be desperate!
In contrast, NB company can extend the life of several months or even years for free, just need to enter the simple mode copy from time to time to open a wild, the benefits outweigh the risks, and it will naturally become "all Players' only option.
Although as long as you are not a fool, you can understand that there is something tricky in this... There is only a group of intelligent life forms at the bottom of the convention, neither cooperating with players nor appealing to players. The NB company is composed of human beings, and where there are human beings, there must be entanglements and conflicts of interest. What's more, the cosmic energy that can be used to clean up radiation is so rare that even the convention can only be used sparingly. How did NB use it in large quantities?
Intelligent life forms created by the convention, NB company mass production.
It can control the copy world and temporarily replace the system of world consciousness. NB also produces it in large quantities.
Directly use the special energy and doomsday radiation of commercialization directly, and simply and rudely flatten the dungeon world!
But the reality is that even if you know something is wrong, the player has no second choice. They can probably only comfort themselves:
--Anyway, NB company won't kill them, why think so much?
--All players come here like this, and some even become advanced players, which means that there is no problem, why should novice players care?
In all the relevant information that can be found, such opinions and suggestions will always be revealed intentionally or unintentionally. If it is a novice player who has no defense against it, in the process of understanding the alliance, These thoughts will be implanted unknowingly, coupled with the inability of reality to resist, it is logical to accept reality and become one of them.
In response, Tang Xiao, who had just participated in the auction of the relics of "Senior Player Weihan", looked at the cursed ragdoll in the portable space and the Weihan who did not know where to escape. My daughter's watch locator was unmoved.
Even if she was pulled into the game for only a few months, she could realize more and more clearly that the whole game was a pit for players, and NB was one of the pits pit!
No matter how much filth is hidden under the beautifully packaged shell, Tang Xiao is not interested. The only thing she needs to fight for now is the foundation of life: to live.
She just pondered for a moment, and then swiped ten life points neatly and went out: "I want to exchange for a normal package."
The normal package can extend her life by three days, which is enough for her temporarily.
"Come with me please."
The receptionist invited her into a small room with a smile. There was a small crystal coffin-shaped instrument in the center of the room. The inside of the instrument was glowing with a light golden halo. I don’t know what substance it was. .
According to the guidelines, Tang Xiao put on a mask and lay in it. As the crystal coffin closed, her consciousness gradually blurred. Before she fell asleep completely, she noticed that there was a warm current that was exactly the same as when the light filament landed before, slowly pouring into her body...
The darkness slowly subsided, Tang Xiao woke up and found that exactly one hour had passed.
There is no major change in the body, but I feel a little lighter when I raise my hands and feet. The receptionist explained that the special energy also has the effect of repairing the body and refining the physique.
When the card is swiped again, the balance in the ID card is only 16, and the remaining life becomes five days.
Tang Xiao's expression did not change, and his eyes were still bright and sharp. She nodded to the receptionist and tried to take off her mask, but was stopped.
"The air quality in Canterlot has been bad recently, so wearing a mask may help."
The receptionist smiled at her and returned to her place.
Tang Xiao suddenly thought of the NB employees who might be looking for her outside. She took a deep look at the receptionist, "Thank you for reminding me."
The receptionist didn't seem to hear, and still kept his eyes down, waiting quietly.
…
With the cover of the mask, Tang Xiao successfully left the chaotic and noisy player center, and took a public aircraft back to the edge area.
Leaving the central city, system Luo Er gradually woke up. Because the NB company and the convention have invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the central city, in order to prevent exposure, it has already taken the initiative to go to sleep, and it can no longer collect information and communicate with Tang Xiao.
Fortunately, there are pervasive media, Tang Xiao directly asked Luo Er to watch the news and live broadcasts of the Internet for two hours, and slowly analyze the information.
By the way, she also said that the male inspector looked somewhat similar to Chu Chen.
[Similar to NPCs in the dungeon world? 】
Luo Er was also a little dazed, the dungeon world and the alliance domain are separated, so it is reasonable to say that this kind of thing will not happen. It decided to take a good look at the relevant information in its own database.
Soon, looking along the transparent window next to the public aircraft seat, some deserted outlines of the edge area appeared in the field of vision.
However, just stepping on the familiar street, Tang Xiao paused, frowning and looking forward.
—along the entire narrow old street, all the buildings except the little house that belonged to her were flattened!
The street is still empty, no traces of construction left, only two flat ruins that stretch for hundreds of meters.
Opening the door, Tang Xiao saw the man in the apron still in the kitchen, humming softly, not knowing what he was tinkering with.
Seeing Tang Xiao coming back, the "lover" raised a smile, and the fox eyes narrowed slightly like two little moons: "Dear, you are back!"
He happily brought out two plates, only then did Tang Xiao see that he was cooking in the kitchen.
...just, those two black things on the plate...what are they?
Remembering the two plates of crispy and delicious meals she saw in the same location when she was pulled into the game on the first day, and then looked at the two plates of blackened and weirdly blocky brushed paste, Tang Xiao Feeling a pain in the brain.
So the meal that day was definitely not from the "arranged lover" in front of me...and maybe I won't be able to eat it again in the future, right?
After realizing this fact, Tang Xiao's gaze towards the "lover" instantly became much heavier.
The other party didn't even realize it, hummed a song happily and sat at the dining table, beckoning to Tang Xiao: "This is a dish that I have read many recipes and made according to the preferences of the ancient earth humans. Are they the same?"
Tang Xiao: "???"
Have you misunderstood the words "exactly the same"?
She sat down at the dining table with a heavy heart, and carefully put a chopstick into her mouth.
Such as, by, by, by lightning.
Although the body can tell that the paste is full of nutrients, the taste still protests strongly, Tang Xiao swallowed the contents of his mouth raw without chewing, and then drank the whole With a glass of water, he managed to swallow the strange taste in his mouth.
The man opposite also did the same, took a sip after imitating her actions, and ate it with relish, without showing any strange expression.
Tang Xiao gave up hope completely, she asked directly, "Can't your body feel the taste?"
"Lovers" was startled, then thought for a moment and replied: "Yes I really have no sense of taste!"
He's so proud!
Tang Xiao: "I can't cook either."
The only two humanoids in the house can't cook, and it seems that they will be cut off from the fragrant home-cooked food in the future.
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Giving up the part of eating, Tang Xiao asked about the demolition outside. It only took her two hours from going out to returning, and she was able to level an entire street in such a short time. You don't have to think about it and know that it is the handwriting of NB company.
Is this a deterrent or threat, or is it something else?
"Lovers" didn't know anything, indicating that she didn't hear anything. Tang Xiao didn't believe him, so he didn't bother to keep asking.
Seeing that the other party finished eating the "meal", she suddenly said, "Since you have no name and no idea until now, how about I give you a new name?"
It is difficult to communicate without a name. Although they spend very little time together, before finding a solution to this "arranged relationship", Tang Xiao decided to choose the one that is more comfortable for him. lifestyle.
More importantly, in the process of naming the system, she found that she had some talent for naming.
—There is an anonymous person in front of you, so don’t wait any longer!
Tang Xiao: "You will be called Xiaosan in the future!"
Luo Er's name is serial number 2, and the guy who is suspected of being an intelligent life in front of him uses serial number 3 as the name, which is simple, convenient and memorable. It is perfect.
It's her!
"Lovers" smiled stiffly at the corners of his mouth, and was silent for a moment: "…"
He lowered his head and coughed lightly, then raised his head and smiled, as if he had not heard anything just now: "Dear, I suddenly thought of a name that I really want!"
Don't like the name she gave? ?
Tang Xiao is a little unbelievable, but it is said that talented people will not say such things outright, but let people taste it for themselves. She endured and asked, "What do you want to be called?"
?"
"Luohe?"
Tang Xiao repeated it again, but it was nothing more than that. How could her "little three" be concise and powerful?
But the next second, she suddenly realized something, her eyes flashed slightly, and she directly called out Luo Er in the sea of knowledge.
"Luo Er, you said before that you retrieved an inexplicable name in the database, and nothing in the alliance field is named after it. What is it called?"
Luo Er: [Called Luohe, host. The Luo of Luoshui, the river of the glaciers, my current name "Luo Er" is what you gave me accordingly. 】