End of Mystery

Chapter 219 Collaborators in the World of Normal People

"Enhanced?"

The moment Xiao Xiao regained his consciousness, he let out a breath and looked down instinctively.

The heart in the box is gone, my chest is still intact, and my skin is still fair...

Of course this is not the point.

When Xiao Xiao took a deep breath, he could feel the heart in his chest beating heavily. It was powerful and warm. He seemed to be in better spirits. He felt an abnormal power. He didn't know how to describe it. It feels like the core of some complex machine has been replaced, and the appearance looks exactly the same, but it has different layers.

only……

...How is this enhancement accomplished?

In Xiao Xiao's mind, thinking about it carefully, he only felt a little at a loss.

Previously, he had strengthened other elements, even including the process of purchasing some special elements, and he remembered clearly. Only this time, he seemed to have fallen into a trance, and his consciousness jumped instantly. When he returned, the strengthening had been completed.

He knew nothing about the process that could be completed.

"never mind……"

Xiao Xiao thought to himself: "Anyway, it's impossible to tear open my chest and stuff it in directly."

According to my own understanding, some bloody things at the level of foreigners are actually not the case at all from the perspective of reality. For example, Ling Ping with red eyes, his eyes were transplanted from others, but in reality, this is just His spirit constructed the appearance of other people's mental circuits, and applied the effect to his own eyes, so it looked like it.

But those eyes were still his eyes in essence.

It can be understood as seeing a person's eyes, which are extremely sharp and majestic.

So through study and training, I also learned this look.

Although I don't know what's going on with this unquenchable heart, I think it's similar to the eye transplant.

I slowly passed this section in my mind, but I suddenly thought of a question:

"Why was my clothes torn?"

"..."

Deep in his perception, he also faintly felt that he was in a trance, as if there was a shadow around him, but because the memory was too vague, it was difficult to form a whole. He tried a few times, but he could only give up and slowly tied it own buttons.

"Have you finished strengthening?"

At this time, Lin Bo also walked over with a nervous face, and looked at Xiao Xiao fixedly: "How is the strengthening?"

"Is there any new ability produced?"

"..."

"ability?"

Xiao Xiao frowned slightly, felt it for a while, but was a little dazed, and looked up at Lin Bo: "Shouldn't this be asking you?"

"Not extinguishing the heart can let me enter the fourth stage of strengthening, you said."

"..."

"I don't know, I'm not in the fourth stage."

Lin Bo was surprised and said: "The Unstoppable Heart is the fourth stage of the research of the Inspector, and it was calculated by our instructor. I only know the answer, but I don't know what it looks like. On the contrary, I was thinking about it." Let me find out about the specific changes brought about by strengthening, and use it as my data... Our instructor should like this specific data very much."

"You don't even know what will change, so you recommend it to me?"

Xiao Xiao vaguely felt that something was wrong.

After I completed the third stage of strengthening, I thought that the strengthening was almost over. After all, there are a large number of lord-level powerhouses, and they will not force themselves to enter the fourth stage of strengthening. Anyway, the accumulated points can be used to buy some powerful ones. Weapons can be used to cultivate manpower for oneself, or to "pollute" the rulers of the aborigines more, so that they can control the city more deeply.

Only a small number of people will choose the "fourth element".

I wanted to choose the fourth element in order to understand what happened before.

But because I didn't know anything about how to enter the fourth stage, I went to ask Lin Bo on Yang Jia's suggestion, and after getting Lin Bo's answer, I didn't doubt it at all, and even felt like a treasure, excitedly Killed Night City.

But only now did he suddenly realize that Lin Bo didn't seem to be that familiar with it?

Does he just know?

...This kid is not using himself as an experimental product, is he?

"Don't worry, I can feel the changes, but I still need to try..."

Thinking in a daze, he felt a little irritable, and waved his hand: "I'll tell you when I understand it after researching..."

"Uh-huh……"

Lin Bo was in a good mood and couldn't help clapping his hands: "Not only the Dante organization will be happy now, but even our mentor will praise me."

His happy appearance made Xiao Xiao very unhappy, and suddenly he fixed his gaze on Lin Bo:

"but……"

"I just finished a report for you, wouldn't it be a loss if I gave you this report again?"

"..."

Lin Bo couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and said, "Brother, I got your heart for you."

Xiao Xiao said: "But as a reward, I have already given you three thousand points, and the matrix research data."

Lin Bo couldn't get around: "But I helped you in Black Gate City..."

Xiao Xiao immediately said: "That's because you lost the bet."

Lin Bo almost went crazy: "But we are also friends after all..."

Xiao Xiao took a deep look at him and said, "If it wasn't because you couldn't do anything about me, you would be a hardliner, right?"

"..."

After hearing this, Lin Bo was stupefied, and said awkwardly, "What's the matter..."

"I can't return the three thousand points to you, can I?"

"..."

Seeing his unhappy appearance, Xiao Xiao finally felt a little happy, sneered, shook his head and said:

"That's not necessary."

"After all, three thousand points is still too little..."

"..."

Lin Bo was a little dumbfounded when he heard it: "But you didn't say that when you gave me the 3,000 points before..."

No matter what, let's go back to Heimen City first...

While Xiao Xiao was strengthening his heart, the train didn't stop, it was running in the huge fleshy network, approaching Heimen City quickly, Xiao Xiao could feel the endless flesh and blood tissue outside the train window , and the abnormal life forms hiding behind the abyss or layers of flesh and blood. They are not real creatures, but they really exist around.

When I left Heimen City, I was still in the happiest state of getting along with Heimen City.

Going back this time, there was a heart in her body that would offend her.

So what would she do to herself?

Xiao Xiao couldn't get an answer to this question, but he was vaguely looking forward to it.

...

...

"Look at the time, they should be here soon!"

At this time, at the train station in Heimen City, when they learned that Xiao Xiao was coming back, Yang Jia, Ruan Ruan, and Ling Ping with red eyes had also come to the station to wait one after another. Before returning to this city, they will strengthen it, so they will come to guard it in advance. After all, they don't know what Heimen City will do to Xiao Xiao who has been strengthened.

In the records of Dante's organization, there are quite a few people who risked the dissatisfaction of the city's will to strengthen the fourth element, but these people are also divided into several situations, some of which belong to the elements they need, and they are in their own city Among them, this kind of strengthening has the least problems, but if the fourth element is obtained from outside the city and strengthened, the consequences will be a little bit unknown.

Some cities don't care, or even show too much reaction.

There are also some cities that show a certain degree of rejection, but they can be appeased by point consumption.

There are also some cities that have shown serious resistance and directly deprived their lord-level contracts as punishment.

The most serious thing was that he was directly executed when he returned to the city.

In the last case, not many were actually executed, most of them lost the asylum of the city and started wandering.

No matter how you do it, the last outcome is rare.

But Yang Jia and the others had to prepare in advance, especially, in Yang Jia's view, there were some things about Xiao Xiao who were different from others, so what would Heimen City do if he returned with the fourth element? The reaction is really hard to say.

"coming……"

It was also in an office on the third floor of the train station after Yang Jia and the others entered the train station.

The shepherd, who put on a suit and didn't even wear a mask, was sitting quietly on the sofa. Some kind of monitoring instrument beside him suddenly issued a silent alarm, and the dazzling light attracted the attention of everyone around him. , I was a little panicked at once, and an assistant reminded me in a low voice: "Mr. Shepherd, those lunatics have also come to the station, and caused a distortion of the mental force field."

"Is it dangerous to be in such a space with them?"

"..."

"take it easy."

The shepherd smiled when he heard the words, put down the newspaper in his hand slowly, and said: "Since those people have decided to hand over the leadership to me again, there are some things I can tell you, first, Don't call them 'lunatics' in the future, you can choose the code name 'foreigners', after all, they are not lunatics, they just live in a world different from ours."

"In their world, we are the lunatics."

"Second, you don't have to worry so much about being polluted by them, because among us, there will always be only a few people who will be polluted by them. You can understand that they don't want to pollute us casually, or that...they don't You can't use the power of this pollution as you like, and every time you pollute a person, they have to pay a certain price, a big price."

"so……"

He couldn't help smiling, and said: "Actually, those people wrap themselves up tightly every day, it's not necessary."

The assistant next to him was a man in a suit who had met Xiao Xiao once. He suddenly became nervous when he heard the words, and hurriedly said in a low voice:

"Then how can we avoid...or increase the difficulty of being polluted?"

"..."

"Work hard, get promoted and get paid!"

The shepherd smiled and replied, "The higher your status and power in this city, the harder it is to be polluted."

"The other thing is, according to my experience, the more secrets you have, the harder it is to be polluted."

"..."

The man in the suit couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "But we were all deep in the past, the stronger our will, the harder it is to be polluted..."

"Fake."

The shepherd said with a smile: "The will of the individual is vulnerable in front of the mother."

"No matter how strong your will is, the mother body will just look at you, and you will have completely fallen."

"..."

"That……"

The voice of the man in the suit trembled slightly: "Can't the mother's body easily pollute our entire city?"

"No."

The shepherd firmly denied it, and said in a low voice: "Individual will is weak, but collective will is strong. The matrix can easily pollute everyone, but it cannot pollute a city built by many people. This is what you need to understand key!"

"this……"

The man in the suit obviously knew this truth, but he didn't answer the question:

"How does that person protect himself?"

"..."

The shepherd frowned, patted him on the shoulder, emphasized his tone, and said again:

"Work hard, get promoted and get paid!"

"..."

The man in the suit had a distorted expression when he heard it. Damn, did the mother come from a capitalist?

...

...

There are a large number of trains coming in at the station every day, but Yang Jia and the others accurately captured the train that Xiao Xiao took.

They didn't even check the train schedule, but when Xiao Xiao's train began to approach the city, they keenly felt the changes in the city. Yang Jia suddenly turned around, and saw the city behind her, slowly wriggling , melting, the city body that was originally displayed in front of him in the form of a station, at this moment, is rapidly turning into squirming flesh and blood.

That train drove into this huge mass of flesh and blood, and Yang Jia was also alerted suddenly.

A translucent box in the shape of a door frame appeared in front of her, and she stood behind the door frame, looking at the city coldly.

But the next moment, a soft whisper sounded: "Here we come!"

"Plop" "Plop"

When Xiao Xiao walked out of the station, he felt the heavy beating of his heart.

He even felt a slight heat in his body, as if some kind of power was pouring into his limbs and bones through this heart.

came back.

He also knew that returning with the fourth element might cause a change in his relationship with the city, and he had prepared in advance, but he never expected that the moment he returned to the city, there would be such overwhelming Emotions rushed over.

However, it is not a negative emotion...

He only felt that the moment he walked out of the station, he felt a strong sense of familiarity.

Warm, firm, down-to-earth.

All my previous worries and tensions disappeared at this moment. Instead, it felt like a person waking up from a nightmare and returning to reality. He had a strong sense of security, and he could hear the beating of his heart. The sound, and this beating sound, actually formed a certain frequency consistent with the city, and there was a vague feeling that he was becoming one with the city.

"What's this?"

Xiao Xiao was dumbfounded, and stared blankly at this huge city with no boundaries.

Shouldn't I feel a sense of rejection or hostility?

Similarly, when he was overwhelmed by the sense of familiarity and stability that he couldn't accept all at once, Yang Jia and the others rushed forward nervously. While observing Xiao Xiao's appearance, they turned their heads to look vigilantly at the bloody city. It's like facing a big enemy.

Such turbulent changes are rarely seen in cities, which made them a little worried.

Could it be that Heimen City's rejection of Xiao Xiao is the strongest kind?

If so, Xiao Xiao can only be sent out of Heimen City to wander in the misty sea...

But in the end, it was Xiao Xiao who suddenly shook his head at them after a strange look of surprise flashed across his face.

"I'm fine."

"..."

"I didn't say you have something to do, the point is the city's response..."

Yang Jia interrupted him directly, and nervously looked at everything in the surrounding station, turning into flesh and blood.

"I'm talking about cities."

Xiao Xiao also interrupted her again, put his hand on her shoulder, motioned her not to be so nervous, and said in a low voice:

"She's welcoming me..."

"..."

Yang Jia's expression froze for a moment, and she looked at Xiao Xiao in disbelief.

But Xiao Xiao just felt the rushing emotions of the city, surprise, astonishment, peace of mind, sigh...

correct.

Although I didn't expect it at all, this city is indeed welcoming me.

...

...

"They're really nervous..."

At this time, in the office not far from Xiao Xiao and the others in a straight line, the shepherd looked at the surveillance camera and could clearly see that after Xiao Xiao led a few people out of the station, Yang Jia and others immediately went up to meet them. He was very nervous, and immediately surrounded Xiao Xiao inside, looking at the crowd passing by, as if he was wary of something terrible, his worry was palpable.

But at this moment, Xiao Xiao showed an unexpected expression, and with a smile, he took the initiative to merge into the crowd.

The assistants around who had just been drawn under the shepherd's hands felt very surprised and asked in low voices.

"Nervousness is inevitable."

The shepherd laughed and said: "The aliens are the messengers of the mother, they are the ones who have been selected and transformed by the mother, so they will have the power of the mother, and will always live only for the mother, but if they have power beyond the control of the mother What will happen?"

"It's like an obedient person suddenly becomes disobedient."

"Then, those in authority will be provoked, and those who try to resist will feel uneasy."

"..."

The man in the suit was stunned for a moment, pointed at Xiao Xiao in the surveillance camera, and said, "Then why didn't he react like this?"

"Probably because the mother did not directly express hostility to him?"

The shepherd smiled and said, "Anyway, it can't be because his personality is higher than the mother's body, right?"

The expressions of the people around were indifferent, no one thought it was a funny joke, and the shepherd nodded, no more words, but put a black envelope on the table, and said to the man in the suit: "Now , carry out your first job order after you were transferred to me, go and send this invitation letter to him, in person, and don't need to hide your identity."

"I?"

The man in the suit panicked for a moment, and said in disbelief, "You let me reveal my identity and send him an invitation letter?"

"So what?"

The shepherd laughed, "I'm even ready to have dinner with him!"

"Why?"

The man in the suit was more surprised than he heard that he was asked to take risks: "You have just been authorized to lead the Pioneer Project, so you are going to do such an adventurous thing? Once you are contaminated by tester zero, all of us Efforts will be in vain..."

"A drug tester?"

The shepherd gave him a strange look, and said with a smile, "You should change your thinking."

"In the beginning, he was indeed only regarded as a drug tester, or in other words, just as an experimental subject, absorbed into this plan, or the kind of person who knew from the beginning that the probability of success was extremely low and was ready to abandon him at any time. However, when he has emerged from this experiment, exhibited unexpected potential, and even proved his role..."

"..."

He paused, and looked at Xiao Xiao in the monitor appreciatively: "He is no longer a test subject."

"It's a collaborator."

"The entire Black Forest, and even the entire world of normal people, must learn to cooperate with him, and cooperate with respect."

"And I want to be his first... friend in the world of normal people!"