While Fang Chang and Miss Dolly were leaning on each other, Guigui, who was sitting on the other side of the tavern lobby, had already covered his mouth and nose, made an exaggerated expression and whispered to Feng Qing, who was sitting opposite.
"No...I smell the sour smell of the killing agent!"
Feng Qing, who was drinking coffee calmly, tilted her head, looked at Gui Gui with an exaggerated expression and said in confusion, "How can the death potion have any taste?"
"It's that kind of death potion, that kind of... Hey, forget it," Gui Gui blushed and gestured for a long time, but was too embarrassed to say it, and finally sighed and put his chin in his hands, "Let's talk to the NPC.
Isn't it weird to be in love? Especially if you have a family in real life, does this count as cheating?"
"emmmm..." Feng Qing thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know about that kind of thing."
She has no interest in love either in reality or in the game, but this kind of thing should be regarded as a private matter, right?
However, Gui Gui was still struggling, and even became so concerned that he bit his finger unconsciously.
"...Damn it, when I think about the fact that there is an uncle with five or six children in real life sitting opposite the lovely Miss Dolly, I can't move. Damn Fang Chang, hurry up and explode."
It turned out to be because of Dolly...
Feng Qing made a helpless expression, put down the coffee cup in his hands and said.
"I think if you care so much about what other people are like in reality, you might as well ask them yourself...it's very rude to arrange the personal lives of strangers behind their backs."
"Ugh... I was wrong."
Seemingly realizing that his behavior had no sense of boundaries, Guigui raised his hands in surrender. Looking at his aggrieved best friend, Feng Qing smiled and said.
"I don't mean to blame you, I'd rather say it's a comfort. There are many cute NPCs, why not discover them by yourself...and I think young couples don't actually like living in the spotlight that much. It's all because of the Burning Corps.
My friends started making noises on the forum to attract so much attention."
"That's true," Guigui, who stretched out his arms, sighed in resignation. His expression looked like he was heartbroken, but he quickly became energetic again, "By the way, Orange is already in junior high school."
That was the girl Feng Qing rescued from an orphanage run by gangsters in the slums outside the old Boulder City.
That incident was also the trigger for the alliance to eliminate gang members outside Boulder City. After that, the children who were raised like goods moved into normal orphanages.
The alliance has a complete social support mechanism to take care of these orphans, including raising them until they are 18 years old, including paying for the expenses during compulsory education, etc., but they do not have to pay out of their own pockets to raise her.
But they still visit her occasionally, take her to make marshmallows, and buy her beautiful new dresses... They treat her like their own daughter.
When Feng Qing talked about citrus, a nostalgic smile appeared on her face.
"Last time I saw her preparing for the high school entrance examination, she will probably take the exam in the middle of the year." Guigui, who was holding his chin, also sighed with emotion.
"Is she about to go to junior high school... Time flies so fast." The player's body has not changed much.
Of course, maybe it's because they die often, and everything is refreshed once they are resurrected.
I heard that there are also hardcore players who have never died even once after leaving the novice village, and their bodies will still undergo some changes as they age.
Looking at her sentimental best friend, Feng Qing thought for a while and said.
"Although that's what I say, it's actually only been two or three years since we met her." Gui Gui scratched his head.
"Uh, it seems so."
It always feels like these two or three years are longer than twenty or thirty years. Maybe this is the feeling of fulfillment.
Putting the coffee cup and used tableware back on the dinner plate, Feng Qing looked at Guigui sitting opposite and said, "I'm ready to rest, continue with the task?"
Gui Gui stood up awkwardly.
"Oh yes! Mission mission... I almost forgot about the mission. I have to find that little mouse from the Enlightenment Society."
Feng Qing, who opened the VM interface, reminded.
"There are also packages delivered to the city hall and the removal of mutant rat nests in the sewers."
"Eh heh heh?! Do I have a mission to go to the sewers?"
Looking at the frightened Guigui, Feng Qing tilted her head.
"I accepted it... but the reward is quite high, 1,000 silver coins, and the task process is also very short, so just be patient."
Just as the tearful Guigui was being pushed by Feng Qing to leave the tavern, on another street not far from the job market, a pair of enemies were chattering away.
One of them is Ye Shi from the Burning Corps, and the other is Jiang Xuezhou, a C-level researcher from the academy.
The two people were originally operating in the quarantine area in the southern part of the province of Willante, but since the focus of the quarantine area has now shifted from prevention and control to the development of vaccines and antidotes, the two people, who have different expertise, can't really help much.
In addition, a big event happened some time ago. The academy lost a scientific research ship in Yavent City and an entire beacon team lost contact, so Jiang Xuezhou was sent to Yavent City.
As for Ye Shi, half of them were dragged here by force, and half of them were worried about the danger this guy would encounter if he acted alone.
Regarding the missing beacon team, the college's senior officials no longer have any hope that they are still alive, but the lost scientific research ship must be found.
There are so many things floating in outer space that people may not be able to grasp.
Once someone who shouldn't touch those things gets there first, the consequences will be disastrous.
Knowing the importance of this mission, Jiang Xuezhou searched for the whereabouts of the missing scientific research ship very seriously as soon as he arrived in Yavent City. However, the two of them had been searching for almost two weeks, but there was no clue at all.
The longer time passes, the lower the chance of the missing members surviving, and the slimmer the hope of retrieving the research ship.
Jiang Xuezhou was also a little anxious, and couldn't help but vent his anger on Ye Shi, who had an open look on his face.
"Don't you have that sixth sense? Can't you use your sixth sense to find that guy?"
Ye Shi, who was shot for no apparent reason, rolled his eyes and retorted unceremoniously.
"That's not how the sixth sense works. Do you think I can do magic?"
It was possible that the guy was aiming at him from a distance.
Searching for enemies in the void from an unknown distance is already cheating! Jiang Xuezhou’s lips dropped.
"Hey, it's really useless."
Upon hearing this, Ye Shi was immediately unhappy.
"Why am I useless? You were still a little D-level when Kai Rui was in the audience! By the way, aren't you from the academy? You don't have the kind of technology that can lock the target we are looking for in the crowd.
?"
Jiang Xuezhou blushed and glared at him.
"What Kerry, I don't understand... What stupid words are you talking about? Why don't you organize your words first before expressing them." "Kerry, it means MVP... Forget it, if a hero doesn't mention his bravery in the past, I
Now my brother is gone, alas."
Looking at the confused Jiang Xuezhou, Ye Shi looked at the sky with his arms on the back of his head and sighed, then paused and continued.
"But let me tell you... your college is one of the three major forces after all. Since it has been determined that the Enlightenment Society has taken away your research ship, why not just send the Alpha Task Force there? Even if you send Yawen
After the special city turned upside down and found that little mouse, the Enlightenment Association will definitely not obediently exchange hostages with you, right?"
It's not like the Alliance has never captured prisoners of the Enlightenment Society. Even the Thorn Corps in Pioneer City can capture one or two every now and then.
But it's of no use.
All they can do is let those misguided shelter residents undergo labor reform, see the results of the Alliance's work, and then persuade those guys to turn around.
As for finding the headquarters of the Enlightenment Society or obtaining information through these captives, the residents of the shelter who were deceived by the Enlightenment Society themselves didn't know.
There is no need to think about exchanging hostages. Those sneaky guys have no concept of compatriots in their hearts. When he heard that Ye Shi was hacking his own organization again, Jiang Xuezhou's eyes were a little complicated.
Normally she would have retorted and even raised her eyebrows to argue with him, but this time she was really confused.
"I don't know...but I think the higher-ups must have their concerns, and finding the only clues is the only thing we can do."
Ye Shi glanced at this guy and then turned his attention to the street ahead.
"I believe it's no secret that the academy has ten thousand people with evil intentions in the wasteland... I'm just worried that you are not among their concerns."
So what about C level.
As long as one of the seeds survives, it is considered a victory, and the rest are nutrients in the soil.
I'm afraid it's not just C-level researchers that the academy doesn't care about. He even feels that they don't even care about A-level and even the only S-level researchers.
They are the true Leviathan.
Different from the kind of organization that family members use as a guise to deceive, they are an organization that is truly united by faith, an organization that is born for knowledge and completely serves knowledge.
Except for the sole goal, everything is expendable. Including the CTO himself.
Even the conclusion to Dr.
A C-level researcher is too insignificant in front of that narrative that takes civilization as its height.
Ye Shi's original intention was to persuade her not to work so hard, as it was not worth risking her own life, but he did not expect that the latter suddenly became silent.
He looked to the side in confusion, and saw that the expression on Xuezhou's face became shy for some reason. Just when he was about to ask "What's wrong with you?", a voice as subtle as a mosquito came. "...Were you just doing this?
Are you worried about me?"
Worried? "That's not true-"
"Hey, Ye Shi, we have a date."
An inappropriate voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting what Ye Shi was about to say. What the hell?
Ye Shi quickly turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see Big Eyes and the construction worker winking and smiling at him.
"The relationship is so good."
"That's right, people's feelings are so pure, unlike you who only enter the body and not the family." "Go, go, go, go crazy!"
The smiling big eyes a second ago suddenly turned their faces, but they unconsciously acted as Ye Shi's mouthpiece and said what the latter wanted to say.
Seeing the big-eyed brother chasing the construction site man with his fists and torturing him, Ye Shi took back the poisonous tongue that rushed to his mouth.
Jiang Xuezhou, who was standing nearby, looked at the two people running away in confusion, and then tilted his head to look at Ye Shi. "What are they talking about."
Ye Shi was about to explain, but didn't know how to speak. His face suddenly turned red uncontrollably, and he said in a confused way.
“That bitch is hacking me.” “Oh hum…”
It was completely wrong. Jiang Xuezhou had a smirk on his face, his left hand covered his lips, and his right hand gently poked his arm.
"It seems that your popularity in the alliance is not very good. Why don't you come to the academy with me and get a boat ticket to the Ark." Ye Shi rolled his eyes.
"don't want."
Jiang Xuezhou raised his eyebrows and said with a grin. "Why! Am I not treating you well?"
"That's not true...wait a minute, why do I have to go with you if you're nice to me? I'm doing well in the alliance, okay?" Ye Shi was shaking his head, and suddenly replied in the middle of the sentence.
After a while, I was led into a strange circle of logic.
Jiang Xuezhou gritted his teeth and glared at him, but in the end he just snorted and said nothing more.
".........an unscrupulous guy."
During the second half of the journey, the two exchanged words without saying a word.
Ye Shi didn't know what medicine this guy took wrongly, and suddenly he became sulky.
By the way, why is this guy so insistent on letting him join the academy?
Isn’t it good to be like this now?
This is too loyal!
At this time, the VM that Ye Shi was wearing on his arm suddenly vibrated. He raised it and opened the screen to take a look, only to see a line of text messages floating in the center of the screen.
[Fringe: There are new clues about the disciples of the Enlightenment Society. The security booth on Street 17 received reports from the public that there were suspicious people coming and going in the alley between house numbers 203 and 202. They did not look like locals or
Our people, if you are interested, why not go over and take a look. If it is a misunderstanding, let the people sleep peacefully.】
Ye Shi's eyes lit up and he immediately replied.
【Haha! Thanks brother!】
Within a few seconds, another message popped up.
[Edge paddling: You’re welcome! Remember to share a bite with us if you catch a big fish! (Baring teeth)]
Ye Shi: [Gan! Am I a solitary eater? Wait! I’ll be back as soon as I go. 】
Glancing at Ye Shi who was typing words on the screen, Jiang Xuezhou couldn't help but move his head over there, wanting to see what he was doing.
And just when she did this, Ye Shi suddenly grabbed her wrist.
"What are you doing?!" Jiang Xuezhou was shocked and froze on the spot as if he was dumbfounded.
But Ye Shi didn't wait for her, he clicked on the navigation function of the VM map and pulled her away.
"Don't ask so many questions, just follow me!"
"???"
Jiang Xuezhou was pulled forward with a confused look on his face. The two of them passed through two streets in succession and came to an unknown street.
In front of the eye-catching alley.
It looks like many of the houses in the old town are empty. The residents have either moved away or died in the war.
There are only some old men and old ladies living there.
Jiang Xuezhou blushed and took away his arm, stared at Ye Shi who finally stopped and asked, "Why did you bring me here?"
A proud smile appeared on Ye Shi's face, and he cast his gaze towards the alley ahead. "Didn't you say that I am a loser? I will prove that I am not a loser." Jiang Xuezhou: "...?"
Looking at Jiang Xuezhou who looked confused, Ye Shi patiently told her the clues he had. To put it bluntly.
This kind of job of finding a needle in a haystack has to be left to the "beggars" brothers of the Death Corps.
These guys are running around everywhere, especially Big Eyes, who like to communicate in depth with local NPCs. It's not easy to find any clues.
When he first came to Yavent City, he said hello to Brother Bian, who immediately told him as soon as he had any clues. Jiang Xuezhou stared at him blankly for a long time, then suddenly lowered his head and whispered, "Thank you.
”.
Unexpectedly, Ye Shi's first reaction was not to be happy, but to look at her with vigilance. "... Why are you so grateful all of a sudden?"
Jiang Xuezhou hesitated for a while, but finally confessed. "...I shouldn't feel that you didn't contribute."
Ye Shiyi looked at her speechlessly.
"Good guy, this is how you see me."
Do you have to use a magnifying glass to look for bugs in the cracks of the wall before you exert your strength? Wow!
This guy is becoming more and more like his nosy old mother.
Jiang Xuezhou blushed and turned his head away, snorting softly through his nose. "Who makes you always act like it's none of your business?"
"I do think your senior management is quite speechless. They don't want to get involved in your troubles, but they don't have anything to do with you..." Ye Shi looked at the blush from his ears to the back of his neck, dumbfounded.
Jiang Xuezhou sighed and scratched the back of his head randomly, "Wait for me here for a while, I'll go in and take a look."
Seeing Ye Shi walking straight into the alley, Jiang Xuezhou came to his senses and quickly chased after him. "Ah, I'm here to help too!"
Ye Shi rolled his eyes.
"Just stop making trouble!" Jiang Xuezhou glared back fiercely.
"I want it! Bah, when have I ever made trouble? And this is my mission!" "Yes, yes, it is your mission."
Ye Shi sighed, and his originally indifferent mood became a little more serious. These days, NPCs have begun to compete with players for tasks.
Bar!
This chapter has been completed!