"Uh..." Zhou Jian sweated violently. After all, he was a top student in liberal arts, but this time he was regarded as illiterate. Well, illiterate people are illiterate. He admitted honestly: "I really don't
Literacy." The old lady didn't seem too surprised and said: "It doesn't matter, I will take you to see the second gift, so
Even if you can't read, it's no problem." Zhou Jian was slightly stunned. Is there any gift that can teach him how to read? Is it a memory inheritance thing? Memory inheritance... I don't want to inherit the memory of any god, I just want to inherit one.
The aliens are also satisfied with their memories, such as technological knowledge that is 10,000 years ahead of the Earth.
By then there will be no need to build any aircraft carriers, just any spaceships, interstellar battleships, etc. can be built instead.
"Thank you then." Zhou Jian suppressed his emotions and said full of expectation.
"You don't need to thank me. This is the responsibility of my tribe. For every outsider, our tribe will select the most outstanding warrior as the outsider's follower, that is, a mercenary. The mercenary can influence the heart of my tribe.
Let me read the law to you."
"Mercenary?" Zhou Jian's expectations were all gone. He thought it was a memory inheritance, but it turned out to be a mercenary.
Although mercenaries can help you fight, in "Gods and Demons", mercenaries are different from babies. Babies are subordinate to their masters and can be summoned to fight at any time. Mercenaries, on the other hand, have no affiliation with the players, and they have to pay a day's wages for every day's work they do.
After the salary and employment period are up, they can still follow other players.
If you can't belong to yourself and can't be brought back to the real world, what's the use?
The old lady turned around slowly, opened the back door of the tent, and got in. Behind the chief's tent, there was a passage set up with canvas, and at the end of the passage was a small black tent.
The old lady opened the tent door, and inside was a small, narrow space with simple furnishings, including a table, a bench, and a one-meter-wide table.
A girl in black is sitting on the stool. She is about sixteen or seventeen years old. She has a very special hairstyle. She has neat bangs on her forehead, as smooth as satin. The longest hair next to her cheeks hangs down to her shoulders and back to her head.
Then it was shortened successively, like a bead curtain hanging next to the ears. Such a weird hairstyle seemed not to have been deliberately combed, making people feel that it was born that way.
She wears a golden circular headband engraved with a strange curse seal on her forehead, in the shape of a "V", and her blue and white pupils seem to be unable to tolerate any filth in the world, and seem to contain endless worries and longings.
Her face is sharp and angular, and her slender jade neck is covered with a necklace that is also in the shape of a "V", and it still has complex patterns on it. The black leather armor is half hidden in the black clothes, but it still outlines the outline of her body.
curve.
The whole girl gives people a very peaceful but mysterious beauty.
Because it was raining outside and there were no lights in the house, the light was very dark, but with the eyesight of a demon slayer, he could still see clearly the scene in the house. The girl was currently holding a delicate dagger in her hand, sharpening it.
A thin bamboo stick, and then she took an arrow with a cold light and slowly twisted it on the end of the bamboo stick. Is she making an arrow?
After placing the arrow gently, the black-haired girl stood up and said lightly, "Chief"
The old lady pointed at the black-haired girl, glanced at Zhou Jian and said, "She will be your mercenary from now on."
"..."
Zhou Jian didn't know what his expression should be for a moment. He thought his mercenary would be a tall, muscular man, but he didn't expect it to be a girl like this. He always felt that this girl gave people a very unreal feeling.
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"Ying Yu said, this is obviously her name, but she doesn't know whether her surname is Ying Yu or Li.
"Dark Sword." Zhou Jian introduced himself.
"Do you want to sign a contract?" It was the old lady who said this. She got a piece of parchment from somewhere, and it still had tadpole writing on it that Zhou Jian couldn't understand.
Do you still need to sign a contract? In "Gods and Demons", you only need to pay money to hire mercenaries and take them away. The hiring time system defaults to twelve hours. There is no need to sign any contract at all, because the system is the best contract.
Zhou Jian was speechless after signing the contract but couldn't understand the content, but he expected that the NPC wouldn't lie to him.
But the old lady was very thoughtful and said, "Let me read you the contents of the contract."
"From the date the contract is signed, one by one is a follower of "One. No matter when and where, the follower must consider the safety of the master as a prerequisite. The follower must follow the master's order. The follower must..."
The old lady read it unhurriedly, and Zhou Jian was confused when he heard it. There was nothing fair about this contract for followers. Followers had no rights at all. If they should block the gun when they should, they would die.
When it is time to die, you must unconditionally obey any orders of the master and satisfy any requirements of the master.
But the owner doesn't have to do anything, and most importantly, he doesn't even have to pay.
Is there such a fucking contract in the world?
Only a fool signs it. Does this old woman have a grudge against this Yingyu?
But when he thought about the other party being an NPC, Zhou Jian was relieved and left. They were just created by aliens using spiritual energy. Although they were a little stronger than computer programs, they were just a more advanced program after all. The meaning of their existence
Just to help the tester complete the test.
Just when Zhou Jian was thinking wildly, Yingyu Li had already pulled out a dagger and slit her fingers, and wrote her name in blood on the blank lines on the contract. Then she turned to look at Zhou Jian, meaning, should
You got it.
Although it was programmed by spiritual energy, Zhou Jian always felt that the other party was like a real life, especially when he looked at the girl, the other party's indifferent blue and white pupils...
"Well, I want to ask, when will the employment period end?" Zhou Jian asked. The employment period of Ran in the contract only said that it would start from the date the contract was signed, but it did not say when it would end.
"Until I die in battle." Yingyu Li said calmly, but Zhou Jian's eyelids twitched.
Doesn't it last forever until she dies in battle? Uh... That's not right, NPC mercenaries can also be resurrected... In other words, if she dies in battle, she will be free?
Is that so? Something feels wrong.
What are you thinking about? Zhou Jian shook his head slightly, cut his finger and wrote his name,
At this time, the contract suddenly burned. Zhou Jian was startled by the sudden change and took a small step back. Then he watched the contract curl and shrink in the rolling flames, and finally turned into a small point of light and disappeared.
The moment the light spot disappeared, Zhou Jian seemed to see a large group of dim circles gathered together in the void, densely packed one after another, just like human eyes.
What is this?
Is it just a special effect created by contract burning?
At this moment, Zhou Jian suddenly felt a pain in his arm, as if he had been burned by a soldering iron. He opened his sleeve and took a look, only to see a small tattoo-like thing there, which was an arrow feather.
Come here...,
…,
"That's the sign of the contract." Marco said slowly.
Zhou Jian was stunned and smiled bitterly in his heart. It doesn't need to be so formal. It's just a contract signed and a mark. Although the mark is very beautiful, it is always uncomfortable when it falls on him.
Marco added: "If Li is seriously injured, she can turn into spiritual energy and hide here to recuperate, but it will take about ten seconds to enter."
"Ah?" Zhou Jian was stunned. A girl was hiding in his arm? But considering that Li is an NPC created by aliens with spiritual energy, it is not unacceptable to turn into spiritual energy and hide in a tattoo.
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Although he didn't like this mark very much, Zhou Jian felt relieved after thinking that as long as he died in battle, the contract would be terminated and Wen's body would disappear.
At this time, Chief Marco looked at the sky and said, "Outsiders, it's time for you to set off.
The mission only lasts two days. If you can't complete it, you will never be able to leave." When Zhou Jian heard that he would never be able to leave, Zhou Jian's heart trembled, "Okay, let's set off immediately.
He turned around and looked at Ke Li, "Let's go home."
Li stood up and looked at Marco silently, and Marco also looked at her silently. After a long time, Marco smiled, his withered face almost wrinkled together, she touched Mo Li's face, and then slowly
She slowly arranged her hair and said, "My child, it's time to go." After saying that, she slowly turned around. However, the moment she turned around, Zhou Zhen's body suddenly froze.
He looked at the hunched back of the old lady in disbelief, and his heart was filled with emotions. At that moment, he clearly saw... There was something sparkling in the dirty eyes of this lifeless and dying old lady, and...
..., crying?
NPC’s tears? Is it because of reluctance?
According to what I think, this should be a program left by aliens to train "outsiders". Could it be that as time goes by, these NPCs have their own feelings? Have they become living beings?
He was reluctant to give up, but he had to follow the setter's order and send the girl to him as a mercenary...,
Unable to disobey the order of the creator of "Gods and Demons 2", this is the tragic fate of NPCs.
There is no freedom, no choice, speaking the eternally lonely dialogue, waiting alone for thousands of years.
In all games, players are like flowing water, and every day is different.
The only things that remain unchanged are those NPCs, who are forever banned from the game, watching each game come and go again...
What kind of existence do they have?
However, even if he is given as a mercenary to himself, once he leaves this world, can Li still return to the tribe and meet Marco?
Why shed tears?
Zhou Jian's mind was confused, and he began to slowly realize that no matter whether these NPCs were living beings or not, he could not treat them as a cold program.
What kind of world is this?
The girl took off a black bow from the wall, slung it across her body, and then stood behind Zhou Jian without saying a word. She was waiting to follow Zhou Jian or receive orders from Zhou Jian.
Zhou Jian was silent for a while and then said: "Let's go."@.
