Returning from the abyss

Chapter 413 does not exist

"Si Fangle."

Cheng Wuling squatted on the table, holding a bottle of water in his hand, while Ji Changhao and the others finally finished killing Ba after a hard fight, exhausted and resting.

Si Fangle did not know when he appeared in the corner of the room, only Cheng Wuling noticed his appearance.

"The salesman didn't take the initiative to attack me." Si Fangle said.

"This is not an important issue. No matter how strong the salesman is, he can't exert combat power beyond the limit level. Have you seen everyone?"

"The rest of the survivors? I've seen them all. Your count is correct. Now there are three more people."

"Not found?"

"A few people have noticed it a little bit. Helena, Mayuri Daida, and Samuana are all very keen on prying eyes. Levanska seemed to wave at me. Fengyo Kurikita probably knew that I was not malicious, so he didn't Take care of me, there is basically no need to look at Nimorpheus and Lu Ning."

"So the problem lies with those three people?"

"Shan Lianmei, Shi Ming, and Duan Yunxiu." Si Fangle nodded, "Now it seems that they are the most likely masterminds."

"They haven't been seen since the third crisis, and the hundred-eyed ghosts I arranged couldn't find them..." Cheng Wuling pondered, "Perhaps they already knew that their identity issues would be noticed."

"This is something that the fewer people there are, the easier it is to detect. Their actions are a bit obvious to cover up, but... do we really have to do it in advance?"

"Otherwise? Wait until they liberate the power that belongs to the main brain? You can't see that we are still on equal footing?"

"Skipping the present crisis to deal with an uncertain future?"

Cheng Wuling glanced at Si Fangle.

"I am very aware of where my limit is. Although I can continue to improve, it is not possible to do it in a single scene. Therefore, before the fifth crisis comes, I must reduce its difficulty as much as possible. Although I want to usher in The fifth crisis, but not arrogant enough to think that I can handle it."

"...I don't understand what you mean."

"It's one thing not to be able to do it, but it's very important to do it or not. The data collection device used by William Heath stored various audios randomly recorded here, and I read some interesting things from it. .”

"Ok?"

"The people here generally come from four areas, alleys, streets, city walls, and pavilions. I don't need to say more about the impressions of these four places. You already have a certain understanding. But what is interesting is that for According to the description of the main brain, there are subtle differences in the impressions of these four regions."

"Wait... I remember that in the memory of our city wall, the mastermind communicated the order to send troops here and issued some tasks through the salesman, which is similar to the existence of the command tower. Is there something wrong with this memory?"

"No problem, but..." Cheng Wuling turned to look at Ji Changhao who was listening intently to the conversation on the other side: "Mr. Ji, what is the street's impression of the mastermind?"

"The distant sanctioners are cold and don't care much about the situation outside the city walls. They only occasionally issue some public orders. Whenever that happens, those big bosses who are showing off their might on the streets become a group of docile sheep."

"Thank you. In the alleys farther away, the impression of the mastermind is the warmth that is beyond reach, the ruler at the top, the source of food in winter... the closest pavilion, the attitude of the mastermind is to win over The people in the pavilion will understand the power of the mastermind through the combination of kindness and power, and take pride in entering the mastermind."

"Using different methods for different classes is also a very common strategy in history." Si Fangle said.

"What about another condition? With the city wall as the boundary, the interaction between the inside and the outside is almost isolated. In this way, errors in cognition are inevitable. After all, in such a world, changes in status and class are almost impossible. Birth determines the status of a lifetime, and status determines vision."

"I do not quite understand……"

"Then I'll just say the conclusion."

Cheng Wuling thought about her words.

"The 'mastermind' considered outside the city wall is actually inside the city wall. And the mastermind recognized by the people inside the city wall is the power exercised by the salesman."

"Virtual power?"

"No, after all, in the descriptions of some people in the pavilion, there are still terms such as 'high walls', 'impenetrable barriers' and 'the main brain has closed access', but what if it is not the case?"

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"If so?"

Lu Ning drew a line on the map with her fingers. This line is perpendicular to the contour line of the surface, passing through the only urban area on the map, falling into an abyss to the north, and extending to a mountain range to the south, where there is a large blank space It shows that even a strong person like Ming Jue cannot enter at will.

The urban area on the map is not described in detail, but roughly four blocks are circled, but according to Lu Ning's drawing, the two sides can be divided evenly.

"People in the alleys have never been able to run that far." Lu Ning said flatly, "The danger in the suburbs is enough to kill people, not to mention the abyss at the end of the city wall."

"That's right, the people on the street will strictly control people not to get close to the abyss, where there is no return." Maoyou nodded, and Qiao Pingna also confirmed that it was true.

"The city wall...there is also a wall. We can see the outside from the top of the wall. The problem is that no one will jump off the cliff casually, right?" Then came Rosa.

Finally, everyone's eyes fell on the two siblings.

"In our memory, there is a high wall. It's not as solid as a city wall, but it's different, and it can't be crossed, and no high-altitude means can fly over it." Libei Yangmu carefully searched the information in his memory, "Adults Tell the children that the mastermind is behind the wall, they have enclosed themselves in an absolutely safe environment, and sent salesmen to convey information by means of space. The mastermind controls the highest technological means and everything on the periphery. They are the real people here. Rulers. The people of the pavilions have spent their lives expecting to be part of the Mastermind—a step further, you know."

"But..." Maoyou opened his mouth.

"But the mastermind may not exist, at least not behind the wall." Lu Ning said what Maoyou wanted to say, "Behind the wall of the pavilion is another pavilion, and their adults are telling the same thing to their children .”

"Very likely."

Crisp applause sounded from not far away.

Everyone turned their heads and found a woman wearing a denim suit and a gray cowboy hat with a silver feather pinned to her head, gradually emerging from her invisibility. There was a smile on her heroic face, and she finally clapped her hands twice, and then put down .

"Although I almost told you the answer by pressing my head, I still have to applaud. After all, there are not many people who can reach this step."

Clerk White Feather.

"So you didn't show up all the time because you were always invisible?" Lu Ning asked, turning her head.

"Since you can't take the initiative to launch an attack, at least ensure your own safety, right? We are not the kind of people who will be happy when we are beaten, and there is no need to stand around and wait for someone to deal with us." Bai Yu lowered his hands and landed just right. On those two holster-like things around the waist.

"So you just agreed with our statement? The mastermind doesn't exist?" Li Bei Yangmu asked.

"Your legends are indeed full of problems."

"It's you who spread it..."

"We just put up a wall, and when people face something they don't understand, they will find a reasonable explanation for it, no matter how unreasonable the explanation sounds. That rumor was born naturally in the pavilion, and there are people on both sides. .”

"What I don't understand is, where is the mastermind? It just doesn't exist behind the wall, but since you are here, it means that the mastermind does exist." Lu Ning said.

"Sorry, this question is not within the scope of business."

"Oh? It's not allowed?"

"You're very knowledgeable." Bai Yu pinched the brim of his hat and grinned, "I'm different from the guy who worked for money, I hate the fight, so I never do it to kill the contract." .My contract has always been an intelligence contract."

"Does this mean that you want money to buy information?"

"It's very simple, right? Information is much cheaper than human life." Bai Yu snapped her fingers, and a contract suddenly appeared and fell into her hands.

"Why are you looking for us?"

"Hey, hey, for business opportunities, of course market research must be done first. You are the group of people with the most spare money and the highest demand for information. If you don't look for them, who else can you look for?"

"You guys are really here to start a business!" Mao You really couldn't get nervous now, from the case clerk to Bai Yu, these two salesmen completely ruined the mysterious and powerful image in his impression.

"Do you know how fierce the competition in the industry is? If a quack doctor finds you in advance and cheats you out of your money, I have to spend more effort to convince those... Tsk, you can't slander other salesmen, right?" Bai Yu shuddered, and then pulled the contract, "Is there any information you want to know? I'll sell everything I can sell here!"

Maoyou pinched himself hard, and then said loudly: "Then I want to know how to get rid of you, can this information be sold?"

"Five stars for sincerity."

"Show face!"

Having said that, White Feather is really not kidding.

As long as the information that can offer a price is completely unambiguous, the price is about five stars for a piece of information.Everyone deliberated and finally decided to ask only three questions.

[How to end all current crises as quickly as possible. 】

[Currently, the strongest equipment can be obtained in the garden. 】

[There is also a hidden trigger system in the garden. 】

Almost no need to ask, everyone knew about the main brain, even if they asked, there was no answer, so they quickly avoided the time-wasting behavior of spreading their thoughts outside, and focused on the fastest way to improve themselves.

White Feather offered a price of [-] stars while chanting "I lost" brokenly, and it was fine if everyone shared it roughly.

After the contract was drawn up, she threw a roll of the contract to Lu Ning and immediately ran away incognito.

"Actually, I still want to ask about the previous Four Seasons Garden battle record." Lu Ning said with a bit of regret.

"Then why is she running so fast?" Rosa asked.

"In a hurry to make money." Maoyou muttered.

"It's probably written here how to deal with her. I'm afraid we'll fight her." Lu Ning unfolded the scroll, and the things written on it were very detailed.In summary, the main power of the vernal equinox lies in the powerful resurrection and regeneration, and it must use large-scale destruction weapons to carry out annihilation attacks, but the attack power itself is not particularly strong.The Autumnal Equinox has a strong restraint effect on energy weapons, but her erosion ability has little effect on live ammunition weapons. As long as you bring enough supplies, it will be a matter of time to destroy them.In the end, I added a sentence that it is safest to kill directly with the script.

As for salesmen, you can apply the "business termination" regulations in Article 20 of Employee Guidelines No. [-], and you can repatriate the salesman if you meet the conditions through the non-combat challenge rules.If you are not confident about this, you can give enough stars ("What kind of people are these!" Maoyou shouted), of course, the conditions of each salesperson will be different.It is not very recommended to kill by force. After all, prop salesmen such as scripts and timeout tables have countermeasures.

Regarding the strongest weapon in the garden, it comes from the five leaders of the No. [-] trap "emotion".They are A-level weapon "Smile", A-level weapon "Mourning", A-level weapon "Piety", A-level weapon "Consensus" and R-level weapon "King's Heart".The strongest armor is that after the fourth crisis, the killers of the four bosses will receive additional rewards from the equipment. A-level [Flowers], [Sunshine], [Fields], [Ice Window].

The hidden trigger is the simplest - "no more".

In this way, Lu Ning will be able to get a real armor steadily, as long as this crisis can end.But what is surprising is the benefit of the No. [-] trap, an R-rank weapon?
"Did she make a mistake?" Rosa responded in the same way, "R-rated weapons? Will such things be rationed in this garden?"

"Don't think about this for now. The triggering condition for that thing is that more than half of the people's emotions are in a state of violent fluctuations. Look at the rest of us, which one is not a good hand at emotional control?" Li Beiyangmu shrugged, "Anyway I don’t think it’s possible to get this in the end.”

"Can we call her back and ask if there is another way to trigger it?" Maoyou suggested.

"...Although she looks very serious, she is more or less a salesperson." Joe was still a little scared.

"It would be scary if this kind of person who is usually joking really gets angry." Rosa also said.

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"I understand the conclusion." Si Fangle said.Ji Changhao on the other side also nodded: "So is the background of this world like this?"

"It's just a guess, not necessarily accurate. But in this way, we can have more preparations, and I can even verify something." Cheng Wuling stood up, "Salesman, please remove your invisibility?"

"Oh... Signing a contract with you may not bring you any benefits... Miss Cheng Wuling, No. 144." The person who solved the case came out from the corner, holding a folder and said with a smile, "But there is still business, right?"

"Yes, you will take over the murder business, right?"

"Look at what you said... This is business, a matter of the contract, and I also follow the rules, right..."

"Helena, Nimorpheus, and Shi Ming, I want your quotations for these three people."

The detective's expression suddenly became serious.

"That's why. Your business contract contains clauses such as not to inflate the price, right? That is to say, as long as you make an offer, it must be true, so either one of these three people cannot make an offer, or the offer will reveal something."

"Miss Cheng Wuling, this is not good..."

"Oh, I have money."

(End of this chapter)