Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 176 Whose Soldier and Horse
Option one 77.7%, option two 22.2%.

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【Option [-]】

【ask】

……

The two walked all the way to the front of the van, and Guo Qian opened the door.

The door is still open.He turned around.

Zheng Zhuo was stuffing his phone into his pocket at this moment.

Voting shows that [Ask] is the choice of more people.

He can understand.Intelligence... is the most critical at this stage.

Zheng Zhuo heard about Zhuang Yusheng's location, and Chu Huairen also gave him the address.

Zheng Zhuo stared at the phone.

"(I'm the one taking these risks.)"

Zheng Zhuo operated the steering wheel without speaking.However, Guo Qian's speech set off a storm in his heart.

For the time being, he still complained a few words in his heart.

"Cough, cough, ah..."

This time, he tied Guo Qian's hands and feet.After finishing all this, he went to a convenience store to buy a cheap blanket and covered Guo Qian's body to cover his bound hands and feet.

The option of [Debugging] is gone.As usual, this means he can enter the subconscious world again.

The [World] interface is still [debugging].

【Subconscious World】?
Zheng Zhuo became vigilant.

"I've been living in medieval... towns. You may find it hard to believe, but it's true! Low houses, squalor, slang-speaking rough people... I... I can still remember The smell of the wind there..."

"(Is this better to control? Or better to brainwash?)"

[[Subconscious World] suddenly became inaccessible.How to act? 】

Now it's time to take a little risk.

"Uh...Let me find you...Take to college...Wear a black suit in..."

Should access be forced now, as it was then?
If this is just young women dealing with problems, forced visits can have a bad effect.Maybe we should wait for the interface to reopen, or find Zhuang Yusheng and those men in black, and know the situation inside from the real world.

The screen image came into Zheng Zhuo's eyes, and he froze for a moment.

"Over an hour ago. You lost consciousness even earlier."

Because this is not "self" at all.

Zheng Zhuo smiled bitterly in his heart.He grabbed Guo Qian's hand and clasped it behind his back, and closed the trunk with the other hand.

……

"..."

Still unselectable.

That's a long way off.Although Zheng Zhuo had saved some distance by starting from Tao Tao's city, it still took four or five days to drive there.

Zhuang Yusheng was probably messing with the men in suits.Find more people in suits, and maybe get more information.

【Investigate in reality】

Zheng Zhuo didn't open the car door.He walked to the back of the van and opened the trunk.

Zheng Zhuo has been observing Guo Qian's expression.When he saw that the other person was becoming unstable again—starting to tremble, his expression turning menacing—he knew he was going to have another seizure.

……

"(Find Zhuang Yusheng first.)"

Is there something wrong with debugging?Is it an internal failure?
Zheng Zhuo began to feel that something was wrong.

【Option [-]】

If so, that would explain why he doesn't have any identification and doesn't know everything about his past.

Zheng Zhuo immediately backhanded and pressed Guo Qian again.His [grasp] is the most effective means of control in one-on-one situations.

The box door was lifted.That brand new suit appeared in front of Guo Qian.

Zheng Zhuo fell asleep at dawn.About four hours later, he woke up.

That professor's team is trying to bring out human consciousness from the [subconscious world]?The people brought out can become one of them when they accomplish one thing...

He didn't want to be called to the police when he was on the highway.

"([World] is still the same... huh?)"

What Guo Qian returns to is not necessarily his own body.

what happened?

……

However, that saves a lot of time.

He thought that he had forcibly accessed it when he was still [debugging] in order to avoid being hunted down.

Not the uninterrupted, uncommunicable monologue he had previously had, but the normal volume.

Driving day and night, it will take three days.Considering the long distance, this time is already very fast.

He also tries to talk to the interface.Naturally, no one answered him.

"I……"

Zheng Zhuo pressed the key and opened the car door.He threw Guo Qian into the back seat.

Haven't lived "here" in a long time?
"What do you mean?" Zheng Zhuo asked while driving.

In fact, he also thought about whether it was safe: if Guo Qian had a sudden attack halfway, the car would crash and people would die on the highway.

"Then I somehow appeared in a modern house. There were a lot of people in black suits standing around. They were saying things like 'here's one, put it in'. One of them gave me a A suit, and...let me...let me do something...he showed me a piece of software...a red piece of software..."

Zheng Zhuo didn't say this, but his expression has gradually become serious.

Zheng Zhuo thought about it.

He wanted to see something, but he didn't know exactly what he wanted to see.After scrolling through the phone for a long time in boredom, he clicked on the [Collective Subconscious] software again.

"(Won't it work as soon as you ask the key? Damn!)"

"(Do the young women know that the professor's team has been getting people's consciousness out? How did the professor's team do this? Is the young woman's defense measures not enough, or the professor's team caught those consciousnesses that wandered on their own ? Has it been done on an ongoing basis since before, or has it only recently been restaffed?)”

"I have something to ask you first."

Because the previous entrance - [Pure White World] has become gray and cannot be selected.Just like the other worlds he had passed through.

Hey.

"and then?"

His skills [Black Hand] and [Persuasion] are both related to intelligence.For intelligence, it's worth taking a little risk.

Zheng Zhuo sighed and took out his phone.The screen lights up, illuminating his face.

Zheng Zhuo briefly slid the phone navigation away.He opened the [Collective Subconscious] software.

Guo Qian held his head.

And the sooner you arrive, the more likely you are to meet Zhuang Yusheng.

"You need to calm down."

It was already three o'clock in the morning.His nerves were so tense that it was difficult for him to fall asleep.

"Hey, Guo Qian, do you remember what you looked like in a medieval castle?"

"Suit? Why is it in my car? I..."

……

"(Arrest people in the martial arts world. In the real world, you still have to arrest people.)"

Short breathing and coughing sounds came from the back seat, and after a while, Guo Qian spoke.

……

Zheng Zhuo stopped at a high-speed rest area and untied him.The two continued on their way.He let Guo Qian sleep for a while, and then asked him to take over the driving at night.

Of course, Zheng Zhuo thought so in his heart.

On the [Subconscious World] interface, the information has changed.

The van hummed and vibrated, moving forward, bumping slightly on the road.Zheng Zhuo was lying on the back seat, staring at the dark roof of the van.

"……what happened?"

"I... Huh? Strange..."

【problem】

"I... I am... I..."

"When the fuck did you get on the highway?"

"……This is how to do?"

The first thing he did when he woke up was to reconfirm the 【Subconscious World】.

……

Zheng Zhuo checked repeatedly this night, but the interface has not changed.

"Do you have any impression of this?"

But this time he wasn't so sure.

"I...I saw that suit...yes. That's right. I remembered a little...I...I haven't lived here in a long time."

It was after Zheng Zhuo drove more than 100 kilometers on the highway that Guo Qian was able to communicate.

only……

"Hey! Wake up!"

Fortunately, Guo Qian regained his sanity.

But if there is any accident inside, visit as soon as possible to start rescue in time to avoid worse consequences.

【Option [-]】

【Forced access】

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