Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 17
"Wow! Lost again!"

Little Red Riding Hood in front of Jiatu screamed and fell down, while Jiatu stood up with a relaxed face.

Once you realize that the key to winning or losing lies in the "choice of the game", the next thing to do is very simple.

In chess games, both "backgammon" and "reversi" have winning methods, one requires the first hand to hold the chess, and the other requires the second hand to hold the chess, and Jiatu has the aid of the external brain, even if there is no game record, you can also pass the game. Pure floating-point calculations, get a very high winning rate.

What's more, when playing backgammon, he found that compared to his physical ability, Little Red Riding Hood's thinking ability was at the level of a pure young girl. As an adult, he could easily crush them even without reading the game records.

After realizing that almost all board games are their nemesis, Gator easily wins all of them.

When he finished the game of Reversi and won two out of three games, the Little Red Riding Hoods spun and flew up, singing happily around Chiato:
"New friends, old friends, betrayed friends sing ballads at the stake;"

"True friends, fake friends, loyal friends sleep well at the bottom of the lake."

"Born friends, familiar friends, wise friends jingle coins on the soles of their shoes;"

"A friend who lives, a friend who dies, and a friend who lies has a thousand sores under his tongue."

This is a very weird nursery rhyme. Although Jiatu couldn't understand their language, he was unexpectedly able to understand their meaning.

After singing the nursery rhyme, the Little Red Riding Hoods cleared the way in front of Jiatu.

Subconsciously bowing and apologizing to them, Jiatu passed them and walked towards the containment room ahead.

"It's finally over... Next, we should be able to go to B207, right?"

Jiatu asked Heiyin.

After clearing "Three Little Red Riding Hoods", his brain was a little dizzy and his forehead was sweating.

The exhaustion of mental and physical strength is very serious.

It wasn't until then that he remembered that he hadn't eaten today.

So he opened the closed mask and threw a broken dry food stick into his mouth.

However, just as he was biting the dry food stick in his mouth with some difficulty, he suddenly heard a faint sigh from not far away.

He looked up subconsciously.

Only to find a chunky man in a white chef's uniform disappeared at the corner of the circular corridor.

[It is the alienated body of "Geometric Level" "Chef Lumino". 】

Heiyin's voice sounded in Jiatu's mind:
[This alienation society invites you to participate in its "banquet", and even if you refuse its "banquet", you will not be punished. 】

"Why is he also "Geometric Level"?"

Jiatu asked curiously while swallowing the wood dregs in his throat.

In his impression, alienated bodies should be more or less threatening.

【right. 】

Heiyin said affirmatively: [His difficulty lies in accepting the "invitation" - because the risks and benefits are great, so he belongs to the Medium-risk and high-yield alienation bodies are placed on the second floor of the basement for control. 】

""Yaolan Automatic Beverage Machine"..."

After being reminded by Heiyin, Jiatu also saw the reason why they came to the second basement through the glass window of B207——

An ordinary beverage vending machine without any special features.

"Is this the alienation of the 'equipment type'..."

Through the observation window of B207, Jiatu whispered.

From the outside, it looks like an empty room.

After breaking through, the same is true.

Only by the wall facing the window is a colorful automatic drink machine with rainbow advertisements painted on the shell.

Other than that, there was almost nothing in the containment room, and everything was covered with a thick layer of dust, which looked very dirty.

["Yaolan Brand Automatic Beverage Vending Machine". 】

["Noise Level" alienation body, as long as you insert coins, you can get "Luck Drink". 】

["Luck Drink" can only be obtained by five bottles per person per day. Before drinking, it needs to be confirmed by the director of the research institute. Each bottle of drink has a random effect. Drinking the wrong drink is likely to cause very bad consequences. 】

[The effective time of luck drinks is the same as the shelf life on the packaging; the duration is usually related to the volume label. 】

Hearing Heiyin's explanation, Jiatu nodded.

Facing the drink machine in front of him, he did feel a sense of security.

This is something he has never felt in other alienated bodies.

Including "The Blue Enchantress", he is full of fear of these alienated bodies—for example, he will be afraid that the brain-terrorizing host will not work normally, leaving mushroom spores in his body.

But the drink machine in front of me is different. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary vending machine.

It was no different from the vending machine in front of the school in his previous life.

In addition to the "too clean as new" point.

"So where do you get the coins for the drink machine? Pay with your face?"

Now that he knew what to do, Jiatu didn't hesitate any longer.

Dealing with alienated bodies until now, he has fully realized that almost all alienated bodies will have their own characteristics.

"Yaolan Beverage Machine" should be no exception.

Sure enough, Hei Yin's voice sounded in his mind:
[Because "Yao Lan Brand" is a very old-fashioned beverage machine, it does not have the functions of scanning code payment and scanning face payment. 】

[Normal "hard currency" currencies, such as copper coins, commemorative coins, coins, etc., cannot be used on this alienated body. 】

[However, currencies with "luck" attributes, such as casino chips, undrawn lottery tickets, slot machine steel balls, and playground tokens, can all be used on this alienated body.Every time a coin is inserted, a bottle of "Luck Drink" with the buyer's "luck" attribute will be randomly spit out. 】

[Because almost none of these tokens are in circulation on the market, the research institute has purchased a large number of game tokens as research materials and placed them not far from the beverage machine. You should be able to find them if you look around. 】

"Using tokens instead of currency..."

Listening to Heiyin's explanation, Jiatu couldn't help turning his gaze to the coin slot of the beverage machine.

There were indeed coin slots like steel balls or casino chips there, and even the place where he thought it was a coin slot for banknotes, when he looked closely, there was also a horse racing pattern printed on it.

Other than that, there is no explanatory text.

Jiatu shook his head. Now that he understood the working principle of the whole machine, he didn't hesitate anymore. He rummaged around on the flat table next to the beverage machine. Sure enough, under the thick dust, he found hundreds of dark and Light nickel alloy tokens.

Jiatu broke off the game tokens that were almost glued together, put them in his hand, and counted five of them.

Then he took a deep breath and threw them all into the drink machine in one go.

Almost at the moment when the coin landed, the outlet of the drink machine in front of him made a "ding ding bang bang" noise, and several bottles of "luck drinks" in stylish packaging fell out.

"Without electricity, it still works normally, and it's still cold..."

Jiatu repeatedly confirmed that there was no outlet for the drink machine, and there was no drink selection button on the machine, and then took out five bottles of drinks.

He put them one by one in front of him, and he felt a kind of strange and strange feeling.

"Isn't this Han〇 cabin, Tong〇 green tea, Co〇Cola, Wa〇ha purified water and Dong〇 special drink?!"

Looking at the five bottles of drinks in his hand, Jiatu felt very miraculous.

Because the drink in his hand, at first glance, is indeed a package he is very familiar with, but upon closer inspection, the trademark and text on it are a bunch of garbled characters, as if generated by AI, not like a real and usable language at all. Only the numbers can barely be seen to be Arabic numerals.

【Are they yellow, green, black, white and orange drinks...】

Heiyin didn't care about Jiatu's muttering, but recognized the type of drink in his hand:

[Although the specifications are not the same as those commonly used in research institutes, based on the color of the drinks, their functions can be roughly judged. 】

[Your luck today is not very good. Among the five bottles of drinks, only two bottles are "good luck drinks", one bottle of "bad luck drinks", and two bottles of "neither good nor bad" drinks. 】

"Which two bottles are good luck drinks?"

Hearing Heiyin's words, Jiatu couldn't help looking at the five "harvests" in his hand.

Three of them are in 330ml cans, the rest of the purified water is in 600ml plastic bottles, and only Dong ○ special drink is in 250ml cartons.

[The yellow drink and the orange drink should both be "good luck drinks", and their functions are "pain relief" and "concentration" respectively.The former can paralyze your pain nerves for 5 minutes and 30 seconds; the latter allows you to enter a state of concentration for 250 seconds, and the success rate of doing anything will increase. 】

"Then what is the bad drink?" Jiatu looked at the remaining three bottles of drinks in his hand.

【Cola. 】

Heiyin mentioned the name of the only beverage she knew among the five bottles present: [According to the records of the research institute, the cola-type beverages dropped out of the beverage machine are extremely corrosive, and the "mode" of the experimental subjects "organism", five seconds after contact with the liquid in the container, it was dissolved. 】

"... Is it because of carbonic acid? Or is it because of phosphoric acid?"

Looking at the red soda can in his hand, Jiatu couldn't help clicking his tongue, subconsciously wanting to throw it away.

But he suddenly remembered that although drinking this thing by itself is very dangerous, it seems good to use it as a weapon.

So he stuffed the Coke can into the magazine pouch of his riot suit.

"So the remaining two bottles of 'good or bad' drinks are drinks that have no effect and can be drunk directly?"

Jiatu held the last two bottles of drinks and asked Heiyin.

As a result, Heiyin said noncommittally:
[The effect of green tea is "staining", it will turn your tongue and internal organs green within a certain period of time. 】

[As for the "pure water" that is indeed drinkable, according to the identification of the institute, it has nothing special except that it is not "pure water". 】

Hei Yin replied.

"Not pure water?"

Jiatu couldn't help asking curiously.

【right. 】Heiyin said with certainty:【Its ingredients are mineral water. 】

[It is very similar to Baotu Spring in Jizhou City. 】

(End of this chapter)