As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 481: Interests Behind
The central area of ​​Donamei City.

The landmark building here is a spherical tower similar to a high tower. It is considered the most expensive hotel in the city. Usually, guests here are businessmen who have lived in the city for a long time or political speculators from other worlds.

These people control the vast majority of Donamei City's financial chain. Although the minerals have been exploited, as a safe haven for thugs, the most valuable thing about this city is its connections.

Hundreds of miles away, other cities on this planet were brightly lit, leaving darkness and crime to the city of Donamei.

The waves in the safe haven are always strong.

In the central area, there is constant gunfire. Interstellar hunters will rub shoulders with each other over an order, and will also resort to thieves.

The bullets hit the walls of the building, leaving bullet holes.

The Cairo people on the road didn't take it seriously, because they wouldn't be killed anyway.

The night is still brightly lit.

The windows shattered into pieces with a loud bang. The owner of the tavern hung up iron sheets to cover the doors and windows. The death of two people was a small matter, but it would be a big deal if the tavern was damaged.

There were three players sitting in the tavern. They came from the "Corridor of Death". They remained calm about the death of their companion.

After all, I'm used to it.

"Damn Cairo world."

Revenge on [Low Health Person] is actually not that complicated. Their original plan was to block Li Nuo's skills and then run away.

But after arriving, I found that the script was unusual.

The script of the prison.

The strangest thing is that the script has not yet taken shape.

He had no choice but to look for players from the guild, but later... during the guild's investigation of the incident, they disappeared one by one, and only these few of them were watching Li Nuo, safe and sound.

In a sense, they were saved by Li Nuo.

"Jeros was killed... but the [Residual Blood] shouldn't act so quickly."

"It depends on whether he has the courage to cause another meteor shower."

The answer is, yes.

The problem is, I didn't bring the card with me.

Without knowing these prerequisites, the three players in the "Death Corridor" didn't have a very good time.

The reason why these three appeared here and did not go looking for trouble immediately after discovering Li Nuo's whereabouts was because... there was a very famous fortune teller in the hotel that represented the rich and powerful.

The three of them were waiting for the fortune teller to appear.

At this time, the tavern owner brought three glasses of beer.

“We didn’t order this.”

"Sent."

The tavern owner is a strange young man wearing a big mask. In the world of Cairo, strange people represent nothing strange at all.

On the contrary, those very serious people cannot survive in this world.

One player holds up his glass.

This glass of wine is very strange, it is really just beer. The alcoholic beverages sold here are not something a normal person can swallow.

As he drank the beer, the door of the pub was pushed open from the outside.

The fortune teller comes in.

Entering the pub with her were bullets from a firefight across the block. The owner immediately ran to close the door and was hit by two bullets in the process.

"Then, let's get started."

The fortune teller sat opposite the three of them. She took off her hood and revealed herself to be a beautiful woman with three eyes.

"The reward is one finger per person."

The moment the words fell, the three players tore off their little fingers in unison.

The fortune teller is extremely famous. Her ability reminds players of the prophecy of the Critical One. According to rumors, her divinations have never been wrong, but she does not charge money, only a part of the customer.

"I want your ears, too."

She pointed at one of the players.

The player pulled out a knife and without hesitation cut off his ear and gave it to the woman opposite. The blood looked like petals and the ear looked like pink flowers.

"Okay, the divination begins now."

"Wait, shouldn't we be asking something?"

"No, my divination will definitely cover what you need to know, but it will never know what is most urgent for you right now. Once divination has a specific purpose, it becomes a prediction of a single thing and no longer contains any reference value."

The captain of the three players nodded and signaled to continue.

The fortune teller smiled and put the fingers and ears into his bag as if they were treasures.

"It will take a while, remember to keep me safe during this time."

Outside the pub.

Cardboard Ham was wrapped in a thick windbreaker and wearing sunglasses, hiding outside the wall of the tavern. He held a recorder in his hand and nodded calmly.

"turn up."

At this time, the tavern owner opened the window and poured a bucket of hot water on it.

"Don't disturb other people's business like a peeping Tom!"

"what--!"

Cardboard Ham ran away screaming in pain.

The Cairo people all have weaknesses. For example, the cardboard Cairo people’s weakness is that they are afraid of water. After all, they are cardboard boxes.

……

There is a large airport on the edge of the city. It used to be a tourist airport, but now it has become a dedicated channel for smuggled goods.

Nothing.

Who would travel to this crappy place?

At four o'clock in the morning, a spaceship landed in the airport.

[Voyager 05, food smuggling cargo ship]

A large number of robots jumped out of the rear hatch one after another and roughly unloaded the cargo.

Among them, three robots took off their masks to reveal their original human appearance. They are interstellar hunters and players.

When Li Nuo was communicating with the senior management of the Police Bureau before, they responded by saying that they would notify a few people who were going to come to this planet to help transport the goods.

The one walking in front is called "Hodum", a male with a bald head and a skull tattoo on his head. He looks like a bastard, but he is surprisingly a good person.

The second player is called "Sancho", an Indian, the spokesperson of the Ganges, with a mouth full of stubble.

The last one is nearly two meters tall, tall and thin, his name doesn’t matter, his nickname is “Big Tree”.

In short, these three are star hunters among players.

Being an interstellar hunter is a helpless choice for players. They are too powerful, incompatible with their original world, and monitored by the people of Cairo. They cannot make trouble in their own world. They can either hide and be a good citizen, or use their own abilities to fight for good things, some of which can even be brought to the corridor.

There are also players like Xing Kai who are born as interstellar hunters.

There is actually a hidden condition in the selection of players. Those whose combat power is similar to that of "normal people" constitute the main body of the players. The probability of those with too high strength becoming players is very low.

There are too many different types of jobs in the Interstellar Hunters group. Just remember that Interstellar Hunters is a general term for a large anarchist team, some of which maintain cooperative relations with the Cairo government, such as Li Nuo's comics editor Julie.

And these three... were called "Escort Agency" in ancient times.

Fifteen minutes later.

Shao Hong drove a truck here to pick them up.

The moment the three players saw Shao Hong, some kind of radar device on their bodies that identified players beeped a few times.

"To be honest... I didn't expect he was also a player."

Hodum is the leader of these people. He directs his teammates to load the things onto the truck.

"Fortunately, what you are asking for is not the stuff of those Cairo police superiors. Otherwise... those guys are not serious people."

"where to?"

"Well... just get in the car."

Shao Hong opened the car door and three players squeezed in.

"just you?"

"My teammate has something to do."

Shao Hong stepped on the accelerator and the truck clanged onto the road.

After Johannesson and Luo Lei received the news that the goods from the Cairo aliens had arrived, they went out to hunt vampires. Only Shao Hong, a non-combat player, stayed behind to handle logistics.

The car was bumpy.

On the way, the few of them chatted casually.

There are more than just these three people in Hodum's team. They have been assigned a scripted mission, and delivering the gifts is just a side job.

Like Johannesson and the others, they recognized the label of "Border Prison" when approaching the planet.

But there is no way out.

Once players come into contact with things in the prison, there is no way to retreat.

Like Li Nuo and the others, these three also have no equipment, but they come with skills, so they are not panicking. What's more, Shao Hong is here to represent that there are many other players as well. Well, unity is strength.

"where to?"

Huo Dumu turned his head and looked at Shao Hong who was driving.

"I mean... who is the recipient?"

"Li Nuo."

Shao Hong said the name without hesitation.

Hodum didn't react much, but his teammate Dashu who was sitting in the back was suddenly stunned.

“Sounds familiar…”

Hodum thought about it and found it familiar.

"Asian name... Li Nuo..."

Da Shu reminded, "First place in the world competition half a year ago."

Hodum's eyes lit up: "That, that's the boss who ate a hundred children!"

Shao Hong held back her laughter. Li Nuo's name came out, but it was a pity that he ate a hundred children. She didn't notice that the pupils of the three players were shaking.

For them, this stretch of road is like a pilgrimage.

Well...some people also admire Li Nuo.

The world's great wonders.

……

In the warehouse, all the "pets" adopted by the gorilla princess died. They were broken down and used as food ingredients and materials, some of them were hung on iron hooks and some were on the table.

Inside the huge warehouse, there is an area divided into the "offal area". The fishy-smelling organs are deposited in a large pool. They are used as offal ingredients.

The meat on the iron hook is used for making real food.

A small number of them are placed on the chopping board in the "Alchemy Potions" area. These are carefully selected things that can be used to make medicine.

Boom-!
Under the dim light, the sound of chopping meat echoed in the silent factory, creating layers of echoes.

Li Nuo took the meat cleaver in his hand and worked hard. The broth flew everywhere and the noodles swirled in the pot like silk.

"call……"

He divided the broth into three bowls, then found a chair, sat in front of a terminal, and tapped the table.

"Let's eat!"

The voice just fell.

Cuihua jumped out from his hand.

Lilolilo was running over from a distance, with a large intestine hanging on his head. He was assigned to the area for cleaning the large intestine.

Just like that, one man, one fire, and one hammer, he sat in the slaughterhouse and slurped noodles comfortably.

Cuihua said aggrievedly: "It's not as delicious as Die's."

Li Nuo glared at it and said, "I have ○○, do you want to eat it?"

Lilo Lilo: "Is ○○ delicious? I want to eat it too!"

Cuihua said: "We have a hostess there, I heard she eats a lot."

At this time, the terminal screen lit up.

The machine here is connected to the gorilla princess's spaceship, and the pink-haired gorilla heard their entire conversation.

“What are you doing? Aa ...

The pink-haired gorilla was roaring, and the interstellar succubus Karaka held it back helplessly.

"Calm down, old fan! You can't beat him!"

Karaka excitedly squeezed his face to fill the screen.

"Although the princess doesn't want you anymore, I can eat your ○○...but you have to tell me who the mistress who always eats your ○○ is!"

boom!
The pink-haired gorilla punched Karaka into the ground.

Li Nuo stared with dead eyes, saying, "I'm used to it. You can't expect this world to be normal."

"Brother Pink Hair, why didn't you tell me there was a terminal in the princess's pet warehouse? I spent a lot of time to get it."

Li Nuo discovered this terminal about four hours ago. It can only contact the gorilla princess. If he had known about this thing earlier, he could have made a more abstract plan.

There was no answer, but only silence from the pink-haired gorilla.

The pink-haired gorilla's eyes grew wider and wider.

"what have you been doing……"

The gorilla princess's pet warehouse turned into a slaughterhouse.

“I have to make medicine.”

Li Nuo explained what happened again, which was considered as a task report to the "client".

Capturing the players in the "Death Corridor" is the most important thing. Before that, Li Nuo cannot let himself stop, nor can he rush into the enemy's arms like a warrior. He needs to be the cautious demon hunter he used to be and make some "decocted medicine" and "alchemical bombs" first.

From 7:30 last night until now, Li Nuo has been screening medicinal ingredients that can be used as medicines.

Especially the potions targeting vampires, such as the decoction of [Advanced Black Blood], are the next necessities.

"Shouldn't you go hunt a few more vampires first?"

The pink-haired gorilla asked the question, and it was right.

"They're hiding."

Li Nuo's answer was brief and to the point, and he didn't want to say more.

When he came out of the police station, he found that the smell of vampires had become weaker, and these guys seemed to be hiding deliberately.

Perhaps the reason why the vampire leader is the "leader" is because after the leader's death, he will send a signal to other vampires; there is another possibility that the players of the "Death Corridor" are interfering.

Li Nuo tends to believe the first option. Players probably don't have the ability to influence a group of vampires.

"you sure?"

The pink-haired gorilla didn't completely believe him.

Li Nuo slurped the noodles, closed his eyes and nodded.

"I just went out to buy noodles, and no vampire even robbed me of money along the way."

"Are you crazy?"

The pink-haired gorilla felt that there was no normal channel of communication with him.

In fact, what happened was that a group of interstellar hunters were fighting with local gangsters nearby, and the artillery fire blew up the open space next to the warehouse.

In order to prevent any danger from happening, Li Nuo went out and killed those guys, and seized the weapons of the interstellar hunters, thus completing the weapons supply.

He felt a little hungry after the exercise, so he went to a nearby supermarket and grabbed a bag of "noodle worms".

"Okay, let's get down to business."

Li Nuo drank the last mouthful of soup, picked up Cuihua and Liluoliluo's empty bowls, and refilled the bowls with noodles for these two gluttons.

"I want to know if I can use you princesses to gain greater support for power."

"no way."

This time the pink-haired gorilla refused very decisively.

Li Nuo filled a bowl of noodle soup, blew the hot steam, looked at the pink-haired gorilla on the screen, and explained the reason why the Cairo people did not take this incident seriously.

"Decision-makers in the upper class think that 'vampires' and 'infectious viruses' are not a big problem at all. They are just small matters that can be settled over the dinner table."

"That's it..."

"For the top leaders, a biological disaster can be solved with artillery fire, let alone a lawless city. The real focus of the discussion is who will bear the negative reviews and how to distribute the benefits in the end."

The pink-haired gorilla nodded slightly, with some reluctance in its expression, but things were the same as Li Nuo's "imagined" result, that is, no one took it seriously.

Li Nuo finished half the bowl of noodle soup in one gulp, blowing out hot air.

"I checked. There are some dignitaries and businessmen in all the cities on this planet. If something goes wrong, these high-ranking officials will eventually need to find someone to take care of it. Is that right?"

"Yes."

"Outsourcing the mission to interstellar hunters or civilian organizations will not affect the political stance of the upper echelons no matter what the final result is. If the final result is not good, then the contractor will take the blame. If the result is good, then the upper echelons will come forward at the end of the incident to give themselves some credit, and the contractor will get a share of the spoils."

Li Nuo looked at the noodle soup and also saw the biggest benefit of the whole incident.

It is not what the gorilla princess or the mission itself brings, but what the operating managers behind this city can provide.

The pink-haired gorilla also understood all of Li Nuo's intentions. His first goal in strolling around the city was not to solve the problem, but to see the interests behind the problem.

"What kind of 'soup' would you like?"

"It's a lot, so wait a little longer, but I promise, something will happen."

The reason why Li Nuo was so sure was that thirty-one players from a guild called "Death Corridor" were missing, and the main quest of these players was also "Viruses and Vampires", which meant that their disappearance was related to the entire incident, which indirectly highlighted the unusualness of this incident.

There might be a subspace in the city, or there might be something that cannot be seen. It is a doom that cannot be prevented by human power.

"I want to hear the princess's promise."

About ten minutes later, the pink-haired gorilla came back and pulled out a video from the princess.

On the screen, the princess looks scary, but if you can understand her words, you will feel that she is the only reliable "leader".

——"Roll up your sleeves and get to work. As long as you can solve the crisis, I will ask my father (President Orangutan) to ask for benefits for you."

[Side quest has been triggered: Dangerous Agent]

[Task level: lv200]

[Mission Reward: Blank Banknotes from the Orangutan Group]

[Tip: The Orangutan Group is ultimately a business group, and they won't give you anything too good. What you can get depends on your own choice, money or fate.]

[Task details: This task is the same as the main task]

Li Nuo's eyes darkened. Level 200.

This was a different way of telling him the difficulty level of the "Border Prison Script".

Another reason why Li Nuo dared to negotiate the price with the gorilla princess was that there was a diary in the terminal.

It records the truth about the gorilla princess's collection of pets.

——"These monsters, as long as they are well trained, can be used as pets to protect civilians. If the city is in crisis, they can also be used as food to feed civilians who cannot leave."

The princess is a "good person".

Even though it is considered a psychopath.

"What do you think? Are you planning to get involved?" asked the pink-haired gorilla on the other side of the screen.

"Yeah, no problem."

The pink-haired gorilla felt a little guilty because of trade relations, they could not provide Li Nuo with better supplies, even though Li Nuo did not need them.

"The princess also reminded you that the reason she cares about this incident is because a fortune teller predicted that there is something like 'high-dimensional life' behind this incident."

The fortune teller is telling fortunes for the players in the "Corridor of Death".

"If you... don't have that confidence, you can always press the button I give you and quit at any time."

The pink-haired gorilla is worried about the meaning of "higher-dimensional life" because it has never seen it.

"I see. High-dimensional beings are indeed powerful. It took a lot of trouble to kill one last time."

Li Nuo turned around and turned off the terminal because someone knocked on the door.

The pink-haired gorilla looked confused in front of the terminal with a black screen.

(End of this chapter)