Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 471 Is This Your Escape Route?
The cold and mechanical voice of the girl's narration echoed in the empty and chaotic world, like a ray of light piercing the darkness of the long night. What the naked eye saw was precious hope.

【Welcome to AliceGame system, Player (Dear players, welcome to the Alice system)】

……

The Game "First Fantasy-Four Warriors" Has Been Started

【Got For Your Game, Player (Happy Game)】

Mysterious and deep phantom light rushed to the sky and the earth. Countless characters of 0 and 1 intertwined and flashed, like a flooding tide at the end, and began to reconstruct the essence of this world. The boundary between reality and game gradually blurred, and the realm of fantasy unfolded. When the light faded, everyone was pulled into a new copy by Alice's game console.

[The Negative Pole of the Universe: Terrifying Void Realm]

The whole world is still shrouded in darkness, but the darkness made up of dot pixels is no longer as empty and heavy as before, giving people a feeling of unknown and panic. It is more like the backdrop of a stage play, serving as the background decoration of this world, creating a low, bleak and dead atmosphere.

Behind the dark curtain, countless figures were flickering. They were like shadowy ghosts in the mist, isolated from the stage. Only vague shadows could be seen, but their voices and heartbeats could not be heard. If there was not a line of bright text above each person's head to prove that they were also participating in this game, Alice would have ignored these people as the atmosphere group in the background story.

[LV20 Left Arm of the Holy See—Dickens HP500/500]

In addition, there are a large group of miscellaneous soldiers with attributes of [LV30 Magic Knight A HP2000/2000] and [LV40 Constructor A HP3500/3500], which are densely packed around and the number of monsters is desperate. This is the disadvantage of this turn-based RPG game. When it starts, it will pull all the individuals judged as hostile targets around into the game regardless of their number. Once the number of enemies increases and the number of action rounds increases, the advantages of turn-based games are difficult to reflect.

The witch controlled people's fear of the unknown world and drew strength from their heavy breathing and suppressed heartbeats, bringing endless sense of oppression, but she seemed unaware of this. Instead, she raised her hands and put them under her silver-gray pupils to observe carefully, seeing that these blurred dot pixels made up the entire appearance of her body, and a thoughtful look gradually emerged in her eyes.

These are the attributes of the two philosophers and Lingge's "old friend" Langning Ravel. It can be seen that the right-hand man of the Church is indeed a civilian with little combat power. His level and HP are very low, just slightly stronger than ordinary people. It is estimated that this is the increase brought by the magic device they carry with them. Langning is a magician who is only one step away from crossing the threshold of demigod. His level attributes are stronger than Professor David, the plot boss encountered by everyone in Avion City.

[LV20 Holy See Right Arm—Christian HP500/500]

[LV? ? ? Dread Witch—Fei Er HP? ? ? /? ? ? ]

Standing in the endless darkness, under the dim and broken sky, she seemed to be standing in the center of eternal chaos. Under her feet lay the docile giant beast of nothingness, and around her were collapsed and sunken cracks. Each crack was like the claw mark of a beast, fiercely tearing open the fragile curtain covering the world's appearance, exposing endless paleness and emptiness.

What's more, the opponent has an ultimate BOSS that you don't know how to defeat at first glance.

[The noise of the endless world: strangle silence, destroy rationality, destroy consciousness... When you hear the whispers of the universe echoing in your ears, do not doubt your ignorance, because that is the innate habit of living beings. In this empty realm, its owner will not be affected by any skills, and the damage will be permanently increased by 1000%. Every time the character acts, the seeds of fear will be sown for a random enemy. In your next turn, the enemy with the seeds of fear in his body will lose his mind and become a "horrible beast" under your control. ]

"Is this the power you hold?"

[LV55 Fourth Ship Officer—Longning HP6000/6000]

She looked up and said to Alice, "It is indeed magical. No wonder you were able to stop the riot of the Earth Mother Titan in the Saria Plain. But no matter how magical the power is, it has its limitations, not to mention that you don't seem to have grasped its essence. If you think you can defeat me with this method, it's a bit unrealistic."

This was a very impolite statement, but Lingge and the others did not have the confidence to refute. After all, the power that Fei'er had just displayed was almost overwhelming despair. That kind of power was comparable to that of a god. The young man had never felt it even from the Earth Mother Titan or Gundaruf. He could hardly imagine what it would take to defeat such a powerful enemy.

The turn-based game certainly gives everyone a fair chance to attack. Alice's ultimate move [Creation - Sword of Creation] can indeed ignore any defense and kill the enemy instantly. However, the prerequisite is that she can accumulate the 20 points of courage required to release the ultimate move. This is a status value that needs to be accumulated by the number of turns. Even with the assistance of Saint Shallia and the double-click effect of the Brave Class skill itself, it will take at least 15 turns.

But would Fei Er give them such ample preparation time? The answer is of course no. Even if the mechanism of the turn-based game limits the performance of the witch of fear, so that she can only kill one person in her turn, the number of enemies is too large, and the vast number of action rounds is enough to drown them in endless attacks before Alice accumulates enough courage for the ultimate move. As the owner of the game console and a self-proclaimed genius player, Alice should know this best, so why did she still choose the cartridge of "First Fantasy: Four Warriors"? Could it be that after thinking about it for so long, the solution she finally came up with was just to rely on the characteristics of the turn-based game to delay time, and pray that Yieta on the Cloud Whale Sky Island would notice the movement here earlier and drive the Sky Island down from the sky to pick them up?
To be honest, Lingge didn't want Yieta to enter the battle now. No one knew whether [Great Wind] could counter the power of the Witch of Fear Fei'er before they actually fought. However, strength was not the only criterion for victory or defeat. Character, attitude and experience were also important. With Yieta's weak and cowardly character and negative and escapist mentality, if she rashly rushed over to fight the experienced Grand Judge, the final result would probably be unsatisfactory. Using the words that Alice often said, it should be called... giving away heads?
Alice seemed oddly confident.

"Who said it's impossible?" The corners of her mouth slowly drew up a relaxed smile of a genius player, and she was evenly matched with Fei'er in terms of momentum: "I admit that you are very strong. The appearance of a powerful BOSS like you in the early and middle plots of the game is a devastating blow to the players' gaming experience. But it doesn't matter. I, the genius player Alice, can find the best strategy no matter what kind of adversity I am in - the little tricks of the GI Club don't work on me!"

Fei'er listened to her nonsense without any change in expression. Only when she heard the name of GI, her pupils shrank slightly, but soon returned to normal. She looked at Alice's pixelated model with interest, and then looked at the words [LV36 Brave—Alice] floating above her head, and asked, "So, what is your so-called strategy? If you regard this battle as a game, how do you want to defeat me?"

"Ha!" Alice sneered disdainfully: "Who said I want to fight you? Strategy games are not about fighting and killing, but about the ways of the world... Bah, it's about a flexible mind and quick thinking. The great writer Lu Xun once said: The Lord God will not issue a mission that will result in death. In other words, as long as I can escape from your hands, it will be my victory!"

She still likes to talk nonsense as always, and says the most cowardly words in the most confident tone.

Fei Er almost couldn't hold back her laughter, but luckily she managed to hold it back and didn't laugh out loud. She tried to suppress her laughter and asked, "If that's the case, how do you want to escape? Although I don't quite understand where your confidence comes from, judging from the situation, your current situation is pretty bad, right?"

To describe the situation as terrible was already giving them face, the Witch of Dread was giving them some credibility; to be more precise, it should be described as a desperate situation.

Lingge thought silently.

But Alice only glanced at the last of the five options in front of her, her mouth slightly curled up, revealing a mysterious smile: What other tricks can there be in the RPG game's escape mechanism? Of course, just press it directly. It's not an action game like Tomb Raider or Mystery Domain that requires operation. RPG games only require hands, of course, and a certain amount of luck.

However, Alice felt that she had always had good luck because she loved to laugh. There is a saying that goes, girls who love to laugh will never have bad luck.

The formula to victory has been determined, this is my escape route!
No, you can't laugh now. Opening champagne at halftime will ruin your character. Be careful of the fireworks.

Alice held back her smile and tried to suppress it. Her expression of wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh was undoubtedly very distorted. Fei Er scratched her hair, wondering if this little girl had some kind of disease that made her unable to control her facial muscles, or was she simply a mental patient?

In fact, she accidentally guessed the truth.

"correct."

Alice suddenly remembered something, raised her head anxiously, and said to Fei Er: "Before the battle begins, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?"

"Sure." As an ultimate boss, the attitude of the Witch of Fear was completely different from the sense of oppression she displayed. She replied very friendly: "You can ask whatever you want, and I will answer it casually, but if it involves the secrets of the association, I will not tell you, okay?"

Isn’t this too friendly?
Lingge frowned slightly: From the time she appeared until now, Fei'er's attitude towards them is always so strange. She first invited them to join the Witch Society, and after being rejected, she sighed that she didn't actually want to be their enemy. Finally, she had no choice but to capture them alive, but she was willing to answer Alice's questions... This attitude doesn't seem like treating an enemy, but more like treating an old friend who hasn't seen her for a long time.

But, do you know her?
Or is it that it’s not you who knows him, but someone else does?

A flash of inspiration suddenly came to his mind, and he turned to look at Saint Xia Liya next to him, but the shepherdess lowered her head, and her green bangs hid the deep thoughts in her eyes, making it impossible to see what she was thinking.

"no problem, no problem."

Alice shook her head repeatedly. This kind of action mode of chatting with the villain BOSS before the battle seemed normal to her. It existed in most games, so she didn't think Fei'er's attitude was strange. She opened her bright eyes and asked her first question curiously: "What is the Bridge of Heaven?"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)