Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 472 Is it all confidential?

"The Bridge to Heaven?" Fei Er looked at Alice deeply and said, "Where did you hear this name?"

"A kind person passing by told me." Alice answered without thinking, and when she noticed Fei'er's strange look, she quickly changed her words: "Bah, that's not the case. Your two right-hand men told me that they think I have something to do with the Bridge of Heaven, but I have never heard of this thing, so what on earth is it?"

The golden-haired maid's eyes sparkled with curiosity and thirst for knowledge, and she was looking forward to Fei'er's answer. But to her disappointment, Fei'er shook her head gently: "This is a secret of the association, I can't tell you."

"Okay." Alice was obviously disappointed, but she didn't dwell on it. She forced herself to continue asking questions: "In that case, let me change the question - do you know the earth? Your left arm and right arm..."

She glanced at the two philosophers in the darkness. They were blocked by the realm of nothingness and seemed unable to hear the voices here: "Charles Dickens and Christian Huygens, are they from Earth?"

Fei'er's eyes changed subtly, staring at Alice with her silver-grey pupils, and her slightly narrow and arc-shaped pupils seemed to shrink slightly, but the amplitude was very small, so no one could notice it. Besides, it would be too difficult for this old-fashioned pixel-style RPG game to accurately capture the subtle changes in the eyes and expressions from a dot matrix character model.

After a while, the witch spoke and slowly replied, "I'm sorry, this is also confidential."

"Really? It's okay. I still have many questions. One of them is not a secret. Can you tell me why there are so many Earthlings in your Witch Society? Are they really from Earth, or are they simply isotopes from another world? I think the latter is more likely. After all, I never knew that Christian Huygens was actually a girl. Is the Witch Society an organization founded by isotopes of witches and Earth philosophers? Why do you secretly tamper with history and guide it to a completely opposite track? Are you imitating and replicating the history of the Earth world? How do you know the history of the Earth world?"

Alice threw out a series of questions. If she hadn't been out of breath, she would have probably asked a dozen more. Then she stared at Fei Er with sparkling eyes: "With so many questions, there must be one that can answer me, right? It doesn't matter, I'm not picky, just take your pick!"

She once again extended an olive branch. It was obvious that the Dread Witch Queen did not want to be their enemy. In this respect, her attitude was undoubtedly sincere. Unfortunately, Linger and others could not agree with the philosophy of the Witch Society, and had no interest in their so-called Eden Project to create an "ideal world". After all, this plan would sacrifice many innocent people, and they happened to stand on the side of the victims. This was an irreconcilable contradiction.

"I don't want to." Alice's reason for refusing was even more bizarre: "I'm the protagonist, how can I do the villain's work?"

When she uttered the word "enemy", there was a brief, unnatural stagnation in her tone, as if the rusty gears in a clock suddenly stopped turning, causing the reciprocating pendulum to slowly stop and finally point to a fixed scale. Amid the groans of pain that were so slight that they were almost inaudible, the pointer clicked, as if the bitterness of time was about to burst out.

"Hey, why is that!" Alice yelled in dissatisfaction, complaining, "It's all confidential. Isn't there anything in your Witch Society that is not confidential?"

Fei Er smiled when he heard this: "For a large-scale organization, most things cannot be known to outsiders. Of course, if you are willing to join the association, these will not be confidential. I can use my personal authority to help you look up relevant information. How about it, are you really not going to consider it again?"

She put on an air of "I am beautiful, kind and easy to talk to". Fei'er tilted her head slightly, and her golden ponytail swept across the Death Thorn Spear Longinus behind her. The blade soaked in dark red blood had a smell of rust, which made her nose wrinkle slightly. "You are really good at finding faults, Miss Alice. With all due respect, these are all confidential. I can't reveal them to outsiders, especially to the enemy."

"Protagonist? Villain?" Fei Er thought thoughtfully: "You seem to be very entangled in this fixed position, just like there must be a righteous side and an evil side in a stage play. This binary opposition idea constitutes the basic form of early art culture, but it is no longer popular now, because artists have discovered that people's positions change at any time and cannot be fixed. So why do you want to be entangled in such insignificant things? Generally speaking, I would suggest that you understand first, and then make a choice, instead of being constrained by the difficult-to-unify concepts of justice and evil."

“Who can understand you?” Alice waved her hand vigorously and said confidently, “I didn’t think so much about it at all, but the villain has his own great ideals, whether it’s creating a new world or completing the human instrumentation plan, it’s just the same thing; in this case, the protagonist must do what the protagonist should do, defeat the villain and save the world! If the protagonist tries to understand, forgive, or even join the villain, can he still be called the protagonist? It’s better to call it a fan work.”

"So you still want to treat this as a stage play?" "This is not a stage play!"

Alice flatly denied it, her tone sounding very confident, and she didn't look like she was at a disadvantage at all: "It's a game!"

After that, she scanned the five options in front of her one by one, and then locked on the last option.

[Please select your action: attack/defense/skill/item/escape]

That’s right, you can escape in RPG games.

Moreover, the escape mechanism of "First Fantasy: Four Warriors" inherits an advantage of the old RPG games, that is, after escaping successfully, the protagonist will enter an invincible state for a period of time, and will not encounter enemies during this period, or even if they encounter enemies, it will not trigger a battle. From a realistic perspective, it is probably that as long as the escape is successful, you can leave calmly without worrying about being chased by the enemies behind. As for why they watched the enemy escape without chasing, are they all a bunch of wooden people... You don't need to understand this kind of gameplay thing so clearly.

In fact, before this, Alice had never paid attention to this mechanism, because the previous situations where she needed to use this cartridge did not allow her to make the choice of escape: fighting Fialli in Linville City was a plot battle after the cartridge was first activated, fighting Rat in Rostin City was to defend the underground garden, and fighting Professor David in Avion City was to protect Ieta. There was no room for escape in these battles.

In addition, Alice herself was a staunch berserker. No matter what game she played, she would kill as many people as possible. She never did anything cowardly like running away, so she forgot the existence of this mechanism over time. It was not until today when she was surrounded by the large army of the Inquisition and had nowhere to go that she remembered that there was such a method.

The genius player had a flash of inspiration and finally found the correct strategy. Therefore, running away is no longer running away, but a strategic transfer. When she reaches a higher level and has all the equipment, she will come back to trouble the BOSS. You may think that this is just a sophistry and cannot change the fact that she was defeated and fled after being defeated by the BOSS, but this is wrong. Isn’t it the best way to play RPG games after leveling up and getting equipment? Anyway, she believes it, you can believe it or not.

"all in all--"

She pressed her hand towards the last option: "Let's have a righteous retreat here first!"

As long as I can get there...

【Escape failed.】

A cold prompt box appeared in front of everyone.

"Eh?"

Alice was dumbfounded.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)