Morning in the Tower of Swords

Since she couldn't think of a reason, Hongyuan simply stopped worrying. Anyway, she is not a tactical expert, and she only needs to know that Rhode Island can't turn her face openly, because there is no benefit, and it will only save Rhine's life and even life. It was the Colombian military who was flatly pushed to the opposite.

Just as she was typing something on the soft keyboard of her personal terminal, no one saw that a cloud of dark purple mist, like a mold that quickly infects the human body, snaked up from the clean calf where the red kite had faded from the water-soaked flesh-colored stockings. , while also eroding floors and walls at a faster rate.

This all happened silently, until Hongyuan noticed that the light source from overhead suddenly dimmed, and the only sight in the whole room was the dimly lit screen of the personal terminal in front of her, and the warm light on the other side of the bathroom door.

"Messie?"

Although Hongyuan's first reaction was that the power was cut off, she immediately woke up. The lights in Maisie's place were still on, and the bathroom and toilet were not important places. Which designer would be too busy to design an extra design for this place. A power supply system?

"Messie!!"

When she shouted twice in succession but got no response, only Maisie, through the shadowy figure of the frosted glass, stretched longer and longer in the dark room under the reflection of the bathroom light, Hongyuan finally realized In a great personal crisis,

Although she has little combat experience, since she has the skills of a magician, Rhine Life will of course give her special combat training in order to deal with such unexpected situations, so she subconsciously reaches out to the small Originium Method she carries with her. The stick, which is a "U disk" that plugs into the personal terminal interface.

The strength of the Originium spell of the non-infected is not necessarily weaker than that of the infected, just like the yellow people whose muscle fibers are more suitable for flexibility and agility are not necessarily slower than the explosive black people in sprinting, but there is a It must be more troublesome, she must use the "staff" inlaid with the source stone structure.

There are various forms of staff, some are like a crystal ball, some are like a hammer, and even the gun itself is a kind of staff that converts the energy of Originium with high efficiency but can only be converted into the impact force of bullets. It can also be made into a U disk.

After all, in front of Hongyuan, the top scientist of Rhine life, this kind of staff will not be cared about even if it is seen. After all, no one will be able to ask. Can you lend me your U disk and look inside? What a good movie like that.

"Jie Jie Jie, is the first reaction in a crisis that you want to destroy your precious 'collection' for many years to avoid being publicly executed? It seems that this big sister Li Boli is a fellow!"

It wasn't until a pretentiously sharp voice sounded from her ear that Hongyuan suddenly realized that her lower body was tightly wrapped by some kind of mist, so she couldn't move at all, and at this time the mist had spread to her hand to touch the USB flash drive. On her elbow, a strange purple palm stretched out from the mist and clasped her wrist tightly.

Then another weird palm appeared, and took her USB drive one step ahead. At the same time, the middle part of the two palms also squeezed out from the mist of her body like a bloated balloon. It's a clump of purple... a pillow?

Even so, on the short-handed, short-legged chubby pillow, the strange bright red eyes and the huge grin with a mocking smile still brought huge psychological pressure to her.

She had imagined many tricks and tricks of Rhode Island, but she never thought that an evil spirit would be playing with her. She casually said that the strange rain was a supernatural phenomenon. What Rhode Island stronghold exists, there is only a ghost ship that deceives the living to come to die! ?

"Hey! It's not a good movie, but an Originium. I'm so disappointed. It seems that the style of Rhine's life is nothing but this."

I saw that after checking the USB flash drive, the big upturned mouth with a mouth of white teeth suddenly hung down and turned into a "⌒" mouth shape. It was obviously full of disgust, and even took the entire USB flash drive down. Throwing it into its mouth, it made a crunching sound, and then ate it in front of Hongyuan.

"..."

"Are you trembling? Am I so scary? Jie Jie, the elder sister's ancestor is a bird of prey, is it only the source stone spell that can protect me..."

The purple pillow-shaped evil spirit passed through Hongyuan's chest with a smile, and she suddenly felt the temperature all over her body being pulled out of her body in an instant. The intense cold made people tremble violently and even twitch involuntarily.

But this evil spirit was still grinning, and stretched out half of her body and a pair of eyes from her chest again, looking at the red kite, which had completely lost its resistance, from a strange perspective from below.

This can't blame Hongyuan, a six-star warlock, for being too weak. After all, whether it is a cutting-edge scientist or an experienced battlefield mercenary, no one has the means to deal with evil spirits. This should only exist in horror movies and novels. That's it.

If it is replaced by a deep-sea hunter who fights a strange person who is completely incomprehensible to the lander, there may be some ways to resist.

"Then, let's play a game..."

Since Hongyuan can be the decision-making level of Rhine life, she is definitely not the kind of rigid scientist who does not care about the world and focuses on research. She also has her spare time and of course she also watches movies.

And now she has experienced enough of this kind of routine in the movie.

Many psychopathic villains like to set up a dilemma for his "prey", watching them struggle desperately for a glimmer of hope, even in which they have to make various tormenting choices, such as amputating their legs or hands, jumping Into a "pool" full of discarded needles...

But in the end, the so-called hope is nothing more than a hoax used to test human nature. This is the game that perverts like to see, but the villain himself has always stood outside the game from the perspective of God, and did not participate at all. How do you start to beat him?

No one really thinks that the player character can beat the GM, right?This isn't a South Park setting that doesn't need to make sense at all.

So when the other party said the words "Let's play a game", Hongyuan already knew about his own destiny, and it was nothing more than a plaything for evil spirits.

Unless you can suddenly realize the weakness of the evil spirit like the protagonist of the movie, or solve the puzzle and get some artifact to fight back with the Jedi, it is better to cooperate honestly with the other party and delay for a while, maybe the Rhine Life headquarters has already noticed something wrong, decent Someone like an exorcist to come to the rescue?

"Come on, I'm ready, Jie Jie, let the game begin!"

When Hongyuan made a decision in her heart, and turned around to look at the request of the evil spirit as if her heart was going to die, she found that it was sitting on the other end of the bed in the guest room with its two short legs raised cutely, while the Middle……

is a millionaire.

"?????"

That's right, that's the multiplayer strategy board game that rolls the dice to buy land and build buildings to make money, aka Realty Tycoon, and it's an extremely classic game even in Terra, especially in Victoria and Columbia.

But no matter how classic this game is, is there something wrong with you taking it out in this situation and atmosphere?Are you not an evil spirit?Shouldn't it come out with something that completely subverts people's three views and is more terrifying? ?

"Come on, you go first."

The purple pillow on the opposite side not only did not reflect on his incompetence as an evil spirit, but instead handed her two dice with a small short hand, and looked at her expectantly, which made Hongyuan's back full of goose bumps. .

"Oh, oh, I first..."

She threw the dice on the chessboard almost mechanically, and then moved the chess piece forward step by step according to the number she cast, and finally stopped on a grid... called Chernobog Mobile City.

"Ah, this is not a suitable start for novice players, but who made your fate like this? Jie Jie, the choice of fate has nothing to do with your own thoughts."

The scene in front of Hongyuan suddenly turned around, the dark room ceiling suddenly turned into a gloomy and open sky, surrounded by crumbling ruins, the screams and screams not far away were so natural, if it wasn't for her conviction that she touched When the two dice arrived, Hongyuan couldn't tell the difference between illusion and reality.

A sharp and ferocious feathered arrow suddenly shot through the wall behind her, and the arrow penetrated from her shoulder, blooming a bright blood flower.

"what!!"

This deep-rooted pain was so real that Hongyuan couldn't help but began to doubt her original judgment.

Is this an illusion created by evil spirits?Or is she a little girl who is trapped in the battlefield and has no power, and those scientific researches on Rhine Life are just a dream in her drowsiness on the way to escape from the thugs?

After all, no matter how deep a dream is, when encountering such severe pain, it is time to wake up.

But Hongyuan was not awake at all, instead, her consciousness gradually blurred with the loss of blood. In her last vision, she saw a boy in white shorts with a strange Originium walking stick slowly walking towards her Come.

The boy was surrounded by monsters covered with Originium crystals. It was more like a crystal beast in a fantasy story than an infected person. I saw that he pulled out a crystal from the monster, and then violently The ground was stuffed into Hongyuan's mouth, and a fiery burning sensation turned her mouth and tongue into charcoal, and her consciousness finally came to an end here.

"Being treated so cruelly for no reason, but without the slightest idea of ​​resistance? Jie Jie Jie, should I say that you are a scientist with too rigid psychological quality, or are you a natural guinea pig? It's time to throw the next dice, I will always play with you..."

The scene in front of Hongyuan's mind kept changing rapidly, but finally stopped on a familiar scene in her "dream". It was a laboratory of Rhine Life, but it was recently destroyed by an accident. Lost.

However, her perspective this time was not to inspect and guide the work as a mentor of Homer, but to be tied to a laboratory bed and looking at the surgical shadowless lamp on the ceiling.

"Ifrit, remember to call out and tell me if it hurts. I hope we can succeed once and help you overcome the pain completely..."

Homer's voice rang in her ears, and a medical syringe filled with medicine became clearer in Hongyuan's sight. She knew what it was, but Homer and her assistant, the white-faced owl, didn't know, they were just Wanting to achieve a breakthrough in the field of origin stone life, it is only a matter of curing a genetic defect for a little girl named Sarkaz named Ifrit.

But now, it seems that Hongyuan herself is the "Ifrit".

"Stop, stop, don't!!"

"No? Say it aloud to make me feel better for you!"

In Hongyuan's terrified expression, Homer's worried and gentle face suddenly turned into a grinning grimace, and the scene changed again, as if it would continue like this...

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"Red kite, red kite?"

"what!!!"

Hongyuan was awakened by Maisie's gentle movements, but her reaction was exaggerated as if she had been suddenly stabbed, only to make the cougar jump up like a snow leopard, and even the bath towel wrapped around her body was thrown off .

The shadow in the corner inexplicably bleeds two lines of nosebleeds, reaching out and giving her a thumbs up.

"What are you crazy about!? Scared me to death!"

"You, are you Maisie? I'm back..."

Hongyuan looked around with a frightened look on her face, and even reached out and rubbed Maisie, until she was completely confirmed that she was a real person and not an evil spirit, and then she gradually relaxed, and she was covered in wet cold sweat.

"Pfft! Didn't you have a nightmare just now? It's over, did I know some unspeakable secrets from the high-ranking people of Rhine Life? Oops, I'm going to be killed."

Maisie was as rude as always, but Hongyuan was just lying on the bed and struggling to breathe.

Until Maisie suddenly remembered something, then bent down and picked up something from the floor and hugged it to her chest.

"By the way, where did this doll come from? It's cute and cute. Was it delivered by room service?"

"What doll... ah ah ah ah ah ah!!"

It was a purple Gengar puppet, because the degree of reduction was so high that it immediately triggered Red Kite's PTSD.

And the puppet winked her left eye "playfully".

"Ms. Hongyuan, Ms. Hongyuan?"

"Ah... huh?! Ahh, sorry, me, I was just reminiscing about something."

The soulless Hongyuan was led away by Kelsey almost in a daze. Of course, Maisie could see that something was wrong with her, but she could not talk too much about the affairs of Rhine's life. At most, she used a touch to remind her. Just a moment.

Anyway, Hongyuan herself is the decision-making level, and she is directly responsible to the board of directors if there is a problem, and she does not need her as the armed captain to bear joint responsibility.

"Understandably, no one wants to see such an experimental accident happen. Since you are Dr. Homer's former mentor, you must be feeling sorry for her."

Of course, Kelsey kept in touch with Dr. Gengar, who was making trouble in secret. She had the upper hand by pretending to be confused, but to be honest, Hongyuan had no intention of arguing with Kelsey about the dominance of words. right.

She definitely couldn't explain to the board of directors that the reason for her early retreat was because she had hit a ghost in Rhode Island, so she could only force herself to calm down and convince herself in her heart that it couldn't be an evil spirit just now, it must have been some kind of influence. The Originium technique, which is human spirit and creates hallucinations, has plotted against itself.

After all, it can be judged from the investigation data on Rhodes Island that Rhodes Island has a very high level in the field of Originium Art, because they are one of the few research organizations that are willing to cooperate with a large number of infected people, and Rhine Life cannot do this. At one point, they are not willing to spend money on providing good treatment for the infected.

Therefore, it is very possible to encounter strange situations that are unpredictable by the outside world. It must be that Rhode Island did not dare to confront Rhine Life, so he chose to do evil behind the scenes to interfere with the judgment and intention of the expedition, such as the sudden weather Change, only chasing the torrential rain of the two leaders...

And a purple goblin who was rising from the back of Kelsey's head and cast a scarlet look at him.

"!!!"

Geng Gui's figure was fleeting, and the subordinates and armed men behind Hongyuan should have been more alert than she, who was struggling in her head, but no one noticed the difference at all. No, it should be said that they turned a blind eye. Only her eyes saw something real,

Although Hongyuan is an elite researcher's brain that analyzes the current situation in a sensible way, it can even be said that it is infinitely close to the truth within the ideological framework of normal Terrans, but when the "psychic phenomenon" that she characterized as Originium Art is entangled again When I came up, trying to stay calm was not as simple as it sounds.

She was suddenly shocked and stiffened, standing there like a white-faced owl ice cream popsicle, until Maisie bumped into her from behind.

"Hello? Hongyuan, what's wrong with you, doctor! Quickly bring the medicine prepared for Miss Hongyuan from the team's medicine box."

There was nothing wrong with Hongyuan, this was Maisie acting according to the pre-planned plan, and the so-called medicine was just a few chocolate candies disguised as pills.

After all, the fact that the leader of the inspection team is not in good health and the recurrence of an old illness is better than her gaffe and emotional out-of-control on such an important occasion.

Taking advantage of the efforts of the Rhine Life personnel to "rescue" the red kite, a small purple pointed hand stretched out from the shadow behind Kelsey and gave Kelsey a high-five.

"...Sorry, Ms. Kelsey, the old problem of not caring for your body when you were young and devoting yourself to your career made you laugh."

Hongyuan finally slowed down and explained to Kelsey decently.

"It doesn't matter, Ms. Hongyuan, we are considered to be colleagues. I understand your spirit very well, just like... the mistakes I have made."

Kelsey turned slightly and showed Hongyuan the Originium crystal on her shoulders that she never deliberately concealed. This topic was stopped here, and no one brought it up again.

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