Rubbish protagonist, I can do it too!

Rick nodded and said lightly, "I prove it."

The crowd was in an uproar.

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"Really, what are they arguing about? Although Rick and the others came back safely, I can understand their excitement." Clooney turned her head and swept the crowd as if helplessly talking to herself. After leading Hall through the dark cave, she came to a In a cave pool.

The pool water is clear, it should be clean groundwater.

"This is a place for bathing and laundry. You're welcome. Just use it. I'll prepare a change of clothes for you." Chroni smiled kindly, turned around and left after greeting her.

"Thank you." Hall nodded and signaled. After taking a shower, he changed into the clothes of this settlement. After coming out, he was taken to a simple room made of wood. Skin.

After a while, Chloe opened the door and entered, prepared some fruits, meat and hot broth for Hall, and said enthusiastically, "Please use it. If it's not enough, you can ask me to add more."

The meat is dried and marinated, it is hard to eat, and it tastes very salty. After all, it is close to the seashore, and there is no shortage of fish and salt.

Hall picked up the jerky and took a bite, then took a sip of the soup.

Judging by the standards of modern people, it is probably unpalatable, and it is also unspeakably delicious for Hall who has experienced the wilderness survival of the alien version.

"Hey, I hope the food in the settlement suits your appetite." Rick stood by the door and greeted Hall, and introduced the situation of the settlement to Hall by the way: "For the residents here, outsiders are very rare. Even before it was not affected by the flames of war, there were basically no outsiders in the city."

"Now there are more than 2000 people living here, barely surviving here."

"Recently, the war in the vicinity has become active, so that this settlement has become unsafe. The defense of the mountain can only block the minimum stray bullets. Before the battle situation becomes more anxious, we must find the next place suitable for human habitation. .”

"Hall, there is specific information in my room, and there should be something you are interested in. In exchange, I hope you can help me a little bit."

Hall wiped out the food with a few mouthfuls, stood up, picked up a red fruit and threw it to him, and said with a smile: "No problem, just tell me if there is anything you need me to do."

"Come with me, there are a few people in the settlement who were accidentally stained with black ash because they went out to collect food, go and see them first."

Rick took Hall to a cave, and there were some people lying in it, most of them were women, or their arms, said legs, or their faces could be seen with abnormal bluish purple, and their eyes lost their focus. Light, also lost the hope of survival, just waiting for death to come here.

Rick asked calmly, "Can it be cured?"

"Basically no problem."

Rick's stern face was rarely relaxed, and he said sincerely, "Then I'll leave it to you."

Hall squatted down and stretched out into formations, and the appearance of "magic" caused disturbances.

"magic?"

"Rick? Who is he?"

"What does he want to do?"

"what?"

"My body seems..."

When they saw the injuries caused by the black ash on their hands and feet fade away, they turned from being dazed to weeping with joy, and hugged each other.

On the other side, there was already a group of people standing there waiting, and they couldn't help rushing over when they saw this.

They are all family members of this group of humans affected by the black ash. They have been waiting here for a long time when they heard that Hall has the ability to heal the injuries caused by the black ash. Mid-empty celebration.

"It's really cured!"

"incredible!"

"Thank you! Thank you so much for saving my wife!"

"Yina, are you okay, do you still feel pain?"

"Thank you, foreign traveler! I will never forget your kindness in my life."

Hall smiled.

Afterwards, Rick took Hall to his room, keeping a long distance from other rooms and located deep in the cave, where even shouting would be difficult to be found.

This is a place specially selected by Rick. When he breaks down emotionally, or unlocks the heart lock used to control emotions, he will be powerless and furious here, howling and venting.

The room was in a mess, except for the books, there were some surveying and mapping tools, and on the shelf was a map that had just been corrected from the goblin strategy map.

Rick fiddled with the books on the bookshelf: "In the past, there were many books before the city was destroyed, but now this is the only one left. Most of them are the information I collected from my investigation. You can read them casually. If there is anything you don't understand You can ask me."

On the way back to the settlement, Hall had already explained his purpose of coming, that is, the recognition of knowledge, and the purpose of traveling is to find more knowledge.

While Hall was reading, Rick picked up the chess board on the ground and played chess with himself.

After a dull and boring time, Rick was playing chess with himself, and his dignified and difficult voice broke the silence: "Hall, it's about time you told me your real purpose of approaching human beings, I don't deny your love for human beings. Have good intentions, but you must also have plans for humans."

Hall was still reading the book, which was about human beings investigating alien races, and he answered casually: "Rick, do you know the origin of this war and how long it lasted?"

"I don't know the thoughts of those gods."

"Do you want to know?"

"You can't get what you asked for. If you know the cause of the war, you can end this absurd war!"

Hall closed the book in his hand with a snap, and took another one to read: "There is an omniscient and omnipotent power in this world, a conceptual device that symbolizes the absolute dominance of the world, so-called [Star Cup], as long as you get the Star Cup , not to mention gods, even reshaping this planet is not a problem."

Rick was stunned: "Is that some ancient legend?"

Hall continued: "The star cup will only appear in front of the strongest existence, but there are ten gods as the strongest race."

"The Flügel and its creator, Artosh, the god of war."

"The elves and their creator, Kainas, the forest god."

"The goblins and their creator, Orkan, the god of forging."

"These are the three most active forces at present."

"There are also gods who choose to be bystanders."

"However, only the last remaining god will be recognized as the strongest, and that is the cause of this war."

"..."

Rick clenched his fists and trembled, growling and questioning: "Do you mean that in order to seize this absolute dominance, all the gods and all the dependents will not hesitate to launch a war and turn this planet into hell?"

"Isn't that reason enough?"

boom!

Rick slammed his fist on the wooden board next to him, venting his anger at the bottom of his lungs: "What a joke! It's just for an illusory legend! How many people have died on this planet so far, and how many races have been destroyed by the stray bullets of war!"

After a while, Rick clutched his chest, his eyes returning to sternness.

Hall said: "Rick, I told you that human beings are the greatest race."

"Ah, I said so."

"In this world, only human beings evolved naturally."

"This is also the reason why human beings are the weakest." Rick took a deep breath to control his emotions.

"Have you ever thought about how the gods who created the dependents and pulled this world into the flames of war came from?"

Rick's eyes became serious. Although he couldn't explain clearly, he actually had some knowledge of the existence of the so-called gods. He also witnessed miracles when he was a child.

It belonged to him alone and was born from his prayers. It was unclear whether it was a real existence or a dream.

"The only way to end this war is to get the star cup, but only the gods are eligible to snatch the star cup. Human beings who are not blessed by gods and do not have elves in their bodies are destined to be cannon fodder in this war."

"What do you want to say." Rick looked up at Hall, his deep eyes reflected Hall's appearance, and he could feel that there was another deep meaning in Hall's words.

The corner of Hall's mouth raised a weird smile: "It's very simple. The gods are born because of prayers. Since there are no gods to protect mankind, they are created by humans."

"Are you serious?"

"Humans who were not created by any gods have more diversified beliefs, and because they are weak, they know the value of survival better than anyone else, and their prayers for the world are stronger than any other race."

Hall's stern eyes were like a sharp sword inserted into Rick's heart: "Rick, join forces with me to end this war, push mankind to the highest throne, and win this war."

Rick lowered his head and reacted flatly: "You want to involve humans in the war to grab the star cup, not to mention whether humans have the power you mentioned, what is the difference between this behavior and them?"

Hall said decisively: "This is the iron rule of this world. Even the Star Cup recognizes the truth. If you want to subvert this iron rule, you have to get the Star Cup and draw up the rules yourself."

Rick asked, "What do you want me to do, what do you want humans to do."

"You don't have to do anything, just do what you do now, try your best to escape, try your best to escape to a safe place, and survive in this world as a weakling."

"A safe place? There is still a safe place in this world? You saw it when you came back, right? Even the moon in the sky was affected by stray bullets, and you can see the potholes on the moon with your eyes."

Hall smiled confidently: "If there is no one, we can create it."

Chapter 241 Ex-Machinas

The sky was filled with black and gray, and there was no light under the blood-colored sky, and it was impossible to distinguish day from night.

On the desolate plain, two figures ran rapidly. Hall and Rick were riding a beast that looked like a dinosaur. It was about the size of a horse. The thick lower limbs ensured speed and endurance, and the upper limbs were sluggish. Its mouth was similar to that of a parrot. It also has curved horns.

Its name is the Hard-mouthed Beast, and it is a beast tamed by humans in this world. Its function is similar to that of a horse, but its speed and endurance are even better. After a whole afternoon of riding, it did not show fatigue.

"There are traces of damage caused by magic nearby, and the distance should not be far away." Rick took out a map from his arms to check, and this map was the information obtained from the fallen airship.

It records the coordinates of an elf city that has been destroyed.

The desolate plain can be seen with pits and pits, such as the traces of being washed by meteorites. Inside the pits, you can also see vertical rocks that look like man-made ones, which are the traces left by the use of mass destruction magic.

"Safety."

Rick took out the spiritual needle disk and nodded to Hall after seeing that the spiritual needle showed no signs of shaking.

The two continued to ride the hard-mouthed beast through the steep battlefield, and finally saw a small black dot on the horizon, which was the city of the elves, a deep and huge forest.

Hall squinted his eyes, and the magic eyes overflowed with a faint glow, exploring the reaction of the elves. So far, he has followed the plot of the original book and came to this city of elves. Kay Huby.

It is impossible to accomplish Hall's idea only by relying on human power, so the power of the world's number one peg race must be used for this.

The Ex-Machinas are a very special race. Although they possess powerful power, their existence is very contradictory. They can be understood as inorganic life forms. Unless they actively attack them, they will not have any reaction.

However, this highly intelligent race, theoretically impossible to make any mistakes, abandoned an Ex-Machina that was used to analyze human emotions.

They are not living beings, have no biological survival instincts, no desires, no emotions, no values.

This unreasonable contradiction itself shows that this race is far from being as calm as it seems on the surface.

Arriving at the entrance, in front of you is a passage made of countless thick vines, like an entrance to a foreign land, deep and strange.

Because of the characteristics of the elves, humans know almost nothing about them, and any information related to the elves is extremely precious.

An abandoned elf city can not only collect a lot of information, but also find various resources needed by humans.

The two went unimpeded all the way deep into the forest city, and came to a beautiful garden, the ground was covered with brightly colored flowers, and the faint glow sprinkled from the sky, through the transparent petals, like a dream, anyone Everyone will be amazed by this unique and pure beauty.

"and many more!"

Rick shouted and stopped Hall. His eyes were not on this beautiful flower field at all, but his eyes were fixed on a young girl standing in the center of the flower field.

Sure enough.

Hall looked at her with great interest. If it weren't for the deep purple hair that was so conspicuous, standing in the flower field with her height might not have noticed it for a while.

The young girl's body is only covered with a small amount of strange armor. The exposed joints on her shoulders take on a mechanical shape with a sci-fi aesthetic, connected to a pair of mechanical wings. Her waist is equipped with a tail-like device, and at the end is a crystal that emits light slightly. .

Rick shook his head at Hall, not in a panic. He was well aware of the characteristics of the Ex-Machinas. Even if they were rated as untouchable and dangerous races by the goblins, as long as they didn't actively attack them, they were no different from the stubborn stones on the roadside. What a difference.

The young Ex-Machina girl turned her head to stare at the two people who broke in suddenly, countless tiny circles of light in the pupils of her eyes rotated.

“[Analysis], no hostile action.”

"Race Judgment as Human vs. Unknown."

"[Execute], analysis begins."

boom!

The petals flew, and the body of the young girl from the Ex-Machina disappeared from the spot at a speed that Hall's magic eyes couldn't catch. The next second, she had already rushed in front of Rick, pressing him under her body, overlooking Rick, The shallow voice was emotionless: "Brother, I can't bear it anymore."

what! ?

Rick was stunned, feeling like he had fallen asleep for ten years after being hit by a giant beast weighing twenty tons, and when he woke up, he was told the truth, and his thinking was unparalleled.

He subconsciously cast his eyes on Hall next to him, only to find that Hall folded his hands, not hiding his attitude of watching the show at all.

Rick asked tremblingly, "What do you want to do?"

The young girl of the Ex-Machina said calmly: "[Speculation], the target did not produce a specific physiological reaction, so it is impossible to proceed to the next step."

"Peeping other people's physiological reactions, I didn't even know you Ex-Machines had such a wicked interest." Rick replied speechlessly.