Arknights, but all characters are NPCs?

015. Kal'tsit, find a way to get W into this dream world

Kal'tsit knew that Lu Shang would most likely not speak without a purpose, and that what he said must contain a lot of important information.

As long as you can crack...

Crack the hell.

Even if you're telling a riddle, could you at least give some useful information?

Kal'tsit only knows one "demon king", and that must be Theresa.

But what about the American cockroach?

what is that?

cockroach?

"American cockroach? Want to know what it is? Okay, I'll show you."

Lu Shang carried Kal'tsit all the way to the kitchen.

Then when he saw W playing with potatoes inside, Lu Shang pointed at her and said, "Yes, that's her."

Kelsey: “…”

Is it a person?

I really thought...

Forget it.

Anyway, as long as we know who it is, we can replace W with the words "Call" and "The Demon King is assassinated! Block the whole place!" that Lu Shang just said -

"Hmm? Wait? She's a Sarkaz?"

With white hair and red eyes, even with a she-girl expression on her face, it couldn't hide the fact that W was indeed a beauty.

It’s just that W’s dressing style is a bit weird.

The upper body is fine, it’s just a jacket with lining.

But the lower body...

W was wearing a short skirt, but it was very short, super short, so short that it would make people wonder, "Are you really not going to expose yourself?"

But if you look more closely, you will find that W is actually wearing a pair of trousers under her skirt, so there is no possibility of exposure at all.

But trousers are just trousers, but the material of the trousers looks like leather trousers at first glance, but if you look closely, they don’t look like leather trousers. Instead, they look like tights with a pair of stockings worn over them.

Is this some new trendy outfit?

I guess you have to touch it a few times to know its specific material.

But that is what the Lu Shang Association does.

Kal'tsit's eyes were only focused on the horns on both sides of W's head and the long, devil-like arrow-shaped tail behind her.

Is she a Sarkaz?

"No, she's a cockroach."

"..."

Kal'tsit glanced at Lu Shang speechlessly.

I always feel that you are a little too malicious towards this person?

"After all, she's a female ghost. When you're in bed, just showing this face will give you an attack speed buff. If you want to speak a few words, you'll probably get a blood rage buff as well."

"But to be honest, I'm more curious."

"Look at how awesome Kazdel used to be. What on earth did W eat to grow up like this? How could he have such a slim waist and a big butt?"

"Although I have already made plans to go play with the doctor tonight, I am indeed craving for W's body."

"So, Kal'tsit—"

Lu Shang turned his head and said under Kal'tsit's vigilant gaze, "Can you think of a way to get W into this dream world as well?"

You can't hide your wolfish ambitions anymore, right?

Are you going to eat someone?

Although it was the first time that Kal'tsit knew about this American cockroach...oh no, what is the name of this W.

But seeing Lu Shang's obvious intentions, Kal'tsit couldn't help but look at him like trash: "Not to mention that I still don't understand the principles and conditions of traveling to this dream world, and even if I figured it out... do you want me to be your accomplice?"

Is she some kind of madam?

If you like any of them, let me bring her to you to eat?

"What do you mean by accomplice? That's called helping the tyrant to commit atrocities."

It's worse than being an accomplice.

Regarding Kal'tsit's attitude, Lu Shang said he didn't care: "Kal'tsit, you will eventually have to contact her anyway. After all, this is an inevitable plot."

"Plot..." Kal'tsit chewed on the word and asked, "What if I don't follow your so-called plot?"

"Then W is gone, let me think about the plot..."

First, then, then...then what?

"I've always wanted to complain about how those time travelers could remember the plot so clearly, even word for word, after traveling through time."

“Does the brain have a built-in Baidu Encyclopedia?”

"Forget it. I can't remember it anyway, so I might as well just go and watch it again."

"Read it once...?" Kal'tsit didn't understand and asked subconsciously.

But Lu Shang did not intend to explain. He just turned around with her in his arms and went straight to the control center of Rhodes Island.

Then, there, Lu Shang swiped his fingertips and called out the PRTS interactive menu.

Finally click:

"Set destination" → "Kazdel"

"Set time point" → "Born at night"

After making her choice, Kal'tsit clearly felt that the entire Rhodes Island began to shake.

"Destination Kazdel?"

Kal'tsit could see the translucent interactive menu, so she wondered, "Can Rhodes Island go to other places?"

"Sure, you can even get off the boat and go somewhere else to play by yourself."

Just a little bit.

No matter how far you run, as long as you fall asleep, pass out or die, when you open your eyes again, you will still be back to the starting point.

After all, the scope of the rollback is the entire world.

"How long will that take?"

Although I don’t know where this Rhodes Island is docked now, but it looks like it wants to go to Kazdel?

Kal'tsit really wanted to ask if there was enough time?

What if the boat sails for more than ten hours and she just goes back when her time is up?

But just as she was about to ask this, she saw Lu Shang reaching out his hand again:

Clicked "Skip Cutscene".

Then everything went dark before my eyes, then light up again.

"Arrived at destination"

Kelsey: “…”

Can you still play like this?

However, Lu Shang ignored Kal'tsit's surprised expression. He just hugged her and turned around and left Rhodes Island.

With her feet firmly on the ground, Kal'tsit turned her head and looked at the surrounding environment, confirming that this was indeed in the territory of Kazdel.

but...

Is this where it was 5 years ago?

That's not right. Didn't Lu Shang say that the whole world is repeating the same day? Why can I come back five years ago?

"Reenact the scene. Have you ever played with little yellow oil? You must have your own recollection room."

"After all, most people who play Xiaohuanghuang either come for the plot or for the chilling scenes in the recollection room."

"Yo—look, W's battle-damaged skin."

Before Kal'tsit could figure out what the recall room was, she saw Lu Shang stretch out his hand and point towards the distance.

When Kal'tsit turned her head subconsciously, she saw W and Ines sitting on the ground injured in a field of corpses. Another NPC dressed like a mercenary was standing opposite them, and it seemed that he would kill them both in the next moment.

"Let's put a dialogue box on hold first, so as not to start the plot."

Lu Shang stretched out his hand and swiped his finger in the direction of W, calling out W's interactive menu, and then clicked "Dialogue".

Then Kal'tsit saw with her own eyes that W, who was almost unconscious due to the injury a second ago and could only bite his lips to prevent himself from crying out in pain -

The next moment, he stood up lively and asked in a serious tone: "Ah~ What do you want to ask me?"

Kelsey: “…”

Even Kal'tsit couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth at this time.

Well, she finally understood what Lu Shang meant by "conversation has the highest priority".

016. Players, please dress like a human being when you are going through the story.

"You hired Hedley's team, oh, that is, the captain of W."

"why?"

"After all, you have dug out Rhodes Island, so you have to drive it back, right? How can you ensure safety along the way? So in order not to put all your eggs in one basket, there are more than just a group of mercenaries who have accepted your commission."

"..."

Kal'tsit reached out and gently pinched her brows.

Conceal the truth, confuse the audience, and disperse the troops.

But to put it simply...these mercenaries are actually used as cannon fodder.

Kal'tsit immediately understood why they hired these people.

Kal'tsit herself doesn't know about this, Theresa can't do this, so the only thing left is...

"Was it her order, Doctor?"

"you guess?"

"..."

"Anyway, that's the background, and now..."

Lu Shang held Kal'tsit in his arms, turned around and looked around, and said, "You saw it too, the cannon fodder worked. W and her team were attacked and almost wiped out. They are the only ones left alive, and what's next——"

"Next... It was Theresa who saved them?"

Kal'tsit remembered that Lu Shang had said before that this was a plot she would definitely experience.

In other words, these two people, no, at least W survived.

But looking at the current situation, Kal'tsit really couldn't think of any way to break the deadlock relying on these two people alone, so the only thing left was for someone to come and rescue them.

But the Doctor... that's an IQ type character.

Kal'tsit herself...well, Kal'tsit knows herself pretty well.

So it can only be Theresa.