The young player came to his senses and found that many NPCs and players in the hall were staring at him.
He curled his lips and said, "It's fine to just save the NPC you like, but why did Ling Wei save so many people and even set up an NPC protection system? Isn't this just because she has nothing better to do?"
The veteran player who brought him into the game smiled and asked, "Is this base big?"
Young player: "It's huge."
"Is the combat power high?"
"...high."
"Does she have many fans? Does she have a high income?"
"…"
"That's it." The old player patted him on the shoulder.
"No matter what people choose, the fact is that Lingwei has one of the largest forces in the game."
"With one order from her, the NPCs can spit and drown us back to level 1."
"And she did this with a lot of people watching. She got paid, had the ability, and had a good reputation. Do you think she has nothing better to do?"
"Thank you for your advice." Although the young player said this, he curled his lips, as if he disliked Ling Wei's choice.
"Brother Maotuan, who goes to the other extreme, is also a top anchor. If I had to choose, I would also like to be a free-spirited player like him in the future!"
The old player saw the light of ambition in his eyes, nodded, but didn't care in his heart.
It is no longer like the golden age when anyone could make a lot of money as long as they had a job. Now if you want to be famous, the requirements are extremely high.
He suddenly remembered something: "Okay, you better be careful with your words here."
The young player said nonchalantly, "NPCs can't hear any game-related words, so why should we be afraid?"
The old player shook his head: "Well, the main thing is that I feel that the atmosphere in the Hope Base is not right recently."
"Recently, we've seen more and more NPCs on the road, but according to the group of scientific expedition players, the environment on the entire surface is deteriorating, and there will be fewer and fewer NPCs surviving."
"This can only mean that... the NPCs are gathering here faster and faster, as if... someone is calling them together."
The young players didn't care: "So what if the NPCs gather together? Do they want to rebel? Can they defeat us?"
——"I know the nature of 'those people'. They won't take us seriously."
In a building not far from the two players, the female NPC team "Lieyang Gu" that they had just seen had just taken their seats and joined a meeting.
The middle-aged woman who was talking to everyone saw them coming and nodded to them.
If there are players who are familiar with Hope Base here, they will be shocked to find that the woman who led this all-NPC meeting is the second-in-command of the NPC side in the entire base.
Real name unknown - for these wasteland survivors, names are a luxury - codename "Ghost Snake".
"The 'Monster Nest' and the Angel Clan shared intelligence with us. I have sent people to confirm that 'those people' are all underground..."
The ghost snake continued to speak.
The youngest member of the Lieyangbone team looked around curiously, then asked in a puzzled voice:
"Why isn't Brother Yunyang here?"
"...A very important point..." He seemed to have heard the little girl's question, and seemed to have just talked about this.
Ghost Snake paused for a moment, narrowed his eyes on his scarred face, and cast a sharp gaze on the Lieyang Bone Squad and all the people present at the meeting:
"There are also some people among us who cannot be trusted. I have verified that these people are actually from the same place as 'those people'. They are spies planted among us to monitor us."
"Yun Yang, who has more power than me in the base, is one of them."
"I repeat, you cannot trust any of 'them'."
"Only we, who have been struggling to survive in this hot land, are each other's allies."
——Ling Wei sat in the office of Hope Base and turned on the light screen.
The private message notification from "毛团子别叫" is flashing.
She opened the message:
[Don't shout, Maotuanzi: Lingwei, I have something to ask you]
[Mao Tuanzi, don't scream: Why on earth did you save the NPC in "Beyond the Ark"? ]
She raised an eyebrow in surprise.
I never thought that the carefree player would ask me such a question one day.
Really... you asked the wrong person.
Maotuanzibiejiao is a player who will destroy game objects at will for a goal or simply for his mood.
In the eyes of outsiders, she and he are two different types of players and their relationship is not good.
But in fact, the two of them have a pretty good personal relationship, but it is not to the extent that they will open their hearts to each other.
Lingwei didn't know what Mao Tuan was thinking, and Mao Tuan naturally didn't know why she chose the "Saint Mary" route.
Her gentle, pitiful, stubborn mother not only found her after she left the asylum, but also stole her sister out of it.
Because the mother believes that people should have a home, rather than being forced to be separated from their families and grow up under the care of ruthless robots.
Her mother was born with a genetic disease and died early, leaving her to take care of her younger sister.
My younger sister inherited my mother's misfortune and also suffers from a congenital genetic disease.
Even in modern times with advanced medical technology, hospitals cannot cure this disease and can only use expensive drugs to keep people alive.
She first wanted to buy medicine for her mother, and later for her sister.
But all the ways to make money in this world have already been walked by our predecessors.
If she wants to make a lot of money in this era, she has to take an unconventional approach.
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Then just be the greatest saint in history.
This reason cannot be told to Maotuan.
She didn't know how to reply for a moment. As she stared at the two lines of text, a memory from her early years suddenly emerged in her mind.
When her mother was alive, she once held her when she was still a girl and showed her photos of her mother's mother.
Mother's mother... should she be called... grandmother?
Mother pointed at the young girl in the photo who smiled a little shyly and said, Xiaoling, this is my mother.
At that time, she should still be in college - oh, college is a kind of offline higher education institution that has now been cancelled.
She worked very hard and during her graduate studies she followed her supervisor and conducted research in the most advanced artificial intelligence research institute at the time.
Based on the few scattered diaries she wrote at that time, it can be seen that she developed feelings for the AI she created.
She looked at it not as a tool but as another person.
This was ridiculous to Lingwei at that time - and it still is to her now.
Nowadays, virtual images are everywhere and AI is prevalent in our lives. How can people develop feelings for tools?
To put it bluntly, nowadays even people rarely talk about feelings.
Therefore, her mother's behavior of recognizing her as her own and stealing her sister away has always been puzzling to her.
When she saw Maotuan's message, she suddenly remembered the incident, but of course she did not respond to this past event whose authenticity remains to be judged.
She repeated what she had said for more than a decade:
[Although they are data, they also have their own lives and joys and sorrows, so I want to try to help them live a better life.]
After closing the private message interface, she was about to check the progress of the new project at the base when she suddenly felt the ground tremble violently!
"Buzz——"
It sounded like something strange was crossing the sky.
Noisy shouts of panic erupted outside the office.
"Enemy attack——!"
She stood up suddenly.
Who called?
The hunting player alliance that had been coveting his base? The monster nest in the east? Or the angels that were migrating in large numbers from outside the observation range?
Several possibilities flashed through my mind instantly.
She had already prepared a response plan in her mind for every possible enemy.
Being able to build and defend such a large base, as well as large and small camps outside, and even lead the construction of an underground transportation network... She is not just a fool with a "saintly heart".
Her gaming talent is also top-tier.
However, when she quickly walked to the window and saw the white figure flying freely between the buildings, ignoring the fierce artillery fire coming from all directions.
My brain froze for a moment.
——You Huan carried Xiao Pu on his head, flapped his light wings slightly, and easily flew through the gap between the two modified shells.
As he glanced down, a large amount of red "dragon flame" instantly aroused on the surface of the hot weapon he was looking at.
The player holding the weapon felt his hand tremble, and he felt himself being hit by a strange electric current, and his "virtual" body was instantly paralyzed.
Flying openly in the Hope Base, You Huan's eyes, which glowed with red and blue light, turned, searching for the "princess" whom he, the "evil dragon", wanted to kidnap.
(End of this chapter)