Chapter 367: Send us off with a bonfire
"In this incident, we...seem not to have successfully returned home..."
The D-class "fortune-telling" personnel muttered to themselves, with an indescribable complex emotion of unwillingness, powerlessness, etc. appearing on their faces.
And it was at this moment that he saw that the comrades around him who had evacuated from the disaster in a life-and-death situation now had bloodshot eyes, dropped the items in their hands, and completely lost their minds, like wild beasts.
Perhaps because he had a similar aura, these "beasts" did not attack him, but pounced on Colin who came to him.
However, for these D-class employees who are almost completely defenseless.
Colin didn't even have the desire to take action...
Although as employees, they have good physical fitness and may only suffer minor injuries even if they are hit by a dump truck without any preparation. But if they become like this, unless their physical fitness is beyond belief, it is just slightly better than that of ordinary people, which is meaningless.
Soon, as an ice-blue storm blew past, eight of the nine D-class personnel present were frozen into motionless, lifelike ice sculptures.
Among the eight ice sculptures in different postures, there was a blurry, transparent ice-blue shadow, laughing happily while floating among them, swimming like a fish.
He would reach out from time to time and knock off the icicles on the frozen D-class personnel, as if he was further "polishing" the ice sculpture.
"It feels like this guy's 'humanity' is becoming complete. I feel like after a while, I can just let her out of the ring. Anyway, she seems to have taken to the freezer of the refrigerator at home and has made it her home, so she won't run around..."
"When she is fully released, she will probably be equal to purple-level equipment. But her personality is a bit bad, like a naughty child who likes to play pranks. I need to discipline her when I have a chance, so that she will have some respect for life..."
"Otherwise, if she blows a prank on an ordinary person, it could be fatal..."
Thoughts about the "Snow Girl" flashed quickly through Colin's mind.
Then, seeing that no other accidents occurred, Colin withdrew his gaze from that side and looked at the D-level employee in front of him who was similar to "fortune-telling":
"What about you? What's going on with you?"
"I?"
The D-class personnel who was a "fortune teller" looked down at himself and said, "I'm not crazy. It's probably because I just activated the power of the "Book of Fortune Telling". But if nothing unexpected happens, this won't last long...
"After this time, I'm afraid I will die completely...
"We are polluted to the bone."
As he spoke, a hint of scarlet blood began to appear in his eyes...
The speed is not fast, but it cannot be stopped.
Seeing this, Colin was silent for a moment, then asked: "What happened here?"
"I can't remember clearly, and I can't actively remember it, otherwise I will lose even the last few minutes of consciousness... That thing probably has an unknowable nature. I can only tell you that according to my vague intuition, the source of the pollution has not been completely resolved..."
Not yet resolved? Ke Lin's pupils shrank, and the flames on his body burst out unconsciously.
He can deal with these contaminated D-class personnel, but that doesn't mean he can deal with the pollution behind them.
He was still very alert to the strangeness that he didn't know the details of.
At the same time, Colin still had some doubts. Didn’t the Bonfire Company find the train in the first place?
This task has been completed, how come the problem has not been solved?
"Haha, don't be so scared. You must be protected by something in the company . Also, you have the power of the 'First Fire'. Although you are not a real 'Fire Holder', as long as you use this flame to bless the whole process, you don't have to worry about contamination. Um, brother, can I borrow a light? I haven't experienced it yet. Hiss, by the way, what is your mission here?"
The D-class personnel said something similar to "fortune-telling", took out a pack of Double Happiness cigarettes from his pocket, skillfully shook out a cigarette, took a little flame from Colin, lit the cigarette butt, and took a deep puff.
"It's not clear yet." Colin said ambiguously.
"Don't know?" He slowly exhaled smoke. "You probably don't know, do you? As a reserve member of the Fire Bearer, you came here to either finish this incident or retrieve something important. With your strength, it's most likely the latter."
"I'm sorry, I really don't know..."
Colin remained unmoved on the surface, but secretly pursed his lips in his heart, thinking about what the other person said -
Is it likely to be recycling something important?
"Do you know what it is?" Colin asked curiously.
"I don't know. If you really don't know, and the mission wasn't written out at the beginning, then you probably need to investigate..."
"Uh." Colin pursed his lips. He was now in the investigation stage.
At this time, the D-class personnel who was similar to "predicting fate" suddenly thought of something after taking a deep puff of cigarette, with a complicated expression, and shook his head helplessly and sighed:
"If I'm not guessing, we should have become characters in some kind of repetitive events now, right?"
"You can guess this?" Colin was surprised.
This is as strange as when an NPC suddenly asks himself whether he is an NPC when playing a game.
"Do we need to guess?"
The D-class personnel who predicts fate took a puff of cigarette and said casually, "I am also a 'script writer' and have made a lot of similar things. Although the sales of my scripts are quite poor and I don't know why no one buys them, I am familiar with this thing anyway.
"I couldn't think of it before I realized the situation, but once I realized it, it was like a layer of paper was poked through the window. Many things became clear after thinking about it."
While talking, I don’t know if it was an illusion, although I only exchanged a few words with the "Fire Bearer" reserve in front of me, but the "Fortune-telling" D-class personnel always felt that the guy in front of him seemed... a little lacking in common sense?
The new babies who just came in don’t seem to be this cute…
Are they specially hired personnel from outside civilization?
Considering the opponent's strength and the level that did not match his actual strength, the D-class "fortune-telling" personnel felt that it was about the same.
However, without thinking too much about it, he continued, "Let me tell you something you may not know. If nothing unexpected happens, they probably want to use us as a springboard to get deeper...
"Whether you're here to clean up or recycle things, I estimate that there's a high probability that there's someone you can't avoid."
"Who?" Colin had some guesses in his heart, but he was not sure.
"Our squadron leader Kong Shiping has C-level authority... I have a hunch that your mission this time is most likely aimed at him..."
At this point, the D-class personnel who were similar to "predicting fate" seemed to have sensed something. Without waiting for Colin to speak, he used brainwaves to communicate again instead of words, as if to explain things more quickly:
"I don't know what happened to him, but it probably wasn't good. If you meet him, it's okay if you don't have your mind...
"But if you are rational, like we just did, then you have to be careful. He is good at surprise attacks and close combat. He can 'flash' eighteen times within a hundred meters in one minute, and then there is a three-minute cooldown. His weakness should be his left armpit, where there is a wound left by a previous incident...
"Remember, don't think he will engage in close combat. The squadron leader has a killer move that he uses once a day, which he uses when you are more than 150 meters away and within 300 meters.
"This move is very powerful, and it uses a locking method. The specific execution process and release logic are confidential, and only those with Class B clearance can know it. I don't know how to avoid it, and I don't know if you have any means to avoid it.
"But if you have a choice, don't try to trigger it. It's much stronger than the bullet that was used to hit you before. If it hits a vital point, a level 1 containment object can be killed for a long time...
"If you really can't beat him, it's best to leave some injuries on his right hand, and then try to escape when he's weak during the 'flash' period."
After quickly explaining all this, the D-class "fortune-telling" personnel seemed to breathe a sigh of relief .
Then, he added: "Besides that, although I feel that you, an E-level personnel, are particularly abstract and awkward, but if nothing unexpected happens...
"The other D-class personnel should not pose much threat to you, so I won't say much. Finally, let me tell you about the information on pollution. You need to understand it yourself. I can't give you more and can't help you in any way..."
"That's enough..."
Colin nodded, feeling touched. He didn't expect the other party to help him unconditionally.
He exhaled slightly and looked at the other person's eyes which were gradually filled with bloodshot.
"Is there anything I can do for you?"
The "fate-predicting" D-class personnel hesitated for less than half a second, and said, "I came from a large hatchery. After I came out, I was raised by the same society as other brothers and sisters from the same batch of tens of millions of hatcheries. I don't have any relatives or anything. I have friends, but not many, and I don't have any news to pass on...
"But, yes, I have a house in Shen City, and there are several hundred TB of... ahem, study files... physiological documents..."
As he spoke, a more specific address "inspiration" appeared in Colin's mind.
but……
Big incubator? What is this? Are there still hundreds of TB of learning files or just a few? Have you copied all the files in the world... Colin had a strange expression, and showed an understanding expression: "Don't worry, I will help you destroy it."
After saying that, he wanted to ask what the "big hatchery" was, but the other party spoke first in panic...
"No, not destroy it, please don't!"
The D-class personnel who were similar to "predicting fate" were horrified, coughed twice, and said incoherently:
"If you have a chance, share them with others. Sigh, I used up a lot of my points to collect these things...
"There are valuable study materials from before the 'Great Destruction Era'."
Hmm? Before the "Great Destruction Era"? When was that? Or in which world did it happen?
A lot of words popped up in Colin's mind in an instant, and he suddenly wondered if he had understood it wrongly. Could this really be some valuable learning material?
With doubts, he questioned the D-class personnel who died in the past.
However, the other party did not respond to his words. Instead, his eyes were wandering, he smoked his cigarette tremblingly, and said something irrelevant.
"...Everyone is mentally prepared to sacrifice everything for the fate of mankind. After all, we were able to survive those dark times because of sacrifice and dedication..."
"I don't have any thoughts about this, but what I feel a little sorry about is that I had a chance to be promoted soon... but I just lost it for no apparent reason..."
"I have learned so much experience, but I don't even have a girlfriend..."
"Death is not as great as I imagined..."
"There's no epic eulogy, no character biography, it's like a small fish that was killed in a game, maybe even worse..."
"We disappeared without a trace in a remote corner where no one knows where we are. No one can remember us. Even I don't know my name anymore..."
"I... am unwilling..."
Like mumbling to oneself, or complaining...
There were more and more bloodshot in his cloudy eyes. After he choked and said, "I... am unwilling...", a line of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.
Finally, he raised his hand, wiped the tears from his eyes, sat up as straight as possible, straightened his collar, looked ahead with a vague gaze, and said in a hoarse voice:
"Colleague, I feel like the madness is catching up with me.
"Use the bonfire to send us off for the last time...
“This should be more decent.
"Finally, I wish you all the best in your next mission."
As soon as he finished speaking, flames surged on Colin's body. Before madness completely took over his body, the power of the bonfire took away his last bit of rationality.
then……
With a loud bang.
The scorching flames erupted further, rolling in the carriage...
Soon, the ice sculptures turned into ashes in the flames.
"call……"
Colin took a deep breath, quickly suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart, and then recalled what the other party had just said.
"Big Hatchery" doesn't sound like a naturally born human being...
Plus the one-time output of tens of millions of people...
"If there really is a batch of incubation projects that produce tens of millions of people, it shouldn't be Earth, otherwise I would definitely be able to obtain this information. So, comprehensively speaking, it is either the 'numbered world' or the 'box garden world'..."
"I just don't know what this 'Age of Great Destruction' is, and what caused the company's decline?"
"No, it shouldn't be. From what he said, it seems like he has gotten over it?"
"It seems that the current situation of the company is probably caused by some other incident..."
"But where is the 'Shen City' he mentioned? I don't seem to have any impression of it. Is it a remote place?"
"Forget it, let's think about these things later. Now the key is what to do next."
Colin frowned, thinking of the information about the "squadron leader" given by the D-class "fortune-telling" personnel.
A C-level who can flash a hundred meters eighteen times in one minute and has a fatal weapon sounds difficult to deal with.
And this doesn't even include some of the dangerous props he may have...
"It's also a hassle. It would be nice if I could go in and have a long chat like this colleague did, and solve all the problems through dialogue..."
Colin raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, feeling a bit of a headache.
Shaking his head and sorting out his thoughts, he stood up and looked at the employee standing at the door.
Seeing Colin's gaze, several people couldn't help but hold their breath for a moment.
"Have you recovered your memories?" Colin asked curiously.
Hearing this, several people looked at each other, and then the "Son of Sexual Abuse" stood up: "I roughly know what happened, but it feels like a dream, a sense of unreality, and I can't recall the specific details."
Damn it, the idea that the big daddy despised their weak abilities and gave himself a buff to kill everyone indiscriminately turned out not to be a dream!
Let's think back to the strength that the other party has shown...
The "Son of Sexual Abuse" couldn't help but ask, "Excuse me... who are you?"
He didn't believe that someone with such fighting power was just a simple "nanny".
At this moment, when he remembered the other party's ID again, not only him, but also the people around him, couldn't help but think of a terrifying existence in the company...
Brother Shunzi!
Of course, speculation is just speculation, and they cannot directly confirm that there are no other bigwigs in the company.
But soon, Colin gave them a definite answer in an indirect way: "'Unnamed 123456' is my previous ID name."
Hearing this, everyone showed an expression of "as expected" on their faces.
Yes, the other party has never changed his name, so it is normal to change it now.
But they really didn't expect that the other party was actually in their team...
At this moment, "Newbie No. 7" and "Mushroom Fort", who had previously boasted to Brother Shunzi about how powerful Brother Shunzi was, couldn't help but feel their scalps tingling, their toes tapping the ground restlessly, and they had an inexplicable feeling of social death.
They've been bragging so much, but it turns out... this is the same person!
"Grand Emperor" recalled the unexpected events that occurred during this mission and couldn't help muttering to himself: "No wonder, no wonder, I was wondering why our group of people were so unlucky... It turns out that it was Brother Shunzi who came..."
Bang!
Before he finished speaking, the "Son of Sexual Abuse" raised his hand and slapped him back:
"What nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean it's because Brother Shunzi came that this happened? It's because we accepted an unlucky mission, and Brother Shunzi couldn't stand it, so he applied to come over and help us. Let's figure out the order of priority , do you understand?"
Looking at the people in front of him, Ke Lin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Okay, let's stop talking about this.
"It's time to discuss in detail how to continue the subsequent tasks."
