My portable gaming girlfriend

...

Saying goodbye to the female player who pointed us out, we took up the task of Xuangui and took the airship to the east of 'Shenze'.

'Fukasawa' is a big lake. Standing on the shore, you can see the lake as far as the eye can see. The pale mountains in the distance are looming, and the sky above is a misty sky. The sunlight scatters through the entire cloud and mist. Focus on the ball.

The clear and windless lake should be calm, but there are already many players on the shore or diving into the bottom of the lake to fight various monsters. The underwater must be as lively as the lake shore.

Xuan turtles are the hunting targets of the lower-level missions, and they are distributed where the rivers flow into them.

This product is amphibious, so we bought a special diving mask, so that we can sneak in and keep up with the monster when it goes into the water.

The diving mask for me and Sakura cost me a total of 10 gold dollars. Thinking about it, not long ago, I had to carefully calculate the price when buying equipment consumables. After completing an intermediate task, I got 49 gold dollars as a reward. Shen Qing gave 10,000 gold dollars in one shot, which is really speechless.

The tracking bird released by Ye Yin quickly found the nearest Xuangui. The tortoise was wandering in the shallow water. Its head was a steel bird's head, its back was covered with grid-shaped black iron armor, and its tail was a long snake tail composed of movable joints like Juji. The tail was as thin as a pen.

Its eyes are mechanical eyes that can turn forward, backward, up and down, with faint blue under the glass. The longest axis of the oval turtle shell is about 1 meter, and there is a long snake tail behind it.

Its four feet are made of flesh and blood like ordinary turtles, with webbed fingers and claws.

Since this is a lower-level task this time, everyone is not too nervous. This time, Shen Qing fired armor-piercing bullets at the same time as saying 'I'm going to attack' - there was no chance for others to react, so I thought about it and gave up trying to persuade her.

The tortoise moved slowly and looked like a live target until I saw it flipping flexibly by inserting its tail into the ground.

Its tail is first inserted into the ground to help its back land on the ground, and then it uses its tail to slap the ground to spin and hit the enemy at high speed, which is basically imitating the turtle in an old plumber adventure game.

The moves are simple and ridiculous, but once the player is approached by it, it is dangerous, because after hitting someone, it will immediately raise itself with the help of its tail, and then perform a move towards the enemy. Its abdomen is covered with two armored hard shells, which can not only defend against our attacks on its abdomen, but also cause double damage when overwhelming the enemy.

Generally speaking, when encountering a rotating impact, the player must quickly roll to avoid it. If the player has a shield, it can block the impact. I saw it was stopped by Ye Yin holding the shield during the collision with Sakura.

Being stopped made it stiff for half a second, Ye Yin immediately seized the gap and stabbed it in the neck with the gun.

"Aha--!"

The tip of the gun pierced through, and a piece of green liquid splashed out from the wound with a splash. Xuangui's two blue glass eyes mechanically turned to the front, staring at Ye Yin closely.

I replaced the molten iron arrow.

This type of arrow was used to deal with the large area of ​​hard armor of some dragons, because armor-piercing arrows are not effective when the area of ​​the dragon armor is large.

The material contained in the high-speed molten iron arrow that leaves the string is activated when flying in the air, turning the arrow cluster made of the keel of the flame into a hot and orange-red flame star, which hits the scales of the turtle and splashes a large amount of sparks .

Xuangui's eyes suddenly looked at the wound, and he waved his tail to escape.

But Shen Qing was also slowly closing the distance just now, and she took advantage of this moment to shoot a close-range explosive bomb.

If the molten iron arrow collides like a star of fire, then the explosive bomb collides like an orange-blue firework, exploding on the scales of the turtle, and the sound shakes the whole field.

The attacked turtle opened its beak and made a piercing rubbing sound. According to the legend, the sound of this monster is like sawing wood. It seems that the description of the legend is very accurate. My brain will be stabbed by this noise.

After eating a few attacks from me and Shen Qing, it toppled over.

Its tail, which serves as a fulcrum, can only sway limply on the ground now, at least it won't be able to turn over until it recovers.

The old rule is to throw explosives after falling to the ground, and all 8 explosives of the four people present fell on it.

Explosives may not be able to blast its armor, but it can cause it to suffer a lot of internal injuries. Xuangui's attack was slow but its defense was higher than Juji's, and it took a few more attacks before it fell to the ground for the second time.

In the last stage, all the scales on its back lifted up automatically, turning into a hemisphere with barbs, relying on the support of its tail to ram around. I asked Sakura to follow my position so as not to be caught. it hits.

Of course, Xuangui's blood volume is running out at this time, no matter how violent he is, he will inevitably be killed in the end.

After the battle, we returned to Maple City to prepare the Turtle Helmet. When Sakura learned that a complete Turtle Beak was needed to make a helmet——

"Hey, do you want to fight three more times?"

In fact, I was as surprised as she was, because I thought that the helmet would cover the turtle shell on the head and that would be the end of the matter.

Then, we killed three Xuan Turtles.

After repeated battles, even Sakura became familiar with Xuangui's attack method, and even began to approach it quietly with a lyre.

The attack method of the lyre is to pluck the strings and emit invisible sound waves. The closer the distance to the lyre, the greater the attack received, but limited by the attack power of the weapon itself, even if it is completely close to the home, the damage cannot be compared with a melee weapon.

It's a pity that she was too far away, and the attack didn't even touch the dust on the ground.

"cherry?"

I called her, and she seemed to be frightened, and her pink hair stood up and pointed to the sky.

"A Yuan... was scared to death..."

"I'm sorry...but the closer your lyre is, the greater its attack power. You can get closer, um...like my current distance."

Maybe it will hurt more if you walk over and smash it with the piano a few times. I imagined the scene of Sakura clumsily approaching and then raising the piano and smashing it down... so cute...

"Is that so? ... I will, I will be beaten!"

The tail flew past Sakura's belly, but fortunately it didn't touch her, otherwise I would have collected her body with Sakura's current defense power.

"This distance is just outside the range, attack quickly!"

Sakura plucked the lyre, and a series of ripples spread forward in the air. When the ripples reached Xuangui, they lightly collided with its shell and beak, and then disappeared soundlessly.

The ripples spread to the ground, and the colliding ripples blew up a small stone.

Pa-ta-pa-ta-the stone immediately fell back to the ground, but a small part bounced farther, and fell into the water with a 'plop'.

"Sonic attack, so advanced~"

"Looks like a totally thankless attack."

Shen Qing complained.

Xuan Turtle has entered the final stage, and this is the last one we will fight today.

Shen Qing's armor-piercing rounds ended the turtle as the final blow. After taking its 'kernel' and peeling off its beak, we went back to the city and went offline.

Looks like I can finally sleep well today...

Night is no problem for a sleepless AI, much less a problem for a jet-lagged Red Queen.

Therefore, on the night belonging to the Eastern Hemisphere, the Nameless Man and the Red Queen accompanied Julian to fight against monsters in the home field of this article, 'Penglai'.

The reason was that Julian wanted to build a set of equipment by himself.

Using a sword he bought in a store, he began to brush up from the lower-level tasks in the main chapter of "Legend of Mountains and Seas".

'Why should I just sit here and watch this idiot fight? '

The Red Queen was full of regrets.

‘Forget it, let’s just treat it as a date with Mr. Nameless…Wait a minute, I actually used ‘dating’ to describe the current situation. Could it be that today is my lucky day…”

The nameless person didn't look at the red queen's ever-changing nympho or the expression of a girl in love, and he didn't speak for a long time.

The battle over there was soon over, with heavy objects falling to the ground with a loud crash, and the wind blew the Red Queen's skirts, causing her to complain.

"The so-called middle-level missions are just a few more clumsy attacks than the lower-level missions? It's really stupid, it's not as fun to fight with people~"

"Not only is he stupid, he's also a savage, too inelegant! What does this guy do in reality... Maybe he's actually a primary school student."

The Red Queen complained.

"With your intelligence, guessing is a waste of time."

"Tsk, it's common people anyway."

"You nympho woman... Hey, how about we turn on the 'pvp' mode and have a duel?"

Julian suddenly invited her to a duel.

"Miss Ben is not interested."

Fighting would ruin her image as a lady in front of Lord Nobody, the Red Queen thought to herself.

"Heh~ Your ranking in the 'Fighting Arena' is not due to cheating, is it?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Lord Anonymous said that he didn't want to see members of the same organization fight among themselves. As the 'founder', I naturally have to abide by it!"

Julian laughed instead.

"Hahaha... After talking for a long time, you use the masked forehead as a shield...but I am different!"

The purple-haired boy suddenly raised the chain ax stuck in the ground with his left hand, and threw it at the Red Queen!

The Red Queen watched the giant ax fly towards her, but remained motionless.

The giant ax didn't come towards her body, but struck between her and the nameless person. The broken maple wood on which the two were originally sitting was now split in half by a giant axe.

Then Julian sprinted fiercely and jumped up about one meter in front of the Red Queen. The claw equipped on his right hand was about to scratch the Red Queen's head...

'bump--'

A tall black iron 'shield' inserted obliquely on the ground appeared out of thin air in front of the Red Queen, blocking the claw attack.

"Julian, have you been warned not to mess around?"

"Tsk, that 'plug-in' of yours is really cheating..."

Julian raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

"You, you actually attacked me?"

The Red Queen was motionless from the start of the attack until she was blocked by the shield. Only then did she stand up and question Julian angrily.

"As you can see, you escaped unharmed because of the protection of the Nameless One."

"Idiot, I... If I want to hide, I can dodge!"

Julian withdrew his hand, and the giant ax was lifted along with the iron chain in his hand, and he held the handle of the ax again.

'If you make any more outrageous actions and make humans doubt you, you will be 'sealed'. '

Just as Julian was about to continue satirizing the Red Queen, he received an encrypted private chat from an unknown person.

It seemed to the Red Queen that he just frowned and stopped talking.

However, Julian knew that the nameless man was warning him—this guy didn’t save her because she was the Red Queen, but because—she was the founder and biggest benefactor of Tears of Doom.

This young girl who seems to be dazzled by love and can only play tricks is very powerful and financial. If she wants to investigate Julian's background, things will become difficult to control.

At that time, the Nameless One could only deal with the Red Queen in a 'certain way', and 'seal' the troublesome Julian, so that he could never communicate with the outside world...

"But where did the shield come from just now? And I don't know when... it disappeared again?"

Just now, the shield standing in front of the Red Queen disappeared instantly just like its sudden appearance. Even the soil on the ground was still flat, as if nothing had ever existed. The Red Queen was curious about this.

As for Julian's almost-killing blow, it didn't frighten her too much—death in the game wasn't a big deal in her mind.

"That's some kind of 'plug-in' of mine, which can generate object data in the virtual world at any time, but at present, this function is very unstable, and the generated data can only last for a maximum of one minute."

"As expected of Mr. Nameless~ This 'cheat' is very powerful! By the way, can you give me a try?"

"No, there are still many bugs."

"Eh? Let me test it for you~"

Seeing that the Red Queen was going to be entangled, but the nameless person released a 'big move'——

"That would put you in danger."

"Master Anonymous... Are you concerned about me?"

Just because of one sentence, the girl's thoughts instantly entered a state of fugue.

'Why is she suddenly demented? '

Julian secretly asked the nameless person through private chat.

‘Probably conceiving some storylines that are impossible to happen. '

'Women are so strange. '

One good thing about Julian is that in the face of a strong man, he can quickly forget the hatred with the other party. For example, at this time, he seems to have forgotten his dissatisfaction when the unknown man threatened him just now.

Because for him, the temporary humiliation will be rewarded a hundred times and a thousand times to the other party...

But for a weak and noisy guy like 'qwer1234', his 'return' can be earlier.

"This 'cheat' exists, please keep it a secret from others."

The Nameless Man spoke to the Red Queen with a rare seriousness.

"I will!"

Faced with the entrustment of the unknown person, the girl of course obliged to agree.

It was already 12 o'clock after going offline, but I didn't feel sleepy.

When I think about going online again, I have to face 'Kui' and Ying and Shen Qing don't know what kind of bloody chaos they can make, I feel dizzy.

Fortunately, there is also Ye Yin, the only reliable teammate of the boss...

I don't know why I didn't feel sleepy after tossing and turning, I got up and put on the helmet, and entered the 'Chaotic Arena', where the time flow rate and the real time ratio are 1:1.

I remember that the "Introduction to New Era Science" class last semester just talked about the theory of time passage control in virtual worlds.

The research on "Virtual World Time Flow Control" can be said to be the greatest research achievement to promote the development of VR games-people often have the feeling of "a few hours have passed, but there are only a few minutes outside" when dreaming.

The academic community discovered that some kind of external signal can make people enter the "dream" state 30 years ago, but due to limited hardware conditions, the theory was not applied at that time.

Until an epoch-making breakthrough occurred in the technology of VR helmet and virtual world construction. Afterwards, several researchers proposed that the speed at which the virtual world and the real world play real scenes to the brain does not necessarily need to be the same. He re-sliced ​​the playback of the virtual world according to time, and presented the slices cut into different time granularities to the brains of the subjects. ——

The finer the slicing granularity, the greater the elapsed ratio between the virtual world time and the real time. This ratio is called the "virtual-real time ratio". If we watch a 10-minute segment of video, taking a screenshot of one frame per second and showing it to the audience with a screenshot of one frame every 0.5 seconds will give people a very different look and feel.

They then wrote in the paper 'my discovery means that modern technology can already control the flow of time'.

Perhaps this sentence is too arrogant, but he has indeed achieved "controlling the flow of time in the virtual world".

Subsequent studies have found that some people are naturally adapted to a high 'real-to-empty time ratio', while others are not. It is generally believed that a "real-to-virtual time ratio" of less than 10:1 is safe for most people, and a few people cannot adapt to a virtual world with a "real-to-virtual time ratio" of more than 2:1, but a very small number of people can adapt More than 10:1.

Research is always accompanied by a lot of experimentation.

The Supreme Council of Science gave a response on behalf of the researchers to the media's question of "whether someone's brain was damaged during the experiment".

'Absolutely not'.

There is no evidence that the Council has conducted 'inhumane experiments' and harmed or killed subjects.

The "anti-human experiment" is just a popular story among conspiracy theory lovers, but is it really so... I still feel incredible when I think of the "dream" I saw in the last door of "Snow Eagle".

I'm not sure if my understanding is correct, the programmer seems to know the inside story but he is eccentric and unwilling to answer my questions. His room in the basement is more impenetrable than a prison, and I haven't seen him in the months I've lived here.

It’s just that once a month, an unmanned vehicle will deliver a few boxes of couriers into his room, and a bag of garbage will be delivered by an unmanned vehicle every few days. In terms of the level of the house, he said that no one dares to call it the number one.

Who is the experimental subject in the 'dream'? What have you been through?

Except for the programmer, this problem can only be solved by directly asking the two "parties" - Sagnac and Rosenblatt. No matter how you think about it, it is impossible for an ordinary university student to have any intersection with two world-renowned scholars.

It's also impossible to find the 'experiment' directly, maybe you can get to know her by playing games? But I quickly put this unrealistic idea behind me, how can there be such a coincidence in the world.

My head is full of mysteries and I can't solve it, so I casually sent out an invitation to the arena duel.

[Invited player: Xiwu]

After figuring out who the opponent is, I regretted it... Why did I invite a top 10 player in the 'Scramble Arena' to 1v1? It's like the dead man in the coffee shop who can't control his impulse!

【Invitation passed】

Emma, ​​I passed it so quickly, what's the matter?

I have been getting along with my big brother recently, and without realizing it, my inner complaints have turned into a big brother, so I bite the bullet and walk into the arena.

The Colosseum is the most classic 1v1 map, imitating the design and decoration of the ancient Roman arena. In the middle is an oval area the size of a basketball court, surrounded by auditoriums.

She just walked in, wearing a helmet like in the game, and a close-fitting uniform similar to a robot driver. There are two metal particle propulsion wings on the back, and a long knife full of technology is diagonally across the back under the wings. There's a laser submachine gun pinned to it...

I look at myself again, wearing an ordinary starship uniform, with orange glasses covering the eyes, and the weapon is an energy gun with a variable range. Compared with her, it can be said that the difference between the minion and the protagonist.

"Hi? What a coincidence, we meet again...First of all, I really don't have bloat, I just chose the invitation accidentally, or...can you put some water on me?"

I explained why I did this, lest she think that I was overwhelmed and beat me up in a fit of anger...

Although I don't know what she looks like when she is angry, after all, I haven't seen her show emotion, maybe she is not angry at anything at all.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

After she finished speaking, she conveniently pulled out the knife on her back, pointed the blade at me, and assumed a fighting posture.

"Wait! Wait, for real?"

"Does 'letting water' mean voluntarily giving up using all your strength to fight and allowing the opponent to easily win?"

"Uh...almost."

We used to fight together as teammates in "Snow Eagle" before, although many things happened, we finally became friends.

"Which weapons and abilities should I relinquish?"

After listening to my words, she really seriously considered the feasibility of releasing the water, and she really thought straightforwardly as always.

"Forget it, forget it, it's all just a joke... Just use your usual strength."

Anyway, I have self-respect, and if she releases the water, I still lose, wouldn't it be more embarrassing? Of course, the other party is the TOP10 game player [Yugiri], so the result is probably what I thought.

"Um."

The red-haired girl nodded.

"Whether it's a game or life, my creed is to be serious to the end."

【The battlefield is being built—you still have 30 seconds to prepare】

The background sound sounded, and the surrounding auditorium disappeared, replaced by an infinite smooth plane.

The 3D scene began to build around quickly, and it seemed that the scene drawn this time was 'Canyon'.

The red towering natural rocks blocked my sight. In this complex canyon terrain, it is not only difficult for players to find each other, but also their actions will be hindered by the uneven terrain.

This is a scene that is very advantageous for players of the shooter nature, and of course it is the same for both parties. 30 seconds soon, we did not speak, each looking for a place to hide ourselves.

[The battlefield construction is over, and the game begins! 】

Now that it has started, I will naturally go all out, even if I can't beat her, I still have to let her understand why I choose a shooting style character in the melee arena.

Yugiri's distance is just within the range of my pistol, but due to the terrain, this kind of tentative attack will not have a good effect.

"Then... goodbye!"

As the voice of the start of the game ended, I turned around and ran without thinking. Just kidding, how could I face the TOP10 monsters head-on! Gaining distance and taking advantage of the weapon's range is my only chance to win the game!

Of course, Xiwu was a little confused by my behavior, but she quickly chased after me.

The characters available in Brawl Arena come from a large number of different games, and of course there are some original characters from Brawl Arena. The character Yugiri chose is not an original character, and I don't know which game it came from. Just watching her game, I know that the advantage of this character is that the weapon is one far and one close, and the melee and long range can be switched at will.

In summary, it is an assassin character with high agility, high explosiveness, and easy switching between long-range and melee combat, but low defense.

'A type that abandons defense and completely specializes in attack and mobility... It really underestimates the enemy's fighting style. '

My main weapon is the energy gun, which has two modes of continuous fire and burst fire, while Yugiri's electromagnetic long knife [Seraphim] has two modes of slashing and shooting.

The long-range damage of [Seraphim] is not high. In terms of my defense, even if it is hit from the front, it will not be dealt with immediately. However, my high-speed electromagnetic bomb in long-range mode is fatal to her. Of course Any melee attack from her is enough to bring my health to zero.

This is a contest between whether she is hit by me first or I am caught up by her first. Sadly, my mobility is far inferior to Yugiri's in this terrain, so it must be resolved quickly.

It is common sense that once an electromagnetic bullet that is far beyond the speed of sound is fired, there is no possibility of dodging. The mainstream way to face this kind of weapon in the arena is to strengthen one's own defense or add a defensive stance.

"Wow, what is this!"

But the reality is that all my deadly attacks will be dodged or blocked by her, and her bullet rain is actually reducing my health.

"It doesn't matter how powerful it is if you can't hit it."

After a few back and forths, I was overtaken, dodged a high-speed approaching slash by Xiwu in a panic, and the red-haired girl slowly walked out from the center of the boulder that was divided into two by her.

"I said... how about we talk?"

"Um?"

Instead of continuing to attack, she tilted her head.

"Can you see the trajectory of my attack?"

Shake your head.

"Or do you have the ability to predict the future?"

Still shaking his head.

"Then why can you dodge or even split my attack?"

"You'll know this kind of thing by raising your hand."

"..."

To be able to predict the ballistic trajectory from the movements of other people's hands while chasing at high speed is completely beyond the common sense of common combat.

"One of your top 10 counts as one, and they are all monsters..."

The most frightening thing is that there are still nine guys like [Xi Wu], and Su You, the boss of King's Landing Peak, beats them more than they win.

"So are you going to give up? Or let the water go?"

This also let me know that fragility is only the flaw of Yugiri's character. Her own skills are enough to overcome all flaws. Unlike players like me, she doesn't need defense.

"No……"

"But you have no chance of winning. Our final ranking difference last season was 993, unless I let go..."

From Xigiri's performance, I really feel that she lacks the so-called feelings, at least she lacks empathy...

"There are also things called bravado or dignity in relationships, and who wins and who loses, how do you know if you don't try?"

Seeing Xigiri's expressionless and changing face, I remembered Shen Qing's attitude when she was fighting the boss... the kind of confrontation that arose in "The Eagle in the Snow Field" was ignited again.

"So you're going to teach me feelings?"

Yugiri held up the 【Seraphim】with no expression on his face, ready to strike at my head.

"Of course, but first start with a different expression."

In the air, two laser beams from completely opposite directions prevented my defeat in time.

"Floating...cannon?"

It can only be said that it is worthy of TOP10. Even the unexpected attack failed to kill her. The two lasers just brushed against Yugiri's body and burned two smoking holes on the ground and the stone beside her.

"Anyway, he's also a player ranked in the second echelon... and he's not a monster like our boss. I can't reach the rank of 1001 with only this kind of equipment that is not better than the novice equipment."

I patted the dust off my body, and smiled proudly at Yugiri, at the same time, several fist-sized spherical floating objects began to gather around me—this shooting system that can be suspended in the air in all directions without dead ends It is all of my wealth, and it is also a trump card that I will not use lightly unless it is absolutely necessary.

"I won't lose."

"I can predict the shooting trajectory by raising my hand, what about the attack without raising my hand?"

I feel totally like a villain when I say this.

I grouped the spherical floating cannons into two groups, and then manipulated them to look for Yugiri at high altitude through my mind. The goggles showed a partial two-dimensional map after reconstructing the images of the floating cannons.

Soon I found the trail of Yugiri, and I immediately switched the glasses to display the real photographic image of the floating cannon. Yugiri was jumping and running quickly among the raised rocks with an electromagnetic long knife in his hand.

She didn't seem to have discovered the floating cannon yet. Taking this opportunity, I immediately commanded the floating cannon to start automatic tracking and shooting at her. To my surprise, she jumped back sharply and avoided the laser.

"If you see it, you can avoid it..."

On the contrary, this round of firing exposed the location of the floating cannons. Yugiri pulled out the laser submachine gun with his backhand and fired at one of the floating cannons, knocking it down in the air.

The battle situation is reversed again, what kind of reaction ability and accuracy is the same as opening and closing...

While the floating cannon attracted her attention, I climbed up a certain rock wall in the canyon, and the floating cannon was gradually shot down while shooting with her.

"I, will win."

Yugiri, who was gradually getting used to the attack mode of the floating cannon, slowly approached me with an electromagnetic long knife as a shield while shooting down the floating cannon.

"It's good practice to always have a plan B ready."

Being condescending, I raised the energy gun in my hand and adjusted it to single-shot mode. I locked two targets in the scope: one shot was Yugiri's head, which was pinned down by the floating cannon, and the other shot was her head not far ahead. ahead.

"it's useless."

"I know."

Yugiri not only easily dodged the sniper attack but also shot down my last two floating cannons, but the next second the huge vibration and the smoke from the rock collapse completely covered the figure of the red-haired girl.

"Is this a success? Fortunately, I arranged explosives when I escaped. I'm sorry, I can only win by this method."

The floating cannon attacks all the time were just diversions. I intentionally used my position and the firepower of the floating cannons to lure Yugiri to a trap that had been set up long ago. No matter how powerful the dodge is, it is powerless in the face of large-scale explosions and landslides.

But the voice of victory did not sound as expected... Almost at the same time, I found a red light in the undispelled smoke - the obviously seriously injured Yugiri broke through the smoke and threw away the laser submachine gun when he was close to ten meters away from me. 'Sprint', use the 'sprint' skill refreshed every 5 minutes to approach me, and swing the long knife in your hand.

The fading white light on her body made me realize that this is a protective stance! This one-time-use version is rarely used in the arena, but it is indeed the most suitable equipment for Yugiri.

A slanting red light wave was emitted from the blade, attacking my left half of my body, and I immediately turned sideways to avoid it. The knife's posture immediately changed from oblique to horizontal, and the "I" who was unstable because of avoiding was cut into two pieces...

"It didn't hit you, why?"

she asked calmly.

"Holograms—this is my plan C."

When the image disappeared, I had already circled behind her, raised my pistol and pointed it at her head.

'Make or break it—'

As I thought about it, the bullet left the muzzle and flew towards her silently.

But the knife she seemed to swung back casually was 'just' blocked in the trajectory of the bullet's flight-then the collision produced a strong flash.

When I regained my sight again, I was sitting on the ground, and her blade was severely damaged...but it didn't affect the tip of the intact knife, which was facing my chest and could be pierced at any time.

"All right……"

I chose to 'admit defeat' in the system, exhausting terrain, equipment advantages and strategies and still losing, this is a complete crushing of strength.

A round of battle ended, the sky suddenly broke, and her helmet reflected a dazzling touch of bright white.

I thought that both sides of the battle would not be much different in human strength, but when we actually faced each other, I realized that this was a fight between a rabbit and a wolf.

"You admit defeat, you should not give up when you encounter difficulties."

She spoke to me in an emotionless tone.

"The so-called 'don't give up' is a choice when you have not completely failed, and it does not apply to the situation where a knife is pointed at your chest."

"Should I comfort you at this time?"

"It's my skills that are inferior to others, so don't comfort me..."

"But you are friends. Friends should comfort each other, right?"

By the way, that's what I promised, to be 'friends' with her.

It sounded like she was being issued a good person card, but in reality she just wanted to learn from me how normal humans think. At that time, I thought she was an awakened AI, and agreed to her without thinking too much. I never thought that things would develop like this.

Although I also have friends, they are all big men. I have never officially become a "friend" with the opposite sex. I really can't handle this kind of thing!

But you can't go back on what you promised. I thought about it for a while, and suddenly remembered that I heard Boss Su You say——

'...'Programmer' has detected that the number of 'Awakened AI' is increasing faster than before, but the organization has insufficient manpower. '

Why don't we just let her join the organization?

"Are you interested in doing things with us? Let's look for an 'AI that awakens self-awareness' together... Get in touch with other people or even awakened AI. I think it may be an opportunity to help you understand emotions?"

"Existences like the Nameless and Julian?"

She knew immediately what I was referring to.

"Yes, there are many such existences. The DEBUG organization is specially established for finding and extracting such AI. Members of other organizations are easy to get along with. You will definitely learn a lot by joining us..."

I simply doubt that I can do sales. When can I talk to beautiful girls with eloquence?

She still had no expression on her face, but nodded...

"You agree?"

"Yes."

"Then I'll go back and apply to the boss to bring you into our organization—our boss is Su You, you should know him?"

She nodded again. It is impossible for her not to recognize Su You as an opponent who defeated her in the competition.

"Okay, I'm going offline first, you wait for my news."

"etc."

She stopped me—

"If we had all used guns just now, I would have lost."

"You...is this consolation?"

"I'm just stating the facts. Does that count as 'comfort'?"

"No... since it's a statement of facts, it doesn't matter! Thank you!"

I hurriedly left the arena. After all, I was praised by this guy who was as strong as Xiwu, which made me so confident that I almost swelled to the point of flying.

Now the boss is participating in competitions abroad, and when he finishes his work, I can discuss with him about Laxi Wu's entry into the organization...

And this guy...hasn't he already begun to understand what "feeling" is! The corners of my mouth raised slightly unconsciously.