War Paradise

When Lin Chi walked out of the door of the Qinhuang Divine Armament store, he had only more than 4,000 yuan left.

At this time, he had installed the Demon Slaying Handguard just purchased on his right arm, and the tiger claw hunting knife brought from the warehouse was put back into his backpack by Lin Chi.

Although own proficiency is still a bit low, the attack range of this blade on the Demon Slayer Hand Armor is much larger than that of the Tiger Claw Hunting Knife. Moreover, the knife can be released instantly, and an unexpected sneak attack can be launched in the battle.

So now, Lin Chi also decisively put away his "tiger claws," and instead used the Demon Slaying Gloves hidden under his sleeves to defend himself.

——So, what should I do next?

Faced with this kind of true-sandbox game with no task prompts, even Lin Chi has a stunned look.

This time, no NPC with the main action dead came to send himself a task, and there was no obvious prompt like "Go to the underground bar".

Lin Chi knew that not just himself, but most of the players who entered this new map should be in a state of confusion right now, not knowing where to go.

In this way, we can only start from the existing intelligence:

Now he has a keen interest in the agency dolls that flood the city.

According to the records in the book and what we have seen in person, these organ dolls are basically controlled by the Feng Shui engine, which can complete various instructions and even speak "robots"!

If you can hire a mechanism doll, in the next battle, own odds will undoubtedly be a big Ascension.

So, let’s talk about where there might be shops selling dolls...

Recalling the large number of broken dolls piled up in the alley where he was "born", Lin Chi thought for a few seconds, turned around and walked back in the direction of that alley.

When he left that area, he did not see a shop selling organ dolls.

However, the scraps of the abandoned dolls in the alleys should be rubbish "produced" in such shops.

With the dim light of the oil lamp on the street, walking quickly across the snowy street, Lin Chi quickly returned to the front of the alley and carefully observed the surrounding buildings.

Then, in front of a small gray building that looked very inconspicuous, he saw a wooden sign that was only the size of a palm, with the words "Water Flowing Puppet Shop" written on it.

"Have you ever done this business?"

Lin Chi smiled and pushed open the wooden door of the Shuaishuiliu doll shop.

Since the dolls do not need to sleep, the shops in the organ city are still open until midnight.

When you walk into the doll shop, the first thing you see is the horrifying row of "heads" on the shelf right in front of the door.

The store’s building is an all-wood structure, and like the previous weapons store, it has only two floors.

The kerosene lamp hung on the wall exudes a leisurely light. Lin Chi looked around and was a little confused for a while facing the chaotic shop, so he asked loudly, "Anyone?"

Before the words fell, a dark shadow suddenly flashed out from behind the shelf next to him.

Immediately afterwards, a low female voice rang, sounding like a very bad mood:

"Come to buy something?"

"I want to see." Lin Chi looked at the other person's face while speaking.

It was a woman with long waist-length hair, white to a bloodless face, and a pair of weird cyan eyes were particularly eye-catching.

She wore a long skirt painted with all kinds of flower patterns. From the appearance, she could be called a "black long straight classical beauty". However, Lin Chi still judged that this woman was also an organ doll based on the unnatural movements of her arms.

"I am the owner of this store, what do you want to see?" The woman stared at Lin Chi with cyan eyes, looking impatient.

"I came here after seeing the price cut advertisements outside."

Having said that, Lin Chi smiled and started to use own habitual methods, trying to extract information from the shopkeeper: "You seem to be in a bad mood, what happened?"

He originally thought that the agency dolls in this city were "humanoid machines" that would only obey designed orders. He didn't expect that such dolls could have emotions.

It seems that the black technology of this organ city is even more amazing than I thought...

When Lin Chi was thinking, the voice of the doll shopkeeper interrupted his thoughts:

"It's okay, it's just that this store is about to close."

Seeing the expression on Lin Chi's face, the shop owner seemed to have guessed his thoughts, the "facial muscles" made of unknown materials on his face trembled, and his brows suddenly wrinkled:

"I know what you are thinking. You think that the broken wood controlled by the Feng Shui engine can't have human emotions, right?" the shop owner whispered.

"I never said that." Lin Chi shook his head.

As if he hadn’t heard him, the shopkeeper continued to complain: “It’s not easy for me to open a shop. I have to pretend to be a real person every day. I accidentally exposed my identity the other day Someone came and smashed my shop..."

"Is there anything else?" Lin Chi raised his eyebrows.

By now, he finally understood why this store did not have a normal sign, and there were still puppet remains piled up in the alley behind the store.

Even if he does not know exactly how the "Feng Shui Engine" works, it now appears that according to the setting of this game, some of the robot dolls in the robot city are actually like those made by supercomputers in the real world. Like the AI ​​that came out, it has self-awareness!

"Yes, I know you always discriminate against us." The shopkeeper shook his head helplessly, and shook his right arm to make a clicking sound: "Is it wrong for the doll to open a shop? We can only become a tool of service? We can't have own. Life?"

Lin Chi was about to explain to the shopkeeper that he was innocent. He only heard a bang, and the shop door was suddenly kicked open. Two men in black who looked vicious and were not good at first rushed into the doll. Shop, holding an irregular-shaped iron rod in his hand.

When the two entered the shop, a task prompt popped up in the lower right corner of Lin Chi's sight.

Start the task: confrontation.

An unexpected situation occurred in the Water Flow Puppet Shop, and now you can choose to help one of them, or let the situation go on.

Task reward: varies with the player's choice.

"Oh? It turned out to be this kind of task..." Lin Chi rubbed his hands thoughtfully.

In the RPG of linear plot, this kind of task similar to "choose camp" generally does not appear. But for sandbox games, this kind of task is not a new design.

Sometimes, a player's seemingly inadvertent choice will affect the development of the entire subsequent plot of the game. And those players who choose the wrong option, even if they continue to play, they will not be able to save the situation, they can only read the archive and do it again.

Thinking of this, Lin Chi did not act immediately, but leaned against the wooden wall and began to observe the situation in the store.

"What are you doing again? I will move out tomorrow!" The shopkeeper yelled out a little angrily: "The goods are all smashed by you, what else do you have to do?"

Although her appearance with a disheveled hair looks very pitiful, the two men on the opposite side obviously didn't mean anything to "pity and cherish jade". They just drew a stick on the wooden counter, leaving ugly scars on the counter.

"Doll, we are working in your shop today, and we forgot to charge for the hard work!" One of the men laughed and shook his left hand at the woman: "Is it time to give money?"

"Does smashing a shop count as work..."

Seeing how the shopkeeper gritted her teeth when she was talking, if she were not a puppet, she might be vomiting blood with anger.

However, Lin Chi, who was "watching" on the side, suddenly thought of another question:

Why doesn't she resist?

From the guards on the street, it can be seen that the combat effectiveness of organ dolls is much stronger than that of human beings of flesh and blood. Although the owner looks very weak, but as the owner of the doll shop, it is naturally impossible to have no fighting power at all.

According to Lin Chi's inference, if the shop owner made a move, he should be able to kill the two people in black who knew nothing about life and death.

So why didn't she do it?

When Lin Chi was thinking about it, he saw a man in black strode forward and grabbed the owner’s long hair and pulled hard. The beautiful doll suddenly fell to his knees, and the joint of his right arm twisted backwards strangely. After half a circle, there was a dangerous crackling sound.

"Toy, do you have the guts to talk back to us?"

The black-clothed man smiled and stepped on the shopkeeper’s hand: “The organ doll disguised as a human being is already a complete sinner. Not only can you not do anything to us, you are also not qualified to negotiate with us, so get the money soon. Come!"

Hearing this line that seemed to be an "official commentary," Lin Chi immediately understood the reason why the shop owner did not resist.

Then, he didn't think much, he made a choice:

"In other words, is it okay for the ‘human’ to do it to you?"

A low voice sounded from behind the two men in black, like a funeral bell.

Before the two even had time to turn their heads, a sharp white light flashed, and the gushing blood splashed on the shopkeeper's face with a frightened expression!

Under the surprised gaze of the doll shop owner, the man in the gray robe who was chatting with him just now kicked down the headless body of the man in black and put away the blade from his right wrist.

Then, the man faced himself and stretched out his blood-stained right hand——

"Can you trust me now?" Lin Chi showed a kind smile on his face.

"Why... why do you want to help me?" The shopkeeper's voice was obviously confused.

"Probably because those two bastards are too ugly?" Lin Chi teased.

As the two men in black were beheaded, the "confrontation" task in his taskbar also became a completed state, but he did not receive the task reward.

But Lin Chi knew that he should be able to see the "task reward" soon.

"Do you have anything you want to say now?" He laughed.

"Thank you... come with me, I have something I want to show you."

The shop owner used ice-cooled soft fingers to hold Lin Chi's bloody right hand.

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