Chapter 68 Take it all, it's a piece of cake [VIP]
Lin Chen kept in mind that he had to find Vermouth to complete the mission, so after integrating the organization, replenishing the supplies, and turning the backpack into a mobile fortress.
Lin Chen, who had a severe fear of insufficient firepower, confidently began to track down the "Woman with Ulterior Motives" task.
Lin Chen teleported to a nearby anchor point and began to happily parkour in the city following the golden light guiding the mission, running all the way from the city center to the suburbs.
After gaining a wider view, the player picked out the armored vehicle with the lowest durability from his backpack and drove it rumblingly to a remote place.
Lin Chen stood in this desolate wilderness, looking around. All he saw was desolation and silence. The only sign of life was the ants bustling about on the ground.
The golden light guiding the mission stops here, 0m away from the target.
Players with a lot of gaming experience will know when they encounter this situation that the real mission target is either underground or in the sky.
Lin Chen looked up at the sky. It was boundless and cloudless. Well, there weren't any suspicious flying objects, but the possibility of invisibility wasn't ruled out.
However, considering the technological level of this planet, it is unlikely that the "huge secret laboratory" described in the mission description is located in the air and has the function of being invisible to the naked eye.
There's nothing more to say, the laboratory must be underground!
A player who pays close attention to every plot detail, in-game text, or NPC dialogue, and who observes their surroundings, will notice a seemingly unassuming building nestled in the woods near the player. While seemingly ordinary, it's actually heavily guarded, with advanced security equipment at the entrance, multiple teams on duty, and a mismatch between the number of people on the ground and the number of supplies purchased. This creates a host of other seemingly unrelated issues.
Unfortunately, Lin Chen is no longer that kind of player. Compared to slow reasoning and deciphering, she now prefers to use some simple and crude methods.
Lin Chen pulled 20 explosives from her backpack and placed them in a circle, ensuring they were close together but not overlapping. She quickly retreated a kilometer, pulled out her remote, and firmly pressed the detonation button.
Boom——!!
The earth shook violently, dust flew all over the sky, and a huge crack directly tore open the surface of the earth, blowing away the ceiling of the entire hidden laboratory.
The interior of the laboratory was instantly exposed, the lights flickered, the alarm rang sharply, the researchers fled in all directions, and the red-named security guard drew his weapon in panic.
The player's mission target, Vermouth, had just stood up from her chair in front of a large screen, still holding the communicator in her hand for communicating with the player.
It seems that it has just discovered the player's dangerous behavior and wants to use communication to stop the player.
Then, before he could even dial out, he saw Lin Chen falling from the sky, landing steadily on the ground in the cool posture commonly used by superheroes. His whole body was clean, and from his sparkling eyes, it seemed that he was not tired from the fast and long-distance run, but was very energetic.
Vermouth: “…”
Her hand froze in mid-air, and the number in the communicator that she hadn't yet dialed was flashing a faint blue light.
Lin Chen understood everything after watching this scene. What? Was he trying to make the players regret it?
Impossible! Once the bombs are fully placed, there is no second option for the player!
At this time, even if the quest NPC came to persuade them personally, the bombs would only have one end:
——Exploded remotely controlled by the player!
So Lin Chen jumped down from the ruins without changing his expression or heartbeat, walked up to the quest NPC and said:
"Next stage?"
——Be concise and get straight to the point.
Vermouth: “…”
She looked down at the laboratory next to her, which was once intact but now turned into ruins, and cold sweat slowly seeped out of her forehead.
——The next stage?
——You have already ruined half of the next stage!
But Vermouth was worthy of being Vermouth. She quickly composed herself and said in a gentle voice, using her proud acting skills: "It will probably take some time..."
Lin Chen's expression became visibly dissatisfied.
Ah, this is that kind of mission, right? To give the player time to think before the final decision, they're trapped in this place. They must gather enough information about this organization before they can move on to the next stage of the mission.
Generally speaking, the organizations here are the kind that do all kinds of evil and are full of crimes. They are either conducting human experiments or developing biological and chemical weapons.
Maybe the next step is that the player is still on the way to explore when the laboratory is blocked due to a virus leak, and the player fights the zombies alone for 800 rounds to break out of the siege...
Or to put it even more radically, the player, as the only successful experimental subject, loses his emotions and starts killing people, becoming a new generation of killing machine or something.
It's no different from "Biomachine", even the name of the virus can be imagined, probably called "X Virus" or "Apocalypse Project".
And the so-called "important intelligence" is basically just looking for hard drives, flipping through files, picking up a researcher's diary, writing "Oh, I'm so sorry", and then revealing a few shocking secrets.
Or to put it more vulgarly, the "room weapon" was directly marked "Emergency Use Only" in the manual, but a bug occurred and almost cost the player's life.
total,
Lin Chen turned around and left without interest, and looted the room where the quest NPC was located.
All the documents were picked up and reviewed, and then automatically filed in the database. Adrenaline, communicators, first aid kits, fire extinguishers, and everything else were taken away. Several listening devices, surveillance cameras, and other small props were also found.
The DNA moved violently, and he took out the player's toolbox and small props that he had picked up from somewhere with great interest.
The quality of the props is in the blue forest!
The player's [Simple Tool Making] has been upgraded to [Precision Prop Making] because it has exceeded the range of props that can be made!
The recipe has been named [Bat Household Item]!
Saved another five skill points!
Lin Chen wiped the non-existent sweat from his face, and couldn't help but feel proud when he thought about the scientific and technological expertise he possessed.
The time is not far off for players to rub the antimatter knife with their hands!
Lin Chen opened the technology tree, zoomed in and out again, and finally found her current location at the bottom of the lush tree.
It probably looks like the very tip of the roots at the very bottom of a big tree.
The distance to the antimatter knife is tens of thousands times farther than the distance from primitive society to the present.
Excuse me, the player closed the technology tree page with cold sweat.
As we all know, the technology tree is something you should not touch if you have no money or resources. Otherwise, even if you throw all your resources into it, you will only get a small amount of money.
However, developing a technology tree with Lin Chen's current total resources is undoubtedly a dead end.
Players need more and more resources.
Lin Chen clenched his fist with determination, dismantled the large screen in front of the quest NPC, and threw it into his backpack. Now the original monitoring room has become bare.
Lin Chen dared to guarantee that there was nothing here except her and the quest NPC! This was the strength of the players who left nothing behind!
Lin Chen was planning to go out and collect some red names, and then empty out the laboratory.
Does anyone know if this scene is a timed quest scene? What if the NPC leaves the player here and the lab blows up right after they've handed in their quest item? Even if the player is fine, what if there are out-of-print books or items here?
Yes, players may not necessarily read these books, and the props may just be thrown into their backpacks and gather dust. So what? Players can choose not to use them, but they can't live without them!
Lin Chen sorted through his backpack, breaking down the useless junk into essential supplies. Pulling out the system panel, he discovered that reaching 100 Morality unlocked the [Insight] skill, while reaching 100 Sin unlocked the [Voyeurism] skill.
Light them all up, then use them in the background to show that the proficiency of the two skills is slowly increasing.
The required morality/crime value to unlock the next skill is 500.
Lin Chen glanced at the two values that were slowly increasing for some unknown reason, and felt optimistic that it was very easy to unlock this skill.
Then she searched around, and in front of the NPC's surprised gaze, she pulled out the rocket launcher she had found from M-13.
Now, the players hold the truth in their hands.
Lin Chen noticed that the extremely self-aware NPC was quietly passing on information - she didn't notice it herself, but the [Insight] hanging in the background was too diligent, and it was hard for players not to notice the big red exclamation mark.
In order to avoid the situation where a half-blooded red name was forced to turn yellow because the quest NPC ordered the monsters "This is our guest, don't offend her" when he went out to kill monsters, the player quickly took away Vermouth's communicator.
"It's not impossible to kill the yellow-named character, but it's easy to tell that killing the yellow-named character might cause a decrease in morality and an increase in sin." The player muttered to himself as he circled around the quest NPC and used the [Insight] skill to check if she had any hidden items.
After collecting the small props disguised as earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, Lin Chen walked towards the door with satisfaction.
Wait, what if the NPC directly finds someone to verbally tell them the orders?
Lin Chen backed away and returned to the NPC who was sweating coldly.
She pulled out the [Unspeakable Horrible Broth] she had made some time ago and approached the NPC with an evil look. The moment the NPC saw the food, the [Headache], [Dizziness], and [Nausea] debuffs appeared on his head.
Lin Chen ruthlessly interacted with the NPC by [Feeding], and the NPC's head was added with debuffs such as [Stiffness], [Fear], and [Continuously Reduced Sanity].
Now there is no problem.
Lin Chen clapped his hands, moved the huddled NPC to the corner, and then walked out the door with a heroic and confident look.
He also locked the door very politely.
The player thought happily: I am indeed kind.
[Sin Value +5]
The cruel system ruthlessly interrupted the player's imagination and gave out values that were completely opposite to the player's imagination.
Lin Chen closed the pop-up window and thought firmly:
Players are good people.
Lin Chen went out with a rocket launcher and fought with the monsters.
Because the rocket launcher was too powerful, it often destroyed the props on the monster when it died, so after satisfying his curiosity, Lin Chen exchanged the rocket launcher for his favorite sword.
[An ordinary, unremarkable sword: The most basic sword on the market, with average workmanship, perfect as a practice tool for beginners.]
[Attack 15-34, Critical Hit 5%]
【Special effects: None.】
Poor players have a large amount of in-game currency (probably US dollars), but because they have not completed many tasks, the currency required by the system mall, the cosmic fragments, are pitifully small, and they can only make do with the cheapest weapons.
But killing monsters was still simple. Lin Chen fought all the way, opening doors and sweeping the place, not missing any room or any red-name monster.
Ensure that nothing can escape the player's clutches.
Even the large equipment fixed to the ground had its cables cut and the players stuffed it into their backpacks, leaving three for future use and breaking down the rest into basic components.
On the way to collect the loot, Lin Chen came across the room where the experimental subjects were kept. He deliberately took a detour and decided to leave it for last.
Anyone who has played games knows that when they can explore freely, players will deliberately choose the wrong path to avoid leaving the map directly after entering the plot.
Do you know how desperate players feel when they see a treasure chest next to an NPC during a storyline but have no way to open it?
The evil game producer deliberately placed the treasure chest there as a provocation to the players!
Lin Chen left the place indignantly and carefully, fearing that he would accidentally enter the plot.
Lin Chen walked a few meters quickly and then walked back quickly.
Well... in addition to the classic tropes, the plot may also have hidden conditions that require players to arrive here within a certain timeframe. If the player arrives too late, the experimental subject will be taken away or killed by the boss.
The bad planners like to use such means to test the humanity of players, and strive to make players get up in the middle of the night and slap themselves: I deserve to die.
In order to avoid such a scenario, Lin Chen took out countless pressure-triggered mines, also purchased from M-13, from his backpack and laid them out along an entire corridor.
That's all right.
The player clapped his hands and continued to kill monsters happily.
The structure of the laboratory is intricate, with rooms connected to each other like a maze.
But for players with full map vision, this was nothing. Lin Chen expertly moved between rooms, never turning back, like a diligent gardener harvesting her spoils.
The feeling of picking up items all over the ground is like all the crops in the wasteland have matured, full of the joy of harvest and the distress of not having automatic picking up.
Lin Chen does not suffer from this pain, because she has the [Space Folding] skill which is equivalent to automatic pickup. She can collect all dropped items into her backpack with one click. You deserve it.
Players really love the feeling of picking up trash everywhere and filling their backpacks.
Well, but if the backpack is really full, the player will not be happy because there is no box or refrigerator nearby to store the player's garbage.
After Lin Chen confirmed that there was nothing in this laboratory that had been forgotten by the player, he slowly returned to the door of the only corridor that the player had not entered.
That is the room where countless experimental subjects are imprisoned.
He snapped his fingers—using [Space Fold]—and put all the pressure-triggered mines back into his backpack.
"Let me see what plot that bastard planner has written." Lin Chen rubbed his hands together and chopped the electronic lock with a sword.
The moment the door slid open, dozens of eyes looked at her.
Transparent cells lined the corridors, each containing a variety of experimental subjects. Some had scales covering their skin, some had webbed fingers, and a few looked like normal humans, but their eyes glowed in the darkness.
"Wow." The player exclaimed, "It's an artificial human."
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