Chapter 93 SSR?! 【VIP】
The elevator went down smoothly, and the number of floors on the digital display decreased rapidly, soon becoming a negative number that surprised all the players.
This underground base is quite deep, and it seems there are a lot of good things.
Lin Chen was ready to go and had already started planning his next search route.
When the elevator doors opened again, the scene before them was completely different from the "high-tech villain lair" upstairs. Rather than a laboratory, it looked more like some kind of dark... prison?
The narrow corridor was flanked by rows of cell doors, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen. The air was filled with an indescribable, strange smell of rust and disinfectant. The dim emergency lights flickered overhead, stretching shadows long and thin, adding a touch of the atmosphere of a horror game.
"Huh? It's turned into a horror game?" Lin Chen was not afraid at all, and was even a little excited.
Usually, places like this either hold some forgotten ancient gods or hide some earth-shattering experimental subjects. At the very least, there will be a few story-telling NPCs wearing shackles and with determined eyes, waiting to be rescued by the player.
She was about to "□□" each cell to see if there was anything shiny or an NPC she could interact with, when she heard muffled conversation coming from a room at the end of the corridor.
"Mr. Congressman, please rest assured that the security system here is of the highest level. There is absolutely no way that the so-called... 'Player's clone' can find this place." A voice that sounded very servile was expressing loyalty.
"Hmph, that's better. Xiuzhi, stay by my side and don't go too far away from me. Wait until they finish dealing with that experimental subject, hmph..." A calm but majestic male voice that did not allow for questioning sounded.
Lin Chen raised his eyebrows and moved over quietly.
The door of that room is made of special alloy and has a complex electronic lock on it, but for players, as long as their thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than problems.
She had just taken out a universal screwdriver and was about to perform a "I'll show you how to open any lock" trick, when the door "happened" to be opened a crack from the inside, as if someone was trying to get out.
Lin Chen was quick-witted and subconsciously dodged to the side, staying in the shadow of the wall.
Several NPCs in black who had been seen upstairs before walked out of the door. They looked around and left after confirming that it was safe, talking in low voices.
Lin Chen took the opportunity to slip in.
This is a room that looks like a temporary lounge or monitoring room. It is not too big, but it is fully equipped with various facilities.
In the center of the room, a middle-aged NPC wearing a well-tailored suit and with his hair neatly combed, looking like a "big shot", was facing the door with his back to the surveillance footage in front of him.
After the man in black left, his face changed, and he picked up his phone and started angrily barking orders: "Send a helicopter to pick me up immediately! This damn place is not safe anymore!"
"Councilor Ritsujima, please calm down," a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses advised. "The higher-ups have the situation under control."
Lin Chen glanced at him and turned to look at the surveillance camera. The screen was looping the tragic scene of the upstairs laboratory being torn apart, and the back of Lin Shen swaggering away.
What’s interesting is that the scientist NPC is brainwashing... not preaching... no, forget it!
In short, what the scientist NPC was doing did not appear in the surveillance.
It seems that she has a high degree of control over this laboratory.
The player continued to patrol and noticed that there was a little boy standing behind the congressman NPC.
The boy was about eleven or thirteen years old. He was wearing a well-fitting beige suit and an exquisite bow tie at the collar of his shirt. His hair was soft dark brown and his kite-colored eyes were quietly lowered. He looked as delicate and beautiful as a doll.
He just stood there quietly, with almost no presence, as if he was just a shadow behind the NPC congressman.
Lin Chen's gaze lingered on this handsome NPC for a few seconds.
Well, the modeling is very delicate, and it looks like "I'm full of stories, come and explore me."
The most important thing is that there is no red light above his head, which means that he is not an enemy for the time being.
Lin Chen lowered his body and tried to sneak, carefully moving his way behind the councilor NPC, ready to use [Steal] to see if he could get any good stuff from the NPC.
The player noticed that the NPC's eyes met hers for a second.
The player stared at the NPC in silence.
The handsome NPC paused for a moment, blinked his thick black eyelashes quickly a few times, and turned his head away calmly.
Okay, he's a very knowledgeable and interesting NPC.
The player looked away with satisfaction and continued to sneak around.
Lin Chen quietly approached the NPC councilor and prepared to use the evil [Steal].
"You are the 'Player turned around and looked down at Lin Chen, his tone carrying the arrogance of a superior.
"Ability, I am very interested. Now, I give you a chance to work for our Ludao family, you will
Lin Chen: “…”
Isn't this line too cliché? Are NPCs recruiting people so unprepared these days, just making promises right off the bat? Players are busy, right?
What's more, the tone of the NPC's voice made it seem like he was about to move his hand to hang the street lamp.
As a player, what I hate most is these arrogant guys.
At this moment, a rapid alarm suddenly sounded in the room!
The surveillance screen on the wall switched instantly, showing a large number of armed NPCs in uniform pouring in from various passages.
"What's going on?!" The NPC congressman's face changed, obviously he didn't expect this sudden change.
"Report to the Senator! It's, it's those experimental subjects! They escaped somehow!" An NPC in a suit crawled in to report, his face full of horror.
"Waste!" the NPC councilor shouted angrily, but quickly regained his forced composure. He turned to Lin Chen, his tone still tinged with the arrogance of a benefactor: "Now, it's time for you to demonstrate your loyalty. Resolve this problem, and I'll consider offering you a more favorable offer."
Lin Chen looked at the NPC congressman and suddenly laughed.
She loved these kinds of emergencies the most; they were like experience packs and resource libraries delivered right to her doorstep! Furthermore, in her eyes, the NPCs rushing over had all transformed into shining red names.
"Okay." Lin Chen agreed happily, and before the NPC congressman showed a "teachable" expression, he threw a precise straight punch, knocking him to the ground, and took out the pocket watch on his body that looked very valuable.
"You, you dare to do this to me..." The NPC congressman covered his face, shocked and angry.
"Shut up." Lin Chen was too lazy to waste time talking to him. He activated [Vector Manipulation] and "threw" him, the man with gold-rimmed glasses who had tried to leave since she appeared, and his loyal men in suits into the corner of the room, leaving them to be quiet for a while.
As for the red-named armed NPCs and the so-called "experimental subjects" that rushed in from outside - the latter were mostly strange-looking creatures with obvious signs of modification, fierce eyes but no rationality - Lin Chen showed no mercy.
She rushed into the enemy camp like a whirlwind, using [Vector Manipulation] to return all attacks to their original paths. The sword in her hand flew up and down, and each attack was precise and efficient.
There were no fancy skill effects, only the most plain physical attacks. But it was more than enough to deal with this red-named monster, which she thought was no different from a small monster.
Although the experimental subjects looked ferocious, they were mostly slow in movement and had a single attack mode, so they were quickly dismantled into pieces by Lin Chen.
The weapons in the hands of the armed NPCs were disarmed by her at close range before they could even fire, and then she threw them over her shoulder one by one, forming a pile of Arhats.
The whole process is smooth and full of player-style violent aesthetics.
——
Standing aside, Ritsujima Shuji, who had been a mere backdrop from beginning to end, widened his quiet, iris-colored eyes slightly. He took in the one-sided slaughter before him, and the small figure who navigated the "battlefield" with ease, even finding time to collect spoils.
He stood up and straightened the wrinkles of his suit. As "Player" fought more and more bravely and moved further and further away, he glanced at his unconscious father and gently crushed a micro transmitter to the ground.
Ritsujima Shuji tapped his chin lightly with his fingers and tilted his head to look at his father. He then quickly and unceremoniously took away the spare satellite phone that his father had hidden on him, and carefully took out a similar amount of currency from his wallet.
Well... the rest is left to the Player.
Thinking this, he didn't move anything else. He just took off his coat very quickly and rolled several times in the pool of blood and building ruins without blinking.
He thought about it, Player has eyes that can see through everything...
After weighing the pros and cons of his arms and legs, he decided to protect his legs before running, so he cruelly injured his arms.
When he and his father "visited" here, he observed that there was a group of experimental subjects who had not yet undergone human body transformation and maintained a completely human appearance.
Judging from past events, Player has a certain degree of goodwill towards the innocent people here and will not embarrass them. What's more, he can even get her help - healing his body, hunting down his enemies, gaining abilities...
Unlike the initial expert analysis, Player does not attach much importance to the value of the reward. She seems to only need the existence of the thing called "reward".
Ritsujima's mind flashed through reports about Player, and he carefully surveyed his surroundings. A three-dimensional map of the basement unfolded in his imagination, and he listened for a moment to the sounds of Player's battle—Player never concealed anything, just like her self-proclaimed stealth just now. In reality, everyone in the room had sensed her entrance.
That kind of cold and pure curiosity, like a big cat nonchalantly fiddling with its prey in its palm, was terrifying and made me sweat.
He followed the direction of Player's battle and walked towards the place where he remembered the experimental subjects were imprisoned - because Player had always dealt with enemies quickly and efficiently, there was no need to worry about any fish slipping through the net.
Also, because the Player never turns back before defeating all enemies, there is no need to worry about her making a surprise attack for the time being.
Ritsujima Shuji walked forward as lightly as a cat.
——
Soon, in the entire basement, apart from the players and the completely "ignored" boy NPC, there were only red-named monsters that had lost their combat capabilities and a few ordinary researcher NPCs who were trembling with fear.
Lin Chen clapped his hands and began to diligently "clean up the battlefield."
Bullet casings must be picked up, broken weapons and equipment can be decomposed into materials, and wallets, ID cards, dog tags (?) dropped by NPCs should not be missed.
She even carefully examined the strange-looking experimental subjects to see if there were any rare materials that could be collected.
"What a great harvest." Lin Chen looked at the extra pile of miscellaneous items in his backpack with satisfaction and felt happy.
After the search was completed, she walked over to the "experimental subject" who had been imprisoned before and had escaped during the chaos, but was hiding in the corner again because of fear.
Most of these "experimental subjects" were children in ragged clothes with timid eyes, with all kinds of strange scars on their bodies, and they looked pitiful.
"Everyone, get out." Lin Chen didn't have any special feelings about this NPC. They were neither good nor bad. Since it was convenient for her, she would let them go. She waved her hand, indicating that they could leave.
The children, as if they had been pardoned, supported each other and carefully slipped away from her.
At this moment, Lin Chen noticed that the handsome NPC he had just met was also mixed in with the group of children. He looked miserable, with his head lowered, his arms tilted abnormally, and his steps were unsteady as he prepared to leave.
"Hmm?" Lin Chen tilted his head. Wasn't this NPC just in cahoots with that annoying councilor NPC? Why was he running off with the experimental subject again?
She subconsciously opened the panel of "Ritsujima Shuji".
【Ritsujima Shuji】
Age: 12
[Status: Slightly weak, mentally depressed]
[Intelligence: 185 (Genius Level!)]
Agility: 70
Strength: 45
Charm: 150 (Charming!)
…
[Skills: No Longer Human (???), Fraud (Master), Acting (Master), ???]
[Entries: precocious, ???, ???, delicate and frail (fake)]
Lin Chen's eyes lit up instantly.
This panel! These attributes! These skills! Especially that intelligence of 185 and charm of 150! It's simply the best of the best!
It's higher than the best employee on her farm! And there are three question marks in the skills and entries. Isn't this a hidden SSR?
How could such a top-notch NPC be allowed to escape like this? He must be taken away! Doesn't the player have a quest that requires a high-quality child? Isn't this it?
There is someone to go to school with you!
"You, stop." Lin Chen pointed at the young NPC, his tone unquestionable.
The young NPC paused and slowly raised his head. No emotion could be seen in his iris-colored eyes, he just looked at Lin Chen quietly.
He even smiled at the player afterwards: "Good afternoon, lovely lady."
The player tilted his head and looked at him: "Aren't you afraid of me?"
"Why should you be afraid?" the boy said in a cheerful voice, as if discussing the weather. "You look much cuter than those uncles and aunties upstairs who use people for experiments."
"Good taste!" the player gave a thumbs-up. "Want to come with me? Food and lodging are provided."
The NPC was silent for a few seconds, then nodded. His voice had a slightly drawn-out ending and a cute accent, but it sounded surprisingly submissive. "Okay, I'm happy to help you."
Lin Chen nodded with satisfaction. Very good. This NPC was very helpful and saved her a lot of effort.
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