"What? Only 66.5%?"
Ren Suo was stunned. He felt that he was doing pretty well and had killed all the enemies he was supposed to kill. How could he only barely pass?
There is a question mark next to this task evaluation, and after querying it, the scoring options are listed:
"Complete the basic mission goal - 60 points;"
"Kill a medium-sized enemy - 5 points;"
"Saving a small number of innocent people - 1-0.5 = 0.5 points;"
"Special Achievement: Lolita Con - 1 point (This score is only valid when the total rating is less than 80 points);"
"The total score is 66.5 points, which is considered barely acceptable."
Ren Suo stroked his chin, wondering if there were many scoring options in this game? However, this game had a high degree of freedom, and there were indeed many details that could be optimized when Ren Suo played. Now that he saw the detailed scoring, he had found a scoring point.
"The most important thing is what the hell is this lolita control..."
He ordered another takeaway and continued to play the game while lying on the sofa. Ren Suo felt that this game was pretty good, with a decent degree of freedom and normal enemy AI—neither stupid like a sticker, nor as difficult as the Terminator, but it would change according to the player's actions, and there were even individual differences, for example, Ren Suo would run away in fear when he saw a few assassins.
Selecting save 0, Ren Suo let the killer start over in the alley. He skillfully tricked the two security guards out, but this time he did not choose to kill one of them, but knocked them all out.
Then he went through the process step by step, and this time when he entered the banquet hall, the game created a new save file for him 2.
This time Ren Suo was very careful about the killer's shooting. The last time he attacked in the banquet hall, he didn't pay much attention to the other fleeing guests, and even accidentally shot a few in his pursuit of a quick kill.
When the English gentleman emerged from the inner hall, there were still thirteen living guests in the banquet hall.
At this time, the takeaway arrived, but Ren Suo just realized that there was no pause option in this game, so he had to hurry to get the takeaway. The takeaway bag seemed to be leaking a little, and the delivery man apologized repeatedly. Ren Suo didn't care and hurriedly took it into the kitchen to put it away. However, he didn't expect that when he took it out, he accidentally opened the lid, and the juice splashed on his hands, which were greasy and oily.
When he came back after washing his hands, he saw the British gentleman and other men in black nervously pointing guns at the killer: "Why don't you leave?"
Ren Suo quickly controlled the killer to leave the banquet hall. Unexpectedly, due to this delay, the killer had just left the banquet hall when an explosion occurred on the ninth floor. The game immediately popped up a prompt:
"Karen Lamperouge is dead. Mission failed."
Well, let's do it again. This time nothing unexpected happened, and the number of guests in the banquet hall increased to fifteen.
When the game was evaluating the tasks, as expected by Ren Suo, he received a rating of 71%!
"Complete the basic mission goal - 60 points;"
"Kill a medium-sized enemy - 5 points;"
"Rescue a moderate number of innocent people - 5 points;"
"Special Achievement: Lolita Con - 1 point (This score is only valid when the total rating is less than 80 points);"
"The total score is 71 points, which is considered excellent."
"Not excellent, but fairly excellent..." Ren Suo curled his lips, "There shouldn't be anything I can improve further, right?"
At this time, the game pops up a prompt: "Because the player has received a fairly good evaluation and has met the hidden requirements, he will receive the hidden side quest information of this chapter."
"Side quest: Protect Yuffie Lamperouge. The less damage the target person receives, the higher the score you get."
Euphie Lamperouge?
The person to be protected in the main quest is Kallen Lamperouge. Perhaps they are from the same family? And this dinner was hosted by the Lamperouge family, so Kallen and Yuffie are likely to be together.
If Yuffie needs the player's protection, then it means that if the player does not interfere, Yuffie will definitely die.
Although Ren Suo had never seen Karen Lamperouge so far, he could easily tell that they must be in the inner hall of the banquet hall - that's where the British gentleman NPC came out. The ninth floor was not very big, and apart from the banquet hall there was only the inner hall.
When did Yuffie die?
Ren Suo immediately thought of a critical time - 20:00. When this time comes, gunshots will be heard in the inner hall, and the assassins in the banquet hall will also attack at the same time, assassinating the guests from both inside and outside.
If Yufei was really in the inner hall instead of the banquet hall, then she was most likely killed in the gunfight that took place at 8 p.m.
After Ren Suo finished his takeaway, he continued to lie on the sofa, turned on the Small World game console, read save file 2, and asked the killer to look around the banquet hall, but apart from a dozen assassins with black red glow on their bodies, he didn't see any other marks.
So, how do you find Yuffie Lampelukhi?
Ren Suo thought about it, asked the killer to steal a pistol first, and went straight to the inner hall. However, in the passage between the banquet hall and the inner hall, a middle-aged deacon and two men in black stopped Ren Suo:
"Sir, this is a private place," the middle-aged deacon said apologetically, "You don't have permission to enter."
At this time, the game pops up four options:
① "I'm here to look for Karen Lamperouge."
② “I’m here to look for Yuffie Lamperouge.”
③“Then how can I get in?”
④ (Attack) "Fuck you."
Ren Suo chose option ②. The middle-aged deacon looked at the killer and smiled: "Ms. Youfei will give a speech at 20:00. Please wait patiently before then."
The options did not disappear, but option ② turned gray. Then Ren Suo chose option ③. The middle-aged butler said, "I'm sorry, only the collaborators of the Lampeluki family are eligible to enter... By the way, I remember that no Asians were invited to this banquet? Or are you...?"
Ren Suo thought to himself that this was not good, but at this moment a young man happened to want to enter the inner hall, and the butler immediately looked at him: "Sir, who are you...?"
"I'm Angel Ricard, here to celebrate Miss Karen's birthday on behalf of my father." Angel smiled and said, "My clothes got dirty just now, so I changed into another set here. I'm really sorry for coming here late."
Only then did Ren Suo know the reason for holding this dinner.
"Ah, it's Master Angell from the Ricard family. It's an honor to meet you for the first time." The middle-aged butler made way for him and said, "Please come in."
Ren Suo took a look and found that he probably couldn't get in without using force.
But he thought about it and realized that Yufei's death should be one minute before 20:00. If he asked the killer to rush in at this time, he might be able to save the ninja. So Ren Suo waited patiently, and when it was 19:59, he asked the killer to attack the man in black and the middle-aged butler who were guarding the passage!
Ren Suo succeeded - the killer who was proficient in martial arts took the lead in attacking the three defenseless people and captured them easily.
But he failed too - seeing the killer attacking the man in black in the passage, the hidden assassins hesitated for two or three seconds, then suddenly pulled out their guns and launched an attack in advance!
The man in black immediately thought that the killer and the assassin were in the same group, and two more men in black came out of the passage and shot at the killer. Ren Suo immediately activated [Bullet Time] to shoot at them, and at this time the assassin behind him shouted:
"He's not one of ours!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, the killer was shot dead by a bullet from behind.
"You're dead."
Entering the save file interface, Ren Suo calmed down and realized that it would be impossible to break in by force, at least not for the killer he controlled.
If it was the 'Clown Killer', Ren Suo might be able to disguise himself as the British gentleman he had seen before, but the 'Bald Killer' was only good at fighting, so he had to find a more clever way.
So Ren Suo read the save file 0 and started again from the alley. This time he did not let the killer go directly to the building, but stood by the road outside the building, patiently waiting for his target.
"Um?"
Ren Suo was slightly stunned. He saw a figure approaching in the distance. There was a bright blue nail floating above the figure's head, and the body also emitted a blue light like a breathing light, which was simply reminding Ren Suo to look quickly.
And this person is exactly the target of Ren Suo's plan - Angel Ricard seen in the previous round.
"This NPC just now didn't have this kind of mark in the game..." Ren Suo was a little surprised: "Why is it that when I want to deal with him now, the game automatically marks him out...?"
Ren Suo didn't think much about it and asked the killer to go forward. He was originally planning to subdue Angel directly, but he didn't expect the dialogue option to appear:
① "Mr. Ricard, I am the butler of the Lampelugi family. Your clothes seem dirty. Please come with me to change into a clean set."
② (Attack) "I built this road and planted this tree. If you want to pass through here, you have to leave money for passage!"
Ren Suo was slightly startled, and immediately chose option ①. Angel smiled and said, "Ah, this is really troublesome... Do you know that I am Angel Ricard?"
The killer smiled and said, "As a butler of the Lampeluki family, I naturally have to memorize the information of my guests."
So fun!
Ren Suo stood up immediately. He was now very sure that this game had the function of "remembering the experienced plot" - otherwise it would be impossible to explain why Angel was automatically marked in the game, and why the killer knew Angel's clothes were dirty and his last name.
"How do you implement this function? Are programmers so powerful nowadays?" Ren Suo was overjoyed. He asked the killer to take Angel to a remote place, knocked Angel unconscious immediately, looted Angel's ID and invitation letter, and swaggered towards the Blackthorn Building.
This time, the waiter immediately smiled and took him upstairs. When the killer arrived at the banquet hall again, the prompt that popped up in the game was completely different -
"You have entered the Lampelugi Dinner Party as 'Angel Ricard', creating archive file 3."
"Please search for lethal weapons and mark any suspicious persons at the dinner before 20:00."
Then Ren Suo controlled the killer to enter the inner hall. The killer revealed his identity to the middle-aged deacon as Angel Ricard. As for why Ricard had a yellow son, the middle-aged deacon had no doubts except for a subtle smile on his lips.
Then the killer passed through smoothly and entered the inner hall!
The game popped up a prompt again, and even the task changed:
"You have entered the second hall on the ninth floor of the Blackthorn Building, creating archive file 4."
"Please protect Kallen Lamperouge."
The inner hall was actually not much different from the banquet hall, but there were much fewer people, and they were all sitting on the sofa chatting. In the center of the crowd, Ren Suo finally saw the mission target that needed to be protected -
A tall girl wearing a white corset dress and orange-red hair, and a cute little girl with fiery red hair holding a teddy bear. Near them, a familiar British gentleman was waiting on one side.
There is a golden inverted pyramid mark floating above their heads, reminding the player that these are the people he needs to protect.
Ren Suo controlled the assassin to move forward. The assassin approached the crowd surrounding the two of them and said, "Ms. Karen, your beauty eclipses the glory."
The little girl grabbed the hem of the tall girl's skirt and looked at the assassin timidly. The tall girl smiled and said, "Thank you for your compliment to my sister, but she seems to prefer words like 'cute'."
Huh? Ren Suo was stunned and looked at the little girl behind the tall girl.
Wait, Karen Lamperouge is actually a little loli?
At this time, Ren Suo suddenly remembered that there was a "Special Achievement - Lolita Control" in the previous task evaluation.
He recalled the strange expression on the man in black's face when the assassin said he came here because he admired Miss Karen.
"This game really wins my heart..."