Chapter 20: Shopping Mall Explosion (Part 3)

The player who said "leave it to me" and immediately parted ways with Scotland actually didn't quite understand what he was going to do.

There's nothing we can do, he's just following a mission.

The mission content is divided into detailed stages, from meeting a certain NPC at a certain location between 8 and 10 in the morning, to walking together to buy something, everything is arranged very clearly down to the smallest detail.

This crossover version is not as detailed, but most of the time it will update the current mission content to give players a direction and goal for action.

Unfortunately, the mission of Broken Wine has reached the final stage of protecting Scotland.

The current shopping mall bombing is also included in this, and like the monsters from the black organization that are hunting Scotland, they are all crises that threaten Scotland's life.

Therefore, the mission did not provide any phase updates or instructions specifically for the mall bombing.

The players sorted it out themselves.

His aim must have been to protect Scotland.

Scotland has the means to leave but is unwilling to leave. He doesn't need to worry about this reason. The protected NPC always has a reason to hide in the monster pile.

So what he had to do was: first, deal with the monsters in the mall that would threaten Scotland. Second, deal with the bombs to avoid destroying the health bar of Scotland's level 98 hillbilly.

A player who has no stamina bar to limit himself and has excellent skills can jump up like Spider-Man, climbing walls and running on rooftops, and disappear in an instant.

He was able to create so many explosions before, and he is really good at finding bombs - in fact, this should be called the player's ability to search for treasure chests in boxes and cabinets. Which player has not experienced hiding treasure chests and decrypting treasure chests?

Others have to move around to avoid surveillance, but players have no idea of ​​this at all.

But there was no clear image of him in the surveillance video; he disappeared in a flash.

Only when the game stops briefly to conduct a carpet search for the saboteurs can a few pauses be captured.

However, most places were dark due to power outage. Nimachi Shigenori knew that this would hinder himself, but he still did it in order to enjoy the panic of the hostages and the struggle of the ants. At this moment, it greatly facilitated the players.

As a result, the player's arrogant behavior has not been noticed by Nimachi Shigenori yet.

We also encountered many NPCs on the way. After all, there were many customers in the mall, and not all of them gathered in the lobby. Even though they knew that there was a danger of bombs in the store, some people still didn't dare to run around, thinking that nowhere was safe.

The player just pretended they didn't exist and had five bombs piled up like bricks in his hand.

His appearance caused panic as soon as he entered, and he was threatened by Nimachi Shigenori so that he dared not scream. Almost every NPC had a panic expression on their heads.

They watched helplessly as the players searched out the bombs here, went up one level, and went to the next level, holding the swaying big killers that seemed to fall to the ground at any moment in one hand.

When Jinpei Matsuda was coming upstairs, he ran into a player in the corridor.

He habitually held a cigarette in his mouth, but didn't light it. He was immediately shocked to the point of his scalp going numb and he almost dropped the cigarette.

——Anyone who goes upstairs and turns a corner and encounters a man carrying a bunch of bombs with red flashing countdown times will have his heart skip a beat like his.

"You know this is a bomb, right?"

God knows, Matsuda Jinpei's tone has never been so gentle. If he hadn't been staring at the bomb that could fall at any time, afraid that the player would let go of the sound, he could have performed an imitation of Hagiwara Kenji.

Although these bombs are not the kind that are loaded with mercury rods and cannot be shaken at all, if they fall to the ground, this level of impact will easily cause them to explode.

This amount is enough to burn all the shops near this corridor to ashes.

With the flashlight on, Jinpei Matsuda almost immediately recognized the original target of this mission, Hisashi Jyouno, and had his hand on his pistol, ready to hit the target with one shot.

Players are not interested in the dialogues with passers-by NPCs, and they also know what his identity as a wanted criminal looks like to passers-by. It is normal for them to scream, run away, and call the police when they see him.

He did not reply to Matsuda Jinpei at all, but thought about it and put the bomb down.

That's right, players haven't figured out how to deal with these bombs.

As he ran around the map, he realized that this was really a minesweeper mode. There were too many bombs. If they had exploded in the mall, Scotland's health bar would have disappeared from the map along with the building.

Moreover, players who pass by the explosive melon will inevitably step on it to test the damage of the bomb.

If the damage wasn't that high, he could have just detonated all the bombs in the mall, which would have saved him a lot of trouble.

Thinking of this, the player took out his gun and aimed at the bomb.

But before he fired, a bullet aimed at his forearm flew towards him. The player instinctively dodged the shot, and the next extremely accurate shot followed.

The goal is to avoid the bombs while disabling his gun hand and blocking his movement.

Matsuda Jinpei's attack was decisive and swift, but unfortunately his opponent was a complete monster in terms of skills and dodging damage. Until the clip was empty, the player's health bar did not drop at all.

Since all damage is ineffective against NPCs with no health bars, players don't want to fight with Matsuda Jinpei at all, so they dodge the bullets and go straight up to him for a melee.

Jinpei Matsuda learned boxing when he was a child, and trained for many years after becoming a policeman. His strength and skills are very good, but he only exchanged a few moves with the player before being knocked unconscious by the player.

The cigarette had fallen long ago. He was so angry that he almost gritted his teeth. One hand was tightly clasped on the player's wrist like a handcuff. He could only reluctantly fall into a coma when he saw the pistol aiming at the bomb again.

Player: “?”

He silently shook off the NPC's hand, detonated the bomb with a gun, and restrained his desire to avoid damage.

"Bang--"

After a deafening roar, the player's character portrait turned black and white, and a prompt box for using resurrected dishes popped up on the game interface.

"The damage is a bit too high."

The player whose health bar was instantly emptied by the bomb clicked and used the delicious fried egg, which restored 150 health points while reviving.

But compared to the total health, the player now only has a little blood left.

The corridor that had just exploded violently and even the surrounding shops were reduced to scorched earth. The temperature at the core was very high. The player was afraid of being burned and losing blood, so he quickly ate two servings of wild mushroom chicken skewers to increase his health.

In the ruins, there was not only Matsuda Jinpei, but also other passers-by NPCs who were caught in the explosion, all of them lying there unharmed.

Normal, unless they were killed in the plot, they can all survive if Sky Island falls on the continent of Teyvat.

But what's interesting is that if it was Nimachi Shigenori who detonated the bomb, these NPCs would be killed by the plot, just looking at the corpses and injured people on the first floor.

But if the bomb is detonated by the player, these NPCs will be considered immune to damage.

etc.

Players discover blind spots.

This part of the plot may not be arranged for the purpose of hunting down Scotland, but to clear his identity!

If he was able to rescue so many NPCs, then according to his merits, his status as a wanted criminal should be offset, right?

It certainly wouldn't work in the real world, but it's not normal that honor and sin values ​​can be offset in the game.

Players have seen in the remnants of the Blue Star Era online forum that there was a concept of red name washing in the game at that time, and even this part of the mode is still used in some games in the Interstellar Era.

Yes!

He can clear his red name!

As long as he detonates all the bombs, he will have saved so many NPCs here. Compared to the crime value he caused on the wanted warrant, it can be washed away completely!

The player instantly perked up. He opened the map and took a look at the location of Scotland as tracked by the mission. Yes, it was exactly opposite to where he was.

The explosion here won't reach Scotland, so just go back and wait until the explosion here is over and then exchange positions with Scotland.

The player, who was a bit more gentle towards these passers-by NPCs, dragged Matsuda Jinpei and the others out of the rubble, threw them together like corpses, and happily continued to search for bombs.

But this time they didn't take it down, but instead detonated it from a long distance after discovering it, and then dragged the unconscious NPC out and dumped the body, no, placed it.

Jinpei Matsuda woke up to a deafening explosion. He pressed his swollen and painful temples, and a hellish flame flashed into his eyes, instantly bringing him back to consciousness.

In the fire that was burning his eyeballs, Jinpei Matsuda saw, as if in a hallucination, a young man who was not afraid of the flames at all, jumping through the rubble to a higher floor.

Then he pulled out a sniper rifle and fired a shot at the half-collapsed building caused by the explosion, accurately detonating the bomb.

A new explosion occurred again.

Matsuda Jinpei recognized Jyouno Hisaji: "..."

Is he dreaming or is Nimachi Shigenori already dead?

Isn't this a carefully planned bombing that Nimachi Shigenori planned to end his life and take revenge on society?

All the bombs were set off by Hisashi Jyouno!