Overturned Tower

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But aren't you the culprit?

delphinium thought.

But she thought about it, and it seemed that she could indeed be called "justice from heaven".For other people, it is possible to cause problems... But Russell, who is born with the ability to see through the hearts of others, will not make a misjudgment on such a matter.

"The only problem is, it's not very safe either."

Lang Yin sneered: "Didn't you be almost abducted because you ate a drugged snack? If someone hadn't reported this to me, you would have been abducted by them."

"Is there still this?"

Delphinium was startled: "Why do you still dare to eat food and water from passers-by?"

She felt that Russell was already a very "cunning" type.

"This kind of common sense of personal protection belongs to even elementary school students in Happy Island..."

"It's the same in our Sogo Island," Lang Yin said angrily, "That's why he is outrageous.

"——Can play the highest-end high-end game, but can't play the lowest-end low-end game."

Chapter 20 Russell's Black History

"...Actually, it was quite confusing that time."

Russell heard the words, with a bitter face: "They do seem to be a couple, and they really have a good relationship. When I was given something to eat, I didn't feel any malice at all..."

"Then why did you miss?" delphinium asked.

"Because that couple is a relatively rare kind of person with a distorted view of the world and love. They don't think this kind of behavior is 'evil' from the bottom of their hearts, so this stupid cat didn't sense it. He At that time, I was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and it was the time when I was overconfident in my abilities...Because I succeeded more and more times, I gradually became more relaxed."

As the character of Wolf Yin on the arcade screen died again, he lazily let go of his hand on the joystick, turned around and replied casually: "It was also after that time that this stupid cat was hit and stopped going out." I was bouncing around...but I didn't go out when I had nothing to do."

"Because before that time, I really believed in my own 'talent'."

Russell sighed, and said with some melancholy and nostalgia: "You should be able to understand, Flotie. Since I just learned to read, other people's 'hearts' are in front of me. I read other people's hearts, It is not more difficult than reading a book. For ordinary people, the hearts of others are always fuzzy. If the communication is not cautious enough, it will be easy to cross the line that should not be crossed. But for me, it is clear See their current state, what they prefer, and the limit of their endurance. This is a technical game of "as long as you operate normally and don't get sick, you can pass the level stably".

"And for a child who grows up in this environment, a 'prodigy' who is born with the ability to read other people's minds. Naturally, he also loses respect for the human heart."

At that time, Russell hadn't awakened the memory of his previous life, but he had obtained the ability that he had tempered to the extreme in his previous life.

In terms of psionics, his redshift has surpassed his blueshift—his rationality, cognitive ability, and morality cannot control his talents that grow wildly like weeds.So he naturally "expanded".

That was the time when Russell's performance was the most abnormal, but it was the time when he was most like his peers.

"At that time, I didn't know how to restrain my talent, and I didn't know how to respect people's hearts. Because of this, I was always able to wander within the tolerance range of others...to provoke others to the limit, and then to appease them in turn. The more Irritable, crazy, and dangerous people are more challenging and attractive to me... Just like a more difficult puzzle game, even if I can see the other person's heart, I still have to choose the almost only correct one. Only the answer can appease him.

"It's a dangerous game that only 'me' can play."

Russell said softly: "So, in a sense...I'm actually very grateful to that couple.

"A heart-wrenching defeat made me wake up straight away - I actually don't fully understand people's hearts, and there are always people who are beyond my understanding and control. Since then, I have regained my awe of people's hearts... …become normal and ethical.

"I use my abilities in reverse to make myself a posture that conforms to the public's aesthetics. This way I am popular with others, instead of teasing others and manipulating people's hearts as I want."

If there hadn't been that failure, and Russell hadn't encountered bad days to unseal the memories of his previous life... He couldn't imagine that if such an arrogant self matured and absorbed all the knowledge in all fields, he would become how to manipulate people's hearts, The mastermind behind the manipulation of the world.

"...It turns out that there are times when you are not mature enough."

Delphinium's voice became softer after learning about Russell's bad history as a child.

She reached out to touch Russell, and thanked Langyin sincerely: "Thank you, you saved Russell at that time."

"Hey, it's nothing. If it's a normal person, I can't be bothered."

The middle-aged elf, with a strong physique, made a relentless and lazy voice: "Ms. Alice treated my brothers and fetched guns for them. I promised her to take good care of her son, and nothing will happen to him .”

"...Aren't you the owner of the bar?"

Delphinium actually wanted to say "bartender", but after thinking about it, it seemed that an elf should not be engaged in such a simple job.

Maybe this bar is his?

"Properly speaking, he is actually a rock musician."

Russell defeated the BOSS by himself, and entered the next level with the voice of the revived wolf: "Hey, you are alive, don't lose your mind—it is said that he was kidnapped by a gang with a bad reputation, but relying on his rock music, Inexplicably, he became the leader of that gang. And he has no fighting power... He became an elf because of his ability as a bard back then.

"In other words, he didn't become the boss by relying on his ability to fight. This is what I thought he was the most awesome when I was young.

"Did you see? The drinking people in the room are all members of the gang. The bar actually closes at four o'clock, and I came down to play games with him after he had finished."

"No wonder you talk about these things without shyness..."

Delphinium suddenly realized.

Only then did she notice that the game console they were playing was a model she had never seen before: "You...don't use gaming glasses?"

"Hey, you don't understand now. This is an antique, not an ordinary antique. When it was on the ground, this thing was already a thousand-year-old antique."

Lang Yin said triumphantly: "This is said to be the most primitive game console from 2000 years ago—"

"Listen to him."

Russell said mercilessly: "It's going to be 2000 years, and this thing won't work long ago. Not to mention 2000 years, it won't work in 200 years.

"This is an imitation——an imitation made after the Sky Island era.

"If it's a real thing, even if it's an antique imitated from that year on the ground, you can't take it out and touch it with your hands. It's even more impossible to just put it in the corner of the bar.

"And let me tell you, maybe the consultant or boss who built this thing has indeed seen this thing... This screen looks similar, but he has definitely never played it.

"But whether it's the handle and button's operating feel and durability-I've been tearing this handle for 20 years, and it's not broken at all, and even has vibration feedback. Do you think this is like technology from 2000 years ago? ?There is also this extremely smooth hardware performance, which is the technology of the Sky Island period.

"I won't talk about this game, this game is all made now! The game background in your fucking antique game from 2000 years ago can beat uncoded people on the empty island?"

Russell sprayed passionately and cursed directly.

Hearing Russell's swear words, Delphinium pinched Russell's tail gently as punishment.

She also finally understood why Russell was so familiar with those uncoded criminal organizations...

"Hey, she didn't see the plot of the game. You let me brag..."

"It's not that I don't want you to brag, it's that you are so outrageous that I can't even cover it. The later you expose it, the more embarrassing you will be. I'm helping you..."

"Then don't look at it, come and save me—"

"Don't die so fast, brother! At least live to see the boss!!"

"No, I'd better put coins..."

"Don't!! This is your machine, and you will have unlimited lives if you cast it. It would be too empty to pile up your lives... I will give you another life, don't die so fast..."

"Then give me another piece of equipment..."

Russell and Langyin bickered like good brothers, while fiercely manipulating the game character in front of them, their voices became louder and louder.

As the pace of the game suddenly accelerated, neither of them had the leisure to turn around and continue chatting with Delphinium.

Although he has been complaining about Langyin's poor technology and inattentiveness in playing games... Delphinium has never seen that Russell can play games so happily.

He usually plays games when he is free, and the quality of Happy Island's games undoubtedly crushes this "fake antique" for more than one era.

Whether it is the No.1 fantasy war with thousands of troops, or the adventure of a giant continent with more than [-] empty islands, or running various decryption or horror dungeons with different contents. Competitive puzzle games for people, or luxury sports such as skiing, bungee jumping, racing, surfing, etc. that fully simulate body sensations, or "life customization" games that simply interpret the life of the other end...

Russell likes to play.But he is always lying on the bed alone, curled up on the sofa and playing quietly.

Delphinium had never seen him shout, or stretch his arms and legs in excitement.I didn't even hear him talking about the game to himself with great interest - Delphinium heard it on the Internet, and boys who really like games often chat with their girlfriends like this.Delphinium has already been mentally prepared, and even has some expectations, but Russell has never talked to her about this kind of "incomprehensible" straight man topic.

Among the topics he and Delphinium talked about, the closest thing to this kind of straight man topic is the exchange of network security knowledge between the two parties.And compared to Russell, Delphinium himself can talk more seriously, top...

Although my "little boyfriend" is only three years older than me, and looks so young that I seem to be younger than myself.But he usually appears so mature, reliable and steady, never willful, let alone quarrel with himself.

This is of course very good, but it is a pity that I did not grow up with the other party and see Russell's immature and young appearance.

And now, traveling with Russell to the place where he grew up... Delphinium finally catches up on the lesson she's been obsessing over and has been waiting for for a long time.

In the dark corner of the bar in the early morning, Russell, who was jumping like a child, was playing games with his elders who had watched him grow up, and his friends who had forgotten his age.The man sleeping on the sofa was snoring loudly, the drinking couple pointed at this side and chuckled from time to time, and the two men who hung shoulder to shoulder and drank all night also smelled of alcohol, come over.

They politely kept a long distance away from the delphinium to prevent the smell of alcohol on their bodies from getting to her.The two just looked at the screens of the two "antique arcade machines", pointing fingers at their titular "boss"—that is, Lang Yin's stupid operation.

At this time, the "old screen" with a very low refresh rate seems to be less dazzling at this time.

The corners of Delphinium's mouth unconsciously raised slightly, revealing a gentle smile.

She wants to imprint this rare and unforgettable beautiful scene deeply into her heart.

Chapter 21 The Pride and Cruelty of the Mages

Tuesday, May [-]th.

It wasn't until nine o'clock in the morning that the inferior and the strangled had just arrived at Yongquan Island.

Unlike Sogo Island, which is next to Happy Island, Yongquan Island is basically the farthest empty island from Happy Island.They set off a day earlier than Russell, but arrived at their destination half a day late.

The inferior ones need to go to Sun Island first, then transfer to Tongshen Island, and then transfer to an empty boat pad built on land—or in other words, built on a clean island.

Afterwards, they took a ship from this isolated island to go to Yongquan Island.

——The giant dragon "Hudson" of Yongquan Island specially purified an island for the residents of Yongquan Island, and specially made it a port leading to Yongquan Island.And this island was named "Quanliu Island".

This small island itself is far away from the land, and it cannot become a bloody battlefield for the tug-of-war between the two sides, so it has not encountered too serious spells and technological attacks.

Of course, the main reason is... the aborigines here have been wiped out by the mages as early as during the Islamic War.

And when Strangled told the story to the inferior, the inferior also raised a question in the inferior style: "How do you know these secrets? Is the news channel reliable?"

Strangling impatiently gave a strangling-style answer: "None of your business?"

In fact, this is the knowledge that Strangler got after meeting other mages while traveling in the dream world.

When the mages drove the mage tower here, they felt that it was a good place to stay.So they occupied this unnamed island.

Although the mage tower can always float in the air, it also needs energy - before the "mage tower" becomes a "floating island" and gets the dragon's heart as energy, its energy actually comes from all the people living on the mage tower. of mages.

Spells are a solitary force, maintained and promoted only by constant access to the dream world.

And if you don't enter the dream world for a long time, the spell will start to dissipate.And mages who live alone can maintain their power for a longer period of time.

When many powerful mages with close spells gather together, the spells they hold will gradually dissipate into the surrounding space, and the surrounding space will gradually bend...

It is like a coil that generates a magnetic field when it is energized.But this magnetic force is not generated out of thin air.

Because the "spells" obtained by mages are not actually stored in themselves, but a kind of "authority" to call resources from the sea of ​​subconsciousness of the group.This kind of authority allows them to extract power from the dream world...and if the authority they hold is highly unified, then these crowded forces will form a special space similar to a "funnel", the power from the dream world It will continue to seep into the real world.

In fact, even if a powerful mage lives alone, this situation will happen, but it is relatively minor.

For mages who live alone, ordinary people around them will find that some "supernatural" things will start to appear around them.

This is the phenomenon caused by the rich energy in this field. Its essence is the power differentiated from the "unified spiritual energy" in the deepest part of the dream world, the sea of ​​group subconscious that "realizes human wishes".Some people's "wish" is captured by this dissipated energy, unconscious and one-sided realization.As a result, some "spiritual phenomena" appeared.

The mage tower is a giant device that utilizes and transforms the energy provided by this field to the greatest extent.Through long-term cultivation, this field is gradually solidified and permanent.Eventually, it can fly directly out of thin air.

But the mage tower can fly, but mages need to eat - they must have a supply point where they can dock.

As an isolated island far from land, it has quite dense vegetation and a complete ecological chain. The surrounding warm ocean currents can also bring many sea fish.It is well suited as a lighthouse, a sentry turret, to threaten the church angels attacking from the depths of the sea.So this mage troop descended directly from here.

Because it was already a time of war, the mages didn't have time to investigate the entire sky island.After waiting for a few months, they belatedly discovered that there were still some aborigines here who could not understand the language and were obviously backward in technology.In order to prevent these aborigines from being bribed by the church, the church's infantry was quietly stationed in the village, so the mages wiped them out together.

Therefore, this island has become a "nameless island".Because the people who knew its original name no longer exist.

And when the battle became more intense, these mage towers deployed overseas gradually began to retreat inland.They again abandoned the occupied island.

But the carnage is even just the beginning.

After the birth of the Mechanical Angel and the reversal of the offensive and defensive trend, the church quickly realized the shortcomings of the mages and began to attack their supplies—that is, the villages that existed near the mage tower.

As the deaths and injuries of the mages began to increase, the power of the mage tower began to decline.The mages have mastered a technology that allows them to use some "brain" as fuel to expand the hole of the "funnel", thereby overdrawing the operation of the mage tower.

Those civilians faced only two futures.

Either they disobeyed the mages and were exterminated by the mages; or they obeyed the enslavement of the mages and were exterminated by the church.

This is why, the most tragic casualties in Islamic wars are civilians.Because the church really can't penetrate the protection of the mage tower, and facing the angel army, the mages will die as long as they leave the mage tower, so they can't take the initiative to attack.

The church can only win by cutting off supplies... So when the final war enters the final stage, it directly becomes where the mage tower falls, and where the missiles fall.

"...At that time, there were at least tens of thousands of aborigines who died on this island. It is also said that 10,000+ people. The specific information is not reliable, because the aborigines here have been extinct..."

Hang Hang frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "Their bodies were destroyed as garbage, and their brains became the reserve fuel for the Mage Tower."

Even a "noble mage faction" like him felt that the actions of these ancient mages were too cruel and crazy.

This incident also caused an uproar in the mage camp for a time-but the high-ranking mages didn't take it seriously.Because as they went deeper into the dream world, their personal abilities gradually became ridiculously strong, and they no longer regarded themselves as the same race as those "mortals".