In the center of the City of Ashes, there is a tall tower that has not collapsed.
This is the highest point in this area.
Shen Yi and Pandora each sat on the steel pipe at the top of the tower, looking at each other like bored watchmen on the sentry tower. Pandora looked at Shen Yi with completely incomprehensible eyes.
"What?" Shen Yi asked with a smile.
"It's nothing." Pandora shrugged: "I just can't figure out why you made such a decision at this time."
She did have a reason that she couldn't figure out.
You must know that Shen Yi's decision is equivalent to giving up his biggest advantage at present-the door of return.
The Gate of Return is not only a prop that makes the colonel afraid to act rashly, it is also a prop that makes the evil emperor afraid.
If it weren't for the existence of the Gate of Return, the Evil Emperor would never have paid attention to Shen Yi's suggestion of returning to the city to trade, and asked Pandora to teleport him here.
Precisely because there is a door to return, Shen Yi can force the Evil Emperor not to come and wait until he returns to the city. If the Evil Emperor doesn't listen and forces Shen Yi to return to the city immediately, then the only thing waiting for him will be Shen Yi's lion. Big opening.
This is the most important reason why Shen Yi did not hesitate to waste a demon transformation and get a team assembly order before the battle of Netherworld Valley - he not only had to consider how to get the box, but also how to get the box. What to do next.
It was at that time that Pandora realized how important this second team assembly order was to Team Broken Blade, and realized that this guy had probably already considered everything that followed.
But now Shen Yi has separated the team.
In this way, as long as Pandora opens the positioning transmitter now, the Evil Emperor will appear immediately. Even if Shen Yi has a return gate, it is impossible to gather everyone in a short time, and the escape function of the return gate will no longer be meaningful.
If the colonel arrived at this time, he could kill Shen Yi immediately and catch him off guard.
This puzzled Pandora. She didn't believe that Shen Yi would make such a stupid mistake. She instinctively suspected that there was a trap, so she didn't dare to call the Evil Emperor. She just looked at Shen Yi, expecting him to give her an explanation.
At this moment, Pandora no longer thought about how to fulfill the Evil Emperor's instructions, but wanted to see what kind of medicine this guy Gourd was selling.
Instead, it was Shen Yi who let out a long breath: "I know you are wondering what kind of conspiracy I am playing. Then what if I tell you, I have no conspiracy, I just want to test my team members to face difficulties and dangers alone. ability, cultivate their spirit of doubt and independent thinking, and let them learn to solve problems perfectly without me... Do you believe it?"
Pandora snorted softly, but ignored it.
Shen Yi smiled: "If you don't believe it, you can give it a try. Call the Evil Emperor over immediately and ask him to force me to hand over the box, or give me a low price so that I have to agree, otherwise he will kill me."
"That's enough!" Pandora interrupted Shen Yi: "I know you want to test me. But a deal is a deal. As long as you are willing to transfer the Eye of Pluto, I guarantee that the Evil Emperor will give you a good price. You don't have to do it deliberately. make excuse."
"Excuses? What excuses?" Shen Yi was puzzled.
Pandora snorted: "Of course it's an excuse to terminate the deal. As long as I send the Evil Emperor over and let him take action against you, you will have an excuse to terminate the deal, right? I will never believe that you are someone who will put yourself at risk." People who are in desperate situations. The door of return in the team assembly order may not be the only one. If I remember correctly, before participating in the battle in Netherworld Valley, you have destroyed at least one group of violent beasts and obtained a violent claw. That one There is also a return gate on the Furious Claw. So if you want, you can use the return gate on the Furious Claw to leave, while the rest of your team members use the return gate on the team assembly order to leave. Of course, your players are also divided into two teams. , but that may be because you have other gains, I don’t know. Anyway, the current situation is that it doesn’t make any sense for me to pass him over. Instead, it will give you an excuse to terminate the transaction or ask for an exorbitant price, isn’t it?”
Shen Yi's eyes narrowed slightly.
He nodded: "So that's what you think."
He chuckled: "I tell too many lies, no one believes me even if I tell the truth. I do too many bad things, and even if I do good deeds, no one accepts it... It seems that I have been plotting a lot, So no matter what you do, others will think it is a trap."
"Your excuse is too bad. You are letting your team members take unnecessary risks. With your strength, as long as you continue to develop step by step, you will definitely reach the end. There is no point in taking risks that are not proportional to the investment and return." The risk! It’s definitely not worth taking the risk just to exercise their independence!”
"Then if I tell you, I did this because I found that leaving this world is actually very, very difficult. It may be far more difficult than we imagined. Even if we become a marshal, we cannot leave. So I need to further train all of us to let They are powerful in the true sense, even if they have to take huge risks...will you believe it?"
Pandora shouted: "How is this possible? As long as we enter the Tower of Babel, we can leave! With your ability and potential, this is definitely not a difficult task!"
Shen Yi looked at Pandora playfully, thought for a while, and said, "But what if that is a lie? If I told you that until now, no one can actually leave this world, would you believe it?"
Pandora suddenly felt a chill coming from her body. She glared at Shen Yi and said word by word: "What evidence do you have?"
At that moment, it seemed that as long as Shen Yi couldn't produce evidence, she would immediately get angry.
Looking at Pandora's angry eyes, Shen Yi sighed softly.
Of course he knew why Pandora was so angry.
For those who are struggling to survive in this world, the Tower of Babel is their hope for freedom.
Hope is the goal that people strive for and strive for.
Just like when you do business, you aspire to be a boss; when you are a civil servant, you aspire to be promoted; when you write novels, you aspire to be a great god.
Hope is the driving force for people to move forward. Without hope, there is no motivation.
No adventurer can accept the fact that his hope is shattered, not Pandora, not Gentle Honglang, not even Colonel Shen Yi and the others!
Looking into Pandora's eyes and her body trembling slightly with excitement, Shen Yi sighed.
"I don't have any evidence... I'm just talking," he said.
Pandora let out a long breath.
She glared at Shen Yi fiercely.
Obviously, with his denial, his charge of "inducing the Evil Emperor to attack and try to terminate the transaction" was completely confirmed.
Shen Yi shrugged helplessly and chuckled.
Pandora reminded him angrily: "If the Evil Emperor doesn't come, the colonel will come. If he knows that you have divided your forces, then he will at least try to attack you and your people. If you don't want to be driven back to the city prematurely, you can It’s better to gather the team together.”
Shen Yi closed his eyes, leaned against the steel pipe, and answered casually: "Don't worry, at least he won't come here today. Time is the best weapon to wear down your vigilance. He only has one chance, so he will try to be with us." Be wary of attacking when your mentality is at its weakest."
"Then when do you think he will take action?"
"It's impossible to predict, but it probably won't be too long."
"Why?"
"Because he also doesn't have much time to waste." Shen Yi said with a smile: "Just like I won't be willing to waste the remaining time, he won't be willing to waste it either. For him, this waiting time will be It will be very difficult.”
Speaking of this, Shen Yi laughed narrowly: "If you can't beat him, it's good to make him uncomfortable."
Pandora was stunned.
This was the first time that she heard Shen Yi say such words that were harmful to others and not beneficial to oneself.
This guy seems to have suddenly changed.
It becomes even more elusive.
She asked: "What are you thinking about? Shen Yi!"
"I just want to see how much fate still loves me before we go to the real battlefield..."
"In a world without hope, our only choice... is to create hope."
After saying that, Shen Yi closed his eyes and said nothing.
He has said enough tonight.
Enough to make some people restless.
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In the following days, the Broken Blade Team officially began their hunting life in the City of Ashes.
Compared with the ubiquitous ferocious beasts in the wilderness, the undead creatures transformed from dead adventurers are obviously much harder to find. They almost never show up in any public place, and are always hidden underground, in ruins, or in the shadows.
They are elusive and move as fast as the wind. The most terrible thing is that they never fight to the death and will immediately run away if the situation is bad. It is easy to deal with them, but very difficult to kill them.
This makes Wenwen and the others feel like they are back in the world of the X-Men, and must constantly search, hunt, and kill. The only good thing is that this is not a mission, and there will be no punishment for failure.
In one day, they encountered three undead adventurer raids, but only killed one adventurer zombie. At the same time, they gained nothing - there is no 100% reward in wilderness adventures, even if it is the ant queen or the leader of the violent beast. , they just have a relatively high probability of giving items, but they are not 100%.
This made Hong Lang complain endlessly: "I think we might as well hunt violent beasts. We can kill at least four or five groups a day. Even if we can only get three violent claws, it is still a C-level, and there is no risk."
"Come on, do you really think that the wilderness is your back garden and you can pick fruits as you like? If you encounter a large herd of animals, you will be exhausted to death." King Kong said.
"It's better than working all day and getting nothing."
"It's better than reaping the harvest and then dying before you can enjoy it."
Hong Lang was stunned: "What do you mean by this?"
King Kong was silent for a while, then muttered: "Boss is a little strange."
"What's up with him?"
King Kong did not answer, but looked at Shen Yi on the tower in the distance.
Shen Yi never came down from the high tower.
He kept sitting there, seeming to be thinking about something.
Occasionally, he would grab a suspended steel bar to do pull-ups at an altitude of 124 meters. If he missed, he would not die if he fell from this height, but injuries would be inevitable.
But the most important thing is...
King Kong murmured to himself: "This is the first time I have seen him do such a meaningless thing."
Looking behind her, Wen Wen also looked at Shen Yi on the tower.
Uncontrollable doubts arose in both of their hearts at the same time - why did Shen Yi separate the team?
He didn't seem to care at all about the colonel dormant in the dark.