Now that the mission was over, Shen Yi and the others had a day of fun in New York and did not return until the 24-hour free world provided by the city ended.
As soon as they entered the evaluation space, they saw Lan Yan standing there, which surprised everyone.
Shen Yi even said directly: "Why did you show up?"
"What? Don't you want to see me?" Lan Yan asked.
"No, it's just that I don't remember that I caused any trouble this time." Shen Yi spread his hands.
Every time a manager appears, there are bound to be some special circumstances that arise in the mission world. But this time, Shen Yi can be said to be quite law-abiding. Even though he talked to the girl in white, he never did anything that would harm the mission world. There is really no reason for Lan Yan to jump out and confront him face to face.
Lan Yan laughed: "Managers don't only appear when there is trouble. In the past, we didn't appear openly in front of adventurers because we didn't want them to know our existence. But for adventurers who already know our existence For adventurers, especially adventurers like you who are quite familiar with us, there is no point in remaining mysterious, so it is normal to come out and chat occasionally when you have free time."
Shen Yi and others looked at each other.
The manager of Tangtang Space actually said that he wanted to chat with them, which made them feel as surprised and a little flattered as ordinary citizens when they heard that the mayor was going to visit to express their condolences.
Shen Yi said to himself: "Chatting... sounds a bit incredible. You don't look like such a boring person."
"Isn't it boring to chat with you?" Lan Yan smiled.
Shen Yi replied: "Even my friends don't like to chat with me."
Hong Lang continued: "That's because I suffered too many losses."
"Shut up!" King Kong slapped Hong Lang. This guy's mouth was as mean and open as ever.
In response, Lan Yan nodded: "That's true. Even communicating with someone like you is a risk."
Shen Yi shrugged: "Then you are not afraid of what I will do to you again today?"
Lan Yan smiled: "Because you don't need to trick me. You can ask directly and I will answer whatever I can."
Shen Yi was slightly startled.
He lowered his head and thought for a while, then asked: "How did you become so easy to talk to?"
Lan Yan smiled bitterly: "Because you already know some things without saying anything, but they may not be the answers we want you to know..."
He didn't say any more, but Shen Yi already understood.
It was obvious that the city already knew about his contact with the girl in white.
They discovered that maintaining appropriate secrecy was a necessary means to control adventurers. But for adventurers like Shen Yi who already knew many secrets, it was meaningless and would make things worse.
This is like a high-ranking general who originally disdained a certain soldier under his command, no matter how brave and courageous he was. The problem was that his enemy always came over to contact his soldiers without any trouble, and made He acted like a courteous corporal and said to his soldiers: "Come to me. The treatment here is better than that of your general. Why is your general..."
No matter how powerful and arrogant the general was, he could not withstand repeated poaching by his enemies. So one day he found that his mortal enemy came over again and told one of his brave soldiers some shameful things about his general. At that time, the general had to stand up and explain to his soldiers: "I'm telling you, things are not like this..."
This is why Lan Yan appears here - it is much better to take the initiative to explain something to Shen Yi than to have the other party just listen to the girl in white's words.
Thinking of this, Shen Yi asked: "Which part of her statement do you want to correct?"
Lan Yan smiled bitterly: "I'm not here to deceive you with lies, Shen Yi. If you have a preconceived idea and think that what she told you is true and what I said is false, then I have nothing to say."
Shen Yi shrugged: "Then I have to listen to it before I can decide who to believe."
Lan Yan pondered for a moment and nodded: "Then let's start with the creator of the city. In fact, you already know that this city was not created by humans..."
Everyone's spirits were lifted at the same time.
Lan Yan Youran said: "Yes, this is a city established by an extraterrestrial civilization. This civilization is far older and more developed than human beings. They had the ability to travel between stars tens of thousands of years ago. At that time , the earth is still just a barbaric land. This civilization calls itself Queres, not the so-called Xel'Naga..."
Lan Yan glanced at Shen Yi intentionally or unintentionally: "The Queres people have a more advanced life form than humans. They are a kind of spiritual life, with a weak body but a strong spirit. This life form gives them rich wisdom. and super-computing power, making the development of their technology far faster than human imagination. But for the same reason, the weakness of the ontology also makes their life span short. In order to prolong individual life, and also to make the race stronger, the Queres people Began unremitting research on life science. However, the composition of life is even more complex and more diverse than the composition of the universe. Even for the Queres people who already have the ability to navigate interstellar space, if they want to create what they think is the perfect It is not an easy task to create life forms. For this reason, they began to wander around the universe, trying to find an answer to this problem."
Shen Yi responded: "Create perfect life? No wonder that girl told me that I can call them Xel'Naga."
"That's right." Lan Yan nodded: "What the Quares people are trying to do is the same as what the Xel'Naga people are doing in the background story of StarCraft. The difference is that the Xel'Naga people just want to create perfection. In terms of life, the Queres people have a more direct purpose, which is to try to make their life forms more perfect."
Shen Yi finally understood why the girl in white said "You can call the city creator Xel'Naga" - trying to create a perfect life. This is exactly what the girl in white wanted to tell him.
Maybe there's more to it than that. Shen Yi asked: "What about those Zerg races?"
Lan Yan smiled bitterly: "As you know, they were created by the Queres people."
"What a coincidence." Hong Lang muttered.
"It's not all a coincidence." Lan Yan replied: "The Zerg were the testers of this world before humans."
Everyone was stunned, and Wen Wen blurted out: "You mean those Zerg were once urban adventurers?"
Lan Yan nodded: "To be precise, they were once the most perfect life in the eyes of the Queres people. They were strong, brave, united, had strong regeneration capabilities, and low intelligence."
"Simple-minded is also called perfection?" King Kong asked in disbelief.
Lan Yan replied: "For powerful spiritual beings, this is what they need most."
Everyone suddenly realized that the Queres people may have created life forms like the Zerg in order to transfer their spiritual will to the Zerg, thus forming a dual combination of intelligence and body.
It's like seizing a body in a novel.
Wen Wen couldn't help but said: "It's hard to imagine that the most intelligent life in the universe would fall in love with such a disgusting body of the Zerg."
"Disgusting is only for humans." Lan Yan retorted: "With sharp mouthparts, a strong body, and physical conditions that can survive in any harsh environment, abandon human aesthetics and replace beauty with function, you will find The beauty of the zerg is unparalleled...at least to the Quares."
Shen Yi smiled and said: "I guess in their eyes, we must be extremely ugly."
"Maybe." Lan Yan also laughed: "After the Queres people launched a long exploration of the universe, one day, they finally found a strange place. This is a magical space in the universe, and it has The ability to accept spiritual ideas and transform them into reality. The Queres people think this is their greatest discovery ever, their racial adventure, and this space is the bloody urban world we are in now. .They call it...the origin."
The Origin, as the name implies, the Queres people believe that this space is the starting point of the universe. The universe was born from here and expands eternally and infinitely to all directions.
As a life born in the universe, returning to the origin of the universe is like life returning to the womb/uterus to give birth to its own life form again.
This is what the Quires people are trying to do.
They succeeded.
They failed.
They created the Zerg, a powerful life form, but lost the ability to control them.
Lan Yan did not say how all of this happened. There were still many secrets about the city that had not been revealed to them, but Shen Yi knew that sooner or later, all the secrets about the city and the girl in white would be revealed to them. He is open.
Since the girl in white confided the name Xel'Naga to Shen Yi, in order to avoid unnecessary speculation by the adventurers, Lan Yan stepped forward to explain some information about the Queres people to Shen Yi and the others. This also proved from a certain aspect that One thing is that the Supreme Council is very nervous about their contact with the girl in white.
Sure enough, Lan Yan said at this moment: "I hope you understand that the reason why I tell you this is also a sign of the sincerity of the Supreme Council. We don't want you to continue to cooperate with that girl. It's best not to even see her again."
"Does this mean we have to take sides?" Shen Yi asked, "Choose between you and her?"
"That's right."
"That's a pity. So far, the city has not come up with any reason why I must stand on your side. You have to throw a bone to ask a dog to do things, let alone force people to take sides?"
"Every risk you take pays off."
Shen Yi replied shamelessly: "It's just salary, I mean additional income."
Lan Yan laughed angrily at him: "That girl didn't even pay you her salary."
Shen Yi quickly replied: "The problem is that she didn't force us to fight! If killing the enemy and getting rewards is a salary system, then no one will be grateful to the boss for getting the salary they deserve. Only Help beyond our duties is worthy of our gratitude, isn't it?"
Lan Yan was completely speechless.
Although Shen Yi's words were harsh, you had to admit that he was right. Lan Yan thought about it for a long time before finally saying:
"What extra help would you like?"
Shen Yi smiled and replied: "That depends on you. I'm not that picky about special help outside of my duties."
After thinking for a while, Lan Yan said: "If I remember correctly, you are approaching the gunner route. Your melee combat is mainly ordinary attacks, so you have always been eager to obtain the critical strike skill, right?"
Shen Yi's expression changed slightly.
Critical hit is the unique ability of the Juggernaut in Warcraft, which can double the damage power of normal attacks.
Such skills also exist in cities, but they all have their own flaws. Either they only double the damage of force, but do not double the damage of weapons, or they are force reduction mode. For example, the same is true for the violent claws and powerful impact. On the surface, It seems twice as large, but due to the different damage conversion modes, the real damage is limited, and the growth is also limited.
Only the critical hit obtained in the world of Warcraft is a truly flawless double attack. Therefore, it is a skill recognized by the city as not belonging to the S-level skills but more powerful than the S-level skills - just like the A-level power. Zhentian is more powerful than the double S-class standard robot. Of course, the difficulty of obtaining it is also extremely high, even no less than defeating Megatron.
Shen Yi has always wanted to enter the world of Warcraft to acquire this skill, but firstly, the difficulty level is not enough, and secondly, he lacks confidence in acquiring this skill.
Unexpectedly, Lan Yan would say it at this moment.
Before that, he had only told Ali, the waiter at that store, that he was interested in entering the World of Warcraft.
At this moment, Lan Yan has already said: "I am a space manager. I have certain authority to release tasks and can decide the content of tasks in the recent period. In twenty-five days, the tasks for Warcraft will be released. If you are interested, you can Go in and try."
"If that's all you have, it's of no use."
"What else do you want?"
"Mission mode, content, combat methods, and how do I get what I want?"
"I'm not that girl, I can't reveal too much to you!"
"Then say what you can."
Lan Yan hesitated for a moment and finally said: "Four-area hegemony mode, war type, optional mission is garrison mode."
"What else?"
"There are only two ways to get a fatal blow. One is to join other camps, kill the Sword Master, and there is a certain chance of obtaining a skill scroll, with a probability of about 10%. The other is to join the orc camp, complete the task assigned by the Sword Master, and obtain His inheritance has a 100% chance of success, but it is very difficult."
"How to join the orc camp?"
"Each of the four districts has its corresponding camp. If you want to join the orc camp, you must go to the southern district."
"I don't want to go to the South District. Can I change it to the East District?"
"...This is no problem."
"Then please."
Lan Yan took a deep breath: "Do you know what you are asking me to do? Help you cheat!"
Shen Yi chuckled: "It's not really cheating. At most, it revealed some of the test questions in advance. It's still a test question where there's no place to find the standard answers. It doesn't have much impact, right?"
Lan Yan glared at Shen Yi fiercely. After thinking for a while, he finally nodded: "I can promise you, but you also have to do something for us."