Chapter 101: You have to trust more than just yourself
In order to accomplish this task, Rhodes almost fell into the devil. No matter what he does, he is thinking about how to complete this task, bring Christie over peacefully, bring it back, don't worry, there is a summoning gate, and when the ceremony is completed, as long as the summoning ring is activated, it will be teleported back to the fortress of the Land of Atonement. Now it's a question of how to get to the destination and make sure Christie doesn't get hurt......... In all fairness, Rod found it really difficult.
However, because of the difficulties, he competed with himself.
If you change to someone else, most of them will choose not to go. Christie is so important in Rod's mind, and no matter how important the Illusion Key is, it is a dead thing, not to mention that Rod's subordinates already have the Sea of Silver and the Burning Fire Plain, is it necessary to take such a big risk to get the Star Spirit Temple?
That's right, of course not.
Because Rod's plan is to have both fish and bear's paws, he wants it! He wants it from the Star Spirit Temple, and Christie definitely can't get hurt in the slightest!
He knew that this was very greedy, it was like fighting a boss and asking a group of fifty people to die and not destroy a lot of blood at one time, is it possible? Of course, it is impossible for players to know the way, and there is such a possibility in theory, but players are human beings after all, and people will have negligent and distracted times, what if they are distracted? What if someone panics and doesn't get right? What if the wrong hand of the treatment is out of place? What if someone is pulled by his wife's ears because of playing a game, and as a result, he is temporarily offline?
It's still a game, and in reality there are more accidents, what if Christie breaks his foot while climbing a mountain? What if she accidentally eats the wrong thing? What if she couldn't stand the miasma poisoning of the undead? It's all sorts of whatevers waiting for him, so in Rhodes' opinion, it's an almost impossible task. But on the contrary, because of this, Rod became more and more energetic.
In the game, Rhodes likes to do that. Others think it's meaningless, but for Rhodes it makes sense. He wants to win, and it's a flawless win. No matter what tricks the enemy makes, if there is any accident, he can solve it completely, and he does not have ten thousand in his dictionary. And also in case, for Rod, he "must" do it. It's like after the destruction of Moon, many Moon players are lamenting that the game is just a game after all, no matter how powerful they are, they can't twist their arms and thighs, damn it or die. That's how the script is written, and they don't have anything to do but follow the script. But Rod doesn't think so, and eventually, he finds Little Bubble Gum. Then gathered a group of players who were also unwilling to enjoy the tricks in the script written by others, successfully snatched the script author's pen, and then kicked him away from the desk, and then began to write what he wanted to write on the script as he wanted.
If at that time, Rhodes hadn't killed the Dark Dragon, then Shattered Chaos wouldn't have appeared, the new chapter wouldn't have been a battle of Order and Chaos, and the player's time wouldn't have come. There will be no future invasion of demon armies. It will not open the deepest labyrinth, which will eventually lead to the return of the Void Dragon......... It's all going to come to naught.
To make sure nothing goes wrong. Rhodes thought of a lot of ways, and even he even stuffed 10,000 fire elemental spirits into the floating ship by himself and then imitated a terrorist attack and drove the floating ship directly to crash into the undead legionββββ, the only pity was that the wind tide did not pass through the station of the War Law Order. But it still doesn't work, there are several roads in front of Rhodes at the moment. The safest of them all was for Rhodes to sweep away the undead before taking Christie inside. But this is basically impossible, Dongfang Shanyuan has always been at war, and there are quite a few undead creatures there. If Rhodes really swept away the undead who had occupied the Tactics of War Colony's station. Then the undead from other places will swarm, and then they will be completely mired in the quagmire.
The other is the most common method for players, to take NPCs under the noses of the undead legions, and then complete the mission, but Christie's physical fitness dictates that she can't get hurt. And it's also slow, it's impossible to be as agile and dexterous as the Rogue Ranger, and the undead are sensitive to the breath of living beings............
In the past few days, Rhodes has been thinking about this question, whether it is when he is practicing his sword, eating, working, walking or sleeping. He thinks about the accidents that are likely to happen, and then he thinks about the solutions, and then puts the solutions together to see if he can come up with a perfect solution. If it doesn't work, then tear it down and start all over again. It's like a person taking a broken brick and trying to put it back together, but it's not easy.
Now Rod is obsessed with "building blocks", so when the canary finds him and slaps him on the table, shaking Rod back to reality, he hasn't reacted to what the canary is talking about for the first time.
"What? What did you say? Canary? β
"I'm asking you, what's the problem you're in again?"
The canary folded her hands around her chest helplessly and looked at Rod. The corners of the girl's mouth pursed slightly, with a little dissatisfaction and a wry smile.
"How long do you think I've been with you? Marlene, they all think there's something wrong with you, can't I find out? What's your problem? It's no more difficult than taking out the Night Nation and the Council of Light in the game. β
"In fact, in some ways it's not much simpler."
Hearing the canary's words, Rod shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and it was only at this time that he pulled his thoughts back from the "building blocks" and reconsidered the situation in front of him. At this time, Rod felt that his brain was a little tired, he glanced at the sky outside, and saw that it was already dusk, and the black tea in front of him had already cooled............ If Rod remembers correctly, it seems that Agameve poured it for him after he came to the study in the morning.
"The old problem is happening again."
Rod looked at the messy papyrus on the desk in front of him, and a helpless wry smile flashed in his eyes, only to see that there were all kinds of messy words and drawings written and painted everywhere, and there were even a lot of meaningless lines, which were all written by Rod inadvertently when he was thinking about countermeasures, but now. Even Rod himself couldn't understand what the hell he had written. Seeing this, Rod couldn't help but raise his head and lean back on the back of the chair, then reached out and rubbed his temple. When he opened his eyes again, the canary's face was already in front of him.
"Alright, now you can confess, Rod."
Although the girl is still smiling. But her tone didn't look like she was laughing at all.
"Confession is strict, resistance is stricter, you choose your own."
"I don't choose either."
Rod shook his head at Canary's words, but he had to admit that sometimes he wasn't omnipotent alone. So he sighed, and then Rhodes told Canary all the system quest prompts he had received after returning to the fortress, as well as the information he had compiled from South, as well as the current situation of Dongfang Yamabara and the bosses they were likely to encounter.
"That's ............... so"
After listening to Rod's words. The canary nodded slightly. As you can tell, Rod is really committed to this, and he basically takes into account everything that needs to be considered. If it weren't for that unexpected factor, Canary thought it would not be difficult for Rod in the slightest, but now, it was precisely because of that unexpected factor that Rod was so anxious.........
"You can get Anne to protect her, haven't you always done that?"
"It wasn't the same time as it is now, and. Without the help of the statue of the Holy Maiden, Anne would have had a hard time dealing with those skeletons. In that place in the Eastern Mountain Plains, there are basically no low-level undead creatures to be seen, and I am afraid that Anne may not be able to cope with it alone. β
"I think Anne has the ability."
But what Rod didn't expect was that the canary pouted and refuted his claim.
"Anne is still great at that, she's trained by us, right? Rod. To put it mildly, at Anne's current level, even in the game, there are basically no players who can beat her. Whether it's PVP or PVE, I think Anne did a good job. For what you don't give it a try. β
"It's not a copy, if you can't do it once, you can come again. We ask for a success, no chance of trial. β
"But if you don't give it a try, how can you know the way? Rod? β
"Because it's very risky."
Hearing Canary's answer, Rod frowned, he looked at the girl in front of him, and then spread his hands.
"If it fails......... It's not like a game to resurrect and start over, we don't have that chance. β
"If you want to say it, aren't you the same?"
Hearing this, the canary raised her eyebrows slightly, and then she reached out and pointed at Rod.
"You're not like us, Rod, you're going to die too. Have you forgotten that? If you're going to die, it's over here, and we're gone. And maybe this fortress built by the system will completely collapse, and everything you have done will be in vain, why are you not afraid of death? β
"Because I have enough faith."
Rod was unusually calm when he said this, he knew that like the canary said, he would die if he was not careful, but he didn't think he would die at all, this is the self-confidence, experience and confidence of a top player supporting him. Even if he encounters Shadow Fiend, Rhodes has the confidence to fight it, and even if he can't kill it, he can escape. He didn't worry about this at all, because he had the strength and qualifications.
"Anne has it too."
But today, it seems that the canary is there specifically to fight Rod.
"She's a mercenary, I've heard Anne say it, she's been doing it since she was five years old, and she's seen a lot of dead and killed. But Rod, at that time you were still watching "Saint Seiya" at home, you were just a player, Rod, didn't you? Although you have killed a lot of people since you came to this world, in terms of experience, can you compare with Anne? β
"But I have experience dealing with shadow demons..............."
"Are you going to have to rely on your old money now? Rod? What if one day a monster appears in this world that you don't know anything about? For example, the Void Dragon, we never thought there would be such a perverted copy before that. If you've encountered monsters like the Void Dragon, but you don't know anything about them. Would you use your inexperience as an excuse to avoid fighting? β
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This time, Rod did not immediately answer the canary's words, he crossed his hands and looked at the girl in front of him. The canary smiled slightly.
"We are proud of us, and I know that you have the confidence to handle everything. But sometimes, it's not just you who you need to trust. Think about it, how many times have we, as players, died in the game to gain such a valuable and rich experience and have the current achievements? It doesn't matter if it's you, me, or bubbles. Isn't that how they all come along? Who of us hasn't died in a dungeon, in a boss, in a quest? But this is the realm of reality, and as you said, there is only one life. But Anne and Lijie haven't lived until now? From this point of view, we players are not as good as them. If I had been a rookie, I'd have already become a ghost. Why do you think that the experience they have accumulated with their lives will be no match for us? β
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Hearing this, Rod didn't answer, but he knew that the canary was right. He was able to maintain such a strong self-confidence entirely because he had already killed a river of blood in the game, and he was used to confrontation and attack. In fact, when he played Dragon Soul Continent for the first time, he was also a rookie completely, and he had never seen such a virtual and real game, and as a result, he was shocked when he went to the wild alone at that time, for fear of encountering some monsters and suddenly rushing out. I've also encountered things where monsters almost scared themselves to death after rushing out. It can even be said that in the very beginning, this is the reason why Rod died several times. That's just a game, if as Canary said, if he travels to the Dragon Soul Continent at that time............... Rod thought about it carefully, and estimated that he was the life of a dead corpse.
Perhaps he can tell the human geography, customs, dungeon strategy, and boss characteristics of the Dragon Soul Continent, which is also lacking in these aborigines. But they don't have a chance to start over, and isn't that true for these adventurers? Thinking about it carefully, Anne has followed her to "brush copies" several times, but Rod was not worried about it that few times, because he was there, in his opinion, as long as he reminded him correctly, then Anne would not be in any danger. But now that he heard the canary, Rhodes thought about it carefullyβββ is this really the case?
In the game, even if the command is taught by hand, there are still players who don't know how to be flexible, and if they don't let them die, they will be sent to death, which is not uncommon at all. But Anne was able to grasp her orders every time, and then make sure that she would not be harmed in any way, was this really just a reminder in place?
Thinking of this, Rhodes suddenly realized that he seemed to have ignored something. He raised his head, and soon met the beautiful and charming eyes of the canary, and the sweet and gentle voice of the girl sounded in Rod's ears again.
"You need to trust more than just yourself, Rod." (To be continued......)