Tokyo underground city

Chapter 120 Dialogue

There are chairs in the room and a long table about four to five meters long.

It had a very human civilization feel to it, but it made Lin Huaien and the others feel at a loss.

Because they are here for a decisive battle, not for negotiation.

But although Officer Shao frowned, he still sat down, and he was the only one sitting at the negotiation table.

The others looked at Lieutenant Lu. She stood silently behind Officer Shao, making no movement.

The habit he had developed over the past few days made Lin Huaien know that this inconspicuous female police officer was the second-in-command in the team.

Since she has not sat at the negotiating table, others are not ready to let down their guard.

"You can say it."

After Officer Shao sat down, he gestured to the silver-haired woman without saying much.

At the negotiation table, whoever speaks first will have the upper hand. However, Lin Huai'en has never participated in political negotiations before, so he only plans to watch from the sidelines.

Compared with business negotiations, political negotiations are very different.

The starting point of business negotiations is interests, while the starting point of political negotiations is closer to the essence of politics, which is the coexistence relationship between the two groups.

The woman seemed to know this very well, so she nodded: "First of all, I am sorry for the harm my tribe has caused you. Whether it is to you personally or to your tribe, I am very sorry. But as a slave in the underground city, There’s not much the queen can do, including the monster swarm.”

"I know." Officer Shao nodded and said without much surprise: "We have also communicated with other defenders that the monster surge is the result of the alienation of the dungeon's magic power. Almost all monster surges have only one option to attack upward. , otherwise you will just be burst alive by the magic power of the dungeon."

"So, even the well-intentioned defenders can't stop the tide of monsters from happening."

Hearing Officer Shao say this, the woman nodded with some relief: "It would be great if you can understand this."

She paused for a moment, then continued her confession: "The tide of monsters is a matter between the underground city and your outside world, and our underground city group is just an existence in the gap."

"We want to get rid of this situation, but we are also bound by the magic of the ground world and cannot survive in the ground world for more than 6 hours."

"So you external civilizations don't need to worry too much except dealing with the surge in the underground city - as long as you control the magic on the ground to remain as clean as it is now, you don't need to worry about us occupying the surface world."

Officer Shao nodded and didn't pay too much attention: "You don't need to worry about this, and it's not something I have to worry about. To put it bluntly, I'm just a grassroots policeman, and these things you are talking about are not mine. People at this level can decide.”

Having said this, Officer Shao paused:

"There is only one thing I want to say - please return Miss Senyan and her pass to us."

The silver-haired woman nodded and said without any surprise: "This is what I want to say."

"What should we do to make you give up Miss Senyan and return directly to the ground?"

The silver-haired woman's statement made everyone stunned for a moment.

But before Officer Shao could react, the silver-haired woman clapped her hands, and a dozen cicada-eating ant workers suddenly walked in from the door behind Lin Huaien and the others.

Under the vigilant eyes of the police officers, these cicada-eating ants pulled the things on their backs and piled them on the ground. Only then did Lin Huaien see clearly that they were actually dozens of dungeon equipment!

"The equipment of the captured has been decomposed by formic acid. The only thing we can compensate you for is the treasures produced at the hatching point."

The silver-haired woman smiled and said:

"From the consciousness of the prisoner body, we learned how attractive these things are to you outsiders, so the queen ant ordered the tribe to collect these equipment. If you agree to give up Sen Yan, the queen ant can give you more treasures—— As long as you can take it with you, it doesn’t matter how much you can pack.”

Lin Huai'en heard that someone among the pioneers around him was breathing a little faster.

And he himself also found something similar to a green vine wristband in the treasure.

Assuming that the pile of treasures in front of them are all level three treasures, then the treasures each of them can bring back to the surface world are worth at least several hundred thousand yuan.

There are 25 people present, each with 500,000, which is 12.5 million.

For most people, it is a windfall.

Not to mention, there may be secondary treasures inside, each worth more than 1 million.

But such treasures are still not attractive enough for Officer Shao and the others.

Officer Shao simply shook his head: "Sorry, for us, human life cannot be priced. Please return Miss Senyan to us, otherwise we will still have to fight with you."

Officer Shao looked at the Queen Ant and said slightly threateningly: "You know, we are just the advance team, the real large force is still behind. Even if you can kill us here, you still have to worry about more enemies, including me. Such existence.”

"No matter how strong your castle is, it can't withstand human heavy firearms. In less than ten days, your kingdom will be razed by dozens of tanks and armored vehicles. Even I don't think it is necessary to do this. As long as you use Cloud bombs are enough.”

The silver-haired woman obviously learned a lot about human civilization from the Queen Ant. She was not too surprised by the weapons that Officer Shao mentioned, but she was just a little confused:

"I know you have the ability to destroy us, which is why I want to negotiate with you-"

"But I don't understand why you value individual lives so seriously."

She pointed to the queen ant behind her and emphasized:

"This woman named Sen Yan can't even be considered an important leader in your tribe. She is just a low-level grassroots commander."

"At least for you, rescuing her is not as valuable as the treasures in front of me."

However, Officer Shao shook his head quietly: "However, she is still an important asset of our human civilization. Your ant colony civilization is too low-level. You are still trying to survive and will not understand the values ​​of our human civilization."

Officer Shao's statement was slightly serious, but the silver-haired woman did not feel angry.

She thought for a while and nodded: "Technology... no, should I say mutation."

She thought boldly from her own perspective:

"As a dungeon civilization, our magic technology has indeed not changed for tens of millions of years, so it is difficult to understand your values."

"But you outsiders, being able to evolve from aborigines to this level in just a few thousand years, does have great merits -"

Lin Huai'en saw that Officer Shao interrupted her casually:

"It's not as much as you said. Modern science in the true sense has only been more than two hundred years since Newton published "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" to the present."

Lin Huaien saw that the silver-haired woman nodded: "No matter when it started, this is indeed something that cannot be seen in those worlds based on magic."

"But I still think we can negotiate, as long as our offer is high enough."

The silver-haired woman looked at Officer Shao and said quietly: "Your human civilization is not always as great and upright as you describe -"

"You can eat people and cannibalize your own kind. As long as there are enough benefits, it is natural to betray your companions."

"Your capitalists even count human lives and equate working hours with the value of output."

"When the consumption required for the survival of a country's citizens is far lower than the value it can create, you will launch a war and let the excess population die - at this point, your human war and the tide of monsters in the underground city , there is no difference."

Having said this, the silver-haired woman glanced at Aizen: "Since the ant queen can tell you her thoughts, she can naturally get the knowledge she wants from your thoughts -"

"So instead of trying to hide ourselves, we need to be open and honest."

The silver-haired woman looked at Officer Shao and looked at him with a slightly tough look.

Officer Shao looked at her silently for a while, then suddenly nodded and sighed: "Okay, as you said, as long as you show enough threat, the higher-ups may choose to give up Miss Senyan. "

"But this has nothing to do with a grassroots police officer like me. Before I get orders from my superiors, I am only responsible for fighting and rescuing people!"

Officer Shao obviously started to act rogue.

But the silver-haired woman still just nodded: "Do you have your position——"

"Then, if I promise you, as long as you keep Senyan here, not only will we not endanger her life, but we will also send all the explorer passes who died in our territory to the designated location on the first floor in the future. ——What do you think of this condition?"

Officer Shao stood up, intending to stick to his point of view: "I said, this is not a matter of choosing the minority or the majority -"

"Is it a matter of strength?" The silver-haired woman shook her head and suddenly smiled: "Then, what if I tell you that it's Sen Yan who doesn't want to leave, rather than us not wanting to hand her over to you?"

Officer Shao was suddenly stunned: "She doesn't want to leave?!"

"Yes." The silver-haired woman spread her hands and looked at Officer Shao with a slightly mocking expression: "I have read her memory, and in my opinion, she is also a poor person."

"In your mouth, she is a poor victim captured by cicada-eating ants. But in my opinion, being chosen as a prisoner by the queen ant and integrating with the great consciousness of the entire ant colony is the right choice. The salvation of this poor human being.”

The silver-haired woman smiled lightly and revealed Sen Yan's hidden thoughts:

"In my opinion, this 'important asset' lady you call is just a victim of your outside civilization."

"Although her mother was a director of a medium-sized company, she was squeezed out in the internal struggle of interests within the company. Apart from a lot of liabilities, she did not leave many assets."

"Because her parents cut off the supply, she even had to finish her studies in a hurry and return to China to become a preparatory cadre of a listed company."

"Even after her father entrusted someone to arrange for her to join the company, she was often harassed by her authority and had to endure deliberate difficulties and bullying from her superiors - because everyone knew that her family was in decline and she had to repay what her parents had given her. Arranged loan.”

"Even so, she has made great achievements and has become an expedition manager with great potential."

"But even so, society still doesn't take her seriously."

"After joining the Pioneer Company, she and her team were under tremendous business pressure. Not only were they assigned to enter the third underground floor of the permanent camp at level 6, they even successfully solved the dungeon on the third floor. After entering the core, he was immediately arranged to enter the dungeon again and challenge the dungeon core on the fourth floor——"

"The company didn't even deliver on the rewards it had promised to her and her team."

The silver-haired woman looked at the humans present with a mocking expression:

"Despite the huge dissatisfaction of other members of the team, she entered the fourth underground floor and attacked the core of the dungeon on this floor. Naturally, she failed. She lost a lot of equipment and even personnel were dispersed. The company's senior management responded with this For this reason, her year-end bonus was deducted."

"Even so, she still did not give up and firmly believed that she would be able to carve out a future path by herself."

"So she regrouped, made full preparations, and entered the fifth underground floor, intending to change the destiny of herself and the team through her own and her team's efforts—"

"Then they met you."

Officer Shao said in a low voice.

"Yes, they met us." The silver-haired woman said frankly with a smile: "To be honest, including the ant queen and I, we were very surprised by this woman - such an outstanding individual seemed to have given up on her heart , cooperated with us in every possible way.”

The silver-haired woman pointed at Aizen next to Lin Huaien: "This woman is also very good, but her consciousness is always resisting the orders of the ant colony, and she even subconsciously engages in false thinking, affecting her body's ability and judgment—— "

"So you gave up on her?" Officer Shao glanced at Aran and nodded.

"It's just waste recycling."

The silver-haired woman nodded: "But Senyan is different. I think she took the initiative to merge with the ant queen, so we kept her - of course, we have to admit that Senyan's existence does bring We bring huge benefits.”

Having said this, the silver-haired woman paused, as if she was considering whether to tell this fact:

"In fact, even a being like the Queen Ant is not very good at thinking and memory."

"That's why the ant colony came up with the mechanism of 'captive soul'. In addition to wanting to use the skills of you outsiders, more importantly, through 'captive soul', the ant colony can think like you outsiders. .”

"Before I got Senyan, the queen ant and I could only have some simple communication."

"Most of her reactions are still similar to those of an insect."

"After getting Senyan, the queen ant not only gained consciousness beyond the individual and the group, but also learned to compromise and surrender. Even I never expected this."

"So, the premise of the negotiation we reached with you is that Senyan is still in the body of the queen ant, otherwise the cicada-eating ants will still just be a bloodthirsty swarm."

The silver-haired woman said calmly, "The ant queen who has lost Senyan will naturally not have any worries about the survival of the group and individuals. The tide of monsters has not ended yet. How much damage will the out-of-control ant colony cause? You Should be able to evaluate.”

"At least the hundreds of thousands of cicada-eating ants in the ant nest will all come out of the nest, and there are many high-level beings among them——"

At this moment, Aizen suddenly spoke up, interrupting the silver-haired woman: "What if you only leave Captain Moriyan's body here and return the pass to us?"

However, the silver-haired woman just looked at her with a slightly mocking look:

"Have you forgotten? You have also had your mind read, and the Queen Ant knows the consequences of doing so."

The silver-haired woman gently stroked the queen's body and said slowly:

"The moment you enter the dungeon, your body will be replaced with the prosthesis in the pass."

"Your real body sleeps in the pass, and the prosthetic body outside acts through the thoughts and memories of the real body. Once the prosthetic body is separated from the pass, the pass will gradually become invalid due to the lack of magic power supply, and the real body in the pass will also Starved to death. And without the anchor of the pass, the prosthesis will disintegrate on its own in a few months, infected by the magic of the dungeon——"

"So don't try to cheat the pass and let Sen Yan's real body be resurrected on the ground!"

The silver-haired woman revealed some secrets that Lin Huaien had never thought of.

But if you think about it carefully, it makes sense. Compared with copying souls, dungeon technology with space and healing is obviously better at copying bodies.

All that's left is how to establish a conscious connection between the real body in the pass and the physical body.

"But in this case, if the pass is destroyed... the real body in the card will die with it..."

Lin Huai'en heard Yuan Xiaole beside him, muttering to himself in a low voice with some uncertainty.

Obviously, he and Lin Huaien thought of the same problem.

Aizen glanced at him and added to the silver-haired woman's statement:

"But no one will still wander around in the dungeon after the pass is destroyed."

"The prosthesis and the real body are always tied together, and only a pass can cut off the connection between them."

"As long as the prosthesis returns to the ground in time, the lift valve will be able to detect the problem, re-anchor the real body, and replace it."

"The pass is just a key and a magical passage. Other than that, it is nothing."

"My guide was a black card, so she told me a lot of things that only high-level explorers know."

"I didn't expect that I got the Queen's advantage."

Having said this, Aizen looked at the silver-haired woman with slightly dissatisfied eyes.

The silver-haired woman nodded: "So, it's impossible for me to give you the pass. Even Sen Yan herself doesn't want to leave. What do you choose to do?"

Officer Shao was silent.

He was not familiar with Sen Yan, so he didn't know if this was Sen Yan's real thoughts.

And Aizen also fell silent.

She herself is not good at communication, and her relationship with Sen Yan is only at the level of a gentleman's friendship.

Even because she had never participated in high-level manager-level meetings, she didn't even know that Senyan was under such great pressure.

At this moment, Yuan Xiaole suddenly spoke:

"Since Captain Senyan is not dead...can we save her later?"

Noticing everyone's gaze, Yuan Xiaole said with some anxiety: "Since the pass is separated from the body, the body will disintegrate in a few months, so the Queen Ant shouldn't have separated Captain Senyan's body from the pass, right? Otherwise, it would be There’s no need to leave a pass.”

The silver-haired woman heard Yuan Xiaole's statement and nodded with slight approval: "The pass has indeed been placed between the thrones, and Sen Yan has never left here."

"This was not our intention." The silver-haired woman explained calmly: "It's just that when the queen learned about Aizen's knowledge, it was already a period of time after she was turned into a female ant."

"Most of the explorers at that time had been separated from their passes for some time."

"So after realizing that there was no way to solve the problem of the prisoner's body disintegrating on its own, you decided to be a favor and return the pass to us?" Officer Shao raised his eyes and said suddenly.

"Yes." The silver-haired woman looked at Officer Shao, nodded and said, "Even if you don't show up, the queen ant is ready to consume those inferior male and female ants."

"Since we showed up, why not return the pass to us? There will be no loss for you."

Officer Shao sighed and said, "But Senyan's pass, isn't it different..."

"Yes." The silver-haired woman nodded: "Sen Yan's prison body is not far from her pass, so the pass has not been activated. You can confirm this through your own means, right?"

The silver-haired woman didn't know which explorer's memory she got from some of the knowledge about Officer Shao's rescue methods.

Officer Shao glanced at Adjutant Lu.

Lieutenant Lu looked at the detector in his hand and nodded, admitting what the silver-haired woman said: "We made an oversight."

"If we had known that Sen Yan's pass was not activated, we wouldn't have rushed here."

Officer Shao sighed.

He seemed convinced.

However, at this moment, a large number of armored soldier ants poured out from the ant nest and blocked the door.

Officer Shao looked at this scene and turned to look at the silver-haired woman with squinted eyes: "What do you mean?"

The silver-haired woman just nodded quietly: "I want to let you go, but the premise is that you promise me that unless Sen Yan is willing, you will not take the initiative to disturb us."

However, Officer Shao remained silent for a moment:

"Are you afraid that we will send the pass back to the ground, and then we will come back to fight you again without any encumbrances?"

"You understand, that's the best thing." The silver-haired woman nodded.

"I can only represent myself, not everyone." Officer Shao thought for a while and replied.

However, the silver-haired woman said there was no problem: "I know that you human beings can only represent yourselves."

"But it doesn't matter." The silver-haired woman added: "In our opinion, you are the most troublesome existence. Without you, even the explorers who use white flames would not be able to be like you, right? Ant colonies cause so much damage.”

"Furthermore, as long as you don't take action, no matter how many outsiders come, as long as they are subject to level 15 of rising suppression, it will be difficult to get in -"

"This is true even with the heavy firepower you talk about."

The silver-haired woman spoke her thoughts calmly.

Officer Shao just listened.

After a long time, he opened his mouth.

But before Officer Shao could get there, Lin Huai'en spoke first——

"How can we believe that what you say is true?"

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