Chapter 291 - Curse
Chapter 371 of "Player Reload" starts the action: Chapter 291: Chapter 268 Curse"Help me plant bombs in these places."Ye Shen Yue was prepared... Find out what happens!
Chapter 291: Chapter 268 Curse"Help me plant bombs in these places."
Ye Shen Yue was prepared and took out a map from under the chair, spreading it on the table. Several locations had already been circled in red ink, including the water tower, incomplete buildings, and abandoned factories.
"Why not send your people? Looking at top combat effectiveness, the gap between the infected and City Hall isnât so big, right?"
Li Cheng didnât rush to agree but asked instead: "Moreover, the infected have the advantage of carrying Fault Substance, like mops dipped in shit, like Lu Bu reincarnated,
fighting could make the enemy hesitate due to fear of damaging their own."
"...I will, for the time being, ignore this somewhat offensive and inappropriate metaphor."
Ye Shen Yue sat back in his chair, replying indifferently: "The infected who were exiled to the Lower Nest also have friends and family on the surface. When we established this camp, we received not a small amount of smuggled aid from the surface.
Itâs one thing to have my people defend the perimeter and prevent the Terrorist Mobile Team from coming over,
but asking them to cause destruction on the surfaceâthatâs a bit much for themâthey just want to live out the rest of their days in peace."
"Alright." Li Cheng nodded and asked, "Next question, why do the lifespans of the underground infected vastly exceed those of the infected on the surface? And their symptoms are much milder as well."
Ye Shen Yue raised an eyebrow: "Are you here to discuss cooperation or to ask questions?"
Li Cheng spread his hands: "Understanding more information helps motivate me."
Ye Shen Yue leaned back noncommittally into the chair and after a moment of thought, said: "The Fault doesnât spread like the propaganda from City Hall suggests, merely as a contagious disease transmitted through physical contact and unknown means.
Itâs more like a curse, a curse on all of us toys."
Li Cheng gestured, indicating he was interested in hearing more details.
"The building that City Hall now occupies used to be the toy factory. Dumbledore, the first toy with self-consciousness, walked off its automated assembly line."
Ye Shen Yue continued, "The toys have partial memories of their âoriginal charactersâ, and through mutual communication, they came to know the fact that they are toys."
Li Cheng nodded, "So a toy with a backstory set in the 21st century would know about Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, just as a Stormtrooper from the far-future of Star Wars would know about Genshin Impact and FGO."
Gray Rain couldnât help but interject: "Star Wars was set several thousand years in the future, right? For Genshin and FGO, that would need quite an update."
"The earliest batch of toys, including myself, have been re
Watching the fire go out, Mayor Dumbledore chose to follow the research teamâs suggestion, throwing the bodies of deceased toy citizens into the factoryâs fire to burn.
This action is like returning the Fire to the pile, certainly delaying the flames from extinguishing but also bringing disastrous consequencesâthe fire has been contaminated.
The disease known as the Fault appeared randomly in the city, its essence being the degradation of the Fire within the toysâ bodies, and it can be spread through physical contact.
Itâs like when a white tin with a regular crystal structure comes into contact with grey tin with an amorphous structure, and gets transformed by the latter.
Degraded Fire will cause toysâ âlifespansâ to drastically shorten, leading to obsolescence."
"Understood."
Li Cheng nodded: "I saw people from City Hall chopping up bodies of Fault sufferers into pieces and throwing them into the cooling water of the nuclear plant..."
"As I know it, City Hall has separated the fire from the factory, placing it in the nuclear plant."
Ye Shen Yue said: "We, the infected group, did the same, constructing our own thermal power plant underground. By tossing the bodies of deceased comrades into the fire, absorbing âthermal radiationâ, we prolong our own lives.
Both sides are drawing poison to quench thirst.
If the fire completely extinguishes within ten years, thatâs okay, at worst, all things return to silence.
The most terrifying thing is if the Fire degrades completely, no longer producing a single healthy newborn, everyone becoming grotesque, deformed monsters, killing each other over the last bit of survival resources on the hopeless ruins."
He paused, his expression fierce: "At that time all the beauty, civility, and everything worth remembering that weâve built with our own hands will be destroyed."
Li Cheng raised an eyebrow and asked, "So you want to take this opportunity to bomb the factory and City Hall to the sky?"
The original version of Ye Shen Yue was almost a pathological, extremely narcissistic perfectionist who, with the Death Note, sought to kill all the criminals of the Earth and become the god of a new world.
"Not exactly."
Ye Shen Yue calmed down, indifferently: "I have the memories of my previous life, Iâve already failed once; I wonât fail a second time.
What I want is to launch rockets, breaking the invisible barrier thousands of kilometers above Toy City.
If we can break the barrier, we can rush into the vast cosmos, to find a substitute for the Fire, to prolong our civilization.
If we puncture the barrier, and outside is a void, resulting in oxygen depletion and the death of everyone, that would still be less torturous than slaughtering each other on the wasteland."
Li Cheng wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead, man, with one wrong move, your KDA could easily be 8000000/1/0.
Even Gray Rain swallowed her saliva. As a lover of life and killing spree enthusiast, her thoughts had only extended to slashing from Penglai East Road to South Heavenly Gate; she had never seen someone wanting to extinct a super-large modern city in one go.
You seem a bit too extreme.
"Youâve asked what you wanted to know."
Ye Shen Yue took out six dazzling bombs from a cardboard box in the corner of the room, slapping them onto the table, "Now can we talk terms?"