Chapter 18: Surrounding

The two of them walked around the garbage mountain but couldn't find the way up. I guess the treatment site had never thought that one day the garbage could be transported out, and they had the idea of ​​directly filling it.

"This is probably the hole that the spider ant queen dug when she came up." Su Jing didn't look at the road and stepped on it, and almost fell into a big hole. Below you could see the dug-out foundation section and the lower ice and snow rock layer. Su Jing thought about the obstacles that were more than ten meters thick were digging through the obstacles of more than ten meters. He couldn't help but feel a little chilled all over.

"Wait, then how did these worker ants run out of the garbage dump?" Gai Qi asked a question.

The two of them approached the wall next to observe carefully and found that there were many piercing marks of claws clutching on the wall.

After solving this problem, the problem of how to get back is solved. The two of them can play rock climbing and climb up the holes all the way.

"It's not so troublesome." Gaiqi pulled out a wrench from the mezzanine's hand and jumped straight from the spider ant hole. "The purple slag below is not high and it's quite clean. I'll fix the death mechanism here and clean up the pollutants accumulated in the engine, so that it can take us back... Huh? There's something good here."

Listening to the sound spreading, the hole was not very deep. Su Jing held the newly-received Harold in his hand and jumped down.

There is indeed a unique cave underground in the garbage cave. In order to accommodate the giant body of the spider ant queen, the passage was dug very spacious. As soon as Su Jing landed, he stepped on frozen ice under his feet and almost slipped. There was a huge ice cave not far ahead, which was the place where the spider ant queen was frozen.

Gai Qi was holding a flashlight with her carry-on flashlight and shining on several frozen corpses. She looked at her clothes and should be an adventurer from the past.

The geological changes of frozen tundra are extremely rapid, with earthquakes or terrain transformations often occur. If calculated based on the time of the refinery being built, the ice-stowed adventurers here may be the first group of adventurers to come to Pandora. Gaiqi smashed the ice layer on the bodies of the corpses with a hammer and searched carefully. He didn't even have ECHO that everyone must have now, which indirectly confirmed this speculation.

Su Jing left the demon hunting insects on it and continued to suck the blood of the queen. There were no demon hunting insects around at this moment, so he could only identify the equipment left by these adventurers with his naked eyes.

"Wow - this is a classic failed work of Atlas's previous generation: Chimera Atlas's legendary collection series of guns, I have only seen one in Lilith's collection. Now, because Atlas's company has completely evacuated Pandora, I can't buy it again... I just don't know if I can still open fire after being frozen for so long..."

Gaiqi is more familiar with these guns than Su Jing, and recognizes the origin from the paint of one of the pistols. After cleaning the chamber with a portable tool, he replaced a box of pistol bullets and fired two shots at the wall.

The first bullet flashed with electric light, and the second bullet was replaced with flames.

"It's really useful! And it's really a legendary random attribute effect!! It is said that when I made this gun, I wanted to make a weapon that could switch element attributes at will, but I only made this semi-finished product..." Gaiqi happily turned the pistol on his finger, "How about it? Do you want to use your Harold and me to change it?"

"Okay." Su Jing handed Harold to her.

"………………………” Gai Qi stopped talking. The difference in the value of card-based equipment and non-card-based equipment is something that everyone can calculate.

"Uh...Su Jing... do you want to fuck me?"

“…Why do you think so?!”

"Otherwise, why are you so kind to me! I warn you not to do anything randomly! I am a three-star! If you really force yourself, you can't beat me! I punch you back to the shelter!!"

"Hey...I think you must have a big misunderstanding of my moral qualities..."

"Your moral qualities... As soon as I saw Xiao Tina's bright eyes that day, I knew you were a morally degraded and shameless young girl lover!"

"Enough! You, a seventeen-year-old expiration girl, are already old and old! Just think that I want to fuck you! Take Chimera, I don't want to use a violent gun like Harold that has no beauty!!"

"Give it to you! I want to solemnly advise you that a handful of Harold cannot knock the girl's heart!"

I can't be considered particularly fond of it... Su Jing thought while taking a screwdriver to remove the screws.

During the past few days of teaming up with Gai Qi, I have always felt a sense of emotion in my heart. It was like... the characters I saw in comics and games, standing in front of me and talking to me.

The character I like, can stand with me, talk, interact, and help each other... It's like a dreamless feeling. Just by being able to get this mood, I feel that it's really worth taking risks in this world, so... I can't help but help her.

Looking at Gai Qi's side face, which was focused on the death mechanism, Su Jing couldn't help but reach out and touch it to confirm that he was not dreaming.

"………………………If I touch my face again, I will smash your hand with one shot."

"…Gaqi, ask you something."

"ask."

"What does it feel like to know that I am a character in the game?"

Hearing this question, Gaiqi stopped her hand, picked up a rag and wiped the oil on her hands.

"After you finally asked this question, I thought you really treated me as an adventurer. Help me move this board away."

Su Jing moved the breastplate of the death organ to the side, and then Gai Qi said:

"At first... I felt a little strange, but then I understood. Su Jing, I'll ask you a question."

"Why do you need to answer questions?"

"Shut up. You said, am I the same as Gai Qi in the game?"

"Do you want me to shut up or ask me to answer the questions?"

“……………………”

"Put down the wrench and say something, I'll answer the question. Uh... there's still a little difference. Now you... are much more vivid than you in the game."

"Look, I live in this world like this. I have my own life. I have not followed the life trajectory of the protagonist in the game you play. I, and everyone in the Borderlands world, we have our own lives and our own choices... This is already a complete, real world. But you, Su Jing, how do you make sure that you don't come from a game, a movie, or a novel? How do you know that you are not a character in a novel, controlled by fate and unknown?"

"Interesting." Su Jing smiled, "If I were a character in a novel, I must live a wonderful life enough that all readers can remember me."

"Shut up, Suit A, give me that kicker."

The nameless supporting actor A and the popular protagonist Gaiqi spent half an hour in the ice cave before cleaning up the engine and fuel delivery pipelines of the death mechanism. After replenishing two pieces of high-energy fuel, the restarted death mechanism carried the two of them soared into the sky, left the ice cave, and left the landfill.

When he went out, Su Jing took back the demon hunting insects.

The body of the demon hunting insect has not changed much. I really couldn't imagine where the liquids that were hundreds of times larger than it were digested. The snow-like background and purple-red patterns made the insect more and more beautiful.

According to the prompts of the card in my mind, this demon hunting insect has almost advanced to the highest level of the second-star, and the [Elementalization] skill has been completely completed. After completion, this demon hunting insect can store more elemental energy and switch between the third-level - plus purple slag, now it is a four-level - four-level energy.

Logically speaking, according to Su Jing's estimate, this demon hunting insect should be able to advance to three stars, so why can't it succeed? It's not because the Spider Ant Queen is not strong enough and not "extraordinary" enough, right?

Maybe more varieties of strong men's blood are needed... Su Jing puts these questions behind his mind and does not think about him.

The journey back to the ground was smooth, and there was no spider ants jumping out to make trouble on the road, and Su Jing didn't think much about it. Since the queen of the ant was dead, the escape of these miscellaneous fish was also a matter of course.

As evidence of hunting the queen of ants, the remaining one of its intact eyeballs was lying in Su Jing's bag on her back. As an adventure hunt in the ordinary sense, this short trip was already thrilling and rewarding. She put three orange arms and one thousand universal points in one breath, and after returning, she had 2,500 universal points and two blank props stuck waiting for herself...Su Jing is in a good mood now.

The moment she walked out of the factory door, Su Jing suddenly felt a little dazzled. Half because she stayed underground for too long and was a little uncomfortable with the dim sunset that was about to fall, and the other half was because there were more than a dozen long spears facing him.

"go back!"

Gai Qi just poked out half of her head and was pressed back by Su Jing. Just as she was about to ask, the sound of gunshots like rainstorms sounded, and the shield on Su Jing's body rippled with light, and the brightness dropped by more than half in just a few seconds.

The two ran deep into the factory like running away, and shot behind them from time to time to stop the pursuers.

"Damn it! What's going on!" Su Jing pulled Gai Qi all the way to the ammunition storage room she had been here before, and topped the broken door with a box. The two looked at each other.

"It's... the rat man." Gaiqi covered her face and listened to the noisy squeaking outside, "We are so unlucky. Just after cleaning up the spider ants here, she met the rat man who came to rob..."

Su Jing connected to Selina's communication.

"Miss Selina! Why are we blocked by a group of rats?"

[What? You haven't come out of the factory yet?]

Selina's voice sounded even more surprised than the two of them.

[Didn't I tell you not to alarm the spider ant queen? I thought you were leaving. Then in order to remove the spider ant, we airdropped an induction beacon to the refinery with satellites and used infrasonic waves to lead the rat people here, causing them to lose both... At least that was what we planned at the beginning...]

Su Jing was exhausted from rolling his eyes.

[You asked me to use satellites to see...uh... Now there is good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear?]

"Good news."

[The good news is that the beacon has been destroyed and will no longer attract rat people.]

“Where is the bad news?”

[Um... the bad news is... there are about 300 rat people gathered in the refinery, probably all rat people settlements within a radius of fifty kilometers.]
Chapter completed!