As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 187 The Country of Night

There is only one day left to reach the first port in the Kingdom of Darkness.

In the past few days, Li Nuo collected some information about the Kingdom of Darkness from the crew.

Most of the artificial humans have not gone deep into the territory of the Kingdom of Darkness. Starting from the Kingdom of Darkness, which is the center of the North American continent in the real world, it is the territory of mechanical life forms.

And there is a special combat weapon that can only be used in the Kingdom of Darkness.

Dragoons.

In AD 6230, in order to adapt to the battle in the "Land of Night", the android army built a new weapon "Dragon" and went into battle.

There is another more important piece of information: artificial humans cannot move in the Kingdom of Darkness. As for the reason, Chabai doesn’t know.

Maybe it's because the Kingdom of Darkness doesn't have artificial human orbiting satellites to monitor it, so communication is difficult, but it's unclear why the artificial weapon "Dragon" is sufficient.

It is the ace weapon of androids, but almost no androids have seen the appearance of the Dragoon.

But its existence even makes mechanical life forms feel fear.

In short, the reason why this group of artificial humans ventured to the dangerous continent of the Kingdom of Darkness was mainly to exchange for better equipment or maintenance equipment with the space orbital satellite base.

They dug up a special mineral in the Kingdom of Night and handed it over to space orbit.

These things Cha Bai has another message.

The minerals from the Kingdom of Darkness are necessary substances for the production of Yorha's body, but what they are is unknown.

on the other hand.

The more Li Nuo looked at the hidden storyline, the more he felt something was wrong.

Tidal locked.

In the original plot, it should be a willful design by the producer.

A celestial body always faces another celestial body with the same side.

Just like the moon and the earth.

You can't study this matter in detail. Theoretically speaking, if there is a tidal locking phenomenon, the earth will be unable to stay for a long time. But if you think about it this way, the producer is just a bad game maker. He knows nothing but his butt and games. Damn physics, that's right.

For this matter, Li Nuo consulted with the crew before disembarking.

"What do you crew think about the fact that there is no alternation between day and night?"

This group of artificial humans had long been used to it and found Li Nuo's question puzzling.

"What do you think? I don't feel anything at all."

"But, having said that, I heard that in the world where humans existed in the past, day and night existed alternately. Are the crew members like us who live at the dividing point between day and night considered the world closest to human beings?"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

The question obviously didn't get any useful answers, but someone said something that interested Li Nuo very much.

"At least, being separated during the day and night can be regarded as protecting us. Otherwise, when those monsters appear at night, we will all be finished. (Note 1)"

After Li Nuo heard this, his suppressed curiosity suddenly aroused.

He gradually deviated from the topic.

Throw the hidden quest line aside and ask about the monster.

"We are only active at the port and haven't seen many."

The crew member explained, and then used a general description to describe the appearance of the so-called monster.

But it seems... there is no key information, and this group of crew members know too little.

Li Nuo picked up his luggage. Although it contained some food that the android did not need, it was very important to him.

He and Cha Bai stepped off the cargo ship.

Set foot on the continent of the Kingdom of Darkness.

In the vast sky and earth, the night sky is filled with stars. In the distance, the full moon echoes with the huge stars behind it.

Li Nuo didn't know why, but he always had a premonition that the journey to the Kingdom of Darkness would subvert his cognition.

The world of Nier is fucked up and desperate.

If possible, Li Nuo didn't want to delve into the truth of this world, it was for Cha Bai's sake, at least let her leave some good impression on his "hometown".

So until now, Li Nuo has never told her the story of the previous game "NieR", "Riders on Dragon's Back".

The distortion of Japanese RPG is different from the powerlessness of European and American games based on reality. It is a real perversion.

"Does [Summoned Magic Crystal] react in the Kingdom of Day?" Li Nuo asked.

"No."

"It starts to react after arriving in the sea area of ​​​​the Kingdom of Darkness, which means that it symbolizes coming to its 'own' world." Li Nuo thought for a while and added: "In other words, there are a lot of things in the Kingdom of Darkness that are similar to those in "Final Fantasy" 'Crystal' related elements."

"Hi, bro!"

One of the crew members called Li Nuo.

When he turned around, the other party threw over a map and a wad of money wrapped in cloth.

"This is……"

"Adventurers have entered the Kingdom of Darkness one after another over the years, and maintenance stations have been established in the surrounding areas. The nearest maintenance station is marked on the map. You can go there to rest."

"No, I mean, why are you giving me money?"

"Hey, it's our first time to eat such delicious food." These days, Li Nuo couldn't stand the food (water) of artificial people, so he cooked barbecue on the deck, attracting this group of artificial people to eat too. five days.

"It tastes just like the food recorded in human information. Thank you."

Li Nuo curled his lips, this is not nonsense, I am a human being...

"Thanks."

"Bon Voyage."

The ship left. This was originally a cargo ship that had paid extra money to pass through here. No one except them entered the Kingdom of Darkness again.

There was no one near the port.

After walking a hundred meters, we entered the abandoned city.

Between the darkness of heaven and earth, there are folds and crookedness.

The steel-framed building was half-buried in the thick black vegetation. Various car wrecks were scattered, with no end in sight. Occasionally, a few cracked asphalt blocks could be seen.

The branches were integrated into the steel structure, and the smell of death echoed around them.

Li Nuo tried to open the abandoned car door, and mottled iron filings fell to the ground, and the entire door was torn off.

There are rabbits making their home in the car.

Li Nuo's eyes shone, he grabbed one, put it in front of him and frowned.

Cha Bai walked over with cat steps, cleaned the dust on her skirt, and said, "Don't eat here. We have to hurry up. I don't know how Marger is doing."

As soon as he finished speaking, the rabbit suddenly opened his mouth, and his jaw stretched like a rubber, big enough to swallow Li Nuo's head.

boom!
Li Nuo threw the rabbit to the ground and trampled it to death.

"It's going to eat me."

He took out his knife and put down the rabbit's ears to make ingredients for future decoctions.

"What's going on?" Cha Bai was confused.

"Biological mutation? I don't know. I sensed a monster inside in front of the car door." Li Nuo touched his chin: "The rabbit is so cute and wants to eat me... I'm drunk."

puff~
Not far away, the frame of a vehicle collapsed, and the frame was scattered on the ground. There was blood seeping out of it, and it was visible to the naked eye through the grass.

Cha Bai looked there solemnly: "The Kingdom of Night...is it so weird?"

Li Nuo: "After all, this is an area that even the authorities can't make up. Whatever happens is normal. Even if a piece of shit pops out and dances now, I wouldn't be surprised."

An image of Marjie dancing immediately appeared in Chabai's mind. She closed her eyes and shook her head violently to make this bad image disappear from her mind.

Li Nuo looked at the map and said, "First of all, let's find an android stronghold in the Kingdom of Darkness."

There is a maintenance station about five kilometers away.

Chabai exchanged the rifle in the backpack compartment for Emil's sales car, and moved the car out like Doraemon.

"Let me take a look..." Li Nuo opened the friend panel and checked the map. Marjie was about a day or two away from them: "Go east."

Cha Bai lifted up her skirt, exposing her thighs, and stepped onto the sales cart.

Li Nuo was taken aback.

"Hey?"

"Get in the car." Cha Bai pursed his lips and said, "It's always been you and Marjie riding it. I've wanted to try it for a long time, but now there's no one around, so it's just right."

Co-authored by I am not a human being... Li Nuo naturally sat on the shelf at the back.

"Hmm..." He stepped on the pedals with his brown-white shoes, raised his legs, and muttered to himself: "This is to release the block, and then directly step on the pedals..."

Li Nuo: "That black silk stocking of yours..."

Whoosh-!
The brown-white legs are so strong that they look like Nezha pedaling on a hot wheel.

The speed is fast.

Li Nuo was thrown out...

……

under the night sky.

In the silent woods.

A mechanical life form was fetching water, carrying a large bucket of water and walking back step by step.

"There is water, there is water to drink."

It was talking to itself.

"As long as there is water to drink, my friends can survive."

Its friends are waiting for it.

Suddenly there was singing in the distance.

A blue tin car appeared in the darkness. The two big eyes on Emil's head at the front of the car were two car lights, which illuminated the mechanical life form carrying the bucket.

Boom-!
Cha-!
Water spilled all over the place.

The mechanical life form was knocked to the ground.

"Damn it... who is... driving at such a fast speed..."

In the distance, singing was flying, and the sound became smaller and smaller.

“Super cheap~”

"The goods are sold super cheap."

"Come and buy it~"

"This store sells affordable products."

“Super cheap~”

“The props are also super cheap.”

"It's amazing~"

"Still want to bargain?"

"No way!"

Li Nuo listened to the out-of-tune BGM of the car and wondered if this song would bring out Emil in this world.

"Li Nuo, I feel something is wrong." Cha Bai said suddenly.

"how?"

"My body is a little weak."

No energy?
Li Nuo frowned and deduced in his mind.

Emil's sales cart pedals effortlessly.

Androids have a lot of physical strength and shouldn't be powerless.

He thought about the setting issue. There was a hidden reason why artificial humans could not fight in the Kingdom of Darkness.

The frame of Cha Shiro's body is still dominated by Yorha's body. Although the core has been replaced, it is still an artificial human.

The car stopped.

There is a building not far away, a dilapidated iron house with no windows and only an iron door with yellow light seeping from the gap.

There is a mottled directional sign on the road pointing there and it says "Maintenance Station".

To an android, a maintenance station means a hotel.

Li Nuo jumped out of the car, just as he needed to find a few androids operating in the Kingdom of Darkness to ask what he wanted to know.

For example, where is Yacol and the area where Marger is located.

Some information still needs to be clarified before talking about it.

The group of people called "NieR" haven't come up with this setting themselves, which is likely to cause the "Endless Corridor" to completely change this place.

There were several dilapidated motorcycles parked at the door.

The temperature in the Kingdom of Night is very low, and the cold wind blows through the iron can door curtain, and the sound echoes in the stillness and desolation.

Pushing the door open, Li Nuo crossed the threshold in front.

The warm yellow light hits his face, and the heat wraps around his body.

Four pairs of eyes rushed towards him and Cha Bai.

The shape of the artificial humans sitting here is very suitable for this place... They are not like the people of the Kingdom of Day, and all their body parts have visible damage to the naked eye.

Some even have no skin on their faces, looking like robots that ran away from the wrong set of "Cyberpunk."

Behind the counter, a man in camouflage clothing walked out carrying a rifle.

His military boots crushed a strange crawling bug, pulled up the transparent mucus... he frowned and spat on the ground.

His skin is dark and sewn like this. He wears an old steel helmet and goggles on his head. His walking posture shows excellent combat qualities. He is definitely not an ordinary artificial human.

It's combat type.

within a second.

His pupils moved around the room.

None of them are ordinary androids, they are all fighting types.

Cha Bai whispered: "Don't cause trouble."

Li Nuo understood what she meant. No one knew what would happen in the Kingdom of Night.

"You two have just arrived, right?"

asked an android with no skin on his face.

"You can tell at a glance that the skin is still fine resin skin."

Li Nuo glanced at the map and saw that there was a repair shop one kilometer away. He could see which shop had better people to talk to.

boom!
Almost as he was about to turn around and leave, someone pulled out a gun and pulled the trigger.

The fragments of [Quen's Seal] splashed out.

Li Nuo raised his head and squinted at these people.

An android that attacks androids?

[The side quest has been triggered]

【Rescue the shopkeeper】

[Task details: as in the title]

[Mission difficulty: lv17]

[Task reward: 1500 experience points, 1 characteristic value, [-]% discount from the shop owner]

At the same time, several long guns were pointed at them. These guys drew their guns faster than expected, and even the firing speed of the pistol became incredibly fast in an instant!

A storm of bullets rained down on them!
Cha Bai first recited a spell to cover the bullet with a magic shield, slowing down its trajectory, and then used his own strong body to resist, turning the shield into flesh!
Li Nuo retreated and stepped outside the door and threw in an electromagnetic grenade. The sound of the explosion covered up the fierce offensive.

"Try to leave a message and ask questions."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chabai took a deep breath in the room, his chest surged, and he sprayed the sage's magic in front of him, [High Temperature Breath]!
Orange particles flew out of her mouth and turned into sparks, filling the room.

boom!
A series of explosions came one after another!

The flames instantly engulfed the broken furniture and a human figure!

The two with the most exposed mechanical structures had their cores burned out.

Li Nuo stepped into the house and drew his stick across the fire slag left behind by his breath, directly enchanting him with flames.

He raised his gun and hit an android who was coming with a knife. When [Gun Counterattack] was triggered, he punched the opponent's chest with a stick.

When he turned around, Cha Bai whipped out a hammer and hit the dark-skinned man.

However, Li Nuo saw that the look in the man's eyes was gradually becoming empty. His expression tightened and he shot out a silk thread to pull Cha Bai back. He then went up to him and grabbed the other man's stick with his backhand, then slammed it against the wall, and then pressed it against his head. trigger.

boom!boom!
Two shots.

The man fell to the ground.

The red light in his pupils gradually went out and lost its vitality before it completely lit up.

The cold wind outside was tinged with warmth.

Li Nuo let out a sigh of relief: "Some of these guys are infected with the logic virus."

Cha Bai didn't take it seriously: "It doesn't matter, I can recite [Bing Xin Jue], that works very well."

She said, taking out a pistol syringe and pricking it in her thigh.

Barorase, something for cybermaniacs.

Marjie made this thing, and Li Nuo can also make it. The materials are simple and easy to use.

Side mission completed.

There is nothing to say about the reward.It’s Cha Bai who got another MOD costume. This time it’s not a suit, but a white shirt.

The effect is [the probability of being slapped by the CEO increases].

We can also know from the rewards that the higher the difficulty of the completed task, the better the quality of the rewarded MOD equipment.

Li Nuo walked into the back room at this time and found the tied up shop owner.

A male android wearing a beret.

He used the [Seal of Yaksi] to wake up the shopkeeper.

"We saved you, how will you repay us?" Li Nuo said no nonsense.

"I..." When the shop owner opened his eyes and saw the scene outside the house, he twisted his body in panic: "Why was my shop bombed like this!"

Li Nuo: "Oh, it was like this when we came here."

Without thinking, he put the blame on the dead android.

The shopkeeper got up and tried to get out but tripped over the rope on his feet. He said urgently: "Please, untie me first!"

Li Nuo untied him, and after his hands and feet were freed, the shopkeeper hurriedly ran to the grocery room downstairs. He even forgot to turn on the light, but his heart was relieved when he saw the messy books on the bookshelf.

"Great, the book is fine."

Li Nuo followed, turned on the light in the basement, and picked up a book from the ground.

"what?"

Legend of the Condor Heroes?
He picked up another one casually.

This time it's "How Steel Was Tempered".

Everywhere you look, there are books with heroic descriptions.

The books are very old and have been read countless times.

Over the course of hundreds or even thousands of years, some of the artificial humans will develop strange habits in addition to devoting their lives to mankind.

"Sorry, I haven't thanked you yet. My name is Coman." The store manager said.

Li Nuo put down the book in his hand and asked, "How come our artificial humans are kidnapped?"

Because artificial humans are restricted in their thinking by AI, their actions will be restricted by their thoughts. Attacking one's own is considered a violation of the AI ​​program, and usually one will not harm one's own side unless necessary.

Of course, killing someone with a borrowed knife is not among them.

Anyway, as long as you don't do it yourself, it doesn't count as cannibalism.

While packing up the bookshelf, the shopkeeper said: "It's like anthropology. Good will come from good intentions, and evil will come from malice. In a place like the Kingdom of Day, there is sunshine everywhere, and no matter how dark the heart is, it can't overflow, but here for thousands of years, it has been The sun has never appeared, and I thought that even if it was bright, there would be no light anywhere."

Cyborgs have been imitating humans.

For example, buildings next to dense forests in wastelands, piles of modern cities, ruined cities, and coastal factories are not left by humans. After the demise of humans, many things have long since disappeared with the passage of time.

The artificial humans imitate humans to build cities, factories, and roads, and then they are destroyed in wars, and the work is repeated again.

Thousands of years have passed like this, and human-like structures are everywhere.

In fact, when the mechanical life form awakens its mind, the artificial man has also begun to awaken.

Coleman looked at the neatly arranged bookshelves and nodded with a smile, as if it was no big deal that the equipment outside was blown up.

"You two have just arrived." He took out a sack of goods from the cabinet next to the bookshelf, pointed at it and said: "All my things are here. If you need anything, just take it. It's a reward. Anyway, this is There’s usually no one around here.”

Li Nuo opened his pocket and found various chips and chip materials.

[Fire rate bonus], [Blunt weapon bonus], [Running speed bonus], [Collection speed bonus], after sifting through it for a while, only these four are useful.

Li Nuo threw the chip that increases running speed and blunt weapons to Cha Bai, put the other two into his pocket, and then asked: "Since you don't make money, what is the purpose of opening this maintenance point?"

Koman said: "Store the mineral resources and wait for people from space orbit to come to collect the minerals. Recently, the people collecting the goods have been replaced by people from Yoroha."

Li Nuo said: "I'm new here, I want to ask some questions."

Over the next few minutes, Li Nuo asked some key questions.

According to Coleman, there are about [-] artificial humans in the Kingdom of Night, basically divided into three types.

The first kind of auxiliary android like him who settled here has no special combat ability and usually mines or operates maintenance points.

The second type is called adventurers. Those who were killed by Li Nuo and Cha Bai are those who have broken away from the artificial human network. They are third parties who are neither artificial humans nor mechanical life forms. They are good and evil, and they are hunting. Monsters earn their living from bounties.

The third type is not here, but in the center of the Kingdom of Darkness continent, in an area called York City.

"People from York City never came out. They established their own social system. They were all independents back then."

The independents are the group of artificial beings who once broke away from the believing humans.

"Those guys get along well with mechanical life forms, so we generally don't communicate with them."

Artificial beings who have not broken away from human faith cannot live in peace with mechanical life forms. This is a program written by AI, and it is difficult to unplug from it.

Marger is in Yorktown.

"What is the scope of action of [Fetching Leather Bag]?" Li Nuo looked at Cha Bai.

"In this script..." Cha Bai opened the backpack grid, glanced at the panel and said, "The radius is five kilometers."

"Brother, how to get to York City?" Li Nuo asked. The location of York City is not specifically marked on the map, so naturally he doesn't know the way there.

"Huh? What are you doing there?" Koeman asked.

"Mission." Li Nuoyan was concise and to the point. When talking to the android, sometimes you were too lazy to explain, so you just said the mission.

“The quickest way to get to a mining town is to take a cable car through the canyon,” Coleman said.

"Have you heard of Yacol?" Li Nuo asked again.

"That weapons supplier lady?" Coleman's answer was almost the same as Annabel's: "Of course, she appears every six months. I heard she is in York City."

Li Nuo regained his energy and finally had a key clue.

According to the original story setting of "NieR", Yacol sells weapons everywhere in "NieR Automata". As the most powerful weapons merchant in the series, she has been staying in the Kingdom of Night in "Automata".

As for why Yacol is in the Kingdom of Night, it is unknown.

But what we can know is that she was born in the Kingdom of Darkness, and there are many issues related to time and space travel. Li Nuo has temporarily forgotten about it. In short, the character Yacol not only has the best weapons, but also involves the "Nepal". The deepest secret of the entire series "Er" and "Dragon Rider".

When Coleman raised his head, Li Nuo and Cha Bai had already left.

under night.

Li Nuo looked at the mark on the map and felt a little confused.

Their current location, according to the real world, should be "Vancouver", and the mining town is in "Seattle".

"The mining town is quite far away, nearly 200 kilometers away."

"Should you drive it?" Li Nuo asked.

"I'll do it." Just as Chabai was about to get on the car seat, Coleman pushed the door open and walked out, and she immediately retracted her legs.

"Let me lead you." Coleman held up a fluorescent lamp and said, "There are monsters on the road. This lamp can drive them away."

The green light of fluorescent lamps is more like a spiritual lamp.

Coman closed the repair shop and was about to get into Emil's sales car, but he stopped and asked: "Is this... your car?"

Li Nuo: "Yes, what?"

Coman forced an ugly smile and then pushed out his motorcycle.

"I'd better... ride my car." The android also understood what it meant to be embarrassed.

"Li Nuo..." Cha Bai pointed to the skirt: "You drive."

……

The desolate land at night.

Abandoned iron shacks, collapsed houses, scattered old pickup trucks and cars formed a tomb-like road guide.

On the long and desolate land, smoke and dust would occasionally rise in the distance, and adventurers wandered in the middle of the night.

According to the story of Nier's official novel "Young Yorha", there are some "deserters" from the Yorha army who fled to the Kingdom of Darkness.

I just don’t know what kind of artificial beings are causing the smoke.

Explosive and strangely cheerful songs echoed in the desolate silence.

Emil's sales car has the characteristic of ignoring the deserted terrain, allowing it to maintain a lightning speed.

The shaking of the soil caused countless strange insects to flee in panic.

From time to time, mechanical life forms would get out of the way because of the strange singing.

"Friends, can I ask, where did you get such a unique car?" Coleman did not expect that the unique shape of Emil's sales car would have such superior performance.

"Do you believe that I lied to you?" Li Nuo told the truth.

Koeman: "You're lying to me!"

Li Nuo pedaled quickly, holding his hat in Cha Bai's hand.

The car passed under an eight-legged mechanical life form that was the size of a building.

His eyes explored the darkness for a while, and suddenly caught a flash of red firelight. He listened carefully, and could even hear the chatter of the crowd.

"Don't stop here."

Coman, who was riding a motorcycle, followed behind and reminded.

"No one knows whether the person chatting is a human or a mechanical life form. If you slow down, you might encounter a special mechanical life form, like that one."

His eyes pointed at a tall, cloud-like object like a chimney at ten o'clock.

It was a mechanical life form, its wrinkled iron skin was covered with squirming mechanical arms, and it was twisted strangely under the night.

Cha Bai frowned, her gray-blue pupils full of solemnity. She had never thought that there was such a terrifying area in her native world.

This is the kingdom of night.

A place where you die if you slow down.

"I don't understand, since it's so dangerous here, why don't you go back to the Kingdom of Day?" Li Nuo asked.

"I can't go back." Coman said leisurely: "Once you stay in the Kingdom of Night for a long time, your body will not be able to withstand the environment of the Kingdom of Day."

"What do you mean?" Li Nuo thought of what Cha Bai said before, about the feeling of powerlessness in his body after entering the Kingdom of Darkness.

"That is to say, after returning to the Kingdom of Day, the body's functions began to be damaged, and then the body collapsed uncontrollably, just like a curse." Coleman's voice seemed a little trembling in the wind: "Similarly, in the Kingdom of Day If you stay in the Kingdom for a long time, you will be like this when you come to the Kingdom of Darkness, but the situation is relatively better, at least you won't collapse and die."

Cha Bai sat firmly on the back frame in a ladylike posture, lowered her head and said, "That's really bad, you have to stay in this place forever."

Koeman smiled and said, "Fortunately, I can read a book. It's very interesting!"

Li Nuo turned the handle to avoid a big rock and turned his head: "I saw it, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "How Steel Was Tempered"..."

"Yes, including "The Count of Monte Cristo", Campbell's "The Hero's Journey", and Nietzsche's "Superman". Anyway, I like this kind of book. The human beings in it are really great." Coleman asked: "You Say, are their descendants looking at us from the moon?"

Li Nuoxu stared, this guy thought that the humans in the novels were real...

The top executives of the androids lied that humans are waiting on the moon for the androids to take back the earth and come back, so... Coleman is also living in this lie.

"Do you like heroes?" Li Nuo changed the subject.

"What I like is human beings," Corman said: "Human beings who can create this kind of literary spirit are the greatest."

"Yes...?" Cha Bai said softly.

Coleman heard it and said: "Of course, I also understand that human beings are good and bad, but as our creator, they are destined to be great."

Cha Bai suddenly realized that this man was risking his life to send them to the mining town in order to imitate the human spirit of "dedication".

"Ha, if you want to say that, I also know the stories of several novels. Anyway, there is still a long way to go. Do you want to listen?" Li Nuo asked.

"Of course!" Koeman cheered up.

Li Nuo smiled: "You choose one, namely "Golden Scales", "Clean", "Lover", "Sodom", "I Spit on Your Grave"..."

"I spit on your grave, it sounds like a very philosophical story."

"Okay, let's start with "Damocles: The Carrot"."

four hours later.

Cha Bai put a hat on Li Nuo's head and told him to stop talking.

Koeman's eyes widened.

She even thought Li Nuo was an asshole...

"How could you harm his mind like this..."

"I can't hold back..."

"Don't stop..." Coleman said, "What happened to Bai Jie?"

Li Nuo suddenly stopped the car and braked hard. Cha Bai's inertia pounced on his shoulder.

She raised her head hastily.

Li Nuo pointed to a light spot in front of him.

[The side quest has been triggered]

[Retrieve the supply of mineral transportation team and send it to the mining town]

[Tip: This batch of goods will attract monsters or special mechanical life forms to appear]

[Task difficulty: lv20~lv35]

[Task reward: 1800 experience points, special store purchase rights in the mining town]

A python about twenty meters long was devouring the artificial man.

Koeman said: "It's a monster. It's okay. With the light in my hand, it will ignore us."

Li Nuo paid attention to the mission rewards and the minerals lying on the ground. He was curious as to why the artificial man in orbit wanted these minerals.

Li Nuo got out of the car.

Cha Bai also jumped down.

The python swallowed the artificial man and rested on the high platform, staring at them.

Li Nuo walked over and carefully picked up a piece of ore to examine. It was an ordinary ore, shiny silver, with no special feeling.

But when Cha Bai took it in her hands, she felt the difference.

"There's magic in it."

"magic?"

"Well, it's a very strange magic power, as if there is poison." Cha Bai is good at magic and can feel the difference.

Toxins... Li Nuo touched his eyebrows, toxins...

"Magic element?"

"By the way, artificial humans are products created using magic-rich technology."

Li Nuo immediately speculated:
"So, the Kingdom of Darkness is rich in ores containing magic elements?"

In the year 2003, Shinjuku, Japan, the dragon from "Dragon Rider 3" was teleported here.

After the death of the dragon, it brought a virus, the virus that caused the death of mankind - White Salt Syndrome.

Based on a secret study of dragon corpses, particles that could not exist in this world were discovered.

Since then, the particle has been called "magic".

Announced research results, the cause of white salt syndrome is this magic element.

Magic element is magic.

The method of constructing artificial humans utilizes magic.

As time goes by, thousands of years after the demise of mankind, in the story of "NieR Automata", things related to magic are stored in the moon's database.

There are no traces of related magic in this world.

In fact, artificial humans are the product of a combination of magic and technology.

"In other words, the artificial humans in orbit are using the magic in the minerals here to continue making artificial humans."

Li Nuo got a content that was not mentioned in the original setting.

He doesn't know if it's true or not.

Can only speculate.

"Li Nuo, do you want to do this task?" Cha Bai asked.

Li Nuo stood up, looked at the side mission that had just been triggered, and asked: "Mr. Coleman, may I ask, what is the special store in the mining town?"

Coman said: "It's... the direct supply point of Yacol. They sell some modified chips and weapons. I heard that there are special equipment, so I want to become a member."

Jacol... Li Nuo smiled and raised his eyes to look behind him.

A tyrannosaurus-like mechanical life form was approaching them.

"This task must be done."

……

Hundred kilometers away.

"Received information, Unit 2, and abductee."

"Understood, kill the abductor, a man named Li Nuo."

"Unit No. 2, can it be scrapped?"

"clear."

Communication with orbiting satellites ended.

The dragoon's pale wings raised, covering the moonlight, and flew into the air.

"Target, capture Unit 2 alive, now named Chabai."

　Note 1: The existence of monsters in the Kingdom of Night comes from a description in the official novel "Red and Black" of "NieR Pretender".

　　Note 2: Dragoon.

　　It is indeed in the original setting, but it has never appeared in the feature film.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)