Chapter 1296 The Darkest Night (IV)

"Has she also mastered Link and Ed's skills..." Feng Bujue said this conclusion thoughtfully, and went through all the other possibilities that could be derived from this conclusion in his mind. .

A few seconds later, he asked again: "You just said... that she also 'improved' the redundant soldiers?"

"Yes." Billy responded, "In order to allow these guys to survive in the main universe for a long time, Twenty-Three has made certain modifications to their structure."

There are problems when hearing this. First of all, this is not something that an NPC would say. Secondly, even if it could be said...where did he learn about such a thing?

"How did you know?" Feng Bujue asked immediately.

"A derivative named Hematie told us." Billy said, "I think you also know him. He is from Organization Z."

"Oh?" Feng Bujue frowned slightly, "Is Chitie still alive?"

Hearing this news, Brother Jue was quite pleased. He was really worried that Chitie and Yi were killed by Twenty-Three when they were on Zui Mo Island. If so, he would also have to bear some responsibility.

Now, Feng Bujue was relieved to hear that Chi Tie was not dead; since Chi Tie was still alive, Wings who shared the same body with him at that time should be fine too.

"He is alive and has given us a lot of useful information." Billy replied, "If it weren't for him, maybe we wouldn't be here talking to you now."

"Well..." Feng Bujue nodded, and his thoughts returned to the information he just heard, "Then... as you said, the improvement of Twenty-Three is to 'allow redundant soldiers to survive in the main universe for a long time.' , does this mean that...the original redundant soldiers cannot survive here for a long time?”

"Yes." Billy replied, "Redundant soldiers... to put it bluntly, they are low-level redundant creatures created twice by derivatives, which are relatively high-level 'redundant creatures'; and 'complexity' 'Compared with the derivatives, the redundant soldiers are very simple and 'pure' in their data nature, so when they are active in the main universe, the 'Supreme Will' can easily locate them and directly obliterate them."

"In other words...Twenty-three's improvements have made them less 'pure'?" At this moment, Xu Huaishang heard one of the key points and asked.

"Ha..." Hearing this, Master Zhuanjie took over and said with a smile, "It's not that difficult. In fact, she just collected the data genes of various creatures that originally existed in the main universe, and randomly added redundant soldiers. On the production line, every redundant soldier has a little bit of the data attributes of the local creatures in the main universe.”

"...In this way, it will be easier for the system (after these two words are spoken by Brother Jue, they will automatically transform into words similar to 'Supreme Will' in the ears of NPCs) to search for the coordinates of these redundant soldiers. It's a lot of trouble, and... the amount of operations and complexity of erasing them will also increase significantly." Feng Bujue immediately understood what the other party meant, and said, "Ah... it's indeed a good idea."

"Is now the time to admire others?" King Dianyuan looked at Brother Jue with his "unhappy" expression and complained.

Before Feng Bujue responded, in order to stop him from arguing, Billy quickly got back to the topic and said: "Actually... those ordinary redundant soldiers are not the biggest trouble. After being 'improved', they have lost the purity of their data. They are essentially weaker than the original version. Even if there are an endless supply of these guys, we are not helpless against them. But... there is also a group of extremely troublesome guys in the redundant army - the sweepers."

Sweepers are independent redundant disk arrays; the code name used by Link and Ed when they created this creature was [RAID] (Redundant_Arrays_of_Independent_Disks). They are the main force responsible for cleaning up powerful players and NPCs in extradimensional invasions. "It was designed with this concept in mind.

The intelligence of the sweepers is the same as that of the redundant soldiers, which is relatively low. They are not considered AI life forms and do not have the ability to think and learn. They can only follow orders. However, compared with the redundant soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the sweepers has a qualitative leap. Each has a combat power equivalent to a third-level derivative, and... all are equipped with "tactical control modules."

"No way..." Feng Bujue's expression changed slightly, "A mass-produced creature of that strength certainly cannot change its basic structure in a simple way like a red soldier."

"However, Twenty-Three succeeded in improving it." Billy continued, "Although we don't quite understand the principle, but according to Hematie... she used 'Infei' on the sweepers under her command. nit's data gene."

"Fuck you!" Feng Bujue got excited and uttered a curse word backwards, but was stunned that it was not blocked. "Then... as far as you know, how many are there in total of such sweepers?"

"I don't know..." Billy replied, "But there shouldn't be too many, because they basically all appear individually. The only time they appeared in groups was..."

"It was the day when they attacked my pirate group..." At this second, Blackbeard naturally took over Billy's words and read in his hoarse voice, "Ha... I remember it very clearly, Ten Seven...one is not too much...one is not too much..." Like a standard drunkard, he mixed these dispensable nonsense in the sentence, as if waiting for his brain to catch up with the rhythm of the words, "That At dusk... seventeen guys you call sweepers, leading countless redundant troops... surrounded the Queen Anna's Revenge on the sea.

"Those bastards didn't say a word to us, didn't negotiate, didn't show mercy, didn't accept surrender...

“My crew knew before the war started that this was a war they had never fought before.

"Our opponents don't care for honor, they don't care for bounties, they don't care for anything... These bloodless and tearless guys have only one goal until they are completely unable to move... and that is to kill us all."

Having said this, Blackbeard lifted the bottle and took another sip of rum. Then, with a solemn expression, he said four very heavy words: "We... won."

He used "we" instead of "I"... As a notorious villain, an extremely evil pirate who basically doesn't care about the life or death of anyone other than himself... I'm afraid only he knows what it's like. The experience made him firmly add the word "we".

After saying that, Blackbeard raised his head, hooked his fingers on his collar and pulled it down, exposing his neck.

There was a hideous wound on his neck. Just by observing, it was impossible to tell what kind of attack he had endured to leave this terrible scar.

"Unfortunately, I don't feel like 'victory'." Two seconds later, Blackbeard laughed at himself with a wry smile. "The trophies I got are probably a prosthetic leg and a voice that sounds quite sexy..." He paused. , "And the things I lost..." He glanced around the empty deck and shook his head, "...too many..."

At this point, he seemed to be unable to speak any more. After taking another sip of wine, he looked into the distance with cloudy and confused eyes, and fell into silence again.

For a moment, the atmosphere on the deck became solemn. When someone really needed to liven up the atmosphere, no one answered.

After a while, Feng Bujue turned to Billy and said, "So... what's the situation with the other forces? The Kingdom of the Dead, the Kingdom of Monsters, and the Church of Phantom Demons..."

"I don't know..." Billy said, "Two-thirds of the entire main universe is now a chaotic and scorched earth. There are either brainless monsters wandering outside or redundant soldiers patrolling... We can't contact people from other forces. "In addition, something seems to have happened in the other world. People from Organization Z and Origin have not appeared again for a long time. They are probably also struggling." He paused for a second and then said, "However, a while ago... Oh. Inke actually came here once and gave us some news..."

"Oh? You guys have all been hunted down and have gone into hiding, but Second Senior Brother is still able to move around outside?" Feng Bujue asked.

"Well... this is the very important piece of information I'm going to talk about next." Billy said, "'Mirror World'... seems to be safe at the moment. Even Twenty-Three cannot invade that space. And Oink, he seems to have reached some kind of agreement with Doma (the God of Eternal Life), so he can use the mirror world to travel to and from various places to deliver news. Although his news cannot be confirmed and the timeliness is unknown, It’s better than nothing…”

"Then what information did he tell you when he came last time?" Brother Jue asked again.

"He said..." Billy was about to answer.

unexpectedly……

嗗嗗——ZhiZhiZhi——

In the surrounding gray void, there were sudden bursts of strange sounds.

"Tch...have you been discovered again..." King Dien Tuan raised his eyes and looked around, "I obviously just moved to this place not long ago..."

Just as he was saying these words, pieces of data streamers had faintly emerged in the gray void. Feng Bujue looked through the data perspective from a distance and saw clearly - there were massive redundant soldiers tearing open space cracks. and got in.

"Get out of the stone door quickly! Escape back to the Chaos and Scorched Land, and think of a solution when you get there." The next second, Master Zhuanjie immediately spoke loudly.

In fact, it didn't matter if he didn't say it, because this was obviously their only way out at the moment. When the strange noise sounded, Billy had already telepathically asked Bill to push the stone door.

Fortunately, it takes time for the redundant soldiers to invade the space and get close to the ship. These few dozen seconds are enough for everyone to escape.

Soon, the stone door opened again. Brother Billy ran out first, followed closely by Brother Zun and Lao Wang. Xiaotan, Xu Huaishang and Feng Bujue also walked towards the stone door one after another.

"Hey! Why are you still in a daze?" When he walked to the door, Feng Bujue looked back and found that Blackbeard was still sitting with his back to the mast, drinking in silence, "Can't you get up on your own?" As he spoke, Brother Jue planned to go over and grab him.

"Let's go..." But... Blackbeard waved his hand towards him and said in a calm tone, "The great Captain Blackbeard will never abandon the ship and run for his life."

Feng Bujue knew the meaning of this sentence, and he respected the other party's meaning.

"Okay..." Brother Jue stopped. He stared at the other person deeply for a few seconds and said in a deep voice, "Goodbye, Captain."

…………

The stone door was closed again.

Blackbeard was the only one left on the ship again.

The look of this sea tyrant has never been so calm as at this moment; in this calmness, there is even... a hint of sadness.

When thousands of redundant soldiers surrounded them, Blackbeard just stood up slowly, raised his crutch and swept it... easily smashing the stone door not far away into pieces.

When the stone fell to the ground, the magic circle painted on the deck also dimmed, announcing that the portal was completely ineffective.

"YOO~HOO~YOO~HOO~"

At this moment, Blackbeard slowly paced on the deck and sang in his hoarse voice...

"We drink, we plunder, we do whatever we want~

"We can get everything without spending a penny~"

"We will deal with you first, then take your girl~

"We are the Chaos Pirates!"

When he walked across the deck, many faces from the past appeared in front of him, as if... those people were still on the ship, right beside him.

Mr. Voge seemed to still be sitting on the barrel, scolding the clumsy newcomer...

Erdini was standing at the helm, chewing an apple...

Garlic, Godfrey and Madi were still playing their money-making poker game under the mast...

Nesru was still tidying up his cake head with a mirror like a fool...

And the two real fools, the Mark brothers, were waxing the door panels of the captain's room under the deception of their hoarse voices...

Just then, Blackbeard sang the line: "Let's go 'Yo Ho Ho' together!"

But...no one responded to his "YO~HO~HO~"

Because he was the only one left on the ship.

"Another 'Yi Hee Hee'!" Blackbeard continued to sing despite knowing this.

"We travel the Chaos Sea!

"We brave the hurricane and scare you to death. We are Chaos Pirates! "

When singing this line, a redundant soldier had already boarded the ship and rushed towards Blackbeard without stopping.

Blackbeard grabbed the redundant soldier's neck with one arm and stopped his forward momentum. Then, he exerted force and twisted the redundant soldier's head off.

"We left our hometown and mother for plunder and revelry~

"We will cut off your ears, break your toes, and make you drink our urine!"

More and more redundant soldiers boarded the ship, including sweepers, but Blackbeard did not stop singing when fighting the enemy.

"If you sail to our waters, you'd better listen to this decree first~

"We will take your ship and throw you into the sea~

"We will happily blow your face and cut off your work to feed the crocodiles!

"Because we are Chaos Pirates! "

The number of redundant soldiers was still increasing, pouring out from the gray cloud, covering the entire Queen Anna's Revenge like locusts. Blackbeard's figure... was gradually obscured and swallowed up in the vast sea of ​​soldiers.

But until the last moment, he was still singing the pirate song with his injured voice.

Singing the line "Come together YO~HO~HO~" that no one would respond to