Chapter 1353 Dilemma
Fenrir Team is Futaba’s first and last NPC partners since she entered the World of Innocence. Admittedly, her current circle is not considered small, but strictly speaking, other The position of the mentor Ana Ta Rasha can basically be equated to that of an elder, and she can be either big or small; Diana is a somewhat short-minded academic elder sister, but she needs Futaba's 'apprentice' to take care of her in her daily life.
Not to mention other people, Diana’s brother [Sage of the Brumaire] Kenneth A. Azizolti is a sponsor, investor and boss, and the regent of the Violet Empire, Xiu ·Bresien is a collaborator who has the same goal in a specific period of time.
All in all, they are not partners.
Perhaps after several copies, Frank Hughes, who has initially shown his abilities and talents, is infinitely close to this position, but in fact, he has not been removed from Futaba's suspicion range from beginning to end. is the hardest person to get into that field.
Unlike Mo Tan, who has a 'chaotic neutral' personality, Futaba is still more emotional after all. Although the two are equally matched in intelligence and strategy, given Mo Tan's mental state, he has been in society since he was a child. He is no stranger to 'interpersonal communication', and can even be said to be an expert in related fields.
For example, suppose a gangster who robs a bank is blocked in the lobby by a policeman and is holding a gun against a hostage's head, and Mo Tan appears as a 'negotiator' , then if nothing unexpected happens, the following three situations will probably occur:
1. Mo Tan is moved by emotion and rationality, and relies on his strong personality charm to influence the gangster and make him surrender.
2. Mo Tan sympathizes with the gangsters, laments the glitz of the world, the ill-fated fate, and the inability to control himself, and induces them to relax.
3. Mo Tan stimulates the gangsters to leave their ink marks, so that the hostages and suspects can be freed, and he himself can be imprisoned or imprisoned in a mental hospital.
All in all, although he does not play according to the routine in certain situations, it does not mean that Mo Tan does not understand the routine or cannot play the cards. In fact, in terms of human relations and sophistication, this psychopath can be said to be authoritative. Yes, if one day I think of launching a program similar to "Intimate Brother" on the Internet, it may become popular accidentally.
But Futaba’s experience in this area is infinitely close to zero. Although this girl’s online style is lively and almost convulsive, she is almost a pure theoretical school when it comes to communicating with people. Unlike Mo Tan, who has never missed out on compulsory education and is now even an active college student, her "house" is almost completely hopeless.
It is common to not go out for ten days and a half. Aerobic exercise is done on a self-made treadmill (the number of steps I walk every day still cannot exceed four digits). My income is basically black money. Shopping depends on express delivery, eating depends on take-out, and home hygiene is taken care of by the [Cleaning Robot·Change] controlled by NAVI.
Unlike many people’s concept of a dead-at-home girl, Futaba’s quality of life has always been high. First of all, she has a relatively stable illegal income. Secondly, she is also a relatively clean person. Girl, this can be seen from the fact that her house is full of garbage bags instead of garbage everywhere, so her residence is not a smoky pigsty, but an orderly place in chaos, with user comfort as the top priority. 's nest.
In short, the number of times Futaba has interacted with people face-to-face can be said to be very few. It turns out that this girl can open the door and pick up takeaways after all. Since developing NAVI, her interactions with those couriers or takeaway boys She didn't even do it by herself.
Therefore, it is inevitable that despite being extremely rich in theoretical knowledge and having very good emotional and intellectual intelligence, Futaba still has many shortcomings in offline interpersonal communication, at least in Mo Tan's eyes, there is no doubt that they are 'shortcomings'.
It is true that everything in the game Innocence is actually 'online', but given the insane realism of this game, it is actually no different from 'offline'.
Under this premise, no matter how wise Futaba is, no matter how calm and careful she is, she will never be able to do it completely when facing her comrades who have lived and died with her. Calm.
Even the smallest disturbance is enough to cause loopholes and flaws in her, and under Mo Tan's careful arrangement, any negligence is enough to make Futaba face disaster.
It's not that Mo Tan underestimates Futaba, but the latter has proven this with actual actions before.
You must know that Futaba is by no means the kind of character who cares about people. Even with Diana, whom she had been with day and night for several months, she only reminded him to 'pay attention to scumbags', and her hostility towards Frank Hughes was basically the same. They were all done deliberately to test the latter, not to mention other people.
However, when she met the 'Black Brahma' in Academy City, she still subconsciously 'cared' and 'enlightened' this man. She had only interacted with him for a while when he was in the trap, and after that he basically The comrades who had never met again even doubted that 'Black Fan' had not been able to get out of the shadow of the team's total annihilation, and expressed some vague relief.
To be honest, this kind of thing wouldn’t be surprising to others, but when it comes to Futaba, the nature is very serious...
Tie Shuhua’s mute speech is serious!
“Haha...”
Yidong frowned and took a sip of the coffee, which was actually sweet enough, and said with a bad smile: "How should I put it? Listening to what you said, I always feel that your SUN is actually a good girl. There is so much friendship."
Mo Tan shook his head and said dryly: "First of all, that SUN girl is not from my family. Secondly, human nature is multi-faceted. Yes, there are no absolute good girls and bad girls. How about Xiao Ge? Think about the scene when she made a large table of dishes and let everyone eat them with great anticipation."
"...Fuck!"
After thinking about the scene described by Mo Tan, Yidong, who was suddenly speechless, shuddered hard and held it in for a long time before he cursed.
“But to be honest, if I have a choice, I don’t want to use Ned’s existence to kill Futaba. After all, this kind of thing is just adding salt to other people’s wounds. Futaba doesn’t have much I am a friend who has always thought highly of Team Fenrir. Although she persuaded me to come here before, I am afraid she has not been able to let go of it until now.”
While Mo Tan gently stirred the coffee in front of him, he sighed helplessly: "But there is no way. If we don't do it here, I don't know when the next chance will be. And you also saw it, How fast are those at the top of the rankings progressing? Let Futaba develop..."
"You can't kill her?"
Idong made a funny expression. , said with a mean smile: "Urgent "
"You can say that, you know, Futaba is now standing on the threshold of the epic. In Diana's words, although the bottleneck is objective, but with Futaba's talent , it won’t be surprising when you step over it, and by then..."
Mo Tan pinched the purple diamond-shaped scale between his eyebrows, and said in a deep voice: "Do you think these things I designed can Can you handle Xiaoyu? ”
Yidong blinked, thinking about Cordoba's fighting power, and immediately shook his head like a rattle: "It can't be done, it can't be done. As for Xiaoyu, he can definitely escape calmly with strength and cleverness. He is a million-year-old man." The second brother, who can stop him if he tries hard?"
"Yes, Xiaoyu is very strong, very strong"
Mo Tan nodded and said with a dry smile: "But what if. Futaba breaks through to epic proportions In other words, with her ability to manipulate magic like an arm and a finger, her strength will never be as strong as Xiao Yu, or even... stronger."
Yidong twitched the corner of his mouth and said in shock: "What? I definitely understand the truth, but is it too exaggerated to be stronger than Xiaoyu? That guy is not a human at all..."
"According to your logic, there is no one on the first page of the ranking list. Forget it.”
Mo Tan glanced at Yi Dong and explained slowly: "I believe that Xiaoyu must have an advantage in terms of attributes. Even if Futaba can advance to epic level, it will be the same, but you must also know that spell casters are as reliable as Xiaoyu. People who eat physical hardware are completely different concepts. If Xiaoyu can solve one solution to the same problem, Futaba will probably have no less than a hundred solutions, so the difficulty of being an enemy of these two people is completely different. "
Ito nodded as if understanding, and then gave up thinking: "Okay, okay, anyway, I just need to know that now is the best chance to kill Futaba, there is no need to explain so many things to me. "No..."
Mo Tan nodded slightly and fell weakly on his back. Although his expression was calm, Yi Dong could still feel the brother in front of him. I'm afraid it's not a bit uncertain.
“I said, you must have been planning this drama for a long time, right?”
Yi Dong kicked Mo Tan from under the table, and asked with a twitching corner of his mouth: "I am in the light, and you are in the dark. Basically, the whole process is calculated mentally and unintentionally. The preparation for Academy City started a few months ago. Don’t tell me that you’re not sure yet? Or is it just because you’re ‘Mo’ that you can’t bear to do it?”
Mo Tan picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip. Erjin shook his head and said: "Even now, I won't be entangled with this kind of thing. Futaba is not an NPC. Even if she is killed in the innocent world, nothing will really happen to her. Moreover, Neither the relationship between her and Diana nor the resources in the City of Miracles will be completely severed with the account reshuffle. With her methods, even if she can complete the recovery of the relationship network on the day of the account reshuffle, It’s not surprising, and nine times out of ten... her special profession [Dragon Controller] can also be easily re-unlocked. Don’t forget that Futaba is different from ordinary players. She is really studying mysticism, not through her mind. Complete the cast by reciting the skill name silently. "Who are you talking to? Are you interested in science?"
Yidong glared at Mo Tan and said angrily: "Just do it. Tell me the conclusion."
"The conclusion is that I have no reason not to bear to do it, and I will never show mercy."
Mo Tan rubbed his hair and said dryly: "To put it bluntly, I'm just not sure..."
Yidong was shocked at that time and said in astonishment: "You've already prepared to this level and you haven't..." Are you sure? What the hell is that Futaba girl?”
“It’s not her problem. , It’s my problem.”
Mo Tan took a deep breath and smiled bitterly: “It’s just that there was a sudden problem with the budget...”
Yidong was the opposite. He took a breath of cold air and said in a loud voice: "Damn it, you still need money for this thing?"
"It's not a financial budget."
Mo Tan shook his head and said solemnly: "I should have told you before, I was impersonated."
Yidong first He was stunned for a moment, then his expression suddenly became serious, he nodded and said: "I said it."
"Then you should It should be clear that the seriousness of this matter is even greater than that of Futaba."
Mo Tan narrowed his eyes, subconsciously clenched his right fist, and whispered: "I was impersonated by myself. , in an unanswerable situation that I can't refuse, brother...you know what this means."
Yidong rubbed his forehead and said hesitantly: "It means that there is a kind-hearted person who does not want to be named and is secretly acting as a wingman for you? Like me?"
"It means that there is someone other than you. Someone outside may know my identity, my condition, and the connection between my three characters, 'Hei Fan', 'Tan Mo', and 'Mo'."
Mo Tan ignored it. The friend tried to lighten the atmosphere by talking nonsense and said in a deep voice: " This incident disrupted my rhythm. I had to catch him, and I had to catch him before the end of this exchange meeting. Otherwise, I might miss the truth. In that case, I would never have a good night's sleep. "I agree, this is indeed a problem, a big problem."
Idong lowered his voice subconsciously and asked: "So...this has something to do with Futaba. What’s the relationship?”
"The relationship between resource tilt."
Mo Tan fiddled with the silver spoon in the cup absently and said slowly: "You should know that no matter what kind of personality I am, I am no match for Futaba. Even if you include you and Team Ned They can't do anything to her, so I have to devote a lot of extra resources to this matter. According to common sense, if it is just to kill Futaba, the cards in my hand are actually quite sufficient, and there is even a surplus, but …”
"But if you want to catch the person pretending to be you, you have to devote more resources to it, and it is said that the person can also dress in casual clothes, a very awesome kind of casual clothes."
Yidong He nodded and said: "In other words, You have to split the cards in your hand into two and play them out. In this case, when you have to do your best to find the impostor first, the cards that can be left to Futaba will be greatly reduced, right?"
“Exactly.”
Mo Tan held his forehead and said with a rather ugly expression: "Although I temporarily added some chips and tried to make a balance as much as possible, it is still unknown whether it will work. Futaba is too vigilant. If You can't defeat her directly with the power of thunder..."
"Are you so cold?"
"Probably."
"Can't you go back on your word? It's not up to you to decide whether you can honor your bet or not."
"Haha, then what do you think, 'I' Will I not honor my bet? Do you think 'I' will make the other party feel that I can't afford to lose?"
"I'll talk to my dad tomorrow morning..."
"With Uncle Yi? What are you talking about?"
"Ask him if there is anyone above him! Can you fish it out after everything is over? You kid!”
Chapter 1344: End
(End of this chapter)