Chapter 1558 Returning a favor
September 8, 2049 AD
AM09:45
Tanhua University, Medical School Laboratory Building, Ward No. 716
"Hmph ~ hum hum ~"
Sitting by the bed, Yu Chen was smiling and humming a sweet and soothing tune while peeling the apple in his hand. He seemed to be in a very happy mood, while Mo Tan was lazily leaning on the bedside and scrolling through his phone, bored. Browsing through the forum of Innocence, the picture looks... to be honest, it doesn't look very coordinated.
Although it is very clean and quiet here, and the sunshine coming in from the window is also very beautiful, from an objective point of view, this scene does not look like a picture scroll, but two independent character sketches. .
They are a cute girl in a white coat peeling fruits, and a man with a lazy temperament who is sitting on the bed and scrolling through his mobile phone.
"Recently, there has been a lot of talk about [criminal debate]."
Mo Tan muttered in a low voice, and then continued to browse the forum homepage at high speed while straightening his arms. My body said feebly: "As if this is the only thing worth paying attention to."
Yuchen smiled and replied softly without raising his head: "Actually, it's normal. After all, this is the first large-scale event organized by the official. Now that the Innocence World is so popular, everyone will definitely want to talk more. Well."
"That's the truth, but these messy analyzes are a bit brain-breaking."
Mo Tan smacked his lips and said with a wry smile: "Let's just open the post. Look at this thing called "My Opinion on the Controversy of Questioning Crime". It starts out as a two-hundred-word lyrical text, then copies the contents of the official announcement intact, and finally makes a summary of less than 50 characters. It means that everyone should work hard to improve themselves to a high level before the fight begins. It is really meaningless except for wasting time."
Yu Chen smiled and put down the fruit knife in his hand. : "But you are right. Since you can sign up for the intermediate level, there must be a high-level profession with a better chance of winning."
"Well, you are right, I have to put it Pick up this post and don’t let such an exquisite article sink.”
As Mo Tan spoke, he quickly replied, ‘Great God NB! ', brought the post that had been dumped to the seventh page back to the homepage, and then grinned: "Ah, the apple is cut, then I will..."
"No~"
Yu Chen casually picked up the small bowl with the apples, blinked in a serious manner and said, "It has just been cut, so you can't eat it yet!"
Mo Tan twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at the apples on the plate. Two rows of apple chunks that have not yet been oxidized and are currently in their best condition asked with a subtle expression: "Are you afraid that I... will be burned by freshly baked apples?"
Yu Chenyi He nodded seriously: "It's possible!"
"Okay, I think it does make sense. After all, Adam and Eve suffered a lot because of apples."
Under his current personality, Mo Tan, who actually didn't have much fondness for apples, smiled and said to Yu Chen He raised his thumb and said, "It's always good to be careful."
Obviously, at this moment, Mo Tan is not under an 'absolutely neutral' personality, and Yuchen's attitude is also different from that of the person in the game. 'Heifan''s attitude is completely different. Although he is still very kind and gentle, it is limited to the level of a normal friend and doctor-patient relationship.
This did not make the atmosphere between the two become tense. In fact, the atmosphere around Yuchen always made people feel very comfortable, and the interactions and jokes between the two could not be seen at all. Alienation and deliberateness, even when Cui Xiaoyu and Wan Yang came to visit before, they didn't notice any problems at all.
Not to mention the two of them, even someone like Yi Dong who has a complete grasp of the inside story would have a hard time seeing through Mo Tan's disguise under his 'chaotic neutral' personality without being informed in advance. Even Nangong Na, one of Yu Chen's best friends, couldn't see the subtle changes in this girl's attitude towards Mo Tan at different times.
The only ones who can truly capture the difference are the two parties themselves.
In the past half week, Mo Tan's body has recovered well. It can be seen that what Yu Chen said before was not wrong. The senior who performed the surgery on him was indeed very professional. The appendix was cut like a There were no traces, and even the wounds were healed by the medical school's powerful technical skills until they were almost invisible to the naked eye.
Not only that, the cast on Mo Tan’s slightly fractured right arm has also been removed. Although in theory, he can’t use too much force, given that he usually doesn’t have much physical work to do, the most he can do is play with his mobile phone. Something like that can basically be understood as recovery.
All in all, in terms of physical condition alone, Mo Tan's recovery was quite good. This was obviously due to the fact that he didn't talk too much with the system that day. Otherwise, God knows what other parts besides the appendix would be there. Malfunction, after all, at this moment, he has completely 'believed in evil', so he has no doubt that he ended up like this because of the so-called 'retribution'.
As for aspects other than the body...
The most noteworthy thing is probably that what Mo Tan has been worried about has become a reality, that is, Yu Chen has a certain understanding of his situation.
Although most of these understandings are based on daily life outside the game, this is still not a good sign.
There is nothing that can be done about it. After all, in the past few days, Mo Tan, who is Yu Chen's internship partner, has no way to distance himself from the former, and it is impossible for him to control himself from changing his mental state. In this case, even if you want to hide it from ordinary people, you have to spend a little effort. It is simply a fantasy to completely bluff Yu Chen, who is so sensitive in certain situations.
However, Mo Tan, who knew the seriousness of the matter, did not treat it negatively, so whether he was under the 'Lawful Good' personality or the 'Chaotic Neutral' personality, he tried not to express his personality, even though he was no longer in love. He is smart and thoughtful, but he works hard to make himself look consistent with Mo Tan's external persona.
Yidong, who knew the situation, also tried his best to cooperate. He came over in the name of visiting patients to make jokes when nothing happened, and tried his best not to give Yuchen too many opportunities to get to know Mo Tan.
But...it had little effect.
Although it seems that nothing has changed, Mo Tan can swear that Yuchen has definitely gained a deeper understanding of herself in the past few days, so much so that she no longer gives 'himself' I ate an apple, even though the apple was 'peeled' for myself.
【Damn it... I really don’t know whether to cry or laugh. 】
Mo Tan, under his current personality, had no choice but to face such an unsolvable and thorny problem. He could only mutter something in his heart, shook his head, and continued to browse the forum. As a member of a strong team who is qualified to challenge the rankings, although Mo Tan complains that the whole Internet is discussing the "criminal debate", he is actually also concerned about this matter.
It is true that the 'Hei Fan' side should not be very competitive. Although they have two teammates, Yu Chen and Yu Ying, the combat effectiveness of Her Royal Highness the Saint and Yu Ying is basically at the T1 level. They can't cope with ordinary scenes. Okay, it's actually not very impressive to be placed in the top column, and the strength of the character 'Hei Fan' itself is negligible, and the strategic level command he is best at under an absolutely neutral personality will also be lost due to team competition. The hard conditions for the five people were greatly reduced.
In terms of horizontal comparison, among the three characters under the name of Mo Tan, the one with the strongest team combat ability is definitely 'Mo'. We can see this from the style of the Wangwang team. As a team The adhesive Mo Tan is very powerful in small-scale conflicts, and his combat IQ is also frighteningly strong, even comparable to a certain scenery party who is firmly ranked third in the personal strength rankings.
From a strategic point of view, compared to the 'Black Fan' who is good at large-scale conflicts, the role of 'Tan Mo' is actually more handy. Not only that, his team can also perfectly support dual-core operation. Although Mu Xuejian is the only thug in name, both Mo Tan and Futaba are perfectly capable of formulating strategies. After all, the combined effect of these two people is by no means as simple as one plus one equals two.
As for Hei Fan, who has an absolutely neutral personality, he has no advantage. Even if there will probably be no problems in the auditions and the first few rounds of the regular season, he believes that he lacks core combat power and cannot use his own advantages. It is difficult to stand out in the subsequent rounds. If you want to get good enough results to get a ranking, it depends on whether your teammates are strong enough.
However, as far as the current situation is concerned, although Yuying's strength is pretty good, in front of strong men like Mu Xuejian and Shuangye, it is not easy to say it is good, but it is very bad to say it is bad. She may be eliminated immediately. As for Yuchen, although she is quite powerful with the twin gods of Dawn and Darkness, she is still outside the rankings and it is difficult to change the situation of the battle.
As for the last two vacant positions, although the candidates have not been finalized yet, given that the choices of 'Hei Fan' are relatively limited, the teammates who can be found in the end may not be much stronger than Yu Ying, or the level of Kevin, the Great Light Knight. The possibility is rather high.
To sum up, Mo Tan has been paying attention to the [criminal debate] recently from the perspective of 'Mo' and 'Tan Mo'. As for 'Black Brahma', if Yu Chen had not decided to follow If he joins the competition together, I'm afraid he won't even consider signing up, so he's already prepared to be eliminated if he messes around for a while.
Of course, when his personality is in a state of absolute neutrality, Mo Tan will still actively prepare for the battle. After all, he does not want to embarrass himself in front of Yu Chen, who has chosen to be on the same team with him, let alone lose ugly.
As for the most critical issue, whether there will be an unsolvable situation where 'self' matches 'self', Mo Tan is not worried at all now.
There is no other reason. The main reason is that Mo Tan has already dealt with the 'system' before, and although the latter maintained a three-no state throughout the whole process, it still conveyed a very critical signal to him, that is' The system has a positive attitude towards its own participation in the [Crime Debate], and the fact that it can freely choose a role during the simulated battle itself is a very critical piece of evidence.
So even if the other party didn't talk to him even half a word about the competition system and matching issues, Mo Tan still felt that the 'system' would do a good job.
To this day, he is very doubtful about the control of the so-called "Innocent Company" over the game "Innocence". Although this suspicion is groundless, they have recently held an "Inquiry" Debate] This is a very sensational official event, but as of now, Mo Tan still feels that the existence of the 'system' has more influence on the game than the person in charge of that company.
But having said that, the person who can reverse such a game probably has a good background, and among Mo Tan’s many assumptions, those so-called ‘marginal people’ are the most suspect.
It’s just that judging from the current situation, he doesn’t think that the system that God knows how intelligent it is will abide by the ‘Three Laws of Robotics’.
After all, the first rule of that thing is - 'Robots are not allowed to harm people, nor are they allowed to stand idly by while people are being harmed. ’
Mo Tan felt that the highly intelligent system Jiang Gao Bo was considered a robot. As a result, not only did he fail to protect himself in the event of a rainy day, it even became the main reason why he lost his appendix.
So, since the system has failed to comply with this core principle, there is no need to even mention the rest.
Although I don’t know if this situation was within the official expectations, for Mo Tan, this is indeed a real good thing. Although exposing one’s secrets to artificial intelligence may not be better than exposing one’s secrets to artificial intelligence. It is strong in front of humans, but at least at this stage, the system is still friendly to itself. Not only does it protect its secrets, it even provides a certain degree of convenience in this [criminal debate].
The purpose is not yet known, but since the opponent can do all this, he naturally intends to achieve good results for himself. Even if it is for the purpose of reciprocating a favor, Mo Tan also intends to face the future competition well.
Unfortunately, there are too few things that can be investigated online. After all, most of the big names on the list, including Cui Xiaoyu and Gu Xiaole, have no relevant information, and as Mo Tan’s core intelligence source First of all, Boss Jun's Wanderer Hotel can't help much in this matter.
As for those who were talking non-stop on the forum, Mo Tan glanced over and felt that most of these people must have been lost in the audition. He felt that those guys were basically rubbish with a strong sense of offense...
< br>[If that doesn’t work, sort out your network after you leave the hospital tomorrow and see if you can bluff reliable insiders...]
Mo Tan shook his head and secretly made up his mind to involve himself in a criminal case. of unpredictable determination.
Then——
“Hey! They’re all here!”
Kang Lan, who opened the door and walked in, greeted the two of them cheerfully, and walked in with Yi Dong behind him. He opened his mouth and said: "I chatted with some friends who have been playing professionally for half the night yesterday, tsk tsk, I heard that everyone in the circle is gearing up. They have been frustrated these days."
"Oh?"
Mo Tan's eyes suddenly lit up and he immediately turned his head. Looking at Kang Lan: "Let's talk!"
Then someone stuffed an apple into his mouth.
“……”
It took a full two seconds for Mo Tan to realize that he seemed to have become an 'absolutely neutral' personality unknowingly. Not only that...
The absent-minded Yu Chen next to the bed was even worse than He himself would have noticed this a few seconds earlier!
Chapter 1549: The End
(End of this chapter)