Deceitful Game

Chapter 241 Mingpo: What kind of hypnosis app is this?

After Ke'er left, Mingpo strolled back leisurely.

Ai Shiping's location wasn't far from the main street. If Ai Shiping had a pair of binoculars, he could have seen the entire process of how Mingpo fought his way through.

Reaching the ruins of the building that had been blasted vertically and was now just a crescent moon, Mingpo didn't summon his hovercar. Instead, he lightly jumped up using the brick and stone structure of the ruins.

It's like an ordinary person climbing stairs, taking two or three steps at a time. Although it might be a little strenuous at times, there's no danger. When Mingpo reached the rooftop and saw Ai Shiping still there, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're still here, that really puts my mind at ease."

He was a little afraid that Ai Shiping would disobey and wander off on his own.

Whether a person in Central is in danger at Nest of Towers depends mainly on how daring the people they encounter are.

Ai Shiping's good physique would obviously fetch a good price here.

It's not selling in the R18 category... it's selling in the R18G category.

Un-radiated internal organs are extremely valuable in Hive. Prosthetics that circulate to Hive are certainly not as effective as those in Minper's body. If someone gets cancer, the best treatment is still organ transplantation.

As for rejection, that's much easier to handle. After all, prosthetic bodies themselves can also be rejected.

The paradoxical technology that Takagi Life initially developed, and which is now its best-selling product, is immunosuppressants.

This differs from traditional cyberpunk worldviews. Although the Middle Ring exerts significant pressure on the Hive, resource exchanges remain fair. For resources obtainable only on the surface, the Middle Ring trades with the Hive at a fairly reasonable price, rather than directly employing or enslaving the Hive to mine them.

After all, in a sense, the High Heaven Life Force has already monopolized the lifeline of a considerable number of people. Not just the Chaodu people.

Therefore, they can instead discuss cooperation in a more amicable manner.

Because it's difficult for them to continue expanding, and their current position is unlikely to be shaken, they've instead entered a state of maintaining stability.

It is precisely because they created extremely inexpensive, easy-to-use, and harmless immunosuppressants that we have the current era of prosthetics. It truly makes the human body's various organs reusable components. The so-called "load capacity of prosthetics" even largely refers to the body's immunity and drug resistance.

In other words, it can handle a certain concentration of immunosuppressants.

And the local communities are also among Gao Tian Life's main clients. They need this stuff even more than the people in Central. With this stuff, although it still can't prevent cancer, it can at least allow some people to live past their twenties or thirties.

The Gaotian organ transplant machine can replace whatever is broken. My mother no longer has to worry about my health.

But I don't know why.

Ai Shiping, however, looked at Mingpo with a complicated expression.

He stood there, motionless. His eyes, however, seemed a little red.

Mingpo's heart skipped a beat.

...It's only been less than half an hour since I left him here. Is he really angry?

Mingpo walked over casually: "What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"

Given Mingpo's personality, he would naturally not apologize easily in such a situation.

He would jokingly say "sorry" to people as a form of teasing, and he would also earnestly repent for his mistakes in serious situations. But the more ambiguous the situation is now, and the more likely it is to escalate into an argument, the more stubborn he becomes.

Or perhaps it's just feigning ignorance.

Like a clever dog that has just destroyed the house, it nonchalantly pretends it didn't do the bad thing.

When a silly dog ​​gets into trouble, it will tuck its tail between its legs and look cowardly, which often leads the owner to believe that the smart dog is the innocent one.

"...Amber."

Ai Shiping suddenly used a title he had never used before.

He looked at Mingpo, his expression complex: "Are you... happy right now?"

Mingpo was taken aback when she heard this.

His expression quickly turned serious.

Or rather... they became ruthless, cold-blooded, and full of murderous intent.

"Did someone say anything to you?"

Mingpo's voice turned cold.

"This person" is indeed Ai Shiping, he can be sure of it.

But he suddenly fell into this inexplicable state... as if someone had secretly said something to Ai Shiping or shown him something while he was away.

Before Ai Shiping could respond, Mingpo's left eye lit up slightly.

Mingbo directly accessed the aerial vehicle's surveillance footage.

as predicted.

Not long after Mingpo left, someone appeared out of thin air.

It's as if the process of "climbing up" was skipped, and they appeared directly on the rooftop.

It was a child.

He was thin and had shoulder-length short hair. Mingpo couldn't really tell if he was male or female. He looked really short, probably just over a meter tall, barely reaching Ai Shiping's stomach.

He showed no signs of cybernetics, nor was he wearing a collar. It was possible he was wearing a high-end prosthetic like Mingpo's. He wore a baseball cap and a mask that covered most of his face, making it impossible to see his features.

Unexpectedly... the hovercar did not enter alert mode.

Mingpo had already given it the command before.

It used to open fire on anyone it saw nearby with its machine gun. But now it seems to be dormant.

But Mingpo did not look down on him just because he was a child.

Because he was a charlatan.

Two red time-travel tokens appeared in his hand, which he crushed.

Immediately afterwards, the crimson light transformed into lava-like chains, engulfing him and the unsuspecting Ai Shiping simultaneously.

The light flashed for only a moment, and then the child disappeared.

Ai Shiping's expression had become unpredictable, shifting between light and dark.

He looked like he had even cried once.

Clearly... that child just now dragged Ai Shiping and him into the crack of time.

Although Mingpo wasn't a mining machine, he did know some basic common sense about deceitful people.

Unbound by their collars, deceivers are devils in the truest sense. They can appear at any point in their own life trajectory, traversing timelines, jumping through their own time, and arbitrarily altering the past and future.

They are immortal and have an infinite lifespan. They simply need to pay the price of time before they manifest in reality.

As for Lin Ya's highly modified mining machines, because their "human content" is less than one-third, they are not judged as human by the game and cannot enter the game normally when equipped with cybernetic bodies. Therefore, when the cybernetic bodies are fully equipped, they must pay time chips to appear in the material world. This is a forced consumption of chips, and also a means to prevent them from hoarding chips.

From this perspective, Mingpo actually saved Lin Ya by cutting off her head. Otherwise, if she had remained in a highly modified state after her manifestation ended, she would have become "someone who shouldn't exist" and been torn apart by paradox.

Therefore, she needed the help of the Nestlings to remove all her unnecessary prosthetics or replace them with limbs and organs from living people; otherwise, she would surely die. Thus, even though the "time-limited" token was their last remaining asset, they would ultimately have to give it up.

This is why Mingper's mission is "very urgent".

Because when Lin Ya is pushed to her limit, she will definitely hand over her bargaining chips—to those Nest City people who don't have collars.

Mingpo had all her limbs except her head amputated... Now she only has one head, so the prosthetic body rate has actually decreased.

Once her current manifestation ends, she will re-enter another world.

Although in that world she would still be permanently immersed in the jar... at least she wouldn't die directly.

But that child was different.

He wasn't wearing a collar.

Common sense dictates that he must be either a high-ranking company executive or a native of Chaodu. But neither is highly probable.

Therefore, he must be a person from the future who came back from the future.

"Who was that guy? What did he show you?"

Mingbo's voice was cold: "I think you need a full checkup, Ai Shiping. I suspect your memories may have been rewritten by some kind of hypnotic device."

For some reason, Mingpo had a sense of crisis that she might be abandoned by her friends.

To conceal this unease, Mingpo's attitude became noticeably fierce.