Chapter 39 War and Hope

In the center of the city of ashes, there is a tall tower that has not collapsed.

This is the highest point in this area.

Shen Yi and Pandora were sitting on the steel pipe at the top of the tower, like watchmen on the watchtower, looking at each other, and Pandora stared at Shen Yi with completely incomprehensible eyes.

"What?" Shen Yi asked with a smile.

"Nothing." Pandora shrugged: "I just can't figure out why you made such a decision at this time."

She did have a reason why she couldn't figure it out.

You must know that Shen Yi's decision is tantamount to giving up his greatest advantage at present - the door of return.

The door of return is not only a prop that makes the colonel afraid and dare not act rashly, it is also a prop that makes the evil emperor afraid.

If it wasn't for the existence of the Gate of Return, the Evil Emperor would not have paid attention to Shen Yi's statement that it would be easy to return to the city, and asked Pandora to teleport him back then.

It is precisely because of the door of return that Shen Yi can force the evil emperor not to come, and let everything go back to the city. If the evil emperor refuses to listen and insists on forcing Shen Yi back to the city immediately, then only Shen Yi's lion will be waiting for him.

This is also the most important reason why Shen Yi did not hesitate to waste a demon transformation, but also to get a team assembly order before the battle of Nether Valley - he not only had to consider how to get the box, but also had to consider how to get it. What to do next with the box.

It was at that time that Pandora realized how important this second team assembly order was to the Broken Blade team, and realized that this guy might have already considered everything behind.

But now Shen Yi separated the team.

In this way, as long as Pandora opens the positioning transmitter now, the evil emperor will appear immediately. Even if Shen Yi has a return door, it is impossible to gather everyone together in a short time, and the escape function of the return door will no longer be meaningful.

If the colonel came here at this time, he would be able to kill Shen Yi immediately and catch him off guard.

This made Pandora very puzzled, she didn't believe that Shen Yi would make such a stupid mistake, and instinctively suspected that there was a trap in it, so she didn't dare to greet the evil emperor, but just looked at Shen Yi, expecting him to give herself an explanation.

At this moment, what Pandora thinks about is no longer how to fulfill the evil emperor's entrustment, but wants to see what this guy's gourd is selling again.

On the other hand, Shen Yi let out a long breath: "I know you are wondering what kind of conspiracy I am playing. Then if I tell you, I have no conspiracy, I just want to test my team members to face difficulties and dangers alone ability, cultivate their spirit of doubt and independent thinking, and let them learn to solve problems perfectly without me... Do you believe it?"

Pandora snorted lightly, but ignored it.

Shen Yi smiled: "If you don't believe me, you can try it. Immediately call the evil emperor over and ask him to force me out of the box, or give me a low price so that I have to agree, otherwise he will kill me."

"Enough!" Pandora interrupted Shen Yi: "I know you want to test me. But easy is easy, as long as you are willing to transfer the Eye of Hades, I promise that the evil emperor will give you a good price, you don't have to deliberately make excuse."

"Looking for an excuse? What kind of excuse?" Shen Yi was puzzled.

Pandora snorted: "Of course it is an excuse to terminate Yi. As long as I pass the evil emperor over and let him attack you, you will have an excuse to terminate Yi, right? I will never believe that you are someone who will put yourself Those who are in a desperate situation. The return door on the team assembly order may not be the only one. If I remember correctly, before participating in the battle in Nether Valley, you have at least destroyed a group of berserk beasts and obtained a berserk claw.

There is also a return door on the fury claw. So if you want, you can use the return door on the fury claw to leave, while the rest of your team members use the return door on the team rally order to leave. Of course, your players are also divided into two teams, but that may be because you have other gains I don't know. In any case, the current situation is that it doesn't make any sense for me to pass him over. Instead, it will give you an excuse to terminate the deal or ask for an exorbitant price, isn't it? "

Shen Yi narrowed his eyes slightly.

He nodded: "So you think so."

He laughed: "There are so many lies, no one will believe even if you tell the truth. Bad things are done absolutely, and no one will accept even good things... It seems that I have become more scheming, So no matter what you do, others will think it’s a trap.”

"It's your excuses that are too bad. You are letting your players take unnecessary risks. With your strength, as long as you develop step by step, you can definitely go to the end. There is no point in taking risks that are out of proportion to the investment and return." The risk! Just to exercise their independent ability, it is absolutely not worth taking such a risk!"

"Then if I tell you, I'm doing this because it's actually very, very difficult for me to leave this world. It may be far beyond our imagination. Even if I become a marshal, I can't leave. So I need to further train all of us to let They are powerful in the true sense, even if they have to take huge risks... would you believe it?"

Pandora shouted: "How is this possible? As long as we enter the Tongtian Tower, we can leave! With your ability and potential, this is definitely not a difficult task!"

Shen Yi looked at Pandora playfully, thought for a while, and said, "But what if that is a lie? If I tell you that until now, no one has ever really left this world, do you believe it?"

Pandora's body suddenly felt chilly, she stared at Shen Yi, and said word by word: "What evidence do you have?"

At that moment, it seemed that as long as Shen Yi couldn't produce evidence, she would immediately go crazy.

Looking at Pandora's angry eyes, Shen Yi sighed softly.

Of course he knew why Pandora was so angry.

For those who are struggling to survive in this world, the Tower of Babel is their hope for freedom.

Hope is the goal that people work hard and strive for.

It's like when you do business, you aspire to be a boss; when you are a civil servant, you aspire to be promoted;

Hope is the driving force for people to move forward. Without hope, there is no motivation.

No adventurer can accept the fact that hope is shattered, not Pandora, gentle Hong Yang, not even Colonel Shen Yi and the others!

Looking into Pandora's eyes and her slightly trembling body due to the jitters, Shen Yi sighed.

"I don't have any evidence ... just a passing word," he said.

Pandora let out a long breath.

She gave Shen Yi a hard look.

Obviously, with his denial, his charge of "leading the evil emperor to attack and trying to terminate Yi" was completely confirmed.

Shrugging helplessly, Shen Yi chuckled.

Pandora reminded him angrily: "If the evil emperor doesn't come, the colonel will come. If he knows that you divide the troops, then he will at least try to attack you and your people. If you don't want to be driven back to the city prematurely, the last It’s better to gather the team together.”

Shen Yi closed his eyes, leaned on the steel pipe, and replied casually: "Don't worry, at least he won't come over today. Time is the best weapon to kill vigilance, he only has one chance, so he will try to fight against us. Attack when your vigilance is weakest."

"Then when do you think he'll do it?"

"Unpredictable, but probably not too long."

"why?"

"Because he also doesn't have much time to waste." Shen Yi said with a smile: "Just like I wouldn't be willing to waste the rest of my time, he wouldn't be willing either. For him, this waiting time , will be very difficult.”

Speaking of this, Shen Yi laughed narrowly: "If you can't beat him, it's good to make him feel uncomfortable."

Pandora froze.

This was the first time she had heard Shen Yi say such words that harmed others and harmed himself.

This guy seems to have changed suddenly.

become more elusive.

She asked: "What are you thinking? Shen Yi!"

Shen Yi smiled.

He replied slowly: "Thinking about fate..."

"Fate tortures us, fate catches us, fate saves us, fate deceives us...and fate favors us."

"I just want to see how much fate still loves me before we go to the real battlefield..."

"In a world without hope, our only option... is to create hope."

Said Shen Yi closed his eyes and said nothing.

He had said enough tonight.

Enough to make some people fidget.

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In the following days, the Broken Blade team officially started their hunting life in the City of Ashes.

Compared with the ubiquitous beasts in the wilderness, those undead creatures transformed from dead adventurers are obviously much harder to find. They are almost never in any public place, and are always hidden underground, in ruins, or in shadows.

They are elusive, fast as the wind, and the most terrible thing is that they never fight to the death, and run away immediately when they see something bad. It's easy to deal with them, but hard to kill them.

This makes Gentle and the others feel like they are back in the world of the X-Men, where they have to search, hunt, and hunt all the time. The only luck is that this is not a mission, and there will be no punishment for failure.

In one day, they encountered three undead adventurer raids, but only killed one adventurer zombie, and there was no gain at the same time—there is no 100% reward for adventure in the wilderness, even if it is an ant queen or a violent beast leader , they are just a relatively high probability of giving items, but not 100%.

This made Hong Yang complain endlessly: "I think we might as well go hunting Berserkers. We can kill at least four or five groups a day. Even if we can only get three Berserker Claws, it is still a C-level, and there is no risk."

"Come on, do you really think that the wilderness is your back garden, and you can pick fruits with you? If you encounter a large herd of animals, you will be exhausted to death." King Kong said.

"Better than working all day and getting nothing."

"It's much better than harvesting and dying without having time to enjoy it."

Hong Yang was taken aback: "What do you mean by that?"

King Kong was silent for a while, and then muttered for a while: "Boss is a little strange."

"What's up with him?"

King Kong didn't answer, but just looked at Shen Yi on the tall tower in the distance.

Ever since he climbed up that high tower, Shen Yi never came down.

He sat there the whole time, as if he was thinking about something.

Occasionally, at a height of up to 124 meters, he would grab a suspended steel bar and do pull-ups—if he missed, he would not die if he fell from this height, but injury would be inevitable.

But most importantly...

King Kong muttered to himself: "It's the first time I saw him do such a meaningless thing."

After turning around, Rourou also looked at Shen Yi on the tower.

Unstoppable doubts arose in the hearts of both of them at the same time—why did Shen Yi separate the team?

He didn't seem to care at all about the colonel lurking in the shadows.

What the hell is he thinking?

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