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Chapter 219 Collaborators in the Normal World (5,500 words...a little short of that)

"Has the strengthening been completed?"

The moment Xiao Xiao returned to consciousness, he took a deep breath and looked down instinctively.

The heart in the box is gone, but my chest is intact and my skin is still very fair...

Of course this is not the point.

As Xiao Xiao took a deep breath, he could feel his heart beating heavily in his chest. It was powerful and warm. He seemed to be in better spirits. He felt an unusual power. He didn't know how to describe this in preparation. It feels like the core of some complex machine has been replaced. The appearance looks exactly the same, but it has a different level.

only……

...How is this strengthening accomplished?

Xiao Xiao thought about it carefully, but he only felt a little confused.

He clearly remembered the process of strengthening other elements before, including the purchase of some special elements. Only this time, he seemed to have fallen into a trance, and his consciousness jumped instantly. When he returned, the strengthening had been completed.

But he knew nothing about the completion process.

"never mind……"

Xiao Xiao thought to himself: "It's impossible to tear open my chest and stuff it directly in."

According to my own understanding, some of the bloody things on the alien level are actually not the case at all from a realistic perspective. For example, Ling Ping's red eyes were transplanted from others. But in reality, this is just His spirit was constructed into the appearance of someone else's mental circuit, and the effect was applied to his own eyes, so it looked like.

But those eyes were essentially still his eyes.

It can be understood as seeing a person's eyes that are extremely sharp and majestic.

So through study and training, I learned this kind of look.

Although I don’t know exactly what happened to my unquenchable heart, I guess it is similar to the transplant of my eyes.

I slowly passed this section in my mind, but a question suddenly occurred to me:

"Why were my clothes torn?"

"..."

Deep in his perception, he vaguely felt that he was in a trance, as if a shadow appeared around him, but because the memory was too vague to form a whole, he tried several times, but he could only give up and slowly tied it on. Your own buttons.

"Have you finished strengthening?"

At this time, Lin Bo also walked over with a nervous look on his face and looked at Xiao Xiao intently: "How is the strengthening?"

"Are there any new abilities created?"

"..."

"ability?"

Xiao Xiao frowned slightly, felt it for a moment, but felt a little confused. He raised his head and looked at Lin Bo: "Shouldn't I ask you this?"

"Keeping my heart out will allow me to enter the fourth stage of strengthening, that's what you said."

"..."

"How would I know? I'm not in the fourth stage."

Lin Bo said in surprise: "The heart without extinguishing is the fourth stage of the research of the Insight. It was calculated by our mentor. I only know the answer and don't know what it looks like. On the contrary, I was thinking about it."

I want to find out about the specific changes brought about by strengthening it, and use it as my data... Our instructor should like this specific data very much."

"You didn't even know there would be any changes, so you recommended it to me?"

Xiao Xiao vaguely felt that something was wrong.

After completing the third stage of strengthening, I originally thought that the strengthening was almost over. After all, there were a large number of lord-level experts who would not force themselves to enter the fourth stage of strengthening. Anyway, the accumulated points could be used to purchase some powerful items.

Weapons can be used to train manpower for oneself, or to "pollute" more powerful people among the indigenous people, allowing oneself to gain deeper control over the city.

Only a small number of people will choose "the fourth element".

I wanted to choose the fourth element because I wanted to understand what happened before.

But because he knew nothing about how to enter the fourth stage, he followed Yang Jia's suggestion and asked Lin Bo. After getting Lin Bo's answer, he had no doubts at all. He even felt as if he had found a treasure and was excited.

Killed all the way to Night City.

But now I suddenly realized that Lin Bo didn't seem to be that familiar with this thing.

Did he just know?

...Is this kid using himself as a guinea pig?

"Don't worry, I can feel the changes, but I still need to try..."

Thinking vaguely, he felt a little irritable and waved his hand: "I'll let you know when I research and understand..."

"Uh-huh……"

Lin Bo was in a good mood and couldn't help but high-five: "Not only will the Dante organization be happy, but our mentor will also praise me."

His happy look made Xiao Xiao very unhappy, and he suddenly looked at Lin Bo:

"but……"

"I have just completed a report for you. If I give you this report again, wouldn't it be a loss?"

"..."

Lin Bo couldn't help but stayed for a moment and said: "Brother, I helped you get this heart."

Xiao Xiao said: "But as a reward, I have given you three thousand points and the matrix research information."

Lin Bo couldn't get around it: "But I helped you in Black Gate City..."

Xiao Xiao immediately said: "That's because you lost the bet."

Lin Bo almost went crazy: "But we are still friends after all..."

Xiao Xiao looked at him deeply and said, "If it weren't for the fact that you couldn't do anything to me, you would be a hardliner, right?"

"..."

After hearing this, Lin Bo felt weak and said sarcastically: "Then what's the point..."

"I can't return these three thousand points to you, can I?"

"..."

Seeing his unhappy look, Xiao Xiao finally felt a little happy. He sneered, shook his head and said:

"That's not necessary."

"After all, three thousand points is still too few..."

"..."

Lin Bo was a little dumbfounded when he heard this: "But that's not what you said when you gave me these three thousand points before..."

No matter what, let's go back to Black Gate City first...

While Xiao Xiao was strengthening his non-extinguishing heart, the train never stopped and was running inside a huge flesh-and-blood network, rapidly approaching Black Gate City. Xiao Xiao could feel the endless flesh-and-blood tissue outside the train window.

, and the abnormal life forms hiding in the abyss or behind layers of flesh and blood. They are not real creatures, but they really exist around them.

When I left Black Gate City, I was still in the happiest state of getting along with Black Gate City.

This time when I went back, there was a heart in my body that would offend her.

So, what will she do to herself?

Xiao Xiao couldn't find an answer to this question, but he had some vague expectations.

…

…

"Look at the time, they should be arriving soon!"

At this time, at the Black Gate City train station, they learned that Xiao Xiao was coming back. Yang Jia, Ruan Ruan, and Ling Ping with red eyes had also arrived at the station to wait. They knew that Xiao Xiao had obtained the inextinguishable element, and they also understood that he would

They will be strengthened before returning to this city, so they will come in advance to guard him. After all, they don’t know what Black Gate City will do to Xiao Xiao who has already been strengthened.

In the records of Dante's organization, there are quite a few people who braved the dissatisfaction of the city's will to strengthen the fourth element. However, these people are also divided into several situations. Some of them have the elements they need in their own city.

Among them, this kind of strengthening has the least problems, but if the fourth element is obtained from outside the city and strengthened, the consequences will be somewhat unknown.

Some cities don't care, or even show too much reaction.

There are also some cities that show a certain degree of rejection, but they can be appeased by spending points.

In some cases, the cities showed serious resistance and directly deprived them of their lord-level contracts as punishment.

The most serious thing is that he will be executed directly the moment he returns to the city.

In the last case, not many people were actually executed, most of them lost the city's shelter and began to wander.

No matter how you do it, the last result is rare.
To be continued...