Reincarnation Paradise: Start with an original sin object

Chapter 238 Old Taylor

Amid the choking smoke, an old man in a wheelchair was cleaning an antique revolver.

He was wrapped in a frayed cashmere blanket, with old capacitors and neural plugs scattered on his knees, and a tube for delivering gas inserted into his nasal cavity.

When Xinghan's eyes swept across the gun body, he couldn't help but be attracted by the pattern on the gun body.

Generally speaking, the surface of a firearm will not be engraved with too complex patterns, because this will cause uneven heating and force, affecting the accuracy and life of the firearm.

The old man seemed to see where his gaze was. He placed the pistol on the small table on the wheelchair with a smile on his face.

"This is a relic left by my late wife. She always carried it with her when she was alive."

"This thing doesn't need any precision or durability."

"Because this pistol is not used for self-defense, but for suicide."

Having said this, the old man paused slightly.

"Sometimes people have no ability to protect themselves or their families, and the only thing they can do is to use death to preserve the last bit of...decency."

“This is the tragedy of the weak.”

"That's right, respected Dr. Kahn Andel Lie."

The choking smoke from the medicine formed a spiral vortex under the bronze gear chandelier. The scene became a little stalemate because the old man revealed Xinghan's identity, and the temperature in the room seemed to drop a few degrees.

Old Taylor took out a bullet shell from his arms with trembling hands, and his rusty mechanical fingers gently stroked the complex inscriptions on the outside.

"This is what protects her last bit of dignity."

Xinghan noticed that when the old man spoke, the bionic skin on his Adam's apple completed seventeen micro-vibrations in 0.3 seconds, which is a typical symptom of nerve metallization eroding the vocal cords.

Placing the shells next to the revolver, the old man changed the subject.

"You should be thankful that among the many complicated sewage pipes, the probability of you falling into my territory is only one in four."

"If you are unlucky enough to fall into the territory of the other three guys..."

The old man held up three fingers.

"I won't survive more than three days?" Xing Han raised his eyebrows.

"No, it's three seconds." The old man shook his head.

Looking at Xinghan's frown, the old man smiled slightly.

"Don't disbelieve me. The entire tenth floor is under the close surveillance of the Mechanical Mother. This is a secret arrangement, and no more than a hundred people in the world know about it."

"243.17 seconds before you left the sewage pipe, the monitoring network connected to my nerve center detected life fluctuations that did not belong to the tenth floor."

"So I mobilized the nearest Sky Eye to obtain your appearance, and quickly locked onto your identity."

The old man paused for a moment as if he was resting, and then continued to speak after a while.

"Although I have never seen you before, your ability as an honorary top-grade scientist in the Seventh Laboratory cannot be faked. At that time, I wanted to ask someone to pick you up. After all, you are a scholar. There are many refugees in the area where you landed. If a talent like you dies here, it would be a waste of talent."

"But what I didn't expect was that you actually had some ability to protect yourself. Many bugs died in your hands."

"I can only say that you are worthy of being a top-class scientist. You can even remove the chip in your body without any damage. With my authority, I can't feel any chip fluctuations in your body."

"Even if you don't come this time, I will send someone to find you personally."

Xing Han narrowed his eyes when he heard this. He didn't believe that the old man in front of him, who looked like a gangster godfather, would go to so much trouble to save him just because he "appreciated his talent". After all, this place was not very close to where he landed.

The old man seemed not to notice the change in Xinghan's expression and raised his hand towards Xinghan.

"You should have heard that I am the controller of the entrance born on the tenth floor. I am different from the other three guys. They have deeply integrated the perception center of the Mechanical Mother. Once you appear in the area controlled by them, you will be immediately bombarded and killed by the Mechanical Mother using the quantum matrix deployed on the tenth floor sky."

"So I said, you won't survive more than three seconds."

Upon hearing this, Xing Han nodded slightly and also asked the doubts in his mind.

"Old man, you are also a guard, but you don't have access to the mechanical mother's perception system?"

"This is why I met you this time." The old man showed a satisfied look.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Taylor. You can call me Old Taylor or Mr. Taylor."

"My scientific research team all died in a scientific research accident a while ago."

"One of their main duties is to help me deceive the perception of the Mechanical Mother."

"Of course, there is no need to do anything overly complicated. All you need to do is complete the daily maintenance of a supercomputer."

"This job is only for people like you. My assistant, who can only fight and kill, will get dizzy when he opens the computer case."

"Recently, the operation of this optical computer has begun to lag due to lack of maintenance. After all, it has been processing and concealing some information of a quarter of the tenth-layer world."

At this point, the old man looked at Xing Han and said, "I hope you can help me maintain the optical computer regularly, once a month. As a reward, I can continue to provide you with shelter and resources and places for your scientific research."

In the old man's eyes, Xinghan is a scientific researcher who has some martial arts skills but is not to be feared.

What he valued was Xinghan's scientific research ability. He was certain that Xinghan's situation on the tenth floor was far worse than on the first floor, and he would not be able to endure this kind of life for a long time.

Especially on the tenth floor there are no scientific research conditions.

He has researched Kahn Andre Re, a scientific research maniac, and it may be useless to attract him with power, beauty and pleasure.

But if we can provide him with good scientific research conditions, especially at this critical juncture, it will undoubtedly be an excellent bargaining chip.

Moreover, living on the tenth floor is a form of chronic suicide, and one could die suddenly at any time. He believes that Xinghan has no other choice.

In fact, Xinghan would definitely choose to cooperate with the old man in front of him, but the reason was not this, but because his main task required him to reach the seventh laboratory within two days, and now half a day had passed.

Xinghan remained calm. He did not agree immediately, even though the maintenance of the optical computer was only the basics of the basics of alchemical mechanics.

This matter is as simple as eating and drinking for him, but it may be as difficult as climbing to the sky for an outsider.

Just like computer repair is a common task for engineering students, but if it is done by a liberal arts student who has never been exposed to relevant knowledge, he will be confused.

Although this matter was not difficult for him and would not take up too much of his time, he still wanted to hear if the old man had any other requests.

He vaguely felt that if the old man just wanted him to help maintain the optical computer or even reorganize the laboratory, there was no need for him to do the things at the beginning.

The pistol was not as flashy and impractical as the old man said.

"There's one more thing."

Sure enough, when the old man saw that Xinghan did not express his opinion, he did not get angry, but instead made a second request.

"I need you to help me kill someone."

"Not interested in."

Hearing this, Xing Han stood up suddenly and turned to walk towards the door. He didn't think that the man in front of him, who could guard a quarter of the tenth floor as a tenth floor native, control the flow of materials between the upper and tenth floors, and had the ability to block the existence of the world's highest artificial intelligence, the Mechanical Mother, would need his help to kill a person.

It’s not that Xinghan is self-deprecating, but he has never realized that he is the savior.

Do things according to your ability, and wear pants that fit your butt. This is his principle in life.

Although he has been challenging high-difficulty worlds in order to escape the Dark Emperor Blade, he never does anything without certainty.

In the current situation, he would rather find a solution himself, or just endure it and crawl back along the sewage pipe.

Violetta behind him was about to raise her hand, but the old man raised his hand to stop her.

The old man looked at Xinghan's back, and when he saw Xinghan was about to step out of the room, he spoke again.

"I have a way to restart the Seventh Laboratory."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xinghan paused as he was about to step out of the room.

Then, Xinghan turned around and returned to his previous seat.

"Tell me in detail." Xing Han said in a cold tone.

He looked calmly at the old man's face.

The reason why Xinghan changed his mind was not because the reopening of the so-called Seventh Laboratory was attractive to him, but because he had just received a hint from Paradise.

[The Hunter has triggered the side quest: Taylor's Revenge. ]

Mission content: Assist Taylor in completing his revenge plan.

Mission Reward: Taylor's Friendship.
Note: When Old Taylor's favorability is greater than 60, control of Taylor's Legion will be gradually unlocked. Current favorability: 10.

Mission punishment: forced execution!
……

Xinghan did not forget that he also had a title called the Troll God.

Name: Troll God
Place of Origin: Chris Continent
Quality: ★★★
Category: title

Title Effect 1: The hunter's own physical defense increases by 7% (when the number of allies exceeds 100).

Title effect 2: The hunter's own life limit is increased by 15% (when the number of allies exceeds 1000).

Title effect 3: The damage caused by the hunter itself is increased by 20%, and the speed is increased by 6% (when the number of own party exceeds 1w).

Title effect 4: The upper limit of the hunter's own mana is increased by 10% (when the number of own party exceeds 5).

Title Effect 5: For every 1% reduction in the hunter's health, the body's defense increases by 0.2%, and the damage caused increases by 0.3%. The defense and damage bonuses can be superimposed by up to 100%, lasting 10 minutes (when the number of allies exceeds 10).

Title Effect 6: With the ultimate skill, Hunters and other friendly units can accumulate part of their rage points every time they kill an enemy unit (including personnel/fortifications). When the number of rage points reaches more than 5000 points, Hunters can choose to enter. Killing state. In this state, the hunter cannot move. The size of the hunter increases by 10 to 100 times (autonomous adjustment). The damage caused increases by 3 to 5 times. This state consumes 5000 rage points per second (when the number of own parties exceeds 20w).
Tip: Friendly forces include followers/summons/team members/subordinates/soldiers and other units that are determined to be your own and have a subordinate relationship with the hunter.

Rating: Special items, no rating.

Introduction: I bear all the sins alone, and all the glory is bestowed upon me! soldiers! Get behind me!
Price: Not for sale

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In the previous world, he never gained true control over either the pirates or the navy until the very end.

Although he was assigned several agents when he went to push the castle forward, they were not directly under his jurisdiction and were not his servants/summoned creatures/team members/subordinates/soldiers.

From the beginning to the end, both the navy and the pirates were extremely wary of him, so he was not considered a friendly unit in Paradise's judgment.

If he could gain command of the legion from old Taylor, he would truly have the confidence to explore this world.

Thinking of this, Xinghan controlled the clone to remove the disguise and reveal his original appearance.

In this world's concept, this is also what Dr. Kahn originally looked like.

Old Taylor seemed to appreciate Xinghan's honesty, but Xinghan knew that this man was extremely scheming.

At least Paradise hadn't indicated that Taylor's favorability toward him had improved.

"Before talking about the laboratory, let me talk about my personal affairs first."

Old Taylor spoke in a calm tone, but it could be heard from his words that he was still somewhat dissatisfied with Xinghan's refusal just now.

"The man I want you to kill is called Quincy Ironskull. You should know him, but he probably won't have much interaction with you. I have his detailed information here."

Xing Han stood still. Of course he didn't know this person, but he didn't say anything.

Old Taylor's mechanical eye suddenly projected a three-dimensional image, in which a man in a white coat was dissecting an unknown creature.

Suddenly, old Taylor's mechanical lung let out a wheezing breath like a broken bellows, and then the gas in the oxygen tube inserted in his nose turned blue, and light blue crystals floated out between his nostrils.

Some kind of inhaled medication.

Xinghan made a judgment.

"I'm old now and I can't even speak complete sentences."

Old Taylor's condition eased after a while, and he called the female assistant behind him.

"Let little Aureli introduce you next. She knows Quincy's situation well."

Violetta stepped forward and, as the three-dimensional image changed, introduced all the details about this guy named Quincy.

"Former head of the Seventh Laboratory's security. Before the Seventh Laboratory was closed down, he would go to the Seventeenth Floor underground alone every Thursday... His hobby is dissection, although he has no talent for biology... He has had seven wives, all of whom have died, leaving behind a son and a daughter... He is a loner, but he has a close relationship with the scientist Hegel..."

From daily life to personality and hobbies, to family background and circle of friends, everything is covered.

Xinghan listened quietly to Violetta's story. Quincy's life has always revolved around the Seventh Laboratory, and this is also an important opportunity for him to understand the Seventh Laboratory.

"He is very strong. I know you are no match for him." Old Taylor suddenly tore open the bionic skin on his left chest.

Xinghan's pupils suddenly shrank into needle points, and what appeared before his eyes was a rusty quantum heart, which was even more filthy than the one he had dismantled from the refugees in the wilderness.

"I know his strength best. The energy left over from twenty years ago still threatens my heart today, so I have to get rid of him."

"What I need you to do is to delete Kun XZ's backup of consciousness on the nineteenth floor of the seventh laboratory."

Xing Han's heart moved slightly when he heard this, but he remained calm and asked a key question.

"Mr. Taylor, given the current situation, how do you plan to send me to the Seventh Laboratory?"

He just learned from Quincy that the Seventh Laboratory was notified to be closed down a week ago.

The official ban was just one day ago.

In other words, less than a day after the Seventh Laboratory was closed, he, an honorary top scientist, had to crawl into the sewage pipe like a rat and escape to the filthy place on the tenth floor.

What exactly happened during this period is also the truth that Xinghan urgently wants to know.

(End of this chapter)