I am weak and friendly

Chapter 274 The Lone Warrior (4K)

Upon seeing the notification, Tang Yiping was overjoyed. This meant that although he had not succeeded, something did indeed exist!
He quickly added, "My little one, come out quickly, Daddy loves you!"

This time, there was no notification.

Tang Yiping: "???"

Tang Yiping tried twice more until he felt his charging cable was about to start moving before he stopped.

He had to accept a cruel truth.

He's not charming enough!

After the first attempt to show goodwill failed, this weaker party didn't even give it another chance; it probably already ran away!

This was the first time Tang Yiping had encountered something like this.

Could it be that my friendliness is no longer enough?

I've been very friendly lately.

I didn't do anything bad after I came in.

For Tang Yiping and Lola, the process of entering the warehouse this time was actually quite uneventful.

One was a carrion eater, the other a carrion hunter; searching for rotting things was almost instinctive for them. The two practically followed the scent in, unlike Gao Ming who had gotten lost.

Once inside, Lola was immediately drawn to the limbs of a creature that had burst into the warehouse. Like a hungry dog ​​grabbing at excrement, she rushed over and started eating.

Tang Yiping, too, found his own "corruption."

That was a warehouse full of food that seemed unchanged over time but had already "expired"; and a complete technical document for the [Touchpoint Interconnect] Lingxi vending machine. In this document, Tang Yiping found the operation and control interface for the Lingxi vending machine's restocking port.

You can open the restocking slot of the Lingxi vending machine to replenish the goods inside.

This feature update was actually quite simple, and Tang Yiping finished writing it very quickly.

When Tang Yiping finished announcing the news and looked up, he saw Shen Hong sitting next to him reading the newspaper.

"Finished writing?"

"Yes, it's finished," Tang Yiping said.

"What did you write this time?" Shen Hong asked, folding the newspaper.

After Tang Yiping finished explaining, Shen Hong adjusted his reading glasses and asked, "Enabling the restocking function is good, but have you thought about who will restock?"

“Uh…” Tang Yiping was stunned.

He really hadn't thought about it.

Not everything in this world can be solved with code.

Shen Hong said, "Replenishing thousands of vending machines is a huge workload. Normally, it would require a team of dozens of people to maintain it. Based on labor costs and other expenses, it could cost five or six hundred thousand yuan a month."

"Furthermore, if restocking requires hauling goods from this warehouse, have you considered the potential dangers along the way? They might get lost in the surrounding area."

This warehouse was located at the intersection of two bubble spaces, and Gao Ming and Shen Hong almost couldn't find their way in.

Now, they're in this warehouse, and they don't know if they'll get lost when they leave.

Even Tang Yiping was worried about this, because when they came, they relied on their [carrion] instinct. On the way back, they lacked the [carrion] guidance and could only hope that Stoka could see through the changes in the nearby bubble space.

As he said this, Shen Hong asked, "If OIFU withdraws from this situation, what will happen to this warehouse? What will happen to Touchpoint Interconnect?"

"If the anchor is based on memory, then after OIFU stops updating or the number of people it affects decreases, the anchor may gradually weaken. What we are pulling out now may be forgotten again, and the two bubble spaces we have already contacted may also break away."

For a fleeting moment, Shen Hong felt a roar within his heart.

Let it go, I don't want to deal with this thing!
If the 41st floor of Qihang Building was still within his acceptable range, since he couldn't see the [Mother Tree of Primordial Dust], then in his view, the Touchpoint Interconnect headquarters on the 41st floor of Qihang Building was just a somewhat strange space.

What he saw in the warehouse today, that enormous, tentacle-like thing that surged in from outside the walls and drove him crazy, had already crossed his psychological threshold.

Actually, it's better not to know.

However, the message Fan Zhihong received from the other side of the world was that the people there were also trying to open the warehouse. He had reasonable grounds to suspect that this was the way the other side opened the passage.

This warehouse is the weak link between the two worlds, the next passage.

The first time, they gained the upper hand and opened the passage before their opponents.

The balance of power shifts easily.

Retreating back would only mean sitting and waiting for death.

"Now is not the time for OIFU to exit the stage of history... Let me think of a way to apply for funding and get this done..."

Although Shen Hong said that, his brows were furrowed tightly.

Actually, money is a very troublesome issue for organizations like theirs. Every step of spending money requires review, and you always have to submit a specific reason.

Should we write in the report: "To maintain the connection between two different bubble spaces? Request funding to replenish expired food for Touchpoint Interconnected vending machines?"

Moreover, the initial purpose of pulling on the contact interconnect was to find the negative entropy monitoring algorithm for contact interconnect, but so far there have been many unexpected gains.

The truth of this world is gradually coming to light.

Although Shen Hong appears calm and collected while sitting here, his heart is actually filled with fear of the unknown.

He may have already stood at the forefront of humanity's exploration of this world.

Shen Hong looked out of the warehouse doorway, where Gao Ming and his men were spreading out to search.

He's terrified of seeing the search results now.

He is now terrified of knowing what lies beyond these walls.

"Actually, there's no need to worry too much about money," Tang Yiping said. "I have several hundred thousand yuan."

Shen Hong: "???"

No, everyone on the internet knows your internship salary is 3260 per month.

"I might be able to find people too..." Tang Yiping thought of Li Chongshan and his group. These guys had been recruited by the prosthetic body Luo Han and he wondered what they were busy with every day.

However, it should still be possible to do some physical labor.

“But you’re right,” Tang Yiping said. “If we replenish all these goods, it will only allow OIFU to operate for another month or two.”

What should I do next?
Is there any way to make people remember these vending machines without needing to restock them?

Perhaps, OIFU is truly coming to the end of its historical mission.

We need to find a way to transfer the memories and anchors of the contact points to other places; some expired food alone is no longer enough.

Tang Yiping thought.

Both of them were preoccupied with their own thoughts and difficulties, frowning as they pondered and looked out of the warehouse.

Outside the warehouse, Gao Ming directed his team to launch a drone, which flew into the sky.

To be honest, he was a little nervous.

He didn't know what he was going to see.

Standing there, he had a strange feeling that the strange tentacles that had protruded into the outer wall of the warehouse were coiled around the outside of the warehouse, ready to crush the wall and rush in at any moment.

The other friends also looked particularly solemn.

No one could remain unmoved after seeing those horrifying tentacles.

Where have we ended up?!

I should have had someone transfer me back then.

Gao Ming was inwardly wailing.

What does it mean to make one mistake lead to another?

When I first noticed something strange about this, I should have taken a vacation and run away!
Of course, Gao Ming, who was the learning channel for the "Working Mask," remained outwardly calm. He waved to his friends and said, "Deploy the drone and do some reconnaissance."

A drone took off and flew into the sky.

Then he looked into the warehouse. Through the large hole, he saw Tang Yiping writing code and Shen Hong reading a newspaper.

The old gatekeeper who's always reading the newspaper and the IT guy who's always coding are probably the organization's last line of defense.

He thought to himself, "What am I complaining about?"

But for some reason, seeing how calm these two people were, he felt a little calmer.

Anyway, if the sky falls, there's always someone taller to hold it up.

Even though this tall person uses a wheelchair.

"Deploy drones," he said.

A drone took off and flew into the sky.

After a while, he suddenly realized and said, "Didn't I say to launch the drone? Where's the drone?"

"Alright, launch the drone!" The guy operating the drone looked at the flight controller in his hand, put it down, and turned around to open the drone's case.

The box is empty.

"Huh?" The drone operator quickly opened the second box, which was still empty.

"No way." The drone operator was sweating a little. He quickly opened the third box, but it was still empty.

"You didn't forget to put the drone in, did you? Didn't you prepare it before you set off?"

"That's impossible. I must have put it in before I set off." The young man operating the drone looked at the three drone flight controllers in his hands, completely bewildered.

The flight controller is there, but the drone is gone.

"Go back and write a self-criticism," Gao Ming said, then pointed to the outer wall of the warehouse: "Then climb up there, and hurry up!"

"I don't want to go..." the flight controller stammered.

At that moment, countless legends surfaced in his mind.

I don't think I'd lose my mind and go crazy just from looking outside.

“This was originally meant to be done by a drone,” Gao Ming said.

What else could the flight controller say? He simply forgot to put the drone back in its case.

Gao Ming arrived at the foot of the wall, straddled the horse, and raised his hands. With a leap, he sent the pilot soaring onto the top of the wall.

Then Gao Ming paused for a moment, stared down at the flight controller lying on the ground: "Didn't I tell you to climb up? What are you doing lying on the ground? And why are you baring your teeth?"

"I...I don't know...Ouch, that hurts, lend me a hand." He helped the pilot's hand up from the ground.

While checking the flight controller for injuries, Gao Ming suddenly heard a "thump" behind him, and something fell to the ground.

He turned his head and saw a drone crashed on the ground, its outer shell cracked.

There was silence.

Where did this drone come from?
"It's our drone! It has a number on it!" one of the friends rushed over and took a look, exclaiming.

"I told you I launched the drone," the flight controller said, sounding aggrieved.

How could I possibly forget to bring the drone! That's not right.

A cold wind blew by, and despite the sweltering afternoon, the group of people felt icy cold all over.

Why did we release the drone but forget about it?
"What about the other two?" someone asked.

Everyone looked up with solemn expressions.

On a summer afternoon, the sun hangs high in the sky, a clear, azure blue, with a few white clouds drifting lazily in the distance.

But a drone suddenly appeared in the background of the sky, then crashed down and slammed heavily to the ground.

Then came the third one.

"Look, look!" The flight controller pointed at the three crashed drones and made a tearful accusation.

"What kind of hell is this place?!" Gao Ming muttered.

"Did you see what you filmed?" Gao Ming asked.

The flight controller quickly bent down and began to operate the aircraft, and Gao Ming also stepped forward.

"There's nothing there..." he muttered.

The image transmitted back by the drone gradually rises, but after rising to a certain level, the image disappears.

"Was it that we couldn't capture it, or that we can't see it?" Gao Ming asked.

Everyone looked at each other, but no one said a word.

They all instinctively reached for the weapons at their waists.

I feel a bit uneasy, both physically and mentally.

Actually, they might be mentally prepared if they saw something really eerie, but the fact that they didn't manage to capture anything made it all the more unsettling.

The unknown is the scariest thing.

Then everyone looked at Tang Yiping inside the warehouse.

"I'll go take a look at him," Gao Ming said. Now they could only rely on Tang.

In any case, hopefully Tang can clear up their doubts.

Gao Ming, holding the flight controller, turned and walked towards the warehouse. Just then, he heard a voice from behind him: "Excuse me..."

With a "whoosh," several guns were drawn almost simultaneously and pointed at the door.

Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! A monster is coming!

It's still a talking monster!

At the entrance, a young man riding an electric scooter, wearing a blue vest with the words "Precision Dimensions" on it, was looking inside.

He looked at the pistols in their hands with some doubt and asked, "Are you... playing live-action CS?"

"Who are you?" Gao Ming's voice was still trembling as he had almost emptied his magazine.

"My name is Lin Jiaqiang," the young man said. "I saw that Tang posted a new version of OIFU and said that he found Touchpoint Interconnect's warehouse and needs someone to help restock the vending machines. I'm nearby, so I came to see if I could help. Where is Tang? Is he not here?"

As he was talking, he saw Tang Yiping's wheelchair roll out of the warehouse, which had a large hole in it.

"Tang!" he exclaimed with delight.

"How did you find this place?" Tang Yiping was stunned. He had only posted the restock code, not his current location.

Moreover, outside the warehouse is an area where two bubble spaces overlap. Without anyone to guide him, how come he didn't get lost?
"Tang, you forgot to send the address. The little radishes led me here. I simulated it, and when the radishes pointed here, I followed the navigation," Lin Jiaqiang said.

Little radish?
Tang Yiping was taken aback.

"Are all the items for restocking in there? I can spare an hour this afternoon and make a few more trips," Lin Jiaqiang said.

A few minutes later, Lin Jiaqiang left the alley with several boxes strapped to the back of his electric scooter.

Several people stood at the gate, watching Lin Jiaqiang's back as he drove away down the street. Some inexplicable force dispelled their fear.

"This is the world we protect."

Shen Hong said.

"Little radish, little radish..." Tang Yiping thought of something and turned to walk towards the warehouse.

Everyone is so familiar with his gesture; he must have had another inspiration for writing code.

"Wait a minute, Tang!" Gao Ming quickly called out to him and handed him the flight controller.

　I've been stuck in a rut all day, and I also had diarrhea all day. I think I've got heatstroke...

　　It's so hot today...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)