Terra Hotline, crime simulator

"I've thought a lot in the past few days. I've read a lot of stories about you. Maybe you are right, and Uncle Maena is right too. I can't find the so-called chivalry in the arena at all."

Two days ago, maybe a day ago, I met Margaret once and told her to wait for me at Lot 17 in District [-]. Well, by some strange combination of circumstances, I was ambushed by the Blood Knight, and finally Being imprisoned here.

As for how Margaret found out about my arrest and how she signed up to participate in this death match, I am too lazy to think about it now.

"That's really congratulations to you, so you plan to do this?"

I asked again.

"Perhaps this city is hopeless in your eyes. In the face of this darkness, you can only take the most violent and extreme methods, but I will not. I believe that there will eventually be a road full of light and hope.

The so-called knight is a noble person who lights up the entire land. "

She placed the tip of the spear on the ground, and the light bloomed silently, and the knight's pupils seemed to be flowing with gold.

"This is your answer? This is your answer?!

That's really ridiculous. Look around you, Knight of Radiance. They want us to fight each other to death. Are these people worthy of your illumination and salvation? "

An unknown fire arose in my heart. Facing those scum every day in the past two days has not made me so angry. Margaret is still so innocent, which is hard for me to accept.

She is such an idealist.

I have understood a truth before, instead of saving those who are weak, it is better to eradicate all evil.

Putting it this way, it seems that I am also an idealist, but my direction is different from hers.

"Rorschach, you have seen more darkness than me, and you have seen more tragedy than me, but have you ever seen the brilliance of ideals still shining in those weak people?"

"No, I only saw the flames rising from their bodies and the pungent smell of burning."

I looked at her without panic. Barbarism is human nature. No matter how you hide or pretend, she thinks she can wake up the people in this city.

The light of sex, but in reality, is what we see, where depravity and darkness are the norm.

"Hey! Do you still want to fight?! Don't waste time!"

"Margaret! Tear Rorschach to pieces! Hang his head on the blade of your sword!! I bought you to win!"

Our eyes met each other and we didn't take action for a long time. The audience seemed to be unable to stand it any longer. Even the big-mouthed Mobu, who acted as referee and commentator, didn't know what to say for a while.

"I will prove to you that suffering is worth redemption."

"Then, Pegasus, give it a try."

I stretched out my hands, she raised the long sword, and closed her eyes. Her Origin Stone skills were fully displayed at this moment. The brilliance flowed like running water until it was within sight. The energy contained in this was greater than Maena's anger back then. Even stronger.

For a moment, I felt a burning sensation on my retinas, and there was a low roar from the audience, but this was just the prelude to the explosion.

"Sun, please nod for me!"

Her speed was so fast that I couldn't detect it with my naked eyes. If I were to block it, I wasn't sure if I could block the blow. I should be lucky that the target of her attack was not me.

Margaret's figure turned into an afterimage and passed me by. It felt like a supersonic missile passing me and then exploding on the wall behind me.

After the smoke dissipated, there was the sound of the prison alarm. The strength of this temporary arena built by the infected person shelter was far less than that of the large arenas, and the walls were extremely fragile.

Is this her plan?Create confusion?Let me take the opportunity to retreat?This is really a simple and crude but very effective plan.

"Ahem...what just happened?! The powerful blow of the Knight of Radiance destroyed the playing field! I wonder what's going on with Rorschach?! Wait...Rorschach is gone!!"

I had forgotten the voice of Big Mouth Mob, and then even greater chaos followed.

"Those infected people!! Someone, hurry up and put those infected people in cages!"

"Someone has breached the prison's security system! We've been hacked!"

"Need support!! Area [-] needs more guards to support!!"

The infected and criminals vented their anger and desires on the audience like wild beasts, and the killers of the Wuxia Alliance were already busy.

There is an accomplice in this rescue operation without my consent. Who is it?Maria or Zofia?In short, it can't be Maena or Tolan.

I went back to the prison area and didn't rush to evacuate because my face, my coat, and my gloves were still there.

I kicked off a few bastards who were trying to block the way, and I moved forward. There was blood and screams everywhere. The consequences of swallowing too much darkness and losing humanity are like this. I can't imagine that what Margaret wants to save is this kind of thing. Man, I don’t have time to participate in their gatherings right now.

But chaos also has the benefit of bringing fairness.

"Boss! There is a riot in Block Zero! We need manpower support here!"

Finally, I found Monique in the monitoring room. She was so flustered that she didn't notice me appearing behind her.

——!!

Just when I was about to strangle her neck, she suddenly dropped the phone, turned around, jumped back, drew her bow and nocked an arrow, all in one movement.

Monique shot me in the shoulder, and I shuddered slightly, but I still rushed towards her, pinning her to the ground, her legs flailing wildly, and the fear in her eyes satisfied me.

“Where is my face??!!!”

"...In the pocket on my waist! Let me go...ahem...you can't kill me..."

Her face turned red from being pinched by me. I found my mask from her body and immediately put it on, staring at her expression:

"Now, Monique! Tell me, what did you see?!"

Chapter 237 Prelude to War

Later I learned that there were more people rescuing me this time than I thought. Maria was responsible for disconnecting the electricity in the area, several people from the Red Pine Knights were responsible for causing chaos, and Viviana bribed some internal personnel. So that they can sneak in quickly.

(What is the purpose of the Candle Knight? Why do you want to help me? I can’t figure it out. She is originally from Russell’s side. Maybe she is a pawn of the Supervisory Committee. She can only think in the worst direction.)

After meeting up with Margaret, we headed to Zofia’s mansion together.

I, Flame Tail Knight, Margaret, Maria, and Zofia are planning the next action. Of course, the premise is that they must heal my injury.

"Hey, don't move while I'm applying the medicine to you! Do you know how deep your wound is?!"

I'm not used to letting others deal with my wounds, especially when the other person is a knight. Don't get me wrong, by now, all "knights" have become derogatory terms in my eyes, and of course, this includes the person who saved me. Glory Knight.

After sewing up the last wound, Whipblade Knight Sophia looked me up and down, then nodded with satisfaction:

"I didn't expect Rorschach to look like this under the mask. He's a bit more handsome than I thought. It would be nice if he shaved off his beard."

I ignored her teasing, put on my coat, put the mask back on my face, put on my hat and gloves, and took a deep breath

After taking a breath he asked:

“I want to know what’s going on. Has the Federation of Commerce publicly listed infected people as untouchables?

In the past, they only treated infected people as commodities, and at best they were executed secretly on plot zero. Now, they have opened a special animal fighting cage for infected people? "

Facing my question, Zofia just threw the newspaper on the table to me. After a quick glance, I felt that the wound that had just been stitched was tearing faintly again.

"The "Infected Persons Unified Arms Management Act" was officially approved by the National Assembly and is expected to be implemented in the second half of the year!"

"What does it mean?"

I asked everyone present.

"Don't you understand? This means that the Business Federation will have the right to form an army."

Zofia replied uneasily, and she continued:

"This is one of the reasons why we came to rescue you, Rorschach, something big is going to happen to Casimir. Almost all infected people have to face this choice."

Taking another closer look, the content in the newspaper made me wonder if all the factions within the Chamber of Commerce were crazy.

"Of course I understand. I just feel that you are not ready yet. Also, this is not a choice, this is their inevitable path."

The Meshko Group's

The United Chamber of Commerce is now openly recruiting a large number of infected people to serve as Casimir's financial security contractors, or what is called the chaebol's exclusive private army... and promises that each person will be equipped with an X1 suit.

The conditions for joining the army are also very simple: finish a game alive on the battlefield, regardless of winning or losing.

No wonder they started building an exclusive arena for infected people on Lot Zero.

This is simply an offer that cannot be refused to the infected people who are thinking about how to survive all day long.

Why infected?

Very simple reason.

The needs of infected people are much less than that of normal people, and they are very obedient. Most of them hate the knights (this is very important). The most critical point is that they have no citizenship rights and there are many of them.

The lack of citizenship means that there is a lot of room for expansion in terms of law. After all, the law stipulates that chaebol companies cannot have their own army, but Casimir's definition of the army is very strict, and they only recognize knights.

Even though this group of infected people have advanced equipment and weapons, a unified goal, and a sole allegiance, they are still not a legally recognized army. They are just an armed force of the same nature as the Wuzhou Alliance.

Moreover, the current Wuzhou Alliance is no longer the one who shot and killed the rotten knight master, and the current Xuantie is not the original Xuantie who thought about the people and the country.

The same is true for the National Assembly. Remember, the main body of Casimir's tax collection is not Casimir's supervisory committee government, but the business federation of oligarchs and plutocrats.

It is the taxes paid by these enterprises that support the financial sources of Casimir's national institutions, that is, the financial sources of the two large national institutions, the National Assembly and the Chamber of Commerce.

In other words, the National Assembly has long been corrupted by capital, so that it could pass such an ambitious bill. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is the first step in the business federation's desire to establish a military dictatorship.

I have never heard of this bill before, not even a draft.

There is not much time left for the knights of the Supervisory Committee.

The retinues of the knights once formed a slave army to counterattack the knights. It sounds so dramatic.

The outcome of this war is also doomed.

The Silver Spear Pegasus is to kill each one, and as long as the Originium Disease still exists, the number of infected people will be endless. The infected people in Casimir now have the only choice to survive.

That is the private army that joins the business federation.

Have an army made entirely of infected?People who didn't know better thought that Sakaz had already ruled Casimir.

This power... is overkill for cleaning up the prison.

All the advantages lie with the Commercial Federation. In just a few games, the people will forget about the impact brought by the Glory Knight and focus on the next round of entertainment and consumption.

For them, "debating which knight is stronger" and "debating whether the pricing of knight peripherals is reasonable" are more important than paying attention to whether infected people die in the arena.

Moreover, society would also like to thank the United Chamber of Commerce for providing a job to the infected.

Casimir has become inseparable from the foundation of the Federation of Commerce, and those miserable war knights...how many have already voluntarily surrendered to them.

There had been no movement from the Supervisory Committee for a long time. It shouldn't have happened. Although Russell was arrogant, she was not so stupid and slow.

Am I the only normal person left in the world?This is a cold world: there can only be a sober reaction to this world.

"Rorschach? Where are you going? Your wound has just been bandaged!"

Seeing me throwing away the newspaper and walking out without saying a word, Zofia stopped me.

"The war is about to break out. Just like I have said countless times, the end of the world is coming. I want to meet Knight Grandmaster Russell."

Chapter 238 December 12

"Wait! Rorschach!"

I just took a few steps with my front feet when I felt dizzy.

His steps became light and he felt unbearable pain in his abdomen.

Only then did I realize that I had not eaten for a long time after being separated from Tolan and entering the prison.

But now it seems that Tolan's plan to encircle the countryside has failed. The "people forgotten by the city" in his words are about to be taken over by the business alliance. Even his bounty hunter gang will face the risk of Zhao'an. .

If Ursus treated the infected as miners, then Casimir now purely treated the infected as cannon fodder on the battlefield.

"There is not enough time. If it is too late, more innocent people will die in this civil strife, and what follows will be the eyes of neighboring countries such as Ursus."

The Flame Tail Knight hurriedly came over and helped me to the sofa nearby. Everyone looked at me with complicated eyes.

"What? Don't look at me with that look. I'm still alive. I can clearly feel that every cell in my body is functioning."

"You need to take a break. Besides, you can't do anything by yourself. Haven't you understood this after working alone for so many years?"

Flametail looked at me with worry. In fact, I felt a little guilty for her, or I shouldn't have followed her back to the Red Pine Knights' sanctuary that night.

"I hate this, shrunken in the Whipblade Knight's hut, hiding from the authorities."

Margaret the Knight of Glory stopped me, and she said obligingly:

"There are a bunch of bounty hunters and unarmed killers hunting you outside, unless you want to go back to prison."

"Oh, so? Why did you rescue me? Let's hold a My Little Pony Carnival party here? You are a knight, why use your influence to influence those infected and let them not become a business federation? Cannon fodder? Oh, by the way, I forgot that the Federation of Commerce hasn’t given you the prize money for the Major Championship yet.”

Maria said at this time:

"But you don't know where Russell is. She is the Grand Master Knight of the Supervisory Committee, and ordinary people can't see her."