Gate of Apocalypse

Chapter 379 [Not Master]

Joey Peak silenced down.

After a few seconds of planting, he seemed to want to drink, but found that he had already drank all his wine and had thrown his glass far away. Joey Peak simply reached out and grabbed Chen Xiaolian's glass and drank it.

“Okay, then tell me.” The tone of Joey Peak is a little complicated: “Anyway, it seems that you would not be willing to continue this conversation without first clarifying it. ”

“I'm waiting to hear it.” Chen Xiaoliang's face was very cold.

Joey Peak smiled, but his eyes were cold.

“At first, I wanted to kill you. ”

Hearing this phrase narrowed Chen Xiaoliang's eyes a little.

But Joey Peak didn't seem to feel much guilt, and the tone was calm: “It's not surprising. You helped me, yes, but killing you was just one option for me. I admit I'm not a good person —— in this game, pure good people are long gone. ”

“Well, I admit you have a point, go on. ”

“It's a mission, I mean, this thing in Africa about Zeid, it's a mission. A mission released in a zero city.” Joey Peak looked at Chen Xiaocai: “I don't know how much you already know about this. I got you involved in this mission, and I thought you were on this mission, and whether you killed Zeid or not, you didn't have much chance of surviving, maybe you'd die in someone else's hands. That might solve my problem. Once you die, Jojo's problem is gone, it doesn't exist. ”

“You're so ruthless. ”

“Yes, Jojo would be sad, but sad is better than dead.” Joey Peak Cold Lane: “I don't want to see her follow you in the future, die in a copy of a game one day and be refreshed into a backup program. ”

Speaking of which, Joey Peak did not look into Chen Xiaolei's eyes, but continued to speak for himself.

“What I didn't expect was that your luck was really good. Not only are you not dead, but you also got this mine. Well, things have to be handled in a completely different way. I hope you die, but since you own this mine, you better not die. Otherwise, we would be unprofitable. ”

“Lee, you mean this mining area?” Chen Xiaolian grinned.

“Yes.” Joey Peak looked at Chen Xiaocai: “So, you have to explain, you can explain anything. It's okay to cheat on you before, to cheat you into this situation, to almost kill you. I can apologize and show you all my sincerity. If you need me, I can even dance to the table for you monkeys - as long as you're happy. Because you have enough value now. ”

Chen Xiaolian looked at Qiao Yi Peak - Qiao Yi Peak in front of him, showing a completely different temperament and style than when he met before.

Before Joey Peak, it seemed like a big figure, a giant, a serious and dignified existence.

And Joey Peak at this moment… is more pragmatic, more realistic, even more apathetic, not only towards others, but also towards himself. Smell by any means!

Chen Xiaolei picked the corner of his eyes: “This mining area belongs to your team? ”

Joey Peak frowned: “How did you guess? ”

Chen Xiaolian smiled.

He opened his hand: “That's what I figured. ”

Joey nodded, not denying: "Well, you guessed right. ”

“Is your team one of the permanent teams in Zero City? ”

“Of course, that's right.” Joey Peak nodded again.

Chen Xiaocao whistled.

I underestimated the old man's team a long time ago.

He had previously thought that the team that Joey Peak was in, should be an average large team, maybe some strength, but never thought that they would be strong enough to be a "Zero City Resident Team”.

“Zero City now has seven permanent teams.” Joey Peak thought about it and smiled bitterly: “But in fact, nominally, there are 33 teams. ”

“I don't understand.” Chen Xiaolian frowned.

“Because the world is changing.” Joey Peak's tone deepens: “The team will be strong, weak, and even extinct. Zero City was founded for a long time. In this long time, there were many teams strong enough to reside in Zero City, and then they stayed there, developed fully, and flourished for a while, then..."

“He looked up at the Zhu Building, at his guests, and at the collapse of his building.” Chen Xiaoliang sighed: "Kong Sang-min's Peach Fan. ”

“I almost forgot, you're still a writer.” Joey Peak smiled.

“Go on. ”

“There are times of strength and times of decline.” Joey Peak shook his head: “A lot of teams do, Zero City is a shelter, but in this shelter, competition is also very fierce.

Zero City, that's the place.

In the history of Zero City, a total of 33 teams have joined Zero City and gained permanent residency, but in the years, some teams have survived, some teams have flourished, but gradually faded, others have failed...

Today, those who still occupy qualifications in Zero City, and seven other teams, the rest, have been wiped out. ”

“Extinction means total annihilation. The regiment is annihilated? ”

“No, you don't understand the Zero City mechanism.” Joey Peak shook his head and said something that surprised Chen Xiaolian, "Zero City mechanism, very special. ”

“I'm waiting to hear it. ”

……

“Wow, welcome home. ”

Standing in the middle of Zero City, looking at the empty streets around her, Nicole said something to herself.

This is not the usual time for Zero City to open, the streets in the city look empty and few people exist.

The vibrant beach of love in the distance doesn't seem to have much atmosphere either.

But while not a regular opening time, Zero City is not without outsiders.

In this world, there are always awakeners or teams of special powers who will be given special privileges by certain forces in the Zero City to gain special access to the Zero City - Shadow has previously offered Chen Xiaocai similar privileges.

Flea markets for private goods are still set up, although there are only a large number of people without regular opening hours.

Strangers can still be seen on the street.

Nicole walked down the street and didn't get too much attention.

Zero City always needs some outsiders to exist.

These outsiders, some with special cooperation with major permanent teams, some with intelligence, some with scarce resources, some with peripheral membership, some with material channels for Zero City, and so on.

Nicole's face was specially treated, and no one would recognize her as a plankton angel at this moment.

Walked into a hotel that was open to the outside world, and Nicole registered under a false name.

On the projection screen in the lobby of the hotel, you can see the latest news of a Zero City.

“Oh? Did another referendum start? Another team is going to crash..."

……

“The fallout of the resident team is a big thing in Zero City. Every resident team, the most precious asset is not its strength, staffing, configuration, etc., but… the share of resources allocated in the Zero City! ”

“I don't understand.” Chen Xiaoliang's expression was puzzling.

“You don't understand. It's normal. In fact, it's complicated.” The tone of Joey Peak is a little helpless and a little self-derisive: “Because Zero City was weird from the beginning. Let me put it this way... Zero City, not a certain owner! ”

“Wait, Zero City... no owner?! What's that supposed to mean? ”

“I mean, Zero City doesn't have a ’one’ for sure.” Joey Peak has a complex tone.

……

Zero City is a small world.

And nothing else, just from this point of view, Zero Town and C11 have a similarity of aberrations.

In the C11 mining area, for example, there will be a master of the mine.

An occupier, an owner.

This owner gets the highest, all privileges in the mine! The right to open any mine, produce, refine or even temporarily close it if necessary.

All the permissions, in the hands of the Master.

But Zero City… that is not the case.

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“The first thing I didn't know, the only thing I knew was that Zero City wasn't owned or controlled by someone or a team.

The legend I know is that the founder of the first Zero City was a group of people, maybe a few, maybe dozens... I don't know that much. ”

Listen to the words of Joey Peak, Chen Xiaolian naturally, several people appeared in his heart.

Bai Qi!

Mr. Umbrella!

According to the information currently received by Chen Xiaocai, these people are the founders of Zero City!

Obviously, Joey Peak doesn't seem to know about these things.

Joey Peak's narrative continues.

“Zero doesn't have an owner, that is, it doesn't have a master. So Zero City has a strange mechanism. Simply put, Zero City is run by representatives of several large teams who consult and make decisions and jointly take control of Zero City. ”

“Like a council of elders or a supreme council?” Chen Xiaocao asked.

“Pretty much.” Joey Peak laughs bitterly: “But the problem is, as far as I know, this Presbyterian Church doesn't actually have the highest authority in Zero City, which means that they can't fully use Zero City's functions. ”

Looking at the confusion in Chen Xiaolian's eyes, Qiao Yi Feng slowly said: “It's like a building, the real owner of this building is not there, no one can find it.

However, there are many tenants who rent houses in the building.

Some of the households, powerful, gathered together to manage the building.

They can do a lot of things, like repair damaged parts of buildings, electrical appliances. Take advantage of some empty room modifications, such as paying water and electricity bills, to make the building work properly. For example, if someone wants to enter the building, they can open the door and let someone in.

Looks like these people are the owners of the building, and the building is functioning normally under their management.

But in fact, these people are not the real owners.

So the buildings, some locked rooms, they can't open, they can't get in —— maybe there's something more important in these rooms.

So, some important building rights, they can't make up their minds.

For example, when a tenant fails to pay rent, they do not have the right to drive someone out - some of the already named resident teams still occupy the capacity to reside in Zero City.

Unlike, wanting to change the building's structure, you can't do it.

I don't know if you understand this metaphor. ”

Chen Xiaoliang thought for a while and nodded: “I think I can understand. ”

“Zero City has lots of permissions and lots of features, but in fact, until today, there are lots of features and permissions that we can't use.

Zero City, for example, publishes a number of tasks on a regular basis to create something similar to C11 in the world.

However, those teams in Zero City can only accept releases passively, but cannot control them.

I mean, something like C11, when, how much, where... none of this can be controlled by the Presbyterian Church.

Instead, the Zero City system was automatically released. We, just passive acceptance: a C11 mine appeared, and at some point in Kmubiya, it opened… we were just passive acceptance.

But we can't take ownership, and we can't make any changes to mission releases.

This mine, for example, is not in Kemubia, but in New York, USA… None of this we can do.

The only difference is that people outside, they don't know they have these tasks, and we know, so the benefits of these tasks are monopolized by us.

Once this thing is known to the outside world, such as you, Chen Xiaoliang. Then you can also get involved in competing for the benefits of these tasks, and this time you do.

We, in fact… are not as powerful as imagined. ”

Speaking of which, Joey Peak sighed and smiled bitterly: “There are many more functions like this, but none of us can control them, nor do we have the authority to do so. We... are actually just a bunch of tenants who live in the 'Zero City' building, and the real owners aren't there, so we managed the building ourselves.

Although we look very much like the owners of Zero City.

But in fact, we're not! ”

Chen Xiaocao did not ask the question “Who is the real owner of Zero City” or “Where is the real owner of Zero City”.

Of course he wouldn't ask.

So the question he asked was, "So how did you manage Zero City? What do you mean by quota? ”

“Allocation quota... this is a damn thing.” The tone of Joey Peak is a bit gloomy.

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[Still asking for monthly tickets!!

Can the monthly ticket ranking be moved up again?

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