Chapter 343
He never expected that Zai Jiu Xun Ge would stand firm against his coercion, showing no signs of retreat!
Even before he could make an offer—be it the language of the myriad races, SSS-level skills, or rare equipment—he had already heard the content of the curse…
Dong Hai Sha Leng closed his eyes, not wanting to see Zai Jiu Xun Ge's smiling face, nor did he want Zai Jiu Xun Ge to catch a glimpse of the chaos brewing in his eyes!
But Zai Jiu Xun Ge didn’t let him off the hook. He heard Zai Jiu Xun Ge speaking to him in Shark Forest Language: “Actually, before you found me today, I hadn’t thought of using this method to stop you from reclaiming your divine gift. You reminded me.
“1-star Sea Year? That’s probably not the point. The real issue is that you want to push something onto me through this deal, right?
“Hmm… No reaction is the best reaction. Looks like I guessed right.
“Well then, thank you for your gift! I’ll be sure to use it well! Goodbye.”
It wasn’t until Yu Xun Ge, holding the now drowsy Tu Lan, reached the street corner and looked back that Dong Hai Sha Leng was still standing there, while the Hate Thorn at his feet seemed to be looking up and saying something to him.
Tu Lan’s voice was thick with sleep: “They feel strange.”
Earlier, when she was collecting dragon blood, Yu Xun Ge had warned her to act immediately if she sensed something was off, which had made her quite nervous at the time.
However, in close proximity to the Hate Thorn, Tu Lan, sensitive to emotions, could perceive the deep pain, grievance, and resentment within it, though those feelings weren’t directed at her…
When the Hate Thorn gave her dragon blood, it even seemed a bit impatient to be freed from something.
Yu Xun Ge glanced at the information above the Hate Thorn’s head.
She had no way of knowing what the Hate Thorn’s taboos and weaknesses were in the past, but now… she saw the Hate Thorn’s taboo—Pet Contract.
Having encountered one taboo after another, and combining it with what she had seen of Tu Lan’s taboo, she had roughly pieced together the meaning of taboos: they were things that the individual detested to the extreme, or the very existence that could drive them to lose their sanity.
What was most interesting was that while the Hate Thorn’s taboo was a Pet Contract, its weakness was Dong Hai Sha Leng.
It seemed her earlier curse had left a significant rift between this master and pet.
The curse she placed on Dong Hai Sha Leng indicated that he had chosen to prioritize his own safety.
Yu Xun Ge couldn’t help but smile like a villain; being the bad guy felt quite satisfying.
However, if she were to encounter Dong Hai Sha Leng outside the safe zone again, she would likely be the first to run away or even leave the scene…
She gently patted the already fast-asleep Tu Lan, whose gem was emitting a soft glow, perhaps digesting the dragon blood she had just received, leaving her too drained to even say a word.
Yu Xun Ge stored Tu Lan in her pet space; it seemed this divine game wouldn’t allow her to rely on Tu Lan’s help, which made her abandon her plan to turn herself into a treasure mine through “surviving to the end” and then have a robot sell her off.
Without Tu Lan, who could use the Dragon Thief skill, she couldn’t trust herself—who couldn’t use any attack skills—to be handed over to any living creature with a modicum of intelligence.
Yu Xun Ge began to browse shop after shop, focusing on finding a robot whose personality matched the tone of this game.
Honest? No good… not suitable for making big money.
Cunning? Also not good, too likely to trick her.
Smart? That could be a neutral term, but this was a C-series robot, and her game rule seventeen was that she couldn’t respond to C-series robots.
Yu Xun Ge didn’t plan to linger in this special commercial area for long; after all, Dong Hai Sha Leng was around, and she intended to complete her task and leave immediately.
After wandering through most of the market, she finally found something satisfactory.
【L12857777 ？？？ Battery: 88%┃Pure-hearted·Lacks Initiative┃Taboo: Poverty┃Weakness: Battery Depletion】
Huh? Huh? Pure-hearted? Lacks initiative?
Wasn’t this the perfect partner for her?!
Yu Xun Ge rushed to the pink robot L12857777, grabbing its mechanical hand: “Need investment? I’ll invest in you!”
The screen in L12857777’s eyes scanned Yu Xun Ge from head to toe a few times, and after some characters flashed across the screen that Yu Xun Ge couldn’t understand, it finally spoke in Chinese: “Hello, esteemed Zai Jiu star guest.”
Yu Xun Ge pulled L12857777 to a corner of the shop: “If I invest in you, what do you plan to do?”
L12857777: “Use your treasure diamonds to acquire treasure mines from other players, then go to headquarters to buy skills and equipment to sell to players, making a profit from the price difference.”
Yu Xun Ge pouted and shook her head repeatedly, sighing softly: “L12857777, I’m really disappointed in you. Do you know B8017913?”
L12857777: “Yes, it’s an outdated robot that’s about to be eliminated.”
Yu Xun Ge: ???
Does B8017913 know you’re all gossiping about it behind its back?
And it’s about to be eliminated?
Though she had only chatted with L12857777 for a few moments, she could already tell that L12857777 was nowhere near as intelligent as B8017913. B8017913 not only joked with her but also observed her…
But she couldn’t be sure if this was due to personality or perhaps… what she saw of B8017913’s personality was merely what it wanted the players to see.
Yu Xun Ge suppressed her chaotic thoughts and continued: “Hmm, it’s full of wisdom… it doesn’t stick to rigid rules and is adept at seizing every opportunity to earn treasure diamonds.”
Since she couldn’t lie and had no inclination to draw the Divine Punishment unless necessary, she chose her words carefully.
L12857777 didn’t quite understand Yu Xun Ge’s roundabout way of speaking; it replied straightforwardly: “Esteemed Zai Jiu star guest, what do you want me to do?”
Yu Xun Ge led L12857777 outside the shop. The robot didn’t resist, and once they were away from those robot shopkeepers who might understand Chinese, Yu Xun Ge whispered:
“After I invest in you, you take the treasure diamonds and treasure mines I give you to attract business. If I manage to get treasure diamonds from players through other means and hand them over to you, can that count as your profit?”
L12857777: “Do you have a theft skill?”
Robots are always so blunt. Yu Xun Ge nodded: “How about it?”
L12857777: “Sure.”
So straightforward! Yu Xun Ge, who had prepared a whole bunch of talking points, was taken aback. But then she thought, perhaps for robots, stealing and committing murder were no different.
Their operating programs only contained rules, devoid of notions of good and evil, right and wrong.
【Chapter 445: Divine Game: Treasure Diamond Miner 14】
Rational to the extreme, completely unaffected by emotions or feelings.
Just like when she traded with Dong Hai Sha Leng, her awareness of his odd behavior didn’t rely on analyzing his personality or character traits.
She was not familiar with Dong Hai Sha Leng, nor did she understand what kind of alien he was.
Moreover, personality, emotions, feelings, and so on, are all things that can easily change with circumstances.
She didn’t analyze those emotional, mutable, or even performative aspects; she only focused on one thing—what Dong Hai Sha Leng was desperately trying to resolve, what price he was willing to pay, and what result he sought in return.
Dong Hai Sha Leng let her name her price, wanting only for her not to curse him within a single Sea Year?
But that condition was actually quite easy to fulfill. If it were Yu Xun Ge, rather than trading with an enemy and giving resources to benefit them, she would prefer to use a smaller price to hire other players to provoke herself, allowing her to use up the remaining curse quota.
Yet Dong Hai Sha Leng insisted on trading with her, even unafraid of her asking for a high price.
To offer a large amount of resources to an enemy just to achieve a goal that could be accomplished through other means?
Such an “unfair” trade was impossible for Yu Xun Ge not to doubt.
She couldn’t help but feel a sense of envy as she said to L12857777: “Sometimes I really envy you guys.”
Even though Yu Xun Ge prided herself on being selfish and indifferent, she often found her judgment and actions influenced by her surroundings and the people around her, especially regarding certain matters with Ding Hai and Zai Jiu.
L12857777’s voice held a programmed confusion: “What do you envy about us?”
Like colleagues she had encountered during her acting days who were stuck in a scripted performance, its confusion was expressed with precision, leaving no flaws to pick apart, yet you could clearly tell it was acting.
In that moment, Yu Xun Ge felt the difference between L12857777 and B8017913 once again.
Yu Xun Ge had no intention of opening her heart to L12857777. She sold all ten of her treasure mines to L12857777 before shifting the topic: “Do you know any other players with theft skills?”
L12857777: “That’s player privacy. If we leak it, we’ll be directly destroyed.”
Yu Xun Ge tried to buy L12857777 with treasure diamonds, but it didn’t work. Even when she offered all the treasure diamonds she had, the pink robot still didn’t agree. This only made Yu Xun Ge feel more grounded, and she asked: “Will there be inspectors coming to this special commercial area?”
L12857777 fell silent, as if it had crashed.
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