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Chapter 21 Picking Peaches
Truthfully, for contractors, the task they loved encountering the most was a killing mission involving taking out a certain person or thing.
Because contractors possessed a brutality that exceeded ordinary people, and violence was the best way to carry out killings, killing missions had many advantages: simplicity, convenience, speed, decisiveness, and no lingering mess.
The mission that Vincent had proposed was far more complex in terms of procedure, even with the same level of difficulty, and might even include elements of decryption, which were often much more complicated than killing missions. For example, if the difficulty of a return mission was
, then another killing mission of the same
difficulty would definitely be more welcomed by contractors, even if the reward was a little less.
But for Fang Senyan and the others, with only an hour of stay time left, they had no room for being picky. They could only choose to accept.
"You have triggered a side quest: Return."
"Quest Description: Many things are only valued once they are lost. Vincent, having been squeezed out of Cyberdyne Systems, is extremely eager to return to that massive arms giant. To achieve this wish, he is willing to use any means necessary."
"Quest Hint: The difficulty of Vincent's return currently centers on three people: Supervisor Kalite, Technical Director Pippin, and his former assistant, Leeton. If these three are still around, Vincent has no chance of going back. However, if extreme methods are used against these three, Cyberdyne Systems will also become vigilant and cut off Vincent's hope of returning. Therefore, how to grasp the degree of it is what you must do now."
"Quest Deadline: Two weeks."
"If the quest fails within the deadline: then Vincent's relationship with you will become hostile, and 10,000 Universal Points will be deducted."
As soon as Fang Senyan saw the quest deadline, he immediately felt a sense of relief. It was possible that Vincent's side quest didn't offer much reward, but to be honest, the two-week completion time was the greatest reward.
From this, Fang Senyan could clearly feel that this was likely a preferential treatment given by his No. C Noah Space within its authority, allowing Fang Senyan and the others to receive an inferior quest with a low reward and a rather complex task flow, but the only advantage of this quest was that the completion time was long enough and the penalty for failure was low enough.
This quest might be something that other contractors would spit and curse at after encountering, but for Fang Senyan, it could only be said to be an unexpected surprise, a match made in heaven.
There was only one more troublesome thing: Vincent was being targeted by other contractors, and there was a chance that he would become a familiar. If the quest issuer kicked the bucket, then the quest would naturally be interrupted without explanation, so a way had to be found to protect Vincent.
After some discussion, they decided that since the mastermind had already left, they might as well split up. Zi and Reef, one ranged and one melee, one MT and one damage dealer, would protect Vincent while completing his quest.
Fang Senyan would take Sanzai and Hei Ge men to busy themselves with his quest first, and then reunite when the team needed to work together. More importantly, the mastermind had really come up with a devastating plan when he left, even if he couldn't kill Fang Senyan, he would completely destroy the core area of the quest.
Moreover, after such an explosion, the core area of that quest would inevitably become a restricted zone, scientists would frantically flock there, and the forces of the entire Los Angeles would definitely focus on the Noxon Processing Plant. If Fang Senyan wanted to investigate, he wouldn't be able to do so easily.
Faced with such an awkward situation, Fang Senyan could only sigh and adapt. This was when he could see how precious the two weeks were to him.
The progress on the first day was: Zi and the others figured out Supervisor Kalite's whereabouts and personality. He was an old fogey, and to impress him, they had to come up with enough technical achievements. And for Vincent to come up with these technical achievements, he had to obtain enough reference samples. This meant that Zi and the others had to get three T-750 CPU chips and one T-800 chip for Vincent. Although the road ahead seemed long, at least they had a direction to work towards.
However, Fang Senyan didn't gain anything. He spent the whole day drinking coffee with Sanzai and Hei Ge men in the nearby coffee shops. As Hei Ge men put it, when he walked, he felt like a coffee pot, filled with various milk, flavorings, additives, and coffee. There was no need to put anything else in it to be full.
On the second day, Zi and the others were harassed by contractors, but after discovering Reef as the MT, the other party quickly retreated. At the same time, they successfully killed two T-750s by inspecting the space-time rift created by Skynet and obtained a complete chip.
Although Terminator intrusion incidents had been frequent recently, the government had the situation under control, because Terminators were definitely not invincible. However, under the effect of powerful weapons, Terminators would often be torn to pieces, making it difficult to obtain complete CPU chips. Therefore, CPU chips were still a scarce resource, and for contractors with superhuman strength, the probability of obtaining their CPU chips was much greater.
Fang Senyan continued to drink coffee on the second day, but Sanzai started to release rats into the Noxon Processing Plant. At this point, it could almost be confirmed that Fang Senyan, who possessed the relevant screw cap, should have to enter the Noxon Processing Plant, then arrive at the designated location to trigger the relevant follow-up plot.
But the cruel thing was that the abandoned warehouse at that relevant location had been directly evaporated by the mastermind. Fang Senyan estimated that no matter what he would have encountered inside, he would never be able to know.
Now Fang Senyan's purpose was, first, to figure out what was so special about that destroyed abandoned warehouse, and second, to try to walk around inside the Noxon Processing Plant and try his luck.
On the third day, Zi and Reef were only one T-800 CPU chip away from completing Vincent's request. With these three references, this guy could complete a work that Supervisor Kalite would praise within an hour.
And Fang Senyan still spent the third day drinking coffee with his men. Strangely, the address where he drank coffee switched from outside the Noxon Processing Plant to the Starbucks outside the affluent area of Orange. After Sanzai and Hei Ge men's stomachs were once again filled with coffee and various desserts, Fang Senyan stood up.
It was already 7 p.m. At this time, the two originally thought that today's work was about to end, but Fang Senyan took them and stood on the tree-lined road next to them. Under the shadows of the trees and the cover of darkness, the three appeared very inconspicuous.
It had started to rain and snow from the sky in the afternoon, so it was dark around 5 p.m. The three waited silently for half an hour before seeing a seemingly low-key car appear from the rain and fog, and then slowly turn into the family area opposite.
Thirty meters behind this car, there were also two black Buick cars following. The members of the secret police were surprisingly in these two Buick cars. It seemed that they should be protecting the people in the car.
The three continued to wait, and found that four agents were still left here to secretly protect them after an hour. Hei Ge men shrunk his neck into his trench coat and cautiously said:
"Boss, that guy is a big fish. If we touch him, then it's like poking a hornet's nest and causing a lot of trouble."
Fang Senyan smiled and said:
"I gave them a full forty-eight hours to investigate. I believe that with their strength, they even investigated how many bricks there were in the warehouse, and the manufacturing date and location of each brick. Well, what I have to do now is to get this information from Councilor Kahn, so it's worth it to cause more trouble for this matter."
Sanzai closed his eyes, and the rats he sent out began to depict the terrain around the Councilor's house and the internal structure of the house. Fang Senyan also signaled Hei Ge men to replace the anesthetic bullets. At this time, Fang Senyan had to concentrate his greatest energy on his task. The pressure from the government could be said to be as small as possible. After all, the consequences of knocking a few people unconscious with anesthetic bullets and directly blowing a few people's heads off were very different.
At this time, the negative energy in Fang Senyan's body was suppressed to the limit due to lack of replenishment, and it was probably only the size of a pea, but it no longer decreased, and it parasitized Fang Senyan's body like a tarsal maggot. From time to time, he used severe stinging pain to show his sense of existence. Fang Senyan had no choice but to be affected to some extent, but his strength still recovered to 90%, which was enough to sneak into this community.
In the cold rainy night, few people were willing to patrol outside. The guards were obviously unreliable. As long as they paid attention to the ubiquitous cameras, they could easily deal with it.
In Hei Ge men's scope, he had already locked on the back of an agent, and then he pulled the trigger. The powerful anesthetic produced in the space quickly took effect. Hei Ge men quickly sent a signal to Fang Senyan:
"Boss, they will have a regular contact every twenty minutes, so if you don't want to make things big, then you have to get this done within this time."
At this time, Fang Senyan was already standing quietly on the ground of the community. The muddy and cold rainwater seeped into his shoes, which made Fang Senyan feel more awake, and Sanzai also followed behind him.