"The act of mixing in trash to maximize benefits has been exposed, so we must adopt a more efficient method from now on." "Yes."
"Yes, we've come up with a second plan, we can recycle the remaining food scraps, then …"
The shop assistant's conversation entered Lin's mind. His voice was very soft, so the Atlans nearby couldn't hear him, but the octopus' sensors could pick it up …
The shop assistants there were discussing how to maximize benefits, but Lin felt that mixing in trash was a … very stupid method.
Because it was very easy to detect. Perhaps it was because after losing their original emotions, their intelligence had decreased as well?
But it seems that after losing their emotions, they would still try to find a way to maximize their benefits, which was quite interesting.
Lin didn't stay here to listen to the shop assistants discussing how to reduce the cost of producing food. The mechanical octopus continued to move.
Many Atlans walked past the mechanical octopus. They were only curious about the octopus for one to three seconds before they continued on their way.
After that, Lin continued to move forward and approached a shop that appeared to be selling weapons and armors.
"My teammates and my father all died while scavenging," one of the Atlans spoke to the shop front. An Atlan stood in front of the weapon shop and said to the clerk, "I need to change to a new set of equipment to avoid the same outcome as them. "Yes."
"You must have bought equipment from the shop next door before this" the shop assistant said. "My equipment here can guarantee your life"
Just like before, the two Atlans spoke without any emotions. Lin looked at them for a bit, then walked up to the equipment shop and asked: "Can I buy some equipment?"
"We don't provide any equipment for xenogeneic creatures" the shop assistant said: "Please leave before I feel that you're a threat"
"I can use your equipment" Lin pointed at one of the weapons in the shop and said: "It's that one"
"If you continue to stay here, we'll become a threat to you" the shop assistant said with a blank expression. The shop assistant said expressionlessly as he reached for a weapon on his waist. This weapon was the same as the one used by the previous guide, an 'Extreme Freeze Gun'.
"…" Lin paused for a bit, then said: "Are you an idiot?"
The shop assistant said: "Are you saying that my intelligence is relatively low? I don't think a xenogeneic creature that we've met for the first time has the right to judge me like that, so I'd like to give you a hint. If you continue to stay here, you will enter the killing range. "
"What's the allowed killing range?" Lin asked.
The clerk said, "We don't provide legal responses. Chapter 11: Love. [] "
"Would you provide such a response?" Lin asked. "Then what would you do if your father died?"
The shop assistant seemed to think for a moment, and then said, "If it died from any injuries. I will gain its experience to prevent myself from receiving the same injury and dying. "
"… Time's up." As he spoke, the shop assistant suddenly raised his weapon and aimed at the mechanical octopus. Seeing this, Lin immediately took a few steps back, and the shop assistant lowered his weapon. Then he said, "… Get out of range."
Earlier, Lin had noticed that there was a horizontal line drawn on the ground outside the shop. The octopus was in the line just now, but now that it was slightly out of range of the line, it stopped attacking.
So that's how it is. It seems that the area within the line is within its shop, and the mechanical octopus would be attacked if it stayed within the shop for a certain period of time?
It seemed that they had some very strange laws, and it seemed that they also had experience in communicating with xenogeneic creatures, which could be seen in the process of dealing with the mechanical octopus.
Although they had no emotions. They were very good at calculating various … pros and cons.
At the same time, Lin also noticed that the number of Atlans here seemed to be much more than what was described in Rosalie's diary. Of course, their behavior was also very different. For example, the diary description did not mention much about currency transactions.
At that time, Rosalie did not need any money for her own equipment. But now, things seemed to be completely different … and Rosalie had just returned from being captured by her captors not too long ago. So why would these Atlans produce so much equipment and change so much?
Lin felt that this was a bit like some kind of … infection.
But this should have nothing to do with the water ball. If the water ball could affect this place, then it would not care about the wreckage drifting here …
Moreover, the incident happened during the period when Rosalie was away. The Atlans had been living here for a long time, so there should not be any problems.
What happened during this period of time? And what caused these Atlans to undergo such a wonderful change …
Their change could be said to be the opposite of the craziness caused by the water ball. They became … rational, which meant that they would calculate the pros and cons of everything to deal with, instead of using emotions to deal with it.
Generally, creatures with different personalities would deal with things with a mix of 'rationality' and 'emotions', and different individuals would have different ways of dealing with things.
But this group of Atlans was completely biased towards one side, and they had lost the emotional part.
Lin was still listening to their conversation. The content of their conversation was the same, without any emotions. And …
"You guys! You're here! "
Lin suddenly heard a voice mixed with rich emotions, and this voice was … Rosalie's.
Lin looked behind and saw that Rosalie had also come here, and she was standing in front of a few Atlans with a face full of excitement, and she was talking to them.
"I've been missing you guys so much! Nothing happened to you guys all this time, right? Where's Bumi? Is it not here? How is it? "
"Oh, it's Rosalie, you're back." The few Atlans replied with an emotionless voice, "Bumi? It died in the last operation. "
"Dead … dead?" Rosalie was shocked, "How could it …"
"Yes, it's dead." One of the Atlans said, "You just came back, do you want to rejoin us? But we suspect that your skills may have deteriorated, so we should go to the training room together to see if your skills are still as good as before, and if you are still a qualified scavenger. "
"Wait a minute, it's dead, and you guys …" Rosalie was shocked, "Don't you feel sad at all?"
"The death of an experienced scavenger is indeed a big loss for us," one of the Atlans said. Atlan said, "But because of this, we obtained a lot of equipment that it left behind, which saved us a lot of resources. This is a good thing. We think that maybe we can implement the same policy in the future and deliberately let new members die. This way, we can reasonably obtain its equipment and save our own resources. Of course, we won't let you die. After all, we recognize your skills … the skills you used to have."
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