Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 482 - 246 Old Acquaintance_2

Chapter 482: Chapter 246 Old Acquaintance_2

Little Knife said, "But the person you killed was your own teammate."

Stone replied, "It’s hard for me to explain this, but I had a reason to get rid of her. It’s too late now, let’s talk tomorrow."

Without a word, Little Knife turned and left.

Sitting on a log, Stone connected to Shana’s channel, "Shana, I’m at the western parking lot."

Soon, Shana arrived and Stone told her about the incident. Shana said, "The problem lies in Little Knife always thinking of you as a good uncle; she never thought you would do the sneaky, despicable things."

Stone replied helplessly, "I had no one to do it back then, I had to do it myself." Otherwise, even if I killed ten thousand people, I would still be seen as a good uncle. Even if I personally signed the order for the massacre, I could argue my ignorance; it’s all the second-in-command’s fault."

"Convincing Little Knife won’t be easy, it might be better to let her accept the idea that you are a bad person."

Stone nodded, "Okay, how do we handle this?"

Shana said, "Previously, two members of Shadow died."

"Cotton and Tangtang."

Shana asked, "Contact one of them and ask them to return to Shadow. This will show that you consider the team’s interests and that you are nostalgic, caring about past members. This will differentiate Daiyu from others. I talked to Maya earlier about recruiting someone to supplement the Doomsday Fortress. One, we could use the manpower of the Doomsday Fortress to form an alliance; the Shadow base would then put all their efforts into developing technology. Two, the Doomsday Fortress is understaffed, and new recruits would give Maya more leeway in assigning work and manpower."

Shana inquired, "What’s the situation with Cotton and Tangtang?"

Stone nodded, "Good. Cotton doesn’t talk much, she can go a whole day without saying a word, but she has a laid-back personality, accepts any job, and is very dedicated and serious while working. Tangtang is cheerful, likes to chat, and is full of fantasies."

Shana said, "If they are willing to return to Shadow, we can look for a building to establish a base on our own. During the activity, we’ll replace it with a base from North Town, and we’ll drive to pick them up."

Stone nodded, "I’ll contact them now," and he got straight to work. When recruiting a doctor before, Stone remembered Cotton and Tangtang. He had worked with them for some time and had a comprehensive understanding of them.

Tangtang was very happy to receive Stone’s call. She had planned to proactively contact friends from Shadow, but worried that the people from Shadow might have forgotten about her, so she hesitated to make contact. However, Tangtang declined Stone’s proposal because she had found the love of her life and had decided to leave Hardcore Mode.

Stone didn’t ask about the love of her life named "Wind"; he wouldn’t rashly recruit someone whose background he didn’t know and didn’t want to change someone’s life plans because of himself. Stone expressed his regret. Tangtang really could talk; she asked about everyone’s situation and chatted away for ten minutes before Stone managed to hang up with difficulty.

Stone contacted Cotton, "Cotton, this is Shadow’s Stone."

Cotton answered, "Hello, boss."

Stone asked, "Where are you now?"

Cotton replied, "In bed."

Stone asked, "Which place?"

Cotton replied, "Day After Tomorrow City."

Stone said, "Shadow needs people. Are you interested in coming back?"

Cotton replied, "Yes." She didn’t ask about the current situation of Shadow, what kind of people were needed, or explain her own circumstances.

Stone said, "After the activity starts tomorrow, leave your current base, take over an independent base, then find a similar base in North Town and switch to it through replacement. After that, contact me, and I will send someone to pick you up."

Cotton answered, "Okay."

After thinking for a while, Stone asked, "Is that all?"

"Goodbye, boss." Cotton hung up.

Stone stood thinking for five seconds and said, "Why do I feel like she’s giving me the brush-off?"

Shana, unfamiliar with Cotton and not hearing their conversation, was uncertain, "Really?"

Stone said, "Her tone sounds evasive, but her words do not."

Shana: "How am I supposed to brush it off?"

Stone said, "She didn’t talk about her own situation, and it seems she doesn’t want me to know too much. She also didn’t ask about Shadow’s situation, as if she doesn’t want to know too much either."

Shana said, "Let’s talk about it tomorrow."

Stone nodded, "Let’s talk about it tomorrow. What about Little Knife?"

Shana smiled knowingly and said, "I’ll handle it." How could a fresh-faced young girl outplay someone like me who has a master’s degree in workplace psychology and years of social work experience?

Stone heaved a sigh and said, "It just goes to show that you really can’t do bad things."

Shana said, "That’s because you’ve already subjectively determined that killing Daiyu was a bad act. You could learn from Lin Wu, who kills NPCs without any sense of guilt."

Stone said, "After all, NPCs are just 1s and 0s, while Daiyu was a real person."

Shana corrected, "To be precise, a player. You killed her, but you didn’t take her life, and the fact that you can kill her without being punished by the system means that the system acknowledges your actions. In contrast, in real life, you’d be punished by the system’s laws not only for killing someone but even for hitting them. In the game system, it’s actions like abuse that are punished, and the stipulations are crystal clear in the articles."

Shana asked, "As a boss who takes rules as his yardstick, how come you’ve suddenly become so sentimental?"

As a boss, Stone wouldn’t care if what he did was utterly heartless; he was only concerned with whether his actions complied with legal requirements. Doing bad things without getting punished when the law allows it is a sign of lax legislation, and that’s the fault of the lawmakers.

Stone corrected Shana, "In the Shadow, I’m not the boss; I’m just one of the members."

Shana asked, "Is it because you can’t distribute the profits of Shadow?"

Stone laughed and said, "Isn’t it obvious? Who rises early if there’s nothing in it for them, and who would want to be a boss without benefiting?"

Stone continued, "Besides, isn’t working just about liking your job? In Shadow, everyone has their own specialty, and I’m just doing what I’m good at. It’s only because I don’t have enough of my own work to do that I’m moonlighting as a farmer."

...

At 5:30 in the morning, a knock came from outside, followed by Dashuang’s timid voice, "Um."

"Which ’um’?" Lin Wu asked Wai to open the door while he rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at Dashuang.

Dashuang pointed upwards with her hand: "The sunrise."

Lin Wu wasn’t interested in the sunrise, but seeing Dashuang’s earnest demeanor, who had apparently mustered up the courage to knock on the door just to share her joy with everyone, Lin Wu switched his headset to the public channel and shouted, "Time to watch the sunrise." If I’m going to die, I’m taking a whole bunch of Taoists with me.

Members of Shadow cursed through the earpiece.

Peanut replied, "I’m in, hurry, the east is turning red."

Maya replied, "Okay."

The sun rose in the east, a majestic scene above the calm sea, worth getting up early for just once in a while. However, Lin Wu praised the scenery exaggeratedly, of course, to return the kindness shown by Dashuang.

The sunrise was short-lived; after a while, one couldn’t look directly at the sun anymore. Dashuang went to make tea while Lin Wu went to get some snacks. The bonfire at Doomsday Fortress was set up in a frustrating location, right inside a container at the upper right of a grid. Lin Wu had complained about this, and Little White Rabbit informed him that it could be rebuilt.

Reconstruction is a feature of big bases and is divided into major and minor reconstruction. Major reconstruction is expansion mode, which can be initiated by storing 50 of each of the five major materials. Minor reconstruction doesn’t consume the five major materials but does consume items. For example, to move the bonfire to the third floor, raincoats, supports from the production room are needed and additionally, ten kilograms of wood and stone. If you want to add a raincoat to the second floor’s Corridor Bridge, you need to make the raincoat first. A piece of raincoat one meter two wide and three meters long requires ten metal blocks. To do a complete circle, at least 500 metal blocks are needed.

Of course, there’s another way, to dismantle a complete raincoat. Any item called a raincoat can be used, although most are damaged. There’s also the unofficial way, to get plastic sheets, wood, iron pieces, etc., and build a raincoat yourself.

During the tea party, everyone chatted idly about the base renovations, waiting for the eight o’clock event to begin.

It was just past seven when Little Knife and Shana drove over. Little Knife didn’t come upstairs; instead, she contacted Lin Wu from outside the south gate via Lin Wu’s private channel: "I’m at the south gate." Lin Wu’s channel was number 5; switching to channel 5 allowed direct communication with Lin Wu. Additionally, using the public channel 20 enabled communication with all allies. After forming a team, a temporary team channel could be set up.

"Do you need me to come down?" Can’t you just come up?

"Yeah."

Lin Wu went downstairs to the south gate reluctantly, where he saw Shana standing beside Little Knife with a face full of helplessness. Little Knife was drawing on the ground with the tip of her shoe. Lin Wu chuckled, "What kind of wind blew you two over to a place where even beauties don’t take a dump?"

Little Knife ignored Lin Wu’s joke, looked him in the eyes seriously, and said, "Lin Wu, do you know? It was Stone who killed Daiyu."

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