Chapter 65

In the white-walled room, the important activities of Ma Le in the Terminator world were projected. The last time he had entered Miracle City in a coma, so this was the first time Ma Le saw this footage. Watching his actions from a third-person perspective gave him a unique feeling.

When the footage reached the bloody battle with Brad, Ma Le suddenly frowned. At the time, he was only focused on fighting to the death and didn't notice much, but now, the scene of the vampire digging out and chewing a heart was truly terrifying... Seeing this scene, Ma Le suddenly thought of something. Even though his heart was damaged, it wouldn't cause fatal injuries, but it would definitely affect his blood circulation. If it were just a regular injury, he could probably endure it with the special constitution of an adventurer. But his heart had been eaten and disappeared, completely interrupting his blood circulation, leaving his muscles and brain without blood supply. How did he manage to move at all?

Thinking about this, Ma Le opened the Miracle Emblem and flipped to the Talent page. The same few talents were listed: Prototype Body, Absolute Defense, Fatal Punch, and the initial Unknown Constitution... Wait, Ma Le suddenly noticed that the description of the Unknown Constitution talent had changed slightly!

Ma Le vaguely remembered that the original description of this talent was: "Adventurers with this talent are not affected by critical damage from vital organ destruction." Now, it read: "Adventurers with this talent have no physiological vital organs."

This change seemed simple, as the main significance of vital organs for adventurers was the damage bonus. But upon closer thought, Ma Le realized this was a monumental change!

Being unaffected by critical damage from vital organs meant that Ma Le still had vital organs, and his body's operational mechanism was similar to a normal person's. Although vital organ damage wouldn't cause fatal injuries, the functional damage and its side effects were inevitable. For example, heart damage would affect blood circulation, stomach damage would cause acid leakage, lung damage would cause breathing difficulties, and brain damage would cause temporary unconsciousness... But now, Ma Le's body had undergone a fundamental change, and its operational mechanism was completely different from a normal person's. The so-called vital organs were just a superficial mass of tissue, unable to influence his body's overall function, truly making him invulnerable!

Realizing this, Ma Le suddenly felt a bit nauseous. If internal organs were no longer important, what was the carrier of his life? If he was still considered a mutated human before, what was he now? A monster that could survive without a heart and think without a brain? Perhaps only magical creatures like Ghost Blade were closest to him...

Putting aside the meaning of life for now, looking at this bizarre talent, Ma Le couldn't help but wonder when this change had occurred. Upon reflection, he had almost never carefully examined the talent interface. Even when he gained new talents, he mostly just looked at their effects. The Unknown Constitution talent had always been subconsciously ignored, making it impossible to trace when the mutation occurred...

Mutation couldn't happen without any signs. He must have undergone a significant event, such as receiving a huge reward or absorbing a powerful creature... Wait, Ma Le suddenly remembered that after absorbing the giant flower monster in the Prototype Slaughter, he didn't seem to gain any enhancements. But upon further thought, this was unreasonable. After absorbing that monster, he felt intense pain, far more severe than when he gained a unique talent, even causing him to faint! Now, he realized that this pain likely transformed him from a superhuman to a superhuman monster...

While Ma Le was lost in thought, the footage had already ended, and the system began to calculate his rewards. Soon, the rewards were settled:

Adventurer No. 110405 in the Terminator World:

Main Mission: Protect Sarah Connor for 72 hours - Failed

Major Event Participation: Defeat the Terminator. Contribution: 64.2%

Final Score: 55 points. Overall Evaluation: Fail.

Clearance Reward: None

Kill Statistics: 12 ordinary zombies, 1 credit point each;

8舔食者, 50 credit points each;

Special Kill: Mutated Tyrant T-800 Terminator, 3000 credit points, 20 merit points

Enemy City's Advanced Summoned Creature Ghost Blade, 3000 credit points, 10 skill points, 5 honor points

One ordinary adventurer from an enemy city, 3000 credit points, 10 skill points, 5 honor points. Detected as an entry-level adventurer, rewards doubled: 6000 credit points, 20 skill points, 10 honor points

Bounty Major Event: Defeat the Terminator, 6400 credit points

Final Reward Settlement: 18812 credit points, 30 skill points, 20 merit points, 15 honor points

Current Status: Commoner. After the mission, 100 credit points need to be paid.

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Shaking his head, Ma Le stopped thinking about those distressing matters and focused on the rewards he had just received.

Although he failed the main mission and received a failing overall evaluation, Ma Le still had a bountiful harvest. Over ten thousand credit points were a huge sum for entry-level and ordinary adventurers, but Ma Le was somewhat numb to it. What he was truly concerned about was the meaning of the honor points.

The honor option in the Miracle Emblem had automatically activated. Ma Le opened it and found:

Honor Points: 15/20, Current Level: Hero.

Ma Le did some research and discovered that the honor system was similar to the nobility system, but while the nobility system upgraded through merit points earned by killing powerful plot monsters or completing hidden missions, the honor system upgraded through honor points earned by killing adventurers from other cities. If compared to an online game, the nobility system was PVE, and the honor system was PVP.

Nobility upgrades granted adventurers greater privileges in Miracle City, while honor upgrades made their actions in mission worlds more convenient. Currently, Ma Le's Hero level was the second tier, still quite low, providing only a 1-hour extension for delayed return. In other words, the maximum time limit for free activity after completing or failing the main mission was extended to 13 hours.

Additionally, a higher honor level increased an adventurer's notability to plot characters. If an adventurer's honor level was high enough, even if it was their first time entering a mission world, the system would create a relatively famous identity for them in that world, making it easier to gain the trust of plot characters.

After claiming the rewards and paying the tax, Ma Le now had 19834 credit points, 36 skill points, and in his storage space, Isaac's harpoon gun and Ghost Blade, two black-famous quality weapons, two adrenaline shots, a silver-quality mission item Wolverine's bone claws, 200 meters of silver props, 12 marking guns (6 of which were drained), 200 meters of silver prop Dragon Silk, and several supplies... Oh, and the most valuable item, the silver box dropped by the Terminator!

Ma Le took out the silver box and messaged Persian Cat and Snowy Owl, inviting them to meet at the bar where they first encountered Old Dog to open the box together. Both lived in the slums, so it was convenient for them to meet. They had left in a hurry and didn't have time to open the box in the mission world, so Ma Le brought it to Miracle City. Persian Cat and Snowy Owl trusted Ma Le, the foodie, partly because they got along well and worked cooperatively, and partly because adventurers in Miracle City needed social connections. If Ma Le had cheated, it would have ruined his reputation, and the news of Adventurer No. 110405 cheating would have spread, making it impossible for anyone to trust or ally with him in the future.

Ma Le arrived at the bar and found Persian Cat and Snowy Owl already waiting inside. To avoid drawing attention, Ma Le paid the boss 20 credit points for a room, led the two inside, locked the door, and finally took out the silver box.

Silver boxes were extremely rare in ordinary worlds, let alone for entry-level adventurers. If not for their success in killing the mutated big boss Terminator with just three people, they would have gotten at most a blue-quality box. Not only Ma Le but even Snowy Owl was very excited. Only Persian Cat pretended to be calm, saying, "Don't get your hopes up. The Terminator is, after all, a robot and probably won't drop ready-made equipment. At most, it will be materials or mission items..." Despite her words, her slightly trembling voice and fixed gaze on the box revealed that she was likely just pretending to be cool.

Under the excited gazes of the two, Ma Le took a deep breath and trembled as he opened the silver box...

The box contained three items, just as Persian Cat had said, no ready-made equipment.

The first was a Terminator's energy battery, a charging item, blue quality. It could power a T-800 Terminator for 120 years, with enormous capacity but only providing electrical energy, hence the blue quality.

The second was the central processor from the Terminator's brain, silver quality. This was the core of an intelligent computer, with significant value. With it, an electronic device could have brain-like thinking capabilities, making it worthy of silver quality.

The third was a mission item, the Terminator's right arm, silver quality. In Terminator 2, this was an important mission item. In the original plot, Sarah Connor crushed the Terminator with a hydraulic press, leaving only a damaged CPU and this arm, which were recovered by the Cyberdyne Systems Corporation. Based on the research of these two future technology items, Cyberdyne Systems developed the AI computer, the precursor to Skynet. However, for the three of them, this item was the least practical, as the Terminator world had been drastically altered by the old gentleman's group from Hurricane City, and they had to exterminate Los Angeles to prevent the savior's appearance, thus eliminating the possibility of the second movie's plot.

The principle of the city battle system was that once an adventurer entered a world, all their influences on that world would remain, and the world would continue along the trajectory altered by the adventurer. When the adventurer re-entered the world, the plot would be unrecognizable. To put it vividly, the plot world was like an adventurer's dungeon, with different people having different strategies, not interfering with each other, and saving progress when they left, to continue later. If 1000 adventurers experienced the Terminator world, there would be 1000 different Terminator worlds quietly continuing.

After discussing, Ma Le, who had the electric marking gun, naturally favored the blue battery, which seemed tailor-made for him. Persian Cat was interested in the central processor, leaving the Terminator's arm for Snowy Owl. However, Snowy Owl had little interest in any of the items. The arm's only use for her was to sell it, but only if she found a suitable buyer. The price of such mission items could vary greatly, making them hard to sell. Compared to this, Snowy Owl preferred practical credit points.

Ma Le had nearly 20,000 credit points and offered 3000 to Snowy Owl, taking the mechanical arm. The market price for a silver mission item was generally between 2000 and 5000, and Ma Le's offer was fair, so Snowy Owl was satisfied, and everyone was happy.

After dividing the loot, Ma Le proposed that the three form a team. They had shared life and death in the Terminator world and worked well together, so future cooperation would be even more默契.

Hearing Ma Le's suggestion, Snowy Owl looked hesitant, and Persian Cat shook her head...

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