I have an Apocalypse City Chapter 1069

Chapter 1069: Chapter 1071: Brain_1 Chapter 1069: Chapter 1071: Brain_1 Just as Song Jian was waiting for the reward for the second trial, ready to continue to challenge the trials ahead, everything around him began to shake violently, just like when a television display encounters poor signal reception.

The strong shaking forced Song Jian to close his eyes, and a hubbub of noise filled his ears. He felt as if he'd been thrown into a washing machine. After a disorienting tumble, Song Jian felt like he was cast into the Abyss, his body endlessly plummeting downward.

After an unknown period, Song Jian landed heavily on the floor. When he opened his eyes, a silvery-white ground appeared before him.

“Cough cough, where, where am I?” Song Jian struggled to his feet, feeling pain all over his body as if he had been truly thrown from a great height.

“I apologize for bringing you here in this manner!” A voice with a hint of androgyny rose next to Song Jian's ear. He lifted his head and looked around.

He was no longer in the valley where he had been before. Now, he found himself in a spacious room made up of silvery metallic panels, forming both the floor and the walls, with no doors or windows. Soft light emanated from the seams of the metal panels, illuminating the room as if it were daylight. It somewhat resembled a high-tech laboratory from a movie.

Then, several beams of light descended from the ceiling, intertwining with each other. In a short while, a blonde beauty materialized before Song Jian.

“Hello, I am the administrator of the Tower of Trials. You may call me Nafiboja,” the blonde beauty said with a smile to Song Jian.

Song Jian narrowed his eyes. In his perception, the beauty before him didn't actually exist. Only a power beyond the third order, something a Legendary powerhouse could possess, could account for this.

What was most important was that the voice of the blonde beauty wasn't coming from her body, but was instead emerging from the gaps in the surrounding walls.

“Are you an artificial intelligence?” Song Jian couldn't help but ask in surprise. After all, the Tower of Slaughter had existed for hundreds, if not thousands of years, and everything here was just like the smart computers depicted in sci-fi movies of the real world.

“You may call me Nafiboja!” the blonde beauty said again with a smile, but to Song Jian, her smile now seemed somewhat rigid and stiff.

“Alright, Nafiboja!” Song Jian nodded and said, “I should have passed the second trial and even made it onto the Tower of Slaughter rankings. Are you here to give me my reward?”

“According to the rules, you should indeed receive a reward for passing the trial and proceed to the next,” Nafiboja said with a smile. “Such assessments consist of nine trials in total. I believe that with your strength, you can certainly pass them all and leave this place directly…”

“Is that so, that's what I had in mind as well!” Song Jian said, smiling slightly and nodding.

“Your level and your strength are entirely out of sync. According to the usual standards, this would be like giving you a welfare handout; it would hardly qualify as a trial of slaughter. This contradicts the original intention behind establishing this Tower of Trials…” Nafiboja's expression turned serious, as if she was discussing a very grave issue.

“But what does this have to do with me?” Song Jian spread his hands, a bit helplessly, “You set the rules; I'm just following them, step by step. Isn't passing through the Tower of Slaughter the only way to leave Scorching Gorge?”

“If you just want to leave the Scorching Gorge, you can leave at any time!” A smile reappeared on Nafiboja's face, and with a wave of her right hand, a faint blue teleportation gate appeared to her right.

“Step through this teleportation gate, and you will be directly transported to the nearest town outside the Scorching Gorge!” Nafiboja said, “Consider this a reward for passing the second level.”

“What about the rewards for the remaining levels? And the Heart of Slaughter…” Song Jian patted his head, pretending he had just remembered, and said, “Right, there's also the Sword Immortal Set; I've heard that there's one here with you. I would very much like to obtain it…”
The expression on Nafiboja's face froze all of a sudden, as if time had stopped for her, completely motionless. A few seconds later, life returned to her eyes, and she looked at Song Jian with a face full of sorrow and sighed, “Greed is mankind's original sin. If it hadn't been for greed, humans from five hundred years ago would not have embarked on the path to self-destruction, and the survivors of humanity today would not be gambling on that one in ten thousand chance of redemption…”
“Sorry, I don't think I'm being greedy!” Song Jian shook his head, “You just said that with my current strength, it would be very easy to get through the next levels, which means that, in practice, the rewards for the subsequent levels already belong to me. As for the Heart of Slaughter, I've heard that there's a great chance of obtaining it upon passing the Slaughter Trial. At this point, I am certain I can clear it, so I believe I should also be able to obtain the Heart of Slaughter!”

“Furthermore, the Sword Immortal Set is an item I will eventually obtain, no matter how many times I have to repeat the trial. I absolutely must have it. If you would hand it over now, it would save a lot of trouble for both you and me,” Song Jian pointed to Nafiboja, then to himself as he spoke.

Nafiboja fell into a brief stasis again, recovering after a while with a stern face, “Based on my calculations, all the rewards you've mentioned could indeed theoretically belong to you. However, each completion award has a range, from the lowest grade white items, to the highest epic and Legendary Items, but if I were to interfere just a little, I could ensure that each of your completion rewards would be at the lowest level. Accounting for that, from the third level to the ninth, you would be entitled to seven completion rewards, meaning you would receive a white item each time. At the rate of ten thousand Doomsday Coins per white item, you would end up with a reward of seventy thousand Doomsday Coins…”
As she spoke, Nafiboja stretched out her right hand and a stack of banknotes dropped from the ceiling right into her palm. She then extended the banknotes to Song Jian, “I can give you all your subsequent rewards now!”

“As for the Heart of Slaughter you mentioned, I'm sorry to say that to obtain it, you must face at least three life-and-death battles, and it's only through surviving near-death experiences that you can comprehend the Heart of Slaughter. According to my judgment, no matter how I increase the difficulty, the probability of you facing a life-or-death situation in the subsequent levels is only 1.43 percent. Therefore, there's practically no chance you'll grasp the Heart of Slaughter!”

“As for the Sword Immortal Set, indeed, among my collection, there is one item from the set. But in my reward vault, there are a total of 1,367,854 items. Can you imagine the chances of obtaining a Legendary quality Sword Immortal Set from such an abundance? And considering that the Tower of Slaughter reappears on average every thirteen years and seven months, I wonder how much time you have to stay in the Scorching Gorge, awaiting the Tower's next emergence?”

A hint of a smile re-emerged on Nafiboja's face as she tossed the stack of banknotes at Song Jian's feet, crossed her arms and said, “Now, do you have anything else to say to me?”

Song Jian: “…”
There's a certain curse I want to say, but I'm not sure if I should!

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