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"It's actually NieR... Sss, I remember this is a world with a huge and complex setting."
After reading the plot introduction, Shen Ye frowned deeply. He had naturally played this classic game before, including its previous installments and even the earlier series, Drakengard, which shares the same universe.
As for Shen Ye, he usually does not spend too much energy to study the plot with a complex worldview. At most, he has a general understanding of it. So now, he only has a vague understanding of the story behind NieR.
"Forget it. The plot changes every time anyway. If I rely too much on knowing the plot, it will limit my performance. What I need to do now is... disguise."
The system's prompts would not be wrong, and he also knew that the mechanical life in this world was already highly intelligent and had even begun to replace humans, creating a new social system.
The presence of humans will instead cause them to panic and become hostile.
So after reading the system's prompts, he immediately took out a set of clothes suitable for survival in the desert from the system space, put on a large cloak, a face scarf and goggles, and then switched his profession to Mechanical Heart.
In a world where machine life is rampant, the Mechanical Heart has a unique affinity for machines, which allows him to disguise his human identity more easily. No matter whether it is a machine life, a surviving old-model android resistance soldier, or a new-model YoRHa android, as long as they do not have close contact with him, they will only treat him as an ordinary android.
At the same time as he switched to the profession of Mechanical Heart, a crack suddenly appeared in the space beside him, and a small machine came out, circled around him, and then floated beside him.
This is the exclusive companion that all mechanics have after they change their job, a robot with a certain level of intelligence.
"From now on, you are my POD, I will call you... Firepower!" Shen Ye said to the little robot.
POD, the android's combat partner, is owned by almost everyone, which is consistent with his disguised identity.
After teasing the little robot with his fingers for a while, Shen Ye looked up at the sun and then took out a military compass.
However, the magnetic field in the desert seemed to be disturbed, and the compass was spinning around and couldn't stop.
"I'm afraid there's more than just iron filings in the desert sand." Shen Ye thought of the handful of sand he had just grabbed and shook his head helplessly.
The compass was not working, so Shen Ye could only follow the sun. So he took out a wooden stick from the system space and stuck it into the ground. After marking it, he waited for a while, waiting for the shadow to move to determine the direction for him.
Soon, as the sun moved, the changes in the shadows allowed him to determine the direction. After packing up his things, he walked towards the south.
In fact, the place where he is now may have been a forest, a grassland, a lake, or a town inhabited by humans thousands of years ago.
But after the arrival of alien creatures, everything changed. The war changed the topography and climate, the land was polluted, and the extinction of life made the originally blue planet become lifeless.
The traces of humanity are also slowly disappearing in the long river of time.
Therefore, the entire NieR series is a tragedy, the tragedy of mankind, the tragedy of the planet, the tragedy of the androids, and... the tragedy of the alien creatures - because as the creators of mechanical creatures, they were destroyed by the mechanical life they created.
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Although Shen Ye's current physical condition allows him to walk for a whole day and night without feeling tired, walking alone in the endless desert will always make one feel bored.
Especially when he was stepping on the sand with one foot deep and one foot shallow, he felt extremely uncomfortable. It seemed as if he had to use all his strength to take each step.
After walking for nearly two hours, Shen Ye decided to stop and rest. He took off the mask that was blocking the wind and sand, smoked a cigarette to relieve his fatigue, and drank some water to replenish the water in his body, which had not actually consumed too much.
While drinking water, Shen Ye suddenly remembered that some mechanical life forms in the game seemed to have evolved the function of "eating" in order to imitate humans, and there were also mechanical life forms that could drink alcohol. In the spin-off drama, there were also clips of artificial humans drinking water.
"I just don't know whether androids need to eat." After drinking the water, Shen Ye began to think about it, but he had no memory of having seen it before.
"If I don't need to eat, then eating will be a big problem for me in the future. If I go to the gathering place of those artificial humans, um, the resistance army, I will probably have to eat in hiding without revealing my human identity."
He couldn't reveal his human identity too early, which was a very headache problem, but thinking of the system's prompts, he had no choice.
After all, according to the background setting, there is magic and some supernatural mysterious existence in Neil's world.
The extinction of mankind is actually related to them.
What's more, there are a large number of mechanical life forms in this world that have inherited the will of their creator, that is, alien life forms to destroy humanity. They are not only numerous, but also powerful. This is why the artificial humans who can build bases in satellite orbits have been unable to destroy them even after thousands of years.
"The road ahead is difficult! This is not a good start." Shen Ye complained.
Thinking back to his previous worlds, although he had to fight a group of powerful enemies in the later stages, he had lived a pretty good life in the early stages, with food and drink, and beautiful women to accompany him. But now...
Shen Ye shook his head and decided not to think about it anymore. At the same time, he felt that he had rested enough, so he stood up and continued on his way.
He planned to leave the desert as soon as possible. He didn't like the climate here, and the scorching sun shining directly on him made him feel very uncomfortable.
And this walk lasted from day to night.
The desert at night turned into a completely different climate. The ground could not retain heat, causing the temperature to drop quickly. Soon after it got dark, Shen Ye unconsciously wrapped his clothes tightly.
Just as he climbed over a sand dune and was about to find a flat place to camp, he suddenly smelled a burning smell.
Shen Ye was stunned at first, then he looked up suddenly. With the faint moonlight, he seemed to see a column of smoke rising in the distance.
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