角色故事•三(解锁条件:角色等级60)
他走入走廊最深处的房间,他还记得上一次来这里的时候,自己还是个面目可憎的囚犯。现在,他站在这里,面向立于部门顶点的人们。
他听金发的女性念着冗长无趣的报告,那些冰冷的数字既无法传达他行走在生死边缘的惊险,亦无法告诉他们过程中他失去了多少,又得到了多少。他只好奇她是人类,还是智械?
而那颗象征权力与未来的「砂金石」即将被正式交予他手中——豁出性命拿到手的东西,在得到的一刹那,对他而言就失去了诱惑与价值。
「『砂金』,你还有什么问题吗?」会议的最后,翡翠——在场的人里,他只认识她——开口问道。
「茨冈尼亚的埃维金人…他们后来怎么样了?」
「很遗憾,茨冈尼亚已经没有埃维金人了。你是最后的幸运儿。」
「那在██星球上帮助过我的那些人呢?我想,现在我可以回报他们了。」
「他们也都不在了。」
……
他木然地回到自己的办公室。桌上,那颗砂金石闪动着奇异的光,仿佛在恭喜他,又仿佛在嘲弄他。
「在与命运搏斗的时候,你真的是幸运的那方吗?」
Character Story: Part III
• Unlocked at Character Level 60
He walks into the room at the furthest end of the corridor, remembering how he was still a grotesque prisoner the last time he came here. Now, he stands with his back straight and faces those who sit at the very top of the department.
He listens to the blond woman as she reads out the lengthy and boring report. Those cold, unfeeling numbers cannot convey the dangers that accompanied him as he walked on the thin line between life and death, nor can they communicate how much he had lost and gained during the journey. He is simply curious whether she is human or an Intellitron.
The aventurine, that symbol of power and of the future, is about to be officially handed to him — Yet it would have no more allure or value in his eyes as soon he obtains it, even though he had sought it by putting his life on the line.
"Do you have any more questions, Aventurine?" Jade, the only person he knows among the presently gathered, asks at the end of the meeting.
"The Avgins in Sigonia... what happened to them afterward?"
"Unfortunately, there are no more Avgins in Sigonia. You're the last lucky dog."
"What about those people who helped me on planet ██? Now I can finally repay their kindness."
"They are no more, either."
...
He returns to his office in a daze. The aventurine stone emits a peculiar glow on his desk, seemingly congratulating and mocking him at the same time.
"Was luck truly on your side when you wrestled with fate?"