One weapon is so heavy, and the entire body of armor must weigh several hundred pounds. A normal person without training cannot carry it.
Lu Mingze shook his head regretfully at the armor and said, "I appreciate your kindness. Don't worry, I'll be fine. I'll also restore the city to normal and rebuild the City Lord's Mansion. Then you can protect the city again."
"Who asked you to rebuild the city?" The armored man roared, making metallic clanging sounds. "Put me on, and I'll be able to control your body and move freely!"
After saying that, the armor automatically disintegrated and pounced towards Lu Mingze.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Mingze's wrist suddenly felt hot. There were a bunch of bracelets on his wrist. Lu Mingze didn't have time to see which bracelet it was. In a hurry, he stretched out his hand and slapped it hard. The bracelet emitted a dazzling light, and a girl with pink hair in two ponytails and a height of only 1.5 meters appeared in front of him.
The girl stretched out her short arms, grabbed the flying helmet, and smashed it hard against the armored body.
At the same time, the girl lightly leaped up, and with three punches and two kicks, she stripped the armor to shreds. She stepped on the armored body with one foot and asked condescendingly, "Whose body do you want to control?"
Lu Mingze: "…"
armor:"..."
Outside the window, the red sun gradually sets, leaving only a faint light in the sky.
The last ray of sunlight shone on the girl with pink twintails. Under the afterglow, her 1.5-meter height seemed to be as tall as 1.8 meters.
"You're so handsome..." Lu Mingze murmured as he looked at the girl with twin ponytails.
The girl with twin ponytails was not as pretty as Lu Mingze, but even Lu Mingze had to admit that such pure strength was so convincing, and such a cool posture was so handsome!
Is she my former teammate? Lu Mingze couldn't help but curl up his lips, thinking to himself, I am such a lucky person.
He looked down at his bracelet and saw that Cao Qian and Lin Lin's bracelets were missing a horizontal line. He couldn't help but ask, "My name is Lu Mingze. Are you Cao Qian or Lin Lin?"
"Cao Qian," said the girl with pink twintails, "Where is this place? You... are quite pretty."
"Eh? Don't you know me?" Lu Mingze was stunned. He thought Cao Qian would remember him.
"Why should I know you?" Cao Qian frowned. "Where is this? I seem to be very strong and a little too skilled, right?"
She looked at her hands in confusion. All her movements just now were as natural as flowing water. She seemed very familiar with them. It was not her first time fighting.
Lu Mingze remembered that he had originally chosen to recover his memory with his teammates, which meant that his teammates also had no memories, which made sense.
So he briefly recounted what had happened to him, showed the bracelet to Cao Qian, and asked, "You have no recollection of it at all?"
Cao Qian shook her head and glanced at Lu Mingze's handsome face, seemingly without noticing. "I was lying in bed reading a novel when a QR code suddenly popped up on my phone. I scanned it and a dialog box popped up saying, 'Your companion needs help. Do you want to help?' I clicked 'Yes.'"
"Huh?" Lu Mingze slapped his bracelet vigorously and said, "Aren't you a bit too tricky? Is the number of times you can ask for help from relatives and friends the same as the number of applications? I thought I could ask many companions for help, but can they actually refuse?"
At this moment, the bracelet spoke: "In some real-world variety shows where players answer questions and pass levels, when challengers seek help from outside the venue, their friends and family may not know the answers, right?"
Lu Mingze: "…"
It seems to make sense.
"And helping each other is a two-way thing. If the other party refuses to help, they will lose the opportunity to restore their memory." said the bracelet.
Lu Mingze: "…"
It was really a trap, with traps everywhere. Fortunately, Cao Qian agreed, otherwise I would not be able to recover my memory.
Lu Mingze clapped his wristbands frantically and asked, "How long can Cao Qian stay here?"
The bracelet said: "One horizontal line for one day. Cao Qian and Lin Lin share a bracelet. When Cao Qian comes, Lin Lin comes."
"Linlin?" Cao Qian could also hear what the bracelet said, and she tilted her head.
At this time, Cao Qian and Lu Mingze both heard a sound coming from Cao Qian's chest: "Guga, guga, where is this place? It's so dark. Why do I feel like I'm on someone's chest? It's so flat..."
Cao Qian pulled the pendant from her chest and pinched the swan crystal's mouth to stop her from making any more sounds. The girl with pink twin ponytails stared at the swan crystal pendant.
"Cao Qian?" Swan Linlin, whose mouth had been released, said, "Gugaguga, why did you dye your hair that color? Have you turned into a Shamatte?"
"You know each other?" Lu Mingze asked in surprise, "Why don't we know each other?"
When Linlin saw Lu Mingze, she immediately became incoherent: "Gugugugu, who is this? It's so... so pretty..."
Cao Qian pinched Linlin's stuttering mouth and said coldly, "I don't know her."
But you two seem to have a good relationship. Lu Mingze swallowed these words. Cao Qian looked like she wanted to beat Linlin.
Lu Mingze said, "Actually, I don't know what this game is, nor do I know what exactly is in the memories we lost. But I want to know, what about you?"
Cao Qian didn't say anything, but Lu Mingze knew it. If she hadn't been confused about the feeling of loss she'd been feeling lately, why would she have scanned the QR code that suddenly popped up on her phone? How dangerous! What if it was a scam?
Cao Qian was silent for a moment. During their conversation, it was already completely dark. In the darkness, she suddenly said, "I don't remember Linlin, but one day at 1:30 in the middle of the night, her family called me and happily told me that Linlin had woken up and told me not to worry."
"Awake?" Lu Mingze grasped the key point.
Linlin, whose mouth was released, said, "Yes, I was in a coma for about two months. I became a vegetable. It was so scary that my family hired a nanny to take care of me."
"Did you wake up half a month ago?" Lu Mingze asked.
After getting a positive answer, he frowned and said, "I was once in a coma for four months and woke up at the same time as you."
"Cooga, cooga, did we fall in love in our dreams when we were unconscious?" Swan Crystal said with shining eyes.
Cao Qian pinched her mouth again and said simply, "Her family's call was very strange to me. I didn't know this person at all. But the next day I checked the taxi information on my phone, which proved that I did visit her once or twice a week. Her family always thought I was a friend from work. Many of the energy injections she injected were purchased by me. The bill details are on my phone, and I also have the pharmacy receipts at home.
"After I found this information, I took time out to visit her. We hit it off for some reason, and I inexplicably helped her with her rehabilitation. Half a month later, I inexplicably gained a friend, and recently I've been helping her find a job."
Cao Qian's expression was calm. She didn't make a fuss about losing her memory, nor did she feel disgusted that fate had forced this useless friend on her. But Lu Mingze could tell from her eyes that Cao Qian also wanted to understand why all this happened.
"It seems we've had the same experience. Do you want to complete the task together to regain your memories?" Lu Mingze extended his hand to Cao Qian and said, "You can stay in this world for a whole day. There are two horizontal lines on the bracelet, so you can stay for three full days."
"Gugaguga, Ido..."
Cao Qian pinched the swan's beak with one hand and held Lu Mingze's hand with the other. She said, "I don't know why, but I don't worry about whether time in the real world is passing."
Lu Mingze said: "Real-world time doesn't pass in the game."
The two happily shook hands and reached an agreement. The armor that Cao Qian was stepping on finally couldn't help but said: "How long are you going to talk to me?"
"Ah, I forgot about him." Lu Mingze said embarrassedly.
Cao Qian: "I haven't forgotten."
Lu Mingze: "…"
So did this cool young lady deliberately crush the armor for so long?
Lu Mingze looked down and saw that the armored shell had been crushed. Just how strong was Cao Qian?!
Cao Qian picked up the iron armor and asked, "What are you, and why can you speak? He wants to find a map. Is there any danger in the office on the fourth floor? Also, is there any light source here?"
"Don't, don't, don't pinch me. If you do, I won't be armor anymore." The armor said nervously, "I am just an ordinary suit of armor. I came alive the day the disaster struck. I wake up at dusk and fall asleep at dawn. But I can't move unless someone wears me. Then I can control their movement. After meeting someone, I will wander around the city for a night and take a look at the town I am guarding. In the morning, I must return to my original position and fall asleep under the first ray of sunlight. Then the person in my body can leave. I don't mean to hurt him. I just want to walk around the town. In return, I will help him get the map."
At the end of the words, the armor actually felt aggrieved, and the helmet made a "grunting" sound, like a 500-pound baby.
"I see," Lu Mingze said, squatting down and looking at the armor. "Why didn't you tell me earlier? It's not like I disagreed. Look at what it's become now."
The armor said, "If I don't force it, who would agree to let me take over? They heard I can control people's bodies! And I'm really too heavy. People I controlled before had to sleep for several days. They must have been exhausted."
Lu Mingze thought for a moment and said, "I can't promise you now. After all, I don't have time to sleep for several days. But after the mission is completed, I will come to help you run for a night. After all, the mission is completed, so it doesn't matter if I sleep for a few days."
"You..." The armor was stunned, "Why are you so stupid? I was lying to you!"
Lu Mingze: "…"
The armor said, "No living person can withstand the dark aura within me. Wearing me for a whole night will reduce your lifespan by half!"
"Then...are there anyone in this city who has committed heinous crimes and deserves to be hanged?" Lu Mingze asked. "I'll capture them and put them on you. That way, you can protect the town and punish the criminals at the same time, killing two birds with one stone."
The armor said in surprise, "That seems to be possible! I actually know some of the prisoners. On the day of the disaster, they burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil, harming many ordinary residents. But they live outside the city. They are a group of bandits who rob the residents of their food every year. Bring me the map and I will tell you their specific location."
As soon as the armor finished speaking, the narrator prompted: "Received mission two. Capture the bandits near the town and hand them over to the armor guardian for punishment. The current mission progress is 0.026."