Chapter 145 Datai City 10

The fire climbed up the door frame, rushed onto the sofa, and spread to the chairs. The flames were raging, the smoke was choking, the air was hot and thin, and full of burnt smells.

Xia Bai stepped over the tongue of flame and stepped into the sea of ​​fire.

He kept thinking about the crack on the roof of Dr. Wang's room on the sixth floor. The crack was caused by a collision. It wouldn't be Dr. Wang who hit the roof from such a high height, and the staff would not hit the roof for no reason. So who could it be?

What else is in that room?

Could it be that emotional monster?

Dr. Wang wrote that when he heard “him” crying, could it be the emotional monster crying?

As an expert who studies colorful ghosts from a medical perspective, is it possible that the large amounts of anti-depressant drugs he takes are not only for himself, but also for the sad monster?

【Why is he crying so sadly? 】

[Can this method stop tears? ]

Perhaps he is a doctor different from those experts, who does not want to eliminate emotional monsters, but is thinking of other ways?

Without sufficient evidence, Xia Bai had no way of knowing all this.

He was thinking of another possibility, focusing only on the crack in the roof and the sentence Dr. Wang wrote in the book.

【I want to go to nature, to bask in the sun, the warm sunshine, where is it? 】

The sad monster tried hard to make a crack in the roof, hoping to let in a ray of sunlight for Dr. Wang.

It was because he thought of this possibility that he felt for a moment that the emotional monster was not so scary.

But the reality is that emotional monsters are rampant and can cause death. They have to eliminate the emotional monsters in order to leave here and finally complete the game.

Then we face two problems.

First, how to eliminate emotional monsters? One known method is to kill the host when the emotional monster is parasitic.

Second, if the emotional monsters are eliminated, humans will also lose their emotions, and eventually, at least these players will self-destruct.

This seems to be an unsolvable contradiction.

Emotional monsters are not that scary - you will lose all emotions if you completely eliminate them - you can complete the game only if you completely eliminate them - [There are many monsters hiding in the city that are eyeing humans covetously] - How to eliminate emotional monsters - Can emotional monsters really be eliminated?

Xia Bai opened his arms to the monster.

The silver monster that was constantly twisted by the flames stopped moving. There were only two black circles similar to eyes on its face and no other facial features. Naturally, no expression could be seen on it. But at this moment, it looked motionless in the fire, as if it was stunned.

"Xia Bai!"

"Xia Bai, you are crazy!"

"Quickly release the water!"

Amid the shouts of his teammates, seeing that the silver monster did not move, Xia Bai moved a little closer, always keeping his arms open to it.

The silver twisted monster made an incomprehensible sound, stared at Xia Bai, slowly squirmed and stood up, then flew towards Xia Bai.

Xia Bai got there first and reached out to hug it.

There was a huge splash of water behind them, and the water drops fell on them like rain. It seemed that Xia Bai saw that the twisted emotional monster seemed to be crying.

For no reason, he also felt like crying, even though he had clearly lost all sadness.

The emotional monster in his arms deformed little by little. It no longer looked like a human. When it no longer looked like a human, it was no longer scary. It turned into a soft arc, as if melting in Xia Bai's arms.

[There are many monsters hiding in the city that are eyeing humans with greed. ]

It's a monster.

How can humans eliminate emotional monsters? Not to eliminate emotional monsters, but to eliminate monsters.

Emotions cannot be eliminated, nor can they be eradicated.

The way to fight the terrible emotional monster is to stop fearing it, accept it, and embrace it.

It has changed from an emotional monster to an emotion that humans cannot live without.

People have the richest emotions, and emotions and people are inseparable. Because of emotions, people are what all things are.

Doctor Wang may be the only person in the institute who does not want to eliminate the emotional monster violently. He may have tried many methods, such as giving the sad monster antidepressants, playing music and crosstalk for the sorrow monster, with change as the starting point, but all failed.

He didn't give them a hug and accept them.

They cannot be eliminated, they are difficult to change, they just need a hug and acceptance.

The fire in the room was put out, and the fire turned into clumps of gray smoke that rose up. Xia Bai stood in the smoke and slowly turned his head to look at several teammates who were frowning and looking at him.

"Xia Bai, you, you... you're worrying me to death!" Hua Haoming said, "How do you feel?"

Ling Changye was not as worried as him. He understood why Xia Bai did this. He also frowned, walked up to him, and wiped his little face that was blackened by the fire while sighing.

His clean, cold white hands were stained with a lot of the dust from his face and were not dry.

He couldn't help but sigh again and hugged Xia Bai in his arms.

Xia Bai leaned against his chest and listened to his heartbeat for a while, then asked him, "Captain, how do you feel?"

Ling Changye thought for a while and said, "It's worrying."

Xia Bai raised a bitter face, "Oh, that means our sadness is still there."

"Yes." Ling Changye said: "You succeeded."

"Successful?" Hua Haoming asked with a worried look on his face, "Do we still have worries?"

"Maybe." Shi An thought for a moment, "I also think Xia Bai is very worrying. Maybe he succeeded."

"This worrying guy is as smart as ever." Hua Haoming sighed.

The shouting from the fifth floor attracted the attention of people in the restaurant. Many people were looking out the door. Yang Mei ran to the stairs and was about to climb up when she saw several people coming down with sad faces.

"What's wrong?" he asked, not looking worried at all, just sad and annoyed, and his voice was loud.

Hua Haoming: "The sad monster was solved by Xia Bai."

Yang Mei immediately ran to Xia Bai and patted him on the head, "You really are, you really are, we both have no emotions anymore, let's turn into robots and live here for the rest of our lives?"

"I don't want to make a robot with you. How can a robot as stupid as you survive?" Xia Bai muttered, "You can't tell east from west, south from north, and you can't even determine your position."

Yang Yi also walked over quickly and asked, "How is it?"

Ling Changye didn't answer him, but asked him: "How are the people in the restaurant? Is there any problem?"

"Not yet." Yang Yi said.

Ling Changye glanced at Xia Bai, Xia Bai nodded, and walked towards the door of Taiguang Hotel for the second time.

The blue emotion monster Sadness showed extreme sadness and heartache after being attacked. It has been eliminated.

The emotional monster Anxiety, black, showed extreme anxiety and uneasiness after being attacked, and has been eliminated.

The emotional monster was angry and red. After being attacked, it became furious and has been eliminated.

Emotional monster hatred, purple. After being attacked, it shows hatred for everything and has been destroyed.

The pink emotion monster Shame showed an infinite increase in shame after being attacked. It has been destroyed.

The emotion monster is happy, yellow. After being attacked, it became so happy that it could not be restrained. It has been destroyed.

The emotion monster regret is orange. After being attacked, it showed burning regret. It has been eliminated.

The emotion monster is fear, green. After being attacked, it behaves as if everything around it is dangerous and has been destroyed.

The monster Sadness, Silver, showed extreme sadness and irritability after being attacked, and has been eliminated.

Xia Bai placed his hand on the dark iron gate and pulled it back.

A rainbow lit up in the foggy world outside the door, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, beautifully stretching across the gray sky.

“We did it!”

"Go out, you can go out now!"

"Oh My God."

Several people slowly walked out of the hotel gate and looked at the city of Datai shrouded in thick fog.

Before entering the game, Xia Bai and Ling Changye had overlooked the entire Datai City from the rooftop of Dihao Apartment. At that time, they saw the culturally diverse Datai City at night. Under layers of thin fog, different buildings were shining with colorful lights, which was beautiful and unique.

At this time, the gray fog was who knows how many times thicker it was, but they could still faintly see a trace of fleeing color, stubbornly passing through the impenetrable gray.

There were several cars parked outside the door. Ling Changye said to the seven new players who came out of the hotel, "Drive to the city exit and leave Datai City after the game is over."

They didn't get in the car immediately. Changhe pushed his glasses and said, "What are you going to do? We will help you."

Ling Changye looked at Datai City, which was shrouded in thick fog, and said, "We need to tell everyone in every corner of this city how to eliminate the emotional monster, but it's obviously not that simple."

It can be seen from the fact that Wen Yuxin could no longer see outside when he was locked in the hotel that the thousands and thousands of people in the locked-down small areas must also be unable to see outside. It would be useless even if they were in the tallest building to pass on the message.

Yang Yi: "Why don't we go to Dihao Apartment, Wugu Village and other places where the game has landed before?"

Players all know that a place where a game has landed will not land again. The landing of the extra-large game map in Datai City is an exception. They are not sure whether the game will land in the place where the game originally landed in Datai City this time.

These places are quite special, and the Tourism Administration has several rescue stations located in these places.

"Okay." Ling Changye said, "We can know everything by looking at one place. Let's go together to the nearest Dihao Apartment."

Just as he was about to look for a car, Xia Bai saw two green trash cans outside the hotel entrance. He walked over and rummaged through the trash cans, and Erwa helped him to look through them skillfully.

When the car drove over, Xia Bai got in with a notebook in his pocket.

The Dihao Apartment is located in the center of Datai City, very close to their hotel. They found a total of six cars, lined them up and drove forward.

Xia Bai and Ling Changye were still driving the same car they had driven before the game began, and they were in the front.

The car lights penetrated the thick fog, but they could not see any human figures along the way. They seemed to be in a silent and deserted ghost town.

"What did you find just now?" Ling Changye asked Xia Bai who was sitting in the passenger seat while driving.

"An observation notebook." Xia Bai flipped it open and took a look. "It should be Doctor Wang's. He recorded the entire process of his research on the colored ghosts."

Xia Bai flipped through it and read the important content to Ling Changye.

[They are all trying to find a way to completely eliminate the colored ghosts. The prison is empty. Many colored ghosts have been completely eliminated in human bodies. What's the next step? Who to use? ]

[They are researching the use of various hot weapons and new technologies to deal with the colorful ghosts, but the colorful ghosts are resistant to something, but they can break through and become stronger through constant stimulation, making them even more impossible to eliminate.]

[Why don't they think of using a gentler method to change Caigui? Caigui may just be "sick." ]

I failed. I failed too.

[I left with the last possibility, which was trapped in a fire cage in the body of a patient who was constantly crying. All others failed, and only this one was my last hope, because I had experienced all of this, I knew the feeling of crying constantly, and I knew how to get out of crying. ]

[I tried to talk to it, asking it to stay in my room and not go to anyone else. I listened to it crying every day, trying to find a way to stop it from crying.]

[I know it can’t hold on any longer, and I can’t hold on any longer either.]

[It’s so dark. Where is the light? ]

It was similar to what Xia Bai guessed. Not only was Dr. Wang taking the overdose of antidepressants, he might also have been trying to feed the drugs to the sad monster.

"Here." Xia Bai turned to the back of the notebook, "Here is the address of the research institute, No. 158, Chunming Road, Datai City, isn't this..."

"Emgrand Apartments." Ling Changye said.

The places that had landed in the game before were no longer enclosed in a small game map this time, but they became key institutions from the outside world, such as research institutes and the Security Bureau. There were people here, people from the game world, but they could not enter because they were all confidential institutions.

After trying to get in without success, they went to look for other rescue stations run by the Tourism Administration in the city. Without exception, these rescue stations were locked into the game, and the people inside could not get out, and they could not get in either.

A dozen people sat on the empty street, at a loss as to what to do.

Xia Bai: "Every second every night, hundreds of people may die, and the game can replenish more resentment energy."

"It's so worrying!" Hua Haoming wiped his face vigorously, "But what can we do?"

This is the first game they encounter that they cannot pass by just clearing the level. Colorful ghosts are distributed in every corner of Datai City that they cannot enter. They must eliminate all these monsters before they can pass the level, and this requires the efforts of everyone in the city.

They all knew that not only were many people dying every second, but even more people were turned into animals that no longer had any emotions and could not be called human beings.

It would be fine if all the players were novice players, as they are now trying hard to avoid the colorful ghosts if they are a little bit dumber. But we are afraid that there might be smart players with strong martial arts skills who have discovered how to completely eliminate the monsters and are eliminating the emotional monsters one after another. Then, every second, people in an area will lose all their emotions.

The wooden stick in Ling Changye's hand slid on the ground again and again. "This game is indeed different from the games we have played before. In addition to dividing it into countless small areas, what else is there?"

Zhou Buyu: "Also, this game actually takes place in Datai City. All the games we downloaded before, although they said they were set in a certain place, that place was actually just a portal. The game took place in an independent space and had nothing to do with that place."

Yang Yi suddenly raised his head and looked at Ling Changye: "What do you mean?"

"The game takes place in the real city of Datai. The Game Management Bureau had speculated about this before the game came out. The reason for this speculation is that the game may not have enough energy to create a game world that can accommodate millions of people in a city and many NPCs. It has to use the city of Datai, which has enough resentment, to expand the game."

"The real Datang City." Ling Changye looked down at the real Datang City land under his feet.

After a few seconds, he disappeared.

Zhou Buyu stood up suddenly, she understood, and she disappeared too.

Except for Yang Mei, everyone else understood and stared at the door of the restaurant in front of them.

"What's going on?" Yang Mei grabbed her silver hair, "Where did they go?"

"They have merged into the land." Yang Yi explained to his stupid brother, "The game uses the entire Datai City to play the game, which isolates countless areas. But it may not have enough energy to isolate each small area inside into an independent game space that is completely closed to the outside world. If so, it would not need to rely on the entire Datai City."

Yang Mei still didn't understand, "So?"

"It's just a lie. It's only isolated in the places we can see. The land beneath our feet should still be the real and original land of Datai City. The deep underground should be able to connect to the underground of the restaurant opposite, so they have melted into the land."

Yang Mei suddenly realized and also stared at the door in front of her.

18 minutes later, Ling Changye opened the door from the inside and brought out three smiling people and six corpses.

Half an hour later, Wen Yuxin came out of the supermarket behind them and led out five extremely calm people.

The players stood up one by one.

Xia Bai's arms became pink and soft, and the earthworm arms grew longer and longer, with transparent bristles grinding deep marks on the cement floor.

This was the first skill Xia Bai acquired when he was picking up corpses. At that time, he disliked this earthworm arm and thought of many uses for it to comfort himself. One of them was that earthworms called earth dragons were natural masters of loosening the soil, and he thought he could use it to loosen the soil for the god of joy at home.

Unexpectedly, it has a greater use here.

I'm sorry, Gu Quankun, I shouldn't have looked down on your skills.

The giant earthworm was like a long pink dragon, growing to the invisible height of the sky, and then rushing rapidly into the ground.

Underground is his sky, where he roams freely and digs out tunnels that are interconnected.

Ling Changye and Zhou Buyu disappeared again, their figures flashing back and forth as they ran away into the distance.

Shi An's □□ rushed out of the tunnels one after another.

Hua Haoming said to the new players who followed them: "What are you standing there for? There are so many holes, just find one to crawl into! You don't have to help them pass the level, just tell the people inside the correct way to eliminate the emotional monsters and actively embrace and accept the colorful ghosts!"

Many players jumped into the hole, and even Yang Mei crawled in clumsily.

Finally, there was only one fat man left who hadn't climbed up. Hua Haoming was so worried that he almost kicked him down. "What? Are you too fat and afraid of getting stuck?"

"No!" The little fat boy waved his hands and patted his legs. "I can drive an excavator! Do you have an excavator?"

“…”

In a matter of minutes, they had dug holes or melted into an entire street.

Yang Yi shouted to them: "Don't dig blindly, dig through the rescue station first, there are a lot of tools and weapons there!"

"It's still too slow." Xia Bai wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Datai City is too big. By the time we dig to the remote areas, the people inside may have died."

Xia Bai had a deep understanding of how big Datai City was. It took them more than three hours to get to Wugu Village by special car, and Wugu Village was not the farthest place from the center of Datai City.

It would take more than a day or two to complete the task just by relying on just a few of them, even with the players who left the game one after another after they joined. Moreover, their bodies had limits, and some of their skills could not be used continuously.

However, this is a game of seconds.

Yang Yi obviously realized it as well, he took off his glasses and threw them away.

It was the first time that Xia Bai saw the usually calm Yang Yi so annoyed. He looked up at the sky covered with gray fog, his eyebrows were furrowed together, and an unknown light was surging in his eyes.

Xia Bai also looked up at the sky. He didn't know when, the thick gray fog got closer to the ground, as if the resentment was accumulating more and more. The shadow of the sun could not be seen at all, like a city abandoned by the light.

"We can complete this game." Xia Bai said.

This game has a dead end, but they have found the correct way to eliminate monsters. As long as they know this method, they will be able to eliminate all the monsters in the city sooner or later, maybe in five days, maybe in a week.

But there are some deadlocks that are very difficult to break. If time goes on any longer, they may not be able to rescue many people.

They can complete the game, but they may not be able to use up the game's energy and severely damage the game. It is rapidly drawing energy from the deaths of countless people.

After that, they will continue a long, endless era of games, an era in which huge maps often appear, one city after another.

"Xia Bai."

When Xia Bai heard the call, he was stunned for a moment.

Many people have called him this name, and he doesn't find it strange when someone calls him this. But this call comes from Erwa.

Xia Bai turned around and saw Erwa who had been standing there quietly.

Erwa said, "You ask me."

Xia Bai's thin eyebrows curled up, and his lips trembled slightly, "I'm asking you a big head ghost."

"The head is not big." Erwa said with a smile, covering his head.

Then the head fell to the ground, and countless strands of hair turned into thin branches and burrowed into the ground.

His hands were also supported on the ground, and like his feet, countless roots grew underneath.

Countless roots grew out of every blood vessel in his body and drilled into the ground.

The first time Xia Bai saw Erwa was in the game at the Harmonious Cinema. Erwa was sitting in a chair not far from him.

He was so young and very timid, but when he was about to be pulled into the movie by the ghost hand, Xiao Erwa still held his legs firmly, even though tears were flowing.

At that time, Guo Yang, who was a die-hard fan of the assault team, told him that it was because he firmly protected Erwa. It was the first time that Erwa was protected by someone when facing danger.

In fact, he just wanted Erwa's body at that time.

At that time, Guo Yang told him that the crying and timid child was the ceiling of the player's combat power. He said that when the child was stimulated by the researcher's game scene, he burst out with skills, and the Hongchong Mountain where the research institute was located at that time was shaken by an earthquake of more than 8 degrees.

Xia Bai knew what the concept of a magnitude 8 earthquake meant. He also knew that Erwa's small body contained pure and surging natural power, and he also knew that he was the ceiling of his physical skills.

But he had never felt the true offensive power of his skills, so he didn't know what it felt like.

It was like a gust of wind blew, and the leaves on the trees on several streets near them all moved, rustling.

Xia Bai felt the vibration under his feet, which passed by in a flash. He turned around and saw that a crack with no end in sight had passed behind him, bursting into flying dust and splashing into the gray fog.

The vibrations spread from near to far, in circles, out of the city center, out of the main urban area, and into every remote mountainous area.

Thin, withered branches sprouted from the land all over Datai City, and small white flowers bloomed.

Under Erwa's pale skin, the blood vessels have turned into branches. When he opens his mouth, more branches rush out and fall to the ground, turning into spring.

"Hug...Hug the colorful ghost." He trembled - the ground was shaking too - and pursed his thin dry lips, "Love can..."