The night wind stopped for only a moment, and then quickly began to sob again.

The pair of eyes in the bushes were covered for a moment, and then suddenly popped out.

“Aaaaaahhh snake—!!”

Tan Wang's legs went weak and he staggered back and sat on the ground.

But his reaction seemed to have angered the cold-blooded animals among the branches and leaves, and they rushed straight towards him who was the farthest away.

…and then stopped moving half a foot away from him.

Shi Yu grabbed the snake's tail and looked up at the spotted snake's scarlet tongue as it turned its head and spit out its tongue.

After a few seconds, the spotted snake lowered its head and retracted itself.

Shi Yu loosened his hand, looked at the snake head that was trying to rub against him, and took two steps back: "Stop."

The snake really stopped, stretched its neck and found it couldn't reach it, so it retracted and stood up again, looking at him aggrievedly.

Tan Wang, who was sitting on the ground, had a look of collapsed worldview in his eyes.

【……】

[This scene is beyond my comprehension.]

[Even a professional animal trainer can't stop an animal he has never seen before with just one sentence, let alone a ferocious wild animal like a snake.]

[It would be fine if it just stopped suddenly, but the most outrageous thing is that Master Meiren just said to the snake to stop. Did it really understand? ? ]

[Shit, I suddenly remembered the cuckoo that Master Meiren teased not long ago. Did he talk to the bird at that time? I thought he was just talking to himself at that time! ! ]

【Finally, someone is wondering about this question? I thought I was the only one who was confused... I didn't even see Tao on the forum. I thought talking to animals was not just a thing in our world.】

[We can talk to animals because we have all died once. The animals we talk to are all ghosts. If we find a living one, who would understand? But how can he, a living person, speak animal language?]

[To be honest, I really think that Shi Yu always attracts some strange creatures, ever since he was a rookie and was entangled by Guan Lu in the first game. Otherwise, why would that half-human, half-ghost kid not look for anyone else but just ask him to look for his sister? ? ]

"Sister Chao..." Tan Wang turned his head blankly and saw the equally unconcealable shock in Gu Jinzhao's eyes.

Shi Yu sent the snake away, turned to meet the two men's gaze, and asked, "Are we there yet?"

“…No.” Tan Wang stood up silently, patted the dust off his trouser legs, and hesitated to speak.

Gu Jinzhao chased him away and continued to lead the way, and asked sideways: "Is this your innate or acquired talent?"

To be able to understand it later means that you have received relevant training, mastered professional skills, and know how to comfort.

But what if...

Shi Yu: “Innate.”

Gu Jinzhao opened his mouth: "To this extent?"

"Which one?"

"For example, when a snake sees you, not only does it not bite you, but it also moves away on its own initiative?"

Shi Yu: “Okay.”

Gu Jinzhao: "For example, the degree of barrier-free communication with it?"

"Can."

"For example, it does whatever you say..."

"Perhaps."

"……possible?"

"I can say whether or not I want to do it depends on the other party." Shi Yu said, "Unless I call it back for testing."

"don't want!!"

The sound came from Tan Wang, who was eavesdropping at the front with his ears perked up.

He swallowed and said, "I, you... No, sir, don't joke like that."

Shi Yu looked at him and said nothing.

The noise made by the snake was so loud that it obscured the subtlety of the bushes.

So no one noticed that behind them, a player with a flat head looked at their backs, slowly relaxed his heart, and looked down at his game bracelet.

Not only Gu Jinzhao has his own way of sending messages, Pingtou also has one, called flying letters.

Just hold the white paper as a prop and speak to it, and the paper will automatically record everything the player says and then fly to the hands of one or more recipients.

In fact, all the players who replied to the post which was called for a call but was actually a wanted notice and were selected by the poster were given one card by the initiator, Chi Feng.

Flathead shrank his head and muttered to the white paper for a while, then let go and watched the white paper float in the air for a while, and then fly into the deep night sky.

He breathed a sigh of relief and quickly caught up with the people in front of him before they disappeared.

※

"You suddenly appeared in the concert hall before. Were you knocked unconscious and thrown in?" Gu Jinzhao looked at him. "I guess that person probably pushed you to the center of the circle in the opposite direction. After all, players can't kill each other directly. They can only use the rules of the game. In this game, there is no better way than tearing the space."

Then he asked, "If that's the case, why didn't you die?"

Shi Yu said: "Because the spaces overlap."

After listening to his theory of "space fusion", Gu Jinchao looked at him with a complicated expression for several seconds: "Just because the person who did something to you went to the space where you were before you came here, the direction of entering the center of the space circle was from north to south? Are you so sure?"

"Not sure." Shi Yu said, "but that's the biggest possibility I can think of in that situation."

"Is there any other possibility?"

"A lot." Shi Yu put his hands in his pockets. "For example, he was able to enter the center of the circle in the opposite direction and still be alive because he met some conditions in the original space; for example, he just used some life-saving props before he died; for example, everything he told me before was nonsense, just to give me false information. After all, he wanted to kill me at that time, and I didn't know him."

Gu Jinzhao had fallen behind his companion at some point and was walking side by side with him: "Then why do you think that's the only possibility?"

Shi Yu said: "If I hadn't said that, I wouldn't know now that he wanted to kill me."

She was stunned.

Shi Yu didn't look at her, and said calmly: "Besides, I wasn't sure at that time, but now I can be sure that spatial overlap or fusion does exist."

"Why?"

"Because I'm still alive." Shi Yu said, "The closed space he and I encountered before overlapped, but this overlap did not mean that one side disappeared, but existed on both space gears at the same time. No matter which direction you enter from, you won't die."

Gu Jinzhao pushed aside the branches that blocked his way: "Existing at the same time? How can they exist at the same time?"

Shi Yu: “The overlapping space can be understood as the track that changes direction at any time depending on the train route.”

Therefore, no matter whether the player enters the center of the space from south to north or from north to south, the player will not die.

【Oh my god.】

[Master Meiren clearly knew that no matter which direction she entered the center of the circle, she would not die. But when Qiao Yan asked him which direction to go, he clearly said with certainty that it was from south to north.]

[He also said it was because of probability. I wanted to ask at the time, if it was just probability, then there must be a high probability that it was from north to south. How could he be so sure that it was from south to north? Is he fooling others? Right? ? ]

[I was really shocked. Did he intend to deceive others from the beginning, or did he want to leave a way out for himself? ]

[It may be that he is simply too defensive and doesn't trust anyone, so he deliberately said half and left the other half. ]

[Then he could have thought of the answer and not told anyone. But have you ever seen him deliberately conceal any rules about the game's worldview since the beginning of the game? When other players asked him for help, did he not answer them seriously? If anyone else had a clue, didn't he hide it for fear of being overtaken by others and talked about it without hesitation? Obviously, he didn't have the obligation to lead others through the level, but if he hadn't been there, Qiao Yan and the others would have died eight hundred times if they had tried to break through the center of the circle by themselves. ]

[I didn’t realize it before, but now that you’ve said that, I’ve discovered that Master Meiren is really kind to those players…]

[Who still remembers Guan Yueyue by Daming Lake? He was actually pretty nice to the NPCs...]

[My head hurts, I can't figure it out, I'd better just focus on watching the live broadcast. ]

Tan Wang looked towards them frequently as he walked, his face full of hesitation to speak.

Gu Jinzhao looked at him and asked, "Do you have anything to say?"

“No.” Tan Wang shook his head quickly. Suddenly, he seemed to step on something and took several steps back in their direction. “We’re here.”

He asked, "Shall we go in now?"

"No hurry." Gu Jinchao picked up a stone from the ground, threw it up twice, and suddenly turned around and threw it hard into the bushes.

A scream came from the bushes.

The flat-headed man who was hiding in the bushes felt that his knees were almost broken by the blow, and he retreated using his hands and feet.

This time it was Tan Wang who moved. He quickly stopped in front of Pingtou and frowned, "Player? Have you been following us?"

Flathead shrank back in fear: "I, I just happened to be passing by!"

Tan Wang: "...Do you take us for fools?"

They had been in this space for almost a day and a night, and apart from Shi Yu who dropped in midway, they had not seen the fourth player. Either the other party had just jumped in from another space, or they had come a long time ago but had been hiding and refused to show up.

Judging from the way the other party was following me, it was obviously the second one.

Gu Jinzhao walked behind Pingtou, and he and Tan Wang surrounded him in the middle, one in front and one behind: "Why are you following?"

The flat-headed man stammered and lowered his head until he was asked, then he suddenly looked up at her: "Isn't our goal to complete the boss's mission? Deputy Captain?"

Gu Jinzhao's eyes widened slightly.

In this moment of stunned time, a dark light flashed in the flat-headed man's eyes, and he instantly escaped from the encirclement of the two people. His hands turned into fists and smashed directly towards Shi Yu.

Behind you is the center of the space.

Shi Yu faced the fierce punch head-on and did not retreat. He simply bent down to avoid the opponent's attack and watched the opponent's fist hit the ground, actually creating a hole in the ground.

The dust is flying.

However, due to inertia, Pingtou took a few steps forward and when he stopped, he had already stepped into the center of the space circle.

On the other side, Tan Wang and Gu Jinzhao had already arrived.

The next moment, something unexpected happened to everyone.

The flat-head who fell into the center of the circle was neither teleported away directly, nor torn in half for going against the direction of rotation of the gears. Instead, he seemed to be suddenly suppressed by some huge force, and his entire body froze in place.

Then it began to dissipate.

...literally dissipated.

He was like a clay figure drenched by rain, and began to melt from head to toe. The picture was pulled with a slow progress bar, shrinking, shrinking, and shrinking again.

The head disappeared, the limbs disappeared, and finally the flesh disappeared, leaving only a bleeding heart, suspended in the air in a phenomenon that was completely beyond scientific common sense.

But it soon melted away completely.

Shi Yu watched him disappear little by little until he was completely out of sight. Then he turned around and asked, "Is it the same when you jump between different spaces?"

Every time he arrived at the center of a closed space, he was the first one to enter, so he had no idea what the state looked like to outsiders during the transmission.

"……no."

Tan Wang's Adam's apple rolled and his voice was dry: "Before Sister Chao entered the center of the circle, when I was watching from outside, she just walked in and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Not like this."

Once you enter the center of the space, there is a third possible outcome besides leaving alive or being torn apart and killed.

Although only a heart was left in the last scene, since there was no body left, it was impossible to determine whether the disappeared flat-head was dead or alive, and where his body had gone.

No one spoke, as if a huge net was binding people's breath, and the air suddenly stagnated.