Chapter 116: Paper Town

Qiao Song knew that the biggest difficulty of this ring-tossing game was the inequality in numbers.

Among the vast sea of ​​white, yellow, and green paper beasts, there were only sporadic red, blue, and black targets.

And when the player locks on the three of them, the white, yellow and green ones next to them will actively move their heads into the circle, actively serve as cannon fodder, and consume the player's circle.

Therefore, the ring-tossing method used by other players is very simple. First, use control props to control the paper beast containing the target, and then consume the ring and skills to achieve the goal.

The other players may have watched how the players in the previous round responded, so they cooperate with each other to at least ensure that everyone can complete the minimum standard of ring-tossing requirements.

Lin Qun also completed a collaboration with Jin Jiaqi, and the two parties seemed to know each other.

In the end, only Qiao Song, without consuming any extra control items, rode his pterosaur directly into the group of paper beasts.

The only stranger on the field, holding a prop that no one else had ever heard of, rushed straight into the heart of the field. Little Feather let out a long, hoarse cry and rushed forward like lightning.

Others thought that Qiao Song was going to use force.

The skeleton wearing a cowboy hat sighed: "So reckless, doesn't she know that if she doesn't use props to control it in advance, once a red, blue or black target is locked, a large number of other colored paper beasts around will rush up to block it?"

Seeing the cowboy hit a blue target paper beast, the cook took back his casserole with a cold expression: "The deal is over, both of us have fulfilled our minimum requirements."

After ensuring that you have completed the minimum requirements of the game, the next step is competition.

The cowboy sneered and stopped paying attention to Qiao Song: "Okay, let's have a competition."

Lin Qun controlled the gourd and cooperated with Jin Jiaqi to clear the paper beasts in the field. When they completed the minimum target for the three of them, they found that Qiao Song was still riding on the pterosaur and wandering around.

The cowboy muttered to himself, "Could I have guessed wrong? Isn't this an old player, a new player who is just bullying others? Then how did she cultivate her soul to this level? If she is a new player, she must have only been in the game for two or three days..."

No, if he is really a new player, I will have to find a way to interrogate him and get some inside information. This will be even more awesome than the president’s strategy.

While the cowboy was still planning bad things, Qiao Song had already completed his first patrol.

"There are more than 300 paper beasts in total, but there are only about 30 of the target colors."

With this number of people dispersed, under the premise of ten protecting one, the possibility of hitting the target is indeed not high. Using control props to determine the small group containing the target in advance is indeed the easiest way to pass the level.

But first, she has no control items, and secondly——

"If the only way to complete the game is to use control items, then this crappy game is too boring."

Qiao Song touched his toolbox and said, "Little Feather, start from that direction and harvest."

The old players who had just been cooperating with each other to complete the guaranteed ring-tossing task now stood apart. Just as everyone was secretly working hard to prepare the remaining paper beasts, trying to find objects that met the standards and toss as many as they could, it felt like it suddenly started raining from the sky.

"What's going on? Has it ever rained in Zhazhi Village before?"

The cowboy was the first to look up at the sky. He was currently using a piping bag and some cream control skills. When the rain hit, the animal cream melted instantly.

Unexpectedly, when I looked up, I found that the pterosaur was flying back and forth in the sky with a bag with a hole in it.

Artificial rainfall - pterosaur version.

Qiao Song had already jumped off the dragon's back and directly summoned Hei Dou to change his mount.

When Hei Dou appeared this time, he did not jump out of the mirror space like Xiao Yu Mao, nor did he choose a body nearby and reincarnate directly as usual.

There weren't any unowned bones around for it to use.

The black beans are now in the state of paper-made.

This is one of my achievements in the past two days! The paper-folding technique has been initially successful!

It was worth it that Qiao Song provided him with delicious soup every day. His food was almost as good as that of the boys and girls. However, Xiao Ni worked much harder than those two little guys, and the twins were always angry about it.

When Hei Dou came out, Lin Qun's eyes, which were already bright, lit up again.

This is a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

What is this lady's job? Is she an expert in dinosaur paleontology? That's amazing.

Qiao Song, an ordinary temporary worker, commanded Little Feather to fly freely in the sky with a big leaky bag.

Moreover, it flew in the direction of a fixed area, avoiding the ground area where Qiao Song was riding Hei Dou.

Aren’t those white, yellow, and green paper beasts protecting their masters? In order to prevent humans from catching the other three colored targets, they will take the initiative to separate them from danger, even at the cost of putting their own necks into the noose.

Is rain dangerous? After all, this water is not ordinary water, but the lake water that the paper beasts hate the most in the dungeon.

When Qiao Song passed through the area, no grass grew.

For people who often go to the lake, what's wrong with packing a few large bags of lake water in their toolbox?

Even paper beasts hate the lake. You have to be a fool to put such a big lake here.

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that!"

The cowboy, who was originally annoyed that his cream was washed away, understood what was going on with the rain the moment he took off his hat.

They had been in the dungeon for the second cycle, so they knew that paper beasts were not afraid of fire, but hated water.

But even if ordinary people guessed that the paper beast hated lake water, they would not have thought that it could be used in this way.

And the most important thing is that their West Village is the winner of several rounds of Bonfire Festivals. The erosion and assimilation of the copy has almost been completed. Let alone a lake, not even a puddle can be seen.

Who would have thought there was such a method?

"Damn it. I want other players to go to the next village to buy lake water for me."

The cook in white clothes next to him twitched his mouth and said, "You are so useless."

The cowboy turned his wide hat brim and said, "You don't understand. When playing games, enjoying the process of playing the game is as important as the joy of winning."

After saying that, he summoned a new means of transportation, which turned out to be a plastic Ultraman. Facing the cook's meaningful gaze, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say:

"I can't help it. Kids nowadays like these fancy cakes. Do you think I don't want to make traditional cakes that really require craftsmanship like before? Friend, I need to eat too."

After that, the weird cowboy, riding on the weird plastic Ultraman, rushed into the group of monsters, humming a song happily and making circles, looking really happy.

Under Qiao Song's rain attack, the situation suddenly became weird. The rain seemed to cause great damage to the paper beasts. Almost as soon as the raindrops fell, all the white, yellow and green paper beasts in those areas immediately turned themselves into round and flat balls, blocking the heads of the target color paper beasts.

Blocking attacks for specific protected objects seemed to be written into their instincts, so much so that when the rain got heavier, most of the spheres turned themselves into umbrellas.

A dispersed attack would certainly carry the risk of being blocked, but what about the rain?

Riding on Black Bean, Qiao Song happily rushed into the umbrella formed by small beans and attacked the dragon underneath.

Like bandits entering a village, after losing their protectors, they targeted the paper beasts' heads one by one. It was not a ring-tossing game at all, but more like a robbery.

As for why Hei Dou was fine while walking through the rain?

"Luckily I asked Xiao Ni to make a raincoat in advance. The little guy has great craftsmanship." Qiao Song couldn't help but admire.

Hei Dou let out a whining roar.

Xiaoni's craftsmanship is superb!

Hei Dou really likes this raincoat with a hood! There is even a space on the back like a backpack, and Qiao Song didn't get wet.

Lin Qun placed Xiao Cong on his own gourd in the rain. There was no other way. If his sister Cong's mattress got wet, its integrity would be reduced, and the skills of the mattress reviewer would also be affected.

"This is the first time I've seen a dinosaur wearing a raincoat. It's so cool." Xiao Cong, who had just woken up from his sleep, could feel the envy in his tone.

Thanks to Qiao Song, this round of the game ended in an unexpected way.

In the past, several players would compete with each other, and after completing the minimum guarantee, the best player might be able to hit 3 to 4 more rings. But today, almost all of the more than 30 target colors on the field were hit.

Qiao Song took eight of them by himself.

The cake maker, dressed in a cowboy suit, clasped his fists in an awkward manner and said, "Sister, whether you are an old player who has survived three rounds or not, I admire you."

Then he narrowed his eyes and changed the subject: "Well, I don't know if you have ever joined a guild. Our guild welcomes players like you who are very innovative in completing games."

Qiao Song looked him up and down: "Strategy team?"

The cowboy was stunned and gave a thumbs up: "Sharp eyes and golden pupils."

The main thing is that the crazy temperament of your guild is really easy to identify.

Knowing that Qiao Song had no intention of joining the guild for the time being, the cowboy also sighed: "It doesn't matter. There are not many normal people in our guild. It would be nice to have a chance to cooperate."

Qiao Song couldn't help but sigh that some large guilds had a very good idea of ​​how they positioned themselves.

She helped Hei Dou put on his raincoat and patted his big head. The little guy reluctantly went back through the mirror with Xiao Yuma.

Lin Qun was even more certain this time. This girl's ability might be to tame dinosaurs or something like that. At least most of the players on the field thought so.

"By the way, after you clear the game, you must not sell the loot to the NPCs. It's best to keep it for yourself."

Xiao Cong, who had already woken up, rubbed his eyes, and sighed when he saw the pitiful look in Lin Qun's eyes, "Sister Song, does your dinosaur have any skill derivatives? This idiot of mine wants to buy one."

Dinosaur?

Qiao Song looked at the people around him nodding their heads rapidly, and another target person captured by the dinosaur actually agreed.

"I'll go back and ask the kid at home. He did it. We'll contact each other through the communicator when the time comes."

Lin Qun and Xiao Cong were very sensible and did not try to explore her skills. Instead, they reminded her as if they remembered something: "The lake water is indeed very useful, but the bottom of the lake is very dangerous. You must be careful."

Lin Qun seemed to be pointing to something:

"Don't take the Water Ghost sign lightly. There are things scarier than Water Ghosts down there. Don't go into the water before you reach a certain level of soul strength. You are like a piece of fat meat. You will be easily eaten if you go into the water."

Qiao Song, who personally created the legend of the water ghost: ...

If this legend becomes more and more outrageous in the future, every one of you old players will be responsible.

But in fact, she guessed that the other party was using the water ghost to remind her that the shrine might directly eat the player.

It seems that Little Beike did not lie to her.

Then it would be quite strange that she could absorb the incense from the shrine.

Qiao Song asked one last question before leaving: "Are there any more mountaintop games like today's in this instance?"

Lin Qun shook his head: "As far as I know, there is only this one, and it will not be opened until at least the second day of the dungeon. But it's better this way, otherwise only veteran players can come every time."

According to him, the condition for opening this dungeon game is that the soul strength of all participating players must be over 50%, and it is almost impossible for players who have just entered the dungeon to meet this requirement.

"In this dungeon, the only way to increase the strength of your soul is to kill paper beasts, practice paper-tying techniques, and occasionally absorb incense during the day. It's hard for a newbie to reach the target on the first day, and the game will continue to wait at the top of the mountain for 7 days until someone opens the game."

Qiao Song thought for a moment and said, "What if there aren't that many players who meet the criteria in this round of the game?"

Gathering six qualified players to the top of the mountain platform at one time is not a simple standard.

Xiao Cong spoke at this time, his tone was full of meaning: "At that time, the NPC will directly give us clues and let us come to the top of the mountain."

She looked up at the golden iron cage disappearing in the sky, and pointed to the hole in the distance: "When we entered the game, you also heard the game prompt. This is a cross-dungeon joint game."

"If no player completes the game or fails, the number of paper beasts that appear in the next game will increase, and the area of ​​the game venue on the top of the mountain will also expand until a player achieves the goal."

Qiao Song stared at the space on the ground and compared it with what he had seen before. He indeed found that the area of ​​the platform on the top of the mountain seemed to have become smaller.

"You successfully caught so many paper beasts this time. When the next game starts, the number of paper beasts that appear in this joint game may decrease."

At a certain moment, a guess suddenly flashed through my mind.

Doesn't this mean that after completing the game, the invasion level of the copy is reduced?

"Blind box paradise..."

Qiao Song recalled the spirit tablets he saw in the shrine, but it was a pity that there were no names on them, otherwise he could have confirmed whether the copy name matched.

Lin Qun, Xiao Cong, and Cowboy, these three are actually all from West Village. After the game is over, they plan to go back to kill a few paper beasts and then return to the village to rest. After all, there are other things to do after dawn, and it is impossible for them to stay up all night.

Several of the new players outside had been scared away by the cowboy, and now only Tang Xiaoxiao and Aunt Huo were left. They stood quietly outside the iron cage and watched the entire game.

It is said that Lin Qun and his friends were the players watching outside in the last round.

"This game is almost monopolized by veteran players. The advantages between each village will become greater and greater. Three people from the West Village have come this time, and they are planning to bring two more."

This time it was the cook who spoke.

Qiao Song thought to himself, aren’t you a socially anxious person?

Unexpectedly, this sentence seemed to consume all the cook's social energy. As soon as Qiao Song turned around, this guy put on his black robe at the speed of light and disguised himself as a swordsman.

He spoke in a serious and muffled voice: "I know you are not from our village, but I don't know why you took a detour and followed me here."

"There will only be one winner at the bonfire party on the seventh day. Of course, that opportunity is not the only one in this process. We, the players who stayed to participate in the second round, are looking for a second option besides winning the bonfire party."

This attitude of delivering intelligence to the door surprised Qiao Song: "You said you know you and I are not from the same village, why are you still sending me this information?"

The cook said awkwardly, "I didn't steal the cloth on the hook from your friend on purpose. I was at a skill buffer at the time and couldn't find any other alternative."

Qiao Song raised his eyebrows: "How did you recognize me?"

"The hammer is too conspicuous."

The cook paused and did not mention the issue of Qiao Song's flesh and blood changes.

He also understood that just because others caught more fish and had more cloth was not a reason for him to snatch the fruits of their victory.

"This is considered compensation. If they encounter danger in the village in the future, I will take care of them a little."

His skills are varied, and most of the time if he cooperates with other players, he can produce unexpected results.

Qiao Song didn't say much, just watched the chef, who was taciturn but talked a lot when he spoke, leave.

The people from East Village and West Village retreated, leaving only Jin Jiaqi in the south, who seemed to be waiting for Qiao Song.

"Hey, sister, I'm a dungeon merchant. I didn't see you in the game last round. Are you a player from the third round, or a newcomer? This is my business card. We can trade items if we have a chance."

When Qiao Song took the business card of small commodities handed over by the other party, he suddenly had a hallucination of Gao Chengcheng for some reason, and he didn't know whether she and her brother had entered Zootopia at this moment.

The profession of dungeon merchant is not uncommon. Gao Chengcheng mentioned to her that the further you go in the Infinite Highway, the more likely it is that players of this profession will appear in large dungeons.

For auxiliary or life-related professions, unless you have attack skills like a cook, you have to switch to other side jobs, or cooperate with players with attack skills for a long time.

But Jin Jiaqi is obviously not as good as Gao Chengcheng. It can be seen from the fact that Tang Xiaoxiao stood silently by the side and played the role of a high school student the whole time that this person is not trustworthy.

Qiao Song noticed the plastic sister flower hairpins on the little girl's head that matched Jin Jiaqi's.

Tang Xiaoxiao blinked slowly, and Qiao Song understood what she meant and immediately gave a businesslike smile: "Okay."

Jin Jiaqi felt a chill down her spine for some reason when she saw a skeleton laughing.

The last time Qiao Song used this thing, he was at the waterside and got various small commodities when his equipment exploded. Although the props did not have particularly amazing properties, they were large in quantity, cheap, and had a variety of effects.

Find an opportunity to cooperate with Tang Xiaoxiao and get more equipment from this profiteer.

Only after watching Qiao Song go down the mountain did Jin Jiaqi breathe a sigh of relief.

She only got three trophies in the ring-tossing game. She hesitated for a moment whether to give one to Tang Xiaoxiao, after all, she had borrowed her ability in the middle of the game.

[Plastic Sisters Trading Hairpins]

[After we become friends, of course you can use my things and I can use yours. Take your abilities.]

Jin Jiaqi touched the hairpin on her head. This thing had a strong control power. During the few days she stayed in the copy, as long as Tang Xiaoxiao kept wearing this hairpin, her influence on her would become deeper and deeper, provided that her favorability did not drop.

A big smile appeared on the girl's face:

"Xiao Xiao, let me share the reward I just got with you."

Tang Xiaoxiao showed a delighted look on her face: "Really? But, that's what you won in the competition."

Jin Jiaqi took off one of the three rings on her left wrist and put it on Tang Xiaoxiao's wrist.

"It's okay, we are friends."

When Qiao Song was going down the mountain, he was looking at the ring on his wrist.

They are very thin, there are 8 in total, and when they are stacked together, it is almost impossible to tell the exact number.

After the mini-game is over, the golden cage in the square has been removed. After the ring-tossing game is over, the paper beast in the cage will become the player's personal property. At first, it will follow them like a dog, and then its size will gradually shrink, and it will drill into the ring on the wrist like a stream of light.

[Blind Box Paradise and Paper Town Joint Product: Paper Beast Set]

[A single yellow, white, or green paper beast has half the combat power of the red devil. A red, black, or blue paper beast has the combat power of an ordinary red devil. If you collect all the paper beasts of all colors, you will get a blind box set bonus, doubling the power.]

Qiao Song got eight rings, which just completed a set of colors, a total of six.

Lin Qun and Xiao Cong had reminded her before not to sell this thing to NPCs. It seems that they know the function of the combination set.

"The items in the blind box mall all have this characteristic. As long as you collect a set, you can stimulate the set effect. Your color has already met the standard, and keeping the items will definitely be of great use."

The two extra colors that Qiao Song had were repeated yellows, otherwise Xiao Cong would have wanted to buy the two extra circles from her.

The NPC even accepted this, but not the corpses of the paper beasts she hunted at night.

After walking a little way to the edge, Qiao Song soon saw Aunt Huo who was waiting for him there.

There is a saying in the world that beauty lies in the bones, not in the skin.

Aunt Huo looks to be in her 50s, but her bones are extremely healthy and not much different from those of ordinary young people.

Instead, the small bones surrounding him seemed particularly interesting.

Qiao Song squatted down and teased the little bones: "Is this Huahua and Ah Huang?"

Aunt Huo smiled, completely different from the way she had confronted the cowboy on the platform before. She gently touched the cat at her feet and said, "It's a good thing you can recognize it."

After the cats turned into bones, they looked almost the same at first glance.

After all, names are usually given based on appearance, such as Xiaoju, Xiaobai, Xiaohei, and Xiaosanhua.

It is said that many of them are adopted stray cats, and they had this name before. Aunt Huo also said that simple names are easier to remember. As long as any life has a name and is called more often, it will become more spiritual.

The old people in the countryside call this a cheap name that is easy to support.

This was the first time that Qiao Song experienced the pleasure of a white-bone cat. Since she herself was made of bones now, the feeling was quite subtle.

"Hmm? Aunt Huo, why do I feel like Xiaoju and the others are starting to gain weight?"

"That's why I'm waiting for you here."

Aunt Huo spoke slowly and steadily, and with her white finger bones she gently stroked the bony kitten that was rubbing against her.

"I didn't stay in this dungeon for a long time. I met new players and old players who stayed in the dungeon. We discussed some things in the group. Most of the players came to the paper-breaking town to enhance their soul power."

"And there are only three ways: killing paper beasts, practicing paper-tying, and absorbing incense."

The first two are the easiest to discover, but the last point, about incense, requires staying in the dungeon long enough to deduce it.

As time goes by, the incense that NPCs light every night will become more and more fragrant, and it will not be difficult for players to discover this secret.

But Qiao Song had already tried it in the shrine. The effect of incense was the fastest and also the hardest to obtain. After all, ordinary players couldn't get into the shrine like her.

She even felt that if possible, the system would like to put her directly into the shrine blacklist.

"But Qiao Song, have you discovered? In addition to these three methods, there is another method that can also grow flesh and blood."

A circle of kitten bones squatted around Aunt Huo.

There was another reason why the cowboy did not drive away Tang Xiaoxiao and Aunt Huo like he did with ordinary players. Compared to the new players who were scared away before, they had a lot of flesh and blood on their bodies.

Unlike guys like Qiao Song who are almost turning into a bloody man, they are growing flesh bit by bit from the gaps between their bones.

The same is true for Aunt Huo’s cats.

In the cracks between the kitten's bones, you can see the blood color increasing, like red threads, causing the little bones to jump up and down.

"Speaking of which, I haven't killed many paper beasts. I was mostly exploring dungeons, but my evolution speed is no less than anyone in West Village."

West Village is the place with the largest number of remaining old players. Aunt Huo and the newcomers in the strategy group led by Cowboy had two conflicts and neither of them got any good results.

"Until I went out tonight, I found a box on my bed."

Aunt Huo took out a strange wooden box from her storage space.

"This is what Xiaoju brought back."

At first, she thought that the cats took the initiative to look for clues in the copy. The cats were derivatives of her skills, and each had their own personality and living habits.

Xiaoju likes to go out for a walk very much.

"But the kitten said they found the materials to make it for me."

At first she was surprised because the kittens usually didn’t like to stroll outside. She thought it was because it was windy and sandy outside the town, and the kittens had never seen a desert, so they were curious and wanted to go out to play.

The result was that he quietly went out to find materials to make gifts.

Qiao Song looked at the familiar shape of the wooden box in Aunt Huo's hand, and a noun suddenly came to his mind.

Aunt Huo stared into her eyes quietly: "Qiao Qiao, I feel like Xiaoju and the others have built a shrine for me."

"They provide me with a faint incense, and I repay them with love."

In a very special and incredible way, they grew flesh and blood together.