Chapter 174 Giant Amusement Park

When Qiao Song obtained the shrine, he automatically acquired the corresponding functions of the shrine. In addition to being able to absorb incense like ghosts to improve the player's skills, it can also act as a space prop to store soul creatures and some small items.

The most important thing is the so-called resurrection function of the shrine.

The word "resurrection" can be interpreted in many ways, but there is no doubt that this thing that can only be used once should be very important.

It has been used up?

How come she doesn't know?

The shrine she just unlocked in the last map!

Qiao Song felt his body's stiffness eased a lot. He sat up a little and picked up the spider. "What do you mean by saying that I have used up my resurrection times?"

The big-headed spider was a little scared, but his tone was very sure:

"Because the River of Life and Death is in your mind! You must have seen it, or even waded through it and returned to reality! Once you are infected with this thing, it will always follow you like a virus. It is impossible for players who have encountered it to still be alive, unless they become local administrators. Since you are still a player, you definitely don't have the number of resurrections."

Qiao Song keenly grasped a key point: "Wait, crossing the river to return to reality is not a door?"

The spider had no idea that he had said something shocking. "Crossing the river is a very early idea. Later, didn't the escape door appear? Of course, people without shrines can only go through the door. Isn't this common sense that everyone knows..."

With a bang, thunder suddenly penetrated the layers of obstacles in the aquarium and successfully struck the head of the talking spider.

The attack was so brutal that if Qiao Song had not been quick enough to take it back to the shrine, it would have been chopped into ashes.

The big-headed spider swallowed back the words it hadn't finished saying, and the remaining two spiders beside it were immediately frightened.

Qiao Song was also very surprised. She turned her head and just opened her mouth, the two spiders who were stared at immediately shouted: "We know nothing! Let us go, or ask us something about the park."

The thin-legged spider added cautiously:

"Big Head has more experience than us. We definitely don't know what he doesn't know. If he says we will be struck by lightning, we will definitely be killed on the spot if we say it!"

Qiao Song thought it made sense. Her mind was in a mess and she even began to wonder if she had ever lost her memory.

Before she entered the game, she was indeed living a normal life, except that she took a nap on the bus.

The only difference from other players is that when she entered the game, she clearly received a recruitment notice and then went to work at the convenience store.

It wasn't because of any unexpected cause of death that I entered the game.

Unless there's something wrong with her memory too.

Wait, Qiao Song suddenly stared at the two little spiders sharply.

"Then why was it that I had been in the park for so long before and hadn't seen any signs of river activity? As soon as I entered the haunted house, the so-called river in my head appeared. Since you are the owner of the haunted house, this should explain the reason, right?"

The two little spiders, who were still playing pitiful, suddenly hesitated and dared not speak. However, because they were taken in by the owner of the shrine, they could not lie or do anything to deceive. In the end, they could only confess tremblingly:

"The ability of our three brothers is to extract the fear manifestations of intelligent creatures and restore the materialized fear objects and scenes from their sea of ​​consciousness..."

Qiao Song said, "So it was you who caused this river, and it was you who burned down the haunted house."

Spider wanted to cry but had no tears: "We didn't expect you to have something like this..."

Seeing Qiao Song suddenly raise his hand, the two spiders trembled: "Don't throw us out, if we are discovered by the mountain cat, we will die a more miserable death!"

Qiao Song's hand passed over the two spiders, and he took the rules poster handed over by Tang Xiaoxiao. While browsing the strange aquarium rules poster in his hand, he asked:

"Who is Bobcat?"

"He's the manager of the Scream Arcade. That guy is a lunatic. Except that he can't pretend to be a player, he can transform into any creature and any form. Fortunately, the aquarium is not an amusement park, nor is it the Scream Arcade. He shouldn't be able to get in."

Qiao Song had thought this was very strange before: "The Screaming Game Hall is located inside the Blind Box Mall. There is a Giant Amusement Park inside the Game Hall, and there is an aquarium inside the Amusement Park. Don't you have too many sets of dolls?"

The thin-legged spider was stunned: "You have a shrine but you don't know this? This is just like the shrine collects mascots, and the mascots open copies by themselves. The mascots can recruit employees and open copies again, but the maximum is level three. The blind box mall is special. It is also level one, but I remember that among the 12 committees, only this seat does not have an administrator, so it is not considered a violation..."

As soon as he finished speaking, another bolt of lightning struck down, and the spider with thin legs was caught off guard and spit out a puff of black smoke. Qiao Song quickly stuffed her back.

At this time, Qiao Song and the last spider Du Miaomiao looked at each other.

The smallest spider immediately drew a cross on his mouth and shook his head wildly.

Woohoo! Mascots are not consumables for testing the bottom line of the main system! There are already two lying boards, and he is the weakest, so let him go.

Qiao Song let out a breath and stopped asking those fatal questions.

"We're going to find a video game console to leave the game later. You can always help with that, right?"

The little spider, covering his mouth, immediately nodded heavily.

Qiao Song asked again: "Do you have any idea about the soul vending machine and the machine that reverses skills?"

The little spider hesitated for a moment and nodded gently.

Very good. Qiao Song then looked at the group of companions in the distance who had put on a whole show just by exchanging glances without saying anything.

The delivery guy and Mr. Chai and the others, perhaps because they felt that they were not too familiar with Qiao Song, did not take the initiative to come over to inquire about the news, for fear of hearing her privacy.

If it is important information related to the Infinite Highway, Qiao Song will tell them later.

Lou Keqing, Tang Xiaoxiao and Aunt Huo are all women, so it is very convenient for them to take care of Qiao Song.

"I'm fine, don't waste the healing items."

Lou Keqing put away the bandage and couldn't help but be curious: "Qiao Qiao, are you really such an early player? Have you completed the game and returned to reality?"

After listening to that conversation, it would be hard for a normal person to resist asking.

Qiao Song had slowly stood up, rubbed his forehead as if he had a hangover, and his eyes became clearer and clearer.

"I have no memory of this. If it is true, it will require other evidence to prove it. The most urgent task now is to clear the Giant Amusement Park."

All they needed was one last game console and one last tourist to escape.

As for the fire outside, no matter whether it was caused by a river that suddenly appeared in her head, the main system had to treat it as a major enemy and change the rules of an aquarium to protect the players, which was enough to show how terrifying that thing was.

"Didn't Wang Anning return to the aquarium?"

The young security guard is so brave that he should have rushed over here the first time he received the system prompt.

"No, besides him, the jade carver and Jin Jiaqi are not here either."

"Jin Jiaqi is easy to deal with. She's with me."

Qiao Song summoned a toolbox and took out a net bag. At a certain moment, she suddenly had a very strange feeling.

My toolbox and shrine seem to be duplicated in some functions.

It just so happens that the shrine is one of the tools unlocked in the toolbox, which is really contrary to Tiangang.

After spreading the net, Qiao Song suddenly discovered something even stranger. The captured Jin Jiaqi was in a similar condition to Qiao Song.

Ice crystals condensed all over his body, as if he was frozen stiff. He kept his legs bent, staring blankly ahead, and had almost no response to the outside world.

Qiao Song realized something and looked at his toolbox several more times before moving the net bag aside.

According to the correct rules in the aquarium rules ghost story she had just read, if she put Jin Jiaqi here and shined the blue light refracted in the water, she should be able to recover temporarily.

Qiao Song was not afraid that Jin Jiaqi would escape after regaining consciousness, or engage in other stressful behaviors, because the first rule of the aquarium stated:

[You must buy a ticket to enter. Illegal intruders will be permanently left in the aquarium in a different form. ]

When Qiao Song came in, Tang Xiaoxiao bought two tickets at once.

But for Jin Jiaqi, no one bought a ticket for her.

Sure enough, under the light of the water, the frozen Jin Jiaqi was recovering little by little. Strangely, water was gradually dripping down her body, like an ice cream gradually melting in a room temperature environment.

Jin Jiaqi's eyes rolled around and she soon realized her current situation.

“You, you…”

Qiao Song put the chainsaw on her neck: "I remember the rules of the team game are that everyone just needs to gather together, it doesn't matter if it's a corpse or a living person. How do you want to pass the level?"

This was clearly a threat, but it made the captive's face turn red with anger.

"I lost again... Why is it always like this..."

Jin Jiaqi even glared at Tang Xiaoxiao beside her with some resentment.

"If you had agreed to it in the beginning, I wouldn't have done this."

"It seems that you are thick-skinned enough to not be afraid of a chainsaw."

Qiao Song directly used the electric saw to stick to Jin Jiaqi's neck. The pain of the frozen body was very little, but a future with blood and flesh splattered all over was not what Jin Jiaqi wanted.

She turned her face away and leaned her head back against the wall of the glass pipe.

There were fish all around, and most of them were either surrounding her or Qiao Song. The fish had their mouths open, but no one knew what they were chewing.

Qiao Song: "What's the name of your fellow jade carver?"

Jin Jiaqi gritted her teeth and looked at the people behind her. After confirming that no one would come to help her, she had to close her eyes: "Bassen."

"Bassen, the map merchant in the 3D elevator?"

Lou Keqing, who was listening to their conversation nearby, was holding iron claws and ropes in her hands, ready to help with the torture, but now she reacted.

"The jade carver and the map merchant are the same person?"

Qiao Song nodded slightly: "It should be that Bassen has at least two professional skills. You have cooperated with him. Have you done similar things before?"

Jin Jiaqi had already felt that her body was gradually recovering. She had been thinking about whether she should do something to save herself, but soon she saw Qiao Song smiling.

"I advise you not to struggle in vain. There is a special kind of pollution in this aquarium. You didn't buy a ticket and came in by sneaking in. You may become more and more like aquatic animals in the future."

Jin Jiaqi finally understood why her body felt increasingly sticky after it regained its freedom. She opened her hands and could see webbed feet, which were common to aquatic creatures, appearing between her fingers.

She was slowly transforming into another creature.

Qiao Song held the paper upright in front of her.

"After that, you might be transformed into a member of the aquarium permanently. I know that there have been players trapped in the amusement park before and turned into equipment inside. As long as they find other players to take the blame, they should be able to regain their freedom. But the aquarium is different. It is not integrated with the amusement park."

“The giants coming into the amusement park need to buy extra tickets, and the same goes for the players.”

"If you continue like this, you will become a water creature forever and you will never be able to escape. After all, ordinary players have no way of getting in touch with the environment here. This time it was an accident in the game."

No--

Jin Jiaqi became panicked and frustrated at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a long while, she gritted her teeth and said, "Bassen and I have different goals. He is only here for the machine."

Once you open the mouth, other things don't seem so difficult to say.

"The soul vending machine in the paradise can exchange players for special red coins. This coin is the energy to open the career reversal machine."

Lou Keqing frowned: "Then what is the function of the card I got before?"

Jin Jiaqi looked up at her and laughed self-deprecatingly: "It's just to swipe open a door to shut down the machine. Don't you think its greater purpose is to remind players that there is such a machine in the park?"

If players leave it alone and just look for a console to teleport through the game, everyone will be happy.

But in a team game, as long as there is one person who is curious about what this machine is used for and takes the initiative to explore the secret, then the biggest secret on the infinite highway will be revealed.

"You guys have nothing to pretend to be. If you knew that every professional suit was stripped from a player, would you still feel at ease using those prop cards? There's no need to pretend to be so hypocritical. People are greedy. At least I'm honest."

"Are you above board?"

Lou Keqing, who already knew the whole story, couldn't help but spit at her: "You can't be a pure good person, and you can't even be a complete bad person. People like you are the biggest failures."

Jin Jiaqi was ridiculed by her. In front of Tang Xiaoxiao, her face turned red and white: "What do you know? What do you know? Do you think I didn't trust my companions? But they will always treat me as a fool, a stepping stone, and a scapegoat!"

"I could have left this world long ago, but because I trusted them and placed my bet on that group of players, I lost miserably. In the end, I can only be stuck in the middle, being treated like a nobody on both sides. Do you think I want that?"

"Do you think I am willing to be a dog for the dungeon master and those high and mighty guild leaders?"

As she spoke, she began to cry, as if it had been a long time since she had such a loud and direct argument with someone.

Qiao Song frowned, and suddenly felt that Jin Jiaqi seemed to have been playing games for quite some time.

But if I ask her directly whether she is the player who crossed the river and passed the level early, or the player who opened the door and passed the level later, I am afraid that it will bring up too many time-wasting topics.

"Don't waste time, just tell me where Bassen will go."

In the end, Tang Xiaoxiao gave Jin Jiaqi a pack of tissues so that she could wipe her tears and blow her nose.

The latter took the paper handed over by the little girl with mixed feelings. Tang Xiaoxiao should have known what she was planning, and she didn't even give her a second glance.

Jin Jiaqi was silent for a while:

"The Screaming Game Hall is a level one map, and the Giant Amusement Park is a level two map. He is looking for the boundary of the level two map."

"An accident happened in the arcade before. A group of game players discovered the secrets of the Soul Vending Machine and the Job Reverser and tried to directly sell human lives in exchange for job skills. After the incident was handled by the main system and some administrators, these machines were hidden. But Bassen said that in the copy of the 12 Committee, this kind of machine will have a pipeline directly connected to the factory in order to provide enough props."

"It's a place called the Soul Factory. No player has ever been there. The only experience anyone has with them comes from the Soul Vending Machine and the Career Reversal Machine."

Jin Jiaqi's expression suddenly changed when she said this: "Bassen is a much greedier guy than me. The last time he contacted me, he said he found a factory on the border and even the place where the factory's raw materials were collected."

"That is the river where all the dead sleep."

Qiao Song suddenly asked: "The raw materials for the Soul Factory are salvaged from the river?"

Jin Jiaqi nodded.

There are factories that use souls as raw materials, machines that directly convert people or ghosts into soul coins, and machines that convert human professional skills into skill cards.

The entire Infinite Highway is built into a rather strange assembly line with people as the unit.

"One last question. If you also want to pass the level, you must follow the overall system's set of machine transmission rules, right? Regardless of whether you are dead or alive."

Jin Jiaqi heard some hidden meaning in her words, and suddenly felt that Bassen was not going to get better.

With a feeling of "If I don't live well, others won't live well either", she nodded: "Yes, as long as the torso entity exceeds 50%, it can be determined that the player is also on the game console."

If a living person is not cooperative enough, you can just cut him in half and bring him back.

Of course, for Qiao Song, that was the worst option.

Every living player is an intelligence library, and she needs these people to create more information for her. She wants to know how she came to this world.

Upon learning that Qiao Song was going out, the delivery boy was the first to disagree: "Boss, although you are very powerful, I have been to rule-based dungeons before, and this is the first time I have seen the main system forcibly change a venue of this level to serve as a temporary safe place for players. The situation outside must be worse than imagined."

Qiao Song shook his head: "I don't want to go out directly. I have other ways to move around outside. Since the aquarium is safe, I hope everyone can help me find some special items in the aquarium."

Qiao Song gave a few obvious examples: "For example, the broken wooden horse, the bumper cars, the raft water guns used in the whitewater rafting game, etc., they are obviously amusement facilities in an amusement park, not an aquarium."

Tang Xiaoxiao's mind worked quickly: "Sister Qiao Song, do you mean that the players who failed to clear the level before would hide in the aquarium in this way?"

"The system can't be so kind as to open a backdoor for the ten of us. The main system should want to protect all the living players in the amusement park as much as possible. This is probably not out of pure kindness, but because the more players are affected, the greater the possibility of some negative situation for the system."

Although I don’t know why the river that burned the buildings makes the system more desolate the more lives it devours.

But on the other hand, in this case, the players who were originally locked up in the facility might have also been transferred here.

"It's okay if there isn't one. It's just my guess at most. I hope you can help verify it."

After Qiao Song finished explaining, he locked Jin Jiaqi up again. Now, whenever the latter stayed in the aquarium, she would unconsciously transform into a water creature. Now that she was locked up again, she was relieved.

Being temporarily frozen is better than directly turning into a non-human creature.

The other players were just sitting there doing nothing, so they just went out for a walk with their tasks and helped Qiao Song verify his guess.

Qiao Song leaned against the wall to relax for a while, and soon her consciousness connected with the paper figure that was wandering around with the mark of the jade pendant.

At the same time, the raging black fire in the amusement park was burning bigger and bigger.

Near a marble building, in the very edge of the paradise area, Bassen was holding a map and a strange weather vane in his hand, and looked back at his brother.

"Catch him. If you let him run away, I won't have enough coins later and I'll have to use you to make up the difference."

Bakri clicked his tongue, realizing that this guy did not try to hide his evil act of feeding his own brother to the soul vending machine.

Basson finally circled a small red dot on the map and stared sharply ahead. It was clearly just a wall, but his eyes shone.

"Great, this is it. If I can get those things this time and then get a location in Zootopia, I'll be the next one to open a convenience store chain. The Twelve Committee, hehe, isn't that far-fetched."