Chapter 208 Zootopia

The existence of the River of Life and Death is no secret to top players. After all, not all the players who crossed the river back then died. After these guys came back, many of them established large guilds and had their own trusted players, so the inheritance of intelligence is not impossible.

But only the administrator knows about salvaging the souls of the dead in the river.

They are the only ones who need it.

Almost none of the so-called "ghosts" on the Infinite Highway are indigenous people. They either crawled out of the river or were salvaged.

Boss Cai thought about the fact that Qiao Song had become a dog, and realized that she had probably read the rule card.

Damn this guy, he will lose money if he meets her!

No, that's not right. Since Qiao Song was able to enter Wu Ma's territory as a player...she must have found a way to deal with those cards!

Once money is involved, Boss Cai's mind works very quickly.

His warehouse had lost a lot of goods before, and he basically had to salvage them from the territories of five or six zodiac signs to make a profit. This was also the reason why he cooperated with Chen Long. The other party’s territory was larger, and the tributaries of the River of Life and Death passed through more areas.

The old man Chenlong is very smart. He knows that Qiao Song will not rise up like the other zodiac signs and directly attack other areas. Instead, he wants to find out the secrets of the zodiac area.

So Qiao Song might not have brought the rule card with her when she went out, otherwise she would have been directly judged as a zodiac invasion!

Boss Cai quickly called Lao Long, wanting to tell him to go to the Dog Territory and grab the card left by Qiao Song, but the other party did not answer.

This old guy! I'm afraid he's being used to attract firepower!

The display wires were so angry that sparks were coming out.

Calm down, Qiao Song is still a player now, she is not that scary.

Although I don’t know why Qiao Song became like this after drinking coffee, as long as the other party is still a player, there is nothing to be afraid of!

The white gloves were taken off, and Boss Cai's dry palms suddenly twisted and turned into a black, petroleum-like substance.

Countless black lines slid down from his palm and quickly crawled around.

"You broke in here on your own, Qiao Song, it's time to settle the grudge between us!"

The color display gradually merged into the wires that flowed like oil.

He had already decided to fight to the death, expand his territory, and summon Yugi.

This is the river beach area, between the Zodiac Game in Zootopia and the River of Life and Death. It would be quite risky for him to do this, but as long as he succeeds, he will make a lot of money!

She is just a player, I can't let her get ahead of me!

Behind Boss Cai, a pitch-black box like a robe slowly unfolded, and inside were all kinds of bizarre sandbox games that looked like the set of a convenience store.

The brilliant light just covered most of the area except the river.

Qiao Song only felt her eyes blurry, and she had moved from the dark and damp underground passage to an overly bright fast food restaurant.

The air smelled of French fries mixed with hot oil.

An empty French fry box wearing a red and yellow work uniform with a classic M font was giving orders to Qiao Song: "Hey, new guy, come over and help."

Qiao Song looked at the surroundings and then at his own hands.

She was in human form, and all the animal alienation effects brought by the zodiac realm had disappeared.

Seeing that she didn't respond for a long time, the empty French fry box opposite became a little dissatisfied:

"What are you daydreaming about? It's almost time for dinner. Hurry up and fry the fries and take them out. Don't you want today's salary?"

When Qiao Song heard about the salary, he finally got into work mode.

[Zizi, Zizi - Welcome to the Colorful Chain Delicious House -]

The system sound was stuck, as if the signal was bad, and it took a long time to finish a sentence.

[Please assist each store in completing their own food production. The most important thing about a convenience store is convenience, and delicious and convenient food is one of them! ]

[Ding——The current game space is detected to be unstable, please move carefully~]

Unstable space?

Qiao Song looked around suspiciously, and saw four large oil pans on the floor of the back kitchen of this fried chicken fast food restaurant that suddenly appeared.

If it weren't for the hot steam bubbling out from the oil bubbles, Qiao Song would have thought they were four pools of water.

There were four oil pans in the kitchen that were placed like a swimming pool, with many pale white objects floating in them, which were almost yellow.

These are not the size of ordinary fries.

Qiao Song narrowed his eyes.

Soon, her eyes rested for a moment on an object in the corner of the kitchen that looked like a familiar folding paper box.

"Hurry up and turn the fries over. Remember to fry them thoroughly and evenly. If they are not cooked through or burnt, hmm..."

The French fry box crossed her arms over her chest and just looked at Qiao Song, as if saying that if she couldn't do it well, she would be pushed down as well.

Qiao Song looked at the familiar packaging on the French fries box, smiled, picked up a huge long-handled scoop, and like a skilled worker fishing for aquatic plants on the river bank, he quickly cleaned the scum in the four oil pans and checked the condition of the French fries.

These things really don't look like French fries, but more like roughly cut wooden stakes, with special patterns visible on the cross-section.

Qiao Song stirred the French fries in the frying pan and soon felt that some of them had begun to change color.

It will be too late to scoop out the French fries after they turn completely golden brown.

She decisively prepared to start fishing out the fries, but out of the corner of her eye, she keenly sensed something approaching quickly from behind her.

Qiao Song was now standing at the intersection of four pots, and her first reaction was to step back.

The other party seemed to be waiting for her to retreat.

Qiao Song saw the empty French fry box rushing over and sneered, "You can't help but think of new ingredients before you even pick up the old French fries?"

Qiao Song had felt strange before. There seemed to be other French fry boxes in the store, but only one was movable while the others needed to be folded before use.

The arrangement of those boxes was very unnatural. It was obvious that someone had come here before and had folded the boxes once.

The box that moves by itself is the NPC?

Not necessarily.

Facing her questioning, the French fry box that could move by itself was not panicked at all. After failing the first time, it even picked up a spoon with oil leaking from another direction and said, "It's just your bad luck. I was just a few minutes ahead of you!"

An empty cardboard box suddenly fell down, and in its place was a leaking spoon that began to bounce around.

This guy who first appears in the fast food restaurant is not an NPC at all, he is also a player!

[I heard that you always wear doll costumes to do odd jobs in your spare time? Congratulations, because your proficiency is so high that you can wear any hollow object and turn it into a living object! ]

With this skill, the player disguised himself as an NPC almost effortlessly.

Who could have imagined that a plastic box was actually a player in disguise?

Qiao Song knew it.

She kicked away the empty French fry box that was blocking her view, and quickly jumped to the other side with the help of a long pole propped up in the pool.

[Shen Monkey, Use the Force to Use the Stick] (40% Weakened Version)

Qiao Song not only dodged, but also took the opportunity to quickly scoop up the French fries that could not be fried in the pool and threw them into the oil drain pool.

When the player saw her dodge, he cursed angrily and quickly backed away.

Soon Qiao Song knew why he backed off.

Suddenly, a burst of joyful music sounded in the store:

[Dududu, the delicious French fries are out of the pot. Only 4 French fries are needed to make a box of one potato~ Each potato is a carefully selected superior soul. After cooking, according to the characteristics of each profession, eating French fries will give you different abilities~]

Qiao Song understood instantly that these were not French fries, but a corpse.

The player who became the oil scoop did not take the initiative to attack after listening to the broadcast, but turned around and ran away.

Qiao Song had already been prepared for him to run away, so he reached out and pulled him.

The pile of French fry boxes that she had tied with ropes earlier all fell out, and the player who turned the oil spill spoon into a thin rod-like object could not go anywhere after being blocked.

It rolled around for a few times, and suddenly became angry and rushed towards the box that Qiao Song had just taken out to drain the oil from the French fries.

Qiao Song immediately understood what he was going to do. This guy wanted to eat the food and then awaken a skill.

The Oil Spoon player knew his professional abilities, but actually he didn't have many opportunities for direct combat. He was originally just a supporting player in the team, but who knew that he would be separated from his teammates and end up in such a shabby place.

He doesn’t want to die, he doesn’t want to die…

Before he bit down, he saw a pair of red eyes and a figure with arms almost bent into the shape of a moon.

bite--

Qiao Song knocked the guy out with a hammer and even knocked him near the oil pan.

Fortunately, the fries were not eaten.

The most troublesome thing about this kind of small-scale game is that if you don't reach an agreement on the rules, you can't get out. If she doesn't finish cooking this pot of French fries, she will be trapped here for a longer time.

Qiao Song picked up a box of French fries and quickly threw in the French fries that were half a person's height and as thick as his thighs.

Soon, Qiao Song heard the system prompt in his mind.

[1/4 of our store's sales have been completed. You can leave the room after all of them are completed. ]

really.

Qiao Song didn't see the button to adjust the heat, so he could only quickly flip the remaining three French fries based on his experience and accurately take out the second one.

Before she was about to check on the third one, she didn't notice that a box behind her suddenly moved.

"Come to hell with me!"

The guy who secretly made up his mind to launch a suicide attack and was ready to jump into the oil pan with Qiao Song in his arms, ended up only holding a paper man.

The player didn't have time to react at all, and rolled into the oil pan with the paper man.

Not far away, Qiao Song walked out from behind some cardboard sheets and took a look at the human body floating in the oil pan.

She would never turn her back on an enemy who was not completely dead, unless he was still useful.

"You are so fearless, is he a guild player who has the chance to be resurrected at the shrine?"

After falling into the oil pan, the guy regained his original human form, and his skin slowly turned gray-brown, his limbs curled up, and he looked like he was about to turn into a potato.

Qiao Song looked at the other person's forehead with some surprise, where there was a pair of small dragon horns.

He is not a member of Wu Ma, but a member of Chen Long?

Qiao Song went back to deal with the other fries and ignored this man. After all four fries were placed in the same empty box, Qiao Song put the food on the counter.

[Ding——The mission has been completed, the door is open, you are welcome to go to the next store to complete more work and get rewards]

[You have received the reward for this round of tasks: a pack of expired ketchup.]

[Since it has expired, it cannot be eaten. Apart from looking a bit like blood, it seems to have no other effect. ]

This stingy reward is worthy of being owned by Boss Cai.

Qiao Song is now very sure that this game, as well as other small games in the entire area, should have been developed from that display screen.

This guy is using the power of players to help him deal with the river water.

The paper man substitute that Qiao Song had just used was soaked in the oil pan together with the player she used for testing.

Through the paper man's synesthesia, she could feel that the temperature of the oil pan was not as high as she had imagined. It was more like boiling light yellow liquid than oil.

There was a familiar smell in it.

The taste of the river of life and death.

Is this the method used by the display screen to process the so-called souls in the river water, or even the souls of the players in the game, into food and then sell it through convenience stores?

Qiao Song walked out of the store and saw endless sky-high shelves in the open space.

It felt a bit like the first time she'd lived in that mini house on the shelves at the convenience store, and had seen the same scene when she'd drawn the curtains.

There are all kinds of food on the endless shelves.

Occasionally, something would be pushed off the shelf and quickly caught by several wires, then packaged and put into the assembly line.

Those boxes have numbers written on them that look like IP addresses.

Qiao Song took a few casual glances and started walking around the shelves.

Since there is a player named Chenlong here, it means that there are other people involved in this game.

She looked for a while, but there seemed to be no one else on this floor.

Qiao Song directly made a climbing rope with a net bag and didn't plan to look for stairs. If these places really existed as food shelves, it would be impossible for stairs to exist.

Qiao Song glanced at the black abyss behind her. She did not go down, but went the other way and climbed up.

She was not stupid. The guy on the display screen must be facing great restrictions when playing games in the zodiac field. She had to find the boundaries of the game. It would be even better if she could cut off the pipeline through which he drew water from the river.

Qiao Song climbed up the floors, observing as he walked. He just passed a rice ball shop and quickly went back.

She saw a familiar face, the office worker she had seen before when delivering coffee.

"From the right to the right! Rousong ran over there!"

"Don't just look at me, there's a shrimp on your head that's about to jump into the water and run away!"

This restaurant is more like a small swimming pool than a sushi restaurant.

There were food ingredients everywhere on the diving board, by the pool, and in the swimming ring. The two little girls could only barely complete the task of making rice balls based on the rice floating on the wooden board.

Dealing with a few shrimps and fish fillets was like dealing with some mutant creature, it was overwhelming.

After watching the chaotic scene in the rice ball shop for a while, Qiao Song was sure that these guys were indeed players from the Wu Ma field. For some unknown reason, they were as lifeless as NPCs before, but after being disturbed by other games, they regained their player spirit.

I saw two female players pulling off the hair ties on their hair and shouting, "Whoever wants to do this crappy job can do it. I'm going to fight these rice balls!"

Then, after a series of golden special effects, a keyboard that became several times larger appeared in the hands of one of the two players, and countless reports appeared in the hands of the other.

After a lot of killing, he actually completed most of the tasks.

"The last fillet, the last fillet..."

Shi Yuemiao held the keyboard in his left hand and the mouse in his right hand, and used them as a fishing net, one to knock the fish unconscious and the other to drag the fish fillets back to the rice ball near the raft.

Just as she turned back with joy and was about to tell her colleague the good news, she heard her colleague's trembling voice: "No... there is another octopus... it didn't faint before and ran away..."

On the rice ball sushi that had already been made, an octopus had slipped away, leaving only a pile of white rice.

If they can't find the octopus before the countdown ends, they can only use their own limbs to make up for the missing rice balls, meat and vegetables, otherwise they will never be able to leave the game.

"If you can't use my hands, then use my hands. The keyboard I'm using is also yours," Shi Yuemiao smiled bitterly with dark circles under her eyes. "Jingjing, your skills will be almost useless without your hands. After you get out, I'll ask Lord Wu Ma to spend some money and maybe I can get it back."

Luo Jing, holding the newly summoned keyboard, immediately retorted: "No, that old man Wu Ma is a bully who only bullies the weak and fears the strong. When you go back, you will also be controlled by the rules of the domain. At that time, you can only be his slave. If he kills you directly and resurrects you, it will be considered as curing your hand. How can you complain then?"

"We can't just wait here, I'll go look for it..."

The pool was pitch black and Shi Yuemiao was a little scared. Just as she stretched her feet over, she heard a voice.

"This isn't an ordinary swimming pool. Going in the water is much more terrifying than dying directly. I suggest you use tools to look for it. Octopuses like to stick to certain things, and this kind of water will harm them as well. Maybe they're stuck to the wooden board right now."

Shi Yuemiao looked back at the door, but found nothing.

She and Luo Liang looked at each other. The latter gritted her teeth while holding the keyboard in her hand, then nodded and paddled over there.

She fiddled with the mouse and keyboard for a while, not knowing what was going on with the mouse, but the wires were as flexible as snakes.

[Programmer dedicated peripheral set]

[A good mouse and keyboard is like a programmer's second life. Of course, we may have five, six, seven or eight of the same equipment, and the best and most useful one is like our second hand and second life.]

As a programmer, this is the least of her skills.

Writing programs in the back was the best way for Luo Liang to assist, but she was thrown here just as she regained consciousness.

She used the wired mouse to nimbly grab something from under the wooden board.

Soon, a look of joy appeared on Shi Yuemiao's face: "Found it, it's really here!"

After pressing the octopus back onto the rice ball, they finally heard the system prompt.

[Ding... Congratulations on completing the daily stocking task of delicious rice balls...]

The two girls casually threw the useless piece of kelp they had just obtained back into their backpacks.

Holding the props in his hand with some caution, he slowly approached the door.

They were a little anxious about the task just now, and thought of the worst solution at the critical moment. Fortunately, someone outside the door reminded them for some unknown reason.

But we must always be on guard against others.

Shi Yuemiao and Luo Liang made a gesture, and just as they walked to the door, Qiao Song's voice floated out again.

"Girls, I'm on top."

She waved her hand gently. Shi Yuemiao looked at her face. After a few seconds, she suddenly covered her mouth and whispered, "Miss from the coffee shop, why did you come in too?"

Qiao Song raised his eyebrows: "Do you remember me?"

When she delivered coffee before, Shi Yuemiao was also one of the people attending the meeting in the hair salon company's office, holding a relatively high position.

Shi Yuemiao pinched her cheek a little embarrassedly: "I glared at you for a long time with resentment on my face before, so I remember it."

Luo Liang next to him also reacted: "Oh, this is the guy who beat up the boss?"

Qiao Song frowned: "Hao Meili is your boss? Isn't she a dungeon NPC? You should be in the same guild, right? Where is the guild leader?"

Shi Yuemiao sighed with a sense of vicissitudes: "The president has worked too much overtime and has turned into an unidentified object. He is slowly recovering in Wu Ma's office."

"Hao Meili was brought back by Wu Ma himself from the dungeon world outside."

Qiao Song knew she was talking about Ghost Street.

"You two are much more sober than when I met you last time. I'm going back now. Do you still want to go up?"

After these words were spoken, Shi Yuemiao and Luo Liang both hesitated.

The two girls looked at each other, and finally sighed as if they accepted their fate: "We still have to go back. We signed the contract. Unless the 'company' goes bankrupt or Wu Ma dies suddenly, the soul contract cannot be changed. Even a guy like our president can't escape. What's the point of us running away?"

Soul contract.

This is very similar to the way shrine players get along with mascots.

Qiao Song seemed to be thinking: "It's not impossible that Wu Ma died suddenly..."

Shi Yuemiao looked up instantly. She still remembered the heroic act of this sister who suddenly became perverted in the office and beat up her new boss.

"But there are countless companies in Wuma District, and many of them were actively supported by large guilds in cooperation with Wuma..."

Compared to Shi Yuemiao's hesitation, Luo Liang clapped her hands and said, "That's okay. If you really want to do it, I can hack into their network while I'm still sober and find the company's distribution and personnel data for you!"

As soon as she heard about the assassination of her boss, she looked very excited and it seemed that she had wanted to do it for a long time.

The players in the Wu Ma area are always in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness. The longer they stay here, the more their souls are consumed, and the harder it is to shake off the feeling of being treated like a slave every day.

Until it can no longer be used and turns into a pile of mud, Wu Ma will take it to a specific area to slow down and wait for it to be used again.

Qiao Song discovered that Wu Ma was even more exploitative than Boss Cai.

However, Boss Cai probably wants to learn but cannot, otherwise he will probably be even more excessive than this horse.

Luo Liang did what she said, and immediately took her keyboard and mouse and took off a necklace from her neck: "Yuemiao, please do me a favor and share the permissions."

Shi Yuemiao knew what she was going to do, so she said "Okay", and used the necklace given by Luo Liang to stamp a red seal on her skin, which was a rectangular metal interface.

Then turn the necklace over and use the other metal interface to directly insert the USB into the skin.

[The chief secretary of the Vitality Full Head Office is sharing his authority... The map has been loaded, and the personnel information has been loaded...]

A large amount of data appeared in the air like a green barrage.

A computer suddenly appeared out of thin air in front of Luo Liang.

"But Jingjing, we have all been teleported into another NPC's game. What's the use of the company's map?"

Qiao Song looked at the map for a while and suddenly laughed:

"Of course it works. There is some overlap between the two areas."

She pointed to a place on the screen and said, "This place is so remote, why is there a red sign?"

Luo Liang looked up and said, "There, let me take a look. Hey, the firewall here is so powerful. According to the database inventory, it's just an empty warehouse."

A programmer with strong professional qualities encountered this kind of firewall, and it was not a friendly one, and he immediately became extremely alert.

A few minutes later, Luo Liang, who was sweating profusely, looked happy, and then confused.

"Data shows that there is a hidden location inside, which contains a merchant operation panel, which is used to store and put goods on the shelves."

Luo Liang tried to open the panel but failed.

"This seems to overlap with some of the game data. It should only be opened by players of certain professions."

Qiao Song suddenly thought of a happier way than directly cutting off Boss Cai’s source of goods.

She has been familiar with putting products on the shelves since her first day in this game world.

Luo Liang suddenly felt that this big man whom she met halfway suddenly smiled in a somewhat sinister way.

A bit like her capitalist boss...