Chapter 212 Zootopia

When Qiao Song and her team were heading towards the Wu Ma area above their heads, other zodiac areas had already become chaotic for various reasons.

Needless to say, as the war had already started, the players over there were either involved in the game for various inexplicable reasons, or were extradited to other areas due to the sudden flood disaster.

The snake's attack can affect the entire body. The northern region has already begun to encircle and suppress it. No one knows what the snake's intention is for it to come out at this time.

In the south, after the dog represented by Qiao Song ceased hostilities, this side became inexplicably peaceful, just like the north before.

The Dog and the Ox stopped fighting, and the Tiger inexplicably stopped attacking the Rooster and the Horse.

Wu Ma's territory is already in the corner of the map, so there is time to deal with the internal situation and a series of chaos caused by Boss Cai's desperate actions.

But Yinhu also stopped fighting at this time because Qiao Song's delegation arrived.

Most of the members of Yinhu are rough. Bai You, who changed into a female warrior costume, looks like a local player.

In fact, she was a little hesitant at the beginning. Bai You was not as confident as she was when she promised Qiao Song. Yin Hu was known for his bad temper. When he got angry, it was not impossible for him to bite a player to death.

Even guys like lions who have the final say were suppressed.

But Bai You brought his brother Gou this time. Although Gao Chengcheng's brother behaved like a human being most of the time, Bai You knew that Yin Hu had known them before.

Tiger will give Gao Bin face and at least be willing to listen to him talk more about the accident that happened on Dog's side.

"Tsk, Gao Bin, I just went to catch a chicken and you actually lost your home."

In the prehistoric tribal-style base camp, a lady wearing a yellow striped tiger skin tube top and with arms thicker than an ordinary person's thighs, pressed the giant wooden wine glass in her hand heavily on the table.

She is not like other zodiac signs, with an animal-shaped head. As the ruler of the tiger, her face looks more like it has been painted with special effects makeup, with three mustaches on each side of her face, in addition to a pair of obvious animal eyes, short fiery red hair, and two round tiger ears.

Her honey-colored skin and sturdy physique made her look extremely healthy and heroic.

But all the players in the Yinhu area knew that it was because she was drinking. This was the time when Yinhu was in the best mood. Despite this, there were not many people in this tent which looked not very simple.

It is said that they are afraid that Yinhu will get angry and directly waste some players' resurrection opportunities.

Bai You was dressed like a female warrior today. Yin Hu narrowed his eyes and glanced at her: "You slippery fellow, actually came here to be a lobbyist. It seems that the new Xu Gou is quite valued by you two."

As the loser, Gao Bin's injuries had not yet fully recovered. He coughed and tried to stand up:

"I am here today not only to explain the ceasefire in the Dog District, but also to invite you to join us."

Bai You, who was about to explain something, said: …

She looked slightly horrified.

Wait, Brother Gou, this is not what we discussed before you left. Didn’t you come here to apologize? How did it become like you’re trying to recruit people into your gang?

Gao Bin is now equivalent to one of the mascots in the shrine, so he can directly receive the instructions sent by Qiao Song remotely:

"The new Dog has already gone deep into the Horse's territory. She didn't bring the rule card with her and is trying to use other methods to disintegrate that area."

For example, a corporate slave blows up his own company.

But Gao Bin couldn't really say that. Instead, he used his own language skills to slightly modify it:

"In previous Zodiac Wars, no matter how much everyone discussed and cooperated, they still had to fight in the end. It was just a matter of you setting traps for me and I setting traps for you. But this player this time is different from the players we have seen before. She doesn't want victory or domination. You and I know what kind of place Zootopia is in essence. It uses a lie to cover another shell. What we need is the right to speak and a key that can be obtained by sitting in that position, and she wants more than any of us."

Gao Bin, who had completely transformed into a Doberman, was still injured, but his aura was no weaker than that of Yin Hu, who was sitting in the seat and exuded a sense of power.

His eyes were burning, and he did not flinch: "The ship back home, that's the promise she made."

The wooden cup made a creaking sound, like a piece of tofu being crushed.

"What did you mean, a ship home?"

Yinhu even grinned with a brilliant smile, but the canine teeth on his mouth were not cute at all, but full of murderous intent:

"Do you know what happened to the last person who lied to me with these words?"

"That old dragon, every time we reach the final round of the Zodiac Final Battle, I will use all means to tear him into pieces. Even if I can't win, I will bite his tail and peel off every scale and every muscle of his. Every time he is about to win, he has to worry about me popping out from somewhere and biting his neck. I want him to feel the pain and the price of having his lies shattered."

Bai You didn't even dare to breathe.

She knew about the River of Life and Death, and she also knew that the 12 Committees and escape doors were created after a player tried and failed to cross the river and return to the real world a long time ago, and that was the carrot dangling in front of the players.

She didn't expect that someone in the zodiac had used the same reason to deceive other players.

Crossing the river a second time was almost impossible.

No wonder Yinhu hated Chenlong so much. But then again, even though he hated him so much, he couldn’t bite him to death. Is that old dragon so powerful?

Bai You was stunned when he heard this.

Behind Yin Hu, flames that distorted the air began to appear. She crushed a wine glass and had no intention of pouring another glass of wine. It seemed that her good mood for the day was over.

"I'm not a kid in my teens or twenties who is full of hope and longing for the future. I can't be easily fooled by some promises. The agreement we established before because of the zodiac rights is no longer valid after your power slipped. If you can't give me some straightforward apology explanations and more firm reasons, I can kill you and your accomplices at any time."

The atmosphere in the air gradually became tense. Even though no other players had entered the tent at the moment, everyone knew that as a zodiac sign, Tiger could kill Gao Bin and Bai You instantly.

This was also the reason why they were quickly let in and met Yin Hu.

As soon as the word "accomplice" came out, Bai You was already sweating profusely, but Gou Ge remained calm: "You should still have the rule card there, I have something to show you."

The black Doberman even turned his head towards the girl next to him and said, "Go check on your teammates. We still have a tough battle to fight in other areas."

Bai You saw that Dog Brother was so confident that he didn't look like he was going to turn himself into a snack and feed it to the tiger.

She knew that Gao Bin's current identity and role was rather special, and he was very likely to become Qiao Qiao's lackey, no, his chief military advisor. Maybe he had received the news from some secret channel?

Knowing that he had no more room to perform, Bai Youle left the tent with ease.

The architectural style in the Tiger Territory is very strange. It's an endless grassland, and apart from weapons, there are all kinds of big tents and bonfires, all filled with players drinking and eating meat.

There isn't even a gatekeeper at the gate of Yinhu, but it is said that she can fight against all the zodiac animals except the dragon alone. With such fighting power, she is not afraid of anyone harming her in her own territory.

Bai You's eyes wandered around and soon spotted the Leo man dozing on a chair not far away.

There were a large number of giant wooden stakes placed around him, some of which had a big hole dug out, and it could be seen that they were being prepared to be carved into cups.

Hey, this guy is sleeping here?

Bai You thought that the Lion could rely on its racial advantage to blow on the pillow in front of the Tiger, but after all this time, it just carves wine glasses for the Tiger every day?

"Hey, Lion? Wang Shiyi, wake up, why are you drunk in broad daylight?"

As Bai You approached, she smelled alcohol. She waved her hand, and her clothes changed, and she soon transformed into a white-robed doctor.

The man lying on the crude chair made of wood opened his eyes very slowly, as if he was dreaming, and it took him several seconds to refocus his vision.

The lion frowned: "Why are you here?"

Bai You sat down carelessly and checked the condition of his companions. They were just slightly drunk and sleep-deprived.

"Come here to discuss things with the new boss's request."

She recounted Qiao Song's deeds in a few words. The name seemed to trigger some key words, and Wang Shiyi's brows tightened and relaxed as he listened.

Wang Shiyi recalled what he had just seen in his dream and murmured, "It turns out that the president was talking about her..."

Bai You: "What are you mumbling about? Are you dreaming again? Did the president give you any orders?"

The president of the Dawnland Guild has a second profession that only internal members know about: dream analyst.

This profession is like a white dove in a dream, which can help players communicate with each other even without communication props.

The prerequisite is that the president herself is in an excellent mental state and can connect different members and transmit messages remotely through dreams.

Too many members of the Dawn Country had gone missing in the past. After the positioning badges no longer worked, the president had tried many times to bring the missing members into her dreams, but after so many failures, it had a certain impact on her spirit.

It seems that the president has recovered well. Not only did she receive a message some time ago, but the Lions also gained something.

Wang Shiyi rubbed his temples tiredly:

"The signal from the president is not very good. She is in a place that can hardly be called a dungeon, monitoring a river. It is said that the river is flooded very badly now. But she found something very important, a stone tablet by the river."

"The River of Life and Death is not as mysterious as everyone thinks. It is just like an ordinary river. There are even various stones in it that record the depth and track of the river."

Wang Shiyi recalled for a moment, and gently grabbed his lion-like afro-like hairdo, as if to ease the confusion he had felt when he first heard the news.

"The president said she saw a square stone box nearby. Although it was empty, its shape was very similar to that of a shrine."

Wang Shiyi looked back at his companions.

"Do you still remember what our president's main occupation is?"

Bai You suddenly realized something and swallowed softly: "Archaeologist."

[Touching and sensing any object with a certain historical span will allow you to gain corresponding knowledge. The longer the time span, the better the effect of this skill.]

Wang Shiyi looked at Bai You deeply: "President saw the birth process of the stone from that stone, a ship about to sink in the wind and rain, and a stone shrine held up by a group of souls."

"The sculpture in the shrine has a blurry face, but the president is sure that there is a living soul in the shrine. She walked out of it. Her name is Qiao Song."

——

Yin Hu looked at what Gao Bin handed her, which was a piece of wood, and sneered:

"You want to exchange a fragment of the zodiac shrine for my unconditional support in helping her win this fight? What kind of person do you think I am?"

The black Doberman placed the fragment on the table. “Touch this fragment with your rule card and you’ll know what I mean.”

Yin Hu narrowed her eyes slightly. She was not very familiar with Gao Bin, but she was more familiar with his sister.

Gao Chengcheng and her brother are both rare players who are determined to go home.

All the prop businesses they do on the Infinite Highway are to collect information, accumulate strength, and find various clues and answers.

Yinhu didn't spend too much time thinking about it. She was in her own territory and had the confidence to do anything.

Lifting up the tiger-skin shirt covering his belly, Yinhu raised one hand without hesitation, pierced his skin with the tip of his sharp claws, and reached into his belly to search.

A completely black card with a metallic luster was taken out, and the wound healed in the blink of an eye.

【Tiger Field General Rules Card】

[1. All vegetarian food is prohibited in this area. The only food is alcohol and meat.]

[2. To activate the Berserker, at least two companions must activate their bloodline frenzy ability together, which can enhance the effect of their professional skills by at least 10~25%. The Beastmaster can also gain up to 50% at the same time...]

【3. ……】

If the beast transformation in the dog's domain is single-target bloodthirstiness, the tiger's domain is a beast that attacks in groups.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be a woman like Yinhu who is fearless.

It's a pity that as the former winner of Zootopia, Chen Long possesses the abilities of all zodiac signs. Otherwise, Yin Hu alone could rely on group frenzy and the skills of other players to kill him.

Taking out such a card would almost certainly expose the biggest secret of this area.

But Gao Bin in front of him couldn't beat her or snatch her card. Gao Bin had read the contents on the card. It was just an experiment, so Yin Hu didn't care.

But after she touched the square piece of wood from the shrine with her card, her expression changed.

The metal black card, with a fixed underlying logic and all pre-designed rules that would not change even if the zodiac owner died, suddenly became slightly hot.

An invisible stream of data, like heat radiation, was transmitted to her hand through the metal card.

A dialog box that only Yinhu himself could see suddenly flashed.

[Zootopia's first-generation administrator privileges detected, Zootopia's management status is being detected, no instructions yet... privileges missing... signal connection failed, please try again later. ]

Crack! The strange little piece of wood suddenly turned into powder, as if its energy had been completely consumed.

An unheard of phenomenon.

Yinhu stared at the big black dog with an indescribable look in his eyes: "The player you mentioned earlier, is he the first administrator of Zootopia?"

There is no zodiac as a title, but only an administrator, which is so strange, as if the animal city was built by her.

"I don't know the specific details. I only know that she has the ability to lead everyone to try to find the way home again, instead of staying on this road forever, endlessly fighting between dungeons for props, skills, and even dungeon benefits, things that can never be snatched away."

"She asked me to ask you a question."

In Wu Ma's territory, Qiao Song looked up and saw countless players regaining their freedom after signing the contract, and rushing back to their former office with anger. They took the elevator they built and returned to the territory where they had been working seamlessly for several months, almost killing themselves, ready to fight a decisive battle with Wu Ma.

Once a person has been treated unfairly too much, his anger will outweigh his desire for power the moment he regains freedom.

They tried once and knew they couldn't beat Wu Ma, but that didn't stop them from making things difficult for Wu Ma.

Just like an employee can curse his boss in the office without any care before resigning.

Qiao Song pressed his wooden shrine and continued to speak to Gao Bin on the other side:

"Please ask Tiger, does she want to win a zodiac battle and become the master of Zootopia, or does she want to get a ticket to go home?"

In the Tiger territory, the woman sitting on a pile of animal skins had a burning gaze.

"Then what do I need to pay? A player from the same field be buried with me? If that's the request, forget it."

Gao Bin said firmly, "She wants the thing you've been helping to build, but maybe you don't care about it."

"She wants the mirrored Zootopia."

Yinhu frowned deeply: "What does she want a city of lies for? The Yinhu District in it is just a place to temporarily lock up those souls who think they have passed the customs."

In fact, Gao Bin didn't know the answer, but that didn't stop him from carrying out Qiao Song's instructions: "To you, it's a ridiculous fake, but to her, that city is very important. This is the only requirement for the initial cooperation."

There was silence in the tent for a while, until the sound of pouring wine was heard again.

Yinhu filled his glass of wine again.

"Don't even mention it's just a backup mirror city. Even if it's Rooster or Ox, I can take it away from her."

She gulped down a large glass of wine in one breath, exhaled and laughed happily:

"I don't care who the city lord is, nor do I care about the guilds under my command. The players who are placed around me don't care whether they want to cooperate with me or chop off my head and eat my flesh to replace me. I stopped being a player more than ten years ago. I am the one who makes the rules, but I am tired of this hellish place."

"Of course I can give her what she wants."

The tiger's sharp fangs were exposed again, and he was still smiling with murderous intent:

"That's on condition that she didn't lie to me. Otherwise, I'll treat her like I did to the dragon and let her know that it's much easier to pick up human bones than dragon bones."

——

The news of Gao Bin's successful negotiation came back an hour later, and Yin Hu suddenly changed from a former partner to a warrior who was about to open up new territory for Qiao Song.

At the same time, Bai You tentatively asked Qiao Song whether he had had any problems with his memory in the past, and hinted at something like that.

Also, if there is a chance later, the president of the Dawn Guild would like to talk to Qiao Song about something.

Of course Qiao Song knew that there was something wrong with his memory, otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly made such a fuss and changed his strategy.

Her mind was still recalling the scene she saw after using her programmer skills to unlock the folder in her mind.

Those locked red folders almost ran through her entire life.

Qiao Song only looked at the memories before he took the bus to the highway.

She sat by the turbulent river, holding a lot of things in her arms, a tattered backpack filled with various snacks, dolls and even comic books, hairpins and a black and white feather.

Qiao Song felt that she should have been a little sad at the time, but she seemed more angry.

She threw the backpack directly into the river, walked forward a few steps and then stepped back. She quickly fished out another stone from the river.

The river water, which was powerful enough to melt the bones of ordinary players or even props, was as harmless as ordinary water in Qiao Song's hands.

She lifted up a shrine from the water, a stone shrine.

There was a small stone statue vaguely visible inside, but her face couldn't be seen clearly. However, when she touched the bottom of the sculpture, she felt that the two words didn't seem to be carved, but rather seemed to have grown out of it.

【Qiao Song】

This is the shrine that someone once built for her.

Qiao Song closed his eyes, as if he saw the girl putting down the shrine with mixed feelings. She did not take the thing with her, but only took the name.

She left the river and walked away, walking aimlessly for a long time. When she left the river, the whole world was filled with fog.

Until a road appeared in the foggy field of vision.

Car lights flashed in the distance and a bus suddenly stopped.

She got in the car.

"Sister Qiao! The previous 100 contracts have been completed, and new members have arrived. Should we continue to issue them later?"

Shi Yuemiao saw Qiao Song open his eyes and his expression seemed not right. She hesitated for a moment: "Did I disturb you? Do you want to rest for a while?"

Qiao Song shook his head and plugged the USB that Shi Yuemiao handed over into his body: "Print once more and you can stop. We don't need too many free players. If there are too many people, it will not be chaos, but a disaster."

She needs a large number of players to shake the order of the Wu Ma territory, but that doesn't mean she needs these players to die in the Zodiac War.

When too many people gather together, it will give them an inexplicable confidence and make them forget that this is a city ruled by rules.

"Once a large number of free players emerge, the rules and games in this city will be fully operational. I need you to count the changes in different streets and company buildings. I want to find the horse's real office."

What she wanted was not Wu Ma's territory, she wanted to know the reason why Wu Ma gathered so many players to work hard for her.

Just like she recovered a small part of strange memories through the programmer's skills, did Wu Ma also use these working employees to do something?

Qiao Song suddenly felt that the meaning of the existence of the entire Zootopia was like a host on the Infinite Highway.

Those programmers don't seem to be working for Wu Ma, but rather for Cyberworld, or even the main system, Infinite Highway.

In the distant Wu Ma’s office, the tired Wu Ma himself was also looking at the fluctuating red and green numbers on the screen, thinking about a problem.

Is the transaction with the display screen a loss or a profit?

Wait a minute, should I surrender or should I fight first and see?