Chapter 230 Zootopia

Boss Cai was humming a song, in a good mood.

His convenience store hasn't had such a sufficient supply for a long time. There is only so much space on the Infinite Highway. Convenience stores are quite special. A convenience store will automatically grow on a map that exceeds a certain range.

He didn't even have to take the initiative to expand his territory. From the moment he became an NPC administrator, he was already treading on a pile of self-reproducing gold coins.

As a result, the old man Chen Long actually said that Qiao Song was similar to them.

"The River of Life and Death is filled with souls of the dead. You have cast your net so many times to replenish the supply, so you should be very clear about this. There is a big difference between the dead and the living. Humans who can become players are not completely dead yet. Qiao Song also crawled out from there, but she can't be resurrected. She is essentially the same as us.

She can't see the person she misses again, and it's impossible for her to revive and go to the real world. Even if the copy is opened, she will be alone and stay on this road forever."

"So, Boss Cai, it's only natural for a guy like Qiao Song to want power like crazy, but once she gets those things, you should know what will happen to us who have an old grudge against her."

Boss Cai pondered over this statement over and over again, and even used some data analysis to facilitate lie detection.

He sells lie test cards in his own convenience store, so he won't be at a disadvantage during negotiations.

The jumping broken line on the display screen indicated that the dragon on the opposite side was not lying.

Telling only part of the truth is also a good way to fabricate and add fuel to the fire.

There are many loopholes in this passage, but Boss Cai, who had been looking into Chen Long's eyes, did not pursue them.

Chen Long narrowed his eyes slightly: "What Qiao Song is doing now is undoubtedly provoking me, the person in charge of Animal City. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Since she wants to take my position, I can also give you more help."

All transmission channels in Zootopia have been blocked. Chen Long moved his claws and electric light flashed.

Soon, Boss Cai felt some kind of energy fluctuation in the air, and the wires behind the display screen emerged and caught the things that fell out of the crack in the air.

Those are a pair of sheep eyes.

"This is the spoils of the previous zodiac wars. This year's Sheep is an original product from many years ago, so it's not easy to kill them all, but this pair of old eyes is enough for you to use. Go hypnotize Qiao Song and break down her psychological defenses, which are her weakest and most fatal flaw at the moment."

The old voice gradually faded away.

Boss Cai looked at the pair of eyeballs for a while, and indeed felt a power that far exceeded the props in the system mall.

This is probably more than enough to deal with the black-robed ghosts.

When did Qiao Song, this silent guy, get to this level? He actually had to use this kind of thing to plot secretly.

Thinking so, he honestly accepted the things.

To be honest, his and Qiao Song’s ill-fated relationship started in the convenience store, and it’s time to end it.

Boss Cai put away the things given by Chen Long and carefully pondered the old dragon's words just now.

Although he had verified it with props and every word Chen Long said was true, he always felt that something was wrong.

The zodiac dispute in Zootopia will eventually be won. Although there will only be one winner, other administrators come and go, and occasionally an heir will take up a new position, but the position is passed down from generation to generation, and in the end there will only be a few old faces.

This is enough to show how cruel and ruthless this old dragon is.

An NPC converted from an ordinary player simply cannot maintain the position of administrator here.

He has to be cautious. If not, he can let Qiao Song and the dragon fight to the death. Even if Zootopia is destroyed by Qiao Song, the Infinite Highway will still be there, and he just needs to keep his shop.

Boss Cai took the sheep's eyes in his hand and rolled them up. The wires behind him were inserted deep into the ground and he began to analyze the network communications of the entire animal city.

His battery is fully charged now, so he might as well look around the Internet to see if there is any loophole he can exploit.

The rat area at this time.

George looked at Li Yuan coming back in a coat of crow feathers and subconsciously hid behind his elder sister.

"Fuck, where did this guy go? Why is he so resentful?"

Anne, wearing a pink and blue striped skirt and a metal helmet, tugged at her silly brother's tail. "Who told you to take a break? Are you looking for another excuse to be lazy? Have you processed the data I just sent you? Have you found the corresponding player faces?"

George's eyes narrowed after being hit by his sister. He held his head and whimpered, "I've processed the data. I only have a small part left to complete the facial recognition. I can't even eat some melon in my spare time."

Annie glanced at the crow behind her, which was feeling a little depressed.

"You can eat melons, but he doesn't look like he has any clues yet. If you want to watch the fun, you'd better wait until later."

Annie swiped a new piece of data and asked the mouse to process it:

"Zootopia is now in a white-hot stage. It's the busiest time. I have to sort out the data quickly. Every year, the celebration war will cause a large number of high-quality players to be concentrated in the large map of Zootopia. However, if we count the NPCs who stayed at the end, the players who participated in the resurrection after the game failed, and even the players who escaped in the middle, there is still a small gap in players."

George had already seen the part of the document that Anne had just sent him on his tablet. When he was not slacking off, he worked very quickly. It was just that he had just pulled Anne's tail, and his head and butt were a little sore.

He glanced at the distant corner with a wronged look.

The egg-shaped robot's body became much larger, like a giant egg, and it grew countless capillary-like nerve tentacles. The job that White Egg took over was much more complicated than that of the two mice, George and Annie, combined.

It needs to sort out the data of all players who have left Zootopia in the past, a workload that would take decades and only a machine brain could do.

Bai Dandan didn't look back, but his snow-white nerve tentacles seemed to have eyes and shook slightly at George.

Although Anne had expressly forbidden him from helping the lazy man Chazhi, George just took a peek at what was happening over there, and he felt his tail being gently touched by a small tentacle, but the pain soon went away.

hey-hey.

Smirking George was happy again.

Anne didn't even turn her head and just let out a click of the tongue.

Crows are paired with stones, mice are paired with robots, and these days there is really no reproductive isolation or racial segregation in love in the infinite flow.

"Focus on the guild statistics I just sent you, especially the Newcomer Alliance. Apart from the missing members from Dawnland, most of the other missing members are on their shoulders."

George looked at the jumping data modules in front of him. Some of these things were processed by the system, and some were coordinated and processed by the players in the sub-rat field. They combined with the main system based on the players' memories, worked for the main cyber system, and played tricks on themselves to collect some weapons that could destroy the main system.

I don’t know if the main system is aware of this or not, and it didn’t even come to check their water meter.

Annie sneered. Seeing that the crow had returned, the space in this area should have been completely covered by Li Yuan's ability. She immediately said shamelessly:

"A large part of the main system is composed of former brain-based players. If we calculate thoroughly, they might all be our accomplices, a group of collective subconsciousness restricted by the rules. It's lucky that I didn't persuade them to rebel."

George uttered an "ah", obviously he had never heard his sister say this before.

Wait, doesn’t it seem possible that the white egg could be the consciousness of a human player?

Before George could turn around, Annie called him back: "Don't look at it. If it is separated, it can cover the machinery. Maybe its soul has been washed in the river countless times and has no memory at all. Now it is just like a computer person, without gender or race."

Feeling that her brother was becoming weaker again, Annie slapped the back of his head in annoyance and said, "You are not in a good condition now. You have turned into a mouse and you can't turn back into a human. I made you a deserter. You didn't take my position back then. Now that Zootopia is gone and you haven't completed the tasks you owed me, I want to see how you can turn back into a human."

George was confused: "Are we really going to blow up Zootopia?"

Annie continued to call up the files of a dozen human players, carefully checking the coordinates of their locations when they finally disappeared, marking them one by one to facilitate finding the location of a certain cemetery.

"This is what Qiao Song meant. Her will is our will. We owe her this and it is what we should do. Going home is our wish, but it is not something she must do. She can also take away all the gifts at any time and turn the world back to its original state of chaos and disorder."

Then Annie glanced behind her and saw the crow feather ball that seemed to have come back to protect the Rat Control Room, but actually looked like it had been bullied and was about to break into pieces.

She raised her voice, not knowing to whom she was speaking:

"But Qiao Qiao is very playful. He must get what he likes. He likes to play with things he is interested in, like a cat catching a mouse, and then bring it back to his nest to enjoy it slowly..."

George understood and nodded, and soon found that Li Yuan, who had huddled up in a ball behind him, stood up.

"Eh? Boss, what are you doing——"

Li Yuan touched the screen with his finger and zoomed in on a face: [This guy is missing too? ]

A bubble of air condenses in the air.

Annie didn't expect that he would take the initiative to pay attention to the players except Qiao Song. This guy has seen thousands of players in Hell over the years. Players are no different from ants to Li Yuan. He has been merciful enough in managing Hell. In order to avoid mental problems, he even chooses to sleep to suppress the abilities in his body.

Even so, he could still remember people's faces?

Anne used her position to access the archives inside the main system and exclaimed.

"This person originally joined a guild in Zootopia, and was dragged into the resurrection game during the Zodiac War. However, his soul failed to successfully enter the resurrection game route, and no one knows where it was dragged to."

The player profile that Annie retrieved showed a man with slightly long hair covering his eyes, a decadent expression, and tattoos all over his body from his neck to his arms and calves.

The color of Li Yuan's eyes slowly changed and turned into a fluorescent blue.

[This person had contact with Qiao Song before, and they were friendly.]

This is the tattoo artist, Buckley.

Annie knew that Li Yuan's copy management authority was higher than hers, and that he had been secretly keeping an eye on Qiao Song's whereabouts. This unrequited crow hiding on the telephone pole and peeking clearly wanted to talk to the other party, but didn't even dare to cackle.

He was afraid that Qiao Song would become enlightened halfway through after becoming a human, but he was also afraid that she would not.

From this point of view, Crow should know the information about the players around Qiao Song very accurately.

"...Hmm? Something is wrong. His resurrection route in the game should have been to go directly to the paper-making town, but he turned and went to another location halfway."

Annie shouted D833, and the surface of the white egg soon lit up with blue ripples. In this office that was already filled with various screens and instruments, all the electronic floating screens were mobilized.

Countless thin ice crystal screens are linked together to form a huge map.

This is a map that will make any player scream when seeing it at this moment - the distribution map of all copies of Infinite Highway.

From the newly generated small white dot buildings with no NPCs yet, to the red dot areas that already have ghosts and even developed by the administrator, there are all of them.

Among them, white dots are the most numerous, and red dots are large and small, distributed everywhere.

And there are only a few black spots on the entire map.

The most eye-catching landmarks on this map are all managed by the 12 committees.

The tattoo artist named Baklie had a very strange route forward. Not only did he not participate in the resurrection game according to the original death plan, but he also kept circling around several areas.

There were many densely packed red dot games around him, but he seemed to have opened his eyes and never stepped into one of them.

Annie kept zooming in and out of the map, and even checked the names of several dungeon administrators around her and the specific rules. She really couldn't figure out what kind of virus this person had been infected with that made him come here.

Li Yuan suddenly raised his hand: "D833, scan the dynamic map of all the rivers of life and death on the highway."

The white egg's shell suddenly flashed with black cracks, and a tentacle emitting white light stretched out and directly wrapped around Li Yuan's hand.

[Access Permissions - River Monitoring - Remaining Monitoring Time 120 Seconds. ]

Annie sighed. “You’ve been around for so many years, and you can only monitor this river for two minutes.”

George silently complained: "But sister, you can only survive for a dozen years..."

Click.

He was hit hard on the head by his own sister again.

But this time, Bai Dandan was busy recording important data and couldn't come over to comfort the little mouse.

A river distribution map that rolled in black and white, like cracks in the earth, appeared on another layer of the Infinite Highway Map.

When the two are superimposed, it is obvious that this river, which is enough to swallow up all living and dead things, seems to be moving and changing every moment.

And now, one of its largest tributaries lies just below Zootopia, like a tumbling ink blob, a time bomb ready to explode at any moment.

When Annie saw the river swirling beneath Zootopia, it was as if the abyss had come alive, its jagged spray like broken teeth, ready to devour everything.

It's so scary that even mice can feel their scalps tingling.

Obviously, Zootopia has been targeted by this river and it is quite dangerous.

But Li Yuan quickly moved out of the corner to another position.

[Why is the place where Bakri disappeared here? 】

There is also a spiral river over there, but its range is much smaller.

It was like a hunting ground in Zootopia, and the River of Life and Death also formed a small circle there.

"This feeling is not good..."

Annie called up the data from that place and found that the surrounding area was a blank area with no players or NPCs.

The Infinite Highway is a continuously growing highway. Its map is like an inflating balloon, automatically widening every year.

Don’t be fooled by the large number of red dots of different sizes on the map, there are some games that have never appeared on the map.

The places that are actively surrounded by this river are not ordinary areas.

The last time was when Qiao Song appeared in the blind box mall.

This time it’s Zootopia that’s hosting the Zodiac Battle.

Will it be here next time?

Anne immediately worked with George to concentrate a large amount of data monitoring on that area, trying to retrieve the previous records there. Soon, the authority of the main system seemed to be stuck in a muddy vortex.

Cold sweat gradually appeared on the little mouse's forehead, which confirmed one of their guesses.

"...Could this be the constantly moving cemetery?"

Anne's mouth felt dry.

Happy Cemetery, a giant copy that should have been as famous as the blind box mall.

Because of the first river crossing operation that year, this copy sank into the water just like the boat.

From then on, except for a small number of NPCs who could rely on their instincts to enter and exit there, no one else could enter there no matter whether they used the system to change permissions or various special props and skills.

That is a copy area that will not be opened.

It can even be said that there is no administrator there, and no player can enter.

Li Yuan didn't know whether this tattoo artist named Bakelie had made any deal with Qiao Song, but he knew that Qiao Song must know about this.

The tattoo artist must have been affected by some special force.

Anne also felt that this matter was quite serious:

"Then you will open the door later and tell her the news?"

Now the communication has been deliberately blocked by Chenlong, and Zishu cannot bypass the main system and use the system prompt to send a message to a certain player.

Li Yuan shook his head:

[The portal is still buffering. She must have called me back on purpose.]

Qiao Song had deliberately said something to irritate him before. When Li Yuan calmed down for a while, all he could think about was the ignorant and snickering look that Qiao Song had pretended to have when he woke up.

Like a fox whose evil plan succeeded.

She should have her own plans in mind, and Li Yuan didn't want to interfere with her decision, just like all the guys on the ship didn't interfere with the choice made by Qiao Song.

[According to the overlapping order of the Zootopia, if everything went well, she should come to the Rat Region to take back the authority here, so that she can contact the guys in other areas more easily. But she didn't come, which means something went wrong.]

[Chen Long may have intercepted her on the way. If I go out now, the center console on your side will be completely empty. Chen Long will not miss such a good opportunity.]

Annie bared her teeth, and metal fragments on her body flashed.

It looks like it's ready to transform into a mecha-rat and pluck out the dragon's whiskers.

"That old guy is really insidious. Before there is a chance of winning safely, I will not let others interfere."

In order to avoid being ambushed, the rats had to stay together and it was not easy for them to use the portal. After all, Li Yuan was not a god and could not move indefinitely in other people's territories. Then the Animal City would be like his own home.

[She should be lucky now. Even if she goes back to the south directly, she will be able to meet the guy she wants to see.]

Li Yuan shook the feathers on his body and quickly shrunk his body into a small bird with eyes glowing with red agate light.

[I will stay here. Don't act rashly. Continue to check that location.]

[I have a feeling that the old man may launch a final round of attacks at any time. Before that, he will do everything possible to consume our forces and Qiao Song's forces.]

What Li Yuan didn't know was that after Si Snake, the second pioneer "tricked" out by Chen Long was Boss Cai, who was deeply involved with Qiao Song.

Electric light flashed, black wires shuttled back and forth, and a white glove poked out from a bunch of thick black cables.

He jumped out along the wire network transmission location and supported his display screen.

Looking around, Boss Cai always felt that the atmosphere around him was not right.

The air was also strange, with a very strong smell of wild beasts fighting.

"Is that guy Qiao Song really here?"

In the distance, countless wild beasts seemed to be lurking in the lush forest, and they also noticed the invading humanoid display screen.

But the situation in the Yinhu area is obviously a bit strange. The residents here seem to have fallen into a state of dementia and have turned into pure beasts, primitive and bloody.

Among them, a lioness, who had just killed several wolves and killed several waves of hunting animals, was licking her bloody palms.

Suddenly, she sniffed the air with her nose twitched, as if she smelled something familiar.

A taste that made her want to bite it.

The author has something to say:

That’s right, Qiao Song has turned into a lion. In the next chapter, Boss Cai will be waiting to drink some Jizhi syrup.

"Why are you chasing me——"

"Because you have—"

(The advertisement of Jizhi Syrup really brings back childhood memories)