Chapter 251: Prequel to Infinite Highway

When Li Yuan woke up on the boat, his heart was beating very fast and he felt almost dying because of being drowned in white light. However, the death in the pixel world was very short, just like being kicked offline in the game, it ended in an instant.

He paused for two seconds and quickly looked at his companions around him.

Everyone was still in the same room as before.

But everyone in the room obviously had a different expression.

Aunt Huo was frowning, looking at the sheep's eye with a square pupil in her hand.

Little Stone had run up to her at some point, and was muttering close to her, "Auntie, do you want to eat this? It doesn't look tasty, but if you eat it, you should be able to gain sheep-related abilities. I took a look, and it seems to be able to hypnotize others and yourself."

Li Yuan: "Do your skills drop after you die?"

Little Stone shook his head: "I don't have any skills, how can I drop something that doesn't exist?"

Li Yuan: ...

Yes, according to the growth experiences that Xiao Shitou mentioned before, the professional abilities generated by players in this world are awakened according to the corresponding memories in reality.

Since she has never been in human society, she will not awaken the corresponding things.

Aunt Huo was silent for a while: "My cleaning company's business card can't be summoned."

Li Yuan had already guessed the result: "It should be caused by falling when dying."

At the moment the white light exploded, the sheep-headed girl ran directly into Aunt Huo's arms as agreed before, saying that only in this way could Aunt Huo increase the probability of picking up the corresponding dropped objects.

Aunt Huo, on the other hand, did not see any business card-like objects nearby, and her own skill was lost.

Li Yuan was calm: "It seems that Qi Fan also wants to expand the advantage of the animal camp. Each animal will have an extra ability. Even if they lose one ability, they still have another one."

"A Guang, how are you doing? Can you summon the video now?"

In the corner, Ah Guang lay on the floor in a daze, staring at the ceiling and muttering, "Stationary mission F1.2-4, photosensitivity ISO100400-600 exposure compensation..."

Li Yuan immediately noticed that A Guang and Wu Hanyu in the distance had strange expressions, as if they were feeling relieved after being tired for a long time.

A Guang looks a bit too crazy...

Li Yuan probably understood that these were the shooting parameters of different scenes. He asked Dr. Wu, who seemed a little more normal, "You didn't show up in the captain's room. Did you go to the basement to look for Fan Xi?"

Wu Hanyu slowed down, obviously he had just experienced the white light explosion and his mood was complicated: "The goat-horned girl named Fang Jinyu should have met you guys."

He sighed, "Mo Wen and Annie were not here, and A Guang and I were in the captain's room looking at the map. We ran into her, who had been lurking nearby for some time."

Fang Jinyu's attitude at that time was sincere enough.

"She tied her hands and eyes, came to me and A Guang, and told us that she was willing to be a traitor as long as our team could save her sister. Even if we couldn't, she would cooperate with us to kill Qi Fan. She didn't want to continue to be the ship's reserve food."

A Guang and Dr. Wu were still hesitating at the time, but were eager to tell Li Yuan about the map.

"The signal was blocked. We left the captain's room and before we passed through the corridor, we saw a large wave of kites flying over."

Qi Fan's team is not full of fools, so it will be impossible to confront them directly.

"We turned and headed to the basement. It turned out that Fan Xi was right. We had to unlock the door to get into the basement. Everyone encountered different difficulties after unlocking the door. I performed two operations there for no apparent reason. A Guang spent a long time adjusting the photography parameters there. Finally, not long after we entered the basement, we heard an explosion outside."

Li Yuan understood: "You dodged the white light?"

Doctor Wu nodded with a strange expression: "At that moment, I felt like I was still dead, just like being offline in a game, but my skills also fell off, that's it."

He was holding a doctor's ID card in his hand, which read "Wu Hanyu, deputy chief physician of orthopedics at a certain city's tertiary hospital."

"I just picked this sign up and my skills are back."

A Guang next to him was similar, but it seemed that when he opened the door, he went through some kind of test and looked dumbfounded.

Li Yuan asked several times before he slowly turned on the surveillance camera in the captain's room.

Ah Guang stared at the sky blankly: "Photography will make you poor for three generations, it's too difficult. I won't learn photography in my next life, I might as well be a chef."

The professional skills that they dropped were right at their feet, and they returned to the same place. It can be said that it was fortunate that they entered the basement at that time. After everyone in the basement died, all their skills were dropped.

However, because the door was closed, the fallen light did not fly away. After they came out of the game, the skill items returned to their hands.

But Aunt Huo was not so lucky, and all she had left was a sheep's eye.

After the video was connected, Mo Wen and Annie on the other side looked exhausted and did not look very good. "Is everyone okay? Captain, have you lost any important skills?"

Li Yuan: "Only Aunt Huo's was lost." He thought he would lose it too, but to his surprise, apart from shrinking a little and now looking only five or six years old, his skills were still there.

Little Stone snorted: "Thanks to me, okay? We are still in the contract state. We stones are not afraid of light!"

Li Yuan hummed, and was about to give a sincere compliment, but Xiao Shitou stretched out his hand to compare his height: "You are a few centimeters shorter, I am much taller than you now!"

In the captain's room, Annie, who had originally looked depressed, suddenly laughed: "Captain, I felt like you were about to jump up and quarrel with Shi Tou just now, ha ha ha ha, weren't you quite serious before? Recently, your defense has been broken more and more often, ha ha ha ha."

Little Stone nodded: "I don't know whether he was a serious kid or not, but he and I are sharing the same body and childhood now. My current appearance and personality are largely influenced by his childhood!"

Li Yuan could no longer tolerate it: "Please don't blame me for the behavior of some individual stones."

"No, I didn't. You must have been like this when you were a kid! I can even tell you how many centimeters tall you were when you were 8 years old!"

The others exclaimed at once, and some wicked person even asked, how old was the captain when he still wet the bed.

Only Li Yuan was still trying to bring the topic back: "Let's continue talking about everyone's situation. What happened in the captain's room before?"

Annie had had enough fun and knew that the captain would get angry if she continued playing.

She and Mo Wen pulled Fang Jinyu, the sheep girl in the corner, over and said, "Let her talk to you herself."

After the initial agreement, the captives were no longer completely captives.

Fang Jinyu has now lost her sheep abilities, and all of her animal characteristics have disappeared, but her expression remains tense: "You should have received the gift I sent you."

Fang Jinyu was referring to the eyeball in Aunt Hua's hand.

Li Yuan: "But we also suffered some losses."

Aunt Huo's original ability disappeared.

Fang Jinyu: "This is already the minimum consumption. If your people fail to enter the basement in time, the loss will only be greater."

She didn't ask Li Yuan about the specific situation, but in fact, thanks to Shi Tou, Li Yuan's "Independent Game Maker" skill did not drop.

Doctor Wu also brought Ah Guang, who was still daydreaming, over and said, "I have a question. Why can we pick up the skills we dropped, but not Aunt Huo's?"

Fang Jinyu: "This is what I want to say now. Qi Fan should have other devices that can recover all the professional skills dropped in the game except in the basement."

"Including our own people, but some of us have animal abilities that should be able to be mortgaged."

For example, Fang Jinyu herself no longer has the ability of a sheep, but her ability as a writer is still there.

"Aunt Huo can eat the sheep's eyeballs later and gain a skill, but I don't know if she will change sides."

Transition from the animal camp to the human side.

Li Yuan's face suddenly turned bad: "You want to use my teammates for experiments?"

Fang Jinyu was silent for a moment and could only say: "You can choose not to eat it, but this is my suggestion. It is best to let your family also have an animal attribute. I am not sure about Qi Fanjiu's purpose now. Is he going to drive this ship back or let it sink directly?"

She was halfway through her speech when she noticed a head suddenly leaning forward towards the screen in front of her.

It was a little girl, who looked about one or two years older than the shrunken Li Yuan.

"Is Qi Fan the guy who got food poisoning from eating mushrooms? He wanted to blow up the ship?"

The little girl's eyebrows were about to stand up: "This is my boat, why did he blow it up? Let me see..."

After saying that, the little girl grabbed a handful of fungi in the air at random, and then under the gaze of Li Yuan and others, she grabbed a handful of white mycelium as if she was grabbing a spider web.

"Well, I'll expand this game a little bit. When he loses his mind, he will definitely do something bad."

Xiao Shitou isn’t very good at playing games yet, but she knows one thing: when she’s not very good at playing games, she can just mess with others.

When Li Yuan saw her take out the mycelium, he immediately hatched his keyboard and computer, and soon saw the unexpected game interface.

When he made games before, he could only make a small room. Previously in the pixel world, thanks to Xiao Shitou and his teammates, he was able to make a mushroom game with an entire corridor.

But now, he saw a mushroom empire growing.

Xiao Shitou expanded the scope of the game directly to the entire ship.

Li Yuan quickly understood the reason while typing on the keyboard - the entire space of the ship was filled with data streams, which meant that someone had already digitized this place, just like the small world of building blocks they had entered before.

Fang Jinyu guessed it: "Your skills are indeed related to the game. No wonder Qi Fan asked me to get rid of you."

"He should be busy digitizing the entire ship. This is a tool he got from others. The two factions in the mall have been preparing for so long. Either they didn't expect that ordinary players could reach the bottom without sponsorship, or they let you in on purpose. They need a control group."

Li Yuan kept typing on the keyboard, and soon a red and blue map unfolded.

The red ones represent the games that overflowed from Qi Fan’s side.

The blue one is the mushroom map that Xiao Shitou just led to create.

Little Stone took a look at the map and quickly pointed at the image on the screen and said, "This red map stinks. There are a lot of animal data streams in it. They are contagious just like mushrooms."

The child had just turned into a human and was not very good at expressing himself, but Li Yuan actually understood what he meant: "Qi Fan wants to turn our people into the animal camp as well?"

Fang Jinyu: "This is what I told you. The reason why I asked you to eat the sheep's eyes is that if you can turn into an animal by eating the eyes, but the game doesn't judge you as changing your camp, then we can fix the bug."

"What is a BUG?"

Little Stone, who was studying seriously, suddenly raised his hand.

Although Li Yuan's hands were busy and his mind was working, he still turned his head and explained to her quickly: "This is called a game loophole."

It took the little stone a few minutes to understand what a hole was, and his eyes sparkled.

Human games are really interesting. You can even exploit loopholes and bugs, and you can still play them even without violent breakthroughs!

She didn't quite understand the rules yet, but Xiao Shitou knew that the most important thing about the game might not be to pass the level according to the rules, but it's also okay to exploit bugs!

At this time, Li Yuan didn't know what kind of seeds he had planted in the heart of a stone.

He agreed with Fang Jinyu's suggestion: "Qi Fan may have obtained a prop with high management authority. Now the game map on the ship is spreading too fast. If this continues, whether it is day or night, the original rules for humans and animals will be overwritten."

All lives on board will become lambs to be slaughtered.

Li Yuan actually still had another question: what on earth did Qi Fan want to do by taking away those skills?

Recycling and redistribution?

Or is it that Qi Fan is just conducting an experiment, representing some of the initial players in the Infinite Mall to conduct an experiment in resource redistribution?

Once they discover that they can recycle players' skills and redistribute them, it will be equivalent to gaining supreme power.

The radical elders may just want to create a new game mode and directly shape this place into a new infinite world.

This is undoubtedly bad news for those who really want to go home.

Everyone's expression was solemn, except Xiao Shitou.

"Then can our mushrooms spread over there too? That guy doesn't know the rules of mushrooms at all. It's so simple that even stones understand it!"

I just pestered Aunt Huo and asked her a lot of common knowledge about mushrooms. In a short period of time, I quickly learned how to taunt the small stone on the opposite side. I am quite proud of it.

She can't be poisoned, and she's smart and a fast learner!

Li Yuan found that what Xiao Shitou said was true. After he pulled up the map, he found something very strange. The route of the red map over there gradually became strange, as if it was drunk. The map was crooked instead of fully covered.

"Qi Fan, as the game manager, has gotten food poisoning."

This seems like a joke, but it is actually true.

Little Stone was already full of confidence and grabbed Li Yuan's hand: "Give me a little more strength, I want to grow taller, jump higher and run faster!"

Li Yuan thinks faster than he speaks. Xiao Shitou knew that he agreed with the same thought.

Under Li Yuan's gaze, Xiao Shitou's body continued to grow taller, gradually turning into an 18-year-old girl with waist-length black hair.

Li Yuan himself shrunk to about 3-4 years old.

Li Yuan couldn't hold back his expression any longer: "You think of me as a power bank?"

Little Stone emphasized: "Borrow it, just borrow it temporarily!"

"As a reward, I can help you mend the boat!"

Little Stone pointed to the location of the floor.

Repair the boat?

Li Yuan didn't care about the fact that he had become smaller again, and suddenly remembered something.

He contacted A Guang to scan every corner of the ship, and finally found a tattered little robot. He climbed onto the ship and tried to take a picture of about two seconds.

Xiao Shitou was right. Even if Qi Fan didn't do anything wrong, the current situation of the ship was very urgent.

In the river of life and death, the ghost faces remain, but in the world illuminated by white light, a large number of souls on the water surface are evaporating.

And on the bottom of the ship, there were countless ghost faces lying densely packed, as if under the illumination of the white light, they regarded the ship as the only shield to block the light.

Those guys were not idle either. Their pale ghost faces kept gnawing at the materials on the bottom of the ship.

They resented the guys on these boats.

As if to say: Why?

Why do you still have the last hope of survival?

It is better to sink to the bottom and step into the river of death with us.