Chapter 252: Prequel to Infinite Highway

Another location for the escape boat.

The tablet screen flashed red and green squares, and Qi Fan tapped it in dissatisfaction.

Forget it. How good can we expect the things given by those old antiques in the Infinite Shopping Mall to be? They themselves have embedded themselves into the wall and cannot get out.

Qi Fan kicked an ordinary-looking guy next to him who was holding a ball of black wire in his hand.

"Strengthen the signal."

The latter had a tired look on his face as if he had used too many skills. In the previous pixel game, it was all thanks to him that he blocked all communications from the Eye of Wisdom. Although his cheeks were tense, the man named Qian still squeezed out some skills.

[Zizi... Signal adjustment completed, temporary editor effective...]

Qi Fan finally nodded in satisfaction.

After spending some time on the experiment, the conclusion was encouraging. He swiped the tablet interface a few times and saw several glowing objects.

That was in the building block game, where the skills of the players that were washed away by a death were now collected as a bunch of data.

To his surprise, the number was a little too small.

Qi Fan took a rough inventory and found that most of them were animal icons, which meant that they were dropped by his own people.

Um?

He counted them carefully several times this time and found that only one business card of the cleaning company was dropped by a member of the Eye of Wisdom.

Tsk, after all the trouble, this is all I got.

Qi Fan felt a little uneasy. He called up another function on the tablet and saw that the background progress display had changed the ship's data by more than 80 percent.

The purpose of this lifeboat was not to escape from the beginning.

Qi Fan knew that, except for Dr. Ye, the group of people no longer wanted to go back from the moment they successfully produced the materials for crossing the river.

These materials are like ice cubes. They will still melt in water. It’s just a matter of speed. How can a melting boat cross the river of life and death and return to the real world?

They didn't even have a nautical chart.

The way this material was created taught them one thing: humans can create shrines.

The power of faith can transform this underworld into the underworld they imagine, a world of gods and ghosts with clear class distinctions.

A small number of people act as gods, the vast majority of players act as humans, and then some ghosts are fished out of the river to act as employees, and the system is complete.

Qi Fan was the "sea general" who was sent out to experiment with the game system.

It seems that things are going well over there as well. The Infinite Mall has gone out of control and the data system is being implemented. Once this ship can be incorporated into the game system and the progress is 100%, he can directly intervene in the game on this ship and generate new rules.

Isn't that just experiencing the feeling of being a God in advance?

The human control group is already sufficient, Qi Fan still has to find a way to turn the people on the other side into animals as well, so as to truly eliminate all future troubles.

In fact, he had already thought about it a long time ago. He planned to build a large copy outside the mall based on animal relationships. This would be the first step in the mall's expansion.

The old guys in the mall also promised to give the floor directly to him.

This was his first step in transforming from a man into a god.

go home?

He doesn't care about that kind of thing.

Only those incompetent guys who were put into the grain reserves would want to go home. He picked them out on purpose, and those who could be used actually don't want to go home.

For example, this guy named Qian Er, who is in charge of the signal, is pretty good.

While Qi Fan was waiting for the map to be completely generated, he always felt that the frequency of problems with today's tablet was a bit too high. How come there were some colorful spots on the screen in just a few minutes?

"Qian Er, where is your signal booster?"

"It's been running all the time. It's at maximum power."

"Tsk, then why is the effect getting worse and worse?"

Most of Qi Fan's editor functions are remotely connected to a computer room somewhere in the mall. It can be said that all the people he brought on board were carefully selected, either for eating or for use.

The project he was responsible for took a lot of time to prepare with the veterans who entered the game, and he couldn't let it fail because of a small matter like a bad signal.

"Check it again. I won't break my promise to you. You don't have to stay in the same place with those pigs anymore."

Qi Fan gradually became impatient and loosened his collar in a somewhat irritable manner.

He felt that not only was there something wrong with the screen in front of him, but even the back of his hands, sleeves, and clothes also had those red and green spots.

Gradually, one by one, the black noodle men, holding hands, began to dance around the colorful spots.

Qian Er was sweating. "I'll try my best. I can strengthen the signal for another 5 minutes at most... If it still doesn't work, then I can't do anything else."

Qi Fan didn't get angry with him this time. He looked straight at every corner of the room and saw various black-lined figures dancing gracefully.

wrong……

After swearing a lot, Qi Fan covered the tablet.

He had roughly guessed that he might have food poisoning.

This pattern of the little people dancing in front of me is more like mushroom poisoning. How come that damn mushroom game still has an effect after leaving that little world?

Qi Fan immediately took out several healing items and used them on himself without paying.

When he looked up, good news, the colorful spots and dancing people around him were gone.

Bad news, he saw that everyone around him had turned into the grimaces in the painting of Screaming, and everyone had a distorted expression on their face, like a funhouse mirror.

Qi Fan was so angry that he threw away all the bottles in his hands.

"It doesn't matter. We only have the last 6% left."

Once the data completely covers the entire ship, he can transform from a mall player to an administrator who can modify the rules and adjust the data at will.

It's just a low buff of food poisoning, at most it affects the vision.

He believed in his own intelligence and physique.

There is not much time left, and he must get rid of the group of players of the Eye of Wisdom as soon as possible.

The days on the ship are divided into day and night. For the animal groups, the day is actually very suitable for rest and recuperation. After all, they will be hungry at night, and during the day they just need to hide and stay out of the light.

The winner must be decided tonight when the animals are at their best physical strength, and the remaining people must be dealt with.

If he didn't return within the stipulated time, he would sooner or later be abandoned by the people in the mall. After all, those guys only wanted the experimental results and data.

Now the changes in the mall have not been fully exposed yet. Being an administrator will definitely be a popular job in the future. Many people will be scrambling to get a chance. He cannot miss this opportunity!

Qi Fan, who was looking for new ways to treat the side effects of food poisoning, didn't know that the ship was now more dangerous than being unable to return home in time because it was being eaten up quickly.

Fortunately, there was a helpful little stone on the boat.

Since he had promised to repair the boat, Xiao Shitou would certainly not go back on his word.

An agile figure crossed the porthole in three or two steps and rushed directly to the porthole of the basement.

Annie looked at the shaking camera and the overexposed picture and exclaimed: "Who is this Sister Sa? Where is the little cutie from before? Has she grown up in just a second?"

The small stone turned into a big stone in just a breath, and the price of growth was just that their captain's height shrank by 5 centimeters.

Li Yuan who is getting older and older: ...

But this deal is really worth it. It's white light outside, and they will be dried out if they go out. Only the stones that move in the river of life and death all year round are not afraid of these things at all.

The stone, which was in a child state before, has already learned basic human activities. Now that its size has suddenly grown, it can jump higher and run faster.

She slid down the outside railing like a slide to the bottom, then jumped up and grabbed the cable directly, found a gap and crawled in, as agile as a monkey that had just been released.

"We're already near the maintenance warehouse." Li Yuan's childish voice rang out.

The team members around were obviously trying to hold back their laughter. Xiao Shitou just went outside for a walk, took some precious videos of the water surface illuminated by white light, and then went back indoors to prepare to repair the boat.

In fact, it is not necessary to go out and shoot the video. After all, they have seen the specific situation before.

But by walking around, you can also check the situation in each area.

Little Stone touched his long, smooth black hair and said, "I just took a stroll on the boat, and it was just like what Li Yuan said. In most of the places I passed, I felt my head itchy, as if I was going to grow ears."

For some reason, Li Yuan had a thought like "maybe he's growing a brain" flash through his mind.

He asked, "Do you feel like you want to turn into an animal?"

If Qi Fan wants to deal with everyone at once without wasting the players' value, he can only make everyone else under his control.

In the previous White Light game, it was probably intended to turn all the members of the Eye of Wisdom into useless people with no skills, but the effect did not meet Qi Fan's expectations.

If they were forced to become animals, they would be in danger of being killed by Qi Fan.

Undercover Fang Jinyu also said that Qi Fan awakened a unique zodiac sign through special methods: the dragon.

A dragon can dominate all members who have submitted to him. Once more than half of the animals in a population support him, the entire group, even those animals that refuse to surrender, will be dominated.

Before, Qi Fan did not take the initiative to attack, but let his men serve as cannon fodder, in order to consume the restless elements who had ideas of resistance.

Now, Fang Jinyu’s stored food wants to resist. Their last chance is to form an alliance with the members of the Eye of Wisdom who have not yet turned into animals.

Little Stone: "I calculated that with your current physical condition, if you go out after dark and stay outside for about a minute, you may slowly turn into an animal."

Little Stone, who was not afraid of turning into an animal or getting food poisoning, picked up some big red mushrooms and chewed them.

"It would be great if everyone could turn into mushrooms, so we wouldn't have to worry about being bullied by a dragon. If he dares to eat you, he'll be poisoned."

It’s a pity that eating mushrooms won’t turn you into a mushroom, otherwise she would have changed long ago.

After Li Yuan found out that the child would not be poisoned, although he was helpless, he still patiently explained to ordinary people what they could eat and what they could not eat.

Stone, who ate poisonous mushrooms as snacks, nodded as he studied, and soon came to the space at the bottom of the cabin.

She stuffed the rest of her snack into her mouth and probed the bottom of the boat with her hand.

There were already spots the size of a bowl, which were spreading continuously.

"See, I was right, there's a leak."

The faces below were still biting the bottom hard. Through a layer of water, they looked unwillingly at the girl in the cabin as she rubbed her fingers gently and smeared something like stone powder on the ground.

Annie looked at the blurry picture and sighed silently: "Why does it feel like I'm applying cement?"

Shitou said proudly: "I just learned how to apply cement. I saw one of you was a plasterer, so I learned it from you!"

Annie immediately praised: "Little Stone is awesome! He has a great learning ability!"

Then she muttered again, wondering whether she should change the child's name. Otherwise, he would always be called Little Stone, which was like a nickname. Although it was also very cute, the child must have a name of his own.

What Li Yuan was thinking was: "Do you want to become a human?"

After applying the cement, Little Stone, whose body had shrunk by one centimeter, nodded: "Of course I do. It's so much fun to be a human. The world you live in is so prosperous. I haven't been there yet."

At the bottom of the river of life and death is unchanging death and coldness.

It was the first time for her to walk freely on the water. Although she had sent many water plants ashore before, the experience of becoming a creature like the water plants was completely different.

"Besides, I have friends now, so I must visit them!"

She confirmed it again on the screen: "We are friends, right? I asked the doctor before, and she said that people who give each other gifts, praise each other, provide emotional value, and even help each other and solve problems are friends!"

She used to think that the water plants would be her friends, but those who came ashore, except for the Doctor, ignored her.

Rather than playing with her, the water plants that came ashore preferred to bring all kinds of strange offerings to the stone to offer sacrifices and express their wishes.

The doctor said that humans in despair sometimes need God more than their own kind.

So Xiao Shitou thought that she only had the Doctor as her friend, but now she is on the boat and has many friends on the boat!

It was difficult for everyone at Wisdom Eye to describe their current feelings, but even A Guang couldn't help but sigh: "You are so good at speaking when you are a human for the first time. If I had this much emotional intelligence back then, I would have coaxed my master into handing over all his high-end lenses to me."

Li Yuan: "I'll pick a name for you when I get back?"

Having a name seems to leave another mark in this world.

Although the fate of the ship is still unknown, Li Yuan knows that this is a stone that really wants to be a human being, and she will definitely be able to become a great person.

The stone that had returned along the same path jumped up and down, laughing happily:

"Okay! Then I'll pick my own name. I already know a lot of words now. Give me some time, and I'll be as smart as you, and be admitted to that university, and also be admitted to a barbecue restaurant!"

In A Guang’s memory world, he drinks beer and eats barbecue every day.

"I also want to raise kittens and go to the hospital to beat people up for fun!"

Orthopedic doctor Wu couldn't help but correct him: "I was treating patients, not playing."

Li Yuan laughed: "You don't have to go to college. Whether you're grilling, setting up a street stall, or becoming a doctor, as long as you feel happy, it's a good life."

Little Stone hummed, as if he understood but also as if he didn't quite understand.

That's why she likes humans. There are so many fragments of memories, so many professions, and behind each one there is a unique soul.

It turns out that life is such an interesting thing.

She had never lived, and had been staying in the cold river, watching countless souls finish their lives and reach the end of this life.

The white mycelium slowly covered the entire boat. Little Stone took two more mushrooms and began to chew them. "So should we go chop off the dragon's head now? As I remember, dragons are similar to snakes. Only after chopping off the head can we say that we have dealt with them."

She had seen a documentary in the mind of a survival player, where a guy named Bear Grylls dealt with snakes in this way.

It’s not dark yet and other players can’t come out, so she can go over and take a look at the situation.

Li Yuan has been using the editor in his hand to monitor the data flow on the ship. Xiao Shitou shared an ability with him and now acts like a mobile signal source, transmitting the situation on the ship back in real time.

"Qi Fan has been a little quiet since a while ago. He might be using medicine to treat the food poisoning. Don't get too close. Come back early."

Little Stone said she knew, and she ran along the white mycelium towards the cabin where the animal player was. She could feel her body becoming more and more itchy, as if she was about to grow animal fur.

Fortunately, she is made of stone and has high resistance.

But when they reached the door, the mycelium had already covered the entire door. The game that Li Yuan and she had created together had also spread to this side. The two game rules should be competing with each other, but the mycelium could not go in when it reached the door.

Shi Tou's intuition tells me that there's something strange going on.

She felt that there was a lot of noise behind the door. It was not the kind of noise that made any sound, but rather it was like many souls were shouting and screaming. It felt very much like the scene in the River of Life and Death.

In the past, when she was more curious, she would chat with the countless souls soaking in the water. Later, she found that most of them had extreme emotions in their minds, either shouting "I don't want to die" or "You all go to hell."

The players in the Weeds category are a little better, they are not really dead, and their minds are much clearer. Because they want to return to the real world, their memories are also very clear, and they have a lot of interesting things to say.

Behind this door, Xiao Shitou felt like he was in the river of life and death.

It was so noisy, many souls were making strange wails.

Strange, didn’t she just repair the boat?

The stone felt the white light shining on his body and thought that it didn't matter. Even if the water from the River of Life and Death flooded over, the water would evaporate when the light shone on it.

"This place is so strange, how about I go in and take a look first?"

No one answered.

She looked at the screen that suddenly lost connection and remembered the signal problem that Li Yuan had complained about before.

It doesn't matter, the stone will go in by itself.

She knocked on the door confidently.

Knocking on the door is a courtesy, and if no one opens it, she kicks it herself.

Shitou was not worried that the white light would shine into the room, as she had blocked the doors on both sides of the corridor in advance.

After the smoke and dust cleared, a huge thing that looked like a heart was beating behind the broken door.

If anyone else stood here and saw such a thing, they would probably be greatly shocked, but Xiao Shitou is not a human.

She looked at the biological Christmas tree made up of countless human limbs on the tumor, and even at the two dozen eyes on it.

"Well, the captain said that I don't look like a child anymore, so I should be a little more polite..."

Little Stone looked at the bloodstains all over the ground, and the human tree with a head in the place of the Christmas tree star in front of him, and sighed:

"But you are so ugly and you stink."

It looked like this guy had eaten countless people in one breath.

The arms of those people had not been digested yet, and they grew directly from the dragon's body as branches. They looked even more disgusting than the souls under the water.

Qi Fan, who had gone completely crazy after eating the mushrooms, rolled his eyes. He felt that his memory was a little fuzzy, as if he didn't know what had just happened.

It seemed like I suddenly felt very hungry, as if I had received a phone call or eaten something.

Yes, he was poisoned. What did he do after being poisoned?

Qi Fan's memory was already a little fuzzy. He had a tablet in his mouth and was making unclear electronic sounds:

"The gaming world is about to restart, and shopping malls will evolve towards highways... We are also very busy..."

"If the ship cannot make it back home, save yourself..."

"The material of the hull is ordinary shrines, which may melt, but there is a material that will definitely hold up."

There were many strange short lines on the branches, which suddenly split and turned into blood-red eyeballs. In an instant, all the eyeballs spun around and looked at the unfamiliar girl with long black hair in front of them.

"Stones, eat the stones... and the ship won't sink..."

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Qiao Qiao: All your teeth are broken!