Chapter 257: Prequel to Infinite Highway

Li Yuan didn't know that Shi Tou was targeting him again.

The corridor at the entrance to the basement was already littered with strange human limbs and broken mushrooms.

All kinds of players they had seen and hadn't seen before crawled out of the broken mushrooms one by one.

Their skin is rotten and swollen, and most of them have several human heads and an animal head on their heads, which looks more and more terrifying.

But the most tricky thing is not this, but that each of these creatures will glow with several different colors of light.

How can one person use two different professional skills!

Or is it that the souls in the body are different? They have different skills, so how can we play this game?

Ah Guang was already cursing: "Captain, why don't you open the door!!! That damn New Year music is still playing, and the area we control is getting bigger and bigger!"

Accompanied by the music of "Congratulations on your wealth and prosperity, congratulations on your splendid life", empty red envelopes were already floating outside the corridor.

A queuing area marked by red ribbons was expanding outward from the basement door, as if to force them out of this space unless they could pick up red envelopes and stuff money into them.

"We've fallen into the underworld. What's the point of this crappy skill? Who has money? There's not even a ghost note!"

"Unless someone is in the business of printing money, see if you can make some paper money. If not, you can print ghost money!!!"

A Guang screamed but his hands never stopped. Doctor Wu was swinging a sledgehammer at the monster in front and had no time to protect him. As a result, A Guang, who had the worst attack ability in the team, could only rely on the mecha model donated by Annie to barely protect himself.

Damn it, he also has to provide vision for others.

"Who the hell cut off my internet connection? I've installed so many cameras, but there's still no signal!"

Their team has always had a clear division of labor. A Guang's most important responsibility is to provide a field of vision. It was understandable that the network was disconnected because they were far away, but now in a single space, they are unable to use the camera's ability to communicate synchronously.

A Guang picked up the tripod of the camera and stabbed a monster that was walking towards him, sending the monster to the side of the violent medical soldier Dr. Wu.

Doctor Wu picked up the hammer and started smashing.

[Orthopedic surgeons, the big hammer is 80 and the small hammer is 40. If it is less than 20, it will not be covered by medical insurance. 】

The hammer was not enough, so Dr. Wu quickly proposed a saw. A Guang spoke faster than his brain: "If I didn't know you were a doctor, I would have thought you were a murderer."

"Do you think I want to?" Doctor Wu grinned and raised the saw, and with the help of the hammer, he performed an amputation operation on the guy who was blocking the way in front of him. He successfully stopped the guys running in the front and prevented himself and A Guang from being surrounded.

【Congratulations on your amputation! 】

[Doctors are kindhearted. Every treatment is a trade-off. I lost a leg, but at least I saved my life.]

Although the opponent lost his ability to move, since this skill was of medical nature, he was still able to heal some of his external injuries. Doctor Wu exclaimed, and ignoring A Guang's screams, he actually began to study the leg he had removed.

[Friendly reminder: only one patient can be placed on an operating table. Please do not perform multi-person medical collaboration.]

Dr. Wu felt a little uncomfortable when he heard the prompt tone ringing in his ears instead of the broadcast.

"What's going on with the ship's gaming system? Can it now broadcast one-on-one?"

Ah Guang said anxiously: "Is this the point? These guys are equal to three at a time, how can we defeat them?"

Li Yuan and Aunt Huo stood together, and only Annie and Aunt Huo could protect him.

The computer in his hand continued to emit various numbers emitting blue light, but Li Yuan could only come to that conclusion.

"The only data on this ship that isn't in a state of chaos is in the basement."

But that place cannot be explored for the time being. Currently, only Xiao Shitou has rushed through the red defense line that has been playing Spring Festival songs.

Because children don't need to give red envelopes, this alone is enough to keep everyone out of the basement door.

Li Yuan knew that the most urgent task was to get all his teammates inside. It would be best to restore the signal first and find a way to contact Fan Xi in the basement.

Ah Guang suddenly yelled, "I found that bastard!"

Dr. Wu's hammer has a bone-breaking effect. He made new discoveries while studying the leg that had just been amputated. There was a glowing layer inside the leg bones, and inside it was a glowing bubble and a small human figure curled up like a human fetus.

It's a bit disgusting, but it shows that when several souls are squeezed into the same body, there may be a soul in each part of the limbs and torso.

The severed leg that Dr. Wu was holding contained not only the soul of a dead person, but also a black wire. It was obvious that a living person in the torso had used a skill to connect to other souls.

A Guang was an expert at identifying goods and could tell at a glance that it was something like a signal cable.

Damn it, once we get rid of this guy, we can only restore the signal!

A Guang and Dr. Wu immediately began to look for the unidentified creature that was blocking the signal.

Li Yuan was still studying the map. The mushrooms were multiplying rapidly with Qifan as the center, and he could detect the status of the mushrooms.

The good news is that most of them are poisonous mushrooms. If you foolishly step on the three-headed, six-armed monster with animal attributes created by Qi Fan, you will soon become food poisoned near your birthplace and be trapped in a maze on the spot.

After Xiao Shitou rushed into the basement, Qi Fan took root at the door, occasionally pulling on the door with branches and howling occasionally.

Now that he has become this horrible state, his only goal is to eat the small stones, even the hair and nails.

The more you eat, the safer you are. That is the only sense of security that other lives within the scope of this river have.

"The ship...sunk...I want to go back...back to the mall...eat rocks...rocks..."

Qi Fan's head even started to bite the door. With him blocking the way, no one else could get through. And this guy was like a plague, with ghosts from the same camp as him constantly popping out of his body.

Doctor Wu, a medic, was also a little overwhelmed. They had found the soul that used the signal isolation function, but the other party had three heads, a crocodile, a dog, and an ordinary man.

"Captain! Solve the signal first!"

Li Yuan knew in his heart that he had to resolve the signal problem first, so that he could at least contact Fan Xi and find out what was going on in the basement.

But Qi Fan kept talking about chewing stones, which made him a little concerned.

People like Qi Fan, as well as those old guys in the mall, at what stage do they understand Xiao Shitou?

It was clearly the small stones that brought them to the shore, but now they have to use the stones as raw materials to build a new country?

He once thought that if he could learn to manage games in this world as a small stone, perhaps he could achieve mutual benefit with humans.

Now it seems that it is not possible. Stones are too simple and humans are too cunning. Instead of being a god who can be deceived by mortals into giving away artifacts, it is better to be a devil who trades with humans.

He no longer had much hope of returning home, and instead began to think about what he could do here if he stayed.

Regardless of whether they succeed or fail in crossing the river, radical guys like Qi Fan must not be allowed to completely take over this world.

Li Yuan pressed the keyboard, and a large number of poisonous mushrooms suddenly appeared near the creature that A Guang and the others were chasing.

Aunt Huo transformed the sheep's eyes into several bodyguards who were more than two meters tall and were ready to catch Ah Guang's target. As a result, Annie, who was guarding behind them, yelled: "Be careful! Several monsters with three heads and six arms are coming nearby!"

Although Qi Fan has turned into a monster, he knows in his heart that the abilities of several guys in his body are the most important.

For example, this guy who isolates the signal.

[Three days and three nights, in the middle of the night, I will never stop! ]

A huge black speaker dropped from the sky, and just like the New Year program broadcast in front of it, as soon as the music started, a new rule was formed in this area:

[You must wear strange clothes in this area, and you are not allowed to go clubbing with your school uniform! ]

A guy wearing a baseball cap and holding a DJ disc in one hand rushed out from the side, and on his other head was a fox head.

It is another product of the fusion of multiple souls.

Ah Guang's scalp tingled. "Why is there another restricted skill? What happened to your work style? Who said that you can't go clubbing in work clothes?"

The colorful disco lights floated down from the sky at some point, and Dr. Wu, who was wearing a white coat, was blocked outside. A Guang tore half of his clothes with force and stuffed a sports camera into his hand.

【Record your beautiful life! Go with GOPRO sports camera! 】

"If you don't let me through, I'll expose you!"

A Guang carried a huge camera on his own, and a piece of white paper came out of his hand, which soon turned into a paper-figure female host.

[1818 Infinite Mall Golden Eye officially reports for you: The disco scene actually prohibits workers from entering. Is it a loss of morality or a lack of humanity? ]

[When controversial news reports begin, they will automatically attract the attention of all intelligent creatures in the nearby area. The lower the IQ, the longer the hard control time. ]

A Guang didn't like to use this skill before. After all, although he had only worked as a news photographer for a few days, he didn't think there was anything wrong with the news. Who doesn't like to read some gossip?

The point is, he only has a few stickers of the hostess and heroine, and once they are used, they are gone!

"Doctor Wu, hurry up! Get that bastard out for me, and stop him from blocking the signal!"

The white coat had been torn into rag strips. Doctor Wu rushed out with a sledgehammer, passed through the crowd controlled by the female host and the camera, and knocked down a guy whose hair had turned into black wires.

The man probably wanted to resist, and before the wire in his hand could be turned into a weapon, he foamed at the mouth.

Doctor Wu looked at the colorful mushroom remains under his feet and knew that he was probably poisoned by stepping on too many mushrooms.

Sizzle.

A Guang, who was controlling the camera, instantly felt that he heard the sound of the signal being reconnected.

Then Annie also yelled: "Hurry up, the poisonous mushrooms can't stop those zombie-like ghosts. Should we go to the basement or the captain's room now?"

Li Yuan didn't think the captain's room would be safer, but Qi Fan had already taken root at the door of the basement, and his branches went up along the door, covering the place like a net. Annie said that Mo Wen had made new discoveries in the captain's room, but Li Yuan knew that if there really was a safe zone, it could only be the basement that had been tampered with by another force in the mall.

It is no less difficult to enter the basement now than to kill Qi Fan directly, but he is now like a mother tree, full of people and souls. Do we have to cut down the tree?

Buzz buzz buzz.

Li Yuan, who was typing on the keyboard to re-lay out a road, suddenly heard new movement coming from Qi Fan.

A Guang's signal has been gradually restored. After Li Yuan was ready to contact Fan Xi, he asked her to hide in the basement with Xiao Shitou and not come out. The former can continue to check the player's information, and the latter is still a child, strictly speaking, she was born not long ago.

Li Yuan pressed the enter key, and a large number of floating balls and Annie's mecha robots flew up together. They finally returned to their previous combat mode.

Dr. Wu injected a large amount of anesthetic into the guy who blocked the signal. According to that dosage, several bears would go into hibernation directly.

A Guang sacrificed several pieces of equipment and used up a large amount of props stock. He didn't care about the pain and found that the captain was not going to run to the captain's room again.

Li Yuan stared at the direction of the basement door with a strange expression, but the other teammates saw nothing. As a result, Qi Fan, who was lying on the door like a creeper, suddenly had a rotating electric saw appear in the center of his forehead.

Buzz buzz buzz.

This time everyone saw that as Qi Fan, who was lying on the ground in front of the basement door, had his forehead cracked, the size of their captain, Li Yuan, suddenly began to shrink.

"Li Yuan, I'm here to give you red envelopes!"

A cheerful voice came from the crack in the door, and then the little stone grew bigger in a second and turned back into the dashing girl it was before.

She has just received a lot of remedial lessons from the doctor, and now she finally understands how to play the game!

"Hurry up and make a wish to me, I will give you props!"

She shaved a small section of her hair in a heroic manner, and recently held a bunch of cards with orange stars on them in her hand like playing cards.

Ah Guang watched as a card turned into another identical, huge electric saw, which directly cut Qi Fan's tree trunk into two sections.

Li Yuan thought something was wrong, and sure enough, he saw a large number of white bubbles spit out from the broken branch that Xiao Shitou had cut with his own hands, and each bubble contained a new water ghost.

A bunch of white ghost faces finally came ashore again and merged with one of Qi Fan's teammates. One person served as a container with several ghosts hanging on him.

Little Stone realized something was wrong: "You are taking advantage of me again, right?"

Qi Fan was happier to see her come out than when he rushed in himself.

"The souls of the dead... are the ones you are supposed to ferry!"

Qi Fan's brain, which was originally poisoned by food, seemed to wake up in an instant. His head enlarged and turned into a ferocious head that looked like a snake and a dragon, and bit directly at him.

This time, a huge chopping board blocked his way.

The electric saw that Xiao Shitou got had expired, so he immediately replaced it with a kitchen knife and a chopping board.

[Others are the butchers and I am the meat. 】

Shitou, who had never been to school, didn't know what a knife and a chopping board meant, but she knew that she could cut people with a knife and hit people with a chopping board.

She gave Qi Fan a big fist and slapped him all over the face with coriander and chopped green onions.

Li Yuan said that if she attacked Qi Fan, the other party would be beaten very happily, and Xiao Shitou didn't want to do as they wished.

She simply scattered the orange stars on the ground, but if you look closely, you can see that she scattered them on some colorful poisonous mushrooms that she had recognized before.

"Li Yuan, receive the express!"

Xiao Shitou still had a star card in her hand, which instantly turned into a courier delivery note. All the mushrooms on the ground turned into mini courier carts and began to move on the ground, carrying the cards to her teammates.

[For cash on delivery, it will arrive on the same day. If the intermediate transporter loses the item, he will have to pay 10 times the price. 】

Li Yuan didn't know whether he should be shocked that Shitou knew how to send express deliveries, or surprised at the birth of this kind of card.

Universal prop, how can there be such a thing?

Little Shitou couldn't say that she had just pestered the doctor to give her memories in a short period of time and learned a lot of common sense about life in human society, right?

She is smart, isn't she? Although she accidentally watched for a little too long and didn't come out in time, she learned to pinch props that have the breath of human life!

A strange old-fashioned printing press suddenly appeared in her hands.

【Tian Di Bank Banknote Printing Machine】

[This is a currency that can be circulated directly after being stamped by a certain god of death. Although there seems to be no currency system yet, it won’t go wrong to make some money first, right? 】

Xiao Shitou saw in Dr. Ye's memory that people would burn some yellow paper money during the Qingming Festival, but it seemed unlucky to put this kind of thing in red envelopes, but it was illegal to print those pink banknotes herself. After thinking for a long time, she came up with a compromise.

Print your own ghost money!

The speaker at the gate that had been playing music continuously suddenly stopped, because a large amount of paper money for the dead was flying out and automatically flew into the red envelopes.

Annie was the first one to let the mecha put the money into the red envelope. She didn't leave first because she was afraid that the signal would be bad after entering and she would not be able to control the robot. So she kicked A Guang over.

A photographer cried out in pain and flew up into the air, hitting a blank spot on the door left by a small rock that split Qi Fan in half.

A Guang's eyes widened, and before he could yell "I don't want to leave first" he was sucked in by the door.

Doctor Wu and A Guang had opened doors before and had relevant experience. He knew that this was a test for entering the door.

At least it's much safer than staying on the scene.

A Guang's camera was still working, and the two external screens left for his teammates were still working, one for the captain's room and the other for the basement.

The snowflake interface in the captain's room flashed occasionally, but a light suddenly appeared in the basement, which might be because the photographer went there himself.

Ah Guang appeared over there with a confused expression. Fan Xi was not far from him, with a lot of documents piled up around him. He just glanced at him, nodded, and continued to look for information.

Even if her teammates were fighting outside, it still couldn't interfere with her determination to find information.

"Captain! I'm in! Just now a system voice said that I passed the assessment last time and was allowed to come in directly!"

A Guang immediately realized that Dr. Wu could be the same as him!

Because in the mini-game, what they experienced actually counted in the real world, and these system sounds seemed to be the same.

When did this game system upgrade secretly without their knowledge?

Little Stone switched to a new item in his hand: "It's the system transformed by Dr. Ye!"

She explained the whole process in a few words, and moved closer to Li Yuan while fighting. She remembered that she couldn't chop down the tree directly, so she changed to a gentler tool.

But somehow, the universal props she summoned with the stars always disappeared very quickly, like a soap bubble that would burst with just a poke.

Li Yuan had already picked up the card that was spit out from the mushroom that popped out of the ground.

He tried it, and immediately a pair of table tennis rackets appeared in his hands.

After taking a look at the racket, he quickly tapped on the keyboard and saw that he had improvised some complicated effects, and they actually worked.

[National team-level table tennis rackets, some things seem to be endowed with some more special abilities once they are used by a champion, and can hit anywhere you want 100%.]

Li Yuan immediately called Aunt Huo and asked her to give him a few eyeballs.

There were already quite a few monsters with three heads and six arms on the field. Some had a leg removed by the doctor, some had their heads chopped off by Annie, or their arms chopped off. Li Yuan knew that these guys could still move even with only one head left, and were even scarier than zombies.

He wanted to let Aunt Huo's sheep eyes drill directly into the soul's body to see if he could hypnotize those things.

Aunt Huo really threw a few glances at him. Li Yuan swung up the racket and began to teach Xiao Shitou how to play table tennis from a distance.

The latter was very happy. Although she didn't get the championship racket, she also got a pair of ordinary rackets.

Li Yuan only taught a few movements of hitting the ball, and the championship racket, which could hit the target 100%, quickly hit the target.

Little Stone scratched his cheek: "Just smash into their bodies, right? That doesn't even require a disabled body. I can smash into a complete person, too."

And the small stone with an ordinary racket in his hand had such a strong learning ability that in a breath, he smashed a big hole in the chest of a person who had just come out of a mushroom and landed not long ago.

That's more powerful than someone with a championship racket.

The expression on Li Yuan's face also froze for a moment: What kind of murderous ping-pong ball is this?

Aunt Huo detected that the eyeballs had entered those people's bodies and immediately began hypnotizing them.

Everyone suddenly saw light shining on the monsters around them, and broken faces appeared on their bodies, some were crying, and some were laughing.

It was obvious that some of them had pale dead faces, while others were guys they had met before.

Annie looked inside for a long time and finally saw the photo of Fang Jinyu who was in the captain's room with Mo Wen and had shown her.

Her sister also had a crying face appearing on the body of a monster.

Little Stone's voice was somewhat doubtful: "These people don't seem to be dead, but they are dying soon. Should we catch them?"

She did it right after she said it. When these guys hypnotized by Aunt Huo were temporarily unable to move, she only had two or three seconds to take out a soul from the stomach of the one closest to her.

He was an old grandfather with a tired but kind face and slightly gray temples.

Little Stone saw through his soul as if he were a transparent person: "Chunlai Primary School, principal?"