Chapter 258: Prequel to Infinite Highway

What Xiao Shitou said made others think that she knew the person she had caught.

Having regained his ability to film, A Guang also regained his confidence. He captured every situation on the field from all angles and transmitted it in real time.

Li Yuan reacted quickly, knowing that Xiao Shitou might have seen the other person's soul directly.

And when he heard the key word "Chunlai Primary School", Li Yuan's expression slightly changed: "Throw him over here."

Li Yuan cleared a large area to store mushrooms. Unlike Qi Fan's glowing and pus-filled animal mushrooms, the fungal mat created by Li Yuan still looked like a delivery truck.

Xiao Shitou directly threw the old man's soul onto the delivery truck that was transformed from mushrooms.

The old man's originally gray soul actually began to recover his body temperature little by little.

Maybe it was fun, so Little Stone quickly set his sights on the second one: "I know, this is called weakening the enemy, which is equivalent to strengthening yourself!"

Aunt Huo's sheep eyes were like lanterns, directly illuminating the souls in the bodies of those out-of-control animal players.

Xiao Shitou immediately cooperated with the people of Wisdom Eye and went up and turned around to grab.

The skillful movements not only made people feel pain in their stomachs, but also in their throats.

“Just caught it so juicy?”

Ah Guang complained through the screen: "Lady, you are the real master of soul-stealing. Be careful behind you, that disgusting thing Qi Fan is coming again!"

Qi Fan, who turned into a human tree, probably didn't expect that the food he ate could be peeled out by others.

He roared, and strange patterns appeared on his body. A large number of tree roots pierced directly into the floor like straws, and white-faced ghosts like coconuts could be seen being sucked ashore by him.

Little Stone looked surprised and asked, "What do you want so many dead souls for? You can't digest them?"

Soon, Xiao Shitou knew the reason.

Most of those gray souls were chewed up directly, leaving only a few less bright lumps of the dead bodies, which soon merged together and turned into several cards floating in the air.

Xiao Shitou could even see that many numbers flashed in Qi Fan's eyes, which were similar to those on Li Yuan's computer and those on Dr. Ye's body before.

[Data was successfully generated. Congratulations on successfully creating a prop card! ]

If it weren’t for the previous example of Xiao Shitou, Qi Fan’s move would have been truly surprising.

But Shi Tou had never expected to use the energy from a dead person's body to make prop cards.

She was a little angry, as if she instinctively knew the consequences of doing this: "The memory talents of these souls have all been taken away. When they are reincarnated in the future, they will become fools who know nothing. You are going too far."

Qi Fan's eyes were still flashing blue: "The skill item redistribution experiment was successful, and the effect test began..."

Xiao Shitou originally wanted to rush forward, but the mecha figure helped her block the light of the prop card.

[People who often do housework during the Return of the South will definitely hate this damp feeling! The Return of the South card is activated, and all living things within the irradiation range will enter a bored and irritable mode, and dead things will quickly become moldy and smelly. ]

Little Stone watched as large patches of mold grew on the mecha man's body and his limbs became less flexible.

What a vicious ability, the stone would rather grow moss than mold!

Xiao Shitou was the only living person in this area. She quickly stole a few souls and ran away.

Soon, another mecha figure of Annie flew out and led the way for her: "Here, here, I have a list. It's best to get these people out in advance. Once they are controlled and use their skills, it will be even more difficult!"

Fang Jinyu's sister is said to be a novelist as well, and Fang Jinyu said that the rules her sister generates are much stronger than hers. Basically, as long as she writes down the plot, it will definitely happen.

Annie originally thought, what a miraculous power this must be, whatever you write will happen, but Fang Jinyu said that all her sister wrote were novels about domineering CEOs.

So after using up all the skills, the battlefield directly turns into a role-playing game, right?

Xiao Shitou didn't know what the domineering president novel was, but she knew that the soul Annie was talking about was already using its skills.

"She's glowing. Let me see what she's doing with her skills."

With the help of her companions, Xiao Shitou quickly found a rabbit-headed man with a glowing belly. Most of the creatures in this space were in a state of food poisoning and were dizzy. She kicked the man and emptied his stomach, then grabbed out a girl who was curled up writing a manuscript.

Little Stone, who shared Li Yuan's common sense about life, was not illiterate and read out what she saw:

"During the celebration on the cruise ship in City A, Young Master Qi was frantically looking for the girl who had brought him sweet memories. He wanted to use the power of his family to turn all the people on the ship into his own community of interests, redistribute their work skills, and let them play a greater role.

He wants to find the girl on behalf of his family, marry her, and share all the property in the marriage. Sooner or later, they will create a new empire. To this end, he will set off a firework display in 20 minutes. After the fireworks, everything will end, or begin. This firework display will bring him more wealth and is also a celebration of the beginning of their new world..."

Little Stone didn't understand: "Who is Mr. Qi? Qi Fan?"

The camera on Annie's robot has broadcast all the content.

Annie had already started to curse: "A toad wants to eat swan meat, and this dog wants to share power with you. He obviously wants to eat you, and he is not afraid of hurting his teeth. It would be better if we all twisted his head off together!"

Ah Guang also checked other surveillance footage on the ship: "Damn, the fireworks thing might be real. I was wondering why mushrooms started growing on the railings!"

No wonder Qi Fan looked so terrible, he could still mobilize so much power. It turned out that all the team members' abilities were serving him alone.

They can even salvage souls from a river full of dead bodies and squeeze out value. What the hell have those players in the mall come up with?

Annie cursed several times and concentrated all her strength: "I'll watch over the captain's delivery truck. Little Stone, go and continue to eat. Don't let these ghosts grow together."

Annie just saw that on Fang Jinyu's sister's arm, there was a pale face stuck to her skin, as if it was about to merge together. It looked particularly disgusting.

Little Stone knocked his palm with his fist calmly: "I understand, Qi Fan is so difficult to deal with because he has so many family members, right? Let's not beat that psychopath first, dissect out all the living people in their team before, then he won't be able to beat us!"

In fact, she doesn't care about anything, and it won't have any impact on her if she jumps off the boat now.

Those ghost faces in the water were annoying, but she really hated the act of disturbing the dead on such a large scale.

Little Stone immediately followed the robots floating around him and began to search for the target. A Guang provided vision, and Li Yuan continued to use wish cards to conjure up champion rackets or other weapons that Little Stone had never seen before, and shot the sheep's eyes into the monster's stomach. Aunt Huo was responsible for hypnosis, lighting a lamp to let others see the appearance of those souls.

Little Stone looked back to take it out, and Annie protected her while throwing the soul into the mushroom cart and transporting it back for Dr. Wu to assemble.

As one thing grows, another declines. The big tree with Qi Fan as the center begins to be unable to cope and gradually withers.

Correspondingly, after several people headed by the domineering novelist were stripped away, the howling collective consciousness gradually calmed down. Qi Fan, who was about to completely lose his mind, actually recovered bit by bit.

Qi Fan seemed to have had a nightmare from which he could not wake up. He was confused for a few seconds after opening his eyes.

Looking at his body, he no longer looked like a human being below the head. Qi Fan's expression was ferocious at one moment and stupid at another. The aftereffects of several souls sharing one body were still there, but he actually laughed strangely:

"Those old guys actually planned it out long ago."

He probably knew that during the time when he lost his memory, he must have been remotely controlled by something. Qi Fan tried to raise his hand to touch his cervical vertebrae, but he could only touch some wet tree trunks.

No wonder those guys in the business world were willing to give him the first opportunity to go out to sea. No wonder they made so many promises but were not afraid that he would turn against them and run away.

By the way, he seemed to have eaten a bug before leaving for the game.

A very small insect that looks like a poisonous insect, but has various mechanical devices on its body.

He originally thought that he had expended a lot of energy and reached the final checkpoint of the mall with the support of a group of secretive senior executives, and was about to board the ship bound for the new world.

In fact, even the people in the mall didn’t know how long this ship could last. They just asked Qi Fan to come out for a while as an experiment.

Now that the experiment has been successful, it has been proven that the souls of the dead in the water can also be utilized and can even be turned into another tool.

But in this underworld empire, there is always only one dominant power.

It is a stone from which this river was born.

Qi Fan spat out a few teeth and felt a little pain in his stomach, as if there were countless mouths in his body, biting him from the inside.

Qi Fan knew that the little stone hair that he had obtained with great difficulty had been completely digested. Without the scent of the stone, these things in the water would only regard him as a daring snack.

Stones, he needed stones.

Little Stone, who was busy searching the boat for souls, soon noticed that someone was talking about her.

The little stone had no name before, but if believers or people who had seen her stone statue by the water kept talking about it, she could feel it.

They used to call her either the River Goddess or the Lord of the Styx.

Qi Fan held a key in his hand, a key made of stone.

"Master of the Styx, we will definitely meet again in the future."

The key was inserted directly into the floor, and the puzzle-like ship created by the mall suddenly began to flicker and seemed to be disintegrating.

Little Stone was immediately unhappy: "You come as you please and leave as you please?"

She saw several glowing balls in Qi Fan's body and discovered that there were at least two or three souls in this guy's body.

Just reach out and grab it, eh? Didn't catch it?

[In front of the absolute master thief, any action of reaching out to take things will be seen clearly by him and he will easily avoid it.]

Qi Fan has used so many other people's abilities and finally he can use his own.

He tried his best to peel himself off the tree, scraping off a layer of skin from his body and spitting out a lot of blood clots with internal organs.

He also left a little gift for the others on the boat: a water jet pipe without a control valve.

A large number of souls with white faces were sprayed directly onto the deck. These ghost things attacked indiscriminately and bit all living things they saw.

"Ahem, the key is with me. The captain's room is just a decoration. If you want to go back, you have to make a deal with me. Otherwise, I can turn this ship into a piece of wood at any time. Except for the place where I stand, everything will collapse."

Just as he said, all the wooden boards on the ship cracked and large gaps appeared.

It was like an invisible knife had divided this place into countless pieces, and the ships were about to disintegrate at any time.

Li Yuan had already summoned the fungal blanket in advance, barely closing the floor they were standing on. He looked at the red warning icons lighting up one by one on the screen and realized that Qi Fan was threatening others.

As long as someone who is afraid of falling into the water still has a little bit of selfishness, he or she may agree to do something to the stone in order to survive.

If you don't have a knife, create one for yourself.

But Qi Fan threatened the wrong person.

Li Yuan and the people in his team had no intention of negotiating with Qi Fan at all. If Annie hadn't been stopped, she would have wanted to fly over and give him two big slaps.

Li Yuan: "Mo Wen, are you feeling better over there?"

After communications were restored, in every corner of the ship, wherever their teammates were, everyone was working towards the same goal.

Mo Wen, who had not appeared here, finally said in a tired voice: "It's done. Now let's start replanning the ship's route. It should be successful."

Fang Jinyu's voice also appeared over there at the same time: "I have done everything I should do. How is my sister?"

Unlike the devastated scene in the basement corridor, the captain's room can be said to be impregnable. Mo Wen had a gray object in his hand, which looked very similar to the key in Qi Fan's hand.

[Online games always have a special copy-and-paste item that can copy other people's items. As a professional studio player who has been in the game for more than ten years, you certainly have such a thing.]

Of course Qi Fan could see clearly the scenes appearing in the overwhelming cameras.

His pupils dilated slightly as he finally realized something.

It's not the obvious problem that Fang Jinyu betrayed him, but Fang Jinyu's profession is not at all what he originally thought it was, a novelist.

After losing her sheep ability, Fang Jinyu was no longer a big threat because her sister's abilities were much better than hers, and Qi Fan didn't care about her life or death at all.

The people with the Eye of Wisdom didn't kill her and believed what she said.

This guy Fang Jinyu has never told the truth since they met, from the time they formed a team in the shopping mall, from the highest level, down level by level, until they reached the first level, until they boarded the boat and prepared to go home.

"As long as the game can be won, it doesn't matter when you start lying."

Fang Jinyu held a glowing notebook in her hand.

[Game strategy winning rule: find the most important NPC and the most important team in this game. 】

[Even if you have to go through untold hardships, as long as you join the right team, even if you have made countless mistakes before, as long as you do one right thing at the critical moment, you will succeed. ]

"Hahaha, you call betraying us the right thing to do?"

Qi Fan could hardly stop laughing. The skin on his face fell off piece by piece, and his bones could no longer hold the flesh and blood that had been repeatedly eaten.

White ghost faces slowly emerged under his skin, looking like insects about to break out of their shells.

"As long as you go back, as long as you go back, those guys in the mall will not let you go. How long do you think that stone can stay on the shore? She has no soul. She is the god of death in the river. Sooner or later, she will return to the water. Do you think she can save you?"

Qi Fan slapped the key in his hand and cut it into the floor like a nail. In an instant, the entire hull shook violently.

Mo Wen had already started shouting, "No, this is just a replica. It can't cover a large area. Come over here quickly!"

Annie was still dealing with the monsters that were making the final attack: "What about Fan Xi and A Guang? They are still in the basement!"

Li Yuan: "Leave the basement to me, you guys go up first."

The ship was about to disintegrate, with flames rising from the railings.

Those were the fireworks that Qi Fan had prepared to use against them. Annie and Xiao Shitou had only seen the fireworks flying in a fragment of the novel, but they had no idea what was inside.

There was a white light inside.

[Data transmission in progress. The last experiment begins to test the correlation between white light and returning home]

While others were frantically weakening their abilities, Qi Fan simply used a branch to roll back a soul that he had dealt with before. That was the ability he must obtain now.

He used the branches to pinch a man who was already unconscious, pierced his skin, sucked his blood, and finally saw a large amount of black wires pouring out.

[Signal strengthening transmission...]

A blue light came directly from some unknown distant location. It was the guy in the mall.

At that moment, Li Yuan even felt that there might be countless pairs of eyes, gathered into a huge system, monitoring this place from afar, just like A Guang.

But his authority is definitely higher than that of A Guang and him combined.

It could be a broadcast on the ship, or some higher-level system signal source.

Qi Fan rolled up a large number of ship parts and floors like a tornado and bit off half of the ship in one bite. There were many jellyfish-like tentacles behind his spine, floating in the sky. He was ready to grab a few souls scattered on the floor and leave, but they were all chopped off by a jumping guy with a knife.

Little Stone bared his teeth and looked at the sky: "You are trying to steal my soul right in front of me. Do you think I'm dead?"

However, she didn't get the person in Qi Fan's arms. He smelled a bit stinky, so she was not interested.

Most of the smelly souls were taken away by Qi Fan, and Shi Tou took all the little people he had snatched back and stuffed them all to Dr. Wu.

The medic had finally gotten back to his old job, and was using the broken limbs and wreckage on the ship to stuff the souls that had been dug out into random places.

While helping out, Little Stone asked Li Yuan, "The ship is about to fall apart. The doctor told me that the defense level of the basement is higher than that of the captain's room. Are you really not going to the basement?"

Li Yuan shook his head: "There is no time left. Put the boat together first. I will not let it collapse."

The same sound also appeared in the captain's room.

Mo Wen rolled up his sleeves and looked at the girl next to him.

Fang Jinyu has a strategy guide with a lot of patterns drawn on it.

"Mo Wen and I have already drawn up the blueprints. Everyone should follow them and make sure the boat is ready before all the fireworks go off!"

Annie was so busy tonight that her waist was about to break. She was multitasking, operating different robots to fly around, either piecing together the floor or the windows and walls.

"The fuse has already been lit and cannot be extinguished. Why didn't Qi Fan, that bastard, take this thing with him before he left?"

It was Little Stone who answered her: "He shouldn't dare to take this."

Shitou touched the fire with his hand, and his fingertips felt slightly numb: "You humans are amazing. I never thought that the light ring in the daytime can be put in a box."

Annie was shocked by what she said: "What do you mean? This firework is filled with white light? The kind of white light that will turn a person into a pile of parts if you shine it in the daytime!?"

How could Qi Fan come up with something like this!!!

“This should have been there when the hull was built.”

Li Yuan's voice sounded calmly: "I studied most of the materials on the boat when I was assembling it. The batch on the railing has the most complicated craftsmanship. Now it seems that the people in the mall should have prepared it a long time ago."

All the experiments they wanted to do were put into this trip, and finding the way home was the least important thing.

Annie was getting mad with anxiety: "Why don't you hide indoors quickly? You have to fight for the boat and hide at the same time. Ahhh, I'm so annoyed. Guang, you bastard, you can't help me indoors!"

Ah Guang in the basement was also anxious: "I can't get out even if I want to."

Fan Xi was probably the only passenger on this ship who remained calm from beginning to end.

"The location of the basement is different from other places. It shouldn't be damaged. Li Yuan will connect this area directly to the captain's room. If you are really bored, come and help me find information."

Ah Guang scratched his head anxiously: "Why are we still looking for information at this time? What if we can't put the ship back together?"

Fan Xi still said the same thing: "No, someone has already calculated it. What we are experiencing now is just the beginning of everything. Relax, we are about to set off."

Not long after Fan Xi finished saying that, the entire ship shook again, and then the sounds of various mechas fitting together were heard, and the ship was assembled.

The people on the deck rushed into the room almost at the last second when sparks burst out from the railing.

At this time, it had shrunk by more than half. Except for the paved bottom, the rest of the area was in tatters, like a garbage dump. Suddenly, bursts of tiny sparks lit up on the ship.

Several clusters of fireworks on the railings rushed into the sky and then exploded.

There was a brief flash of white light with a slight buzzing sound. Everyone trembled and hid in the hold. There was only one stone on the deck, staring blankly at the sky.

It was Xiao Shitou’s first time to watch fireworks.

“It actually works.”

She saw a crack in the sky, and a small part of the scene she had seen before, which appeared in human memory, appeared in the sky.

The way home is in heaven.