When your real-life identity becomes your survival tool in an unlimited flow game, can your profession save your life?
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Chapter 71 Hell Community
After solving the hidden danger of the convenience store owner, Qiao Song drove his new car deeper into the Infinite Highway. The surroundings were still surrounded by bottomless fog, but after changing the car, he felt that the air in the car was a lot fresher.
"Let's drive a little further ahead. Gao Chengcheng said he would meet us at a certain bus stop."
Xiaoying has transformed their car into a motorhome model that is more comfortable for traveling. While Qiao Song was expressing his intention to renovate the car, Xiaoying was transforming the car.
Compared to Qiao Song's carefreeness, the two little guys who had just witnessed the power of the Hell's Gate in just 15 seconds were quite scared.
Tang Xiaoxiao was fine, knowing that this was a special prop card made by her sister Qiao Song. It was not the first time she had seen Qiao Song persecute ghosts. Apart from the accelerated heartbeat when racing, her attention was later drawn away by the deformed car. She quickly became familiar with Xiaoying and had already started asking her if she could prepare a small desk for her to write papers.
Compared to running to the portable residence, she would rather stay in the car and accompany Qiao Song who was driving.
At this time, Qiao Song was operating the new vehicle's central control screen. After the map was directly entered into the car, the navigation could be turned on. Xiaoying temporarily took over the driving of the vehicle. Qiao Song then found the time to get up from the driver's seat and ran to the back.
In the carriage, which has been widened more than one or two times, a small desk was reserved at Tang Xiaoxiao's request. It really looks like a cozy RV, with a window, a small sofa, and a small bookcase next to it.
Qiao Song looked at the test papers that Tang Xiaoxiao had already laid out and the empty bookcase, and he felt a little doubtful. In the future, when he passed the dungeon, while others were looking for clues and props, would he have to find a way to search for some test papers used by senior high school students?
Otherwise, the test papers would not be big enough for this little test-taker king in their family to write.
At this time, Tang Xiaoxiao was lying on the spacious sofa, coaxing the little Ni who was curled up in a ball.
Qiao Song sat opposite him, bent down and looked at the little boy who had almost shrunk under the sofa.
"What's wrong? Was our little Ni scared by the gate of hell?"
The little water ghost trembled for a moment, but his condition was much better than before. He whispered, "It was just too sudden, and I didn't react."
He was still being stubborn at the moment, and his hands were shaking a little when he climbed up from under the table.
Seeing that Qiao Song and Tang Xiaoxiao were both looking at him, the little water ghost finally spoke frankly: "You are human, so your feelings may not be as obvious as mine. When the door appeared before..."
Xiao Ni shuddered, as if he recalled the feeling of every pore in his body screaming.
"I felt at the time that if I hadn't been in this car, next to Sister Qiao Song, I would have been torn to pieces the moment I touched that door."
Physical fragments.
He could even hear the wailing of ghosts and the sound of their souls being torn apart leaking out from the crack in the door.
Qiao Song recalled her previous pleasant experience of chasing ghosts. It was indeed true. Those ghosts seemed to be particularly afraid of this prop card. It was worth the information Yin Yin told her. This time, even the annoying convenience store owner was sent to hell.
"It's okay. I kept the card just to clean up the mess. That convenience store owner seemed to have targeted me for some unknown reason. I might as well send him to hell to have a drink."
Xiao Ni looked down at the cup of hot tea that Tang Xiaoxiao had just handed him, and silently put the cup down again.
Seeing him like this, Qiao Song laughed so hard that he leaned on his hands across the table.
"Okay, okay, I was wrong. I shouldn't have scared you like this. Our Xiao Ni is still a child."
As a result, the little water ghost immediately got so angry that his ears turned red: "I'm not a child, I was just frightened too suddenly, I will definitely not do it again in the future."
Qiao Song and Tang Xiaoxiao immediately cooperated and said okay, okay, Xiao Ni is a man.
The shadow silkworm bound to the hearse had a very good sense of speed and direction. About two hours later, the group of them sneaked around and successfully met at a bus stop far enough away from the hearse entertainment.
Gao Chengcheng's eye-catching ice cream truck was parked at the entrance of the station. When he saw a black RV rushing out of the fog, he immediately became alert.
Her brother wrinkled his nose and sighed, "Qiao Song got a pretty good car this time."
Gao Chengcheng carefully looked at the new black car that was driving towards the station with its hazard lights on. It didn't look like the cool dinosaur car that Sister Qiao Song had driven before.
Gao Bin called him stupid without mercy.
The Doberman walked towards the black car first. When Gao Chengcheng saw Qiao Song and the others get off the car, she immediately jumped over to say hello. Seeing her brother circling the car, she tilted her head and asked, "Gao Bin, what are you sniffing about?"
The Doberman circled the car twice and knew with just one sniff that the black car was much more powerful than the previous dinosaur car.
Qiao Song didn't expect that Brother Gou was so knowledgeable.
"Let's go talk in the car. This car has been modified now. There is a small living room inside. You can rest without entering the prop card."
A prop card seller like Gao Chengcheng must have a portable one-bedroom card on her all year round, but when she walked to Qiao Song's car and saw the RV-like layout, she couldn't help but exclaim.
"Oh my god, this is so comfortable! There's a sofa, a coffee table, a water bar, and even a desk!?"
Gao Chengcheng didn't expect that she would see such a warmly decorated RV in Infinite Survival. It was so comfortable that she almost thought she had returned to the real world.
Only the fog outside the window reminded her that this was still that weird and strange game world.
But she was a little confused. Where did the dinosaur car that Sister Qiao Song had built before go?
"It's merged. I got a special hearse reward at the terminal. Now Xiao Hei can modify and transform himself. If our car breaks down in the future, we just need to swallow some parts and it will automatically repair itself."
This car can be transformed back into a dinosaur car at any time, and the functions attached to the dinosaur car can also be used.
Gao Chengcheng was envious, but suddenly realized: "Wait a minute, Sister Qiao Song, your reward at the final destination is a car?"
Although it was not nice to ask for the reward directly, Gao Chengcheng imagined that the thing hidden at the terminal for hundreds of years should not be just a hearse.
Qiao Song planned to tell everyone about the terminal information after everyone got on the bus.
Huangmao and Fatty guessed that Qiao Song had made a big gain this time, so they didn’t dare to follow him. After thinking for a long time, they sent a text message:
"The three of us are people who have no support in real life. Unlike other players who are trying desperately to return to the real world, we just live on this infinite highway, relying on the trips between dungeons to do some prop business. If you meet us again in the future, remember to take care of your business! Our sister Qiao will give you a 50% discount!"
"Don't listen to the fat guy. We can keep in touch whenever we have nothing to do. Don't worry, we have learned our lesson and will no longer do those sneaky things. It's also good to do the prop business honestly. I wish you can fulfill your wish of returning home soon!"
“I wish you a safe journey and all difficulties will be overcome.”
The three lines in front and behind belong to Fatty, Yellow Hair, and Wang Xiang respectively.
Of course, they also promised to keep the fact that Qiao Song went to the terminal a secret, but the matter probably wouldn't be kept secret for too long. After all, the scapegoat of the Black Iron Guild was no fool, and the people from the big guilds just needed some time to react.
Qiao Song immediately gave a general account of what happened to him at the terminal, only omitting some parts about Yin Yin and the silkworms.
"The final reward of Hearse Entertainment is actually the copy rights..."
Gao Chengcheng grabbed a bag of potato chips and sat on the sofa, eating while thinking: "But what's the point of rewarding players? Most players want to go home, so they probably won't agree to this request."
Tang Xiaoxiao sat next to Gao Chengcheng, chewing on instant noodles like a little raccoon: "Not necessarily. I feel that there are still quite a lot of players who don't want to return to the real world."
For example, the fat guy and others who sent text messages to Qiao Song.
Gao Bin seemed to understand Qiao Song's intention of calling them into the car.
"Are you trying to ask us if we have ever encountered similar dungeon privilege rewards in previous dungeons?"
Qiao Song nodded: "You two should have been in the game for much longer than us, and you have been to enough dungeons. Besides, Chengcheng is an item merchant, so you should have better intelligence than us in this regard."
Gao Bin turned his head to glance at his heartless sister. Gao Chengcheng was still talking to Tang Xiaoxiao, "This jelly is delicious, and that biscuit is not bad either."
It's not easy to clear the level. Gou Ge sighed, "Since we entered the game, we have passed a total of fifteen dungeons. Apart from the early novice convenience store dungeon and the ordinary white ghost dungeon, we passed ten red dungeons later. For dungeons with more than two red dungeons, I have never heard of any dungeon that can give you a reward like management rights after clearing it."
"But..." Gao Bin glanced at his sister, who seemed to realize what he was about to say and stopped eating potato chips.
But Gao Bin knew that his sense of smell would never deceive him. Although the girl in front of him could be considered a newcomer to the game, the smell of her soul was different from that of most players.
Qiao Song is trustworthy.
He continued, "In the special dungeons we visited, there are indeed some rewards that, if accepted, will change the player's life form. Your intuition at the terminal was correct."
"Once we accept management rights, humans may turn into ghosts. We have had similar experiences in other dungeons. Once we accept enough gifts, the player's identity will undergo some uncontrollable changes. I became what I am now because I received a special clearance reward in the dungeon at that time."
Qiao Song frowned: "Did you become like this because of the reward for clearing the level?"
What kind of reward would turn a living human into a dog? And looking at Gao Bin, it seems that he can't completely change back.
Gao Bin himself is quite open-minded.
"If it weren't for that reward, I might have died in the dungeon, although the price I paid later was becoming what you see now. Only when I use powerful skills will my body temporarily return to human form. The rest of the time I have to maintain the state of a Doberman."
Gao Bin did not spend too much time on himself, but instead focused on introducing the copy they had visited.
"The name of that dungeon is Zootopia. It is similar to Hearse Entertainment, and is also a large interactive dungeon. There are several scattered small dungeons in it that are very famous, such as Scream Restaurant, Zootopia, and Ghost Story Doll House. The passes you see in convenience stores are circulated in Zootopia. It is the lair of alien ghosts. To them, human players are just living canned food."
"The level of the Zootopia dungeon is far above Red Robe. I don't recommend you go there now."
After coming out of the hearse copy this time, Qiao Song had vaguely guessed that the way to leave the copy was indeed to find a door, but this door should be special enough and would not appear in ordinary copies.
For example, reward points will be linked to special copies of permissions.
And Qiao Song was a little concerned about Can’s words “She found her door”.
Perhaps each player has a different door to enter when returning home?
But it might be too early to think about this now. The most urgent thing is that they need a larger map. If Gao Chengcheng and the others hadn't taken the initiative to bring it up, Qiao Song wouldn't even know the name Zootopia because their map was too small.
The hearse and map of Infinite Highway are both very important things. The car ensures your safety, and the map determines how far you can go.
Generally speaking, if the teams trust each other enough, then it is enough for one car to get the special map, but Qiao Song can't force Gao Chengcheng's ice cream truck to be bound to himself.
It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others.
The map that Qiao Song got for free from those bus drivers before had many copy points on it, but the white dots were too easy to pass. He might not get many soul coins and props, nor did he get much useful information. It was just a waste of time to go in and punch in.
If you want to go home, you naturally have to find a more suitable copy.
"Mmmmm, I know about the map!"
Gao Chengcheng suddenly raised her hand. She quickly wiped off the chocolate she had eaten with a tissue and said confidently, "There is a copy nearby. It seems that half of the NPCs have been cleared out recently. The interior is very empty. Although it is a red-clothed level copy, it is not particularly difficult."
"Because the properties of this copy are very special, the map they produced can almost cover most of the Infinite Highway!"
Gao Bin's ears twitched, and he knew where his sister was talking about: "Are you talking about the Hell Community?"
Qiao Song originally found it strange, wondering what kind of copy could produce such a powerful map. But when he heard it was the Hell Community, he suddenly seemed to understand a little.
Just a prop card related to the hell community can open a door from such a long distance and drag other ghosts into hell. It is not surprising that they have a map that can radiate the entire infinite highway.
This is the place, it might be a bit lively.
Gao Chengcheng was halfway through her speech when she noticed that Qiao Song, Tang Xiaoxiao and the water ghost Xiaoni in their team were all looking at her with a very subtle look.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Don't be fooled by the scary name of this dungeon. It's actually quite suitable for you! This dungeon is not that dangerous for good people. On the contrary, for some evil spirits or people who have done many evil things, the risk factor will increase sharply after entering."
Qiao Song raised his eyebrows: "You know so much about the Hell Community?"
Gao Bin just talked about some dungeons that she and her brother had completed, and there was no Hell Community among them.
Gao Chengcheng: "Hey, isn't it because I went here to buy supplies for making prop cards? They can produce a lot of raw materials for ghosts here."
To make a prop card, players need a blank card, a ghost raw material and a prop card main material.
Blank cards are just like pots and pans, they are reusable. The main material of prop cards can be replaced by the player's own skill derivatives, and the more rare ones are ghost materials.
After all, this is an infinite flow world full of ghosts, and killing ghosts and obtaining raw materials is not such a simple matter, but the Hell Community copy is different.
It can even be said that some evil ghosts who have committed many evil deeds will have a worse life in there than human players.
Gao Chengcheng talked incessantly for a long time, but seeing that the two people and the ghost opposite him still had subtle expressions, he couldn't help but poke his snack partner.
"Don't you want to go?"
"Sister Chengcheng, it's not a question of whether you want to or not..." Tang Xiaoxiao glanced at Qiao Song, then whispered to him about how they had used the Hell's Gate to trap a large number of ghosts.
Gao Chengcheng's expression was blank for a moment, and then she gave him a thumbs up: "Sister Qiao, you are worthy of being me. You really don't hold grudges overnight."
When your enemies come to ambush you, you turn around and send them on a sightseeing tour of hell!
"Don't worry, the process for ghosts to enter the Hell Community is different from that for humans. If you go in, you should first go to the player gathering area, where there are restaurants, supermarkets, and maybe even apartments."
Gao Chengcheng searched his body for a long time and finally took out a card: "Here, for example, this is the business card given to me by the boss I often do business with."
[Boss Meow of Hell Community Oil Pan Restaurant]
Seeing this, Qiao Song also remembered that he had received a business card from the Hell Community, which was very similar in style to the one in Gao Chengcheng's hand.
It was something that the fat security guard gave to Qiao Song and the others after they finished Ghost Story Middle School.
[Hell Community Tongue Pulling Apartment Security Team]
From this perspective, the Hell Community is indeed quite suitable for them, and they even have some acquaintances there.
Moreover, given the status of the convenience store owner, he would not be able to stay in the hell copy for long. The other party probably could not have imagined that Qiao Songgang threw him into hell and he went in right after.
It just so happens that it is dark under the lamp.
Besides, the Hell Community sounds like it has a lot of ghosts, which is a good opportunity for her to feed her new item.
【Piggy Bank that likes to stay up late】
[If you feed the piglet ghosts, it will have the same effect as the soul vending machine. Warm reminder, this pig loves to stay up late, so it will be hungrier at night. If you give it enough rewards, it can also help you keep watch, eat ghosts by itself, and save money by itself~]
Look, what a sensible pig is! It can not only help you keep watch at night, but also help you eat ghosts and help you make and save money!
The only flaw is that this guy will remain asleep before eating, so if Qiao Song wants to use it, he must feed it to a ghost first.
It doesn’t matter, there are still two useless ghosts hidden in her ghost puppet thread.
Speaking of this, Qiao Song looked at the long list of his own balances in the system background again.
Tens, hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands...
Gao Chengcheng on the opposite side only saw Qiao Song smiling as if he had won five million.
No, it might really be five million!
She shook her orange curly hair and there were almost stars in her eyes.
"Sister Qiao Song, did you get the reward at the end of the prize pool?!"
In the second half, not only were the audience outside unable to watch the live broadcast and didn't know the situation inside the dungeon, but those who had passed the dungeon were also a little confused. Not many knew that Qiao Song had entered the terminal, and even fewer knew about her reward.
Gao Chengcheng breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that the rewards for the top 10 bets were returned.
At least for those big guilds that are good at analyzing data, it is difficult to immediately infer who is going to the terminal from the amount of money bet by gamblers.
Although this may bankrupt Hearse Entertainment's credit, that copy has been temporarily closed now, as if they don't care at all.
Of course Yin Yin didn't care. She even wanted to give the entire mountain of gold in the prize pool to Qiao Song.
But the more Qiao Song took away, the more causal relationships he became involved with Hearse Entertainment. The Volkswagen Gambling Pool was closed, and Qiao Song finally got a not-small share of the winnings in a subtle way.
Remember the betting window with the scales?
The value judged by the scale of value is very special. For Yinyin, she has no shortage of props, so the points that can be exchanged for prop cards are not many.
In order to experiment with the rules of the scale, Qiao Song used a diary from the Ghost Story Middle School and exchanged it for extra points on the value scale. Later, when she played the Monopoly game, she did not use the diary, so she did not take out the points.
Yinyin likes that diary.
She used the points in the diary to pry open a corner of the gold mountain and gave that portion of gold coins to Qiao Song.
Although it is only a part of the gold mountain, the face value of the gold coins starts at 1,000, which is also a considerable fortune.
Qiao Song was in a good mood as he looked at his account balance.
Is this what it feels like to become rich overnight? It sure feels good!
In comparison, the rewards given by the system after completing a copy are child's play.
After deciding that the next copy would be in Hell Community, a few people decided to take a rest outside first and slowly drove the RV to the Hell Community copy.
Gao Chengcheng was also ready to go in this time. If her brother wasn't in a disabled state and couldn't drive, she would have wanted to live directly in Qiao Song's car.
Because it is so comfortable. The one-bedroom prop card can certainly provide players with an independent, safe and private space, but it is different to chat and play cards with friends in the car while enjoying the feeling of driverless driving!
After several days of rushing, they finally arrived at an entrance to the Hell Community.
Just as Gao Chengcheng said, the way human players enter is obviously different from that of ghosts, and it can even be said that it is completely beyond Qiao Song's expectations.
After driving the car to the human player-only parking lot in the Hell Community, they entered a peculiar security check queue.
At the end of each team, there is an NPC handing out bracelets, as if he is doing some kind of test.
"Dear players, after entering the dungeon, please check your morality and sin values first. These two items determine your activity range in the community. Please line up in an orderly manner and receive the bracelet..."
This copy causes greater damage to ghosts and monsters. Xiao Ni was comforted by Qiao Song and stayed in the car with Xiaoying. This time, only Tang Xiaoxiao and Qiao Song entered the copy.
Tang Xiaoxiao followed behind her sister Qiao Song. She was so nervous that she dared not breathe because she was going to hell. But after seeing such a humane testing arrangement, she thought she was in a community hospital...
Gao Chengcheng immediately explained with great excitement: "I heard from the raw material supplier that before entering the Hell Community, there seems to be a trial process, and good people should have a better life than bad people. Don't worry, everyone, your character is guaranteed by my brother's dog nose. I suggest you come, and I won't cheat you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Doberman next to him stepped on the upper of his shoe with dissatisfaction: "Do you think I am a human detector? You have no respect for me."
Gao Chengcheng immediately pouted her lips and stretched her face, and started quarreling with her brother in a low voice again.
After being disturbed by this, Tang Xiaoxiao's nervousness was relieved a lot.
"Come here, little girl, put on the bracelet." A female NPC wearing linen clothes came over and put a bracelet on her.
There are two lines on the bracelet, one white and one red. The two numbers written on the lines immediately fluctuated after they came into contact with Tang Xiaoxiao, beating like a heart, and finally stopped.
[Moral value: 90]
[Sin value: 5]
Because of the high moral value, the entire bracelet turned white. Tang Xiaoxiao's slight sin value was like a thin, almost unnoticeable blood thread through the white bracelet.
Is this the process of judgment before going to hell? How amazing.
At this moment, Tang Xiaoxiao suddenly heard the NPC behind him make a sound similar to sucking in cold air.
She looked back and immediately saw the red, almost black, band on her sister Qiao Song's wrist.
[Moral value: 99.9]
[Sin value: 99.9]
Qiao Song looked at the NPC who put the bracelet on him, then looked at the red and black wristband on his own wrist, and tried to give a polite smile.
“Is there something wrong with this value?”
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Sister Qiao's quotes:
Talk about reason first, and if that doesn’t make sense, talk about physics.
Although my sin value is high, it does not prevent me from being a good person.