Chapter 104 Safe House

A soft yellowish light enveloped the crushed and deformed ankle. Xu Zhiyan lay on the bed in the bedroom, soothed by the heat emitted by the treatment equipment.

Perhaps because he was too comfortable, he couldn't help yawning and felt sleepy.

It was too chaotic just now, so he took a casual look before being sent to the room. The safe house was still the same, except that the corner of the living room was full of large cardboard boxes. It seemed that a lot of express deliveries were bought again.

Seeing Qu Ji holding the healing tool and still carefully examining the wound, Xu Zhiyan waved his hand to stop him.

"Almost healed. I applied medicine to the wound on my hand. It doesn't hurt anymore. I can save some usage times when I leave the dungeon and remove the shell."

Qu Ji is holding an S-level healing item now!

He thought that every second this thing was turned on was a waste, no matter how much it would sell for.

But seeing Qu Ji staring at his injured ankle with a serious expression, Xu Zhiyan felt that it was unnecessary, but he didn't dare to speak.

Looking down at his ankle which had recovered completely, Qu Ji nodded and put away the healing items, but he looked a little unhappy.

"Why did the ghost god slice his slices like this..."

It grumbled and put away the instrument, finally letting Xu Zhiyan go.

Seeing Qu Ji take the healing items away and go out, Xu Zhiyan finally breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly called up Qu Ji's panel.

[Name: Multi-limbed Mutated Monster (Qu Ji)]

[Level: A (Open ductility, upgradeable)]

【Threat: S】

[Note: The safe house reserves creatures, and the owner of the safe house needs to fill in the notes. ]

"S? Has it gotten stronger again?"

Xu Zhiyan clearly remembered that Qu Ji’s threat level before was clearly A.

Unexpectedly, when he went to the copy, Qu Ji's threat level increased again and reached S level. It seemed that the limbs behind him had become stronger. No wonder the feeling of oppression was much stronger than before.

When there was no one in the room, the safe house system appeared reluctantly.

[Hmm! Host! I miss you so much!]

Because it had not been able to help in any way before, and this time it finally got to the safe house in advance, it failed to do everything well and even caused the host to get injured. It felt a little guilty and dared not show up.

Hearing the safe house system's aggrieved look, Xu Zhiyan was stunned at first, then he narrowed his eyes, touched his chin and started teasing.

"From now on, you should change your name to Little Waste Snack System."

[No! ! ]

The safe house system screamed offline.

"Pfft, just kidding."

Xu Zhiyan laughed out loud.

But the safe house system seemed to be hit, and no matter how much he shouted, no sound came out.

"squeak--"

The door opened a crack.

Xu Zhiyan looked towards the door and found that the monsters in the safe house were curious and came to visit him.

Thinking that his foot was fine, he stopped lying in bed, got out of bed, calmed the monsters, and came to the hall.

This time, Xu Zhiyan had plenty of time, so he looked around the hall carefully.

A brand new door stood in the middle of the hall.

This is the passage leading to the Nightmare Community.

“Ka——”

After walking a few steps forward, I suddenly stepped on something, making a crisp sound.

Xu Zhiyan lowered his head. On the floor of the hall, there was a layer of broken pottery fragments.

Seeing that he was stunned, Liu Liu, who had been perched on the beam, slowly descended. The broom was passed from the back row to the front row, sweeping away the pottery fragments.

"What's this?"

Xu Zhiyan was a little puzzled.

Look at the patterns on the jars, there are all kinds of them.

Upon hearing the question, the millipede-like monster paused its sweeping hands, as if hesitating whether to speak or not.

But seeing Xu Zhiyan's puzzled look, Liu Liu immediately answered: "These, these are the fragments left after the ghost master tried to build a channel himself and failed."

Although the ghosts and gods told them not to tell Mr. Xu, Mr. Xu asked right in front of his face...

It's not intentional, so it's okay to say it!

After preparing herself mentally, Liu Liu spoke much faster.

"Because the safe house passageway must be built with the same size on both sides, there are many doors in the safe house that can meet all size requirements, but there are no suitable jars..."

After discovering that the safe house system could not successfully build a passage, Guishen began to try to build a passage on his own, but the process was rather bumpy and ultimately unsuccessful.

"Maybe it's because we've failed so many times that the ghosts and gods won't let us tell you."

After the explanation, Liu Liu also stated the reason for his guess.

The more Xu Zhiyan listened, the funnier it became. He couldn't help but bend over and laugh, and his whole body began to tremble.

It turned out that while he was working hard to deal with the slicing in the copy, Party A was not idle either. It was just that the size of this safe house was weird, so a stable connection could not be established for a long time.

Thinking of the scene where Party A kept trying the jars, he inexplicably felt that the other party was somewhat cute.

Xu Zhiyan, who had no idea that the ghosts and gods finally used their own flesh and blood as a medium for positioning, thought that the passage was successfully opened because the sizes of the pottery jar fragments inexplicably matched.

Qu Ji, who had just returned from placing the props, heard the second half of the conversation. He turned around and retracted his foot as he was about to step into the hall.

We'll be doomed if the gods and ghosts get to know about this!

Xu Zhiyan didn't disturb Liuliu from sweeping the floor. He first walked around the door and looked at the express boxes piled there.

Sure enough, many of them were sent by pottery and decorative ware manufacturers, and it was obvious that the buyers were very anxious.

After laughing, he looked at the orders again and couldn't help but sigh.

They are obviously the same person, so why is there such a big difference between the original body and the slices?

However, after looking at several boxes, Xu Zhiyan found something unusual - in the very corner, there were several express boxes of the same size piled up.

He glanced at the order form and became even more confused.

Why are there so many chess sets in packaging?

Just then he saw Qu Ji and stopped him in a hurry, asking him what was going on with the express boxes.

"Is Bai Jin promoting chess activities in the safe house? Why did he buy so many chessboards?"

He looked around, but saw no other place to play chess except the chessboard on the low table by the fireplace.

Qu Ji failed to sneak away, so he had to come over.

Help! How do I explain this?

Should we just say that the ghost master became so anxious and angry after watching the live broadcast that his pressure was leaked and he directly smashed the decoration of his house?

When it thought about the money spent on buying new furniture, it didn't even dare to show Xu Zhiyan the bill.

These chess board express packages that were not thrown away in time are just a drop in the bucket!

"Just, hahahaha, because everyone thought it was interesting...so we bought a few more to try..."

Qu Ji stammered and tried to follow Xu Zhiyan's words reluctantly.

When Lao Yang, who came to help clean up, heard this, his face was distorted. He lowered his head and picked up the garbage on the ground with Liu Liu.

"Hmm? That's great. I think everyone could really use some more entertainment."

Xu Zhiyan didn't know why Qu Ji was so scared. He had just obtained a whole copy and was in a very good mood, so he didn't study these few chess boards in detail.

After hearing this, Qu Ji became even more frightened.

Fortunately, Liuliu had many hands and cleaned it quickly, so he saved it in time.

Xu Zhiyan saw that the pottery fragments near the door had been cleaned up, but there was still no movement from the door. He let Qu Ji go and went to the door.

"I'll go find Bai Jin first. You go to the monster room and arrange a room for Xu Xiaohua."

"no problem!"

Qu Ji ran away without a trace.

Looking at Qu Jitao's figure, Xu Zhiyan shook his head and laughed.

But he couldn't wait to take stock of what he had received, and there were still some messy follow-up matters to deal with.

After waiting for Party A for a long time without any result, Xu Zhiyan decided to go back first.

But the moment he opened the door, he was stunned and a crack appeared on the relaxed expression on his face.

The wind howled into the door.

What was before my eyes was no longer the living room filled with the ruins of 1402, but instead a sky... the sky?

Why the sky?

Could it be that this door has been passed through?

Xu Zhiyan was almost blown off his feet by the wind and he held onto the door frame for a few minutes before he recovered.

He stuck his head out the door and couldn't believe what he saw.

The door, which was originally built on the fragments of pottery, was now hanging in the sky, and directly below the door was a larger area of ruins. The entire building had collapsed.

Xu Zhiyan's heart instantly rose to his throat.

"what happened?"

Could it be that the main system discovered that he had conspired with the ghosts and gods to swallow the copy and came to attack him?

That’s not right. If the main system knew, it would have scolded him on the radio a long time ago!

Fortunately, Xu Zhiyan was not afraid of heights. He leaned on the door frame and looked around, and saw ghosts and gods on the ruins from afar.

"Bai Jin? Are you okay?"

The shouts from the sky interrupted the ghosts' thoughts.

Only then did he realize that Xu Zhiyan was probably getting impatient and actually opened the door and came back to look for him.

On the other side, after Xu Zhiyan finished shouting, he found that his field of vision began to decrease.

After a while, the newly built safe house passage landed on the ruins.

After his feet were on solid ground, Xu Zhiyan hurried out.

Seeing that the ghost god still looked the same, but with fewer chains on his body, he didn't have time to ask the ghost god if there was any change, and couldn't help but pointed at the ruins and said, "You, have you seen Xu Xiaohua?"

The ghost was stunned for a moment, and then realized that although Building 167 was an empty building with no one living in it, there was an NPC monster Xu Xiaohua...

Oh no, I was so anxious when I was beating and slicing the meat just now that I completely forgot about the little girl!

Seeing that the ghosts and gods were silent, Xu Zhiyan was nervous and angry, but he opened his mouth and didn't know what to say.

Just as the two were looking at each other, a corner of the ruins moved a few times, and suddenly, a large stone slab was lifted up.

Xu Xiaohua appeared below, her face covered with dirt and dust, her eyes blurred with tears, and she was crying and shouting.

"Dad! Woohoo, it was so scary. I thought I was going to die."

After saying that, she threw aside the huge rock in her hand that was more than ten times larger than herself, and patted her sleeves to wipe away her tears.

“…”

Xu Zhiyan was instantly speechless.

This stone looks like it weighs at least several tons. It turns out that he is the weakest one in the whole place.

He sighed, squatted down and hugged his adopted daughter who rushed towards him like a cannonball. This copy would be his from now on, so he shouldn't need to use a net to scoop the child out, right?

Seeing this, the ghosts and gods also breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, he didn't think that Xu Xiaohua would be crushed to death by just the ruins. This kind of growing monster usually has very tenacious vitality.

Although Xu Xiaohua is still a cub, the fact that she can stand out from the hordes of black monsters and be assigned to the player by the system as a burden is enough to prove her talent.

But unfortunately, when Xu Zhiyan wanted to put the child back in the safe house, he found that it was still impossible.

Seeing Xu Zhiyan's puzzled expression, the ghost explained: "The safe house has its own rules."

Different spaces have their own rules. No matter who you are, even if Xu Zhiyan is the master of two spaces at the same time, he still needs to follow the rules.

"Okay, but it's enough to save her."

Xu Zhiyan nodded and accepted the result.

The other people in the nightmare community are still ordinary people after all. In fact, they are not suitable to be rescued into the safe house because there are too many monsters there.

When Xu Xiaohua saw the scoop net, she jumped up and down, thinking that her cheap father was playing a game with her.

"Dad! This pocket is so big!" she praised sincerely.

Xu Zhiyan smiled and coaxed, "How about going to the new home with Dad? There are many brothers and sisters there."

Although I don’t know what I can do if I rescue the little girl, it’s not a good idea to just leave her here, so I’d better rescue her first.

"Great!" Xu Xiaohua waited obediently.

When the scoop net fell, Xu Zhiyan grabbed her and threw her into the safe house.

After dealing with the child, he put away the scoop net and brushed the dust off his hands.

"Great, time for the next thing!"

Xu Zhiyan approached the ghost, poked him with his elbow, and asked expectantly, "So this copy will belong to us from now on?"

us……

When the ghost heard these two words, he seemed to hear the sound of his heart beating in his empty chest.

He lowered his head and looked at the young man's smiling eyes and eyebrows, with only tenderness and love in his heart.

"Yes, this place will belong to us from now on."

The ghost carefully hid the secret in his heart and answered in a gentle voice.

After hearing this, Xu Zhiyan smiled even more.

But after laughing for only a few minutes, he suddenly jumped to the side as if he had thought of something and stared at the ghost.

"Come to think of it, you merged the memory of a pervert... Well, are you okay?"

He still remembered that this perverted painter sliced up his skin and wanted to kill him and make a specimen of him.

After the first two slices were fused, the ghosts and gods were affected to some extent. Xu Zhiyan didn't want to be killed by Party A for no reason. He hadn't enjoyed the fruits of victory yet!

This question brought back embarrassing memories for the ghost.

In order to hide his embarrassment, He turned his face away, coughed lightly, and replied in a low voice: "I'm fine."

"After fusing my eyes and tail, my strength has become strong enough and I will no longer be affected by these slices."

He said it seriously, as to whether it had any effect...

God knows that the reason why He didn't return to the safe house was to calm His turbulent emotions.

He was really worried that he would not be able to control himself and would use some means to tie people to his side.

But now Xu Zhiyan trusts Him very much.

Compared to the Xu Zhiyan who resisted and hated Him, He prefers the current Xu Zhiyan who communicates with Him enthusiastically and is lively and outspoken.

Thinking of the wish to be sliced, the ghost couldn't help but laugh softly.

Long lasting love, mutual affection.

What these slices cannot do, He will do.

Hearing the answer, Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief. He patted the ghost's arm and gave him a thumbs up.

"You are worthy of being my client. You are the one who has to deal with the pervert!"

As expected, compared to those perverted, crazy, and yandere people whose minds are full of love and romance, he prefers this calm and rational, banished immortal-like ghost in front of him.

"Speaking of which part, what exactly is this? It can't be your brain, right? You don't even have a brain?"

After saying this, Xu Zhiyan smacked his lips, feeling that what he said sounded like an insult.

The ghost paused and raised his hand.

A wound appeared on the skin of His fingertips, and black blood vessels crawled out of the wound.

"It's the blood vessels."

"…blood vessels are so smart?"

Xu Zhiyan was stunned.

He thought it was a cerebellum or something! Who would have thought it was a blood vessel?

If a blood vessel is so smart, if it meets the brain, there is no point in recycling it. It should just lie down where it is!

Seeing that the young man's facial features were wrinkled with worry, the ghost smiled.

"Blood vessels transmit power. If I want to become stronger, they must constantly bear more power that they originally could not bear, so their perception of power will be very strong."

Blood vessels are distributed throughout the body and are more abundant than in other organs.

This is why Bai Jin in this copy can clearly feel the power being drained away and find a way to let the power flow back.

After all, this is what it does best.

"So the brain is still in you, right? I won't meet a smarter slice?"

Xu Zhiyan didn't care where the recycling was, he just wanted to know if he would encounter something like this again in the future that required him to pull it frantically.

He will die. If he encounters such a strong and smart Slice, he might really die!

"No, I promise."

The wound on the ghost's hand disappeared and the blood vessels returned to the skin.

"Next time before you enter the dungeon, I will try to give you an extra layer of protection."

Otherwise, he would be so angry that he would die from watching the live broadcast every day.

Well, even after his memories were recovered, he was almost revisiting those things from the perspective of a slice.

Kneeling on the ground to change the shoes of the young man in front of him, losing all his clothes in the competitive game, pinching his mouth to do an oral examination, pressing him on the table and kissing and biting him, touching him almost everywhere...

A strange feeling of pleasure and embarrassment rolled in the ghost's heart, but since Xu Zhiyan was still standing in front of him, he didn't dare to show it too obviously.

After hearing the word "protection", Xu Zhiyan felt that the Party A in front of him was more reliable, and his eyes were full of trust.

Don’t employ people you doubt, and don’t doubt people you employ.

Since he decided to cooperate with ghosts and gods, he would not question their words unless it was necessary.

Suddenly, there was a crackling sound of thunder in the distance.

Xu Zhiyan was a little confused, but he listened quietly for a while and suddenly thought, was it Gan Mi and Xinan?

Damn, forgot about these two!

The ghost saw Xu Zhiyan's dilemma and took the initiative to make a proposal.

"I can make them disappear quietly."

Now Gan Mi and Xinan were trapped in the small barrier He created. As long as He wanted, He could shrink the space and crush the two of them to death.

He had seen Xu Zhiyan's attitude towards the two of them, and also got to know the two of them a little in the live broadcast room. He knew that Xu Zhiyan would definitely not like the other party, so he felt that handling it quietly was the best solution.

"No, we can't kill them now."

Xu Zhiyan shook his head without even thinking about it.

"If the main system finds out that we have embezzled this replica space, it will definitely not let it go."

As a qualified businessman, he is well aware of the importance of making a fortune quietly, as some things being too ostentatious will only attract targeting.

"I need them to be alive, and then the three of us will find a passage to leave the dungeon together."

Only in this way can the main system believe that the copy space is really lost and not embezzled by him. Otherwise, it would be too fake for a person to return to the shell alive after the copy is closed.

Ghosts are not stupid. They know clearly what the consequences will be if they are discovered by the main system.

"Can I help you?"

"certainly!"

Xu Zhiyan nodded.

"Can the passage to the outside of Nightmare Community still be opened?" he asked.

"Yes, but the areas outside the passage are all dungeons."

After the ghost answered, he suddenly stretched out his hand and hung it in the air.

Outside the invisible community, countless blood vessels emerge from the gaps in the buildings and quietly flow into the dark city.

A few minutes later, the ghost put down his hand and said calmly: "The main system is disconnecting these copies from the nightmare community. There are currently four copies left. In about two hours, they will be completely disconnected."

The main system has not yet figured out the status of the BOSS Bai Jin in this copy and is worried that the other party will invade other copies through the channel.

To be on the safe side, the main system chooses to abandon this copy completely.

"Four? What copies are they?"

"Two new copies that are not yet fully formed, and two copies that are in progress, one of which has reached the end."

After listening to this, Xu Zhiyan thought for a moment and came up with an idea.

"Make me miserable. Isn't there a useless S-level item called the Space Stabilizer in the warehouse? Give it to me. I will take Gan Mi and Xinan into the dungeon that is about to end."

"Why do we need a space stabilization device?"

The ghosts and gods understood the other arrangements, but this device was completely useless and He didn’t quite understand why it should be used.

The channel is disconnecting but is stable.

Xu Zhiyan shook his head, looking very disappointed.

"I don't know whether these channels are stable or not, so of course I have to use my best tools."

"Such a big thing happened in this instance, and I wasted such a useless, cough, excellent S-level item. How can the main system not compensate me with two S-level items?"

He spoke with confidence, as if he were really the victim.

Thinking of Gan Mi, Xu Zhiyan smacked his lips.

"I have paid so much, I hope these two players can be more sensible and take the initiative to contribute some material compensation to me."

When the ghosts and gods heard this fallacy, they could not find any way to refute it and could only laugh and agree.

"……good."

Half an hour later, the central pool.

Gan Mi still sat in the middle of the pool in the same old posture.

But his forehead was covered with sweat and his expression was stiff, without any trace of his usual smiling face.

Xinan paced back and forth holding a knife, his brows knitted together, looking very anxious.

Gan Mi was annoyed by him spinning around and couldn't help but scold him.

"Can you please stop turning? It's not you who is holding up the space, why are you so anxious? Are there any medicines left? I really believed your ghost and waited for Xu Zhiyan here..." He cursed and gasped, as if he was going to faint in the next second.

It turned out that half an hour ago, the space barrier that controlled them suddenly began to shrink violently.

After trying every possible way, the two were unable to successfully break through the barrier and escape.

In the end, Gan Mi used compressed air to create his own space and was able to barely hold on, but he was not very skilled in this trick and could not hold on for less than a minute before his mental strength was exhausted.

He had to replenish his mental strength every minute, and even though he had money, his stock of potions was almost gone.

After hearing this, Xinan stopped.

But he had taken out all his medicine and now he was penniless.

In the distance, Xu Zhiyan looked at the crumbling Gan Mi and the gradually shrinking space circle, and realized that these two people were at the end of their strength.

It's his turn!

Covered in blood, the young man who had cut off one of his arms after taking anesthesia, stumbled towards the central pool.

He had to be more seriously injured than the other two so that he could convince the main system that he was innocent after leaving the copy... Damn it, I should have not treated my ankle injury, it would have been a waste of energy.

Xinan had sharp eyes and saw Xu Zhiyan running towards them from a distance.

He looked at the other person's embarrassed appearance and was speechless.

"He's back..."

"who?"

Gan Mi was extremely nervous and asked back without hearing clearly, but received no answer.

He had a splitting headache and gave up resisting completely.

Looking up, Gan Mi saw Xinan still standing stupidly near the barrier circle, and he felt like cursing.

But when he followed Xinan's gaze, he saw Xu Zhiyan, dragging his seriously injured body after being bathed in blood, gritting his teeth and coming out of the barrier.

The place was soundproofed and they couldn't hear what each other was saying.

But Gan Mi looked at the young man's opening and closing lips and understood what he was saying.

'I'm here to save you.'

In desperate situation, Gan Mi, who always looked down on players with beautiful appearance, stood there in a daze.

For the first time, he discovered that Xu Zhiyan was indeed very handsome.

A strange thought came to his mind, and Gan Mi lowered his head hastily. He wanted to know why...

Why did he come to save them when he was in such a miserable state? They obviously didn't have such a good relationship.