Chapter 200 Safe House

Just across the door is the safe house.

The system that was originally sliced and blocked had no chance of being spied on, and even Xu Zhiyan's live broadcast was interrupted at the last minute.

The scorching flames ignited the room, and the overwhelming fighting spirit washed over Xu Zhiyan's thoughts.

The moment he fell backwards, he vaguely saw a wall of fire flash before his eyes, and the flames behind him that were almost touching his back were extinguished in an instant.

Lying on the hot floor, he stared at the white embers in the flames.

The man is no longer the same as before.

Although its body was briefly controlled by the transparent creature, it recovered quickly.

At this time, Bai Jin's body was covered with black spells, but the moment the safe house was opened, he suddenly retreated far away, looking at this side vigilantly, his eyes full of disbelief, as if he had encountered something incomprehensible.

Inside the safe house, the ghost who failed to successfully receive his successor frowned.

“Click!”

“Click—”

The black box that fell into his arms kept opening and closing, indiscriminately displaying its amazing attack power. The center of the hall of the entire safe house, near the door, was corroded by the fanatical mold.

Seeing this, the ghost suddenly stretched out his hand, dug open his chest, and stuffed the box that was constantly emitting power into it.

The smell of burning ashes replaced the musty smell.

A sigh of satisfaction after a full meal of strength quietly echoed in the hall.

The box that Xu Zhiyan had sent back with all his might was finally quiet.

The distorted power affected the surrounding monsters. The few monsters that had not been able to hide before the box fell had already begun to become alienated just by being in the same room with this box of unknown origin.

The one who changed the most was Honghong. Originally, it was a ball of red blood-like monster, but under the erosion of mold, it turned blue. Its shocked facial features were floating in the blue blood. Honghong wanted to scream, but she sensed the pressure from ghosts and gods and dared not speak.

Since Xu Zhiyan only punched the door open and did not enter the safe house, the safe house notification has not been triggered yet.

The safe house system was also unable to successfully go out and check on the host's status.

Seeing that the ghost had put away the box and was still standing there in a leisurely manner, it was so anxious that its CPU was about to burn out.

[Master!! The host is still inside! You… you… aren’t you in a hurry?]

At least it still remembers the identity of ghosts and gods.

But this doesn't matter because it thinks its owner should rescue the heir first!

[The host doesn't seem to be conscious... Well, although he still remembers to throw valuables in, but! But that slice looks dangerous! ]

The door is open, so it is not difficult to rescue the person.

However, the ghost standing in front of the door just shook his head, with an ambiguous tone.

“He’s safe.”

He stopped talking and continued to wait.

The dimensional space is built by slices. If the slices are recycled rashly, Xu Zhiyan's other plans may fail... Although he is not sure whether Xu Zhiyan has other plans now, he will try his best to cooperate before everything comes to an end.

If the monsters in the safe house knew enough about ghosts and gods, they would probably be able to notice that the palm of his hand under his clothes was clenched into a fist at this moment.

This slice is very different from the rest.

Its performance can be described as rare.

When they first saw Xiao Touzi, the ghosts and gods thought that this slice was just a small part of pure power that was lost outside, with weak consciousness and low intelligence.

But later, when he saw Slice in a suit, he seemed to have become complicated again, especially when Slice unconsciously mentioned protection...

Because of its purity, power is the part that is least likely to be injected into consciousness and influenced.

He could understand that Xiao Tomoyu wanted to protect Xu Zhiyan.

But just when Xu Zhiyan broke the transparent coffin and let the box fall, the box with huge energy burst out to attack. Just when he was about to take action, a wall of fire made of pure power appeared and blocked the attack.

Xu Zhiyan might not have seen it, but from the perspective of ghosts and gods, he saw it clearly.

He didn't think that with the little bit of consciousness of the little transparent person, he could instantly occupy the thinking of the sliced subject and control it so accurately that the firewall could barely block the attack without hurting the person in front of him.

The slices inside will not attack Xu Zhiyan.

The ghosts and gods don’t know why, but He is so sure.

The system was full of question marks. I was extremely anxious but couldn't see the scene inside the door, so I could only continue to wait anxiously.

The thirty-first floor of the Dimensional Space Broadcasting Building.

Xu Zhiyan lay on the hot floor for a long time to calm his thoughts.

The violent emotions that did not belong to him finally dissipated a lot.

When his eyes were clear, he slowly climbed up by supporting himself on the floor, sat on the ground and looked at the motionless Bai Jin.

So strange.

There was anger, fear, and unwillingness in the other person's eyes...

But there was no intention to kill.

Even if he did this, the slice in front of him didn't want to kill him at all? They were obviously not familiar with each other.

Xu Zhiyan stretched his head and took a look inside the door.

The black fog in the void blocked everything, but he just knew that the ghosts and gods were on the other side.

Some people are born naughty.

Making sure he had a safe house as a backup, Xu Zhiyan wiped the sweat from his cheeks and asked in confusion.

"Hey, why don't you kill me?"

His body felt warm. It was obviously the scalding hot ground, but he was not burned even when he was lying on it. The screen of the mobile phone in the copy was completely black, and Xu Zhiyan's own phone also showed that the link was disconnected. Currently, there should be only him and Slice in this space.

The slice that was asked looked confused.

After listening to it, it thought about it carefully, then shook its head: "I don't know."

"I can't kill you." Bai Jin's expression gradually became confused.

Just by looking at Xu Zhiyan, it would uncontrollably forgive him. No matter what this hateful human anchor had done, it could forgive him.

Especially when it completely integrates all the lost powers.

Protect……

Protect him.

This thought seemed to be imprinted on every ounce of its strength.

So much so that when its mind was confused and disordered and burning with anger, it sensed the attack from the box and blocked it completely out of control.

Why? Why should we protect this human anchor in front of us?

Silence filled the entire hall.

The flames around were still burning fiercely, but did not harm the humans in front of the coffin fragments at all.

The white embers wrapped in flames gradually became irritable, as if they had encountered something that even they themselves could not explain, and they could only give up on themselves.

"I want to protect you."

After saying it, it saw Xu Zhiyan's surprised expression and felt a little relieved.

"Um?"

Now it was Xu Zhiyan's turn to be confused.

He did not jump directly into the safe house because he was worried that once he fell in, the passage would be unlocked and Mr. Party A would take the slice in front of him without waiting for him to speak.

In the Mermaid Cruise, he has already triggered a safe house once. If he triggers a new safe house every time he enters the base, people will inevitably associate him with it. Only by keeping a low profile can he make big money.

If you want to keep the black box for yourself, you must get the slice in front of you to cooperate.

...This damn box had better be valuable. If he opens it and finds out it’s just a junk prop, he’ll have to crush it and feed it to the snake!

However, according to the plan, he had to use ghosts and gods as bargaining chips to deceive the slice in front of him.

But something is not right now.

What the hell? Protect him?

Xiao Tomoyu had said this before, and Xu Zhiyan just took it as a joke. Could it be that Xiao Tomoyu had affected the slicing?

No, that's not right. If Xiao Tomoyu was so awesome that he could affect the entire slicing process like this, they wouldn't have had to go through so much trouble to avoid the slicing process before.

I thought for a moment, but to no avail.

Xu Zhiyan shook his head, stood up, and simply stopped thinking about it.

He shouted down at the open door of the safe house.

"Find someone to make a replica of an empty black box for me. Or if you know what this box is made of, find me some fragments."

"I will return from the shell in a moment. When you finish searching the dungeon, remember to go to the 30th floor outside and get my death tape. Don't forget it."

This time the game system was too weak and failed to fulfill the agreement at all. It didn't last long before it was pierced by the slice. He planned to use this to try and see if he could squeeze out some more benefits.

The loss this time is too great.

It didn't matter that the Mirror Spirit Evil Buddha could be reused, but the Seed of Life was a one-time S-level item, and every time one was used, there would be one less. He felt heartbroken just thinking about it.

After staggering two steps, Xu Zhiyan suddenly felt a taste of rust in his mouth. He couldn't help coughing twice and spit out some blood.

“Cough cough… cough…”

I was probably safe now. The abdominal pain that I had ignored all this time was vaguely coming back and was getting worse.

Although the number of organs lost was not large, the damage was real.

Wiping the corner of his mouth carelessly, Xu Zhiyan said softly to the slice in front of him: "Be good, let's not discuss the issue of protecting me for now."

"Now we are partners, you have to act according to my plan."

He stretched out his hand, gestured and said, "I will run out with the stuff in a moment, and you continue to burn the building to express your anger. Then I will show the system the fragments of the box and tell it that it caused the mission to fail, and I escaped death..."

He really wanted to make money from the remaining six players leaving the safe house.

The wisdom teeth and appendix didn't matter, but now he had lost his gallbladder and gained a tail, so he had to shell it to restore his personal condition and earn some mental threshold limit.

“…That’s probably it. He will come to you.”

Looking at the slice in front of him, which was confused and frightened, Xu Zhiyan said to comfort him: "Don't worry, the fusion is not that uncomfortable. The memory of us sending messages together is still there. I have a good relationship with your main body. He is a very good person and not that scary..."

After just confirming that the slice in front of him would not hurt him, he became very talkative.

"Bang--"

A piece of black wood was thrown out from the door of the safe house, interrupting Xu Zhiyan's words.

He bent down to pick up the wood chip, and when his fingertips touched it, he found that it was actually covered with a thin layer of transparent power, without alarming anything.

"You are still reliable!"

Xu Zhiyan turned around and left with the wood chip. When he reached the door, he suddenly put his palm on the flames burning around him, trying to get some burns to prove that he had really been fighting with the slice for a long time.

Unfortunately, an accident happened.

The leaping flames around him scattered in all directions as if frightened the moment they touched Xu Zhiyan.

Seeing that his right hand with bones embedded in it was not injured, he thought it was caused by ghosts and gods, so he changed his hand, but the result was the same.

“…”

So amazing? He really didn't attack him?

Seeing this, Bai Jin, who was dominated by the fear of ghosts and gods, said in a violent tone full of confusion and disdain: "How could I... hurt you..."

It felt that the content and tone did not match, but at this time it was affected by ghosts and gods and could not say anything else.

Xu Zhiyan scratched his hair and wanted to say something else, but the door of the safe house suddenly moved and creaked, as if urging him to go.

"Forget it, let's leave it like this for now."

After saying that, Xu Zhiyan swiftly took off his shirt, shook it over the fire, and burned several holes of different sizes on it.

After putting on his clothes, he held the black piece of wood and ran downstairs.

As the door closed, the thirty-first floor fell silent again.

The flames around the empty scene burned silently, making only slight sounds.

In the flames, Bai Jin suddenly turned his head and looked out of the glass window of the building, as if he was looking at someone through the glass.

There was no movement at the safe house door.

The ghosts and gods are waiting for this special slice to fall into their trap.

Suddenly, the fire in the hall went out.

Sliced Bai Jin returned to his original well-mannered appearance in a suit. He walked to the window, watched Xu Zhiyan and the other human players leave the building, and stomped his feet angrily.

In an instant, flames broke out all over the outside of the building, engulfing everything.

The door of the safe house rang twice again.

"Grass……"

It cursed inwardly, suppressed its inner fear and anxiety, and walked towards the door.

…

In the dimensional space, time began to accelerate.

Accompanied by a slight collapse of the ground, it indicates that this space is about to disappear.

On the street, light and shadow are constantly changing.

The players who escaped death were covered in blood and supported each other as they walked towards the escape space opened up by the system.

Xu Zhiyan was pushing his small electric scooter, with Chang Xingwei, who had lost blood and was unconscious, lying on the back seat.

"You damn system, you are such a rip-off! We are only one step away from success! I have touched the box, I am almost able to open it!"

The basket of the electric bike contained the fragments he had obtained from the ghosts and gods.

"It was almost there... I lost a lot of props!" He cursed loudly, but his thoughts were outside the space.

Judging from the way it was sliced, it didn't seem that difficult to deal with. It knew the importance of the videotape before, so it shouldn't rashly break it again.

"I don't want you to compensate me for anything. Just give me the final reward after the settlement is completed successfully."

He looked as if it was a matter of course.

As the players listened, they always felt that something was wrong. They discovered that the script they and Xu Zhiyan got did not seem to be the same?

But when they saw the young man who was also covered in dust and whose clothes were burned by flames, and whose black T-shirt smelled of blood, and Xu Zhiyan's face and hands were stained with blood, someone glanced at the piece of fair and tender skin on his back exposed through the hole in his clothes, and for a moment they didn't know where to start asking.

The system was also silent.

The collapse of the dimensional world foreshadows the complete disappearance of the box. The figures around it begin to age in a trance and accelerate, proving that the guy who got the box intends to run away after exhausting the power in the dimensional space.

All the reserve NPCs grew old and died, and the city changed from a soon-to-be-developed copy city to a useless, abandoned rule city.

The incessant extortion sounds of the players echoed in my ears.

As if the estimation was completed, the system gave the final answer.

[You will be logged out immediately after leaving the dimensional space. Since the final mission failed, the final reward will only give you the settlement points, and the rest will be settled as usual. ]

After leaving this sentence, this somewhat intelligent AI system went offline directly. Xu Zhiyan asked a few more questions, and the answers were all "Congratulations to the player whose copy is about to be settled."

Never mind, it would be nice to get some more points, he thought.

Irregular space cracks fluctuate.

As the surviving players stepped out of the rift, they felt a familiar sense of weightlessness and everyone's eyes went dark.

When I felt the light again, the familiar data panel appeared on the screen.

[The copy of the Soul Exploration Live Room has been settled]

[Instance star rating: ★★★★☆]

[Note: This copy is temporarily closed and will not be open to the public in the short term. ]

It seemed like he hadn't seen the settlement panel for a long time, and Xu Zhiyan was a little touched.

[Calculating the player Xu Zhiyan's personal total score. ]

[Settlement failed...]

【Players are requested to check their points by themselves. 】

Perhaps it was because if the content of the blackmail was made public, it would damage the reputation of the main system. In addition, each round of rewards was given individually this time. Xu Zhiyan quickly received 80,000 points as a compromise for the failure of the final mission.

“So little…”

Glancing at the number of words that had been recorded, he curled his lips and felt that he had suffered a loss. However, he had taken the box after all. If he held on too tightly now, it might cause the system to retaliate. He still had other rewards that had not been settled.

After thinking about it, Xu Zhiyan gave up the idea of continuing to extort money.

After the main quest was settled and everyone had no objection, the side quest reward settlement finally popped up on the panel.

[Who is the most popular? Let’s start the popularity contest! ]

[Note: The third round of side quests was interrupted, so only the rewards for the first two rounds of quests were settled. ]

[First round of rewards: Popularity King (title) click to receive]

[Second round of rewards: Popularity King (cloak) click to receive]

Seeing the popular king panel, Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief.

All in all, I earned more than one million points on this trip. Although I lost the seed of life, I gained an electric car, the Mirror Spirit Evil Buddha, and the death videotape. In addition, I also added fifty-two high school ghosts with peak intelligence, a school bus, and a monster videotape to the safe house!

All in all, the profit is pretty good.

...Damn, it hurts his heart to think of the Seed of Life!

A white light came on, and Xu Zhiyan successfully logged into the player gathering place.

【Welcome players to the rest area 'Shell'】

【Your stay time is 6 hours, please enjoy it. 】

In the spacious and bright rest area, the players who had just logged out of the game almost all collapsed, not caring about their image at all.

Xu Zhiyan ignored everyone else and immediately called up his personal panel.

[Name: Xu Zhiyan]

[Status: Slightly dehydrated (thirst)]

[Spiritual Threshold: 0-84]

[Current Spirit: 84]

[Features: Greedy]

[Skills: Absolute Safe Time (Basic), Slug Spirit, Forced Transaction (Basic)]

[Title: Ghost Agent, Corpse Fisherman, Popularity King]

The upper threshold limit has increased by fourteen points. Well, it seems to be okay compared with the past. It is better than falling.

And if it's level 80, there should be some pretty good items available.

After closing the panel, Xu Zhiyan shook his tail... shook his tail?

He turned his head sharply and looked behind him. Why was that little white, fluffy tail still on him? !

Perhaps his shock was too obvious. Chang Xingwei, who had already woken up and was resting quietly to recover, whispered, "This should be left by a universal item... It carries the power of rules, so it's hard to wash it off."

Seeing Xu Zhiyan's curiosity, he told him in bits and pieces about how he got the universal item for the gecko state.

“…That’s why I don’t dare to use it anymore.”

Losing one kidney and one lung is already the limit. If he loses anything more, the consequences will be unbearable for him.

Afraid that the stunned young man in front of him didn't understand, Chang Xingwei whispered in his ear while paying and swiping points.

"Before, the first place on the list had a falling out with Mad Dog. It was because I bought this kind of props at a high price that I removed Mad Dog's tongue... So, Boss Xu, what organ are you missing?"

"Wisdom teeth, gallbladder, appendix... and a tail."

Xu Zhiyan answered in a deep voice, his tone full of disappointment, while Chang Xingwei looked envious and jealous.

No, he doesn't want to go without meat in the future. Also, his tail is too sensitive and it affects his performance. He has to go back and ask the ghosts and gods to think of a way to get rid of this condition.

Finally, he walked up to Yu Xiu, who was looking at him eagerly, touched a handful of his hay-like hair, lowered his head and quickly wrote down a line of address.

"Go here when you get out, and someone will take care of your food, clothing, shelter and transportation."

After saying that, he transferred 100,000 points to Jiang Huaique, in return for the other party's cursing and doubts.

A few minutes later, after confirming again and again that the shell could not be repaired, Xu Zhiyan was anxious to take care of his physical condition, so he hurriedly logged out of the shell and returned to the safe house.

Come to think of it, he was a little curious about what that box was.

…

Before I opened my eyes, the reassuring smell of ash filled my nostrils.

"Finally I'm home--" Xu Zhiyan was halfway through his words when he looked at the messy scene in front of him, stunned and speechless.

Saying it is messy is giving face.

The entire safe house hall now looked like it had been through war.

The worst hit area was the fireplace area, which he had worked so hard to decorate beautifully, but now there was almost nothing left, with traces of burnt black on the edges.

The rest of the place wasn't very good either, with hideous claw marks from the monsters, debris all over the ground, and a pool of scattered blue liquid that kept wailing...

He raised his eyes to look at the ghost.

So what happened to the safe house during the time he was away?

After swallowing the slices, the ghost stood in the middle of the hall. The power he obtained this time was too abundant and he had not yet digested it completely.

But Honghong, who had just been contaminated by the box, suddenly couldn't control herself and started jumping around. The other monsters were busy collecting the things in the copy within 30 minutes and had no time to care...

Well, then I'll just blame the monster for the damage to the fireplace area.

Just when the ghost was thinking about what to say first, Xu Zhiyan asked first.

"Have you completed the fusion? How damaged is my death tape? How many points will it cost to repair it? Is it S-level?"

He was not an idiot. Seeing the blue liquid jumping around under the noses of ghosts and gods proved that there should be no harm. It might be some special event. But before the special event, he was more concerned about his props.

All other things are deposited steadily, except this one!

“…”

The ghosts and gods were stumped by this question.

He thought Xu Zhiyan would first ask about slicing or the black box.

After a moment of silence, He searched for memories related to the videotape, and by the way, He also understood Slice's idea - to put the blame on the unknown person.

Low pressure is spreading quietly.

What should he do? Facing the young man's expectant gaze, he didn't dare to directly say that the videotape had been broken into pieces...