Chapter 347 Safe House

Something is about to happen.

This was the first time Xu Zhiyan had such a strong premonition.

When he returned to the safe house in the night, he saw Guishen standing at the door waiting for him. After entering the house, he found that Qu Ji had installed a new screen in front of the black and gold chairs in the hall.

[Host! We have received a message from the main system that the safe house will enter a special instance after midnight, and in the current instance, the basic consumption of all players entering the safe house will be borne by the main system.]

The safe house system took the lead and revealed all the important information.

Xu Zhiyan paused slightly as he walked towards the black and gold chair.

This is a rare event indeed.

The main system has always been arrogant and has never treated players as human beings, but only as consumables.

The safe house can stay in the dungeon for no more than twelve hours a day, and in short cases it may only be six or seven hours from midnight to sunrise. This message is equivalent to ensuring that all human players stay in the safe house for the full time.

"It seems that the main system can no longer accommodate mimics."

Xu Zhiyan frowned and spoke, but his tone was a little more relaxed than when he was chatting with Jiang Huaique before.

Although it was unclear what kind of transaction the summoner had with the main system, the main system's actions obviously made it seem like it was leaning towards humans for the time being, which was not bad news.

The ghosts and gods cannot deny this.

He asked the system to call Xu Zhiyan back, more because he was worried that Xu Zhiyan would sleep on the streets at night after logging into the safe house.

It is already past eleven o'clock, and there is less than an hour left before the dungeon is opened and the safe house is logged in.

Xu Zhiyan sat on the bench with a relaxed brow, leaning back lazily, using the ghost's arm as a backrest, and stretched out his hand to command the monsters to prepare some fruit snacks for him.

He acted so calmly that the monsters also calmed down from the sudden news and did their own things in an orderly manner. After all, no matter how they connected to the copy before, it was the safe house that took the initiative to ask the main system. This was the first time that the main system came to them.

When most of the monsters in the hall had left, the ghost handed over the peeled chestnuts and asked softly, "Nervous?"

Xu Zhiyan pursed his lips and stared at the dark screen in front of him. After a while, he took the chestnut.

"I was thinking about the main system."

He did not answer the question about ghosts and gods, nor could he say what his mood was at the moment.

Theoretically speaking, as a human player, he should be happy to see that the main system favors humans. However, considering the main system's past actions, Xu Zhiyan does not think that the main system will be so kind.

The system couldn't hold back when listening to its two masters talking in charades.

[Host! It should be a good thing that the main system is biased towards humans. Why do you look so conflicted?] Mimics and humans are destined to be hostile. It is very reasonable for the main system to help humans by targeting mimics. It is a rare good thing for the main system.

Listening to the system's naive remarks, Xu Zhiyan stretched out his hand and turned the ring on his left middle finger, with some helplessness in his voice.

"Its existence itself is evil. Don't forget how the main system treated humans in the past just because it did a little good now... It has always treated humans as tools."

After saying that, Xu Zhiyan glanced at the time and gave the system a command.

"Go and communicate with the main system and ask if players can get a certain amount of weapon reimbursement if they need it." He wanted to see to what extent the main system was willing to go for these humans who were about to face the Mimics.

The system took the order and went, and did not return until a few minutes before midnight.

[Host, the main system prompts that this is a violation.]

"Oh? Violation..."

Xu Zhiyan pondered over these two words again and again without further explanation.

“Dangdangdangdang——”

As soon as the midnight bell rang, the screen in front of him lit up.

Because the screen this time was big enough, Qu Ji divided it into a dozen screens of different sizes, and soon, a human figure appeared on each screen.

[Logged into the Doomsday Survivor 06]

[Dungeon Star Level: Special]

[Players please receive basic information/copy tasks. 】

[The end of the world is coming, monsters awaken from underground, you are a survivor caught in the flood, the terrible monsters need you to clean up, but you have no water or food, so in the next period of time, you not only have to kill monsters, but also need to find water and food to ensure your own survival. ]

[Winning conditions: The guild that kills the most monsters will receive the first prize. ]

[Note 1: This instance is an advanced survival mode instance...]

[Note 2: Food is scarce in this instance, please be careful. ]

Although the background and setting are different, the overall gameplay of the copy is not much different from the previous round of games.

The sky outside the safe house also changed color at the same time as the screen.

Xu Zhiyan stared at the rules for a long time before hesitating and saying, "It looks like the main system intends to make all the special copies into survival mode."

The main system does not care about the life and death of human players, that is to say, the advanced survival mode is prepared for the mimics. He suddenly remembered that in the last round of dungeons, even someone as strong as Cen Jinyue had to eat on time. When mimics occupy human bodies, they will have the same weaknesses as humans.

"...Tsk, they really don't care about the lives of human players."

Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but sigh.

A copy with scarce food will certainly make the mimics feel uncomfortable, thus reducing their combat effectiveness and making their performance unstable when facing monster NPCs, but the human players will suffer even more.

He figured out the whole thing in an instant.

The main system wants to take action to kill the mimics itself and bear the basic costs of players entering the safe house. It is just a little compensation to increase the hope of survival for the few players who find the safe house, so that the result of this copy will not be as ugly as before.

There are many players entering this round of dungeon, as many as 30 people.

There were eight guilds in total, each with four players. Only two people entered the Endless Cards. The Mad Dog Man escaped in other copies. Dou Hongshan and the Clown were the only two remaining people and could not escape.

Among the four people sent by Utopia this time, Wang Ying and Gan Mi ranked very high, while the other two seemed more like they were just there to make up the numbers.

However, what was strange was that there was no summoner in the dungeon. The Dark Alley sent out four players, two of whom seemed to be ranked not low. Xu Zhiyan vaguely remembered having caught a glimpse of their information from Jiang Huaique.

Glancing at Gan Mi standing up in the empty room, Xu Zhiyan retracted his thoughts and sat up slightly.

“Already ranked eighth?”

He still remembered the first time he met Gan Mi. The other party introduced himself with great confidence. It was very funny. His ranking seemed to be only around 100. However, after such a short time, his strength increased exponentially.

Thinking of Gan Mi's silly brother, Xu Zhiyan frowned slightly.

"Do mimics have relatives too?"

He didn't think there was any similarity between Enli and Gan Mi. If Gan Mi's eyes and eyebrows were somewhat similar to Enli before, then after Gan Mi stopped smiling, he was nothing like that stupid brother.

"No."

The ghost answered this question.

“Not only that, the mimics must also kill all of the original body’s relatives in order to fully restore their memories and powers.” He said it euphemistically, but the meaning was clear.

Xu Zhiyan was slightly stunned.

He couldn't help but think of the last time he met Gan Mi, when Gan Mi teased him about Enli and Shen Zhen. Combined with Gan Mi's sudden surge in power...

His Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he hesitated for a long time before asking Asa to investigate the current situation of Enli and Shen Zhen.

The screen was divided by the safe house system, probably in order of ranking. Among them, the screen where Ghost Lion Wang Ying was located was the most conspicuous and huge. In the dilapidated factory, a blonde girl was trapped inside, and outside the factory were wandering and roaring monsters.

Currently, all copies have no arrangement for killing at the beginning, but the shaky door in front of Wang Ying seems like it may be knocked open by monsters at any time.

Similar to Wang Ying.

There was nothing in the narrow room where Gan Mi was, and after opening the door, two monsters with bloody mouths rushed out.

It's the complete opposite of their situation.

After entering the dungeon, other players more or less got some supplies such as food and water from their current location. Even the clown was no exception. Dou Hongshan even arranged his landing site in the forest, which now has spawned a row of small tomatoes.

Seeing this, the system couldn't help but cry out.

[Wow! Host! It seems that the main system is determined to kill all the mimics. We should be much more relaxed! ]

But after it called out, it found that Xu Zhiyan's expression became even more solemn.

[Host, why are you unhappy? Isn't it a good thing for us if the mimics are frustrated? ]

"Too hasty..."

Xu Zhiyan shook his head.

The main system was so anxious to weaken the two's power that it arranged enough monsters to confront them right at the start.

Before Xu Zhiyan could explain more clearly, Wang Ying took the lead in launching the attack.

She was more anxious than the monster outside.

He looked disgusted when he opened his eyes, but when he saw the monster outside the abandoned factory, his eyes lit up, the corners of his mouth almost cracked to his ears, and he tore the door open and got out.

Seeing the opponent's violent and torrential attack, without using any weapons, it took less than five minutes to beat the monsters outside the factory into meat paste. Xu Zhiyan quickly called the system and arranged a new task.

"Go and tell the main system that since you've already violated the rules, why not make it bigger?"

"Reduce the number of monsters and starve them for a few meals first."

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Even though Xu Zhiyan dislikes the main system, he doesn't want to see these two people slaughtering human players, so he can only compromise and start to make peace.

A few minutes later, he got the answer from the main system.

The main system also reacted. Wang Ying and Gan Mi were too strong. These monsters alone could not cause any damage at the moment. The monsters might also be used as supplies by the two. Fortunately, it was only the beginning. While the two had not yet reacted, reducing the number of monsters meant reducing supplies.

Xu Zhiyan was very satisfied with the main system's understanding.

But when he glanced at Gan Mi's live broadcast, he couldn't help but frown again.

On the other side, Gan Mi also quickly dealt with the monster, and his killing method was very simple. The extremely ugly monster suffocated to death without any scars on its body.

Gan Mi calmly took out a dagger and cut off a lot of meat from the monster and put it into the container. Even the monster's thick blood was controlled by the air and turned into a stream and poured into the container in case of emergency...

During this time, Gan Mi cut off a piece of bloody monster meat and put it into his mouth, chewing it carefully, and confirmed that the monster meat was unpalatable but non-toxic.

"...quite elegant."

Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but complain.

So he doesn't like smart people, these guys who plan ahead are really difficult to deal with.

As if thinking of something, Xu Zhiyan called the system and said, "Go and communicate with the main system. If it is willing to give more information, such as... information about the last round of the game, then the safe house can provide more help."

There is no scent of slicing in the present world, proving that the young man covered in spells is not in the present world.

He needs more information to find the heart of the ghost. Cen Jinyue's memory is updated as her body changes, and the information about the previous round of the game contained in it is not complete. He has to get more useful clues or catch another mimic. Moreover, since the main system is also related to ghosts, it becomes particularly important to test the main system's attitude towards ghosts. The other party's reaction can infer a lot of things.

As for the players...

The Dark Alley is not well-off. Instead of blackmailing incoming players, it is better to start with the main system that is willing to pay.