Chapter 38: The Source of Pollution (7) But miracles still exist...
【Is the situation okay over there? 】
When Fei received the message from Shen Que on the communication, he had already thrown away the dagger in his hand. Blood flowed down the tip of the knife, wetting the stacked white bandages. He stepped on the bloody shoulder with his leather shoes, pinning the man to the ground.
Fei replied nonchalantly, his eyes lowered. The bandages scattered on the man's body were almost completely stained with crimson. The gray coat that he had hung on his arm for convenience in movement also fell to the side, no longer as neat and dignified as before.
It looked like a replay of the confrontation many years ago, even the outcome was almost the same.
The wound on his waist and abdomen seemed to have burst open. Fei always pursued perfection in his acting, and of course he would not miss any scars. The slight pain made him unable to care about it. He leaned down to better hear the answer after the follow-up question.
"Where are the others?" Fei didn't believe that the other core members of U would not take action, but they were indeed not in the shelter, and he was the only one on the magician's side. In this case, it was very likely that they were in the training building where the main consciousness was about to appear.
Fei wanted to know where Wine was, so he continued to ask, "Where did your leader go?"
"Wine isn't in City A." The immobilized poet didn't struggle much. The pain tearing at his nerves only made him smile in amusement. "The boss has been traveling to different areas lately, and you chose to stay here because of those people."
"Even if City A isn't taken over by the Kwaidan, it doesn't matter. We can abandon this headquarters. After all, the other branches are developing very well, and sooner or later this place will fall too."
The poet never thought that his words were meant to stir up hatred. He did not believe that Fei would always be like that. He knew that U was his ultimate destination.
"Yeah."
Fei once thought about moving to other places for development, but he ultimately stayed. This area carries all his memories. After the invasion of ghost stories, he would occasionally go to solve nearby ghost stories when he was on business trips.
But why should he leave? Shi Yu is right here, but they all want him to have the ambition to move up.
Fei suddenly sneered. He lowered his head and gave an order in a slow tone: "When the day comes, you should repay my favor. Kill Wine. I want his position."
But the fact is that before anything happens, Fei will first hollow out the U organization.
"If you can't do it, you've seen what happened to the consultant." Fei glanced ahead and then looked away. He smiled and warned, "I won't show mercy."
But in fact, he didn't do anything. The counselor had just tried to trip up the people in the shelter, but found that it didn't work, so he tried to threaten them by asking them to commit suicide. So Fei gave up the confrontation with the poet and knocked the man out neatly.
Fei is now more concerned about what Wine is doing traveling to so many places. If he just wants to control the ghost stories, he can let other members go and there is no need to go there in person.
...Unless the game's main system has possessed Wine, after all, it has a way to send the ghost story back to its original world.
Fei bent down and picked up the knife again. He put away the shadow that was oppressing him, retracted his legs and stood on the open ground again. With his eyes closed, he casually reminded, "Pay attention to your pollution value. Don't die in the shelter. That would be too unlucky."
After he said that, he made the poet faint as well, and then he prepared to go find the magician to get the potion.
The barrage of comments popped up again at this time. Fei thought that the comics should not show the hostility between him and these two people, but the facts seemed to be deviated.
[Oh, Fei also saved the poet. That means we knew each other a long time ago. After all, we are both famous players. It is very likely that Fei saved him when he first entered the game. You kid, you won’t be obsessed with it because of this, right? ()]
[The old thief is a bit too crazy to know what the world is. The consultant keeps saying that only you are the most suitable and insists on talking about you and me. The poet owes a life-saving favor but still hates him impurely. This is not right. This is not right.]
[Who cares if he's right or not? I'm just eating, eating, eating, eating. Di Feijie and Fei Dijie are both having a bit too much fun today. I'm not saying that.]
[As everyone knows, in the game of Kaidan, only Fei and Que are truly two-way, while the others are just part of the play (not really)]
[Wok, has no one paid attention to the fact that the arrogant poet and counselor in the previous game were completely defeated? Fei Ge still defeated them in one against two. This concept is really amazing.]
What exactly is Fei's ability… He can know about the coming of a strange story in advance and easily kill the U members. He's an all-around powerful fighter. I'm so curious…
[I don't know. Anyway, Fei Shen is so great that no one needs to explain it in detail.]
[The greatness of Feishen needs no further explanation]
Fei glanced at the barrage for a few seconds and then looked away again. He took off the disguise of the non-player character, used the space conversion prop, and raised the tip of the knife to point forward before he stood still. The next moment, branches and vines wrapped around it, clinging to the blade to prevent him from getting any closer.
"Why are you here too? Are you here for the potion?" The magician took a few steps back to increase the distance. If it was just Que and the Operations Department, it wouldn't be difficult to deal with them, but Fei's intervention would break the balance. He analyzed the situation, and no matter how he thought about it, the result was the same.
Most of the members of U were players of the ghost story game, and had met Fei before. Even if they had never seen him, they had at least heard of this person, and they all showed an expression of seeing a ghost.
Fei, who was treated as a first-level alert, said: "Of course, but you and your companions don't seem to welcome me."
Fei was making a halfhearted joke. On the other side, Chen Que, who had just finished dealing with the situation, came over. Without being rude in front of outsiders, he skillfully cheered up his friend: "Oh, if they don't welcome us, then we should welcome them. How could we be so indifferent?"
Xie Jianshan, who was always looking for trouble, responded, "Welcome, welcome."
magician:"……"
Other members of U: “…”
You're bullying us, right? You talk as if you won't beat us up.
Fei turned his gaze and saw that there seemed to be something extra in the magician's hand. Through the gaps between his fingers, he could vaguely make out the shape of a sphere. He realized something and immediately turned his head to warn Shen Que, but unfortunately he couldn't say anything.
The sudden smoke enveloped everyone, catching them off guard. The pungent smell made people cough uncontrollably, and after inhaling it, they felt extremely dizzy and weak. Fei and Shen Que, who were aware of the opponent's situation, were not affected at all.
The thick gas made his visual range extremely narrow. Fei couldn't see anything around him. He shouted, "I want to know his location! Tell me where he is!"
A deep and precise voice sounded in the private communication immediately afterwards, giving sufficiently accurate information. Fei quickly moved towards the direction he mentioned. He did not use a dagger this time. These people in U knew that he could not go too far, and the knife could only serve as a slight deterrent.
Fei stretched out his hand and suddenly grabbed the collar of the person in front of him. When he pulled him towards him, he saw his face clearly. After confirming that it was the magician, he clenched his other free hand into a fist and suddenly swung it out in a brutal move without any force.
After the man fainted, Fei finally released his grip on his collar and began searching for the potion on his body. He then told Shen Que, "I've got the things. I'll go to the cultivation building first. You stay here."
U's target is ghost stories. They want to control the subject's consciousness. To do this, potions are also indispensable. After all, this is one of the factors for the arrival of the consciousness.
After Fei finished explaining the rest on the communication channel, he went to the training building first. The injection needle of the liquid medicine was thrown into the panel backpack. He had a hunch that the rest of the U members should be here.
And things were indeed pretty much as he thought.
He didn't recognize the few people he encountered, not even their code names, and they had never interacted with him. Yet, they were quite excited to see him. Fei simply chalked it up to the eagerness of seeing his enemy ready to fight, and then he stepped forward and knocked them down.
Fei's ruthless series of actions stunned the system. It tried to subtly hint from an indirect angle: "Is there a possibility... they're waiting here to ambush you, but not just to stop you."
Fei was puzzled: "Then what are you waiting for here? Are you slacking off and planning to leave work early?"
system:【……】
System: [I say, is your reputation in the Kwaidan game just exaggerated?]
Fei: "Yeah, it was blown out by Shen Que."
System: [……] Hahaha, it really is.
After a while, Fei arrived at his destination. He pushed open the door in front of him, and the cold color of the laboratory came into view. It was a pure white that was so clean that it was almost sickly. Whether it was the instruments displayed in the room or the connecting wires, they were all the same white.
This laboratory is very spacious, so large that it can be said to be composed of several laboratories of the research institute.
The huge container in the center quietly carries the only life.
The dark green liquid flowed silently, causing countless infusion tubes to sway gently, forming a striking contrast with the man's pale skin. His long black eyelashes seemed to be about to tremble, so real that it didn't seem like the embodiment of consciousness in a ghost story.
Fei knew that the real source of the few polluting consciousnesses was "players".
The player's freedom is in the hands of the game's overall system, which has the power to decide the destination of the dead player's soul, whether it disappears or becomes part of the ghost story.
The consequence for most players who fail to pass the level is that they are devoured by the consciousness and become its nutrients. Some players' consciousness will completely disappear, while some players' consciousness will replace the main consciousness.
This player is the latter.
Fei had met her when he was a rookie, and they had worked together twice. She was smart and calm enough, and it was she who found out the key rules in the dungeon at that time. He had thought that they might work together again in the future, but he didn't expect that they would meet again in this contaminated dungeon.
The difficulty of the contaminated copy is too high, and many high-level players who have once been in the limelight have died here. She is also the only player whose consciousness is still retained and has not been assimilated. Because she cannot bear to see the loss of life again, she chooses to take the initiative to send players away from here.
If it weren't for the original setting of the copy, which required the consciousness to be injected with potions in order to pass the level, she wouldn't have been in a coma for the first half.
Fei still felt that she was a human being, and her indomitable will and the good side of human nature had not disappeared.
The malice that pollutes the world is too thick, and the players who are assimilated will no longer have a self and will become true monsters.
But miracles still exist.
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