Chapter 262: Isolated from the World
(with 19.5w nutrient solution plus update)
Currently, Tang Yatong is the only one who has obtained the Easter egg fragment - memory fragment by opening the precious treasure box. They found that as the number of treasure boxes found increases, the more boxes are opened, the probability of getting better items will also decrease.
Just like on the first day, Tang Yatong got two precious treasure boxes, which opened a ticket for the team to upgrade the bunk and an Easter egg fragment respectively.
But after that, she opened the precious treasure box again, and the best item she got was a single-site unlimited currency opening ticket.
As for Youxi, she once thought that her luck had run out after the ticket was issued on the first day. After all, she had not opened any good items from the precious treasure box in the days that followed, including the Easter egg fragments she was looking forward to.
But now, she found that her luck was not over yet.
She actually dug up a rare treasure box!
Obviously, such rare treasure boxes are limited to the entire site. She didn't know how many there were in total, but according to the number of days the snow treasure hunting mode was turned on, the probability of obtaining rare treasure boxes, and the number of remaining treasure boxes in the entire site, the total number should not exceed ten, and it may be less.
Before she received it, Lin Wu also saw this special color box, and his first reaction was to look around vigilantly.
Fortunately, they were always cautious. Although they had a low chance of losing if they were to face other travelers, they were still used to digging in remote corners. Snow was everywhere anyway, so it didn't matter where they dug.
"It's almost six o'clock, let's go back first." Lin Wu was also curious about what the rare treasure box would reveal, so he stopped digging, put away the multi-purpose shovel, and walked towards the campsite with Youxi.
Opening a box means accepting a challenge.
After an ordinary box is opened, small ice and snow monsters will generally appear nearby. They look different and have different skills. Some are fast, and some have thick blood, but they are still easy to deal with.
After a precious box is opened, the box opener will enter a secondary space and face a variety of challenges. Most of them are physical, and they will play some text traps. As long as you can pass the level, there is no limit on the method.
The four of Youxi usually rely on their strong attacking power to go straight through the level. Of course, they will occasionally encounter more difficult challenges and cannot rely entirely on force, but fortunately, as long as they open the treasure box they have found, there will be no punishment for failing the challenge, but they will not be able to get the prize.
Of course, you may get injured during the challenge, and there are also some travelers who are still unwilling to give up the challenge after being injured, and eventually die in the process of the challenge.
This kind of people, like the travelers who snatch and open other people's treasure boxes, will become trees and stay at this station forever.
So, now Youxi is going to open the rare treasure box. The only thing the other people told her was to give up if she couldn't pass it. It's better to lose the prize than to risk her life.
"Understood." Youxi nodded and clicked to confirm the box opening.
**
This is her forty-fifth day at the Bainiao Lake Station. Because she is obsessed with digging and opening boxes every day, she has never found the hidden station and she is in trouble.
The entire Bainiao Lake Park has been completely covered with ice and snow. The temperature during the day is around minus 50 degrees Celsius, and sometimes it drops below minus 60 degrees Celsius at night. The fire cannot be extinguished for a moment, and the drinking water is almost used up.
Someone had nothing to burn, so she went outside to chop trees. As a result, blood splattered out with one axe, and the tree in front of her cried out in a chilling way...
On the 55th day, there was still no news about the station, and she and other passengers fell into despair.
After the countdown ended, they turned into trees in the blizzard and were left in White Bird Lake forever...
At some point, when she regained consciousness, she found herself a plant wall standing on the platform. She seemed to have lost her humanity, and her mind was full of malice. She stared at the passengers getting off the train, looking at their panicked or frightened faces, and just wanted to kill them together. Left behind...
Surrounded by tree people like her, the maze game began. They finally got rid of the fate of being played by others and became part of the game, teasing the tourists at will, watching them wandering around and getting trapped and collapsed, and finally stretching out branches to roll them into the plant wall, making them nutrients for the tree people...
Deep in the plant wall, there were entangled dead bones everywhere.
She heard a voice repeatedly ringing in her ears, asking her to replenish nutrients quickly, otherwise she would die soon, and when that time came, she would really die.
She felt that the malice in her mind was expanding infinitely, like a cancer attached to her bones, bit by bit devouring her remaining consciousness.
She heard herself speak, but she didn't know who she was talking to: "Is there really any point in continuing to live like this?
...Humans are human not just for survival.
Death is not that scary. What's scary is to linger on like dead...
It's meaningless to rely on sucking the flesh and blood of others to continue your existence..."
- So, in order to let others survive, you have to give up killing and choose death? Do you really want to die? Are you willing to die?
The voice asked the same question over and over in her ear, as if it wanted to completely overwhelm her conscious thinking.
"Death? Why should I choose? Other people's lives belong to others, and I have no right to plunder them. But my life is my own, and nothing can determine my choice! My
life is only decided by myself, who are you? What qualifications do you have?"
Those malicious intentions still affect her, but they did not make her crazy in the face of the threat of extinction.
These malicious intentions only made her more angry, and made her see more clearly who really put her in this situation!
Not other travelers, not humans with heartbeats and emotions like her!
The culprit is this game itself! It turns innocent humans into a member of the game, giving them fear and temptation, drawing out their evil, and leading them to fight each other!
The anger turned into a blazing flame, as if something was burning in her body. The flames engulfed her and soon spread to the entire plant maze, then to the platform, and even to the darkness outside the platform...
She would never accept the choices given by others in her own life!
It wouldn't let her live, it forced her to choose between death and becoming a villain, so she would drag it to destruction together, this was her answer to it!
She heard a shrill scream, as if it came from the endless void, and the voice that tempted her became a little angry: What did you do! ? Stop, stop, stop! Stop now...
Youxi ignored it.
——Didn't you hear me telling you to stop? Are you crazy? ...
——Stop it... Woohoo, this is just a challenge level, it's all fake...
——You can pass it no matter what you choose, as long as you can make the most authentic choice in your heart...
——Cowardice, hesitation, and hypocrisy will lead to failure...
——Don't burn it, or I'll be gone...
With these words, the blazing platform spread out like a broken mirror and then disappeared.
Youxi fell from mid-air, still holding the flaming [High Temperature Perfume] tightly in her hand. She found herself standing on a huge snow beast, and half of its body had been melted into snow water by the high temperature flames... She
remembered that she was not trapped in the White Bird Lake Station, nor did she become a tree man. She just dug up a rare treasure box and opened it.
This is a world of challenging levels, but unlike opening a precious treasure box, this is the world of nightmare beasts, which use ice and snow to create illusions and play with people's hearts.
"Is it so easy to pass the level?" Youxi still didn't believe it. She raised her hand, wanting to burn the opponent clean once and for all, and end the challenge with the previous method of passing the level.
The nightmare beast screamed and shook its remaining body, kicking her out of its own world: "Too cruel! I told you that you have passed the level! This is a reward - take it!"
She seemed to be grabbed by an invisible hand and forcibly dragged away from the ice and snow world. Along with her, a dazzling gem also flew away.
She reached out to catch it, and the gem shone brightly in her hand. She closed her eyes in this light.
**
When she opened her eyes again, she was met with three faces surrounding her.
It was already dark, and outside the translucent shield, heavy snow was still falling. The temperature of the camp in the shield was maintained at around minus five degrees. After spending nearly fifty days in the low-temperature world in the illusion, the temperature at this moment was warm for her.
"Are you okay?" You Zhenzhen looked worried, "You've been unconscious for more than two hours. I was scared to death..."
"It's okay." You Xi sat up slowly and found herself lying on a reclining chair with a thick velvet blanket carefully covered her body.
The windproof lamp hanging in front of the tent was emitting a warm orange light. On the camping table next to it, the induction stove was steaming. The small campsite was filled with the aroma of bone soup.
You Xi's tense mood slowly relaxed.
Fortunately, she was not alone here. Her family and friends were around her. They had sufficient supplies, and they had the same goals and beliefs.
No one or anything was qualified to make them choose between killing and death.
"I have spent fifty days in the illusion, but only two hours in reality?" You Xi was suddenly stunned as she said this.
Illusion and reality? She woke up from the illusion, so is what she is in now really reality?
Just like she woke up from a dream, how can she be sure that she is not in another dream?
Vaguely, she always felt that she had touched the truth of this world, but this feeling was too faint and soon dissipated.
"Have you passed the level?" Tang Yatong asked from the side, and then she noticed her clenched right hand.
You Xi nodded, then followed the other person's line of sight to look at her own right hand. There was no shining gem there, only her own mobile phone.
The phone vibrated.
Congratulations on passing the rare treasure box challenge level!
Congratulations on receiving the rare treasure box reward: Site Reset Ticket (one-time use)
**
The explanation of the reward from the rare treasure box was so simple that she and her friends spent a whole day thinking about it but still couldn't figure out what the "Site Reset Ticket" resets.
Is it resetting the countdown?
Or resetting the entire site?
What kind of situation counts as resetting the site?
If it's just resetting the countdown on the phone, will the days that have passed be erased and restarted, or is it just a continuation in time?
In addition, if it's just resetting the countdown, will it be effective for her alone, or for the entire team?
With so many unclear things, Youxi couldn't use this "Site Reset Ticket" easily.
She would temporarily put this reward in the reserve area, in case they really encountered a completely irreversible danger in the endless train world one day, this would be the last resort.
After that, the blizzard kept coming and going, and the temperature continued to drop.
Most of the ordinary tourists in Bainiao Lake Ecological Park have been evacuated, and most of the remaining people are staff members of the scenic area. Bainiao Peak has experienced two avalanches, the severity of which was not as severe as the first avalanche, but it has been completely designated as a restricted area.
Now most of the villas in the park are empty. The tourists who were originally scattered around Bainiao Lake due to vigilance or other reasons could not bear the severe low temperature and basically moved into the villas to live.
The staff were puzzled by this, not understanding where these people came from when most of the tourists had been evacuated. They tried to persuade them to evacuate, but were either turned away and completely ignored, or were chased away fiercely.
As the blizzard intensified, problems arose with the heating pipes in the park. The heating was intermittent, and several inspections failed to fully restore it. This incident made the remaining staff panic. The
temperature dropped sharply that day, with the daytime temperature falling below minus 40 degrees Celsius. The staff could not bear it anymore. They were also human beings with families. In this situation, saving their lives was naturally the most important thing.
The mountain road was blocked again. The rescuers took advantage of the suspension of the wind and snow and drove a large helicopter directly into the mountain, leaving behind the last batch of supplies, and then took all the remaining staff away.
The situation outside is not very good now. Cities large and small in the north have been hit by low temperatures and blizzards. Disasters are frequent, and rescue operations are overwhelmed. It is already very good to leave a batch of supplies for the tourists in the park who refused to evacuate.
With the departure of the helicopter and the last batch of indigenous people, it also means that the Bainiao Lake station has temporarily cut off contact with the outside world.
On this day, when the four people from Youxi packed up their things in their small camp and prepared to find a villa to move in, their mobile phones updated the information.
Tip: The current station "Bainiao Lake" has been upgraded from B level to A level.
**
Site countdown: 38 days, 10 hours, 12 minutes and 24 seconds
An avalanche hit Bai Niao Mountain again. This time, in addition to the avalanche, the entire mountain was also shaking.
Soon, someone discovered that the terrain at the foot of Bai Niao Mountain had changed. When You Xi and Tang Yatong went to explore nearby, they found a cave they had never seen before. There was steam and sulfur in the cave - that was the smell of hot springs.
Almost the moment she stepped into the cave, her long-silent Easter egg fragments gave new clues.
Finally, she found a blooming white snow lotus somewhere in the cave and successfully obtained the second memory fragment.
In the picture, she saw herself sitting in a car, which was suspended on the top of a very tall building. There were several people in the car. After the door opened, she got off with the others. A team of people who looked like security personnel led them into the building and took the elevator to a high-tech-looking floor.
In the room on the left side of the corridor on this floor, adult-sized metal beds were lined up against the wall. There was a three-dimensional light screen next to each metal bed. Some beds were already occupied, while some were still empty.
Someone came up to pull her and took her through the corridor to another room. The room was very small, with no windows and only a bed. On the bed were white clothes. The style of the clothes was exactly the same as the ones worn by the people lying on the metal bed just now...
The memory fragment ended here. You Xi felt that this might be a very crucial memory.
Tang Yatong frowned: "So, do you think this memory might be the scene before you entered the endless train world?"
"No, that should also be the scene that happened in the endless train world. Every world we go to is a mission world, and the endless train world is the same. Then there must be a reason that makes this world the end of the world. Could the place we are in now be the reason that causes this world to become the end of the world?"
"You want to say, consciousness invasion?"
"It's possible, but looking at the situation at that time, I should have entered that place voluntarily, so I can't be 100% sure."
There were not many clues, and the discussion was interrupted again.
Before the two planned to leave the hot spring cave, Tang Yatong suggested trying whether there would be a hidden station here, but unfortunately, the confirmation was unsuccessful.
But even if this is not a hidden station, the appearance of the hot spring still makes other tourists very happy. When Youxi and Tang Yatong left the hot spring cave, several waves of tourists who got the news were rushing here.
Nowadays, the daytime temperature in Bainiao Lake Scenic Area is close to minus 50 degrees. Even some tourists who have strengthened their physical fitness can't stand it as soon as they leave the room. At this time, a warm spring-like space (zero to five degrees) and a place that can avoid blizzards suddenly appeared. In the eyes of tourists, it is completely a miracle. In
such a place, it is completely imaginable that there will be disputes soon. In this regard, Youxi and the other four naturally hid as far away as possible.
The villa they are staying in is far away from the lake area and the forest area, and close to the leisure area.
The heating in the shops in the recreation area was not as good as that in the villa area, and it was cut off early in the morning. In addition, the shops were not as comfortable as the villas, so there was basically no one here - except for Lu Yong's team.
Because their team lived close to Youxi's team when they were camping, they had several exchanges.
The first time was when the other party couldn't help it, and shamelessly moved a box of instant noodles over, hesitatingly saying that he wanted to exchange it for a box of fried chicken, and didn't know if she was willing.
Youxi looked at the young boys in the other camp who stretched their necks and looked expectant, and accepted the instant noodles. In addition to giving the other party a box of fried chicken, she also gave them a family bucket meal.
That day, Lu Yong's small camp was happy as if it was New Year's Day. They gathered around the fire, roasting the fire to heat the fried chicken, and sharing the family bucket.
Afterwards, Lu Yong probably felt embarrassed for taking an extra bucket from her, so he sent them two large bags of beef jerky, saying that they had the most of this type of dry food, and that they could bring it back next time if they wanted to eat it.
The four people from Youxi were all people who interacted with each other, and a few days later, when he was eating spicy hot pot, he also sent a portion to the other party.
The other party did not think that they had a good relationship with them because of these food exchanges, and they always kept a certain distance afterwards - this distance, to a certain extent, actually made both parties feel more at ease.
So later, when Youxi and his friends moved to a new place, they also said hello to each other and said that they would move to a villa.
A day later, Lu Yong's team quietly moved into another small villa not far from them with a fireplace for heating. Just like the previous camping in the wild, they kept a safe distance.
**
The heating in the villa where Youxi and his team lived had been cut off a long time ago, but because of You Zhenzhen's strapped weapons and Youxi's gasoline generator, the shield was almost turned on 24 hours a day, tightly covering the outside of the small villa, becoming a bug-like existence.
The villa is very small, divided into two floors, with an area of only about 60 square meters on a single floor. The downstairs restaurant is connected to the kitchen, living room, and bathroom, and the upstairs is an open bedroom with a glass terrace and a large bathroom with dry and wet separation.
Due to the structure of the house, three girls lived upstairs, while Lin Wu lived alone on the sofa downstairs.
Youxi placed a gasoline generator at the stairs, so that both upstairs and downstairs could use electricity at any time. The temperature in the house was maintained at around 5 to 10 degrees. In addition to the shield, there were also several electric heaters.
In addition, another reason for them to choose this villa was that there was an indoor electric water heater in the large bathroom upstairs, with a capacity of 100L.
Now it was snowing outside, and the water pipes had long been frozen. Other travelers relied on melting snow for daily water use, which was very primitive.
Youxi can release warm clean water directly into the electric water heater, and then adjust the insulation temperature of the electric water heater to about 37 degrees, so that they can have warm clean water flowing out as long as they turn on the tap for daily water use, which is much more convenient than living in a tent.
If there is anything inconvenient, the only problem is the shield. Now the temperature outside is too low, and the shield outside the villa must be kept on. It is fine when You Zhenzhen is in the villa, but when she is out, Lin Wu and Tang Yatong have to take over.
But the shields of both people will consume defense value. Although it is not much in a day, Youxi can't help feeling a little distressed after a long time.
So under the current circumstances, You Zhenzhen will stay in the villa except for digging treasure boxes every day, and go out to dig as quickly as possible, so as to save the other two people.
The villa was covered by a shield. No other travelers noticed it at first, but after a while, someone noticed something was wrong. After all, the shield was dim and invisible during the day, but visible at night.
Several travelers came to the villa to cause trouble. Some of them were soft-hearted and negotiated, saying they would help each other. They would open the shield and let them stay in the villa, and they would give them some supplies every day as room fees. After
being rejected, they immediately turned hostile and started fighting.
Some of them started fighting as soon as they arrived without saying a word.
For passengers who attack from close range, You Zhenzhen will directly launch electric shocks outside the shield. It is best if the opponent can run away. If not, he will be swept by Tang Yatong's MP5. For passengers who attack from a distance
, Tang Yatong will directly sweep them. With unlimited bullets and unlimited shields, it is hard to find bugs.
Of course, tower defense battles have advantages and disadvantages. For example, during the days when they were frequently harassed by passengers, none of the four of them could go out to dig for boxes.
Fortunately, they were calm and knew the priorities. In addition, at this time, because of their previous efforts, everyone had already opened a ticket from the precious treasure box, so they did not insist on going out for ten boxes every day.
After a while, with the third and fourth treasure hunts, more and more tourists were qualified to dig for treasure boxes. They were busy digging and opening boxes, facing challenges, and obtaining resources, and gradually stopped bothering them.
Station countdown: 29 days, 17 hours, 33 minutes, 25 seconds
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