Chapter 89
"Last night, Yu and Xiaorui completed the construction of the basic framework. Xiaorui left an entrance in the main world to ensure that we can teleport there at any time."
Ten days in the morning, behind the shutter door on the first floor of the puppet shop in another world, the lights were bright and several people were sitting around synchronizing intelligence.
"What's the situation in the main world?" Pei Zhao asked.
"The attacks are still going on. According to Xiaorui, those creatures are from higher planes and their factions are unknown." Sudi said quickly while replying to Yu's message.
"What does camp mean?" Bai Zhou frowned.
Sudi glanced at Bai Zhou and said, "According to relevant records, there are as many as nine complete camps, and each camp has its representative god."
"...Then which gods started the war this time?" Bai Zhou asked.
"Yu said that those who have appeared now don't look like gods from higher planes, but more like their subordinates. The appearance of gods has a lot to do with their positions." Sudi said.
"Those guys are so ugly, they must not be upright gods!" Bai Zhou said.
"Probably." Sudi nodded. "If it's a god from the good camp, it's not so bad. There's still a chance to communicate. But if it's an evil or chaotic god, basically all they think about is killing."
Pei Zhao was flipping through a book in his hand, which Sudi had brought over this morning. The cover read "Cthulhu Mythos".
Pei Zhao frowned.
That ancient and mysterious door has always been a stone weighing on his heart.
Cthulhu Mythos?
I always feel that...
"Do all the gods in the higher planes follow the Western civilization? Is this a confirmed thing?" Pei Zhao shook the book in his hand and asked.
Sudi turned to look at him: "...I'm not completely sure, but, looking at the appearance of those monsters yesterday, they seemed to be similar to those in Western civilization?"
Pei Zhao lowered his head and did not comment.
Those monsters do look more reliable than a door.
"Zhao Zhao has any other ideas?" Lan Ji asked.
Pei Zhao hesitated and shook his head.
The most urgent thing is to determine the action, there is no need to dwell on these small things.
Pei Zhao looked at Sudi: "Sudi, please continue."
Sudi didn't understand, so he continued, "The completion of the basic framework means that our original transmission channels cannot be used." Sudi paused, looking at the obvious puzzled expressions on the faces of a group of people, and had to stop his endless discussion.
"Is there something you don't understand?"
"...Um," Bai Zhou raised his hand and scratched his ear, "Can I ask what we are going to do next? I can't understand what these channels are transmitting."
"Break up a fight, or join the war."
Pei Zhao's heart suddenly trembled, last night's guess became a fact.
"Participate in the war? With those gods? Us?" Bai Zhou turned around and looked at the crowd. They obviously didn't have the ability...
"We'd better find a way to get into the system center. We need Xiaorui and others to help us make a virtual shell and blend in." Sudi said.
"..." Everyone looked as if they didn't understand.
"..."Sudi also fell silent. He also memorized what Yu said to him.
"...Let's go over and take a look first, just for fun." Pei Zhao sighed.
Everyone nodded.
Sudi sighed, and the tense expression on his face relaxed a little. He said lightly: "Well, relax."
Pei Zhao communicated with Xiao Rui and teleported everyone into the system world. A white light flashed, and a completely new world appeared before everyone's eyes.
"Oh my god, this is cyberpunk!" Bai Zhou exclaimed.
Pei Zhao was also amazed. When Xiao Rui came to see him before, he created a beautiful scene with stars flowing in the sky. But now that he entered the system world, it was still the cyberpunk style.
Except for Pei Zhao, everyone saw Xiao Rui for the first time.
The girl with the standard model face was very cute. Fortunately, almost everyone present had a family, and none of them showed the legendary "straight male gaze".
"This is the channel we have temporarily built. Before, you could be directly transferred to the other world. In fact, you used the bridge that was originally assumed to be between the worlds. We directly helped everyone to travel through the engine," Xiao Rui explained. "But now, because of the battle situation in the main world, we will be cleared. After assuming this platform, we will not be cleared by the original host..."
As they were talking, everyone had already passed through the long corridor and arrived at a wide area that looked like the main city area.
There were many people dressed like Xiaorui, walking around.
Pei Zhao looked around.
This is an area shaped like the main city, surrounded by a green "moat" of unknown depth. There is a three-story hollow building in the center, and there are bridges extending outward on each floor. These bridges extend outward and spread to the surrounding walls. Pei Zhao initially thought that the surrounding walls were bumpy, until now he discovered that they were not.
Those potholes are connected by bridges, like the tall buildings in the mountain city, lighting up thousands of homes.
"In such a short time...even the residential area has been built?" Pei Zhao said softly.
Everything around me didn't look like it was newly built, but rather it looked like it had been completed a long time ago...
Pei Zhao felt vaguely uneasy, and suddenly he felt someone holding his hand.
“There is a problem.”
It was Zhou Yuli's voice.
Pei Zhao immediately turned his head to look at him, while Zhou Yuli was still looking straight ahead. It seemed that he was the only one who noticed what he had just said, while no one else paid any attention to him.
"Do you think so too?" Pei Zhao moved closer to Zhou Yuli and spoke to him as closely as possible.
"Yeah." Zhou Yuli still looked forward. The two followed Xiao Rui as they approached the central building. Gradually, there was a lot of noise around them.
Xiao Rui stopped at the foot of the central building, turned around and said to everyone with a gentle face: "This is the center of our system city. All systems are housed here."
"...There are so many?" Bai Zhou was surprised.
"Yeah." Xiao Rui gave a standard smile.
"Are they all... systems that control puppeteers?"
However, there were sounds of children playing from above, Bai Zhou was puzzled: "Are these children too?"
The smile on Xiaorui's face froze for a second, but soon returned to normal: "Those are the children born by some hosts."
"You guys are helping the host raise children?" Bai Zhou was a little excited, "So you guys can live here too?"
The smile on Rui's face almost disappeared, and he simply changed it into a confused expression, "I'm not sure about this..."
"You live here, and we've saved so many of them, so you shouldn't be so uncertain, right?"
Xiao Rui gritted his teeth: "...That should be possible."
"Great!" Bai Zhou clapped his hands, "Then apply for three houses for us!"
"...The food and things we use here may be different from the real world..." Xiao Rui was still struggling.
"It's okay. We just need a short period of time to rest so that we can better fight on the battlefield." Bai Zhou didn't give Xiao Rui any chance to refuse, and said, "This should also be helpful to our common goal, right?"
Bai Zhou's words were flawless, so Xiao Rui had no choice but to agree.
"...Okay, then I will select three connected rooms for you and send them to you later." Xiao Rui agreed with some frustration, "The next transmission channel should be opened tonight, you can... take a look here now."
"Are there any precautions?" Pei Zhao, who had not spoken for a long time, asked.
"Try not to enter the transmission area. The current structure is unstable. You need to be careful not to be accidentally transmitted."
Xiao Rui left after saying this.
Pei Zhao looked at Xiao Rui's receding figure and looked at Bai Zhou: "Are you deliberately bothering her to test her attitude?"
Bai Zhou raised his eyebrows, "Of course." Bai Zhou hooked his fingers to gather everyone together, "Don't you think she is weird? She seems to be very kind to us, but she is always profitable."
Pei Zhao smiled: "It is precisely because we are useful to them that they come to us."
"Tsk." Bai Zhou said disdainfully, "If it's just a favor, then forget it. I'm worried that what they want may not be that simple. Lan, what do you think?"
Lan Ji had been looking at those high-rise residential buildings since the beginning. Hearing this, he retracted his gaze and looked at Pei Zhao: "Those should not be human children."
Everyone was stunned.
Xiao Rui just told them that those were the children born by the host, and they were handed over to the system to help take care of them.
Pei Zhao was very interested: "How do you say that?"
"It feels like..." Lan Ji frowned, looking uncertain, "The human children I've seen don't play in such a rigid way."
The kindergarten affiliated to Hua University is right next to the school. Children often come to the open space in front of the puppet shop to play. Lan Ji has never heard of those ways of playing, and they are completely different from the clips in movies and TV dramas.
But the children in the residential building seem to have a fixed pattern in their noise.
If it’s not the host’s child, could it be the system’s?
Pei Zhao had a slight headache and rubbed his solar plexus.
Seeing this, Zhou Yuli stepped forward and held Pei Zhao's waist, and said to everyone: "There is still some time, everyone can go shopping, and gather here in three hours."
They were at the only gap in the moat leading to the main city, which was very conspicuous and perfect for gathering.
"Okay." Everyone agreed.
So, Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli were in one group, Bai Zhou and Lan Ji were in another group, and Su Di was left alone...
Sudi shrugged, his face showing indifference.
"I'll find a place to have coffee and keep in touch anytime." Sudi left in a daze.
Bai Zhou pulled Lan Ji and said, "Let's go and see what fun things there are here!"
Lan Ji originally wanted to say something to Pei Zhao and the others, but was pulled away by Bai Zhou.
Lan Ji turned around and said, "Zhao Zhao, let's talk later."
Pei Zhao nodded, and until the two figures disappeared, Pei Zhao withdrew his gaze.
"You understand me very well, Xiao Zhou." Pei Zhao rubbed his temples, "It really feels like a headache."
Zhou Yuli pulled Pei Zhao's temples back and said, "Don't worry, baby."
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