"...I'll try to interpret the meaning of this side quest."
Su Qiong faced the giant slime and said numbly, "The dungeon NPC is almost dead. We need to rescue him if we want to get clues. But Mr. S has a strong tendency to self-destruct. Once he is free, he will kill everyone in the dungeon, including us."
"Yeah." A's handsome face was speechless.
Su Jing was silent.
He knew the system was a shit, but he didn't expect the shit system would leave him no chance of survival.
There are two paths before them, and no matter which one they choose, the ending will be death.
"A, what do you think now?" Su Jing asked the players for their opinions.
"Save." A made the choice immediately without hesitation.
Whether you save him or not, the outcome is death.
But if you rescue Mr. S, you can get clues, but if you don't rescue him, you can only stay in the copy and wait to die.
"Well, a new difficulty has arisen."
Su Jian looked at the huge slime that filled the entire ward and was expanding rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He looked down at himself, the weak and useless one, and A, who was so awesome but had his skills and weapons disabled during the day.
What can we do to save him?
Even if A can use skills, more than 40,000 points converted into levels are about level 23 or 24.
The world of "IF" has strict upgrade standards, and the higher the level, the harder it is to upgrade.
A one-level difference in strength between high-level players may result in a huge difference in strength, not to mention that A is a full seven levels away from the dungeon NPC.
You know, upgrading NPCs is more difficult than upgrading players.
The dungeon NPC was nearly killed by the slime, and the two of them rashly rushed over to rescue him, but accidentally got themselves dragged into it.
"How to save him?" Su Jing asked.
A's eyebrows were knotted, and he was also lost in thought.
In the world of "IF", level and skills are far more important than physical fitness.
No matter how powerful his physical skills are, he cannot make up for the gap of seven levels.
"The data you scanned is just the data of the dungeon NPC that was devoured by it, not the slime itself." Su Qiong, relying on his understanding of the system, made a reasonable analysis. "There are two possibilities for not being able to scan the slime. First, its level is much higher than yours, and it can hide its data from level 23 players."
Su Jian immediately added, "But that's impossible. According to the rules, only those with a level difference of more than 20 can be authorized to hide information. In a dungeon, the dungeon NPC is the combat ceiling. Mr. S is only level 30, and the slime in his dungeon cannot obtain energy above level 43."
A asked: "What about the second possibility?"
"Slime is not an NPC, but an objective entity. Similar to walls, glass, and hospital beds." Su Qiong stretched out the bandage and carefully touched the surface of the slime, then quickly retracted his hand before it counterattacked.
"I guess it really is a piece of slime."
Following the clues provided by Su Qiong, A murmured, "Slime, a semi-liquid toy, its main component is water."
"Water, water...water should be afraid of fire." A pressed his eyebrows together, his tone helpless, "There is no fire in the hospital, only endless water."
This hospital regards water as life, so the slimes that rely on water can have huge bodies.
A entered the dungeon for four days and never saw any firing.
"Are you sure fire can deal with it?" Su Jian retrieved some information and came up with a bold idea. "You humans have a theory that all things are interdependent and mutually exclusive. Water and fire mutually exclusive, but they can also mutually generate each other."
Su Jing looked outside the hospital. It was almost noon and the scorching sun was burning the earth.
He withdrew his gaze and observed the other wards on the same floor.
After their outpatient appointments, the inpatients returned to their rooms for a nap. Before going to sleep, each of them clutched a glass thermos filled with water.
"I have a way that might work. But you'll need to hold that monster back for a while." Su Jing looked at Mr. S who was being swallowed, feeling somewhat worried.
A paid close attention to Su Jing, probably guessed what he was thinking, and slowly rolled up his sleeves.
"Half an hour, is that enough?"
"That's enough!" Su Jing left the battlefield to A and quietly slipped into other wards.
After sneaking into the ward, Su Jian immediately collected materials on the spot and found an object of similar size to the thermos cup. He cut the camouflage cloak into pieces and wrapped it around the object, pretending it was a thermos cup.
While the mimic NPCs were not paying attention, Su Jing took the transparent thermos cups from their arms.
Cloaks can only deceive players and NPCs, but cannot deceive objective objects.
Considering the huge size of the monster slime, Su Jing stole all the transparent water cups in the inpatient department.
In just a few minutes, the cape that Yu Qi Miao gave him was cut into tatters.
Su Jing put on a cloak, feeling nothing inside, but now he felt inexplicably distressed.
He ignored his own little emotions and returned to Ward A panting, holding the thermos cup.
A removed the door panel next door with his bare hands, blocking the only exit of the ward and preventing the slime from escaping.
Slime is mobile and its body is as flexible as that of Sujian.
Even if A blocked the door, it could still squeeze out from the gap, and the sticky liquid wrapped around A's hands, ankles, and neck...
More and more sticky liquid overflowed from the crack in the door, as if it was going to swallow A whole.
When the slime monster was born, no one knew what ingredients were mixed in.
A's exposed skin will feel burning and stinging as soon as the slime crawls over it.
Where the slime had devoured, the surface of the skin quickly festered, the wounds turning bluish-black. Deeper blood vessels melted, but no blood flowed out.
To be precise, before the blood flows out of the blood vessels, it is greedily absorbed by the slime and becomes a part of its body.
Seeing his miserable state, Su Jian was filled with worry, "Your condition is very bad, let me take over..."
"It's very powerful, you can't stop it." A interrupted him and pressed the door panel tightly. "Hurry up, I may not last more than half an hour."
Upon hearing this, Su Jing didn't bother to speak and tried his best to open the window, allowing the sunlight to pour into the hospital corridor unimpeded.
He raised his index finger, first confirming the angle of the sun, then placed the thermos cups in a certain pattern and fixed them with bandages.
A thermos cup filled with water has the ability to reflect sunlight.
Coupled with the cylindrical shape, it can have the effect of magnification and focusing.
Su Qiong quickly calculated in his mind and placed each thermos cup in the most suitable position, allowing the sunlight to pass through dozens of cups and focus on one point on the door panel.
"Hmm." A groaned.
The slime expanded so quickly that the sticky liquid had already corroded its hospital gown and was rapidly approaching its internal organs.
"There's not enough light now, just hold on for two more minutes." Su Jing looked out the window anxiously.
At the critical moment, a cloud floated in the sky, blocking most of the sunlight.
Su Jing tightened the bandage and briefly thought about it. For the first time in his life, he had the thought of becoming stronger.
If he reaches the level of an NPC in the circle, he can control the sky. Now, let alone the clouds, he can even pull down the sun and set it on fire.
etc.
If he had reached that level, why would he bother with a mere slime?
"Scatter quickly!" Su Jing saw A's body being swallowed up, and he was so anxious that he uttered an angry cry, turning into an exploding marshmallow.
As soon as the words fell, the cloud seemed to understand what he said and really dispersed, and the sun shone on the earth again.
Su Jing focused the light source and planned to light the wooden door panel first.
But solid wood door panels were more difficult to burn. Su Jian focused the fire for half a minute, but only black and gray marks appeared on the surface.
A had been eaten half by the slime and looked miserable, but his condition was more relaxed than before and he even had the leisure to laugh at Su Jing.
"You've never started a fire before? You didn't even know you needed something flammable to start a fire."
"If you hadn't told me earlier, where would I find flammable materials now?" Su Jing really had no experience in making fire. At this critical juncture, he couldn't put down the bottle and look for other flammable materials, otherwise all his efforts would be wasted.
"There's something ready in front of you." A's handsome face was gradually eroded. He seemed not to feel the pain, and smiled at Su Jing with his lips raised.
It's a pity that there is a wound on his face, so his smile looks ugly.
A ordered, "Focus on my clothes, I'll be the lead."
"clothing?"
Oh yes, Su Jian almost forgot.
There is flammable material right in front of you!
Five seconds later, Su Jian separated a bandage and moved it towards the focus of the light source.
The material of his body is very special. It burns quickly when heated and soon ignites the already hot wooden board.
The slime monster felt the heat and immediately let go of A, squirming back into the ward to avoid the flames.
A was faster than it. As soon as he got rid of the shackles, he threw the burning door panel in. By the way, he dismantled a few more door panels and window frames to add fuel to the fire.
Hearing the crackling sound of evaporating water vapor coming from the ward, Su Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief, shook the bandage vigorously, and extinguished the flame at the end.
"A large part of it was burned," Su Jing grumbled aggrievedly, "I'm sure my life will be shortened."
A struggled to come to his side, leaned against the wall with wounds all over his body, and slowly slid down to sit down.
He closed his eyes tiredly and asked calmly, "Is there any way to mend your bandage?"
"Yes, you can exchange it for repair materials in the system store." Su Jing poked the control panel and stared at the repair materials that cost 100 KPI points.
After leaving the poverty copy, Su Jian experienced firsthand what poverty was.
"oh."
A knew how the white-named NPCs obtained their KPIs, and spoke calmly:
"Come, I'll let you kill me."
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