Although the players were reluctant, in order to complete the main quest, they had to temporarily put aside their hatred and team up with the people who were fighting to the death just now.
Su Jing used the pink diamond to detect the locations of all the poachers, signaled them to hide their presence, and surrounded and subdued them from behind.
At this time, the hunter team has not yet realized that the crisis is coming.
—They had guns, real guns.
All the animals nearby were frightened by the gunshots and fled in all directions, hiding in the corners and trembling.
The remaining two or three fearless ones could not escape from so many black gun muzzles.
The hunting team, from the perspective of the abuser, is smug and searches for their next target, completely unable to predict what will happen next.
Suddenly, a large group of animals rushed over, and their species were particularly strange.
The poacher leader has been dealing with animals for decades, but he has never seen a turtle appear on the grassland, and it even jumped up to give him a big fight!
The poaching team was attacked at the same time and panicked.
They were clearly hiding in the dark, but the animals seemed to have foresight and found their location right away.
Several poachers reacted and prepared to shoot them, but the animals seemed to have intelligence and knocked their daggers off their bodies, breaking them in half.
The situation suddenly reversed, and the poaching team became prey to the animals.
The animals overpowered him and gathered together to mutter in a language they could not understand.
"There are seven of us in total. What should we do now?"
"It seems that no one has taken our identity away. Should we let them go?"
"Letting them go is too easy. These people are destroying our habitat. They must be taught a lesson."
"Habitat...you really think of yourself as an animal."
"Isn't that possible? We need to protect our shared nature!"
In the eyes of humans, all players are in the form of animals.
Therefore, even if they plot loudly, poachers will not be able to understand them.
After a heated discussion, the players reached a consensus and decided to tie up the poachers and throw them to the most dangerous areas where wild animals are found.
Even if the local beasts have no interest in them, the players who draw the beast cards today will definitely be very interested.
Su Jing and ERROR stood a little further away, thinking hard about something.
"I think something's not right," Su Jian said. "There are poachers on the grassland. This is a clue Xi Huaiji gave me. Since the system specifically mentioned this, it proves that among the poachers there must be animals that have stolen the player's identity."
ERROR agreed, "I think so too."
"But we have subdued them, why is there no reaction? Should we kill them?" Su Qi frowned and didn't really want to kill them.
Even if they were originally animals, Su Jing still couldn't bring himself to kill them.
The system is right.
After becoming an animal, I can indeed better appreciate the profound meaning of equality among all beings.
"No," ERROR said firmly, "The main quest is to regain our human identity. If we kill them, our identity will disappear, right? The system won't arrange something so contradictory."
"That's right." Su Qi nodded, his expression becoming even more distressed. "What exactly is the problem?"
He was trying to sort out the clues when suddenly, one of the feline players moved his ears and shouted, "There's another person nearby!"
"Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure. I have one of the best hearing abilities in the animal kingdom." The player closed his eyes and pointed in a certain direction. "Over there!"
"Hush, let's surround him."
In fact, there were eight people in the poaching team.
The reason why Su Jian saw seven was because one of them had just acquired the identity of a poacher and was not yet used to using □□, so he found an excuse to go to the bathroom and hid in the distance to make trouble.
The players surrounded him from all sides, pinning the 'person' to the ground. They watched as it resisted in an animalistic manner, with an expression that said, 'I finally found you, kid.'
"Hurry, hurry, hold him down!"
"Tell me, kid, whose identity did you take away?"
"...It's no use forcing him to confess. How would he know whose identity he took away?"
"That's right, then how do we get our identities back?"
After much hard work, the players finally found an animal to replace their identities, but they had no idea how to get their identities back, so they stood there helplessly.
Su Jing walked over, touched the animals on the ground, and touched three system prompts.
Players can regain their human identity by finding an animal that has replaced them. The replaced animal can be identified based on the animal's displayed traits. If a cat replaces a cat, it's definitely a cat; if a dog replaces a dog, it's definitely a dog. Once you find your target, transfer your animal's traits to them to regain your identity.
[Hint: The player replaced by this animal has died.]
[Tip: The food chain still exists among animals that have transformed into humans, and it is bidirectional. If either the replacer or the replaced dies, the mission is considered a failure.]
After seeing the first prompt, everyone was still thinking that this task was not difficult. They just needed to put their own animal characteristics on the other party without even doing anything.
When we saw the second one, everyone fell silent.
Poachers were the first humans they encountered. Before that, some players had died, which meant that they must have died in the chaos zone and were killed by the players themselves.
Killing players does not count as completing the mission, it is purely a way for them to vent their anger.
According to the rules, the identity card will not be updated after the player dies.
In other words, they found the animal to replace their identity, but were unable to complete the task.
Combined with the third tip, the food chain coexists between humans and animals and is bidirectional.
In other words, animals that become humans also have a predator-prey relationship.
If players continue to kill each other and become human animals, there is a high probability that they will do the same thing.
By then, no one will be able to leave Circle Three alive.
"Damn it! The system is so good at confusing players, making us think we have ten days to take our time searching for clues."
"We are running out of time. If we don't find a human to replace his identity quickly, he might be killed."
"The question now is, what should we do with this animal that has transformed into a human? Should we keep him forever?"
"We can use him." Su Jing said shockingly.
Everyone looked at Su Jian in unison, "Use?"
"Yes," Su Qiong replied, "Since there is also a food chain among animals that have transformed into humans, perhaps we can use him to find other 'animals'."
"Oh, yes, you are really amazing, worthy of being a system NPC."
ERROR added slowly, "His strength has nothing to do with the system."
It's just the player's external brain.
Su Jian still has a lot of things to do, such as passing information to Yu Qisiao and the others to prevent the remaining players from killing each other.
Therefore, the task of tracking the first animal falls on those players, who then follow the clues to find more animals.
Su Jing told Yu Qimiao the news, and he was not surprised.
"I already know, actually..." Yu Qimiao looked somewhere in the forest.
Moi and Qiyi transformed into mini squirrels and ate pine cones from the trees.
However, the two sisters who were squirrels on the first and last day seemed unable to climb the tree and could only wait under the tree.
They waited for a while, and the pine cones actually fell one by one, right in front of them.
Su Jing looked over and saw A standing steadily on the top of the tree, chopping down the pine cones one by one with a long sword.
He has no animal features, and his bracelets and weapons can be used normally.
It looks like...
"Has he regained his identity?"
"Yes. When A learned that you found the camera yesterday, he went to check it out. He happened to stumble upon a group of wildlife researchers and found two animals with replaced identities in the group. One was himself, and the other one..." Yu Qimiao looked at Su Jian, deliberately keeping the question in suspense. "Guess what it is?"
"I can't guess, is it a very dangerous animal?"
"No, it's a very cute animal," Yu Qimiao announced. "It's the fennec fox."
Su Jian: ...
ERROR: ...
So, if they had investigated a little longer yesterday, they would have had a good chance of regaining their identities.
What bad luck.
In comparison, ERROR is even more disgusted with A.
What a European emperor!
A picked enough pine cones, jumped down from the tree, and landed steadily in front of Su Jian.
"Aren't you going to enter the fourth circle?" Su Jing asked.
"No rush." A raised his bracelet to show him, "Besides, the system didn't give any prompts."
"What do you mean? Even after finding your identity, you can't leave this circle?"
"Maybe." A didn't care.
There may be more circles behind the circles. He is going through it alone and has no idea when he will reach the end.
Since Su Jing is still in the circle, A is willing to stay for a few more days to help them find their respective identities.
"Perhaps the system thinks the task is too easy, or perhaps there's some ultimate task." Su Qiong said seriously, "Besides, we haven't met the Circle Master yet. If we clear the level like this, we definitely won't get the Circle Master's reward."
"That's right." A changed the subject and asked, "When will you accept the survival challenge?"
"Ah." Su Qi almost forgot about this.
Sika deer are animals that are active at dawn and dusk, so the survival challenge should start soon, earlier than yesterday.
Sure enough, Su Jian heard the system prompt asking him to return to his habitat within five minutes.
"Shall I go with you?" asked a European emperor who had regained his human identity and no longer needed to accept survival challenges.
"No need!" Su Jian said hurriedly, "You continue to take care of Moi and Qi Yi, ERROR will protect me!"
"Okay." A glanced at ERROR indifferently and said nothing more.
"What's that look in his eyes?" ERROR felt A's gaze and felt insulted.
Is it so great to be the first to complete the mission? He actually began to doubt his ability to protect Su Jing.
"I used to be number one in the server." ERROR complained.
Su Qiong heard this and reminded, "When we are in the novice area."
Later, ERROR was always deducted points by the system for various reasons.
ERROR: "..."
"A is the first player to complete the mission in Circle 3. He's sure to get a lot of points. Maybe he'll become the new number one in the server." Su Qi praised sincerely, "He's amazing."
ERROR: "...He can't even think about it."
Damn the desire to win.
They chatted for some time and just as they returned to their habitat, before they had time to catch their breath, Su Jian had already turned into a sika deer on the spot.
It was just dusk on the grassland.
Because the poachers were driven away, the prairie shrouded in sunset was particularly quiet, and the lake in the distance reflected the gorgeous sunset, which was very beautiful.
Su Jing couldn't help but stare in amazement.
The game "IF" is highly realistic, and the scenery completely replicates the real world, and even looks better.
However, they are busy with missions and life and death every day, and rarely have the leisure to appreciate the scenery.
ERROR lowered his head, rubbed his neck with his horns, and silently asked Su Jing if he wanted to go for a walk by the river.
The little sika deer raised its head and nudged him.
The two deer came to the lake one after another, where there were many small animals playing and frolicking.
At this time, the wild animals that appear during the day have eaten and drunk their fill, and the wild animals that appear at night have not yet woken up. For most grassland animals, this is a relatively safe time.
They came across a herd of elephants, led by a leading female elephant, coming to the lake to drink water.
The naughty sika deer was curious and ran over to observe the elephant.
The mother elephant was a little wary, but seeing it was a herbivorous fawn, she didn't chase him away. The baby elephant, protected by the elephant, happily flashed its ears, swung its trunk, and ran over to the deer, hooking it with its long trunk.
Although it was a baby elephant, its size was about the same as a sika deer. Su Jing staggered and almost fell.
Fortunately, ERROR stood behind and firmly supported his identity.
Su Jing blinked his beautiful little deer eyes, saying with his eyes that the baby elephant was very cute.
Although both are sika deer, ERROR's eyes appear mysterious and deep, with only the figure of Su Jing in them.
In comparison, Su Jing is more adorable.
Sika deer are not very gregarious and usually do not get too close to each other.
Two sika deer leaning against each other are either a mother with her underage child or a pair in courtship.
The animals around here have been interacting with sika deer for years and are familiar with their habits. Seeing two male deer close together was incredible.
You know, although deer are herbivores, they are relatively aggressive animals.
When two male deer get together, they will definitely fight over a mate or territory, and it is common for their antlers to be broken. In more serious cases, the antlers may pierce the abdomen and cause death.
The two stags stayed together for a very long time and showed no intention of attacking each other.
Occasionally, the smaller sika deer would use its horns to butt the majestic big sika deer without any effort.
The big deer didn't care and even used its own antlers to help him relieve the discomfort of growing antlers.
'Does it still itch?'
ERROR asked with his eyes.
Su Jing felt aggrieved.
I don’t know why, but turning into a sika deer is good in every way except that my horns are extremely itchy and very heavy, pressing on my head and causing pain.
He finally understood why deer loved to fight with their antlers so much.
With such a pair of things on my head, I should find something to vent.
Su Jing called out ERROR and asked the big sika deer to accompany him to rub its antlers.
ERROR seemed not to understand. No matter how proactive Su Jing was, he just dealt with it casually and refused to take any real action.
Boring.
Su Qiong gave up the idea of playing the top corner game with ERROR, shook his tail, and continued to chase the other animals.
After running for a long time, night fell and the sika deer should find a place to sleep.
Yesterday, the fennec fox Suqian was sleeping in the bushes.
But the bushes were too short for the deer to lie down in. Besides, there was no mother deer around to protect him.
Su Jian wasn't an animal, so he couldn't hear anything while sleeping. After searching for a while, they finally found a wooden stake buried deep in the weeds. It had been eaten away, with a large hole. Inside, there was hay and fruit. Other animals had apparently stayed there, perhaps from the players who had taken on the survival challenge yesterday.
ERROR let Su Qiang go in first and find a comfortable place to lie down.
Then he crawled in and blocked the entrance to avoid danger.
The space on the wooden stake was very small. Even though Su Jing was small in stature, he almost filled it up after entering. Most of ERROR's body was exposed outside. He had originally planned to just stay there for one night.
Animals in nature sleep casually almost every day and may encounter natural enemies at any time.
Before he could lie down, he felt a furry and soft animal crawling on his back.
Su Jing changed several positions, lying down on his side along the inner wall of the wooden stake to make more space, and shouted ERROR.
'Come in'
ERROR No response.
Su Jing called out again.
The wind is very strong on the grassland at night, and there are likely to be poisonous insects in the grass piles, so it is always unsafe to stay outside.
ERROR did not refuse this time. He squeezed in and stuck closely to Su Jian.
Su Jing raised his hoof, placed it on ERROR, stayed very close to him, and fell asleep contentedly.
In his dream, he seemed to have really turned into a sika deer, living on the vast grassland, carefree and happy.
If there were no natural enemies and poachers, being two sika deer wouldn't be a bad idea.
Wait, why two?
Su Jing woke up from his dream and looked at ERROR first.
ERROR has crawled out of the wooden stake and returned to human form. At first glance, there is no change.
Did he regain his human identity?
Su Jing is bound to ERROR, and if he turns back into a human, he will of course become a human as well.
Su Jing was about to be happy when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a bird's feather sticking out from ERROR's hair.
Very familiar.
On the first day, A turned into a peacock, and there were tiny feathers in his hair.
"Chirp." Su Jing made a cute sound.
"What?"
"We've become Jiujiu." Su Qi pointed at the feathers in his hair. "What kind of bird is this with brown feathers?"
[System: ERROR has been issued to the player. NPC Su Jian has selected his identity for today: Wild Mandarin Duck.]
ERROR slowly types a question mark.
Mandarin duck is just mandarin duck, why add the word "wild" in front of it?
That sounds unhealthy.
[System: Wild mandarin ducks mainly inhabit rivers, lakes, and ponds. We are now transmitting them to you.]
It was a familiar feeling again. Su Jing came to a crystal clear lake. The lake water in the distance was the same color as the blue sky, and there were a few swans swimming around on the water.
"Wow! The swan is so beautiful!" Su Qiang, who was a chirping bird, was immediately fascinated by the swan.
Looking at myself again, I realized that my appearance is still too ordinary.
Compared with the swan, it is like the difference between an ugly duckling and a princess.
self-abasement.
"Like swans?" ERROR saw what he was thinking and said, "Mandarin ducks and swans are animals that are active at dawn and dusk. I'll accompany you to look for them at night."
"Okay!" Su Qiong agreed happily, "You're the best."
ERROR has mixed feelings.
It is said that mandarin ducks are birds that represent love. Why is it that the mandarin duck next to me is so romantic and only wants to eat swan meat?
really.
Legends are all lies.
"Let's go find Yu Qi Miao and the others to share clues." Su Qiong said, and suddenly realized, "Wait, we don't have any clues today."
"Yes." When the clue was triggered, Su Qiong had not yet woken up, so only ERROR heard the clue.
"Our cues are when animals replace humans, when animals are involved."
"ha?"
Su Jing was confused by this clue again.
Could it be that ERROR was targeted by the system, so the system deliberately gave him nonsense literature?
"Is it hard to understand?" ERROR looked at him with a half-smile, "You're usually very smart."
"Being smart doesn't mean they can understand nonsense. Since they are originally animals, then of course..." Su Qiong was halfway through his words when he suddenly realized, "Does this clue mean that they are engaged in work related to animals?"
"Yes, and it is very likely that it is an action related to one's original animal."
"I see!" Su Qi exclaimed, patting ERROR's shoulder vigorously. "You finally got some useful information!"
ERROR: ?
What is useful?
It makes it seem like he was useless before.
But if you think about it carefully, what Su Jing said seems... to be correct.
ERROR was indeed not very useful before.
Because of this realization, ERROR came to the meeting place in a depressed mood.
Other companions shared clues, and the situation became much clearer than yesterday. They could probably pinpoint the animal's activity range and avoid searching blindly.
"We need to regain our identities as soon as possible, lest the animals that replaced us are killed before then." Yu Qimiao concluded, then looked up at ERROR and Su Qiong, his gaze lingering. "What are you two doing today...?"
"Mandarin duck!" Su Jing answered loudly.
"I see, no wonder they look different."
"Isn't it different?" Su Jing couldn't see himself, so he could only stare at ERROR.
Even the most unsophisticated Shi Yuntian could see it, "They are indeed different. Su Qiong's fur is brighter than ERROR's."
"Because mandarin ducks are specifically divided into two types, mandarin ducks and ducks, they look different." Yu paused for seven seconds, then muttered in surprise, "Logically speaking, you should all be male birds."
Two days ago, the only difference between Su Jian and ERROR was their body shape, so no one paid much attention to it.
But today, the difference is so obvious that my friend couldn't help but wonder if the system had made some special arrangements.
"I'm going with you today." said A.
Moi and Qiyi are relatively high up in the food chain today, and they also have double skills, so there's no need to worry too much.
Compared to Su Jian and ERROR, Gemini's bond is obviously more stable, and they are completely similar species every day.
It's really the difference in intimacy.
Su Qiong and ERROR have increased their intimacy twice, and their current intimacy is only 30%, while Moi and Qiyi sisters have 99.99% from the beginning. The data is very different.
In the final analysis, the two of them were unilaterally and forcibly bound together by ERROR from the very beginning.
"Okay." ERROR didn't refuse, but joked with interest, "I didn't expect you to be so worried about me."
A glanced at him, his eyes clearly saying: Who are you?
"Great!" Su Qiong, who was truly worried, was very happy. "You have regained your human identity. You should be able to lead us to where humans live, right?"
"Yes, but in the eyes of humans, you are animals. If you sneak directly into human society, you will cause a commotion."
Su Qiong: "What should we do then?"
"There's a place that might be able to take you in."
Five minutes later, a large ecological park.
Today is a weekday and there are not many tourists in the park. Many parents bring their preschool babies to visit and play in the ecological park.
Some babies cannot walk yet and find everything they see in a stroller new and novel.
Suddenly, they saw two birds flying from a distance, babbling something in their mouths.
"Strange." A park staff member noticed a bird flying over and quickly picked up a telescope to observe. "What good date is today? There are actually wild mandarin ducks flying over here."
There is a large artificial lake in the ecological park, with several geese and ducks on the lake.
Occasionally, other birds would come to eat for free, but they would never last long. Only tamed poultry would stay in the artificial lake and be visited by people.
Visitors who frequently visit the ecological park often complain that there are too few animals here.
There is no way, the parks in the city are destined to not be able to hold too many animals.
It was a rare sight to see two mandarin ducks flying by, and tourists were attracted by the pairs of birds and gathered around to observe them.
"Mom, what kind of bird is that?"
"Let me see, it should be a mandarin duck."
"I know mandarin ducks. They are birds that love each other!" the child asked innocently. "Are they husband and wife?"
"Yes," the adult answered without hesitation, "Mandarin ducks are the bird that represents love, that's why people often say, 'I envy mandarin ducks, not the immortals.'"
Su Jian, who was parked by the lake, felt a little depressed.
They are obviously two male birds.
Even if we have to talk about it, it should be husband and wife, right?
A stopped by the lake and whispered, "Su Qiong, can you sense the animal that took your identity?"
"No, there are too many people here." Su Qi replied helplessly, "Besides, the animal that took the identity of ERROR must be very powerful."
Considering the extent to which ERROR was targeted by the system, Su Jian would not be surprised even if the circle leader arranged for him to seize his identity.
"But the direction I checked is definitely here." A looked around. "You're too conspicuous to move freely. I'll go check around and contact you if there's any progress."
"Okay, you have to be careful." Su Qiong reminded, "The NPC who took over the identity of ERROR must be very powerful."
"knew."
After A left, Su Qiong wanted to find a breakthrough by walking around the lake, but the area was full of humans and there was no place to break out.
Moreover, the news of the appearance of mandarin ducks in the ecological park has been released, and many tourists have come to see the mandarin ducks in person, making the road ahead even more crowded.
"There are so many people here. What should we do?" It was the first time that Su Jing faced so many ordinary people and he felt uncomfortable.
ERROR lazily leaned on the shore, like a broken mandarin duck.
"You don't like being looked at by them?"
“…A little bit.”
"Then let's hide."
"Huh?" Su Qi looked at the huge crowd around him, "Where can we hide?"
The next second, ERROR took his hand and jumped into the water without hesitation.
"Wow! Is this the legendary mandarin ducks playing in the water?"
"It's my first time watching a love story. I'm so nervous!"
“I’m going to take a picture of it and post it online.”
Su Jing didn't quite understand. What did "mandarin ducks playing in the water" mean? What were "mandarin duck films"?
He just felt himself being submerged in water, and was about to be at a loss when he found himself floating steadily on the water.
Although mandarin ducks are not very strong, they are very mobile and can be considered amphibious on land, in water and in air.
Su Qiong sank into the water and found that he could hold his breath for a while without feeling uncomfortable. Moreover, because the feathers were hydrophobic, the inside of his body would not get wet.
It feels so magical.
"Why did you..." take me into the water.
Before Su Jing could finish his words, he was interrupted by a system prompt.
[System: The two of you have triggered the hidden mission of entering the natural dungeon, and will live together.]
Mission Description: Mandarin ducks symbolize love, but their love is inherently unstable and they will separate after the breeding season. Therefore, to test your steadfastness, each of you must bring down a frost flower from the mountaintop and a black pearl from the depths of the ocean, and give them to your partner.
[Mission Difficulty: A (Dangerous).]
After entering the game for so long, this is the first time that Su Jian has triggered a mission with difficulty A.
Since it's so difficult, there's no need to complete it, right?
Su Jing was about to discuss with ERROR, but he saw that the other party was strangely full of fighting spirit.
"Wait here and don't move. I'll go get the ice flower and black pearl for you."
Su Jing: ???
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