Escape from Paradise (XVIII)
Xu Wei has a full schedule today.
First and foremost, it was important to spend the last bit of money I had and get my to-do list done.
Secondly, go to the Coin Grass Children's Playground and earn your money for tomorrow's expenses.
Finally, at six o'clock in the evening, when the cards were raining, the red hat trapped in the beverage cart was rescued.
Last night she pulled him out from his hiding place and asked him if he was here to kill her too.
He nodded first, then reacted slowly and said slowly: "The mission requires, to kill, I don't, to kill, to leave."
He hadn't lost his mind yet.
So Xu Wei threatened to take the person to the agreed place to meet his teammates, and successfully scared Li Xia into screaming.
After patient questioning by Fu Fenglou and Xu Wei, the four learned that Red Hat was also an interstellar creature trapped in the park's escape. He was forced to be locked in the beverage cart every day. His tall body filled the small counter and he made drinks for the tourists. Sometimes he had to cooperate with the players to complete tasks.
Because he is clumsy by nature, he is insensitive to the positive word. Although he has been in the dungeon longer than Tiger Head, he is not seriously polluted. Not only can he maintain independent thinking during the day, but even if he is released during a specific dark period - like Tiger Head did yesterday, every monster follows the smell to chase the players who have done tasks with them, he can also stabilize his mind and reason.
He even figured out a method of his own - first the copy was controlled in his mind, then when it was about to reach the player's location, it would make an emergency brake and find a place to spend the night.
Xu Wei also asked if he had a chance to get out, but was told that once interstellar creatures were deeply exposed to pollution, they would never be able to recover. They were not like humans who could purify themselves. Even if Mao Ting showed up with a "purification cabin" at this time, there was nothing he could do. The pollution had already penetrated deep into his bones and blood and could not be eradicated.
As long as the seeds of pollution are planted in a living organism, it will seize every opportunity to take root and sprout. Living organisms are a nutrient-rich breeding ground for it.
This is the third characteristic of "it" that Xu Wei discovered, in addition to devouring and killing - the ability to reproduce like a bandit.
This made her curious: what kind of racial talent did humans possess that could make interstellar civilizations and even creatures in higher dimensions "condescend" to rely on their power, either actively or passively?
The final outcome of welcoming the red hat is bound to be death, but Xu Wei still wants to do something, at least to allow him to live the rest of his life happily and not be too troubled by the will of the copy.
According to him, the beverage cart is a cage set up by the copy for special creatures like him. Every day he stays in it and every time he helps players complete a task, the pollution will become more serious.
On hunting days at night, they will be temporarily released from their cages, and the copy will control their consciousness to kill the players.
From last night to the last night of the dungeon process, it was the hunting time of the dark period. Xu Wei wanted to destroy the beverage cart when he escaped from the cage.
There were no NPC reports during the dark period, and the smashed items would be replaced by other similar items the next day. Xu Wei didn't know if he would still be trapped during the day after the beverage cart was destroyed, but he had to give it a try.
Of course, the prerequisite is that you can survive until night.
The Coin Grass Children's Park is located at the junction of the Fourth Ring Road and the Fifth Ring Road. It looks like an exquisite bird cage with light blue glass windows inlaid on the cage frame at intervals. Thorns and branches are coiled around the outside of the cage, and the ends of the branches rise to the top of the cage, blooming with pale white flowers.
Xu Wei squatted beside a small door at the bottom of the cage, watching the tourists who came out alive.
An hour ago, more than twenty people went in, and in the end only four were left alive. Some of them were missing limbs, and they staggered out a few steps before falling to the ground and could no longer be woken up.
There was no staff at the door, but there was a security door and people were queuing up to go in.
Xu Wei asked all the tourists who came out. Although these people seemed afraid of her, they kept hesitating and couldn't say anything. One person just said a word, his neck went limp and he fell to the ground. The people around him were so scared that they ran away like a plague.
There is no choice but to bring more cards in.
When passing through the security gate, Xu Wei looked to the other side thoughtfully. The building next to the coin grass children's playground is another "five major projects" - Dinosaur Siege. Its building shape is a diplodocus with a long neck and a long tail, with its head sticking out from a distance and its eyes pitch black.
This project has not been opened yet, and there is not even a security gate under the dragon claw.
She went through the security gate.
There was a "pop" sound in my ear, as if some tensile membrane had been penetrated. The noise in my ear disappeared, and my vision was filled with lush green.
In front of us is a lush and green field of pennywort, whose leaves are irregularly round, staggered in height, and deeply embedded in the lake surface covered with patches of algae.
"Can the pennywort really grow this big?" Xu Wei murmured.
The memory of pennywort in her mind is the one her mother planted in the flowerpot at home, which was thin and tender, and smaller than dogtail grass.
Lu Fanye looked at the copper coin grass in front of him that was taller than a person: "It may be that we have become smaller, or the space has expanded infinitely."
They were at the bottom of an exquisite birdcage. The light blue glass now seemed incomparably large. Looking upward, their view was blocked by a wooden floor.
“This is the first level.”
There are more than a dozen wooden boats close to the shore, each of which can accommodate up to three people. Some tourists can't wait to get on them and slide to the other side holding the wooden oars tied to the edge of the boat.
He quickly slid across the empty buffer zone and entered the area of pennywort that blocked out the sun. The sunlight cast a few crack-like shadows on the deep trail, and vague shadows were moving among the grass.
A bright red tongue shot out from the side, wrapped around him, and took him away.
The sound of chewing bones came from not far away, and the faces of the tourists changed. No one was willing to step forward to take the risk.
Someone muttered: "Why don't we go back? It seems that free projects are still not safe."
Some people also took action themselves, rushing to the door they had just entered and banging on it frantically: "Let me out! I'm here on vacation, you're killing people! I want to call the police! I want to sue..."
"Please go to the other side to play the next level. Those who fail to board the boat within an hour or give up voluntarily will be deemed to have failed the game." A high and empty mechanical voice sounded overhead.
"I give up! I don't want to play anymore!"
The vines and branches used to decorate the door suddenly stretched out and strangled him whole. Dense streams of blood flowed out from all over his body. His originally young body quickly shriveled up and eventually became a dried corpse.
"Game failed."
The two died tragically one after another, and some people began to sob secretly.
Xu Wei looked around for a while, and whispered to Lu Fanye: "I almost thought this was some novice venue. Luckily, it's full of tourists, and they really look like real people."
Time waits for no one. She did not wait for other tourists to try the adventure. Instead, she raised her hand, walked to the center of the crowd, turned around, and gestured in all directions.
When everyone's eyes were focused, she said loudly: "I have a way to ensure that I won't be eaten by that thing. Anyone want to join me?"
A middle-aged man immediately retorted: "I can still tell the difference between those who die first and those who die later."
Xu Wei used her skills to control everyone present. She looked at the dancing middle-aged man and asked with a smile: "What now?"
After the skill was released, everyone looked at her with fear, while some had happy expressions on their faces, as if she was a savior who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"Time is limited and the lake is not small. I will leave now. If anyone needs my protection, they can leave with me!"
As soon as she finished speaking, many people raised their hands.
Xu Wei was very satisfied. She organized the team and asked them to choose their boats and arrange them in a formation with her in the middle and the other boats in front, behind, left and right.
Those who raised their hands were quite sensible and did not express any opinions because she was in the middle. In the eyes of these "ordinary people", she was a person with super powers and they all needed to pass the test under her protection.
Of course, if there are real objections, Xu Wei also intends to suppress them by force.
Previously, on the roller coaster over the Grand Canyon, Lu Fanye punched every tourist but was not thrown into the dark room. Presumably, the park’s rule of “prohibiting beating NPCs” does not include tourists.
There was also a tourist on the boat who helped row the boat, and Xu Wei sat in the middle to facilitate timely response to any situation.
The boat sailed across the blank lake and into the terrifying area of copper coin grass.
Xu Wei immediately activated his skills and turned up the volume to maximum. In order not to disturb the tourists' boat trip, he also specially classified the accompanying group of people into the friendly range of the song.
The first part to react was the place where it had just rolled its tongue, splashing a large amount of water. Xu Wei wiped his cheek and saw clearly that it was a big frog lying on the low pennywort.
There were some scraps of meat and bones scattered on the bottom of its webbed feet, and the water surface at the bottom of its feet was faintly fishy red.
The tourist closest to the left screamed and slid his boat towards the water.
Xu Wei turned his head and glared: "Don't move, if the interference causes me to fail to use my skills..."
The other party was shocked by her momentum, lowered his head and slid back.
Xu Wei smiled and said, "That's right. Keep the formation and don't let me interfere with your protection."
Stay alive first, and if something unexpected happens that cannot be controlled by your skills, you can stay on the outside to block the attack.
The boat gradually moved deeper into the lake. The water flow at the stern was gentle and thin, leaving streaks on the surface of the lake that quickly disappeared.
Lu Fanye gently pushed Xu Wei's elbow and motioned for her to look back: "I'm looking ahead."
Xu Wei pretended to look back casually, first pretending to observe the boat behind him, and took the opportunity to squint his eyes and stare at the water flow behind him.
One, two, three... one more.
There was something more underneath, swimming deeper, not controlled by her song.
There were a lot of green algae floating on the water surface, making it impossible to see what was underwater clearly.
The young man rowing behind her thought she had been watching him: "Am I rowing badly?"
Xu Wei glanced at the fin that was slowly rising behind him and smiled: "Very good."
The fins were increasingly exposed, clinging to the stern.
He smiled: "Then..."
The next second, a fish as tall as a man jumped out of the water. The moment it came out of the water, it was controlled by the gymnast, but its body still moved forward due to inertia. With a "puff", its half-man-length sharp snout easily pierced the young man's chest.
The body tilted and fell, and the big fish was still thrashing around, rocking the boat left and right. The girl in the same boat with him screamed and rushed to other boats, but she missed a step and fell into the water.
She screamed for help, but the other boats slid forward like ghosts.
Xu Wei looked at the people who were rowing hard on the boat, then raised his head and made eye contact with Lu Fanye.
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