Chapter 162 Fighting a Rock with an Egg (Unedited) "Shut up."...
This illusionary realm clearly had no physical form, and was surrounded by dense fog, but these miniature display screens seemed to be hanging on the wall, arranged in a dense and orderly fashion. The screens flickered all around, firmly trapping Liang Jun and the other two within the encirclement.
It's like a sophisticated scientific research laboratory.
Liang Jun's pupils were also reflected in the colorful light before her. She had never seen such a scene before, and she walked forward somewhat blankly.
As she got closer, Liang Jun noticed that the screens were even smaller than she had imagined. And each screen was perfectly operational, playing a continuous stream of flashing, dynamic images that presented a dazzling array of worlds before her.
After looking at it for a while, her eyes started to feel blurry and her vision became hazy.
These images were like a giant, pulsating mosaic; Liang Jun hadn't even been looking at them for long before goosebumps appeared on her arms.
Startled by the horrifying sight before her, she took a few steps back. Liang Jun stammered, "What are all these things...?"
After posing the question, Liang Xun subconsciously turned around and looked back, but she couldn't spot Zhu Shengqing and Zhu Bieming on her horizon.
Liang Jun's gaze shifted downwards, and she noticed the two brothers lying on the ground.
For them, passing through the dense fog was another huge blow to their bodies. Although they were both trying their best to minimize the contact area between their skin and the fog, the exposed wounds were still bleeding profusely, causing them excruciating pain.
If the twin guardian spirits were still in their misty state, they probably wouldn't have suffered this corruption. However, their current state is beyond their control, so they can only endure pain they have never felt before.
Zhu Bieming's lower leg injury was the most severe. His almost completely red legs twitched on the ground. Although the blood seeped out slowly, it still spread into a pool of blood all over his body, which looked shocking.
Liang Jun gasped, then quickly threw herself to the ground, pulling out the remaining gauze from her pocket. "Hurry up and bandage her, or she'll go into shock."
Just as she was about to tear off a section of the gauze, Zhu Bieming's hand, wrapped like a dumpling, stopped Liang Xun's next move.
He struggled to sit up, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his bloodless lips, trying to reassure Liang Xun as usual, "I'm fine. I'm just wearing the skin of an ordinary person, but I'm still your guardian spirit at heart!"
"I don't care if you're a spirit or a god, you're already very weak!"
Liang Xun didn't even have to use much force to easily shake off Zhu Bieming's hand. "You're in this state, how dare you say you'll protect me?!"
Zhu Shengqing's injuries weren't as severe as Zhu Bieming's, and he, who was squatting beside him, couldn't help but come over to dissuade him, "Liang Huan, we..."
As the host, Liang Xun glared at Zhu Shengqing, who had failed to persuade her, and then issued her first command, "Shut up."
With a "whoosh," the gauze was forcefully ripped open by Liang Jun.
Liang Xun calmly and collectedly issued her second command, "Be obedient."
The two eventually obeyed, and after several pushes and pulls, they finally managed to leave Liang Yun with half a roll of gauze.
Liang Jun naturally wouldn't give away such valuable medical resources for nothing. After seeing that the other party could move normally, Liang Jun assigned them new tasks.
"Come on, let's go see what those things are."
They had agreed to "go see it together," but Liang Jun boldly took the lead and arrived at the mosaic wall first.
She had originally intended to make a joke to lighten the mood, but the moment she saw the image on the screen, Liang Jun's joking intention vanished instantly.
This is not some useless looping video.
Everything in sight is under surveillance.
Volcanoes, glaciers, grasslands, rainforests.
Countless scenes flashed before Liang Xun's eyes, with bewildered human figures appearing in the images from time to time. Liang Xun couldn't hear what they were discussing, but from their almost desperate actions, she already knew who they were.
These are all players.
The footage from the surveillance cameras shows various instances of the system's scenarios.
Liang Jun felt a breath stuck in her throat, unable to go up or down.
She moved even closer, until the tip of her sweaty nose was almost touching the bright digital screen.
With just a quick glance, Liang Jun quickly deduced that each instance would have nine monitoring positions, and these nine different perspectives would just form an insignificant nine-square grid on the mosaic wall.
Liang Jun involuntarily took a few steps back, watching helplessly as the nine-square grid she had just locked onto gradually disappeared into the sea of screen.
Here, countless copies are being staged simultaneously around the world.
This is not a research laboratory, but a complete observation room!
It is a monitoring room for people to witness the cruelty and killing of humans!
Her fists had clenched without her realizing it, her nails digging deep into her palms, leaving red marks, but Liang Jun had already become numb to the pain.
An even greater, soul-crushing pain lay before her, and Liang Jun trembled all over, as if the aftereffects of a fever were striking her again.
A plan quietly began to take shape in her mind.
Liang Xun staggered a few steps, and after regaining her balance, she asked Zhu Shengqing, who was closest to her, "Do you still have your spiritual power?"
Zhu Shengqing nodded without hesitation. "Speak, what do you want to do?"
"Could you help me detect if there are any other people around here?"
Liang Xuan's idea was very simple.
With her current abilities, she has no way to directly destroy the system. If the system wanted to get rid of her, it would be a matter of minutes.
Therefore, Liang Jun was not prepared to fight a losing battle with such a low success rate.
She wants to direct her anger at something even more fragile than an egg.
Zhu Shengqing probably knew what Liang Xun was thinking, so he didn't ask too many questions. Instead, he closed his eyes and began to quietly test her.
From Liang Jun's perspective, one could see his thick, feather-like eyelashes. After the jet-black fan trembled slightly a few times, it slowly opened into a crescent moon shape.
“There’s no one else,” Zhu Shengqing replied calmly, “just the few of us.”
"That's good." Liang Jun nodded.
She took a deep breath, and after making sure she was completely calm, Liang Jun beckoned Zhu Shengqing and Zhu Bieming to come closer.
“On this screen, each screen represents a monitoring perspective, and each nine-square grid can be pieced together to form a copy.”
Liang Jun's nasal voice became more pronounced. "We are currently in a dungeon, so theoretically, there should be our current surveillance footage on it as well."
She quickly divided the search area for the two brothers, saying, "While no one else is around, let's split up and search separately, and stay in touch!"
After Liang Xuan gave the order, everyone ran off in three different directions.
Zhu Shengqing was in charge of the left half, Zhu Bieming was in charge of the right half, and Liang Jun was in charge of the middle part.
She was used to searching from right to left, so at the start of the mission, Liang Jun and Zhu Bieming stood side by side and searched in opposite directions in sync.
"Take care of your wound."
Before setting off, Liang Xun glanced down at Zhu Bieming's legs, which were struggling to move, and said, "Take it slow, there's no rush."
This time, Zhu Bieming unusually refrained from criticizing Liang Jun, and instead gave her an extremely reassuring smile.
That's enough.
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The screens are small and numerous, each at maximum brightness, and each displaying a completely different image, with vibrant colors challenging the observer's retina at the same time.
So after searching only two rows, Liang Jun's eyes became so sore that tears involuntarily streamed down her face.
Her physical functions were challenged time and time again, but she kept pushing her physical limits in the dungeons.
Liang Jun tore off a small piece of gauze and gently wiped the corners of her eyes with it when they started to tear up. After a brief moment of closing her eyes to catch her breath, she resumed staring intently at the various screens.
During the search, Liang Jun also saw several familiar scenes.
For example, Wilson Academy and Wuxie Amusement Park. The landmark buildings in these two instance scenes were so prominent that Liang Jun's gaze couldn't help but linger on them for a few more seconds despite her quick scan.
The scene is exactly the same, but the players active under the hidden surveillance have changed batch after batch.
After witnessing a player being dragged out of the surveillance range by an NPC while wailing, Liang Jun sighed softly, withdrew her gaze, resumed her previous pace, and continued her needle-in-a-haystack search.
With such a large number of scans, Liang Xun had no choice but to speed up her scanning process in order to complete the task as quickly as possible.
Her body moved up and down constantly following her gaze, and since the brain is often slow to process visual information, by the time Liang Jun realized what she had just seen, she had already run two more rows away.
Using her memory, Liang Jun quickly located her original position.
Unlike other surveillance cameras that have clear and distinct scene colors, this nine-square grid is instead shrouded in a blurry mist.
To ensure her judgment was correct, Liang Jun first turned around to check the color of the fog around her, and then compared it with the image on the screen.
She confirmed two things: the screen quality was excellent, with no color difference; and this was the monitoring perspective of the instance she was currently in.
She called Zhu Shengqing and Zhu Bieming to her side. The three furry heads squeezed in front of the screen, which was only slightly larger than the palm of her hand, but they couldn't figure out what was going on.
"Can you pinpoint the location of the surveillance footage?" Liang Jun tilted her head, her delicate eyebrows furrowed into a knot.
Zhu Bieming's hands hung limply at his sides. "It's impossible to tell the difference. The footage from all nine surveillance cameras is exactly the same, it's like copying and pasting..."
"Look at the one in the middle."
Zhu Shengqing's eyes lit up immediately, and he pointed his long fingers directly at the center of the screen, "The fog here seems to have thinned out a bit."
Liang Xuan and Zhu Bieming immediately perked up, their eyes wide open like copper bells.
As you can see, the thick fog in the center of the monitor screen seems to begin to dissipate to the left and right, gradually revealing a clearer view.
A bright light pierced through the thick fog, and then the tiny silhouettes of three people were revealed in the center of the image.
The taut string in Liang Jun's heart suddenly snapped.
She turned stiffly, her dark eyes meeting the dark camera lens.
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Author's note: Sister Gan: Bandaging.
Xiao Ming: I am an all-powerful guardian spirit...
Sister Han: (Slaps)
Xiaoming: ToT
Sister: Bandage.
Ah Qing: (obediently extends her hand)
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