"If you had made it clear earlier, we wouldn't have had to waste so much time talking."
Shi Yu did not respond to this statement.
Yu Zhiyi changed to a more convenient position to maintain balance: "When did it happen?"
Shi Yu: “When the game starts.”
Yu Zhiyi didn't know whether he believed it or not: "Then you have really bad luck."
"You're not necessarily lucky either." Shi Yu said, "You were infected before you were about to enter the safe zone."
Yu Zhiyi pretended to be willing to hear more details: "Why do you say that?"
"The surveillance camera in the safe zone captured another teammate of yours who had completely mutated." Shi Yu said, "You were besieged by the infected when you were about to enter the safe zone. In the end, he died, and you survived, but you were infected. He mixed in with the infected and chased you all the way to the safe zone, and together with other infected people, he invaded Entrance No. 7."
Yu Zhiyi commented in a nonchalant tone: "How tragic, isn't it?"
"As for why you were infected but didn't mutate," Shi Yu glanced at him, "Is it because the virus didn't have time to take root?"
Yu Zhiyi chuckled and said, "Like I said before, I don't have any props that can change the composition of the human body."
"No need to change it." Shi Yu said, "Anything with the effect of 'freezing people' will do."
S-level items from treasure chests are not for sale, but A-level items are different.
"But the virus is already in your blood, so you are still an infected person. You don't want to die at the hands of other players because of the mission issued by the system, but you can't leave if you fail to complete the mission, so you can only take another path."
Shi Yu said softly, "Compared to when they were still human, the infected people's behavior is very similar to that before humans developed the concept of society, when primitive animal instincts dominated their thinking."
Yu Zhiyi neither nodded nor shook his head, his eyes, deep or shallow, were full of undercurrents beneath the sea.
Shi Yu: "According to normal thinking, the player's mission is to 'degenerate', which is to prevent the infected from evolving through constant cannibalism. Clearing the infected from the city is the mission completed. If the player is an infected himself, mutating all humans into the same species can also be considered as completing the mission to some extent."
Yu Zhiyi said: "But these are just speculations, without any real evidence to support them."
"There is also no evidence to support the claim that human players can complete the mission by killing all the infected, at least not before the system detects that the mission is completed." Shi Yu looked at him sideways, "You think so too, so you came back."
Yu Zhiyi: "You don't seem to agree with the idea of infecting healthy people in the safe zone."
Shi Yu: "There are dozens of cities in this world."
"What do you think?"
“Do the opposite.”
Yu Zhiyi found it funny and lowered his voice: "I have always wondered if the way to complete the mission is to join the degenerate camp and then help eliminate humans."
[Is this what I meant? ? ]
[Joining the Degenerate Camp... means joining the zombies? ]
[Fuck, I actually think what he said is quite reasonable? ]
[It is reasonable. Everyone in the world is infected and degenerated. The mission is completed and the logic chain is perfect.]
[But the way this method is implemented is too rogue, isn't it? Which normal person would put himself in the perspective of a zombie? This is not the way to think from another's perspective.]
[If this is true, then Shi Meiren and Yu Zhiyi have won at the starting line? They just waited for the task to be completed? ? ]
[It’s too early to say that. Based on the speed at which players are killing zombies now, all the zombies will definitely be wiped out in the end.]
[Don’t forget that zombies are also evolving. When the zombie king appears, the players might really be wiped out. ]
[So now it’s just a matter of who’s faster. ]
Shi Yu did not comment on the method he mentioned: "Release."
Yu Zhiyi's hand clasped on his waist remained motionless, but the other hand was placed on his neck, his fingertips stroking the raised light blue veins, touching the bright red scars, and finally stopping at the curve of his jaw.
Shi Yu bent his knee and kicked the opponent in the abdomen.
He used all his strength this time, and even though his body had been strengthened many times, it still made a loud noise when it was hit.
Yu Zhiyi let go of his hand uncontrollably, and the next moment, a blue-green fire suddenly ignited in front of his eyes. The flames spread across his clothes with extraordinary stickiness, and for a few seconds, his vision was filled with the scorching and terrifying heat, and even his bones began to scream as if they were being dismembered.
He rolled on the snow in a panic, dragging the thick snow before he put out the fire. The remaining single clothes were soaked by snow water or cold sweat, and the exposed skin was all shed due to the high temperature. The fear of death was deafening in his chest. After a long while, he squeezed out a sentence from his throat: "You are so cruel."
Shi Yu said: "I have mysophobia."
He walked away decisively, without noticing the anger in the eyes of the people behind him.
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When Bai Jiwei knocked on his door again, he saw him drying his hair. Before he could say anything, the person behind him jumped out first: "Did you take a hot shower?"
Shi Yu turned off the hair dryer and turned to look at the person who came.
Jiang Jiaying, who firmly believes in keeping fit, rushed to him and said, "Don't you know that you can't take a bath because your fever hasn't subsided yet?!"
"Know."
"Then you still..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he was dragged to the back by the collar.
Bai Ji's only question was: "Are you infected?"
Shi Yu nodded.
"When did it happen?"
"When the game starts."
The room suddenly became quiet until Jiang Jiaying came over and said, "I left in such a hurry that I forgot to ask you something."
Shi Yu: “?”
“Go buy lottery tickets?”
“…”
Shi Yu was silent for three seconds: "I have bad luck."
Jiang Jiaying felt that this was unbelievable. If someone was injected with the virus within the 72 hours before the solar eclipse, there was a one in a million chance of getting hit. If this was considered bad luck, then was there still such a thing as a European Emperor in the world?
"You won't kill me?"
Jiang Jiaying was stunned.
Shi Yu repeated: "Don't you want to kill me?"
Jiang Jiaying reacted and laughed, "Please spare me. I have the will but not the guts to do it."
It's understandable that he has the intention to steal, but why he doesn't have the courage to steal? He didn't explain, and directly pulled the arm of the person next to him: "And just now, Lao Bai told me another way to complete this task on his way back."
Shi Yu turned his head accordingly.
Bai Jiwei finally came to his senses and explained, "Killing all zombies is the way for human players to complete the mission. But if the player is a zombie, killing all humans is also the way to go."
【Too crude. 】
[Are all members ready to join the zombie camp now? ? ]
Jiang Jiaying was sent to cook. Before leaving, he kept yelling why he had to do this hard labor. However, he really couldn't bear to see the patient tormenting his body, so he continued to work diligently no matter how reluctant he was.
Shi Yu combed her hair and finally spoke: "You're not going out to kill the infected?"
Bai Jiwei was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "Wait until the zombies outside eat each other until only one is left, and then we break into the safe zone. Then we will be bitten and turned into zombies, and the mission will be completed immediately."
“All we have to do now is wait,” he said.
Shi Yu looked at him: "Do you think I'm easy to deceive?"
Bai Jiwei didn't say anything.
"I have seen infected players in surveillance. Even if the bracelet is still there, the screen is off because the system will not recognize that they are still players."
Shi Yu stated bluntly: "Once you are infected, it will be impossible for you to return to the player space."
Not everyone can be like him, like Yu Zhiyi, who has a terminal virus flowing in his body but can still maintain a clear consciousness and even have the identity of a player.
Only the air conditioner was still blowing in the room, and I wondered if the light above my head had dimmed a little due to age.
Shi Yu said, "You lied to him."
The "he" here naturally refers to Jiang Jiaying.
Bai Jiwei's eyes were extremely calm: "Yes."
The other party was so straightforward that he didn't even try to hide his words. Shi Yu was speechless for a moment. After a long while, he said, "You will die if you do this."
"I know." Bai Jiwei looked at him, "I didn't do this on a whim. I thought about it all the way before I came up with this method."
Shi Yu said calmly, "There is no need to be generous to others."
"It's not necessary for you." Bai Jiwei said, "But it is necessary for me."
When they met face to face for the first time, he took the initiative to read out his opponent's name in full: "Shi Yu, do you still remember what happened after you fed me a mouthful of blood in the God Realm Prison?"
Shi Yu didn't say anything.
"You have forgotten it a long time ago." Bai Jiwei said softly, "But I remember that when the 199 Enar nails were smashed into your body inch by inch, I was hiding behind you and saw that your whole body was physiologically spasming. But you didn't say a word from beginning to end. Not only did you not cry out in pain, but you really didn't make any sound at all."
Even if the world was devastated during one's lifetime, there will be complete silence at the time of death.
Only after seeing what he looked like then would you understand how rare it is for him to have such a warm body now.
"Now that you're in the Divine Realm, every time the Temple attacks you, you always say 'If they think they can kill you, you'd welcome them over'. Was that a joke, or were you serious?"
Shi Yu was silent.
"Are you serious?" Bai Jiwei didn't even wait for his answer, and didn't even change his speaking speed. "Everyone can see that you are tired of the world and want to commit suicide. I'm afraid you are the only one who is confused because you never show this negativity in subjective actions. You won't commit suicide or self-harm. You will only hand someone a knife when they want to hurt you. After every game, you are always covered in wounds. When you say to others that you are welcome to kill you, do you imagine that one of them can stab you to death with a knife?"
The warm air in the room became thicker and thicker, and even breathing became difficult.
"You have no concerns, and no one can hold you back enough to change your mind. So no one can stop you," Bai Jiwei paused after each word, "unless you only leave one way out and block all other options."
Shi Yu lowered his eyelashes, a few strands of long hair scattered in front of his clothes. He hooked his fingertips and thought for a while, then asked aloud: "I actually don't quite understand why you all think I hate the world and like to destroy myself."
Bai Ji was the only one stunned.
Shi Yu sat on the sofa, and although she was raising her head to look at people, her gaze was always calm and quiet: "Telling them welcome is just a symbolic courtesy. As for getting sick, it is not something I can control."
"I really don't have any desire for life and death. It has nothing to do with whether I like it or not. I just think they are not that important. At least for me, they are not important enough to deserve my extra attention. But I know that we should cherish life while we are alive, so every time I encounter danger, I try to survive."
Shi Yu's voice was calm and steady: "I have never thought about committing suicide, nor have I ever enjoyed injuries, and I don't think that death is superior to life in any way."
Bai Ji was the only one who said nothing.
"As for world-weariness," Shi Yu thought for a moment, "then the premise should be that I at least hate this world? But I don't hate it, not in the past, and not now."
"Any other questions?"
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