Zhu Chen saw the room full of people and instantly sat up as if sprang to his feet, taking two steps back: "You...?"
Yuan Rui sat to one side and said, "Calm down first, I'll take you out."
Zhu Chen asked warily, "Go out?"
Yuan Rui nodded: "Now that everyone is here, let me explain."
Yuan Rui looked at everyone; some were standing, some were sitting, all staring intently at him. Yuan Rui said, "Zombie Island only has one exit, and it will only open automatically when there are three people left, but..."
Zhang Funan asked eagerly, "But what?"
Yuan Rui lowered his eyes: "The rules have changed now."
Zhang Funan raised an eyebrow in confusion and asked, "Why haven't we received any news about the rule changes?"
Yuan Rui looked up at the ceiling: "Because we've all appeared in the control center, unless someone did it on purpose, we have no way to leave the zombie island and enter the control center. There's only one possibility: they want us to open the exit of the zombie island ourselves. The exit switch is inside the control center. After opening the switch, 10 people need to press the mechanism inside the zombie island at the same time to open the gate. The switch is distributed in 10 locations on the zombie island."
Ji Lin'an frowned and said, "Ten people? We only have seven people."
I pondered for a few seconds: "You, Chen Hu, and Zhang Funan all have clones. Yuan Rui, do you want the three of them to activate their clones at the same time, and then activate the mechanism by switching their consciousness within the clones?"
Yuan Rui nodded: "Yes, only in this way can we gather 10 people, but we need to be very fast, it must be done within 3 seconds."
Ji Lin'an frowned and pondered: "If the reaction is fast enough, 3 seconds should be more than enough."
Yuan Rui sighed: "Once the switch in the control center is turned on, we only have 3 chances to try. If we don't press the switch at the same time after 3 attempts, the entire island will be released with poison gas, and we will all perish here."
I sighed and frowned, saying, "The key issue now isn't whether we can switch to a clone within 3 seconds, but that we can't contact each other. How are we going to know if we pressed the switch at the same time?"
Ji Lin'an said, "We all have cell phones, so we can set a time. For example, it's 9 a.m. now. We calculate how long it will take to get from here to the farthest button point, say 3 hours. Then we will all press the switch at 1 p.m.
I asked, "How do we find these 10 switch points? Yuan Rui, do you have a map or something?"
Yuan Rui shook his head: "No, but I roughly remember the location of each button and the surrounding landmarks."
I took out some paper and pens from my storage space: "Draw it first."
Yuan Rui took the paper and pen and quickly drew the locations of each button on the paper. After he finished drawing, I couldn't wait to reach out and take it. There were 3 locations in the Rock Desert, 4 in the Misty Forest, 2 in the Maze, and 1 at the Three-Way Intersection.
Yuan Rui said, "The locations in the Rocky Desert and the Misty Forest are quite complex, and each area has its own pattern, so it will take some time to find them."
I said, "I'm more familiar with Ji Lin'an in Yanmo, so I can work with Ji Lin'an to take charge of the three points in Yanmo. We haven't been through the maze before, so we'll leave it to you."
Zhang Funan raised his hand: "I've been through mazes before, I can be in charge of two points in the maze."
Yuan Rui nodded: "Then Zhu Chen and I will enter the Misty Forest."
Chen Hu stepped forward: "I'll go with you. Xiao Dian is too young, let him go find the one at the three-way intersection."
Everyone nodded, and Ji Lin'an said, "I think we should scout out the location first, especially the three of us in our clones. We must find the next location and press the button before our skills cool down. Familiarizing ourselves with the route will also prevent us from wasting opportunities."
Chen Hu and Zhang Funan nodded, and Yuan Rui said, "Since the people above have brought us to the control center and let us open the exit ourselves, everyone in the control center should have evacuated by now. Let's go to the control console first. I remember that the zombie horde can be controlled from the control console. If we can summon the zombie horde, we can increase our points, which will speed us up."
After saying that, Yuan Rui led us to the control panel. The power to the control panel was on. Yuan Rui sat down on the control panel and observed it for a while. Each button had a different English abbreviation, which I couldn't understand at all. After pondering for a while, Yuan Rui tried pressing a button marked "mt". Suddenly, the wall in front of the control panel became transparent, and the opposite side was the monitoring room. Instantly, countless zombies appeared on the entire zombie island, covering every corner.
Yuan Rui frowned: "Oh no, I didn't do it right..."
Ji Lin'an stepped forward and looked at the control panel: "Press it again and see if the zombie can be withdrawn."
Yuan Rui did as instructed, and the zombies indeed disappeared. Ji Lin'an continued to examine the control panel: "MT should be an abbreviation for mutant, which means mutated human. MP might be an abbreviation for map. Try opening the map first, then using the scroll wheel next to it to select a location, and then pressing the number key to turn on the zombie switch."
Following Ji Lin'an's instructions, Yuan Rui pressed the MP button. All the surveillance footage in the opposite monitoring room instantly disappeared, and the images on all the screens combined to form a huge map. The safe house was no longer on the map. Only three locations and a three-way intersection remained on the screen. The three-way intersection was on a screen in the lower right corner. The rectangular location on the left was the Misty Forest, the rectangular location on the right was the Rocky Desert, and the location in the upper left corner was the Maze.
Yuan Rui tried to turn the pulley, but a red exclamation mark appeared on the screen. Yuan Rui frowned and thought for a few seconds before finding the MT button. After pressing the button, he did not let go but turned the pulley directly with his other hand. Sure enough, a red circle appeared on the screen. Yuan Rui showed a happy expression and moved the red circle into the Misty Forest.
Yuan Rui said, "Let's go, let's go farm points."
Ji Lin'an raised his hand to stop Yuan Rui: "I wonder if the fog and traps in the Misty Forest can be turned off?"
Yuan Rui paused for a moment: "It should be possible. During construction, staff will come in and out to inspect, and the gate will be closed during inspections. However, I'm not sure if it can be closed from the control panel."
Ji Lin'an gestured for Yuan Rui to stand up. Yuan Rui stood up and helped Ji Lin'an sit down at the control panel. He looked through the control buttons, which were all abbreviations and looked very difficult. Xiao Dian was already wandering around the control room out of boredom, fiddling with things here and there. Ji Lin'an tried pressing a few keys, but exclamation marks appeared on the screen. Just then, Xiao Dian shouted, and we all turned around immediately.
Xiao Dian waved a thin booklet at us a few times and said smugly, "This has instructions."
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