Chapter 30 48h (13)
"No salt." Shao Qiu Shui scratched her throat hard, making her voice become sharp and piercing, "Go away, don't bother me!"
She was sweating profusely and thought desperately that if that monster really broke in without caring about anything, Shao Qiu Shui would not have any strength to escape or resist.
Where are Mr. Gu and the others?
Shao Qiu Shui collapsed and thought that if she continued like this, she really couldn't hold on any longer and she would go crazy!
The knocking continued, as if she hadn't heard her conversation at all.
Shao Qiu Shui was devastated.
But just as she got up from the ground again, bent over and sneaked into the kitchen, found the kitchen knife, held it in her hand, and was about to fight herself, the knocking sound outside the door stopped at this moment.
Then, a human voice was heard.
"Oh my god, why is there a monster standing in this corridor!"
"Mom"'s voice suddenly became higher and made a sinister cry.
Shao Qiu Shui listened to the chaotic fighting outside and tightened his grip on the kitchen knife in his hand.
She wasn't standing behind the door, so who knows if the door would suddenly be destroyed by monsters to attack her.
Shao Qiu Shui hid in the kitchen on the left rear side, blocking the refrigerator in front of her that she had moved over after pulling out the threads.
What are you doing outside?
Is this a new trick played by the monster in disguise?
So that she can let down her guard and let the wolf in?
Shao Qiu Shui held the kitchen knife tightly, not daring to let down his guard.
But the fighting soon died down, and a sweet girl's voice sounded at the door: "Hello, is anyone there? Are you a player? Or the NPC that asked us to help rescue you in the broadcast?"
Shao Qiu Shui became alert.
This monster is so smart, it actually knows things about players, NPCs, etc.!
She didn't respond, intending to wait and see what would happen.
"Hello, is anyone there?"
After a while, the girl at the door saw that there was no response for a long time, and her tone suddenly changed, and she began to curse -
"Apart from those two monsters, where else are the other NPCs on this floor? Is that lunatic trying to fool me?"
"Hey, if you don't answer me, I'm going to kick the door."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the apartment, which should have been extremely solid, was immediately shattered into several pieces and scattered on the ground.
Shao Qiu Shui screamed in fright, and the kitchen knife in his hand was knocked to the ground by something unknown.
But the person who walked in was a little girl with twin ponytails.
She looked around and finally set her sights on Shao Qiushui. A hint of surprise finally appeared on her face: "Are you the NPC who entered the other world?"
Although she looks like a high school student with twin ponytails and a sweet appearance, she exudes a resolute and imposing aura no matter what she says or does.
Shao Qiushui opened his mouth, a hint of vigilance on his face: "Are you a player?"
"I'm not only a player, but also a player who was threatened by that kid to come and save you." The girl with twin ponytails walked in front of Shao Qiushui, and when she saw her bloody fingers, she frowned slightly and said, "How did you get here?"
Shao Qiushui pursed her lips and said, "I crawled in from the window of another apartment."
"Aren't you afraid of falling to death?" the girl with twin ponytails asked in surprise.
Shao Qiushui smiled bitterly: "How do you know if you don't try? If you don't save yourself, you will definitely die."
"I like your personality." The girl with twin ponytails whistled, "You are even more playful than many other players."
The girl with twin ponytails didn't seem to expect any response from Shao Qiu Shui. A medicine appeared out of thin air in her hand, and she poured it roughly on Shao Qiu Shui's fingers.
Shao Qiu Shui cried out in pain.
"Bear with it." The girl with the twin ponytails patted her hands. "This is a healing drug, very expensive. I usually don't want to give it to humans. If you weren't more to my taste..."
Shao Qiu Shui breathed softly, and when the intense pain gradually faded away, she looked at the twin ponytails and asked softly, "Where is Mr. Gu?"
"What Mr. Gu? Are you asking me to save your human player?" The girl with twin ponytails said, "He couldn't enter the other world, so he brought the rest of us players in - of course some of them didn't come willingly - that's not the point. The point is that you don't have to worry. Let's take a break first, and then wait for Mr. Gu you mentioned to finish this dungeon."
Shao Qiushui's eyes widened: "We just wait here?"
"Of course." Twin-Ponytail said, "There are only a few mummies in the other world, and there are so many of us players. In comparison, the outside world may be more dangerous now. Don't look at me like that, I'm not just watching you die without helping you. This is the deal he made with us players."
"Holy shit, that thing in my room is really fucking annoying."
Suddenly another voice was heard in the corridor.
The girl with twin ponytails raised her eyebrows, and a subtle expression suddenly appeared on her face.
"Shit, the NPC that Boss Gu mentioned should be on this floor, right? Where's the person?"
The voice is still spinning.
The girl with twin ponytails has started to hold back her laughter.
When the other party came out of another apartment blindly, she shouted, "Xu Jing, your aunt is here!"
Xu Jing was the British-looking boy who reported the situation to their president during Gu Qiufeng’s first dungeon.
Hearing the familiar voice, his face turned green immediately. He looked towards the other side of the apartment which had no door at all. Then he saw a girl with twin ponytails sitting on the sofa and looking at him with a smile.
"Fuck, Feng Ru, your Third Guild is really spying on our Second Guild." Xu Jing said, "Why are you secretly following me? What's your purpose?"
The girl with twin ponytails named Feng Ru said speechlessly, "Brother, are you suffering from paranoia? When a new instance appears, isn't it normal for the guild to send players to explore it? Why do I feel like you are familiar with the player who threatened us? And why do you call him Boss Gu?"
Xu Jing: “.”
Oh no, I watched Gu Qiufeng’s live broadcast room too much, and I couldn’t help but shout “Boss Gu” along with the barrage.
Judging from Feng Ru's expression, she probably isn't aware of the stir that the newcomer Gu Qiufeng has caused in the game yet. Some players are busy clearing dungeons and rarely pay attention to forums and live broadcasts.
Although the Second Guild offered a high reward for Gu Qiufeng, that was the idea of their president. Xu Jing still liked the newcomer Boss Gu, so when he heard the broadcast in the dungeon, he recognized it as Gu Qiufeng's voice.
Xu Jing planned to lend a hand.
But they didn't expect that they would be intercepted by their mortal enemy, the Third Guild, halfway through.
Xu Jing's eyes fell on the girl next to Feng Ru and said, "Is this the NPC we need to protect?"
Feng Ru: "Yeah, come sit here for a while. Wait for the customs clearance."
Xu Jing was stunned for a moment: "Are you not going to take her out?"
"Based on my many years of dungeon experience," Feng Ru said, "the inner world is the safest place right now. Why would I rush to do something that would get me killed?"
"It would be best if he can clear the level. If he dies, I will find a way to get out and clear the level again."
As Feng Ru spoke, she lowered her head and played with her fingers. It was hard to imagine that these words came from the mouth of a childish girl.
Xu Jing said coldly: "As expected, no matter what time, I cannot agree with the philosophy of your Third Guild."
"Huh? So what are you going to do? Go out and cause trouble for that player without any communication?" Feng Ru said, "Xu Jing, you are an old player, don't tell me stupid things like hot-blooded idiot. The best option right now, which is also what that player wants, is to let us stay in the inner world. Otherwise, why would he send almost all the players in?"
"Wait." Xu Jing suddenly spoke.
Feng Ru: "What's wrong?"☆
Xu Jing: "I can no longer sense the signal I left on the NPC I'm responsible for."
Feng Ru was surprised and said, "But you..."
Xu Jing thought for a moment and said, "It's probably because we are in the inner world of the loop. This is a space bug. But if I get out of the loop, I will probably die immediately."
"In that case, that player must have cleared out all our NPCs." Feng Ru smacked his lips, "Xu Jing, you just wanted to go help them. But they turned around and cut off our retreat."
Xu Jing smiled bitterly and said, "As expected of him."
"Do you know him?" Feng Ru said, "Let me make it clear that as a player of our guild exploring a new dungeon, I need to submit a report on my dungeon experience after the dungeon is finished."
Xu Jing said, "I do know him. So I would like to make a request."
Feng Ru: "Wow, I didn't expect you to beg for help?"
"Don't mention the player's last name. Forget about his last name being Gu." Xu Jing said, "I'm also an exploration player. When a guild explores a new dungeon, they should prohibit the player from broadcasting live to keep the clearance method secret, right?"
Feng Ru said: "Yes, I didn't start the live broadcast."
Xu Jing said, "Okay, forget about his last name being Gu. Feng Ru, according to your guild's style, I'm doing this for your own good."
Feng Ru tilted her head, a trace of thought flashed across her eyes: "This Gu, could it be..."
"Okay, it's rare to see you asking for help. I agreed with reluctance." Feng Ru said, "But you have to pray that Mr. Gu shuts down the live broadcast before he does anything big. Otherwise, I won't be able to hide it."
*
Gu Qiufeng closed the live broadcast room before hijacking the NPC in charge of the players.
Although he might make a lot of noise at ordinary times, at important moments, Gu Qiufeng did not forget that the Second Guild, the Third Guild, and even other forces might be watching his every move.
Not exposing his cards randomly is his way of survival.
So after the uniformed girl finished saying this, Gu Qiufeng smiled and said, "Fortunately, I didn't start a live broadcast, otherwise I would have revealed so much to the players. Without the bounty hunter, the game itself would probably have killed me first."
"Regarding the fact that the game copy is based on real-life phenomena, has your guild ever had similar information, Xiaoyu?" Gu Qiufeng said.
Yu Chiang said: "There have been speculations, because some dungeons have obvious regional orientations, but the human players who enter the game have lost contact with the outside world, so we don't know that something unusual has happened in the outside world."
Gu Qiufeng said: "Do you have any idea?"
Yu Chiang said seriously: "Based on her description, I suspect that there are copy monsters in the game that tried to escape, and succeeded. But the game obviously noticed it, so it recovered these copy monsters a long time ago. Therefore, the copies based on reality have increased significantly in recent years."
Gu Qiufeng touched his chin and said, "The purpose of the game is hard to figure out."
On the one hand, it draws humans into the game in every possible way, making them struggle to survive in these dungeons where they can die if they are not careful; on the other hand, it strictly guards against dungeon monsters that want to invade reality, and even actively reclaims some real areas affected by monsters.
"Shen Yubo said that Yucheng University moved away in the end." Yu Chiang said, "I think the authorities intervened and took some measures, otherwise the entire Yucheng University might have been recycled into a copy by the game."
Obviously, Yucheng University's relocation saved the vast majority of players. Except for those NPCs with severe stiffness who were recycled into the dungeon, the remaining NPCs that were closely connected with the players were divided into two categories. One was the dead players like Shen Yuxiu who were recycled by the dungeon, and the other was the students who had died in reality because of the escaped dungeon monsters.
"However," Gu Qiufeng said, "I didn't see the monster Ghost Baby here. Did the game recycle it to another copy?"
Yu Chiang shook his head: "It's better this way."
Gu Qiufeng said: "Forget it, we are now in a difficult situation. Unless we can return to reality, we will not know these things at all."
He looked at the uniformed girl next to him and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Please lead the way for us."
"Let me see the way through the level that Miss Prophet has arranged for us."
The moment they stepped out of the broadcasting room, it was as if a switch was turned on, and countless students appeared on the campus.
They looked pale and ran around the school in panic.
"They're sacrificing us to the monster!"
"Why don't you let us out? Why are you hiding this news?"
"Another roommate of mine died. Doesn't the school have any explanation?"
"Those who died will become monsters and come back to attack us again! What should we do?"
The uniformed girl stood quietly beside Gu Qiufeng and said, "This is a reproduction of Yucheng University before the fire."
"The mission is: defeat the 'ghost baby', set a fire on Yucheng University, and put an end to the pollution."
The girl in uniform said, "Good luck to you."
Gu Qiufeng and Yu Chiang looked at each other and realized that this "ghost baby" was just a replica made to recreate that day.
But why did the prophet set up such a way for them to pass the level?
"Forget it. Don't think too much. Let's find the ghost baby first." Gu Qiufeng said, "Fenghe, you are quick on your feet. Look for it in the surrounding buildings. That little thing can hide easily. Be careful."
Just as he was saying this, a girl in the distance suddenly screamed.
The head of her companion next to her split open, and a huge snake head emerged from it, biting the girl's waist and abdomen tightly.
Gu Qiufeng frowned and subconsciously wanted to use cards to stop it, but Yu Chiang held his hand.
"This is a fake reenactment of a scene," Yu Chi'ang said. "There's no need to waste time in a place like this."
Yu Chiang pulled him and walked straight in one direction.
Gu Qiufeng asked: "Do you know where that thing is?"
"I smelled it." Yu Chiang kept walking, "My skills helped to enhance my sense of smell."
Gu Qiufeng remembered the white cat.
Yu Chiang's sense of smell was obviously better than Feng He's. He led Gu Qiufeng through turns left and right and entered a building.
When he was about to reach the corner of the stairs, Yu Chiang stopped.
A green vine struck out fiercely.
"This really is a standard-level natural disaster." Gu Qiufeng smacked his lips and said, "It's like a movie."
"Be careful." Yu Chiang suddenly paused, turned to Gu Qiufeng and said, "Senior, I'm going to use my skills."
Gu Qiufeng: “?”
Gu Qiufeng: "Why did you tell me..."
His voice stopped abruptly when he saw the big white lion behind Yu Chiang.
The lion's body was so huge that it almost reached the ceiling, and it swallowed the mutant who controlled the vines into its mouth.
Then the lion burped, and its body shrank rapidly, turning into a white rag doll and crawling onto Yu Chi'ang's shoulder in a few steps.
Gu Qiufeng was surprised and asked: "Is your skill a summoning skill?"
Yu Chiang: “…”
Yu Chi'ang was silent for a while before he said, "This is my spirit body. I didn't explain it to you before because I was afraid you would misunderstand. This spirit body is separate from my consciousness, and every time it is summoned to attack, it turns into a puppet."
"So it was you who sent this puppet to approach me and lead me to Shao Qiu Shui?" Gu Qiufeng said.
It was probably because Yu Chi'ang was too awkward at the beginning. Before the two of them recognized each other, he wanted to help secretly but couldn't bring himself to do so. He was also afraid that Gu Qiufeng would become suspicious, so he came up with this idea.
Gu Qiufeng: “…”
Gu Qiufeng was silent.
To be honest, he didn't quite understand this behavior of having a mouth but not using it.
He originally thought the puppet was a player in disguise, so he accidentally put it into his skill.
Now that he knew that this puppet was actually Xiaoyu's spirit body, Gu Qiufeng found it strange no matter how he thought about it.
He didn't even know how to explain it to Yu Chi'ang.
It seems weird no matter how you explain it.
Gu Qiufeng thought it would be better not to talk about it, so as not to disturb Yu Chiang's mind. Anyway, after Xiaoyu's spirit body was stored in the card, Yu Chiang did not show any signs of being affected, and he could still use his skills normally. So this kind of unimportant matter could be left until they left the dungeon.
The most important thing is that after leaving the dungeon, Xiaoyu won’t be able to hit him even if he wants to.
This is the benefit of staying in City D:)
After they defeated the mutants, they continued to go upstairs, encountered mutants, and continued to defeat them, until they reached...
Gu Qiufeng looked at the words on the plaque and said in astonishment: "So the ghost baby is actually in the principal's office?"
No wonder Yucheng University has always ignored its students. It is probably because the monsters in the copy have already controlled the school’s top management.
"Be careful." Gu Qiufeng said.
Feng He was summoned back to his side by the card he used, and Feng He took the lead. After all, he was a copy BOSS that could regenerate infinitely, and he pushed open the door of the principal's office.
A pungent smell of decay greeted me.
Gu Qiufeng and Yu Chiang couldn't help but frown and covered their noses with their hands.
Gu Qiufeng suddenly had a card in his hand. A wooden man jumped out of the card and ran into the principal's office.
"What is this?" Yu Chi'ang asked, "the wooden man from your last instance?"
Gu Qiufeng: "Xiaoyu, you've been paying attention to me for so long?"
Yu Chiang's face suddenly turned red: "I..."
"It's the wooden man from my last dungeon." Gu Qiufeng teased him for a while, then explained seriously, "I found that this wooden man had self-awareness after leaving the dungeon, and his movements were agile and his vitality... I don't know for now, but he has a natural attraction and deterrence to dungeon monsters like Feng He. The reason may need to be further explored."
Yu Chiang then reiterated: "Senior, you can come to our guild, just in case we have relevant information."
Gu Qiufeng was amused: "Why are you still recruiting new members at this time?"
While the two were talking, Feng He moved and blocked the sudden attack for Gu Qiufeng.
The thick smoke that blocked people's vision in the office dissipated, revealing a horrible baby lying on the ground, being focused on by a wooden figure, while the person trying to attack Gu Qiufeng in the room was the contaminated principal.
Feng He and Yu Chiang's spirit bodies immediately pounced over and started fighting with the contaminated body.
"Cover me." Gu Qiufeng glanced at Yu Chiang, "Although I don't know if the law of causality and grandfather paradox still exist in this kind of game, I still want to give it a try."
Yu Chiang seemed to know what he was going to do and immediately exchanged a protective shield from the mall.
In the chaos, the two people walked towards the ghost baby whose attention was firmly attracted by the wooden man.
Gu Qiufeng immediately placed his hand on the back of the ghost baby's head and began to activate the card drawing skill.
After the ghost baby noticed it, it was about to attack Gu Qiufeng, but the attack was blocked by the protective shield thrown by Yu Chiang.
The protective cover bought by Yu Chiang is not as useless as Gu Qiufeng’s. It is expensive and durable.
The ghost baby was roaring outside, but Gu Qiufeng remained calm and started drawing cards.
When the number of draws reached 130, Gu Qiufeng finally heard the system announcement.
[Character card generated successfully! ]
[Congratulations to the player for obtaining the UR character card "Defected Ghost Baby"
Skill Description: Can contaminate and alienate any person or object by 40%
Restrictions: Use within a copy/the user himself will also be contaminated and alienated by 15%]
The ghost baby let out a long howl and was sucked into the blank card in Gu Qiufeng's hand.
Listening to the skill description, Gu Qiufeng raised his eyebrows and said, "This skill kills one thousand enemies but injures five hundred of your own."
[It is detected that the player has reached the hidden conditions, and the "Fire from half a year ago" is granted]
[Players please choose the location]
Gu Qiufeng thought for a moment and said, "Let's start from the library."
That's where fires are most likely to start.
As the ghost baby disappeared, the strange phenomena on campus suddenly disappeared. Gu Qiufeng looked out from the window of the principal's office and found that the students all had expressions of surviving a disaster. They sat in a daze, their bodies splattered with their own blood or the blood of the monsters.
Suddenly, someone shouted, "The library is on fire, everyone run outside!"
"That fire is not a normal fire! It's coming very quickly!"
Gu Qiufeng looked up and saw that the fire in the distance quickly engulfed everything and gradually approached the principal's office.
All the surviving students began to run towards the school gate. Because the ghost baby had disappeared, there were no more monsters preventing them from escaping.
This time, they can finally escape from Yucheng University!
"The copy exit has appeared!" Yu Chi'ang said, "It's at the school gate. Let's go quickly, or the fire will reach us soon!"
Gu Qiufeng said, "Xiaoyu, you go first. Do you remember what I said?"
“I want a perfect ending.”
Gu Qiufeng turned around, picked up the landline on the principal's desk, and dialed a number.
"Excuse me, is this the A City Protection Center? There is something wrong with Yucheng University, please come as soon as possible."
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* City A Protection Center: Appears in Chapter 1
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