Chapter 67 Save Me
[Considering that there are too many players participating in this instance, in order to prevent the last player lobby brawl, players will no longer go to the lobby together]
[Props purchase process now]
[A box of matches that are not damp: Andersen always buys this, and recommends Andersen's readers to buy this peripheral (500 points)]
[Thermos cup filled with hot water: The sky is falling? It's okay, it's okay, wait for me to drink some water first (1000 points)]
[Some thin steel wires: Snowstorm Mountain Villa? Murder in a closed room? Fortunately, my ancestors were thieves. I got some steel wire to pry open the door. I want to see what kind of closed room you are building (500 points)]
[Okay, okay, I want to buy the last steel wire prop]
[I dare not think that I am standing on a high floor, holding a thermos cup in my hand, watching a group of people fighting below. Then I slowly take a sip of hot water, watching the white mist rising, and my thin lips slightly opened: The weather is getting colder.]
[I can't stand it anymore. Who is the boss from which village? He is showing off with a thermos cup. Why don't you eat something good?]
Li Ziyue was silent for two seconds and bought the matches.
The reason is simple and crude. Although there is a moment of "yang" in the "Snowstorm Villa" copy, the time is very short. Most of the time, there are snowflakes everywhere and the environment is extremely cold.
Among these three props, the one that can provide heat most effectively is actually matches.
There are so many things that matches can light.
[The item purchase phase is over, you will now be put into the dungeon]
When Li Ziyue woke up, he felt a splitting headache and his nasal cavity was a little itchy. He couldn't help sneezing and touched his arms.
As cold as an ice bar.
He opened his eyes with difficulty, and a dazzling white light instantly blurred his vision. Under the strong stimulation, he couldn't help but shed a few physiological tears.
After I relaxed my body, I noticed that the balcony window was not closed properly, leaving a tiny gap. The bitter cold winter wind roared into the empty room through that gap.
The windows of this room are not the common half windows, but sliding door windows with glass occupying the entire wall. There is a balcony outside, about 2 meters long and 1 meter wide, which is filled with cardboard boxes and other items. A wire mesh is hung on the top, with a few lonely plastic clothes hangers left on it.
He was far away from the balcony before, but when he got closer he realized that the air outside was extremely smelly. He couldn't help but sneeze again, and with some effort he finally closed the window.
It was not until he exerted force that Li Ziyue noticed the redness and swelling on his wrist.
Both of his hands were obviously red and swollen from being rubbed by the thick ropes, especially the protruding joints on his wrists, which were rubbed to bleed and formed dark red blood scars.
This is……
After feeling a little warmer, Li Ziyue finally had the energy to observe the current situation of the house.
The house is not big, with only a living room, kitchen and bedroom. It is obviously a bare house with no paint and rough concrete unevenly placed on the walls.
The mechanical disc clock was hung right above the entrance, still clicking, and it showed that there were still 3 minutes left until 10 o'clock.
The date is October 22nd.
There was a short wooden table in the living room, on which was placed a plate of greasy red and black unknown substance. Li Ziyue reached out to touch its surface, and a layer of transparent sticky substance instantly covered his fingertips.
The smell is foul, probably the rotting meat of some animal.
The skin feels soft and the inside is hard, I guess it has just been taken out of the freezer and thawed.
Combined with the bad memories of the previous copy, Li Ziyue froze for half a second, and then decided not to look at the plate again.
The wooden table was tilted, and a plastic stool with a body fallen on it rolled beside it. The stool was missing a leg and just happened to be stuck in the gap at the bottom of the table.
And at the corner where Li Ziyue had just woken up, there was a thick brown rope stained with blood.
Previously, his attention was attracted by the light and the cold wind outside, so he naturally did not notice that there was a rope hidden behind him.
Combining everything we have so far, it can be seen that there are obvious signs of a struggle in the house. Looking at the marks on his wrists from being strangled, Li Ziyue should be the one who was beaten.
When I came to my senses, I felt pain all over my body.
If that’s the case, then where is the person who beat him?
As soon as this question popped up in my mind, the system popped up a reminder.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Save Me" main quest]
[Mission Difficulty: Four Stars (On a snowstorm night, many people died in the howling cold wind)]
[Task requirements: Save me]
[Task Reward: 1000 Gold Coins]
The rewards are no longer points, it seems that gold coins are really important in this copy.
——[Bound to side quests]
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Writer's Sorrow" side quest]
[Mission Difficulty: One Star (You know, we have to keep a diary when writing suspense)]
[Task requirements: Find 'my' diary]
[Task Reward: 10 Gold Coins]
A four-star main quest, and a side quest that comes with "birth"...
Li Ziyue didn't dare to be careless. There was nothing in the empty living room, so he turned around and went into the bedroom next to him.
The bedroom was also decorated in a beggar's style, with a tattered mattress in the middle and a crumpled black cotton jacket thrown casually on the edge of the bed. Li Ziyue picked it up and put it on, feeling a little warmer.
When I took off the cotton-padded jacket, I saw a few books underneath and a black pen hidden in the gap of the mattress in front.
Li Ziyue first flipped through the books and discovered that the owner of the house... Oh, according to the system reminder and the injury on his wrist, it was him, with a bit of the flavor of "This is a humble room, but my virtue is fragrant."
They were several collections of essays that cultivated one's sentiments. I seemed to be quite talented in writing essays, and I would always write a few comments at the end after reading each essay.
The handwriting is quite beautiful.
The diary is at the bottom.
Li Ziyue's movements became increasingly stiff as he spent more time flipping through the diary.
[10/2]
[It seems meaningless to write a diary now... But I still want to commemorate it. I don’t know if there will be survivors who come here and read my diary in the future.]
Survivor…what does that mean?
Li Ziyue was stunned.
[10/7]
[Recently, many people have fled here. I heard from them that the pollution in the north is more serious. The south has better greenery and can temporarily resist it, but winter is coming... Hehe... I don’t know how many gas masks I got from the hospital last time are left. It seems that they are all gone... I’ll get some next time I go out.]
[I really hope that Human Base No. 108 can give us some things. We are all survivors... They are not far from us. I don’t know why they are guarding against us like thieves.]
[10/8]
[There was a person across the street, very enthusiastic, knocking on my door on the first day he moved in, asking me if I needed any supplies. But I always felt something was wrong, and I couldn’t sleep well at night recently, always feeling like someone was watching me... I hope I’m overthinking it, after all, such kind-hearted people are really rare in such a chaotic world]
[10/11]
[That man was really kind, he sent me some meat every now and then, saying it was stolen from the Northern Zoo. I don’t know what kind of meat it is, it tastes terrible, but at least it won’t kill you and fills your stomach. He looked quite skinny, but I didn’t expect him to be so strong. You can’t judge a person by his appearance.]
Li Ziyue turned to the next page and saw only messy tear marks, and then the date jumped to the 20th.
Apparently some of the pages had been torn out.
[10/20]
[The 22nd is my birthday. I feel really bad for eating so much of this guy’s food. Luckily I saved a pack of compressed biscuits and haven’t eaten them yet. I’ll share them with him when the time comes.]
Before this, everything was normal except for a few pages that were torn off for some reason. However, the next page.
[He wants to kill me! He really wants to kill me! He tied me up and I managed to escape... Now he's back in his room, and he says I can't get away...]
Li Ziyue's fingertips gradually felt cold.
This diary entry has no date, but based on the signs of a struggle in the front room and the clock at the door...
I wrote these words just now!
Want to escape.
This was the first thought that came to his mind at this moment.
But how to escape.
He looked down from his bedroom window.
He was on a very high floor, about thirty meters away. Below him was a thick layer of snow that seemed soft, but was actually as hard as stone due to the long accumulation of snow. On the other side, ice had formed between the water pipes on the floor, making it cold and slippery.
Outside, the strong wind was blowing up snowflakes as sharp as knife blades. The air pollution was serious and layers of moss-like green mist lingering in the air were visible to the naked eye.
Then we can only go through the main gate now...
“Knock, knock.”
There was a knock on the door in the quiet room.
A vague male voice came through the crack in the door, bringing with it a damp, cold and gloomy feeling.
"are u there."
Li Ziyue was standing on the other side of the entrance, squatting slightly, just in the blind spot of the peephole of the security door.
The clock above the cat's eye was still turning slowly.
Pointing to one minute past ten.
He put his hand on the door lock and felt a startling chill in his palm. There were many circles of iron chains and steel wires wrapped around it, so densely packed that they almost covered the handle to unlock it. It would take some time to unlock it.
And the other side.
Li Ziyue lowered his eyes.
On the shoe cabinet opposite him, at the top was an iron needle about 20 centimeters long, with two index fingers as thick as its back end.
The sharp side of the iron needle seemed to be shining with a dazzling silver-white light.
Below the iron needle was a small axe that could be held in one hand. The top of the wooden handle of the axe had been broken and was barely wrapped up with a bandage.
The way out of the impasse is obvious.
Li Ziyue closed his eyes unbearably, feeling his temples throbbing.
A system prompt sounded in my mind.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "I Will Return It" side quest]
[Mission Difficulty: One Star (Both Ends of the Scale, Blood Debt Repaid with Blood, Fair Trade)]
[Task explanation: You already know that the man is spying on you through the cat's eye. What can you do? Poor man. What do the sharp needles and axes placed on the shoe cabinet represent?]
[Poke the needle into the cat's eye, and the person's eye will be injured instantly. During this time, please use the axe to chop the door lock and escape (warm reminder: the axe was previously damaged and can only be used once. After opening the lock, it cannot injure other people)]
[Task Reward: 40 Gold Coins]
Li Ziyue held the cold iron needle in his hand and pursed his thin lips, seeming to be still hesitating.
[The key NPC has appeared, and the "Eye of Reconnaissance" item is now given to players for free]
As soon as the prompt sounded, a pair of silver-framed single-sided glasses floated in the air in front of Li Ziyue's left eye. Through the lens, as soon as his sight fell on the side of the door, he saw a few words appear in his field of vision.
[Mutated Zombie No. 101: Physically stronger than the average person, agile, and can lock onto others mainly through eyes]
[Weakness: Eyes. A zombie will stop moving for 2 minutes after its eyes are injured.]
"Hey," the man's eyes spun strangely at the front of the cat's eye, "You're in there, right? Why aren't you making any noise?"
Li Ziyue heard a slight sound coming from the door lock, as if a thin wire had entered the keyhole...
The next moment, a sharp scream was heard from the man outside, and the cruelty of a small section of glass being punctured was covered up underneath.
“Bang! Bang!”
Under the strong impact, the iron lock instantly broke into several sections, and with a crisp "click" sound, the lock opened. Li Ziyue had no time to look at the man. He opened the door and ran straight downstairs.
The system kept reminding him in his mind.
[Explanation of the special "Blood Debt and Blood Payback" mechanism in this game: After a player or NPC hurts the other party, the damage will be rebounded after a period of time. In short, if you hurt the other party's eyes, your eyes will also be damaged after a period of time]
[Trigger mechanism description: There is contact between the two parties (indirect contact using other objects as a medium is also within the system's permitted range)]
[Protect players mechanism: NPCs will immediately receive rebound damage when they damage other players, and players will receive a period of rebound suspension when they damage other players, and the length of the suspension period is uncertain]
Li Ziyue cursed inwardly.
If I had known that the system wouldn't be so kind as to give out free items, it turned out that it was planning to trick him here.
As he ran all the way, he vaguely felt as if there were creepy sights sticking to him from behind. Occasionally, when he looked up, he could always see the slightly open security door of the residents at the stairs.
In the dark crack of the door, countless eyes were rolling around.
The "residents" of this building have all come alive.
I don't know how long I ran until a rusty building door appeared in front of me. Li Ziyue quickly pushed away the snow at the door and moved with difficulty in the snow.
When he walked outside, he felt the air getting worse and worse. He could hardly stop coughing and could only pull up the top of his cotton jacket to barely cover his mouth and nose.
Based on what was written in the diary, Li Ziyue opened the system, found the hospital closest to the residential building, and started navigation.
at the same time.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the side quest "When too many people go to the gate of life, it becomes the gate of death"]
[Mission Difficulty: Two Stars (You know, we are writing a suspense story, and we will feel uncomfortable if we don’t have some hospital scenes)]
[Task requirements: Go to the hospital and find the 'gas mask', which can protect you from poisonous fog attacks]
[Task Reward: 50 Gold Coins]
The wind was howling, and as noon approached, the fog dispersed a little, making the figures of people struggling to move forward in the snow clearer.
The snow was thick, but there were not many newly fallen snowflakes. His footprints twisted from the residential building to the other side, leaving traces that others could follow.
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