Chapter 75 Snow Goggles
There was a faint glow on the horizon, the cold wind was still howling, and the fog had dispersed a little.
Zhang Xingzhi stared at Li Ziyue for a long time.
"Then we will be trapped here and die."
"Yes," Li Ziyue said coldly, almost without hesitation, "die."
He turned his back.
"I should have died long ago."
Zhang Lian’s eyes narrowed slightly.
"elder brother."
He called out softly.
"..." Li Ziyue stared at the snow on the other side in silence for a long time, and finally put his hand slowly on his eyebrows and rubbed them gently, "I'm sorry..."
He sighed deeply: "Just now... I said some discouraging words."
"I just remembered some bad things in the past," Li Ziyue's expression softened and he managed a very stiff smile, "It's okay."
He shifted his gaze to Human Base No. 108: "But I really don't know how to use a gun. That person didn't teach me how to snipe."
To be precise, she was killed by him before she had the chance to teach him how to use a sniper rifle.
Li Ziyue's eyes darkened for a moment.
Zhang Lian's gaze remained on Li Ziyue.
The mood becomes heavier.
He understood too well what Li Ziyue's every move represented.
Li Ziyue did not let it go before, but paused.
He simply paused his pursuit of suicide.
To this day, Li Ziyue still believes that he deserves to die, but he still has sins and debts to pay off.
He did not avenge his seniors.
Li Ziyue had already planned his own grave - "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy".
If a person is willing to show his or her vulnerability, even if it is just whining without any reason, it is a good thing, proving that he or she still has the desire to live and is asking for help from others in a perhaps childish way.
The most difficult one is Li Ziyue.
He deliberately showed others his desire for survival. He actively completed dungeons and did not complain about the exercises he had done countless times. He had clear goals and was willing to actively explore the possibility of survival no matter what kind of predicament he was in.
All of this was a pretense to hide his disgust for himself and his desire to die soon.
Li Ziyue is more negative at heart than anyone else.
"Let's try again and see if there is any other way to break through. We have three people here. If someone accidentally gets stuck in the loop, there is still hope."
Although Li Ziyue said this, he was unsure in his heart.
He believed what Zhang Xingzhi had said before - at present, there was no other way to break into the base except to kill the enemy sniper.
The environment outside the base was desolate. The violent snow and wind never stopped. The vegetation was almost completely dead. Poisonous fog came one after another. All you could see when you looked up were zombies. There was no living creature.
He really couldn't think of any reason for the humans at Base 108 to build an underground passage leading from the base to the outside.
Coupled with the extremely wide coverage of the wind field and the snipers who work 24 hours a day, there must be abundant supplies hidden under the strong defense. The people in the base may have built a self-sufficient circulation system, and there is no need to come out and ask for trouble.
But there are still some strange points.
Li Ziyue looked up at Zhang Xingzhi and said, "Even if we take out the sniper on the opposite side, this 300-meter wind field will be difficult."
Zhang Xingzhi waved his hand: "You can pass."
"The wind farm needs energy to operate. In order to save energy, the other side will shut down the wind farm when night falls," he sighed, "so our best way to break in is to kill the sniper before night falls, and sneak in immediately after the wind farm stops."
[Hey, there's no need to go through so much trouble. Once the wind dies down at night, Zhang Lian can just use his rifle to kill the sniper on the opposite side.]
[You haven't seen the weather dungeon with snowy nights before... Players who are still outside on snowy nights will encounter many fatal dangers, and they will not have the energy to confront the snipers on the opposite side...]
[Yes, I have heard a saying: "On a snowy night, if a player gets snow on his body, it means he has one foot in the grave"...]
[Oh my god... is it really that scary? ]
Li Ziyue looked solemn.
According to the above idea, if there is no super sniper in their team, everyone can just squat on the ground and beg for death.
It doesn't make sense.
As far as he knew, there were quite a few players among the tens of thousands who were good at using firearms, but only a few could use sniper rifles flexibly against the wind.
Did he really encounter a situation where there was only one solution to a problem?
As night fell, the daylight faded faster and faster, and in just a short while, the light in the alley had dimmed a lot.
Zhang Xingzhi at the side said: "Actually, across the alley, there is an abandoned wooden house where you can temporarily take shelter from the wind and snow..."
He paused for two seconds, then continued hesitantly: "But there are a lot of zombies gathered over there."
"What zombies?"
"I don't know." Zhang Xingzhi understood what Li Ziyue was asking. "I got the copy information in advance, which is considered cheating. It's impossible for them to give me a detailed reference answer directly. I only know that there are zombies, but I don't know if they have intelligence."
Li Ziyue looked at the snowflakes floating in front of him, as if in deep thought. After a long while, he slowly decided: "Let's go."
He also had some alcohol and matches in his backpack. If it was a normal zombie, he could burn it with fire. But if it was a mutant zombie like the doctor and nurse he had encountered before...
At this point, there is no other way to go.
Finally, a streak of red-orange light appeared in the sky, and the other side was surrounded by a large section of dark gray clouds.
The three of them walked quickly in the snow, one after the other, and occasionally Zhang Xingzhi could be heard speaking in a low voice.
"The 'Snow' ability ranks first among the six abilities and is most suitable for killing people..." Zhang Xingzhi looked at the map navigation that lit up on the system, and his voice seemed to be trembling with cold. "So far, 'Snowstorm Villa' has been opened 1,235 times, and 300 players have been wiped out..."
Zhang Xingzhi coughed twice.
Li Ziyue inadvertently slowed down his movements, and his eyes moved slightly downwards.
Zhang Xingzhi added with difficulty: "The whole army was wiped out 237 times. This is one of the weather copies with the heaviest casualties..."
"Besides, this snowy night, you know..."
However, before he could finish his words, he felt his eyes go cold the next moment.
Then his vision suddenly went dark, blood gushed out of the corners of his eyes almost uncontrollably, the pain scraped across his temples and drilled straight into his forehead—
Zhang Xingzhi's face turned pale as paper and he leaned forward suddenly, trying to rush towards Li Ziyue.
Li Ziyue's eyes were cold, and a small scimitar stained with human blood appeared in his palm.
Zhang Lian's obscure gaze fell on Li Ziyue: "...Who are you, and why did you want to kill him?"
Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows and chuckled at this moment, spinning the scimitar in his hand: "I also want to ask who you are."
In the blink of an eye, the scimitar was like a silver meteor trail flashing in the night. With a "puff!" sound, the scimitar instantly pierced through the middle of Zhang Xingzhi's eye and broke through the back of his head. The cold weapon covered with unknown mucus suddenly stabbed into the snow.
【??? Isn't this? Huh?】
[What's going on? No? The number one on the standings just died like that? ]
[Murder! ! What is he doing! No! So the host is the villain! ]
Before everyone in the live broadcast room could recover from the shock, they saw that Zhang Xingzhi's body, which had been lying stiffly on the ground, suddenly turned into transparent ice cubes, and the bright red blood on Li Ziyue's blade turned into white frost.
[Congratulations to the player for completing the "Enemy in the Mirror" hidden game]
[Game Reward: 20 Gold Coins]
The third time it’s hindsight.
[It turned out to be a hidden game! Oh my god! How did the host find out? I should have asked Zhang Xingzhi about the dungeon earlier.]
[I was so scared, I thought I witnessed a murder scene (reward 300 points)]
As early as when Li Ziyue saw Zhang Xingzhi's legs stuck in the snow begin to become transparent and the machete in his backpack was quietly unlocked by the system, he knew that he had triggered the hidden game again.
This copy really fits the characteristic of snow that comes and goes without a trace. It doesn't tell you when a mission is about to begin, and it doesn't tell you when it has begun. If you follow the general thinking: trigger the mission → wait for the system to issue the mission requirements → be vigilant → complete the mission, Li Ziyue would have died eight hundred times already.
The snow wind blew again and again.
"Zhang Lian" and "Zhang Xingzhi" were both gone, leaving only a lonely scimitar on the ground.
Li Ziyue silently pulled up the scimitar from the ground and walked towards the cabin without hesitation.
At the same time, the system pops up a prompt sound.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Snow Mirror (Part 1)" side game - the invisible murderer]
[Mission Difficulty: Two Stars (Ice and snow are the most convenient murder weapon. There is no need to deliberately handle it, it will melt on its own)]
[Task Description: There are many invisible beasts hiding around you. How can you see them? How can you avoid their attacks?]
[Quest requirements: There is a fake mirror that confuses you. I hope you can find a real mirror that can see all the strange beasts (Hint: Don’t forget the taste of appetizers when eating the main meal~)]
[Task Reward: 70 Gold Coins]
As soon as the prompt sound stopped, the rustling sound of snowflakes being turned over was heard not far away. Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes slightly and saw in the not-so-bright sunlight that there was some abnormal depression in the surrounding snow.
The depressions shaped like human footprints surrounded him densely and were approaching him at a speed visible to the naked eye.
There seemed to be an indescribable stench mixed with the snow and wind.
Li Ziyue raised his eyes slightly, but saw only large snowflakes falling.
There was no sign of any other life, but footsteps were definitely approaching.
Who is hiding around him?
Using the footprints on the ground, Li Ziyue roughly found an escape route with relatively less dense footprints. However, just as he was about to break through, he suddenly felt a piercing coldness at his ankle that gave him goose bumps.
Something grabbed hold of him.
Then he felt a pain in his abdomen, as if his internal organs were shifting, and he vomited acid from his mouth instantly, while blood was already flowing from his ankle.
The cold seeped into his body through the wound.
He looked over again.
The footprints had already crept up to him.
The thing's heel collided with his toes, while its fist hit him head-on.
The scimitar flashed in the air. Although no shadow was seen, the sound of ice breaking was heard, and Li Ziyue groaned.
The system reminds you that the [Blood Debt Must Be Repaid with Blood] mechanism has been triggered.
He bit his tongue impatiently, forcing himself to stay awake, then endured the pain and ran to a place with fewer footprints.
The [Blood Debt Pays with Blood] mechanism seems to want to establish a fair constraint between players and NPCs, but in reality there are too many loopholes that can be exploited.
The damage felt by players and NPCs is conserved, but the number of objects that can take the damage can be changed arbitrarily.
One cup of sugar water would be enough to choke one person, but diluting it into ten cups and giving it to ten people would be just right.
There are too many invisible beasts here. They can attack Li Ziyue at will, but Li Ziyue cannot.
All rebound damage will be borne by him alone.
So running away is the best option.
Fortunately, the snow was deep, and with the help of the little light left in the sky, Li Ziyue was able to hide by following the traces left by the strange beasts in the snow.
At this time, he was still about one thousand meters away from his target cabin. If he moved fast, there was still a certain probability that he could hide in the cabin before the snowy night came.
Li Ziyue had previously experienced a dungeon with a bit of snow. The snow in that dungeon was relatively short. However, despite this, when the sun came out the next day, the number of players had been cut in half by the snow.
After becoming proficient, Li Ziyue was rarely attacked by strange beasts. He now had time to open the system and check the map again.
Although the current situation seems to be good, Li Ziyue still feels an inexplicable heaviness in his heart.
The "Snow Goggles" game is far from simple.
What is a "fake mirror" and what are "all strange beasts"... These known conditions were not reflected in his problem-solving process, so there must be something wrong with the answer he filled in now.
Li Ziyue didn't expect that the "deduction points" would come so quickly.
As soon as he opened the system interface, he suddenly felt a chill in his eyes, followed by a bone-deep pain from the side of his face.
The last ray of light in the sky disappeared along with his vision.
The snowy night has arrived.
The sky and the earth were extremely dark.
Li Ziyue covered his eyes with trembling hands.
In the coldness, I felt a little heat that burned my skin.
That was his blood.
There were no extra steps beneath him.
There are strange beasts that can fly.
And he couldn't see.
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