Chapter 77 What are you touching now?
The snowy night is over, the morning light begins to appear in the distance, the clouds are dyed orange and then gradually spread out.
A new day.
Zhang Lian found a thick coat from somewhere, and while Li Ziyue was temporarily too weak to speak, he stuffed him into it without saying a word, then wrapped it into long bread strips and let him sit on the snow-free steps on the side of the alley.
Zhang Lian’s hands held Li Ziyue’s face from behind.
The reason is: "I didn't find the scarf, but my hands are warm."
This posture was awkward and weird. Besides, Li Ziyue was a homosexual. He sat in front of Zhang Lian with his back to him. Although he didn't speak, his ears were so red that they were about to bleed.
But even though he felt embarrassed, Li Ziyue had just come out of the "mirror illusion" and felt so cold that he seemed to have no temperature at all. However, he still knew which was more important, survival or emotional awkwardness.
Although his physical condition was not so serious that it required a "life or death" choice, he did not lack a little warmth on the side of his face.
but……
At this moment, one of them pretended to be a fool and the other pretended to be dumb, which was quite harmonious.
Zhang Lian held Li Ziyue's face and even touched the tip of his ear which was shaking unconsciously.
Li Ziyue was about to explode: "Zhang Lian, if you touch me again I'll chop off your hand."
"good."
"…What are you touching now?"
"have no idea."
"?"
Zhang Lian was so good at playing dumb that the three words "I don't know" even made Li Ziyue laugh.
He was about to speak when he heard a system reminder.
[A third-party branch was detected that disrupted the normal progress of the game, "Snow Mirror" was temporarily saved]
"Archive"?
It's quite novel.
Li Ziyue cleared his throat, raised his head and said to Zhang Xingzhi seriously, "You also encountered the 'Snow Mirror'?"
Zhang Xingzhi nodded: "It should be since you heard me say 'wooden house' that we fell into the illusion of a snowy night. I have never known about wooden houses. If I knew about them, I would have told you earlier, and there would be no need to drag it out until the end."
This is not without reason, but based on the information they knew, there was no other way except to go to the cabin.
"Are you also a four-faced mirror?"
"The mirrors encountered by all players before were the same, but something has changed in this instance," Zhang Xingzhi said with a heavy face. "Now it varies from person to person. I encountered five mirrors, and Zhang Lian encountered seven..."
"The number of mirrors doesn't make much sense. If no one smashes the mirrors from the outside, we will most likely fall into a vicious cycle of constantly encountering mirrors until we die."
Does it mean that the only solution for this link is "others help from the outside"?
Li Ziyue fell silent. He glanced behind him without leaving a trace, looking at the fourth person hiding in the snow.
The sunlight gradually became brighter, the snow slowed down, and Li Ziyue could no longer be seen. Only a little black spot could be seen in the pure white snow.
The muzzle of the long sniper rifle in the man's hand was pointed at Human Base No. 108, and behind him was her black hair hidden in the sniper rifle and the snow.
At the intersection of morning light and night, the surroundings were exceptionally quiet. The man lurked in the snow for a full half hour without making a sound, and during this time only the muzzle of the gun moved slightly.
The orange line in the sky deepened, and the snow around her shook for a moment. Then a suppressed "bang" exploded in everyone's ears, and the snow was stirred up and scattered into a white curtain in the air.
She then raised her head and shook off the remaining snow on her body. She adjusted the position of her goggles twice to reveal the strands of hair wet by the snow.
"Let's go," she put her hand on her forehead, pulled her bangs back naturally, and raised her lips confidently, "The sniper on the opposite side is dead."
The sunlight grew brighter, illuminating her neat short hair. The small piece of hair sticking up at the back of her neck was trembling slightly in the snow.
Li Ziyue looked at her in silence for a long time, but finally said nothing.
"Weren't there two snipers?" Zhang Xingzhi asked, "You only fired one shot."
"Why two?" She jumped down from the snowdrift. "There has always been only one."
"……strangeness."
[Hey, I've been to this sniper's livestream before. She's so awesome, and has won many "never miss a shot" achievements]
[The sniper is Liu Yuche, currently ranked 12th in the standings, but in terms of sniping alone, she is number one]
[Liu Yuche? Such a familiar name, I feel like I've seen it somewhere before]
Zhang Xingzhi was well aware of Liu Yuche's strengths, so he naturally wouldn't question her answer, but he was still confused in his heart.
It does not rule out the possibility that he was given a "fake answer". After all, the act of looking up information in advance is itself outside the rules that prohibit it.
It is normal that some people above him want to harm him, and there are many people who hate him.
Zhang Xingzhi made a "tsk" sound and suppressed his doubts.
While the people in the base hadn't started the wind field yet, everyone sneaked towards the base along the path under the cover of snow.
Thanks to the wind farm, there were no zombies around, and Li Ziyue gradually felt at ease.
Was the previous scene just an illusion?
Li Ziyue unconsciously touched the side of his face. There were no scars and his vision was clear. At this moment, apart from feeling a little cold, there was nothing unusual about him.
All the wounds caused by the attacks of strange beasts and ice cones disappeared.
The gold coins in the account actually increased.
Although it was an illusion, there was still a real part. So what about Li Ziyue that he saw on the lake?
Is it an illusion set up by the copy, or is it the reality hidden beneath the illusion?
[Li Ziyue] Why was he injured like that? Why wasn't the fan in his hand?
There is clearly insufficient information available, and the more you think about it, the more confused you will become.
"The surveillance is in dormant mode," Zhang Xingzhi put down the detection system, "but there is a fingerprint lock on the door. Wait for me for two minutes."
[I am dying of laughter. Why don’t any of them go through the main entrance? Are they fans of the side door?]
[Okay, okay, I get it. The first step to becoming a big boss is to never take the right path if you can take the side path.]
[But then again, don’t you think there’s something weird about the first part? ]
[What? Please tell me more about the previous one!]
The corridor on the other side of the side door was dark, as if it had not been opened for a long time. The dust was very thick, and if people walked a little, they could see fine dust flying in the air.
The gas mask I got from the hospital earlier can only protect against toxic mist in the air, but cannot protect against these small dust particles.
This time Li Ziyue had been calmed down. He just stood at the door, with his face slightly raised cooperatively, waiting for Zhang Lian to reach out his hand.
Zhang Lian lightly brushed his still red earlobe with his fingertips, then pinched the middle of his nose bridge to secure the mask nose clip in place.
He then adjusted the height of the mask on both sides for him, then winked at Li Ziyue and said, "Okay."
Li Ziyue naturally lowered his head.
etc.
He suddenly realized it.
Don’t I have hands? Why does Zhang Lian want me to put a mask on?
Zhang Lian looked down slightly and saw that the pink on the tip of Li Ziyue's ear, which was about to fade away, was ignited again.
He silently stuffed a piece of individually wrapped fruit candy into Li Ziyue's palm.
"…What is that?"
Li Ziyue's voice came through the mask, and it was buzzing and vague, like that of a fragile patient.
"Sugar, found in the aisle storage layer." Afraid that Li Ziyue would not eat it, he added, "It tastes like green apple, a little sour, not very sweet."
"……oh."
The sound became even more vague, I guess the candy must have been stuffed into his mouth.
"What about me?" Liu Yuche joked. She had worked with Zhang Lian on several dungeons before, so she was considered an old acquaintance of Zhang Lian. "What flavor is my candy?"
Zhang Lian thought about it seriously and said, "There is also half a moldy sausage and half a piece of chewy black bread. Which one do you want? You choose the rest and give it to Zhang Xingzhi."
Zhang Xingzhi: “……?” Wait, I didn’t say anything just now!
Although they occasionally chatted to relieve their fatigue, they were not relaxed at all.
Liu Yuche had put away the sniper rifle and replaced it with a more convenient hand/gun, with the tip of his index finger always on the trigger.
Zhang Xingzhi set up virtual scenes on all the running surveillance to prevent the base monitoring room from noticing anything unusual. Only Zhang Lian seemed to be always distracted from the danger and vigilance, and was focused on finding candy for his brother.
But no one would stand up and say anything bad about Zhang Lian.
Zhang Lian is that magical student who seems to be staring at the test paper in a daze in the examination room, but when he hands it in, you find that he has filled up the paper without knowing when, and still gets a very good score afterwards.
There was once a player who was playing face to face with Zhang Lian. Seeing that Zhang Lian just stared out the window during his preparation, he relaxed his vigilance. Unexpectedly, Zhang Lian submitted the answer as soon as the formal session started, and the opponent was defeated in seconds and never dared to compete with others in 1V1 again in his life.
Sometimes Zhang Lian is really stupid. If Li Ziyue were present, he would have said a few words to him and not embarrassed him.
Unfortunately, "Li Ziyue's presence" is just an assumption.
The player was already in great pain after being killed instantly, and afterwards he was asked sincerely by Zhang Lian.
"Did you not think about anything just now? I thought you were like me, used to drafting in your mind."
other side:"……?"
The player was so angry at Zhang Lian that he couldn't stand steadily and was about to fall to the ground.
Zhang Lian still felt that everything had nothing to do with him: "What happened? Do you have a heart disease? Why did you suddenly get sick?"
"Take some medicine first. I'm hungry after the duel. I'll go back and eat something." He suddenly remembered that Li Ziyue scolded him for being stupid a long time ago. "Oh, if you die, I will come to the funeral. What kind of flowers do you like to put in front of your tombstone?"
…
After passing through a long, dim corridor, the four finally saw the dilapidated lobby of the base.
The lights were not very bright and everything was in a dormant state. Only with the help of Zhang Xingzhi's luminous jellyfish props could everyone barely see the indoor facilities clearly.
In the middle of the hall stood an old round table with a missing leg. The surrounding walls were replaced by several large screens, and at the bottom was a dim operating table.
Li Ziyue frowned slightly and stroked the table beside him with his fingertips, and saw that there was still a thin layer of dust on his fingertips.
It would be fine if there was no one in the side corridor, but why did the lobby of the base not look empty either?
Liu Yuche loaded her gun and walked to the other side. She lowered her voice and gestured to the other three people - I will go to the rooftop to find the dead sniper.
Li Ziyue nodded and started to work on the operating table.
There is an area on the operating console dedicated to base monitoring. Li Ziyue remembered that not all surveillance cameras were in sleep mode along the way, so he wanted to use this opportunity to see what had happened at the base and why there was no one there.
Zhang Xingzhi had already restarted the system in advance, but the system operating authority had a password. The password was not a simple number, but a derivative conclusion to be proved.
All steps to solve the problem must be written down. Zhang Xingzhi can sort out the general idea based on his memory from his student days, but he cannot write the specific "because, so".
As soon as I looked up, I saw that Li Ziyue had already written the proof process and clicked the submit button.
Zhang Xingzhi was stunned: "...You are amazing, how many points did you get in math in the college entrance examination?"
"What year?"
Zhang Xingzhi was stunned: "What?"
Li Ziyue had a blank expression on his face: "I took the college entrance examination math test eight times. Three of them I slept and didn't go to the exam room at all, so I got 0 points. Two times I got 150 points, one time I got 148 points, and two times because the questions were too simple, I fell asleep in the middle of writing, and only got 80 points for the optional test."
"You..." Zhang Xingzhi was not too bad at math before. He scored 130+ in the college entrance examination that year. However, the difference between 130+ and 150 seems to be only a dozen points, but in fact there is a difference of several dimensions of strength. At this moment, he suddenly felt that Li Ziyue's image became majestic.
Li Ziyue shook his head: "I'm not as smart as you think. I just practice makes perfect. If you do the test paper over and over again ten times, you can get this score."
Then, several black and white scenes appeared on the surrounding screens, but most areas were still covered in snow without showing any content.
Zhang Xingzhi scratched his head and said, "I can handle this. You wait here for a while. I'll go check out the surveillance cameras in these places."
As soon as he finished speaking, he laughed again: "Please pass my friend number. I have a small prop. If anything happens later, I can still contact you through the player communication."
Li Ziyue agreed to the application: "Thank you for your help."
"It's no big deal," Zhang Xingzhi waved his hand, "Everyone has their own specialties."
Zhang Lian found a pile of compressed biscuits and canned food that had not expired in the locker below. He cut a small piece and stuffed it into his mouth. Half a second later, he commented expressionlessly: "It tastes bad."
He opened another can and commented again: "It tastes terrible."
Taking advantage of this free time, Li Ziyue activated the danger warning system. However, as soon as he opened the system operation interface, he saw dangerous red lights flashing around the base hall.
"Warning! Warning!" a cold mechanical voice sounded, "There is an advanced zombie invasion three hundred meters outside the base. Warning! Warning!"
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