Chapter 86 Answer Me
Memories that were so painful that he almost couldn't breathe suddenly hit his brain.
Cold, broken, and like a zombie, 17-year-old Li Ziyue had never felt the room was so cold.
Zhang Lian's medicine was still placed in front of the bed, but the bed was empty. The severe cold weather had frozen the bed like an icy river bank.
…
Li Ziyue bit the tip of his tongue fiercely. The severe pain made him more conscious.
The scimitar spun rapidly in the air, and then suddenly chopped at the slender fingers that were wrapped around him. The short blade that was not as sharp as iron could only hurt her skin.
After adding nearly 50 gold coins, the finger was barely cut off by Li Ziyue.
He retreated, his long arms seemed to have eyes, chasing Li Ziyue closely.
The communication was cut off, and there were strange beasts all around, including a strange creature that was so powerful that it was unimaginable.
It takes at least half an hour to get back to the zoo from here.
In any case, it would be the most foolish thing to do to confront a powerful enemy head-on without knowing the enemy's true strength.
The only option now is to escape.
The monster moved even faster. Before Li Ziyue had retreated ten meters, her slender clone had already blocked Li Ziyue's way.
Tsk.
Li Ziyue's fingers hidden behind his back moved slightly, and a not-so-bright golden light swirled and grew at his fingertips.
Then, two extremely loud "bangs" were heard from afar.
No silenced sniper.
A rapid flash of light flashed before people's eyes, and the clone shattered. The monster's face was hit hard and it leaned back uncontrollably.
The fingers stretched in front of Li Ziyue temporarily lost their strength, and Li Ziyue took advantage of the gap to quickly retreat.
He didn't expect that he would bump into someone from behind just as he was moving. The unique scent of bamboo leaves on that person lingered at Li Ziyue's nose, and his tense nerves were instantly relaxed.
"Zhang..." Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes and breathed softly, "Zhang Lian."
"elder brother."
Zhang Lian pulled him into his arms again, and he hugged Li Ziyue briefly for a moment. After confirming again and again that Li Ziyue only suffered minor skin injuries, Zhang Lian calmed down.
A silver spear appeared in his palm, and the tip of the spear flashed a merciless cold light in the snow wind.
"Give me two minutes."
He said it lightly, and the wind howled wherever the spear swept past. The strands of hair on Zhang Lian's forehead were blown into disarray by the wind, and his pair of deep blue eyes that contained coldness became darker in the moonlight.
Unexpectedly, his steps forward suddenly stopped, and it was Li Ziyue who held his hand from behind.
"Come back immediately if there's any danger," Li Ziyue said seriously, "If you get hurt just for me, I'll be very angry, Zhang Lian."
Zhang Lian was stunned for two full seconds. His bad mood due to the bleeding of the plum disappeared at this moment. His eyebrows became softer and he said, "Okay."
Only then did Li Ziyue feel relieved.
He glanced back a little and his eyes fell on the slender monster.
What on earth is that?
The finger that was previously cut off by Li Ziyue grew out again on its own, and looked even stronger than before.
It costs Li Ziyue 6 gold coins to kill a normal monster with his scimitar, but it costs 50 gold coins just to cut off a finger of the monster that can regenerate.
It's probably a weapon issue.
The higher the level of the "weapon" used by the player, the fewer gold coins are needed to cause the same damage.
It only costs Zhang Xingzhi 5 gold coins to use the rain attribute to melt a mutant beast with the ability to split. If he uses weapons provided by the research institute instead, it will cost 10 gold coins.
Taking a step back and replacing it with Li Ziyue's own scimitar would cost 15 gold coins.
Currently, the number of gold coins for all players is fixed. As time goes by, it will be less and cannot be increased.
In other words, even if Zhang Xingzhi used the most gold-saving ability to attack the monster, it would still cost nearly 17 gold coins to cut off one of her regenerate fingers.
No amount of gold coins would be enough for this purpose.
Li Ziyue frowned.
For now, we can only place our hope on the spear in Zhang Lian's hand.
That is one of the three most powerful weapons in the copy. If Zhang Lian can't do anything to the monster, perhaps he has to re-analyze the current situation.
As the night deepened, the snow fog grew thicker, the giant hanging lights in the zoo in the distance dimmed, and the black screen that had finally appeared was about to disappear into the darkness.
Li Ziyue could not see clearly what was going on over on Zhang Lian's side.
He easily dealt with a few attacking beasts and retreated towards the zoo while thinking about the strangeness of the current situation.
Occasionally, bullets flashed by, and Liu Yuche set up his sniper rifle and took aim from a distance.
Have all the monsters that attacked the zoo from the sky and the ground been dealt with? So quickly?
Li Ziyue has always been pessimistic, but after he was out of danger, he felt something was wrong.
Did Zhang Lian and Liu Yuche...really come to support?
His eyes moved slightly, and then he heard an earth-shaking explosion behind him.
The raging heat wave struck without mercy, instantly melting the ice and snow into a torrent of water. Countless young strange beasts screamed miserably in the high-temperature flames.
Li Ziyue glanced back and with the help of the firelight, he saw that the slender monster had half of its body missing.
Half of her face was covered in blood, as if she was being burned by flames like the other strange beasts.
Although the fire was fierce, it could not get close to her at all and could only dance beside her.
Her shattered body was healing at an extremely slow pace.
Most of his body was damaged, and he could only stand like an immovable wooden stake next to the hotbed that had been burned by flames.
Before Li Ziyue could move, he felt someone covering his mouth and nose. He subconsciously wanted to struggle, but he heard that person's familiar voice.
"Li Ziyue," Zhang Lian seemed to be laughing, "If you inhale too much of this gas, you will hug me and kiss me like before."
Li Ziyue froze in place for a moment, stuttering in a rare way: "...Impossible."
Zhang Lian blinked lightly as a response to Li Ziyue.
"How is it?" Li Ziyue followed Zhang Lian, "Are you injured?"
Zhang Lian shook his head: "I was afraid you would be angry and ignore me, so I didn't really fight with her."
"Let's control her for now. She won't be able to catch up with us for a while. Let's go first."
[Okay, okay, you didn’t really hit me, but you cut off half of my body.]
[I broke down in tears, really. Brother Li has been struggling alone until now, and finally he has a backer with top combat power]
[Alas, you are all new viewers. In the past, Brother Li himself was the top in terms of combat power (wiping tears)]
Li Ziyue suddenly thought of a question: "How many gold coins did you spend just now?"
Zhang Lian was silent for two seconds, then stretched out his hand and made a “3” gesture.
"30?"
“…300.”
Li Ziyue's breathing paused for a moment, and then he comforted Zhang Lian: "It's okay, it's not a big loss to spend 300 gold coins to destroy a hotbed."
"No," Zhang Lian blinked, "I mean, I still have 300 left."
"……?"
"Liu Yuche had even less left than me. She didn't use the weapons from the research institute, but her own sniper rifle."
“……???”
"Other players didn't have much gold coins to begin with. Now with you and Zhang Xingzhi, all the players' gold coins added together should be around 4,000."
Li Ziyue closed his eyes sadly: "Change the subject."
"Why are you here?" Have the strange beasts that attacked the zoo from the sky and the ground been dealt with?
"It's not resolved yet. A small number of alien beasts are still alive."
Li Ziyue suddenly became alert: "Not solved? Then why did you come?"
He recalled the snowy night illusion that had caught him off guard before, and quickly distanced himself from Zhang Lian, looking towards the direction under Zhang Lian's feet.
However, Zhang Lian took Li Ziyue's hand directly, and before he could react, pulled his hand to his face, then fiddled with his fingers, making him gently pinch the side of his face.
"I'm real. If you pinch it, you'll know it's not ice." Zhang Lian said seriously, "As for why we have the energy to come here, haven't you always been curious about the fifth person on the team?"
Zhang Lian pursed his lips: "He's here."
Li Ziyue wanted to take his hand back, but when he saw Zhang Lian raising his eyebrows and asking for a beating, he pinched it lightly, "Got it."
Zhang Lian didn't expect that Li Ziyue would actually take action. He was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.
"Li Ziyue, you are so cute."
The most interesting thing about Li Ziyue is that he blushes very easily but never admits it.
Li Ziyue lowered his head and said nothing. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and uttered two words: "...Shut up."
He tapped Zhang Lian again and said, "Let's talk serious business."
"The hotbed over there has been blown up, but..." Zhang Lian knew the principle of "gradual progress" and put that thought aside. "The long woman is a bit troublesome. She can't be killed for the time being."
"What's the meaning?"
"She has two hearts. She will die if both are taken out of her body at the same time. I can only take out one."
"If the hotbed on the right that Zhang Xingzhi was responsible for is also destroyed, then now that there is no hotbed, the monsters will no longer attack, and this instance should be over," Li Ziyue pondered, "Who exactly is that woman? Do they want us to kill her..."
"Brother," Zhang Lian suddenly asked, "where is your fan?"
Li Ziyue shook his head, somewhat unsure: "I guess I don't know now."
This is a very interesting answer.
Zhang Lian lowered his eyes and looked at him without saying anything.
The hotbeds in several locations were destroyed, and the number of active exotic beasts decreased sharply. When the two returned to the zoo, the remaining exotic beasts in the zoo had been completely eliminated.
While most people were resting and recuperating, Li Ziyue counted the remaining gold coins, weapons, and survivors, and finally met Sun Yuancheng.
"You actually tricked that group of zombies into counting money for you after they were sold out by you. You are really not an ordinary person." Duan Jiayi said in amazement, "Liu Guan, learn from them."
Liu Guan stood aside with a dark face.
Sun Yuancheng pretended to be nonchalant and waved his hands: "Oh, that's easy. I can do the job of two people."
He caught a glimpse of Li Ziyue out of the corner of his eye, and instantly leaped up, hugging Li Ziyue's thigh with tears and snot: "Brother! You don't know! How scared I am of this copy, and how much I miss you!"
Li Ziyue got goosebumps all over his body: "Okay, okay, I got it."
Duan Jiayi smiled behind him.
Zhang Lian expressionlessly lifted Sun Yuancheng's collar at the back of his neck and pulled him to another place.
Sun Yuancheng grumbled in dissatisfaction: "This world should really invent a 'straight male certificate'. I will always display it in the most conspicuous place on my clothes."
Li Ziyue had heard about some of Sun Yuancheng's "great achievements" on the way here. He patted Sun Yuancheng on the head with emotion, feeling the satisfaction of a child growing up.
"I said I would slowly grow you up, but I didn't expect you to secretly take hormones and grow so fast."
Sun Yuancheng was so moved that he burst into tears: "Brother, it's been so long since we last met. You can even tell jokes now."
Li Ziyue held his forehead with his hand and asked Duan Jiayi and Liu Guan on the other side: "So who is the fifth person pre-selected by the system?"
Liu Guan was still thinking about what this meant when Duan Jiayi laughed out loud. He took out two small mechanical bats from his backpack and said, "We are just here to deliver the video review."
The implication is: the fifth person is not among us.
Sun Yuancheng, who was hiding in the corner, secretly raised his hand: "Me, me, me."
Li Ziyue suddenly realized and said "Oh", and quickly accepted the wrong judgment caused by his temporary disconnection of thinking. He patted Sun Yuancheng again and said, "Very impressive."
“That’s all?” Sun Yuancheng scratched his head. “I thought you would be very shocked. After all, my counterattack script is too cool. Something like ‘The big boss pretended to be weak for ten years and returned with glory. Don’t despise the poor young man!’…”
Li Ziyue remained calm: "I have long guessed that you are not simple, and this is also within my acceptable range. However, how did you manage to achieve 'no casualties among the audience' during the appetizer segment?"
【Wuhu! This is also a question I am very concerned about! 】
[Brother Li's calculations cost him an audience member, Sun Yuancheng...tsk tsk, he's really a hidden talent]
"Ah, this question," Sun Yuancheng frowned for a while, then smiled brightly, "I guessed it."
[??? No, is this true? How can he be so lucky?]
[I can’t stand it anymore, the luckiest person in history]
[It’s not that simple. The price of failing to guess in that segment is very heavy. It’s easy to lose four viewers at once.]
[No, no, no, it might be that simple. You are the newcomer, right? You don’t know how lucky Sun Yuancheng is…]
[Really? I always thought that "luck" was just a humble way of talking...]
[Sun Yuancheng would wake up laughing when he saw your comment]
Li Ziyue just raised his eyebrows. He turned around and took the mechanical bat from Duan Jiayi's hand, found the small storage chip in its mouth, and then installed it into the system terminal.
He casually asked, "Where is Zhang Xingzhi?"
"He's unconscious," Duan Jiayi said, "He came back with us."
Li Ziyue nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
The scene of the seventh round of confrontation between the players and the monsters was reproduced. Li Ziyue first watched the images from the zoo, and then clicked on the replay of Zhang Xingzhi separating from him and going to the right alone.
Everything seems normal in the video.
The number of strange beasts on the right suddenly increased without warning, and Zhang Xingzhi could not defeat them all alone. In addition, the light was getting darker in the distance, and people's vision was obstructed. He was careless and was attacked by a strange beast hiding under the snow, and lost consciousness instantly.
Li Ziyue took out the chip and transferred it to a convenient notebook beside him.
"When were the bats released?"
"Five o'clock in the afternoon."
"Okay," Li Ziyue closed the notebook and held it in his hand, "I'll go see Zhang Xingzhi."
Liu Guan looked at the door that Li Ziyue closed and asked, "Why is he asking this?"
Duan Jiayi just shook his head: "I don't know either."
Sun Yuancheng fell on the soft couch in the corner of the room, but his eyes gradually turned cold.
…
There have been too many injured players recently, and He Jianshan deeply understands the importance of "recyclability". Even though he looks down on those players with lower points than him, he spent a lot of money to ask the research institute to renovate the zoo's medical equipment.
At this moment, Zhang Xingzhi was lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed, his body and face wrapped with bandages, and he looked seriously injured.
Li Ziyue sat quietly on the wooden chair beside the bed, looked at Zhang Xingzhi for a while, and then spoke calmly.
"Zhang Lian was once scratched in the abdomen with a sharp weapon in the hospital. Do you have any idea about this?"
Zhang Xingzhi didn't move.
"You should know that there is a fake person who looks exactly like me who has released an Advanced Fake Person Dungeon and has been active in various dungeons recently, right?"
"A few days ago, all news about his activities suddenly stopped. Later, I saw him die in this dungeon lake in a snowy night illusion. Do you have anything to say about this?"
Li Ziyue stood up and looked down at Zhang Xingzhi: "If I'm not mistaken, it was you who injured Zhang Lian with a sharp weapon in the hospital, and it was also you who killed the fake person who looked exactly like me."
"When I was attacked by mutant monsters on the left, the communication was cut off by you."
"Is my fan also with you?" He said in a slightly cold voice: "Answer me, Zhang Xingzhi, I know you are not unconscious."
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