Chapter 87 Moon
Zhang Xingzhi still had his eyes closed and his breathing was steady, as if he had really fainted.
Monitoring showed that the long monster was still there waiting for its body to recover. Li Ziyue now had time to waste with Zhang Xingzhi.
"If I'm not mistaken," he sat back in his chair, his tone light, "you seem to be very afraid of Zhang Lian."
This fear has nothing to do with the infinite flow copy. It is suppressed in a deeper network of relationships. Li Ziyue has limited information and is not clear about the details at present, but he can use it to deceive Zhang Xingzhi.
"I don't want to make a big deal out of this, otherwise I wouldn't ask you these questions in a situation where it's just you and me."
As time passed, the drips on the IV stand beat in unison.
Li Ziyue closed his eyes and waited quietly for a while, and finally heard a chuckle.
Zhang Xingzhi covered his eyes with his uninjured hand and shook his head helplessly: "Who would have thought that you couldn't even make it into the top 100 of the standings? I didn't expect you to be so exhausted even though I planned to be tenth on the standings."
Li Ziyue looked at Zhang Xingzhi, and not much emotion could be seen in his deep black eyes.
Zhang Xingzhi held his waist and abdomen and stood up with difficulty: "Let's not talk about anything else first. I want to know how you guessed that I cut off the communication manually."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ziyue showed him the video recorded by the mechanical bat of Zhang Xingzhi detonating the hotbed on the right.
Zhang Xingzhi laughed: "You are not lying to me, are you? What's unusual about this video?"
Li Ziyue remained calm and switched to the surveillance video.
This video is divided into two halves. One half is a record of Zhang Xingzhi's actions in the zoo building from 2pm to 6pm this afternoon. The other half is a review of the scene when Liu Guan and Duan Jiayi returned to the zoo from outside with mechanical bats at 4pm, and when Li Ziyue and Zhang Xingzhi left at 6pm.
The videos on both sides were very normal. The mechanical bat was released by Duan Jiayi at 5 o'clock to monitor the strange animals outside the zoo. Before that, Zhang Xingzhi had been staying in another room and had no contact with the mechanical bat.
According to the analysis of the above records, Zhang Xingzhi was not in disguise at all, and the communication was really suddenly interrupted due to an attack by a strange beast.
"If you show me this again, I'll lie down and not talk."
"Don't worry," Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you show us earlier at the 108 human base that you can create surveillance videos in a very short time?"
"So what?" Zhang Xingzhi looked calm. "Just because I can change the surveillance video, you say I am behind this. This is too unfair to me."
"I'm not wrongly accusing you," Li Ziyue opened the background program, "I installed a Trojan horse in the zoo's monitoring equipment control center in advance, and I detected that the monitoring equipment at these points had abnormal operation for a moment this afternoon. How do you explain it?"
Li Ziyue smiled: "You can't fool me by saying that the surveillance camera just happened to malfunction."
"We were once in the same camp, and we got through this by working together, but you still doubt me."
Zhang Xingzhi said slowly.
Li Ziyue closed the computer and asked: "Have you encountered betrayal in the dungeon often enough? Will you trust someone wholeheartedly?"
Zhang Xingzhi remained silent.
"I had begun to trust you," Li Ziyue said in a gentle tone, "but when the old man who survived the No. 108 human base predicted the cause of death for each of us, I found something wrong."
"Compare the four causes of death to us one by one. Your cause of death is a cut to the abdomen."
Li Ziyue and Zhang Xingzhi looked each other in the eye: "When I met Zhang Lian in the hospital, I saw a long wound on his abdomen, which was obviously abnormal."
"Zhang Lian was able to beat a zombie whose item was judged as [without flaws] without any chance of fighting back. There are only two reasons why he could be injured."
"① The opponent's weapons are powerful. Zhang Lian already has a spear, one of the three major weapons. The only weapons that can defeat him are the paper fan and the "poison mist"."
"② He was driven by emotion and was careless for a moment. The paper fan has a spirit and recognizes its owner. It has more or less my or [Li Ziyue]'s scent on it, and this scent may have caused Zhang Lian to make a mistake in judgment and relax his vigilance."
"The wound on your abdomen is exactly the same as Zhang Lian's." He rubbed his eyebrows. "Later, I thought back to the [Blood Debt and Blood Repayment] mechanism and found that it is not limited to when players attack NPCs or NPCs attack players. In other words, when players attack other players, [Blood Debt and Blood Repayment] will also be triggered."
"Zhang Lian was injured, and you were attacked by the mechanism. The wound is exactly the same as Zhang Lian's. I can't think of any other reason besides the above."
Zhang Xingzhi didn't say anything, which was considered as his agreement.
"I also have a question now," Li Ziyue said in a deep voice, "[Li Ziyue] only has a grudge against me, why do you want to kill him?"
"If you're trying to help me, faking the video and cutting off communications... you're also trying to kill me."
Zhang Xingzhi curled his lips: "I killed your fake man, are you not satisfied?"
"I have no objection to you killing him," Li Ziyue shook his head, "I just want to know the reason."
"It's simple. I don't have any good weapons," Zhang Xingzhi shrugged. "I've cleared countless dungeons, but I can only gain superpowers. The Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon is about to open. Can I not make some preparations?"
"The fan recognizes its owner. If you try to take it by force, it will bite you back."
"Don't we still have you?" Zhang Xingzhi chuckled. "No matter how great [Li Ziyue] is, he is just a replica that can be replaced. The original sample is in front of me, why does he need the recognition of the replica?"
As soon as he finished speaking, before Li Ziyue could open his mouth, he took out the fan and placed it in front of Li Ziyue.
"I'll give it back to you for now."
Li Ziyue was stunned. Zhang Xingzhi's behavior was beyond his expectations.
"Although I don't want to admit it, the lives of all of us are indeed relying on you right now," Zhang Xingzhi said meaningfully, "This dungeon requires you to use the fan to clear the level, otherwise we can't get out."
The pure white folding fan sensed Li Ziyue's breath, and trembled slightly as it moved closer to him, but was pushed to the other side by Li Ziyue's hand.
Li Ziyue put away the fan expressionlessly and just shook his head.
“I don’t know how to use it.”
"You're a strange person," Zhang Xingzhi wondered, "You asked me for a fan, but you don't want to use it."
"I just want to make sure the fan is in my hands. I don't want the tragedy of the Advanced Fake Man Dungeon to happen again. If I leave it in your hands, you might turn against me at any time. I'm worried."
Zhang Xingzhi chuckled, "Don't give me that. Actually, you still want to use the fan. You haven't forgotten the pleasure of using the fan to violently clear a level."
Li Ziyue looked at Zhang Xingzhi seriously, without any smile or nostalgia in his eyes: "You should know that my seniors were all killed by fans."
Zhang Xingzhi’s smile froze.
Li Ziyue's figure had disappeared in the room.
…
At 2:03 in the morning, the long monster finally recovered and was attacking the zoo at a very fast speed.
At the same time, the system also released corresponding tasks.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the final mission of "Trapped"]
[Mission Difficulty: Four Stars (Psychogenic amnesia is usually caused by a very serious blow. In order to protect itself, the brain chooses to use amnesia to prevent people from experiencing this kind of emotional and painful distress)]
[Mission requirements: Eliminate mutant zombie No. 104]
[Mission explanation: Mutated zombie No. 104 has a face that is enough to make everyone fall into nightmares: it is the person you least want to recall in the depths of your memory]
[Task Reward: 20,000 Points]
Back to the points reward, it seems that this copy mission has come to an end.
He Jianshan arranged a group of players to build defense measures in front of the zoo in advance, and the research institute also tried its best to provide weapons and gold coins.
But everyone knows that this is just a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
A large amount of gold coins and weapons were used, but only superficial damage was caused to the long monster.
Zhang Xingzhi stopped pretending. He stood beside Li Ziyue, his arms folded across his chest. “In the unmutated copy, everyone faces the same mirror. After the mutation, the mirror illusion varies from person to person.”
"You have to admit," he looked at Li Ziyue, "the copy has been activated, and this monster is one of the representatives of activation."
"If you really don't want to, you can give me the fan," he said lightly, "but do you trust me?"
Li Ziyue looked calm and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.
"You don't know how much information I have. Whether the fan can be forcibly changed to another owner... You don't know it yourself."
"If Shan Zi really obeyed me," Zhang Xingzhi looked into the distance, "I could hurt Zhang Lian without hesitation in the hospital, and the same goes for here."
Li Ziyue raised his eyes to look at him.
He Jianshan was so anxious that he was incoherent. He glared at Li Ziyue angrily: "You really don't care about the lives of other players! You are obviously the only capable one here, why are you still hesitating?!"
"You are special not because you have a fan and everyone begs you..."
Li Ziyue took out the fan from the system backpack and calmed it down before handing the fan to He Jianshan with a cold face.
"Now I am not special anymore, the fan is for you."
When the god-level weapon was really placed in front of He Jianshan, he was stunned.
"Go ahead," Li Ziyue said softly, "I will eliminate all possibilities of it rebelling against you. Now you are more special than me."
"I……"
Li Ziyue looked at him coldly: "Don't you want it?"
"With the blessing of a god-level weapon, anyone can do it... I'm no worse than you!" He Jianshan gritted his teeth, picked up the fan and ran out, "You coward!"
Li Ziyue's expression remained unchanged, and his eyes were still fixed on the surveillance video from the front line.
The long monster moved very quickly and it was estimated that it would collide face to face with the zoo's first line of defense in less than a minute. Zhang Lian was already waiting there.
He raised his eyes and saw He Jianshan, and discovered the folding fan that He Jianshan hid at his side, and he immediately understood.
"The monster will arrive in a minute," Zhang Lian said calmly, "Don't tremble now."
A cold wind was raging outside the garden, and snowflakes mixed with fine ice rubbed against people's faces, causing pain like a knife cutting.
He Jianshan had been hiding in a building in the park before, and had never seen such a scene. In addition, it was pitch black all around, and he didn't know how many strange beasts were lurking in the snow. He Jianshan's voice was trembling as he spoke: "I... I know!"
Liu Yuche's reminder came through the headset: "There are still 30 seconds, pay attention."
In the garden, Zhang Xingzhi kept pretending to look at Li Ziyue casually.
After a long while, he said meaningfully: "Six years have passed, and you have really changed."
Li Ziyue did not answer, but Yao Yuntao behind Zhang Xingzhi frowned slightly.
She looked at Li Ziyue worriedly.
Sun Yuancheng was also in the corner, but he was unusually quiet, as if he was thinking about something.
There were four people in the room, each with their own thoughts, but no one spoke.
When the first round of attacks came, the defense line formed by the players in front collapsed quickly. Fortunately, Zhang Lian reacted quickly, confronted the monster head-on, and reduced most of its attacks.
However, despite this, the casualties were heavy after just a brief confrontation, and countless sharp screams were heard through the headphones.
Although He Jianshan was holding a folding fan in his hand, his feet seemed to be entangled by something and fixed in place. His body was shaking uncontrollably, and the folding fan was shaking wildly in his hand, creating too many uncontrolled wind marks.
Previously, the monster was far away and he couldn't see it clearly. Now the monster was approaching rapidly and was only ten meters away from He Jianshan.
The monster's foul-smelling mucus, its unusually thin and disgusting limbs, and its extremely twisted neck all made He Jianshan feel timid.
There's absolutely no way...of waving a fan.
The fan can only provide him with high attack value, but cannot prevent him from being hurt by monsters.
How sharp the monster's fingers are...
He watched helplessly as a long bar lurking beneath the snow suddenly pierced the heart of the player above.
The player could only open his mouth in horror, unable to even let out a scream - the long strip pierced through his throat from bottom to top, and the blood-stained strip came out of his mouth.
Screams, cries, and calls for help were heard everywhere.
Someone crawled over with difficulty, and the conspicuous blood dyed the dirty snow beneath him into thick red and black stripes.
With trembling hands, he grabbed He Jianshan's trouser leg.
"Aren't you... ranked... 17th... in the standings..."
"Please...save me...you are the director...please...save..."
He Jianshan seemed to have heard nothing of it.
The expression on his face was frozen. The strong smell of blood around him forcefully invaded his respiratory tract. There were too many broken limbs of people in front of him. He felt his stomach churning and was so nauseous that he wanted to vomit.
The folding fan trembled in his hand.
Then I felt as if someone was approaching.
The man said in a very light and deep voice: "I'm in a bad mood now."
The folding fan changed its owner in a trance.
He Jianshan felt someone kick him hard in the abdomen. He fell backwards defenselessly and rolled several times in the snow.
In just a moment, the falling snow in front seemed to change its momentum, and the originally arrogant cold wind now circled around the man obediently.
The wind blew his clothes, and the soft black hair in front of his forehead was blown back by the wind, revealing his pair of sharp and calm beautiful eyes.
The solid-color folding fan opened very smoothly with a clear "swish!".
He moved his fingertips slightly, and the fan seemed to come alive in an instant, emitting a silver light as bright as moonlight.
The light quickly drew a meteor track in the night sky, and the dozens of slender branches extended by the monster suddenly broke at this moment.
Then fine snow and broken ice flew together, raising a long stretch of snow fog with no end in sight. The silvery-white light of the snow lingered around him, occasionally drifting across his well-defined jaw, making him look like a lonely and proud green pine on the cliff of Tianshan Mountain.
He has clear eyebrows and eyes, his long, curly eyelashes tremble slightly, his face is fair, and his lips are naturally rosy, exuding a pure beauty that has nothing to do with gender.
The thick clouds in the night sky dissipated, and a moon brighter than the snow appeared.
He Jianshan stood there in a daze, not knowing where he was for a moment.
He vaguely remembered hearing the seniors in his world mention it when he first entered the dungeon.
"I used to be number one on the rankings. I don't know if you still remember me. My last name seemed to be Li..."
"I heard that he is down and out now, but he used to be number one, with a folding fan in his hand. Tsk tsk."
"I haven't had the good fortune to see him, but I heard it from my seniors. It's true... If someone sees him using a folding fan under the moon at night, they will never forget that scene in their lifetime."
He Jianshan's heart was beating fast. Li Ziyue's face was a little cold at this moment, and his smiling peach blossom eyes were rarely stained with indifference and alienation.
And it was this alienation that made him detached from the world.
He Jianshan had never seen anyone who could combine anger and breathtaking beauty.
Li Ziyue's usual demeanor and behavior would make people forget the fact that he is very handsome.
When I think back to the time when he was subjected to the most malicious intent in the past, no one ever called him a “flashy vase”.
His beauty is his least noteworthy quality.
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