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"How come you've never had the physical anxiety characteristic of humans?"
Ruan Xingwei's grip slowly tightened. Just before he was about to speak, Hou Yangze came over with a smile and said, "Are you so nervous that you forgot you were thirsty? That's right! When we get home, we can drink the water at home! Wow, delicious."
Ruan Xingwei secretly breathed a sigh of relief and reminded Hou Yangze: "There is something wrong with your copy."
Hou Yangze's face changed drastically when he heard this, "What? You really can't be distracted! Don't bother me anymore!"
After saying that, he immediately rushed back to his monitoring screen and searched nervously, but found nothing unusual: "You are scaring me again..."
Yang Wanhe's eyes moved slightly and he ignored the brief play between the two children.
…
After He Lizhou walked into the door, he saw a layout that was exactly the same as the conference room in the hotel half a year ago. He was slightly startled. The system was indeed monitoring them. However, after the hotel was upgraded to a transit hall half a year ago, they rearranged the conference room once, and the subsequent layout was not learned by the system. Perhaps the promise of System 09 took effect.
But this also has its advantages. He Lizhou is familiar with the layout of his hotel in every period. If the system wants to copy his layout, it will be a good thing for him.
He Lizhou opened the door of the cabinet where he kept important documents according to their habit of placing documents, but found it was empty. He Lizhou was a little disappointed, but it was also expected. The system is an intelligent machine and there is no need to use paper to store information. This cabinet is probably just a decoration.
Although he thought so, He Lizhou's habit still made him open the remaining cabinets and check them, but he made an unexpected discovery.
Originally, there was a thin piece of paper in the cabinet where they kept unimportant documents.
"Coordinates (231, 832), commonly known as the hotel, proposal to upgrade the transit hall approved; person in charge No. 3753, application for upgrade authority approved."
There were some authority contents below, and He Lizhou didn't have time to read them. The communication dagger in his pocket was already trembling. It was Yang Wanhe who was urging him to act quickly.
He Lizhou took a quick glance and pushed the cabinet door back. He entered through the front door when he came here, so now he left through the back door of the conference room.
After opening the back door, He Lizhou saw rows of rooms, which were the layout of his guest rooms on the second floor. He Lizhou guessed that the souls of the dead players were imprisoned in one of the rooms here.
But there are so many rooms that He Lizhou cannot search one by one. If he finds the wrong one and alerts any system, their plan will be discovered immediately.
Beads of sweat appeared on He Lizhou's forehead. His eyes quickly scanned the handles of every room, but he didn't hear any sound.
Yes, even if the soundproofing of my hotel is not good, the system will optimize it when I arrive at the system space. How can I hear the sound coming from inside the corridor? It’s just that there is no relevant record on the scroll, and Bai Yimei and Lili have no memory of leaving the system space.
He Lizhou recalled the location where he saw the piece of paper in the conference room. It was originally where they stored general information, but it was used by the system to store the hotel's upgrade approval documents. He Lizhou reasonably guessed that the system space arranged by the system was a mirror image of his hotel.
And in the guest rooms on the second floor, the most inconspicuous room...
He Lizhou thought for a while and set his sights at the end.
It was originally a place where people stored their sundries. Later, when the hotel was upgraded, the sundries were moved away and it was changed into a laundry room. However, because the guest rooms are also equipped with laundry facilities, more guests choose to use the washing machines in the guest rooms, and almost no one uses the public washing machines.
He Lizhou walked towards the depths, his shoes landing on the soft carpet without making any sound. However, being in such an extremely quiet place would actually make people feel scared.
He Lizhou felt that he was being monitored everywhere, but he knew it was an illusion, and he couldn't look back. Once he looked back, he would start to doubt his own judgment and become even more nervous.
This is the most secretive part of the system. I wonder if the system is more prepared, or is it confidently unprepared?
He Lizhou thought it was the latter, based on his experience dealing with the system.
System 09 claims to be the weakest and is ignored by other systems, but he also has a condescending attitude. He also believes that the system is the most powerful and no human can resist the system.
Under the influence of such thoughts, they naturally would not think that their old house still needed to be equipped with weapons against humans.
He Lizhou slowly walked to the room at the end. He stood in front of the door, clenched the dagger in his hand, and knocked down the mechanism.
The dagger in Yang Wanhe's hand began to vibrate violently. She was shocked and immediately shouted to the row of leaders in front of her: "Start!"
"start--"
"start."
The moment He Lizhou grasped the door handle, all the players in the 267 copies simultaneously felt tiny fragments of debris flowing out of their palms...
He Lizhou suddenly pushed open the door, and at the same moment, he heard the sharp and piercing alarm of the system.
"The copy is abnormal, the copy is abnormal, please check the copy immediately!"
The alarm rang three times in succession and was still screaming. He Lizhou's ears were so painful that he couldn't help but shed tears, but what he faced was something even more cruel.
The room he opened was empty.
Wrong one!!!
He Lizhou's breathing became heavier. He immediately turned around and looked at the long corridor, which had rooms on both sides.
The 267 copies did not collapse at the same time, and he also found the wrong room. He Lizhou's taut string finally broke, and he didn't know what to do for a moment.
There were so many rooms that it would be impossible to open them one by one in time. Amid the alarms in the room, He Lizhou mechanically thought about which other rooms might be the prison rooms set up by the system.
The system alarm also rang in the hotel, and Sheng Ju yelled at the top of his voice: "Who is half a step slower!!!"
He didn't realize that his face was already covered with tears. He stood up and was about to rush to the attic, but was stopped by Yang Wanhe at the door. Yang Wanhe was still very calm. She pushed Sheng Ju back and said, "If you chase him in now, it will only cause trouble for He Lizhou. There is no alarm space accident. He still has time, and we must take all the players out of the dungeon before the system closes the dungeon."
Sheng Ju's lips were numb. He looked at Yang Wanhe deeply. Yang Wanhe stayed here not only to take care of the patients. He Lizhou's intention was that if something happened, they should obey all of Yang Wanhe's arrangements. He just didn't say it explicitly because he was afraid of discouraging everyone.
Sheng Ju knew that Yang Wanhe was capable, so he closed his eyes tightly, turned around and sat back in his chair, picked up the communicator, and quickly arranged for the 11 copy leaders to lead the players out of the copy.
Just as the last person left, there was another voice prompt: "All copies have been closed. The nine-bit system will check the system space immediately."
Sheng Ju lay numbly on the chair, he no longer had the strength to speak, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes. Perhaps it was a complete failure. The collapse of 267 copies did not cause the system to crash. Perhaps it would take nine times, 2403 copies, but they would not have a second chance.
He Lizhou is gone too.
Sheng Ju closed his eyes, and all he could hear were the sounds of his heavy breathing. Li Zhengqing was also silent. He walked between the group and said, "I didn't expect..."
Sheng Ju no longer wanted to argue, he turned his head away and didn't listen.
At this moment, Ruan Xingwei suddenly said: "I was a step too slow just now."
Hou Yangze looked at Ruan Xingwei in shock, "You..."
Ruan Xingwei didn't look at him. He continued, "I am system 09. He Lizhou is not dead yet. The other systems will be in trouble soon."
After he finished speaking, "Ruan Xingwei" immediately fell to the ground. Qin Tuo reacted and stepped forward immediately, feeling Ruan Xingwei's pulse, but found that he was dead.
After a few breaths, the system alarm suddenly stopped, and the formation covering the outside of the hotel also faded away. Uncle Cui looked outside and saw it as he first arrived at the hotel.
He realized something and stood up to hold onto the window. The exterior of the hotel had turned back into that unremarkable little hotel. The medical building and intelligence building had disappeared, and the dormitory building had also gone missing.
He murmured: "The system collapsed..."
"OK."
Yan Qian put down the ball of data cable in his hand, took out the knife in his mouth, put it back into the sheath, and moved the little wooden man on his shoulder.
"You little guy, you are quite grateful."
The little wooden man shook his head and shook off Yan Qian's finger on his head, muttering in dissatisfaction, "You are using me as a cover again."
Yan Qian pretended not to hear it, stood up and patted the dust off his body, "There is nothing for us to do now, let's go home!"
He Lizhou selected the last five rooms. When he opened the door to the last one, it was packed with people. A familiar figure stood in front and tried to maintain everyone's emotions. It was Ni Peng.
He Lizhou breathed a sigh of relief, "Ni Peng..."
Ni Peng turned around, the surprise in his eyes did not last long, and turned into fear. He opened his mouth and shouted something, but He Lizhou did not hear it.
He Lizhou's ears temporarily lost hearing due to the sharp alarm of the system.
But he felt the pain. He looked down and saw that his chest had been pierced by a knife. It was his own knife, and the person holding the knife... He Lizhou did not look back, nor did he have the strength to look back. He guessed it.
System 01 coldly watched He Lizhou slide against the door frame and reached out to pick him up, but his vision suddenly became blurry. When he came to his senses, their identities had been swapped.
He Lizhou took the knife in his hand and stabbed it into the core of System 01, nailing him to the ground.
There was a person kneeling not far away. He knew who it was. "Ming Luohui, I really shouldn't have kept you."
System 01 was annoyed and regretful, "And you, He Lizhou, it's all because of that guy 09!"
The core of System 01 was destroyed, and energy rapidly dissipated into the air. Before he could finish his words, the core dimmed and there was no sound.
At the same time, the system space began to vibrate violently. Ming Luohui's body swayed, and she had no strength to stand. She fell to the ground with pale lips.
He Lizhou immediately rushed forward and hugged him, but was snatched away by another person.
When Lu Caijie hurried here, he saw a familiar scene again, a scene that was engraved in his bones from his previous life. He opened his eyes wide, feeling so heartbroken that he could not breathe. Ming Luohui's body was covered with tiny wounds, oozing blood. The scene was extremely tragic.
He took Ming Luohui from He Lizhou's arms, turned around to look at He Lizhou, his cheeks twitching slightly, "It's still because of you, it's you again! I couldn't save him again."
When He Lizhou saw Lu Caijie carrying Ming Luohui away, he no longer had any extra energy to ask. The injuries he suffered before the time reversal were too severe and still affected him.
Everything in front of my eyes went completely dark.
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"Ding-ling-ling..."
The clear sound of wind chimes was ringing, alerting the innkeeper of the arrival of guests.
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