Chapter 109 Paper Town
At the same time, in the southern village, the folk village, and the hairpin-themed cottage.
After the NPC led her to the banyan tree greenhouse, Tang Xiaoxiao became nervous.
Her bones were well-proportioned, and any tiny flaws that were originally visible on them disappeared after she completed the bone painting activity in the studio.
The bone pattern she drew was a strange caterpillar, and the guys in her group laughed at her for drawing a bug.
"Hey, are you listening to me? Your attack skill is so strong, are you really not going to join forces with me? This dungeon is not easy to pass, listen to my advice..."
Tang Xiaoxiao frowned, rummaged around on herself for a while, and found a plastic hairpin from her pocket that was chattering with its mouth open.
[Plastic hairpins for plastic sisters, made in Yiwu, must be high-quality]
"Hey, even though I have a lot of plastic hairpins and they're not worth much, you don't have to break them all. At least listen to me."
In the next room, also living on the first floor, there is a short white skeleton covered with all kinds of small jewelry and other tourist items. He is as gorgeous as a butterfly, just like a small vendor in a tourist attraction, selling products to tourists with QR codes hanging on his body.
Jin Jiaqi, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, held her hairpin and advised her earnestly: "I see that you are also cautious. In this instance, everyone's soul characteristics will be directly reflected in their bones. The impact will be more severe at night. I have already survived the last round safely. Don't you still believe me? You and I will join forces. Let's survive for a while. We will definitely be able to finish this instance."
Although Tang Xiaoxiao was impatient, she knew that players in the same house were naturally in the same camp. They had encountered an attack from another village in the studio, so they temporarily formed a team with this guy.
But Jin Jiaqi was full of lies. Tang Xiaoxiao knew that the other party didn't have any attack skills. This was because he had taken a fancy to her book attack skills when they formed a temporary team before.
Could it be that a player who had already survived a round was so lacking in attack skills? Why did he come to form a team with me? What was he thinking? Did he really think Tang Xiaoxiao was stupid?
“I have regular teammates.”
Jin Jiaqi uttered an audible sigh, not caring at all: "Paper Town is not an ordinary survival dungeon. The longer you stay here, the stronger your soul power will become, and the effect of your skills will also be improved. Are you going to miss this opportunity and leave your teammates and do nothing?"
The hand holding the hairpin tightened.
Tang Xiaoxiao originally wanted to go to Cyber Village with Qiao Song, but after visiting the Hell Community, she knew what she was missing.
It is not a good idea to just follow Sister Qiao Song's back. If it were in the past, Tang Xiaoxiao would speculate based on the habits written in her notebook what choice Sister Qiao Song would make if faced with the current situation.
But now, what will Tang Xiaoxiao choose?
Besides the books that gave her strength, what else did she have that she could use as a weapon?
The long stripes of patterns on the bones moved a little, and Tang Xiaoxiao's thoughts became clearer. She looked down at the Lie Identification Card in her hand.
"Okay, I can cooperate with you, but if we encounter companions from other villages, we have to hold back."
Jin Jiaqi sneered in her heart. You can’t do anything about it at that time. But on the surface, she was very affectionate: “Of course, there are dangers everywhere in the dungeon. Of course, the more companions you have, the better.”
Students are so easy to deceive. I have said that each village represents a different force. If you still want to cooperate with your teammates, just go and dream about your great dreams.
Jin Jiaqi continued, "So when the paper beasts attack the building tonight, should we go out? The main body of the house has good defenses. We can go out to kill the paper beasts, and then return to the room from the first floor. They can't get in."
He just praised her for being cautious and praised her to the sky, and then asked her if she wanted to go out hunting with him at night. Tang Xiaoxiao really felt that he was taking her for a fool.
She smiled and said, "Okay, but I only know how to use brute force with books, and those books are quite large, so sometimes I can't see the battle situation clearly. At that time, I have to rely on you to tell me where to fight."
Jin Jiaqi, who had successfully tricked a humanoid weapon into giving her away, was extremely happy: "Of course, I'll release some more balloons to serve as your eyes."
Tang Xiaoxiao, who had successfully tricked an assistant, had already begun to think about whether humans could eat the meat processed by the paper beasts. If so, she could bring some to Sister Qiao Song and the others.
The two people, who had ulterior motives but pretended to cooperate, put the plastic sisters' hairpins on their heads.
[Plastic sisterhood friendship, a full set of plastic tools is being bound...]
[Binding successful, the balloon with a unit price of 100 soul coins is being transmitted, and the bamboo dragonfly with a unit price of 150 soul coins is being transmitted...]
A lot of odds and ends fell into his pocket with a bang.
The opponent's ability is more auxiliary. He can create countless small objects with the same effects as props out of thin air, and can also teleport to companions wearing friendship hairpins. However, most of these props are disposable items and have a short validity period. Compared to using them himself, Jin Jiaqi prefers to cooperate with players with strong attack power, let them use the props he provides, and he sits on a balloon in the sky to observe and assist remotely.
It's like she's spending some props to ask someone else to lead the charge, and she usually investigates such partners in advance, because students are easy to fool.
An apologetic voice came from the plastic hairpin: "My skill has a built-in trading system. You must pay before I can transfer the items remotely. Sorry."
Tang Xiaoxiao deliberately made her tone sound painful: "I spent almost a thousand soul coins in one go. Are we going to spend this much every day for the next few days? My companions and I only earn two to three thousand soul coins from one dungeon."
"Of course not. After we learn how to draw bones and skin, we can directly use paper beasts to fight. It won't rely so much on personal ability."
But what Jin Jiaqi was thinking in her heart was, you have to be able to live to that time.
Now, because the paper beasts belonging to the players have not been made yet and lack offensive power, she can only find a little girl who is easy to control to be her knife. Once she has other means of attack, she can squeeze all the soul coins out of this little girl, and then she can retire.
But what a pity, it seems that this student doesn’t have much money.
Tang Xiaoxiao judged the truth and lies in her tone, and sighed, no wonder Sister Gao Chengcheng was so famous on Infinite Highway, although they were both doing business, there was still a big difference between unscrupulous businessmen.
The wooden gate on the first floor was opened. The periphery of the hairpin-shaped building where they lived was covered with various fences with all kinds of colorful flowers blooming on them, and colorful mushrooms at the roots, which was weird yet beautiful.
At this time, the thorny vines stretched out huge claws and entangled the attacking monsters one by one. The paper beasts were of different sizes, similar to those they had encountered on the studio floor before.
After Jin Jiaqi left the room on the first floor, she instantly climbed onto a hanging basket suspended by a bunch of balloons, as if she was extremely afraid of death. The periphery of the basket was filled with all kinds of toy water guns, arrows, small hammers, etc. They looked like toys, but were actually disposable plastic props that could provide a certain degree of attack.
"I'll go up there to observe the situation and pass on the information to you. I'll leave the attack to you."
Although every NPC that shelters players will say that the room is safe, they will not guarantee everyone's safety if the players leave on their own initiative. However, staying in the room on their own initiative, neither exploring the map nor fighting monsters, is the worst thing to do.
Jin Jiaqi was hanging in the sky with a wide field of vision. She could see that there were about twenty monsters coming around the small hairpin building. None of them were very big. It seemed that it was their first day entering the village.
When Tang Xiaoxiao went out with the book, he did not rashly attack these guys. Instead, he slipped out while looking for the right opportunity to roll up the paper beasts on the edge that were not so scary in size and take them away.
Jin Jiaqi gave her instructions from the sky: "Yes, turn right at the intersection ahead, there is an open space there."
Tang Xiaoxiao did not completely rely on her command. She knew that this guy might find an opportunity to trap her later. So, while guarding against her, he acted a little stumblingly and reserved some strength to deal with the paper beast.
A player who successfully survived the first seven days actually took the initiative to seek cooperation with a guy like me who entered the game on the first day. He said so nice things but did not reveal any important details about the copy. Tang Xiaoxiao did not think that this person had any good intentions.
While directing her to do the hard work, Jin Jiaqi looked around the house and soon found her target.
A voice came from Tang Xiaoxiao's plastic flower hairpin: "Drag this paper beast in first, and then find a way to get another one over. We'll each have one. The hunting activity is over tonight, and you can move freely tomorrow without having to do any missions."
She was also very considerate and gave the bigger head to Tang Xiaoxiao, saying that although she had provided a lot of tools, it was the little girls who came forward to fight.
Tang Xiaoxiao sneered in her heart because she had spent money to buy these props.
While hiding her strength and fighting the new paper beast, she quietly observed the sky. Jin Jiaqi looked around, as if she wanted to slip away somewhere.
This old player was indeed hiding something from her.
There are several small ponds near the Hairpin Flower Building. The owners of the house, the NPCs wearing ethnic minority costumes, told them that the paper beasts would never come over from the ponds in the past few days. This is also one of the defense lines near their house. A total of twenty or thirty monsters can only attack the house from the established route. This also gives some players the confidence to dare to deal with them.
At this time, the old player was near the pond, quietly looking for something while Tang Xiaoxiao was busy attacking the paper beast.
Jin Jiaqi thought that Tang Xiaoxiao would be overwhelmed by the situation and had been distracted by it, staring at this side. She found that the balloon was descending and someone in the hanging basket threw something down, as if he was fishing in the lake.
Jin Jiaqi's target is the lake?
Tang Xiaoxiao quickly retracted her gaze and stopped looking over there, looking like she was fighting a fierce battle with the paper beast.
Jin Jiaqi seemed to be relieved. She pretended to tell her through the hairpin about the situation of the safe zone seen in the sky, and asked Tang Xiaoxiao to lead the paper beast there, while quietly tightening the fishing line.
"Strange, I remember it was buried here."
He once again hung a piece of bone whose raw material could not be identified on the fish hook and threw the fishing line into the lake.
She sitting in the balloon basket was very different from Tang Xiaoxiao. Not only were fascia clearly visible on her bones, she was also covered with clothes, and there were props like small ornaments hanging everywhere.
These players who had survived from the last round to the second round had already grown flesh and blood and put on clothes, but she knew that the most valuable thing in this game was not the power of the soul.
It's a wooden box.
This is news that only players who survive to the seventh day will know.
Strange, since it’s so early in the morning, we can’t fish them out now?
Just as she was hesitating, a huge force came from the other end of the fishing line, pulling her down directly. Jin Jiaqi was distracted and was almost pulled directly from the basket into the water.
Isn't that wooden box a dead object? Why is there such a dead noise, or is there something under the water?
But this is only the first day, where did the living creatures come from underwater? !
Jin Jiaqi hesitated for only three or five seconds before immediately shouting for her cheap teammates to come over and help.
"Xiao Xiao! There's something in the water, help me!"
To be honest, Tang Xiaoxiao initially planned to wait for a while before coming over, as she didn't really want to help her, but somehow, she seemed to hear a buzzing sound coming from underwater.
This noise sounds familiar. What's going on?
Before Jin Jiaqi was completely dragged into the water, she arrived late and dragged her to the shore in a timely manner. As a person who had been flying in the sky all year round and growing up in a vulgar way, she was now scared to death.
"Impossible, impossible. How could something in the water attack people?! There's something wrong with the shrine. Something has come out of it!"
Tang Xiaoxiao tried to comfort her while trying to get her to stop, "Don't be nervous. We're up here. I'll take you back now. Jiaqi, what is the shrine? Why are you so scared?"
Jin Jiaqi fell from her sky turtle shell and could only hold on to the high school student. Seeing Tang Xiaoxiao sweeping the book across and knocking over a large paper beast, she knew she had to speak nicely. Whenever she saw Xiaoxiao hesitating, her heart would rise.
She may lie, but she really hates the feeling of putting her life in the hands of others.
By then, Tang Xiaoxiao would push herself directly into the pile of paper beasts, and she wouldn't even have a place to cry.
She was careless, and all the bits and pieces on her body were sucked away by the things under the water. It would take her at least an hour to create a new Yiwu shop.
Jin Jiaqi looked back at the water with hatred, and then quickly pretended to be weak and scared. "The shrine is a reward from Zhazhi Village. It is said that after each evaluation, the player can get the right to use the shrine for half an hour and absorb incense outside. But veteran players know that the shrine contains a bewitching monster."
What she didn't say was that the monster usually used words to trick players into coming to the vicinity of the shrine earlier, and anyone who approached the shrine on their own initiative without going through the procedures of the evaluation conference would be sucked into the shrine as a sacrifice.
Players who have experienced a skeleton beauty pageant between villages know that the external manifestation of soul power is bones. Although she was not the first place last time, she successfully survived the previous round in the dungeon and even stayed to participate in the second round.
At this time, even when facing the shrine, she was confident that she would not be bewitched. However, bewitching with words is one thing, and attacking with force is another.
What happened just now? How could something in the shrine come out on its own?
As soon as Tang Xiaoxiao saw Jin Jiaqi's expression, she knew that this guy was still hiding a lot of information from her.
While covering the enemy's retreat, Tang Xiaoxiao suddenly looked back.
Then his whole body shook.
Jin Jiaqi, who was supported by her, wanted to say something, but was grabbed by Tang Xiaoxiao, who ran towards the NPC hut where they were at lightning speed with her people, leaving her no chance to look back.
"My skill time is almost up, let's go back quickly, otherwise we will be surrounded. I'm so poor that I don't even have any props."
When Jin Jiaqi heard this, she immediately became obedient and dared not do anything. She let her daughter run back with support. This time she did not dare to hide her weakness. She tried her best to use the few things left on her body to defend herself from the attacking paper beasts until they rushed back to the player's hut on the first floor and locked the door completely.
"I'm going back right now. Don't come out again. It won't be long before dawn. Have a good rest. We still have to go out to complete missions during the day."
Listening to Tang Xiaoxiao's comfort, Jin Jiaqi suddenly felt guilty.
It was true that she was selfish, exploitative and cowardly, but the high school student's sincerity towards her made her feel ashamed.
If it really doesn't work, she can reveal some information to the other party in the next few days. She also needs to think about what happened tonight.
Why did the shrine that was sunk to the bottom of the lake suddenly riot? And what came out of it?
The feeling of being dragged into the water by someone pulling the fishing line was so terrifying. Could it be that she was attacked by a water ghost because she forced herself to stay in the game and start the second round?
After Tang Xiaoxiao and her teammates finished their hypocritical show, they immediately ran to the lake to look for the so-called water ghost.
Of course, her skill book was not used up. She sent the frightened Jin Jiaqi away in order to meet someone by the lake.
She quickly glanced at the sky and didn't find any remaining balloons, which meant there was no surveillance for the time being. Tang Xiaoxiao quickly rushed to the lake and saw her sister Qiao Song as expected.
Qiao Song was trying to put clothes on himself, but no matter what material the clothes were made of, it was difficult for them to hang on the white bones that had already grown some flesh membranes, as if the soul could not wear any weight-bearing items.
Finally, she thought about the Calabash Brothers and the Mattress Beauty she met in the studio, and followed their instructions, gluing some soul coins into a nightgown and putting it on, and this time she successfully hung it up.
Although he looks a bit like a nouveau riche, he can still protect himself to some extent.
"Sister Qiao Song, why did you become like this?"
Tang Xiaoxiao came back as expected.
Qiao Song was also surprised to see her: "You can recognize me even though I'm like this?"
Tang Xiaoxiao pointed at the chainsaw in her hand and said, "Didn't you recognize me too?" Otherwise, she wouldn't have raised the chainsaw to greet her just now. Fortunately, Jin Jiaqi didn't look back at that time.
Qiao Song smiled and pointed to the history book in her hand, meaning that he also recognized it through this thing.
Only teammates can recognize each other by tools and skill derivatives.
"It may take a long time to tell how I crawled out from the bottom of the lake, but now it's almost dawn, and I have to find a way to get back to our village. I just heard the system warning that if I don't go back before dawn, I will have to deduct a lot of soul coins from my reward."
This dog system seemed to understand that she had taken a great advantage and was trying every possible means to bite off a piece of meat from her.
dream.
Qiao Song knew that the village where Tang Xiaoxiao was located was the folk hairpin village in the south. Green walls and fences, and various strange ethnic totems could be seen everywhere. Compared with the Cyber Village, this village was obviously better integrated with the paper mannequin culture.
But Qiao Song knew that these were all fake.
The current paper-zha town is not a real paper-zha town at all, but a product of an inexplicable fusion of the styles of four other copies.
What exactly is the so-called beauty contest and what is the purpose of the shrine? In the next few days in the copy, she will have to find a way to find out the answers to these questions.
"There are a lot of paper beasts in the village at night. I'll take you to the entrance of the village."
Qiao Song thought for a moment and said, "I already tried this when I was waiting for you just now. I can't go back the same way. It seems I have to take a detour."
There is a village between South Village and North Village. The fastest way might be to go over the top of the mountain, but Qiao Song does not have flying skills.
"But I seem to have accidentally picked up a lot of odds and ends from your companion just now. Do you need to return them to her?"
Qiao Song poured out a bunch of bamboo helicopters, small water guns, plastic toys, flower plastic hairpins, and other plastic products from the net bag.
Tang Xiaoxiao shook her head: "It would be hard to explain if I took it back, and that thing is not a good thing. Sister Qiao Song, you should keep it. These are props with a short validity period."
"By the way, she seems to be a player who stayed from the last round until now. I suspect she stayed in the dungeon for one more round, apparently just to fish something out from the water."
Qiao Song immediately understood what the other party wanted.
The veteran players actually knew that there was a shrine hidden under the water, so it seemed that this thing was related to the reward for completing the game.
No wonder the system is so angry. I haven’t even finished the level yet, but I’ve already touched this thing.
But in this case, there should be a threshold there, otherwise whoever finds it can use it, so why go through the copy beauty pageant?
Qiao Song felt that there was still a piece of the puzzle missing. After interacting with those NPCs in the dungeon tomorrow, he should be able to get some clues.
There were indeed a lot of paper beasts in the village at night, but there seemed to be certain differences between each village. Qiao Song discovered that the foreign paper beasts in Tang Xiaoxiao's village were much smaller than those in his own village.
And they were all very beautiful. She saw peacocks, phoenixes, and even a snow-white paper-made sika deer.
Tang Xiaoxiao held the book rolled into a barrel for defense the whole time, but found that few paper beasts came to surround them.
Qiao Song's nose moved and he sniffed the air: "The smell of your village is very faint."
With her reminder, Tang Xiaoxiao noticed that the village was filled with a very faint fragrance at night.
After all, there are so many flowers in their village that if you don't look carefully, it's hard to tell that this smell is different from the natural fragrance of the plants, but more like the smell of burning incense.
And Qiao Song had the same smell of incense on him.
According to Tang Xiaoxiao's explanation, Qiao Song quickly understood the functions of those plastic products.
Although the usage period was very short, only one or two minutes, fortunately the quantity was sufficient, and she cleaned out all the stuff from the guy who fell into the water.
Including the time for climbing mountains and wading through water, one hour should be enough.
"Oh, by the way, I need your help with something."
Qiao Song said goodbye to Tang Xiaoxiao and hurried back.
Tang Xiaoxiao quickly returned to the lake and put up a sign there according to Qiao Song's arrangement.
It is said that this is to scare old players and make new players who enter the dungeon pay attention to things under the water.
No matter how slow your own investigation is, of course you need to mobilize everyone to gallop on the right path together.
The next day, when Jin Jiaqi woke up and wondered if there was something wrong with the underwater shrine, she suddenly saw a sign next to the small puddle from yesterday.
[This is a place where water ghosts are rampant. Please do not go into the water at night, otherwise you will bear the consequences at your own risk. ]
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