Chapter 123 Paper Town
Two days before the bonfire party, several grassland games similar to the previous ones will be held. This time, Qiao Song did not hear the reminder of the shrine fragment. Everyone used paper beast shells to enter the game. She changed her image and did not use the same props, so no one could recognize her.
Qiao Song did nothing but wander around inside.
She is recognizing someone.
In the later part of the game, there are fewer and fewer players, and she needs to find out the basic situation of each village before the bonfire party.
There are less than 30 people left in the east, south, west and north, and a few guys have never appeared.
There is also one in Qiao Song’s village, but he has rarely shown up since entering the dungeon.
Tang Xiaoxiao’s reply was that there was such an almost invisible person in their village.
"He only appears when you enter the game. He is a loner and his abilities are unknown. But no one in the village seems to have seen him in the game. Only very occasionally, you can see the lights on in the house where he is at night."
Lin Xuan gave a similar answer: "There is also such a person in our village. He is very aloof and no one has ever met him in the game. He is active at night. The NPC in our village said that he is a wandering cultivator who has been possessed by evil spirits and told us not to go near his house."
Aunt Huo was more direct: "We only know of this person in our village, and no one has ever seen him. Maomao said that there is a player in the village who smells strongly of blood. I don't know if it is this person."
These four people seemed to be invisible, which was unreasonable. Could it be that they would only appear on the last day of the bonfire party?
Then how do you usually escape the game missions without being eliminated?
Qiao Song asked Fan Heng this question, but he didn’t know if it was because of the short time it took to get on and off the elevator, so he hesitated and only said, “You’ll know the answer on the last day of the bonfire meeting.”
Tomorrow is the bonfire party, and today is the last grassland activity, which gives players the opportunity to come into contact with shrine fragments.
Qiao Song even felt that on the day of the bonfire party, the players might also be dressed in paper beast guise and fight each other. The game was designed to allow them to adapt to this rhythm in advance.
Because of her actions in the previous round, in the past few rounds of grassland games, everyone had to prepare for disasters in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter in advance, while also being on guard against someone trying to snatch the fragments.
Qiao Song was not a fool. She did the same thing and waited for the people who wanted to settle accounts with her to line up. She changed her face and quickly blended into the other teams. Occasionally, she could hear someone scolding her.
"Has the player from before come over?"
"Are you talking about the public enemy? How dare he? Now all the players with a little ability are looking for him, especially those who stayed from the previous round. Do you think this guy is also a player from the second round?"
"I heard that some people suspect he is in the third round. They didn't see him in the second round."
"Couldn't it be someone who just joined this time?"
"Absolutely impossible. How can a newbie be so fast? Look at the giant's body he stabbed. His flexibility is better than 99% of the paper beasts. Only those that cost money in the dungeon can keep up with that level."
Qiao Song felt like he was eavesdropping on someone flattering him, and it suddenly felt a little weird.
What’s even more subtle is that when someone said that she wouldn’t be stupid enough to use her previous image and that she might have just changed her appearance, these guys quickly saw her in the corner, muttered “it’s not possible to be so shoddily made”, and quickly looked away, prioritizing the correct answer.
Qiao Song, who deliberately made the paper beast ugly: ...
I can hear you, thank you.
However, she took this opportunity to visit many places where people gathered. Based on their voices and the characteristics of the props, she had matched the names and characteristics of at least half of the people.
Together with Aunt Huo, Tang Xiaoxiao and Lin Xuan, Qiao Song has integrated the intelligence of four villages.
"Sure enough, a player is missing and has not entered the game."
Strangely, even for veteran players who have already played through the second round, there is no way to not enter the game.
The NPC takes them to learn paper-folding techniques, which is almost a forced plot.
Where did these four people go?
There is just one in each village, it’s so subtle.
Qiao Song integrated and analyzed the information and sent it to the group. At the same time, he also learned that in tonight's grassland game, many players had obtained shrine fragments.
She did not appear in her previous image, which made others extremely alert at the beginning, fearing that she would appear from somewhere. Until the end of the game and the exit music sounded, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
Qiao Song did not fight or compete, which allowed other players to finally get some meat.
Of course, the main reason was that her shrine was already full, and there was no need for Qiao Song to grab things he didn't need.
Her own shrine is still under functional development. At present, it seems that there is only one chance to use it after the charging is completed. She does not plan to use it to travel through the dungeon, but to keep it to save her life.
Carrying a soul does not count as a consumption, because the living creature that enters can in turn provide energy to her, so the boys and girls do not take up the opportunity.
Fan Heng and Fan Xi did not inform Tong Nan and Tong Yao in advance, and the two little ones now had no good expressions when they saw Qiao Song. One of them was hiding and did not dare to look at her directly, as if Qiao Song would eat her.
The other thing is that he just stares at her, as if saying, "I know I can't beat her, but even if you beat me to death today, I will still glare at you to get my revenge."
Qiao Song just sighed that once the two guys behind him were taken away by him, they would be forced to screw in the shrine every day, and that would be like crying out to heaven and earth, but no one would help them.
Xiao Ni was very unhappy: "Don't worry, Sister Qiao Song, my learning progress has caught up with them. I will definitely ask Teacher Fan to praise me more."
The subtext is that as long as the teacher praises him, those two guys will feel even more uncomfortable.
"Why are you becoming more and more evil, who did you learn this from?"
Xiao Ni grinned and took out something he had just made.
“Ding ding ding, I know how to cook fish.”
He was holding in his arms a paper fish, half the size of a human.
Qiao Song was curious before. She said that she would go out to patrol different villages at night and might have to go into the water. Xiao Ni kept saying that he wanted to follow her. He held the baby in his arms for such a long time without revealing a single corner. It turned out that he was preparing to show off at this time.
"Okay, you can follow me down here and see for yourself. If there's any danger, just run away and don't run around everywhere, okay?"
Xiao Ni nodded hurriedly.
Qiao Song didn't let him attend the subsequent grassland party game. Xiao Ni also knew that Hei Dou and the others' dinosaur image was too eye-catching, so he simply practiced other images for the past two days.
His creativity in the early stage was purely because he loved black beans enough. Later, he spent a lot of effort to make several other different paper-cut images.
Knowing that the transmission channel of the shrine is underwater, Xiao Ni specially made several fish!
The paper-making technique is actually very simple. Make an empty shell of a paper puppet, and then put the appropriate soul into it. Human players can cut off a part of their soul and stuff it directly into the puppet, just like their own clone. Ghosts can simply and roughly drill into it.
Xiao Ni got into the fish just like putting on clothes. When he opened his eyes, Qiao Song had already put him into the water.
Unlike when he was in Ghost Story Middle School, Xiao Ni once thought that what he feared most was the underwater environment. Now he finds that it is actually not so bad. Like a fish, he can move freely at the bottom of the lake without worrying about suffocation. It is so refreshing.
The little fish wagged its tail and soon found the shrine at the bottom of the lake. It was the first time that Xiao Ni saw the key item that Qiao Song had mentioned several times before.
Aunt Huo’s shrine smells like cats, warm and furry.
Sister Qiao Song’s shrine is very clean and has no smell at all, like a new product just taken out of the shelf.
In this underwater place, Xiao Ni smelled a strong scent of candles.
Qiao Song made a gesture, and as agreed before, asked him to patrol outside and stand by. This time, Qiao Song did not intend to do as before, breathing in the incense in the passage and then waiting for the shrine to spit her out. She just wanted to go in and take a look.
Of course, the main reason was that she couldn't eat anymore, otherwise she would not miss this opportunity to get something for free.
With a hand that was familiar with the place, she pressed into the passage of the shrine and was quickly sucked into the familiar space and the familiar altar, but the scene above had changed.
The god tablets on the altar that had been dark before all lit up this time, and various copy scenes appeared, but still without names.
Qiao Song could guess many positions in the second row through the pictures.
Either it was one of the other three villages in the paper-folding town, after all, the style of fusion of paper-folding and other elements was too obvious, or it was a place she had been to before, such as the Hell Community and Hearse Entertainment.
This time, Qiao Song set his sights on the second row.
Starting from this row, the thickness of the signs seemed to be different. Two of them were swirling with impenetrable fog. Rather than a scene from a dungeon, Qiao Song felt that it was more like the fog on the Infinite Highway.
After observing carefully for a while and not getting any useful information, he looked away.
There was a picture with moving light and shadow, and it was impossible to even see what was inside.
The other one is like a mosaic, densely packed with capsule-shaped pigment dots.
The one at the back can see the raging storm and the crashing waves.
There was also a lifeless place where all you could see was a dark sky and countless strange mounds of earth.
She believed most of the information given by Fan Heng and Fan Xi, but it was impossible for the other party to give her a business card and tell her to go to a certain copy. Qiao Song planned to go down and take a look herself first.
The tablet that is made up entirely of mosaic capsules actually looks very much like a can if you look closely at it closely, and is most likely the representative blind box mall copy.
The problem is these few are left.
The difficulty of the 12 Committee copy should be divided into two levels. The upper level is obviously more difficult. You can't even see the pictures clearly, and most of them are difficult to understand.
Qiao Song poked at the screen where the light and shadow were wriggling, and soon heard an intermittent system prompt.
[Do you want to enter... from the deep sea... calling... no time limit... carry oxygen...]
When Qiao Song found out there was a yes/no option, he decisively clicked no.
Since there was still one chance to confirm, she fearlessly pressed every ranking, and found that except for the Zootopia which reminded her that she needed an invitation to enter, the other second-level copies had no additional requirements and would even actively remind the players.
At least everyone said, please bring so-and-so before entering.
Some may ask you to bring oxygen cylinders, some may ask you to bring lighting props, and some may even ask you to bring some fully charged power banks, and remember "don't bring food".
Qiao Song memorized this information as quickly as possible to prevent himself from being suddenly thrown into any copy of the 12 Committee later.
But the reminder actually means that these copies may be more difficult than imagined. Qiao Song was not in a hurry to enter. She really planned to leave after the bonfire party was over. She needed to continue to gather information in the paper-zha town.
The question is where do the paper beasts come from, especially those that traveled a long distance from outside the village to the paper-making town.
While analyzing the significance of the paper beast's existence, Qiao Song calculated the time and found it strange that the shrine did not spit her out today.
By this point, she had already been thrown out from another exit.
She soon discovered the reason. The air was filled with a strong smell of incense, but she was not as eager for the smell as before. It seemed that she could not absorb the fragrance in the air with every breath.
The shrine space itself may have discovered this.
"You are quite honest. If you don't want to eat incense, don't bother me."
All shrines have owners, and I don’t know to whom this NPC’s shrine belongs. Not only is he a coward, he’s also so petty.
Qiao Song thought about it and took out his own shrine. Just as he started, he felt the space under his feet shook. It was as if the little guy, who was not worried about his incense, suddenly found that Qiao Song was not playing by the rules again.
The entire space under my feet seemed to be as if all the muscles were tense, ready to spit people out at any time.
But after discovering that Qiao Song's shrine did not absorb his incense, the trembling ground of the underwater shrine space soon stopped shaking.
Qiao Song was so angry at this guy's little trick that she laughed. She knocked on the wall and said in a long tone: "You are really a coward, but you know the situation."
The surroundings were extremely quiet and no one responded to her.
Qiao Song then placed his left hand on the shrine in his own home, and soon an interface similar to that of a video software appeared in front of him, allowing him to select a movie channel.
Unlike the real passage of the underwater shrine, as long as she put her hand into her own shrine, a system interface would appear in front of her, and the progress bar on the right showed that there was only one chance to select.
She can teleport directly to any selected copy, but she only has one chance to teleport to her own shrine.
If I use this method of teleportation next time, I will probably have to feed the shrine again. The Paper-Zha Town is special, and Qiao Song cannot guarantee that he can find a shrine in other copies to feed his little baby.
So keep all the good stuff and use it to get the teleportation ability of other shrines for free at the critical moment.
However, only 11 of her pictures were lit up, and one of them had a cross-shaped lock drawn on it, with a line of prompts on it: [Please try again after getting an invitation.]
Obviously, this is Zootopia.
The common point between the two shrines is that the copy screens are basically the same.
Qiao Song didn't want to use up the precious opportunity on a single teleportation, so he went underwater to compare the difference between the two, and by the way, he tested it and found that the shrine did have some attributes of being alive, and even had a little temper.
No wonder I spit her out so hard before.
Only after she had tried them one by one and tried almost all the words she could hear did she reluctantly leave the shrine space.
Xiao Ni, who was originally helping her keep watch underwater, disappeared at this time. Qiao Song frowned. Xiao Ni was not the kind of child who was playful. He must have discovered something.
She soon saw a small piece of cloth that had been hastily torn off next to the wooden box of the shrine under the water. It was tied into three pieces in a row and connected by a line, running in the same direction.
Qiao Song quickly chased after her, but she was different from the skeleton before. She quickly swam around under the water, came up to breathe, and then went back into the water.
In the Cyber Village in the north, the lake is not very big. Qiao Song walked around underwater but didn't see Xiao Ni. She frowned, went ashore and took out a prop from the grove.
That's a mirror.
When Xiao Ni was still a little water ghost, he was able to use the ability of mirror travel, but this time he came to the Paper-Zha Village and is working hard to develop new skills.
Qiao Song knocked on the mirror a few times, then repeatedly drew a question mark.
Soon, a strange scene emerged on the rippling mirror surface.
A monster with a fish face and a human body was crawling on all fours, with a net behind him containing many preys.
Based on this perspective, Qiao Song quickly determined Xiao Ni's current situation.
The paper fish that the little guy had put in was taken away as prey... An exclamation mark began to appear on the mirror. The little Ni over there seemed to be afraid to make a sound. He could only quietly draw symbols on the mirror with his hands and turn the mirror at the same time to let Qiao Song on the other side see the scene here.
A paper beast that can actually hunt like humans?
Qiao Song recalled the monster with a fish face and a human body, and was sure that he had never seen this kind of paper beast in the village.
"Fuck, I feel dizzy. What's going on? Where am I?"
Suddenly, a sound came from the other side of the mirror. Qiao Song felt that the net that was originally moving forward stopped, and the monster with a fish face and a human body, which had its back to this side, turned its head.
His body was covered with all kinds of strange scars, as if some of his flesh and blood had been forcibly removed, but the strange thing was that although his body clearly had more fish attributes, one could vaguely see some fine animal hair, or characteristics of some other creatures, on those wounds.
Composite paper beast?
Qiao Song quickly recalled that he and the fish killer from RT-Mart had cooperated to attack the paper beast outside the village.
Yes, the paper beasts that attack the village every night, and the paper beasts in the cupboards that appear in every mini-game, are all paper beasts with a single attribute, either lions, tigers, or some special animals.
Instead, this kind of composite monster has both human characteristics and mixed attributes of multiple animals.
Will this type of paper beast appear in the village at night?
Qiao Song asked Xiao Ni to point the mirror at the outside environment to identify the location. She had run to every corner of the four villages in the past two days, and soon discovered that this was the junction of the northwest village based on the characteristics of the roadside path.
She rushed over there quickly, and when she was halfway there, she clearly saw the mirror shaking, as if the dragging net was casually thrown to the ground.
The player who just woke up was also trying to contact his teammates, but not as stealthily as Xiao Ni. He started to curse, "Old Qi, you bastard, why don't you come and save me? You took so much money, but you didn't even notice that I was caught by the paper beast!?"
The net was gradually pulled open, and the player cursed even louder. It seemed that he had hired a bodyguard, but now the bodyguard had no idea he was missing. When he woke up, he was already covered in a net bag and being pulled by a monster, and the other party was obviously coming to catch him.
"Fuck, don't come over here. I'm warning you, don't come over here."
“Ah ...
The player seemed to be extremely frightened. He was in a panic and was throwing props out frantically and using skills.
[E-commerce customer service needs a strong heart. Hello, dear, what's the problem? Dear, we can process the return. If there is no freight insurance, can we return the goods to you at our own expense? ]
[Freight insurance is effective and the goods will be returned by the original route]
There was a crisp ding sound, and the player who had used some kind of escape prop with a painful look on his face disappeared into the air for just a second and sat back down in the same place.
He landed on his butt, once again the prey in the net.
"No, it can't be, why doesn't it work?"
He immediately grabbed another one, Oxman's transformation prop.
[A new storm has emerged, how can we stop moving forward——]
A well-known monster-killing professional immediately appeared on the Internet. His size continued to grow, from a figurine to a giant, until a certain moment, the giant seemed to touch some transparent barrier, and his body pressed against the ceiling, but after his size increased, he was unable to push open the transparent display case.
[Didi, insufficient space for activities, affected by special circumstances, props have been damaged]
The man who had used two life-saving items and failed in succession was extremely terrified at this time: "Impossible, how could it fail? I have used these things in other copies, no matter where, how could it fail? Who are you? What are you…"
Through the narrow interface of the mirror, Qiao Song quickly saw the monster with a fish face and a human body. It stretched out a hand covered with fish scales and pressed it directly on the man's face.
The latter's face immediately turned purple.
Crack, Qiao Song heard the obvious sound of broken bones.
"People... smell good... but can't be eaten..."
The paper beast spoke intermittently, and Qiao Song broke out in a cold sweat almost instantly.
She quickened her pace and could already see that the monster turned his head with some curiosity and looked at the little Ni next to him who was wearing a paper man's coat.
"Fish... not... human?... ghost..."
"It doesn't taste good...put it in...the vending machine..."
Xiao Ni almost instantly felt himself being pulled out by a big hand.
He seemed to have really become a fish on the chopping board.
He can resist, he has the skills...
One by one, voices emerged from the bottom of my heart.
But the fear in his body was like an erupting volcano, and he couldn't stop it. If it wasn't for Sister Qiao Song who took the initiative to contact him with the mirror, Xiao Ni wouldn't even have the courage to use props.
He would die, he would die—but he had already died once and turned into a ghost, so what would happen if he died again? Would he be chewed up? Would he be devoured? Would his memories disappear along with him?
[The Killer's Absolute Emotional Control - Fear]
The monster with a fish face and a human body took out the fake fish. He tore off the fish skin bit by bit, as if he knew there must be a ghost hidden inside.
"Vending machine... no... there is no... vending machine..."
The fish-man monster seemed to understand something intermittently. He looked at his hands, then looked at his prey.
"Eat, eat, ghost, energy..."
He crushed the heads of new people and placed them beside him, and he tore off the paper disguises of new ghosts and prepared to stuff them into his mouth, chewing them up and digesting them no matter how disgusting they tasted.
The only memories he had were slowly merging together. He remembered that a long time ago, ghosts could be exchanged for soul coins, and eating them could restore a little of his soul.
But, what is soul coin?
He thought slowly, recalled, and stuffed the little boy-like thing into his big mouth.
The sound of a chainsaw came from far away, like a rumbling train, getting closer and closer.
Qiao Song jumped high from the hillside - facing the big mouth.
"I'll eat your grandma's leg!——"
The fish-faced monster raised his head sharply, and a scarlet light shone from his eyes.
[Butcher·Prey Stun·Emotion Control Judgment in progress...]
[Judgment failed, the opponent has no fear emotion, magnification failed]
[Change skills, butcher knife]
[Has the ability to kill everything below its own level, doubles the attack power]
The scraping sound of metal was extremely harsh. Qiao Song used the force from above to temporarily suppress the opponent and quickly threw out several nets.
When the monster attacked, it was forced to put Xiao Ni down in order to get the butcher knife in its hand.
Qiao Song pulled the trigger on the chainsaw and rushed forward without fear.
She could even vaguely sense that this paper beast was completely different from the ones she had encountered before.
The same monster appearance, equally weird and disgusting, but too much like a human.
Why does a deformed monster that is nearly 5 meters tall look so much like a human?
Could this guy be controlled by humans?
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