Chapter 129 Paper Town
Xiao Ni once wondered why he had such a hard time during those years. The whole school seemed like a hotbed of sin. Everyone was like a water ghost looking for a substitute, trying to drag the people around them into hell, and then pass on the misfortune one by one.
It was not until he met Qiao Song that he was no longer a transparent man and could walk in the light.
Xiao Ni thought back to his past, his parents, his friends, and found that his memory outside of school was blank.
“Hmm—”
The cool paper velociraptor that Xiao Ni specially made for himself suddenly squatted down and tried to hug his head. His short forelimbs scratched the paper on his neck, and he seemed to feel a sense of soul being torn apart all over his body.
His name is Su Ruini, and he is a junior high school student at Ghost Story Middle School. He vaguely remembers that he has a mother, but he can't remember where his mother is. Is she also living in a copy?
Then why would the security guard come to the school to look for his child? Wang Simiao also has his own grandparents, but no adults came to look for Xiao Ni. Is he an orphan?
No, Xiao Ni has a mother. The food his mother cooks is delicious. She wears a red apron with floral patterns and makes delicious sweet soup for him.
Mom is not in the game.
Not here.
Then who is he?
Qiao Song didn't expect Xiao Ni to react so big. She jumped off the velociraptor's back, blew a whistle, and called Hei Dou back. The paper man's coat Xiao Ni was wearing shrank rapidly like a balloon with a hole in it.
Finally, a boy was revealed, hugging his legs and burying his head. His lips were trembling and his eyes were empty as he muttered to himself:
"Fake, punishment--"
Qiao Song leaned over and tried to pick him up, but heard a sentence that was almost drowned in his mouth: "...This is the punishment for mission failure."
Xiao Ni opened his eyes in a daze, and vaguely heard a ding sound of some system prompt in his ears, but it seemed as if the signal was blocked.
"Xiao Ni——"
Qiao Song clasped his hands together and clapped them suddenly in front of him. Xiao Ni was instantly brought back to his senses by the crisp sound.
His somewhat confused eyes suddenly became clear, and his brain seemed to have undergone some kind of formatting. After a few seconds, Xiao Ni's expression returned to normal. He suddenly raised his head slowly and looked around in confusion: "Hey, how did I change back? Is there something wrong with the paper beast I made?"
He seemed to have completely forgotten what unusual situation had just occurred to him. He took the deflated paper beast back in his hand and quickly used the pen, paper and other materials in his pocket to quickly mend the stitches on it.
Xiao Ni is indeed very talented in this area. He quickly gathered himself together, put on his "coat", and turned back into a tall, happily running velociraptor paper beast.
The tip of his tail was still wagging: "Sister Qiao Song, aren't you coming up?"
The boy and girl who had just gotten off the bus had a complicated expression on their faces: "Is he schizophrenic? I remember mental illness seemed to be..."
The boy was mumbling something when he was hit on the head by the girl next to him. The girl glared at him and said, "If you can't speak, shut up."
Tong Yao sighed and glanced at Qiao Song, thinking that these guys weren't too bad and that they might have to live together in the future. Finally, she reminded him vaguely, "Some NPCs with specific identities in the dungeon will receive a system identity warning or even a special punishment if they violate the system regulations."
Qiao Song frowned, thinking of the little white cicada who had been struck by lightning after being exploited for information by him.
"What about the kind where you can't hear the system prompts?"
The girl spread her hands and said, "Then I don't know. Usually, NPCs like this are just background characters in the dungeon."
In other words, even if Xiao Ni was once a player, he was the kind of person who was punished for failing the resurrection mission and was directly reduced to the lowest level NPC in the game. The kind of character whose fate was determined by the game.
How do we explain his skill changes? In the convenience store dungeon, Xiao Ni was a water ghost and only had the ability of mirror teleportation. But now, out of interest, he has developed a paper-tying technique similar to that of a puppeteer and the ability to control spirits and interact remotely.
Will a change in an NPC character's identity also lead to a change in their skills?
Xiao Ni, can you turn back into a player?
It now seems that the NPC imp has some kind of cognitive defense system. Once it exceeds the system's judgment of the current identity, it will automatically return to factory settings.
For the time being, Qiao Song didn’t dare to test Xiao Ni’s memory of the past, but this also made her understand the specialness of the paper-folding town.
"Does your copy have a special transfer function within some system?"
Tong Yao scratched her arm nonchalantly: "Don't ask me, I'm just a little paper man, my head is empty, I don't know anything, these are things that only uncles and second uncles can touch."
When Fan Xi and Fan Heng exchanged certain information, they could only do so in the elevator and the studio in the basement.
But what is certain is that the secret of the paper-making town is most likely related to the resurrection mission.
Qiao Song immediately decided to hunt paper beasts in crowded places.
She had many guesses before, and today she should have the opportunity to try them out. She wanted to cut open the stomachs of those paper beasts to see what was hidden inside.
There are two kinds of paper beasts in Tianhuo Square tonight. One is a creature with a red base that emerges from a transparent glass display case and will indiscriminately attack all living things on the field.
Another type is a white paper beast with a price bar hanging on it, waiting for players to buy it.
The prices are already ridiculously high.
Qiao Song remembered that Fan Xi vaguely revealed that the paper beasts in this copy were divided into three categories. The first type was the paper beasts that would only appear in the space reached by the elevator at night. This type of beast was obviously a man-made hollow skin without a soul that could be controlled by NPCs and purchased by players.
The second type should be the one that attacks the village at night.
Influenced by the system, she will perform certain fixed tasks at night, but she can also be controlled by special NPCs. When she went into the water to touch the shrine before, it should be Fan Xi and the others who controlled the paper beasts to try to pull her out.
The last one was the weirdest and the one that she couldn't understand the most.
A paper beast crawled slowly forward from the fog of the infinite highway, just like the player's vehicle, trying to enter the town from outside.
There are many large and extremely intelligent individuals among them, with complex physical features and the forms of several animals, as if they were a mixture of several different souls. Among the daily tasks given by the dungeon NPC, there is the basic task of hunting them.
Qiao Song also cut out several bags from the stomach of a paper beast outside the village.
Those bags contained things that clearly belonged to the players, like heavy packages of relics.
Fan Xi said that was the last sign of their stay in the world.
It’s hard not to think too much.
An unlikely guess even came to Qiao Song's mind. Perhaps this was a special player who had traveled across mountains and rivers to come to the paper-zha town for some purpose?
During the days of studying in the paper-folding town, most players understood that humans only needed mental power to control paper beasts, not physical bodies.
The rest requires experimentation.
There were so many things happening in the past few nights that she hadn't found an opportunity.
Today is the last chance. I have to cut a few stomachs and verify it repeatedly.
In Tianhuo Square, the creatures controlled by players and sold in the display cabinets are the same. Qiao Song decided to start with the red paper beast.
Hei Dou let out a roar, understanding Qiao Song's instructions, and flew towards the destination at a rapid speed with the person on his head.
The boy and girl were finally put on the little monk's head.
In order to prevent the information he was looking for from irritating Xiao Ni again, Qiao Song asked him to "monitor" the activities of the two little boys and girls.
Xiao Ni tilted his head slightly, a little confused: "But..."
Even though I told them I would monitor them right in front of them, these two guys weren't angry at all.
Tong Yao snorted coldly but didn't say anything.
Tong Nan: "Okay, okay, then we'll just go around and we won't conflict with you."
They also have things to collect.
Although Xiao Ni was somewhat reluctant, he believed that Sister Qiao Song must have her reasons for assigning him the task.
Xiao Ni, who looked like a velociraptor, ran away in another direction. Qiao Song and Hei Dou and the others quickly approached another gathering place of butchers.
Because of the previous fragment reports, players have already realized that under certain special circumstances, meteorites will gather together.
For example, the black bone player that the butcher is hunting.
Therefore, when a specific and strange character like the Butcher appeared in a certain place, a large number of players immediately gathered there.
At least, except for the one that Qiao Song met who unexpectedly completed the task ahead of schedule, the other butchers are still serving as meteorite targets on the Tianhuo grassland.
They hunt the Black Bone player, and other players come and follow him to eat his meat.
A large number of red paper beasts, like insects that smelled a fragrance, surrounded these people.
Ordinary players on the periphery would have a hard time dealing with these red paper beasts, let alone finding fragments of the shrine.
"Two more coming from the left, get ready!"
After the red paper beasts rioted, many players now travel in groups to avoid being beaten to pieces by the paper beasts if they are left alone.
The drills on the grassland a few days ago allowed many players to adapt to how to control paper beasts in advance, so many people have already taken out their previous practice works and put on the paper beast shells in a snap.
The experience of the past few days has made it not as difficult to do two things at once as usual, but this also means that the main body has to be guarded by a player.
It is not easy for strangers in the copy to fully trust each other, except under the constraints of special props.
Jin Jiaqi gently tapped the plastic sister flower hairpin on her forehead. The transparent plastic crystal was already dyed with the light color of colorful petals.
This represents how much Tang Xiaoxiao trusts her now.
Very good, at least the other party will not be able to do anything harmful to her in the short term, but staying hidden is her usual style, and of course the risk has to be transferred to her own gold medal thugs.
"Xiao Xiao, take these attack items first, no need to transfer money."
Jin Jiaqi's Yiwu small shop trading system can automatically lower the price of goods, that is, exchange the props she gives to the other party for wholesale prices. When she first met Tang Xiaoxiao, she would charge 100 soul coins or 500 soul coins. Now, with the influence of the plastic sisters hairpins deepening, it has been reduced to 50, or even 10 or 20 yuan, a symbolic charge.
Just as she expected, a look of gratitude immediately appeared on the simple high school student's face.
"Thank you, Sister Jiaqi, for all these little props. I'm sorry for the expense."
Tang Xiaoxiao quickly recalled the functions of these free items and found that most of them were disposable props with no significant use.
Chunchun is just a way to mobilize people before the war and win people's hearts.
However, Qiao Song taught her a truth: even a nail or a hammer has its most reasonable use.
Tang Xiaoxiao put away the pile of small scraps and quickly took out her paper beast jacket.
It is unlikely that Jin Jiaqi will go out in person to fight those red monsters. Tang Xiaoxiao doesn't mind becoming the opponent's knife temporarily. After all, this means that the other party needs to provide correct information, otherwise the two of them will just play together.
The consequence of her tolerance in the early stage is that Jin Jiaqi is now very dependent on her. At this time, the cost-effectiveness of providing correct information will rise sharply.
Sure enough, after observing that more and more players were gathering in this area and the number of red paper beasts was also increasing sharply, Jin Jiaqi, who was hiding in the hot air balloon, finally gave in. Although she felt a little painful and hesitant, she still gave Tang Xiaoxiao the information that she had not been able to find out in these days.
"Wait, if we can't grab enough shrine fragments, let's run in the direction of the elevator."
After the prop hot air balloon is launched, the field of vision is good, and four faint light beams can be seen in the southeast, northwest, and northeast of the entire map. That is the elevator they came in from.
Tang Xiaoxiao pretended to be confused: "But didn't the system notification say that we can't stay in the elevator for a long time, it would be very dangerous."
Jin Jiaqi sighed, "That's because if you successfully sneak through the elevator and return to the paper-breaking copy, you will automatically become a player in the next round."
"The elevator is also very dangerous. You protect me and I will take you to stay."
The implication is that if you don't act as a good bodyguard, you won't be able to get my information.
Tang Xiaoxiao pretended not to understand her subtext, smiling with eyes curved, just like a sweet and innocent high school student: "Well, Sister Jiaqi, you are so nice to me. You told me this clue."
Jin Jiaqi leaned to the side unnaturally, as if she couldn't stand the warm social atmosphere brought by her hairpin. When Tang Xiaoxiao was ready, she left a place in the hot air balloon for Tang Xiaoxiao to lie down. Soon, the little girl controlled her paper beast and jumped out of the basket of the prop hot air balloon.
A slime with a unique shape, holding a triangle ruler and a book, suddenly fell to the ground.
Right now, the battle circle is full of paper beasts controlled by humans. These are easy to distinguish. After all, the paper beasts made by the players themselves are all strange in shape. After a few days of practice, although they can barely see the appearance of intelligent creatures, they are no match for the local red paper beasts.
However, the Gundam paper beasts in the display cabinets, with a unit price of nearly 100,000, are not something they can afford right now.
Tang Xiaoxiao held the weapon and directly pulled away a red-skinned monkey that was close to him.
The other players off the field were exactly the same.
Compared to before when a workbench would be set up near the elevator to systematically protect the players' safety, now players control paper beasts based on mutual team trust.
"I'll transform first. Xiao Cong, you fly higher and focus on defense!"
Xiao Cong, who had already placed a lot of props on the mattress, waved his hand and said, "Stop talking nonsense if you sleep on my bed."
Compared to others who were still scheming and guarding against each other, Lin Qun did an Ultraman transformation pose without hesitation. He lay straight on the bed, and the paper beast he controlled jumped off the mattress quickly, like a flying paper airplane.
The moment he jumped, he suddenly noticed several very familiar dinosaurs in the distance, running towards this direction.
Hey, the big boss is here to join in the fun too?
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