Chapter 131 Paper Town
Qiao Song felt like a giant spider, using all his hands to climb the walls.
Liao Xiang in his arms only struggled at first, wanting to take a look at Chu Wen and the others, but later she thought of her current situation. As long as she could escape, there would be a glimmer of hope.
Qiao Song went straight around that place and circled around several times to make sure that nothing was following him before he climbed over the maze wall and strode out.
Just as she reached the last wall and was about to escape, she felt heat coming from behind her.
The moment she jumped off the maze, Qiao Song looked back. Through the paper beast's eye sockets, she saw a large bonfire burning in the middle of the maze wall.
A giant wreath pattern belonging to Nancun was born there.
Qiao Song didn't dare to slow down at all and continued running out without looking back.
On the other side of the wall, Miao Tingting found her.
Rose, wearing a white dress, sat by the wall, her fingers almost touching the wall at her feet, her hair grew behind her like a waterfall, with a few small flowers already blooming on it.
"Tingting, you don't want to chase?"
The girl named Qiangwei has already discovered Qiao Song. If we expand the maze in that direction now, we can also catch up with this escaped guy.
"No need, it's just a shell. Even if we catch it, we can only get the six-armed paper beast and the perfumer in her hand. There are already similar professions among the newcomers."
Miao Tingting glanced at the girls in the corner. She didn't arrest them because of their professions.
"I'm more concerned about this lurking guy. Why did he follow those girls? As far as I know, if the resurrection mission is completed, these players who have played the NPC role will be instantly excluded from the dungeon. Whether they are willing to stay or not will depend on their own will."
When the perfumer escaped, the man in the diving suit, who was controlled by the insect he had used, did not have any special reaction.
Instead, after being brought to the wall, the male player who had previously played the butcher wanted to walk over to the players in the corner.
Something, or someone, that he wanted was hidden among these girls.
"Put aside the resurrection mission, let's light more bonfires and show these players how to clear the level as a newcomer."
While the Rose Maze was rapidly expanding its territory, in another direction of this dry land, the excitement caused by three butchers chasing the Black Bone players was about to end.
The meteorites in the sky have begun to gather towards the center in large numbers.
"Damn, those guys in the central area, did they treat the butcher as a resource refresh point? Why are there fewer and fewer meteorites in the outer areas?"
The butcher is no longer a secret in the players' information circle. These NPCs will only target and kill certain special players. Old players from the previous round have already released the news that the butcher will only kill players with black bones.
Many players' skins have grown out, covering the color of their bones, but in the early days when everyone was honest with each other, I vaguely remember a few sneaky guys whose color was not right.
From observation, it seems that he fled into the dungeon because he was being chased.
Although I don’t know why the dungeon has a mechanism specifically targeting this type of player, other people have no objection to it, but it’s different for the players who are being hunted.
They have been tortured for too long, neither dying nor living, and they can't even have a good rest.
"These **** bastards are all targeting me."
A man with a scar on his face couldn't stand it any longer and strangled the woman's neck. "Didn't they say this instance is suitable for people who are being hunted to escape? How come it's different from what we agreed on? You stinky bitch, you're deliberately trying to trick me!"
There was a very obvious scar on his face, so deep that the bone was visible. The skin had grown back on other parts of his body, but the black bones could still be seen in the parts that were not covered.
Very pure black.
The color of the bones of the woman he was strangling was not much better, but from the looks of it, it seemed that she was the one who took the initiative to trick this man into this.
She was strangled by the neck, coughing and crying: "Don't you believe in retribution? Retribution is coming now. Those who want to kill you can't get in. There are plenty of things in the dungeon that are meant to kill you."
The scarred man wanted to yell a few more words, but soon he felt the axe coming from behind again.
He rolled backwards with all his strength to avoid the butcher's attack, and took out a few white business cards.
【Real Estate Agency】
[I can accurately grasp the various situations of both the buyer and the seller, and collect a small agency fee after the contract is completed. Isn't this what I deserve? 】
"Your soul has been sold to me a long time ago. So what if you tricked me into this copy? If I die, you will die too!" The man's eyes were bloodshot.
He and the woman had been holding out for a long time under the butcher's pursuit. Every time they saw hope of victory, a meteorite would fall from the sky. Don't even think about the fragments in the meteorite. They were lucky that they were not directly crushed to death.
In the surrounding sky, there were countless pairs of eyes staring at them, as if they didn't want them to die, nor did they want them to live.
"These bastards are all watching me, MDMD——"
The crazier he gets, the happier the woman he's strangling is.
"Hahaha, cough cough, hahaha, I told you long ago that you will get your comeuppance—"
"Do you think you can get away with it by killing me? I'm telling you, when I crawl out to do the resurrection mission, I will definitely keep a close eye on you. Unless you can leave this game, even if you die thousands of times, you will always be a dog on my leash!"
The scarred man grabbed the woman's neck and was finally satisfied to see the despair in her eyes.
Soon, he noticed a glowing certificate in the other person's palm. His expression eased, and the woman he controlled was forced to use her ability.
[Psychological counselor, quickly assessing your mental state...]
A piece of white paper quickly floated out.
The scarred man, who worked as a go-between, quickly got an introduction to the abilities of the butcher in front of him.
[Professional butcher, age 30-40, high attack, poor mental state, professional knife master, please do not fight him in close combat]
[Psychological suggestion failed. The other party is in a special situation and cannot be controlled! ]
The scarred man couldn't help but curse. This information was too superficial. He could see it himself, okay? If he couldn't control her psychologically, this woman's ability would be useless to him.
Is he really going to die here? Although he said that he would not let this woman go, the resurrection game was a thing that would make him stay in the dungeon as an NPC forever if he was not careful.
MD, I might as well give it a try!
An axe flew almost close to his ear, instantly cutting off a large amount of hair. The scarred man's heart almost jumped out.
There is one last solution...
He grabbed the hand of the woman next to him and took out his agency contract. The woman was forced to press her fingerprints and spit out blood, and her payment was forcibly taken.
The man the butcher had been attacking managed to escape, and the woman next to Scar was suddenly teleported and forced to appear in his hands, like a bargaining chip that was delivered to his door.
【Agency Contract】
[There is an information gap between the two parties in any transaction. The need for an intermediary means the need for a connection platform. When Party B agrees, the intermediary will be forced to collect the price and complete Party A's needs. At the same time, the intermediary will charge half of the capacity of Party A and Party B as an intermediary fee.]
[We have detected strong demand from Party A, and the agency contract is established! We will start delivering items! ]
The woman who had come to the door on her own initiative had one of her thighs cut off by the butcher in an instant, and the knife that the butcher used to cut off her thigh also disappeared.
I saw a knife the same as the one the butcher used in his hand.
[Collecting agency fees! You have obtained an incomplete butcher knife and an incomplete psychiatrist's hypnotic ability! ]
Success! Before Scar could do anything, he felt a sudden sharp pain in the back of his head.
MD, it’s the players around him who are attacking him.
Using the butcher's hunting principles, a large number of meteorites have gathered in the central area.
The sky around them was filled with players who had nothing to do with the matter, and of course they couldn't just watch the bait on the hook run away.
After being hit on the back of the head by a golf ball, all kinds of strange skill special effects soon flew down from the sky, all aimed at the scarred man who had just picked up the butcher knife.
The woman who had lost one of her thighs continued to laugh nervously while lying in a pool of blood: "Why, it's been a long time since you felt this kind of feeling of being scorned by everyone? When you were doing business with women, why didn't you think of this day?"
"Shut up!"
Scar raised his foot and was ready to kick the woman's head, but suddenly he felt sparks streaking across the sky.
The butcher who lost his knife summoned the meteorite again.
"Purge, unclean...souls."
Scar roared and was soon hit by one of the dense swarm of meteorites.
Meteorites are not aimed in a straight line at the target, after all, they cannot hit the target every time. Instead, they will bombard a circle intensively. This is why most players who control paper beasts will try their best to squeeze into the surrounding areas.
The closer you are, the easier it is to find a bargain.
"Damn, are there so many this time?"
Lin Qun in the outer circle, following Hei Dou and the players behind him who seemed to have known each other for a long time, actually mixed into the middle circle little by little, approaching the inner circle.
Most paper beasts were tall, and they saw the players being besieged in the central area.
Most of the spectators just stood by and watched. Lin Qun even heard that some players recognized the black male player after flesh and blood grew out.
"Is that Scar who has been staying in the Blind Box Mall for many years? That guy seems to be doing soul coin business. He has done so many dirty jobs. How dare he come to the outside of the mall dungeon?"
"It seems that he was tricked by the woman he was traveling with."
"Hiss, this guy actually keeps accomplices. I thought he would stuff all the people he has into the soul vending machine."
Qiao Song also heard similar words in the sky, but it was Cowboy who took the initiative to tell her. Somehow, Cowboy also added: "That woman has been his accomplice for quite a long time, helping to cheat many players in the blind box mall. You should know that the soul vending machine, people who have been sold by that thing, cannot be resurrected."
The cowboy sighed, "I don't know why this woman suddenly went crazy and bit Scar back."
The meteorites in the sky continued to fall, and Scar's wailing almost echoed throughout the entire battlefield.
However, Qiao Song didn't want to watch the scene below.
She blinked slowly, as if she had finally come back to her senses.
The cowboy on the other side also understood: "I was wondering why you were so absent-minded. I thought you were almost overwhelmed with sympathy. What did you do when you controlled the paper beast just now?"
Qiao Song had no intention of hiding anything. As soon as he gathered his main thoughts, he took out his mobile phone and sent a message to the group.
"Several players from the Newcomer Alliance have created a huge maze that is constantly growing and spreading towards this side. It looks like they are planning to send the players from South Village through it directly."
Moreover, it is not just about clearing the level.
The cowboy was shocked: "My eldest girl's strategy didn't mention that the drug addicts from the Newcomer Alliance would come."
He took out the piece of paper in his arms, seemed to read it again, and finally found a line of words in the corner.
[To avoid accidents, please carefully check whether there are special players from other guilds in the instance]
I was careless.
After watching his behavior, Qiao Song was very puzzled: "I've wanted to say this before, do you think your strategy team has put all their skill points into courage? How can you play the game without using your brain? Do you rely on your leader's special strategy?"
The cowboy felt a little embarrassed, but the boy at the back of the flying sword, who was holding a golf club and aiming at Scar, spoke up: "Those in the strategy group who are good at playing games will never go out and play. Most of them are playing in a few fixed dungeons. The president said that we small fry should go out and cause more trouble. Those who can survive will be sent to those dungeons, and those who can't survive..."
He took back his golf club and took out a ping-pong ball.
"It's just for fun. If you die, you're responsible for it."
Qiao Song: ...
The cowboy turned his head away silently: "It's okay. There are actually a lot of smart people in our guild. It's just that the current members still need some training and growth."
Those who are too arrogant and too brainless will die, and those who truly survive are the elites of the strategy group.
This is truly the free-range growth method unique to the infinite flow.
"I didn't expect that the Newcomer Alliance also had so many people hiding here. It could be that they were just recruited not long ago. The old lady in their guild has very strange abilities, and none of the famous players are easy to deal with. Tsk, Nancun, this village has won several times before. I thought our village would have the best chance of winning this time."
Qiao Song remembered that he had met the president of the Newcomer Alliance once, who was an old lady. It was in the parking lot of Hearse Entertainment, and You Yitong was there too.
"Do you really think the other players in this instance are all fools? If they dare to make such a big deal, Miao Tingting must have stayed in the game for more than one round. No, I have to find some helpers. It doesn't matter if I can't win, but I can't let the Gu girl from the Newcomer Alliance get any benefit."
The cowboy took out a business card box and quickly flipped through it. "Found it. There's a rich man here who has plenty of money."
Qiao Song took the opportunity to ask: "Where did these business cards come from?"
"This is a special item called a business card holder. It can determine whether the person who gave you the business card is in the same instance. It is an A-level item produced by the Blind Box Mall."
The cowboy didn't say anything, quickly locked onto a direction and flew straight over.
Scar below had been tortured to the point of being on the verge of death. Listening to the notifications of unlocking the shrine fragments that kept coming to his ears, he was so angry that his eyes almost exploded.
Even if he dies, he won't let these guys go today. Just wait for me -
One of his legs had been smashed, and the knife brought by the agency contract and the psychologist's hypnosis ability could not completely overpower the butcher.
When he only had one eye left, he still stared at the sky.
I remember your faces—
Crash, a new round of meteorites is coming.
But seeing the meteorites about to scatter, one after another, like an airplane turning, all drifting towards the center, the people on the outside also became anxious.
At the outermost edge, there is a group of players with insufficient personal ability and psychological quality, who do not have the ability to fly and cannot guess what is happening in the central area.
"What's going on? Why is this meteorite still flying around like a fly?"
"Stupid, didn't you see the information that Brother Fu just bought? That's because there are special players in the central area. Those guys who are struck by lightning every day are so unlucky that they will actively attract meteorites in today's session."
"Won't he be crushed to death?"
A man sitting at the entrance of the tent and smoking a cigarette blew out a smoke ring, his eyes wandering: "What the hell, the players in the central area seem to treat that guy as a meteorite collector, they will definitely try to save his life so that more meteorites will fly over."
A man hiding in a lollipop-shaped tent poked his head out and looked into the distance, saying in a rather indignant tone: "How can people on the periphery grab the fragments like this?"
Next to him, a head popped out of another lollipop-shaped tent: "I thought it was the butcher who attracted the meteorite, but it turned out to be a special player who attracted it?"
"Let them grab it first. The display case has just been opened and there are more and more red paper beasts. It's just for fun if they grab it now."
Gradually, people began to speak in the surrounding tents.
Although they said this, some of them actually went in and participated.
After all, everyone is just waiting for the opportunity on the periphery because of some common interests. It's not that I will really not get involved just because others say they won't participate.
"What else did Brother Fu buy? What exactly does that butcher do?"
A thin man poked his head out and asked the woman with long wavy hair next door.
The woman didn't even bother to look at him, and shook the cigarette in her hand. "The butcher is hunting players with black bones. I heard that no matter whether the outer layer of skin grows well or not, he can accurately tell whose bones are black."
"Just like chopping wood, chop the bones of this special player into many sections and throw them into the bonfire. The flames can rise several meters high. It's very beautiful."
This concrete scene made the man who had been nagging beside him suddenly silent. The woman tilted her head, looked at him up and down with her upturned peach blossom eyes, and said with a hint of sarcasm: "Why, are you afraid of being found by the butcher? It seems that you have done a lot of bad things in the past."
The thin man crouched down, smiled embarrassedly, and said "how could that be possible" but quickly retreated back into the tent.
In these special teams composed of idle people from each village, almost no one cooperates with the people in the village. Instead, they are summoned by a rich man with money. Either because they are short of money, or they have some unspeakable secrets. They don't want to team up with people from the village, don't want the highest reward for clearing the level, and just want to survive safely until they pass the level copy while strengthening their soul power as much as possible.
The tent where these people are staying now is called a lollipop safety tent for wild camping. It has a base of a telephone pole inserted directly into the deep soil layer, and on the top is a retractable dome-shaped tent. It looks like a lollipop from a distance.
It is also windproof, rainproof and sunproof, as well as having a certain degree of protective shielding capabilities, and is expensive.
There are 2 to 3 people in each tent, only one person is lying in the tent controlling the paper beast to participate in the battle remotely, while the others are on the periphery to observe first.
This kind of outdoor camping tent, called the "3D Safety Lollipop", is expensive, and these people can only afford it with the sponsorship of the team's financial sponsor.
This is the rich brother that several people mentioned just now.
In a lollipop tent that looked exceptionally sturdy and luxurious, the slightly plump Fu Ge was lying on a sofa chair with an eye mask on his face and sweat slightly on his forehead.
"Wow, there are so many people, it's more lively than the past few days."
He was not dressed in a wealthy manner, and could even be said to be rather plain, with a simple dark grey T-shirt, large shorts, and a pair of flip-flops. The only accessory that looked valuable on his body was a bracelet on his hand.
Fu Ge's left and right hands held a black card and a gold card respectively.
[Invisible rich people, who don't show off their wealth, are unlikely to attract attention from others before using large amounts of money, which can reduce the player's presence, and is effective for both NPCs and other players. Once a large amount of wealth is used, it is easy to attract the attention of other people in the dungeon, so please pay attention to your own safety. Your current asset balance is...]
When Brother Fu passes a dungeon, he usually keeps a low profile in the early stages and disguises himself as an ordinary person, so as not to attract the attention of dungeon creatures and certain special players. In the later stages, he can reach cooperation with other players through employment relationships, and he doesn't have to worry about others killing people and robbing goods. The amount of compensation required for violating the employment relationship has nothing to do with the employment salary, but is half of Brother Fu's total assets.
If the agreement is violated, the players cannot afford the compensation, so this is a natural security agreement.
[Unlimited black card, you can buy any daily necessities except item cards at any time, and you can directly access the VIP channel. But please note that you need a special license to buy item cards]
[It is detected that you hold the Goblin Alliance Pass, the mall can be opened]
[Unlimited gold card, natural employment relationship salary card, after teaming up with others, you can reach a cooperation with others to settle soul coins]
On the last day of the copy, Brother Fu used his black card to buy the lollipop item he had long had his eyes on and prepared it for everyone, in order to kill everyone on the last day.
That was a shrine, a rare treasure that couldn't be bought outside. He spent so much energy and time and finally came to this special copy.
After surviving the first 6 days, it’s time to buy at the bottom on the last day.
There were more people in this tent than in the others. At each window, there was a serious and calm bodyguard wearing a black suit and sitting cross-legged by the door. There were only Fu Ge and another girl in the tent.
The girl looked even more relaxed than him, and was fiddling with her manicure with her head down.
The flesh on her body had not yet fully grown, and mottled white bones could be vaguely seen, but her hands were extremely beautiful, with shiny scales dotted with diamonds, and it was obvious that they were very expensive.
"Dad, have you had enough fun? When can you buy those paper beasts in the display case?"
Brother Fu, who was wearing an eye patch, finally took it off.
He was controlling the paper beast he had made himself. The quality was not very good and it had been torn into pieces in the crowd. However, he did not feel bad about it, after all, there were many paper beasts made in Zhazhi Village that he could buy directly.
Other players would feel bad for buying items that cost 100,000 or 200,000 yuan each, but he buys them as easily as sprinkling water.
"Good girl, wait a moment. The chaos has just begun. If we suddenly show up, it will easily attract other people's attention." Fu Chunyou patted his big bald head, apparently having a lot of fun.
The girl blew on her nails and rolled her eyes. "Let me make it clear first. I don't want to stay here until the second round. This dungeon is so boring."
Fu Chunyou sighed, "The dungeon quota for this month has been used up. You can choose which dungeon you want to play next."
"It's a blind box paradise. I want to go shopping and take a break there for a month or two."
As soon as the girl finished speaking, she felt the lollipop tent shake.
Fu Chunyou's kind expression suddenly froze: "What's going on?"
The security guard in a suit and wearing sunglasses at the main entrance of the tent clicked his sunglasses.
The scene outside was in full view. The fight among the paper beasts in the distance was still going on, but at some point, a group of red paper beasts had come to the lollipop tent and were gnawing at the bottom of their long poles.
Fortunately, the quality of this tent is worth the price. Its height far exceeds those paper beasts whose height has reached 10 stories high. Under multiple sieges, only the top of the building shook.
Fu Chunyou was not panicked at all: "Everyone I recruited in the team has been tested in advance. There are no players with black bones, and no meteorites have flown over. This means that it is not affected by the black bone players. These things must have come here because of some additional factors..."
He took out his black card and was thinking about when to enter when he heard a younger brother calling him.
"Brother Fu, when are we going to charge? The meteorites in the center are getting more and more severe, and we haven't even had a sip of soup in the periphery..."
The man who looked like a younger brother was quickly retorted by Fu Chunyou.
"Why are you in such a hurry? I have been waiting for so long to spend money. It's rare to come across a copy that can be easily cleared by spending money. I have already taken a look at the counters around me. I need to wait for the right time to invest and enter the market."
He waved his hand, and banknotes kept coming out of the gold card and black card in his hand, and instantly they were lined up like playing cards.
【Money Power】
[Money is not everything. It's because you don't have a mine at home and you haven't experienced the joy of soul coins making the devil work! ]
[Investment opportunity detection...]
Soon, the bracelet on his wrist lit up, and it seemed that someone was approaching.
That was a defensive item that he had bought at a high price. The bracelet would only react if a high-level player or someone who could threaten the holder approached.
But Fu Chunyou smiled and said, "Investment opportunities have come to me."
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