Chapter 133 Paper Town
A shadow in the shape of a giant bird quickly slid across the layered maze floor. Above the shadow, bursts of screams could be heard.
"Aa ...
"It's so noisy, can you stop being so useless?"
"But Brother Jiang, your hands are shaking too."
"……Shut up."
Jiang Yi and Xiao Wang were placed on the back of the pterosaur by Qiao Song, and were also given a saddle specifically for riding a dragon for the first time.
But every time the tail behind Little Feather straightened, the pterosaur would speed up, and then two screams of fear, one high and one low, could be heard coming from the dragon's back.
Although they were afraid, the two of them were really excited.
They wouldn't do that even if they were stepping on the back of a big bird.
But this is a pterosaur! A flying dinosaur!
Qiao Song was holding the flushing pipe derived from Jiang Yi's skill.
She had experienced the power of the water pipe in the fish-killing and cleaning package when they were working together to hunt paper beasts outside the village. The best effect was to insert the water pipe directly into the water source.
Just like before, just connect a water pipe to the lake and use a water pump to pump water.
Jiang Yi didn't mind being able to help, but he still gave a reminder first.
"But if you use the water pipe, the water you have here will be consumed quickly."
He followed Qiao Song for a short distance and found that this big guy seemed to be aiming at the blazing bonfires in the maze.
In this round of the game, the prerequisite for victory is to see who has the most lit bonfires at the end of the game.
The approach Qiao Song is taking right now is very simple. As long as other people’s bonfires are small enough, I will have the largest.
But Jiang Yi didn't see the boss take the initiative to light the bonfire, and thought she had other teammates, one doing addition and the other doing subtraction.
As for Qiao Song, she used to pour water directly from the toolbox. Each unit of the net bag in her toolbox could only hold objects of a certain volume, so every time she threw in the water, it happened to be a big ball, and it was difficult to control the size, so she had to run away after using it up.
Fortunately, she realized the role of lake water eight hundred years ago and saved countless water balls.
The water pipe that Jiang Yi took out could help her control the water volume very well.
If the water balls that Qiao Song took out at one time were counted as 5 units, they could be sprayed out in about 5 seconds based on the flow rate of the water pipe.
"So, should we build a reservoir or something?"
Jiang Yi was still stroking his chin and thinking of a solution when Qiao Song had already taken out a strange wooden box from the toolbox.
"What is this? It looks familiar."
Jiang Yi had never seen a shrine, but he had more or less come into contact with things like shrine fragments in the past few days, and he felt familiar with things with the same aura.
Looking at this wooden box, I always have a very strange illusion, as if there is a whirlpool hidden in the box, spinning around, and it seems that if you look at it for a long time, it can suck your soul in.
"Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang!" Xiao Wang timidly patted his elder brother who seemed to have lost his soul. Fearing that he was afraid of heights or his hands were shaking, he raised his voice and yelled again, and the latter finally reacted.
Qiao Song had already thrown the water pipe and the pump head directly into the box.
This box was like Doraemon’s treasure chest, with no end in sight. The pump head and the water pipe were thrown in for a long time, and Qiao Song even had to use his hands to dig it out.
"I haven't found a suitable container yet. Let me try this method first. Jiang Yi, try pumping water to see if it works."
Jiang Yi felt as if an electric shock ran through his body. He shook his hands and then said "oh". He tried not to look at the box and used his ability.
Qiao Song remembered that Fan Xi and his sister had told her that a copy of the shrine could only be used once. After entering the maze just now, she tried to push open the shrine door, reached inside, and found the corresponding shrine exit according to the prompt sound, which led directly to the bottom of the lake in their Cyber Village.
This shrine of hers was indeed newly acquired, so there was no way to teleport people directly through it like the previous doors. She tried the width and it was only enough to accommodate a one-and-a-half-meter water pipe.
The derivative of Jiang Yi's skill is more like a large-scale equipment specially used for fire fighting in corridors than a water pipe used to flush the floor after killing fish. After hearing the water pump working, Qiao Song felt satisfied with the vibration when the lake water was pumped up.
"Xiao Wang, be alert all around, both of you hold on tight."
Qiao Song picked up the thick water pipe with his left hand and patted Xiao Yumao's neck as if he was rushing to put out a fire.
The pterosaur immediately turned around and tore through the wall of the maze next door, starting a sneak attack with a completely upgraded weapon.
Just like the Dragon King sending rain, fire hoses rained down unreasonably from the sky, extinguishing the bonfire treasures of countless players.
Of course, it wasn’t that wicked. At least Qiao Song didn’t steal their shrine fragments, he just put out the fire.
"Fuck!? Why did our bonfire go out?!"
"Boss, boss, there are dragons flying in the sky, and they are spitting water!"
"Fuck, what the hell is this?"
Those who have not experienced the Water-Splashing Festival will never understand what it feels like to be hit by a water column with a diameter of nearly one meter.
With her blessings, Qiao Song quickly moved through the maze. By the time those people realized that her target was the base of the campfire, it was already too late.
"It's over..."
"What are you still standing there for? Go find a new base! These ones are no longer usable!"
The smart people who reacted quickly have already started looking for old bases that have not been lit yet. There are a large number of campfire bases scattered all over the map. Before the maze appears, they can use nearby materials and quickly find their goals on the vast grassland.
It is not easy to contact a meteorite falling from the sky, but it is not difficult to find a base made of a few grass balls.
But now this is a maze. The vines, some deep and some shallow, divide this endless grassland into countless squares. Even if you climb to the top of the wall or fly into the air, you can still see various penetrating walls and semi-enclosed pipes.
This is a real three-dimensional maze. Not only do they have to guard against sneak attacks by paper beasts, but now all the equipment connecting to the meteorite is gone!
Yes, meteorite!
In order to ensure that meteorites continue to fall in the maze, the maze does not directly form a dome.
The dome is not completely closed, but like a semi-transparent net, through which you can vaguely see light shining, which is the gap through which the meteorite penetrated.
On the wall, the only one who still has the freedom to light a fire is the owner of the maze. Rose's expression is a little ugly at this time. She has a piece of flower rope in her hands, and her left and right hands are intertwined, staring at an uneasy black line in the vines of the flower rope.
She wanted to reach out and catch the line, but she couldn't.
The other party slid left and right, drilling many holes in the walls of her maze. Although they could be repaired quickly, they were like flies and were very annoying.
Until a hand gently patted her head.
"Rose, calm down. It's you who is controlling it now. Don't be affected by the thorn maze."
"It will be ready soon." Yao Su's voice calmed Qiangwei down a lot. The accountant holding the account book wrote down the last expenditure.
As a stamped ticket was attached to the notebook, the entire maze suddenly trembled slightly.
The rose had previously grown tiny, fuzzy arms, and finally transformed completely into a plant texture.
Yao Su held her shoulders from behind and saw that Qiangwei had almost turned into a green plant in the shape of a human. Then tiny insects suddenly jumped out of the girl's hair.
The insects sucked the sap from the plants, indirectly interrupting the transformation process of the roses and maintaining the final state of the thorn maze.
"Okay, there's only one hour left. Don't be afraid. Tingting and I will be with you."
The insects monitor the situation of the rose at all times. Once they find something wrong, they will crawl out from under the leaves in dense groups to absorb the extra energy brought by the maze to prevent the rose from really turning from a human being into the nutrients of a copy.
This is the deepest secret of the Newcomer Alliance, making deals with any species, with humans and ghosts, and even with the copies themselves.
Yao Su held up his eyes.
The preliminary work has been completed, the entire maze has been formed, and the players inside will never be able to escape.
In the outermost layer of the Rose Maze, the sparse grassland of the entire Skyfire Square has completely disappeared, completely occupied by a strange building covered with vegetation.
Those white and red paper beasts, as well as the humans running around, were all trapped in the maze.
The color of the outermost wall is no longer green, but closer to dark green, and there is a faint layer of grayish-white gas floating on the surface.
At least, ordinary humans cannot break through this barrier. Even if they break the outer wall, the path from the wall to the elevator will be covered with grayish-white mist.
This is the fog in the original copy of South Village, which is very close to the one on the Infinite Highway.
Human players cannot walk inside unless they drive, but players' cars are parked outside the dungeon.
But it is not absolute. There is a kind of people who can still break the iron wall-like shell outside.
But players who can escape will never enter this copy.
Everything is ready, only the last step is left.
Yao Su put away his notebook, folder all the documents, and stood silently behind Qiangwei, protecting her and Miao Tingting.
The maze will do the rest of the work.
Tang Xiaoxiao sneezed.
She sprayed the mosquito repellent in her hand and put away the empty bottle. Jin Jiaqi now completely regarded her as her confidante, so she had to hold the plastic crystal hairpin all the time, for fear that if she dropped it, Tang Xiaoxiao's favorability value would be reduced to zero.
"Xiao Xiao, aren't you too tired? How about I spend money to buy a new paper beast first, and then we can switch?"
Tang Xiaoxiao is the one who is responsible for the fighting. Jin Jiaqi doesn't really want to let her rest, but she wants to play the victim in order to retreat. She knows that this high school student will be soft-hearted.
"It's okay, Sister Jiaqi. I've already used the snacks to restore your energy and the insect repellent spray. Leave the exploration to me."
Reliable high school students always seem to be full of energy. Jin Jiaqi saw her quickly fold the paper beast that had lost its support, then put it into her backpack, and started exploring the way with a book in her hand.
Because the map was divided again by the maze, the glass display cases that were visible at any time before have almost disappeared. They don't have much paper beast stock of their own. If they are attacked by a red paper beast, it would be difficult to defeat such a tall monster relying solely on player skills.
Many players chose to temporarily take off the paper beast's outer coat until they came across a glass counter, just like they had come across a supply station.
"Sister Jiaqi! I found the glass display case!"
Tang Xiaoxiao's surprised voice was heard, and Jin Jiaqi, who was wearing a bunch of fancy defensive props tied to her body, ran over in two steps with a look of relief on her face.
Although the items sold in this crappy copy are expensive, their quality is much better than the paper beasts made by the players themselves.
When she saw the price, she couldn't help but curse the unscrupulous merchant a few times, but she still had to buy it.
Compared to before, she is becoming more and more straightforward when paying.
Tang Xiaoxiao was a little embarrassed: "Sorry, Sister Jiaqi, I don't have much soul coins in my savings."
Jin Jiaqi waved her hands and said it was nothing, but what she was thinking was, at least she got a brainless and obedient thug, there must be gains and losses.
"Tsk, how can you afford this price?"
She counted the zeros again and quickly bought everything on the counter to avoid encountering other players and having to fight over the items.
People have to grab the bonfire base, the meteorites in the sky, and now even the paper beasts that are sold at such an expensive price have to be grabbed. They have to buy them because there are too many unknown factors now.
Miao Tingting, that idiot who raises insects, this maze must have been created by them.
"I was wondering why they didn't like to do quests when they were in the dungeon, and they just hung around a few NPCs in the village every day. I didn't expect they had this purpose."
Jin Jiaqi muttered softly and soon met Tang Xiaoxiao's eyes.
The little girl raised a finger and made a hollow gesture: "Sister Jiaqi, there is a sound of fighting ahead."
The walls of this broken maze would move at regular intervals, and the surrounding scenes would change at any time. The dark green walls were like alive. Not only did they have high defense, they could also self-repair. This was one of the reasons why Jin Jiaqi bought something immediately after seeing the glass display case. If she missed it, it would be gone forever.
Another reason is that there are too many enemies. In addition to guarding against attacks from the red paper beasts, you also have to be careful around corners to avoid running into other players.
After hearing what Tang Xiaoxiao said, Jin Jiaqi decisively pulled out a hot air balloon, pulled Tang Xiaoxiao inside, and planned to float to the wall and secretly watch for a while.
She was quite experienced in spying, and after hiding her tracks, she soon discovered that there was a group of players fighting below. They seemed to be divided into 2 or 3 camps. The strange thing was that in the middle there was a large pile of red paper beasts that had been killed, piled up with their stomachs ripped open.
A group of people stood next to the red paper beast, holding weapons and shouting, "If you don't let us live well, I won't let you live well either! What the hell did you do? You put out our bonfire. What on earth are you trying to do?!"
The people on the other side didn't seem to want to persuade him, and wanted to appear to be slacking off.
"Everyone has left after the dungeon is over. Why are you in such a hurry? We can't win in the end anyway. Look at the maze. Does it look like something an ordinary player could create?"
"That won't work!!!"
The player standing next to the red paper beast seemed to have reached his limit mentally.
"Do you know how much money, effort, and time I spent to get to this instance?! These are fragments of the shrine. Even if we can't get the complete shrine, as long as we receive enough fragments, we will have more chances to find the door back home."
Someone in the crowd opposite tutted.
"Where did this new guy come from? He's still so naive. Do you know how many years it has been since anyone went back there?"
The speaker's voice was not loud, but the player in front of the red paper beast still heard it and immediately became angry: "What do you mean, didn't you say that there was a door hidden in the 12-committee copy? Those specific copies have very high requirements for soul power. Why do you think I came to this town?"
"Okay, stop talking."
The players who had been watching the show on the sidelines stood up.
The man was standing on a gourd and had a dreadlock on his head. There was a strange mattress floating behind him, with a girl yawning on it while holding a pillow.
Lin Qun clicked his tongue and said, "Let's not talk about what this instance is used for. Don't you have any ideas about this maze outside? There are already players among us who can create such a big scene, and you are still thinking about making a little profit, grabbing the shrine fragments, and clearing the instance?"
He sat on the giant gourd and crossed his legs. "If you really don't want to live, just keep quarreling. When our internal losses are almost gone, the maze will swallow us all. It's not certain whether we can pass this copy by then. I don't think this maze looks like a product of the paper-making town at all."
Not long after he finished speaking, a little fire was heard above his head, as if a meteorite was falling. However, before the player could react, the fire was instantly absorbed by the layers of vines.
Lin Qun struck while the iron was hot: "Look, they are just robbing a ghost fragment. They can't even touch the shadow. The maze wall was directly taken away. According to the game settings of the dungeon a few days ago, it is impossible for the town to do such a thing."
The practice game of manipulating paper beasts on the grassland a few days ago made players understand that the copy was giving them a chance to adapt to the mode of manipulating paper beasts to fight in advance.
In this sense, the maze is indeed very strange, but if we say that it was created by players, it is not credible.
"How could a player do such a thing?" The player standing in front of the corpse of the red paper beast, holding a few prop cards, asked the man on the gourd in a stern voice, "If the other party can suppress the entire instance and make their own traps, then what's the point of us robbing things now? We might as well surrender early."
"The problem is that even if you surrender, you may not be able to get out."
Lin Qun shook his head, calmly grasped one of his legs, sat lazily on the gourd, and pointed at the vines in the sky: "Does it look familiar? This is the iconic plant of South Village. While you were short-sighted and thinking about grabbing the shrine fragments, it had already cooperated with the NPCs of South Village to prepare to invade the paper-breaking town."
"But that's not accurate." He scratched his head, as if he hadn't felt a head with skin growing on it for a long time.
"Do you remember the settings of this dungeon? After entering the dungeon, everyone is in the state of skeletons. As the soul power gradually recovers and grows stronger, everyone's flesh and blood will grow. Doesn't it sound strange to you? Rather than saying that this dungeon is used to test players, it is better to let everyone heal their wounds."
When Lin Qun said this, he seemed to be thirsty and wanted to drink some water, so he took the opportunity to glance at the cheat sheet in his hand.
Others couldn't see clearly, but Tang Xiaoxiao in the sky knew what he was doing, so she quietly pulled the corner of Jin Jiaqi's clothes and said, "Sister Jiaqi, there are bugs crawling up from the balloon."
Jin Jiaqi was so scared that she shrank into the corner of the hot air balloon and quickly pressed a button.
A large amount of pungent insecticide spray, mixed with the scent of floral water, spread directly.
Tang Xiaoxiao didn't lie, and the dead body of the insect soon appeared.
As the maze becomes more and more active, there are more bugs inside.
During this interruption, Lin Qun had already finished reading the notes given by the boss and continued to give a speech while standing on the gourd.
"So, the most important thing for us to do now is not to fight each other, but to unite and conquer the maze first. Otherwise, even if we clear the level, what if we are teleported to the dungeon where Nancun is?"
The people around immediately started discussing it in whispers.
"Is there any other way to teleport?"
"I seem to have heard that some copies were not driven there, but were either taken away by invitation or directly transferred by special means."
The Zhazhi Town is an extremely special dungeon, with four villages and four dungeon elements. Anyone who can come to the Twelve Committees dungeon to play games is at least not a fool who can't even figure out the dungeon background.
After several rounds of encouragement, the people around them changed from targeting each other in the beginning to a mentality of sharing weal and woe.
What is worrying is not the lack of goods but the inequality. Originally, everyone should just compete for the fragments and get some minced meat, but who knew that such a group of people would come and directly create a maze and kick over everyone's rice bowl.
When the three groups met just now, they encountered several red paper beasts. If one of the groups had not brought a large number of white paper beasts purchased from the display cabinets to fight against them, they would have been eliminated directly.
But the question is, if you are eliminated in this maze, will you really be teleported directly out of the paper-making town?
"I remember now. This flower is very similar to the one in South Village. I heard from a friend that there is a dungeon in the Twelve Committees called 'Flower of Gu'! The villagers in that dungeon all have similar patterns on their bodies. It is said that there is also a mountain road outside the village that is like a maze. There is no way to escape. It is full of high fences and various Gu insects!"
Now, the minority who wanted to survive were also undecided.
When they meet the big guys, they can swallow their anger, because the worst that can happen is that they will get less benefits. The big guys will fight for the shrines, and they just need to take some fragments.
But now, let alone the benefits, even the basic clearance benefits are gone, and you may be trapped in other copies at any time.
It’s no secret that the Paper Town can be connected to other copies, but it may require certain special conditions to be met.
These people did not know the secret of the shrine's teleportation. The words and information Qiao Song sent to Lin Qun were intended to encourage all the players to unite and stop fighting among themselves, and instead target the owner of the maze.
Stimulated by the benefits of the shrine fragments, plus the paper beasts placed in the display case, and the red paper beasts that are ready to attack the players at any time, it is difficult for players to calm down with so many ways to ignite the fight.
The maze can reduce most of the players' combat effectiveness without even actively attacking.
This was indeed the original plan, but Qiao Song did too many things.
The fire hoses that fell from the sky not only extinguished most of the players' campfires, but also sobered them up.
Those who didn't know the truth thought that this was someone sent by the maze to provoke them.
After all, even though they have the same flying ability, they can't fly through walls.
Little Feather with a hard beak and an even harder body:?
Qiao Song, with his humanoid detector and humanoid water pipe machine, quickly explored nearly half of the maze area.
There is one thing that those who created the maze may not have understood. This dungeon is indeed divided into 4 villages, each village is divided into different small groups, and there are lone wolf players, but unfortunately, most of the player groups have her people.
"Let me do some process of elimination. Where did you hide your campfire base?"
The girl on the pterosaur's back smiled kindly.
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