Chapter 135 Paper Town
The last round of meteorites came with great force and earlier than Yao Su and others expected.
Lin Qiangwei immediately drew out the power of the maze to intercept all the meteorite fragments.
The rule of Tianhuo Grassland is that all meteorites can only be caught by the base of a campfire, otherwise they will disappear the moment they hit the ground.
Only when the base of the meteorite is caught will it be ignited.
In an instant, the entire maze began to wriggle as if it were alive. Every wall inside was wriggling, sensing the status of the surrounding players and creating more passages to conceal the situation in the sky.
Qiao Song had been wondering before, although this maze looked three-dimensional, and there were countless pipes in the sky, winding and winding, but whether it was on the ground or in the sky, as long as he walked through it a few more times, he would find that all the players were on the ground, not in the air.
Those pipes are not for people to walk on, but for transporting certain things.
Just as she expected, something was sent into the air from the vibrating green pipe.
The fireworks that landed with long tails were accurately caught by the bonfire bases that emerged from the maze pipes.
Then, the vines seemed to be unafraid of the flames and cut out the fragments from the campfire accurately.
The glittering fragments, like pieces of glass, fell into the vines that were like blood vessels.
Qiao Song followed on Little Feather. The chef, who was forced to reveal his true form, had no choice but to follow on an orange-red dragon carved out of a carrot.
Jiang Yi and Xiao Wang kept the water pipe facing that direction, alert to any abnormalities.
Needless to say, Xiao Wang's inspiration skill reminded him that this player was very dangerous, not to mention that the other party was holding two guys who were no longer in human form.
Jiang Yi keenly noticed the knife in the other person's hand. This person's profession seemed to be related to cooking. Every time he used a skill, a white chef's hat would appear on his head. He also used the knife very well.
Jiang Yi was a little unsure for a moment, wondering if this was a murderer or something else. Qiao Song led the way in front, and the two of them followed behind him on guard.
Mu An felt a little tired as he was stared at by the two people opposite him. Now that the last meteorite had fallen, the two hostages he had snatched in the chaos seemed to be almost useless.
Since Ginger's disguise has been forced to fail, let's find a place to throw him into the maze later. The butcher trapped in the maze should be coming here too.
Before that, I can still make use of these two guys in my hands to their final use.
Mu An lifted the man with a scar on his face with one hand and pressed the extremely sharp carving knife directly against the artery on his neck.
"I ask, you answer."
The man, whose face was so swollen that his features could not be seen clearly, seemed to want to sneer, but the pain in his neck reminded him that the man opposite him could not only kill chickens and ducks, but also kill people.
His lips moved, but in the end he said nothing.
Mu An exerted a little force on his hand: "In your last few transactions in the blind box mall, you used your intermediary ability to exchange the things from the mall. Who did you give them to in the end?"
This short sentence made the eyes of the person who was about to die open slightly.
Mu An thrust the carving knife into his flesh with great force, extremely slowly and torturously, stabbing the artery.
"I have handled many dishes before, and I know how to drain the blood from the prey bit by bit. If you tell me now, I will throw you into the maze below and will not care whether you live or die. You can either fend for yourself or escape. It's up to you. If you don't tell me, I will quickly turn you into a dried corpse without any blood."
He quickly added, "Of course, don't even think about that kind of illusory resurrection mission. I have a lot of things in my fresh food freezer that can hold a lot of things."
Fortunately, Xiao Wang and the others were far away, otherwise, based on these few words, the college student would have been so scared that he would have called the police on the spot.
The man under his command, who was ostensibly an intermediary but was actually involved in the buying and selling of players, began to tremble.
Soon, he uttered a name.
"color……"
Mu An moved closer and just heard the beginning when he suddenly frowned. The man he was holding in his hand turned visibly pale, like a wrinkled piece of paper that was about to dry out.
The dying woman next to her suddenly laughed.
"Hahaha, retribution. This is the retribution for making a deal with those ghost things."
She knew what the consequences would be if she said something, but after seeing the man die, she felt relieved and turned to the cook who didn't ask her what she knew: "He made a deal with the pawn shop owner in Blind Box Heaven. I only know that the other party is a ghost with an alien head, not an animal."
With every word she spoke, her face turned paler. Although her reaction was not as violent as the man's, it gradually dried up like a piece of paper.
"Give me...to the butcher...to atone his sins."
The woman, whose eyes had completely lost their luster, uttered the last words.
She withered completely. Although she no longer looked like paper, her entire body had turned into something stranger than a mummy.
Mu An frowned, and finally searched the two men's bodies, and kept his promise by throwing them down from the air.
Soon, the butcher who was isolated in the maze would complete his final mission.
Seeing him throw the person down from the air, Jiang Yi and Xiao Wang's expressions became more serious.
It seemed as if he had already regarded the guy in chef's uniform behind him as a demon who would kill without blinking an eye.
Qiao Song was always listening to the noise behind Xiao Wang's trembling broadcast. After he heard him say that the chef yelled at the two guys before throwing them down, he realized that the chef seemed to be deliberately torturing the two men.
Is this intelligence?
Soon she had to put the matter aside as they were getting closer to their goal.
The entwined vines intertwined into a huge, heart-like object, and the center was firmly protected, an airtight place with blood vessels throbbing, secretly grabbing the fragments and sending them all here.
Dense swarms of poisonous insects quietly crawled out from under the leaves, their red eyes lit up one by one, and they were forced to activate their defense system.
At the same time, Lin Qiangwei also noticed something was wrong.
When Yao Su realized that the resources of the shrine here were quickly filled up, he decisively pressed down Qiangwei's shoulder.
"Don't worry about the others, combine the fragments immediately and prepare to leave the game."
With the ability of a player, operating such a large maze would be a huge burden. Even if the guild's special props were used, as the operator, Rose herself would be at great risk.
On Miao Tingting's side, the large cocoon wrapped in it began to flicker, and it seemed that she was almost completing her work.
Lin Qiangwei's thoughts lingered for a few seconds, and she quickly executed the command.
Before her eyes were countless images, countless scenes, the entire maze, her eyes were everywhere, she could see, but she couldn't think because her brain was already filled with too much information.
She mechanically dropped all the debris into the bonfire base in the central area and began teleporting other hidden bonfires scattered throughout the maze.
Thanks to Qiao Song, many players' campfires were extinguished. As long as they were gathered together, they would win if the number of others was zero.
But for them, the most important thing about this game is not lighting the bonfire.
Their union would not spend so much energy for the reward of a temporary shrine.
What Miao Tingting wants to manage in this copy now is not the game itself, but the copy game behind the game.
She helped the NPCs of "Flower of Gu" get what they wanted, and they had to help her. From now on, their new allies would need to be able to stay in that copy permanently.
The cocoon began to wriggle, and soon several figures appeared inside. The girls who had been wrapped in it before had disappeared, and a faint smell of some special burning sandalwood lingered in the air.
The moment Miao Tingting broke out of the cocoon, there were intricate purple patterns in her eyes.
Returning to the maze, she felt the movement of the poisonous insects in the maze.
It had been in hosting mode before, following the movements in the maze, but now, I see that more than half of the poisonous insects have been killed.
Miao Tingting raised her eyebrows. Yao Su had already quickly reported the situation of the maze.
"Most players seem to have special items that can control poisonous insects. Currently, the one with the greatest killing power is Jin Jiaqi. She has destroyed more than a dozen of our shrine bases."
Miao Tingting opened her arms, and countless black bugs crawled out from her sleeves and ankles, replenishing the energy consumed in the maze.
"How about the bonfire total?"
Yao Su paused for a moment and said, "Most of them are out. However, the bonfire was not put out by Jin Jiaqi. There was a player riding a pterosaur in the sky putting out the fire."
Miao Tingting quickly guessed who it was.
"She's still here. Once this instance is completed, she will probably be dragged there..."
She quickly waved her hand and put the cocoon she had transformed into into her sleeve, as if the nest of the poisonous insect would be useful later.
"Let Qiangwei start to recycle the power of the maze. If she keeps using it, her brain will be damaged."
Yao Su, who had been paying attention to Qiangwei's condition, was stunned for a moment, and quickly went to check Qiangwei's vital signs. He found that the girl's reactions were indeed getting slower and slower. Although she answered questions, she looked a lot more confused.
Yao Su started making phone calls, asking Lao V and the others to evacuate as well.
Miao Tingting soon noticed the blazing bonfire in the maze. A special pattern emerged from the flames, which was the copy totem of the South Village where they were.
"Oh, it seems that a lot of my little bugs were burned to death."
Her figure gradually faded and soon collapsed into a mass of black insects, disappearing on the wall.
Players who were fighting against bugs keenly noticed that these little bugs were different from before.
Previously, the insect swarms were rather dull and could be easily killed by luring them away and then using targeted pesticides. But now, these insects seem to be a lot smarter and most of the old traps are no longer effective.
"Shit, what are you guys still killing bugs for? A lot of red monsters suddenly appeared behind us!"
There was a cry of surprise from the crowd, followed soon by a second and a third.
The players who had just worked together and thought they had defeated the main force of the maze soon realized that there was another big threat in this dungeon.
The red monsters that previously had to be killed one by one together, now poured out in large numbers from the other end of the maze, just like a team building activity.
That’s right, there are so many monsters, whose size is almost enough to reach the wall of the maze, running wildly towards the players.
These players who were fighting monsters in the maze were scared out of their wits.
“Damn it, where is the monster origami in my backpack? Find it for me!”
"Why do you need to make it yourself? Go buy something from the counter! I remember there are a lot of transparent counters in this area."
If the transaction report of Zhazhi Town changes in real time, then the number of orders completed in this moment alone would be the highest in the entire copy.
Even if one person can't afford it, two or three people have to work together to buy a paper beast for defense.
In an instant, a large number of glass display cases in the maze were sold out, and were replaced by various white and red monsters, which fought in the crowded maze passage.
Fortunately, the red monsters killed in the last game will be directly recovered by the copy, and can be exchanged for soul coins to restore health when passing the level in the system background. Otherwise, most players would not have the courage to make such a large purchase in one go.
Just when they were fighting fiercely, they were shocked to find a large number of poisonous insects emerging like fountains.
Those bugs sometimes transformed into human form and sometimes into monster form. It was more like they were looking for something than harassing people.
[Incarnation of Gu Insect]
【The worm is me, and I am the worm. 】
Miao Tingting thought it would not be difficult to find targets while in the insect state, but somehow, every player she met had some insect-killing props in their hands.
Although it could not pose a fatal threat to her overall, it greatly weakened the insect's observation ability.
No wonder Rose's condition is worse than expected. It seems that the players are not as chaotic as expected, but are acting in an organized manner.
Tsk, that crazy bitch Jin Jiaqi, did she make transactions with so many players at the same time?
Not really. That guy would rather keep some of the props to himself than sell them to others. All he is willing to sell are junk metal.
Even with her senses weakened, Miao Tingting finally found her target.
In a corner of a certain wall, next to two human-shaped bodies that were thrown to the ground and almost in tatters, there were all kinds of scattered debris.
To be precise, it's a piece of skin.
The butcher's shed skin.
"Tsk, I didn't make it."
A butcher who successfully completes a hunting mission will instantly restore his original professional appearance and should have been teleported out of the dungeon by now.
She had previously taken advantage of the time she had spent cooperating with the dungeon NPC to use her own abilities to teleport to the mother dungeon in South Village and take a look, and she dug out some information from the NPC.
I originally wanted to capture a few more players who had completed the resurrection mission, but I didn't expect to miss it.
"Looking at the traces of the fall, was it dropped by someone?"
Miao Tingting looked up for a while, and her body turned into black poisonous insects scattered on the ground again.
She was not in a hurry to recover the bonfire, but first observed the situation in the maze. After all, it was not easy for Rose to be perfect in her current state. After confirming that all preparations were in place, she teleported to the center of the hidden maze, near the huge heart.
It was really lively around the huge bonfire.
They were not unaware of what Qiao Song had done before, but now 99% of the campfires were extinguished, the meteorites were over, and the players did not have many fragments in their hands. They were basically trying to save their lives, thinking about passing the dungeon instead of winning and becoming the first.
As they hid the bonfire and were able to control the entire maze, it was a foregone conclusion that they would win the game.
Until, she saw the almost continuous stream of water gushing down from the pterosaur's back through the body of the poisonous insects.
Oh, that could even be called a waterfall.
Miao Tingting was even speechless and remained silent for quite a while.
She guessed that Qiao Song might be smarter and used space props to fill up a portion of the lake water in advance to control the bonfire, but no matter how good the space props were, they were limited. She couldn't possibly fill up the entire lake, right?
She didn't really move the lake, but she put a water pipe in it.
A steady stream of water fell from the sky until Miao Tingting broke out of the cocoon and rushed over. Until now, the bonfire had not been extinguished. There was only one reason for this - the base of the bonfire was too big.
Qiao Song didn't expect that this base was so unusual. It seemed to be formed by combining the grass stems from the original Tianhuo grassland with the vegetation of the entire maze to form a new base.
They had been washing such a huge creation in the air for several minutes. Jiang Yi even felt powerless as if he was trying to put out a fire in a three-story building. Fortunately, the water supply was strong and they were about to achieve their goal.
Xiao Wang was very wary of the chef in the distance, fearing that he would steal his food.
Qiao Song still had one hand in his pocket, holding a thin check, looking at the blazing bonfire below and the Nancun totem floating above, wondering what he was thinking.
stirrup--
As soon as the metal scraping sound was heard, she turned to look at the chef. This guy must have reached some kind of tacit understanding with her. His attack at this time should mean...
"It's the last day of the game, why are you still wrapping yourself up so tightly?"
The silver ornaments on his body made brilliant tinkling sounds. Miao Tingting suddenly appeared, staring at this strange guy in chef's uniform with her purple eyes without blinking.
Mu An pulled out the iron yam stick from his waist, and that thing quickly turned into a pitch-black iron sword.
"Sister Song Qiao! There's a fight going on over there."
Xiao Wang was eager to watch the fun and quickly scanned the surroundings, and soon found what Qiao Song wanted.
"Over there!"
Jiang Yi knew that Xiao Wang was good at finding things, so he rushed over there with a water pipe.
And Qiao Song made a move that neither of them could react to.
She jumped off Little Feather's back, and instead of taking the opportunity to keep all the benefits for herself, she took the initiative to help the cook.
With a loud bang, after landing, a strangely shaped multi-armed man-made monster appeared on the ground.
Qiao Song stood on top of the monster and quickly asked herself to control a big guy to go over there to help. She herself, carrying a strange wooden box, rushed to the base of the campfire where the last fire was about to be extinguished.
Those sparkling fragments at the bottom are like pebbles revealed after the riverbed has dried up. Not only do they look beautiful and full in appearance, but the large number of them also makes people feel happy.
Miao Tingting realized that something was wrong and wanted to get away from the cook, but as soon as a large number of black insects emerged from the leaves, they were disturbed by the fire snakes from the air.
The large amount of chemicals mixed with unpleasant odors made Miao Tingting, who was controlling the insects, feel obviously uncomfortable.
Before leaving, Qiao Song took away the shrine and the water pipe, and only gave the two people on Xiao Yumao's back a bunch of special insecticide props.
Xiao Wang almost burst out with all his strength and rushed forward with his brother Jiang, determined to buy time for Sister Song.
The other guy, who was dressed like a swordsman and had a chef's hat on his head, was also using his skills to interfere with her from time to time. The pungent smell of chili and his sharp knife skills made Miao Tingting realize that she seemed to have underestimated these guys.
"When did you actually start working together?"
This was something she had not anticipated at all, and it was also something she had not anticipated when she created the maze in the first place.
It would have been fine if they just cooperated at the beginning, but when it came to the final fight for the fragments, these people actually gave up the fight and instead came after her.
A large amount of flames, mixed with a mist with the strong smell of chili peppers, peppercorns and other spices, made her, whose body was made of insects, feel as if she was being restricted and suffocated.
The man in the chef's hat was disguised layer by layer like an onion. She couldn't be sure who he was for the time being, but Jin Jiaqi, who provided these insecticide props, really offended her this time.
Miao Tingting was struggling against many opponents and saw Qiao Song picking up the fragments. She couldn't help but sneer, "Foolish! Do you really think that we built the entire maze and all we got in the end was a base like this?"
If you want to intercept them, no way.
Miao Tingting took out a wooden whistle from her body and blew it quickly.
Invisible sound waves conveyed the final instructions.
The walls of the maze fence that were still wriggling around suddenly shook, and then the ground began to tremble violently, like a precursor to an earthquake. The entire maze collapsed and all the walls began to rotate in a certain fixed pattern.
The people who were besieging Miao Tingting had no choice but to stop and avoid the broken part of the ground.
"I don't know how you moved that water pipe here, but unless you move the whole lake here."
Miao Tingting transformed into a bug again. She stepped on the fence wall that was rising higher and higher, and saw the maze under her feet, which finally began to gradually change its shape.
"This entire maze is a backup base that we prepared in advance."
The flame that Qiao Song was almost able to put out seemed to have successfully fallen into the gasoline barrel before it went out. With the air completely changing in nature, the faint flame instantly exploded and burned.
The entire area was boiling and ignited in just a moment, and the entire maze of flammable materials was about to turn into a sea of fire in an instant.
Each wall is a fuse. As early as when they were first built, they absorbed nutrients from the land and became part of the Sky Fire Grassland.
Jiang Yi and his companions, who were still using flamethrowers to kill insects, had almost lost the ability to think, with the only thing in their minds being "escape".
"Fly! What are you still standing there for? Get out first!"
The first reaction of countless players when facing a fire is to run away first, as nothing is more important than their life.
This was completely beyond their understanding. Even if it was in a paper beast state now, paper was afraid of fire!
Who could have imagined that an entire maze was actually prepared for the end of a game, and could even be completely sacrificed in order to achieve the final goal.
Fortunately, I don’t know if it’s because the maze itself has reached some kind of cooperation with the copy and has certain requirements for the survival rate, so it doesn’t use a large number of walls like before to trap the players inside.
The firelight was reflected in Miao Tingting's pupils. She took back most of the poisonous insects in her body with the posture of a winner. She was wearing a strange feather coat at some point, which seemed to be a special flying prop.
"If there is a chance, I really want to take you to our guild, but unfortunately, based on the information I have learned, it seems that we can no longer become companions."
Miao Tingting smiled, then quickly kicked the cook and flew straight into the sky.
There was a huge fire in the maze. Fortunately, the monsters created by the copies and the players themselves seemed to be naturally fireproof. Their only weakness was above the lake water.
After the maze passage was opened, the players all ran out, and Little Feather was hovering in the air with the two players on its back.
Qiao Song only had time to search for a few fragments, as most of the rest were covered by the sea of fire.
When the bonfire is still going out, it is not easy to take things out of it because the fragments are in a flowing state.
If the entire maze becomes a campfire base, outsiders cannot touch the things inside. Otherwise, it would be like fishing a few pieces of glass out of a lava pool, which is almost impossible to accomplish.
There was no use for Qiao Song herself to have this fragment, so she prepared it mainly for a few other friends. At the same time, she also reached a deal with a wealthy man.
"If we want to put out this fire, we have to move the lake here..."
This is what Miao Tingting said before she left.
When Jiang Yi and Xiao Wang were extremely anxious, Qiao Song finally came to Xiao Yumao's back and flew out with them.
Before flying away completely, Xiao Wang found that her sister Song made a phone call, and then a strange thing flew towards her from a distance in the direction of escape.
It turned out to be a water-soaked mattress.
"You guys go ahead, I have something else to do."
After Qiao Song settled the two players on Little Feather’s back, he flew towards the fire again.
This shocked the group of players who were standing in astonishment behind them.
The sky was full of fleeing refugees, and the first things to be burned out were the criss-crossing webs of plants above the maze, which revealed the view of the sky to a great extent.
There were also players on the ground who were still controlling the paper beasts. They were whispering to each other and watching the show around the living room.
"The maze was already burned like that, why would that person go there? To die?"
"No, you don't care. Who did this? The dungeon games are affected, right?"
"I'm a super guild player who has plenty of money. I only care about the consumption issue. Do those red monsters I killed count as money? They must have all been burned."
A group of players who escaped from the fire were chattering and exchanging information with each other. Without competition, the relationship became much more harmonious, and there was a kind of friendship among those who had survived the disaster together.
After ensuring that they are safe, it seems to be everyone's nature to watch the fire and the excitement. If it were in the real world, I guess everyone would call 119 and 120.
Now, let’s just watch the show.
At this moment, a player suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"Why do I feel like it's getting dark?"
The person who was always observing the direction where Qiao Song left was the first to notice the special totem burning above the maze and a strange little black dot.
The black spot continued to spin, then expanded, tore apart, and finally became darkness.
It was as if there was a hole in the sky.
Miao Tingting, who had already evacuated from the wall with her companions and was preparing to go to the next copy, counted the harvest of this round and suddenly realized something was wrong.
In the sky, water gradually fell down, followed by puddles and clumps.
The players who escaped from the fire safely immediately started to cry out in disbelief as they noticed the damage the rain was doing to the paper beasts.
"What the hell, why is it raining?"
"It's getting bigger and bigger. I have to hide from the rain, or this paper dress will get damaged."
"You're stupid! Why don't you just take off the paper beast?"
By the time the chaos over the paper beast coat was resolved, the rain had blocked out everything.
Fortunately, the rain became lighter the further we went into the maze.
After completely leaving the maze, the players looked back cursing and saw a very unforgettable scene.
For a long time afterwards, even if they went to other dungeons, players who had participated in the Paper-Zha Town could still clearly remember the rain that day.
“It’s like the entire West Lake was dug up and turned upside down from the sky.”
It collapsed like the sea, with the force of the sky collapsing, destroying the bonfire burning in an entire maze.
Use power beyond human reach to extinguish the sea of fire.
Above the sea of clouds, steam is like clouds.
Qiao Song sat on top of Little Feather, holding a glowing check in one hand and his own shrine in the other.
The huge wooden box formed a shadow behind her, like a throne.
“This is just like moving the lake here.”
As the last large campfire in the entire map was wiped out, all players heard the system prompt.
[It is detected that all bonfires are extinguished, and the bonfire party ends here]
Then the system froze for a few seconds. The electronic sound did not fluctuate, but the last sentence was uttered very slowly:
[Congratulations on successfully completing the Paper Town]
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