Chapter 162 Super Jolio (End)
I don’t know if it’s because too many bugs were killed, but the narrow cave pipes were filled with all kinds of unpleasant smells.
After hiding in with a group of prisoners, it even felt a bit crowded.
"Why are you hiding? If you don't find a chance to rush out now, what will you do if you are surrounded by bugs later?"
The princesses in the white net had no sense of being captives, and even began to pick and choose: "A group of people are crowded together, and I can hardly breathe."
"Yes, and once these bugs find out that we have hidden in a dead end, they will definitely find a way to get rid of us all at once..."
Qiao Song accurately caught the princess who was still fanning the flames: "You talk a lot. Do you think that since everyone speaks in the same voice, I can't tell that it's you who's talking?"
That beautiful golden hair felt like silk and was very nice to the touch, but the man who caught her obviously didn't show much mercy on her.
The person who was pulled out was indeed the little princess with blonde hair, blue eyes and skin as white as tofu.
The cloth tied around his mouth was secretly untied at some point, and when he was grabbed by Qiao Song, his eyes, which were about to cry, seemed to be flashing with broken river water.
The voice still sounded aggrieved.
"No one else has it. I just think this cave is too dirty, too crowded, and too uncomfortable."
The one who was closer to her this time was the young security guard. The boy was not very old to begin with. After being shocked, his throat became dry for a moment and he looked at Qiao Song, as if begging for mercy: "I think what she said makes sense..."
Qiao Song was not as "gentle" as he had been towards the takeaway boy before. He directly snatched the security guard's electric baton and hit him on the shoulder.
The latter was so shocked that he gasped and instantly came to his senses, realizing that he had said something he shouldn't have said. He was still living under someone else's roof, so how could he dare to make demands on others?
"I don't want you to feel, I want me to feel. If you don't want to be tied up like me, just shut up and use your brain to think."
The delivery guy next to him was about to talk, but he held back.
Fortunately, he was a little further away this time, because he was the one who almost made a mistake just now.
The young man was still frightened, so he quickly got a new piece of cloth from Mr. Chai, the chicken farmer, and blocked the princess' mouth again.
As soon as the delivery guy finished this series of actions, he found that the tied-up princess immediately stared at him with a sad and aggrieved expression.
It really looks so pitiful...
wrong--
The delivery guy shuddered all over, and reflexively took out a yellow plastic bag from his pocket and covered the princess' head with it.
With the huge words "Tuanmei Delivery Only" on his head, the strange charm was finally blocked and the delivery boy breathed a sigh of relief.
Qiao Song nodded: "Yes, this boy is teachable."
Delivery guy: Although I haven’t received much education, I always feel like you are taking advantage of me.
Lao Wu and Pang Bo also came over. The fitness coach crossed his arms and twitched his chin: "Didn't they say that these people are all players? The real princess is among them?"
Qiao Song did not answer directly. Instead, he asked the others to come over and called the delivery boy first.
"Tell me first, what happened when you were riding your bike just now?"
The delivery guy who was pushed out scratched his head and said, "There were just bugs everywhere. It was like driving through a maze. I was clearly driving forward, but it was like I went in a circle and ended up back at the starting point."
This is easy to understand. They must have entered a circular track like a playground. The question is, when did they come in?
Mr. Chai recalled: "We did pass a few intersections, but we didn't turn any corners. We just occasionally went to the caves on the side and took out these fake princesses. So you concluded that the problem was with these princesses?"
Qiao Song nodded: "Another reason is that in a pipe that is so suitable for mushroom growth, there are not many mushrooms, and almost all of them are bugs. Don't you think it's strange?"
That's right, they have been in this game map for a long time and have been dealing with mushrooms. Many players come to play this game to get mushroom-related props.
But since entering this black pipe, the humidity has risen and the light has dimmed. It is obviously an environment very suitable for mushroom growth, but there are only piles of insects.
"No, there were mushrooms when we caught those princesses earlier..."
The old man spoke. He remembered that when he first went to catch the hairy-legged man, he harvested several voice-changing mushrooms.
Later on, the number of mushrooms became fewer and fewer, and they were all large and strong insects.
"Did they get eaten by bugs?"
Lao Wu said, "In the market near my home, they sell some mushrooms when the season comes. When there's too much rain, they're full of bugs when you cut them open."
He had suffered losses in this regard before. He would happily buy some mushrooms and bring them home, but his wife said he was ripped off. He was afraid to eat most of the mushrooms he bought.
Pangbo came to his house to eat and had an occupational disease attack. He said that insects can also be considered protein. As a result, they were both kicked out of the kitchen.
"We'll have to ask these princesses who tricked us into the cave."
Qiao Song pulled the net and pulled all the princesses together. He counted the heads one by one like they were displaying merchandise.
"We caught four princesses in total. Both guest No. 1 and Old Man No. 5 knew each other. Guest No. 2, Mr. Chai said he knew her. Child No. 3, the delivery boy said he had also seen her and her mother. That leaves only guest No. 4."
Everyone's eyes swept across the prisoners one by one until they saw the last one.
The most beautiful princess is very suspicious. Every word she says is bewitching. Players will easily feel pity for her if they look at her a few more times. This is not something ordinary players or NPCs can do.
Qiao Song’s net bag can hold ghosts, NPCs, and people, but only the former two can be put into the toolbox through the net bag, and people should not be able to do so.
After all, time is stagnant in the toolbox, which has a nearly fresh-keeping function.
After upgrading the toolbox several times, she has yet to experiment on humans. What if she throws it in and it goes straight into suspended animation?
We cannot prove that everyone is innocent, but we cannot clear everyone of suspicion either.
She chose a more direct verification method.
"Whose red three-piece suit is still intact? Try it on these guys in turn."
The topic changed so quickly that the delivery guy didn't react: "Isn't it because it can be used to deal with mushrooms and monsters? It can also be used on princesses?"
Qiao Song: "Have you forgotten the system prompt you heard when you entered the dungeon?"
[The princess of the Mushroom Kingdom was captured]
[Players please work hard to bring the princess back]
"The Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom..." Qiao Song strengthened his tone.
The fifth one, who was holding a string of firecrackers, suddenly realized: "The Mushroom Kingdom... the princess is not necessarily human...?"
They had only heard the princess's voice but had not seen her face.
"No one stipulates that a princess cannot be a hairy-legged man who picks his feet, and no one stipulates that a princess must be an adult. Therefore, all four people here are suspects."
Compared to the charming princess with a sleight of hand at the end, Qiao Song felt that the guys in front, who seemed to have met several players once, were more suspicious.
It's not such a coincidence that several players who know each other and can verify their identities are put into the same game.
"Find the princess who is the most suspicious and throw her out before the bugs completely surround her."
When Qiao Song said this, not only were the players stunned, but the captives who had been silent before also became agitated instantly.
"What are you going to do? Are you going to use our lives to lure away the bugs? Aren't you going to bring the princess back to report? So what if you find the real princess? Wouldn't it be enough to bring all of us back to the kingdom?"
The hairy-legged man held his throat and tried his best to persuade, and from time to time he cast a look for help at his "acquaintance" Lao Wu Pangbo.
The little girl who was quiet and obedient before also started to throw a tantrum:
"Don't come over here, I'm going to tell mom that you guys are bullying kids!"
The handsome high school student suddenly had a hurt expression on his face, and his words were full of disappointment in the adult world: "So this is how adults complete games? Using other people's lives as scapegoats..."
As soon as these words came out, several people around him suddenly felt sorry for him.
However, before they could open their mouths to persuade Qiao Song, Aunt Huo was very straightforward and took a few strips of cloth from Grandpa Chai.
"These people's mouths must be shut too."
She and Qiao Song were the only two people in the room who were not aroused by the NPC's few words.
Qiao Song and Aunt Huo acted quickly. Before the others could understand the reason, they had dealt with all the captives. Suddenly, the whole cave became quiet.
"Good acting. Now I am 60% sure."
When all the captives were unable to speak, the delivery boy who had been tricked by this trick more than once suddenly understood something: "Wait, it turns out that they all have similar bewitching abilities. Could it be that all of these are...?"
Qiao Song didn't say anything, but gestured for him to take out the three-piece suit first.
Because of the previous battle, the players' initial tools are more or less missing. They were either damaged in the process of picking mushrooms or attacking monsters, or simply dropped and could not be found.
In order to ensure the accuracy of the experiment, Qiao Song gathered three sets of materials that were almost intact.
Aunt Huo didn't walk on the ground the whole time and wore boots. Grandpa Chai used a chicken coop to pick up mushrooms and almost never used gloves. The delivery guy wore a helmet.
Qiao Song, wearing a brand new three-piece suit, first pulled the last captured princess out of the net.
The little beauty looked at her in horror, as if to say: What are you going to do? !
Qiao Song first stepped on the little beauty's feet with his boots, but found no reaction. Then he punched her in the abdomen with his fist, and finally hit her with his head.
[Ding——Congratulations on obtaining the rare fungus——Princess Mushroom. 】
A beautiful big mushroom took the place of the beautiful princess.
The beautiful dress she was wearing before turned into a mushroom ribbon like a bamboo fungus, fluttering outside.
The security guard who had quietly turned his head away, unable to bear to watch the princess being "beaten", now opened his eyes wide: "No, it's not the princess? How, how did she turn into a mushroom?"
Qiao Song touched the big mushroom with his gloves and soon got a beautiful metal badge.
[The rare fungus "Princess" unique to the Mushroom Kingdom]
"The system prompt only said to find the princess, but it didn't say that the princess must be a person. It said that this is the Mushroom Kingdom, and the princess of the kingdom can be a mushroom, so there's nothing wrong with that."
And maybe it’s just that her name happens to be Princess.
After discovering that Qiao Song had dealt with the guy in the net, the remaining captives immediately begged for mercy.
It was as if it was saying, since we have found the princess, we are all normal, so can you let us go now?
However, Qiao Song did the same thing and let the little girl out of the second net bag, and used the same three-piece set of attack methods, namely, stepping on her, hitting her with gloves, and bumping her with a hat, taking turns, not missing out on any of them.
In the end, the princess captives were all hit on the head and turned back into mushrooms.
The people around gradually understood.
"So these aren't players at all, they're mushrooms..."
[Ding——Congratulations on obtaining the rare fungus——Puppet Mushroom. 】
This time, the badge I got was a rare fungus called "Puppet Mushroom" that is unique to the Mushroom Kingdom.
"You can transmit information through spores, absorb the player's memory, and forge a puppet to deceive others..."
Qiao Song handed the badge out and let others look at the instructions on it.
"There are actually mushroom props like this..."
The reason why the few fake princesses that appeared here were all known to the other ones and could verify the identities of the players, but there were no acquaintances of Qiao Song and Aunt Huo, was because they had avoided the colorful fog on the ground before and were not caught at all, so they could not create the player puppets in their memories.
Moreover, both of them have shrines, which have a certain resistance to such confusing skills.
"So what do we do now? If we turn them all into mushrooms, can we get out?"
Qiao Song followed the same method and turned the two fake princesses No. 2 and No. 1 back into big mushrooms, but he did not use gloves to turn them into badges.
"If you want to clear the level, you still have to fight your way out of here and use these two as bait."
Qiao Song spread the net back and put the two mushrooms in the bag, dividing them into two and pulling one into each group.
"These bugs in the pipes are not here to kill us. Their goal from the beginning to the end is to eat the princess."
"When we first entered the pipe, the princesses were hiding from these bugs. We have already completed the task of rescuing the princesses. All that remains is to fight our way out of here."
"The princess wants to deceive not only us, but also the bugs."
[Ding! Congratulations to the player for successfully decrypting the code! ]
[As the most delicious mushroom in the entire underground world, bugs certainly want to eat the best food, but this mushroom named "Princess" is very cunning. It has almost all the skills of mushrooms in the entire Mushroom Kingdom. It can create puppets, confuse others, and change its voice and appearance. It is really hard to catch! ]
[Congratulations to the players who have completed all the pre-quests. Now you just need to clear the bug trap in the black water pipe to clear the dungeon! ]
[Please note that the countdown for the pipe collapse is 60 minutes. The more bugs you kill, the higher the final score will be! ]
[Mario! Bravely rush out of the underground pipe! ]
Lao Wu was pulled over by Qiao Song and tapped his backpack like a bandit: "It's too wasteful to rely solely on people to kill insects. We still need firepower to cover them. Do you have any fireworks with greater lethality?"
Lao Wu swallowed and said, "We pyrotechnicians are all legal jobs..."
"The more bugs you kill, the higher your rating will be. Don't you want better items?"
"I know you're a law-abiding person, but this is an infinite world, so it's reasonable to use firepower to kill a few bugs."
Lao Wu was silent, and finally took out a black bag from the side of his backpack.
"This is an experiment from the fireworks factory. I just unlocked it not long ago. It is also the most lethal skill I have at the moment."
[Giant firecrackers, also known as firecrackers, firecrackers, children's favorite childhood high-destructive fireworks]
[History books say that gunpowder was originally used to make medicine, and later it became a prop for celebrations in peacetime. But don’t forget, gunpowder is gunpowder. It can be a blessing for a celebration, or a notice from the King of Hell.]
Pangbo immediately looked at Lao Wu with an expression as if his brother had hidden ammunition without telling me: "Has your full firepower coverage reached this level?"
Lao Wu evaded the question with a look of honesty, "Don't be so exaggerated. It's just that the proportion of the ingredients in the firecrackers has been changed a little, so the power has become a little stronger."
Qiao Song first blocked the hole with insects, leaving a gap, threw the firecracker out, and then quickly sealed the hole.
After a loud explosion like a dog bowl flying into the sky, the ground outside was filled with bugs that had been blown apart.
Pangbo turned around and winked at his brother: You call this thing a firecracker with only a little more power?
Qiao Song was very satisfied with the performance of this thing. He quickly divided the teams and let the monster-pulling team, led by the delivery boy, hold a big mushroom in front to attract the monsters.
After the insulated box at the back of the food delivery truck was opened and the mushroom, which had transformed back to its original form, was placed on the box, the insects in the underground pipes immediately swarmed and chased after the small electric car.
It feels like I haven’t eaten any delicacies for 800 years.
The delivery guy looked at the dense swarm of insects like waves in the rearview mirror and was so scared that he almost dropped his helmet and stepped on the accelerator.
Qiao Song and others took out their weapons and used firecrackers to mindlessly blow up the swarms of insects chasing the mushrooms.
When they had killed half of the insects and they turned around to chase them, they would immediately ask Aunt Huo or Uncle Chai to bring the Maine Coon cat and the ostrich to use the second mushroom to attract a new swarm of insects.
With perfect coordination in pulling monsters, the swarm was completely wiped out within an hour.
In the pure monster-killing phase, as long as the coordination is good and the firepower is sufficient, there is no map that cannot be conquered. If there is, double the firepower.
Qiao Song stepped on the red boots, jumped up, and directly used the electric saw to saw into pieces the last giant insect monster that was nearly two meters tall.
After the ring-shaped worm was cut in two, the entire pipe suddenly vibrated.
There was light at the end of the dark pipe.
[The ringworm has been killed. Congratulations to all players for completing the mission! ]
Qiao Song and others walked to the cave entrance holding fireworks for guidance and finally saw the legendary Mushroom Kingdom.
The wide green lawn was filled with mushroom people rolling around.
Even the castle in the distance is built in a cave in the valley. You can vaguely see some white pipes leading to the bottom of the castle. That is probably the path for other players who choose the simple route.
Without the interference of the troublemaker princess, it is very likely that you can pass the level by simply killing monsters.
If Qiao Song had not been prepared early, with Princess Mushroom's ability to incite, the more people in the team, the easier it would be to fall apart, and even have internal strife.
At this moment, the badge named Princess on Qiao Song’s chest suddenly flashed. The badge was still hanging on it, but a ray of light jumped out.
The blonde princess fell to the ground, her skirt spread out, like a platinum rose sitting on the ground, and looked at Qiao Song with some resentment.
"He's a guy who doesn't know how to be gentle with women."
Qiao Song had a blank expression on his face: "Don't flirt with me, my sexual orientation is not that of a woman."
Unexpectedly, the princess smiled slyly upon hearing this. She slowly got up and stroked her hair: "So that's how it is..."
The princess' height increased at a visible speed, and her originally cute voice gradually became neutral: "But sister, mushrooms have no gender."
Her thin body swelled slightly, her muscles filled out, and the girl's frame gradually became a size between a mature and a teenager.
The gorgeous princess dress also turned back into mycelium and was rewoven into a brand new platinum dress.
The waist-length blonde hair was shortened and fell to her ears. Her green eyes looked at Qiao Song and she tilted her head and smiled wickedly: "If I become like this, would you be a little bit moved?"
Qiao Song’s response was to kick him down to the grass in the valley.
"There are so many scenes. I'm done filming and I'm off work now."
As the beautiful princess, or prince, rolled back to her country screaming like a grass ball, the system prompt finally sounded.
[Congratulations to the players for completing all the tasks! It was detected that there were 7 players who finally passed the game in this round, and the S-level blind box rewards have been issued! After the corresponding points are settled, you can exchange them for the corresponding Mario souvenirs at the souvenir shop. Welcome everyone to come to the underground kingdom again! ]
Qiao Song's figure flashed and he appeared near the Mario game where they had queued before.
Next to it is a shiny souvenir shop with a black-and-white plumber painted on it, and the shelves are filled with mushroom cards of various colors.
[Ding—Your final score is 5790. Your score for this round will not be reset until you leave the Scream Game Hall. You can redeem the corresponding props at any time.]
Qiao Song didn't expect to have so many points. Maybe she had included the points from killing insects. At that time, she didn't have time to pay attention to the points calculation above her head, and she earned so much without realizing it.
The souvenir points shop was empty. It was a small shop of less than 10 square meters. Qiao Song guessed that it might be due to insufficient building area, so a method similar to holographic projection was adopted. Players could choose prop cards here at the same time without meeting each other, and privacy was also guaranteed.
She doesn't plan to open the S-level blind box now. There are few S-level professional suits in the entire mall. One of the reasons is that the explosion rate of S-level props is too low. Even if you have an S-level blind box, it does not necessarily mean that you will get S-level props. The bottom line is A.
When she was unlucky before, all the items she opened from the A-level blind box were B-level items.
Qiao Song had obtained the raw materials for lucky gold coins before, and planned to improve his luck value first before drawing this rare blind box.
After browsing the souvenir shop, I saw the introduction of various mushroom skills of the Mushroom Kingdom, most of which were the skills used by the "princess".
[Charm Mushroom: Use words and expressions to shake the target's mind. The higher the user's appearance value, the fewer loopholes in the words, and the better the effect of the Charm Mushroom.]
[Puppet Mushroom: Generates a puppet with certain memories and skills. Please note that it needs to be used in conjunction with other mushrooms and the puppet's memory core must be prepared in advance.]
[Colored Mushroom Group: The effect is weak when used alone. When used with 10 or more, a colorful mist can be generated, which has the effect of reducing sanity and blurring the group's memory. It can be used with puppet mushrooms to create a corresponding character replica and generate a puppet creature in the memory of the attacked person.]
[Imitator Mushroom: Adapting to the current environment...]
…
Qiao Song had a lot of points, so he exchanged a little of each type of mushroom, and even directly exchanged 20 colored mushrooms, which made it easier to plant them in groups later.
Unfortunately, I didn’t see the legendary princess mushroom.
But when I think of the androgynous blonde figure that appeared at the end, I feel that calling her a princess is not quite accurate.
After she exchanged the items, she came out of the game and waited for Aunt Huo and the others to choose the props.
After the game ended, there was still one thing that was not resolved. The scarred brother who was locked in the chicken coop was not counted as a human player when the game was settled.
Clearly, he was the eighth person when he entered the black pipe.
She had to wait until Mr. Chai came out to verify her guess.
At the same time, deep inside a game machine in the Scream Arcade, a whistling figure calmly pushed open a series of intersecting doors.
His blond hair just reached his shoulders. When he hummed, the glass pendants on his ears, which were the same color as his eyes, swayed. It was not until he pushed open the last red door that he blew a long whistle in surprise: "Wow, there are so many people here today."
In the foggy special room, there was only an oval stone table.
There were a total of 12 chairs placed around, half of which were occupied.
"You seem to be in a good mood?"
A woman wearing a black veil hat and with thorns and flowers all over her body looked at him indifferently.
The blond man smiled and said casually, "I met a very interesting player."
He found his own chair and sat down. He crossed his hands, propped up his chin, and looked around with his green eyes:
"It seems like the committee hasn't convened its members for a long time. Why did they think of holding a meeting today?"
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