Chapter 186 Zootopia
Qiao Song stood under the street light, and the orange light melted away the negative emotions in his body bit by bit.
In the territory of Rooster, there are many such street lamps. There is a box under each street lamp with a light-on button, which can automatically turn on the light during the day.
Ke Manzhi was about to remind her before, but she didn't expect that Qiao Song knew how to use this thing on the second day after he arrived.
Qiao Song had already experimented on someone else yesterday, so he was able to deal with this kind of change in himself with ease.
She would even take the initiative to pick up the feathers on her arms and pluck them. It didn't hurt, just a little itchy.
"I thought it would have dog ears or a tail, but it was all chicken feathers."
Ke Manzhi looked at her expression and didn't expect that she wasn't nervous at all. "You haven't been in there for long. It's impossible for you to have acquired the animal attributes of other realms so quickly. If that's the case, then your growth of feathers is a rule attack from over there."
Therefore, the two words "beastiality" written by Qiao Song were very accurate.
To be honest, if it weren't for the bright feathers on Qiao Song's body being so eye-catching, Ke Manzhi would have found it hard to imagine that this guy had been severely polluted.
It's not like she had never seen players who had fallen into this state before. Their teammates would do their best to control the players and then bring them back. But she was different. Apart from shouting a few words in the middle, this girl actually walked back by herself.
Ke Manzhi only needed to fan them and hand them two bottles of water, while her teammates, who had been through the gates of hell, could still calmly summarize the clues they encountered during the mission.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Are the feathers on your face still scary?"
Ke Manzhi shook her head, handed a new pair of earrings to Qiao Song, then took out a large roll of leather rope and tied one end around her waist.
"I'm not as good as you. If I can't withdraw in time, you can just drag the rope." After a pause, she smiled, "It would be even better if you can rush in and help if you can."
"Of course, we can't both get trapped in this. Your stickers are gone, so you should just stay outside and observe. Although my fighting ability is not as high as yours, my resistance to this kind of mentally polluted area should not be bad."
Of course, it is impossible to verify the ghost story rules of an area in just one go. After Qiao Song finishes, it will be Ke Manzhi's turn.
Under the street lights, Qiao Song endured the double baptism of sunlight and passers-by, and the feathers on his body quickly shrank.
Surprisingly, not a single extra feather fell off, but instead shrank back as if being suppressed, and the mask on his face became gap-filled as before, as if it could be taken off at any time.
But Qiao Song had tried it when he entered the city, and he couldn't take it off even though there was a gap.
The change of the mask will directly show the degree of integration between the player and Zootopia. If the degree of integration is too high, it may become a complete chicken-like appearance like the front desk bartender and the backstage chef.
"Maybe I really need to go and consume something from the red menu tonight."
Qiao Song murmured.
Ke Manzhi checked her props and various auxiliary equipment again, and deliberately snapped her fingers when she heard this: "If I can return safely, I will treat you then."
Qiao Song was silent for two seconds: "You are really setting a flag when you say this at this time..."
Ke Manzhi immediately exclaimed several times, muttering to herself "this doesn't count, this doesn't count" several times, and then she regrouped and walked towards the border.
Qiao Song found that this little girl was quite cute, and there was a feeling that her appearance did not match her inner self.
Being cool doesn’t mean being fearless.
Ke Manzhi ruffled her short blue hair and put her hat back on. She held her face with both hands, stroking her earlobes and the nails on her brow bones. After taking a deep breath, she regained her courage.
After calming down, Ke Manzhi calmly stepped across the border.
Qiao Song was observing from behind, and it was indeed different from what she saw when she went in personally. In her sight, the Dog Territory was gray, and only Ke Manzhi's back was clear.
The low bungalows around were just vague shadows, and Ke Manzhi was sandwiched in the middle and gradually moving away.
Ke Manzhi had the same feeling at this time. Just as Qiao Song said, there were indeed a lot of garbage bags here.
I have to watch my distance at all times, learn from experience, and not go too deep, she thought.
House Area No. 18 is this area of bungalows.
The Dog area is divided into 20 zones, and the place where it borders the Rooster is called No. 18. Since the Dog and the Tiger have recently joined forces to fight the Monkey, there are no other NPCs and monsters in this area, only pure rule defense.
This is also why Rooster will divide the tasks and let players come to test it out. After the tiger and the dog are done fighting, it is very likely that the next target will be Rooster.
As Ke Manzhi walked, she felt something was not right.
From here on, things were different from what Qiao Song had encountered before. The road did not become narrower, and there were no more garbage bags. Instead, the small doors next to the high walls were pushed open a crack.
Squeak——
There was clearly the sound of a door opening, but only a dark crack could be seen. All the doors in the walls were opened quietly, but nothing came out. It was as if only a crack was opened, secretly observing her.
Ke Manzhi also heard the sound of the wind. The plastic bags rustled when the wind blew, and all kinds of mumbling sounds similar to the barking of dogs came from inside the wall.
The red eyeball appeared, but it was on the top of the wall.
Something in the yard was spying on her.
The eyeballs piled up more and more, and finally filled the wall. Ke Manzhi clenched his fists, and his breathing gradually quickened as he moved forward. Finally, he saw an eyeball falling from the wall and landing at his feet.
His eyeballs rolled around and fell in front of her. The moment his eyes met hers, Ke Manzhi's rivet-covered shoes had already stepped heavily down.
With a "smacking" sound.
There was also the sound of a dog sticker breaking.
The sound of fighting slowly appeared in the headphones, and Qiao Song knew that Ke Manzhi had already fought the monster.
"Manzhi, you're a little too far forward. After the fight, retreat. Don't move on."
Ke Manzhi's condition is slightly better than Qiao Song's at that time, but the price that comes with it is rows of loose nails on her earrings.
"Phew, these things are disgusting."
She didn't meet the dog head that Qiao Song mentioned, but there were a lot of eyeballs like popcorn, piled up from the wall, all chasing her.
Behind the eyeball is the dog's mouth. The black, rotten tongue and the bloody mouth are disgusting no matter how you look at them.
Ke Manzhi already had two punches in her hands. She would shoot in the head of anyone who dared to approach her, nail their tongues to the ground, and smash their eyeballs one by one.
Disgusting, disgusting, disgusting--
She could feel the pain in her ears and eyebrows, and the cold feeling intermittently broke through her brain.
Huh - go back - huh - I have to go back -
Ke Manzhi panted and started to walk back decisively. When she turned around, all the gates of the yard were opened, and a group of strange-looking dogs rushed out from the door and grabbed her legs directly.
It was not the kind of dog head with only a head that Qiao Song had encountered, but a male human body with a tattered dog head.
The moment Ke Manzhi looked at these things, rationality overwhelmed her brain and she raised her hand reflexively.
[Human body piercer, bone needle, enlarged version]
[I can punch holes in anything that is alive, and sometimes ghosts are no exception.]
The hole punchers that were held in his hands like two guns suddenly enlarged and fired out huge steel needles, directly nailing the more than two-meter-tall dog-headed monster directly to the wall.
"Die, you disgusting bastard!!!"
Ke Manzhi cursed and attacked at the same time, she was so angry that she wasted props and weapons without any plan, just to kill all those drooling dog-shaped monsters.
Qiao Song had already noticed that she was in a bad mood: "Manzhi, calm down. You've already gone halfway. Don't waste time looking back."
All she could see was a blurry figure, constantly attacking the things around it, and it was showing signs of returning to the original path.
Ke Manzhi felt a pain in her ear and a cool feeling in her head. The madness in her eyes faded a lot, but when she saw the dog-headed men constantly climbing out of the wall around her, she couldn't help the urge to make those things into skewers.
The red lanterns hanging on the bungalow swayed, and it seemed as if mouths had opened on the lanterns, with familiar and disgusting words popping out one by one.
"Look at her wearing such short pants and exposing her legs. Isn't it just for men to see?"
"Hey, what's wrong with being underage? I'm underage too!"
"Tsk, with so many nails on your body, you look so ugly, you don't look feminine at all."
Ke Manzhi raised the nail gun in her hand, and instantly turned it into three mortars that could fire at the same time: "What the hell does this damn lantern have to do with you!!!"
The nail gun on his body was being consumed at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The nails on Ke Manzhi's ears, eyebrows, and tongue were all triggered one by one, but after she calmed down for ten or twenty seconds, she would soon be overwhelmed by anger.
The things around her could hardly get close to her, but as long as those eyeballs and lanterns were still looking at her, they would continue to use foul language and ugly gazes to drive her crazy.
"Ke Manzhi, calm down! Your weapons stock is about to be used up by them!"
Qiao Song's voice was in his ears. The nail on Ke Manzhi's brow bone took effect. At the same time, he felt a coolness in his head, and the leather rope tied around his waist was also pulled suddenly.
She realized something and recalculated the weapons she had on hand. She found that they were already over budget. She also discovered that although she had started walking back early, she had actually walked forward a distance along the way, so she was still some distance away from the border line.
At this rate, she wouldn’t have enough items to run back.
Ke Manzhi looked back at the direction of the leather rope and began to retreat, shooting the nail gun as he ran.
No, it's too far—
Soon, she saw a figure at the border.
Qiao Song actually came in on his own initiative.
The bright feathers on his arms and cheeks that had shrunk before began to stir again like granulations the moment Qiao Song stepped into the dog's territory.
But Qiao Song held the leather rope in one hand, completely ignoring the changes in his hand.
She tied the end of the rope to the electric pole. After Qiao Song saw the battle situation in the distance, he grabbed the rope and tried to pull Ke Manzhi back.
The closer to the edge, the less impact the Dog Zone has. When Ke Manzhi was awake, she saw Qiao Song coming up with a hammer. Her first reaction was not to be touched but to be angry: "What are you doing out here? Go back! You don't even have any stickers to use, what are you doing out here!!!"
Qiao Song ignored Ke Manzhi's hysteria and quickly helped her deal with the dog-headed men that were entangled with her and pulled them back.
"I'm going to do a test. Calm down and go back first."
Ke Manzhi was pushed hard by her, and the bone nails on her body took effect, so she regained some consciousness and quickly grabbed the leather rope and jogged back.
Her physical strength was indeed running out. She didn't know if it was because of Qiao Song's coming in, but she felt that the emotional pollution in her head was not as strong as before.
Qiao Song was finishing up behind Ke Manzhi, but he was actually actively observing.
She also discovered that the scene Ke Manzhi saw after coming in was different from hers.
Not long after she came in, the wall next to her began to squeeze inwards as before, the number of garbage bags increased, the number of dog-headed men decreased rapidly, and even the eyeballs on the wall disappeared.
Only in the gaps between garbage dumps will a few of them occasionally grow together with mushrooms.
Qiao Song understood something, and hurriedly urged and pushed people back to quickly deal with the last pursuers. The two of them worked together and doubled their efficiency. Finally, they crossed the border line before Ke Manzhi was completely exhausted.
"ctdd——***" Ke Manzhi cursed a few times.
Recalling her previous experiences, she obviously understood the biggest reason for the difference between the two people.
The pollution rules of the Dog are most likely based on people’s memories and emotions. It will directly use the things you hate the most to evoke the deepest anger in your heart.
Once a person falls into hysterical rage, all his physical strength, props, emotions, and even thinking ability will be taken away.
If you don't attack, you will be swallowed up. If you attack, it will become even more angry and indirectly drag you to death.
Ke Manzhi closed her eyes, leaned weakly under the street lamp, then slid down and sat down to rest with her eyes closed.
Qiao Song helped her turn off the street light.
"Rest for a while, then we'll go back to the tavern together."
Ke Manzhi now looks similar to Qiao Song before, or even worse, with her body covered with different shades of bird feathers.
She lost her strength so quickly that she could no longer stand up, so she just lay on the ground, basking in the light.
"A piece of shit dog that digs at people's scars."
She gave two symmetrical middle fingers towards the border.
Qiao Song was right next to her and was exposed to the light. Although it was for a short time, a layer of fine hair appeared on her skin again.
After a while, Ke Manzhi sat up, took a set of disinfection equipment and bandaged the wound.
Most of her medical equipment is used for wounds after punctures on the human body. It is very effective in treating external injuries and anti-inflammation. However, Qiao Song had hardly been injured before, but this time, Ke Manzhi injured herself a lot.
Perhaps she noticed Qiao Song was looking at her, so Ke Manzhi slapped herself with medicine while baring her teeth. "Don't comfort me. I heard that kind of words a lot when I was a kid, and I'm immune to it. If someone dares to say that to my face now, I'll definitely give him two big slaps in the face."
"But a fight like this is at best a mutual fight, which is a bit of a loss."
After a pause, she continued, "I also met a very good sister who taught me to slap the code on their heads and gave me a lot of compensation."
"What do you call this? You need to apologize and compensate. Legal weapons are useful, but unfortunately I don't have the brains to learn law. I just like to pierce people with nails."
Qiao Song was silent for a moment: "You are very good, both in the past and now."
After the nail guns of Ke Manzhi reached the second stage, the steel needles they fired were similar to the steel bars used in construction. The power after firing was quite terrifying, and they directly pierced the dog-headed men on the wall like candied haws.
The scene was still amazing.
"Hey, yeah. I said my fighting skills aren't that bad, it's just that my physical strength isn't good enough. Luckily you pulled me back."
Ke Manzhi had almost recovered. She held onto the electric pole and was pulled up by Qiao Song to slowly stand up. She finally observed that all the feathers on her body had been retracted.
The two of them sorted out their thoughts, collected the information they wanted, and prepared to return.
Each person gets one puppy sticker, and it is almost enough for each person to go in once. There is no difference between going in again and again.
"The three fixed objects are the lantern, the garbage bag, and the fence. The corresponding eyes, mouth, and dog head are the carriers of the attack."
Ke Manzhi's mind raced: "So, the more specific the things I'm afraid of, the more anger I'll get aroused?"
Qiao Song: "Do you feel your physical strength has increased?"
Ke Manzhi thought for a moment and nodded: "It's better than before. Before, I could only make about seven or eight of those giant steel needles at a time. When I was fighting those bastards just now, I could at least double that."
"Of course, the physical exertion has also doubled."
She almost collapsed from running the last few hundred meters.
Qiao Song sorted out the notes and wrote down the principles and methods of beast transformation.
Ke Manzhi sighed: "Now that I think about it, you are too powerful. There is no concrete thing in the wall that jumps out to attack you, which means you are not afraid of or hate anything specific."
Her eyes gradually became strange: "But there are so many garbage bags. So in your mind, those who attack you are all garbage?"
The same goes for the eyeballs. There are only a few eyeballs that look like mushrooms, and they are easily stomped away.
Qiao Song thought about it and realized that she had heard a lot of gossip when she was a child, just like what she had seen in the Hell Community before.
As for why these lanterns did not speak the set lines like the illusions seen in the Hell Community, perhaps Qiao Song felt that those lines would not hurt him.
She has a very good mother who will cover her ears in advance and smash those people's mouths.
[Ding——Congratulations on completing the intelligence gathering mission, the completion rate is 150%, and the excess rewards are being distributed——]
"Hey, I was planning to treat you all." Ke Manzhi sighed.
In addition to the fixed soul coin rewards, the system also gives them each one opportunity to spend free money in the tavern.
After all, to completely remove the pollution brought by the Dog territory, you must order food from the red menu.
"But it's worth it. I heard that the food on the red menu starts at 5,000 soul coins. I must eat more tonight."
After submitting the task, Ke Manzhi prepared to go back to her room and lie down for a while, on the one hand to recover her strength, and on the other hand to maintain her punching tools.
Qiao Song didn't have any worries about this. She would usually throw away her hammers when they were dirty or broken, and she could always take out new ones at any time.
If it weren't for the fact that she was the only one who could use these things, she alone could arm all the players in the guild.
"I was originally going to invite you to join our guild, but you don't seem interested. Let's meet at dinner tonight."
Ke Manzhi yawned, rubbed her waist, and went back to her room.
Qiao Song packed his lunch and came up. After thinking for a while, he finally grabbed two extra loaves of bread.
As soon as the door opened, a giggling sound came from the room. It didn't sound like laughter, but more like some suppressed animal instinct.
The two she had placed there now looked rather strange in appearance.
A relatively large athlete, whose horns have now completely fallen off but whose arms are covered with a layer of bright feathers, squatted on the floor, pecking at an apple in his hand.
Poor apple, only the core was left.
But these two guys could neither order takeout nor dare to go downstairs to eat.
I have to suppress the urge to crow from time to time.
It's too difficult! But if you scream, the guy across from you will definitely laugh at you for hundreds of years! This is the result of being imprisoned with an acquaintance.
The two brothers were in a stalemate, and at the same time they were extremely hungry and their eyes were about to pop out, when Qiao Song finally came back.
When Qiao Song handed out the two loaves of bread, he had a strange illusion of going home to feed the chickens.
The main thing is that these two people have become completely accustomed to squatting down and eating.
"Just eat half full, I'll take you back later."
The slightly smaller guy next to him, with a Dalmatian mask, suddenly looked up and said in surprise, "Really?!"
Generally speaking, captured slaves can of course be released early, but NPCs capture them to do work and rarely let them go early.
"I have no land and no shop, what can I do with you?"
The two brothers ate the bread much slower, leaving some room for a good meal when they returned home.
If everything goes well, they will actually gain a lot this time. After being captured, not only did they not go to the Ox's side to farm, but instead came to the Rooster's territory.
At least it has been confirmed that street lights can transform animal pollution, so it’s worth it that they have endured the crowing of chickens for so long.
"Come to think of it, if I hadn't taken action at that time, you two wouldn't have been able to escape from that market."
After all, the bubble explosion had nothing to do with Qiao Song. She speculated that all spherical objects would most likely become carriers of bull eyes, after all, that's what the bubbles were like at the time.
The Golden Monkey player swallowed the dry bread and smiled apologetically: "That's right, 20,000 soul coins have been transferred to you. Since you are going to send us back later, do you have any other questions?"
Qiao Song likes this kind of tactful guy.
The little boy's monkey hair has now all fallen off, and his body shape has recovered a lot. When he stands up straight, he is at least 1.7 meters tall, but he is thin and a little skinny.
But instead, there are layers of red or yellow feathers on the arms, which are not as bright in color.
You can tell at first glance that the chicks are malnourished.
"If you are taken away by those NPCs, will you always be pulling carts and doing transport work?"
Before the thin guy answered, the taller and stronger guy took the initiative to speak.
“You should drag fertilizer and tools to the fields first, and then go to the fields to plant.”
The tall boy had already finished all the bread bite by bite, and he looked really hungry.
"Chuniu's territory is different from other territories. It is said that the center is all endless farmland. Their administrator, Chuniu, is said to be an old man who is a fanatical lover of farming. All captives will eventually be taken there to do farm work."
Although it is not fatal, it is said that even if the ransom is paid, the animals will develop a love of planting things after returning.
The dog sign makes people irritable, and the ox sign makes people love farming?
That Rooster is...
Qiao Song looked at the two of them. They were clearly squatting down to eat and had feathers growing on their bodies, but they still ran to the window to bask in the sun. He understood why.
The Rooster area will make people love sunbathing, or even crowing and singing, which should be a change in life habits.
Qiao Song originally wanted to ask more about the rules of the Dog domain, but the two guys pointed at the mask and said that they could not reveal too important information, otherwise the mask would directly turn them into dogs.
Tsk, the mask in Zootopia actually has this function, to prevent spies?
No wonder we can only use the most primitive method and test the rules by practicing them ourselves.
Since it was agreed to send them back early, Qiao Song would certainly not go back on her word. It would be inconvenient for her to rest if she kept the two guys in her room.
If they are not fed, they might starve to death. But if they are fed, it's like raising chickens in the room, which is weird.
Qiao Song packed up and brought the two to the junction of the Dog and the Rooster. Then something strange happened. A small house suddenly appeared where there was only a line before.
The door of the house faces the Rooster, but does not cross the line. There is a huge sign at the door:
【Border Management Office (Dog Branch)】
The two captives from the Dog Realm also had a corresponding brand appear on their bodies.
[Prisoner card, return the person to the corresponding area management office before the time limit expires, and you can get the ransom given by the relatives and friends on the opposite side. 】
It’s a lot of money, 5,000 per person.
When Qiao Song handed the two men back, he glanced around and saw an extremely familiar figure.
In the newly appeared border guard's hut, there was a shiny and majestic black Doberman head, staring straight at her.
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