Chapter 190 Zootopia
Although everyone wears a zodiac mask, as long as it is not contaminated, the mask looks more like an ornament with feathers. It is not difficult for ordinary players to recognize people as long as they are not face-blind.
"Manzhi told me that she met a very powerful player. I didn't believe it at first. In just a few months, she was able to go from a new player who just entered Infinite Highway to an invitation-received player who can enter Zootopia. It seems that when she praised you, she was too conservative."
The woman stretched out a hand and shook hands with Qiao Song.
"Hello, I'm the president of the Horizon Guild, Zhong Shiwei."
"Qiao Song."
Ke Manzhi's eyes flickered between the two of them, and she finally realized, "Wait, has Qiao Qiao only been in the game for a few months?"
In the Infinite Highway, there are many dungeons. If you just want to kill time, it’s okay to go in and out of low-level dungeons for a long time.
But players cannot come to Zootopia even if they want to. Only players with extremely high copy scores will receive invitations.
The dog system gives hidden scores to players and will never proactively inform players when they pass a dungeon. If you want to come to Zootopia, you can only take the initiative to go to high-risk dungeons to improve your hidden rating.
How can a new player reach Zootopia in just a few months?
What kind of high-risk dungeons did she enter?
"Speaking of this, Ms. Qiao Song, if I remember correctly, you should have just entered Zootopia recently. I wonder if you have noticed that the standards for invitation letters have been lowered."
Qiao Song knew that Zhong Shiwei was deliberately emphasizing the recent changes in Zootopia, rather than mocking her for being one of the people who came in after the situation was lowered.
She also didn't intend to explain that she got the invitation after pressing two copies.
"Lowering the standards should be to recruit more players, which means that Zootopia is very short of people right now. Do you have any ideas?"
Zhong Shiwei was very satisfied. She liked talking to smart people.
"Our guild has been in Zootopia for a long time, and we found that this celebration is very different from the previous ones."
A girl with bangs next to her took out a tablet. Like the TV screen in the tavern, this tablet displayed the changes in the various zodiac areas in Zootopia in real time.
Zhong Shiwei tapped the screen and zoomed in on an area.
That is the monkey that is about to be eaten by the tiger and the dog. Together with the golden dragon next to it, the monkey's territory at this moment looks as pitiful as a triangular chocolate sandwiched between three parties.
"The winner is the king, the loser is the enemy. It is a foregone conclusion that Monkey will be eliminated early in this round. However, before he disappeared, our personnel detected strange energy fluctuations."
The girl with bangs picked up another tablet.
【Mountain and River Explorer】
[Hydrological testing in progress...]
A river chart that matched the outer contours of Zootopia appeared on the tablet.
"We have been planning the Star Sulfur map skill for a long time. It was originally used to monitor the distribution of different buildings in the entire Zootopia, but we unexpectedly got such a strange underground river monitoring map."
The moment Qiao Song saw the picture, the connection in his mind instantly became clear.
Zhong Shiwei always paid attention to her expression, not missing any subtle changes.
"Do you know this river?"
The rivers on the map are not static. On the contrary, they are like lightning. They will suddenly form a tree-like pattern, then quickly disappear and reappear in a different pattern.
If you are not a professional who has been making maps for a long time, it is difficult to be sure that this is really a hydrological map of the river.
Qiao Song looked away and looked at Zhong Shiwei: "This river changes every moment. What else have you observed?"
Zhong Shiwei was silent for a moment: "Near the river, the soul of the dead player disappeared."
This was an answer that surprised Qiao Song.
She raised an eyebrow: "You mean if there is no river, the dead players will be resurrected?"
Zhong Shiwei no longer kept the secret. She knew that Qiao Song knew about this river, so naturally she had to exchange it for other information.
"Do you know the shrine?"
After Qiao Song nodded, Zhong Shiwei continued speaking.
"After the Zodiac War between regions begins, the shrine will be the resurrection point for the guild players. Once a player in the guild dies, as long as the shrine of the guild leader is still there, the dead player will enter the shrine with his skill core, just like pushing open a door, and enter a special resurrection game."
Qiao Song's heart began to beat fast. Isn't this...
She heard Zhong Shiwei continue, "Once you pass the resurrection game and restore your memory, you can regain your identity as a player and return to the road."
Even though it was such an exciting thing as the resurrection game, Zhong Shiwei didn't see any surprised expression on Qiao Song's face, so she understood something.
"Have you been to the paper-making town?"
When Little Glasses went to pick up Qiao Song, he saw the paper beast used to fight monsters from afar.
Naturally, someone will inform the president of the relevant information.
Qiao Song hummed: "Paper Town is the end of the resurrection game, and Zootopia is the starting point?"
Zhong Shiwei sighed: "You have indeed been there. It seems that it is okay for you not to join the guild. Players who have come into contact with that town are much more likely to awaken the shrine than ordinary people..."
Her voice gradually slowed down, and she frowned in confusion and looked up at the ceiling.
The same went for Qiao Song; she heard a very subtle sound of glass shaking.
A not-so-nice guess filled her mind, and she quickly looked at the tablet in the girl with bangs' hand.
The triangular Shenhou territory that was previously sandwiched in the middle has completely melted like a piece of ice.
After the monkey area had completely disappeared, everyone heard a sound coming from the sky.
It was a sound effect similar to that of an electronic screen covering the room.
Sizzle, sizzle—
In an instant, everyone in the glass greenhouse, whether it was the temporary workers working in the fields, the players bargaining in the underground market, or even the people in the entire Ugly Bull area, heard the system prompt.
[Ding——The Tiger officially declares war on the Rooster and the Horse, and the Dog officially declares war on the Ox. Players from the above five regions, the zodiac war begins! ]
[Since both sides of the war have their own allies, all parties involved in this war can hear the battle report.]
[Resurrection game channel opened]
[The channel for changing guild members of shrine players is temporarily closed. Free shrine players can still temporarily form a guild. ]
[Friendly reminder: resurrection does not mean you can live again in its entirety, so please cherish every gaming opportunity.]
Qiao Song had never heard such a complicated system broadcast. She stood up from her chair and walked out of the greenhouse.
Everyone in the sun room came out and saw the blue ripples in the sky flashing like the aurora.
In those pulsating ripples, you can see creatures that look like dogs.
[The dog players have set out, with a total of 21 rule-based strange story areas and 21 resurrection points. ]
[The Zodiac War will not end until the last piece of land becomes a land with only one kind of creature. Only then will this celebration of the soul truly end. I wish all players a happy game! ]
Ke Manzhi was so angry that he said, "Starting a war so suddenly, what a joke!"
Zhong Shiwei immediately ordered everyone in the guild to take action.
"Xiao Li, go organize all the remaining temporary farm workers. Xing Liu, immediately count everyone's professional skills and distribute props uniformly. Don't spread them too far apart. Try to stay with the main force."
"All guild members must carry their skill derivatives and anchors with them. Once you die, I will immediately send you to the shrine."
Zhong Shiwei's voice seemed to have a kind of magic, commanding every player who was participating in the Zodiac War for the first time or had participated in it in an orderly manner.
"Don't be afraid. Even though they are invaders, we won't necessarily lose. This war doesn't have to be a life-and-death struggle, and failure doesn't necessarily mean death."
This is the confidence of the special guild.
The people arranged by Zhong Shiwei took action quickly. For a moment, only she and Qiao Song were left in the sunroom. Even Ke Manzhi went to help coordinate the personnel.
"Are we just going to leave the wheat in the field like this? Won't that cause the temporary workers to fail in the game?"
Although Qiao Song said this, he soon discovered that most of the grains in the field seemed to have begun to fall off naturally.
Golden rice grains flew into the magic book in the sky.
"I will collect them in advance. This temporary farm work game is just to meet the needs of the system and to train players who don't have daily work. The current situation is special, so I will suspend the game."
Qiao Song raised his eyebrows: "The Farm Game was created by players?"
Zhong Shiwei: "I see you don't look too surprised, have you already guessed it?"
She raised a hand and took out a thick golden book from thin air, on which was written "Delicious Farm Management Rules".
"I am the leader of the Horizon Guild. I used my own shrine to provide my members with a chance to revive. Naturally, I have to pay a corresponding price."
She cannot leave Zootopia. Even if the Zodiac War is over, she will just go from being an employee of one zodiac to being an affiliated NPC of another zodiac.
She had no choice.
"Don't worry, it's just like a company takeover. I'm just changing from a subsidiary position to a member of another larger company. And I won't just sit there and let them invade me."
The Delicious Farm Management Rules were opened, and Qiao Song saw Zhong Shiwei take out a picture from it. The paper with special crops on it was torn off directly and scattered in the air.
[Ding——A new farm game is detected around you. You are a friendly party and are temporarily exempted from the game rules. ]
Qiao Song saw that the rice ears in the fields all disappeared after being harvested, and were replaced by completely different crops.
They are like the loyal plant guards in Plants vs. Zombies that attack invaders, standing there quietly before the dog player arrives.
Zhong Shiwei: "The people of the Dog are approaching. You looked like you had something to tell me in the glass room just now. If you don't hurry up, there will be no time."
Qiao Song still stared at the blue light in the sky: "Haven't you already observed it? The souls of the dead players at the junction of Shen and Monkey disappeared. When the two maps are superimposed, where a river appears, the river water will swallow the passing souls. Its name is the River of Life and Death."
This is the nemesis of shrine players.
When Zhong Shiwei realized this, she could only take a deep breath to calm herself down: "I've heard of this name."
Qiao Song: "I didn't expect it to appear here."
Zhong Shiwei glanced sideways and said, "When you were participating in the farming game just now, I heard the sound of water flowing from your side."
Long before the rice harvesting game started, Qiao Song had been reminded by others to pay attention to the sound of flowing water. It seemed that Zhong Shiwei had actually discovered a long time ago that there were also rivers that could eat people in the Choushou territory.
People who create games will also try to eliminate other factors that threaten the security of the game.
Qiao Song said frankly: "The monster that attacked me was also taken away by that river."
Zhong Shiwei understood what this meant and could only sigh: "The system prompt is indeed correct. We cannot rely on the resurrection game."
After death, the monster's fur and soul will be sucked away by the river, not to mention the players.
There was one thing Qiao Song didn't make clear. She suspected that players who fell into the river would not necessarily fail to resurrect.
She had seen this monster made up of multiple animals, and after a long journey on the Infinite Highway, she arrived at the paper-making town.
The participants in the resurrection game should be the butcher characters in the paper-making town, who are obviously more proactive and aggressive.
If the player is sucked away by the river without a shrine, they should take another path, like other soul carpools, entering an assembled animal body and taking a more difficult path.
But right now, she had no time to think about this issue, because the people from the Dog sign had already arrived.
Qiao Song saw the blue light in the sky begin to fall, like a meteor shower, and scatter to the ground.
"By the way, I haven't told you how the map of the Zodiac War was changed."
Zhong Shiwei raised her other hand towards the blue light descending from the sky.
"The owner of the shrine only needs to cut off a part of his own shrine, scatter the fragments to other areas, and clear all the non-native rules covering the area. Then he can turn the other party's territory into his own."
She held a black-covered book in her right hand, and a vague black shrine appeared behind her. Points of light flew out, just like those falling meteors, and flew in the opposite direction into the area of the Dog.
At the same time, her second book also began to spread.
[Public Security Administration Punishment Law Article 40]
[Illegal intrusion into another person's home or illegal body search of another person will result in detention of 10 to 15 days and a fine of 500 to 1,000 Soul Coins. For less serious cases, detention of 5 to 10 days and a fine of 200 to 500 Soul Coins]*
In an instant, golden and black lights flew directly to the area where the invaders were.
"I'm going to make new rules for the game. Don't worry, all friendly parties should be pardoned this time. Although I can't be sure whether you will have a shrine...but I can still give you a reminder..."
Zhong Shiwei's figure disappeared into the air bit by bit, as if she had actively entered the shrine space.
"Qiao Song, the mask of the zodiac realm is not only worn on the face, but also affects the soul."
"The original power of each zodiac sign is different."
"You are lucky that the first area you chose is Rooster."
Zhong Shiwei completely disappeared into thin air, but the messages she left behind were more useful than the last.
The golden plants in the farmland began to stretch out their leaves, waiting for invaders to step into their area. Strange creatures holding black gold coins with symbols painted on them also walked out from the darkness.
The Zodiac War has officially begun.
When Qiao Song saw the black gold coins representing fines, he suddenly subconsciously looked at the palm of his hand.
The mark left by the lucky gold coin in the palm of the hand has not disappeared yet.
Even though she was involved in a small-scale zodiac war on the third day after entering the game, she was still lucky?
Each zodiac sign represents a unique power. The division of camps is not only to allow players to guard the areas they are in, but each area will also give players corresponding power enhancement.
The Dog is like a berserker, caught in anger and increasing his physical strength.
Qiao Song could see that almost all the players in the Chouniu territory were holding a plant or even a handful of soil in their arms.
So the earth can provide endurance for players in the Ugly Ox field?
So what are the abilities of the Rooster?
Qiao Song walked out of the greenhouse and just as he took a step outside, he heard the system prompt.
[Ding——Dear shrine player, you can choose to stay in the area to fight against foreign invaders, or you can choose to actively enter the enemy's territory and implant the shrine fragments into the opponent's soil, and then you can get your own game area. 】
During the Zodiac War, all daily tasks are cancelled, and as long as Qiao Song participates in the war, he is on a mission.
Should I stay here to guard, or go to the Xu Dog?
The answer is obvious.
It just so happened that she had something and needed to have a "friendly chat" with Brother Gou.
The moment I stepped into the territory of the Dog, I felt that the feathers on the mask seemed to have stimulated some kind of instinct.
However, the anger she had encountered before did not quickly creep into her heart.
[Ding——The Zodiac War has been detected to have started. You have entered the offensive zone from the defensive camp. The Rooster's blessing takes effect——In any place with light, purify the pollution generated by other areas. The stronger the light and the closer it is to sunlight, the better the effect.]
Qiao Song’s eyes widened slightly. The Rooster’s domain ability is purification?
When you clear a level, you are so stingy, but when you fight, the buffs you get are so strong! ?
She gathered her thoughts, found the right direction and rushed directly into the area of the Dog.
The only question left is whether to break off a piece of your own shrine?
She hadn't yet experienced what it was like to have her own gaming realm.
When Qiao Song invaded the Dog territory on behalf of the Rooster, the Dog himself was actually no longer in his own territory.
A slightly noisy space, just like an animal farm, filled with the howling and noise of various creatures.
This is a place similar to the meeting space of the 12 committee members, but it is obviously not as mysterious as that place.
There was an ordinary round table with 12 chairs, and various animal keepers were arguing with their neighbors around the table.
The most angry one among them was a monkey.
"You bastard, you actually teamed up with the tiger and served him as a dog. Aren't you afraid that after he kills the cows, horses and chickens, he will kill you too?!"
The dog had a stern face and ignored him completely.
Apart from the noisy monkey, the atmosphere between the five of them was particularly subtle because the tiger and the dog had just launched a lightning attack on the chicken, cow and horse.
The remaining few zodiac animals over there were not much better, and their eyes were filled with all kinds of open and covert struggles.
"Alright, alright, the celebration has just begun. There will be opportunities to fight in the future. Don't argue now. I called you here today because of something else."
Chen Long stood up. His seat was different from the others. It was more gorgeous and spacious. He was located at the main seat of the entire table, which also highlighted his status as the ruler of Zootopia at this time.
"I'm sure everyone has noticed the movement in the river. Now the members of the 12 committees will definitely find an opportunity to join the celebration. I believe everyone knows what to do."
Tiger, who had been crossing his arms and looking unhappy with everyone, suddenly laughed: "Yo, Old Dragon, it seems that you want us to deal with those administrators who sneaked in by ourselves?"
"But aren't you the one who wants to deal with them the most?"
Tiger propped up his furry face with one hand and tapped the table lightly with the other.
"You built a zoo city based on the twelve zodiac animals, imitating the Twelve Committees, but found that you couldn't replace the Twelve Committees on the Infinite Highway. Now you want to use us to fight for you?"
Chen Long still stroked his mustache with a smile: "I didn't ask you to do it yourself. After the efforts of the past few years, many excellent guilds on the Infinite Highway are trapped in Zootopia. Since those guild leaders can't leave, of course they have to make more contributions."
"It's true that I want to replace the 12 committees. Then won't you all be able to ascend with me?"
The old Chen Long looked down at every animal at the round table and said, "I welcome you to replace me at any time during this celebration. As long as we can keep the river and stay in Zootopia, we can really contain those guys on the committee."
"I know some of you still have not given up the idea of crossing the river. Whether you want to cross the river or stay in the game, as long as any position on the committee is vacant, I will let you take it."
"After all, this is a celebration of Zootopia, and we, the twelve zodiac signs, are all in this together, right?"
There was a long silence at the round table, and finally Chen Long stated the final purpose of this meeting.
"Now, regarding the resolution to expand the landing area of the River of Life and Death in Zootopia, who is in favor and who is against it?"
When it came to the issue of opposition, several zodiac signs looked at each other implicitly, but in the end, no one raised their hand.
Chen Long was quite satisfied with the result: "Very good, then let the river water roll more vigorously."
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*Part of the article quoted my country's Public Security Administration Regulations
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