Chapter 199 Zootopia
"Hey, Lao Dai, have we entered the territory of the dog? Why don't we see any signs of the game?"
At the junction of the Dog and the Ox, the positions of the invader and the invaded have been reversed.
A guy with horns on his head stood on both sides with his companions.
"The Dog took the initiative to attack the Ox. There should be no players at the border. We will follow the original plan, one going to the Dog and the other to the Ox."
The boy with horns on his head and a lollipop in his mouth turned around happily and said, "Then I'll go to the ugly cow. The mad dogs are too difficult to deal with when they are angry. I'd better leave it to you."
On the other side, a girl wearing a hip-hop hat blew a bubble gum and said, "Have you memorized the strategy?"
The boy who bit the lollipop into pieces waved his hand, leaving only a nonchalant back and an OK gesture.
The girl also pulled her punk jacket to the top, revealing only a pair of sharp eyes under her baseball cap.
"Invasion of the Dog Rule 1, beware of the owner of the first game area..."
She looked around and there was a faint fruity smell and a faint fishy smell in the air.
There is nothing here, no system prompts for game rules, and no attacking NPCs or players.
Kong Li did not let his guard down.
A lunar calendar was held between the fingers and caught fire without any wind.
[Is it normal for young people to know a little about Feng Shui and physiognomy and check the almanac? 】
"Dragon day clashes with dog, lucky god is southwest, unlucky to take a boat, or cross water."
The previous aimless glance soon turned into a focus on the puddles of water of all sizes in the area.
Kong Li sneered: "You are quite good at hiding."
The bubble gum burst with a snap, and Kong Li picked up a copper coin between his fingers and shot it out like a dart.
The sound of breaking glass was heard simultaneously from more than a dozen puddles around.
But strangely, no creature jumped out.
Guessed wrong?
Kong Li frowned, unzipped his clothes, and took out another piece of yellow paper from his side pocket. It was a lightning-attracting talisman.
This thing is very lethal and if used incorrectly it would alert the enemy, so this time she did not use it immediately, but walked slowly around the puddles.
The puddle where the sound of the mirror breaking was heard is still a normal water surface.
She looked indifferent, but was actually quite alert and attentive to any disturbance around her.
Underwater.
The little white clam quietly hid in the puddle world and didn't dare to make a sound.
Who the hell is this guy? He looks so fierce!
It was just a fake mascot who was forced to take up the post! In a hurry, it only had time to hide in an area for warning. Who knew that a player would really come! ?
Can't see me...can't see me...
It kept muttering to itself and praying that Qiao Song was okay, otherwise it would really be caught by the players and grilled like scallops!
Kong Li turned around holding the yellow paper, the doubt between his brows growing deeper and deeper.
I really didn't detect any rules or malice.
But the strategies given by the president are never wrong.
Haven't reached the game area yet?
Kong Li stopped for a moment and without wasting time, chose to continue going deeper into the Xu Dog area.
Little Baibei hid in the simple space of the puddle, staring at the windows hovering above his head in the dark space.
Seeing Kongli moving farther and farther toward the southwest, it finally let go of its two shells.
Scared to death, finally left.
Fortunately, I am a little loser and I listened to Qiao Song and didn't make a real game. I just made some puddle lookout towers to observe the players passing by.
Then, it realized another problem. Although the other party did not stay and dig deep into the ground, wasn’t the area behind also the newly added gaming area in Mr. Qiao’s house?
Although Qiao Song is out of contact now, there are still communication channels between the mascots.
The site at the back is said to be owned by three spiders that have driven through a haunted house, so they must be more experienced than it!
Xiao Baibei acted decisively and revealed the fact that he had been attacked by the enemy.
At the back, the stone tablet maze area.
The three spiders, as if suffering from separation anxiety from their pets, shuddered instantly.
Bai You, who had been sitting on the pyramid steps and looking a little bored, propped up his face with his hands and asked sideways, "What, did you contact Qiao Song?"
The big-headed spider had already climbed down the stone steps.
"No, there are intruders coming."
Bai Youyo exclaimed: "Great, the old cow is so powerful that it actually invades the dog."
Because of the defeat, the shrine territory and the map tablet were also handed over, so Bai You can no longer hear the system's invasion prompts.
But the little spiders can hear it.
[Ding——Emergency, players from Chenlong Territory are invading, please defend your game territory! ]
This is the game area covered by shrine fragments, the instinct of self-defense.
Little Spider is familiar with Bai You and reminded him: "It's not Ugly Bull's counterattack, it's Chen Long's player."
Bai You, who was originally in a slack posture, sat up straight all of a sudden: "Chen Long is out so early?"
Soon, she seemed to understand something. She glanced at the three spiders that were already ready for battle and muttered, "So this old guy has been keeping an eye on the changes in the map... so perceptive..."
When she jumped down, she had a stack of tarot cards in her hand.
"What are the skills of the people who came? I asked about the players in the Chenlong area before. They never recruit new people and are very closed."
The big-headed spider did not hide anything from her and directly relayed the information that Little White Shell had gathered from the front line.
Bai You: "Two people appeared at the border, one went to the Ox and the other came to the Dog? Are you so arrogant?"
"Wait—are you sure you heard the words 'game guide'?"
Spider-Man nodded: "Little White Shell didn't come to the game, he was only responsible for eavesdropping on the news, he should have heard it correctly."
Bai You’s intelligence network is no pushover and quickly matched the data in his mind.
"Those psychopaths from the strategy team are actually in Chenlong?"
Unlike some unions that will not do anything without profit, those guys in the strategy group are always weird and crazy. Although they don't do anything, they are also subject to some restrictions.
It is said that they only obey direct orders from the president, and only a few players know that their guild has a president who can directly issue some game strategies, so it is called the strategy group.
But……
The information Bai You had received before was that most of these guys were on the side of the Sheep and Rabbit, and it was said that their skills were more compatible.
So the strategy group also has players in Chenlong.
Individual players without a guild will choose a more suitable zodiac field according to their profession, but this is different for players in large guilds with the shrine resurrection function.
They will try their best to enter the zodiac realm where the union is located, so that they can at least have a guarantee of resurrection.
But do these guys in the strategy group have so many shrines? If they put a few members in each area, aren’t they afraid of death and not being able to be resurrected?
Spider-Man: "She's already in. Damn it! This guy seems to be completely unaffected by the maze. How can he find his way so quickly?"
As soon as Kong Li entered this area, he felt a very familiar smell of metaphysics.
Tarot?
If there is a circle of contempt in the world of metaphysics, Tarot is almost the last or second to last one.
Kong Li raised her eyebrows, looking a little confused as to why the chief asked her to be extra careful before going out.
This is the level of the game?
She replaced the lightning talisman in her hand with a strange wooden branch and threw it towards the intersection as she walked.
As Kong Li went deeper and deeper into the maze, the scene in the maze finally began to change.
On the stone wall, some tarot card images that had been motionless before gradually came to life.
"Hmm? He's actually a tarot card reader who changed his career halfway..."
Kong Li picked up another piece of yellow talisman paper in his left hand. When the first armored knight jumped down, a loud thunder suddenly sounded in a certain area of the maze.
Bai You had just used his skills to connect with his compatriots imprisoned in the basement, but the Tarot Knight cards created by their abilities were almost wiped out instantly.
She looked helplessly at the three spiders weaving their webs below:
"I remember who this girl is, Kun Dao Kong Li. She dresses fashionably like a rapper, but is actually a metaphysical player... I thought she had disappeared or died a long time ago, but she is still alive. I am a tarot reader who has changed my career, and I am just imitating the skills of a tarot reader. I can only help you buy time for a while, and the rest depends on you."
Big Head nodded with a heavy heart, and quickly started weaving a spider web with the thin-legged spider and the little spider.
These white nets became more and more numerous, but gradually melted into the air.
[Dreamweaver, nightmare in the making...]
At this time, Qiao Song, who was still in the Mirror Zootopia, suddenly felt that his connection with the shrine had strengthened.
A very inexplicable suction force took away some of the energy in her body.
It's not about soul power or physical strength, it's more like the memories in her mind, something more suspenseful.
Qiao Song recalled the system prompt he heard earlier, saying that Chen Long had invaded the territory of Xu Dog. So, his own mascots had already confronted Chen Long's players?
strangeness.
Logically speaking, the Chenlong territory should be the last to be invaded.
According to the previous zodiac rankings, Chen Long will definitely face a joint attack from multiple zodiac signs in the later period. It is a bit early to take action now. What has stimulated him?
Qiao Song hasn’t decided yet whether to go out or not.
She felt that if she left now, it might not be so easy to come to such a mirrored zoo city again in the future.
It is really unusual for the Dragon to invade the Dog at this time. I don’t know if it saw the 13th color on the map.
At this time, the Husky held by Qiao Song was still struggling: "Wife, don't go, I'm not dead yet, don't go——"
It looks like he hasn't woken up from his dream yet.
Qiao Song slapped him awake: "Are you worried that your wife will remarry or something? How dare you shout at such a big old dragon in the water? Wake up, you idiot——"
The dog's head was hit hard, and the Husky's almost dilated pupils finally focused. It was as if he had just had a dream, and it took him several minutes to recover.
After being in a daze for a few seconds, he suddenly struggled vigorously, even more excited than when Qiao Song was about to throw him into the river.
"No, I want to go down. I see the escape door, I want to go in! My wife is still waiting for me in the ward!"
Qiao Song frowned and grabbed the dog's head and pushed it down, asking him to take a closer look. "The lake has dried up. Where are you going? Doggy paddling in the mud?"
The Husky seemed to notice only at this moment that the huge lake had completely disappeared.
At some point before, there suddenly appeared the shadow of a golden dragon hovering over the lake, and soon, this thing that seemed to be the river of life and death disappeared.
The strange dark lake water seemed to be drained in an instant.
The lake dried up in the blink of an eye, and not only the Husky players, but many dog residents in the park are now confused.
"What happened? Why is there no water?"
"Can we go down and take a look? There's no water anyway."
"You can go if you want. What if the lake water changes back to normal? The dog never lets residents go into the water. If they do, they won't even get a bone out of it."
"Why don't we go back? Today is a rare day off, and now it looks like we won't be able to find a new pet. I heard that some dogs have gone crazy recently and specifically run to the park lake to eat little people. Now the lake is dry, and we just can't catch the little people. Those crazy dogs who can't eat little people will go crazy if they can't catch them."
"Hiss, is it so scary? Okay, let's retreat today. Anyway, no matter what happens, Lord Xugou will find a way."
The dogs discussed for a while, and finally dispersed in twos and threes, apparently preparing to go home.
The Husky still couldn't accept it and stared at the dried-up lake pit as if he had lost his soul.
"Why...I clearly saw it..."
I saw the person I most wanted to see and the world I most wanted to return to.
For this, he was even willing to jump into the lake which was said to corrode the dog, hair and bones included.
"Do you want to go home so badly?"
After hearing what Qiao Song said, Husky couldn't help but sneer: "Among the players who can walk to Zootopia on the road, which one doesn't really want to go home? Before coming to this dungeon, the truly capable players had already gone through various temptations, becoming NPCs, joining some strange guilds, and even cooperating with NPCs..."
The Husky's previous nondescript look completely disappeared, and his eyes stared lonely at the large hole in the dried-up lake.
"The survival gate has long disappeared. If I want to go back, I have to take an unconventional approach. Otherwise, why do you think I would compete for the position of Dog?"
Qiao Song suddenly said, "Once you become a dog, you can't get out."
Qiao Song's words made Husky raise his head seriously. He looked at this female player who looked a little crazy but was actually brave and careful for several seconds before speaking:
“No, I got a piece of information from a very powerful guy. Becoming an NPC in other copies will indeed force you to stay in the game, but some copies are different. They have established a special organization called the 12 Committee.
Those guys have mastered the real way to open the door. Since they were able to open the door before, they can use new methods to open the passage back to the human world and reality. I must become one of them. The first step is to become a dog."
Qiao Song didn't expect that this guy actually knew about the 12th Committee: "If they can get out, then why don't they get out?"
"It seems they don't want to." Husky looked strange. "The version I heard is that half of the guys are determined to create a new kingdom in the game, and the other half said they don't want to go back, but in fact they are fighting against this group of diehards. I don't understand what they are doing. It seems like they are waiting for some strange opportunity."
This time, Qiao Song really looked up to Husky.
After a moment, she said, "Are you Wu Ma's player?"
Husky was stunned, with a horrified expression: "How did you know that?"
It is unlikely that the zodiac animals in the northern area will make it through at this time. Players of the Monkey element have been defeated in all areas and have been completely eliminated. The Tiger and the Dog are allies, and now is the critical moment, so it is impossible for them to fall out at this time.
It’s impossible for Rooster to be Rooster either. Qiao Song herself is a Rooster player. If someone of the same kind comes over, she should be able to smell a faint bird scent.
Players of the Ox sign are currently in the passive defense stage. Lawyer Zhong Shiwei said that she will drag down all the Dog players who invade the Ox sign to death in the Ox sign's territory.
In other words, he would not allow his players to risk entering here for the time being.
In addition, when they first met, Husky pointed out that Qiao Song relied on packing canned food to maintain his dog image. This guy could only be a player in other fields.
After this elimination, there is only one Wu Ma left in the entire southern region.
Qiao Song carefully observed his expression and asked, "When you disappeared in that lake before, did you hear any strange noises?"
She was referring to the fact that the Dragon of Chen began to invade the Dog of Xu.
The Husky looked blank for a moment.
At that time, he was only focused on the image of his wife in the ward, holding his hand and crying, and he really didn't hear anything.
Seeing that this guy didn't seem to be lying, Qiao Song silently ruled out a certain answer in his mind.
Now that the lake has disappeared, she can choose to return to the original Animal City, but firstly, she doesn't want to leave Husky, a potential competitor, alone in this city.
Secondly, she felt that Chenlong's invasion was stuck at this critical juncture, giving her a very subtle sense of discomfort.
It was as if forcing her to go back.
Qiao Song was not unaware of her own peculiarity, and she could not waste this good opportunity. There must be a big secret hidden in these mirror cities.
"Where have you been staying these past two days?"
Qiao Song made a gesture to untie the Husky. The latter looked suspicious, but he didn't know what he thought of. Then he slowly said:
"I was in the Dog Realm, clearing a guild player's game, and entered a strange factory. I opened the door and came to this world. The system said I had entered a special test mode, but I just entered and didn't see any living creatures around me. I was caught for no reason."
"Then I was sold to a rich woman's kid by some second-rate pet dealers. But the family that raised me, no, the family that raised the dog, lived in a garden villa. I secretly jumped out from near the window, grabbed a few clothes from the balcony, put them on, and ran out..."
Qiao Song felt that what this guy said was full of loopholes.
For example, Qiao Song can only transform into a dog by sniffing the smell of canned food, and he has to smell the smell once in the middle.
Now, she vaguely felt that she needed to replenish her condition before going home, but this Husky boy had so much hair on his body that she had plucked it, and there was no sign of baldness at all.
His transformation lasts much longer than Qiao Song's, and his condition is also much better.
Qiao Song knew that he might not rely on smell, but a more direct method.
He might even have eaten the cans.
But it doesn’t matter, Qiao Song doesn’t mind. She just has to keep this guy under her nose and monitor him through the NPCs in the copy.
"The family I live in has a lot of children. You can come back with me later."
The Husky player was a little happy when she untied him, but when he heard this, his face fell instantly: "I thought I was sincere. It's fine if you want to go back to the 'prison' now, but why do you take me back with you!?"
Qiao Song: "Because I'm better than you."
"You are taking advantage of the dog's misfortune!"
Qiao Song ignored the guy's struggle and slightly changed the style of the willow branches, only tying the guy's hands instead of his hands and feet together, so that the Husky could walk on his own.
"This city is more dangerous than we thought. Since we have met by chance, don't be polite. Didn't you say you wanted to cooperate? I am cooperating with you."
The Husky got angrier and angrier as he listened. What kind of good person would tie up their partner like this?
Fortunately, it was around 10 o'clock and close to noon, and there were not many dogs on the road. Qiao Song also knew to put a coat where their hands met to cover them a little.
What most residents were discussing was the sudden drying up of the lake in Central Park.
"It's strange, the smaller ornamental ponds are still the same as before, but the largest one in the park is gone."
"Yes, I heard that too. It evaporated in an instant. It's really scary. If someone was trying to climb out of the water at that time, wouldn't he have been taken away with him?"
"I don't know about that, but I heard that a lot of pets crawled out of the water some time ago. The number of pets resold by some second-hand dealers has increased. The prices are, wow."
Qiao Song walked forward while listening, and suddenly, all the dogs on the street heard the sound of cell phones ringing.
Many dogs took out their phones and read text messages with a puzzled look on their faces.
Qiao Song had a bad feeling in his heart, and he pretended to lower his head to take something out of his pocket, but he was actually just looking at a large piece of leaves in his hand.
The Husky wasn't stupid either. He immediately lowered his head and moved closer to her, pretending that the two dogs were looking at their phones together.
In fact, Qiao Song used one hand to lift up the King Charles Spaniel's big furry ears a little bit, as if to lift up its bangs, making it much cuter than the Husky next to it whose ears were already erected high.
Two humans hiding in the dog pack are using their dog-like hearing to receive all the information being discussed by the surrounding residents.
"Why did Lord Dog suddenly issue a regulation banning the sale of human pets?"
The dogs were whispering to each other, looking somewhat uncomfortable, as if they had been deprived of an important hobby in their lives.
"Is it because the prices for reselling human pets have been driven up too high recently?"
"Shouldn't they limit the transaction price, arrest the middlemen, and hold official auctions? Why should we ban it completely?"
“Maybe because the lake dried up?”
"I don't know. Anyway, they said that they might have to check all human pets door to door throughout the city. Oh my God, they won't collect taxes, will they?"
“What is taxation?”
Qiao Song suddenly turned around and looked at the Rottweiler who had just proposed to collect taxes.
All public facilities in Zootopia are free. Not only are there no taxes, there are even various free benefits, such as free canned food. When she was looking for canned food before, she saw a list of living things put together, and all the canned meat on it were distributed free of charge.
When Rowena mentioned the tax collector, he seemed to be stunned for a moment: "I don't know, it just came out of my mouth suddenly, maybe I dreamed of some new words, you know, I always have trouble sleeping at night."
"Oh, that's true. Sometimes I have some very strange dreams. Maybe it's because I want to have a human pet too much. The world I dream of is full of humans. Sometimes I wake up crying in the middle of a dream. My golden retriever sister always laughs at me. Maybe it's because I want to have a pet too much, and I dream about it at night."
"This is a pity. In the future, sales channels will be closely monitored, and it will be even more difficult to keep a human pet."
When Qiao Song heard this, he suddenly became more certain that the residents of this city must have some memory problems.
They may have seen the world they once lived in in their dreams, and they may also miss people in their dreams.
They long to have human pets because that is how they once lived.
The NPCs in this animal city might have once been living people. They also want to go home, but home may only appear in their dreams forever.
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