Chapter 201 Zootopia
Bo Zhao disappeared.
When Qiao Song saw this player who looked like a husky, with his fur and flesh all burnt, and his bones remaining in the shape of a human, he already had a bad guess in his mind.
She had only seen that bone pattern in one place.
The soul form of the paper-zha town, where bones are the embodiment of the human soul.
And Bo Zhao's final soul was also carried away by the river.
In the kitchen behind the cafeteria, in the pool stacked up like a TV cabinet, the light strip continued to go out, and the water was slowly disappearing. Only the pool of water that Bo Zhao jumped into was gurgling and emitting a few bubbles.
To go in or not to go in...
Was what Bo Zhao saw really a door? Were those scenes real or illusions?
Before Qiao Song could make a choice, the pet box she had been holding in her arms suddenly made a banging sound.
Gao Chengcheng, who had been dozing off, suddenly became energetic for some reason.
Her eyes were bright and she jumped up with her mouth open as if she wanted to say something, but after moaning for a long time, she seemed to have lost the ability to speak.
Qiao Song looked at the "X" symbol formed by Gao Chengcheng's crossed arms, and the headlines shook like a rattle.
"You don't want me to go down?"
Gao Chengcheng nodded frantically, then quickly lay on the ground, and made a barking sound with his mouth, bearing the humiliation.
Qiao Song frowned for a moment, and suddenly thought of an incredible answer.
Could that door in the water be...
At this time, the bell for the end of get out of class had already rung, and the joyful voices of the pups leaving school could be heard from the gymnasium.
Qiao Song immediately decided to run away.
"I want you to come with me now, do you have any objection?"
Gao Chengcheng had appeared in Dog Brother's territory before her, but had been in a dazed state. It was unclear whether her regaining consciousness now was a last gasp of energy.
She felt that Gao Chengcheng was not insensitive to the outside world, but was deliberately isolating himself, as if to protect himself.
This is her brother's territory, and Gao Bin might not really do anything to her.
The only problem is that Gao Bin and Bai You both said that Gao Chengcheng should be in Maotu's territory, so they don't know how she ended up here.
After Qiao Song asked her if she wanted to go together, Gao Chengcheng nodded quickly. In the short time she was awake, strange changes began to appear on her body.
The white ears hidden in the orange curly hair began to emerge little by little, and even the whole body became furry.
Before falling asleep, Gao Chengcheng, who had been moaning all the time, finally said to Qiao Song the first words since they met: "Ji...save my brother, he didn't become a dog voluntarily."
As Gao Chengcheng spoke, the animalization in his body accelerated.
Qiao Song could feel that the girl in the pet box was growing clumps of white hair at a very fast speed.
Qiao Song ran all the way with the box in his arms. He quickly found a safe passage from the campus map he had seen before and climbed directly to the wall.
She placed her hand on the box and used the Rooster's ability. This time, Gao Chengcheng's transformation into a rabbit slowed down a lot.
This gave her the opportunity to say a second sentence.
"…The escape door is a scam. We are all residents of the new world and the nutrients of the river. Don't go down, at least not now."
Before she completely turned into a rabbit, Gao Chengcheng curled herself up again.
Qiao Song held the ping-pong ball that was previously hidden in his pants. Although this thing could not be turned back into a prop, it could still amplify the ability of Youji a little bit.
The warm light like sunshine shone into the pet box, and the girl who was curled up and almost half of her body had turned into a rabbit finally stopped her alienation.
Her painful expression gradually relaxed, but she fell asleep with a slightly sad look on her brow.
Gao Chengcheng completely paused his animalization process through sleep.
Qiao Song finally understood why this guy had been sleeping all the time.
After leaving the dog school, a map of the city quickly took shape in Qiao Song's mind, and the pursuers behind would soon catch up.
She needs to find the location of the Dog.
The city issued a notice for a comprehensive census of human pets yesterday, and all chip upgrades were completed this morning.
After contaminating herself with canned food again, she has now taken on the appearance of a dog resident and cannot be located after leaving the pet box, but Gao Chengcheng cannot.
This pet box and the chip on the pet's neck will definitely not be as gentle as the past two days.
The ubiquitous trash can robots on the streets did not turn a blind eye to Qiao Song's desperate run this time.
After Qiao Song passed by, they suddenly put down their work, their eyes flashed, and countless streams of information shuttled between them.
[Ding, instructions updated, change plan. ]
【The hunt for today's fugitive begins. 】
Dong-dong-dong-dong
In the Dog District of Zootopia, an alarm was sounded for the entire area.
From the corner of his eye, Qiao Song had already noticed the white robots flying towards him one after another.
She decisively took out a bag of minced meat from her pocket. It was from the school cafeteria's kitchen, and it was noted that it was meat paste specially for the puppies during their growth period.
As soon as Qiao Song opened the sealed bag of broth, he almost felt so sick that he stopped running.
She resisted the urge to throw the thing out as a biological weapon, and instead opened the bag and took a deep breath.
An indescribable smell rushed straight to the top of her head, making the veins on her forehead bulge.
Qiao Song has always hated food with pungent taste. This aversion seems to be engraved in his biological instinct.
But the level of disgust she felt for this canned meat had almost reached its peak.
The power of pollution quickly invaded her body.
Qiao Song's original appearance as a little King Charles Spaniel suddenly began to change in another direction.
A pure gray-black hair gradually replaced the original cute cream-yellow curly hair.
Qiao Song's skeleton grew taller again, her sense of smell became sharper and her vision became wider.
[Ding——Congratulations on unlocking a new state! Achieved 100% fusion of the five senses! Dear shrine player, you have one last hour of free time. After the time is up, if you fail to achieve the goal of replacing the dog, you will be forcibly teleported back to the inner city of the animal city and will never be able to enter the dog city area again. ]
[Players please work hard to complete the goal, bite off the neck of the previous dog king, and replace him as the new dog! ]
This was the first time the system directly told Qiao Song that if she killed the current Xu Dog, she would be able to pass the level and get the area she wanted.
But Qiao Song’s mind is a little confused now.
She felt like there were many voices roaring in her head, and she almost couldn't help but open her mouth, revealing her newly grown sharp teeth.
The bones were crackling and growing.
I really want to sharpen my claws and bite something.
I'm so hungry.
She knew she had a bag of minced meat on her body, and eating that would make her current self stronger and happier, but she couldn't eat it.
Qiao Song looked up and suddenly couldn't help but howl. She was not afraid that the sound would attract anything. This was her confidence.
At this moment, she possessed almost all the wild instincts that a hunter should have in a city of steel and concrete.
After the transformation was completely completed, Qiao Song turned into a Czech Wolfdog with blue eyes, gray-black fur, stronger bite force than ordinary dogs, and more bloodthirsty.
The clothes on his upper body had been torn, and Qiao Song jumped directly into a fountain pool nearby with the box in his arms.
The phantom of the River of Life and Death has completely disappeared from this city.
The main reason Qiao Song jumped in this time was to wash off the smell on her body. She wanted to avoid all possible tracking methods.
When she crawled out again, she had become a creature that looked even more like a dog than the inhabitants of the Dog Realm.
A true original Czech Wolfdog that walks on all fours.
At noon in the central business district, many residents exclaimed, but most of them were not afraid but surprised.
All the dogs around have learned to walk upright, wear skirts and ties, leather shoes and high heels, drive cars and live in high-rise buildings. They have animal heads and do the same things as humans did before.
And one day, when another dog ran on all fours in its most primitive form, a strange memory seemed to appear in their minds.
It seems like dogs are born to run hard on all fours.
Are dogs really born unable to swim? Why can't they get into the water?
Why do dogs in a family all look different? Why do we sometimes have a brother or sister in the family who is older than us?
"Is this a dog? If she is a dog, then what am I?"
The central area became increasingly quiet, with many residents staying where they were. Only Qiao Song's figure, stepping on the roof of a car and leaping up with all his might, struck everyone's mind like a heavy hammer of freedom and wildness.
Only half of the roadside cleaning robot chased Qiao Song. The other half of the circular electronic screen began to emit a large amount of uniform red light, like keeping fried food warm, covering every pedestrian on the street evenly.
[Restarting, please note that the memory of the dog residents is stimulated by some kind of anchor point, please all cleaning robots put down their work and enter the second level combat readiness state. 】
[Priority order, kill the 'abnormal dog', secondary order, maintain the memory status of the residents in the Xu Dog area. ]
Qiao Song ran freely at the front of the pursuit team. She had no idea how much turmoil her appearance in this image had brought to this peaceful dog city.
She jumped high. She had never run so fast before. In just a few minutes, Qiao Song arrived at the starting point in her memory.
It was the pet shop where she was taken away in the first place.
The map of Zootopia is not very big, and most of it is living facilities. There are no factories and no places to produce daily necessities.
Qiao Song originally suspected the cannery the most, but she did not find the corresponding area on the map.
Unless these things were in the store from the beginning.
She had long suspected the place she had first come to, but at that time she could not see any living creature standing at the counter.
Now, she feels she can.
After the so-called 100% integration of the five senses, Qiao Song finally saw the pet store where she first landed. Sure enough, there was a black Doberman standing at the counter.
Gao Bin seemed to have been waiting for her for a long time, and was even relieved to see her appear.
"Congratulations, you are the first player to unlock the 100% status and find me."
Beep, beep. The rolling shutter of this large department store began to drop, and the white robot chasing Qiao Song stayed outside the store and did not come in.
It would be more accurate to say that Gao Bin wanted to isolate the battlefield rather than lock up Qiao Song here.
"I have issued a hunt order. All existing human players in this city will be cleared out within an hour at most. If you fail to win, all players in this batch will be completely recycled and processed until they are completely transformed into local residents."
Gao Bin slowly took off the apron around his waist.
Qiao Song bared her teeth, her four legs facing the ground, her body completely hardened into a furry Czech wolfhound. If it weren't for the large space in this family, the dog's head would have hit the ceiling as soon as it came in.
Compared with Gao Bin who was wearing the store manager's uniform, Qiao Song looked more like a primitive dog.
"...To be honest, I didn't expect you to meet Cheng Cheng. I thought she had already escaped."
Gao Bin's eyes were fixed on the pet box that Qiao Song was holding in his mouth.
Gao Chengcheng, whose half body had turned into a rabbit, had also grown a lot bigger. He curled up and slept in a cramped box.
The pupils in Qiao Song's eyes shrank a few times, and she heard the sound of various packaging bags breaking in the store.
All kinds of dog food were scattered all over the floor, like gravel, constantly spraying from the shelves, as if to completely transform the store floor into a beach.
The tin can rolled all over the floor, and then inexplicably, as if the seal was not complete, it began to leak out minced meat and grease.
The aroma, the aroma of all kinds of high-quality food.
Qiao Song's pupils kept dilating and shrinking, shaking so much that they were almost disintegrating.
A black Doberman slowly walked out from the counter. His fur was extremely shiny and his muscles showed his most primitive strength.
Compared to Qiao Song, who seemed to be overwhelmed by the smell, Gao Bin seemed much more indifferent.
"It's a pity that you have never eaten meat even though you can enter this primitive state. Are you very hungry now?"
Although his words sounded a bit cold and disrespectful, Gao Bin did not completely let his guard down.
"You can just look down. There's plenty of food here. You're welcome."
The black Doberman walked closer step by step, and finally couldn't help but speed up when Qiao Song really lowered his head. However, just when his paws were about to reach the pet box, which was a little small for the Czech Wolfdog, suddenly, Qiao Song moved.
She turned suddenly and kicked the black Doberman, growling incoherently.
After her appetite was stimulated and the floor was covered with dog food and canned meat, her first reaction was to run away with the thing in her mouth.
Gao Bin had experienced the same thing before. He looked at Qiao Song's dilated pupils and the wolfhound form that had almost transformed into its original form, and realized something:
"No, Qiao Song—you can't eat her—she's mine—I—"
Qiao Song ran to the innermost part of the pet store. She exerted a little force with her jaw, and cracks gradually appeared on the glass of the transparent pet box. However, the bunny girl sleeping inside was still sleeping soundly, as if she was unaware of the danger outside.
The silver-gray ears turned slightly, and Qiao Song exerted force on his hind legs and retreated decisively in a certain direction.
A black Doberman suddenly jumped out, and it was similar to the one on the counter. After missing the first attack, it bared its teeth and made an attacking gesture again.
Then the second one, the third one...
In some corners of this pet shop, there were so many black Doberman Pinschers of the same model.
Each of them is Gao Bin’s eyes, and each of them could be Gao Bin.
Although Qiao Song seemed confused and drooling, he was actually thinking about a problem in his mind.
It is said that the Dog has no fixed image and can transform into anyone.
Is this person at the front desk really Gao Bin himself?
Why does Gao Chengcheng always hide in residents' homes, willing to be a pet instead of taking the initiative to join her brother or seek cooperation from other players?
She doesn't trust her current brother.
She even asked Qiao Song to save her brother.
Gao Bin should be in an abnormal state of being restrained now.
Therefore, Qiao Song only had to do one thing, tighten his jaw and bite down hard——
Crack, the glass of the box finally broke. Gao Chengcheng, who looked like a rabbit, did not move, but Qiao Song's teeth had scratched her arm.
The smell of blood seeped out.
After Qiao Song had almost bitten the pet box to pieces, Gao Bin finally finished speaking.
"Qiao Song, you can't eat her—she's mine—she's my food!!!"
Qiao Song’s feeling was right, Gao Bin was indeed crazy.
A dog that incorporates other zodiac signs into rhymes and treats them all as food, will it really cling to the last bit of humanity just because of a little blood relationship?
No one could understand Gao Bin’s current condition better than Qiao Song, who was already suffering from hunger.
He still remembered Gao Chengcheng, but he was also crazy.
Is the dog's anger directed at himself or at others?
Qiao Song was soon knocked over by a big dog. She was forced to spit out the bloody box from her mouth, and was then overwhelmed by a large number of black Dobermans.
The Czech Wolfhound, which was larger than a Doberman, was outnumbered. Qiao Song bit the dogs on his body frantically, but it was very likely that these were not Gao Bin himself.
Her abdomen, legs, and even her mouth, all tasted of blood.
But the more this happened, the more excited her expression became.
She had locked onto the Doberman that was acting alone and taking the initiative to chase the almost half-broken pet box.
Gao Bin opened his mouth almost tremblingly, and bit the box that he had snatched back with great difficulty. His expression looked as if he had eaten something he had always wanted to eat, and he was very satisfied, but also as if he was about to cry.
Gao Bin chewed the box together with it, very slowly and with movements as stiff as a clockwork robot.
Amid the creaking sounds, Qiao Song saw him crying.
Before the smell of bones and flesh could be smelled, Qiao Song, like a ghost, kicked away all the pursuers on his body in an instant and bit directly at the black Doberman Pinscher, which was not the most outstanding in size, while eating.
The Czech wolfhound opened its mouth to the extreme, biting the target's throat and directly tearing open a large piece of flesh with black fur.
Gao Bin, who was in a stiff eating state, finally felt a large amount of warm blood spurting out.
Qiao Song mumbled something and soon bit his throat for the second time. No matter how the copy-and-pasted Dobermans around her tried to tear the limbs of the Czech Wolfhound, she still did not let go, and was like a madman who only focused on the dog under her mouth.
Gao Bin felt his body temperature rapidly dropping. Originally, the food in his mouth should have provided him with unparalleled strength.
The food that Xu Gou wants to eat most can replenish his strength, but Gao Bin doesn’t have that feeling now.
The taste was so familiar, he had eaten it several times before.
It didn't taste like rabbit meat, but some canned food in his store.
It's so good that it's not rabbit meat.
Great, it's not orange.
If he didn't eat the right food and his body was found, defeat was inevitable.
The copy-and-paste black dogs that were biting Qiao Song around gradually lost their strength.
With the attitude of an absolute winner, Qiao Song finally held the dying Doberman tightly in his mouth, his bloody teeth pressed against his head, his blue eyes full of animality.
"I won, you bastard. Now start to pledge your loyalty to me and enter my shrine. Only then will I allow your loyalty."
A vague wooden shrine appeared behind Qiao Song.
The fight, which should have ended by killing the other party directly, was finally settled when Gao Bin discovered a girl with rabbit ears sleeping in the corner of a counter.
"Thank you. I give up."
[Ding——Congratulations...]
Everything around was drifting away like fireworks. Qiao Song heard all kinds of noisy sounds, including system prompts one after another, but more often, there were hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of people chattering in her ears.
"Mom, why am I a puppy? Mom, I'm not supposed to look like this."
"The dog on the street just now seemed to be a Czech wolfhound. Wait, why do I look like a dog too? Who is this in the mirror? Is this me too?"
"Help! How did I become a dog? No... I am a dog. I have to go to work tomorrow. I have three children at home..."
These noisy and chaotic sounds come together to form the inner emotions of groups of city residents.
They are distributed on different floors in family units, and every lit light represents a reconstituted family.
Qiao Song’s brain was about to explode, but suddenly he heard a familiar voice.
"Honey, why am I here? Where have you been? Look at me, can you please turn around and look at me?"
"Honey, my head hurts. I miss you so much. I feel so bad."
“…”
"Strange, how did I end up here... Oh, by the way, I'm a resident of Zootopia, I live in the Dog District, I'm still a single dog, I need to rebuild my family, I can find time to adopt a few puppies..."
"No, that's not right. I don't have any children at home, but I shouldn't be single. I have a wife. Yes, I'm going to the Urban Residents Management Center to pick up a wife. She's waiting for me. She must be waiting for me..."
The entire fictional area of Zootopia is condensed into a miniature city model.
There are countless strings tied to the model of the city, some red, some black, and some white.
The white lines are all the inner thoughts of the residents here. Although they are extremely noisy, they are the only way for them to convey their thoughts to the city lord.
From his confused thoughts, Qiao Song accurately found the last thread that made the sound.
She grasped the thread between her fingers, and soon a picture appeared before her eyes.
It was a Husky with tears all over its face.
He lived in a somewhat empty model house. There were family photos on the table, except for a photo of him and his dog, looking silly and taking pictures of a building.
But there was no one beside him.
The posture in this photo in my memory is very strange, as if there should be other figures next to it.
The Husky felt that he had forgotten something very important, but it didn’t matter, he would definitely be able to find it back.
Qiao Song's enthusiasm for having just obtained the management rights for the Dog suddenly dropped several degrees in an instant.
Why would the guy who disappeared in the river of life and death, as if swallowed by an escape door, appear here?
The belated system prompt finally stopped, and Qiao Song heard a series of noisy notifications:
[Ding——Congratulations on successfully winning the new game area! You have unlocked the exclusive rights of the zodiac. Now I will inform you of the population composition and operation mode of the entire area of the dog. 】
[As of the last second before the transfer of power, your city has added a new resident who escaped! ]
[Please try to establish contact with other dungeon NPCs, exchange experiences, develop escape routes, and improve the factory's production lines to allow more players to pass the level and become your new residents! ]
[Let us use the memories of the real world to create a reality that belongs to their ideals and memories! Create a real happy city! ]
Damn happy city.
Bullshit escape door.
They were all lies.
Qiao Song looked at the strange system authority in his hand and felt like a dragon slayer who had killed the evil dragon and saw a new abyss.
Opposite the escape door is the Mirror Zoo?
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