Chapter 223 Snake's Treasure Game
The broken end of the coral was very smooth, and if Qiao Song had not heard the sound of the explosion, it would have been almost hard to imagine that it had been blown open.
Without hesitation, she took the electric saw and started chopping the corals.
The broken corals around had begun to repair themselves. Qiao Song could see that the broken ends of the large corals that were originally like chimneys were getting smaller and smaller.
This thing recovers very quickly after being damaged. If the entrance disappears completely, Qiao Song won’t even be able to pry it open to take a look inside.
Also, it's weird.
After an explosion, the rest of the underwater environment didn't change much, only the corals were blown apart.
And she used an electric saw to cut the coral without causing any damage.
If she hadn't come back so quickly, the players she had fought against would have seemed to have disappeared on the spot, and no one would have associated it with Coral.
And everyone present must have been sucked in at the first moment.
There was a constant buzzing sound underwater, but Qiao Song failed for the first time in his attempt to cause trouble.
The ever-invincible chainsaw did not leave many scratches on these natural objects.
What is this coral made of?
Her chainsaw even chopped off Boss Cai’s face, but she couldn’t cut open this coral?
Suddenly there was a strange noise in the shrine, and Qiao Song sensed that the paper dolphin was beginning to disappear.
Perhaps because the paper used was larger, it disappeared much slower than Ge Jia and Hua Lifan.
This is not just a coral problem.
The paper used by Qiao Song was made from raw materials produced in the paper-zha town. So far, that thing would not be greatly affected by fire or water. The only thing that could consume it was the special lake water that was native to the town and was next to Tong Yao's house.
Any water other than this will not work.
What the hell is inside this coral?
Qiao Song grabbed the woman who had been abducted by her.
"What materials did the people in your guild use to fry the coral?"
The man was now tied up, with only half of the diving suit partially visible on his body.
After Qiao Song brought the man back from the sea, the man's diving suit was restored because he left the examination area set up by the principal.
After Qiao Song came back, he brought the captive back to the classroom area. After positioning himself for a while, this guy with the Midas Touch had a breathing device on his head and was tied with a lot of nets by Qiao Song.
Midas herself had used a recovery item once on the sea, but she knew very well that there was definitely some restriction in this area. After she came down, she was unable to fully use the other items.
The diving suit is composed of two parts. The head part can provide underwater breathing and communication functions, while the clothes on the body are used to resist pressure and have a defensive effect.
She could only use her head, and had no way of using anything else.
The bound fingers flexibly drilled out, as if trying to grab the two ropes and rub them a few times. Qiao Song saw it but did not stop him. Instead, he reminded him:
"Don't play tricks in front of me. Those net bags can't be turned into gold. If I'm not mistaken, your Midas Touch can only work on ownerless things."
The kelp that Qiao Song used to attack were all picked up by her from the bottom of the sea and used as weapons, and the net bag was made from her own toolbox.
The woman struggled for a long time and could only stare at her fiercely: "It's no use to torture me here. I wasn't the one who blew up the coral."
Qiao Song narrowed his eyes. "You guys are all from the Black Iron Guild. If I'm not mistaken, although you came here with Chen Long's mission, there should be competition among you. Don't tell me you don't know what other people's main missions are."
The woman looked a little surprised: "I don't know what you are talking about. Our guild is made up of players from Wumalai. I..."
She wanted to turn her head away and not look at Qiao Song, but someone pinched her face tightly.
Gradually, the light in the Midas Touch's eyes died down and turned into fear.
It was because the monster-like mermaid in front of her suddenly changed its form, and the appearance of a horse gradually appeared on its head.
First the head, then the body, limbs, and finally even the tail changed.
Qiao Song quickly turned into a silver-white Pegasus walking in the water.
The wings behind are fins whose characteristics as a mermaid have not completely disappeared.
Qiao Song let her go and used this morphological feature to kick the coral next to him.
This time, the coral that the chainsaw failed to cut was kicked away by her.
This form is useful, which means that you need to use the power of the zodiac to move these corals.
But the consumption of Qiao Song by having only the head transformed into an animal form is completely different from that of the entire body transforming into an animal form. She drew out a wisp of consciousness, used the small paper figures she had prepared in advance, stuffed a handful of soul incense into the empty shrine, and lit them all.
After she was ready, she restored her limbs to the shape of a mermaid to avoid unnecessary consumption.
Qiao Song grabbed Midas Touch's neck again and said, "I am Wu Ma, how could I not know that there are guys like you in my territory, huh?"
The woman who had lost her breathing device and managed to survive in the chaotic situation before, her face changed drastically: "You, you..."
Qiao Song directly pulled out a piece of paper, focused his attention, and modified part of the content on the paper.
"Sign it, and you will have a chance to live. Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to make you suffer more than living. When you leave Wu Ma's territory, you should know what this place was like before."
The woman was being strangled and unable to move. Logically, she could still use her skills to turn the hand that Qiao Song was strangling into gold. Even if it only made Qiao Song lose a layer of scales, it would still be considered resistance. At least that's what she had done before.
But now she doesn't dare.
Noon Horse——
This woman turned out to be the newly appointed Wu Ma!
She had previously learned through the guild channels that the administrator of the Wu Ma territory had been changed, but she did not expect to run into the real person directly.
Isn't it time to sneak in secretly to start the Zodiac War?
The closer the Iron players are to the upper levels, the more they understand one thing: don't go against the administrators.
Their guild's business depends on various dungeons, so they must maintain good relations with the management NPCs to the greatest extent possible, especially those in Zootopia...
Wu Ma’s working hell, they, Hei Tie, knew how torturous it would be so they ran away early.
"I was... touched by the dragon scales of Chen Long..."
Midas grabbed Qiao Song's hand that was pinching his neck and breathed hard: "There is no way to change... camp."
Qiao Song used his claws to make a bloody cut on her hand. "It's very simple. Tell me the location of the scales and seal it with blood. I can override your faction agreement."
This can be seen as early as what happened to the Snake advance team in Snow White's cabin.
There was a fierce battle of thoughts going on in Midas's mind. In the end, she found that she had no choice. The props could not be used, and the skills were ineffective. She could not defeat the guy in front of her alone.
Qiao Song followed the other person's trembling hand and saw her jaw, a scale that was very close to the color of her skin.
Using force with his claws, Qiao Song dug out the entire piece of phosphorus and meat.
The Midas Touch was in so much pain that she almost fainted. Her willpower was far beyond that of an ordinary person. She looked at the piece of paper floating in the water, and her expression changed one after another. Under the threat of Qiao Song's tightening claws, she completely gave up struggling, grabbed the contract in the water, and pressed her finger, which was still spitting blood mist, on it.
A name slowly took shape at the bottom.
[Ding...Financial talent, Qian Sitian has become your new employee in the Wu Ma field! ]
After hearing the system prompt, Qiao Song let go of the hand that was pinching the person's neck, grabbed Qian Sitian's feet, and dragged her slightly away from the examination area set up by the old principal.
Apart from players with particularly strong perception abilities, only people like her, wearing the invigilator badge given in advance by the old principal, could discover the scope of this examination room.
After Qian Sitian left that area, she was quickly covered with a black diving suit. She coughed a few times and tasted blood in her throat. She quickly drank a bottle of healing drink.
After Qiao Song poached all the new employees, he waited for them to pay for their own treatment and then grabbed them and swam towards the coral reef.
"You should have heard the system prompt. Now you can tell me, what exactly are you doing here, Chen Long?"
When returning to Wuma District to work became a reality, Qian Sitian was not as resistant as she had imagined. The content of the black brick kiln agreement she had heard before seemed to have changed.
There is actually a salary?
But Qiao Song is now his direct superior, so Qian Sitian dared not hide it: "The unified task that Chen Long gave us is to obtain 200 skill cards, and at the same time, destroy the coral bushes as much as possible, as well as the order and environment of Maotu when we leave."
Qiao Song: "Who is responsible for destroying the corals?"
Qian Sitian said before that he didn't know how the coral stone exploded, which was not a lie: "It should be Mo Peining who did it. Each of us has been assigned a task of skill cards, and we have to complete 200 cards in total. Only he does not have this limit."
Qian Sitian paused and said, "Mo Peining's job is a headhunter. He has been responsible for sending special players from foreign fields to Chenlong. We don't know how he destroyed the corals. This can only be done by him."
Qiao Song remembered that she had inexplicably received a payment of 100,000 soul coins before, and it was this headhunter who forced her to come over.
Although she tore up the contract quickly, it was surprising that a player possessed such a domineering skill.
Did Chen Long know where she was and come here on purpose, or was it an accident...
"Were the members of Mo Peining's team selected by Chen Long, or did he choose them himself?"
Qian Sitian didn't know why Qiao Song asked this: "Mo Peining personally selected it. Every time he goes out to do a mission, he chooses the candidates. Chen Long is always busy and appears and disappears mysteriously. Most of the time, he only meets a few players, and Mo Peining is one of them."
There were several guys in the team who didn't want to come to the battle zone between the Snake and the Rabbit and get into trouble. After being called over by Mo Peining, they were all in a bad mood.
After hearing this, Qiao Song felt that this team was most likely set up with her as the target.
How could a headhunter, a player with that kind of skills, easily spend 100,000 soul coins to bribe another player? This number is not a small number for any NPC.
It’s still an hourly rate, not a buyout.
Once this price comes out, doesn’t it make it clear that the person who found it is no ordinary person?
Mo Peining himself doesn't care, but he has to think about his teammates. Combined with the requirements of the skill card, it can only mean that Mo Peining's task should be different from that of others.
They blew up the corals and dragged her into the water.
What the hell is that dragon doing?
Qiao Song didn't waste any time and found the previously broken corals that were almost fully recovered: "I'll go in first, you cover me outside."
Qian Sitian could only say yes.
This is why Qiao Song used a half-threatening and half-coercive method to make the other party sign the contract. She needed a completely obedient tool.
A small paper man was attached to Qian Siting's neck, and the place where scales had grown before had recovered after using the healing props.
Qian Sitian touched the little paper figure on his neck and felt that no matter how hard they worked, workers would always be at the mercy of others.
Her eyes darkened for a moment, but in the end she did nothing. She just followed Qiao Song's instructions and grabbed a thread here.
The thread was taken off the net bag by Qiao Song.
She waved her fish tail one last time, and Shirobako's makeup tool time was almost over. She closed her eyes and changed into a posture that was more suitable for moving in the water.
A huge creature that looked like a wolf and a dog. It was slightly smaller than Wu Ma, but its intimidation was far greater than Wu Ma's.
Just being stared at by her made me feel a little difficult to breathe.
The color is black, but when the sunlight shines on the seabed, you will find that the hair has a more silvery luster.
dog?
Or a wolf?
All kinds of thoughts flowed through Qian Sitian's mind, and her guess about Qiao Song's identity rose by more than one level.
Being able to occupy more than one area, is this why Chen Long wants Mo Peining to keep an eye on her?
Qiao Song ignored this guy who surrendered only when he was almost strangled to death by him. After signing the agreement, Qian Sitian would have no chance to turn against him unless he asked Chen Long himself for help again.
Qiao Song, who has turned into the Dog state, feels that even without the blessing of someone's mission state, he can hold his breath underwater for about twenty to thirty minutes.
She gathered her strength, picked out one of the corals with a larger entrance, pounced on it, cut a hole in the chocolate-like coral with her claws, bit it with her teeth and kicked it with her legs.
The coral broke as smoothly as an ice cube, and suddenly a suction force came from the wound. Qiao Song drilled into the hole without hesitation.
The corals suddenly moved. They turned into creatures similar to sea intestines, wriggling and swallowing. It seemed that they had not bitten such large prey for a long time.
And Qiao Song was the prey that came to him on his own initiative.
But looking at her expression, it was obvious that she wanted to pierce the belly of this man-eating coral.
Qian Sitian held the thread and watched the scene silently.
She suddenly had a strange premonition that the sabotage mission that Chen Long assigned to Mo Peining might not need to be completed on her own initiative.
Where did this new boss, this ruthless guy, come from?
I don’t know if I can return to Black Iron. Among those potential players known only to the top leaders, this guy’s name might be among them.
At this time, Qiao Song was sliding in the corals, and when she kicked the corals off, she was completely sure that this thing must be related to snakes.
Otherwise it would be impossible to cut it even with an electric saw, but the attack of the zodiac itself would be enough.
Without the rule card, it is not known whether the Snake will realize that a zodiac sign is attacking the coral.
It’s okay to know, and she doesn’t need to go find the real person in person.
Qiao Song shrunk the giant wolf's body slightly, turning it into the size of an ordinary dog.
She was sucked down along the channel inside the coral for a long distance, and the few pieces of paper town she had placed on her body in advance had melted.
There is also an attack prop card held in his hand, which looks like a soda cracker soaked in sparkling water, bubbling, expanding, and melting little by little.
Qiao Song rarely uses prop cards. At this moment, she wanted to experiment to see if there was something wrong with the water in the coral.
The color becomes darker as you go down, and gradually turns into fiery red, like blood.
Qiao Song's eyes emitted a faint light like a wolf, which enabled him to see the specific situation in the water clearly.
The huge corals are very much like blood vessels. The passages become wider as you go deeper. Qiao Song could still remember the route at first, but there were so many turns later that she simply gave up memorizing it. She only knew that the general direction was towards the center of the coral, not purely downwards.
As far as she knew, the energy conversion rate after hanging the jars on the edge of the coral reef was only 35%, but it would definitely be higher in the central area, which also meant that the population density there was greater.
Sure enough, Qiao Song gradually saw something floating like rice grains beginning to appear in the distance.
That's a person.
One after another, the players who had completely fainted were floating naked in the water like peeled white radishes.
Not everyone was naked. Some people were wearing the same diving suits as Qian Sitian and the others, but in different colors.
This thing should be a prop, like candy wrapper, slowly melting bit by bit.
The experiment that Qiao Song had done before was correct. The props would slowly dissolve in the coral solution.
She observed the unconscious players and found no one she knew. Not only Ge Jia and the others, but even the Black Iron players were not there.
These peripheral players were all in a coma from a physiological perspective, with very weak heartbeats, but they showed no signs of dying.
The coral solution did not eat people, but it ate everything on the player except people.
Qiao Song memorized these people's faces and continued swimming forward.
The red color in the solution became darker and darker, like a piece of fiery red amber containing a creature that was about to be made into a specimen.
Qiao Song's expression became more and more solemn. There were more people than she had imagined. The little paper man had been melted. She could not sense any trace of Ge Jia and the others for the time being.
She still found a vague direction and moved forward. The paper dolphin carrying the old principal should not have melted completely. That thing was not just a thin paper skin, but divided into many layers and was large enough.
This one was made by Xiao Ni himself. It is made of much more solid materials than those weird paper beasts made by Qiao Song himself. The little guy really likes animals.
Qiao Song swam in this direction for a while, and finally found a few guys huddled together among the increasing number of floating white players.
A torn-to-piece paper dolphin, carrying several people like a kite, raised its tail with difficulty.
Qiao Song saw Ge Jia, Hua Lifan, Principal Ni Chunlai and a child he had never seen before on the cardboard.
When Qiao Song came over, the others didn't notice her, but the little kid in the middle who was protecting the old principal noticed her keenly.
When Qiao Song saw this face, he suddenly frowned.
This child looks very much like Mo Peining that Qian Sitian mentioned.
Although not completely similar, they were at least 50% similar. She and the male player had only met a few times, and they were always in battle, so it was possible that she was mistaken.
When Qiao Song got closer and looked carefully, he felt that it was less than five points.
The boy grabbed the old principal's hand and pulled it gently. Several players with a layer of white bubbles on their heads immediately turned to look at Qiao Song.
Qiao Song now looks like a wolf. She had no intention of scaring Hua Lifan and the others, so she simply turned herself into a human form and swallowed a mushroom that had been hidden in her mouth.
Her body began to stretch and she turned into a mermaid, which was slightly worse than when she used the toolbox to transform, but at least it was more suitable for activities in the water than her human body and wolf form.
But Qiao Song soon frowned.
She could feel her mermaid tail beginning to melt, slowly but surely.
When the dolphin gently shook its tail, the passengers on board had already felt it. They were surprised to see a wolf at first, and then saw the wolf begin to transform into a mermaid. They immediately recognized the person and were filled with surprise:
"Sister Qiao!"
After Hua Lifan called her, he looked annoyed again: "How did you get sucked in? This is the end. No one can get out."
Qiao Song was pulled by the old principal and sat on the lonely and rotten dolphin's tail.
The dolphin had melted halfway, revealing a groove on the top, with the other people stuffed inside. There were several bubbles covering their heads, and only when you got closer could you see that these were layers of bubbles stacked on top of each other.
"This is all thanks to Xiaoshan's bubble machine. He sold us this kind of bubble prop before. One bubble can ensure that the player can survive underwater for 30 minutes."
This was the breathing mask that everyone was wearing on their heads when Qiao Song met them before.
There are many players in the center of the coral reef who know how to set up stalls on the spot and sell the skill cards that have been washed from their own jars directly, which can be used freely by others.
Hua Lifan said that they had bought a lot of them at once and that this kind of bubble is a very cost-effective skill card item in the coral area.
"This child had been following a few other adults doing business in the central coral area. Somehow he ended up here too. Fortunately, we fished him out. Now he's responsible for giving us oxygen."
"A bubble is enough for the player to survive for 30 minutes outside, but only for one minute inside these damn solutions."
While Hua Lifan was speaking, the old principal, holding the boy in his arms, took out a toy gun and fired several shots at Hua Lifan's head.
Qiao Song could clearly feel that the bubbles on Hua Lifan's head suddenly increased by seven or eight layers.
Qiao Song's gaze quickly shifted to the toy gun in the little boy's hand.
Why is there no sign of this gun melting?
The little boy looked at her warily for a few times, then stuffed the toy gun into his arms as if he was afraid that the mermaid would snatch his things.
Qiao Song ignored him and leaned against the edge of the dolphin. After checking the condition of the paper beast, he put the rope on the dolphin, took out the communicator, and quickly sent a message.
Outside the coral reef, Qian Sitian, who had been waiting nearby, glanced at Qiao Song's instructions and decisively began to pull the rope out.
The small piece of paper on her shoulder also jumped down and grew bigger and bigger, soon turning into a giant beast and pulling the rope together with Qian Sitian.
Inside the coral.
As soon as the tattered dolphin boat moved, the passengers on it discovered it and everyone immediately looked happy, even the old principal was no exception.
Only Ge Jia looked listless, even a little dull. After seeing Qiao Song, her eyes lit up a little: "Sister Qiao, you shouldn't have come in. The price of coming in once is too high..."
Qiao Song saw her staring at his palm as if the world was about to end.
"Your tablet was melted too?"
Ge Jia nodded. The expression on her face was more like sadness with a hint of confusion: "I can't feel my skills anymore."
This has never happened before.
Not only her, Hua Lifan also sighed: "I am the same now, I can't even summon a seagull."
"Among us, only Xiaoshan and the old principal can barely use their abilities."
Qiao Song looked away. Ni Chunlai was in better condition now than when he saw him outside.
The old principal nodded: "My main responsibility is to protect this child and let him use the toy gun in his hand. Being able to breathe and wear clothes in this environment is more important than anything else."
The bubbles blown by the little boy can add a layer of film and wrap the players' clothes at the same time, otherwise they would be even more embarrassed.
Qiao Song looked at the old principal for a while, and asked him with some confusion, "What's wrong with the child?" Then he looked away and looked at the child in his arms.
"Little friend, come with us and we'll be safe soon. Don't be afraid."
Qiao Song's voice was so gentle that it seemed as if water could drip out of it.
Those children who had been with her before, especially the little nun, the boys and girls who were beaten up when they first met...if they were here now, they would definitely notice something was wrong.
It is impossible for Qiao Song to be so gentle to the child.
Her smile didn't seem like she was about to take candy, but more like she was about to feed the other person a poisoned apple.
The child in the old principal's arms silently clenched the toy gun in his hand.
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