Chapter 224 Snake's Treasure Game
The dolphin boat was dragged back upstream, but the rescued people were not in a good mood at all. The floating "corpses" around them reminded them that it was still dangerous here.
Hua Lifan sighed silently and turned his head away from looking around: "There are so many naked brothers, luckily we are the only ones awake, otherwise we would be really screwed."
Ge Jia had recovered a lot by this time, and replied to him listlessly: "Shouldn't you be more concerned about whether they are dead or not?"
If it weren’t for Qiao Song and this dolphin paper beast, their fate wouldn’t be much better now.
Hua Lifan turned his head to ask Sister Qiao how she got in, but he only saw Qiao Song approaching Ni Chunlai with a smile on his face, or to be more precise, the little boy in his arms.
Hua Lifan's brain seemed to be cramping, and his body moved subconsciously, and he stretched out his hand to block Qiao Song.
"Sister Qiao, please don't scare Xiaoshan..."
Wait, Hua Lifan felt that he was sick after doing this. Strictly speaking, he and Qiao Song were in the same group.
The seniors in the strategy group had repeatedly emphasized during the meeting that Qiao Song was a typical soft-hearted person, and sometimes she would not even give anyone face. There were countless players in the guild who had suffered at her hands.
Hua Lifan didn't understand why he suddenly had the courage to stop Qiao Song as if he was guarding against a thief. Even Ge Jia frowned and looked at him, as if to say: Are you sick?
At this time, Qiao Song turned his head, and his emotionless eyes glanced coldly at the guy who should have been his subordinate, and looked specifically at the bubbles on Hua Lifan's face.
"Do I look like I'm going to scare a child?"
The atmosphere on the boat suddenly became stagnant, but soon, Qiao Song smiled and said nothing. He even leaned back a little, moving away from the old principal and the boy in his arms.
"Why are you so nervous? You saved this child with great difficulty. Just look around and you'll know how difficult it is to get out safely at this time."
After hearing this, Ge Jia looked at Hua Lifan again. She was sitting relatively far away from the old principal and the others. Only then did she realize why Hua Lifan and the old principal were always circling around one child.
She opened her mouth and tried to say something, but ended up looking at the child in the old principal's arms for some reason.
In the deep black eyes with a slight blue glow, there seemed to be ripples spinning around.
Ge Jia was confused by his gaze, and had only one feeling in his heart: that child was afraid of something... I had to protect him...
After a few seconds, she took a deep breath and tugged at Qiao Song's sleeve: "Sister Qiao, let's sit over there. It's too crowded over there."
Qiao Song turned his head and glanced at her.
These three guys with bubbles on their heads, at least on the outside, looked no different from before, but they were either listless or didn't care about their surroundings. Even Ni Chunlai, the old man who was most prone to illness and unconsciousness among them, now looked very sober.
But this old teacher, who had dedicated his entire life to keeping students in class, turned a blind eye to the several "corpses" that had just floated past, which were obviously his students'.
Qiao Song originally thought that with Ni Chunlai's personality, he would at least try out some skills or props, instead of just circling around one person like he is now.
"Do you really know what you are doing?"
Before anyone could react, Qiao Song took the lead and swept his tail towards Ge Jia.
Ge Jia didn’t even know what kind of transformation mushroom Qiao Song ate. She couldn’t use her skills now and could only cross her hands to block Qiao Song’s sudden fish tail.
After realizing that the props inside the coral would be corroded, Qiao Song had already stuffed several small mushrooms in her mouth in advance. Her mermaid body would also be corroded in this light red liquid, but the speed would be slightly slower than that of others.
She can afford a war of attrition.
After being attacked by Qiao Song, Ge Jia, who was on the periphery, was a little confused. At the same time, she also found that after being swept out of the range of the Dolphin Paper Beast, she soon entered a strange container.
That is a paper lantern.
As soon as Ge Jia disappeared, Hua Lifan immediately stood up and blocked Ni Chunlai: "Qiao Song, what are you going to do!"
He reached back and soon, a toy gun appeared in his hand for no apparent reason, but he did not dare to point the gun directly at Qiao Song.
Hua Lifan stood up reflexively and tried to attack Qiao Song, but now his mind was a mess, as if he didn't know what he was doing.
etc.
Can he move Qiao Song? They have signed a soul contract, and he cannot attack Qiao Song, his zodiac superior, unless he changes sides and the agreement is invalid.
Hua Lifan looked at the toy gun in his hand in a daze, as if he didn't understand why he suddenly pointed this thing at his boss.
"Useless piece of junk!"
The mermaid's second tail directly knocked Hua Lifan away, directly away from this tattered dolphin container.
In this container, which we could call a boat, there were only Qiao Song, the old principal, and the boy in his arms.
"One or two of them are trash."
The boy named Xiaoshan stood up. He was the one who said the word "waste" earlier.
Qiao Song glanced at the still indifferent old principal and sighed silently in his heart: "Since you can use your abilities and props, there is no need to use this old man as a cover. Let's settle the score directly."
The boy narrowed his eyes and looked at Qiao Song carefully: "How did you know that?"
Ni Chunlai was like a puppet, and was kicked by him casually, floating directly into the water flow behind.
Qiao Song grinned: "What did you see? Did you see that there is something wrong with you, or did you see that the others are now under your control? But I am a little surprised. I thought you would use these people to threaten me."
The boy frowned, and two symbols appeared in his eyes again, like a whirlpool spinning: "I don't see too many emotional connections between you and them. Threatening you with them won't have much effect.
[Line of Kinship]
[As long as there are creatures with emotions, there will be some invisible lines between them. Some of them are family, some are friendship, and some are love. These clues formed by these bonds can allow you to distinguish the emotions between strangers at the first time, even if they look completely strange and seem to not know each other. ]
"So pitiful. You have the least amount of online connections among all the players I've ever seen. Do you have no relatives or friends?"
The boy raised his hand, and the bubble gun in his hand began to deform, becoming more and more hideous, like a group of tangled snakes.
【Special gas bubble gun】
[The bubbles that can be produced from the bubble gun do not always contain only one type of gas. Oxygen can burn and explode, hydrogen can fly and rise, and if it is colorful anesthetic gas, then I wish you a good sleep.]
Qiao Song only saw densely packed colorful bubbles flying towards her and surrounding her. Although she held her breath at the first moment, some bubbles touched her skin when they exploded and still had a certain impact on her.
Before he felt dizzy, Qiao Song dived down and tore the side of the Dolphin Boat.
The paper beast was made by her. After Ge Jia and the others were thrown out, they were caught by the lantern and were floating slowly behind.
She also had more than one rope on her.
The liquid in the coral could corrode the props at any time, so she simply pulled the net bag and rolled it into a huge hemp rope as thick as her arm.
Qiao Song had a trick up his sleeve. The rope that was tied to the dolphin before was just an extremely thin rope. It had long been corroded by the floating liquid and was about to break.
She hadn't expected the dolphins to take them back from the beginning, especially when she discovered something was wrong with the passengers up there.
The boy stood on the boat that no longer looked like a dolphin, with a look of regret on his face: "Although it will melt sooner or later, I still like this thing."
The bubble gun in his hand quickly transformed into a strange bull horn: "I don't know who you are, but unfortunately, this is my Coral Swim Canal, I can't let you destroy it."
While soaked in the liquid, he silently blew the horn in his hand, and Qiao Song suddenly felt a familiar, indescribable numbness.
Her eyes were itchy, as if a cow's eye was about to crawl out of her eye socket, or as if a plant was about to take root and sprout.
[Spring plowing ox horn: All things represent the hope of spring, and the sound of the ox horn means sowing, germination, and growth. ]
Qiao Song covered her eyes. She hadn't felt such pain for a long time. She curled up like a fish that was electrocuted.
On each scale of the body, you can vaguely see thin strips of seaweed growing like seeds.
She sprouted in the water.
The boy stood on the bow of the dolphin boat, leaning his head to look at her: "You are quite impressive. If others just talk to me in the water for a while, they may slowly melt away."
More and more water plants grew on Qiao Song's body. The boy rubbed something on the bottom of the dolphin boat, and soon the same green water plants grew up and entangled Qiao Song. He then packed up her and the boat and went back.
The dolphin boat unknowingly began to return to the central area of the coral against the current, but the passengers on it did not know that the useless humans who had been thrown off by him long ago were also stuffed into the same lantern by Qiao Song, and the thick rope of the net bag was also tied to the lantern.
The boy ignored the rope on the dolphin, which had melted long ago, and he didn't care about the principal and the others who had floated away earlier.
What interested him at the beginning was only this dolphin paper boat. After knowing that this thing was made by Qiao Song, the existence of the other people had no meaning to him at all.
"I know this fish. It's called a dolphin. I've eaten some of the human memories and know that they live in the sea."
"What kind of place is the sea? I heard it's blue."
He used his hands to feel the red water flowing around him, as if imagining what it would be like if the water was blue.
"This kind of paper is very interesting. It melts very slowly, slower than props and people. Where did you get it from?"
Of course Qiao Song wouldn't answer him, but it didn't matter, he would know the answer soon.
Suddenly, the boy frowned. He leaned over the hull and looked down. Qiao Song, who he had wrapped with seaweed, was gone. He could vaguely see glowing fish scales scattered inside like stars.
"Escaped?"
He puffed his lips, but soon felt a little bored and sat down at the bow, planning to go back to the central area to find a few more players to play with.
At this moment, his head suddenly tilted to the side.
An electric saw cut through him almost right next to his ear.
But in just a few seconds, the chainsaw melted in the water like an ice cube.
The boy looked at the person who reappeared with some surprise, and he quickly came to a conclusion: "You are not a player?"
Qiao Song now looks a little weird, with fish scales and feathers mixed together on her cheeks. The power of the Rooster helps her purify the pollution brought by the ox horns. Then comes Shirobako's changing makeup box, and her transformed state after using it again.
[The current environment has been detected, and a new biological form mode has been matched for you: water snake]
This time it is no longer a mermaid, but a form closer to a snake.
The boy looked at her, his expression gradually relaxed, and he said happily, "I haven't seen anyone like me for a long, long time."
His head began to deform, and soon it resembled a snake. The tongue in his mouth also turned into a forked snake tongue. "I like your ability. I'm going to eat that white box, so that I don't have to eat people every time I change my skin. People are not tasty at all."
The clothes on his body also melted away, and a small purple snake emerged from his clothes.
No, to be precise, the snake is getting bigger.
The pupils of the snake that Qiao Song turned into were slightly erected, and he spoke in human language: "Are you the snake?"
Sishe tilted his head: "Well, you can also call me a new name, Xiaoshan, or Mo Peining."
These were two people he had just eaten with.
Qiao Song looked at his belly. There was no bulge on the even snake body.
"Oh, are you checking to see if I digested them? No, I said I just wanted to change my skin."
After seeing Qiao Song's appearance, Si Snake suddenly became talkative, as if he had not seen a creature with this appearance and that talked to him for a long time.
"The basic elements that make up a player are: skin, soul, memory, skills, and props. Normally, I only eat the skin and memory."
Qiao Song felt as if a string in his head was tightening and aching.
What is this guy talking about.
She quickly summoned new weapons and continued to fight the snake, but the environment was different from what she had encountered before.
Qiao Song felt that something was emerging from her body, which was a bit similar to her previous mermaid state with water plants growing on her body, but not exactly the same.
That was something that belonged to her, a feeling of being out of control and being pulled away.
Sishe dodged Qiao Song's movements with ease: "Look, the components of your body are also being separated out. It's strange that you have so few props."
As expected, Qiao Song saw some things coming out of his body.
There were cloaks, silk threads, nails sticking out of the toolbox uncontrollably, and even a school badge that had been obtained a long time ago but never used.
The school sign of Ghost Story Middle School.
【Kaidan Middle School Reminder Nameplate】
[One-time clue item. After using it, you can see a weakness of the ghost you encounter. Note: Only for those below red clothing.]
Qiao Song has three or four of these things. Because they can only be used by those below red clothing, the basic level of the NPCs she meets has never been low, so she can handle them without a nameplate.
But the school sign that was slowly melting in the water emitted a very faint light.
This is a hint that the item is ready to use.
Qiao Song stared in disbelief at the boy whom she had identified as a snake.
How could this guy be below the level of Red Clothes? Even she herself was affected by the props he used before...
Wait, it seems that Sishe has been using props all the time. Even if he made this coral, he would not still only use props when Qiao Song could barely use his skills.
Qiao Song raised his head and looked at the Snake sitting on the dolphin boat with an innocent expression as if he was just playing a drifting game: "You are not a complete Snake."
The snake that was stared at by her was a little surprised: "You are very smart."
The boy's snake pupils stared at her brightly, with only the tip of his tail wagging, and it seemed that he had no interest in taking action for the time being.
"You know, this is the place with the most concentrated water flow in the central area. The surrounding water is as beautiful as a ruby. The soul concentration here is as high as 55%."
"Even if I don't have to do anything, you will be like a box of cookies. From the packaging bag to the product label, the cookies in the bag, the flour, salt powder and eggs in the cookies, all will slowly disperse and fall out."
Qiao Song felt a pain in his right hand, and soon saw another large object floating out. It was a hammer.
The hammers in Qiao Song's hands quickly melted into a ball of transparent liquid, and then shrank little by little.
Those things that had been precipitated from her body before also turned into small balls of liquid light, like melted candies, slowly crystallizing, and finally reappearing as a card.
That form is an item card.
Snake seemed dissatisfied with her expression: "You don't look surprised at all."
Qiao Song looked at the ball of light floating out of his body, which seemed to be getting faster and faster.
"In the coral area outside, are those cards also extracted in this way?"
"Well, it's not quite the same."
Snake used his fingers to pinch a card that was floating towards him, saw the hammer pattern on it, felt it was a bit boring, and threw it back.
Qiao Song has figured it out: "In the second round, the jars on the players will be filled with water from the corals from the beginning."
Sishe's expression finally became a little more serious: "Oh? How did you guess that?"
Qiao Song closed his eyes and said, "Those in the Rabbit Field are bait. You put all the real soul coin rewards on the periphery. In the most basic wealth grabbing stage, the only ones who can break through are lucky or strong players. You selected these people into the second stage of the game just to get their skills and use the coral solution to turn them into prop cards."
"You and Chen Long also have transactions with each other, and even with some guilds... You are also involved in Boss Cai's supply channels."
Hearing this, Sishe's expression became confused: "Who are Chenlong and Boss Cai you are talking about?"
He didn't look like he was pretending. "I don't know what the other little snakes are doing. My greatest pleasure is to eat some beautiful skins and interesting memories, learn about the outside world, and maintain the safety of the river to prevent too many of you guys from escaping."
Snake Tongue spit out for a while, and he seemed to have a big appetite: "I like your skin, but I don't like your props and skills. Wait a little longer, your memory should also be extracted. I will throw away your soul and then eat the rest."
Qiao Song took a deep breath. In the coral water, the player’s skills, props, skin, memory, and soul should be separated out in a certain order.
Soul concentration 55%.
What exactly this value means is unknown.
Many players who came to the central area to exchange cards must have disappeared inexplicably. Qiao Song did not think that the "corpses" of the players floating around before were simply unconscious.
The worst guess is that they are now just a shell, and the whole thing has become an empty shell.
If she continues to stay here, she might become like that.
Snake's treasure game.
The coral is its last jar, its treasure, thrown in by the hands of everyone who covets those jars.
But she still has a chance. The school badge actually reacted to this boy, which shows that the clone of Sishe is not very strong. His only strength is the props.
It is also a prop with the attributes of the twelve zodiac signs.
Qiao Song closed her eyes and called out to her own shrine. The concentration of the solution here was too high, and she was afraid that her cell phone would melt if she took it out.
[Qian Sitian, pull the rope faster]
Outside the coral, Qian Sitian, who was dragging a net bag with the paper beast to make a rope, was almost frightened.
This kind of sound ringing directly in the ear was really horrifying. If Qiao Song's tone had been colder, and if a "ding" had been added in front of it, it would have been almost the same as a system prompt.
She didn't dare to resist the instructions of her superiors. Qiao Song almost broke her neck before. Although Qiao Song was a good boss compared to his predecessor Wu Ma, Qian Sitian didn't dare to gamble with the conscience of the underworld capitalists. She went all out, her hands turned golden, and she directly used her money power to buy herself more powerful strength.
The paper beast next to it also swelled up and pulled the rope with all its might.
The rest of the traffic was picking up speed, and the passengers were quick to notice this.
Ge Jia, Hua Lifan and others who were hiding in the lanterns had returned to normal shortly after they were away from the battlefield. Only the old dean was still unconscious. He looked like he was having a nightmare and could not be awakened no matter how the people around him called him.
Hua Lifan grabbed his hair in annoyance.
"It's over. What did I do before?"
Ge Jia was a little calmer than him: "My skills are slowly recovering. I think I should be able to use them after I get out."
It’s like staying in coral waters, all the energy in your body is being sucked away by the water, but I don’t know if this is the reason why Principal Ni has not recovered.
Hua Lifan grabbed the lantern boat and couldn't help but worry about Qiao Song: "We are speeding out, but I don't know how Sister Qiao is doing?"
Qiao Song used his two tails to pull them out at that time, but he stayed there and might have confronted that strange boy.
Thinking of the boy named Xiaoshan, Hua Lifan felt goosebumps all over his body. What the hell was that boy? As soon as they looked at each other, he seemed to be brainwashed.
Suddenly, Hua Lifan heard a sound like a system prompt in his mind.
[Everyone in the Rabbit area should stay away from the Snake area now. You can ask other players to evacuate together, but you must stay away from this area as soon as possible.]
[I repeat, I am about to destroy the corals here. All players participating in the treasure game in the Maotu map should evacuate immediately.]
This was the first time that Qiao Song used the Zodiac's regional directional broadcasting capability, and it really felt like a system broadcast.
Once she has no worries, she will bite out the real snake.
Love Coral Canal?
I'll blow it up and see what you can do.
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