Chapter 229: Zootopia
The piggy bank has always understood that its existence is to help its owner swallow ghosts in exchange for money.
But if he swallowed his master directly, wouldn't that be going against Tiangang?
But Qiao Song had already coaxed it into action and forced the poor little piggy bank into the corner of the room.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you. I know your stomach must be connected to some special channels. As long as you don't spit out the money, the transaction can't be completed, and I will be fine."
"On the other hand, if I give you the soul coins in advance, I should be able to make some modifications, for example, expand the transaction channels for withdrawing money--"
Qiao Song waved his hand, and gold coins worth ten thousand soul coins appeared in his hand.
That was the largest denomination of gold coin in the Snake's treasure, and it was now in her custody.
The gold coins were floating and the pink pig was trembling, like a kid with an appetite of only three bowls of rice, who saw the huge bowl meal in the big eating competition.
After eating the money, will it eat Qiao Song? It doesn't dare to wow! !
Qiao Song raised his eyebrows and uttered a syllable of "Hmm?". The piglet couldn't resist anymore, opened its mouth tremblingly, bit a gold coin and swallowed it down with a gulp.
As Qiao Song expected, after the pink pig ate more than ten gold coins, its pink skin instantly heated up and became hot, just like eating super feed.
The piglet exhaled a breath of hot air and burped sleepily.
It felt its body heating up, as if every cell was preparing to burn. Under Qiao Song's eager gaze, the piggy bank began to swell and grow as expected.
A few minutes later, the originally cute little pig expanded itself to its largest size, revealing a throat entrance that looked like a children's slide.
"Then I'll go first. I'll leave the fairy tales of the Rabbit to you. I'll also stay with the Snake people. Feel free to order them around. You're welcome."
After saying hello, Qiao Song ignored the expressions of the other two people in the room and went straight into the throat of the piggy bank, sliding all the way down like a real slide.
Gao Chengcheng was dumbfounded: "Rabbit, can this prop be used like this?"
The former Rabbit's eyes widened: "How should I know!"
As expected of the protagonist in the automatically generated prequel, how come he has all these weird props?
Under the gaze of the two men, this huge piggy bank shrank itself again with an aggrieved expression shortly after Qiao Song crawled in.
The piglet looked at his stomach and felt a little confused. The owner should come back, right?
It yawned, and quickly found a corner to curl itself up and sleep. In the eyes of Gao Chengcheng and Rabbit, it had turned into a mini gold-inlaid piggy bank.
The rabbit's ears twitched, and he quickly took a pen and drew a few times in the air, changing the layout of the room and hiding the piggy bank.
This must not be lost, otherwise Qiao Song might have to take this route when he comes back.
It’s a pity for this little piggy bank.
If the piglet knew what the rabbit was thinking, he would probably put his hands on his hips and loudly defend himself: It's not bitter at all! Qiao Song threw hundreds of thousands of soul coins at it, and it was as drunk as if it had received a year-end bonus. The piglet would be happy to do it a few more times!
At this time, Qiao Song was sliding down along a smooth passage.
In the pitch-black space, there were only a few lit, straw-like passages occasionally, circling towards the golden area below.
She guessed right, this place was really like a soul vending machine.
Previously, when Qiao Song was tracking the map merchant in the Giant Amusement Park, he realized that these machines selling souls should be connected to the same huge warehouse.
The one she went to before was a warehouse for storing souls. The back was like a bookshelf, filled with various human souls, and even connected to a tributary of the River of Life and Death.
This time she made full use of the original function of the piggy bank and put a lot of gold coins into it, and it really entered the special channel for saving money.
Since Haizhu is in charge of the vault, the end of the passage should be a place similar to the Soul Coin Printing Factory...
After Qiao Song landed, he fell into a large area of glittering gold coins. It was the first time for him to use so much money as a cushion.
She looked around the surrounding passages and saw that large amounts of soul coins and gold coins were still falling from these "straws".
The same was true for Qiao Song, with more banknotes and fewer coins.
There should be a storage place.
She patted her knees, stood up, and shook off the gold coins hanging on her body.
It’s not that she is uninterested in the mountains of gold and silver below, but she knows that these things don’t mean much to her. As the territory of the Zodiac expands, the wealth in her toolbox will not be much less than these small mountains.
There is a working conveyor belt under the gold mountain, continuously transferring this wealth out, like dragging a pile of raw materials that need to be processed.
Qiao Song followed the conveyor belt and walked a short distance in this treasure bowl, and finally saw a glowing passage in the dark factory.
From a distance, she could hear various mechanical noises, buzzing, as if many machines were emitting the same strange frequency.
Um?
This sound was not what she imagined, the sound of the bank's backstage machines counting money, nor was it the sound of a money printing machine rolling up the money and then flattening it and cutting it.
It sounded more like something was beating rhythmically on the floor.
But at the same time there was a lot of noise, as if some units were not in rhythm.
It sounds like something human is doing, as if it's doing some heavy physical work, lacking the rhythm that is unique to machines.
How does the pig's treasury work?
With this feeling in mind, Qiao Song stepped out of the dark passage and came to a place that looked like an indoor gymnasium.
The sky was filled with large white ceiling lights hanging, lighting up the entire area as bright as day.
Qiao Song stared at the large number of new things appearing in front of him with some surprise. They had nothing to do with large machinery.
There were treadmills, hundreds of them, working.
They were laid out on the ground like playing cards, not too close together, with wide corridors separating them and other small devices placed in the gaps.
And on almost every treadmill there is a not-so-thin humanoid creature with a pig's head exercising hard.
When Qiao Song came out, she felt several eyes were on her, but these guys didn't move. Instead, they gasped, shouted 121, adjusted their breathing, and continued to run hard on the treadmill.
A magical scene happened. As these chubby guys exercised desperately, the sweat left on their bodies suddenly emitted a faint golden light and was absorbed by a square machine next to the treadmill.
Qiao Song heard the wonderful sound of gold coins falling.
So this is...?
Qiao Song looked around until he saw the big red slogan hanging on the wall and finally understood the reason.
【Life lies in exercise! Just exercise and you will get rich! 】
[It is heartbreaking to see poverty caused by one’s laziness, but it is unbearable to see wealth created by the diligence of others! ]
[One pound of fat equals one pound of coins, burn my calories! ]
[You get paid as much as you run, eat when you are thin, run again when you are fat, the perpetual motion machine for making money will never admit defeat! ]
[One hundred calories equals one thousand yuan! ]
[It is glorious to make money! Strive to move forward! Never give up! ]
[Go ahead, go ahead! Run one more kilometer to unlock a gold coin! ]
This is not a vault or a printing factory, it is clearly a hot-blooded weight loss gym.
Not long after Qiao Song entered the area, he heard the system prompt:
[Ding——It is detected that you are not in your own area now. A zodiac challenge has been automatically launched to the owner of this area, 'Hai Pig'. Please create reasonable game pollution as much as possible and capture the opponent's city! ]
After the communication was cut off, Qiao Song could actually use the shrine to contact the mascot over there, but she deliberately brought the rule card with her just to tell Haizhu that she was here.
In the northern region, among the five zodiac signs, rabbit, rat, sheep, pig and snake, only the snake is unpopular. The other four have a good relationship. According to Aunt Huo, everyone has a tacit understanding on certain things.
Qiao Song's visit this time was more like a secret visit to check out the gaming situation in the area rather than a challenge.
This was a gaming area that was beyond her expectations.
Soon, the system prompt of the invasion sounded, and the Pig himself came out.
He is similar to the other players in his own gaming area. He is used to wearing sportswear, is tall and strong, with a body full of fat and muscles. He has a very kind expression, but the way he walks is very strange.
Qiao Song stared at Haizhu's feet. This guy was walking all the way here while stepping on a treadmill track without handrails.
"Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Qian Kairui, Haizhu."
The Pig was a little embarrassed, "Because the Snake invaded most of our territory, many outdoor sports venues have been closed, and everyone can only use treadmills indoors."
"The sweat smell might be a bit strong here, let's talk about it in the office."
Qiao Song nodded and was about to follow, but as she stepped out of the passage, a running track appeared under her feet.
Only then did Haizhu realize that he had forgotten to tell Qiao Song about the rules here.
"As long as we are outside the vault, we have to keep moving. Don't worry, the speed of this crawler won't be very fast, it's just a little faster than normal walking."
With a subtle expression on his face, Qiao Song quickened his pace, walked twice as fast, and came to the office next door.
The internal structure of Haizhu's office is very strange. Apart from a desk, there are all kinds of fitness equipment around it, including dumbbells, barbells, spinning bikes, treadmills, surfing machines, and stair climbing machines.
As soon as Qian Kairui entered the office, he handed Qiao Song a dumbbell and asked the guest to hold it by himself. Then he brought over a cup of tea.
"Excuse me, in this area, we have to keep exercising constantly and burn a lot of calories, otherwise we will lose money every time we breathe in."
Qiao Song suddenly realized. No wonder some players noticed her coming out of the passage before. Although they looked puzzled, none of them got off the treadmill.
Are you afraid of delaying today's work?
Anyway, as long as Qiao Song sets his feet on the ground and enters this land, he will be tripped by various sports equipment.
Qian Kairui seemed to have guessed that she was thinking about the rules of this land, and he coughed lightly and took the initiative to explain:
"Not only walking on the ground, but even flying into our area requires targeted training, otherwise the system will quickly deduct money."
Qiao Song was sitting in the office, holding a small dumbbell in his left hand, lifting weights with small movements and drinking tea. He felt that the scene was weird no matter how he looked at it.
Qian Kairui, who was sitting opposite her, picked up a barbell and used it on his belly.
Qian Kairui knows how to avoid suspicion and has no intention of showing off her figure.
He turned sideways, and after pulling out three pitch-black metal cards from his stomach, he turned around. His stomach was now wrapped in a circle of white bandages:
"This is what we agreed with Rabbit and the others."
Qiao Song took the card. He didn't expect Haizhu to give it to him so readily.
"You are in charge of the treasury, don't you have any regrets at all?"
She looked at the slogans on the wall and felt that the players and administrators in this area should all be aiming to earn more soul coins. This was much better than Wu Ma's weird social animal area, as at least here they were rewarded with real money.
Qian Kairui sighed, "But food here is expensive. If you exercise more, you will lose weight faster. If you don't want to become a skeleton, you have to eat a lot. The food here is high in calories and sugar."
Eat like crazy, then exercise like crazy.
This doesn't sound like it's about losing weight, it's purely about achieving exercise goals.
"I had my eyes on some players who were professional fitness coaches, and was waiting for them to come to my side and help improve the regional rules. But in the end, these people either went to Yinhu's side or were poached by Chenlong."
Qian Kairui sighed, "Due to the size limitation, the players here are more likely to love gourmet food. Their combat power is not as good as most zodiac signs. The only advantage they have is that they have more money."
Qiao Song remembered the golden mountain he had seen before.
That is indeed not an ordinary amount.
"I know a fitness trainer and I can introduce him to you when the time comes, but..."
She no longer planned to stay in Zootopia.
Qian Kairui was surprised after hearing her thoughts. He lifted the dumbbells and thought, "Chen Long has weakened versions of all the abilities of other zodiac signs. He actually has a small treasury over there. You are really lucky that you didn't slip over to his side this time."
Whenever Qiao Song heard the word "luck", he subconsciously looked at the palm of his hand.
The mark left by the lucky gold coin has completely disappeared.
Somehow, she recalled the little crow. When she was hugging the other's cheek before, the boy gently pinched her hand where the gold coin pattern appeared before.
Isn't this guy always disliked by the dungeon NPCs and brings only bad luck? Could it be that he can also pass on good luck to her?
"I know you will be very busy in the future. I can continue to help you watch over this territory. After all, the operation system of the soul coins cannot be stopped for a while."
Qian Kairui was too considerate and took out a work notebook from the side, which recorded the division of sports equipment and financial operations in most areas.
Seeing that amount, Qiao Song felt a little numb.
It's like looking at a page full of program numbers.
After the handover was completed, Qian Kairui quickly lifted the dumbbells and took Qiao Song to a safe in the corner of the office.
He opened it in no time, and inside was a slide that looked similar to the piggy bank when it was enlarged.
"This is the backdoor to the financial system. From here you can go to the Rat area. You should have already taken over most of the northern zodiac signs."
Qiao Song nodded and put the card in her palm. As she wished, she heard the system prompt her that a new management area had been added.
The workers in the newly occupied zodiac areas are continuing to work, and Qiao Song has no feeling of expanding the territory. The only intuitive expression is the map of the entire Zootopia on the wall.
The entire zodiac area, which originally had various colors, now has only three colors left. The most eye-catching is still the Chenlong area in the middle, which is a bright yellow gold.
Then there are the abrupt large areas of white that appear in the north and south, without even any zodiac patterns on them.
It seemed that when Qiao Song took over these places, he simply erased the marks of their original owners.
What remains is the small area represented by the Tiger. Qiao Song discovered that the Tiger, Rooster and Ox now formed a very strange encirclement, like three sticks of chewing gum directly stuck to the edge area of the Dragon.
Qian Kairui was also very emotional when watching the changes on the map: "Chen Long was very strange this round. In the past, he was the one who took the initiative to attack, but this round he stayed in the center area and didn't show any intention of expanding. The only major attack before was when Si Snake went crazy and bit everywhere."
"It turns out that Sishe is actually a pawn of Chenlong. He has been buried for several competitions without being discovered by others, but he was actually sacrificed so early this time."
Qiao Song twitched the corners of his mouth silently, knowing that the old guy had achieved his goal to some extent.
Knowing that she is not a player in the real world, will she still be so desperate to get the final answer and cross the river to send everyone back?
Of course Qiao Song wanted to.
Qiao Song promised his mother that he would return her son to her.
Thinking of the little crow, Qiao Song pointed at the dumbbell in his hand with his finger with some amusement.
"Before you leave, I want to ask you a question. Why are you always so secretive in front of me? I don't suspect you did something behind my back, but I am a little confused. The players outside don't seem to be dressed as conservatively as you, right?"
Although not all players in the Pig field are handsome men with eight-pack abs, most of them exude a healthy and positive atmosphere that can only be achieved through exercise, and half of them are women who look healthy and do not suffer from dysmenorrhea.
As a result, their leader, Haizhu, no longer wore tight sportswear. Instead, he was wearing a loose hooded sweatshirt and a large robe on the outside.
Since the rules of the field have not changed, he still has to keep doing dumbbell exercises, and sweat has already appeared on his forehead.
Qian Kairui's eyes wandered. Under Qiao Song's gaze, he finally turned his head and explained in a low voice: "I'm trying to avoid suspicion... and to avoid unnecessary trouble. I'm afraid I'll choke to death because I drink water too quickly. That would be too unlucky."
That was so unlucky, and I said it very quietly.
Qiao Song looked confused at first, but then he seemed to have thought of something and suddenly found it a little funny.
"…Are you so stingy?"
After she put away the rule card, she held the safe with one hand and waved to Qian Kairui behind her: "I'll leave the matters in the area to you. I'll leave first."
"Also, all of you, don't treat me and him like monsters. Wear whatever you want. If he dares to control me, I'll be the first one to pinch his mouth."
Qian Kairui broke out in sweat when he heard this.
That brat Li Yuan couldn't control himself when he was angry. It might be just a thought that caused other people to encounter some inexplicable misfortune.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have slept in hell for so long. It was purely because he had a deep understanding of his passive skills.
Now the person who was in charge of the crows finally came back.
Qian Kairui thought about it for a while with a gloating look on his face, then felt a little sour.
As he had a good relationship with Li Yuan, he certainly knew that luck and misfortune were balanced after all, and there were no skills with absolute negative effects in this world.
Some guys save up their good luck for so many years just to use it for one person. What a damn love-brained person.
Qiao Song didn't expect that she would slide down the slide for the second time in such a short period of time. She couldn't wait to go to Zishu's management area and see Tang Xiaoxiao.
The girl finally chose this area because of her style of mental calculation.
Qiao Song also found out later that the game style here would not be easy, and he didn’t know how Xiaoxiao had adapted to it.
Just as she was thinking about this, suddenly, several golden electric patterns jumped up on the slide in front.
Previously, she slid from the piglet's belly into the pig's territory very smoothly, but this time, the passage was directly blocked in the middle.
An old voice sounded helplessly, and it seemed to carry a hint of smile.
"I thought you would stop after knowing what happened in the past, but I underestimated you, a stone that has experienced the joys and sorrows of mankind."
The golden arc twisted, and the shape of a dragon could be clearly seen.
The mouth opened and closed, blocking Qiao Song directly:
"I'm not stupid enough to let you find a way to successfully reclaim all other areas one by one. They all support you and trust you, as if they were the savior. Only I understand that aliens are aliens. You just had a beautiful dream about the human world for a short time, but you didn't really become a human."
The shadow belonging to Chen Long expanded little by little, and Qiao Song saw the ripples constantly rotating on the two protruding eyeballs.
The old voice sounded gentle and persuasive, as if reminding her.
"Of course, I'm not so heartless. We have another way to reach a reconciliation. You are not a human being and cannot go to the real world. In this case, what if we send everyone back? Then you will be the only one in this lonely world. Are you willing to do that? Don't you want to have a real mother with flesh and blood? I can fulfill your wish. As long as we work together to end this boring fight and build a real mirror city, perfectly replicating everything about reality..."
The golden shadow's mouth was quickly split in two by a blue knight's sword.
Qiao Song's hand holding the sword was heavy and steady. She looked expressionless, but people who knew her knew that she was a little angry.
"The eyes of the sheep can only deceive me once. If you want to talk, please ask me to come. Old man, remember to be polite next time instead of blocking the passage when young people are playing on the slide and being a piece of trash blocking the way."
After the golden shadow disappeared, the garbage lingered in the air for a long time.
Qiao Song sighed and looked at the broken slide in the distance. He knew that this old guy didn't just appear out of nowhere to hypnotize him and launch a psychological attack.
This is because Lao Long discovered that she could use the soul coin trading system to go to the Pig area, so he prevented her from going to the Rat area in the same way.
Fortunately, Zootopia’s trading system should cover the entire city.
Qiao Song observed several slides of different colors in the dark passage and quickly found another one and jumped over.
Chen Long didn't want her to go to the Rat Area.
In Chen Long's mind, that is probably the most important area in the entire Zootopia.
Damn it, just wait for me.
At the same time, Chen Long’s golden domain.
A loud noise was heard from an ancient building made of pure gold. A dragon-shaped creature that had been coiling on a golden pillar like a snake suddenly emerged, and it was making a crunching sound and tearing at the exquisite and gorgeous golden building piece by piece.
After venting his anger for a while, Chen Long spat out the residue in his mouth.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, adjusted his mood and expression, and quickly made a phone call: "Boss Cai, how is the situation over there?"
After the display screen was turned on, it said a lot of gibberish, which roughly meant that everything was going well.
Chen Long's mouth curled up slightly: "I just discovered a little secret here, it's about Qiao Song's weakness, are you interested?"
The display screen over there, which was looking very proud of having already filled up the warehouse, paused for a moment.
Judging from Boss Cai's personality, he is fully charged now and must be full of fighting spirit. He is determined to give Qiao Song a good beating.
But if Qiao Song is an annoying grasshopper, then Chen Long is a sinister and cunning poisonous snake in a dragon robe.
Boss Cai is not a fool. As the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser. He has experienced a lot of failures and knows that if he blindly confronts Qiao Song, even a grasshopper can cut a crack in his screen if he gets angry.
In fact, he doesn't trust anyone, but with new and old grudges adding up, it's time to save his face.
Boss Cai decided to be cautious first and didn't want to confront Qiao Song directly.
With his hands crossed and his white-gloved fingertips tapping his arms, the monitor raised his chin: "What are her weaknesses? Tell me first."
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