Chapter 234 Zootopia
The River of Life and Death, although not many people know its name, it is a river that players and NPCs who know its name fear. It can even be said that without it there would be no this road, and no infinite world.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is the mother river of the Infinite Highway.
Why……
Boss Cai's mind even went blank for a moment.
Could this be some kind of hallucinogenic skill?
Otherwise, how could the shrine in the river be related to Qiao Song? She was obviously a player, and she spent her rookie copy in a convenience store, and her own split screen even went there in person.
No, no, Boss Cai subconsciously took a step back, and the wires on his body actually showed signs of shrinking.
The water of the River of Life and Death will not lie. The original function of the river water he created should be to melt and restore.
Even when he faces these things himself, as long as the dosage is sufficient, he can achieve the same effect.
All players will melt in the river.
No one knows the effect of river water better than him, Qiao Song... Qiao Song...
Boss Cai hesitated for a moment, then turned around and ran away. Not to mention Qiao Song, even the other players watching the game from a distance didn't understand what was going on with Wang Er.
Boss Cai's head began to deform. He was now in the form of a crocodile. He crawled out of the swamp quite quickly, but compared to this animal form, he felt safer in his original form.
What's going on? Why can't I transform?
Damn it! Change back!
If Qiao Song was really a creature that crawled out of the water, then he would have no chance of winning at all.
Convenience store... This is his convenience store, he doesn't want it back, this is something he has worked hard to run for decades!
Behind Boss Cai, the surging river water rose higher and higher, like waves coming ashore, lifting up the stone shrine and the statue inside.
He was like an octopus that had just crawled out of the water, relying entirely on the electric wires behind him to support the entire crocodile as it ran wildly.
Qiao Song's voice was like a ghost, one of those wet ghosts that just crawled out of the water.
"Boss Cai, why are you running? Don't you want to kill me all along? Don't you want to throw me into the water?"
"Look back at me. Am I scary now?"
Boss Cai, who looked like a crocodile, was so scared that he completely ignored the looks from the players in the safe house. He waved the wires on his body, wishing he could open a portal and escape immediately.
But unfortunately, someone didn't want him to run away.
[Ding—It is detected that you have partially merged with the authority of this area. Under the requirements of the highest management authority of Zootopia, all relevant personnel in this area are currently prohibited from leaving. ]
[Ding——The cable portal function is blocked. It is detected that your management authority is mixed with other advanced areas. Please complete the highest main task in this area before trying to transfer.]
It's over.
No matter how slow-witted Boss Cai was, he realized that he was definitely being tricked.
Countless different swear words suddenly appeared in the database.
How many things did that old man Chen Long hide from him? !
That old Deng definitely did it on purpose. He deliberately tricked him here, deliberately took advantage of his hatred, and even deliberately colluded with the main system...
Chen Long has mastered the backup capabilities of the 12 zodiac animals in Zootopia, and he can also interfere with the main system like the Rat's cyber permissions.
Boss Cai recalled the voice that had tempted him to absorb the energy in the crocodile area, and he felt a chill all over his body.
He has been in a weird state today, why did he take such a big risk and put himself in this situation?
"Oh, you finally realized something was wrong?"
The voice that he least wanted to hear at this moment was following him almost like a shadow.
Qiao Song's face was still that of a stone statue, her skin like the stone that had been washed smooth by the river water. She didn't even raise her hands, just sat cross-legged loosely in the shrine.
It’s not that she doesn’t want to move, it’s that she can’t move now.
If Boss Cai was bolder and observed more carefully, he would realize that Qiao Song is just a paper tiger now.
When he saw Boss Cai summoning the river water, Qiao Song opened a page in "Prequel to Infinite Highway" and glanced at it.
Every time she read a little bit of the book, it would remind her of the past and help her regain some of the abilities she had before.
Qiao Song didn't dare to finish reading it in one breath, for fear that reading too much would turn herself from a human into a stone. She was not sure if she would still remember what she had experienced as a player in this life after she turned back.
For her, the memory of becoming a human being is much more important than being able to swim freely in the river of life and death.
But unexpectedly, she was lucky enough to directly turn to the scene where she came ashore after crossing the river that year.
"Boss Cai, I was wondering why I have always disliked you. It turns out that your store keys and screens were taken from me."
The crocodile that was escaping while waving a tangled mass of black electric wires paused for a moment, but did not slow down at all, and was even chased forward at a faster speed.
Qiao Song continued to follow him and put pressure on him:
"Where else do you want to run to? I have the power of more than one zodiac sign, and since you have entered the internal struggle of Zootopia and have been tainted by the power here, you can't just watch the teleport and leave. Should we carefully settle the previous accounts?"
Boss Cai, who had been waving the electric wire to open the door many times without success, had so many curse words in his mind that they almost formed a pyramid.
He felt Qiao Song teasing him, just like he had done before.
Why didn't he cherish the opportunity before and get rid of this guy who always popped up again and again in one go?
Wait… Sensing the hatred in his heart sprouting again, he slapped himself on the head. Damn it, not only could he not change back, he was also holding him back!
Why is he losing his mind again? Qiao Song has not figured out the relationship between him and the River of Life and Death, so he can't do anything now.
No, he had another way.
The crocodile swung its tail and rushed directly towards the wooden house.
He didn't see the subtle smile on the face of the stone statue behind him.
Qiao Song counted silently in his mind: "10, 9, 8..."
When the number 1 appeared, the cabin opened a crack very accurately, allowing the panicked crocodile to rush into the safe house.
Boss Cai changed back into human form in an instant, without even checking which face he had turned into.
"You can't go out. Lock the door. You must not go out!"
The members of the other two teams looked at him with complicated expressions. They didn't expect that even after taking control of the swamp, they were still unable to defeat the lion.
"What should we do now? It will take some time for people from other areas to come to support us."
"We have already notified the players from other guilds in the surrounding area. Anyone who is interested in hunting lions will arrive within an hour."
"How many people are there? I heard that many players have already insisted on staying in the cabin and not coming out. Can you gather a team of more than 50 people?"
The players have already started exchanging information among themselves. Apparently, after discovering that Qiao Song is still hovering near the cabin, they are ready to find an opportunity to kill her in the swamp.
Boss Cai felt his heart still pounding, and he wondered, what on earth was going on in this world?
Are these players crazy?
His voice trembled a little: "Do you know who is outside?"
The girl holding the polygraph looked at him strangely and said, "It's a lion."
Then the other people in the room started talking, and they were obviously dissatisfied with Boss Cai's escape: "You have already taken over the swamp, and the lion is still in a weakened state. It has become much smaller and injured. How could you..."
Boss Cai's human face was filled with disbelief. He turned around and pointed at the window of the wooden house and asked, "Where is the lion? Didn't that guy turn into a stone statue? Do you know what that thing is!?"
Soon, his roar got stuck in his throat.
There was no stone statue outside the cabin. There was only a cute-looking lioness, staring at the cabin with a playful expression.
There are no stone statues, and even less are there any waves of the river of life and death for the stone statues to walk on.
Then what about the experience of being chased to a pulp just now?
No, no, no, something must be wrong.
Boss Cai held his head, feeling like he was trapped in a vicious circle.
Did I see it wrong? No, it was impossible.
He needs to change back to the color screen state, and he needs to see with electronic eyes instead of human eyes.
The outline of the head changed, and Muwu began to vaguely feel a sense of rejection towards Boss Cai.
The safe house only accepts creatures in complete human form. Once he turns back into an electronic display screen, he will not be able to stay in it any longer.
At a certain moment, the cabin fell silent, with eyes crossing one after another, and a strange atmosphere spreading.
Gradually, someone helped him up:
"Wang Er, it's okay. We have companions coming soon. Go ahead and fight the lion. We will be with you and we will support you."
This was the first time a player spoke to him in such a disgusting tone.
Boss Cai was so upset that he wanted to curse, but when he turned around, he saw that all the players in the room had the same expression and posture, all looking straight at him.
There was a constantly rotating stripe dancing in everyone's eyes.
"Wang Er, we all want to kill the lion. We will help you. We have many people, many, many people."
Before a chill could creep up on him, Boss Cai, who was already on the verge of mental collapse, turned his head around with a creaking sound as if something was controlling him.
He finally looked out the window again.
Neither a stone statue nor a lion, Qiao Song turned into a human form, smiled and put his hand on the door handle.
Click, the small door of the wooden house seemed to be pushed open in the next second...
Bang——!
Boss Cai reacted instantly.
Countless black lines suddenly flew out of his body, and in just a moment, he was expelled from the wooden house.
[3. The safe house only accepts creatures in completely human form]
[4. A safe house does not mean it is always safe]
It has been so many years since he felt so scared!
There was only one thought in his mind now, either run away from Zootopia, or kill Qiao Song. He must kill Qiao Song, otherwise this thing would follow him like a ghost for the rest of his life!
Qiao Song, who was addicted to pretending to be a ghost outside the house, could hardly hold back his laughter:
"You are unexpectedly fragile today. I feel a little sorry for you. How did that dragon make you so neurotic?"
Not only Boss Cai, but the players in the room also came out on their own initiative. They moved in unison, and while using weapons to defend themselves, they were almost all using communicators to contact players in other areas.
Qiao Song raised her eyebrows. She looked around and soon saw the vortex patterns hidden in the natural wood grain on the walls of the wooden house.
The eyes of the sheep?
Not only that, Qiao Song saw that behind Boss Cai, whose mental state was becoming increasingly broken, a pair of spherical eyeballs flew out of his pocket.
The pair of eyes were pressed against Boss Cai's neck, with several cracks on the eyeballs, as if a small mouth on the eyes was constantly talking.
"Look, she's just a lion, kill her, just a player, kill her."
"Don't be afraid. She is now standing on the opposite side of the player team, encouraging others to join in. She can't possibly resist so many players—"
Just as those eyes said, after the two small teams in the cabin contacted others using the communicator, players soon surrounded the swamp.
There are so many of them that even an ant can kill an elephant.
Qiao Song watched this scene silently: "Has the dragon's use of the ability of the sheep's eyes reached this point? Or has it combined it with the abilities of other zodiac animals?"
The next second, the players at the edge of the swamp attacked.
The leader Qiao Song even felt that he had seen these people somewhere before. They should be the elites of various guilds who had been hiding in the Southern Zodiac.
There was no tension or excitement about the charge on their faces. Perhaps from some unknown moment on, they had all become tools in Chen Long's game.
It turns out that old guy has silently influenced so many players.
She was saying, there is a safe house already, why would someone want to run out and commit suicide?
She's gotten tired of sending people to the resurrection game these past few days. After all this time, it turns out that some people still have bad brains.
The girl with twin ponytails who rushed the fastest had already raised her lunch box:
【Man is iron and rice is steel. If you don’t eat for a meal, you will be hungry. The whole family has eight meat dishes and one vegetable dish! 】
A sky full of old iron lunch boxes flew out, but they were not aimed at Qiao Song.
Boss Cai, who seemed to have suffered a mental breakdown, was forced to use electric wires to catch the lunch boxes and absorbed the energy inside in an instant.
Qiao Song was surprised and said, "It turns out that the display screen also needs to eat. I thought that eating batteries was enough for you?"
After a brief period of blank expression, Boss Cai somehow returned to his previous state.
"No, Chen Long, you can't do this to me, I will die, I..."
He actually regained his sanity temporarily when Weiyang's eyes were pressed against his neck. Unfortunately, there was still a group of irrational players behind him.
Another player in a white coat rushed up, rubbing two iron-like electric machines in his hands.
【Start mandatory CPR now! 】
[Bidirectional wave 200 joule defibrillation! Unlimited cycles until the target recovers! ]
A terrifying bolt of lightning descended from the sky, and it was obvious that its power exceeded 200 joules.
Boss Cai felt the power growing stronger and stronger in his body, and the urge to escape became stronger and stronger. Chen Long was not helping him at all, but was roasting him on the fire.
In the back, countless recovery skills were added to him as if they were free, giving him buffs.
Some people are even trying to persuade them earnestly.
"Wang Er, don't give up!"
"Wang Er, stand up! We are all your wings!"
My wings are your uncle!
The army was not coming for him, but for...
"Just to make me beat Qiao Song, you want me to die, right?!"
"Don't even think about it!!!"
A door suddenly appeared behind Boss Cai. He couldn't get out, but he could still summon other things.
[Unlimited convenience stores, fully open warehouses, overload operation]
Countless skill cards flew out one after another, and along with them came the mascot employees who were originally dozing off on duty in various convenience stores.
All kinds of wind chimes, sunny dolls, and even welcome horns were thrown out all at once.
Qiao Song looked at the mascots flying all over the sky, and saw that in addition to the players who were cheering for Boss Cai, there were also the force-type players who were a step slower and had already reorganized the offense and defense lines.
She muttered, "Why do I feel something is weird? You guys are making it so passionate and tragic, as if I'm the villain."
Qiao Song was not afraid at all. She stood up and her skin quickly became transparent. Amid the sound of rushing water, she was like a ball of flowing water, solidifying into a stone sculpture again.
[The authority of the ferryman of the river of life and death is being separated...]
The shadow of the stone shrine split into three, suddenly turning into a wooden box, a white box, and a toolbox.
"Let me think about it. It should be like this. The wooden one eats incense, the white box eats skills, and the tool box spits out skills."
Qiao Song unskillfully took out the white box and threw it into the water vortex that appeared behind him. The white box quickly disappeared and no one knew where it was sent to.
Qiao Song only had a simple toolbox in his hand, and the hammers, electric saws and other tools in it had long been used up by the security guards.
Not even a screw left.
but--
"Don't think you're the only ones with people. I have quite a few employees here as well."
In an instant, countless ding-ding-ding system prompts appeared in the minds of the five zodiac players.
[Ding——Please assist Qiao Song in completing the defense battle, or use skills on the dialogue box remotely]
Qiao Song gave his family more choices. They didn’t have to come over to help. They could also use white boxes.
But she underestimated her family members who were waiting obediently for the game to end in the safe house.
"Good fellow, Tong Yao, is our boss so capable? Can he directly use the system prompt to call for reinforcements?"
Several tall men and women in a wooden house stood up.
That is the territory of the Dog, and there are no players who have been harmed by the Dragon using the power of the Sheep.
As soon as Qiao Song announced the district-wide announcement, they were the first to arrive.
Tong Yao and Tong Nan, leading these players, jumped out from a wooden shrine that looked like a door when enlarged. Behind them were the martial arts team, the physical training team, and some of the pups from the Dog Team.
"Good fellow, a gang fight is going on."
A sweet-looking girl with a short ponytail instantly raised her fist.
[The clouds resemble clothes and the flowers resemble beauty, one punch knocks down Sylvester Stallone! ]
With a sudden punch, the controlled players who had started charging were knocked down instantly. Of course, the enemies also regrouped quite quickly.
Soon, all kinds of shot put, discus, javelin, and other deadly sports facilities began to fly in the sky.
Then came the office worker with dark circles under his eyes who was smashing Tetris blocks directly with his keyboard, and the snakehead player who had a subtle expression but followed orders seriously.
Further behind, a male witch in a princess dress took a broom and waved it lightly, and then a pumpkin carriage with starlight rushed out.
"Damn you, Rabbit! The fairy tale book hasn't even been revised yet, and they've already kicked us out."
A giant mole spat, "You took my magic wand, so you can just be happy. Don't waste time and go help!"
Behind the mole, countless princesses of all sizes, dressed in knight costumes, or ladies who had no time and simply cut their skirts with a knife, held their weapons and did not retreat at all.
The Little Red Riding Hood teacher held up a gun that originally belonged to a hunter and said, "Children, get ready. The teacher is taking you on an outing!"
Countless ghost children crawled out from her shadow, scaring the guys in the surrounding camp so much that they couldn't help but shrink their feet.
At the very end, there was a group of fitness enthusiasts who arrived late, standing on treadmills and holding barbells in their hands. As they exercised, gold coins kept falling from their bodies.
"Don't worry, everyone. We are a supply team. If you need money, just tell us and I will get you the money!"
The team of these players greatly exceeded some people's expectations.
Far away from the chaotic sky, there are countless small balls floating in the air. Some of them are fruits grown in the forest, and some are naturally formed scars on the trees.
The lines hidden in these invisible patterns slowly wriggle and turn into complex eyes.
360-degree coverage, from forest monitoring to swamps.
Chen Long didn't expect that Qiao Song was not beating around the bush with those zodiac signs at all.
In the golden hall, which belongs to his zodiac area, there are only a few people left.
But outside the hall, there were also surging crowds and countless players.
Chen Long originally thought that he would be the one to blow the horn to start the battle, but he didn't expect that Qiao Song would be so perceptive.
It was just a trick on Boss Cai, but so many players had already gathered together to fight against him.
But even at this time, he seemed ready to sit here and do nothing.
He is still waiting for a critical node.
He wanted to see the final decision made by Qiao Song regarding the fate of Boss Cai.
The players around were already fighting each other. There were two boxes floating in front of Qiao Song. The wooden shrine was a portal, and the toolbox was constantly sending out skill cards.
What Qiao Song had harvested from the coral reef before was no less than the supplies at Boss Cai’s convenience store.
Boss Cai now seemed like a puppet being controlled by someone. All the wires in his body were twitching uncontrollably. His body was becoming bigger and bigger, like a giant robot.
The buffs that players gave him were almost enough to break him.
His head finally uncontrollably turned back into its original square display screen, but now he just wanted to escape, escape as far away as possible.
Qiao Song smiled: "Boss Cai, you really look like a packaged gift now."
It turned out that Chen Long sent this guy here on purpose.
A brand new white box emerged, and combined with the wooden shrine and the toolbox, it turned back into a stone shrine. Shadows stretched out from the shrine like tentacles, and they gradually entangled the wires on the display screen.
In Boss Cai's eyes, Qiao Song looked like a devil: "You've been playing with it for so long, it's time to return the convenience store to me, right?"
Amidst the numerous surveillance cameras, Chen Long finally curled his lips.
Very good, take it.
Qiao Song, take back what once belonged to you, and then you will have fewer and fewer ways to retreat.
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