Chapter 246: Prequel to Infinite Highway
It was difficult for Li Yuan to describe clearly how he felt right now. Not only had his body become smaller, but his five senses seemed to have also undergone certain changes.
Become extremely sharp.
Especially this one in front of me——
The girl who looked 80% similar to him at the beginning, now pinches her face and changes herself into another appearance in minutes.
"It's better this way. I don't like looking too much like you. It's like looking in a mirror. It's good to think of girls this way. Most girls are sweet and soft, smart and powerful."
The little stone looked at the clothes on Aunt Huo for a while, and the stone piece soon turned into similar cloth.
Now she looks almost exactly like a little human girl of about eleven or twelve years old.
She skipped to sit next to Aunt Huo, pulled away the rubber men in defensive postures in front of Aunt Huo, and dug out the curled-up Aunt Huo.
"Buy 1 get 1 free. I'll treat you while there's still a chance!"
There were still a few small pieces of stone stuck on her cheeks, and every time a piece of stone fell, it flew onto Aunt Huo. The burnt parts of her body, starting from her hair, gradually recovered, but she still slid down to the ground in a semi-conscious state.
Li Yuan then realized that, in addition to his own body size shrinking, almost all the team members in the room were impacted by the white light, and now no one was awake.
While saying not to waste it, Little Stone took off the last two pieces of stone on his face and rushed to the corner.
Wu Hanyu and A Guang did not suffer as much damage because they were a little further away and there were prisoners blocking the way in front of them.
Li Yuan finally accepted the fact that he had become a child. At least he looked the most lively now.
It is hard to say which one is more shocking: the stone turning into a human or oneself suddenly becoming small. The most urgent thing is to roll up the corners of my clothes and check the situation of my teammates.
Little Stone's miraculous healing skills not only saved Li Yuan's life, but also cured everyone else in the room. Only their skin burns healed, but everyone fell into a drowsy sleep.
After Li Yuan discovered that his teammates' vital signs were stable, he immediately checked the remaining prisoners.
He had to figure out why the two players went crazy just now. If they hadn't impulsively broken the door, this situation wouldn't have happened.
He didn't think that sudden suicidal behavior was an accident.
Little Stone was yawning beside him, watching him turn over the remaining prisoners: "I have run out of stone pieces, and these guys are not good people anyway, so I won't help treat them."
While he was speaking, there was already movement from A Guang's side.
A Guang in the corner was probably the one with the least injuries in the whole game.
He hid behind Dr. Wu with his hands on his head.
Li Yuan saw the wound on Wu Hanyu's arm that was slowly healing and smoke was still coming out of his white coat. Because the doctor's attributes enhanced his physical fitness, Wu Hanyu would take the initiative to act as a meat shield when protecting A Guang.
As long as he didn't die on the spot, his physical condition could slowly recover, not to mention with the help of Xiao Shitou.
After A Guang woke up, Wu Hanyu also woke up soon and was immediately met with a pair of big blinking eyes.
Little Stone smiled brightly: "You're awake! The operation was successful!"
Wu Hanyu almost thought he was dreaming. He turned around and saw the smaller version of Li Yuan in his childhood. With a childish face, he nodded deeply and said, "I'm glad you're okay."
What's going on?
Wu Hanyu closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again after a while.
Is he still dreaming?
Seeing that his teammates were fine, Li Yuan quickly returned to work and turned to talk to A Guang: "How is it? Did you take pictures? What happened at the time?"
A Guang is a funny guy who has always been well protected by the team because of his special abilities. He has a set of real-time monitoring that can be activated in an emergency. Even if he cannot see clearly at the time of an accident, he can still review the situation afterwards.
As soon as Li Yuan turned around, he found A Guang, who had just woken up, looking at him stupidly: "You, you are Li Yuan? How come you..."
Ah Guang looked the kid up and down, and soon noticed the little girl behind him. He was stunned: "What's going on? Not only did you regain your youth, but you also hatched your stone Nezha?"
Little Stone immediately jumped up, baring his teeth as if he was going to bite him: "You are Nezha!"
Li Yuan frowned and grabbed Xiao Shitou, muttering, "He is dirty, you can't bite him," and then briefly told A Guang what happened.
A Guang, who escaped the disaster only because he was told he was very dirty:?
Li Yuan looked at Xiao Shitou again: "Do you still know Nezha?"
I even know the story about the successful operation.
Little Stone was quite proud: "Yes, I went to your mall many times when I had nothing to do. Although I have never been a human for a day, I already know a lot of common sense about humans!"
After saying this, she pinched her arm and said, "It feels so wonderful to be a human. The flesh is so soft. It's really different from stone."
This time, Ah Guang was not frightened by the cute stone that looked like a little girl. He was stunned and took out a disc for Li Yuan. He took the initiative to move closer and asked: "Captain, did this cute little thing really jump out of the stone?"
Li Yuan was only about 11 or 12 years old. He looked mature and said, "This tape cannot be played. Change it."
A Guang was stunned for a moment, and quickly took out several different hard drives, from old-fashioned optical discs to new-version memory cards, all of which contained surveillance footage.
"Strange? This has never happened before."
Because A Guang's human body monitoring skill is a passive skill, the scenes he has experienced can be replayed in 360 degrees without blind spots, unless the skill is invalid at that time.
But since he can take out the camera now, it means he can use it now, right?
Little Stone squatted down beside him with his face in his hands, poking at the prisoners lying on the ground like corpses: "Stupid, because when the white light is shining, no one can use skills."
Ah Guang was stunned: "Yes, in that case, it is indeed possible."
He suddenly remembered what happened at that time. He only remembered that his eyes were almost blinded at that moment. The captain was so close to the door. If he hadn't made a deal with the devil, bah, or with this stone man, he would probably be dead.
Ah Guang finally realized it and looked at the little girl: "So it was you who saved us..."
Little Stone smiled with his little tiger teeth showing: "Yes, how are you going to thank me?"
Although A Guang was afraid of ghosts and all kinds of strange dead things that could move, he was not afraid of such a cute child. In the end, he gave his small camera to the child in a daze as an apology.
Xiao Shitou had seen and heard of this thing before, but this was the first time he owned one himself.
The little girl went to play nearby. Li Yuan, Dr. Wu, Aunt Huo and others were all awake and relit the screen that had gone dark due to the white light.
Fortunately, the other team members didn't seem to encounter any accidents, so the picture could still be connected.
Seeing that everyone was still alive, Fan Xi nodded calmly and continued to look through the information.
Annie and Mo Wen looked quite serious: "What happened over there? I seemed to hear a loud noise outside."
Ah Guang explained it again with some exaggeration.
Annie immediately noticed a small stone next to her who was taking pictures with a camera.
Xiao Shitou turned his camera and seemed to notice Annie on the other end, and immediately raised his hand.
"It's the pretty young lady who praised me for being cute earlier! Hello!"
Apparently he still remembered being praised by Annie when he was a stone.
Annie immediately forgot about the possible identity of Little Stone that the captain had just mentioned, and her face was almost stuck to the screen: "Oh my god, you're so cute! How come we are both children, but the captain looks like he's going to have wrinkles, but you're so cute, baby!"
Li Yuan who was being trampled: ...
Finally, Mo Wen coughed and said, "We're in a meeting, Annie."
The girl in the camera over there said "oh" indifferently, and smiled and stretched out her little hand to greet Xiao Shitou.
The video conference continues.
Li Yuan: "Doctor Wu, have you found the reason why the captive went berserk just now?"
Wu Hanyu looked unhappy: "The anesthetic I gave each of them is enough to knock out an elephant."
Even when tying people up, they put their hands behind their backs and tie their thumbs shut. Under normal circumstances, there is no way to break free. Even if someone tries to break free, the noise will be huge.
The two mad orcs before, as if seeking death, tore off their fingers and ran straight towards the white light outside the door that was enough to destroy everything.
The radio has said it many times: if you don’t want to die, stay indoors and don’t go out.
It was really strange that the prisoner suddenly went crazy. No one on this ship wanted to die.
Li Yuan had also heard about the operating logic of the entire Infinite Mall before. Those selected from these games are those with the most top abilities and the greatest desire to return to reality and live again.
Would such a person carry out a suicide attack? Even if they wanted to escape, they should do so at night, as the night environment was the most passive for human players.
Players cannot actively attack animal camps, they can only wait for the animals to attack and then counterattack.
Wu Hanyu had already dragged the remaining two animals over. "I just gave the maximum dose of anesthetic. It can only barely guarantee that they won't die immediately. Then I found something very strange."
Wu Hanyu used his fingers to gently pry open the eyelids of one of the leopard-shaped players.
As a result, the guy who should have been unconscious had all white in his pupils. The moment he was exposed to the light from the outside world, the leopard's tail immediately stood up and his whole body twitched.
He seemed to move instinctively, but several of his bones were unable to support him, and he could only lie twitching on the ground for a while.
"I dislocated all his joints, and broke all the joints that could be dislocated. Anyway, these guys recover very quickly."
Li Yuan thought for a moment: "So, the problem lies with the light source?"
When the night ended and the day began, the biggest change in the room was the light from the ceiling.
Li Yuan was busy talking to Xiao Shitou at the time, but who knew that the prisoner in the corner suddenly went crazy.
A clue flashed through his mind, and Li Yuan remembered their titles.
After making their choice, the human player camp received a strange title:
【Sober during the day】
[When the boat enters the river during the day, you will be more sober than other passengers and can recall everything about reality and the purpose of your boarding. Similarly, at night, please stay away from those nocturnal lunatics, who will do something irreversible driven by hunger]
It's daytime now.
So the animal camp tends to go crazy and bloodthirsty at night, but it turns out there will be more serious negative effects during the day?
When Annie heard this, she suddenly realized something and slapped her palms: "Yes, we also have an animal captive, the sheep!"
The girl with horns on her head was detained in the corner of the captain's room by Annie using a mechanical lock. In order to avoid being hypnotized by seeing her eyes, Mo Wen directly covered her head.
Annie was eager to try and was ready to do an experiment, but just as she took off the girl's hood, she closed her eyes tightly on her own initiative.
"...No, don't open my eyelids. I know what you are going to do."
The girl shrank back, her voice trembling a little, but she was not afraid. Instead, she was trying her best to suppress her instincts.
She was smart and confessed quickly, knowing that this was the only way she had a chance to survive.
"The animal camp has a nickname: [Night Foragers]. We will become more crazy at night, and during the day, we will passively enter a sleepwalking state when we see the light. We will actively throw ourselves into the light, like moths into a flame. Please, put the hood back on, please, I am still valuable."
As she spoke, she curled up her body and began to struggle violently, but she was about to go crazy at any time.
Annie didn't want to end up like the captain, where this guy also knocked a big hole in the door of the captain's room, so she quickly put the guy back in. This time she even added a few mechanical locks to cover all the exposed parts of her skin so that they would not be exposed to the light.
The sheep-headed girl, who had been struggling violently, finally regained her breath.
"It seems that the human player camp is pretty good. There aren't so many weird things going on."
A Guang sighed as he looked at the screen, but Li Yuan was the first to refute: "The animal camp is too aggressive, which is not a good thing for us."
Although they won a great victory in the first offensive and defensive battle, the soldiers who came out at that time were all miscellaneous soldiers, and Qi Fan was still in the base camp.
Moreover, Li Yuan looked at the little girl who was acting coquettishly with Aunt Huo and wanted to borrow an electric baton from the rubber man security guard.
I wonder if Qi Fan has learned about Xiao Shitou's matter.
Li Yuan thought for a moment and then made a heavyweight guess:
"Looking at the current situation, if everything Little Stone said is true, then I don't think we can return to reality safely now."
Not only were his teammates dumbfounded, but even Little Stone came over to join in the fun: "Hey, why do you say that?"
She came to the ship this time to test whether the ship could successfully bring human souls back to the real world, but the player said no.
At this time, her arms were full of small things she had received from other players, including a mask given by the doctor, a baton and a new rag given by Aunt Huo, and even a small tablet that A Guang, the sucker, had taken out from somewhere.
Xiao Shitou was clicking on a video wishing happy new year, trying to learn more about the human world from some promotional videos that A Guang had shot before.
Li Yuan had no intention of hiding it: "I saw countless dead faces on the bottom of the ship before, tearing at the ship. Judging from the extent of the accumulation of those faces, it should be effective. The ship is being continuously worn out."
At his signal, A Guang opened the video he had shot before again. The photographer, feeling distressed, endured the discomfort and enlarged the picture. After adjusting the light and shadow details, he indeed saw the details that the captain mentioned.
As expected, the ship was being eaten away by those ghost faces.
A Guang couldn't help but leaned in again and said a swear word.
As a result, Li Yuan, who looked like a child, frowned and reminded him: "There are children in the team, you should pay less attention in the future, and use fewer strange interjections."
The little stone next to him also widened his eyes and said "yes", but at least he didn't really say any swear words.
The little girl, who was less than ten years old, was a first-time human being and she would learn whatever she saw. This made A Guang feel ashamed and he repeatedly promised that he would be more careful in the future.
Xiao Shitou's attention had long been on the bottom of the boat. She held her things and watched the video with some dissatisfaction: "How could it fail again? I thought it was a success this time."
In the mall, the doctor and the others are about to merge with the radio. Little Stone feels that they will be very sad if this ship does not succeed.
Li Yuan asked Mo Wen in another video: "Old Mo, you must have driven a boat before. Can you calculate how long this boat can last at this speed?"
Mo Wen also looked troubled.
"I have much more experience driving a car than sailing a boat, but at this speed, it won't be very fast. It will be fine for at least a week, but we don't have the materials to fill it. If it really leaks..."
The others understood what he meant.
Everyone knows what it is like underwater. Once you fall in, no matter whether you can swim or not, you will be reincarnated.
Ah Guang slumped down on the ground like Ge You. "I think I can still be saved. Is it possible for us to sail out within 7 days? Lao Mo, aren't you in the captain's room? What kind of ship are you sailing there?"
Speaking of this, Mo Wen was a little embarrassed: "It doesn't matter whether this ship has a captain or not. I feel like I'm just here to install the steering wheel."
As he said this, he made way for Annie to point the camera at the operating table.
At this time, there is no one operating the car, but various buttons of different sizes will light up automatically in sequence. Most of the time, the steering wheel will not move at all, and only occasionally will the direction be slightly adjusted.
It can be said to be a very worry-free ship.
At this time, a little girl's voice sounded: "Oh, I know! The automatic navigation system of this ship was made by the doctor and his team. It seems to be able to go upstream and return in the direction where the soul came from."
Li Yuan was also thinking: "Should I keep running away from the end of death and try to return to the world of the living?"
"Wait a minute." Aunt Huo, who had been silent for a long time, spoke.
“Is there a possibility that returning to the real world does not necessarily require swimming upstream?”
Huo Siran is the oldest person in the group. Although he looks well-maintained, he is actually over 50 years old.
Huo Siran started from scratch and moved to the city in her thirties. She transformed from a rural woman into the entrepreneurial woman she is today. Her parents have long passed away, and her relationship with her husband and children is not good.
After a serious illness, Huo Siran's last contact with his family was holiday greetings and false temptations and quarrels about property.
Huo Siran has seen many lives, and his perception of death is more profound than other young people.
The room became quiet. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Huo Siran was silent for a while before continuing:
"When the white light descended, my feelings were different from yours. Although I was cured after a short coma, I felt like I had a very long dream for a few seconds."
Huo Siran suddenly paused. They had been working together for a long time, but it was the first time for the others to see Aunt Huo show such a gentle expression.
"I heard a lot of cats meowing. If I remember correctly, I fell in my own nursing home. If everything goes well, even if I am in a coma, I will be recuperating in my own hospital. The nurses all know that I like cats, so they will definitely put the little guys in my yard and adopt them together.
I once said that if I were to die one day, I would like kittens to surround me. "
Aunt Huo touched the corner of her eye.
"When the white light shone down, I heard cats meowing. Although I was very close to death at that moment, I was sure that they were the kittens I had raised and were still alive."
“They’re telling me to go home.”
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