Chapter 247: Prequel to Infinite Highway
Aunt Huo's words not only shocked Li Yuan and the others, but even Xiao Shitou was surprised.
The humans in this world, from being water plants to coming ashore to build games and becoming players, have worked so hard for so long but have yet to even reach the door to the real world.
But some people actually heard the call from reality.
Little Stone put down the tablet in his hand and pointed at the scene on the screen: "Did you hear the sound of this world?"
The tablet in her hand was playing pictures of the Spring Festival.
In the festive atmosphere of lights and decorations, reunite with family to celebrate the New Year.
Those bustling and noisy scenes are just lively videos to her. They are the same as the written descriptions and exist only in images.
She has never been to the real world of humans.
Aunt Huo nodded: "I did hear it, but it might just be a hallucination in my dying moments."
But for her, just being able to listen to the voices of the kittens is enough to satisfy her.
“Maybe I heard it right.”
The little girl recalled for a moment and touched the stones that had previously blocked the broken door. The stones on the wooden door were like a ball of cement, flowing back into her hands, blending into her skin and disappearing.
The wooden door that was left in place has completed its self-repair.
"The white light is the disinfection system of the River of Life and Death. Every time the white light shines down, the passage opens. At that time, some dead people will enter the river, and many reintegrated souls will return to the human world from the end point. However, they are going to be reincarnated. I guess you don't want to learn."
She exerted force with her fingers and a small hole appeared in the wooden door, and a beam of dazzling light like a sharp sword, which seemed to be able to burn everything, shone in.
Everyone knew the power of this thing, especially Guang, who remembered the experience of being almost killed before, and immediately shrank back:
"No way, no way, do we have to go see the King of Hell again to see if we can hear the same call, but I have never raised a cat!!!"
Doctor Wu patted his shoulder with some disdain: "If I really wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have waited until now. The captain asked you to take the camera and film it."
Ah Guang made a few "oh" sounds, then took out the camera and pointed it at the door.
All the light shone on the little stone.
Unlike human players, when the white light shone on Xiao Shitou's hands, only a slight smoke came out.
The little girl seemed to listen with her eyes closed for a while, then turned back to look at them, "No, I haven't been to that world, can anyone lend me a hand?"
Li Yuan was the closest. He opened his lips slightly but before he could say anything, a hand was pulled over.
Xiao Shitou grabbed him with his left hand and placed his right hand at the door. Gradually, as the white light burned, a voice seemed to come from his ears. It was a very gentle female voice.
Little Stone listened for a while and silently repeated a few words: "She seemed to be talking about what she had for dinner today. Can you hear her?"
Li Yuan couldn't hear it, but he knew who it was.
It was Shu Ruyue, his mother.
Li Yuan's father died of stomach cancer when he was very young. After his father passed away, his mother gradually became anorexic.
It took Li Yuan a long time to get his mother to gradually change from not eating much to eating less, and even eating normally.
Later, when he was busy with work and occasionally had irregular eating habits, his mother would video chat with him and tell him that they should supervise each other.
It was hard for Li Yuan to imagine what kind of mood his mother was in now as she went to the ward every day and talked to her unconscious child about the food she ate carefully every day.
It's like saying to the child, I'm living according to your requirements seriously, so can I wake up and look at mom?
When my father was sick, my mother was always very positive. It was not until my father left her that she became like my father and could not eat anything.
All the indicators are normal and the mother is in good health, but she just can't eat.
Li Yuan suddenly found it hard to imagine what would happen to his family who had always cared for him if he remained unconscious and could never go back.
The air gradually fell silent, and Xiao Shitou's tone became a little envious: "She is reading a story to you with the nurse. What is an online novel? She also said that you might need some external information when making games, and she is going to read you the news."
"She's so gentle."
It took a long time before Li Yuan felt Xiao Shitou reluctantly let go of his hand.
The ship healed itself very quickly and the hole in the door was patched up.
Li Yuan: "Can you see the scene in the ward?"
Little Stone hummed, "When I was soaking in the water before, I could see the memories emerging from you water plants. But it was only when there was white light. I didn't expect that you could see it yourself."
When the white light envelopes, it is the time when the adjacent channel between the River of Life and Death and the human world opens.
Aunt Huo seemed to see some hope: "Does that mean that we can sail the ship back during the daylight hours?"
Li Yuan turned to Mo Wen in the driver's seat and asked: "Can the steering wheel on your side be controlled by a human?"
Mo Wen shook his head, having obviously tried it before: "I can only turn on all the switches. This ship has its own will, and I can't interfere with its route at all."
Having said that, he still plans to try again during the white light period, just in case there are any changes.
Just as Mo Wen was struggling with various buttons on the console, strange noises began to be heard in the corridor.
The captain's room has a great location and view, so you can always be the first to notice any movement.
Anne, who was in charge of watching over the horned woman, had sharp ears. "Is there something wrong downstairs again?"
Li Yuan and Fan Xi's room looked intact, so there could only be one place where the problem occurred - the animal cabin where Qi Fan and the others were.
If animals are prone to losing control during the day because they are attracted to light, then compared to other rooms where there are a large number of sober players, Qi Fan's room is the real hell. If any one of them loses control and breaks through the door, I'm afraid the entire army will be wiped out.
A Guang even adjusted the cameras in various areas with some anticipation, but unfortunately, except for the ones in his teammates' rooms, the others were really destroyed.
"It would be better if they were all killed at once, those ungrateful dogs."
Li Yuan, however, had already come to the door with a serious face and was listening for footsteps. The players on Qi Fan's side could go crazy, but it was best not to rush over to them.
Li Yuan, who also looked like a child, was still doing the work of the team leader, while Little Stone was circling around Aunt Huo with a tablet:
"Aunt Huo, is this what the kitten is referring to?"
Little Stone quickly slid through a video, pointed at some furry little animals in it and asked.
When A Guang was a photographer in real life, he had taken many videos with animals, including cats.
After Aunt Huo nodded, Little Stone's eyes quickly sparkled again: "I've also seen cats in the river!"
Li Yuan was still thinking about what the white light was used for disinfection, but was suddenly attracted by the girl's words: "Aren't there only dead souls in this river? Are there also cats?"
The little stone drew a circle in the air: "In the river of life and death, all lives are mixed together. Human souls are more complicated, so they can float for a long time and slowly decompose. The lives of small animals are simple and pure, and their souls are complete even after decomposition."
"When they reach the end point, they will mix together. Some small animals will become humans and return to your world, while some humans will be broken up and turned into animals..."
Ah Guang was inexplicably surprised: "My six realms of reincarnation are really divided into the realm of animals and the realm of humans. Then is there a hell?"
Little Stone tilted his head in confusion: "Hell?"
Ah Guang gestured: "It's the kind of place where bad souls are thrown in to be punished. In order to encourage people to do good deeds, they say bad people go to hell and good people go to heaven."
The little stone suddenly realized: "It's in the water. Human souls will feel very painful when they are immersed in it. I see that some souls will be surrounded and bitten by many other souls, but some will not."
"Souls that are exposed to the white light, whether they are alive or dead, will basically disappear faster. Some souls will even help others block the white light to prevent them from disappearing too quickly."
"I asked the doctor before, and she told me that this is because everyone is about to be reincarnated, and it is the best time to take revenge and repay a favor."
Others thought, no wonder Xiao Shitou knew the word reincarnation, it turned out that the doctor who built the shopping mall taught him.
At this moment, the ship suddenly shook, the noise in the corridor became louder, and Li Yuan clearly heard heavy and chaotic footsteps.
He made a gesture, and his teammates who knew what he meant instantly fell silent. Only Little Stone blinked her eyes and looked outside curiously, as if she could see through the wall. Suddenly she exclaimed, "So, there are old players on your ship..."
Old player?
Li Yuan suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. The only people who would be called old players by Xiao Shitou were those in the same batch as the doctor, that is, the first people who got rid of their status as water plants in the Styx and came ashore to become players.
Aren't all these people left in the mall? Otherwise, the doctor, who was unable to move, would not have asked Little Stone to help take a look at the situation of the ship.
Even if the entire ship was destroyed, she would be fine. Little Stone was the best person for long-distance observation. If there were other people who could do it, why would they entrust it to a motionless stone?
Just as Li Yuan was thinking, a broadcast suddenly sounded on the ship.
[The game editor is effective and a special game mode is about to be entered. Please note that you are about to enter a chaotic dream adventure mode. After you die in a dream, your skills will be directly lost. This editor will be effective for 10 hours.]
[Repeat once more, all passengers on this ship are about to enter a special dream adventure mode...]
The expressions of all the players who heard the broadcast became serious, except for Xiao Shitou, whose eyes lit up.
"All the passengers...? Does this mean I can go in and play too!"
"I've seen you guys play so many weird games, and I've wanted to try it myself for a long time!"
As she looked on expectantly, the ceiling was sprinkled with rainbow-like mist. When the mist dissipated, everyone in the room appeared on another ship.
But this ship is obviously bigger. To be more precise, it is not the ship that has become bigger, but the people on it have become smaller.
Everyone in the room turned into little people made up of square building blocks.
Li Yuan and the little girl next to him were shorter than everyone else.
Li Yuan reacted very quickly and had everyone ready for battle: "This rule is obviously not in our favor. Once we die, our skills will be lost. There are a lot of animal players, and they are not very rational. Once stimulated, they will easily go crazy. If one of our team is killed by them, it will easily lead to a snowball effect."
What Li Yuan didn't say was that he even suspected that this suddenly appearing game editor might also be related to that old player.
Annie also turned into a building block figure, with some armor pieces from a mecha toy on her body.
"Oh no! The goat-horned girl that Lao Mo and I were watching over is missing! And the door to the room opened automatically. It looks safe outside. Shall we go out now?"
A Guang also spoke up: "The prisoners in our room are gone too, but I was watching them on video, and the prisoners on both sides disappeared instantly. It can only be that they were born in a different place from us when they entered this game."
When A Guang was not joking, his skills were turned on all day, so teammates from three areas appeared in the camera at the same time, and only Fan Xi was the calmest.
"The door on my side is closed. It looks like no one will come in for the time being."
Fan Xi’s method of unlocking the door and entering the warehouse was different from that of others. He had to play a game of chess with himself and could only enter if he won.
Li Yuan quickly divided the work, Fan Xi continued to look through the files, and Annie and Lao Mo tried their best to meet with them first.
The teammates all listened to the captain. Unexpectedly, Xiao Shitou was also waiting for his work to be assigned and was not making much noise.
"What about me? What about me?"
"Just follow us." Li Yuan paused: "Are you a player too?"
Little Stone felt the condition of his body and said in a distressed tone, "It seems not. I came in with you. I seem to have gained the ability to edit the game, but there are many rules and boxes filled with strange lines. I don't know how to use it."
Li Yuan had a complicated expression.
This is his ability, similar to a game editor.
etc.
He called Xiao Shitou and asked, "Did you create those games in the mall yourself, or did others create them based on the permissions and materials you provided?"
"Of course you do it yourself."
She is a stone! She just turned into a human today!
"But I pinched a few special little stone fragments for the doctor to use as keys to make it easier for them to play games."
She is the stone of the river of life and death. After being believed to give birth to more and more spiritual intelligence, she is born with the ability to influence the shopping mall built on the sandbar and the souls in the entire area.
“Do you remember who you gave it to?”
"Well, I don't remember, but the keys are all bound and won't drop unless you die."
Unless something will not drop after death, such a familiar description made Li Yuan have a bad guess.
"Maybe someone in Qi Fan's place has such an editor."
Li Yuan has tried to use his skills to activate the program package on the hyena player that he had deliberately let run away.
Lost contact.
Programming languages can only be dealt with using programming languages.
Qi Fan probably has similar abilities.
"If they are really people from Qi Fan's side who took the initiative to use the key to edit the game, then they are probably coming for us."
There were only so many people on the boat.
The stone key could only be among Qi Fan's group, so how did he get it? Whether he was born with it or took it by other means, it is impossible to tell for the time being.
Qi Fan probably wanted to kill people and take away their skills. At night, people are easily affected by bloodthirstiness and hunger. During the day, there is white light and people cannot visit each other.
The dreaming game is simply the best way to circumvent the weaknesses of the animal camp.
Li Yuan guessed that Qi Fan would do this for two reasons. First, he had a very good skill that he particularly wanted. Second, he encountered a skill that posed a threat to him and had to eliminate it in advance.
Li Yuan felt that his game-making ability might be one of the things that had to be eradicated.
Now he just hoped that Qi Fan was coming for him, not Xiao Shitou.
Does he know what the little stone is like?
Qi Fan knew.
Half an hour ago, he deliberately dug out the eyes of a younger brother under his control remotely.
Li Yuan had suspected it, but he couldn't be sure. The reason why the captives reacted so strongly and broke down their door was partly because of Qi Fan.
His hands had turned into eagle claws, and his head had morphed into that of some dragon-like creature, complete with flowing beard, and his beast form was different from most people.
His head turns into a dragon, which is one of the reasons why the team is in awe of him.
"It's a shame, he got away with the consequences of breaking the door, but he got a bigger reward."
Qi Fan, whose one eye turned gray, shared the scene on Li Yuan's side with the help of a skill of a unconscious prisoner.
But A Guang is not the only one who has photography skills. Although the skills he uses are low-level, they are very useful.
【Outdoor Live Broadcast Electronic Eye】
[When doing some outdoor live broadcasts that are not allowed by law, you always need some hidden equipment. Of course, this is not legal, so as time goes by, once discovered, the backlash against the skill user will deepen, and he may even explode on the spot. ]
[The person who took the sneak shot deserves death. After being discovered, shouldn't he explode on the spot according to physics? ]
Qi Fan felt no psychological pressure when using this skill. After all, the target of the explosion would be the prisoner, and he was just the ruler.
[Dragon Ruler: After becoming a leader of a group, you will be able to freely deploy the skills of everyone, provided that you conquer them first, infect them, and then dominate them.]
His true profession, when paired with the beastly dragon, is simply invincible.
"I thought the origin of the creation that Ms. Ye told me was fake, but I didn't expect such a ridiculous thing to actually exist. I relied on a stone to get to the shore, and now I have to rely on a stone to return to the real world."
A stone key emerged from his hand.
The process of obtaining this thing was not very glorious, but he always cared only about the results.
"This is truly the most valuable thing I have ever stolen."
Qi Fan used the key with a smile, and at the same time, his voice floated in the room and towards the other people behind him.
There were only five people, old and young, women and children, in the corner. The other beast-form players also looked satisfied, obviously having had a good meal at home.
“Remember, when you go in later, there is only one thing you have to do. Kill all those building block men and bring back the things they drop.
You can only live if they die. This is much easier than just going up and fighting them directly, right? Now you are all building blocks, and one skill each can crush them to death."
The building block figures that Qi Fan and his friends turned into were all in animal form, making it easy to distinguish between themselves and others.
Li Yuan's team is really good at cooperation. It is said that they even set up a guild called Eye of Wisdom. People who make games have flexible minds.
If he took that skill and combined it with the key, wouldn't he be able to create a new world of his own in this underworld even if he couldn't return home alive?
And that little girl, I have to find a way to trick her over as well.
Qi Fan took everything into consideration, but he didn't expect one thing -
A stone that does not understand human common sense, with full health bar and full mana bar, and after sharing with Li Yuan, she possesses a very special game skill. Although she does not understand C language, she can speak human language.
"Li Yuan, Li Yuan, there are animals coming over here, hurry up, I want to play Fruit Ninja!"
A little cube man jumping up and down soon got the fruit knife that had just been edited as he wished.
Li Yuan really didn't know Qi Fan's background, but he knew Xiao Shitou's.
A group of companions who were queuing up and walking out silently behind him watched Li Yuan become a resentful programmer who received countless demands from the client.
Or the kind that specializes in making games.
But the little girl not only had fun, but also achieved great results.
Seeing the first wave of animal men about to come out, A Guang sighed silently: "The captain is really awesome. He has helped us get on top of the world and make money."
Little Stone screamed, and the animals in his eyes had turned into various small monsters with watermelon heads.
She can finally play the fruit-cutting game somewhere other than on her tablet!
Fun! Love to play!
At this time, Qi Fan had no idea that his planned siege would turn into a playground due to the playfulness of a stone.
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