Chapter 250: Prequel to Infinite Highway
Little Shitou was looking forward to going to school. He turned around and asked Li Yuan, "Can I go to school, too? I heard that there is a cafeteria in the school with a lot of delicious food."
Li Yuan didn't expect that the first thing she would consider was the food issue.
It was even difficult for him to be sure that the ship could enter the real world.
"At least, you can't eat mushrooms that you step on. They have to be non-toxic mushrooms, clean them, and fry them."
Little Stone glanced at him and said, "Of course I know this. I'm just too lazy to remember the rules. I'm not really stupid!"
After saying that, she rushed directly into the mushroom bush with the fruit knife that was almost taller than her.
Qi Fan, who was standing opposite him, was probably the biggest Lego man in the room. He had several small bulges on his body, which made Little Stone frown: "So smelly and ugly."
Qi Fan was not angry either. When the two sides approached, he actually raised his hand to greet him first: "I have heard of your name for a long time. I didn't expect that you look so cute when you become a human..."
Little Stone didn't even wait for him to finish and kicked him: "I hate people who steal things the most! Where did you get your permission management key?!"
Qi Fan was kicked in the chest. He thought it was just a child's play, but the kick was surprisingly heavy, as if he was kicked by an elephant.
He rolled backwards many times, like a bouncing ball, rolling up a long string of white mycelium, and finally stopped on a red mushroom.
Covering his chest and steadying his body, Qi Fan was actually in a mood to smile: "I wasn't kicked to death by you, which at least shows that the little game I made with the authority key is effective. After all, even gods have to abide by the rules when they come in."
He licked his lips, a little curious: "If you die once in the game, will your skills drop? What will it drop? The management rights of the River of Life and Death, or the stone pieces on your body that can give humans strange abilities?"
Little Stone grinned: "You can try it."
Li Yuan had thought about Qi Fan's motives, but he never thought he was so bold.
Is he here for the little stone?
No, Qi Fan said "I have heard of your name for a long time" and revealed Xiao Shitou's identity right away, which means that he had heard of Xiao Shitou from other channels but had never actually seen him.
At least for now, the only people who know Xiao Shitou's identity, besides those lucky few, are the first group of people who built the shopping mall.
Did Qi Fan know those people, or was he commissioned by them to do something? Did those people betray Xiao Shitou?
No, Xiao Shitou said that she could smell the fragrance and stench in people's souls, so even if some people went against their original goal, it would not be all.
The Doctor certainly wouldn't be the traitor, it could be someone else...
Qi Fan created such a specific game on a ship that can take people back to the real world, just to kill specific targets in the virtual game and eat up the skills of other players?
No, there is something missing, some motivation and purpose.
Li Yuan's brain was working so fast that his fingers were almost breaking out from typing away on the keyboard. He remotely assisted Xiao Shitou in beating up Qi Fan.
Although the latter had consumed a lot of skill packs, his digestion speed was slow. However, the stone man opposite him was quite unsportsmanlike and interrupted him every time Qi Fan raised his hand to use a skill.
[Couriers have a courier spirit, and they work on the courier conveyor belt]
In front of Qi Fan, a continuously moving express conveyor belt appeared. Xiao Shitou had never seen this thing before. He opened his eyes wide and watched the mushrooms being put on the conveyor belt and turned into packaged express items of all sizes.
Qi Fan, the little square man, was already wearing a courier employee uniform of a famous brand. He pressed the baseball cap with a big logo on his head.
"It's a pity that it's not fully digested. I can only use 60% of the effect, which is enough."
The guy on the opposite side, who had not had much contact with human society, of course had no idea what it was used for. But as soon as he stepped on it, Xiao Shitou realized that it was actually a thing for doing hard labor.
[Ding——You have entered the conveyor belt range. Please classify and pack all the goods, otherwise the goods will always remain in the express delivery status that cannot be signed for. ]
Failure to sign for it means it will stay in the box and you can never take it out.
Seeing that most of the mushrooms around had turned into courier paper boxes, Xiao Shitou of course understood that Qi Fan was trying to completely destroy the mushrooms' home advantage!
If you don't know the rules, then don't bother to try. Anyway, Qi Fan has many skills now, so just crush him.
Shitou was angry: "Mushrooms are so cute, they can be stepped on and eaten, how can you pack them all up? They will go bad!"
[Ding——New rules are generated. If the mushrooms trapped in the express box are not dealt with for more than 5 minutes, they will naturally rot and continue to grow into new mushroom clusters! ]
Qi Fan's expression froze. This was not a new rule he wrote.
This weird thing that crawled out of the river can change the rules just by talking?
No, although Xiao Shitou can do it, her common sense is not enough to understand how mushrooms grow and how express delivery works.
Making games requires logic!
Qi Fan immediately looked into the distance, at the guy holding an electronic device, who looked about the same size as Xiao Shitou from a distance.
That was Li Yuan, whose fingers never stopped moving.
A large number of numbers 0 and 1 flowed out from his fingertips, forming a fungal carpet bit by bit, building an increasingly larger mushroom world, which was constantly improved and directly merged with the express conveyor belt made by Qi Fan.
Sure enough, the man's skills had somehow combined with the stone, one providing authority, the other providing creativity.
We have to find a way to strip away this ability, otherwise it will become a big problem in the future!
Qi Fan could not have imagined that the stone, which had absorbed so many years of incense, could conclude a one-way contract with a human.
Although he spoke arrogantly, he actually just wanted to hold Shitou back. It would be great if he could kill him once. After all, this guy had been in the river for so many years, he would definitely not die. Killing him once in the game was considered a great bargain.
Before using the express attack, Qi Fan snapped his fingers at the back of his head. Fang Jinyu slowly disappeared in the air and began to advance in the mushroom bush according to his request.
The kite pattern on the back was colorful, and Fang Jinyu and her flying tool were submerged in the mushroom bush like a mosaic.
She held a pen in her hand, and words kept flowing and blending into the air.
[Optical invisibility, one of the essential tools of soft science fiction]
[The pen of a science fiction writer is the most amazing magic! ]
Fang Jinyu, holding a pen in her hand, quickly approached the other areas protected behind the small stone.
Of course, Xiao Shitou, who was fighting with Qi Fan, also looked up at Fang Jinyu. Qi Fan quickly attracted Xiao Shitou's attention and prevented him from interfering with his important tasks.
When Fang Jinyu and Shitou looked at each other, her heart skipped a beat and then started beating very fast, as if the writer had met his biggest nemesis - an unknown creature that could not be controlled, explored or studied.
But Xiao Shitou just glanced at her briefly, showing no intention of going back to help as the rear team had been invaded.
This person doesn't seem to have any bad intentions.
Xiao Shitou thought, is this the phrase she always said when she was watching the players cooperating or scheming against each other? "I am in Cao's camp, but my heart is with Han"?
Humans are so strange.
She took the knife and continued to chop at the mushroom-covered express boxes in front of her.
Qi Fan breathed a sigh of relief. While he was uttering harsh words to attract Xiao Shitou's attention, Fang Jinyu also moved to the back as he had requested.
Li Yuan did not react at all and continued to type on the keyboard quickly, while one after another rubber figures that looked like mud appeared near him, holding electric batons and cleaning tools.
[The highest rating from a top cleaning company: It is as bright as a mirror, leaving no room for dirt to hide! ]
[Human-shaped dirt detected, approaching! ]
Aunt Huo had spotted Fang Jinyu approaching in an invisible state at some point and said, "Little girl, you don't look like someone who's here to cause trouble."
Her ability to judge people is probably the most accurate except for that of Xiao Shitou.
Although she said this, Aunt Huo still rushed over with an electric baton in her hand.
As expected, Fang Jinyu and her only pretended to fight a few times.
They were surrounded by security guards and cleaners armed with weapons. In addition, this place was close to Li Yuan, and clusters of mushrooms soared into the sky, blocking their view very well.
"I'm here to cooperate with you. Mo Wen and Annie, as well as the photographer and doctor from your team who just left, have all gone to the basement to meet up with another person. Qi Fan gave me the key once during the trip, put it in the captain's room, and plugged it into the safety socket over there to activate the game's self-destruct system."
With just these few words, the expressions of Aunt Huo and Li Yuan changed drastically.
While Fang Jinyu was playing a fake match, she casually threw out a GOPro and said, "There is evidence here."
A Guang treasures his photography very much. Even if it is stolen by the enemy, he will find a way to make it self-destruct. Li Yuan has taught him a self-destruction program.
He half believed it: "Tell me your reason. You didn't do that when you were on the boat before."
Fang Jinyu pretended to be hit twice by an electric baton. After flying away, a pair of goat horns soon grew on her head and her pupils turned into square goat pupils.
She has to act more realistically.
"I can't possibly jump from one fire pit to another with my family and friends. I've seen your teammate before she jumped off the boat. She has the ability to fly. I won't let her really fall. I just want you to know what's in the water."
Fang Jinyu was talking about the previous hypnosis of Annie.
Li Yuan frowned: "Go on."
Fang Jinyu turned her eyes to the mirror: "Everything I do now will be forgotten after I leave this block game. I have not done anything to betray Qi Fan, and I have not revealed anything that should not be revealed."
A whirlpool soon appeared in her eyes, and she continued only after hypnotizing herself, but this time she had retracted her horns.
Whatever she was going to say next, she had to say it and forget about it.
"The mall's founders split into two groups. After they entered the mall and found themselves gradually becoming part of a large system and unable to leave, they went crazy. The group headed by Dr. Ye wanted to use artificial intelligence to slowly replace themselves and get out of the mall, but they may not be able to succeed. All of their consciousness has merged with a special computer, which is causing the mall to continue to evolve."
By this time, Li Yuan had already taken the memory card from the camera and saw what A Guang had previously filmed.
Infinite Mall is evolving out of control?
Fang Jinyu continued: "There is another group of people who, after realizing they couldn't go back, decisively chose a more radical path. They wanted to start from that building and control the world. After the shipbuilding materials were successfully condensed, they discovered that human consciousness could be combined with the special life in the River of Life and Death."
"Faith and thoughts can also create unique stones. Some of them used this method to transform some of the stone materials that the one you just met exchanged with them."
Fang Jinyu's voice began to tremble.
"They created a distinctive square block of stone and found a way to live inside it. They called it a shrine."
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Xiao Shitou suddenly sneezed. She felt cold all over, as if the water from the river of life and death was approaching.
This damn human, the conveyor belt they made is so troublesome. In fact, in some people's memories, she had seen the appearance of a human express delivery factory and thought it was just some small boxes. But why did half a car or even a horse appear on the conveyor belt?
Although it was covered with mushrooms in the end, would anyone really buy a car online?
Xiao Shitou was shocked by the online shopping culture of human society.
Qi Fan sitting opposite her was even more shocked.
He had thought about the character of this mysterious creature that possessed some humanity, and knew that this guy would not be able to withstand provocation. But this guy was too tough. He had become a human, but how could he have the physical strength of a cow?
He couldn't help but whistled loudly.
Most of the companions around were killed or injured. Now the only ones left in the front-line team were the guy who kept flying a kite in the sky to block communications, and Fang Jinyu who was at the front.
Although most of the food reserve building blocks are dead, it doesn’t matter. The game is over and their bodies are still outside and can still be eaten.
Qi Fan sent this signal to let Fang Jinyu retreat. Their plan was very simple. If they could kill Shitou, they would kill Shitou. If they could kill Li Yuan, they would kill Li Yuan. If they couldn't kill either of them, they would just delay for a while and wait for the screen in the captain's room to explode.
The key that Fang Jinyu inserted is the countdown to changing the game.
As a result, the time is almost up, but that guy hasn't come back for a while?
Qi Fan muttered something, the others were indeed unreliable.
He reached into the air and soon grabbed a transparent thread.
[Legendary Theft Team Leader Skill: Marked Stolen Items]
[Some important objects can be located forever if you steal them once]
The key to this stone shell is too important, so he has no intention of giving it directly to Fang Jinyu.
Only by holding the key can you be immune to the final white light.
He dodged Little Stone's final kick and finally heard the countdown in his mind.
[The building block escape ship game is about to enter self-destruction mode. Only life forms carrying relevant materials can be immune to the final cleansing white light. Countdown 60 seconds, 59, 58...^]
At the same time, he inexplicably discovered that everything on the entire express conveyor belt had been cleared out without him noticing.
The whole world is covered with mycelium and mushrooms covering the ground.
Qi Fan instinctively disliked colorful things and found a white place to stand.
The moment the white light spreads, everyone except him may die once and drop their profession, so the rules of this broken mushroom game are no longer important.
It doesn’t matter. His goal has been achieved. He can finally get rid of the stone kid and go out to test the results of this chaos.
But what he didn't notice was that Xiao Shitou was looking at him like a fool.
"You have food poisoning, why are you still smiling so happily?"
She didn't know what the rules of the small game created by Qi Fan were. Anyway, even if they left this world, the game created by Xiao Shitou and Li Yuan using their combined abilities would still be effective on that big ship.
If you don't step on non-toxic mushrooms within five minutes, you will be poisoned. The guy opposite you must have a lot of poison on his body.
"Li Yuan is right. Eating anything you don't like will make you stupid."
Before the white light enveloped the area, Xiao Shitou turned around and saw Li Yuan and Aunt Huo. They seemed to have reached some kind of deal with the lady who had grown goat horns before. The three of them waved towards this side together.
Little Stone jumped over and soon saw the three people were engulfed in light.
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