Chapter 253: Prequel to Infinite Highway
Li Yuan frowned and pulled over A Guang who was discussing with Aunt Huo whether to swallow the sheep's eyes directly or cut them up before eating.
"The camera is disconnected."
Ah Guang glanced at the missing image on the camera: "It should be that its lifespan has expired. That thing can't withstand the white light outside. Xiao Shitou has been holding the camera in his hand. It may be that now..."
Looking at the signal lost sign on the screen, A Guang suddenly fell silent.
"Damn, did Little Stone just charge into their base camp?"
With a wave of his hand, A Guang immediately summoned various lenses, with a small eye blinking in front of each lens.
Fortunately, the captain had the foresight to sprinkle small stones all over the corners of the boat, covering A Guang's sports camera.
Things touched by small stones are like things covered with stone powder and can resist white light for a short time, but once the camera starts working, the panel will open.
Once this thing is used under white light, it can only last for one or two seconds at most, so the good camera becomes a disposable item.
Fortunately, there are enough.
A Guang looked at the closed screens one by one with heartache, which meant that he lost a small frame of GOPro in one minute.
Fortunately, we finally locked a corridor.
Both sides of the corridor were blocked by stones.
This is Xiao Shitou's usual tactic. She herself is not afraid of the light, but she will hold an umbrella for others. She is a very polite bandit child.
"Little Stone hasn't come out yet. He's still with the animals." A Guang began to sweat.
Li Yuan's expression gradually darkened: "So, the camera that was engulfed by the white light will be directly disconnected. The signal blocking display should mean that just like in the previous mini-game, someone has used the ability to block the signal."
The ability to block signals consumes a lot of energy from the player himself, which means Qi Fan should have already taken action.
Li Yuan stood up immediately: "The countdown to darkness is only half an hour. After the white light disappears, everyone can go out and move freely, but Qi Fan may not give us that time."
For the human population, daytime is used for rest and recuperation, and for preventing attacks by animal populations.
The animals of the night were the real lunatics, and humans couldn't even actively use their abilities until they were attacked.
Li Yuan couldn't wait for the free time: "The mycelium has been laid almost completely, I want to go straight down."
He was asking for the opinions of the team and others.
The mycelium of mushrooms can briefly resist light for one or two seconds. This risky task can be handed over to Li Yuan. There is an elusive connection between him and Xiao Shitou, so the risk will be smaller.
Aunt Huo has already grasped that eyeball firmly: "I'll go too, and by the way, check the animal loopholes we agreed on before."
After saying that, without waiting for others to react, he put the eyeball into his mouth. Without even chewing it, the thing turned into a pool of white smoke in his mouth.
Aunt Huo's face melted little by little in the eyes of others, and finally twisted and grew goat horns. A pair of eyes with square pupils stared at everyone. Compared with the previous cleaning company skills, this goat head looked particularly strange.
Aunt Huo raised her hand somewhat unexperiencedly, and a crack appeared on her palm. The same sheep's eyes looked at her intently.
"I can hypnotize myself and become one with the mycelium."
Amid Ah Guang's exclamation, Aunt Huo transformed from a person into a pool of white mycelium, merging into the mycelium carpets made by Li Yuan.
"For safety reasons, you guys should wait until dark before coming out."
Li Yuan's fingertips had already begun tapping on the keyboard rapidly. In the map he saw, perhaps because he did not have enough authority or something, he could only see that all the energy bodies in Qi Fan's room were gathered into a ball.
There was no video transmission, so they didn't know the exact situation, but they couldn't keep waiting for others to rescue them.
Little Stone is not an omnipotent stone. She just came out of the water not long ago, just became a human not long ago, and she just made friends.
At this time, something unexpected happened to Annie and Mo Wen, and they supported Fang Jinyu on the left and right.
Annie had already made up her mind that she would pry a little more information out of this person even for Little Stone's sake, but in the end -
"She just fell to the ground suddenly for some reason."
At this time, Fang Jinyu held her head with both hands, her whole body twitched, her eyes were wide open, and foam was coming out of her mouth.
"Wenxiu...save...Wenxiu..."
Fang Jinyu kept repeating that name.
"It should be her sister." Li Yuan has realized that the situation may be worse than he thought.
Fang Jinyu betrayed Qi Fan in the beginning just to save her sister. She knows her team well, and what is happening now should be beyond her expectations.
There's no time.
Li Yuan had already asked the others in the room to hide. Before he opened the door, Annie suddenly called him, "Wait, Fang Jinyu asked me to show you this!"
Li Yuan turned around and saw a floating ink pen and a line of words flashing in the air.
[…In the story, any ambitious villain would think that he is the protagonist. He shoulders the responsibility of going out to sea, but never thinks that what those people asked him to bring back was not treasure, but an experiment. He is the protagonist of the experiment on the ship, but he is not the protagonist of this book.]
The ink pen quickly wrote the second sentence:
[The protagonist doesn’t have a name yet. When she has a name, the book will really begin.]
Li Yuan instantly knew who the protagonist of this so-called book was.
Small stone?
Therefore, Qi Fan was also a discarded pawn.
Li Yuan realized a more serious problem:
The escape experiment requires a control group, so it is divided into two camps: animals and humans.
If the veterans who remain in the business world want to survive in this world, they will definitely want to create a new world.
The new world certainly needs order and rules.
This ship is a place for experiments, experiments with new orders, experiments with new rules, and experiments with game systems.
The final rules for this ship are:
Animals go crazy at night, and humans can't walk under white light during the day.
"…It's not that we can go out half an hour later, it's that we only have half an hour…"
Humans who can think during the day cannot interfere with the progress of the experiment, and they cannot even leave the house.
It’s not that it’s impossible to get out, but the cost will be very high.
Li Yuan immediately tore the door open. After the door that had been coated with stone cracked, the scorching white light shone on his body, as hot as hot oil.
Fortunately, he was now quite small, so it wasn't too difficult for him to concentrate and use a large amount of mycelium and mushrooms to wrap up a child.
The mycelium had already covered his limbs, but it still couldn't completely isolate him from the pain.
Li Yuan looked like he had just come out of the Spider Cave, with all kinds of silk threads covering his body.
There were also white mycelium in front of his eyes. These things were being burned and covered repeatedly. Li Yuan could only rely on A Guang's anxious voice in the headphones to determine the direction.
The rules of mushrooms were still in effect, but without his vision, he had no idea whether the mushroom he stepped on was poisonous or not.
Li Yuan ran so fast that he could hear his own heart pounding, until he broke open one door after another and felt the same touch as in his own room.
The cement texture of small stones carefully processed.
It’s the door to Qi Fan’s corridor.
After Li Yuan's eardrum was sealed, he felt pain all over his body. The white light was blocked out, but he still felt like he had been severely burned. Apart from the pain, he could only hear tinnitus and heartbeat.
And the ship's broadcast that hadn't sounded in my ears for a long time.
[Ding——Congratulations, you have successfully cut down a tree! Get a new item, the mason's shovel! ]
[Ding——Please be careful not to destroy the trees directly, as this will cause the loss of items! ]
Li Yuan didn't understand for a moment. When did he step on the tree?
Until a very strong guy grabbed his arm and lifted him up.
Li Yuan was about to press the keyboard to send a computer virus to the other party, when he heard a familiar voice.
"Why are you here? Hey, Li Yuan, you've become shorter again!"
The mycelium beside his ears and on his face was pulled off, and Li Yuan could finally hear and see clearly.
The room was too dark, and the only source of light came from some glowing mushrooms he had brought in when he just rushed in.
From the walls to the floor, there were pieces of blood-red or white things everywhere, and those things were still moving.
There is a strangely shaped tree in the center of the room. From the trunk to every branch, it is full of human arms, thighs, and fingers.
Even Li Yuan felt a sense of dizziness and nausea at that moment after witnessing the death of a large number of his own kind.
Xiao Shitou grabbed the man and jumped on the spot, avoiding a long branch that was whipping towards him.
"You came out to look for me, is it because I hung up the phone? It's not that I don't want to go back, but look at this thing, it's so annoying, it doesn't want me to leave at all, and it even wants to eat me!"
Xiao Shitou rolled up his sleeves to show Li Yuan the circle of marks on his arm, and complained angrily.
Those were scratches from human fingernails, and the tree was covered with human hands.
Little Stone thought again and again about either breaking the door open to let the light in, or rushing out to inform others.
In the end, this broken tree wouldn't let her leave?
"And it's so strange. Every time I cut off his branches, a strange noise would be heard here."
Little Stone pointed to his head.
Li Yuan finally recovered from his nausea, and the healing potion he had applied on his body in advance began to take effect. The bad news was that his eyes were now blurry and his head was dizzy.
He saw the glowing mushrooms, and one by one they began to make various emoticons.
Li Yuan then realized that it was not because the scene was too shocking, but that he also had food poisoning.
"Open the door, use the light..."
An elderly female voice sounded in the shadow of the mycelium.
Aunt Huo was not poisoned because she hypnotized herself into a mushroom state, but she didn't dare to show up now.
Qi Fan, no, there is no human shadow on that tree anymore.
The value of Qi Fan's existence is just to become a tree trunk. Bursts of sounds like radio are coming out of his head, and these sounds will sound synchronously in the players' minds, as if Qi Fan is the game system.
Aunt Huo is now more concerned about the content of those prompt sounds.
"Game progress adjusted, item experiment ended, professional skill experiment started."
"Soul death and resurrection experiment adjusted, began to connect to the mall headquarters."
"Connection complete."
There were numerous heads hanging in a row, and the sound became heavier and heavier. Sometimes it was a child, sometimes an adult, sometimes a boy, and sometimes a girl.
The limbs that grew out of his body were his new brains. Each person had a separate brain, their heads were the fruits on the tree, and their voices were separate system prompts.
Qi Fan's eyes were fixed on the location of the small stone, as if he was looking at a battery.
"Starting the third experiment, the script is running, simulating a novice game field."
"Welcome to the Infinite Highway. This is the novice copy, the Mushroom Cabin."
"I am your game system. Please do not step on poisonous mushrooms during the game."
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