Chapter 255: Prequel to Infinite Highway
The moment the stimulating white light flowed from his fingertips, Li Yuan's whole body tensed up, and he made up his mind almost instantly.
"Go find Fan Xi!"
A large group of mushrooms popped up one after another, briefly blocking the people and trees behind. Those outstretched limbs and howling sounds sounded like a collection of wronged souls in a horror movie.
The words "going to find Fan Xi" were said to Aunt Huo and Xiao Shitou.
Li Yuan and the others all knew that Fan Xi was in the basement, but the pursuers might not even know who Fan Xi was.
The information gap at the critical moment can at least ensure that there will be no ambush on the way to the basement.
After Aunt Huo lost the cleaning company's business card, she was still able to use hypnosis to transform the eyes she summoned into puppets that were similar to before, except that they didn't have as many handy weapons.
A large bunch of branches were knocked over and smashed. Aunt Huo personally experienced the disgusting feel of human branches: "Li Yuan, the branches I broke seem to be withered."
Li Yuan was using mycelium to pave the road. The entire corridor was covered with mushrooms, with many mushrooms with animal patterns mixed in. Li Yuan knew that this thing was very similar to a summon and must be covered with ordinary mushrooms.
Aunt Huo's words made him look back a few more times even when he was moving quickly.
Indeed, the ends of the digits, interrupted only by small stones, retain their bright red color, and occasionally spit out some glowing bags.
The ones that Li Yuan and Aunt Huo broke withered directly, as if they were abandoned, and soon fell to the ground.
Li Yuan also let Xiao Shitou run in the front, and he and Aunt Huo followed behind.
"Go find the way to Fan Xi."
Little Stone also hated the tree that was chasing her, but in her opinion, it was just like a fight between ants, and her ant friend told her to run faster while he would follow behind.
Little Stone doesn't discriminate against ants. Even if the ship is destroyed, she will be fine, but she respects her friends.
Before Xiao Shitou ran, he kicked Qi Fan's head on the tree trunk very accurately, knocking out several of his teeth, and then he ran forward.
I don't know where this standard kicking posture came from, but it's similar to the difficult karate moves in comics, and humans can't perform it.
Even in such a tense atmosphere, Li Yuan's mind went blank for a few seconds as he looked at her agile and flexible movements, and he instantly thought of some art materials in the game.
It was a bold and powerful kick.
Aunt Huo also smiled and continued to summon the eyeball, which changed its shape after hypnosis to block the gap left by the little stone after it ran out.
"Go open the door, Li Yuan and I are here." Xiao Shitou made an OK gesture and jumped forward quickly.
In this entire ship, only the basement is safe. The door needs to be opened and closed to enter and exit. Fan Xi has to play a game of chess before entering. A Guang and Dr. Wu also underwent different tests before opening the door.
Door locks should respond differently to different people.
Li Yuan had thought about this before. If the veteran players who had come ashore in the mall were divided into two camps, some wanted to stay in this world, while others wanted to go back.
Dr. Ye, whom Xiao Shitou knew, was probably one of those people who wanted to go back.
Since the materials for this ship were provided by the shopping mall, and Qi Fan was the knife of one of the groups, then the other group led by Dr. Ye would not be unprepared.
Dr. Ye asked Xiao Shitou to get on the boat. Li Yuan didn't want to be too conspiracy-minded, but if Dr. Ye also had a backup plan, then the basement would be the best answer.
Otherwise, there is no need to put those bookshelves and data about players on the ship.
Even though Xiao Shitou was running in front, he still had his ears perked up and was stunned by what Li Yuan said.
"Is the game so complicated?" The doctor didn't tell her so much.
The doctor only asked her if she was interested, and if she had time she could come and take a look. If she encountered danger, she could jump into the water, because no one could catch up with the little stone anyway.
When Xiao Shitou said this, he seemed to remember something.
"Dr. Ye was sitting in a wheelchair covered with mechanical arms at the time, and he said this might be the last time he came to pay his respects to me."
Li Yuan's expression changed slightly, and before he could figure out any clues, he shouted, "Be careful!"
The branches on Qi Fan's body suddenly grew lush, and he bypassed Li Yuan and the other man who were closest to him, and took the initiative to attack the small stone that was farther away.
Then the bad-tempered guy grabbed the loose railing on the ship and smashed it back.
The cross section of the branch that was smashed by the stone soon began to spit out transparent water balls as if it was bleeding.
Li Yuan saw a mushroom grow out of the water ball after it landed on the ground. When the mushroom cracked, new small animals emerged. After a while, creatures such as puppies and rabbits began to appear.
After several comparisons, Li Yuan was able to confirm: "Qi Fan, this human tree, is deliberately asking you to attack them. Ignore him and keep running forward!"
Xiao Shitou opened her eyes wide and immediately did what Li Yuan said, but she absorbed knowledge very quickly. When she ran in the front, she had already started thinking about the reasons why Qi Fan did this.
"You want to eat my flesh, but when you can't chew it, you want to eat my hair, and you want me to break it into pieces myself..."
Xiao Shi's brain circuits are different from those of humans: "Are you asking me to help them get ashore by getting beaten?"
She was now running to the edge of the ship's corridor. Little Stone glanced at the door at the end of the corridor. Outside, on the rough dark sea, those white faces appeared again.
So, they are using her as a laborer? Humans have very strange brain circuits. Are they using her to transfer the souls in the water to the shore?
"Where do you get the courage? The dead will eat the living."
If the little stone wasn't so hard that no one could chew it, it would have been a disaster.
Li Yuan still had time to explain the rules of the game to her: "What they need is ghosts. Most of the games in the shopping mall building before were simple rule-based games without NPCs and administrators. Now they have found the raw materials to fill these gaps."
Little Stone sighed: "Isn't this just a free-for-nothing trick?"
[Ding--Ride Ma Ma Du Du, ride to grandma]
Xiao Shitou was only one step away from the basement door when he was suddenly attacked by a horse. The horse bypassed the protection circle of Li Yuan and Aunt Huo and blocked Xiao Shitou's way. There was even a monkey standing on the horse's back.
The monkey jumped up and tried to grab Little Stone's hair.
Little Stone reacted quickly. She crouched down and avoided the monkey. Soon she saw several branches coming towards her. In the gap, she took the initiative to shrink herself because her body was too big.
As she became smaller, Li Yuan began to grow bigger. Li Yuan, who was originally a little kid, had a hard time holding a keyboard that was almost the same size as himself, but now he suddenly grew into a teenager of fifteen or sixteen years old, and his body instantly became taller.
Li Yuan was a little uncomfortable for a while, but soon he saw the shrunken little stone like a bouncing ball and rushed to the basement door in minutes.
The target's body became smaller, and the branches that wanted to touch her could hardly touch the corner of her clothes.
The monkey's goal was to cut off a large bunch of Stone's hair in the gaps between this series of combinations and skills.
The long black hair by her ears suddenly turned into a princess cut. Little Stone was also unhappy. Although she had only been a human for a short time, she was also vain. These ghost things! She was angry!
At this moment, the corridor that had already rushed into the basement was becoming more and more crowded, with branches everywhere. The monkey who successfully got the hair directly fed the hair to Qi Fan's head on the main trunk.
Qi Fan's head, which looked like a human and a dragon, suddenly shook like a bell: "Hatch, hatch more souls that can cross the river..."
There were many cracks on the tree, and small glowing bags fell out one after another.
Only then did Li Yuan know where the horse he had just sent out came from.
A human head fell from the tree. It was someone from Qi Fan’s team. This person grabbed an animal mushroom and ate it, then merged with the animal inside.
"Meat, I want to eat meat..."
A creature with two heads appeared on the scene, one with a dog's head and the other with a human's head.
Little Stone looked back and was also very surprised: "Two souls in one body, squeezed into one skin, aren't they afraid of bursting?"
The man soon began to eat a third mushroom, which resulted in more souls being stuffed into a body that was a fusion of human and animal.
Then, overwhelming skill lights flashed.
[Congratulations on your prosperity, congratulations on your wonderful life, the more gifts you receive, the better~]
Suddenly, a red festive speaker fell from the sky, and cheerful music came out of it. The small stone that was about to hit the basement door was suddenly stopped by a circle of red ribbon.
She read the words on the red ribbon: "Before visiting during the New Year, you need to give out a red envelope. What is a red envelope?"
Her eyes widened as if she had been defrauded.
"How can I get a red envelope for just a stone?"
Li Yuan has grown in size, and his keyboard operation speed is faster than before: "There is no need to give red envelopes to children when they come in, just say Happy New Year or Wish you a prosperous New Year and rush over!"
In order to avoid the scam, she had voluntarily turned herself into a small stone and said "oh". In the state of a little girl, she shouted two New Year's greetings and tried to rush forward again. This time, she was not stopped.
But Li Yuan and others were temporarily stopped outside.
They don’t have any red envelopes either. People have come to this ghost world, where would they get the cash!
The two tufts of hair that were cut off from Xiao Shitou were like gasoline, doubling Qi Fan's firepower.
The head was shaking wildly, and new life forms that were a fusion of humans and ghosts kept falling from the trees. These were all new lives that could use skills.
Just when Li Yuan and Aunt Huo were almost unable to hold on, another voice came from the other end of the corridor.
"Do you really think I'm a vegetarian? You're bullying my teammates here!"
A Guang and Dr. Wu, who wields a sledgehammer, came. A Guang's camera could not remotely video chat due to signal problems, but the teammates still had a tacit understanding. When they heard about the fight, they came directly to the basement.
A huge half-body mecha also fell from the sky. It was Annie.
"Mo Wen has made some new discoveries in the captain's room. I'm here to support you!"
Darkness means chaos for the passengers on the ship.
But humans are never afraid of darkness. Li Yuan and his friends bought some time, and the little stone finally touched the door of the basement.
But Shitou didn't see the tests that Li Yuan mentioned. She only saw a blue and white mechanical light that covered the sky.
[Ding——Backup data connection successful, welcome back, owner of Shrine No. 0, this is a letter from Dr. Ye! ]
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