Chapter 256: Prequel to Infinite Highway
[Here is a message from Ye Shuyun]
Ye Shuyun is the doctor’s full name. The last time Xiao Shitou saw her was when the doctor went to the waterside to pay homage to the shrine.
Ye Shuyun is also the only one who never comes empty-handed.
She would bring some books and interesting little things, and compared to other people who came to the waterside to make a wish, she seemed more like someone who came to visit the children.
Little Stone looked at the person who appeared in front of him and was surprised: "Doctor, how did you turn into light?"
A blue hollow figure appeared in front of her. It was a pity that Xiao Shitou had never seen a science fiction movie, otherwise he would have recognized that this was a technology similar to holographic projection.
Ye Shuyun smiled and said, "I am a data body now. To be more precise, I am just a copied consciousness. They all call me a subsystem."
Xiao Shitou knows about the system. Li Yuan said that these things would be used when making games. A Guang also said that these things would also appear in the novels he likes to read.
Little Stone looked at her, feeling a little regretful: "Then you won't be a human being in the future?" What she saw now was just a fragment of Ye Shuyun's soul.
Ye Shuyun hummed, and just stared at her quietly, the blue data flashing: "This is the best choice. It seems that you have made friends, otherwise you wouldn't know this."
Little Stone nodded: "They won't make wishes with me, but they will teach me a lot of interesting things. You said that this kind of give-and-take relationship is friendship."
Ye Shuyun smiled and said, "The backup data I set is in the basement. After humans touch the door, they will enter the professional assessment. Only you can directly see the main body of the system. It seems that they let you come here first even though they knew that the basement was not safe."
Little Stone was the only one on the boat who was not afraid of anything.
Even if Li Yuan's original intention was not to allow Qi Fan to transform into a human tree and continue to reproduce through small stones, at least Ye Shuyun, who had been monitoring the environment on the ship, understood that this time in the fleet, there were finally players from the real human camp.
Little Stone then exclaimed: "Doctor, your voice now sounds like the broadcast on the ship."
The doctor's voice in the blue light transparent state had a unique mechanical rhythm, which was different from when Xiao Shitou saw her before.
"Well, I'm already part of the main system. This is something I've been researching for decades in the real world. I spent so much money and technology back then but still couldn't make it happen. But in this world, I've made a finished product for the first time."
This is actually all thanks to Xiao Shitou. Ye Shuyun was originally an atheist who studied science. After her professional skills were strengthened, she and a group of like-minded peers and juniors stayed in this world.
You're just sitting there doing nothing, doing research in the human world, and you can't stay idle in the underworld.
They gathered their strength and built a building. On the one hand, they conducted research, and on the other hand, they were attached to the world and wanted to go home. However, they finally found that there were still many gaps between theology and science.
Humans alone are still unable to figure out the logic and rules of this river.
Even if a group of people with extremely strong willpower were selected through the game, they would still not be able to penetrate a door that could never be found.
"As early as when the building materials were formed, we tried it with unmanned boats. Those miniature boats were never able to penetrate the fog of the River of Life and Death."
Before a manned space launch, an unmanned aerial vehicle crew will be used for trial before real passengers are allowed on board.
Qi Fan always thought that he was one of the top players, but he didn't know that there were already empty ships trying these routes before him.
"We have actually explored most of the area, but just like you said before, this river goes from life to death, and there is no end. Death is a concept, and so is this world."
The river of life and death, and even the creatures in and outside the river, may not be accurately defined in a scientific way.
Little Stone frowned: "What should we do? Don't you want to go back?"
"I was planning to visit my friend's house, and I've already said I'll choose a name when I go back."
The human world is much more fun than the underworld.
Ye Shuyun looked at the stone in front of her, whom she had known for a long time, who had always lived in the form of stone and was now turning into a human form for the first time.
She thought that stone would always be stone, so Ye Shuyun never mentioned taking her to the real world and never made empty promises.
But she would bring the books that interested Stone to the water's edge and occasionally read stories to her.
"How did you get your physical body?"
Little Stone told about Li Yuan: "He almost died at that time. I saw a ball of light glowing in his body, so I took the opportunity to make a deal with him. I kneaded his soul that was about to dissipate and stuffed it back."
Shitou watched so many people coming to make wishes by the water every day with boredom. Things were no longer the same as before. She could directly touch the souls of some people, grab them from one body and put them into another.
That's why she could see that the bag that fell from Qi Fan's tree full of people contained several souls, both dead and alive.
She could also see the glowing balls of light in the human body, some of which were strange signs and some of which were certificates.
If those things were allowed to fall, perhaps they would become the skills that Li Yuan and Aunt Huo mentioned.
But Xiao Shitou is not a fool who would help others awaken their skills whenever he meets them.
The doctor said that friends need equal exchange, give and take, and need care and love.
She wanted friends and didn't want to be the river god that those people talked about, kowtowed a few times and said a few nice words. She had to work hard and use the opportunity she had accumulated for thousands or tens of thousands of years to walk freely to help them get some fancy abilities.
And she had seen a lot of cunning guys in the mall.
She is just playful, she is not stupid.
"That's good." Ye Shuyun looked at Xiao Shitou with some satisfaction. It seemed that all the words she had said in the human world were not in vain.
Ye Shuyun also remembered Li Yuan. She had seen him in the system log of this ship.
To some extent, Li Yuan is a person with similar abilities to hers.
"No wonder Qi Fan wanted to kill him," Ye Shuyun looked at the little stone for a while, "You made a deal with him, so he should have given you a part of his ability."
Ye Shuyun had invited Xiao Shitou to play in the mall before, but she was unable to transform into a human at that time.
Shitou said that because she had no soul and no body, she couldn't stay ashore for long.
Exchanging with the stone is like copying and pasting. Ye Shuyun feels that she is too old. She has dedicated decades to the career she loves. If it weren't for the things she couldn't let go of, she would have wanted to leave long ago and go to the end of the Styx to see if her old partner was waiting for her there.
Fortunately, Stone found a young, upright and fairly intelligent human soul to share her with.
Ye Shuyun glanced at a twisted clock squirming in the corner: "I don't have much time left. After becoming a part of the system, I must also abide by the rules over there. This ship is being recalled. Do you want to take your friends to continue exploring, or go back with the others?"
Little Stone wondered: "Back to the mall?"
"Well, this world has no boundaries, and I thought you knew that the ship really can't return to reality."
Little Shitou actually had no relevant concept. She had only been a human for a short time and did not quite understand this life that was completely different from her own.
She was a stone when she was born, so of course she didn't understand what "alive" meant, and had never seen the real world of the living.
Most of the souls floating in this river are dead, and the ones that are still alive are water plants that were pushed ashore by her.
It’s okay, she can ask Li Yuan, A Guang, Aunt Huo, and Doctor Anniewu.
Shi Tou was very confident: "If they can't find it, maybe I can."
Ye Shuyun acted like an old friend who was afraid that the stone would suffer a loss: "Don't force yourself to do something you don't like. You have been in the river for so many years, you don't owe anyone anything."
"This world was created because of you."
Ye Shuyun's body became more and more transparent. "The backed-up data is almost consumed. If you see me again in the future, I may not be myself. Since you have copied the skills similar to making games, I will directly instill the game-related data into you. If you want to learn, just take a look."
Little Stone felt a slightly cool finger poking her cheek: "We will do what we should do. You don't owe it to humans. You don't have to learn too fast, and you don't have to grow up too fast. Take the opportunity to enjoy everything after becoming a human."
Before Little Shitou could say anything, he realized that he could grow up, but the price was that Li Yuan would have to become several dozen centimeters shorter.
The world before her eyes began to rapidly become digitized. Clusters of data, like mushrooms exploding outside the door, drilled into her mind with countless knowledge.
The countless knowledge belonging to the human world turned into books and all settled in the mind.
When each book is separated, there are countless small words, which represent a kind of knowledge, a skill, and something that can be used to survive in the world.
That was what Ye Shuyun left for her before she disappeared.
"It's just like going to school. You can start with the simplest things. It doesn't matter if you don't learn. You may not know how to do something, but you can't have nothing."
Ye Shuyun who was standing here disappeared, but Xiao Shitou vaguely felt that in a certain area in a building far away from the ship, there was another Ye Shuyun, who was also integrated into countless other collective consciousnesses.
Just like Qi Fan turned into a tree, those people's heads were compacted together, using countless brains and countless souls to build a strange system.
After just one look, Little Stone was overwhelmed by the knowledge.
For the first time, she was afraid of going to school. What was system setting, what was copy generation, what was an administrator, what was an NPC...
There are also a variety of prop card designs and skill judgments.
She looked for a long time and felt that she didn't know any of them, but suddenly, she saw a highest level energy mark in the corner.
【Shrine】
[Function: Can temporarily resist river erosion]
At the bottom of this line of instructions, there is another line of glittering gold letters.
[Shrine No. 0]
[River of Life and Death/Owned by the Lord of the Styx]
[Fragments of the shrine can be transformed into any highest level item]
She understood the line of random changes, and since she couldn't write instructions, she could just make one up.
But the doctor didn't tell her where his shrine was.
Little Stone is not stupid. He recalled the experience of being chased by a tree and having a lock of hair cut off. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind.
She thought of the character named Sun Wukong that A Guang mentioned after he found out that she was transformed from stone.
Sun Wukong can turn into a little monkey by plucking a hair. She is made of stone, so the stone powder scraped off her body or fallen hair can also be used!
Xiao Shitou tore off a strand of his hair and rubbed it together with a bunch of data. A shining orange star appeared before his eyes.
Since she hadn't chosen any directional abilities, she was quickly given a hint.
[Congratulations on synthesizing the item: Wishing Star! ]
[Making a wish to the stars can obtain items of any attribute. This is the unique power of the Lord of the Styx in the world where she was born! 】
Little Stone's eyes sparkled: "Then I have so many hairs on my head, can't all of them turn into stars?"
It doesn’t matter if all the hair is used up. If Li Yuan becomes a few dozen centimeters shorter, she can grow her hair longer and have props again.
She can go back with the props and chop trees with her friends. Li Yuan is so willing to help Shi Tou, he won’t mind!
The author has something to say:
Xiaoxiao Qiao Song, who doesn't have a name yet: Shitou is going to make a fortune and will definitely give out red envelopes to friends! Each red envelope is filled with hair, which is lucky money!
Li Yuan, upon learning that Xiao Shitou continues to use his hair to transform into props, will continue to get shorter: ...[question mark]
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