Chapter 260: Prequel to Infinite Highway (End)
The boat became inexplicably lively because of the activeness of a group of kittens. The previous depressed atmosphere was swept away, and even a small party was held. There was time to receive the captives.
Doctor Wu used his superb orthopedic skills to piece together a few barely usable bodies from the broken limbs left on the ship, and he actually put back the souls that were taken out by Xiao Shitou.
It’s just that each of them looked like a shrunk version of Li Yuan, or even more malnourished.
Little Stone looked at the rescued guys, then looked at Li Yuan, and finally "felt guilty" and snapped his fingers, turning himself into a little girl, letting Li Yuan, the adult, do the work: "I won't fish for cats for now, and I'll give you my height back."
Li Yuan's sight suddenly rose higher, and the girl next to him with a sly look on her face was happily petting a cat.
Li Yuan: I feel like a power bank that can be used for both lighting and charging...
He is mainly responsible for checking everyone's status from the game background. The people rescued by Qi Fan are still in the animal camp, and all of them have the problem of temporarily missing skills.
But Fang Jinyu said: "Most people's abilities should still be there. Qi Fan just took away their animal abilities in advance."
Ah Guang sighed: "Plucking feathers from a passing goose, does my grandson have such a method?"
Little Stone: "I know this, because the animal abilities are drawn from the water, just like a hat on your head, it is very easy to take off. The abilities that you humans awaken yourself are like organs in your stomach, which are much more difficult to take out."
Ah Guang was puzzled: "Then why did Aunt Huo lose her skills?"
"It may be that Qi Fan's ability had a greater impact in the previous game." Li Yuan interrupted, "The purpose of the experiment by those people in the mall was to see if they could control the player's skills in the game and let them flow in and out freely."
They are not just fighting against Qi Fan alone, but also the team behind him.
Little Stone agreed with Li Yuan's guess: "Those are the skills of dead people. How greedy! If a guy like him falls into the river in the future, it will definitely be a spectacular sight."
Ah Guang had heard Xiao Shitou describe the fate of some people who carried grudges after falling into the water - they would definitely be devoured by thousands of ghosts.
Moreover, the cannon fodder selected by Qi Fan's team basically have easy-to-control personalities, or they are simply the old, weak, sick, disabled or young.
According to Xiao Shitou, Qi Fan took away a few stinking souls before leaving. Xiao Shitou was disgusted and did not chase after him.
Now here are a few...
Li Yuan looked around. Except for Fang Jinyu who was holding her sister, everyone else was like chickens, ducks and geese in the fresh meat market. Being looked at for a few more times by someone with the Eye of Wisdom was like having a butcher's knife put to their necks, making it impossible to breathe.
There was even a girl they had seen in the mini-game before, the one who provided the kite and various small props. She held her head with her hands and kept saying, "Don't kill me, don't eat me, don't kill me, don't eat me..."
Little Stone didn't understand: "Do you humans still have a hobby of eating people?"
Annie's face was filled with black lines: "That's the hobby of that psychopath Qi Fan!"
Moreover, after the cat fishing incident just now and the previous experience, they have already understood that this animal game created by Qi Fan is actually a way to test whether he can add other people's abilities to himself.
Now it seems possible, but the prerequisite is to sacrifice yourself and become that tree.
Animal games test the ability to give, while white light tests the ability to take away.
Fang Jinyu brought some not-so-good news: "If Qi Fan succeeds, it only means that the mall has already made preparations for a long time. There will only be a larger biological system built by the human brain. The game in the mall will probably become even bigger in the future."
Taking away a person's skills and replacing them with another skill is like being a god in a gaming world.
The one who was closest to a god at the scene was now playing with a cat on the table. Compared to the heavy mood of the players, Xiao Shitou was heartless and kept pestering Li Yuan to tell him stories from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
Mo Wen from the captain's room and Fan Xi from the information room were the last to go out.
The former fiddled with it for a long time, but found that the copied ship still couldn't change the course, so he could only say with a bitter face: "Even if the ship doesn't sink, we will have to go back in about ten hours."
He was talking about going back to the mall.
What’s more troublesome is that it is not known whether the ship can hold out until then.
Their current boat is only one-third the size of the previous one. Even if the small stones help fill the gaps and intimidate the ghost faces under the water, this boat is like the ice melting on the sea of ice, and one day it will melt into the river.
Unless they can find a way home, go back once and for all, but——
"We can't really go to heaven."
Mo Wen looked up at the sky and smiled bitterly: "When the white light comes out, it is not impossible to be directly exposed to the sun and forced to reincarnate."
Li Yuan said abnormally: "It's not impossible to try."
He was just looking at the information that Fan Xi had prepared: "There are currently hundreds of thousands of players entering the Infinite Mall, and their final destination is basically death. Even the founders of the mall have no way to return."
Xiao Shitou nodded. She didn’t even know how to safely send the souls of the living back, so it was even less likely that the players would know.
"If even going home has been turned into an experiment, then continuing to play games is no longer the best solution."
Li Yuan crossed his fingers and proposed two plans: "So I suggest that, first, we find a way to join the card table and become the dealer. Second, we take a risk in the white light and try to find a way to go back in that time period."
Both of these suggestions make my scalp tingle.
Annie took out her own metal mecha that was deformed like plastic by the white light and said, "This thing became like this in just one second in the white light. You want us to go into the light?"
Li Yuan let out a long breath: "I can take the initiative to try option 2."
His current state is different from that of others. If Xiao Shitou wants to become a human, he needs flesh and blood. Li Yuan is the provider of flesh and blood. Correspondingly, he feels that under the influence of Xiao Shitou, his resistance has become stronger.
When he was fishing with Shitou before, he was splashed with two drops of river water. Ah Guang was so stimulated that he ran all over the deck. He sat next to the giggling little Shitou, but he didn't react at all.
"Qi Fan and his group will definitely upgrade the system on a large scale when they return this time. The game world is about to undergo a second drastic change. I agree with Li Yuan's statement, and I am willing to take the risk of going to Guangli once."
This time it was Aunt Huo who spoke, and the kittens surrounding her seemed to give her new courage.
Whatever the kitten can do, she can do too.
The people on the boat were silent. Just when A Guang and Dr. Wu were still hesitating, a girl suddenly stood up like crazy: "Do you also want to use us for experiments, throw us out and see our reactions? I don't want to! I don't want to die like this! I can give you props, I can give you all the useful things I have! Please, I just want to stay in the cabin, I don't want to go out!!"
She was very emotional and reacted strongly, saying a lot before being pulled back by the people next to her.
Instead, a gray-haired old man sighed and said, "Jia Qi was brought here by Qi Fan's previous team. She should have been stimulated in this regard."
Seeing others looking at him, he said, "Hello everyone, I haven't thanked you for saving my life yet. My name is Ni Chunlai, and I'm an elementary school teacher."
Li Yuan took the initiative to greet him: "You're welcome, Principal Ni."
He had studied at Chunlai Primary School for two years and knew that Ni Chunlai was a good teacher who was well-known in the area.
Xiao Shitou also said that the first reason he was taken out of Qi Fan's puppet tree was because his soul smelled sweet and was incompatible with Qi Fan. He looked like a good person at first glance.
Ni Chunlai also liked the little stone. He looked at the stone that turned into a little girl for a while, and suddenly his expression became confused: "Which class is this little classmate from?"
He had never seen such a young child in the mall, and his mental state changed when he encountered something related to school students.
Fang Jinyu immediately stood up and supported him: "Teacher Ni is old, and now he occasionally has some symptoms of Alzheimer's. In fact, I also suggest that we should not let everyone participate in this experiment."
Most of these captives have their own defects, and her sister is still running a fever.
Fang Jinyu and her sister were threatened by Qi Fan to use their skills, especially the younger sister. After taking the medicine given by Dr. Wu, she is still confused and feels insecure when Fang Jinyu is not around.
Fang Jinyu couldn't take her sister in this state to carry out Li Yuan's adventurous proposal.
"I don't know who Qi Fan worked with before, but I believe that their goal is definitely not a shopping mall. Qi Fan once let it slip that the sandbar could have been expanded long ago. Players keep coming in, and a shopping mall will sooner or later not be able to accommodate them. Their goal may be a city, a new world."
"Regarding the plan one you mentioned, if someone needs to break into the mall, my sister and I can go. I promise that if we can really achieve our goal, we will follow through on all the promises we made today."
Next to him, Shitou, who was being taught by the old principal to write stroke by stroke, suddenly raised his head and raised his hand: "I smell the scent of an oath. Do any of you want to make a deal? I can be a witness!"
"The fact that humans build ships has given me inspiration. Human emotions can resonate with stones. I'll make you something good!"
She learned quickly no matter what she did. One of her hands turned to stone immediately, and she casually took off a piece of stone from the back of her hand and said, "Use this as a witness. You must keep your promises, otherwise you will turn into stone and sink to the bottom of the water."
Fang Jinyu probably knew her identity. After taking a deep breath, she took the stone pieces and even gave one to her sister.
Annie thought this was a good idea because this way she wouldn't have to worry about other people taking advantage of her for free or even betraying her.
Almost everyone on the boat got this magical thing. Finally, Li Yuan promised to do everything possible to send them back to the mall and ensure their safety, and if he found a way to go home, he would definitely share it.
The rest of the people promised that if Li Yuan and the others needed help, they would always stand by them and provide all the help they could.
The people on this ship must always choose the path back home, rather than staying in this world and becoming accomplices of the evil.
Finally, Li Yuan, Aunt Huo, Annie, Fan Xi and others tried plan one together.
Mo Wen, A Guang and Dr. Wu stayed in the cabin to ensure that the ship reached its destination.
Little Stone was still surprised: "Do you really want to go to the sun? You might accidentally go to reincarnation."
But Li Yuan also knew that the passage would only be opened at that time, and the ship could not float into the sky.
They even wanted to experiment with the ability to fly.
The girl named Jin Jiaqi needs to provide related props such as kites and bamboo dragonflies.
Little Shitou was originally being taught by Ni Chunlai and was already learning to write on a writing board. He was about to pick a name that he liked and looked good, but when he saw that several humans he liked very much were going to die, he suddenly felt a little upset.
"Li Yuan, Annie, are you really going?"
She poked the thigh of Li Yuan who was closest to her. After turning into a child, Ni Chunlai would automatically enter the principal teaching mode, so Xiao Shitou never turned back and got a kind and patient teacher for nothing.
Li Yuan hummed: "The purpose of the shopping mall game is to select a group of the most determined players who want to go home the most. We have to try various possibilities."
Others were also busy making preparations in the last few hours before the white light arrived. They wanted to try rather than actually die.
Only Xiao Shitou knew that even for someone like Li Yuan, who shared a certain amount of flesh and blood with her, the soul of a living person would still float to the sky in the white light.
This is the rule of the river of life and death. The white light will cleanse all the information that needs to be formatted in the soul.
It was Li Yuan who taught her the word "format".
Stone has never seen the rules being broken, but she has seen many souls who resisted even though they knew the rules.
There are some in the water and on the shore.
Li Yuan squatted down before finishing the final preparations. He held Xiao Shitou's hand and erased the colorful crayon marks on it bit by bit.
“The human world is a very interesting place. There aren’t many battles that are destined to be lost, and there aren’t many things that are destined to be impossible to achieve according to the rules. But there will always be people who try. All kinds of successes and failures together create an imperfect world.”
He stroked Little Stone's hair and said, "Next time you come to the human world, you can get to know the place yourself."
Little Stone's mouth pursed, and suddenly her body rose up, and her body shape reversed. The girl with loose black hair suddenly held down the young Li Yuan and said, "Then you promise me that if you want to disappear in the water, you will call my name."
Her eyes were extremely serious, and a golden light of divine power flashed across them.
"I've thought about it. I want to have the word 'song' in my name. Teacher Ni Chunlai said that it means singing praises and blessings. As for my last name, I want to be called Qiao. I will move to the human world in the future. I don't like cold rivers. I want to be on busy streets, eat steaming buns, and eat soft candies."
She had heard the water plants that came ashore being praised and prayed to with all kinds of words before. Shitou herself felt that she was indeed a good stone and would also be a good person, and she deserved all these compliments.
She also likes the word "song".
Qiao Song.
From now on she will be called Qiao Song.
Li Yuan said okay, but you have to get off me first.
In the end, Xiao Shitou gave him some more flesh and blood, saying that this way Li Yuan could inherit some of her weak power.
A Guang, who was a little nervous, heard the word "inheritance" and thought of their game of growing bigger and smaller these days. He couldn't help laughing: "Now you two should do the opposite and make Li Yuan smaller. I think the captain looks like your son."
Then A Guang received a long-awaited slap on the head from Li Yuan, and Xiao Shitou kept asking him, "Does Li Yuan have to call me mom?"
As a result, everyone was in a state of confusion while nervously waiting for the white light. Only Li Yuan had a complicated expression. He looked at the sky and then at the stone. If it wasn't the wrong timing, he really wanted to give the stone some preschool education.
"It's 'Qiao Song'. You must remember this name. If you call me before you die, maybe I can bring you back."
Annie smiled carelessly: "How can it be so good? You saved the captain once before, and now he has become your power bank. If you save us again, what can we give you?"
“Yes.”
Little Stone thought for a moment and said, "Then let me take another look at your memories. I feel like I may never be able to go back to the human world in this lifetime."
"In this world pieced together by your memories, it's nice to pretend to be a human being for the rest of your life."
Annie suddenly choked and her eyes turned red: "I can't bear to leave you like this."
She held the little stone in her arms and rubbed the two- or three-year-old stone in her arms and said coquettishly: "How can there be such a cute stone? If we really fail, then please help us fish it out, Stone Master."
"Please help me, Lord Qiao Song." Xiao Shitou put his hands on his hips to indicate that it was no problem.
Those who were preparing to bask in the sun on the deck all smiled, surrounded by kittens, and talked about some interesting things in the past. This was probably the most carefree time they had ever spent in this world.
Others who were not prepared to take risks had already taken shelter in the cabin.
Only Li Yuan and his companions were listening to the countdown beside them and looking at the sky on the deck. It was a dark sky without any moonlight or stars.
Fan Xi was still discussing the last few scans and backups with A Guang at the door. A Guang looked outside through the gap and said, "They say people turn into stars after they die. How come we can't see a single star?"
As a result, I heard Little Stone say from a distance: "There are stars. You can see them before dawn."
Ah Guang thought about the situation and, for safety's sake, clasped his hands together and said, "Goodbye."
But in the end, he solemnly greeted his friends outside the door before entering the second door behind him.
This room outside needs to be kept. Annie and others will try their best to pile up props to buy time. If the friends regret it and want to hide, this place can still be used.
Annie looked at Ni Chunlai, who had decided to come out at the last minute, and asked, "Old Principal, are you really not going in?"
Ni Chunlai waved his hand: "I know I can be a little confused sometimes, but this is my own decision."
"People live their whole lives, but at my age, life and death are meaningless. If I can go back, I will. Although I am past retirement age, there are so many things at school, how can I let go? If I can't go back, I will go to the water and the sky to see if those old friends who walked in front of me are still waiting in line to be reincarnated."
As he spoke, he began to cheerfully tease his old friends.
"Several of them even said they would never be teachers in their next life, but I don't believe them. Even if they were exposed to the sun to disinfect, they still couldn't let go of what they couldn't let go of."
Annie also laughed: "My friends in the second and third dimension are the same. They always swear that they will not eat cereal, chase stars, or buy into a certain series of figures in their next life."
"I always say that I will be a dog in my next life. I guess I really will be a dog in my next life. I still can't forget those deep-rooted hobbies."
Some memories are engraved in the soul. Perhaps because they are too hard to forget, there are always countless faces floating on the surface of the river of life and death, being exposed to the white light over and over again, waiting for the day when they completely evaporate.
In the distant sky, a strange white color began to grow, and broken light particles gathered and floated upwards.
Then more and more, like mist moving upstream.
Li Yuan and his friends have heard the broadcast on the ship. The computer in his hand also shows: [It will be daytime soon. Players please take shelter indoors in advance.]
The warnings were sounded several times, but the people on the deck remained indifferent.
It is really hard to just wait for the moment of death to come.
Anne sighed: "Fortunately, since we came to this ship, we won't be hungry or sleepy. I have never been so aware of the fact that I might be dead."
Fan Xi replied lightly: "They are probably not dead. I have seen everyone's information and they are all still alive."
She also found out information about her family.
The good news is that my younger brother Fan Heng and my younger sister’s children are still alive, but my cousin and her husband are gone.
Fan Xi was standing by the railing, not looking at the sky, but at the river.
Those resentful white faces still glared at everyone on the boat.
Fan Xi thought so too. In the same car, after a car accident, different people have different fates.
So what are they, lucky?
But her sister was gone, and only the children were alive. Two children who knew nothing could do anything in this world.
Fan Xi originally wanted to stay indoors with A Guang and the others and follow plan 2 that Li Yuan mentioned, but she felt that she had to see it for herself.
She loves being a chess player, and she wants to see if that path really exists.
Li Yuan was also looking at the soaring white dots in the distance, like groups of fireflies taking off: "Are those the first group of people to be reincarnated?"
Little Stone was playing with his hair nearby, and said absentmindedly: "I think so."
Li Yuan and Mo Wen began to test the flying props.
In fact, everyone knows that people will melt during the day, let alone props.
But some things have to be tried first.
Aunt Huo held the kittens and told them one by one: "When the time is up, hide in the water."
She was afraid that she would be reduced to ashes and the kitten would be implicated.
The kittens meowed, as if to say, no, let’s go together. They had waited for a long time to meet Aunt Huo again, and it would be nice to be able to reincarnate together.
This time the white light was slower than before, but when the overwhelming white dots rose up together, Li Yuan knew that the moment was coming.
Cameras are prepared in advance in various areas of the ship, so at critical moments like this, every second of recording will be helpful.
Even though Xiao Shitou was watching right next to them, Li Yuan and his companions did not directly pray to the gods to fulfill their wishes like the first group of people who came ashore.
They chose to try it themselves first.
A blazing light that was completely opposite to the River of Life and Death burst out instantly.
The white spots of light that were originally just slowly rising began to fly out in large numbers.
Most of them are peaceful souls who have let go of their obsessions, erased their memories, and are willing to embark on a new life.
More vicious faces continued to hide in the water, and the farther they were from the surface, the less likely they would evaporate.
Li Yuan and the others even took the initiative to fly into the sky.
Annie and Mo Wen kept summoning derivatives to block the light above their heads, but in just a moment, countless life-size mecha robot figures and a car summoned by Mo Wen were almost melted.
What that light brought was not high temperature, but more like a concept of "deletion". Only after deletion can one enter the channel.
But as soon as the channel is opened, another more urgent emotion begins to squeeze in from the outside.
That is the longing that only those who are loved can hear.
"Nannan, the flowers you planted are blooming again, can you wake up and take a look?"
"You son of a bitch, if you don't wake up I will remarry, believe it or not."
Anne's last memory was seeing a sunny ward amidst the pain that almost melted her eyeballs, and a familiar voice calling her and her brother's names.
Mo Wen also heard his wife's voice.
But soon, all that was left in the two's ears was tinnitus. Before their souls were completely shattered and decomposed, Xiao Shitou kicked them directly into a small room that had been reserved in advance on the ship.
Little Stone is now really a stone. She is getting smaller and smaller, her skin is turning gray, and a square frame is covering her.
That is the shrine Dr. Yeh mentioned.
The white light was not completely harmless to her.
A layer of stone powder floated in the air. Little Stone looked at the human who was a hundred times more miserable than her but was still staring blankly in the light, feeling somewhat puzzled.
When these people looked up at the sky, what they saw was not a fantasy, but a call from the real world.
Everyone was calling for dad, mom, brother, sister, wife, and even the kitten.
Xiao Shitou doesn't quite understand this kind of emotional obsession.
Despite this, she still took the initiative to approach the rest of the group.
The old principal Ni Chunlai and Aunt Huo, these two are surrounded by many glowing children and kittens.
Many unfamiliar souls were surrounding the two people, helping them to resist the white light outside.
Is this the merit mentioned in the storybook?
Xiao Shitou dragged Li Yuan and prepared to throw him into the cabin. At this time, Li Yuan, whose skin had completely festered and was burning like ashes, seemed to be looking at someone in the sky.
His flying props had melted, and because he was about to die, he floated up like a transparent balloon, but a layer of fine stone powder surrounded him, forcibly preventing him from flying out.
Xiao Shitou even saw bones exposed inside Li Yuan's body, which meant that the light balls of memory and skills were about to fly away. However, this madman continued to observe outside the railing like a madman.
He was looking at the soul still floating in the river of life and death: "I understand..."
"What do you understand? You're going to die!"
Xiao Shitou dragged and shoved several people on the deck who were almost killed back to the room that had been reserved for them.
Soon she herself began to glow, and someone was calling her.
But it’s not the people in front of us, but somewhere further away.
In a world of white light, some people want to see the way home clearly even on the brink of death, while others are afraid of death and hide back in their self-deceiving haven early.
Qi Fan, who had already returned quickly one step ahead, saw the person coming to pick him up almost the moment he got ashore.
He rolled and crawled away from his almost completely melted boat, dragging a half-dead Qian Er behind him.
"Is this the player with signal ability you mentioned?"
The woman in front of me asked.
Qi Fan nodded quickly and prayed, "I have done what I should do, my head..." His head was like a ripe tomato, and was burned by the white light before he went ashore.
Now it is half human face and half dragon face.
"Good boy, you did a great job."
A rough hand was placed on his head. "Next, I will take away some of your youth to help you stabilize your abilities. After you recover, come and pray with us. I need you to steal something from the gods."
Qi Fan felt that his flesh and blood were slowly growing back, but the people who helped him made the human part of him weaker and weaker, and he plundered more and more from the dead.
Qi Fan fully recovered, but at the cost of becoming thirty years older.
Between immediate death and eternal life of aging, he chose the latter.
Qi Fan finally breathed a sigh of relief, holding his head and asked, "Stealing things from the gods?"
The old woman in front of him smiled: "The shrine by the water is now empty. I know all the information before the ship disintegrated. She is now a little bit human, which is not a good thing for her."
“And if we humans want to master the world and become part of the system, the first thing we have to do is abandon our humanity.”
The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes showed her the victorious demeanor: "She is already curious enough about the world. We can teach her what Dr. Ye didn't teach her."
"Go and seduce her, and let her willingly hand over the world to us."
In a rocking boat on the river of life and death, Little Stone felt that he was being drowned by the sound of prayers.
Countless players came to the water's edge at some point, and they chanted her nickname together at the place where the stone had previously come ashore.
"Soul of the River of Life and Death, ferryman of the Styx, please grant us a wider gaming world..."
"Soul of the River of Life and Death, Ferryman of the Styx, please grant us more opportunities to awaken our skills..."
"...Please grant us a freer land..."
Xiao Shitou was going crazy. She was not a treasure chest! According to the principle of equivalent exchange, she also needed a corresponding price to fulfill her wish. These people could not expect to get it for free!
But the calls were like chaotic hands, pulling at her thoughts. Little Stone wanted to say it was too noisy, but among the countless noisy voices, someone suddenly said, "We are willing to exchange a little bit of our flesh and blood for your mercy."
While Little Stone was doubting, the prayers became clearer:
"I am willing to exchange one year of my life for..."
"I'll trade five centimeters of height for..."
The accuracy of the keyword "height" was so high that Shitou even suspected that he and Li Yuan were seen when they were playing the body-swapping game.
During the thousands of years of her dull life, she had never had any wishes. But after getting on the boat and briefly becoming a human, she began to desire to go to the human world.
Go and smell the real incense, eat hot meals, touch kittens and puppies, and make many friends.
A faint emotion deep in my heart that shouldn't belong to stone was aroused.
Qi Fan was sweating on his forehead by the river in the mall: "I saw it, but the light was too small to catch."
A faint light was lighting up in the originally empty stone box. The woman behind Qi Fan pressed his shoulder and said, "Go on. She's already moved."
For this plan, they made plans one or two years in advance, established a guild, attracted believers, and finally let these disposable players pray.
This world is already the greatest miracle.
That stone must have heard it. She climbed up from the bottom of the river. Wasn't it because she made a deal with humans?
Little Stone felt like she was floating up into the sky. She just thought that it would be nice if she could exchange. Her originally shrunken body would grow again. Countless souls would give her a small piece of flesh, which would be enough to make her quickly become like a human.
But the stones that look too much like humans will fly just like Li Yuan and the others.
Stone powder surrounded her and Little Stone began to feel a little pain.
Is it so easy to get hurt as a human?
But her body was so light that she couldn’t see the glowing passage in the sky. Could she really go to the real world?
The stone began to fly higher and higher, and just as it was about to leave the area where the boat was, a hand grabbed her.
“Don’t go…”
Li Yuan's skin, which had finally recovered a little, continued to melt, and he didn't dare let go.
But Li Yuan knew that at this time, if other people gave her flesh and blood to completely transform her into a human, it would not be a good thing for Shi Tou.
The white light is still above his head, shining indiscriminately. Turning into a real human at this time would be fatal to Stone.
"The way to go home is the call from reality and the end of death. You can't get over it now, Qiao Song, wake up. You can go later, not now."
Li Yuan's bones were about to melt in the sun. Behind him, the second hand and the third hand also grabbed the small stone.
It was the old principal and Annie, as well as Aunt Huo and Fan Xi.
Many hands grabbed her and grabbed the stone who called himself Qiao Song.
There is no path on earth that belongs to her in the sky. She will dissolve in the air and fall again. Maybe she will come back hundreds or thousands of years later. At that time, she will still be a spirit of stone, but she will not be Qiao Song.
Qi Fan and his group wanted to feed the stone in one gulp and send it directly into the white light to melt it and take away the power she left behind, while Li Yuan and his group only wanted Qiao Song.
That quirky and cute little stone.
"Qiao Song, wake up. If you want to become a human, we can also exchange."
"Memories, skills, props, you can take them all. Don't go now, or your memories will melt."
To be precise, it is already melting.
Shi Tou looked at the hand holding his below. Compared with the voices calling him on the shore, this was just a drop in the ocean, but the name "Qiao Song" was too obvious.
By the way, this is the name she chose herself, her name is Qiao Song.
A layer of stone powder began to sweep over the ship, and most of the white light in the sky was blocked. Qiao Song grabbed a handful of light spots in the distance. She was not stupid and knew what the other side wanted: "Actually, this works."
Her body continued to grow, into her mature twenties, then thirties, and at a certain point, the little glowing things began to disappear from her body.
That was the game "key" that Qiao Song had made while learning how to be a human these days.
Li Yuan said that this game world was born because of her support, and it was only when Shitou stayed with his friends that he learned what games were.
She likes it here, but she doesn't like all the players.
Qiao Song looked at Aunt Huo, Li Yuan and the others and said, "It's a promise. You must remember to teach me the things you promised me. This is my first time as a human being, so I'm not very experienced."
The people on the deck were actually already losing consciousness, but they could feel a breeze caressing their cheeks. Amid the meowing of kittens, Qiao Song no longer flew up, but fell directly into the water.
The cold breath of death in the River of Life and Death finally stopped Qiao Song, who was too obsessed with the smell of living people, from flying directly into the world of white light.
Qiao Song floated down the river. The souls around her could smell her fragrance but did not dare to come close.
Qiao Song counted them and dispersed the light spots in her body. She muttered, "Let's go one way or the other. We can't just let Li Yuan and the others do the hard labor. It's not that easy to take my things."
The light spots floated up along with the soaring soul, and finally scattered to different locations.
Qi Fan on the shore had already knelt down in front of the empty shrine. He was sweating all over and before all the bones in his hands were about to be destroyed, he finally grabbed something from the shrine.
It was a graffiti-like city drawing full of animals.
After Qi Fan arrived, several people rushed up like hungry tigers, until the shrine was empty.
"We succeeded! We actually succeeded!"
Qi Fan also found it unbelievable. Even though it cost too much to get such a thing, they actually got the power equivalent to that of the god of death from the hands of the gods!
It went so smoothly that it was as if the god of death himself had let it go.
Among the cheering crowd, only the old woman frowned and looked at the shrine: "The number is less than expected."
Afterwards, every few days something would still come out of the shrine, sometimes it was a key, sometimes it was a toy ornament. Without exception, whoever got those things would find an open space outside the mall that only they could enter.
The game system also began to arrive one day. Most players cheered for it, but only a very few players knew what this system meant.
But the strange thing was that later more than half of the ships that had gone out to sea came ashore, and the people who got off the ships, although they looked unhappy, actually also possessed the same items that would only appear in the shrine.
This group of original river crossing survivors formed Twelve Committees in the increasingly large game world, and continuously established rules to improve it.
Since the game map spread like a virus, the land has expanded and the rivers have disappeared at some point.
Instead, there is a thick fog that permeates every map all year round. It seems to replace the rivers and separate the souls of the dead and the living.
Players must drive a car made of special materials when on the road, otherwise they will disappear when they enter the fog.
The committee manages everything on Infinite Highway, even including recruiting more NPC ghosts that appear out of nowhere, resemble humans but are obviously hostile.
The committee also established the Goblin Alliance, which manages the trading system between goblins and top players.
Some players know that the alliance is dominated not by the ghost faction based on convenience stores, but by the human faction based on hell.
In the committee, the two groups of people on both sides of the long table have always been in opposition to each other. The conflict between them is unknown, and the players supporting them are also different.
There are even some guilds dominated by ghost factions that have been quietly searching for something in the rookie dungeons over the years.
Because some people suspected that the stone did not melt in the light, she may have become a player, but no one has seen that face again.
No one knew that she had a name.
It was not until a long time later that a new soul, which had spent some copied lives in the gap between dreams and reality, climbed ashore.
The completely severed experience made her unable to tell where she was for a moment as she looked at the completely changed sandbar.
She only knew that her name was Qiao Song, and that she came to this world to do something.
In the thick fog of the river of life and death, memories become confused.
Qiao Song walked into the bus stop. In this strange world, she seemed to smell the scent of home. Soon, she yawned and dozed off for a while on the platform without any guard.
When I woke up again, I was already on the bus.
Qiao Song looked at his phone and suddenly forgot when he fell asleep.
The screen lit up, and it was a part-time job message.
Yes, Qiao Song thought, today is the day she goes to work at the Guizi Convenience Store.
On the foggy platform, a book turned to the last page and a new story began. Qiao Song’s life as a player truly began.
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