Chapter 276 Happy Cemetery
"'Master of Magic' Zhu Maochun, the total time spent in the body is 23 minutes, 45 seconds and 19, and the occupation matching degree is 69%.
The person lying in another grave has a 56% match with the grave, but you only stayed there for 3 minutes and 11 seconds. It is currently roughly speculated that when the impact of the matching degree is not much different, personal will also has a certain impact on the results of the experiment.
So, You Yitong——"
The silver-haired president looked at him with a smile, but in an unquestionable tone: "For the next test, you'd better do as agreed, otherwise I can cut off your connection at any time and let you be liberated along with the guys at the funeral. There are people who can replace you, and you are luckier than them, so you must cherish this opportunity, understand?"
You Yitong didn't say anything, and nodded after several seconds.
The president of the Newcomer Alliance then waved his hand, and someone immediately operated on the screen next to a pile of instruments. The water level dropped, the hatch opened, You Yitong unplugged the catheter in his body, and he felt able to breathe again.
Knowing that his value had been raised again, You Yitong asked casually, "Did those souls really leave after the funeral?"
The president looked at him with a smile and said, "You don't want to go back, so why are you asking this?"
You Yitong quickly lowered his head: "I'm afraid that if I make a mistake, I will be sent there too."
Jiang Qixin stared at him for a while, recorded the last data, and knocked on the jar of the petri dish: "No one can leave this world, including the god who was once believed in herself. She is just dangling the carrots of the players and moving from one rabbit hole to another."
"She is probably more eager to enter that world than we are. Hurry up. In less than half a month, you must increase the duration of possession from half an hour to 24 hours. This is the only way to ensure that you can be reborn in another way. Isn't this your wish? To live in a completely different identity."
You Yitong actually understood that the backup factory they built in their dream was the same world as Zootopia.
But the world of Zootopia is a backup world for passing lies.
Here, to some extent, it is more like preparation for passing the level.
You Yitong didn't want to go back, but he didn't want to die even more.
He, Miao Tingting, and a small number of guild players other than the president were allowed to enter the building only after the River of Life and Death flooded the road.
Jiang Qi Xin, the often-unprecedented president of the Newcomer Alliance, has never aged in spirit in this world.
"Miao Tingting should have 'woke up' by now. Remember to exchange experiences with her. You two are not completely in competition. If you take my position, you will need someone to be your second-in-command in the future. You Yitong, just keep your eyes open to deal with outsiders. Do you understand?"
The latter nodded, and quickly put on a suit and a black top hat, and also a magician's cane.
Miao Tingting lay half dead on the sofa. As soon as she saw You Yitong, she mocked his permanent companion skin: "Congratulations, I heard that you succeeded. The first thing you did after getting the reward was to change your clothes. You are worthy of it."
You Yitong ignored her and put on white gloves to cover the scars on his hands: "How was the security situation last time? Was there anything strange approaching outside?"
Miao Tingting gets angry when she mentions this:
"I used up half of my blood and summoned countless bugs, but in the end, I didn't find a single hair."
In addition to traditional electronic surveillance, the building's security can only rely on the player's skills to monitor and patrol.
Jiang Qixin has invested all his funds and resources into the research. In order to avoid being discovered by others, the final security support work was handed over to the two candidates.
You Yitong and Miao Tingting took turns entering the game, trying to influence the tomb. Miao Tingting was very upset after her failure. When she learned that You Yitong had succeeded, she immediately became defensive.
Her own failure was painful, but the success of others broke her defenses even more.
"Did you deliberately leave this mess to me? The poisonous insect can't be retrieved in a short time, and I have to stand guard for you for half a day in vain."
You Yitong unceremoniously sat down next to him and said, "Are there really not many souls approaching from outside? We have been releasing the washed souls for many days in a row, and no players have come to us yet."
Miao Tingting also began to stare at the screen in a daze: "Who knows? Maybe they are all busy looking for the living and the dead in this city."
This place is more like the underworld than the River of Life and Death.
This world is already the last safe bridge to the world of death. The biggest difference between Miao Tingting and You Yitong is that she is not so resistant to going home.
The people she cared about were no longer out there, no longer in the game, no longer anywhere.
When Jiang Qixin first pulled Miao Tingting into the guild, he only said one sentence, "I will let you meet the person you really want to see, whether alive or dead. Gods can't do this because they are naturally not partial to each other and bend the law, but I can."
Miao Tingting listened to the reminder in her ear and agreed immediately.
The system was created by these people, what else is there for her to not believe?
However, Miao Tingting was lying on the sofa facing the street. The place where they were was almost one of the tallest buildings in this area. Miao Tingting thought: "If it weren't for the regulations, I would really like to take a stroll on the street."
You Yitong glanced at her and said, "You can let your bugs take you there."
"And then other players recognized us and took down our base?"
Miao Tingting sat up slightly and looked You Yitong up and down with a strange look: "Are you planning something recently? It seems that you are talking with a strong purpose."
You Yitong didn't say anything, but Miao Tingting looked at him pretending to be dead and smiled: "Compared to the previous appearance of always thinking bad things about Mimi, now you are much more pleasing to the eye. This dream world is really interesting. Every soul will appear in its most original form. That's why you are born to be so unkind, cold and selfish. Every word you say is purposeful."
You Yitong's eyes gradually turned cold, but in the end he did nothing.
He can't be impulsive now.
The fact that all of Miao Tingting’s previous attempts had failed was actually a good thing for You Yitong. He was the only successful person at the moment and would also be the only beneficiary.
The president and the others can't leave here, and this entire experiment will eventually become his legacy.
You Yitong closed his eyes and said, "The shift is over. You can get out of the observation room. I will guard outside today."
Miao Tingting said, "What about your experience of taking over another body this time? The president will definitely ask you to tell me about it."
You Yitong: ...
Miao Tingting didn't want this thing much at first, but the more reluctant You Yitong was, the more Miao Tingting wanted to confront him.
When Miao Tingting finally left the observation room, she got a piece of paper.
She glanced at the contents of the thing for a few seconds, then folded it and put it in her pocket. She went to the lowest floor of the building, checked in, and took something to cover her face.
Since you can’t use any props to change your appearance in your dreams, Miao Tingting can only use this stupid method to disguise herself.
She wanted to go out for a walk and see if the person she was looking for was here.
At the same time, in a certain community, Qiao Song had already arrived at his mother's house.
She sat at the table today, very silent. The big black crow came again today, still standing on the back of the chair next to her.
"Li Yuan, your feathers suddenly burned because you were caught?"
Crow glanced at her and bubbles began to appear on his body: [A soul was discovered when it entered the building. Their security system is very good. ]
Qiao Song was silent for a while and then sat at the table with a strange expression:
"For some reason, Wen Haoqian wrote a will in advance. His sister held a funeral for him, and it was successful. I saw a hole in the sky, and a buffalo carried him out."
The crow listened quietly, as if he knew what Qiao Song was going to ask. Sure enough, Qiao Song soon stared at him intently.
"I suddenly remembered a story you told me before at the funeral. A Guang once made a documentary about the culture of death. I remember you followed me and told me that in addition to the local culture of death, there is a place in the real world where funerals are held slowly after a person dies. It takes several years to prepare the tomb and coffin, and finally the body of the deceased is placed on the back of a cow and sent to the destination."
"Because they believe that only buffaloes can carry the souls of the dead to the other world."
This was the first time Qiao Song learned about the customs related to death in human culture.
As a result, the same rules apply in the graveyard.
Crow didn't say anything, so Qiao Song continued to ask: "It was the same with the previous Hell Community, including the convenience store. I should have only given you the keys and a small part of the permissions for these places. The specific rules are all up to the administrator and the main system to perfect."
Qiao Song originally thought that she had only provided the land, but she knew nothing about the buildings on the land and the various rules and gameplay derived from the buildings.
But now, she found that the way the world operated seemed to still revolve around the customs she knew.
The order of sequence is very important. Is it because she knew this knowledge that this matter was affected recently, or is it because Li Yuan told her this knowledge and knew that Qiao Song would be able to remember it, so he set up a corresponding world in advance?
Li Yuan: [Do you think I'm giving away the question?]
Qiao Song looked him up and down carefully. Coincidentally, Shu Ruyue heard that today's soup had come from the kitchen.
"Mom, didn't you say Li Yuan was very smart when he was in school? If I couldn't finish my homework, would he copy it for me?"
Shu Ruyue didn't know why her daughter suddenly asked such a question. She looked at Wu Ya and smiled: "Qiao Qiao, you are also very smart. You don't need to copy him."
When Qiao Song was a child, he was indeed more playful than Li Yuan, but he was no worse than Li Yuan in academics. When Li Yuan was a child, he would make good plans and do a little summer homework every day to ensure that he had homework to do every day of the summer vacation.
On the first day of summer vacation, Qiao Song would work hard to finish all his homework, and then have fun all summer long until he could not be seen again.
"He was a class monitor when he was young. Whenever he couldn't collect homework during the summer vacation, he would report it to the teacher and make it public. Li Yuan had a very good friend who was caught by him several times. Every time he was caught, he would cry at my doorstep."
Qiao Song had a hunch that the person his mother was talking about might be A Guang.
"Li Yuan didn't even have the patience to teach others one question at a time, let alone let others copy his homework. He bought a workbook and asked his friends to start with the simple exercises so that they could finish the other questions in the summer homework."
Shu Ruyue started laughing as she spoke.
The crow that Qiao Song continued to stare at said: …
[I really won’t give anyone a backdoor.]
"Then tell me, if I grew up with you and I didn't finish my summer homework, would you copy it for me?"
Crow hesitated for a while, and finally turned his head under her earnest gaze: [I can tell you where the homework is. ]
Then he put on his headphones and pretended he knew nothing.
Qiao Song nodded with satisfaction: "There are 'principles', but not many."
Crow has never lied to her so far, and always gives ambiguous answers to difficult questions.
Li Yuan really didn't know how to go back, but the guys led by the Newcomer Alliance's president had made so many preparations, Qiao Song didn't think Li Yuan would just sit there and wait to die.
Wait, the place where Wen Haoqian, Wen Xinyue and others are, there used to be a treatment room, where Wu Hanyu, Doctor Wu, treated the "plague doctor", Crow.
Qiao Song became alert: "Where is Doctor Wu?"
Raven looked away again, "He has other things to do."
Qiao Song: "Is he on the boat or on land?"
Li Yuan: ...
Finally, the crow could only say: "All our efforts over the years have only resulted in one big ship."
The Newcomer Alliance and the Black Iron people had been united for so long, but in the end they only had a small canoe.
Qiao Song was now certain that it must be on land.
She knew the specific effects of the water in the River of Life and Death better than anyone else. The boat could not last long, so Dr. Wu was also on the shore.
What can an orthopedic surgeon do? Put bones together, knock bones, and repair bones...
Qiao Song had given away so many things back then that he couldn't remember what other little bits and pieces were left.
But she knew that Li Yuan, the currently hiding Doctor A Guang Mo Wenwu, and even Fan Xi and the others in other copies would not do anything harmful to him.
They had sworn an oath in front of the shrine that they would not break their promise even if Qiao Song had forgotten everything.
These people are hiding on the island, in the cemetery.
After realizing this, Qiao Song drank the soup very quickly today. Shu Ruyue advised her not to be too anxious and took out a list from the room.
"After I left, I asked someone I knew to retrieve some information from the news. Qiao Qiao, although I don't understand what you and Li Yuan are talking about, I know that many of the names you mentioned are people with similar conditions to Li Yuan."
Qiao Song, who had originally planned to go out for a walk today and find a way to verify his guess, was suddenly a little surprised.
Li Yuan, a soul that has lived and died, and died and lived again, understands the value of his mother's words even better.
Yes, Shu Ruyue is probably the most special living soul in this dream world.
She logs on regularly every day and plays games. She possesses the life of this world and can also bring news from the outside world in real time.
Neither Qiao Song nor Li Yuan are strictly dead, but they can meet her in their dreams regularly.
Under such circumstances, Shu Ruyue's mental state became better and better, and she even found time to provide the children in her dreams with some very valuable clues.
The crow flapped its wings and almost disappeared on the spot, but Qiao Song held it back: "Wait a minute, don't fly yet. Why does it collapse when it gets a little excited?"
Li Yuan explained vaguely: [There is a lot of work to do, so I split up many bodies and just now the information carrying capacity was a little exceeded.]
The information that Shu Ruyue took out was quite important.
Qiao Song didn’t recognize the data above because she had never seen many of them, but Li Yuan knew them.
He was very familiar with these faces. The Hell Community had received so many souls over the years, both humans and ghosts, and locked them all up underground. He cut himself into so many pieces to handle official business, and the information he received was probably not much less than that of the main system.
He was afraid that he would hurt Shu Ruyue, so he didn't even dare to get close to her all these years. After Qiao Song turned from a stone into his mother's child, he was like a shadow, just watching from afar.
But Qiao Song taught him that it's okay to be bold.
Shu Ruyue, who was trusted by Qiao Song, took out this piece of information that was worth a fortune.
"Wait, I think I understand a little bit. Is this the statistical table of vegetative coma data in your country?"
Strictly speaking, Qiao Song had only played the online game The Sims and had never really lived in reality. She put herself in the player's perspective and quickly understood what this list meant.
Li Yuan said that with the rapid development of the information age, citizens' information can be almost viewed at a glance on the Internet.
This is a catalog of instructions that is more important than a player's will.
Not everyone writes a will, but as long as you can find the corresponding person, you can understand a person's wishes and style of doing things from his family and his daily conversations.
Know yourself and know your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.
Qiao Song quickly knew how to use this thing: "Mom, I'll write down a few names, and you go back and help me investigate!"
Li Yuan couldn't help but let out a series of bubbles: [Don't do anything illegal or criminal, just get it from public online information. ]
Qiao Song glanced at him and said, "Believe it or not, I'll tell mom directly, are you suspecting she will break the law?"
Li Yuan: ...Haven’t you already said that?
Shu Ruyue smiled and waved her hand quickly, saying, "I won't do that. During the years I've been with Li Yuan, I've met many family members who have to transfer out of the hospital. Let's leave each other contact information. There is a related group."
In this world, people who share the same suffering will always contact each other, comfort each other and share experiences.
People who have become doctors through long-term illnesses understand better how to cure their own diseases, while the despair brought by vegetative state is often that there may not be any major problems with the body's functions, but the patient just cannot wake up.
In recent years, Shu Ruyue has been sharing her experience of taking care of Li Yuan with others, such as how to prevent muscle atrophy, how to wake a child up, reading him stories or news, hiring a suitable nurse, turning Li Yuan over regularly, and massaging his muscles.
With every word Shu Ruyue said, the crow's feathers became darker.
Qiao Song knew that Li Yuan couldn't get too close to his mother, so he simply grabbed the crow in his hand and gently stroked the bird's feathers while listening to his mother talk.
Shu Ruyue had indeed lived a very tiring life over the years. Taking care of plants requires not only mental effort but also financial resources.
Although Li Yuan's father passed away very early, he left behind a considerable sum of money. Li Yuan himself also saved a lot of money over the years. Combined with Shu Ruyue's savings, all she had to do was grit her teeth and keep going.
Believe that the child will wake up, believe that there are miracles in this world.
Then, Shu Ruyue encountered her little miracle in her dream one day. She raised the daughter in her dream and found her son who had turned into a bird.
Shu Ruyue's psychiatrist also realized the change in her condition. As long as her body did not deteriorate and her mental state improved, the doctor would not expose this beauty regardless of whether the dream was real or not.
Shu Ruyue is unique among the family members of vegetative patients.
"I already have the contact information of quite a few people, and many more have been added these days. I will collect their information through legal, reasonable and rational means. Xiaosong, Xiaoyuan, mommy hopes you can wake up, and also hopes those children can come back."
She is already the luckiest one thanks to her parents.
Li Yuan didn't know how to describe this feeling. There was a hand above his head constantly combing his feathers, and the heart in his chest seemed to be about to jump out of the bird's body.
"Hey, Li Yuan, why are you flying again?"
The black crow gradually became transparent, like a floating bird balloon. Li Yuan was gently pulled a few times by Qiao Song, and finally came back to his senses. He flapped his wings, and his feathers solidified again.
Qiao Song felt like he was being weighed down on the table like a weight.
The weight didn't feel as fluffy as the bird, so Qiao Song pushed him away in disgust and carefully examined the information given by Shu Ruyue.
There are actually quite a lot of people listed here, a total of three pages, all handwritten.
When Qiao Song saw the last page, he suddenly found a name that looked familiar.
[Miao Tingting, the only child of a minority family, fell into a coma in a mountain flood three years ago. Her roommate was hospitalized on the same day. After a week of rescue, she woke up and was transferred to a general ward. She is currently recovering and is being cared for by Miao Tingting's family.]
The author has something to say:
Buffaloes carry the dead to heaven. This custom is from an Indonesian documentary I watched a long time ago. I was deeply impressed at the time. In some places, the deceased will even be brought out on certain festivals to change clothes, dance, and take photos with them. The previous music video of dancing with coffins also has a similar custom. Their views on death are really special. If you are interested, you can search for related documentaries.
By the way, I really like the movie "Coco", it's so tear-jerking, and it can be regarded as the inspiration for Happy Cemetery.
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