Chapter 277 Happy Cemetery
Miao Tingting doesn't like this dream world. There are both living and dead people walking in it, but there is no one she is looking for.
President Jiang said that once she got the authority over the main system, she would complete what she had promised before. Miao Tingting did not comment. She joined the Newcomer Alliance simply because she came too early, and when she wanted to leave, all the friends she met in the game were trapped.
Miao Tingting also didn't like You Yitong. She knew that he was the successor who was more in line with the purpose of the Newcomer Alliance. Miao Tingting was just competing with him symbolically. Even if he became the second in command, it would not have much impact on her.
The president of the Newcomer Alliance is not a good person. He has been passive and lazy for a while. Miao Tingting is a little confused. Where are those people under her hiding?
The sections she and You Yitong were responsible for were different from the beginning. She was working outside, focusing on props and copy clues, and would only occasionally pull a few newcomers into the guild to join her team.
You Yitong and the others would invite new members much more frequently. It was already very late when Miao Tingting realized that new members were often missing from the guild.
Jiang Qixin discussed the conditions with her, saying that those players were contaminated by the other captives she brought back. Miao Tingting could only choose to completely sacrifice those people, or honestly fight for the position of heir and save these people.
Miao Tingting found that she had no choice whether she was alive or dead.
She didn't come out just to stroll around today. Miao Tingting wanted to know if the missing people also dreamed.
After an inexplicable flood outside, the only place that can be called land in the Infinite Highway is this small island cemetery.
The only thing Miao Tingting didn't expect was that the place she settled in happened to be the city where she went to college, not the Miao village.
But this makes sense. She doesn't have that much attachment to her home. After all, what she considers home is the small house she just bought and the other life that is about to begin in this city.
The only surprise for Miao Tingting was that when she died once before, she actually completed the resurrection game safely. President Jiang said that those who were given up on treatment in the real world would not be able to survive the resurrection game.
Her family in the strict sense should be gone, and the only ones left are relatives who are not too far away.
It was from this time that Miao Tingting began to doubt their president and their guild for the first time.
At the crossroads of the dream world, Miao Tingting figured out the direction and walked towards the inpatient department of a hospital.
At this time, Qiao Song in another direction was talking to the crow on his shoulder.
"I've dealt with Miao Tingting before. She's a member of the Newcomer Alliance. Doesn't she have family and friends to protect her? Why would someone with a happy family join the Newcomer Alliance?"
The crow shook its wings: [Are you so sure that the members of the Newcomer Alliance are all unfortunate guys? ]
"There are only two reasons why someone is unwilling to return to the real world: no one loves him, or he is unwilling to love anyone else. For example, You Yitong is a typical example of both. Every time he sees me, he acts as if I owe him something."
"Oh yes, there is a third type, similar to Lao Long, who is too greedy and wants to build underworld capital in this world."
What Qiao Song didn’t say was that she felt that humans were indeed brave, but if she wasn’t so interested in the human world, she wouldn’t be able to play this game at all.
Qiao Song not only wants to win, she wants to win completely. She wants to remain in the game world while going to the human world.
Before the water level completely submerges the cemetery, it is her last chance to find her way home. It is also the last chance for the president of the Newcomer Alliance to turn the tables.
[So you want to check the hospital? Hospitals in dreams should be empty. ]
Crow stood on Qiao Song's shoulder and was gently flicked on the head by her hand: "Li Yuan, do you want to explain why you suddenly became transparent before?"
When her mother suddenly took out a medical list from the real world, Qiao Song was shocked at first, and secondly, it was obvious what the thing meant.
That was the result of a mother's hard work over the years. She had been taking care of her unconscious son and waiting for him to come home.
The crow's body changed at that moment. It first became transparent and then flew into the sky, just like the way Qiao Song saw the soul leave the Happy Cemetery after the funeral.
Administrators like Li Yuan can actually leave, right?
The rules of the cemetery might have been set by them together back then. Qiao Song didn't know whether Li Yuan was unwilling to leave or couldn't leave before the time came, but she knew that the guy who had made a lot of backup plans was hiding something from her.
The crow combed its feathers and looked at him: [There are only two or three hours left before waking up, so hurry up.]
There is one benefit since the Infinite Highway was submerged by the River of Life and Death. Players are not as easily hungry or sleepy as before, and staying up all night will only make them a little tired at most.
I work in the cemetery at night, and even if I fall asleep during the day, I will dream about it.
These things in the dream are the cattle, horses and humans that actually live in the outside world.
Qiao Song's target was the hospital. She had asked Shu Ruyue where in their small city people lived together all year round, preferably somewhere with a large floating population and where people were prone to death.
Shu Ruyue and Li Yuan had strange expressions on their faces and turned their heads away instantly.
Qiao Song learned about places like hospitals.
There should be more people dreaming here than outside.
Qiao Song thought that it might be because there were too many deaths in the hospital, so there were many targets for the dreams.
"When you humans dream at night, can you really remember what you dreamed about after you wake up?"
Shu Ruyue was like this because of the influence of her and Li Yuan, what about others?
Qiao Song didn't think they could remember.
Li Yuan worked as a proxy god of death for a while, but he finally explained from a human perspective: [If a family member or friend has passed away, and you only dream about them at night, the content is not important, and being able to see them once is already a blessing. ]
Being able to meet his mother was already a gift given by Qiao Song.
Qiao Song wanted to understand, but she didn’t quite understand. Everyone would come to the world she was in after death, so in her opinion, it was almost the same as meeting an online friend. But at the funeral, whether it was Xin Yue or Chi Xiaoyao who later learned to write a will, everyone was facing a major event in life, an event more important than going out.
Death is an end for human beings, a permanent end.
After reincarnation, the original soul will completely disappear.
Qiao Song had been watching this whole process, so death was not that scary to her. She just wanted to be closer to other people, at least to figure out the intentions of those guys from the Newcomer Alliance.
"That is to say, the hospital should be a place where many dead people come to see you in their dreams and the living people shed tears, right?"
Qiao Song has successfully sneaked into the hospital. This place is not far from her other goal tonight, the "Brain Wave Research Center", so she just stopped by here.
But contrary to expectations, the hospital was empty.
Whether it's on the street, in their neighborhood, or even in some commercial or office areas, there are dreaming souls wandering around. Why is the hospital empty? Are there no dead people here to visit in their dreams?
After entering the hospital, Crow remained silent, standing obediently on Qiao Song's shoulder without making a sound.
Qiao Song sensed something was wrong. After looking around cautiously, he took a look at the hospital structure map and walked decisively towards the morgue.
The hospital was not completely deserted. At least there were still dead souls in the morgue.
Qiao Song saw a girl with a broken leg, and her whole body was torn from head to chest. If there was a forensic doctor there, he might be able to determine whether she died in a car accident or some other accident.
Qiao Song saw the girl who had just crawled out of the metal drawer, looked at her, and then just stood there in a daze, falling directly to the floor.
A dead man disappeared right in front of him. Qiao Song had a strange expression on his face: "Can the floor of this hospital eat people?"
She continued to search down floor by floor. The soul that had fallen from the ceiling before seemed to have ropes tied around its legs and was being pulled down continuously.
The number of souls that Qiao Song can see on this level has become 3 to 5.
These were taken to the next level.
Qiao Song's eyes had changed: "There are constantly hollow souls coming out of the 'Brain Wave Research Center', but new souls are constantly coming in here. Are they building a factory here?"
Every time the player attends a funeral, the time they stay in the dream will increase.
Before, everyone was more worried about family and friends, and busy meeting the people they wanted to meet in their dreams. Now the activity time in dreams has been upgraded. As long as you explore the map, you will find something abnormal sooner or later.
"Strange, I used to think that this world imitated the River of Life and Death, and that it was safe for the living and the dead to communicate. Now I think I may have underestimated those people."
If it was as she guessed, the hospital couldn't be an entrance that directly dragged all the missing people into dreams for experiments?
This tertiary hospital was not far from her home. Apart from the strange signal tower building her mother had mentioned before, most of the other areas were filled with wandering dreamers, living dead like players whose life and death were not yet determined, and pure dead people who were supposed to be soaking in the water.
This time, Qiao Song followed the safety passage directly to the bottom of the safety passage. It was originally difficult to find a building with lower floors than the morgue, but the morgue of this hospital was like a human pyramid, with countless layers of copy and paste.
Qiao Song suddenly began to count silently: 2, 3, 4...18.
It actually is 18 floors.
At the end of the 18th floor, she finally saw a red wooden door with a strong Chinese atmosphere.
There were relief carvings of various evil ghosts and strange execution tools. Qiao Song had been to the Hell Community and could recognize that these were execution tools from different hells.
But on this quaint gate, which originally had a strange shape, there were a few crooked words written on it, as if they were written by a child.
[Eighteen Levels of Hell]
Hell is opened in the hospital, red light shines on the face, and the soul is dragged underground. Isn't this pure intimidation?
Qiao Song was just about to turn around and ask Li Yuan if he claimed this place, but the crow jumped directly from her shoulder: [I can't enter this area. ]
Qiao Song raised his eyebrows.
"The owner of the prison community can't enter the 18th level of hell in the dream?"
Li Yuan said in a complicated tone: [This is not the original, it is a replica.]
So this place wasn't created by the little crow? But this word was clearly written by her when she was still a stone, practicing calligraphy on the boat.
Wait, Qiao Song suddenly remembered that the last time Crow was about to go to the brain wave research center with her, one of the feathers she left for Qiao Song burned, saying that the invasion had been discovered.
So, this hell is also fake, and it is really used to deceive ghosts?
"Will you be considered an intruder if you go in?"
The crow did not answer the question directly, but reminded her: [There are still two hours before the dream ends.]
Qiao Song immediately kicked open the door of hell and rushed in without looking back.
Li Yuan couldn't hold back his expression as he watched Qiao Song rushing into the hell that countless souls were unwilling to be dragged into, as if he was attending a supermarket sale.
His red eyes blinked, and he actually wanted to go in, but if Qiao Song found out that the alarm would go off if he took him in, he would probably throw him out without hesitation.
Li Yuan chose to take the initiative.
At this moment, he heard footsteps coming from behind.
Miao Tingting didn't expect such a pleasant surprise.
The time she can go out every day is very short. The president actually does not agree with them going out, but she and You Yitong are responsible for the security of the building. She consumed too many poisonous insects yesterday, and now all the surveillance in the building is controlled by her. Before You Yitong takes over completely with pigeons, no one in the brain wave building will know that she has come out for at least one or two hours.
Miao Tingting's visit to the hospital was purely an accident. She wandered around the city for a long time, hoping that if the person she wanted to see was not dead, she might have a chance to see him in her dreams, but she never saw him.
When she saw the hospital, some ideas came to her mind.
As expected, after just one look inside, she realized that something was wrong with this place.
The Brain Wave Building releases a large number of souls that have been castrated for experiments every once in a while, so she knows that the building must have a fixed supply channel.
You Yitong is in charge of this part.
So, the source of the goods was the hospital? She had originally thought it was where other players were imprisoned.
Miao Tingting arrived at the morgue a little slower and walked down the stairs. In front of the red door, she saw a black crow with scorching eyes and a terrifying look.
The red light, from back to front, distorted the light and shadow around it.
Miao Tingting's blood ran cold.
Of course she knew who this person was. He was the top alert target within the Newcomer Alliance, almost as famous as Qiao Song, and the Administrator of Hell.
The other party tried to cause trouble for them more than once, but whether it was due to system limitations or some other reason, the Newcomer Alliance had never been wiped out.
President Jiang said that people with morals and those who are willing to abide by the rules are actually the easiest to deal with, so becoming an administrator is not necessarily a good thing.
Miao Tingting didn't think she had the ability to fight this guy in a one-on-one fight. A large black dot suddenly appeared on her face, ready to explode into a swarm of insects and escape in all directions.
[Miao Tingting, someone has been looking for you. ]
A huge dialog box popped up in front of her eyes like a system prompt. Miao Tingting turned around and ran away, and countless bugs flew out from her sleeves.
However, the name and a few lines of words that Li Yuan typed out with bubbles made her stop immediately.
【Don't you want to hear the name? 】
In the empty hospital, those strange crawling insects quickly shrank back and finally condensed into Miao Tingting with only half of her body.
She seemed quite alert: "Don't try to make up a story to deceive me. I know there is a hypnotist in your management team."
Li Yuan seemed to have no patience. He hurriedly opened two more dialog boxes, flapped his wings casually and was about to leave.
After Miao Tingting confirmed the information given by Li Yuan, her expression changed drastically.
She finally nodded half-doubtfully, leaving half of her body behind, ready to listen to what the terrifying black crow was going to say to her.
Qiao Song didn't know that Li Yuan was already preparing to help her instigate the future vice president of the Newcomer Alliance.
She squeezed into this mountain village hell from the underground entrance of the hospital as if she was catching the Spring Festival travel rush.
There were many dead souls around, and occasionally a few unlucky people who were caught in their dreams. They screamed a few times and then disappeared on the spot.
Except Qiao Song, there was no one alive.
Of course, she is not a complete living person.
So Qiao Song kept pushing forward, fearing that he would be thrown out.
The base camp of the mastermind has not been found yet. From afar, at the interconnected underground entrance, on the white commodity conveyor belt, she saw several other acquaintances who were tied up.
Among them, the one who looked the worst was the young security guard Wang Anning.
He seemed to have been attacked in a dream. His clothes were torn and he was tied up like a dumpling. He was completely different from the confused souls around him.
His eyes were a little swollen, otherwise if he opened them he would definitely see Qiao Song craning his neck to look at him not far away.
Far away from Wang Anning, there were several similar people, all tied up.
Before Qiao Song could continue to observe the conveyor belt further, she soon felt her hands and feet tighten. Several worm-like ropes appeared from nowhere and tied her up.
Just as Qiao Song was about to convert the toolbox and cut the rope, he found that the toolbox did not respond.
Um?
She immediately tried other skills, including the twelve zodiac signs, but nothing came out.
Is this an area where the use of skills is prohibited?
Qiao Song's struggle soon weakened a lot. She knew that if she resisted too fiercely, the guys in the distance who were beaten like pigs would be a lesson for her.
Where exactly is this place?
A hospital was built on top as a cover, and after entering, 18 levels of hell were built below to scare people. In the end, the inside was white.
The assembly line in Dream Factory with shockingly good sanitary conditions?
Qiao Song discovered that not all souls were tied up like hers. The souls of the dead only had a string tied around their feet.
Ever since they passed through the red gate of hell, the souls of the dead had almost become stagnant, like fish to be slaughtered at will. Apart from the occasional reflexive jump, they had almost no other reaction.
Including Qiao Song, the guys who had a living breath were tied up with more ropes, layer by layer, like dumplings.
This assembly line with underground passages extending in all directions is a bit similar to the one Qiao Song saw in Zootopia.
Commodity goods management area of the main system?
No, not really.
Qiao Song discovered a pattern a long time ago: there are no system prompts in the dream world.
This is one area where the gaming system is completely circumvented.
It's a good thing and a bad thing.
The good thing is that this place may really be able to fulfill the ultimate wish of the majority of players, and the appearance of Shu Ruyue is proof of that.
The downside is that administrators can’t come in and game skills can’t be used.
Have the supporters behind the Newcomer Alliance been preparing in such an area for so many years?
Qiao Song kept a low profile and pretended to be dead at the back, allowing the conveyor belt to carry her forward like a piglet.
Because her resistance was relatively low, the black lines only circled her four or five times before stopping.
The conveyor belt carries coarse and fine, aggregated and different goods, which are all put on the central conveyor belt and picked again by robotic arms.
These piglet-like guys were picked out by something so industrial and technological.
Qiao Song even saw a banner not far away:
[Everything is for evolution, everything is for more scientific management of the soul! ]
[Death is not the end after all, we will reincarnate countless times! ]
What a big tone.
She remained silent, wanting to see where the conveyor belt would take her. However, she did not move, but the pig head next to her that was not very far from her moved.
Wang Anning felt that he was really unlucky. Since entering this special ranch, he had trouble mowing the grass and had trouble dreaming at night. None of the good things that others dreamed of happened to him.
He wanted to attend the funeral, but he didn't dare to drive, and the place where he slept had become a coffin room.
At least he managed to collect some information, and it turned out that it might be because he just got an assist, and after being born in the same place, he actually felt that he had nowhere to go.
Everyone in the dream world is busy. They either want to see the living or the dead. At worst, they want to go home and take a look.
But what kind of home does he have? He only has a staff dormitory that looks like a doghouse where he and his boss hang out.
Living in a doghouse outside and living in a doghouse in dreams is too boring.
By the way, his boss didn’t have a good ending in the end.
The young security guard has been accustomed to living by relying on others over the years, but he did not expect that the one who dealt with the old boss would become his new boss.
This time when he entered the dream, he was somehow attacked by ghosts again and was dragged into the transmission tunnel under the hospital like a piglet. After realizing that his skills could not be used, he was about to despair.
When I entered the room and saw that red door, I thought, am I really going to hell?
When he opened his eyes again, the person who could save him should be far away.
Qiao Song signaled with his eyes many times, telling him to play dead and not to move, so as not to attract the attention of the mechanical arm above.
As a result, the young security guard was probably very stubborn. In this panic, he was like a bug, constantly shivering and shouting incoherently:
"Help, um, boss, help!"
I'm saving you, you big-headed ghost!
They could have sneaked in quietly, but this time the mechanical equipment above finally noticed them.
Because the young security guard's movements were so large, he was soon tied with new black ropes.
Qiao Song had been very quiet, but he was too close and was tied up with some ropes. The mechanical arm judged for a while and picked out a few of them who obviously looked like living people and put them in a frame.
It had been a long time since Qiao Song had experienced this kind of life where he was treated like a commodity.
Qiao Song kicked him in the stomach as if giving a warning, and the boy finally calmed down completely.
The young security guard probably knew that he had done something wrong, and he just sat there silently as a cushion.
The conveyor belt passed through many different red and green pipes, as if it was carefully selecting to ensure that it would not make any mistakes.
Qiao Song could smell that the smell of dead bodies around him was getting fainter and fainter, leaving only a special smell that only living players had.
The taste of the intersection of living and dead souls.
The light was too dim, and Qiao Song couldn't tell for a moment whether there were any people she knew among the people stacked in the baskets. But when she looked up, she saw a somewhat familiar suit on the ceiling.
Among a group of people working as experimenters in white coats, this person in a suit is really conspicuous.
Enemies often meet on a narrow road. If that bastard You Yitong is up there, doesn’t it mean that this is the factory of the Newcomer Alliance?
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