Chapter 279 Happy Cemetery
Thief……
Qiao Song remembered that among the people she knew, the only ones who had this profession were Xiao Ni and You Yitong.
You Yitong's professional skills are still just speculations. He has always claimed to be a magician. After being recognized by Xiao Ni once, he became a traitor and started to cause trouble for them everywhere.
Xiao Ni became a thief because the system directly instilled professional skills in him. It can be said that this is a profession directly assigned by the system.
Wait...is it the same as now?
Qiao Song watched as the original labels on many people in the wall display cabinets began to disappear and were replaced with new names.
Except for the numbers, the labels of the people around me started to change.
As for Wang Anning, when Qiao Song met him, this guy and his boss had been badly behaved. Qiao Song beat them both so badly at that time, but they never had the skill of stealing, and it was even more impossible for him to suddenly awaken in the game. So, it really was someone who was freely allocating players' professions.
My goodness, how did they do this?
She walked forward along the wall and soon became aware of the unique sound of a mechanical arm moving coming from the black corner behind her.
Qiao Song subconsciously wanted to hide, but it wasn't long before she woke up. She calculated the time, and when the robotic arm caught up with her, she simply gave up hiding.
After the robot caught her, it was slightly stunned. Qiao Song clearly felt a large group of black lines wriggling, trying to help drive away the robotic arm.
There really is an undercover agent sneaking in.
Qiao Song pressed the black line and hushed it, and those creatures, which were probably insects, finally quieted down.
She counted silently in her mind. Three minutes left. She would wake up in the last three minutes.
Every time after waking up, she would be reborn on the street in her next dream. Qiao Song knew this, and the guy who caught her knew it too.
You Yitong had never hated not having enough time so much.
The factory's surveillance had been modified, and there were too many loopholes. Jiang Qixin said at the time that it was because the dream world had just been established not long ago and could not affect the construction here in the same way as reality, so Miao Tingting's help was needed.
But now, even the fact that Qiao Song sneaked into their own territory was just discovered. You Yitong did not think this was a coincidence. With Jiang Qixin's cautious personality, how could he let Qiao Song sneak in!
If it weren't for the management fragment, You Yitong wouldn't have noticed that there was a guy with so many tags on him wandering around the factory!
His adrenaline was quickly stimulated, and he manipulated the robotic arm so quickly with almost trembling hands, and dragged Qiao Song directly into a huge pool in the factory.
That was the "raw pulp" that Jiang Qixin used for experiments.
"I have finally waited for this day."
Qiao Song's growth rate is alarming. In fact, You Yitong had thought before that Qiao Song might be the person the president asked him to find.
But he noticed the companions around Qiao Song. It was hard to understand why a stone turned into a human being could have such empathy.
He delayed reporting his losses, then attributed the experience to the tests in his report.
He was testing Qiao Song's ability level and Qiao Song's bottom line.
Qiao Song gave an unexpected answer.
An answer that made You Yitong hate it.
So many people like her, love her, and are willing to change for her, and she also responds with the same tolerance and understanding.
Among those people, You Yitong hated Xiao Ni the most.
He hated Qiao Song's generosity and Xiao Ni's luck.
I hate why I wasn’t the one taken away.
He had been a thief for so many years in the real world, and he had always thought that as long as someone took him away, sent him to school, taught him to read, and let him live a life like an ordinary child, he would definitely study hard.
No need to please adults, no need to act good, no need to cooperate with others to complete one theft after another.
Using the same skills, why do magicians on TV always win applause, while he can only be a rat crossing the street, receiving countless beatings and insults?
He was not hit to death, and even though he came to this ghost world, he still couldn't change his low-level garbage thief skills.
Then come to hell with me, this world doesn’t need God!
Qiao Song just couldn't ask for more!
She had already smelled the odor of the man-made river of life and death and had been preparing to come over to taste the saltiness. Now she was eager to be caught.
Chairman Jiang, who was standing behind You Yitong, watched the farce with a normal expression. Probably she and Qiao Song were the only ones in the audience who remembered to check the time.
When she was thrown into the pool, Qiao Song felt a tingling sensation all over her body, as if she was soaked in sparkling water. As a frequent visitor to the River of Life and Death, she instantly tasted the same liquid in the transparent bottle.
A weakened version of River of Life and Death, a bit bitter, it seems that some strange things have been added to it...
The moment You Yitong grabbed Qiao Song and threw him into the pool, a set of fluctuating data instantly appeared on the display screen on the right.
For players caught with more than 10, the specific number will not be displayed unless they are thrown into the jar.
Not only Qiao Song himself, but also You Yitong and Jiang Qixin in the operation room were staring at the constantly jumping numbers on the screen.
"103, 104, 105..."
You Yitong couldn't believe what he saw.
How come there are so many?
After an exaggerated number was frozen, densely packed labels appeared instantly.
Generally speaking, labels will be big or small depending on the proportion of different careers in one's life, but for Qiao Song, they are almost in no particular order, and each one is bigger than the other.
[Maintenance worker, tricycle driver, snack stand chef, convenience store clerk, temporary security guard...]
There were so many of these things that they seemed to have been copied and pasted from other people. The massive amount of labels instantly slapped You Yitong's head. He felt dizzy and could hardly stand. Then he heard Jiang Qixin sighing again:
"You shouldn't be so impulsive today. The time is up."
With a whoosh, all the souls in the jars disappeared collectively, and the entire factory became empty in an instant.
Including this dream world, the dreamers in reality may still be wandering on the streets, but all players are forced to log out and return to the original copy.
When Qiao Song woke up this time, he almost rolled off the bed.
Her room has been turned into a one-bedroom, one-living room apartment, which was the price of using a coffin cart as she rushed to attend a funeral yesterday.
She also saw what You Yitong had just seen. However, unlike others, Qiao Song found that she could also manipulate the labels in reverse. She simply clenched the labels on her body into fists and punched You Yitong. It felt pretty good.
It seems that this ability also comes from her heritage, otherwise she wouldn't be able to use it so smoothly.
How on earth did the Newcomer Alliance manage to simulate such a secret base in that world?
Even Qiao Song himself may not be able to do it.
Wait, she immediately stood up and sent a message in the group: [Have all the cemetery lists been sorted out? Help me find a few people. ]
She recounted everything she saw in her dream and the player information in the jar.
Before anyone in the group could reply, suddenly, everyone heard a system prompt:
[A large number of local residents and new players have been detected to have entered a special state. A collective funeral is now automatically started. In the current mode, the number is 8. ]
[Please ask those who are going to attend the funeral to start preparing for the funeral activities. If you fail, the outside players will still be randomly expelled. ]
There was a brief silence in the group, and then messages quickly poured out:
[Damn! How come it doubled from yesterday, and today is 8? ! ! ]
[The important thing is the list. If you look carefully at the names on the list, most of them match what Mr. Qiao just said! ]
[Wait, is this Wang Anning the Wang Anning I know? Yesterday I asked this guy if he would write a will, but he said he didn’t dare to write one? How come he held his funeral before me today!]
The last person to speak was the delivery man Chi Xiaoyao. He didn't expect that even after writing a will, he would still be cut in line. This guy believed that after the funeral, his soul would be carried to heaven by a buffalo and he could go home directly.
If I can't go back home, being able to reincarnate is also a good choice.
Qiao Song, however, poured cold water on her: [You can’t go back after the funeral, but holding a funeral is not a bad thing. ]
Doesn’t she know whether those souls have returned?
The area currently closest to the human world and the Infinite Highway is the world of dreams, where the dead can already send dreams to the living.
Qiao Song secretly thought that this was not good: [Everyone, please pay attention to the corpses at the funeral to prevent them from resurrecting! ]
Everyone is familiar with the steps. First, solve the problem of grass on the grave, and then drive directly to the hotel.
When Qiao Song went out today, he finally met his new neighbor.
As soon as the two little zombies went out, they rushed in another direction without looking back. Now it was very chaotic outside, with coffins everywhere.
The cemetery seemed to have not been so lively for a long time. Those guys who usually chose to play dead at this time all crawled out of their graves somehow, and all ran in one direction with their coffins open.
That's the area where the administrators live.
Qiao Song adjusted his direction and followed.
In the direction of the hotel, several beams of light rose from the sky, and various strange balls of light began to float down.
The process is the same as yesterday. First, find the corresponding tombstones, and then classify these things. It is indeed more difficult than yesterday.
Qiao Song was concerned about the reactions of the local residents. It was obvious that these people’s interests were affected and they were ready to complain to the administrator.
Qiao Song's coffin car blended into the crowd smoothly, just because she put on makeup halfway.
Shirobako's makeup skills flashed and disappeared.
Qiao Song didn't feel bad, as she had so many props and skills that she could not use them all, and her first reaction when she went out was to disguise herself.
The gold and silver zombies were originally very nervous when they discovered a car approaching, but when they saw the strange passenger at the rear of the car take out a suona and play it while walking, they knew that it was a player who had already joined the band, and that this kind of person would soon be registered as a local, so there was nothing to be afraid of.
At this time, Qiao Song was indeed busy completing the band's first task.
There is another difference between the sky in her eyes and that in others' eyes, that is, notes are constantly falling.
Qiao Song was hurrying along while blowing the whistle. For her, it was a race against time to complete the task, but for other residents who were traveling with her, it was simply a deafening noise.
But she was a very good driver, and with just a casual movement of her elbow, she managed to get ahead in the traffic and rush into the administrator's yard first.
The administrator was blocked at the door today, surrounded by haggard-looking corpses waving their hands in protest.
"Yuan, come out! Do you want to be the cemetery manager? Look at what's happening outside. You're holding eight funerals at once. Do you want to kill us?"
"We don't care what rules of the game will appear after the players come in. We only strongly demand that all the players either be driven out or stay. We are willing to let them join the cemetery as long as there are no more funerals!"
"If you continue to hold funerals, either a fire will break out, trees will grow, or grass will die. Everyone will be forced to join the ceremony, and the cemetery will be destroyed sooner or later!"
"No funeral, we want to lie down!"
"We refuse to lie down, we want a funeral!"
A completely different noise in the crowd instantly caught the attention of the people nearby, but when everyone turned around, they couldn't tell who was shouting for a moment.
Qiao Song pretended nothing happened and continued to play the suona. However, when someone in the courtyard came out, she almost made a mistake in playing a glissando.
The administrator was a fairly strong man of medium build, with a thin face and long hair, and he exuded a dejected feeling.
"I've told you so many times. If you are dissatisfied with the cemetery, just complain to the main system. Don't look for me. I'm just following the rules."
The residents around here wanted to lift up the coffin and fight with him.
"Then find us a place, we want to go to the advanced area!"
"We're going to the special section!"
The matter of changing the area was indeed arranged by the administrator. Yuan Guang scratched his head in annoyance. He didn't care about the life and death of the local residents. There was only one thing he had to do all along, which was to guard the cemetery.
"I can't just change your place out of thin air. You have to find someone to exchange with, and then I'll write a contract and you just sign it."
Among those who wanted to change areas, the little gold and silver zombie was the most anxious: "We! We want to cancel the contract! We want to move back to the special area, is that ok?"
Yuan Guang thought that the two little guys might know that they have been cheated and want to regret it: "Then you have to convince the mummy first, and both parties must sign."
The gold and silver zombies turned pale: "How could the mummy guy agree to this? He would rather go back and never come out again!"
While playing the suona, Qiao Song pricked up his ears to fish in troubled waters. He finally understood that different cemetery areas were affected differently by the funeral.
Lower areas are most affected, and then the impact decreases.
The special area is the least affected place, and it covers a large area, so there is no need to worry about the growth of grass on the graves.
Qiao Song only now understood that the special area was so large that it was divided equally among only 10 people, but not everyone was qualified to go there.
Wait, when she first entered the game, didn’t the Spine System ask her many times whether she wanted to buy the land there?
"Well, can I buy it if I want?"
When Yuan Guang and the angry residents around him were practicing Tai Chi as usual, a voice suddenly came into their ears.
He was stunned for a moment, then turned around and saw a stranger.
Although Yuan Guang was just idling around most of the time and responding passively to the requests of the residents around him, he still took out his tablet-like organizer as usual to scan it.
Shit, his eyes almost popped out. Where did this invisible rich man come from?
Yuan Guang looked the guy on the coffin up and down suspiciously. Except for the time when he was talking to him just now, he was playing a suona the whole time.
This is also a player who joined the team.
There is not much difference between players and residents in essence, except that the former still have some soul coins left and did not directly purchase a cemetery and live there permanently.
Yuan Guang nodded: "Your words are indeed valid."
He tried to speak as quietly as possible when he said this, and gestured with his mouth close to the man's coffin lid.
Qiao Song looked at him, quickly finished a piece of music, and immediately pointed to the photo taking area next to him: "Then take a picture for me, I'll need it later."
Yuan Guang did not suspect anything and sent the residents at the door away, putting the blame on others, asking them to discuss with each other whether they were willing to change areas. He would just provide the contract for signature.
The place where photos are taken is in a room next to the administrator's house, and the door must be locked as soon as you enter.
Yuan Guang just turned around and saw the guy who played the suona just now wiping the paint off his face: "A Guang, I'm in a hurry, quickly copy these photos for me, they will be very useful later."
Yuan Guang's eyes suddenly turned red: "My goodness, how come you have grown so big? You look different from before."
But the only one who would call A Guang in this tone was Xiao Shitou.
After waiting in this shabby place for who knows how many years, they finally waited for the person they were waiting for.
Yuan Guang quickly processed the list and photos that Xiao Shitou handed to him.
Qiao Song couldn't stop talking: "Why are you so much thinner than before?"
I had never seen him this thin before. If Qiao Song hadn't had his suspicions, who would have known that the chubby A Guang would have become so skinny and muscular now.
"There's nothing to eat in this crappy place, and we have to practice digging graves every day. How do you think there are hundreds of pits all over the mountains? Before the system came, I dug all the pits in this area with my own hands."
Qiao Song nodded. It seemed that when the cemetery was not open before, A Guang and the others were not restricted by the system.
In other words, most of the residents outside just now were latecomers.
Qiao Song wasted no time: "I just said I wanted to buy land in the special area. I wasn't kidding. Should I really buy it in the system or..."
Yuan Guang immediately glared outside: "Be careful, don't let the guys outside hear you!"
"The residents of the cemetery, the higher you go, the more souls there are with labels, light balls, and skills. The more guys there are, the more you have to be careful. It will become more and more chaotic in the back, and everyone will run to dig graves on your side."
Qiao Song did not comment: "I am going to dig a grave today."
Yuan Guang, who had just met her for a few seconds:?
"Good fellow, you are worthy of me. You are still the same as before."
He prepared all the photos and asked Qiao Song to leave through the back door quickly.
The residents outside were making a fuss, but they all wanted to go to the special area, which was absolutely impossible, so most of them planned to go to the high-class cemetery area, which actually had empty graves.
It would also be safer for them there.
Qiao Song actually knew the purpose of these people's actions. They enjoyed the feeling of being safe in their dreams and being able to meet the people they missed.
They have also become accustomed to entering that world as long as they sleep. They don't want to take any risks. They just want to lie in the grave like this. If they continue like this for decades or hundreds of years, it will be no different from eternal life.
But Qiao Song knew that they could only live happily for another week or two. When the water flooded, everyone would be reincarnated together. However, she did not intend to tell these guys directly.
Qiao Song took the photo and drove all the way to the special area. She had asked other people before if they had tried to dig the land in other areas of the tomb. Some people had actually done so, but found nothing.
For such a large area, if it really existed, there would be only one place left with some hidden areas without tombstones or demarcated areas.
The special area has such a large lawn that I wonder how many missing people can be buried there.
Qiao Song directly told several familiar players that he was going to buy the tomb immediately. Tang Xiaoxiao and others were silent for a moment, and then they all said they understood.
As a member of the band, Tang Xiaoxiao actually understood that holding eight funerals at once meant that the probability of failure today was already very high.
Qiao Song was taking the initiative to demonstrate to others that it was no big deal to directly purchase a cemetery and join this area.
But the wealth that Qiao Song paid was completely not on the same level as that of others. Looking at that string of numbers, she couldn't help but feel a pain in her heart for a few seconds.
Forget it, forget it. Anyway, you can’t bring it with you when you are born and you can’t take it with you when you die. I can just spend it all and get in.
He pressed many options on the screen in one breath, and countless fireworks celebration scenes bloomed before his eyes. Qiao Song's car, which originally couldn't even enter the advanced area, now had smooth sailing and rushed directly to the gate of the special area.
Behind her, there were two zombies, and somehow they managed to follow her all the way to the door of the special area.
Qiao Song felt that her coffin was glowing continuously, and then it turned into a crystal coffin. She could now actively choose the material, and finally picked a stone with a bluish-green color.
Qiao Song rushed directly into the lawn of the special area with the brand new coffin, like a madman driving an excavator on the lawn of the nobles.
This area is indeed different from other cemeteries. In this wide cemetery as big as a football field, there is only one resident sleeping.
Qiao Song soon arrived at her own yard. She was indeed here to dig a grave today, but she was going to dig her own grave first.
The missing people should be buried under the lawn in the special area.
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