Chapter 57: Deadly Road Friendly Match
Behind the paper hearse was the jagged front of a dinosaur car. The ferocious triceratops spikes directly stuck the decelerating paper car, so Qiao Song was able to jump on so easily.
She collected a bag full of ghosts. Although her stomach felt heavy, the hammer still had its deterrent effect on ghosts.
The two paper ghosts hugged each other and looked at Qiao Song as if they were looking at some midnight highway killer. They were obviously the ghosts, but this human, this hammer...
"What are you going to do..."
Qiao Song put his hammer against the kid's head: "Hey, don't be afraid, I just came to ask a few questions and pick up some things."
The maiden whimpered,
It’s not like they haven’t encountered Taoist priests in their own copies, but what’s wrong with this human? The hammer has an aura that makes ghosts uncomfortable.
"Come on, answer me a question first. Where did you get your lightning defense methods?"
The two paper children looked at each other. The boy stiffened his neck and pretended to be calm: "If you ask us, do we have to tell you?"
Qiao Song used a hammer to poke a hole in the paper window next to him.
"So I'm just negotiating with you in a nice way, aren't I? Do you want to speak up, or do you want me to press you a little further?"
The boy felt his palm being pinched slightly, and immediately understood what was going on. He took the initiative to rush forward, grabbed Qiao Song's hand and started crying loudly: "Don't go too far! We didn't even provoke you!"
The girl seized this brief opportunity, immediately stuck her head out of the window, and shouted to the sky: "We want to retreat..."
Her mouth was quickly covered by someone.
Qiao Song sat on the hood of the car, half of his body leaning into the interior of the paper car, directly blocking most of the view of the sky monitoring the car. He covered the girl's mouth with one hand, and the other hand turned into puppet silk and directly wrapped around the boy's neck.
"Little friends, I'm not kidding you. I may have some sympathy for a human baby who just turned one month old, but as for ghosts, you should be able to smell how many have been killed by this hammer."
The girl's eyes were moist, and the cold texture of the hammer on the sun's axe made the ghost shudder. Did those players feel the same way when they were forced into a corner in the past?
"What on earth are you going to do? This is a ghost car. It has nothing in common with your human hearse. It's useless for you to use anything."
Seeing that the kid was still pretending to be stupid, Qiao Song almost wanted to laugh.
As early as when she decided to drive to this small area, she not only noticed the strategy group, but also discovered that the ghosts surrounding this small area had some special features.
The cars in this area are ranked around 20th. The ghosts that can chase here are no ordinary ones. Not to mention that the coffin is red and the zombies inside have golden skins, these two little guys driving paper cars are particularly eye-catching.
When other ghosts discovered that lightning was coming, they became panicked and prepared to activate some defensive weapons in the car, just like humans in their response rhythm.
These two little ghosts, like they were driving their Ferrari without a license and were not afraid of being caught by the traffic police, curled their lips at the thunder in the sky with disdain, as if the only thing they saw was the most vivid human body.
She had even seen before that when these two guys passed by a hearse that was charred by cracking, their eyes showed disgust as if they were looking at the burnt skewers of meat.
"Although I don't know when the next lightning strike will come, I believe that your lightning defense should come from this car, not from yourselves. If you keep silent like this, how about I take you to my car and enjoy the last thunder with me?"
Although the rules of the game allow ghosts to participate, there is no direct backdoor to make ghosts immune to lightning strikes, so the lightning map can cause great damage to ghosts. The boys and girls panicked when they heard this, because they are out to have fun, not to die!
But with their mouths covered, they couldn't say the words to quit voluntarily. All the ghosts participating in the road race signed a special agreement. No matter what level of ghost, there was no way for them to directly enter the copy and interfere with the rules.
Except for the master of the copy.
But the girl knew that Yin Yin herself could not fully master this copy now, and she could not even find the treasure at the end of the copy, so she allowed humans to participate in this game round after round, and even lowered the death rate of the copy for this.
After all, only the gimmick of passing the level without taking any damage and being allowed to buy lives with soul coins are enough to attract people to come here to participate in the competition.
As for the end of the road, the treasure at the end is just a legendary carrot dangling in front of all players.
The two ghosts whined and groaned for a long time, and finally the boy spoke first: "Stop pinching my neck. Let her go..."
Qiao Song hummed, but the puppet threads still wrapped around his waist and hands: "First question, is your method of defending against lightning derived from those special talismans on the roof?"
She had long discovered that this paper car was covered inside and out with pieces of paper in various strange patterns, as if a lot of special pieces of paper had been pasted on it when it was first made.
The damage was particularly noticeable on the roof, where two of the golden mirrors that looked like copper coins had been broken. The burnt marks were most likely left by thunder.
The boy hesitated for a few times, but finally whispered the function of the bronze mirror on the roof.
【Gold foil paper mirror】
[One of the most popular special items in the paper-making shop, it can resist the invasion of evil spirits and is immune to the invasion of extremely positive and negative objects. But please be careful, once the attack is too strong, it will be damaged immediately, after all, it is made of paper. 】
Because this thing can restrain extremely yang and extremely yin objects, it can be used by both humans and ghosts. But because it is too fragile, the paper-folding craftsman directly prepared a small pile for the two of them.
"So it seems that the paper-making craftsman is really good to you two."
Qiao Song suddenly sighed.
The girl sobbed and her tears almost tore through the cardboard. If she had known earlier, she would have listened to her uncles and stayed silent.
Qiao Song suddenly felt like she was persecuting children, but the matter was not over yet. She continued to persecute the paper-folding girl while holding a hammer and asking the little boy next to her.
"Did you two get any information before entering the dungeon? It's related to the map."
The boy's eyes immediately widened like bells and he shook his head frantically: "I don't know, we don't know anything, we just came here to participate in this dungeon."
Children, do you know that it is very obvious when you lie?
Qiao Song changed the question: "You wanted to quit the dungeon just now, right? Don't deny it. I know that as long as the ghosts shout to the sky, 'I want to quit the dungeon' or something like that, that crazy Mike will send you out."
You can even make the ghost and the car disappear together, which is much more comfortable than human players.
"You ghosts actually prepared defensive items to deal with Thunder in advance. Tell me, did you know in advance what the map that will appear in this game will look like?"
The two paper-making children's eyes widened, but this time they didn't dare to speak and could only shake their heads.
This is hard to say. There are so many audiences watching outside. If they dare to leak any information about the program list, even if the Hearse Entertainment Company doesn't cause trouble for them, it will definitely cause trouble for their elders.
Qiao Song noticed that the girl glanced out the window secretly. Compared to her previous appearance of wanting to shout to quit, this time she took the initiative to shrink into the shadows, as if she didn't want to be captured by the surveillance camera in the sky.
Feeling guilty?
Qiao Song immediately threw out a densely packed net, blocking the damaged hood of the car like a cave. In the darkened paper car, the devil coaxed him, "Answer me two more questions, and I'll let you surrender and quit the game. How about that? Think about that big bag of ghosts just now, I collected them all like snacks. You two kids, don't you want to go in too?"
The dead breath on the hammer was real, and the stinging pain in her solar plexus reminded her not to lie. After howling for a few times, she finally whispered a few words in an area that the camera couldn't see.
Qiao Song quickly memorized a few key words: "So the last thunder of the Thunder Plain is 10 minutes' drive before the end of the dungeon, and after passing the Thunder Plain, the next one is an environment map that is favorable to ghosts?"
"Yes, it's the Eternal Night Map of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons," the boy sighed as he looked at his entangled waist and hands, seemingly resigned to his fate, "We don't know what will happen next. We originally planned to have a big meal in this map or the next map and then leave. If we can't have a big meal, we will surrender and go home."
Seeing that he was hesitant in speaking, Qiao Song immediately tightened the thread in his hand: "Anything else?"
The girl seemed to be giving up as well, and added the second half of the sentence weakly: "Because there is only one map on the second day, and the map for the third day won't even appear in the program. So, you contestants will never reach the finish line, because the last map is a completely random new map, and it takes a whole day to complete it, and it won't lead to the finish line at all."
After combining the above information, Qiao Song came to another conclusion.
"So, these small area maps we've been through on the first day so far are just for players to collect certain special item cards?"
The boy and girl were shocked all over.
The two little guys looked at each other and stammered, "Well, I know what you want to know. Can you let us go..."
Qiao Song looked at the two of them. There was no guilt in his eyes anymore, only the words "want to go home" were written all over his eyes.
"Of course you can, but before that, I will have to confiscate the things you brought into the car. Just consider it as money to buy your life."
The two paper-made little guys just looked at the hearse toys that their elders made for them. There were many holes dug here and there, especially on the top of the head. None of the gold foil mirrors were left.
Qiao Song got out of the car, took what he wanted, and loosened the puppet strings in his hand. The two numb boys and girls almost instantly raised their hands and shouted to the sky, "I want to quit the game!"
Soon, the paper car and its passengers disappeared right where they were.
Qiao Song had already put the spoils into the toolbox. Now his stomach felt heavy, as if he was about to vomit.
Although most of the previous statements were threatening, she was afraid that she would not be able to bear it if she wanted to collect two more ghosts into the tool box.
I can’t take it anymore. I really want to vomit.
From a distance, she waved to Pangbo and others who had been observing her.
The two people over there, after successfully packing up and throwing away the ghosts and monsters around them, used their abilities to control several cars around them with some trepidation.
Pangbo was still sitting on the roof of the car, holding several long stick-like objects in his hands, which looked like a combination of dumbbells and elastic bands.
【Fitness coach's combined exercise time】
[The remaining usable time for the current equipment set is 15 minutes]
Most of Pangbo's skills have to be used in relatively open areas, and this fitness equipment-related ability is now directly used by him to pull the cart.
Lao Wu, who was driving, was still a little frightened by the several sinister ghost cars around him.
"You packed up all those ghosts and threw them away, so why are we keeping these cars?"
He shrank his neck, especially wary of the empty red coffin not far away.
Who would have thought that those scary zombies would be caught off guard by lightning and actually be swept away in one net? Although they didn’t seem to be dead, but…
"If I saw it correctly before, did that big bag of ghosts you packed out get taken away by that girl?"
Spatial abilities are not uncommon in Infinite Survival, but this ability to take away a pack of ghosts must probably be classified as a Heavenly Master type.
What exactly is that girl's professional skill?
Pangbo used his arms to hold on to several cars around him: "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. We've already gotten a great deal this time."
Qiao Song is responsible for solving the main problems, so they have to assist him. Now the remaining task is to control the empty cars around, that is, those strange-shaped ghost cars.
Pangbo's car led three others, a total of four cars going together. Fortunately, they were all empty, so the level of scariness was greatly reduced.
After the pressure of hunting for ghosts all around disappeared, Pangbo's mentality had almost recovered. Because he was sitting with his back to the back, he also saw the whole process of the paper car disappearing in the distance, and the girl making an OK gesture.
"Slow down a bit, she's coming."
Lao Wu said "oh" twice, and indeed saw the dinosaur car approaching in the rearview mirror.
Qiao Song was very satisfied to see that the other party had done as he requested, successfully got rid of the ghost to the destination, and even kept their car.
She told the two of them an important piece of information about the Thunder Plain.
"So, there will be another lightning strike in the last 10 minutes. These ghost cars should have corresponding defensive props."
As Pangbo heard this double surprise, the smile on his face became more genuine.
But he had to pull the cart and Lao Wu had to drive, so in the end it was Qiao Song who searched for the spoils in these cars.
Through the items damaged by lightning, Qiao Song quickly determined that the props in the coffin that defended against lightning strikes seemed to be several pieces of black wood.
She took away two pieces of something similar to wood struck by lightning, and left one in the coffin. She also found several small props in several other cars.
In the doll ghost car, two eyeballs that felt very plastic were found. In the last fish tank car filled with red liquid, several pieces of slippery and disgusting water plants were found.
For almost every one of them, she left a defensive item in the original owner's car.
At this point, the spoils from the four cars were all here. After dividing them 30% and 70% respectively, she told Pangbo and Laowu: "The final thunderstorm is about to arrive. Stay away from this car and the other cars later."
As usual, she used a net bag to connect several cars to each other, and then used the dinosaur car to push the string of things forward.
Pangbo, whose hands were freed, was still a little confused after hearing her new plan: "Is this really going to work? Aren't we just using a bug to refresh the item card?"
Qiao Song's nausea was getting worse and worse. She suspected that the level of the ghosts in her toolbox was quite high and she could no longer keep them contained.
"As long as the authorities don't stop it, it can be used. As long as the ghosts don't surrender, their cars will still be locked. If the lightning doesn't fall on their cars, then we can take out the remaining backup props and divide them up."
Pangbo exhaled, and he said, "Why did the girl ask him to keep these empty ghost cars? It turned out that this was their purpose, to receive thunder and swipe the card."
Qiao Song repeated again: "Remember what I just said?"
"Three seconds, whoever takes more gets it."
The clouds above were already very thick, and the entire sky was darker than before. Qiao Song finally called Gao Chengcheng and told her the news about the ten-minute limit. Soon, he heard the news back from the other party.
It’s mainly the peculiar performance art of the strategy team.
Gao Chengcheng sighed on the phone: "The people in the strategy group are really crazy. I feel like they didn't come to this map to complete it. They were so naughty that they kept bumping into things here and there. Not long after I led them to the front, they first fought with the people from Dawn Country, and then with the people from Wild Grass. Now they have nothing to do and are harassing the Ghost Car next to them. I don't think they will pay attention to you in the short term."
Qiao Song frowned: "What is the attitude of Dawn Country?"
At this point, Gao Chengcheng was also a little confused: "Except for collecting lightning cards at the beginning, they are also very strange like the strategy team. The little witch in the co-pilot seat has been fortune-telling. It feels like she is looking for something in the map. Maybe she is trying to find the door to go home again."
Qiao Song also felt that when these big guilds were passing the map, their enthusiasm for getting item cards was not even as high as his own. It was more like they came to this map to look for other things, and getting the top ten was just a matter of convenience.
However, Qiao Song vaguely realized that the special prop cards produced in the racing copy, although only for road races, this restriction was not only to prevent players from unlimitedly brushing prop cards in this copy, but it was more likely that the prop card itself had additional functions. She didn't know what this function was yet, but she was here anyway.
There were still 10 minutes left before entering the tunnel, and the two agreed to go to the maintenance team after this round.
Qiao Song hung up the phone, looked at the dark clouds above his head, and suppressed the urge to vomit.
Let's get some lightning strike cards first, they're pretty useful.
The route map on the vehicle's center console accurately indicated that it would take 10 minutes to reach the tunnel entrance. Finally, countless lightning bolts fell from the dark cloud sky.
Their several cars, which were almost connected in a row, were particularly eye-catching, and the thick lightning pillars almost turned the whole area into a forest in daylight.
Those thunder and lightning bordered the sky like growing trees, illuminating everything and destroying everything.
Fortunately, the props left by the ghosts were quite useful, and the cars were not damaged. Qiao Song quickly jumped on the roofs of several cars and quickly picked up the cubes that appeared between the dancing figures, including the roof of his own car, for a total of three cards.
Pangbo took two.
Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, feeling her stomach churning, and finally picked up the toolbox and threw back the bunch of awakened ghosts in her net bag, lightning flashed in the sky, and another extremely rough thunder struck directly at the roof of the car where she was.
The lightning speed caught people off guard. When Pangbo saw this scene in the rearview mirror, he almost stepped on the brakes subconsciously.
Lao Wu, who had just moved to the co-pilot seat, was still on the lookout for ghosts caught in a net bag that appeared from the hearse around him. At this moment, he immediately turned his head and looked behind him.
"What's going on? Didn't the intelligence she received say that the last wave of lightning would strike in 10 minutes? How come there is still this?"
Good question, Qiao Song also wants to know.
Fortunately, the defensive props on the roof had taken effect, and the gold foil mirrors she had pasted in advance were quickly destroyed, but at the same time, circles of dancing little people appeared near her. Except for the initial surprise and confusion, Qiao Song is now even a little happy.
She just sat cross-legged on the roof of her car, collecting the cards one by one, and looked up with some confusion.
This copy has a brain cramp, is it giving itself a treat?
At this time, Boss Cai, who was sitting in the viewing hall, was already smashing the screen.
"Are you kidding me? Why is the attack still delayed this time? She has so many defensive items, why didn't the lightning strike stop? And why do I have to pay for the reward?!"
Although the microphone was not as good as that of humans, for some reason, he really wanted to laugh when he saw the display screen looking so frustrated.
He helped the AI of Hearse Entertainment explain a few words: "You should have read the consumer information carefully before paying. I remember the regulations were explained very clearly."
Boss Cai was so angry that he didn't bother to read the long instructions and just confirmed everything:...
Mike Feng immediately understood that this was due to his lack of education.
"Your crappy company has problems with its management system! No, as a shareholder I must exercise my rights. When can my soul be sent to the dungeon? I simply can't stand this crappy privilege of yours. You keep asking me to spend money, but it's useless!"
The AI, who had been scolded, finally spoke up: "All maps for the first day have been completed. Next, we will enter the second Eternal Night map. If you want to descend into the dungeon as a soul, please read the instructions carefully and sign the Hearse Entertainment NPC Disclaimer Agreement..."
Although veins bulged on his forehead, the screen had learned its lesson this time and read the text of the treaty carefully. Then he took the pen and signed his name. With his real name written down, the rules took effect and he would bear all the consequences.
The white gloves were almost broken by him, but Boss Cai tried hard to maintain a relatively graceful smile.
"This is a crappy dungeon facility. I have to go there myself to play with it."
You ants, just wait for me.
In the last 10 minutes before leaving the Thunder Plain, Qiao Song inexplicably got six or seven more lightning strike cards as if she were picking up money, completely unaware that her happiness was built on the pain of paying for a certain display screen.
After a few thunder strikes, they will be able to leave this map soon. The last movement is so eye-catching that Gao Chengcheng didn't dare to call before, and drove the ice cream truck directly over. Now that the thunder strikes have ended, she immediately asked Qiao Song: "Sister Qiao Song, are you okay? What happened just now!"
Qiao Song recalled the scene on the entire plain where the thunder was chasing only himself, and he felt that it looked familiar.
The last time I felt this locked in was when I was attacked by stone men and spiders on fire.
"Maybe someone was targeting me, but he did give me several gifts."
After passing this over, she reminded the other party to remember to return to the maintenance station.
Not only was it to repair the damaged vehicles, but also because they were very tired after opening several maps in a row and had to go to the supply point to rest.
I don’t know what the situation is like with Tang Xiaoxiao and the others.
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