Chapter 62: Deadly Road Friendly Match
Jurassic Forest, isn’t this a map for a car building competition?
Qiao Song recalled the car-building copies that Gao Chengcheng's brother had inquired about before entering the road race. There were a total of six maps, from the sixth floor down: Jurassic Forest, Dusk Maze, Amusement Park, Food Street, Roaring Dragon Boat, and Mushroom Forest.
Can this kind of car-building copy map be used again?
"Map No. 78..."
This means there are still 77 maps ahead. If each car can only enter one map, the total number of maps should far exceed the number of players.
Light up the lights in Evernight Town 20 times, so 10 doors are unlocked...
Qiao Song recalled the notice he had just heard and immediately called the Mud Ghost and Shadow Silkworm: "Go check if there are any extra doors in this building."
Qiao Song also looked around and finally came to the conclusion that there was only one light door in the entire building.
She asked Yingcan: "Has this thing appeared in your hotel?"
Yingcan paused for a moment, thinking that this shouldn't be considered a foul, and then he spoke: "The lights are off over there, so there won't be any such reward."
Qiao Song couldn't help but frown when she heard this. She walked to the balcony and carefully observed the Eternal Night Town.
There are currently more than a dozen places with lights on outside. She came out and looked for a while and saw that in some places, the lights would light up and then go out shortly afterwards, and then the lights would light up again in several places, repeating this cycle, with flashes of lightning appearing from time to time.
But if you look closely, you can find that there are a few places that seem to be always on. Qiao Song counted them and got an approximate number. Adding his own number, it was exactly 10.
"So, only buildings that keep their lights on for a long time will have portals appear in this round?"
The door cannot be damaged but can be moved. Only after it is unlocked within the 12-hour limit can one drive in. Wouldn't this turn into a battle to grab the door?
After all, the more doors you have, the more maps you can choose from. If this previously used map also appears, then it would be a shortcut in front of you.
Moreover, Qiao Song was a little confused as to why the door to the Jurassic Forest map happened to appear near her. According to her estimation, dozens or hundreds of maps appeared randomly, and it was impossible for it to be such a coincidence that the one she had been to was placed so close.
It was as if he was encouraging her to take a shortcut, after all, she was familiar with this map.
There is a door with the words "Jurassic Forest" written on it, and there is a sign hanging on it. Although you can't get in, you can see the dense vegetation unique to the Jurassic Forest behind the door through the hazy floating light curtain, as well as some small dinosaurs swimming through it.
It really is the map for the car-building copy.
Qiao Song could even vaguely see in these moving images that the lake that had leaked before seemed to have been repaired.
She reached out and touched the door handle to see if the door really couldn't be opened. Soon, the whole door kept shrinking and finally turned into a small glowing bead hanging on her wrist. At the same time, a prompt sound came to her ears.
[Congratulations on successfully collecting Map No. 78]
[Friendly reminder, you cannot enter the new map before the cooling-off period of Evernight Town ends]
Just as she thought, players can hoard maps.
Every door you get can be turned into a bead hanging on your hand. The stronger the player is, the more doors he can collect, and then slowly choose which one to enter.
Qiao Song immediately realized that the Eternal Night Town was about to become chaotic. Not only would ghosts be at risk, but players would also be fighting each other.
She silently took note of the buildings that she had just observed that were always lit, and planned to find a time to go there and try her luck to see if she could get a few more beads.
However, her building is also one of the buildings that are always lit. Now, not only will ghosts come to her, but people will also come to kill her.
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the mud mask on his face, Qiao Song continued to go downstairs to prepare to greet possible guests or players. However, not long after he went downstairs, he heard a strange noise.
If I have to describe it in detail, it is the roar of the car engine mixed with the metallic sound of pots and pans colliding.
The Mud Ghost, who knew the situation of the house first-hand, immediately shook his head at the new owner who was coming down the stairs.
This was the signal they had agreed upon before. Shaking the head meant that it was not a ghost this time.
Qiao Song raised his eyebrows. A player came to him so soon?
A strange car soon appeared in the field of vision, with a translucent frame, a metal operating table, and two large iron pots that were clanging and frying food with spatulas. It looked like the kind of mobile food trucks that were often seen near campuses after school in the real world.
This small food truck that is cooking while moving forward is funny and a bit weird, but the driver happens to be a human.
They were two men with serious and solemn expressions, and their temperament was incompatible with the atmosphere of the entire car.
Qiao Song quickly determined that judging from the style of this car, it was most likely produced in the food court on the third floor of the car manufacturing copy.
At the same time, she noticed that there was a special black triangle mark sewn on the clothes of the two men.
Wait, this hollow black triangle pattern looks familiar. Qiao Song remembered the business card he got from Xin Boyu in the rookie copy.
Black Iron Guild?
"Where's the waiter in the store? Come out for a moment." The man in casual clothes got out of the car first. He first observed the car belonging to the player parked in the yard, and quickly took out a strange form he carried with him and put it on the door of this restaurant which is generally only open to ghosts.
【Mandatory Procurement Notice】
[Every buyer's favorite file. With it, as long as you pay enough interest, you can exchange with the objects in a fixed area for any goods and services you want to buy, of course, except for the money to buy life. Please note that the effect of this skill is halved when used on humans.]
The sludge ghost's body trembled, and his originally perfunctory expression immediately became numb and stiff, as if he was bound by the rules, and was forced to say a line:
"Welcome, what would you like to trade?"
Seeing this, Qiao Song slowed down his pace, but still walked down slowly and stood behind the mud ghost.
The man in casual clothes glanced at Qiao Song behind him, thinking that this was also an NPC affected by his skills, so he didn't say anything, but turned around and asked the man in the driver's seat again.
"Team leader, the purchase order has been issued. We should have what we want here. Shall we just exchange the doors?"
His skill derivative "Shopping List" is a very special item. If there are no items useful to them in the current area, then this shopping list will not take effect. On the contrary, as long as the list is effective, it means that there must be what they want here.
After the team leader nodded, the man in casual clothes immediately took out a thick stack of soul coins and said, "We want to buy the portal that appeared in your copy."
The mud ghost replied mechanically and dully: "I'm sorry, I don't have such an item here."
Casual Pants frowned. [Forced Purchase] was a regional skill. Logically speaking, the ghosts in this building would not refuse his transaction, let alone lie about the transaction.
"Team leader, it looks like the door to this building has been taken away."
The person sitting in the dining car leaned one arm on the window, looked around the yard, and finally knocked on the door with his fingers.
"No, my skills tell me that there are still 'very valuable' things in this building. The player who bound the door should not have left yet."
Slacks immediately became alert: "Then we..."
The team leader sitting in the driver's seat, wearing a neatly dressed shirt and trousers, did not look like he had just got off a food truck, but rather like he had just finished a meeting in the office.
He looked at the two ghosts outside and seemed to be a little interested in the sludge-shaped ghost, but in the end he just raised his finger and said, "Let's go upstairs and check first. If there are lights on in this kind of building, it means someone has been here before. Let's see if there are any players alive."
The two of them had just come from a small grocery store nearby. Although the store was small, the ghosts inside had been controlled by them and the lights were kept on, so they had collected a door and the bead was hanging on Jiang Zuting's hand.
[Map No. 46: Food Street]
It's the map of their car-building copy.
"There are several other groups of lunatics in Dawn Country not far from us. Collect the maps as quickly and stealthily as possible and don't let them find you."
What this means is that, apart from those big guilds that need attention, the opponents they encounter in any open building are just small shrimps that can be easily bullied.
Little did he know that Qiao Song, one of the small fry, was quietly standing behind the mud ghost.
After getting off the car, Jiang Zuting looked at the shopping list posted on the door and took out a pen and a check from the air.
“Increase investment.”
The check with the amount written casually on it slowly dissipated in the air. At the same time, the companion's skills were directly strengthened.
[List Buyer's skills are being upgraded! In addition to the mandatory trading skills, two new short-term skills are added! ]
After these two lines appeared on the shopping list that was previously posted on the wall, a very faint barrier suddenly appeared around the entire building.
[During the procurement period, this place is temporarily sealed! No entry or exit without the investor's permission! ]
【30 minutes left for purchase】
"Find that player before the skill effect wears off."
Casual Pants lowered his head and said yes, then quickly went upstairs. Team leader Jiang Zuting was still leaning against the dining cart, with two mud ghosts next to him.
Qiao Song stayed nearby and secretly observed the players from the Black Iron Guild, and found that the skills of these two people were very interesting.
Procurement and investment.
One is that you can use soul coins to buy what you want, and the other is that you can enhance the skills of your teammates. It is a combination exclusively for the rich.
It can be seen that there is a deep superior-subordinate relationship between the two people from the Black Iron Guild who participated in the competition. The guy called the team leader seems unwilling to do more. He even leaned against the dining car that was completely incompatible with his temperament and smoked a cigarette.
There was a sound of rummaging through drawers coming from upstairs. Apart from taking the time to look at his watch, he did nothing else. After finishing a cigarette, he suddenly frowned and looked at the two ghosts beside him.
"It seems like you two have valuable things on you."
After saying this softly, he slowly walked in front of the two ghosts, his eyes slid across the dull-eyed mud ghost in front, and then turned to the back.
Qiao Song's expression was flawless. Even if someone was staring at him, he could perfectly pretend to be the mud-dazed look of the mud ghost.
Jiang Zuting, who was wearing a white shirt, frowned and stretched out his hand slowly towards her face. Then, a breathless voice suddenly came from the stairs: "Team leader, we found it! The person is locked up upstairs, shall we bring her down?"
After getting a positive answer, Casual Pants immediately brought down the fake person who looked like Qiao Song from the room.
The team leader in white shirt shifted his attention away from Qiao Song and then noticed who the player tied up upstairs was.
"It's her?"
"Qiao Song", who had the shadow silkworm core inside, had a terrified look on his face, and kept looking behind the two of them: Boss...what should I do?
A certain "mud ghost" behind him winked at him, and this "Qiao Song" tried to calm down: "What are you going to do? We are all players, so let's discuss it properly. Let's get started."
Leisure Pants immediately sneered: "A coward like you can actually be called a top 10 dark horse player by those guys. The people from the Newcomer Alliance and Wild Grass are really getting worse and worse. They were actually cheated by such guys in the car manufacturing copy."
Jiang Zuting felt a sense of disobedience, but time was limited, so he raised his chin and said concisely: "Do you know where the light gate that appeared in this building goes?"
Slacks quickly pulled out a thick stack of soul coins.
[Mandatory procurement list takes effect——]
[Information procurement——]
Shadow Silkworm's mind went blank, and he immediately replied, "The light gate has been taken away."
Slacks frowned as he looked at the rapidly decreasing number of soul coins in his hand.
If you trade with humans, the price will be half of that of goblins. Why is the amount so high this time? Is it because the information is related to the door? Does this human player think this information is more important?
Jiang Zuting also felt that something was wrong. This girl shouldn't be so weak. She failed to protect the door and was instead robbed by other players. This was inconsistent with the intelligence the guild had collected before. Moreover, based on his investment and financial management skills, the value of this guy's wealth was not even as great as that of the ghost he had just observed.
Wait, Jiang Zuting realized something was wrong. Why would a ghost be richer than a participating player?
Before he could think about it, bang bang bang——!
There was a sudden sound of the door being smashed.
The two people from the Black Iron Guild looked at each other.
"Open the door! What are you doing in there? The lights are still on, the doorplate is still hanging, what are you NPCs doing? Don't you want to do this anymore?"
Judging from the deep voice and the force of the knocks, it should not be a human player.
A ghost has come to the door.
"Lin Fan, make a deal with the ghost and control the waiter."
Lin Fan, who was wearing casual pants, immediately took out the money and said, "Don't mention our presence to anyone, and don't disturb the room we are in. After we go up, we can entertain the ghosts outside."
As the soul coins in their hands floated towards the mud ghost little by little, the equivalent exchange skill took effect and they purchased the shelter service.
"Should this human be in charge?"
Jiang Zuting glanced coldly at "Qiao Song" who was shivering on the ground.
"Don't worry about her. Use her as bait for the ghosts outside. When there's some commotion here, we'll deal with them together."
Lin Fan nodded and put his hand on the compulsory purchase list at the door, changing the entry and exit permissions. Both humans and ghosts can enter but cannot leave. After 30 minutes, they will catch all humans and ghosts who enter the house.
Jiang Zuting pulled open the sleeves of his shirt and placed one hand on their oddly shaped food cart.
【Asset transfer deformation】
[Judgment passed, transfer target locked]
After a ding sound, the huge snack cart turned into a metal cufflink hanging on his shirt.
Mud ghost number one was about to open the door to welcome new guests. Lin Fan looked at the remaining ghost number two and took out money again.
"Take us up to find the room."
Ghost number two, Qiao Song, blinked woodenly and suddenly heard a system prompt.
[Ding, a player is using a trading skill on you. 500 soul coins are required to purchase a 30-minute guidance service. Reject/Accept]
Qiao Song decisively chose to accept it, and then was surprised to find that soul coins were really deposited into her account. This skill was interesting. She couldn't help but be curious, what would happen if she refused?
Lin Fan looked at the half-money in his hand in confusion: "This ghost is so cheap." Normally, to do this kind of transaction with ordinary ghosts, it would cost at least one thousand.
Qiao Song, who had made money, was very happy, but on the surface he still pretended to be a puppet and led the two of them to find a room upstairs to ambush them.
As she passed the shadow stand-in wearing her fake face, she blinked and lip-synced to express her reassurance.
The shadow silkworm, whose hands and feet were tied and turned into a human, was like a crazy cricket pupa, and its eyes seemed to be full of barrages: How can I feel at ease, boss!
Don’t leave me here alone, I’m scared!!! Especially because it’s against your face, I’m even more scared!!!
But no matter how he tried, Qiao Song never looked back.
She took the players from the Black Iron Guild to the third floor, and the two of them soon stood in a position with the best view, watching a new ghost car that had entered the yard.
The car seemed to be a big fish tank, with a white ghost floating in it. His body was wet, but his hair was dry and had a big afro, as if he had been struck by lightning.
"You knocked on the door for so long before opening it for me. Are you looking for death?"
The effect of the soul coin transaction had not yet worn off for the Mud Ghost, so he was in a daze and continued to receive him according to the previous procedures.
"Would you like to have your car washed or have a meal?"
The irritable driver suddenly looked at the person who was still squirming frantically in the yard, and suddenly controlled his own fish tank to take a big step back.
"Shit, who's that in your yard? Human?"
Why does that face look so familiar? Isn't this the damn player who was struck by lightning and almost forced him to surrender?
Shit, he wasn't mistaken! The dinosaur car in the yard also belonged to this human. He remembered it clearly after it was struck by lightning. This guy actually died here!
The ghost in the fish tank drove quickly into the yard, not even paying attention to the mud ghost's words that he was not human.
Soon, the familiar scene happened again.
"Hurry, hurry, I need a car wash and a meal. Please clean the glass jar for me. I've booked this guy. There's an empty private room upstairs. Please bring me some tableware. I'm starving. I need a good meal. This guy is chewing my bones!"
The water ghost walked out of the fish tank while talking, his whole body was wet. As soon as he approached the shadow silkworm that was pressing against Qiao Song's face, the other party began to squirm to the side frantically.
What a sin! What happened to his cheap boss? He offended so many people and so many ghosts. He was doomed. This water ghost had water on his body. What if the mud on his body fell off? He would be doomed if he was exposed!
Upstairs, the members of the Black Iron Guild who were watching this scene felt something was wrong: "This guy, is this really the female player in the car-building dungeon who was said to have cheated the entire guild? Why does it feel so, so..."
"Cowardly."
Jiang Zuting suddenly uttered a word, then suddenly turned around and looked at the mud ghost who had followed them into the box and was waiting next to them.
Compared to the female player who did not live up to her name, he was more interested in this ghost.
There's something off about this ghost.
Jiang Zuting's investment ability reminded himself that there was a fortune in this ghost. To some extent, this mud ghost was even more valuable for investment than the human player downstairs who had once shined.
In other words, if his ability is used on this ghost, the effect can be greatly enhanced. For example, after he uses his ability, Lin Fan's purchasing and trading abilities can temporarily possess the ability to blockade a region.
A ghost is actually worth investing in?
What is the origin of this mud ghost?
Just as the water ghost happily dragged away the fake Qiao Song downstairs, and Jiang Zuting upstairs was about to talk to the real Qiao Song, the sound of knocking on the door was heard in the yard again.
But compared to the previous door that still required someone to open it, this time it was like tofu and broke into pieces.
In an instant, almost all the people and ghosts trembled all over.
A chill aura almost became tangible, penetrating the glass and walls, radiating outwards with him as the center.
Lin Fan, who was standing by, felt the force that almost tore the gate purchase order to pieces, and his expression was somewhat unbelievable: "How could a ghost of this level run into the map?"
Outside the downstairs gate, a car emitting an ominous black aura slowly drove in.
The style of this car is neither like that of a player's car nor that of a ghost. It has no car model and no embellishment elements. The whole car looks like a ball of thick black smoke, wriggling and floating.
With a click, the car door opened and a slender guy wearing white gloves with a blank head walked out. The iconic display screen was hidden, leaving only a body with barely 20% of the original body's combat power.
"Tsk, I charged so much money, but I only got a shell like this."
Boss Cai was very dissatisfied with the fact that his stats did not explode directly, but for ordinary ghosts, his deterrent power was already quite strong.
When a normal person in red enters a dungeon, the level of the entire dungeon will be greatly increased, not to mention a special existence like him.
Even if he intervened in the game in the form of a split soul, he was still on a completely different level from these contestants and local NPCs.
The structure of this copy is special, and he can't destroy the little girl's playground, otherwise there will be no fun in road racing in the future.
"Let me see. The vehicle navigation does show that the target I'm looking for is right here."
He raised his right hand wearing a white glove and snapped his fingers. In an instant, the entire surveillance video centered on the building was wiped out.
The dissatisfied voice of the microphone sounded in his ears: "Boss Cai, you will make the audience watching the live broadcast very dissatisfied."
"If you're not satisfied, go watch other players' games. I'm here to hunt, and I don't want to be watched by them."
After cutting off the microphone communication again, Boss Cai looked up and around the brightly lit building. He was very satisfied with the yard that seemed to have been sealed off by someone.
"Great, I don't even need to close the door."
He raised his finger and called out to the mud ghost who was trembling beside him and could hardly lift his head.
"Hey kid, tell me, how many people are hiding here?"
Upstairs, Lin Fan and Jiang Zuting's expressions changed instantly.
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