Chapter 66: Deadly Road Friendly Race
Inside the Prison of Light.
Qiao Song was observing the beads in his hand.
Let her think clearly. She has now entered a cage world where she cannot use props or skills. According to the manual she saw before, the sealing property of this cage is very strong and can even purify ghosts directly.
So the nature of the portal is also affected?
[Map No. 78: Jurassic Forest] The original cooling period has been messed up, which makes Qiao Song eager to try it out.
Perhaps, she could bypass the time limit of Eternal Night Town and visit other maps in advance?
He pinched the small bead on his wrist hard, took it off and threw it out gently, and it immediately turned into a portal emitting a faint light.
Through the flickering halo on the door, you can still see the scenery of the Jurassic forest.
Qiao Song took a deep breath, gripped the door handle, and pressed it down slightly.
With a click, the door opened.
A slightly damp breeze blew against his face, and the air was filled with the rich smell of grass and trees. Standing behind the door, Qiao Song could see a large area of lush vegetation with its fangs and claws bared in front of him, as well as little dinosaurs not far away peeking over here.
"Boom-boom-boom" The sound of heavy objects being stepped on was heard, as if some huge dinosaur was passing by nearby.
This door that appeared out of nowhere was like a small sticker in the Jurassic forest, abruptly embedded in this small world.
Qiao Song didn't go in directly, but leaned out most of his body and observed for a while.
It was indeed the arena she had been to before. Although the stone pillars had been lowered to the ground, many subtle traces nearby showed that there had been a big melee here.
The broken trees disappeared, and new saplings grew in their place, but the dungeon staff were unable to restore the map completely to the way it was before the players entered in a short period of time, leaving behind many traces left by the players.
The biggest change is the addition of an extremely obvious, man-made path with a cordon on both sides, extending directly to the end of the map.
This is the runway for day 3?
The runway just surrounds the previously broken lake, which is now filled with water again as if nothing had happened, like a quiet sapphire lying in the emerald forest.
Qiao Song felt like a student who had suddenly glimpsed the last question of the exam, but she looked up again and stared at the sky for a long time.
It's not an illusion, those peeping eyes are really gone.
Let her think about it. The first time she noticed that something that was watching her was disappearing seemed to be when she was attacked by the headless monster.
Later, the battlefield expanded to the entire map, and the surveillance of the Eternal Night Town also gradually collapsed.
Did the convenience store owner take the initiative to make the surveillance disappear, or was the surveillance destroyed because of his appearance?
Qiao Song prefers the former.
That guy is obviously the owner of a convenience store, but he can wreak so much destruction in the copy of Hearse Entertainment, and even has the authority to erase surveillance. However, in Kaidan Middle School, the convenience store was just a small shop.
She didn't think that the convenience store owner's behavior came without a price. The man in red from the hearse copy had never shown up, but the ghosts from these other copies had been keeping the copies running.
The key to the final destination should be in the person in red.
"Death Road Friendly Race...Friendship first, competition second, life third..."
Qiao Song repeated the opening words that Mike Feng repeated in every round. It always felt like this sentence was some kind of hint.
Since she was free anyway, she glanced at the door handle she was holding and took a tentative step into the Jurassic Forest. After both feet stepped into the area, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the air, and then her other hand sank, and a familiar chainsaw appeared in her hand.
Qiao Song looked at the props that had reappeared and the sculpture that had already started the countdown, and immediately retracted into the door.
Looking at the tattoo that had returned to his arm and the sculpture countdown that had just been shortened by one second, Qiao Song felt relieved, but suddenly he had a strange impulse.
Wait, can she bug this?
If I return to the cage inside the door, the countdown of the sculpture will be paused. Then, can't I press the pause button on this limited-time prop at any time?
The tools in the strategy group are quite something.
The question was how could she explore the map without setting foot outside?
The door is a bit off, and there's still some distance between it and the runway.
Qiao Song's eyes wandered around and soon fixed on a dinosaur that was not far from him, sticking its head out to eat grass.
How about finding a tool dragon to carry this door?
While Qiao Song was trying to trick the dinosaurs into working for him for free, the Eternal Night Town was already in chaos.
Gao Chengcheng glanced at the number of remaining vehicles in Yongye Town displayed on the central control console and wiped a cold sweat.
[Human players currently have 30 vehicles left]
[The remaining number of participating Phantoms: 35]
This method of only counting cars but not the number of surviving players makes people feel a little creepy, not to mention that the entire copy is in chaos now, people are restless, and everyone is trying to take advantage of the situation and reduce their competition.
Gao Chengcheng suddenly swerved the steering wheel to avoid a window that fell from the roof of the neighboring house. Under normal circumstances, she would have raised her middle finger and cursed a few people, but now, she glanced at the giant black shadow behind the car with a rare guilty conscience.
Large tracts of black wires were inserted into the ground of the town like insect tentacles. She looked at the familiar ghost with a square device on its head and confirmed it with her brother again.
"Brother, is this really the convenience store owner?"
The passenger in the co-pilot seat was in a special condition at this time. He was wearing casual sportswear, and his body below the head had returned to normal human condition, even stronger than most adult men. However, his body above the neck was still in the condition of a Doberman Pinscher.
Gao Bin sat up straight. "I've wiped out the smell from the entire car. You continue to eat your ice cream. He won't be able to lock onto us for the time being."
Gao Chengcheng smacked his lips and had to grab another handful of jelly, making his cheeks puffy.
[You are eating a new product: transparent ice cream jelly, each one you eat can temporarily make you invisible for three minutes]
[The ice cream cart effect is superimposed, which will greatly reduce the presence of your vehicle]
Although the jellies cannot be completely invisible, such a chaotic scene can at least prevent them from being noticed by the big ghost. Combined with his brother's skills, the possibility of the ice cream truck being discovered can be minimized.
Gao Bin, who has regained some of his human form, has greatly improved in all aspects of his abilities. He sniffs the air and his eyes become increasingly subtle.
"The convenience store owner didn't come in his real body. He must have used some special shell. Now his body has been transformed and his sanity has dropped a lot. Try not to show up and let other players draw fire."
Gao Chengcheng nodded in agreement, and suddenly seemed to remember something, frowning in confusion: "Brother, you just said that Sister Qiao Song's scent has also disappeared. Is it because she used props to avoid being hunted down?"
After entering the Eternal Night Town, they were forced to separate after making a phone call. Gao Chengcheng later realized that she had received a call from a ghost. She and her brother immediately rushed into the house, caught the ghost and beat him up.
As a result, not long after, she found a door in that bright house. Later, she collected several doors one after another, but there was no news of her sister Qiao Song.
"Her scent disappeared completely, as if she had escaped into another independent space..." Gao Bin, who had a Doberman hairstyle, suddenly became serious in the middle of his analysis.
"Gao Chengcheng, pay attention, there are a large number of vehicles ahead."
The girl in the driving seat who was eating jelly and ice cream sat up straight immediately.
Every time her brother called her full name, Gao Chengcheng would automatically switch into combat mode. Just as she expected, in front of her was a group of human players who were running for their lives and tripping each other.
The flaming tomatoes smashed into the front like a meteor. The attacked convoy was not to be outdone and soon responded with all kinds of strange things such as water bombs, lightning strikes, and even fried rice.
Gao Chengcheng carefully slowed down to avoid getting too close to this group of guys and getting affected.
The traffic in Eternal Night Town is complicated. When entering the dungeon map, as long as you pass a fork in the road, one car will occupy an entire lane.
Today, the Eternal Night Town is like divided tofu. There are originally many roads. If the players go crazy and directly crash into the walls of other people's buildings, they can open up several new roads in minutes.
But there were more and more inexplicable black wires around, and not long after the wires emerged from the ground, a ghost with a square display screen on its head would appear nearby.
These things gradually spread throughout the entire Eternal Night Town like a plague.
More and more lights came on, but the town became darker and darker. Electric wires were wriggling everywhere like black snakes, and the lightning in the sky gradually gathered, like a whip driving a flock of sheep.
This has led to more and more players, either actively or passively, squeezing into the middle road.
Gao Chengcheng blended into the large group silently and soon figured out something. These convoys seemed to be snatching things from each other. At this time, there was only one thing that the players could fight for.
Gao Chengcheng silently glanced at his wrist, where there were three small beads hanging, representing three portals.
At the front of the convoy.
The Black Iron Guild has not been happy since the disappearance of the Chainsaw Maniac they invested in. They are rushing through the town that is gradually becoming ruins, and can only lead the strategy team with not-so-normal minds to continue to drag more and more people into the water.
Fortunately, those guys in the strategy group have a natural motivation to disrupt other players' dungeon running and are more than happy to start fires everywhere.
Under the pursuit of the huge black shadow, many other individual players were forced to join them, but the few big guilds were still at the forefront.
These guys who usually don't meet each other get together and the friction continues to escalate.
Someone in the passenger seat of the dragon boat took out a stun gun and shot away some burning tomato fruits that were flying over. He then turned around and had the dragon boat spit out water bombs to repel a golden car that was approaching from the next door.
The strategy team fought one against two and showed no signs of fatigue.
Instead, Lin Fan, who was always staring at the rearview mirror in the food truck, felt a little frightened. Jiang Zuting, who was standing next to him, was holding a prop card representing a piggy bank in his hand, and his expression was not very good either.
Every time he uses the investor's skills, he will consume soul coins according to the potential of the investment object, so just in case he will carry a piggy bank to prevent his own funds from running out of money.
Who could have thought that a guy with such great potential that could swallow up his entire capital pool, after taking two investments from him and becoming a big winner, would just disappear like that not long after?
And the strategy team, the culprit, is still happily setting fires everywhere.
"A bunch of lunatics." After Jiang Zuting finished cursing, he stared at the golden vehicle that had just joined the front. It seemed that the people of the Dawn Land had suddenly gone crazy.
Just a few hours after this picture was finished, they have already started to actively fight for the door.
The golden vehicle seemed to be covered with a layer of insect shell. The little witch in the passenger seat took the initiative to take over the driving seat, and the blond lion man stood directly on the roof of the car, his muscles bulging all over his body, and his shirt was directly torn.
Unexpectedly, the Leo man kicked his feet and jumped onto another player's car which was not very close at all.
In a flash, the attacker decisively used item cards and skills, but he was still caught like an eagle catching a chick. He was smashed through the skylight and dragged out, and the beads in his hand were ripped off.
The whole process took no more than 5 minutes, and Dawnland had a new door, and the Leo man had at least five beads on his wrist.
"What skills does that lion head have? Is his body made of iron?"
Lin Fan, who was in the driving seat, sighed and adjusted the parking position to avoid a direct confrontation with Dawn Township. Jiang Zuting had told him that the two players from Dawn Township this time were both very difficult to deal with.
Jiang Zuting looked at the majestic lion head with a gloomy expression: "The union doesn't have complete information. We only know that guy's skills are close to immortality. He can withstand most attacks with his body. Don't fight him."
Lin Fan slowly slowed the car down to the middle section. The big unions had already started, and they couldn't fall behind.
In this chaos where even the big guilds had to fight, the players in the middle and back were much more miserable. On the one hand, they had to deal with attacks from the convoy in front and protect their own portals, and on the other hand, they had to prevent themselves from being attacked by the black cable that appeared out of nowhere at the back.
However, at a certain moment, a car that had just been on the road for less than 10 minutes suddenly disappeared on the spot, and the passengers inside fell down tumbling.
"Shit! What happened? Where's my car?"
The two men were almost going crazy. When they heard the sound of the floor being lifted up by cables behind them, they ran as fast as they could.
However, he was not the only unlucky one. Almost four or five cars in succession suddenly disappeared halfway through the journey. If Qiao Song was here, he would quickly realize that these were fake cars that had been swapped by Yingcan.
Almost 1/3 of the buildings in Yongle Town are inhabited by this special race. They live in a single building as a family unit. They don't eat people, but they eat cars. They will even switch things up and leave a time-limited fake one in the place for the player to drive away.
Because of her brother's dog nose, Gao Chengcheng was not fooled and even beat up Yingcan's family in the building.
The ice cream truck nimbly dodged the players who were thrown out after losing their vehicles. Some of them, in desperation, could only crawl back into the buildings that were almost destroyed.
Some buildings still have ghosts that haven't escaped. The ghosts in the Eternal Night Town are of all kinds and shapes.
Gao Bin wrinkled his nose: "Using soul coins to bribe ghosts to get through this level is probably not feasible. Those ghosts can't even protect themselves now."
Gao Chengcheng glanced out the window in confusion, and sure enough, just as his brother said, the players who lost their cars originally wanted to go into the building to trade with the ghosts.
Ghosts eating people cannot explode the props and deposits of players. If the player is willing to pay enough soul coins, some ghosts will be tempted to let him go, or even add a seat on their ghost car.
The premise is that the guys driving the ghost car are not in danger themselves.
Gao Chengcheng saw a black cable penetrate a dilapidated building and directly sucked a special ghost filled with gas into the cable.
However, the player next to him was so frightened by this scene that he sat down on the ground. However, the cables seemed to have let this person go and went back into the ground.
The lucky man and his companions rested for a while, then immediately got on the ghost car left behind by the ghost next to them and continued on their way.
Gao Chengcheng was stunned when he saw the two guys driving the ghost cars: "Wait, in a road race, can humans drive ghost cars?"
Gao Bin also watched the scene just now.
According to common sense, the cars driven by ghosts must be recognized by ghost aura, just like when Qiao Song drove the car left by a water ghost, he had to tie the water ghost to that van.
Gao Chengcheng was puzzled: "Is it because road racing is special that as long as you are a racer you can drive any car, so it doesn't matter if you have a key or not?"
Gao Bin looked at her wrist and said, "You can't just drive a player's car randomly. You forgot that you had a key tattoo on your hand when you entered the dungeon."
"So, only humans can drive the cars of ghosts?"
Gao Chengcheng, who understood this, suddenly shifted his gaze to the center console again.
[Human players currently have 28 vehicles left]
[The remaining number of participating Phantoms: 32]
In just a short while, more humans and ghosts were eliminated.
"Wait, if that's the case, with the chaos on the field right now, if some ghosts didn't have time to surrender and were instantly reduced to ashes, then wouldn't the cars they left behind be safe cars that humans can drive?"
Gao Bin thought for a while and said, "It should be OK if the time is short. If it is too long, they will be corroded by the ghost energy and the system may no longer recognize their identity as human players."
At the back, the two people who had just escaped death by driving the ghost car also knew this.
But what can they do now!? If they don't drive and stay where they are, they will be swallowed up by the huge black shadow sooner or later!
The big guy in the driving seat was shaking unconsciously because of the invasion of ghost energy.
The car they were driving was a taxi, but the interior of the vehicle was filled with a strong smell of blood, as if someone had sprayed all over the car with blood.
The co-pilot was holding a string of firecrackers in his hand, and he kept trying to comfort him: "Don't worry, it's not the last moment yet—"
It is not clear whether he was saying this to comfort his teammates or to comfort himself. After all, he was also very scared.
The two unlucky guys who lost their car were none other than Pang Bo, the fitness coach whom Qiao Song had worked with briefly in Luolei Plain, and Lao Wu, the fireworks master.
Pangbo held a black card tightly in his hand, his teeth clenched, and cold sweat kept dripping from his temples.
Lao Wu also knew that the person in the driver's seat was more vulnerable to ghost attacks than the co-pilot, so he could only try his best to comfort Pangbo.
"There are still 27 cars ahead. We just need to be the 10th. Don't use this card yet. If you use it, both sides will be ruined."
[Gate of Hell] This card can directly borrow the judgment attribute of hell. Except for the place where the card holder is located as a safe zone, all people and ghosts will be indiscriminately attacked by this card.
Although they don't know whether it will be effective against the boss-level ghost at the back, if it really comes to that, let alone whether they can get the dungeon rewards, they will probably have to offend most of the players and guilds on the field first.
But if it really came to the critical moment, Pangbo would never hesitate: "The method of bribing ghosts with soul coins will not work, Lao Wu, you should know what this means."
Pangbo's strong body became weaker due to the invasion of ghost energy, but his eyes gradually became fierce:
"In the current Evernight Town, ghosts can't guarantee their own safety. I'm afraid more and more ghosts will surrender and withdraw. Although we are driving a ghost car, as long as we can rank in the top 10, it won't be a wasted trip!"
He spoke faster and faster, as if he was talking to Lao Wu, but also as if he was talking to himself.
"We have struggled in this crappy game for so long to finally get a good card and a good opportunity. I will not use it unless it is absolutely necessary."
Lao Wu held the string of red firecrackers hanging on his shoulder and gradually became determined: "Yes, since we are here, we must be in the top 10. Even if we can't reach the terminal, as long as we get the hint from the red-clothed man..."
In every road race held by Hearse Entertainment, the top 10 will not only receive points and props as rewards, but also an invisible reward. This is also a bigger reason that can motivate large guilds to participate - the red-clothed person in charge of this copy will occasionally answer some questions from the top ten players.
A player once asked Hongyi, is it really possible for anyone to leave this infinite world?
The owner of the copy seemed to be in a good mood at the time, so he answered.
"Indeed, there is. You will find out when you reach the terminal. There you will find what you players want most."
This piece of news, whose authenticity is unknown but has been circulating for a long time, is enough to keep the hearse entertainment copy busy.
Even if the rumor that "the terminal hides the secret of going home" is a lie, at least the wealth at the terminal is real. At worst, as long as you can reach the top ten, you can just ask the person in red.
The [Gate of Hell] in their hands is Pangbo and his team's last insurance. They have already collected a door. As long as they can outlast the guys in front of them and make it to the third map, they still have hope of winning.
But if they could see the outside world's statistics on this game, they would find that those people in front were not so easy to die.
Except for large guilds and extremely powerful players, such as Gao Chengcheng, in fact, most of the surviving human teams have almost one bead per person.
In order to increase their chances of winning, large guilds will collect as many gates as possible to select the most suitable map.
The top 10 is just a guarantee for them. Every big guild that comes to participate in this competition has other purposes.
The ones with the purest purpose are probably the only members of the strategy team who are not interested in soul coins or going home.
The man in the baseball cap in the driving seat was manipulating the pixels in his hands to repair their car. The cut made by the chainsaw was healing quite slowly, and no one knew what the hell that thing was.
In this road race, they have another task besides driving, which is the main purpose of the president giving them the item "Prison of Light".
"Haven't you seen the Newcomers' Alliance's car yet?"
The Lego man who continued to attack nearby vehicles with a gun also felt strange: "I really didn't see them. Logically speaking, those bastards from the Black Iron Guild shouldn't have such a good relationship with the Newcomer Alliance that they would let them go in this situation."
Most of the living humans in the entire Eternal Night Town are now crowded on this road. The huge black shadow behind them seems to have done it on purpose. It seems that the other party is also trying to find something to distinguish among these convoys. Every once in a while, he gets angry and randomly strangles a few unlucky ghosts and unlucky humans with the surging electric wires.
Although not every attack would result in the annihilation of the entire army, it was scary enough, so almost no players and ghosts stayed in those buildings. Everyone was in the closed circle of Evernight Town, like a group of sheep, being chased by the huge monster behind them.
As a sheep herder, Boss Cai is not completely relaxed either. He keeps his eyes on the red survival line in the upper right corner. The Infinite Game System has signed a soul agreement with these ghosts. Each copy has a fixed survival rate. Especially when the little girl in red, Yin Yin, specially raised the survival rate, as an external assisting NPC, he will need to pay compensation if he kills too many people.
The display screen, which had been cheated once, learned its lesson this time and remembered all the rules firmly. If it killed too many people, it would need to pay compensation, and if too many people passed the level, it would also need to pay compensation. But it didn't matter, it didn't need to pay for killing ghosts.
If these participating ghosts did not have time to say surrender or quit in advance, they would not be fished out of the map in time. Every participating ghost signed a waiver agreement when they came in. Death is only one of the worst case scenarios. It doesn't matter whether they die at the hands of humans or their own kind.
They are very useful for venting Boss Cai’s anger.
On the contrary, not all local ghosts in the town can be killed at will.
"It's so annoying. Why are there so many shadow silkworms in this crappy map?"
This thing is like some kind of expensive local NPC. After accidentally killing one, the AI will ask him for compensation. As a convenience store owner, he will feel bad about the price.
Boss Cai used electric wires to bypass these guys without facial features and continued to chase the ghosts driving the hearses.
But this cat-and-mouse game of pursuit is not all bad for the players. At least for the top guilds, because most of the players were forced out, their process of collecting portal beads has become smoother.
The Leo man took a walk outside, and when he came back, he had 8 beads hanging on his hands.
The little witch held a new lollipop in her mouth and asked him with a smile: "How is it? Did you pick one you like?"
The lion glanced at her calmly, picked her up and threw her back to the passenger seat.
It looked like these were probably newly collected maps, and they were all ordinary stuff, and he didn't look too happy.
Bai Youle continued to be a passenger happily. She sat cross-legged on the chair and took out her witch card to look at it. Suddenly, she stopped.
"Hey, Lion, our guide has reappeared and seems to be right behind us."
The Leo man's deep voice was a little hoarse: "Probability?"
"65%"
In the back, the members of the strategy team were still wondering why the Newcomer Alliance’s car hadn’t shown up yet, and it seemed like the end of the map was around the corner.
The president gave them the card [Prison of Light] because he wanted to trick the magician, who had tricked the strategy team several times in other copies.
The only advantage of this group of psychopaths who don't want to go home and just want to finish the copy is probably that they protect their own shortcomings.
"It seems that the Newcomer Alliance has been too low-key since entering the dungeon this time. If you can't do that, use the last prop card "The Walls Have Ears" and see if there are any more convoys hiding in the houses nearby."
The Lego Master nodded when he heard this. He had just finished a wave of harvest and snatched three glass beads from the nearby players. He passed them to the man in the baseball cap in the driver's seat. After checking the beads, the other party took a look at the prop card on the central console.
The buffer time of [Prison of Light] is about to end, and the last ghost imprisoned there should have been almost digested.
"The cooling period of Evernight Town will end in less than an hour. We probably have no chance of reaching the terminal. Why don't we take this opportunity to cause trouble for the Newcomer Alliance? The [Prison of Light] was originally reserved for You Yitong. That guy brought a ghost into the dungeon this time, so we can just chop off one of his arms. I don't know which dungeon we'll be in if we meet the magician next time. That guy is so slippery..."
Before the Lego master could finish his complaints, he felt a familiar loud thump coming from the roof of the car.
Then the buzzing sound of a chainsaw was heard, and when he was a little dazed, a clear female voice came to his ears.
"Why didn't you tell me you had a grudge against the magician? Do you want to cooperate? I might know where they are."
Qiao Song, who had just been released from prison, quickly cut open their skylight and spoke as friendly as possible.
"After all, the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
The author has something to say:
Strategy Group: Do you have to tear up our skylight before discussing cooperation?
It is expected to be finished within three chapters. Hunan has a heavy snowstorm. My family, the good news is that you don’t have to go out and have plenty of time. The bad news is that typing on the keyboard at two degrees in room temperature is really scary. QvQ
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