Chapter 78 Hell Community
You Yitong is known as a magician, but few people know that this is not his job. It’s just because of some special props and costumes that everyone always calls him that.
In the years since he entered the Infinite Highway game, he had entered many dungeons, both simple and difficult, and even above the Red Clothes level. Those past experiences allowed him to quickly discern that the state of the ghost in front of him was very strange.
But the world was already dark, and he found that he could no longer distinguish the scenes around him. The light in the entire mirror world was completely wiped out, leaving only the thick, real darkness.
You Yitong cursed softly and quickly called back the pigeons. After Qiao Song and her followers left, the white pigeons were no longer under the control of the scratch card and could finally be taken back freely by the magician.
But even after returning to his heyday, he still didn't dare to act rashly.
An invisible line in the palm of his right hand retracted with a click.
It was the ghost No. 3 that was released by the magician who returned home automatically. No. 3 seemed to be suppressed by some force and would hide back in his silk thread even without any orders.
"***?"
Invisible sound waves emanated again, and almost at that moment, You Yitong's brain was like a pinched can, and it instantly swelled and hurt so much that his eyeballs turned red.
What the hell was released?
He immediately cursed a name in his mind:
Qiao Song, Qiao Song! Qiao Song!!!
You Yitong silently repeated the name in his mind and, supported by a certain hatred, quickly took out a high-level item card before passing out. He had to leave here immediately, otherwise there would be big trouble.
This high-end card has a picture of a well-made chair, an extremely rare escape prop, which he would not use unless in special circumstances.
[Pilot's self-ejection seat]
[Although it is expensive, it can save your life at a critical moment. The only drawback may be that there is no way to confirm your landing location. Note: You cannot leave the instance directly, but you can leave the most dangerous area.]
A safety belt soon appeared on the magician's body, tying him tightly to something similar to an airplane seat. The next moment, his arms and legs were tightened, and the rocket on the back of the chair was launched directly, carrying the magician in a black and white suit into the sky.
The seat that was carried away by the rocket seemed to have penetrated some special barrier, allowing its passengers to directly escape from this hellish game copy.
The only one left was the guy who had just fallen from the tree and was still asleep, with a dazed look on his face. Muddy darkness was dripping out from the surface of his skin.
He looked at his hands innocently.
Whispered: "****?"
When You Yitong was dizzy from the whispers of the unknown creature and had to use up his life-saving items, Qiao Song had already run away as fast as he could.
She had experienced the power of that ghost thing once. A word said in a half-asleep state was enough to make a person lose all reason in an instant, so Qiao Song even covered her ears when she ran.
The owner of the sports lottery shop was no less enthusiastic. When Qiao Song called him, Lin Xuan had already rushed to the door.
They both escaped in time. Not long after they came out of the gate of the Mirror Hell of Sin, they heard the sound of countless mirrors shattering behind them.
While Lin Xuan was still in shock, he found that the boss next to him had a very happy expression. He couldn't help but wonder: "Boss, didn't you say that your enemy came to your door? Is your enemy so powerful?"
Qiao Song thought to herself that it wasn't the enemy that was so powerful, it was the thing that was created when the enemy tried to harm her with a coin but ended up making things worse.
I don’t know what is locked in that iron tree. Could it be that just being freed from the box could shatter so many mirrors in an instant?
Wait a minute...
"Don't worry about it, let's get out of here. Let's settle the bill and run away before the boss can react."
Qiao Song subconsciously felt that something was wrong, so he rushed to the counter of the store and asked the boss who was still at the cashier's desk to settle the game for them. The mirrors in the game were all broken, so he didn't want the outside to be affected.
The skinny old man didn't expect them to come out so quickly. He picked up the mirror they brought with them and took a look: "Well, this is it. You have passed the level. The prize is what's in your hand."
【Personality Mirror】
[Carrying this mirror with you can prevent others from using the mirror judgment tool on you and reading your sin number and red and white values]
The red and white values should refer to the sin value and the moral value.
For ghosts, the numbers on their bodies are almost their vital points, and for players, the sin value and moral value are their identity cards walking in the hell community.
This reward was quite useful. Qiao Song put the things away, turned around and left at a quick pace.
Lin Xuan seemed to understand something, and followed Qiao Song immediately with a guilty conscience. Sure enough, as soon as he walked out of the store, he heard the sound of mirrors breaking one after another behind him.
The customers in the store were the first to notice the glass fragments falling above their heads and immediately complained.
"Fuck, boss, what are you doing in your store? Are you trying to scam me? I didn't break the mirror, so I won't pay for it."
"Oh, the big one on the ceiling also fell down. Ouch, it hit me on the head. What's going on in your store?"
The ghosts who dared to enter this store knew from the beginning that they had not committed the corresponding crimes of the four levels, so when the mirror was broken, they were quite fearless and even wanted to bite a piece of meat from the boss as compensation on the grounds of injury.
But the shop owner was different. When he saw the scene in the store, he got angry.
He immediately blew his beard and glared: "Who did this? You guys dared to cheat me. The last one who tried to scam me has his soul buried in the mirror!"
Just as he rolled up the account book and knocked on the counter, he suddenly realized something was wrong. There were too many broken mirrors in the store. It didn't look like it was done by a ghost. Generally speaking, no ghost would dare to cause trouble like this in his store.
All those shattered mirrors had one thing in common: they spread outward from one place like ripples on the surface of a lake.
The boss looked in the direction of the origin and saw the mirror door at the deepest part of the store.
"Oh no, how did it break from the inside!?"
He immediately rushed out of the counter and ran towards the big door at the back. Sure enough, he saw that snowflake-like cracks had appeared on the rock-solid mirror door.
The old man immediately paced back and forth, his face full of disbelief.
"Impossible! Impossible! How could a player break this mirror?!" His expression even went blank for a moment.
This door is different from the mirrors in the Hell of Evil Mirrors that can create illusions. This is a real game barrier. It is not on the same level as human players or even ordinary red-clothed players. There is no one in the whole hell that can...
No, there is a being that can break through this mirror door.
He tremblingly pressed his hand on the door that was about to break completely, sensing something, and quickly withdrew his hand as if he had been burned.
The boss's face shuddered, and he looked back at the tragic scene in the store, holding his head and going crazy: "It's over, it's over, how did this guy get out! In his current state, if he is released, he will be doomed to hell? Who let him out?!"
The shop owner, who was just upset and angry because the mirror was broken, ran out as soon as possible. Before rushing out of the store, he still had the conscience to press a red button on the wall.
The entire store suddenly rang out like a fire alarm.
“Ding ding ding—the store is closed urgently. All visitors are requested to leave the store in time. Otherwise, regardless of whether there is a digital mark on your body, you will be immediately sent to the hell of evil mirror…”
"I repeat, this store is closed urgently..."
As soon as the broadcast sounded, the ghost who had just been about to make a scene in the store, saying that he was accidentally injured by the mirror, did not dare to waste time and rushed out immediately.
Just kidding, in the hell community, going to hell is not just a saying, it is a real painful torture that can tear a ghost apart and sew it back together. The threat of going to hell is probably the most useful evacuation order in the entire community.
Qiao Song had been outside watching the fun early on. It was also the first time that Lin Xuan had seen such a scene. A big boss is a big boss. Fighting with his enemies could actually ruin the entire Hell game.
Qiao Song did not dare to stay for long, mainly because she wanted to see how the magician would escape. It would be even better if he couldn't escape. But as one of the culprits, she instinctively decided not to stay at the crime scene for too long, so she went back immediately.
"Hey, where are we going next, boss? Aren't we going to go down to the Hell dungeon?"
Qiao Song pointed to the time on the mobile phone screen and then pointed to the moon in the sky.
"It's only an hour or two before dawn. I advise you to return to your building as soon as possible. Looking at the situation today, there may be more chaos to come."
Lin Xuan thought so too. Being able to be released from the Iron Tree Hell early tonight was already his biggest gain, not to mention checking in at another store.
"Then I'll go back to my own building first. Boss, please leave me your contact information. We can contact each other if there is anything." It's rare to meet such a strong golden thigh, so I have to follow him well.
At first, Qiao Song didn't really want to have any further involvement with the people from the Black Iron Guild, but after thinking about it carefully, it was not a bad thing to appear closely connected with the Black Iron Guild in front of outsiders based on what he had done in the previous dungeon. Perhaps it could also confirm some rumors.
Anyway, she now has a good item to prevent tracking, which was given to her by this Black Iron member.
So, when Lin Xuan got Qiao Song's contact information and looked up again, he found that the big boss had disappeared.
Now the 4th floor was full of ghosts fleeing everywhere, so he didn't dare to stay for long and walked downstairs. His resting area was on the 8th floor.
As Qiao Song hurried upstairs, she gazed at the red moonlight in the sky. Another reason she had told Lin Xuan that it was getting late and they should go back quickly was because of this moonlight.
If she remembered correctly, when she was attacked by ghosts on the first floor, the fat security guard Uncle Liu told her that when the moon first rose, the copy was at its weakest. The longer she stayed there, the stronger the energy in hell would be.
At present, the power of hell seems to be directly linked to the moon. Looking at the moonlight that is so red that it seems to be dripping with blood, it is better not to stay outside for too long.
She was not the only one who noticed this. Because of the chaos on the 4th floor, the ghosts and players on the other floors all noticed that the moon was turning red very quickly tonight.
Players with a little experience were already rushing back into the building, while the ghosts wandering outside were looking for places to hide while swearing.
Unlike human players, they can only go to buildings that do not have numbers on them, but they also need to pay to stay in those places. However, most ghosts are not people who can save soul coins.
Those who can save money will not end up in a place like the hell community where ghosts suffer.
For those ghosts who do not have extra soul coins, the Hell Community also has a place to take them in. That is the Hell at the bottom of the community, which is separated from the 18 levels of Hell.
This is a temporary release detention center. Every ghost is captured and taken to the corresponding level of prison. After suffering a night of inhuman torture, they will be released briefly. The area they are released to is the Avici Hell.
So this is also similar to a temporary rest area.
But the rest areas are also divided into high and low areas. The outermost area is like a large square, located at the bottom of the strange funnel-like building in the Hell Community.
The ghosts who were fleeing ignored the height and jumped directly from above. Then they rolled to the side a few times after landing, wailed a few times, and then had to quickly get up to make room to avoid being hit by new ghosts jumping down from above.
In the past nights, there would not be such a large-scale return of ghosts. After all, it is still early before dawn, which is a good time for most players to come out and move around.
"Hey, Third Brother and Fifth Brother, what's wrong with you? Didn't you say you were going to go up and trick some new guys today? Why are you so shabby?"
The ghost who was asked immediately looked gloomy: "Stop talking, I was going to the 4th floor to buy a mirror. You know, this dungeon is biased towards humans. If you want to drag them down, you have to put numbers on them first. Who would have known that the damn mirror house on the 4th floor would explode!?"
As soon as these words came out, many ghosts of all sizes gathered around him: "What did you say? There's a problem on the 4th floor?"
The community has eighteen floors. Although there are more evil spirits as you go down, the top few floors are very special, such as the mirror house on the fourth floor. The props inside are very important, no matter for people or ghosts.
But now the 4th floor exploded! ?
"Why would I lie to you? There were dozens or even hundreds of ghosts queuing up to buy mirrors in the store. After the mirrors were shattered all over the floor, the stingy boss didn't even ask for compensation. He just pressed the alarm button and closed the store. It is said that if you were a step later, you would be imprisoned in hell and punished. God knows what happened."
This is indeed unheard of. The fourth level represents not only a house of mirrors, but also the fourth level of hell inside it. How could something go wrong?
The ghosts in the Hell Community come and go. Some of them have been here for a long time, have not yet completed their punishment, and are hiding and dare not go out.
"You mean all the mirrors in the mirror room are destroyed? That's it. Now that you mention it, I remember the rumors in the Hell Community a while ago."
There was immediately a ghost next to him and he asked him what the rumor was.
"It is said that there is a problem with the administrator of this community. You should know how the great ghosts are promoted through cultivation."
The ghosts around swallowed their saliva. How else can ghosts level up? Besides big ghosts eating small ghosts, they also eat soul coins, or eat powerful players. The highest level is to eat incense.
The ghost who spread the gossip immediately lowered his head, got very close to his companion, and whispered: "It is said that there was a problem with the upgrade of the manager... This place is broken..."
The ghost quietly pointed to his head and didn't dare to speak directly.
At the same time, the tongue-pulling apartment on the first floor.
Tang Xiaoxiao, who had been busy collecting information in the apartment all night, immediately returned to the door of the apartment after receiving Qiao Song's text message.
When asked if she had received any important news tonight, Tang Xiaoxiao said the same thing.
"It seems that the master of Hell has some problems with his mind and strength. The source of the news is unknown at the moment, but the credibility of this rumor should be very high, because many ghosts have said that recently the doors of the regional community are randomly opening in the entire infinite game, and many ghosts have been caught inexplicably."
Qiao Song only now realized that not only players lived in the apartment, but ghosts also lived here.
If the ghosts in the hell community want to leave, they must eliminate all the numbers on their bodies. They can either use those special props or suffer punishment in hell.
"That's right. The number of ghosts in Hell has increased by about half during this period. There are many faces that I haven't seen before, and the number of players seems to have increased as well." The bandaged ghost that was released at the same time continued to add relevant information under the gaze of the two.
In the past, he and his friends often wandered around the first few floors, so he could keenly perceive the number of players. After all, most players would stay on the first six floors.
He stammered, "Well, that's about all I know. Any more detailed information is beyond the reach of a kid of my level."
Qiao Song didn't expect him to know any secrets of hell directly, but he was very curious about one thing.
"If you ghosts don't normally stay in buildings, is there anywhere else you can hide?"
The bandaged ghost was stunned for a moment, and answered hesitantly: "At the bottom of the 18th floor, there is an open area called the Infernal Hell. Some ghosts who have just been punished will be thrown there."
The hell? Isn't this the place that Lin Xuan from the Black Iron Guild mentioned his teammates fell into?
"Only ghosts can enter this place?"
The Bandaged Ghost immediately shook his head and realized that Qiao Song must know some information. He then did not dare to hide it and told Qiao Song everything he knew.
“That place is the exit passage after being punished in hell. It will release all the players and ghosts who have been tortured. Because the place is large enough, many ghosts will choose to rest there.
However, it is not easy for players to get out of that place after being punished. I heard that so far few players have been able to climb out of the hell."
At a prison exit surrounded by ghosts, isn’t the player who has just been punished and is dying the biggest fat sheep?
No wonder the guy from the Black Iron Guild wanted someone to take him away from the Iron Tree Hell as a souvenir. That way of getting out of prison must be quite special, after all, it took up the reward quota for players who had passed the level.
I don’t know if it was because of the accident on the 4th floor, but after the number of ghosts on the streets outside decreased sharply, even the security team’s on-duty personnel felt something was wrong.
The fat security guard nodded when he saw Qiao Song coming back safe and sound, and asked her in sign language:
"Is there no danger? I think something happened downstairs."
It seemed that after entering the apartment, the batons in their hands became ordinary batons and could not replace their mouths to speak.
Qiao Song nodded: "It seems that something unexpected happened in the Niejing area. Now the whole store is closed. It is said that something needs to be sealed."
Qiao Song learned this from other ghosts who were rushing up from the 4th floor.
Uncle Liu's brows were tightly furrowed, and it was unclear whether he had thought of something.
He glanced through the glass window at the red moon hanging in the sky with a serious expression.
"You should leave work early today. You don't need to patrol outside. Go back to your room and rest early. You may have a heavier duty tomorrow night."
Qiao Song glanced at the time. It was still an hour until 6 a.m.
This means that she can still wear this security uniform for another hour, and the same applies to the time limit for using the baton.
Just at this time, Tang Xiaoxiao and I went to investigate the apartment.
The girl didn't know how she managed to quickly screen out 50% of the players in the entire first floor of the apartment, as well as some ghosts.
"A few ghosts have stayed here for a particularly long time. It is said that they have been collecting props to pass the level. They want to leave the hell copy without being punished, so they chose the first floor."
The first-floor apartments are inhabited by players with high moral values. In the eyes of some ghosts who want to eat meat, they are fat sheep, but in the eyes of some smart ghosts who have sufficient soul coins and are not greedy for a few bites of human flesh, they are excellent trading partners.
After all, players can get the execution props openly, and these props can directly eliminate the corresponding numbers on the ghosts.
Qiao Song followed Tang Xiaoxiao to the upper floor of the apartment building. Although the entire Bashe Apartment is called the first-floor building, there are actually many buildings and many different rooms inside the apartment.
The room they came to was 601, which was said to be one of the best suites in the entire apartment building.
After Tang Xiaoxiao knocked on the door, footsteps were heard soon. A woman with fair skin and plump figure wearing a red bathrobe looked at the two girls outside with surprise: "Oh, it's you."
If Tang Xiaoxiao hadn't told him in advance, it would have been hard for Qiao Song to tell that this was actually a female ghost.
The well-maintained female ghost with bright red nails led the two of them to sit in the living room. At the same time, there was another guy here who looked familiar to them.
He is the tall security guard on duty during the day, and the one who calls himself a cartoonist after get off work.
"What a coincidence! Are you also here for the wine tasting?" Tu Kang shook the red wine glass in his hand.
Only then did Qiao Song notice that there were many tall and short wine bottles of various colors in the room.
So, this is a drunkard's room?
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