Chapter 185: Spirit Exploration Live Room
One hundred thousand.
For Xu Zhiyan, the word "short" contains infinite power.
So after getting Yuan Chi's coordinates, it only took him more than ten minutes to brake suddenly and stop outside the shopping mall building.
Through Yu Xiu and Yuan Chi, Xu Zhiyan learned that all the rental houses where players logged into the dungeon were in suburban areas, so the ghost-hunting locations generally chosen by players were also very desolate.
The location Yuan Chi chose for ghost hunting this time was an abandoned shopping mall close to the city center.
While rushing to the location, Xu Zhiyan also started a live broadcast for a short while, but he did not turn on the camera. He mainly used the audience in the live broadcast room as tools to obtain some shopping mall information.
According to the audience in the live broadcast room, this should have been a place for big investment, but the mall closed down half a year ago.
The reason for the closure was that several customers were inexplicably suffocated by clothing while trying on clothes in a fitting room of a store on the third floor of the mall, and died tragically.
It is said that the circumstances were very strange and only one guest survived.
She happened to receive a call at that time, and the family member went in with the phone and saw the suffocated guest.
After three people died in a short period of time, the women's clothing store that had the accident moved away in disgrace. Other stores replaced it, but it was still of no avail. As long as it was a clothing-related store, even if it was not women's clothing, people would die, and the mall had to be closed.
However, considering the composition of the live broadcast room members.
Xu Zhiyan only selectively believed these contents.
Before I pushed the door open, a faint smell of mold and blood came from the crack of the mall door.
There is not much time left until dawn. In order to get 100,000 points, he must find Yuan Chi quickly and leave at least ten minutes to return.
The phone vibrated.
[Snack area, tear off the row to save life, turn 3]
There were many typos in Yuan Chi's message, and the information was compressed. It seemed that the situation had reached a very critical moment.
But Xu Zhiyan didn't dare to go in rashly.
Since Yuan Chi was able to contact him, it means that Yuan Chi has actually left the spirit-hunting location.
Out of place, but not able to leave?
Considering that he was lying outside the revolving door of the mall, shining the light of his mobile phone into the store, he unexpectedly met a pair of eyes.
That's the outermost row of shelves.
The shelves covered with thick dust were still filled with items that had long been out of stock, including some bags of potato chips facing the door.
And Xu Zhiyan was looking at the potato chips.
Although it sounds funny to describe it this way, he is indeed looking into the eyes of the cartoon character with one big eye and one small eye on the potato chip bag packaging, and the character on the packaging seems to be "alive".
He dared to guarantee that no matter how advanced humans were, they would not be able to design such electronic packaging.
Time was running out, so Xu Zhiyan glanced around and didn't see any ready-made rules that could be discovered at a glance.
It seems that I can only go in and look for it.
He put his hand on the glass door. Considering that the power of rules would become stronger as he got closer to the center of the city, Xu Zhiyan was unsure whether he would be able to use the props and skills after entering. So he stuffed a lot of props that might be used into his backpack.
"Turn 3 and enter. This should be the entry rule here."
Although it is not clear where Yuan Chi got the information from, since the other party gave it to him, it is probably the rule here.
After saying that, he placed his palm on the revolving glass door, pushed it gently, and turned it three times before entering.
In the game live broadcast room, the audience was shocked by the potato chip packaging that was just big enough to open their eyes, and they all discussed the weirdness of the mall.
[…Damn, Xiao Millionaire is really in! ]
[That bag of potato chips is so shabby, I almost vomited looking at it! It must be the product of some weird rules.]
[Fuck, to be honest, I really think Xiao Baiwan is very conscientious now. ]
[+1 to the above, time is tight and the situation is not optimistic, but he actually came to save Yuan Chi! He really did, I cried my heart out. ]
【Money! Mainly give money! 】
[One hundred thousand points is not a small amount at all! ! If you can get 50,000 points after a low- or medium-star dungeon, it’s a good result. High-star dungeons consume a lot of points, and you have to pay when you are unlucky...]
[Indeed, if someone gives me 100,000, I might give it a try.]
[Hey, how can you say that Xiao Baiwan can make money? He is 100% sure to save you, but you must save him according to the situation. Xiao Baiwan will run towards you as long as the money is in place, and he doesn't care about the enemy's strength at all! ]
Unknowingly, Xu Zhiyan's reputation for saving people for money has become very famous.
Perhaps it won’t be long before everyone will agree that as long as Xu Zhiyan is given enough benefits, regardless of whether he can harm others or not, he will definitely save people when they are in danger.
Compared with life and death, what does that little bit of points mean?
There is a supermarket on the first floor of the shopping mall. Xu Zhiyan tiptoed through the supermarket gate.
This time there was a piece of paper with words printed on it pasted on the wall.
【Jiming Shopping Mall Supermarket welcomes you! 】
[Business hours: 9:00~21:00]
[The following is today's big promotion]
[Eggs: 3.5/500g, onions 6.1/500g, pork...]
This is a supermarket poster.
The writing on it is blurry and not very clear, as if it has been corroded for a long time. It is similar to the rules on the school bus for students to see.
Further ahead is the snack area.
Looking at the mountains of bagged potato chips, Xu Zhiyan frowned, somewhat undecided.
Something is not right now.
Theoretically speaking, the ghost hunting location in this shopping mall should be on the third floor.
Maybe it's a room on the third floor, or maybe it's the entire third floor, but it won't be just one floor.
Because except for leaving the copy range like he and Yu Xiu did before, in other situations, the live broadcast room can only be closed when leaving the spirit-exploring location. Otherwise, when the players are at the spirit-exploring location, the system will take over the live broadcast.
This supermarket doesn't look normal.
After counting the number of rows of shelves and holding a safety hammer in his hand, Xu Zhiyan quickly walked towards the column where Yuan Chi gave the information.
Nothing happened when I passed by the shelf of bagged potato chips.
He breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this supermarket was similar to what he had guessed. Although there were some abnormalities, it was not a particularly powerful place for ghost hunting.
Once he rescues Yuan Chi, he should be able to find out what happened here.
Soon, he found the fourth row in the snack area.
It was already past five o'clock, and Xu Zhiyan didn't care about anything else. He quickly moved to the shelf between the third and fourth rows.
Yuan Chi was not there, but he heard a faint cry for help.
"Help...Help! Over here!"
Xu Zhiyan quickly picked up the hammer and walked around to the middle of the fourth and fifth rows of shelves.
This time, he found Yuan Chi.
There was always a faint smell of blood in the air. This player who was not good at finding his way and was willing to pay a reward of 100,000 points was now being pressed down by a lot of biscuit barrels.
This is a kind of biscuit made in the shape of a bone, and the packaging of the barrel is printed with a cartoon dog head with bared teeth.
It was these dog heads that were biting Yuan Chi's body tightly. His left hand had been completely bitten off, and the junction of the wound and the wrist had become a state of blood, flesh and crispy biscuits glued together, which was extremely disgusting.
When Yuan Chi saw Xu Zhiyan coming, tears were about to fall.
Xu Zhiyan did not hesitate. After making sure that there was no one around to attack him, he picked up the hammer and hit the biscuit barrel with a "bang".
He wanted to see if these cookie barrels were judged to be living things.
“Woof——”
A canine howl was heard, and the biscuit barrel cracked open, fell off Yuan Chi's body, and rolled away.
Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief.
However, this made the other biscuit barrels react and they turned around to face the young man standing nearby.
Xu Zhiyan didn't care.
He is only afraid of real dogs, not cartoon dogs.
With a sneer, he raised his hammer and knocked down all the biscuit barrels that were trying to attack him.
It's like there's an antidote near a poisonous snake.
The items produced in the same copy are often the most effective things for attacking monsters in the related copy.
"Bang bang-bang--"
As the knocking sounds continued, soon all the biscuit barrels that had been eaten by Yuan Chi's left hand were knocked aside.
Especially the bucket that had just bitten Yuan Chi’s left hand. Just by knocking it, it suddenly burst open, and small bone-shaped biscuits kept popping out from the crack.
After a few minutes, all the cookie barrels were solved.
Yuan Chi stood up from under the shelf trembling. He looked unwell and exuded the aroma of biscuits.
"Wuwuwu Boss Xu, I thought I was finished."
He ignored the pain in his body and looked at Xu Zhiyan with tears in his eyes.
"It's almost dawn, we have to leave quickly."
Xu Zhiyan didn't ask any more questions. He could see that Yuan Chi was in a bad state, but it was already past five o'clock, and according to the rules, it would be best to return to the rental house before the sun came out.
It wasn't that dark outside anymore, and they didn't have much time left.
But when the two were about to leave, an accident suddenly happened.
Yuan Chi had only walked a few meters when he staggered twice and fell heavily to the ground.
“Click…”
A crisp sound was heard.
Xu Zhiyan turned his head and saw biscuit crumbs all over the floor.
Looking at Yuan Chi’s broken knee, both of them stood there in a daze, confused for a moment.
Xu Zhiyan glanced outside the supermarket, then looked at the time displayed on the panel, and his mind started racing.
It's already past five twenty. If the two of them can run faster and get to the mall entrance, and use the electric scooter to the maximum time, they might be able to catch up.
But Yuan Chi is in a very bad condition now. After being bitten by these biscuit barrels, his body began to turn into biscuits, becoming burnt and crispy. It would be difficult for him to keep himself steady on the high-speed moving electric scooter.
As if he saw Xu Zhiyan's dilemma, Yuan Chi finally recovered from the blow that broke his right leg into pieces.
"Boss Xu, thank you for coming to save me, but it seems it's too late now."
He offered a compromise.
"I'll pay you. Can you move me to a place where there are no goods and pick me up in the evening?"
"night?"
Xu Zhiyan was keenly aware of the new information.
He was just about to look for a cart to see if he could push his hundred thousand dollars...his client away.
The live broadcast in the game is not like the ghost-hunting live broadcast in the dungeon, which can be turned on and off at any time.
Everyone is watching what the players do.
Only by establishing a good reputation can he make other players use their irresistible money power to give him money when they are in danger in the next copy, so he must bring this boss out alive.
Yuan Chi nodded and shared some information.
"I got a city rule."
I have to say that Yuan Chi is really lucky.
During the live broadcast on the third floor, he triggered a special scene, the reward of which was a city rule.
"The room represents purification. If you can't go back before dawn, then wait until the sun disappears before going back."
Although he did not clearly understand the meaning of the first half of the sentence, the content of the second half still told him clearly what to do if he could not return before dawn.
"Purification?"
Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows and immediately figured out the reason.
After returning to the room during the day, the little transparent one will disappear, but the rest of 'them' in the room will still be there.
Although the little transparent is much more powerful than those transparent "them", in essence, or it should be said that it still exists in the form of "them".
The biggest difference between the other "them" and the little transparent ones is that the little transparent ones have many rules of their own.
If the rules are regarded as a kind of pollution, then people who enter the ghost-hunting site at night are equivalent to being "polluted". When they return to the room, the "pollution" is purified and they are still ordinary human beings.
After figuring this out, Xu Zhiyan looked around and suddenly stopped being anxious.
He squatted on the ground, checked Yuan Chi's condition, and looked very heartbroken.
"Who do you take me for?"
"Don't you see what you look like now? Your left hand is gone, and your right leg is gone from the knee down."
"Is it appropriate to leave you here alone? This doesn't conform to my trading rules at all!"
Just a few words made Yuan Chi, who was pale, burst into tears.
"Boss Xu...you, you are my second parent!" Although he asked Xu Zhiyan to pick him up in the evening, he himself was actually not sure if he could hold on until the evening in his current state.
When this conversation was broadcast live, all the audience in the live broadcast room were stunned and no one could speak for a long time.
[…Little millionaire, he.]
[What the hell??? Although 100,000 points is a lot, it's not worth risking your life, right? ]
[Shock! Is Xiao Baiwan possessed by someone? It won't cost him his life, but it will definitely be troublesome. Who would cause trouble for themselves? ]
[What kind of script is this from the Holy Father? I am speechless. ]
[Wuwuwu, Yanyan’s wife, lick me! I also want to go into the dungeon with Yanyan’s wife! Slurp! I also want to ride in my wife’s car! ]
【??? Upstairs, I warn you, don't go too far, I'm going to ask someone to check your IP! 】
[Brother Fork is not going to fork anyone today, is he going to have a real-person PK instead? 】
[But Xiao Baiwan is spinning the ring! I think someone is going to be in trouble.]
[Ohhhh I saw it! Who could it be?! ]
In the center of the screen, a thin young man found a shopping cart and threw Yuan Chi and the severed limbs on the ground into it.
"Tell me everything you've experienced here."
Xu Zhiyan pushed the shopping cart, carefully avoiding the packaging bags with images of living things printed on them, and walked to a relatively open place.
After looking into the eyes on the potato chip packages and fighting a battle with the cookie jar dog, he had more or less understood something about the changes in the supermarket.
Yuan Chi was deeply moved, and of course he told everything he knew, even wanting to break down his experience into pieces.
"I got the location of Jiming Supermarket from the audience this time. They all said that not many people died, so I came here. If I had known it would be so difficult, I would not have..."
It’s a pity that he was interrupted by Xu Zhiyan before he could finish the first sentence.
"Stop, get to the point."
It was not yet completely daylight, and he was not sure what kind of space they, the two people who were "contaminated" by the rules, would enter after daybreak.
Yuan Chi was choked, but he was not angry. He was very tactful and started to flatter her.
"Boss Xu is right. I was indeed a little too talkative... I'm getting to the point!"
After receiving another stern look in the eye, Yuan Chi briefly talked about what happened upstairs and then focused on the supermarket downstairs.
"The place where I was going to search for spirits was on the third floor. I took the elevator when I entered, so I didn't notice anything wrong with the supermarket."
The news on the third floor of Jiming Mall was even more terrifying than what Xu Zhiyan got from the live broadcast room.
"The third floor sells clothes. All the human clothes inside can fucking move and chase me and hit me. It's so scary!" When Yuan Chi mentioned this, tears of sadness flowed down his face.
Fortunately, before he entered, he had already received information that clothes were sold on the third floor, so he brought fire props with him and had a smooth journey.
"The rule on the third floor is that the elevator can only go up, not down."
So when he found the exit to go downstairs, he walked down the escalator without hesitation, without stopping on the second floor, and went directly to the first floor.
“When I got to the second floor, the live broadcast was shut down.”
Yuan Chi explained with a dejected look on his face.
"I thought we were completely out of the ghost hunting location."
The player who thought he had successfully passed the second round of ghost hunting relaxed his vigilance. Because this place was complicated and the live broadcast time was long, he also felt that he would definitely be able to get the top ranking in popularity this time.
“As a result, when I passed by these shelves, many things came to life.”
As he spoke, his eyes fell on his knees, and Yuan Chi felt grief-stricken in his heart.
The escalator from the second floor to the first floor is in the fresh food area of the supermarket. Although the things there have become rotten, smelly and full of mold over time, there is nothing unusual.
Instead, when he arrived at the packaging area, he found that many of the living things on the packaging began to move.
The cow on the milk carton keeps wagging its tail, the piglet used to promote the raw meat area runs back and forth on the banner, and the chicken on the pheasant egg box stares at the passing creatures.
"Fuck, that's horrible!"
Yuan Chi summarized.
There were many animals in the fresh food area. After hesitating, Yuan Chi chose to take a detour and moved from the rice and flour area to near the entrance. However, the only exit to the outside of the supermarket on the first floor was near the snack area.
He originally thought that only photos of real objects would move, and in a moment of carelessness, he was bitten by the piles of cookie jars in the snack section.
However, these cookie jars were not very strong. Although Yuan Chi was bitten at first, he did not take it seriously. But when he found that the place where he was bitten would melt into biscuits, it was too late...
"That's about it."
Yuan Chi sighed deeply. He had been bitten too many times just now, and biscuit crumbs kept falling from the hem of his clothes. He didn't even dare to lift up his clothes to take a look.
The horrific condition of the wrists and knees alone is enough to make one shudder with fear.
After hearing Yuan Chi's explanation, Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief.
“It’s not a big problem.”
It was pretty much what he guessed.
It seems that the core rules here are on the third floor, and the first floor should be a place that is infected by strange rules, but not too many.
Yuan Chi was bitten when he was passing by the biscuit area, so the abnormality on the first floor would not really chase anyone.
Watching the sky outside the door gradually brighten up, Xu Zhiyan slowly pushed Yuan Chi, intending to find an open and safe place to spend the day and go back after the sun sets.
"Boss Xu, you are so kind. I don't know how to repay you. Woohoo, I even want to give myself to you."
Yuan Chi sat in the shopping cart, feeling very guilty.
Xu Zhiyan was stunned and quickly waved his hands in fear.
"That's not necessary. Not paying in installments is the biggest thank you to me."
The next second, Yuan Chi's old face turned red.
"Boss Xu, I don't have that many points right now. Can I pay in installments or use props to pay off my debts? Or can I give you more points later?"
The answer was expected, and Xu Zhiyan was not surprised. He happily proposed to add an A-level or above item on top of the 100,000 points.
After all, he had put in the work, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with taking a little more.
But before the two of them found a suitable position, the sky outside became completely bright.
In just a blink of an eye, the sky darkened again.
The dark red light shone in from the glass door, emitting a sense of fear that sent chills down one's spine.
Countless figures appeared outside the door.
They were just outlines, moving like zombies.
Yuan Chi was startled and subconsciously wanted to scream, but a hand quickly covered his mouth.
Xu Zhiyan made a 'hush' gesture, and when Yuan Chi nodded, he slowly let go of his hand.
Inside the mall, the elevator behind the fresh food area started to move slowly.
Xu Zhiyan observed quietly and didn't notice anything coming down from the elevator, so he pushed the shopping cart quietly towards the food selling area.
When passing by a discount shelf on the way, he picked up a bottle of mineral water from it and asked Yuan Chi to hold it.
Soon, the two arrived at the area where food was sold.
Because most of them are bulk products and are not packaged, while the packaged ones on the surrounding shelves are mostly painted with plants such as rice, paddy, corn, etc.
After making sure that the plants did not come alive to attack people, Xu Zhiyan whispered to Yuan Chi: "Wait for me here."
Yuan Chi was stunned and quickly grabbed Xu Zhiyan's sleeve.
"Boss Xu, where are you going?"
Shaking off Yuan Chi's hand that was grabbing his sleeve, Xu Zhiyan took out several duck backpacks from his big backpack.
"Where are we going? This is a mysterious place, and there are free supplies everywhere, so of course we're going to go shopping for free!"
He spoke with confidence and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him at all.
The supermarkets in this type of comprehensive shopping mall are very large and sell more than just food.
After entering the door, Xu Zhiyan was observing whether there was anything worth grabbing nearby, and at the other end of the supermarket was the electrical appliance area.
The first floor is mostly filled with kitchen appliances, such as induction cookers, kettles, and blenders, but there are too many of them.
"I've observed that there are a few billboards that seem to be alive, but not many." Xu Zhiyan pointed to the billboards in the home appliance area that had long been moved.
Thinking that he might not be back for a long time, he also told her about his other plans.
"The business map says that the upstairs area is for large appliances, and it seems they also sell game consoles. I plan to go to the second floor to take a look. The third floor is more dangerous, and it only sells clothes, so I'll forget it for now..."
His plan was very thorough.
Although the construction of the safe house is relatively complete, it is still a long way from the monsters having a TV each. Especially since Party A is quite a spendthrift, he is reluctant to spend a large sum of money to buy expensive electronic products for the monsters.
This trip to the mall not only saved Yuan Chi, but also allowed me to get a lot of electrical appliances for free to improve the lives of the monsters!
Xu Zhiyan was very satisfied with this.
It would be even better if you could take the opportunity to find one or two props!
But in a place that Xu Zhiyan didn’t notice, under the backpack, the death tape was shaking slightly.
This time, the transparent guy did not disappear during the day.
In the live broadcast room, the audience who were just wondering whether Xu Zhiyan was suffering from Madonna syndrome, started to post comments crazily.
[Huh——I breathed a sigh of relief.]
[Yes, me too!]
[Just now when I heard that Xiao Baiwan was going to stay in a dangerous place, I was stunned! ]
[I laughed so hard, hahahahaha. I thought at the time that he had taken a fancy to some of Yuan Chi’s props and was going to kill him to steal his things.]
[It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s still the familiar Xiao Baiwan. 】
[Xiao Baiwan: The bandit power in my blood can no longer be suppressed! ]
[You might be able to find special items in this kind of weird place, so it's not a bad deal. Besides, it's not a place to explore spirits, and it can connect to the outside world...]
【Hahahahahahahahaha look at Yuan Chi.】
[Poor thing, did he think that Xiao Baiwan stayed because of him? ]
"Ah... this?"
Yuan Chi was dumbfounded.
He realized belatedly that Boss Xu in front of him did not stay with him out of pity for him, but had already planned on emptying this spooky shopping mall?
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