Chapter 197: Spirit Exploration Live Room
As the last bell rang, a ball of white light suddenly flashed before Xu Zhiyan's eyes.
When he came to his senses, he was already standing on a busy and noisy street with system panels constantly popping up beside him.
[Task progress is being adjusted...]
[It is detected that a player has triggered the final mission. The overall mission progress is readjusted. All players who hear the bell are teleported to the new mission location. ]
Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan had an expression of "as expected".
He knew that the system would definitely find a way to get other people in and would not allow him to continue blackmailing. The previous 120,000 points were just the reward for sharing the bell.
However, he did not complain about this. He just shook his tail and continued to look at the new tasks that appeared on the panel.
[Main Mission [Part 2]: Become the strongest anchor. ]
[Task 8: The Secret of the Live Broadcast Room]
[Progress: 0%]
[Note: Only the strongest &5-(strongest((*……5) anchors can invite offline fan meetings……&…) (deleted)]
[Note: Congratulations! You have discovered the secret of the live broadcast room! You have become good friends with the viewers of the live broadcast room. How can you bear to see them trapped in the virtual dimension? As the most popular anchor, you are of course on the same page with your viewers! Find the source of the city's changes and rescue them! ]
【Hint: There is a non-existent 31st floor here. 】
【Hint: Open the box. 】
[Rewards: Points Rewards + Item Rewards]
The first note contained garbled characters, revealing obvious confusion.
“That’s too careless, isn’t it?”
Xu Zhiyan pointed at the new task.
The name of the previous task was 5, which means that there were originally supposed to be two more rounds of popularity live broadcast competitions. The system arranged three rounds of tasks to reduce the number of players to 1.
Is it true that only one person can enter?
...But now, there should be more than one player coming in. It seems that Bai Jin being trapped in the videotape is indeed a great opportunity for the system not to follow the rules.
After reading the task, Xu Zhiyan put away the panel and looked around.
He was now standing on the sunny street, with people coming and going around him.
Completely different from the city outside which is full of thorny rules, this place is full of vigor and vitality. Every passerby has a happy smile on his face. Everyone is doing what they like and no one looks sad.
Warm, relaxing, happy...
"It's indeed a utopia." Xu Zhiyan glanced at the people walking around.
After a moment, he said regretfully.
"If I had this ability, they should be able to play a greater role."
So much labor is wasted like this? Creating a dimension just for everyone to eat, drink and have fun?
In the live broadcast room, the capitalist's remarks made the audience post comments crazily, and some even said they wanted to hang Xu Zhiyan from a street lamp.
【Hahahaha what a devil! 】
[It's so funny. Look at Xiao Baiwan's expression. The disappointment in his eyes is almost overflowing.]
[Little Millionaire: So much labor wasted? ]
[Damn capitalists! Someone, please find a street lamp to hang up Xiao Baiwan! ]
【Hang it up! Hang it up! Hang it up! 】
However, there is another group of viewers who are more curious about the direction of the entire copy.
[Okay, stop talking nonsense, so has anyone figured out what's going on? This kind of operation that triggers the final mission in advance is quite rare. ]
[It was rare before, but is it okay recently? ]
[Indeed, recently there have been a lot of big guys rushing to rank up. Five-star copies are okay, but many four-star and four-and-a-half-star copies have been destroyed with one punch.]
[Ahhh, I remember now. Boss Gan just entered a four-and-a-half-star dungeon yesterday. When he was only completing the second mission, he directly reached the content of mission 6.]
[As an ordinary player, I often feel that I am not playing the same game as other big guys. 】
[Hey, don't go off topic. Have you noticed a problem? ]
【What? 】
[Other players were directly dropped into the building, only Xiao Baiwan was dropped into the outskirts of the city...]
In the center of the screen, the young man standing on the street soon discovered that he was being targeted by the system.
Yu Xiu’s message was the first to arrive on the phone.
[Brother Xu, which floor are you on? We'll go find you! ]
Xu Zhiyan was stunned. Looking at the handwriting above, his mind was a little confused for a moment.
Where are you?
His bad premonition was confirmed in Yu Xiu's reply.
[Yuan Chi and I are on the 2nd floor, but we just saw someone else passing through here. Brother Xu, where are you guys? I'll go find you! Let's go to the 31st floor together!]
Poor Yu Xiu didn't know that his teammates were not thrown into the radio building together.
Xu Zhiyan's breath was choked, and he spoke to the system panel with gritted teeth.
“…I filed a complaint. This is unfair treatment.”
What the hell? Everyone else was dropped inside the building?
He hurriedly crossed an intersection, came to a more open area, and looked into the distance.
The 31-story radio building was standing quietly in the center of the city, and the place where he was staying was just a short walk away in the suburbs.
The system refused to answer the question using the panel, but just replied under the guise of a sister.
[Sister: The scenes released this time are random. ]
"Oh? Randomly? There are ten people in total, nine of them are dropped into the building, and I am the only one dropped into the suburbs?" Xu Zhiyan was almost laughing at this randomness.
[Sister: Getting angry and embarrassed will not speed up your game progress. ]
After secretly cursing the rubbish game ten times in his heart, Xu Zhiyan forced himself not to bother with the system anymore and stared at the building far away in the horizon.
To put it bluntly, the system's operation was to exclude him from the final mission.
But the good news is that after entering here, there is finally progress on the prompt panel for finding the safe house.
[Additional Task: Find a Safe House]
[Progress: 9%]
The current location is still at the edge of the city, and the progress has been 9 percent. He is almost certain that the safe house is in the radio building in the dimensional space.
Xu Zhiyan did not rush to the building rashly, he needed some new information now.
[What's going on in the building? Are you in any trouble?] His fingertips jumped on the keyboard, typing this sentence quickly.
Yu Xiu was very supportive and this time he directly sent a video call request.
After picking up the call, Xu Zhiyan saw that the building on the screen was still eerie and scary, and heavy breathing sounds continued to come from the speaker of the mobile phone.
"Brother Xu! It seems to have become more dangerous here! We just went up to the third floor and saw someone kill an NPC, and then this place changed!"
"Ahhh, run, don't say anything..."
Yu Xiu's voice mixed with Yuan Chi's screams came out.
"Kill NPCs?"
Xu Zhiyan looked stunned.
What the hell? Why would someone kill NPCs? Aren’t the NPCs here just viewers trapped in their phones?
Perhaps having heard Xu Zhiyan's puzzled voice, Yu Xiu quickly ran to a cubicle and hid with Yuan Chi, explaining in a low voice what had just happened.
Ten minutes ago, inside the Broadcasting Building.
Yu Xiu and Yuan Chi found the reminder written by the neighbor on the wrapping paper in the room. Although they did not break into the house, they immediately informed Xu Zhiyan about it.
Seeing Yu Xiu holding the phone with a nervous look on his face, as if he was about to run back to the building, Yuan Chi took the initiative to comfort him with a few words.
"Your brother Xu is very careful, so don't worry about him getting hurt."
Yu Xiu nodded reluctantly, changed into normal clothes, and then sat on the sofa in the living room with Yuan Chi waiting for a reply.
In the end, instead of receiving a reply, I waited for the twelve bells to ring.
By the time the two came to their senses, they had already entered the dimensional space and received the new final mission.
At this time, on the second floor of the radio building, the sunlight shone through the glass windows, which was warm and moving. The office workers coming and going were busy with their own work and no one paid any attention to them.
"Upstairs?"
Yuan Chi was a little unsure.
At that time, Yu Xiu had just sent a message to Xu Zhiyan, and seeing this, he also felt that he should go upstairs, after all, the final mission was written as the 31st floor.
"Let's go upstairs! Brother Xu will definitely go up there too."
Although he felt a little embarrassed, Yu Xiu felt that the Xu Zhiyan he knew would not give up the final reward.
But just when they thought they could go upstairs so easily, they encountered an unexpected incident when they reached the third floor.
A yellow-haired player asked the NPC in the corridor how to use the elevator.
When they heard the question, the two did not notice anything unusual. They thought they could take a ride on the elevator so they wouldn't have to climb the stairs.
But who would have thought that the NPC would laugh strangely and ask the player, "Don't you know that the elevator here is not usable? You shouldn't be here."
Then, the NPC holding the information loosened his hands and screamed.
This sound seemed to trigger some kind of switch.
The entire sunny building suddenly turned dark and cold, as if it was overlapping with the buildings in the outside world.
The NPC turned into a mummy while screaming and pounced on the yellow-haired man.
"We saw Huang Mao kill the mummy white-collar worker. He used a tool to chop him into many pieces."
Yu Xiu recalled what had just happened, and his voice became increasingly low.
Yuan Chi leaned over and added.
"It's no use. The mummies here seem to be controlled by the rules. They won't die!"
Next comes the escape.
After the person who shouldn't be there appeared, all the staff in the building seemed to have entered mummy mode, wandering around the building trying to catch the humans who had strayed in.
On the other end of the video, Xu Zhiyan frowned after hearing this.
In the building of the Regular City, only the people in the News Department were mummies, but now in the dimensional space, the rest of the people have also turned into undead mummies.
He was not sure if Bai Jin had done this, but he needed to get to the building quickly.
There was no rush to call out the eDonkey.
After walking onto the main road, Xu Zhiyan discovered that people in the dimensional space loved going out very much. Not only were there many people on both sides of the road, but there were also many vehicles on the road, making it a bit crowded.
Considering that he was not familiar with the place and his driving skills were not very good, Xu Zhiyan walked quickly on the street.
He kept looking around, as if looking for something.
A few minutes later, Xu Zhiyan finally found what he wanted - the fire station.
He spoke into the still-on video, arranging what to do next.
"Yu Xiu, you and Yuan Chi find a window and see if you can use props to set fire to the upper floors of the building and then call the police. I remember that Jin Hangchen seems to have the skill of shooting out flames. If you can find him, that will be fine."
The system wanted the player to take the box back, so it only dropped him to the edge of the city while guarding against him.
Assuming the system is really capable, it could just drop the players on the 30th floor, or at least the 25th floor, but it seems like everyone is just hanging around on the second and third floors, and they're quickly discovered, just like a firewall...
It’s hard not to associate it with slices!
Therefore, climbing up the building from the inside would probably be twice as difficult as before. Not to mention the large number of undead mummies alone would be enough to give players a hard time.
Not long after Yu Xiu hung up the video message, Xu Zhiyan heard the horn of a fire truck.
From a distance, thick smoke was billowing out of a window on the upper floor of the City Central Broadcasting Building.
Fearing that he might do something that was not in keeping with his status and turn everyone in the city into mummies, he simply summoned a small electric stove and waited in the shadow of the building.
Two fire trucks rushed out of the gate with sirens blaring.
Immediately afterwards, a small pink electric scooter followed the two police cars at lightning speed and headed towards the radio building.
In the live broadcast room, the audience was amazed.
[Laughter was sacrificed, but Xiao Baiwan actually thought of riding on a fire truck! 】
[Xiao Baiwan is so miserable. He has been targeted all the time. I feel sorry for him... But, his tail is moving when he rides his bike! ]
[This road is indeed not suitable for cycling, but Xiao Baiwan's skills are really bad. He can already enter a five-star dungeon, but he has no physical enhancement, no powerful attack skills, and his mental strength is probably not high. ]
[It's hard to say, but most of the others who have the advantage in strength can run fast, so there's no need to go through so much trouble, they can just run there on their own two legs.]
[After all, he is lucky. If he didn't have money and props to support him, it would be really difficult for him to clear the dungeon. ]
[…Fuck, I’m willing to trade my physical enhancement for a few million dollars! ]
[This is so funny. Can you guys pay some attention to the fire truck? Didn't you notice there are no firefighters in this utopia? It's fully automatic.]
[Hahahaha, there is one. I saw him sitting in the back of the car. It should be a career choice. Some people’s hobby is to be a firefighter. ]
With the fire truck leading the way, Xu Zhiyan rode smoothly all the way.
In just less than ten minutes, he successfully arrived under the radio building.
After putting away his electric scooter, Xu Zhiyan discovered a problem.
Although two fire trucks drove over, only one firefighter got off. It seems that although the city is equipped with a fire-fighting system, as a created dimension, everything can be improved by itself.
A firefighter who looked to be in his forties appeared with a hat and a serious face. Looking at the quiet building, he was a little puzzled.
"This is the first time there's a fire in the city, why is there no one coming out..."
He walked to the door of the building in confusion and wanted to go in to take a look, but found that the door was locked and he could not get in.
At this time, the fully automatic fire truck has already started working.
It is clearly just an ordinary ladder, but as it climbs upwards step by step, it seems to have no limit. It is obvious at a glance that these fire trucks are used by the owners of the space to maintain the stability of the space, which is not scientific.
He found that the ladder of a car rose to the 29th floor in the blink of an eye, and a water pipe from somewhere started working. Xu Zhiyan quickly climbed onto another car and took the ladder up.
Not all the windows in the building were closed.
When Xu Zhiyan went up, he saw a group of mummies chasing the player in the open windows of the 16th and 17th floors. He just didn't know whether it was because the system had placed the player on a higher floor or if the player was very capable.
But this has nothing to do with him anymore.
When the ladder was placed next to the window on the 30th floor where the fire had been extinguished, Xu Zhiyan successfully used the ladder and returned to the 30th floor.
There are still a lot of water stains on the ground, which were sprayed by the fire truck just now.
Thirty floors may not sound very high, but looking down from above, even the old man in the fire safety suit can hardly be seen clearly.
Retracting his gaze, Xu Zhiyan casually looked around the room.
The 30th floor this time is different from the 30th floor outside. There is no screen or high door. The room with curtains burned by props is an office. It is empty and has nothing inside.
As expected.
If the building inside the space overlaps with the outside, then the mummies outside only exist on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth floors, and there should be no such things here.
The person who set up this insurance mechanism is probably very confident in himself.
Thinking of Bai Jin, Xu Zhiyan pursed his lips and said nothing.
The progress of the safe house has never been as fast as it is now.
How long has it been?
The progress has jumped from 9% to 90%, a tenfold increase.
Leaving the empty room, Xu Zhiyan looked at the corridor in front of him.
As expected, there was a thick layer of dust here and it looked like no one had been here for a long time.
There was a sign that read "Live Broadcast Plan" hanging on the office at the end of the corridor. Apart from that, there was nothing hanging outside the other rooms.
Xu Zhiyan walked quickly to the door of the live broadcast planning room and turned the door handle.
"Blat!"
The door opened, and when he walked in he realized that the room was much larger than he had imagined.
In the room that no one has used for many years, there are a lot of materials piled up and papers scattered on the ground, which is very disorderly and random.
Bending down to pick up one, Xu Zhiyan looked at the contents on it. It was a personal file.
[Zhang Yichen, male, current age 53…]
[Life experience: Started talking at ten months old, entered kindergarten at four, parents divorced when he was six, entered primary school at the same year...]
This file has many pages.
The first part of the content is relatively normal, all related to personal information, but the life experiences that follow are somewhat incomprehensible.
Where else would the age of a person be recorded when he or she starts speaking?
But after flipping through several pages, Xu Zhiyan discovered that the other person's personality had changed since he was 19 years old. He did not become less or simpler, but on the contrary, he became more.
[19 years, 3 months and 1 day old, got up at 7:12:01, found bleeding gums while washing, didn’t eat breakfast, sent messages to classmates on the debate team, repeatedly checked the materials before leaving, simulated the competition scene, asked and answered questions by myself…]
Too detailed.
The details are terrifying.
Xu Zhiyan's brain was working rapidly, thinking about the origin of the detailed files.
The year doesn’t match… No, maybe it doesn’t need to.
This is not the real world. Time is a relative concept here, and the owner of this space can indeed change everything at will.
If it is said that the person being recorded was recorded entering this space at the age of nineteen, then everything makes sense.
Xu Zhiyan quickly flipped to the last page.
[Predicted age of death: 61.12 (This target often stays up late, has a disordered lifestyle, and often drinks until dawn at the age of 40) The judgment is effective.]
"...Is this how you determine the date of death?" Looking at the content above, he didn't know what to say.
There are many accidents in a person's life.
This kind of god-like judgment on the fate of others reveals something about the attitude of the owner of the space.
The recorded humans can live the stress-free life they want, but when they reach a certain age, they still have to experience death, and even the time of death has been precisely calculated.
The city was polluted by the boxes and became no longer suitable for human habitation. An interceptor who came from nowhere became the savior and established an alternate dimension.
Judging from the 31st floor covered with papers and dust, the owner of this space doesn't care much about it.
Putting down the paper in his hand, Xu Zhiyan did not look at other contents. He had to find the way to the thirty-first floor as soon as possible.
But when he was about to leave and look for the stairs, he saw a face in the glass window.
It’s Chang Xingwei.
The opponent's hands and feet underwent changes, becoming the shape of suction cups, and his head was also somewhat deformed, like a giant gecko.
Chang Xingwei was very excited when he saw Xu Zhiyan.
"Boss Xu! We are about to succeed! I am only one level away!"
Just when Xu Zhiyan was about to say something, Chang Xingwei was suddenly shocked and hurriedly climbed up without even time to say hello.
The pursuers are coming.
Countless mummies followed along the path where Chang Xingwei had crawled.
The entire glass window was covered by densely packed black mummies.
Xu Zhiyan's whole body froze and he stood there without moving. He was worried about disturbing the mummy, so he could only step back in small steps, trying to minimize his presence.
However, things don't always go as planned.
The footsteps outside suddenly stopped.
Xu Zhiyan took a deep breath and looked up at the glass...a dozen shriveled faces were staring at him.
The next second, the glass shattered.
“Crash——”
Xu Zhiyan, who had already moved to the door, quickly stepped back, slammed the door shut, and ran toward the corridor.
Damn it! How could this be?
On the 30th floor of the Rules City Broadcasting Building, in a room behind a high door.
The plastic boxes piled at the door suddenly cracked, and countless blood flowed out. The videotape that rolled out was almost broken into two pieces, with only a thin piece of plastic connecting them.
A man in a suit, whose figure was too shadowy to be seen clearly, stood up from the pool of blood.
It bent down and picked up the videotape with disgust.
"Is it broken? It doesn't seem to be completely broken yet... Will he be angry?"
The arrogant Bai Jin looked at the videotape which seemed to be completely useless, and the image of the little anchor was all in his mind.
"He...will...be angry..."
Another low and hoarse voice was heard, coming from the little transparent creature that had not been completely swallowed.
After hearing what Xiao Tou Ming said, Bai Jin threw the videotape in his hand to the ground, with a relaxed expression, as if he had thought of a brilliant way to pass the buck.
"This pot belongs to you. I said you broke it. He will definitely hate you."
It felt the instability of the space, so it planned to give up the fusion temporarily and take a look, but who knew that this videotape was so fragile and it tore apart easily.
Fortunately, the power was not completely swallowed up, and now I have someone to blame.
In the room, Xiao Tou Ming was so shocked that he was speechless.
“…”
It didn't understand what the word "pot" meant, but it felt that the creature in front of it, who was of the same origin as it, definitely had no good intentions!
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