Chapter 198: Spirit Exploration Live Room
The cold and damp interior contrasts sharply with the sunny outside the window.
Xu Zhiyan hid behind the door, motionless.
After he closed the door and ran away, he immediately turned around to look for the passage to go upstairs, but just when he saw the safe passage from afar, a vibration came from upstairs.
Next came the mummies pouring out from the top floor.
In desperation, Xu Zhiyan could only change direction immediately and find an empty room to hide before the large number of mummies found him.
After the corpse saw it, a new status appeared on his panel - guilty.
[Status: Guilty]
An eye icon is added behind the guilty state.
However, there is currently no explanation for this status. Even if you click on the details, there are only a bunch of question marks, which is annoying.
Later, he received news from Yu Xiu and others one after another.
One of the tips is not to cut off the mummy's limbs, because every time you cut off a part, the mummy will split infinitely, like some kind of worm.
In addition, Yu Xiu and Yuan Chi also had a guilty feeling. Everyone was very confused and didn’t know when this feeling appeared. Did it happen as soon as they entered the building?
Xu Zhiyan leaned against the door, thinking about how to respond.
Each of these mummies is not very strong, and can even be said to be weak, but they will not die... Are they going to set it on fire again?
Just when he was unsure of what to do, Yu Xiu sent another message. Perhaps he was too anxious and didn't even have time to type, so he could only send a voice message.
"Brother Xu! Don't use fire. These mummies will explode if burned, and even the body parts will break apart!"
“…”
Xu Zhiyan gave up the idea of using props.
In the live broadcast room, the audience was shocked to see such a large number of monsters.
[The monsters in this dungeon are really awesome! ]
[Indeed, being strong in the physical sense is really like a worm virus in a computer, which never dies and multiplies infinitely.]
[So how do you usually deal with this kind of monster? ]
[It's actually easy to deal with, just trap it. Players with space-related skills or items should be able to do it, right? ]
【? ? Do you want to listen to what you are saying upstairs? Do you think anyone can control space? 】
[Hot knowledge, space props above level A, except for storage items, anything that can attack or block attacks is basically priceless and cannot be bought! ]
[But Xiao Baiwan is rich, right? If he is so rich, he must have offensive space props worth hundreds of thousands of dollars! ]
[… Xiao Baiwan is so stingy that I bet one point that he will never use it until the last moment!]
The comments in the live broadcast room are correct.
Xu Zhiyan does have the tools to deal with the current situation.
He is the heir of the safe house and owns all the belongings of ghosts and gods. It is normal for him to have a few heaven-defying props.
But that doesn't mean he will use it.
Whenever he thought about the prices of these props, Xu Zhiyan felt that having this thought was disrespectful to his points!
He held the phone in his hand, his brain racing, trying to figure out if there were any other solutions.
Now that he had found the stairs, should he drive up to them in one minute of absolute safety? No, no, these mummies hadn't pushed him to that point yet.
Considering the cost-effectiveness, Xu Zhiyan lowered his eyes and looked at his mobile phone.
If you can get intelligence without spending money... Is there anything in the world more suitable than Party A's slice? Bai Jin should still be integrating Xiao Tomoyu, so if he asks in advance, it shouldn't alert the enemy, right?
【When will you come to see me? 】
He pretended to be calm and launched the message, trying to lead the topic to the radio building.
Xu Zhiyan thought he would have to argue with Slice for a while, but when the other party's reply came, he actually took the initiative to change the topic.
[Where are you in the city? If you see the Broadcasting Building, don't go in. Those disgusting contaminated people are coming again. The building's defense mechanism has been triggered.]
Huh? I'm so sleepy and someone sent me a pillow!
Xu Zhiyan replied quickly.
[Hey? But I'm already waiting for you in the building! What is the building's defense mechanism? I'm a little scared. [panic.jpg]]
Even though he knew his true identity had probably been exposed, he still sent a cute emoticon, after all, you shouldn't hit someone who smiles at you.
【……】
The six dots reflect Bai Jin's complicated feelings when he received the news.
The 30th floor of the Rules City Broadcasting Building.
Bai Jin, dragging his half-fused body, stood in front of a large number of screens. He discovered that other rules had modified the rules for creating dimensional space.
But considering that its body has not yet been fully integrated, it cannot enter...it cannot let the other half of the pure power enter inside.
“Damn it.”
This controller with extraordinary power encountered trouble for the first time.
It was forced to separate itself from the semi-fused power, and the decent suit that was shaped according to human rules began to fall apart.
Tiny flames covered its entire body.
After the flames burned out, the naked skin was faintly revealed with black spells.
"what are you up to?"
The little transparent thing that had been excluded got a chance to breathe, and tried to ask the guy in front of him who had the same power source as him.
"A lot bolder?"
Bai Jin didn't expect that the other half of the quiet and weak power would now dare to ask about its itinerary.
"But this is not something you should know. Stay away from me. You cannot enter the dimensional space. Tsk, this is really troublesome."
The man who took off his suit was extremely irritable.
It stopped being hard on itself and allowed itself to communicate in a human way.
With just a frown, black flames began to burn in irregular shapes on the floor of the space. The other half of the invisible body rolled over and stopped.
"You...can't...kill...me..."
When the little transparent creature was first burned by the flames, it was subconsciously afraid, but soon it realized that these flames had the same origin as itself.
Bai Jin, whose figure became increasingly blurred as the battle was divided, became furious after hearing these words, but he found that he had no good way to beat the other party.
"How annoying! The lost power has grown a brain and thoughts?"
This matter really cannot make sense!
After glancing at his phone, Bai Jin decided not to bother with the unknown person anymore.
"I want to reply to the little anchor, please be quiet." After saying that, it was unsure about how to reply.
When the human host escorted him into the coffee shop, he showed thundering means, without any regard for the old times. If it hadn't found other ways to leave, it would probably still be trapped in the coffee shop now!
Afraid? Take it as a fool?
"Oh, I don't believe it..."
[Which floor are you on? Leave the building as soon as possible. ]
[The defense mechanism will only appear when it is triggered by the contaminated person, and is used to guard against those disgusting guys who are contaminated by the box. ]
Although he said he didn't believe it, Bai Jin still replied to the message seriously in the end.
It is a little worried about its little anchor.
Entering the building at this juncture was no joke.
In an empty office on the 30th floor of the dimensional space.
Xu Zhiyan concentrated and waited for a long time, and finally got news from Bai Jin.
[I'm on the second floor, and there are mummies here, the same mummies as those in the building outside! And they seem to be crawling on the glass, so scary QAQ, are they contaminated? ]
"Can you give me some useful information?" He frowned and waited for a reply.
Bai Jin’s new message is full of a sense of coaxing a child.
[No, the polluted ones are another kind of creatures. They are very bad and will catch human anchors like you who have not been polluted yet to feed the box, so you should leave quickly now.]
Xu Zhiyan resisted the urge to roll his eyes, grasped the point and muttered: "...Hey Box?"
It seems that I need to ask more questions.
[What are these mummies? So scary! ]
The moment it was sent, Xu Zhiyan held his breath and listened attentively.
Outside the room behind him, there were footsteps and slight vibrations, but they were not coming in his direction. He was not sure if there were other players being chased upstairs.
【They are evil fruits and cannot be killed. 】
[As long as the box is still there, they will stay here forever... Never mind, there is no point in telling you this, just leave the building as soon as possible.]
Bai Jin's patience seemed to be running out.
Xu Zhiyan noticed the other party's impatience, but he didn't care. Relying on his thick skin, he shook his tail and continued to send messages.
[But my legs are weak and I can't walk. I'm so afraid that a mummy will see me.]
His ultimate goal is to find out the mummy's weakness.
Soon, Xu Zhiyan received Bai Jin's cursing message, and also knew how to deal with the mummies without consuming props.
[Don't panic, I will temporarily separate from my other half of the power and then go find you. Forget it, damn, if you encounter a mummy, don't run, just hold your breath and walk over. ]
Looking at this, combined with the content in the status bar, Xu Zhiyan understood where the feeling of "guilty conscience" came from.
These mummies are activated as the building's defense mechanism and will only attack living people. Anything that should not be in the building will become a target of attack.
But the judgment that it "should not appear in the building" is a bit confusing.
If he guessed correctly, then except for living people who could breathe, all creatures that ran away after a face-to-face encounter would be judged as "guilty".
After all, this copy was more difficult, so he was very cautious. He checked his panel before entering the building to make sure he had enough mental strength and made sure he did not get into any strange state before entering the building.
That explains it.
When he looked at the mummies outside before, he was not judged as guilty, but when he moved backwards silently, he was labeled as guilty.
It is very clear what to do next.
When you encounter a mummy again, just hold your breath and ignore the mummy walking towards you, and you will most likely be able to get rid of your guilty conscience.
In the live broadcast room, many viewers cried out that it was a scam after learning the method to crack the mummy.
[This is easier said than done. Hundreds of mummies are rushing towards you, and you have to walk past them without any effort... Damn, just thinking about it makes me excited.]
[It is indeed exciting. The most important thing is that this news was obtained through an NPC. Who can confirm whether it is true or not? ]
[I wouldn't dare to do that if it were me. It's too scary to face a group of undead monsters without taking action.]
[Infinite game players still need to be more courageous! ]
[What a courage! What if what the NPC said is a lie? Aren’t there enough times when NPCs are malicious and donkey-like? ]
[This is so funny. This idiot financier just had his coffee shop shut down by Xiao Baiwan. How could Xiao Baiwan still believe his lies? He is so brave.]
[+1 to the above, I wouldn't dare to do that. ]
The spectators watching the fun had no idea of the identity of the slice.
However, Xu Zhiyan did not believe it completely. As the barrage said, he had not had contact with this slice for a long time and was not sure whether the other party was so sincere.
However, if you can use this method to avoid mummies, it is equivalent to reducing the cost of using props, which is worth a try.
After making the decision, Xu Zhiyan turned his head to the door and listened quietly to the sounds outside for a while.
After making sure there was no sound outside, he took a deep breath and slowly opened the door of the room - what came into view was a shriveled and charred face.
!!!
The mummies who had been waiting for a long time were standing in groups outside the door, facing him.
Xu Zhiyan widened his eyes and held his breath for an instant, resisting the urge to retreat and forcing himself to stand upright. Fortunately, he took a deep breath before opening the door, otherwise he would definitely gasp!
His calm performance prevented the mummies outside the door from moving.
But the feeling of having dozens of eyes falling on you is really uncomfortable.
Xu Zhiyan did not dare to retreat. He walked outside almost as if he was running away, allowing his arms and shoulders to touch the mummies.
But the moment he touched the mummy and then broke away, images began to flash through his mind...
The person in front of him was a staff member of the building before he became a mummy. He had very few memories, only fragments of his busy schedule in the building, all of which were related to the latest live broadcast.
Work badges smelling of ink, piles of planning reports, strange photos among the stolen cultural relics...
In the blink of an eye, countless fragments washed over Xu Zhiyan's mind.
He really wanted to stop and look through these memories carefully, but the situation didn't allow it.
Previously, Yu Xiu sent him a note of reminder from his neighbor.
The most important piece of information above is that there is no radio building in this city!
If what the neighbor said is right, then what kind of people are the staff in the radio building?
The bad consequences, the polluted, the ubiquitous rules, the invisible ones...
Considering other places in this city, even if humans die, they will not actually turn into mummies. They will usually turn into some other strange creatures, and the existence is different in different places.
What's missing...
There's something missing from these clues!
But Xu Zhiyan didn't have time to think now. It was already difficult for him to just hold his breath. He had to speed up...
More mummies squeezed in, and countless fragmented memories related to the building were forced to fill his mind.
Finally, after passively receiving the thought fragments of seven mummies, he finally realized the solution - as long as he stayed in contact with the mummies for more than two seconds, he would get each other's memory fragments.
But more than half a minute had passed since he held his breath.
Before he was about to suffocate, Xu Zhiyan quickened his pace and quickly squeezed out of the pile of mummies...
But there are too many mummies here.
Damn it, do I really need to use props, or is there an absolutely safe time?
The desire to breathe made Xu Zhiyan feel a little dizzy.
Just as he was hesitating and gritting his teeth, a loud noise suddenly came from the glass on the side of the corridor.
“Pah pah pah…”
It is Chang Xingwei who has transformed into a gecko.
The originally normal eyes had now become much larger, standing upright on both sides of the head like two huge light bulbs. The color of the skin had also become mottled, and it looked more and more like a gecko.
He failed to find the window to enter the thirty-first floor, and the player was unable to break the glass on the top floor from the outside.
During this time, he cracked a lot of glass on the 30th floor and below, and also let many players in the building find out that they could get out from the outside, but they would be chased by zombies.
After going around in circles, Chang Xingwei finally decided to enter the building from the 30th floor.
He didn't see Xu Zhiyan, he just quickly climbed over the window, but this action attracted the mummies around him.
Serving as the building's protective mechanism, they are very sensitive to those who are guilty of their crimes, and will almost instantly swarm into the windows, break out, and surge up the walls of the building.
In the blink of an eye, there was no one around Xu Zhiyan, and the mummies disappeared.
"Huh - finally gone."
Temporarily out of danger, he leaned against the wall, his chest heaving violently as he took big gulps of fresh air.
However, there was one more prop left, which made him feel a lot more relaxed. It seemed that the mummies that had just passed through the corridor were chasing Chang Xingwei, but the other party had been walking from the periphery, so some of the mummies were left in the building.
Looking up at the safe passage in the distance, Xu Zhiyan calmed himself and walked towards the corridor.
At this time, he finally had time to think about the existence of the mummies.
Bad consequences, why are they called bad consequences?
Assuming that what the neighbor said is true, then these mummies should not exist, but it is also possible that the neighbor's memory is flawed.
From the previous conversation, we can know that the houses on the edge of the city are the territory of the ignorant and are a safe place.
In other words, both the landlord and the neighbor may be ignorant.
It’s just that the landlord and the neighbor behaved completely differently.
From the landlord's perspective, there are no tenants downstairs and no one lives in the building, but he can communicate with the director in a suit and the contaminated people.
From the neighbors’ perspective, the Broadcasting Building does not exist.
She also reminded people not to use electronic devices with screens. Since she said that, it proved that her neighbor must have seen some malicious intent being transmitted through the screen, and then she herself resolutely followed this action...
The pieces of information seem disorganized, yet they are all connected.
Xu Zhiyan could only sort it out slowly.
It was not until he pushed open the door of the emergency passage and walked upstairs that he suddenly realized a problem.
There is no 'them' in this world.
It's not that it's not possible, but the controller of the dimensional space does not allow it.
Xu Zhiyan felt as if he had grasped some scattered ideas, and following this thread, he pulled out more content.
Previously, he had always believed that if the people in the city were polluted, they would become "them", becoming this invisible and intangible strange form.
But now it seems that it is not just that.
He tried to put the regular city and the dimensional city together. This was actually a highly similar city... no, it was almost a complete replica of the city.
There are many 'people' in the dimensional city.
And in regular cities, there are a lot of 'them'.
At first he didn't quite make the connection between what was here and the transparent creatures outside.
Until he just remembered that there were many pedestrians on the street outside, and during the abnormal time when he was trapped in the supermarket before, countless people walked on the street, making it very bustling and lively.
The radio building can overlap with the buildings outside, so why can't people overlap with the outside?
Thinking of this, Xu Zhiyan quickly took out his cell phone and looked at Bai Jin's message over and over again.
【Don't bring 'them' in. 】
[Don’t bring videotapes in either.]
[I will temporarily separate myself from my other half’s power…]
[They are very bad. They will catch little human anchors like you who have not been polluted yet and feed them to the box...]
The little transparent person appeared in the state of "they", and Bai Jin repeatedly emphasized that "they" should not be brought in.
Uncontaminated people feed the box? Instantly, Xu Zhiyan sorted out his thoughts!
At this moment, the cell phone in his hand vibrated slightly.
[Sister: What are you waiting for? Don’t you want to save your audience? ]
The system resigned itself to its fate and discovered that even if it threw all the other players in, in the end, no one could outrun Xu Zhiyan in climbing the stairs.
It can only urge the other party.
Unexpectedly, when Xu Zhiyan saw the news, he sneered and said, "Why are you in a hurry? I'm not in a hurry at all."
Sure enough, it’s still a familiar recipe.
When he first saw the content about saving the audience in the mission, he felt that something was not right. It was too positive and completely different from the previous game system that indiscriminately pitted everyone.
After trying to figure out the concept of how the entire city operates, Xu Zhiyan finally understood what the audience is.
The box that the system is obsessed with is the source of pollution.
Under the pollution of the box, the whole city presents very complex rules. Almost every place has its own rules, and none of them are repeated or related.
"This city shouldn't have been a separate copy, right?" Xu Zhiyan sneered.
【elder sister:……】
Seeing that the system did not answer, he simply put away his phone.
Powerful pollution sources are placed in the city, dividing the city into multiple areas. According to the system's ideal expectations, this place will probably be divided into many small copies.
Abandoned cinemas can pull people into movies, a school bus that has been looping for ten years falls into a lake every night, and undead mummies called "evil consequences" fill the entire building...
It seems that any one of them can be taken out separately and made into a new copy after upgrading.
"If you want me to go upstairs to find a box for you, shouldn't you give me some extra compensation?" Xu Zhiyan smiled as if he deserved a beating.
But he knew in his heart that no matter what, he would not open the box.
Bai Jin mentioned "feeding" and would rather strip away its own power than let the little transparent one in. As a predator, it should have only one reason to do so, to keep the box stable.
'They' in the city are the nourishment.
The invisible body that is separated into two halves after being polluted is the best food to feed the source of pollution.
Now in the entire space, there are only players thrown into the system, and there is no existence of "them" separated.
Players are treated as new nutrients to take back the box.
The final task is to open the box, not to take it away, which proves that as long as some power is fed to the box, the source of pollution can be freed from Bai Jin's control.
After thinking it all through, Xu Zhiyan simply stood in the corridor, looking at the stairs going up, and raised the price on the spot.
“It should cost a lot to open the box.”
He pulled up the control panel, his expression gentle and his voice soft, "You've seen the current situation. Chang Xingwei, who you're optimistic about, can't get in. I'm the best candidate to open the box."
Chang Xingwei was caught for exploiting a loophole. I don’t know if it was a premeditated plan of the system, but it has little to do with Xu Zhiyan’s request for money.
He pretended to be innocent while twisting the ring on his middle finger.
"I don't know why the final mission is to open the box, but I'm the only one who can go at the moment."
"Tongtong, my legs are weak now and I can't go upstairs. Do you want to give me some encouragement, like give me some points or something?"
【? ? 】
A panel popped up on the game system instantly, with only two huge question marks left on it.
It really wanted to refute, but at this time it seemed that except Xu Zhiyan, no one could successfully enter the 31st floor.
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