Chapter 201 Safe House
"Have you completed the fusion? How bad is my videotape? How many points will it cost to repair it? Is it S-level?"
Xu Zhiyan didn't think there was anything wrong when he asked.
But he is not a fool.
After the silence stretched for more than a minute, he realized that the videotape he had kept all the way might not be saved.
However, considering Party A's outstanding capabilities, Xu Zhiyan pursed his lips and asked hesitantly: "How bad is the damage? Can it be repaired?"
The words he said were meant to be inquiring, but his beautiful eyes were fixed on Party A, as if he would start killing people if the other party said it could not be repaired.
Honghong, who couldn't control herself, felt the murderous intent, and tried her best to suppress herself and stop jumping around.
The ghost, who had no one to blame, spoke in a very light tone, as if he already knew that he had done something wrong and was a little at a loss.
"I'm sorry... maybe..."
"Maybe something?"
Xu Zhiyan looked at Party A's embarrassed expression and tried to hold back, but finally couldn't help it. He took two steps forward and stared at the other party.
Perhaps it was the height difference that made him feel that his problem lacked some power, so he reached out and grabbed the ghost's collar, trying to lower the other party.
…stuck.
Due to lack of strength, Xu Zhiyan pulled hard but failed to move Party A at all.
The ghosts and gods reacted belatedly and quickly lowered their heads to cooperate.
The two were very close, and He could feel the young man's hot breath hitting his face, and the other's beautiful eyes were full of His figure.
He knew in his heart that Xu Zhiyan was angry and he should apologize obediently.
But as the distance got closer, the ghost found that he had no way to control his wandering thoughts.
Suddenly, the collar was loosened.
Xu Zhiyan was shocked by the power gap just now. After thinking about it, he let go of his hand and turned his head away angrily... Damn, it's so embarrassing!
Calm down, ghosts and gods are his party A.
He could only force himself to grit his teeth and stay sane.
The air became quiet again.
Just when the ghosts and gods were unsure whether to give the young heir a little hope at this time, the monsters who went to the ghost-hunting live broadcast room to look for benefits came back.
"Bang!"
The door in the center of the hall that was previously closed was pushed open from the inside. In the rippling waves, countless hideous monsters walked out holding strange things.
"Hello, Brother Xu!"
"Brother Xu is back! Wow, look at what I found this time..."
"Let&%*%..."
"I...I...I also found...a very powerful tool!"
"Brother Xu..."
Dozens of monsters were holding a lot of large objects in their hands.
The red change occurred before the monsters entered the copy, so when the monsters came back and saw the mess in the room and the ghosts and heirs standing in opposition to each other, they did not notice anything unusual.
Lao Yang, who was hiding in the corner on the second floor, accidentally witnessed it all. Just as he felt relieved, he was startled by the last few monsters that rushed in.
"The videotape...is broken into pieces. It's all slag."
A black one-eyed monster, its body was like slippery jelly, and its translucent black body was inlaid with countless fragments and debris. One could imagine how difficult it was for it to collect the videotapes.
Xu Zhiyan didn't care about the ghosts in front of him, and suddenly stood in front of the one-eyed monster, reaching out and digging out a piece of videotape debris from it.
【name:? ? 】
【Level: ? ? 】
【Introduction:? ……】
[Special note: This item has been damaged. ]
Although he had already gotten a glimpse of things from the reactions of the ghosts and gods, Xu Zhiyan still felt so heartbroken that he almost fainted when he saw what was displayed on the panel.
At this time, Qu Ji, who was responsible for cleaning up the mess, also returned to the safe house with the monster's trunk propped up on his back.
"Brother Xu! This phone is actually a prop!"
It didn't have time to close the door and ran over holding a dirty cell phone.
Xu Zhiyan, who was still immersed in grief, was stunned and quickly took it.
[Name: Mobile phone (contact person)]
[Level: A]
【Type: Communication】
[Introduction: A strange communication item with special rules that can travel through time and space to communicate with the most important people, but there are restrictions on the number of people, and communication will not be allowed if the bond is insufficient. ]
[Notes: Only one message can be sent or received every 24 hours, and the word count is limited to 20 words.]
[Spiritual Threshold Limit: 0]
"External contact?"
Xu Zhiyan was cheered up and immediately put the videotape of the dismembered corpse behind his mind and started to study the new thing in his hand.
Qu Ji was very excited and explained the origin of these props.
"Usually, players cannot take this kind of item out of the dungeon. It will be recycled after the players log out."
But this time, the mobile phone prop that everyone had was thrown directly onto the floor of the dimensional space by Xu Zhiyan after he discovered that there was no signal. When other players left, they took out the space created by the slices, allowing the monsters to take advantage of it.
At first glance, the phone looks quite capable.
But after careful consideration, I found that this function may not be useful to every player.
Judging from the information currently known, most players enter the game alone, and the most important people for normal people are often family members. In order to fully play the role of a contact person, two players must enter the dungeon without forming a team.
If used well, it is a powerful tool for passing levels; if used poorly, it is useless.
Xu Zhiyan looked up at Guishen, frowned and hesitated for a long time, then turned to look at Qu Ji beside him, followed by Honghong who was hiding in the corner, and Liuliu who was holding the trophy...
Who should I choose to bind?
Since the panel contents were shared after returning to the safe house, the ghosts and gods naturally saw the contents of the props.
When Xu Zhiyan turned his gaze away from him, He spoke lightly.
"The monsters may not be able to bind."
Without even a panel, what could these monsters use to compete with Him? Of course, they had to bind to Him!
Xu Zhiyan nodded regretfully, put away his phone, and planned to discuss it later.
At this time, the hall of the safe house was almost filled with all kinds of messy things brought back by the monsters!
The new mobile phone props eased Xu Zhiyan’s sadness. He finally had time to look at all these doors, windows, and elevators… What kind of junk are these?
Seeing Xu Zhiyan's confused face, Qu Ji spoke hurriedly.
"Brother Xu! Don't be fooled by the plain appearance of these things. They are all engraved with the power of rules... cough, and there don't seem to be many items to find in this copy."
The monsters nodded and put down the doors, windows and fences in their hands.
"By splitting the power of the rules above, it can be transformed into the power of the safe house!"
"In this case, it's not a loss at all!"
"That's right! Take out the main system!"
"? Ah, are we going to destroy the system..."
They were infected by Xu Zhiyan after staying in the safe house for too long. When they were taking things out of the copy, they wanted to take away even the ground.
After hearing this, Xu Zhiyan finally smiled for the first time since returning home.
"Good job, everyone, put away your things first, and clean up the hall as well. When you're done, tell me how Red turned into Blue. As for the main system, put it aside for now, there's no rush."
Keeping your emotions stable in front of your subordinates is what a good businessman should do.
Xu Zhiyan clapped his hands, signaling everyone to start working, and took out all the duck backpacks he had looted from the supermarket, threw them on the ground casually, and waited for the monsters to count them.
Finally, he looked at the sticky mass of blue blood in the corner and said jokingly, "Honghong, do you want to change your name to Lanlan?"
The monsters were amused by this question and rolled up their sleeves to work enthusiastically.
Seeing that the storage inventory in the hall was proceeding in an orderly manner and that the heir of the safe house neither pursued the matter of the videotape nor the fire marks near the fireplace, the ghosts and gods finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, just when he thought the matter was over, Xu Zhiyan suddenly turned his head, glared at him fiercely, and whispered.
"Have you figured out how you're going to explain the tape?"
“…”
Damn, I still remember it.
Ten minutes later, the ghost stood in Xu Zhiyan's bedroom, waiting for his successor to take a bath.
The shell only restored the body but not the clothes, so when Xu Zhiyan came back, he was still covered in dust, and there were holes on his clothes from the fire that had burned him in the copy.
The sound of running water hitting the tiles was heard. The ghosts and gods were standing there obediently when they bumped into the little monster that came to deliver juice drinks.
He looked down at the bucket full of ice cubes and the unopened bottle of Coke beside it, hesitated for a moment, took only the Coke and an empty cup, and let the monster take the ice cubes away.
"Bang!"
The translucent bathroom door was pushed open, and Xu Zhiyan, who had changed into a loose bathrobe, took a nice hot bath, finally feeling like he was alive again.
"The bathroom in that rental house was so small and weird that I didn't dare to go in and take a shower at night, for fear of encountering something scary again. I brushed my teeth and washed my face in the kitchen."
He cursed and sighed, then took the cup handed to him by the ghost. He took a sip and frowned again.
"Where's my ice?"
Without ice, Coke loses its soul!
"Your body can't handle it."
The ghost answered seriously.
When he said this, he was a little nervous, worried that Xu Zhiyan would be angry, but compared to an angry heir, he didn't want to see the other party get hurt because of the rules in the copy.
Xu Zhiyan paid the price of his gallbladder in the copy, and his body became unusual.
Without waiting for his retort, the safe house system, which had been restless and wanted to jump out to say hello, finally came in handy.
[Host, good evening! We have searched the Internet for you. It is not recommended to eat greasy, spicy and irritating food in your current situation. Raw, cold, hard and difficult to digest food is also not recommended. It will easily cause abdominal pain! ]
“…We are just getting started.”
Forced to learn the science, Xu Zhiyan did not refute and drank two more sips of the soulless Coke.
He found that he didn't hate being cared for.
In the past, he always thought that these tiny details were unimportant and unnecessary, but when they were really taken to heart, he knew what it felt like.
With this episode, Xu Zhiyan finally revealed the matter of the videotape being torn.
Although he encountered a lot of things in the previous copy, most of them had answers, but there were still many things he was unsure of.
Now that he had plenty of time, he planned to ask carefully.
"Does my sister exist or not?"
Taking out the contact, Xu Zhiyan clicked on the screen and glanced at the text messages that had not been completely deleted.
He always felt that his sister was someone else.
Although the messages were eaten after the system discovered them, before the system was replaced, most of the messages were correct prompts, and they were very active with a strong personal subjective tone.
If his sister is still in the phone, can he use it directly without a new binding?
The ghosts and gods didn't expect Xu Zhiyan to still be entangled in this.
The slices of information he absorbed did not contain much about the game, but more about plunder. He was attracted by the power of the box, so he broke through layer after layer of the world in a daze.
"The box is the source of the mutation."
The story of ghosts and gods can only be told from the beginning.
"People in the city are divided into two categories, the ignorant and the infected."
The broadcasting building had already been built before the slices invaded the space, and contamination was inevitable.
"Before the slices found the box and established the dimensional space, all the infected were divided into pollutants and nutrients."
The transparent 'they' are nutrients, while the pollutants are different. Those silent men in black suits, or the monsters that devour 'them'...all of them are mutated from the polluted ones.
"The 'sister' in your phone is one of them."
However, the sister turned into a broken pollutant attached to the mobile phone, and because of her love for her brother, she still retained some rationality.
"Even if it's contaminated, does it still retain its feelings?"
After listening to this, Xu Zhiyan took out his phone and started searching for any remaining messages.
"I couldn't see anything else in this phone before, but now it's finally unlocked." Although it's not nice to look through other people's private content, this is his prop after all, so there should be no problem in taking a look, right?
It’s just that Xu Zhiyan was worrying too much.
Even though it's unlocked, there's not much in it.
The text messages remain the same, but there are a lot more photos in the album.
The first one is a photo of the two of us.
A short-haired girl in her twenties was pulling a reluctant boy to take a photo.
【Year X/6/12】
【13:23:06】
Glancing at the date above, Xu Zhiyan was slightly stunned.
The ghost reminded: "It is the day you enter the dimensional space."
Then, time began to fast forward.
The years of the photos jumped one after another, extending back for several decades. The girl who took a selfie with the camera at the beginning also grew from a youth to a middle-aged woman, and finally turned into a handful of yellow earth.
Seeing that Xu Zhiyan seemed to have not reacted yet, the ghost coughed lightly and explained.
"It was devoured by the system in the dimensional space. Theoretically, it would be transformed into other pollutants. However, in that space, the rule set by the slice is that all polluted people will enter the dimensional space..."
The situation was already extremely urgent at that time, and the system had no time to take care of the escaped contaminated person.
The eliminated sister gained new life in the space.
After time accelerated, from its perspective, it lived its life smoothly.
“That sounds pretty good.”
Xu Zhiyan smiled, lay back on the bed and began to delete photos.
While deleting, he kept mumbling, "Not everyone has the opportunity to live a peaceful life in such a utopian world. It's quite enviable."
He hadn't expected any response to this question.
But the ghost unexpectedly took over the conversation.
"You can, too."
The low voice that was usually cold, ruthless and powerful suddenly became exceptionally gentle.
"My strength has recovered a lot."
The slices recovered this time have enormous power in themselves, and coupled with the box that Xu Zhiyan desperately brought back, what he gained is much greater than before.
If Xu Zhiyan is tired, or doesn't want to run around in the dungeon anymore, he is fully capable of setting up a barrier for him.
"The power I got this time is enough to upgrade the safe house three levels in a row. If you want, you don't have to enter the dungeon again. I can..."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Zhiyan, who had been like a boneless man just now, immediately turned over and sat up straight, moved closer, stared at the ghost with burning eyes, and urged him to speak.
"What did you say? Say it again."
The ghost didn't understand and could only repeat what he had just said. The conversation between the two became strange.
"If you want, you don't have to..."
"No, not this one. Go on."
"I have regained a lot of my strength."
“Behind! Behind!!”
"The safe house has been upgraded three levels in a row...?"
"Damn! That's awesome! Grandpa's entry was not in vain!"
"???"
Xu Zhiyan, who had just felt a little envious of his sister's happy life in Utopia, immediately stood up, his eyes smiling into crescents, and his joy was about to overflow.
"Why don't you go into the dungeon... The economic environment in this world is not good. I have worked so hard to run a company in this world and how much money can I make? How much can I make in the next dungeon?"
Infinite games are not all bad.
There are elixirs that can heal wounds, exchange items that can extend lifespan, and even some talents that are out of reach for ordinary people. They are all clearly displayed in the mall, waiting to be unlocked.
"If I don't pursue more benefits, then my life will be meaningless."
Xu Zhiyan abandoned his lofty ambitions.
I immediately called up the system panel and found that it had indeed been upgraded to three levels, and the points were about to overflow.
[Safe House Level: 8]
[Room key to be unlocked: 9]
[Number of skill points that can be activated: 3]
[Currently available for dungeons: ≤★★★★☆]
[Supply Restoration: Level 8 (Supply Store Unlocked)]
[Status Enhancement: Level 1]
[Special upgrade: None]
Last time there was still one key left, and this time after three levels were upgraded I was given eight keys, and the number is about to reach double digits.
It seems that we are only one step away from opening the technology tree using the Nightmare Community!
This was the first time Xu Zhiyan got so many disposable keys that he didn't know which room to open first. When he was hesitant, he suddenly turned around and looked at the ghost.
"Come to think of it, I didn't see any extra organs on you this time. What part did you slice this time?"
He sat cross-legged on the bed, extremely curious.
In the past, no matter which part of the slice was taken back, he could always see that there was something more or less on Party A's body. But this time, he looked left and right, but he didn't find any extra organs.
The tail twitched under the hem of his clothes, rubbing against the bathrobe and making it itchy. Xu Zhiyan waited for the ghost's answer.
The next second, he suddenly spoke haltingly.
"Wait...wait? Why...what are you taking off?"
The ghost in front of him was silent for a moment, then suddenly reached out and began to take off his shirt. Xu Zhiyan quickly waved his hands, his mind full of thoughts.
Could it be an object of low status? No, that's not right... This time the slice is very serious, and I am thinking of turning it into a Tamagotchi, so my mind is clean and hygienic.
The ghost paused while taking off his shirt, laughed softly, and answered.
"It's pure power."
"Or rather, a piece of skin imprinted with power."
The fabric with excellent drape fell to the ground, revealing the upper body of the ghost. When he turned around, his smooth and powerful muscle lines were clearly visible.
A flame-shaped pattern that looked like it was about to burn appeared on the back of his shoulder blade. If you look closely, you can see faint spells around it.
As if worried that Xu Zhiyan couldn't see clearly, more dark spells appeared after a moment.
Xu Zhiyan was stunned and confused, but when he felt the temperature in the room rising, he quickly stopped.
"Okay, okay, got it."
But he was really curious, why could someone be able to separate the power separately? Shouldn't this kind of thing be evenly distributed throughout the body? Moreover, the content of the power displayed this time was slightly different from the ghost himself.
"So all your attacks are fire-based? Um, elemental attacks?"
As if he had guessed Xu Zhiyan's confusion, the ghost chuckled and spoke.
“This may not be my original strength.”
He had a vague feeling about this when he had recovered the slices several times before.
It is highly likely that He is not a positive existence.
The Serpent God's Tail, the Eye of the Future, the Mark of Flame, these separated parts do not seem to be possessed by the same person or god at the same time.
The ghost felt that he might have been a...predator in the past?
“Power is invisible.”
"The flames are just a manifestation."
But in the end, He just brushed this speculation aside lightly.
Xu Zhiyan has not yet reached the level where he can split power.
After watching the ghost put on his clothes again, he stroked his chin and spoke with lingering fear.
“No wonder it was able to level up three times in a row. It seems like the slice was really strong this time. Fortunately, it didn’t fail in the end.” Thinking about the slice that allowed the safe house to win three levels in a row, he now realized how much risk he had taken for the points.
As if he thought of something, Xu Zhiyan suddenly shook his head and smiled.
"Now that I think about it, my luck isn't that bad! When I first met you, I didn't know how strong you were. I just wanted to get more benefits."
The gods and ghosts high above agreed to his demands.
The temperature in the room dropped, and the ghost approached the young man sitting on the bed and spoke in a gentle and soothing voice.
"No, it won't hurt you, and I won't hurt you either."
"Um?"
Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of disbelief.
The ghost stretched out his hand and placed it on the back of the young man's head. A second later, the hair that was originally stained with water instantly became fluffy and dry.
"Pure power is the least affected part. Unlike other parts, once power leaves its mark, it is also the least likely to be eliminated."
He leaned down, his gentle gaze blocked by the talisman paper.
"When this power touched you, the mark it left took effect."
"Protecting you is the meaning of its existence."
Xu Zhiyan was stunned, and subconsciously asked back: "Protect the successor of the safe house?"
"No."
The ghost shook his head slightly, his fingertips fell on the side of the young man's face. After retracting his power, his body temperature disappeared again.
"It's to protect you."
"Protect Xu Zhiyan."
He couldn't tell how excited he was after getting the memory of power. This fragment of power rarely retained some memories.
"I think we should have a past."
"When I gained this power, all I thought about was you."
The ghost covered the young man's eyes with cold fingers, and spoke in a low and slow tone, telling the fact like a confession.
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