Chapter 210 Safe House [End]
Sezier, ranked 17th in the standings, codenamed Pope.
As a mimetic, Sezier possesses a very outstanding talent. His characteristic is light, and coupled with his gentle and harmless appearance, the Pope is one of the few "good guys" in the infinite game and is very popular.
But recently, Sezier has encountered some minor problems.
At last week's Mimic meeting, he was once again targeted by the doctor who disliked him, and with the instigation of the Collector, he was assigned a new task.
Get rid of Xu Zhiyan...
When he received the task, Sezier did not think it was difficult.
Judging from the current behavior of this million-point rookie, he would probably enter a five-star dungeon next time, and the rest time in between would be very short. For this reason, he sent people to monitor the teammates of this famous profiteer, intending to get the exact time when he would enter the dungeon.
Infinite game copies, players can choose to actively enter. If they do not actively enter for a long time, they will be forced to enter by the copy assigned by the main system.
Normally, when the time interval between two copies is short, copies of the same star rating will be divided into the same copy.
Everything happened just as Saizier expected.
Soon, on a sunny afternoon, his men sent a message saying that Xu Zhiyan's companions received a copy entry notification while in the black market.
His failure to deal with the mad dog properly has made him a laughing stock and he has been ridiculed by doctor Song Longchuan for a long time.
So this time, the Pope made a lot of preparations and was ready to kill Xu Zhiyan personally.
However, when he successfully entered the dungeon with his strongest subordinate, the Iron Knight, he found that the situation was a little different from what he expected. Xu Zhiyan was not at the initial login location.
This is a five-star prison copy.
The players are prisoners who have just been imprisoned.
He looked around but didn't find the target he needed to find.
Could it be that Xu Zhiyan didn’t enter this copy?
After all, his code name is Pope. After entering the copy, although Sezier failed to find the target, he remained calm.
He told himself that some dungeons were larger, and players might not log in from the same place. It was normal not to meet him at the beginning. After completing the pre-tasks, he should be able to meet Xu Zhiyan.
With this idea in mind, Sezier and his men quickly completed the preliminary tasks.
However, when the previous mission was completed and he led his men to the player's rendezvous point, an unexpected scene appeared before his eyes.
Piles of NPC prison guard corpses were piled together with the corpses of prisoner players.
On the high mountain of corpses, the ghost lion Wang Ying stood at the top.
The girl's blonde hair was completely soaked in blood, and her black and white striped prison uniform turned red. The blood flowed and gathered into streams.
"Hey? Why are you here?"
Wang Ying was standing on the pile of corpses. When she saw an acquaintance, she greeted him enthusiastically as if nothing had happened.
“…”
Sezier choked.
If there is a ranking list among players of who they least want to meet in a dungeon, Wang Ying would definitely be ranked first.
Normally, even if Yan Chengfan, who is number one on the list, enters a dungeon, he will behave himself for a while at the beginning, at least to understand the rules of the dungeon first.
But Wang Ying won’t.
This guy, who is known for his violence, seems to have no brains at all. After entering the dungeon, he will choose to harvest lives when there are relatively many people around.
Seeing the Pope's silence, Wang Ying grinned and walked down step by step, stepping on the corpse.
"Hey, what are you thinking about?"
"I think I shouldn't be here..."
Before Saizier finished his answer, there were some mechanical sounds around him. He turned his head and looked around, and found that there were square holes on the wall.
When the last remaining player entered the range, the door of the empty room slammed shut.
The black muzzle of a gun protruded from the hole in the wall.
Punishment for violations is about to begin.
"It has been detected that a player has violated the rules and killed an important NPC. We are now entering the punishment mode. Please be careful."
A cold broadcast appeared.
“Bang, bang, bang—”
"Boom!"
Then, without waiting for the players to react, countless ammunition flew out at the same time, sweeping the venue indiscriminately.
Wang Ying turned her body flexibly and moved quickly in the hail of bullets. She didn't care even if bullets occasionally shot into her body.
"Punishment mode? That's it?"
The girl who has reached the peak of her in-game combat power can even taunt the punishment mode while dodging.
But except for Wang Ying, everyone else present was unlucky.
Sezier stood where he was, facing the iron wall instantly built by the Iron Knight, which kept him unscathed in the first round of punishment mode shooting.
But when he heard the other men wailing and being shot, he couldn't feel happy at all.
Half an hour later, the protective wall disappeared.
Sai Qiye looked at the few remaining men behind him and Wang Ying who was shouting "That's it" in front of him, and sighed deeply.
It's true that misfortunes never come alone.
Not only did he fail to capture Xu Zhiyan, but he also lost a bunch of his men.
But soon, Sezier had no time to think about his loss.
The second round of punishment is coming.
…
Inside the Yunshan old house.
The safe house was in perfect order. Xu Zhiyan was curled up on the sofa in the hall, watching the live broadcast on his phone.
He looked toward the center of the screen.
The Iron Knight in steel armor is defending the Pope with due diligence.
"This pope is really unlucky."
Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but shake his head. He reached out and grabbed a handful of potato chips and stuffed them into his mouth. He ate them very sweetly, which was in stark contrast to the Pope's painful face on the screen.
[How miserable!]
The safe house system was also happily watching the live broadcast with its own host.
[There are only six left now, and three are seriously injured. They seem to be the Pope's men. I estimate that after a few more rounds, only the Ghost Lion Pope and the Iron Knight will be left.]
It also sighed like Xu Zhiyan.
[Alas, it is so heartbreaking to hear and see.]
[I thought you were already the unluckiest player No. 1. Looks like you still have some competition to do.]
Xu Zhiyan paused for a moment, and instantly felt that the potato chips in his mouth no longer had any flavor.
“Thank you so much for this ranking.”
What a crappy system, can't they give him a good ranking?
The unluckiest player? Well, he admitted that he was a bit unlucky, but he shouldn't be ranked first in such a list, right?
On the screen, the live broadcast is still going on.
After the sixth round of punishment, there were only three people left standing in the entire area.
Xu Zhiyan didn't continue talking nonsense with the system.
He continued to watch the Pope's every move.
After he decided to rush to the potential list, he no longer worried about the slice coordinates. Instead, he made an appointment with Jiang Huaique and others to enter a relatively low-level copy together.
He has to first get first place in the potential list and then wait for three months to get points for free.
There are still more than ten hours before entering the dungeon, and I came to watch the Pope’s live broadcast for another reason - there was movement in Yu Rou’s cocoon.
The woman who sacrificed herself to save her son was taken into the utility room by the monsters in the safe house after she turned into a cocoon. Although not much time had passed, Xu Zhiyan had experienced so much in between that he almost forgot about it.
After Yu Rou woke up, she maintained her identity as a human player. Although the settlement was not successful, she did not suffer any negative conditions.
As long as she successfully enters the shell, she can continue to maintain her identity as a player.
Xu Zhiyan did not show up.
He saved Yu Rou only because it happened suddenly and those not-so-beautiful memories suddenly attacked him.
Now that Yu Rou has woken up from the cocoon, he is not too interested in what the other party will do next. Not accepting the rescue money is already very merciful.
As for Yu Rou’s son Guo Kangshun?
Xu Zhiyan didn't waste any more attention on this kind of person, and was too lazy to even take a look at his live broadcast.
I heard that this guy who lost his mother's support had a miserable life in the game. Without Yu Rou's protection, he was taken advantage of by other players almost every time. When he barely got out of the dungeon, he didn't even have a good piece of skin on his body and was tortured.
However, as the new owner of the safe house, he had some other things he needed to get from Yu Rou.
The monsters in the safe house collected 100,000 points from Yu Rou as a toll for leaving the copy through the safe house, and before they left, they got some strange content.
"What means does the Pope have to pull ordinary people into the game?"
Watching the live broadcast, Xu Zhiyan frowned.
According to Yu Rou's narration, she was not like the others who were randomly selected to enter the game when they were alone, but was intentionally brought into the game by her son Guo Kangshun.
Although it was different from what Xu Zhiyan had guessed before, that there were other games similar to the safe house in the world, Yu Rou's words were enough to prove that in addition to the random landing point screening, there were other ways to enter the game.
[Host, should we collect information about the Pope's current identity recently?]
Normally, after players enter the game, the points they gain through the game can be exchanged for a large amount of real-world currency. In addition, the time to enter the dungeon is uncertain, so basically no one will bother to maintain a real-world job.
But Pope Sezier is an exception.
In his present life, he is an oncologist. Although he is not very old, he has a very good reputation.
According to the resume that can be found on the Internet, Sezier cured many cancer patients who had basically been sentenced to "death penalty".
Although not every case can survive, for patients who other doctors are completely helpless, he has a cure rate of nearly 70%, which is a very amazing number.
[According to Yu Rou, Guo Kangshun originally had cancer, but after the Pope’s treatment, the lesions completely disappeared…]
There was no need for the system to explain the rest. Xu Zhiyan could already guess what the other party had done.
The Pope brought these dying people into the game.
During the game, as long as the player does not die in the copy, he will not die.
Just like the weak state that Xu Zhiyan had been carrying before, people with poor health will continue to have related states, but as long as they can get the state-eliminating props, these diseases are not difficult to eliminate.
Glancing at the picture on his phone, Xu Zhiyan saw the Pope with a dark face, who was protected by the Iron Knight behind him. He changed his posture, very puzzled.
"I don't have any idea that the Pope can transform ordinary humans into players."
The skills in this crappy game are all kinds of weird, and it's not surprising to have this kind of skills that can be spread in the world.
But what Xu Zhiyan was more concerned about was the way Yu Rou entered the game.
"The Pope told Guo Kangshun that if he didn't want to participate in the next round of the game, he could get an extra month of rest time by bringing one person into the game, without having to enter the game..."
You only need to bring one person in for the first time, and you must participate in the next round of the game. There is no way to avoid it.
Starting the second time, the number of people required must be doubled as last time.
Xu Zhiyan shook his head, looking a little serious.
“It’s a bit like a pyramid scheme.”
One passes to two, two passes to four, four passes to eight…
There are always people who are afraid of game copies. In order to survive one more day, they drag innocent passers-by into the water.
Guo Kangshun is an example.
But he was lucky enough that his mother, the first person he recruited, suddenly became his greatest support.
"Can you hack into the medical system? Go and search for the Pope's patients in the real world and see how they are doing now."
Xu Zhiyan finished the last bite of potato chips and assigned a task to the system.
This type of regional viral spread will soon cause ordinary people in the world to fall on a large scale.
He wondered if only Pope's patients could exploit this hidden transmission, or if all players could take advantage of it.
[Good host! ]
The safe house system didn't think too much about it. After happily accepting the task, it hurried away.
When the ghost stepped out of the void, he saw his lover slumped on the sofa, instructing Honghong, which had turned blue, to serve as a mobile phone holder, while watching the live broadcast and mumbling something.
"what happened?"
He walked to the sofa, took the phone naturally, and freed Honghong.
Xu Zhiyan sighed and pointed at the Pope on the screen.
“I always feel like things are becoming more complicated.”
"Although this Pope looks like a good guy and has a good reputation both in the real world and in the game, I always feel like he is... just pretending?"
He couldn't think of a more accurate word to describe the other person.
To be fair, if the Pope's targets are dying patients, then they will die anyway, so it is understandable that they enter the infinite game and try their best to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle.
Even from the perspective of ordinary people, Sezier is doing good things.
But the patient that the other party brought into the copy...
No, it should be said that it is a virus. After passing through the hands of the Pope, those patients seemed to have turned into viruses and possessed some kind of infectious ability.
Seeing that the ghosts and gods were listening very seriously, Xu Zhiyan waved his hand.
"But I don't have any evidence. Everything is still unknown. Let's wait for the new investigation results of the system."
He is not one to judge unless there is overwhelming evidence.
"good."
The ghost nodded. He didn't care about anything other than Xu Zhiyan. He came here this time because there was new progress in the Nightmare Community.
He took something out of his bosom and handed it over.
[Name: Summoning Box F0z]
[Level: D]
[Type: Summon]
[Introduction: Created by a high-tech NPC, the way to obtain it is unknown, and it may be dropped by a copy of a higher-level life form. ]
[Notes on use: Can store and summon a D-level monster. A one-time item. The item will break when the monster dies. Correspondingly, as long as the monster does not die, the item will always exist.]
[Mental Threshold Limit: None]
"The development of summoning items is going smoothly, but the level is still too low."
Xu Zhiyan sat up straight, stretched out his hand to take the new prop, and sighed as he played with it, "I spent so many points, and I only got such a broken thing..."
However, although he expressed disgust, he was still very happy when he looked at the contents of the box.
"It's very similar to the summoning item that equipped the little brittle bone before."
Only the suffix model is different. It seems that the props obtained by the summoner are almost the same, except that the special NPC is changed to a high-tech NPC.
The ghost thought for a moment and replied, "When the Nightmare Community can produce C-level props, we will be able to see the specific model differences."
The current item level is still too low.
D-level monsters are not very strong. Even if you bring them into the dungeon, they will be a burden, so it is better not to bring them.
Xu Zhiyan put away the box, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly stretched out his hand towards the ghosts.
"Bai Jin, are you willing to enter the dungeon with me?"
The ghost was stunned, and he had not yet reacted to why Xu Zhiyan asked this question.
But when he met the young man's beautiful eyes, his body moved first and he gently placed his hand on the other's white palm.
"I do."
There was an imperceptible emotion in the man's deep voice.
It happened in the hall.
The monsters that were hurrying back and forth just now all slowed down their pace in an instant, fearing that they would make the slightest noise and ruin the atmosphere and get their heads twisted off by the gods and ghosts.
The two hands and feet were folded and held for ten minutes.
Xu Zhiyan suddenly seemed to lose his temper, his whole body collapsed, he withdrew his hand, and his tone was full of despair.
“Sure enough, not all players can go viral?”
When Xu Zhiyan was talking to the system about Yu Rou before, the ghosts and gods were not here, so after he learned that he could also recruit people to join in the real world, he considered how to get his Party A into the game as well.
Seeing the ghost looking confused, he shrugged and explained.
"…That's about it. I was thinking that if I could get you into the game, I could finish the game without having to do anything. I still have about ten hours to enter the game."
Xu Zhiyan sighed deeply.
However, when he looked down at his left hand that had just overlapped with the ghost, he found that the ring on his middle finger had changed color.
In the pure black round ring, bright spots of light appeared like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
"Huh? Didn't you say before that you want to store emotions?"
Xu Zhiyan still remembers that when he released the emotions in the ring on the mermaid cruise ship, the unfortunate Poseidon almost lost his consciousness, and he didn't recover until the end.
The ghosts and gods were a little at a loss.
Xu Zhiyan's invitation just now was too sudden, and he was unable to control his emotions. When the distance was too close, he was actually attracted by a lot of the love displayed by the ring.
Love that is revealed unconsciously is purer than love that is injected intentionally.
He didn't know how to explain it.
Xu Zhiyan didn't think much about it.
Because the entire ring contained too much emotion, he was afraid that slicing it would directly affect its collapse, so in the last copy he did not dare to let Party A put anything into the ring.
But looking at the little flashes of light on the black ring...
Well, it doesn’t look like much, should it be just right?
"Let's leave it at that for now. I feel that this level of impact should be okay. Let's not talk about the ring anymore and get down to business."
Not realizing the ghost's stiffness, Xu Zhiyan reached out his hand again.
"Did Asa give you a list of materials?"
He was about to enter the dungeon, and he cared more about his private property, so he had to sort out the affairs of the Nightmare Community first.
Whether it’s the last round of the game or the ring and the Pope.
Nothing is more important than making money. Only what goes into his pocket is his!
"have."
The ghost handed over a list of materials, and the contents on it looked a little unusual.
【Cypress hide carpet】
【Titanium metal ornaments】
[Sakamatsuba...]
Asa printed some strange things he had never seen before on a piece of white paper, with a line of small words at the bottom saying "the more the better".
Xu Zhiyan held the paper in his left hand, and with his right hand, he placed his hand on the ghost's hand and stood up.
These items are optional decorations in the host room, and like the items in the refrigerator, they can be regenerated infinitely as long as they disappear from the host room.
"Let's go! Let's go scrape the ground!"
"……good."
In the master room, there were already several monsters waiting outside the refrigerator in the small kitchen, continuously taking out food to supply the NPCs in the nightmare community.
A few minutes later, several more teams of monsters came in. Under Xu Zhiyan's command, some rolled up carpets, some moved ornaments, and even an entire set of cabinets made of precious metals were not spared.
In Xu Zhiyan's hands, the output of the entire master world was brought to its extreme.
"In this way, consumption can be reduced to a minimum. Many of the plants we picked from the hot springs before can also be used as raw materials." Xu Zhiyan hugged his arms and was very pleased.
The ghosts and gods looked at the messy world before them and remained silent for a long time.
"What about you?"
He remembered that Xu Zhiyan liked the furry carpet in the room very much, but since he knew that the output here could be used for the consumption of the Nightmare Community, the young man in front of him replaced all the soft carpets with animal skins that were a bit rough on the feet.
"Me? What's wrong with me?"
This question left Xu Zhiyan a little confused.
But he became extremely excited when he thought that all these things would eventually be transformed into props and sold to players in exchange for more points.
"With these supplies, the output of the nightmare community will be faster. When I have an advanced summoning box, I will try to put you in it." He stared at Party A and joked.
The ghost met the young man's teasing look and laughed.
He also wanted to accompany Xu Zhiyan into the copy.
…
More than ten hours later, Xu Zhiyan left the safe house and entered the previously selected four-star copy together with Jiang Huai, Que, Jin Sheng and Yu Xiu.
There are no ghost slices in it, and the difficulty of the copy is not too high.
After the Pope left the copy, he felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Xu Zhiyan’s live broadcast.
Four-star copy?
Why not five stars?
But he considered himself a patient hunter, and even if it didn't work this time, he could wait until next time.
As planned before, Saiziye asked someone to keep an eye on Xu Zhiyan's teammates, trying to find the right time to enter the same copy with them.
But the opposite happened.
Xu Zhiyan's copy entry became irregular.
From one star to four and a half stars, he entered all dungeons except the five-star dungeon.
More than three months.
When the Pope entered the copy again and did not see Xu Zhiyan, a strange calm arose in his heart.
It's not like he hadn't thought about using universal props to catch Xu Zhiyan in the shell, but later he discovered that Xu Zhiyan was also elusive in the shell and was difficult to find.
After searching for three months, I still couldn't find Xu Zhiyan successfully. The process was too bumpy.
So when Sai Qiye really saw Xu Zhiyan in the copy, his first reaction was that he was hallucinating.
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