Chapter 236 Split the Hospital
Xu Zhiyan could swear to heaven that before coming on this mission, he had never thought about selling the slices for money.
He was very happy with the way things had turned out...well, no, he was very nervous.
Touching the tentacles in his arms, Xu Zhiyan realized for the first time that power can be converted into money.
"Hey, stop for a moment."
Clearing his throat, he pushed aside the tentacle that was rubbing against his cheek, and interrupted the system that was quoting with righteous words.
This stingy search system is really too stingy. It took almost thirty bids to increase the price to six million.
"Six million is too little. Look, as soon as I put up my banner, seven million points were credited to my account. As a representative of the game system, you can't be worth less than the players, right?"
"One price, how about 15 million?"
He added 9 million points as soon as he opened his mouth.
【? ? 】
The game panel seemed to be stuck, and after a string of question marks, the black screen disappeared.
Hmm...it seems a bit high.
Xu Zhiyan frowned and tried to maneuver in the bargaining space he had reserved.
"If it's too much? Just tell me if it's too much. Don't disappear all the time. That's really unprofessional. How about this: let's lower the price, 14.5 million?" He looked at the game panel expectantly.
The system did not respond, as if it had no intention of continuing the communication.
Xu Zhiyan gritted his teeth and lowered it a little more.
"Fourteen million?"
This slice is not just one individual piece, but a semi-aggregate with extraordinary power. How can it be sold at a low price?
"Thirteen million eight hundred thousand?"
Just as he complained about the system's slow price calling, Xu Zhiyan began to bargain at a snail's pace, even with his opponent. Fortunately, he called out quickly, unlike the system which would add a bunch of nonsense every time after calling out.
…
Half an hour later.
When the bid reached 10.7 million, Xu Zhiyan stopped talking.
An equally matched opponent.
Equally matched.
In the dark space, no one spoke anymore, leaving only the rustling sound of the tentacles rubbing against each other.
By the time Xu Zhiyan pulled out the tentacles that were trying to get into his trouser legs, the game system finally responded.
[The bid is too high, and I don’t have enough authority. ]
Glancing at the sliced meat in the corner that was still in a shapeless state, Xu Zhiyan sighed inwardly and compromised, "We've been bidding against each other for half an hour. Why don't you just give me a base price?"
It seems that after Dr. Bai's personality woke up, the copy no longer deviated to other directions, otherwise the system would not have been bothering him for so long.
But he couldn't go find the slice now and say: "Please mess up the copy a little more!"
【Eight million.】
Finally, as Xu Zhiyan expected, the screen quoted a new price, but it was a little too low.
[This is the maximum amount I can apply for with my current authority. I hope players will consider carefully whether to refuse. I am willing to pay this only because it will be faster to appease the players. ]
"Too little, just kill me."
Xu Zhiyan resolutely refused to agree. He felt that with so many Party A slices, the total points would need to be at least eight digits.
[Eight and a half million. I will submit a report to my superiors.]
Seeing his refusal, the system was on the verge of breaking down, but had to make concessions.
"Eleven million. You have to submit a report anyway, so you might as well ask for more." Xu Zhiyan took over the conversation and said it as a matter of course.
【？ ？ ？ ？】
The system felt as if it was hallucinating. How could it remember that the player in front of it had just called for 10.7 million? Why did it add back the amount after he opened his mouth?
Why are there such shameless players in the world!
[Eight hundred and seventy-five... No, nine hundred, nine million is my greatest sincerity! Please don't raise the price just because you think you are a special NPC and obey your orders.]
Xu Zhiyan smiled, not afraid at all.
"How can seven figures justify my efforts in this dungeon? Has anyone touched your internal organs? Oh, I forgot you use a chip. Anyway, I deserve this guy to obey my orders!"
He bid with confidence.
"Ten million and a half."
The slices belong to ghosts and gods, and all things belonging to ghosts and gods are his, so rounding off the slices is also his. What's wrong with him making some money with his own things?
[Please do not think that the system has no other way to suppress this NPC. Even without it, the copy will not disappear. 】
The system was going crazy, but there was nothing it could do, so it could only threaten.
[Although it costs a lot, if you force the game to continue, the exit to leave the dungeon will still appear. If you don't leave, you will never have the chance to leave again! ]
It lists a dozen solutions.
But they are all very difficult to implement.
It can resolve if the special NPC is still in confused mode, or in fully lucid mode.
But now the opponent is in a state of being neither up nor down. He is a little rational, but not much. He is more controlled by instinct and can't help but stick to the greedy guy in front of him.
No, this problem cannot be solved unless Xu Zhiyan is taken away. If it really doesn't work, we can only wait for the other party to leave the copy.
[Nine million points is the final price. If you do not accept it, the game will continue.]
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Xu Zhiyan frowned, thought for a moment, and suddenly laughed out loud.
"Oh, you want me to leave the dungeon and stay away from Dr. Bai? Then I won't leave. At worst, I can just live in this dungeon for the rest of my life."
[Are you not going to leave this instance? Do you want to stay with the monsters?] The system's words were threatening me with things related to leaving the instance.
It was certain that the player would be nervous about leaving the dungeon and would choose to compromise, but this time it chose the wrong target.
"What's wrong with that?"
"Although Dr. Bai and I are not very familiar with each other now, once we get to know each other better, maybe we can become close friends."
As if to irritate the system, Xu Zhiyan raised a smile and spoke in a low voice.
"If we develop some other feelings, we can pick up a few kids from the trash can outside the hospital and raise them. We can have two in three years. We have a lot of time to live like this..."
【！ ！ ！】
The system is going to crash.
It has never seen such a shameless guy!
Who can tell it how things turned out like this!
After saying "holding two children in three years", Xu Zhiyan felt more tentacles crawling over him, and he couldn't help but look back at the dark corner.
Could it be possible that Slice could hear what he said?
No, it shouldn't be. If he could hear it, he would have been furious knowing he was being betrayed. I guess the system's barrier should still be effective.
Hiss, it's just a little tight...
He pushed the tentacles, no longer paying attention to the situation in the corner, and continued to negotiate the price with the system.
"Ten million and a half, I think this price is just right." The base number is so large that even if you remove a small fraction of the amount, it can be equal to the income of many players from several copies, so Xu Zhiyan was very strict about the amount.
【……】
The system is helpless, but continuing the stalemate will only make the accident in this copy bigger and bigger, and eventually out of control.
[The deal can be concluded, but the special mission reward needs to be erased. ]
"No! An SS-level item is worth at least four or five hundred thousand!" Xu Zhiyan planned to take both the extra points and the mission rewards.
【300S time retention.】
[Even if SS-level items are given, they will be useless. ]
Maybe he suddenly remembered that there was no live broadcast here, so he just gave up on the system.
"...Hey, is it really okay to say openly that this reward is useless?" Now it was Xu Zhiyan's turn to be shocked. It was the first time he saw a system that spoke frankly about the black box.
However, considering the system's usual inhumane style, he calmed down a little.
"Well, let's each take a step back."
"I don't want the useless SS props, but you have to promise that in the future dungeons, the system will not mention anything about Doctor Bai, including where he is and when he will come back."
【make a deal! 】
It has reasons why it cannot lose this NPC.
Xu Zhiyan was a little surprised to see the system agreed so directly.
He thought that this guy was going to cut off another half a million, but he didn't expect that he would give in so quickly... It can be seen that the system really cares about slicing.
In the copy of the Soul Tan live broadcast room, the players were so tired that they were like birds. He climbed to the top floor and knocked out hundreds of thousands.
Damn it, I can't tell whether it's because this slice is more important, or because the person in charge of the five-star copy has higher system authority and more money to squeeze out more oil.
However, looking at the points that were coming in so quickly, even though Xu Zhiyan was full of doubts, he had to suppress them.
[Points have been received, players are requested to calm down... appease as soon as possible. ]
[This special NPC has complicated feelings for you. We suggest you use intimate actions to appease him, but due to the rules, we hope you don't go too far. ]
【After calculation, it is determined that kissing is enough. 】
"……Oh."
Xu Zhiyan snorted coldly, feeling a little funny.
Want to be intimate but not out of line?
Forget it, it’s hard to make money, isn’t it just comforting! He is very good at it!
A kiss worth 10 million points...
Well, thinking about it this way, he is also very valuable!
Pushing away the tentacles wrapped around his calves, Xu Zhiyan stood up, stretched his hands and feet, turned around and strode towards the corner where Bai Jin was hiding.
Perhaps his action startled the other party, and the scaly ground made of tentacles under his feet suddenly began to tremble.
Xu Zhiyan frowned and faked a fall without thinking.
"Ah! I'm going to fall!"
He cried and lay down on the ground.
【……】
Six dots appeared on the still lit panel, showing the system's silence.
It wanted to say that it was so fake, how could its precious special NPC be fooled? But considering that Xu Zhiyan had just been injured and screamed randomly, which woke up Doctor Bai, it could only be as quiet as a chicken.
Just as planned.
Xu Zhiyan did not fall to the ground, but instead fell into Doctor Bai's scaly arms.
After a pause, he found that Dr. Bai was not pushing him out, but instead silently hugged him in his arms.
Putting his arms around the other person's neck, Xu Zhiyan used the force to change his position, sitting on Dr. Bai and raising his upper body.
"Doctor Bai, are you okay?"
"Um."
It was a calm reply, without a trace of emotion.
Xu Zhiyan felt a palm covered with black scales falling on the wound on his waist. When he touched the back of Doctor Bai's scaly hand again, the other party did not retreat.
...something's wrong.
If the reason she cut him in the slice just now was because she was afraid of being seen by him in his true face and was unable to regain her sanity, then why is she not reacting now?
If you are not afraid, how can you comfort him?
We can't really let him have sex with the monster slice!
In order to ease the atmosphere, Xu Zhiyan thought for a moment, then took out a small red bag from behind like a magician and shook it. There was a constant crisp sound of plastic collision coming from inside the bag.
There are various kinds of pens.
Fountain pen pencil ballpoint pen...
"Doctor Bai, this is the gift I was planning to give you. I thought it was lost, but I didn't expect to find it just now."
Considering that the slice in front of him seemed easy to coax, especially after turning into a monster, its intelligence was suspected to have decreased, so he talked nonsense and had no psychological pressure at all.
【？ ？ ？】
The gaming system was stunned.
Please don't be so stupid.
[If you want to give gifts reasonably, you can communicate with me in advance, and I will provide some reasonable ways, such as letting these gifts fly in through the gaps. ]
[You will make the special NPC feel insulted by your intelligence. 】
It is afraid that the NPC will not cooperate. What if it kills the player who has already paid the fee? Wouldn't its money be wasted?
Xu Zhiyan cursed inwardly.
Flying in here is even more insulting to one's intelligence!
After a while, Dr. Bai took the bag. It was still silent, as if it didn't know what to say.
As soon as the thing was out of his hand, Xu Zhiyan became more emphasized.
"This is a gift from me. If you like it, Doctor Bai, you can carry it with you. When you miss me, you can take it out and read it. You can use the pen inside to write."
After a long time, Doctor Bai's answer was heard in the darkness.
"……Um."
Listening to the ambiguous responses, Xu Zhiyan was a little unsure.
How come he became so depressed while negotiating the price? Could it be that there was something wrong with the mutation?
Now if I give a kiss, will the other person be happy to turn back into a human? It's a bit difficult.
His thoughts were racing, and just as Xu Zhiyan was hesitating about what to say next, Dr. Bai spoke first.
"Do you want everything to go back to the way it was before?" Its low, hoarse voice trembled slightly, as if it was expecting an answer, yet afraid of it.
"certainly."
Xu Zhiyan didn't understand, but still answered honestly.
"Now the whole world is filled with evil gods. It's terrible..."
This is the truth.
The NPC disappeared, and the time in this space also stopped. It is not suitable for human survival. He originally said that he wanted to live with Slice for a long time, but it was just a bargaining tool. It is highly likely that humans cannot survive here.
No one answered, and even the tentacles around it stopped moving.
After a long silence, Xu Zhiyan heard Bai Jin's second question.
"Does the wound still hurt?"
As it spoke, its scaly fingertips pressed heavily on the wound, stroking the edge of the turned-over flesh.
In an instant, Xu Zhiyan broke out in a cold sweat from the pain.
"pain--"
He cried out unconsciously and collapsed, but considering that he was making 10 million, he did not take any defensive posture, but reached out and hugged Dr. Bai, who no longer had a human form.
The blood scab, which had not yet completely hardened, was torn open.
The fresh smell of blood once again spread in this narrow space, filling every corner.
Xu Zhiyan's scalp tightened and his tense fingertips pinched Slice's shoulder.
He didn't stop. He felt the scaly fingertips didn't leave, but seemed to want to continue digging into the wound...
Damn it, in order to wake up Slice, he had to dig into his own wound to make more blood flow. With Bai Jin's strength plus the hardness of the scales, he would die!
Just as he was wondering whether this slice knew something, the other party's fingertips paused for a moment and withdrew from the wound on the side of his waist.
A string of scattered kisses fell on the tip of the young man's ear.
Xu Zhiyan's ears were very sensitive, and he subconsciously shrank back, a little confused, but then the wet kiss continued down, passing the base of his ears and neck, and kissed back to his jaw. The other person's cold breath after turning into a monster made him inexplicably think of ghosts.
Bai Jin’s kiss was very heavy, as if he was venting his anger.
A deep sigh followed.
In the end, the kiss stopped at the side of Xu Zhiyan's face and did not go any further.
"If that's what you want."
"Then everything will come true."
Doctor Bai's voice was filled with depression and another kind of emotion that was incomprehensible.
Xu Zhiyan suddenly felt some pain on his lips, and then he tasted the taste of rust seeping into his mouth. It was a blood-stained fingertips that touched his lips.
He felt like he should say something.
But before he could open his mouth, the scenery around him began to change.
The body of the evil god that covered the sky and the sun gradually disintegrated, carrying with it the smell of blood and decay, and turned into ashes bit by bit.
Xu Zhiyan felt Bai Jin draping something on him, and then a huge tentacle wrapped around him, as if it was trying to hold him up from the nest built in the sky and let him land slowly.
A dim light shone in.
Xu Zhiyan, who was being entangled and falling, saw Dr. Bai who was still there.
Its upper body was naked, and it had returned to human form. From the waist down, the black scales began to disappear one after another, gradually making it emerge from the monster state.
Perhaps feeling Xu Zhiyan's gaze, Bai Jin turned around and took one last look.
It opened its mouth, but no sound came out.
Everything happened in a flash.
By the time Xu Zhiyan reacted and wanted to say something, the tentacles wrapped around his waist turned to ashes.
The feeling of weightlessness passed by for a moment, and my feet landed on the ground.
Xu Zhiyan staggered and barely stood firm. When he looked up into the sky again, all that was left was the rapidly decaying body of the evil god. There was no trace of Doctor Bai.
He touched his shoulder.
Just before leaving, Dr. Bai put his coat on him.
Thinking of the lip shape the other person had just made, Xu Zhiyan hesitantly reached into his pocket.
"Did he say he had something to tell me..."
While mumbling, he actually bumped into something, a small note in the pocket of his clothes.
But before Xu Zhiyan could see the contents of the note clearly, sounds of fighting and shouting were heard in the distance.
"Get out of here! Don't stop me!"
It is the sound of the Jianghuai partridge.
The thunder-like sound made Xu Zhiyan unable to bother to read the note left by Dr. Bai, and he hurriedly looked for his teammates.
On the ruins in the distance, Jiang Huai Que was confronting the Iron Knight.
“…This is terrible.”
Xu Zhiyan's heart skipped a beat.
He had expected Jiang Huaique to come find him.
It was normal for the male mother to come looking for the safety of every teammate equally. After all, compared with his small body and his mutated appearance after being sliced, he did not look like he had any solution.
But he was totally unprepared to face the Iron Knight!
Jiang Huaique never thought that the seriously injured Iron Knight was still so strong. He almost used all his strength to fight the opponent to a draw.
It is hard to imagine how powerful the Iron Knights were in their heyday.
Fortunately, the other party did not want to kill him. The two men fought a chase for a while, near the evil god's body, dodging the evil god's indiscriminate attacks while attacking each other.
The moment Jiang Huaique saw Xu Zhiyan running towards him, his anxious heart finally calmed down.
He wanted to curse, but looking at the bleeding wound on his teammate's waist, all he could do was throw a box of recovery potion, stand in front of the opponent, and face the Iron Knight again.
New information popped up on everyone's panel, breaking the tense atmosphere.
【Special mission completed.】
【Special NPCs return to normal.】
[After 30 minutes, the player will be teleported back to the correct space. Players may feel dizzy during the process, so please don't panic. ]
Iron Knight was the trigger of the incident. She knew all the causes and consequences, so after seeing the prompt, she subconsciously looked at Xu Zhiyan.
The black-haired young man's body was covered with scars and bloodstains, but these scars looked a little...
She politely withdrew her gaze and even retracted her weapon.
In the distance, the figures of Saizier and others were revealed after the evil god's body dissipated, and everyone was exposed on the ruins.
Seeing this, the Iron Knight nodded slightly at Xu Zhiyan.
Just as she turned around and was about to leave, Xu Zhiyan, who was looking for clothes to wear, took the opportunity to speak.
"Zoffy."
The Iron Knight stopped and turned around in confusion.
"I am not familiar with you, Your Excellency."
Xu Zhiyan put on some clothes casually and said with a smile: "Oh, okay, then I'll still call you my old friend."
“…”
The Iron Knight said nothing.
Glancing at the Pope and others rushing over here, Xu Zhiyan hurriedly began to poach them.
"You and Sezier are not the same kind of people. Have you ever considered changing your teammates?" It's rare to have such a space for a calm conversation, so he has to persuade the person quickly.
Seeing that the Iron Knight seemed about to refute, he quickly waved his hand.
"Don't refute it yet."
"I've read your information. You were once a patient of Sezier's, right?"
Before he finished speaking, the Iron Knight suddenly raised his hand and threw down a gray prop. A faint circle of light spread out from under the feet of the three people.
Xu Zhiyan paused and almost bit his tongue.
This is a prop used in the live broadcast room. It can make the live broadcast rooms of all players within the range enter the dialogue blocking state. In short, the audience can see the live broadcast, but they don’t know what the players within the range of the prop are saying.
What the hell? Is the Iron Knight afraid that the news of her being poached will spread? That shouldn't be the case.
However, the next second, Xu Zhiyan found out the reason.
"I know what you want to say."
“I don’t have a terminal illness.”
The Iron Knight's voice was steady and his eyes were sharp.
These two short sentences disrupted all of Xu Zhiyan's future plans.
The information he had investigated previously showed that Iron Knight was a patient of the Pope before he entered the game, and that the Pope had deceived many people in order to lure them into the game...
Xu Zhiyan thought that the Iron Knight was so loyal because he really had a terminal illness and was rescued.
But now it seems that this is not the case.
During the conversation, the Pope and others approached. Xu Zhiyan watched the Iron Knight walk steadily to the side of the Pope with a protective posture, but the Pope did not even look at her, but stared straight at her.
If it’s not love, then what is it?
Xu Zhiyan became somewhat interested, but he had no time to ask. He met the Pope's resentful eyes.
"Hey, the bosses are here."
He waved his hand and grinned, looking like he deserved a beating.
After being released from the confinement room with great difficulty, Saizier was about to collapse. He raised his palm as if he was ready to attack in the next second.
"Xu Zhiyan! Today is your death—"
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Xu Zhiyan.
"Come on, hit me like this!"
He raised his neck and pointed at the kiss marks on his neck and ears, extremely arrogant.
Saiziye was stunned and subconsciously put down his hand, feeling a little confused. The Iron Knight at the side stepped forward in time, explained the reason for the appearance of the evil god, and stopped other people who wanted to attack.
The true form of the evil monster is Doctor Bai.
Xu Zhiyan waited until the Iron Knight finished speaking before crossing his arms and shaking his head, asking provocatively, "Why don't you fight anymore? Didn't you just say you wanted to kill me?"
"Well, it's a little difficult to appease the evil god, but if I die, do you think Dr. Bai will..."
He didn't finish his words.
But his pounding heart was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.
After selling the slices for more than 10 million, the other party will fall into hibernation. Whether you can successfully complete the final mission depends on whether you can fool these guys this time!
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