Chapter 356 Safe House
The sky is about to break through the clouds.
When the first ray of sunlight falls on the dilapidated ruins, the safe house is about to leave the dungeon.
The clown and Dou Hongshan were driven back to the courtyard to stay with other players. In order to conceal the situation of the two, the clown was beaten by the monster and fainted again. Finally, he was dragged into the yard by Dou Hongshan.
Everyone saw what the people looked like when they were sent back. The blood flowing from the gaps in the mine car was still on the ground.
Now the seriously injured clown was sent out alive. The other players noticed that the mask that had been hanging on the clown's wrist had disappeared. They guessed that someone had taken it away, but in the end they just looked at each other and dared not say a word.
In the side hall, Xu Zhiyan was playing with a clown mask in his hands.
Only after everyone else had left did he lose his relaxed expression and stare intently at Huo Min's shattered body displayed on the silver panel.
"Will the safe house log into that instance?" he asked.
[I haven't received any notification yet, but many doors have been opened to the public, so it is unlikely that I will be able to log into the copy where Mad Dog is today.]
The system was puzzled and guessed the intention.
[What's wrong! Does the host want to get the diamond that Mad Dog got?]
Xu Zhiyan pursed his lips for a while before ordering: "Mark this copy. If you have the chance to go there later, go and collect the bodies for Huo Min and his teammates." No matter what, he got the ghost mask, and in exchange, he felt that he should help collect the bodies.
The death of the Mask's successor dispelled the Joker's last concerns.
He did not ask Xu Zhiyan for the ghost mask again, but simply explained that the ghost mask could not be bound to a new player unless he died.
"Speaking of which, Dark Alley is pretty wicked."
Xu Zhiyan pinched his brows.
The previous user must die before the item can be passed on. Only one of the Joker and Huo Min can survive. Since the Joker is a coward, he is the most likely person to kill Huo Min.
"Forget it, let's send them away first. Hopefully we can finish all the conversations before the celebrations start tonight."
Xu Zhiyan urged the system.
According to the rules, the safe house will leave the copy when daybreak comes. The system is busy opening the door, trying to create time so that it can reach the door leading to the shell when the safe house leaves. If successful, it can save 1 million points for opening a new door.
[Okay! But how should we tell the outside world? Should we just tell the main system that we want to protect these people?] The system was somewhat nervous.
Xu Zhiyan quickly shook his head.
"Of course not. Just say that last time I intervened in the Monster Nest Island, the copy was out of program and there was a problem. I accidentally got stuck with a BUG."
Sending most of the players out is equivalent to ending the dungeon in disguise, and an announcement must be made to the players. You can't just put the fight out in the open.
After the system left, Asa asked carefully as he put away the video.
[Mr. Xu, why didn't you show any sadness or tenderness just now? ]
When the three of them saw the video just now, they all showed varying degrees of shock, but Xu Zhiyan reacted quickly and even talked about other topics, making him look relaxed and... a little cold-blooded.
[It would probably be better if you showed your kind side in front of them. ]
Artificial intelligence will make suggestions based on the most reasonable situation.
Glancing at the words above, Xu Zhiyan touched the cold and hard shell of the mask with a calm expression.
"These two guys were pushed out to the dark alley as targets, but they didn't think there was anything wrong with the summoner. We need to make these kind-hearted idiots understand that most people who can really run a force well are emotionless."
Whether it is the Joker, Huo Min, or even Dou Hongshan, they are all just pawns of the Summoner.
As for Xinan...
Now no one can even tell which faction he belongs to.
Or maybe he has already degenerated into a madman who has lost his mind.
…
[A BUG was detected in the copy of Doomsday Survivor 06. 】
[Some players left the dungeon early. ]
[The instance will end after half an hour and the settlement phase will begin.]
The players escaped smoothly. Before letting everyone go, Liu Liu asked the remaining 19 surviving players to sign a confidentiality agreement to explain to the outside world that it was an accident and not premeditated.
The internal rules of the safe house have been slightly updated, and the Joker and Dou Hongshan have retained the memory of their conversation with Xu Zhiyan.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner.
When the sun was high in the sky, Xu Zhiyan successfully received the reward for the points guessing game from the main settlement system, a total of 110 million points including principal and interest.
However, the information fed back by the system surprised him a little.
[Host! The main system did not have any special reaction when it received the BUG report, and many of the replies were busy.]
Xu Zhiyan was stunned.
How could there be no reaction?
He was the biggest winner of this round of dungeon, but the other players didn't lose anything either.
Wang Ying killed most of the monsters, and Utopia got the key to the End of the World dungeon in the settlement. Except for the five unlucky ones at the beginning, the innocent players left smoothly. The Joker and Dou Hongshan got their lives back...
As for those who survived, apart from the loss of the main system, the others might not have received more rewards, but they still gained something.
Xu Zhiyan had already thought about what kind of furious main system he would have to face.
However, nothing happened.
"Could it be that the diamonds taken away by Mad Dog are related to the main system?" he muttered to himself.
What a coincidence.
Just as the main system was still calculating, sending supplies from the safe house to kill the mimic, Xinan killed Huo Min, and the main system immediately entered a busy state.
There was still not enough information about other forces. Xu Zhiyan thought about it over and over again but still had no clue so he simply stopped thinking about it.
Returning to the lobby of the safe house, some monsters were preparing for the holiday celebration at night, while others were handling the remaining work. The atmosphere was busy and lively. Even the ghosts and gods sitting in the hall did not affect the monsters' performance at all. Each monster was full of enthusiasm.
Looking at the figures of the employees, Xu Zhiyan's heart, which had been tense due to lack of information, relaxed a lot.
The safe house at this time was very different from when he first came here.
He built this up bit by bit.
It is also the place he prioritizes protecting.
Walking to the ghost and sitting down next to him, Xu Zhiyan stuffed the unresponsive clown mask in his hand into his hands, and said in a relaxed but helpless tone: "I thought I could let the little mask perform a few shows during the celebration, but now it seems I have to wait a few more days."
He was driven by greed and wanted not only the strongest weapons in Dark Alley, but all of Dark Alley's inventory.
So he didn't have time to talk to the Joker in detail about becoming stronger, and just asked the two of them to go back to the alley first and meet again after getting more information.
The ghost stretched out his hand, touched the young man's soft black hair, and whispered, "Go and rest."
The login information is too hasty.
From yesterday till now, Xu Zhiyan has not had any rest.
He can eliminate the other person's physical and mental fatigue, but due to the habits developed over the years by the human biological clock, it is more comfortable to lie down and rest.
Xu Zhiyan pondered for a moment and nodded.
"The main system saves me a lot of trouble."
He originally thought that negotiations would begin when he logged out of the safe house. He had already thought of many excuses and even considered exposing his identity.
Now it is certain that something must have gone wrong with the main system, but how much information can be obtained depends on the methods of Dou Hongshan and the Joker. Considering the upright personalities of these two people, he is a little anxious.
…
I didn't get any sleep in the end.
Xu Zhiyan had just laid down and patted the quilt to catch an otter monster when he received an anonymous message.
【Two o'clock this afternoon, Corridor 16. 】
Corridor No. 16 Bar is a negotiation area hidden in the southernmost part of the black market. The reward is 50,000 points per hour. Regardless of whether you are the inviter or the invitee, all your actions within the shell that day will be modified and disguised as normal activities.
This was not the first time Xu Zhiyan received this invitation.
Thinking about the last time he met Gan Mi in Corridor 16, when the other party said they would never meet again, he stroked his chin and pondered.
…
At around one o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Zhiyan, who was used to arriving early, had already arrived at Corridor No. 16 as scheduled.
The melodious bard changed his low voice and played cheerful music.
The sound of the piano spread like a wave and finally disappeared into the air.
When he entered the bar hall, he saw a man in a black cloak sitting at the bar, drinking wine intermittently, with a golden hourglass with sand constantly flowing down next to him.
The bartender who was wiping the glasses realized something, looked up at Xu Zhiyan, then lowered his head and said something to the drinking customer.
The man picked up the hourglass and looked in the direction of Xu Zhiyan, then followed the waiter. Soon, another waiter came to Xu Zhiyan and respectfully led him to the private room.
The four of them, two in front and two behind, walked silently through the narrow corridor.
I don’t know if it was intentional, but the private room for this interview was the same as the last time.
"Bang--"
The waiter closed the door and left, leaving only two people in the luxuriously decorated space.
After removing the cloak and mask that concealed his identity, Xu Zhiyan lazily leaned back on the sofa and looked across with a smile on his face. His expression seemed relaxed, but in fact, he was tense all the time.
Every time I meet Gan Mi, it is a new experience.
The Smiling Tiger, who rarely smiles anymore, looks very busy. He is still wearing the neat suit he wore in the game with the buttons fastened to the top of his shirt. He looks reserved and calm, but his every move exudes a hint of danger.
Looking at the other person's angular face, Xu Zhiyan vaguely realized that the last time he discovered that Gan Mi had undergone a drastic change was after Enli died.
Gan Mi, who has shed her human identity, has undergone a complete transformation, bid farewell to her past human life, and gained greater power.
Just like last time, Gan Mi leaned on the sofa and let Xu Zhiyan look at her.
It was very quiet in the private room.
No one spoke and no one stopped it.
Xu Zhiyan's look was not polite, perhaps because the two of them had some friendship in the past, so after he noticed Gan Mi's change, his eyes were full of inquiry and curiosity.
Gan Mi hadn't been stared at like this for a long time.
Ever since his ranking continued to improve and he easily entered the top 20, the other players always looked at him with a bit of awe. Except for those few companions, no one dared to look at him like that in front of him. Especially after Cen Jinyue's death, he became the vice president of the Utopia. Even the players in the same guild did not dare to speak loudly in front of him.
After being stared at for more than ten minutes, and seeing Xu Zhiyan's expression change several times, shaking his head and frowning from time to time, with a lot of thoughts in his mind, Gan Mi spoke with disgust.
"Have you seen enough?"
He said the same thing as last time.
"Yeah." Xu Zhiyan nodded.
He was indeed curious, but rather than being curious about Gan Mi's changes, he was more curious about what Gan Mi was...what kind of existence a mimetic should be.
Gan Mi seemed a little disappointed that he could not successfully replicate the original conversation, but he hid these emotions very little and they were fleeting, not noticed by Xu Zhiyan at all. He did not go to get the wine, but instead took out a running hourglass from his arms and placed it on the table.
Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but look at the hourglass.
"What is this?" he asked.
Gan Mi replied in a gentle voice: "Props."
“…”
Xu Zhiyan was choked.
Damn, this thing keeps oozing sand, and the two ends are like endless black holes. How could he not know that it's a prop?
Seeing Xu Zhiyan's look of shock and contempt, Gan Mi couldn't help but smile. When he spoke again, there was a hint of smile in his voice: "This is a prop that can save my life. The heir of the safe house has countless resources. Who knows if you will do anything to me?"
This explanation was too unreliable. Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but twitch his lips: "I am the one who was invited. What are you afraid of? If anyone is afraid, it should be me, right?"
Listening to the other party's dissatisfied speech, Gan Mi glanced at the hourglass, restrained his smile, and talked about business.
"If you want to use your identity as the heir of the safe house to negotiate cooperation with me, then you can stop now. I will not betray the Utopia and join the safe house."
He didn't lay any groundwork, and from his tone it seemed there was no room for negotiation.
【Name: Memory Hourglass】
[Level: S]
[Type: Special]
[Introduction: A universal item that can be used not only in dungeons, but also in the shell and the real world. The hourglass is only effective for the holder. When the hourglass is flowing, the holder's memory will be erased. When the hourglass stops flowing, the holder will lose all memories during the period of use.]
[Notes: You can restore the erased memory by breaking the hourglass.]
[Spiritual Threshold Limit: 100]
He spoke toughly, but in fact, coming to see Xu Zhiyan was a traitor in itself. In order to avoid being noticed by Yan Chengfan, he didn't even dare to keep the memory of their meeting.
Gan Mi felt that he was more like a clown than that stupid clown.
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