Small gift
When the huge crowd saw the three of them alone, they rushed over directly like a hungry wolf seeing delicious food.
Fortunately, each of them wanted to be the first to try something new, and no one wanted to give in, so they crowded each other and slowed down their pace.
The spare room was not big to begin with, and in the chaos someone even stepped on someone else's foot. The person who stepped on someone else's foot tripped and fell heavily to the side, hitting the person next to him.
Xu Cheng took out his gun, checked the bullets, and pointed the gun at the crowded crowd.
His feelings are very complicated. On the one hand, he knows that these are innocent people in essence. They do such things because they are controlled, and they will return to normal later. But on the other hand, he knows that he has no choice.
One is morality, the other is responsibility.
He is walking on a single-plank bridge and must make a choice.
Xu Cheng closed his eyes, lowered the muzzle of the gun and aimed at their legs.
At the same time, Luo Tan called Xiao Ai and started searching for props in the system mall.
"Tools that influence the aim": Make bullets never hit the target?
No, no, the one holding the gun is her teammate!
"Bawang Anti-Hair Loss Cream": Grow a huge amount of hair in ten seconds, and the bald kid next door will cry with jealousy.
Luo Chen imagined the scene: No, no! What's the point of having long hair? Is it to trip up the enemies? She thought that the first person to be tripped would be herself, who had very poor flexibility and uncoordinated limbs!
Are there any reliable props?
…
Luo Tan searched for a long time and finally found a prop that seemed to be useful in a corner.
Never mind, let's give it a try.
She selected the item and tapped the redemption button expertly.
The next second, a dialog box popped up.
"Sorry, you don't have enough points."
Luo Tan was confused:???
The system explained: "It is detected that you have accumulated 1,000 points in both the Aerial Highway Killer incident and the Aksai Mudslide incident."
Luo Tan: "1000 points is not enough. Weren't the previous items worth 500 points?"
System: "Sorry, affected by the macro-financial market factors such as the global interest rate cut and price increase, we have made some adjustments to the prices of props. The current prop prices are generally 1200 points and above."
Luo Chen: "...No, you are the system, the system! What does the global macro-financial impact have to do with you!"
But no matter how mad she got, this damn system refused to reply even a single word.
The road to redeem props is blocked, but the real danger is already at hand.
Xu Cheng's bullets were fired continuously, and people were hit every moment, but it still couldn't stop the large army like zombies from approaching them.
One of them was agile and dodged several bullets shot at him, then rushed directly towards Luo Chen.
Luo Tan: ...Help! This guy bullies anyone he sees as easy to bully.
She dodged the man's swift and sharp kick, but the man was a police officer after all, and his physical functions and fighting skills were all trained. Just when she was about to be unable to avoid the man's grappling technique -
"Plop!"
This martial artist, whose body should have been extremely coordinated, did a huge split in front of her and then fell to the ground with a thud.
Luo Tan: ? ?
Could it be that I have some natural protection?
Anyone who wants to kill me will be killed by God?
She carefully extended a finger and felt the man's breath.
Then I found that he was still alive, with a peaceful expression and steady breathing, as if he was asleep.
Luo Tan: Do I look hypnotic?
The next moment, she heard several irregular "plop" and "snap" sounds at the same time.
In her sight, a large crowd of people fell down like dominoes, and even raised a cloud of dust due to the rapid speed of their fall.
Soon, there were sounds of groaning one after another. The people lying on the ground looked very peaceful, without any of the ferocious expressions they had before.
It looked like they were all having a good sleep.
Luo Tan, Xu Cheng and Andre looked at each other.
After several minutes, Xu Cheng finally said, as if waking up from a dream: "They fell asleep, right?"
The conclusion of falling asleep was placed before the three people, the real question was how did they fall asleep?
Andre said, "I don't know what happened just now, but I seem to have had a very long dream and just woke up."
He looked at the other two: "Are you asleep?"
Luo Tan and Xu Cheng nodded.
Andre thought thoughtfully: "I guess there is some mechanism that induces people to fall asleep, maybe physical or chemical."
Luo Chen suddenly realized something. She looked at the time on her phone and said, "The time difference from when they came in is almost equal to the time we fell asleep after we came in. In other words, the time it takes for this mechanism to act on the human body and make it fall asleep is basically fixed."
"How come this mechanism where I sleep first and then you sleep, and then he sleeps, is so similar to..." Luo Chen stopped talking halfway, but when she saw the other two looking at her expectantly, she finished the rest of the sentence: "Uh, have you ever played a game called Radish Squat?"
Seeing Xu Cheng and Andre both in confusion, Luo Tan sighed deeply. For the millionth time, he felt that all the skill points of this star were really put into the technology tree, leaving not a single point for other directions.
Luo Tan: "I don't know when they will wake up, so..." She looked at the diary that Xu Cheng had always held in his arms, and said sadly: "Let's finish reading the diary as soon as possible and try to find a way to restrain the evolution of the soul."
Otherwise, we dare not fight these batches of controlled people, and we can never fight them all. I really don’t know when it will end!
In the end, you still have to rely on studying to change your destiny!
Luo Tan watched Xu Cheng open his diary and turn to the part they had finished reading.
Facing Andre who was full of confusion and curiosity, Luo Chen briefly supplemented him with the previous situation.
After the three people's "learning progress" was basically the same, they prepared to continue reading the diary.
But they are not sure when the people who are sleeping now will wake up. Once they wake up, they will inevitably face another fierce battle.
So they need to speed up their learning process.
Although Xu Lan always says that she is lazy, she is actually no different from those top students who claim that they don't review but actually perform amazingly on exams. This diary is quite thick.
Xu Cheng flipped through a few more pages from where he had read last time, and discovered that much of the subsequent content described the researchers' experiences communicating with aliens. There wasn't a lot of useful information, and it was like two babbling kids pecking at each other.
He continued to flip through the pages until the diary, which was written a year later, finally caught his attention again.
Date: April 17, 2086
The aliens told us today that they would give us a gift.
But how is this possible?
Our two planets are separated by tens of thousands of light years and the natural barriers of the solar system and the Milky Way. It is a miracle that we can send messages to each other online.
Even if they are more advanced, it is still a fantasy.
Date: April 28, 2086
This morning, the security guard found a bag of very strange soil at the gate of the research center.
The texture and composition of that soil cannot be analyzed by our instruments and we have never seen it before.
The message from the aliens said that this was the gift they sent to us - a bag of soil from an alien planet.
"Gift", what a beautiful word.
We received their gifts, but no one was truly happy or delighted.
Date: April 29, 2086
Because of that unique gift, a fierce argument broke out inside the research center for the first time today.