"Al, do you want to wear a sweatshirt too?" After hesitating for a while, Keli finally spoke. Although the couple outfits were just something Zhou Zhou said for fun, there were four people in their group and Zhou Zhou was the only one who didn't give Al clothes. Would he make him feel excluded?
Alvia didn't say anything, but looked at Zhou Zhou without any emotion.
Zhou Zhou blinked: "Al, don't you have any extra clothes?"
There was no intention in his words to give him one. After all, in Zhou Zhou's opinion, Shirley and Keli had no clothes to change, so he gave them one. But Al had other clothes to change into just like him. Could it be that he only had that one spare piece of clothing?
Alvia then turned her eyes away and took out another windbreaker to put on.
Shirley saw that Al was changing his clothes with great vigor, and she didn't know what was going on. She was laughing happily with Zhou Zhou just now, but now she suddenly couldn't laugh. She always felt that the atmosphere was weird. The four of them suddenly fell silent. Elvia turned to the other side to watch Wu Yu talking to other players, while Keli and Shirley looked at each other, seemingly not knowing what to say.
Zhou Zhou didn't think there was anything wrong. As expected, Al had a lot of clothes. He took out an identical black windbreaker. How many of the same style did he have? She obviously had clothes, but she still wanted his sweatshirt, and he was almost out of them.
Zhou Zhou snorted twice, looked over Shirley and Keli's heads, and asked about what happened after they separated.
There was only half an hour left on the countdown above Shirley and Keli's heads, and their health points were only half left. When Zhou Zhou asked about it, Shirley immediately complained bitterly.
It turned out that after they appeared on the sea, they found a small boat after swimming for a while. However, the two people did not realize at first that clothes soaked in sea water would also cause a decrease in health points. After staying on the boat for a long time, they were shocked to realize how much their health points had decreased. In the end, they waited until their clothes were dry before stopping.
When Shirley learned that Zhou Zhou and the others had flown here using props and that both of their data had not been reduced at all, she was extremely envious and decided that she would buy props next time.
"I don't know if the reduction in our numbers will affect our ability to clear the level." Shirley was worried.
Keli didn't dare to look at Elvia again. After hearing what Shirley said, he waved his hand nonchalantly: "Anyway, the resurrection items have been bought, there is nothing to worry about. Now that we have reunited with Zhou Zhou, there is nothing to be afraid of."
Shirley nodded. Yes, even if they were really eliminated, they still had the items to revive.
And... Shirley looked up and around. The stats above the heads of most of the players in the lounge had been reduced by more than half, and some had even turned red. Their stats were not too low.
The storm outside was still continuing. The ghost ship was sailing in the boundless ocean. As the waves rose and fell, the ship kept shaking, and at the same time, there was a sound of wooden boards being squeezed and rubbed, as if it would be overturned and destroyed by the waves in the next moment, which made people terrified.
Wu Yu in the crowd comforted the players very calmly. All the boats of the previous players were overturned by the waves, leaving only this one boat. Doesn't this mean that the subsequent tasks need to be completed on this boat? Gathering everyone on a ship allows them to take care of each other and complete tasks faster.
Just a few words calmed the panicked players. Although Cory next to him didn't speak, he always put Wu Yu first in everything, which added a bit of persuasiveness to Wu Yu's gaining everyone's trust.
Zhou Zhou was also listening to Wu Yu's speech. He seemed to have thought of something, turned around and asked Shirley in a low voice: "Have you ever published other main quests on your quest panel?"
The two men shook their heads at the same time. Ever since they swam to the boat, the boat had been leaking and all kinds of strange things had been happening. After they had finally solved the problems, they encountered a storm again. The task panel had not released any information at all.
Zhou Zhou was a little confused, and Wu Yu in the crowd was still speculating what kind of main task would be released. Are he and Al the only ones who received the main quest?
He looked at Alvia again, and Alvia shook her head at him and glanced at the sword tied at his waist, meaning that he should not tell this matter.
Zhou Zhou nodded obediently, holding the hilt with one hand and carefully protecting the sword.
The night passed quickly, and when the day came, the dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, revealing the blue sky, and the rough sea returned to calm.
The ghost ship withstood last night's storm. Even though it was constantly rising and falling with the wind and waves and making dull noises, as if it would fall apart at any moment, the ship was still sailing normally until dawn.
As the sky and sea returned to calm, there was finally some movement on the players' task panels.
[Main mission: Find the most valuable item on this ship. 】
When the other players read out their tasks, Zhou Zhou and Elvia immediately looked at each other.
There was also movement on Shirley and Keli's task panels, but when they opened them, the content was different from that of others.
[Main quest: Find the most valuable item on this ship, completed. 】
Shirley: “…”
Keli: “…”
What did they do? When was it completed? How did it get completed?
Both of them had blank looks in their eyes, completely different from the other players who were either in deep thought or discussing.
Alvia guessed what appeared on their task board. Although they were divided into two groups at the beginning, they were actually a team. He and Zhou Zhou completed the task, which meant that Shirley and the other two had also completed the task.
The tasks of other people overlap with theirs, but the task only requires finding one thing.
They completed the task, and only the people on the same team benefited. If the sword was taken away by someone else, would the completed status continue? Or will it become unfinished again? No one can say for sure.
Elvia didn't want to use this sword to test people's hearts, because it couldn't stand the test at all. He knew what actions Wu Yu and Kori would take without having to guess.
Moreover, they were the ones who found it first.
If others found out that the sword on Zhou Zhou was what they were looking for, it would probably not be a friendly solution...
Alvia lowered her eyes and glanced at the sword hanging on Zhou Zhou's waist. The clothes he wore did not match this gorgeous and precious sword at all. It was estimated that someone would soon notice something unusual, but Alvia just glanced at it and did not let Zhou Zhou take the sword off.
When Shirley and Keli realized something was wrong and wanted to ask Zhou Zhou, Alvia glanced at them indifferently, which made them dare not speak.
The two were secretly shocked. Usually, Elvia was very low-key. Although they knew that he was very skilled and had an aura that kept strangers away, they had never felt such a strong aura from him. Could this guy be some big shot?
I thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. After all, in a holographic game, there are no restrictions on time and space, so it is possible to meet anyone. Al should be some kind of noble.
However, they also saw through Al's intention. They completed the task without doing anything, which meant that Zhou Zhou and Al had completed the task, and they also benefited from it, and the system counted their contribution as part of the same group.
Listening to other players talking, it seems like they are looking for something. Since Zhou Zhou and his team have already found it, if they tell others about it, there will definitely be players fighting for it.
Make a fortune in silence. They were not newbies, nor were they simply passionate young boys and girls. They had also worked in the workplace for several years, so they naturally understood this principle. They immediately pretended to know nothing and discussed with Zhou Zhou where to look.
Most of the players had already left the captain's lounge, but Wu Yu and Kori did not go out. Instead, they walked straight towards Zhou Zhou, smiling and looking very kind.
"Zhou Zhou, do you want to look for it with us?" He seemed to think that Zhou Zhou and his team had just received the task, but these two people were the first on the boat, and might already know what they were looking for.
Zhou Zhou shook his head without hesitation: "No."
"So what do you think about the mission?" Wu Yu's expression did not change at all, and his smile even deepened, as if he thought Zhou Zhou's answer was childish.
"Ah? I don't have any opinion."
Wu Yu: "...Then do you know if there are any places on the ship that are off-limits or dangerous?"
Although he didn't like these two people very much, Zhou Zhou still lowered his head to think seriously. There didn't seem to be any dangerous places on this ship. Oh, there was one.
"Don't go to room 105. There is no floor in there. The floor collapsed when we went in."
Wu Yu immediately showed a look of gratitude: "Thank you so much, don't worry, you said it's dangerous, so we will definitely not go."
After saying that, he left with Corey beside him.
I don’t know if they agreed to search separately. There are still a few players left in the captain’s lounge, so let’s start the search from there.
Of all the players in the captain's lounge, it seemed that only the four people on Zhou Zhou's side had nothing to do and were still standing there.
"Zhou Zhou, where should we look?" Shirley asked with a blink.
Zhou Zhou turned to look at Alvia, who glanced out the window and said, "Go to the cab."
Before leaving, Alvia took a look at the table and found that the three things they had placed on the table had become two. The cigar and lighter were still there, but the handkerchief was gone. She didn't know if it was taken away by the player.
The four of them came to the cab together. Shirley, who had been holding it in all the way, saw that there was no one else around, so she immediately asked Zhou Zhou how they completed the task.
When I heard that Zhou Zhou just picked up a sword from the ground and completed the task, I couldn't help but marvel at how good Zhou Zhou's luck was.
"Didn't you encounter any danger?" asked Keli. After all, judging from the copies they had completed before, there must be all kinds of cool operations waiting for them in the process of completing the task.
Zhou Zhou immediately said, "Yes, the floor suddenly collapsed. If Al hadn't saved me, I would have fallen down."
Shirley: "Is that the room 105 you just mentioned? It sounds really dangerous. Are there any others?"
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "There is no danger in other places, but I saw a lot of interesting things in other rooms, all kinds of clothes, various treasures, and steak."
"Steak? There's steak on the ship?" Shirley looked confused. When did the copy start giving away food? So humane?
Zhou Zhou was just about to tell Shirley about the steak that smelled particularly delicious when he heard screams outside.
The four looked at the sound and found two players running out of the cabin in a panic, and behind them, there was a male player. The male player seemed to have lost his mind, chasing the two players in front of him frantically, with his mouth wide open and drooling continuously.
Before anyone could react, he pounced on a player in front of him. The player screamed and used his arms to block. The demented male player bit the opponent's arm with a very vicious bite. The screams of the player who struggled to resist changed.
The other players who were still outside the cabin immediately went up to pull the demented player away, and some went to help the player who was bitten. However, when they helped that player up, they found that his condition did not look right. His mouth was wide open, saliva was dripping from the corners of his mouth, and he looked at the others who were supporting him.
There was chaos on the deck afterwards. Fortunately, there was a clever player who tied up the two men with the rope ladder on the deck, so that no more people were harmed.
"What's going on? Are these zombies?" Shirley looked out the window in shock. She turned around to look at Zhou Zhou, only to find that Zhou Zhou was also looking out with his eyes wide open.
The players outside immediately asked the other player who was not caught what was going on?
The player was still in shock and yelled, "I told him to just do the mission properly, why eat steak, but he didn't listen and insisted he was hungry, and then he ended up like that after eating the steak."
Shirley: “…”
It turned out that the steak was a trap. She knew that the copy would not be kind enough to give away any food.
"Ahhhhhh~" Another scream was heard in the cabin.
The players standing on the deck immediately shouted, "What happened again?"
The player standing in the corridor who had not yet entered the room shouted, "The floor of 105 collapsed, and someone fell down! There are many broken swords below, and two players are dead."
Keli: “…”
Keli looked at Zhou Zhou, and Zhou Zhou also looked at Keli with an innocent face.
"I told them not to go into Room 105, why did they insist on going in? And when we came out, the floor inside had collapsed, there was no place to stand."
In order to prove that what he said was true, Zhou Zhou turned to look at Elvia. Elvia seemed to be unconcerned about what was happening outside and was looking at the sea ahead.
Noticing Zhou Zhou's gaze, he turned around nonchalantly: "Yeah."
Shirley's mouth twitched, and she suddenly remembered what Zhou Zhou had just said, about the interesting treasures and clothes. Could it be that there was something wrong with these things? She had a bad feeling.
Wu Yu couldn't laugh now. They followed the aroma into 106, and the player who ate the steak went crazy.
Zhou Zhou warned people not to enter room 105, as he thought there was something hidden inside. After opening the door, the floor inside was intact, with no signs of collapse at all. However, in order to prevent any accidents, he persuaded two players to go in first.
As a result, both of them died.
Could it be that Zhou Zhou was really reminding him with good intentions? But what he said didn't match the reality. He clearly said that all the floors inside were broken, but the floor in the room clearly collapsed after they entered.
Looking at the two players above his head whose health points had returned to zero, their bodies gradually became transparent and finally disappeared on the spot.
Wu Yu glanced at Room 105 coldly, without any emotion, and continued walking towards Room 104.
104 was normal. Although nothing was found inside, nothing strange happened either, which made the other players feel a little relieved.
Room 103 was filled with all kinds of clothing. Wu Yu had learned his lesson and originally wanted to tell others not to touch the clothes, but he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.
One player felt very uncomfortable because his clothes were soaked in sea water and then rained on. After they dried, they felt like they were tied to his body. He glanced at the female player who came in with him. When some players gave him clothes before, they all were given to the female player, so it was not easy for him to ask for them. Now there were so many clothes, it should be no problem to change one.
Regardless of other people's gazes, he took off his clothes, found a high-necked knight's suit from the closet and put it on. After putting it on, he looked at himself in the mirror in the room for a long time.
It seemed like there was no problem. While Wu Yu was searching in the room, his peripheral vision kept looking at the player in knight costume.
The player nodded with satisfaction. Just as he was about to continue looking for the quest item, he seemed to be frozen and stood there motionless.
"Are you okay?" asked the player next to him.
The player was dressed in a knight's costume, with a serious expression and without even blinking.
The player next to him finally realized something was wrong and stepped forward to push him gently.
The player in knight costume was standing there in a funny posture and was easily pushed down. His whole body was stiff when he fell, but he still maintained that posture. Afterwards, he broke into pieces on the ground.
He seemed to have become a fragile statue, with jagged edges that looked like they were made of plaster, and only the surface still had color.
The player who pushed down the "statue" screamed in horror and looked at Wu Yu.
Wu Yu looked unhappy. Zhou Zhou had never told him these things.
He warned others not to touch the clothes here. They didn't find the mission items, so they had to bite the bullet and move forward.
There are all kinds of instruments, knives and guns inside 102. If you touch these things, something will definitely happen. A player was seen trying to touch the gun on the table, but was immediately warned by Corey. The two of them have always been one playing the good cop and the other playing the bad cop. If there is nothing to do, Kori's character has always been taciturn, but when encountering such disobedient players, they can threaten them appropriately through Kori.
Nothing valuable was found in Room 102, and the guns looked like they were thousands of years old and not worth much, so they continued to move on to the last room.
The players who were warned couldn't help but give the middle finger to Wu Yu and Kori's backs. These two people really thought they were in command. He rolled his eyes, took a gun from the table and put it in his pocket, then came out of the room.
There were a few players behind him. When they noticed that the first person with a gun walked out of the room normally, they also quietly took guns and knives.
The boxes in Room 101 were not locked, and the traces of Elvia's previous violent destruction were still there. The players opened the boxes and found that they were full of gold coins.
"These should be what we are looking for." A player said happily, putting his hands in the pile of gold coins, feeling the cold and hard touch of the gold coins. Although he didn't have so much money in reality, he could feel it in the game.
"Not sure yet." After the lessons in these rooms, Wu Yu was a little hesitant. Could these things also be traps?
He asked the players to open the other boxes as well, and suddenly the brilliance of all kinds of gems, jewelry, gold and silver wares seemed to fill the entire room.
"Aren't we supposed to find the most valuable things? Aren't these valuable enough? Let's divide it up."
A female player looked at her task panel very calmly: "The system did not prompt that the task was completed."
While Wu Yu was still considering, other players rushed over. Some were curious and wanted to take a look at the treasures, while others thought that these were the requirements of the mission and wanted to take more. Their pockets were full and their hands were filled with gold coins and gems. Some even wanted to carry the entire box out.
The female player looked at these people with disdain. These were just virtual things created in the dungeon. They didn't really belong to her if she took them. Why were they so excited? She took a few steps back and watched coldly as the players excitedly divided the treasure.
Wu Yu was still a little hesitant, but when he saw that the others were about to be carried out with the boxes, he immediately lost his balance. He and Corey looked at each other, and with the help of Corey's tall stature, he wanted everyone to put down their things. He would be the one to divide the things, and what to do if there were not enough things and they were not enough to meet the task requirements.
While everyone in Room 101 was busy dividing up the treasure, the players who had already entered the warehouse were not so lucky. They had just encountered a large group of bugs from the warehouse boxes and were almost scared to death.
As a result, before I had taken a few steps, I found skeletons everywhere.
I kept repeating to myself that these skeletons were fake while searching here.
Before they found anything valuable, they saw the skeletons covered with cobwebs, dust or green moss actually move!
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