Chapter 121 Night Moon Town (11)
Gou Wenyan and the others watched as Bai Ye walked into the running wheel. The moment the door closed, everything was set in stone.
If you want to get out of this enclosed running wheel again, you must complete a 42-kilometer run if you have enough health points.
"I should have stopped him. What if Lao Bai's health is ruined by running like that?" Gou Wenyan regretted it.
Xing Lei was really looking forward to it. Bai Ye wasn't the kind of person who would act impulsively without thinking. He said "I'll give it a try," but he clearly already had a plan in mind.
"Trust your teammates," Xing Lei said.
Cheng Danyang seemed to understand something, then nodded in agreement, "Yes, we must believe in the power of belief. Brother Bai never does anything he's not sure about."
Inside the running wheel, Bai Ye couldn't hear anything.
Moreover, it was only after entering this enclosed space that he discovered it was a hidden paradise.
The space was compressed, resembling a hamster wheel, but it was actually a normal running track. However, aside from the running area, the entire track was covered in flowing ink on both sides.
Ink seeped onto the track from time to time, and the black liquid even had a corrosive effect.
"Brother Lei didn't say it was like that! Does that mean it's a different mode every time it's activated?"
Bai Ye didn't rush to start running; instead, he walked slowly along the track, constantly observing his surroundings.
A breeze is blowing from afar.
The airflow is normal and not a simulated situation, which indicates that the space compression is not completely sealed and there must be an exit.
After walking for a while, the flat track suddenly became steeper, turning into an uphill climb.
Bai Ye walked without much difficulty and soon climbed over the slope. He thought the next section would be downhill, but the road turned into a swamp.
The muddy road was covered in ink, which was bubbling and steaming, with wisps of heat rising from the ground.
Bai Ye squatted down, hesitated for a moment, and then reached out.
When the fingers touched the black liquid, the liquid instantly turned into a twisted snake shape, flicking its tongue.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
"Wow!"
Bai Ye was terrified of snakes. Upon seeing ink change color, he would stomp on it without caring whether it was real or fake.
Outside the running wheel, the three people saw Bai Ye standing inside the running wheel in a daze, occasionally frowning and taking a few steps, sometimes reaching out to touch things around, even though there was nothing there, his face suddenly turned pale and his eyes were filled with terror.
"Why hasn't Lao Bai run away yet? It's been almost half an hour." Gou Wenyan looked back at the building. "Bai Jin and the others have demolished it until they can't be seen anymore."
In the town of Nightmoon, the 30th floor and above of this standalone building are shrouded in mist, obstructing the player's view.
Gou Wenyan turned his head and stared at Bai Ye, who was staring blankly in the wheel, and couldn't help but shake his head, "Don't just keep losing health like an idiot. Although the [Strange] conspiracy has been discovered, everything is still the same until the player's identity is removed."
"Brother Gou, I remember you said you had already deducted the health points." Cheng Danyang suddenly asked.
Gou Wenyan nodded.
She added, "Then what's there to worry about? If Brother Bai's players don't have any health points on their screens, how else can they deduct them?"
"Old Bai's screen is black, and he can't operate it."
"ah?"
"I was worried that [Weird] was playing tricks and would secretly restore his normal function again."
Gou Wenyan's concerns were not unfounded, and Bai Ye quickly discovered this as well during his investigation.
My player's screen is back to normal.
Tap the screen, and you can clearly see that you have 398 remaining health points.
With that much health, if you just give up during this run, you'll probably be left with nothing but your underwear.
But Bai Ye still didn't start running; he continued his leisurely stroll. He even began to actively touch the ink along the way.
Almost simultaneously, the damage value in the information bar rapidly increased.
Originally, the damage value was nearly a thousand, but now, after being "bitten" by the black snakes on both sides of the track, it was increasing by one point almost every second, rising very quickly.
Players have already tested that a player's life count will be reduced to zero. However, there is no relevant experience to refer to regarding damage values.
All along, [Weird] has said that the maximum damage value is 200, and exceeding this value will cause irreversible damage to the player.
No one doubted the rules set by [the Strange], so in the dungeon game, after each injury, everyone was eager to rent a room and enter the healing pod to recover.
But now it has been confirmed that the intensive care unit was just a conspiracy.
Does that mean that, conversely, the increase in damage value doesn't actually cause harm to the player?
Who knows, there might be an unexpected surprise?
Bai Ye only wants to do one thing right now: figure out the use of damage values.
42 kilometers, not too long, not too short. Walking at an average pace of ten minutes per kilometer, it took Bai Ye 420 minutes to complete the entire distance.
Seven hours later, the runway finally came to an end.
A bright, blackish-red flame in full bloom, flamboyant and eye-catching.
Bai Ye finally smiled, "You guessed right! The damage value won't harm the player. Perhaps the higher the damage value, the better they can integrate into the eerie world."
This conjecture was something he had come up with as a half-demon in three instances.
Bai Ye looked outside the track but didn't see Gou Wenyan and the others. However, he didn't dare to delay and walked straight towards the black and red flames.
The ink at the bottom has changed, gradually turning from a viscous black liquid into a crimson lava.
The magma is cold, and the closer you get to the dark red flames, the lower the temperature becomes.
Standing before the flames, Bai Ye finally saw clearly that the so-called black and red flames were actually a door. The door was divided into two sides, one black and one red, which merged with each other while simultaneously repelling each other.
He reached out and pushed open the door in front of him.
The world behind the door is nothingness.
But soon, a world was built before his eyes, and the reconstructed world was a picturesque little mountain village.
At the village entrance, a little girl was squatting on the ground, playing with mud while holding a small wooden stick.
Noticing someone approaching, the little girl looked up and then smiled, "Uncle."
Bai Ye was shocked. The little girl in front of him was the same one he had seen in Shen Tou Alley.
At the time, he was new to the game and knew nothing about it. To appease the child, he reluctantly spent 100 Ghost Coins to buy the other person a lollipop.
"Little friend, what are you doing here?" Bai Ye stepped forward, looking around as he asked. He remembered there was a big black snake at the entrance of the village.
The little girl threw away the stick, her eyes sparkling. "If the uncle gives me candy, I can grow up. Now I can earn my own money and buy candy myself."
"make money?"
"Yes, I found a job as a doorman here."
Employing child labor is illegal!
This was Bai Ye's first thought, but he quickly realized that the child in front of him was strange.
In this bizarre world, only ability matters, not age.
"Little friend, can you tell me where this place is?"
"It's my hometown."
Bai Ye's heart skipped a beat. His hometown, his eerie hometown!
I actually found my eerie old home.
Bai Ye held the little girl's hand, chatted with her, and walked deeper into the space behind the door.
After pushing open another door, the surroundings suddenly became bright.
However, upon realizing where he was, Bai Ye's expression immediately changed, and he became extremely wary.
The end of this door is somewhere else, or the eerie little shop.
The little girl was no longer by his side; Bai Ye was all alone in the convenience store.
The display case in front of me is still old-fashioned, and the walls are mottled, but there is no one on the rocking chair in the middle.
No, there is no trickery involved.
The shop owner is not here.
...
Bai Ye stepped out of the running wheel, his expression complex.
Gou Wenyan rushed over immediately, pulling the person around to check on them, asking, "Are you injured? How much blood have you lost? How much health do you have left?"
Xing Lei noticed something was wrong and asked directly, "Did you see that?"
Bai Ye nodded, "Not only did I see it, but I also pushed open the door and walked into the flames."
"Huh? You can still go in?"
“Yes, we ran into a little ghost I knew from a previous dungeon at the entrance. She told me that the path inside leads to our hometown.” Bai Ye looked up at his three companions and gave a smile. “Guess where our hometown is?”
"How would we know? We've never been there." Gou Wenyan didn't even bother to guess.
Cheng Danyang pondered Bai Ye's words, "Since Brother Bai said that and had that expression, then this hometown must be very 'interesting,' a place we've been to but never imagined?"
Xing Lei: "We opened our eyes to find ourselves in the dungeon lobby. Since the dungeon lobby is connected to the dungeon game, it must be connected to this building in Nightmoon Town. We've already searched the small park; there's nothing unusual there. So, in this strange world, the only possible and plausible location is..."
"The eerie convenience store."
"It's a convenience store."
Bai Ye and Xing Lei spoke at the same time.
Gou Wenyan was the most surprised and couldn't believe that the dilapidated little shop was actually the eerie old home.
"How could that be? That place is tiny; how could it possibly contain thousands upon thousands of strange creatures?"
After Gou Wenyan finished speaking, he immediately realized something was wrong. "Spatial folding means that the convenience store is definitely more than just this small area."
Bai Ye nodded, "I've been thinking, Wen Yan, even if you have a supernatural constitution, you can't always be this lucky. Why is it that you alone have all the luck in the convenience store's exchange lottery event?"
"What do you mean?" Gou Wenyan had a bad feeling.
Bai Ye shared his conjecture: "Unless the shop owner did it intentionally, he selected you from among many players, sealed the abilities related to the strange world into cards, and delivered them to you unknowingly in various ways."
"Old Bai, don't scare me." Gou Wenyan felt a chill run down his spine. "Give it to me? So many cards, what's he planning to do?"
"I don't know, but this is definitely not a good thing. There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Bai Ye rubbed his temples, feeling as if an invisible hand was guiding them, the players, step by step, and that there must be a conspiracy behind it all.
Cheng Danyang was straightforward: "Who cares what their purpose is? Let's go directly to the shop owner and confront them to find out the truth."
"The shop owner isn't here," Bai Ye said.
Cheng Danyang clenched his fists, making a cracking sound. "Not here? That's even better, let's smash up his shop."
Gou Wenyan suddenly realized, and then chuckled, "Danyang, I love what you're saying. Let's be hooligans and do some bad things."
"How is that doing something bad? It was clearly for our players to see the light again, and they were brave and unyielding." Cheng Danyang disagreed.
Gou Wenyan suddenly realized, "Yes, we are pioneers. We are fearless and at the forefront. We fight for freedom and will fight all evil forces to the very end!"
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