Chapter 120 Night Moon Town (10)
"Brother, I can't run away with you in my arms."
"But I would never abandon you."
Gou Wenyan pulled the person behind him up a little, and taking advantage of the fact that his hands were behind his back and couldn't see, he secretly took out three cards.
All of them are offensive item cards, but their effects are only effective against high-level weirdness.
But Gou Wenyan didn't care. It was only two floors away. As long as he caused a little chaos and delayed the time, he could run into 1801 smoothly.
"Once you enter the spatial rift, you can leave the instance game and either go to the convenience store through the fixed passage or return to Nightmoon Town, then you'll be safe."
Gou Wenyan was making plans in his mind, but on the surface he had a playful smile on his face.
It even bargained with the hand bone in front of it, saying, "It's fate that we met by chance. Look at how many human players you've eaten. Look how lush your flesh and blood are growing. You're almost back to life, aren't you?"
"Resurrection" is a metaphor for the rebirth of a skeletal creature.
It is said that the "resurrected" monster will completely transform into a human form, which is what they have been referring to as the "zero monster".
"I have a lot of health points, how about I just give you some, and you do me a favor and let me pass?"
Gou Wenyan directly stated that he had 380 health points and promised to give them away 250.
After listening, the hand bone floated in mid-air, seemingly deep in thought.
Then surprisingly, she nodded in agreement, "Sure, just give it to me."
By consuming the life points of human players, which is more conducive to the growth of flesh and blood, Hand Bone felt that this was a worthwhile deal.
Then, he changed his mind and ate the two human players in front of him a second time.
"Resurrection! I am about to be resurrected! I will soon become human again!" Hand Bone roared excitedly in his heart.
"Alright, I'll give it to you now, but you have to hand over a finger; I need to touch it to give it to you."
Gou Wenyan operated as usual; this was the most basic and bizarre method of consuming the player's life points.
The hand bone had no doubts, and its fingers slowly moved forward, but when it touched a human, it felt a sharp pain.
Gou Wenyan seized the opportunity, sticking all three cards to the tips of his fingers and unleashing a devastating attack.
Bai Ye stumbled and bumped into the wall several times behind her, finally managing to wake up, only to be forcibly "shut down" again the next second.
Gou Wenyan ran up to the 18th floor in one breath, holding a [□□] in his hand, and immediately opened the door of apartment 1801.
As soon as I stepped inside, my entire body suddenly lost its weight and I continued to fall.
Then, he rolled down the stairs.
"Old Bai!"
Gou Wenyan remembered his unconscious companion on his back and hurriedly reached out to grab him.
They didn't catch the person, but they did hear a familiar voice, "Human, why does my dad have two bumps on his head?"
When Gou Wenyan opened his eyes, he realized he was no longer in Building 13 of Fenyang Community, but in a building in Yeyue Town.
"We're back? Holy crap! We really did pass through the spatial rift."
Gou Wenyan was overjoyed, with so much to say, but when he met Bai Jin's questioning gaze, he silently swallowed it back, "I... I must have run into a wall, I was running fast."
Bai Jin raised her hand to reduce the swelling, too busy to pay attention to Gou Wenyan's excitement.
Kong Yuehan, who followed later, pulled the person aside and asked questions for a long time.
Gou Wenyan then saw clearly that the area outside Night Moon Town was already teeming with insect eggs. All the eggs were expanding, seemingly about to explode in the air at any moment, and beneath the stretched skin of the insects, black and red threads were clearly visible.
"Are these all human players? How disgusting." Gou Wenyan was lying by the window, one of the insect eggs crawling on the windowsill, its every move visible at any moment.
Kong Yuehan had already adapted, and even explained: "According to Bai Jin, the insect eggs will burst open the moment the absorption is completed, and while they are transforming into the monster, the turbid energy in their bodies will be dispersed throughout the core area and absorbed by human players."
"What's the meaning?"
"It's secondary pollution. Whether we're doing quests in the instance, resting in the core area, or receiving treatment in the sanatorium, we're constantly being attacked by something strange."
"What are you doing! You're not even trying to hide these strange things anymore?" Gou Wenyan couldn't believe it; things weren't like this when he first became a new player.
Kong Yuehan shook her head, "I don't know either, but according to Bai Jin's guess, it's probably because the [Strange] side needs to accumulate strength, so they have to speed up. And another reason is..."
"What is it?" Gou Wenyan asked intently.
Kong Yuehan pushed aside the surface objects, and except for a small piece of suspended matter at the corner of the staircase, everything below 18 was hollowed out.
Each layer contained nothing but a few crooked gold threads.
Gou Wenyan lay on the stairwell, looking down, experiencing a thrilling feeling of being suspended in mid-air.
Then, they saw Cheng Danyang and a few others standing on the ground floor.
"Bai Jin destroyed all the sanatoriums on floors one through eighteen, and while extracting the gold thread, he also destroyed the entire building."
What is she trying to do?
"Destroy the entire building and ruin all the game instances."
When Bai Ye woke up, he was in the lobby on the first floor of Night Moon Town.
But unlike usual, the lobby on the first floor was now bare, with no walls or buildings in sight, except for a few faint threads entwined around it.
Looking up, there were even more silk threads entwined, many of which were golden.
"Old Bai, you're finally awake. If you hadn't woken up, your daughter would have come after me." Gou Wenyan's voice rang in my ears.
Bai Ye turned his head to look, searching for Bai Jin's figure.
Gou Wenyan turned Bai Ye's head upwards and said, "Your daughter is in the sky, with Kong Yuehan and a few other players who are at a similar level. They're working hard to demolish buildings."
Demolishing buildings?
"Yes, Bai Jin wants to destroy all the dungeon worlds constructed by [the Strange] to fundamentally eliminate their possibility of draining players' life force."
Cheng Danyang squatted down, looking worried. "Brother Bai, are you alright? You look terrible."
Bai Ye shook his head, "It's nothing, just overuse of power."
The power of judgment used in the "King's Judgment" was too immense and too wide to be withstandd.
At the end of the use, a sharp pain shot through his brain. If Gou Wenyan hadn't used the card in advance to force those strange creatures to temporarily "freeze," and only some of the lesser strange creatures were causing trouble, his brain would probably have been ruined.
"By the way, I saw glimpses of my hometown during the trial."
Bai Ye knew this information was important, so she immediately shared it with her companions: "The entrance is in Nightmoon Town. I saw a ball of black and red flame at the entrance, flowing like lava. Do you know where this place is?"
After Bai Ye finished speaking, the three people beside him fell silent.
Gou Wenyan: "I don't know, I've never heard of it."
Cheng Danyang also shook his head, "I don't know either. I could have asked on the forum, but now the forum is blocked, so I can't ask other players for help."
Xing Lei, on the other hand, seemed to know something.
"Brother Lei, just say it if you know. Don't be so wishy-washy now," Gou Wenyan said, adding, "I even contributed two hundred prop cards; I didn't hold back a single one!"
"Brother Gou, you actually have so many cards!" Cheng Danyang exclaimed in shock.
“Now is not the time to discuss whether we have more or less credit.” Gou Wenyan looked at Xing Lei.
Cheng Danyang and Bai Ye also looked over.
While thinking, Xing Lei said, "I'm not sure, but the first time I tried to activate my strength in the equipment area, I vaguely saw a blackish-red flame while using one of the machines."
"During use?" Bai Ye recalled, then shook his head. "How come I've never seen it?"
"I don't have any either."
"I don't have any either."
Cheng Danyang and Gou Wenyan spoke in unison.
Xing Lei added, "It should be a kind of illusion, just like when you saw the Black Mamba before, but there was a trigger that made the illusion become reality."
However, no player has yet discovered this opportunity.
"Let's go to the park together. We can't just let Xiaobai and the others do the work." Bai Ye wanted to do his part. After all, this was originally a matter for the human players themselves.
They all agreed and then went together.
Stepping outside the hall, the group was quickly enveloped in insect eggs. The slimy, wriggling worms followed them relentlessly, landing directly on their skin, causing both itching and nausea.
Bai Ye instinctively wanted to strangle it, but Cheng Danyang stopped him in time. "No, Lei Ge and the others have tested it. Killing it will only cause a bunch of insect eggs to explode, increasing the number by hundreds or thousands."
"What's the meaning?"
“These soon-to-mature insect eggs, once they molt, will become a single monster, which is relatively easy to deal with. But if they are destroyed in advance, whether they are killed or maimed, they will multiply indefinitely, one becoming hundreds and hundreds becoming thousands.”
Cheng Danyang was also disgusted by the insects, but he could only reach out and brush them away, not daring to use any force. "Brother Bai, Brother Gou, just bear with it, consider it a bath in cordyceps soup."
Bai Ye nodded, quickly getting used to the large, blood-red white worms.
It's nothing really. I even ate rice made from wriggling worms in a dungeon before.
Gou Wenyan couldn't take it anymore. With every step he took, he screamed in terror, frantically throwing out prop cards one after another.
However, the protective shield is completely ineffective, as the insect eggs are immune to it.
"I'm not going to make it, I'm about to die." Gou Wenyan looked at his limbs and neck, which were covered with insect eggs. The "crunching" sound made by the wriggling of the insect eggs indicated that although he was still alive, his soul had already ascended to heaven.
In the end, Xing Lei helped by brushing off most of it, bringing Gou Wenyan's soul back to his senses.
"Right, didn't you say most players already knew? How come I haven't seen any of them?" Bai Ye finally noticed this.
As Xing Lei dusted off the insect eggs, he spoke, "They were forcibly isolated by the [weird] and scattered in different spaces within the core area."
Cheng Danyang nodded in agreement, "Bai Jin and Kong Yuehan are both at the second-highest level. They could tell at a glance that the space of Night Moon Town was infinitely folded, and the players were spread out. Apart from the buildings, which could be seen at the same time, we didn't know anything about the other places."
"Danyang and I were in different spaces at the time. It was a player named Ding Yue, who was at a slightly higher level, who helped pull us into the same space. After that, he and Zhang Tao climbed up the building along the silk threads." Xing Lei said this with great agreement.
At this point, human players should work together.
It took the four of them a full ten minutes to walk a mere 100 meters.
Xing Lei found the device that had enabled his strength, which was a running wheel.
"I saw the black and red flames while I was running."
After Xing Lei finished speaking, the other three turned to look at the running wheel.
It's an ordinary exercise equipment, but if there's anything special about it, it's the enclosed design of the running wheel.
Once a player steps onto the running wheel, they must complete the initially set running distance within a time limit. If they fail to complete it, the running wheel will not stop, but will instead cause them to lose health rapidly.
Until the set distance is reached, or all health points are deducted.
"This running wheel is the fastest way to activate your strength, but it drains your health significantly. Many ordinary players didn't realize this at first, and after trying it, they couldn't get off the running wheel and were instantly killed by having all their health points depleted."
Xing Lei recalled the past with a heavy expression, "Now that I think about it, those players who were wiped out probably turned into insect eggs on the spot."
However, the insect eggs at that time were transparent and no one noticed them.
"What do we do now?" Gou Wenyan looked at the running wheel, his heart pounding. "This thing is more like a death ball; it'll suck our blood as soon as we go in."
"Danyang and I have already activated our power levels and cannot do it again. If we want to see the black and red flames again, we can only rely on you."
"What?!"
Gou Wenyan was shocked.
Then he waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "I can't do it, I can't do it, I'm trash and weak, how can I run?"
Next to the running wheel equipment, the minimum starting values are clearly marked: initial speed 120 minutes, low distance 42 kilometers.
"This should be a project designed by [The Weird] based on the human marathon, but 42 kilometers in two hours is almost the limit of human endurance. Yet [The Weird] uses this as a stepping stone, I really don't know if it was intentional."
Cheng Danyang complained from the side, and while speaking, she didn't forget to wipe the insect eggs off her neck.
Bai Ye remained silent, standing beside the sign and studying it word by word.
The bizarre behavior of these creatures is largely human-like, but that doesn't mean they are mindless.
On the contrary, [Weird] possesses high intelligence and a wicked mind; any impossible mission it issues will inevitably be riddled with traps and pitfalls.
However, at the same time, there are many "shortcuts" to pass the level.
It's as if we're going to witness all of humanity's folly and struggles in any given "game".
Gou Wenyan stood behind, glancing at Bai Ye and then at himself, trying to gauge whether his remaining life points were enough to cover the cost.
"Old Bai probably got injured using an item, and his health is probably pitifully low. Sigh, I'll have to handle this."
Just as she was thinking this, before she could even speak, Bai Ye spoke up first, "I'll go in and try."
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