Chapter 317 Snow Survival Day 5 (2) Killing Two Birds with One Stone
"Zizi—zizi—bang"
The huge suction force pulled Yu Miaomiao backwards, and the metal gripper kept rubbing against the door frame, making a sharp and piercing noise like nails scratching on a blackboard. However, this sound was extremely dull when it entered his mind, as if covered by an invisible thick cover, weighing heavily on his brain and causing pain.
The strange texture of the walls rubbed against each of her fingers, bringing a burning pain.
Inside the door frame that flew by quickly, there was neither the gloomy scene of Fishman Island that she had seen before, nor the vastness of the snowy world. There were only tightly closed doors, leaving her with nowhere to gain leverage. She could only allow the force to drag her into the depths of darkness.
She remained calm and kept an eye on the changes around her. In a flash, she floated to the cabin where the survivor's body was placed.
The first space flashed by, and she desperately scratched the door frame to slow down the movement, and could barely make out the unfamiliar faces lying in those cabin doors.
The second doorframe was within easy reach. She stretched out her hand, but her fingertips barely slipped past it. This time, she could clearly see the numbers and names engraved on the hatch, but still, there was no familiar name.
The third spot! She desperately clung to the edge of the doorframe, ten fingers digging in, her body finally coming to a halt. She gripped the doorframe firmly with one hand, ignoring the tearing sensation in her knuckles as she quickly clamped the metal handle down to a corner. With this triple fixation, she finally managed to breathe, her gaze anxiously darting inside the doorframe—
Still a stranger. Huabie, the beautiful girl warrior, and Iris all said they'd run into one or two familiar faces. Could it be that everyone's spatial tunnels were different?
No, this secret door belongs to Liu Yuyan. The person lying inside might be someone he knows. She quickly glanced around.
Tingting's repeated warnings were still ringing in her ears: If a human strayed into this tunnel, the system would immediately identify them as an intruder, triggering its own self-protection mechanism and dragging them into an infinitely extending void of consciousness. Without intervention, the intruder's consciousness would sink into chaos, until their body became a vegetable. If it weren't for the card draw channel left by Wei, they would have been extremely careful.
Their successful return to their bodies was thanks to a countermeasure and return mechanism Wei had built into the card-drawing tunnel. This mechanism protected those who figured out the secret link between the card-drawing space and the tunnel, preventing their consciousness from dissipating and guiding all survivors back to their bodies at the appropriate time.
Finally, combined with the mechanism of 81 repair world cards, the system's control over the survivors' consciousness can be completely cut off.
As for Tingting, Liu Yuyan and others, if they want to move freely through the tunnel connected to the secret door, they must wear the same protective clothing as the staff inside the door frame.
Only in this way will the system identify it as a routine maintenance personnel and will not trigger the protection mechanism.
But the system is not so easy to "cheat". It has strict requirements on the maintenance time limit. If it exceeds the time limit or occurs too frequently, the protection mechanism will restart.
Therefore, people like those who have the authority to open the secret door, even survivors who can enter and exit freely, dare not set foot in this secret door frequently.
Before she could finish her thoughts, a dull voice pierced the air and reached her eardrums: "Don't struggle in vain. Since you can stop, you can crawl back to that beast."
Bastard, who does he think he is to dare to slander her baby like this?
Yu Miaomiao had heard this voice before in a recording on Yang Haotian's cell phone. It was almost exactly the same. The voice she heard now seemed to be covered by something, with an unnatural sense of isolation and a tone that made people deeply disgusted.
Yu Miaomiao ignored him and carefully examined the scene in the door frame. She secretly swore in her heart that she must get rid of this evil person who had defiled Xiaoguai today.
A glass cover stood between her and the cabin door, and just one or two meters away from the door, a set of protective clothing was hung.
As long as we break this layer of glass and take out the protective suit, we should be able to get rid of the system restrictions and walk freely in this space like Tingting and Liu Yuyan.
As soon as the thought came to her mind, she punched the glass without hesitation.
There was no expected shattering sound. It was as if the fist hit a ball of sticky cotton, silently and without any reaction.
"It's useless." Liu Yuyan's voice sounded again, seeming to be a little closer. "Your bodies are inside. There is no way for your consciousness and body to communicate. You want to rely on this method to go back. It's simply wishful thinking."
Yu Miaomiao withdrew her slightly numb hand and grasped the door frame again.
The meeting of consciousness and body? That would be like the out-of-body experience in old movies, which sounds a bit incredible.
She was too lazy to respond. It was clearly Liu Yuyan who dragged her into this place, and now it was him who was urging her to go back. What kind of dual personality was this? Or did he think she would be so obedient and let him control her?
Before she could swing her fist again, the other party's slightly anxious voice came closer, "You will trigger the system's protection mechanism! Then you won't be able to catch it even if you have ten hands."
Wasn’t it Tingting who told her about the system protection mechanism? Didn’t the other party think she knew nothing and had to listen to his alarmist talk?
"You should know that time flows differently inside and outside the system tunnel." The voice was close at hand, but it stopped abruptly. "Are you sure you want to continue wasting your energy and let your pet suffer in the cold outside?"
Speaking of Xiaoguai, Yu Miaomiao had to fight back: "If that's the case, why did you bring me in?"
silence.
She kept trying to catch his footsteps or movements, but apart from the words he deliberately said, no other sounds came to her.
Yu Miaomiao waved his fist again and asked loudly, "You want to use the system to get rid of me? You're looking for death!"
"Hey! You! Aren't you alive and well?" Seeing that she was unmoved, Liu Yuyan simply laid it on the table. "Yes, I did want to finish you off here, but since you have a way to stop me, I know it won't work. I'm letting you go and reuniting with your family and friends, but you still don't appreciate it?"
Yu Miaomiao snorted coldly: "Should I thank you for your mercy?"
Since this door frame is useless, there may be protective suits in other small spaces. The other party lured her in and put her in danger, leaving Xiaoguai, a cat, in a room covered in snow and ice. How could she turn back easily?
She and Tingting and other companions checked the time in the tunnel. 10 minutes in the tunnel was just enough time for half of the firewood outside to burn out. She couldn't let the weak Xiaoguai continue to take risks in such a snowy place.
She slowly loosened her grip, letting the attraction slide backwards.
When she passed the new door frame, she used the same trick again, hovering next to the door frame where she could see the cabin containing the survivor's body, and punched it hard.
She should be thankful that she always prepared all kinds of food and kept herself physically fit, so she had enough energy to deal with it here.
"What do you want?" A figure emerged from the void, and a man in protective clothing appeared from the shadows. "Didn't you threaten to kill me? I'm right here. Don't say I didn't give you a chance."
What a ridiculous chance, does he think he's in a movie.
Yu Miaomiao sneered, "Aren't you planning to stay in hiding? Why are you willing to come out now? Are you afraid that I'll implicate you and expose your identity as not a maintenance worker?"
A trace of surprise flashed across the man's eyes in the protective shield, and then he thought that this information might have been told to them by Awei, so he felt that it was not surprising that she knew all this. Looking at the direction she was facing, he saw a set of protective clothing hanging there, and he quickly understood her intention.
"Do you think the system is only detecting you alone? It's about whether the events in the entire passage meet the requirements..." Liu Yuyan's voice suddenly stopped. Knowing that he had almost set the other party on fire, he paused for a few seconds. Seeing Yu Miaomiao floating towards the door frame behind him again, he finally couldn't help but sneered, "You want the system to discover our existence and eliminate us both. You want to die with me!"
Did she think so...
No, she just wanted to stay safely in this passage, destroy the central control as Tingting said, and then get rid of him. She never thought about dying with such a villain.
The other party obviously underestimated what she knew. Even Liu Yuyan might not know as much as Awei.
"So?" Yu Miaomiao asked back, letting the system take her to the door of a shiny little cyber-style house. At this time, there was only one person inside operating the electronic screen. It was a little different from the rooms she had seen before.
So there are many central control rooms. If she only destroys this one, can she completely shut down the system? Since Liu Yuyan brought her in today, no matter whether destroying this one is useful or not, she must do something.
She nimbly dodged the grabbing hand, and the cold light of the saber flashed as it stabbed towards the man's wrist. Liu Yuyan nervously retracted his hand.
With the light projected from inside the door, Yu Miaomiao could see that he was nervously checking the condition of his protective suit, fearing that there was any damage.
He cares so much about this set of clothes. Could it be that this set of clothes cannot be obtained from the room she passed by? Then how can she stay where she is and destroy the central control? The task assigned to her by Tingting is really tricky.
The man's tone was filled with anger. "What on earth do you want to do?"
Are you so impatient? Yu Miaomiao said calmly: "I want you to die."
Before she finished speaking, she pretended to swing the knife in her hand. The other party was so scared that he took two steps back. But she turned her wrist and stabbed the glass with the cone head.
"Stop!" Liu Yuyan no longer cared whether his protective suit was still intact, and pounced from the darkness.
“Zizi—”
A stabbing electric current shot through her body! Along with the hissing of electricity around her and the flash of a blue screen on the center console, could this have destroyed the center console?
“Zizi—”
"If you don't stop, the system will detect it immediately! No, you are destroying the system! Once the test results are sent to that staff member, we will be wiped out immediately." Liu Yuyan shouted while grabbing Yu Miaomiao.
Obliterate...
"Little darling," Yu Miaomiao thought as if it had flashed through her mind. She endured the pain from the electric shock, gritted her teeth, and used one hand as the axis to narrowly avoid the hand.
At this moment, she only had one hand that could move, which was tightly holding the door frame. The other arm was numb from the clicking. Liu Yuyan had already approached her and grabbed her hands that were tightly holding the door frame with both hands, trying to pry them open.
No, she was obviously at a disadvantage without protective clothing. If she fell deep into the tunnel, it would be difficult for her to find this person again. Next time, she might not have such a good opportunity to lure him out.
The man took advantage of her blind spot and attacked her from behind again!
At the critical moment, Yu Miaomiao suddenly let go, and the suction force behind her instantly pulled her backwards. The metal handle on her waist pulled her hard, and she used the force to push off the wall of the passage, squatted on the side wall, and changed direction.
With his intact hand, he quickly moved the saber to the hook and stabbed it hard into the man's back.
"You!" Liu Yuyan immediately felt his protective suit punctured, the suction from the tunnel seeping in through the breach. He stumbled a step before steadying himself. He knew exactly what was going to happen here.
He turned and lunged, his eyes gleaming with ferocity! But Yu Miaomiao was already meters away. As he turned, the gaping hole behind him widened, and the suction force of the passage suddenly increased.
Yu Miaomiao grabbed the modified rope of a modern backpack and threatened coldly, "If you dare to move, I will pull this rope and make the crack bigger."
At this moment, she only needed to lightly knock on the door frame with one hand, and the rope in the other hand connected her to the man through the hook, saving a lot of effort.
“Ding Di——”
A dull alarm, similar to the one on the surveillance console inside the room, rang out! Dazzling red lights lit up on all four walls of the corridor!
Liu Yuyan cursed inwardly, "Damn it!" He hadn't expected this woman to actually succeed. He ignored the hook rope behind him and rushed straight towards Yu Miaomiao, shouting, "If you don't want to be wiped out immediately, follow me!"
Before Yu Miaomiao could figure out the situation, the other party had already passed her, not caring about the hole on the back of the protective suit, and even less caring about the metal grabber she had swung in vain.
How could she walk? She could only float... No! The suction had clearly weakened! She twisted her body and was able to stand firmly in the passage.
She glanced sideways—there were four more people in the control room! The screen showed her standing in the hallway with her bare hands. There was no sign of Liu Yuyan wearing protective clothing at all. It turned out that protective clothing had this effect.
The rope in her hand tightened as the other party moved and she pulled it forward. In a flash, she saw a door with a flashing yellow light open on the wall of the passage, and Liu Yuyan slipped in.
Without hesitation, she followed closely behind and squeezed in before the door closed.
She had heard from Tingting that this door was the lounge for every maintenance worker and could be opened anywhere on the wall of the passage. Awei secretly hid one for Tingting, but she didn't expect that the mastermind behind the scenes had also hidden one.
Considering that they were once colleagues, it made sense that they would have the same backup plan, which gave her a new opportunity.
After the iron door closed, the overhead light instantly illuminated, filling the small, two or three square meter room with white light. Liu Yuyan was nowhere to be seen, the backpack rope in her hand dangling from the five or six meter high ceiling.
This maintenance worker's lounge was created by the maintenance worker's consciousness. The owner can transform into any form in this room. She didn't expect that Liu Yuyan would directly transform into a white roof.
"You're lucky." A man's voice came from above. "I guess Tingting brought you in before. I'm above you, so don't waste your energy."
It turned out that he mistakenly thought that Tingting had brought her in before, so she was so familiar with the place and was not surprised, so she came up with the trick of hiding in the ceiling. Yu Miaomiao gently pulled the rope, and the saber fell from the ceiling. She put away the metal grappling knife and saber at her waist, and sat directly on the only item in the room - a low wooden bed.
In this space, the apocalyptic time is relatively still for her, just like when Tingting first entered the secret door opened on Fishman Island, only five minutes passed for Miaomiao, but half a day passed for Tingting.
Time should have stopped for Xiaoguai now, and her anxious heart felt a little relieved.
Unexpectedly, using this method, she forced the other party to bring her into this room. It seems that the movement in the passage must be an existence that the mastermind behind the scenes is very afraid of. Her destruction must have been effective.
"Aren't you in a hurry to go back and save your beloved pet? No matter how nice the words are, it's just a beast to you." The other party was hanging on the roof, looking gloating.
Yu Miaomiao tried, but the holographic system still wouldn't open. So she simply brought some modern food she'd bought from others. She took out a piece of seaweed and started chewing on it, mumbling, "Don't call me a beast! I'm talking like a beast. Time in the rest room is frozen for the apocalypse, but it flows normally for you and me. I don't mind wasting time with you like this."
We've already entered his territory, and he's still hiding. How can he be called the mastermind? Yu Miaomiao felt that she had overestimated him before.
"Damn Li Wei! He actually leaked all this! Isn't he afraid of retaliation from Tengman Company?" Seeing the woman in the room looking so relaxed, Liu Yuyan concluded that Wei must have told Tingting everything. He really couldn't understand how Li Wei could have the guts to betray the company.
Yu Miaomiao didn't respond immediately. She swallowed her delicious seaweed and pulled out a bottle of Modern Coke. The liquid inside the bottle didn't slosh at all, as if it were frozen solid—the air pressure inside was extremely low. She calmly took a few sips before saying, "What has this company given you that's worth turning you against all of humanity?"
"All of humanity? What do you know? That little bit of profit is nothing..." The voice on the rooftop stopped abruptly, and turned to an interested tone, "No wonder Ah Wei left a message for you to find. So that's it."
Yu Miaomiao continued chewing on her seaweed. Perhaps it had been too long since she'd brought about the apocalypse, the green food had become damp and less tasty. She didn't respond to his "So that's how it is," not saying anything more than trying to draw her into further questions and put her on the defensive. She was more concerned about what was happening outside, whether she had a chance to return to the center console and confirm whether the device was broken or if she could damage other devices as well. As for returning to Xiaoguai, she already had an idea.
Seeing that Yu Miaomiao had finished a small box of seaweed and was still not satisfied, and took out some biscuits, Liu Yuyan broke the silence again and asked, "Aren't you curious why?"
Yu Miaomiao asked back, "You were placed in the internal testing server by Tengman Company, right? How can you be so confident that you can survive to the end? Aren't you afraid of dying halfway through?"
Liu Yuyan: ...
Liu Yuyan: "I can see your holographic panel here. I can see all your information, including the message your friend just sent you. Don't you want to know?"
She wanted to...but the more she wanted to, the more she couldn't show it.
Yu Miaomiao continued to probe, "Doesn't your game system have a mechanism to prevent internal personnel from interrupting and shutting down the system? Aren't you afraid that the system will detect your voice transmissions?"
"You know all this? Ah Wei is really a stickler for words." Liu Yuyan added, only to realize he'd been sidetracked again. He'd always been the one leading the conversation with everyone else, but this time around, he was constantly being sidetracked by this woman. He coughed dryly and said, "I was wondering how you always managed to get these supplies and rank so high. It turns out the system randomly assigned you the Lucky trait."
Hearing this, Yu Miaomiao was stunned for a moment. The other party could really see her holographic system interface. Then her tortoise breathing technique...
"And you just happened to have mastered the Turtle Breathing Technique. If I remember correctly, your stats weren't even on the list at first. It seems like this lucky trait really helped you a lot. I was wondering why you were always the first to clear the level. It must be because of this one secret technique, right?"
A strong and uncomfortable feeling of being completely stripped came over her. All her cards were gone, so this person needed to be dealt with as soon as possible.
Yu Miaomiao said coldly, "You've been relying on others to do this because you're afraid that if you do it yourself, the system will record your illegal behavior. You're even more afraid that I'll shut down the system before it automatically ends, causing direct evidence of your crime to be reported to the federal government! But can you really escape legal punishment for all your incitement?"
Liu Yuyan didn't see the murderous intent in Miaomiao's eyes and sneered, "What do you know? I came to the apocalypse with a mission. If it weren't for Ah Wei leaving these pits, how could Tingting have discovered so many secrets and information? And you, you were chosen by the system to become the chosen one, and you've lived to this day. Do you really think you have such great abilities?"
"Lucky?" Yu Miaomiao's tone was flat, and every word was heartbreaking. "You threw me into this ruined world and gave me a little 'luck value'. Can it compensate me for the friends I lost and the pain I endured? If this is 'luck', the fate of the 'chosen one', I would rather not have it!" As she spoke, she stood up.
Liu Yuyan sneered: "Isn't it a kind of luck that you were chosen by the great system I designed?"
Yu Miaomiao ignored his self-righteous words, walked straight to the door and grabbed the handle.
"Wait!" A man's voice came from above my head, "Do you know what opening the door means?"
She responded with disdain, "It's nothing more than the system detecting me as an intruder and erasing me. You'll disappear with me, too. This way, my friend can still win the cross-server invitation card, collect the Restoring World Order card, and finally put an end to this inhuman world."
Liu Yuyan chuckled. "Do you really think that's all? The damage you just caused to the system has been directly identified as a malicious outsider by the system. The elimination plan will be immediately activated. The first step will be to erase us, and the second step will rewrite the world events related to you and me. It's hard to say whether your friends will still be alive."
"You're so kind as to tell me this?" Yu Miaomiao lowered her head, pretending to hold onto the handle while quickly assembling an object. "Isn't my friend's disappearance exactly what you want?"
"To be honest with you, if this apocalypse doesn't end naturally, if anything goes wrong, or if something happens that affects the course of the apocalypse, I won't be able to return to the real world alive, and my family will be implicated. So, no matter what, I won't let you go."
Before he finished speaking, a figure on the ceiling suddenly appeared, the lights dimmed, and a hand broke through the ceiling and grabbed Yu Miaomiao's head.
Arresting people again...
Yu Miaomiao suddenly smashed the mirror in her hand, quickly picked up the sharpest fragments with her fingertips, stuck them on the homemade dental floss slingshot, lubricated it with hand cream, and pulled the dental floss to its full bow - "swish!" The fragments shot like lightning towards the place where the human figure was revealed.
"What?!" Before Liu Yuyan could react, three pieces of broken mirror had already embedded into his body, one right in the middle of his chest. "You..."
Blood gushed out from the top of the wall, and the pure white walls quickly turned scarlet.
The Coke in Yu Miaomiao's hand resumed flowing. She took the first sip and pushed open the iron door that had quietly emerged from the blood-red wall.
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