Chapter 79 No one is seen, only gold (27) The clock strikes twelve...
Wei Wei threw a paper clip, which was immediately swallowed by the void.
"It's a narrow door. A relatively small narrow door." He said, "Why are you asking this? What evil ideas are you thinking?"
Gao Mengtang propped up his chin and smiled: "No way. I just wonder if we can use the USB drive to tear open a space rift and travel directly back to Earth."
Everyone: ...Isn’t this a crooked idea?
"Really not possible?" Gao Mengtang asked with a smile.
Wei Wei thought he was talking nonsense, so he glanced at Gao Mengtang's expression and was stunned for a moment.
Although Gao Mengtang was smiling, his eyes were deep and his brows were slightly furrowed. He inexplicably gave off a sense of low pressure, and his dark eyes were like two cold pools, without any hint of joking.
"Are you serious?" Wei Wei was shocked. "Of course not. To open the narrow door, you need props or a complicated and meticulous ceremony..."
Special items, such as the doll that Gao Mengtang possessed in the side quest, is actually a key to a narrow door. After using it, you can open the narrow door.
Opening the narrow door through a ritual is much more complicated, requiring formations, props, spells, and people with special abilities to host the ceremony. It also requires endless experiments. For example, thousands of people in wizard families have spent their entire lives pursuing opening the narrow door.
Whether it is special props or holding a ceremony, players cannot do it. There is no such condition.
The narrow gate is the most stable passage connecting the inner world, but ordinary players will lose half their lives if they pass through the narrow gate.
Although the USB flash drive can connect to another world, it does not meet the standard of the "Narrow Gate" and is not stable enough. If the player enters the space rift it tears, they will surely die.
After explaining, Wei Wei asked worriedly: "Why do you want to pass through the space rift? What did you find?"
Gao Mengtang just smiled: "I just said it casually."
Looking at Wei Wei's expression, he obviously didn't believe it.
Other players were not as perceptive as Wei Wei, so they just thought Gao Mengtang was talking nonsense and continued to discuss who might be the mastermind and how to find evidence of his crime.
Two hours later, the park was in chaos. People kept trying to get out of the park, but the park was in the wilderness, there was a sandstorm, and no cars were allowed. There were also many zombie beasts roaming in the mountains. Those who got out would be in great danger.
By night, the park had become a living hell. The screams became much quieter, and the hoarse roars of the zombies were heard one after another. The survivors began to look for shelters everywhere.'
The players made their beds on the floor in the lobby on the first floor.
The main quest required players to survive for fifteen days. It was only the eighth night, and there would probably be many unexpected events in the next seven days. Gao Mengtang distributed the potions and items he had obtained in the past few days, and there were only 12 bottles of spirit value recovery potions left.
The five players, Priest, Lucky, Godman, Helun, and Baijie, were of lower levels and their spirit points were consumed quickly, so each of them was given two bottles of recovery agent. Duan Song and Wei Wei each got one bottle, but Gao Mengtang didn't need one.
After receiving the spirit value recovery potion, the charlatan was so moved that he burst into tears: "The three of us can actually enjoy the same treatment as the Moon Banner members. Blind Man, this is the first time I have seen someone as nice as you in a dungeon!"
He held Gao Mengtang's hand tightly as if he had seen a savior, and almost wiped his tears and snot on it.
It was past 8 o'clock in the evening, and the players had nothing to do and were ready to go to bed. Wei Wei was still brooding over Gao Mengtang's words: "Why did you mention the narrow gate today?"
"Just kidding." Gao Mengtang said.
Wei Wei knew that he would not get an answer, so he did not continue to ask. When he lay down, he saw Gao Mengtang holding two combat uniforms and turning them over and over.
There are players’ name tags on the combat uniforms. The one in Gao Mengtang’s hand is his own combat uniform and Duan Song’s combat uniform.
Wei Wei: "Is there a problem with the combat uniform?"
Gao Mengtang didn't answer. He laid the two combat uniforms flat on the ground and examined them carefully. He also removed the name tags and compared them repeatedly.
There is no difference except that one set is bigger and the other set is smaller.
"Am I overthinking?" Gao Mengtang murmured to himself.
Duan Song had just come back from washing up when he saw Gao Mengtang flipping through his combat uniform. He smiled frivolously, "Hey, senior, are you reminded of someone by looking at the uniform? Don't look at the uniform, I'm right here, look at me."
He lifted Gao Mengtang's chin with one hand and gave him a standard celebrity smile.
"...You are so frivolous." Gao Mengtang slapped his hand away, stared at the two sets of combat uniforms for a long time, and slowly folded them up.
The aging window frame was shaking from the zombies' roars. A roar sounded, and then a group of zombies followed suit. It was like a pack of wolves howling at the moon.
The players tossed and turned, unable to sleep, so the charlatan started playing cards.
Gradually it lasted until after eleven o'clock in the evening.
"Why did Bu Xiaoting throw the USB drive to me?" Gao Mengtang suddenly asked.
Duan Song lay flat on his back with his eyes closed, and said seriously: "I know the answer."
Gao Mengtang: "What?"
"Because you are good-looking, everyone likes you."
Gao Mengtang: “…”
There were two thumps, the sound of metal being hit hard, which startled the players. Those who were playing cards stopped, those who were chatting stopped talking, and they all stared in the direction where the knocking sounds came from.
The man outside knocked three more times: "I'm hungry. You locked me up here without giving me any food. Do you intend to let me photosynthesize?"
It turned out to be justice.
Duan Song breathed a sigh of relief, put away the knife, took out two cans of fish and prepared to throw them in.
"Give it to me, I'll deliver it." Gao Mengtang held his arm.
Duan Song: "Don't go, it's dangerous."
Gao Mengtang: "Being locked in a cage is not dangerous. You guys guard the gate outside and don't let the zombies in."
After saying that, he picked up the can and walked into the room where Shi Zhengyi was imprisoned alone.
The iron cage, more than one meter high, was originally used to keep large dogs. Shi Zhengyi curled up inside, looking extremely sad.
When he saw Gao Mengtang, his face became even worse.
However, when Gao Mengtang opened the can and the fragrance overflowed, a hint of desire appeared on his disgusted face.
The can smelled delicious and he was hungry.
Gao Mengtang scooped up a spoonful of luncheon meat and passed it to the gap between the iron cages: "Such a big thing happened in the park, why did the Zhongzhou government only send 8 people to investigate?"
Gao Mengtang felt strange about this question on the first day he entered the park, but he did not delve into it.
Now it seems necessary to ask clearly.
Shi Zhengyi stretched his neck to reach for the luncheon meat, but the spoon dodged so that he could see it but not eat it. Shi Zhengyi was furious: "Aren't you from the Zhongzhou Special Security Team?! You don't know, and you come to ask me?"
The spoon was brought to his mouth and he ate it greedily.
"You were going to poison the crystal pump, weren't you?" The second spoonful of luncheon meat was passed over.
People in a cage have no choice but to bow their heads. Shi Zhengyi gritted his teeth and replied, "Yes! I plan to poison him. I think that if I bring Qian Hao down, I can mend the emotional rift between me and my adoptive father."
"But I just want to add some drugs to the crystal pump to make it controversial. I don't want to create any zombies."
He swallowed the luncheon meat without hesitation and added, "How can I develop a poison that turns people into zombies? Zombies have nothing to do with me."
This sentence seemed to touch Gao Mengtang, and he murmured, "Yes, the zombie virus is not something that ordinary people can develop."
Gao Mengtang fed him a spoonful and asked, "Where's Xu Wei? Is he researching zombies?"
"It's impossible that he is my foster father. Thousands of lives have been lost. Is he tired of living like this? He is so cruel?" Shi Zhengyi said angrily. Thinking of Xu Wei's death, he choked up twice and said, "He is really... dead."
After one can of luncheon meat was empty, Gao Mengtang opened another can: "Bu Xiaoting's..." He considered his words, "Do you know the boyfriend that Bu Xiaoting found after marriage?"
Shi Zhengyi stretched out his head, then retracted it without saying a word.
Gao Mengtang: "If you don't tell me, there will be nothing to eat tomorrow."
After a long silence, Shi Zhengyi finally spoke: "I have met him once. It was Xu Xiaoting's 5th birthday, and the man also attended..."
System: "Player [000 Blind] triggers a key plot and is about to enter [Past Hanging Lake]"
…
Banquet hall. Splendid and magnificent, with clinking glasses.
Shi Zhengyi was dressed up, but his plain appearance did not attract much attention. He held his wine glass and looked around, looking for handsome guys.
Soon, Shi Zhengyi's eyes fixed on a certain man.
He is very tall, with a pale face, three-dimensional features, and a handsome appearance, like a vampire that came out of a movie. He has a slight hunchback, which does not hinder his overall temperament, but instead makes him look more gloomy.
The man sat in the corner, his gray-blue eyes staring at the other men in the banquet hall. He seemed to be emitting an aura that kept strangers away. No one dared to approach him within a radius of 1 meter.
Shi Zhengyi dares to do so because he has no shame.
After adjusting his suspenders and low-waist jeans, he walked up to the man with a cat-like gait, twisting his body three times with each step.
"Handsome guy, who are you looking at?" Shi Zhengyi forced a smile that he thought was very charming and looked in the direction the man was looking.
He was staring at the most lively and talkative group of people in the banquet hall, both men and women, who surrounded Xu Wei and Bu Xiaoting and congratulated their child on his 5th birthday.
"Have a drink with me?" Shi Zhengyi sat next to him naturally.
The man was still staring in that direction and didn't hear him at all.
Shi Zhengyi became even more excited. He half leaned over and put his arm with the crystal bracelet on the table: "I noticed that you have been staring at men. Are we the same type of people?"
Still no response.
"Handsome guy? Handsome guy?" Shi Zhengyi called out twice, "Are you deaf?"
He waved his hand in front of the vampire man's eyes, blocking his vision.
"Go away and stop disgusting me," the man said.
This curse word came out without any warning, so calmly that Shi Zhengyi thought he had misheard. He couldn't believe his ears: "What did you just say?"
"Don't you understand what I'm saying?" The man looked at him for the first time, "I said get lost."
Shi Zhengyi was ashamed and angry, his face flushed red. Just as he was about to explode, the man suddenly stood up and walked away quickly.
He was stunned and shocked, staring at the man's back, only to see him chasing Bu Xiaoting out of the banquet hall.
At the wine table, Shi Zhengyi calmed down his anger. He was not the type to give up easily, so he gritted his teeth, drank up the wine, and chased after him.
Gao Mengtang ran over closely.
At the corner of the corridor, intermittent sounds of two people arguing could be heard.
"What are you doing here?" Bu Xiaoting asked.
The man sneered: "You don't want me to come? Have I disturbed the love between you and your husband?"
"Are you crazy? Don't you know my situation? Why are you saying such things to disgust me?" Bu Xiaoting pushed the man's chest hard.
The man realized he was speechless, a smile appeared on his pale face, and he held Bu Xiaoting's hand that pushed him: "I said the wrong thing, blame me."
Being held by him and looking into those clear and deep gray-blue eyes, Bu Xiaoting lowered her eyes, looking a little shy.
The atmosphere was quite charming, but the man's next words came like an icicle, catching everyone off guard.
"When are you going to kill Xu Wei?"
Bu Xiaoting's smile froze: "You are talking nonsense again."
"I'm serious. I'm not talking nonsense. I think he's annoying." The man hugged her. "I observed in the banquet hall that the boss surnamed Wang and the actor surnamed Zhao were always smiling at you. What do they mean?"
"Do you know those guys? Who invited them? Have you met them before? Have you added each other's contact information? How many times have you chatted? Do they like you?"
Bu Xiaoting: “…”
Shi Zhengyi, who was eavesdropping at the corner, cursed: "So you are a jealous person."
Gao Mengtang looked at the scene in front of him thoughtfully. The air gradually became cooler, and the past was about to end.
The two's voices seemed to float over from far away.
"He won't live either."
"That's my own son!"
…
The memory ends. Shi Zhengyi curled up in the cage: "That's what happened. My adoptive father and I were not lovers at the time, otherwise I would have reported that slut's shameless behavior to my adoptive father!"
Gao Mengtang threw the second can of luncheon meat to him and left the room.
The players were all awake, their combat uniforms neatly folded and placed in a corner. Gao Mengtang wanted to check again, but the 30-minute vision bonus was over.
The clock struck twelve and everything in front of me became blurry again.
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