At the edge of the gate inside the zoo, the clockwork mechanical blue-eyed rabbit began to circle around Wujiu and Baiwu.
Bai Wu could feel that if he left at this moment...
There will probably be countless crazy monsters chasing you in the surrounding grass.
And the rabbit has circled around them...
Wujiu and Baiwu were confused.
He glanced at the page:
Bai Wu saw a funny and cute rabbit, it was spinning around...
Two laps.
Three laps.
The rabbit stopped.
According to the rules of the ghost story, Bai Wu thought it was safe, although he didn't know what would happen after four turns.
But just as he took a step… the spring started moving again, and the rabbit hopped and started to turn for the fourth time.
At this time, the rabbit's blue eyes turned red.
The white fog retreated immediately.
Don't go against the rules without authorization. People can break the rules in a game, but they also have to do it at a certain time. If you can use the rules to easily avoid risks, then it's best to use the rules.
So when the rabbit turned the fourth circle, Bai Wu whispered:
"retreat!"
Wujiu and Baiwu both reacted quickly. Although Wujiu didn't know the rules of ghost stories, he instinctively stood in front of Baiwu the moment Baiwu retreated, but he still managed to avoid it calmly.
The two had retreated more than ten meters away.
Bang... Ka...
It was like a clockwork getting stuck in the gears, which then caused a series of problems and eventually the rabbit exploded.
But the damage to the rabbits did not cause any disaster.
It was as if the gun had jammed.
It was very quiet, so quiet that the white fog even created an illusion...
Could it be that the zoo rules are written wrong
The rabbit turned four times, and something did happen, but it did not cause any harm at all.
"It seems that we reacted too strongly?" Wujiu said.
"Seems to be."
The two strongest beings in the human world were frightened by an iron rabbit and retreated more than ten meters. It was a bit embarrassing.
The white fog is a little embarrassing.
"Our goal is to find the dog with gun barrels all over his body." He decided to say something to ease the embarrassment.
"Are you sure that's still called a dog?" Wujiu found Bai Wu's thinking very strange.
"Of course, even if a person becomes evil, as long as their soul is still inclined towards humans, they are still humans. The guardians of this world and the real world have similarities..."
Bai Wu thinks that the similarity to Xiao Jing shouldn’t be too obvious—it’s still waiting for its owner.
After all, Xiaojing has been waiting for seven hundred years, comparable to Hachiko, the loyal dog.
Find Xiaojing and avoid all the strange stories in the zoo.
What about pythons going to the toilet, what about electronic creatures that invade people's mobile phones...
Bai Wu thought so, and he and Wu Jiu prepared to go deeper into the zoo.
Solving one more strange story might give us more bargaining chips to deal with the will of the Well World.
However, they had only taken a few steps when they suddenly felt a slight numbness...
This feeling is very strange, as if a small electric current passes through the body, making people feel between pain and itchiness.
The next second...
Wujiu's blind eyes were flashing with a strange light, and the same was true for Baiwu.
The two people, who were already serious, gradually became a little dazed.
They remained in the same walking posture, frozen in place.
Around the forest, a large number of mechanical creatures approached at this time. On the ground that looked like an ecological lawn, many wires wrapped in strange metal emerged...
If Bai Wu was still awake at this moment, he would recognize that these wires were the mechanical cables used by the mechanical people in the mechanical city to exchange information...abbreviated as information exchange.
A peculiar data link line.
It is impossible for humans to exchange information with machines, but... Wujiu and Baiwu's eyes reflected something that was not what human eyes should have under the moonlight -
Metallic luster.
There are many zoo legends engraved on the high walls of the zoo.
Bai Wu only read it quickly at that time. Although he wrote it all down, he would always subconsciously despise some things due to lack of concept.
For example, Article 16 in Zoo Tales -
Rhinos that look like armored vehicles like to charge at tourists. Please do not wear red clothes when entering the zoo. Also, if they charge at you, you can contact the Baichuan City Funeral Home in time (but if you can withstand the damage caused by anti-tank rocket launchers, you can also consider contacting the hospital.)
This looks extremely dangerous. At least a rhino that can launch anti-tank rockets looks much more dangerous than the previous strange stories.
But under the word "怪谈", the letter C will be engraved.
Bai Wu noticed it at the time and guessed that c represented the degree of danger or something like that.
But he also noticed that the rabbit that ran four circles around the tourists was S.
It can't be that rabbits are more dangerous than rhinos, right
He did not completely deny this possibility. When he saw the blue-eyed rabbit circle three times and start the fourth circle, with its eyes turning red, Bai Wu also responded...
But I still underestimated this rabbit.
This rabbit that looks like it's stuck is actually one of the most dangerous sources of infection in the entire zoo.
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu could never have imagined that at the entrance of this zoo, a place that should have been a novice village, there was a cute little animal that could be compared to the big devil of the zoo in Xiao Jing's impression.
The two strongest men from the human world... were defeated by a rabbit.
At this time, Bai Wu and Wu Jiu are facing a crisis, a huge crisis caused by a dancing rabbit.
This ordinary zoo is the biggest killer of the entire Baichuan City.
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The other world.
The waiter who was sweeping the coffee shop had the broom in his hand suddenly disappear.
It becomes a series of binary codes.
At this time, many buildings in the other world began to flicker strangely.
The transformation of a living thing into a machine is almost impossible.
But in a twisted world, anything is possible.
Seven hundred years ago, there was also a human boy who turned into a robot and later became a mechanical emperor.
This kind of thing has actually never stopped.
It’s just that when it comes to mutation, people have always tended to be more inclined to let their emotions guide them into turning into biochemical monsters.
Rather than purely mechanical life.
Bai Wu looked at the inner world he was familiar with. The originally beautiful town was surrounded by a long string of 0s and 1s floating around it, and the scene was constantly becoming blank.
He suddenly reacted...
I got caught.
"Oh no, the rules of the zoo actually mention that if a human enters the zoo, he or she may turn into a mechanical creature..."
Bai Wu watched the constant changes around him and felt that his memory was falling apart bit by bit.
Only then did he realize that the rabbit... was able to emit some kind of "radiation".
This radiation cannot be detected, but one should follow the zoo rules and "leave at the speed of light".
"Did I finally let my guard down this time?"
Originally thought that the other party would self-destruct, but Bai Wu was sure that he and the captain would be able to resist it, or react at the moment of the explosion.
But they didn't expect that the rabbit that looked stuck was actually a source of infection.
The surrounding buildings and even the people in the town were constantly being broken down into pure binary numbers, but the white fog could not stop it at all.
He looked around blankly, unable to believe it... He and the captain had just
As soon as I entered the zoo, I was killed twice by a rabbit
But it was strange. Bai Wu should be panicking, but he couldn't panic. He always had a feeling in his heart -
I still have a trump card.
"This world is going to be gone... If the other world is destroyed, I will be dead too, right?"
The white mist shouted into the void.
The ceiling of the cafe has turned into binary code. Bai Yuan is sitting inside the cafe, still with a charming smile on his face.
"Yes, I can't save you. Your mother and I can help you resist mental invasion. When your will collapses, we can modify your various parameters in the other world."
"But I can't resist mechanization. This is not a spiritual thing. This is a disease, a source of infection that is contaminating you."
"You'll become the second Zero, or you can just be Number One?"
Bai Yuan was joking, and Bai Wu knew it was a joke.
He suddenly realized that he hadn't seen Bai Yuan for a while.
He came to the opposite side of Bai Yuan's seat, and at this moment, his entire inner world seemed to be collapsing.
The father and son were sitting in a cafe enjoying the spectacular sight of the world collapsing in an instant before the end of the world.
Looking at Bai Wu's calm expression, Bai Yuan waved his hand:
"Okay, I lied to you. You do have a backup plan."
"What is it?"
"Of course it's not me and your mother. We have no way to deal with this infection. This is the killer move of the Well World's will."
"How to say?"
Bai Wu frowned.
Bai Yuan said:
"Think carefully, where did you make a mistake?"
It was as if he was back in that small town. When Bai Wu asked questions, Bai Yuan would not answer directly, but would guide Bai Wu to give the correct answers.
Since breaking up with Bai Yuan, Bai Wu rarely did this. When he met Bai Yuan later, he basically answered his questions one by one.
But this time, Bai Wu thought about it.
"It's misleading me... Or is the zoo just a big trap?"
"Go on." Bai Yuan changed to an elegant and relatively comfortable sitting position.
Bai Wu squinted his eyes and recalled:
"From the beginning when I met Hong Yin, to the time when I was arranged to be with Yan Jiu... and then when I convinced Dandelier, everything in this world seemed to indicate that people in the two worlds have similarities."
"The records on that yellowed page don't seem to deny this..."
"Perhaps the two worlds do have similarities, so I believe that Xiao Jing is the easiest to convince in the zoo because he is an animal... As a dog, he may be purer than humans, so Xiao Jing is the easiest guardian to gain his recognition."
"This also led to me not having much of a sense of crisis after entering the zoo."
"But I should have a sense of crisis. Xiaojing has changed. The pets in this city will attack humans on a large scale. The humans in this city may even be contaminated and turned into mechanical life forms and pets..."
"These things all show that Xiaojing is no longer the Xiaojing I know."
At this point, Bai Yuan nodded, clapped his hands and said:
"You should keep thinking like this in the future, because behind you and in front of you, there are people who want to protect you, and people you want to protect."
Bai Yuan's words made Bai Wu feel very strange. This was not something Bai Yuan should say.
"Xiao Jing is different from other guardians. It has changed from a mechanical life in the real world to a pure machine. Dandeler, your good sister, and your expressionless wife, they are all human beings, still living beings, and have their own will. Do you understand what I mean?"
Bai Yuan looked directly at Bai Wu, who suddenly realized:
"And Xiao Jing has no will of his own... Unlike a mechanical life like Zero, he is already a pure machine... For Xiao Jing, there are only instructions and codes?"
Bai Yuan nodded:
"Correct answer. Will can destroy will, but it cannot kill you and your good captain. Especially your captain, his will is too strong. Maybe the world's will can destroy your will, but it cannot destroy his will."
"And once he's able to pull himself together, he can also pull you up."
"So the will of the Well World separated you, but this was just a sheep attack. You are too powerful. You can sense his breath, so it is not difficult to find him."
"So the Well World Will has also prepared a real killer move."
Bai Wu understood everything after hearing this:
"Turning us into machines... erasing our will?"
"Yes, evil degeneration, or distortion and mutation, does include mechanization. Unfortunately, you are going through this change. When you become a pure mechanical life like Xiaojing, you and your captain will be nothing more than zombies."
"It cannot kill you in this world, but it can change the form in which you live, thereby further... controlling you."
Bai Wu smiled bitterly:
"So, I will definitely lose?"
"of course not."
Bai Yuan snapped his fingers, and at that moment, many memories suddenly emerged in Bai Wu's mind...
This memory is all about one person.
Zero.
A large number of memories came flooding back, making Bai Wu feel a tingling sensation in his head.
While Bai Wu was holding his head and enduring the pain, Bai Yuan said slowly:
"Back in the Mechanical City, you and your little robot once conducted a dangerous experiment - the fusion of the other world."
"I have to say that Zero is half machine and half organism. I am responsible for the fusion. If it is a purely mechanical life, I will not be able to make a human and a machine merge into the other world, because for a machine, there is only a hard drive, no brain."
"Afterwards, I restored everything in order not to expose your secret."
"You cured the little robot of the Rawu virus, and he helped you block Jingwu, but actually... I also did something else."
"When observing Zero's world and past memories, I found that Zero almost became a pure machine. The machine part tried to take away his biological part."
"But this process was easily disrupted by Zero. Ha, that child is worthy of being someone else's child. He is such a genius."
Bai Wu felt strange when listening to Bai Yuan praising Zero, but he also noticed...
Could it be that Zero has a way to fight against mechanical pollution
"So, in that memory of his, there is a method to deal with mechanical pollution?"
Bai Yuan smiled and said:
"Yes, that memory is actually useless to you, but I like to keep everything in reserve. What if you need it someday?"
“Mechanical pollution turns humans into digitized machines, and human thoughts are converted into various coded instructions. These instructions can be disintegrated in the same way.
"Zero can do this. It's like the essence of antivirus software, which is also a virus. Zero discovered that the virus of mechanical pollution was trying to further corrupt him, so he created another virus to completely eliminate this possibility."
"That's why he said to you - my essence is life, I can decide when to be crazy and when to be rational. He is indeed a genius, the emperor of machines."
"I have kept that code. It is the memory of a mechanical life form... As a human being, you should not be able to control and make this memory work, but now you... have been contaminated."
"It's not a big problem. With the approval of the guardian, you will definitely be able to turn back into a human. The premise is that you can retain your will."
After talking so much, Bai Yuan felt a little thirsty. After Bai Wu sorted it out, he understood.
I really had a close call with hell.
"Becoming a machine is not scary, because everything can be reversed."
"But if I become a mechanical body, I will lose my will and be controlled by the will of the Well World at will. This is the most terrifying thing."
"And Zero's code... will take effect when I become a mechanical body, allowing me to resist this pollution and become a half-machine, half-life."
"So now, although I am polluted, I am a living being rather than a pure machine..."
The buildings around the town have begun to recover slowly, but now they are covered with a mechanized shell.
The waiters in the cafe also turned into mechanical life forms and began asking if customers wanted refills.
There is no afterworld for machines, because they have no spirit and no soul.
But the white fog has now entered a strange state.
After Bai Yuan ordered a cup of coffee, he said slowly:
"It's more than that. If it was just about resisting pollution, I wouldn't praise him so much. Zero can do much more than that."
"He may be gradually outclassed by you and the dwarf in terms of combat ability, but everyone has their own expertise. In the field of mechanics, he is an absolute god."
Bai Wu couldn't help feeling a little jealous to hear such an evaluation from Bai Yuan.
"Is it really that important... to praise him so much?"
"Of course, you are not simple either." Bai Yuan rarely praised Bai Wu.
Bai Wu said:
"What other effects are there?"
"Currently, the mechanical bodies in the zoo are frantically trying to establish information connection and exchange with you. The will of the Well World intends to eliminate you and your captain at once."
"But as I said, the virus that fights the virus is another virus, the code of Zero, which is something more aggressive... When they try to invade you, this code will also invade them."
Bai Yuan looked into the distance:
"If I'm not mistaken, when you wake up, the zoo... will be a completely different place."
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In the Baichuan City Zoo, more and more mechanical bodies, rhinos, lions, pythons, monkeys, deer, and rabbits all gathered around the white fog.
The original instructions they received were to continuously infuse data to accelerate the pollution of the white fog and Wujiu.
Let it become a mindless machine in a short time, just like the animals in the zoo.
But suddenly... a deer that shouldn't have blinked, blinked.
The giant mechanical python, which wasn't supposed to twist, suddenly wanted to shake its tail.
The monkey, whose body was covered in alloy, touched his stomach... It was as if a non-mechanical feeling called "hunger" was being born.
This horrible zoo has lost the spirit of animals since a long time ago, but now... the long-lost characteristics of living things are slowly reviving.