"System repair in progress..."
"Repairs are almost complete..."
"System repair in progress..."
The prompt sounds came back and forth, and the players in the waiting room felt the terrifying abnormality in the sky most intuitively.
Except for the monsters that were still attacking numbly every one and a half minutes, everyone else was frightened by the dazzling sun. After mechanically killing a few monsters, many shadows immediately looked towards the tour guide.
The cheerful tour guide put down the hand holding the flag, her expression extremely serious, and it was obvious that this was not what she expected.
The calmest one was Yu Xingzhou, who, at this critical moment, wiped the thin man's neck with lightning speed.
Blood spurted out, and another shadow in the same group was stunned for a moment because of this sudden change. The next second, Yu Xingzhou threw the dagger accurately and hit the other shadow right in the middle of his eyebrows.
"Ah!" A sudden scream broke the silence.
Shadow had previously been operating in groups. Now, from a distance, the others who were startled by the noise saw this scene, and it was too late to rescue them. Shadow Xiaohua looked at Yu Xingzhou with scarlet eyes: "President, it turns out that the spy is really you."
Under such high temperatures, his mask still glowed with an icy luster. Yu Xingzhou sneered and prepared to retreat.
Shadow Flower: "Stop him!"
Li Nan and several other players were well prepared and immediately moved towards Yu Xingzhou to provide support.
In terms of numbers, the shadows have an absolute advantage. If they can kill one Yu Xingzhou, it will completely make up for the loss of two shadows. Just when all the shadows were about to attack, Xiaohua seemed to think of something and her face changed: "Be careful, he..."
The game certainly doesn't completely block the opponent's skills.
This reminder came too late, but even if it was early, it would not have much effect, because Yu Xingzhou's skills are too special.
All movements stopped for a moment, although it was only a moment, it was enough for a strong man like Yu Xingzhou to create some distance.
The moment time started to flow again, Li Nan cleared the monsters in the rear to meet him, creating a relatively spacious escape route.
"Chase?" someone asked.
If you want to hold back Li Nan and the others, you need at least eight or nine shadows, otherwise you will just be killed.
Shadow Linan narrowed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he shook his head and gave up the large-scale war of attrition. "First, the mission, just like before, now that they have left, there is only one group left to follow the players. Now go find the passengers."
While speaking, the shadow Li Nan had been staring at the young man. It was no coincidence that Yu Xingzhou happened to be grouped with two shadows who were weaker and had bad character.
The young man didn't even bother to explain himself. On his chest also hung the pendant copied by the system, but this pendant was purely decorative and did not contain Jian Qingrong's blood.
However, the boy had the memories of Wen Shi and Jian Qingrong. Soon after the other sun phantoms appeared, he, like Wen Shi, thought of the specialness of the big eyeball. Jian Qingrong did not have the power of cross-server, but his eyeballs could, which was beyond the ability of normal game NPCs.
It was a waste of time to continue standing here. Before the shadows started their mission again, the shadow with the crew cut suddenly said, "Will all nine suns really come out?"
No one answered. Although it sounded sad and ridiculous, someone managed to say four words: "Believe in the game."
There is no other way to survive.
The game that was believed is still frantically making up for it at this moment.
The being in the void closed its eyes and perceived everything that was happening: the little scarecrow living in the big eyeball was struggling across servers.
He showed no emotion about this. After a brief thought, he poured most of his strength into different organs, and then separated his heart and limbs. Compared with this scene, the human pig in the water jar he had seen before was nothing.
The omnipresent will of the game took the opportunity to copy the body that had only the trunk left after its power was madly reduced.
Even so, the copied power is still too strong.
"You owe me one." The hollow voice revealed a strong sense of oppression. The limbs scattered around him began to slowly return to his body. He was like a cold and huge monster, exuding a terrifying aura that humans did not have.
After saying this, he left a consciousness restriction in the copied body and fell into sleep again.
When the void was sleeping, the terrifying heat waves between heaven and earth gradually dissipated, the outlines of the other eight suns disappeared, and the due silence returned to the sky in a certain space below.
Although the air was still hot and humid, it was already within an acceptable range compared to just now.
In the waiting room, Shadow with a crew cut found a lighter in an abandoned small shop. Shadow Xiaohua got a bucket of oil from somewhere and said, "If I really want it..."
The boy took it directly from her hand.
Shadow Flower frowned: "It's safer to go find the lizard passengers."
There was a dark ray of cruelty flickering in those cold pupils.
"I'm too lazy to wait." They still had to return to the train, and the boy preferred to use fire. He ruthlessly poured the bucket down, then took off his coat, lit it with a lighter and threw it out.
The boy clung to the railing, hoping to fulfill some fantasy in his heart through the fire.
The burning clothes gave off a burnt smell in mid-air. When they were about to fall to the ground, a man suddenly appeared on the first floor of the waiting hall, with gasoline that had just been spilled under his feet.
All the monsters in the waiting hall were not as strange as the man. He had no eyes, his chest was hollow, and his limbs were almost all gloomy black air. Now the black air spread almost half a meter away, and ordinary people could not see his appearance clearly.
The faint curve on the boy's mouth disappeared, and he was very sure that there was no such monster on the first floor.
The clothes were wrapped in black air, and the arrogant flames were extinguished before they completely came into contact with the oil surface.
Whether it was the boy pouring oil or the man who suddenly appeared and put out the fire, the tour guide just watched coldly. She looked at the time and there were only thirteen minutes left before departure.
The boy had some vague guesses about the man who suddenly appeared, but he didn't bother to confirm it further. He took out his phone and sent a message: [Have you found the lizard passenger? ]
About half a minute later, Shadow Li Nan replied: [Just found it, it's a bit difficult, we have to find a way to help him buy a train ticket. ]
The ticket office was some distance away from the entrance, so it was not impossible to succeed, but it was risky, not to mention that they had to leave here first and walk in the opposite direction from the exit to avoid the monsters on the first floor.
Shadows are inherently selfish, and no one is willing to take too much risk for a collective mission.
Shadow Li Nan then sent a message: [Keep trying to light the fire. When the last few minutes are up, we will retreat. Leave a few fast people to guard the door and grab the flag as soon as the tour guide comes out. Just in case, leave two more people along the way.]
His strategy changed quickly, and his success rate was about the same as going out to buy tickets.
Firstly, the tour guide must return to the train, and their pretending to leave is like releasing a smoke bomb to lure the snake out of its hole; secondly, even if something unexpected happens in the middle and they can't wait for the person, they can flexibly choose to return to the train.
Being able to attack when advancing and defend when retreating is the most advantageous method at present.
The boy found Shadow Xiaohua and asked where he got the gasoline from.
"There are various reasons why the monsters are stranded here, and some passengers have flammable and explosive items on them." Shadow Xiaohua hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly became extremely alert.
The eyeless man on the first floor actually came up.
"Arson, not good."
The voice was cold and hollow.
"What if I insist?"
The boy smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, and began to test his words.
If his guess was true and the man was the dark side of Jian Qingrong, the other party should not object to him setting the fire.
The black air wrapped around the boy's thin hands and feet like a snake, and the boy became a trapped beast, unable to move. Shadow Xiaohua avoided him without mercy and even distanced himself from him.
The boy tried to use the power of the steel pipe to pry open the chain formed by the black air. After failing, he gritted his teeth and asked for help: "Grandma..."
He didn't get a response, so he tilted his head and saw that the black energy chain in the girl's hand was much thicker than him. The girl said in a low voice embarrassedly: "I am also dominated."
"… "
·
Appearing along with this eyeless, heartless and limbless man was a big eyeball.
The material of the train in the copy is still the earliest iron train, which has first-class thermal conductivity. When the nine suns are about to appear at the same time, the entire carriage almost becomes a large oven.
Rather than staying inside, people would rather go outside in the sun. They carried their jars to the door and used the pulled down curtains to block out the sun.
Through a layer of cloth on the curtains, everyone suddenly discovered that the rest of the sun had disappeared. Before they had time to be happy, a small black dot fell from the sky.
The other players subconsciously avoided it. Wen Shi also wanted to avoid it, but after smelling the dry straw, he retreated back to his original position.
Snapped!
The little scarecrow fell steadily into Wen Shi's arms, and it was holding a miniature mechanical cat.
Wen Shi's arms were numb from the shock and he opened his mouth to take a breath.
The big eyes looked up at him, with a light in them... so beautiful.
Wen Shi's appearance in his youth has not changed much from now, except that he looks a little more childish. His eyes are bright, and when he looks down at the scarecrow, there seems to be stars in his eyes.
Wen Shi's whole body exudes a vigorous vitality, and the tattoo on his neck that looks like that of a bad boy cannot hide this.
While the two were looking at each other, Wen Shi did not mention the matter of the nine suns. The people around them all gathered around at this time, curious about what it was. Before they could take a closer look, they heard footsteps in the distance.
Li Nan, Yu Xingzhou and others were walking towards this side. Yu Xingzhou's shadow was tied up beside him, and the one who came back was undoubtedly his real body.
Xiaohua took a look, nodded to the president, and then continued to study the things in Wen Shi's arms.
She was considered lucky, as the others didn't even look at Yu Xingzhou.
Yu Xingzhou: “…”
Is it so worthless after a trip
And why did Xiaohua's impure look disappear
Big Eyes doesn't have a good temper with others. He is treated as a living treasure. He shakes the mechanical cat to control it, and the iron cat's tail swings directly towards the people nearby.
The onlookers took several steps back in a hurry.
At this time, Yu Xingzhou and others also arrived. The scarecrow had lost its balance due to inertia and fell down, but now it has adjusted itself and is hovering on Wen Shi's shoulder.
A player was curious: "A combat pet appeared in the dungeon?"
The smile in his big eyes faded when he saw Wen, and he looked coldly at the player with one eye.
Before Scarecrow could start his attack, Wen Shi changed the subject: "Shadow hasn't come back yet, so it's very likely that they will complete the side quest."
Xiaohua sighed, "There are pros and cons. They definitely consume more energy than us."
The few players who went there were not focused on completing the mission, and when they came back, they were all in poor condition, let alone Shadow.
Li Nan nodded and talked about what happened earlier: "We chased the tour guide and Shadow all the way to the waiting room, where we had to deal with monsters, which consumed a lot of energy."
Wen Shi thought for a moment: "The radio broadcast announced that the highest temperature in Pufengtuo today is 43 degrees Celsius. It must have exceeded this temperature just now, so we should convert it to make up for it. And this dungeon has so many loopholes, the game is to blame..."
Boom!
A streak of lightning flashed across the sky. It seemed to be tens of kilometers long, accompanied by a deafening roar, and white light illuminated every face.
Wen Shi was stunned for a few seconds, and his big eyes were filled with anger. He first gently helped Wen Shi comb his hair that stood up due to static electricity, feeling very sorry for him.
Why does thunder strike good people for no reason under the bright sun? Heaven is indeed blind.
Although other players did not say it explicitly, they also felt that the game was unreasonable, but they were angry but dared not speak out.
A copy with a bunch of loopholes is simply filling the game with players' lives.
Few people connected this incident with the big eyeball, including the scarecrow himself. No one had enough imagination to think that a stunted straw demon could bring nine suns. Most people thought that the little scarecrow was a fuse, the last straw that broke the camel's back for the already incomplete copy.
"By the way, I and..." Yu Xingzhou wanted to say something, but fell silent when he saw Wen Shi's miserable appearance.
The scarecrow was still concentrating on pressing Wen Shi's hair. Only Wen Shi's hair was standing up, which seemed more like a warning.
Someone sighed.
What warning? Did Pei Wenwei negotiate with the game
Isn't it the game's fault? The temperature was indeed over 43 degrees Celsius before. Players couldn't help but feel chilled when they thought about it. The game was cruel, but at least it was fair. Just because a player complained, a thunder warning was issued. What an exaggeration.
Wen Shi whispered: "Forget it, at least I tried my best."
Lifting a jar, he walked onto the train with difficulty.
The greatest injustice is just this. He feels wronged, and so does the 'sky' of this copy.
The tour guide came back two minutes before the train departed, and she didn't have a flag in her hand.
The system prompt sounded the moment she returned:
"The collective side mission of capturing the flag failed."
"The temperature in the k6666 carriage has risen by three degrees."
Slowing down from five degrees to three degrees is considered a concession. Wen Shi's expression changed in a second: "The game is still very reasonable."
Everyone plus the three heads in the jar: "Yeah."
Yu Xingzhou glanced at his own shadow, then looked at Wen Shi and continued what he had not finished saying before, "I have reached a cooperation agreement with your shadow, one of which includes releasing him."
Xiaohua asked hurriedly: "President, have you used the contract item?"
Yu Xingzhou's shadow is a threat, so it's best not to let it go if possible.
Pei Wenwei's shadow certainly wouldn't believe a few simple verbal promises.
"But if we release it..." A player frowned, "it will be disadvantageous to us."
More than one person hesitated, thinking that it was tantamount to letting a tiger go back into the mountains.
It was Li Nan who made the final decision: "Don't dwell on this kind of thing."
Xiaohua said to the hesitant player in a bad mood: "How about we use you as a trade and change the terms of the transaction?"
The person being criticized was annoyed and wanted to say a few more words, but was interrupted by Li Nan, "Enough is enough. Yu Xingzhou killed two shadows, this alone is enough."
Yu Xingzhou was not disturbed by the quarrels between the players in the carriage. He looked at his own shadow and said, "Remember to tell the shadow over there when you go back that it was Pei Wenwei's shadow who paid a great price to give you the opportunity to return." He added, "This is also part of the agreement."
Things resemble their owners, and the shadow is the same as the original body. Good deeds will leave a name.
Xiaohua neatly cut the sheets that bound Shadow and twisted the rope: "Get lost."
We can't let the president be punished for breach of contract just for a fake product.
Shadow Yu Xingzhou moved his wrist calmly: "You didn't have this expression when you tied me up."
"… "
The train was about to depart, and Shadow didn't waste any time, jumping off the step and sprinting towards the oncoming train.
In less than thirty seconds, the train was moving forward at lightning speed again.
Surrounded by mountains, the scarecrow stared at the half-open suitcase, and Wen Shi introduced it softly, "My grandma."
The scarecrow controlled the remote control, and the mechanical cat pronounced: "Better than my brother."
The tone is sarcastic, and the main target of ridicule is the devil boy.
Wen Shi was stunned for a moment. He was just curious about why they made a mechanical cat. Was it a mouth substitute
The mechanical cat walked very gracefully and came to the suitcase: "Hello."
This time it's normal electronic music.
Jian Qingrong created several tones, suitable for different occasions.
This way of greeting shows that you are well aware of the old lady's preferences. You don't need to communicate directly with people, but only face a cold machine.
"Good boy." She rarely praised someone, "Just like my good grandson, they are all good boys."
After greeting everyone, the mechanical cat was taken back to Jian Qingrong.
The big eyes were still staring at Wen Shi. From its angle, it could just aim at the delicate skin on his neck.
Jian Qingrong controlled his mouth and said, "I kind of regret it."
"Um?"
"I regret not coming earlier." In order to make the final upgrade, he stayed in the laboratory for a longer period of time. He could have watched this person for a longer period of time.
Wen Shi laughed dryly twice, took a glass of water to moisten his throat, and thought to himself that if you had come earlier, I might have died.
The rolling of the Adam's apple when he drank the water made his big eyeballs roll and almost fall out of the scarecrow's eye sockets.
The players around didn't say anything. They seemed to be resting, but in fact their eyes were always on them.
Wen Shi said calmly, "I signed a contract in the last instance, and I can summon NPCs in other instances."
As for how much others believe it, it is not within his consideration for the time being.
Xiaohua walked to the other side and said in a very soft voice: "Do you feel it?"
Li Nan nodded: "The scarecrow looks at Pei Wenwei with the same look as you look at your president, but its eyes are still slightly healthier than yours."
"… "
Driving through the mountains, although the bare mountain walls at least blocked some of the sunlight. Wen Shi knocked on the table carelessly, his mind elsewhere. The head in the jar didn't understand why he kept staring at him, and he felt numb all over.
As the player roared through the cave, he felt a chill for a few seconds, which quickly disappeared again.
More than an hour passed like a year, during which no one slept. Everyone waited quietly for the broadcast, wanting to know the current temperature at Sunset Station.
“Hello fellow travelers…”
Finally, a sweet female voice began to announce: "This train is about to arrive at the final stop - Sunset Station. Please take your belongings with you and see you next time you travel."
Everyone immediately checked their belongings quickly, including their cell phones, weapons, or any small items they brought in, and prepared to take them all away.
The broadcast specifically reminded that if you really leave your belongings behind, it could be a death sentence.
As the player checked his things again and again, the train stopped unexpectedly.
Looking out the window, we are still on track. The tour guide was the first to jump off: "Everyone, please hurry up and catch up."
The shadow on the k9999 train came down very actively.
The boy looked back at the man who was still sitting there. He named him the "Three No Man", which means "no eyes, no heart, no limbs". "You're not going down?"
The "Three No Man" is like a machine without emotions. "Don't talk too much, don't meddle in other people's business."
The boy's expression was indescribable, and he prayed that the other party would take a car and leave forever.
He and the girl got off the car one after another. They looked at each other and felt like eggplants hit by frost.
This damn, dominated life!
When he saw Wen coming down from the opposite side carrying a large jar, the young man immediately put away the trace of depression in his expression, and the word "arrogance" was revealed in the corner of his eyes.
Wen Shi didn't pay any attention to his attitude at all, because he found that the little scarecrow was staring at the jar with the eyes of an enemy.
Twice.
Wen Shi held this jar twice.
The mechanical cat spoke in human language: "He doesn't deserve it."
How can a useless human pig make others suffer
Wen Shi smiled awkwardly. Perhaps it was because he only brought his eyeballs with him every time he set out, and failed to bring his brain along, the scarecrow version of Jian Qingrong was more direct and real than the real him.
This is a euphemism. A direct description is childish.
He sighed: "Next time I'll get someone else to move it."
Under the scorching sun, the tour guide was in high spirits: "The road ahead is under maintenance, so we have to walk the last section on our own."
The tourists in other carriages were blocking the front, affecting the players' field of vision. After hearing what she said, some people took out binoculars to look.
The track was broken in the middle, and there were scrap tracks in front. Countless rails were dismantled and thrown everywhere. The remaining tracks were all twisted, and their width spread to both sides, stretching as far as the eye could see.
There are all kinds of strange obstacles on the twisted railway.
"Do you know about parkour?" the tour guide said with a smile, "It's an extreme sport that's popular all over the world. The construction team is not here today, so we can use the last section of the journey to have a unique parkour."
It's five o'clock in the afternoon.
The sun's altitude has shifted, but its harsh rays are still scorching hot.
When the players used their clothes to block the sun, the tour guide took out the whistle from her clothes and said, "If there is no problem, we can start now..."
"Wait." Wen Shi suddenly asked, "Is it limited in time?"
The tour guide waved the whistle in her hand, and the meaning was self-evident.
The faces of the people in the water tank all changed, and they finally understood why they had to keep staring at them when they were warming up on the train. According to the players' previous speculation, the game wasted energy blindly, and it was arranged in a similar battle royale at the terminal. Although it was not a battle royale now, it was not much better.
In this situation, no player has the ability to take care of the three people in the tank.
The tour guide seemed to see their desperation and further explained: "Passengers who fail to arrive within the specified time will stay at this broken track forever!"
The little hope of survival that had just risen was extinguished. The person in the tank turned pale, and his body trembled due to fear, causing ripples in the water in the tank.
A shadow raised an eyebrow and said, "Someone doesn't like to save people, but now they put people on the railroad tracks and burned them to death."
Players cannot kill each other, and they will not help to solve the problem.
The new player who was soaking in the tank wanted to pray to the old lady to kill him, but at the last moment, he did not face the fear of death.
The young man looked at Wen and sneered, "Hypocrite." In the sunlight, half of his face seemed to be shrouded in shadow. "If you give in, I can help you kill them."
As he spoke, his eyes were filled with excitement. The person he had saved with his own hands now asked him to kill him. This touched the young man's excitement.
The heat made Wen Shi's voice a little hoarse. He suddenly asked the tour guide, "How long can the parkour be delayed?"
The tour guide smiled and said, "As long as you are not afraid of the sun, an hour is fine."
The longer the exposure, the slower the speed.
Wen Shi turned to look at the water tank: "Do you want to give it a try? There is another way to try."
A drowning man will not let go of even a straw.
The three heads nodded vigorously.
Xiaohua came over and asked: "Do you really have a solution?"
No matter how you look at it, there is no way out.
Wen Shi nodded: "I'll try."
Passengers were still getting off the train one by one, and all kinds of strange monsters were carrying their luggage and walking towards the twisted railway tracks ahead.
Wen Shi rushed over to stop several passengers, said a few words, and brought over a fat bug wearing a gentleman's hat.
The player instantly thought of the group of bugs in the car who had no principles in order to survive.
"Remember the conversation between me and the bug in the car?" Wen Shi said to everyone in a deep voice: "If we give in to the bugs endlessly for the sake of survival, we may become bugs too."
At that time, the insects said that as long as they chose to obey, they would not kill people and would only eat their hands and feet. Now that the people in the tank have broken hands and feet, even this process can be omitted.
Wen Shi had said it bluntly enough, and everyone had thought of this possibility.
Wen Shi further explained: "Alienation requires a process. The mission of Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils has already proved this. As long as you become half human, half insect, and make it to the end of the game without alienation, you will have a chance to survive."
He used the same method in big companies, infecting himself and gaining some kind of alternative advantage.
The reptilian passenger group has many legs, so they should be able to run quite fast, so there is a chance that they can do parkour.
"I have already negotiated with this gentleman, and he is willing to help humiliate you."
The person in the water tank: “…”
Wen Shi still wouldn't make decisions for others. He bent down and asked, "If you choose death, please blink within ten seconds."
There are two paths in front of a person. It takes courage to die, and it takes even more courage to live.
Ten seconds passed and no one blinked. The reason they didn't blink was that there was a battle between the conscience and the mind in their minds.
Wen Shi nodded: "So it's a matter of choosing a job?"
The human head did not object and was still in a state of being out of body.
The tour guide who was watching everything had an indescribable expression on her face, and the rest of the players, even their shadows, were silent.
At this moment they are the silent majority.
Wen Shi looked at Mr. Fat Bug and said, "It's troublesome."
The bug wearing the gentleman's hat was silent for a long time, then spoke in human language: "They are like this, how can I humiliate them?"
Wen Shi took out a kitchen knife, his eyes turned red as his sanity dropped: "You'd better know."
"… "
The kitchen knife cannot be held for too long, so Wen Shi took it back in time and said with both soft and hard tactics: "Don't you usually like to do this kind of thing? Not everyone has the opportunity to shine in the field they are good at and save people at the same time."
Just when he went to the passengers and said he wanted to humiliate people, this bug was the most active one. It must have bullied the weak and feared the strong in the past.
"And you should be able to understand that in order to survive, humans will do anything at all costs."
"I know." The bug wearing a gentleman's hat had a complex expression on his face that resembled a human. He stared at the three human pigs and said, "But now I suddenly feel that... sometimes life doesn't seem to be that precious..."
(End of this chapter)