Turning his head to look at the other party, Bai Zhi still looked calm.
"If you are willing to believe me, I will take you through the customs."
There is still about an hour and a half until dawn.
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Volume 1: The Gap between Imagination and Reality: Chapter 33 Chapter 33: Simple Beginner’s Task
The heavy rain seems to never stop. In an abandoned villa in the mountains, the swaying firelight is accompanied by the aroma of barbecue.
"You said you solved the mystery!?"
As Bai Zhi said those words, not only the bearded guy, but also Smile Xinrou and Night Owl all focused their eyes on him unconsciously.
"Yes, I have solved the mystery."
Putting the brush in his hand back into the seasoning jar, Bai Zhi raised his head.
"Actually, from the beginning, I have been thinking about this question in my heart, that is, what is the meaning of the novice mission. Is it a simple adventure without any meaning? Or is it some kind of test for the player's qualifications?"
"test?"
Smiling Xinrou was slightly stunned.
"Yes, don't you think you learned a lot of lessons from this novice mission?"
Bai Zhi glanced at the other person with a look of disgust on his face.
"Although she is a timid night owl, she is useless. Although she is not helpful, she is stupid. Although she deceives herself and others and does not dare to face it, she is obedient. How does she look like you? Look at it. What are you like now..."
"Are you praising me..."
The corners of Night Owl's mouth twitched fiercely.
"Be careful, be serious, and don't ignore any detail. This is the first part of this test, and it is also the first pass for whether you can become an official player. But you seem to have failed to do any of them. Just being calm on the surface is useless. of."
Bai Zhi ignored the words of a certain night owl.
"..."
Recalling her previous experience of being attacked twice, Qianxiao Xinrou was silent for a while.
"What about the second part of the test?"
While taking off his uncomfortable and wet coat, the bearded man couldn't help but ask.
"It's also very simple, that is whether you can muster the courage to face it."
When he said this, Bai Zhi gave Night Owl an extra look.
"Players who open the server probably don't have any convenient conditions for renting equipment like you, but they can still pass the novice mission, right?"
"So what's the answer to that mystery?"
Frowning slightly, the bearded man didn't understand what the other party meant, so he simply ignored it and asked for the answer directly.
"You seem to have said before that the right hand may not be in the villa, but where else can it be if it is not in the villa?"
"Oh, that sealed right hand should be in another world."
While eating the grilled barbecue, Bai Zhi answered quite casually.
"Let's make a hypothesis. If you didn't rent that life-saving equipment, then when Smile Xinrou was attacked at the beginning, she should have disappeared directly... Note, not death, otherwise there would be such a fatal trigger If the conditions are met, then the difficulty of this novice task would be too high for ordinary people like us."
"So I saved the wrong person at that time?"
After listening to Bai Zhi's words, the bearded man's face looked very ugly.
"Well~ whatever you think, but if you don't save her at that time, she will be pulled into the mirror world of this villa by that hand."
Bai Zhi shrugged indifferently.
"The missing last sealed right hand should be in that mirror space. In fact, we should have been able to deduce the existence of the mirror space. After all, people who are pulled into that space will not die, but There will be a hide-and-seek game with the resentful spirit hiding in that space while communicating with us, and then the two parties will work together to find all the corpse fragments and burn them to pass the level... This should be the official plot of the entire script. "
"But this is just your speculation, isn't it?"
The bearded man snorted coldly.
"Humph, the wisdom of mortals."
Bai Zhi put on a pair of glasses at some point and took out an apple from his backpack, with a sneer on his face.
"There's still an hour and a half before dawn. Do you think we can survive the last hour and a half? As long as the probability of something is greater than 50%, it's worth the gamble."
"...Okay, what do you want to do next?"
Trying to calm down, the bearded man said.
"Because of your completely baseless reasoning, we have to take the risk and actively enter the so-called mirror world? You have also seen Qianxiao Xinrou's current situation. What if it is really a trigger that will lead to death? Where’s the flag?”
"That's why I asked you if you want to believe me?"
While eating the apple, Bai Zhi looked innocent.
"If you are willing to believe me, then give me all your remaining two sub-bodies, and I will enter the mirror world to search for the final puzzle piece."
"Wait, are you crazy!?"
Before the astonished bearded man could speak, the night owl spoke eagerly.
"If your reasoning is wrong, then you can..."
"The essence of the novice mission is just a test mission. If nothing unexpected happens, the test mission is not that difficult. Since I am the one who proposed this guess, then naturally it should be completed by me."
Standing up, Bai Zhi looked at the bearded man.
"I don't know what the situation is in the mirror world, and we don't have much time left, so I need the two remaining bodies of you as an insurance policy."
"..."
After a moment of wordless silence, he took a deep breath and the bearded man stood up.
"Then I'll go in with you. There will be more people and more security..."
"It's impossible. You have to stay here to take care of them. At the same time, people need to be taken care of outside."
Shaking his head, Bai Zhi interrupted the other party's words directly.
"As time goes by, the cold feeling surrounding us has become deeper and deeper. This means that the resentful spirit has gradually lifted its restrictions. Xiaoxiao Xinrou has basically lost her ability to move. You and If I go in together, everyone outside will definitely die."
"..."
Opening her mouth, Night Owl seemed to want to say something, but when her eyes touched the dark corners around her, she bit her lip and slowly lowered the hand she originally wanted to raise.
"But if you are alone... I understand."
Exhaling, the bearded man took out the remaining two sub-bodies from his backpack and handed them to the other party without any hesitation.
"Then it's up to you."
Volume One: The Gap between Imagination and Reality: Chapter 34 Chapter 34 The Test of the So-called Official Players
From Bai Zhi's point of view, this novice mission is actually not difficult. The so-called difficulty mainly depends on whether the player has subtle observation skills and the courage to face the weirdness.
After all, reality is not a game. Compared with ordinary people, players only have one more ability to fight against monsters, unlike those games where they can be resurrected infinitely.
Even because of the special nature of the player's identity, the dangers faced by the player are even greater than those faced by ordinary humans.
Everyone has only one life.
Just like the little boy who stepped on the shadow earlier, Wu Hua and the two of them are obviously official players who have passed the novice mission, but in front of that kind of weird wisdom, if it weren't for him, they would be a little worse. Just capsized in the gutter.
Joining a large organization for a novice mission will be much easier with the support of equipment, but it will also bring uncontrollable changes to the process of the novice mission, just like the novice mission he is currently doing.
If the equipment rented by the bearded man had not had a slight impact on his judgment, he would not have thought of the key to solving the problem until such a dangerous time.
In the face of these strange stories, there is no use in blindly escaping. Facing it bravely is the truth. But if you only have courage and don't know how to observe carefully, you will be almost killed by that little boy like Wu Hua and the others before. A whole nest.
—This is what the novice mission wants players to learn, and it is also the real test of the novice mission.
Taking out the mirror from the toilet, Bai Zhi stared directly at the turbid mirror without hesitation. Under the gazes of the three night owls in the distance, an illusory slender arm stretched out from the mirror and grabbed it. Without the help of equipment on his neck, Bai Zhi's figure disappeared directly from the spot in about two seconds.
And with Bai Zhi's disappearance, the cold aura that enveloped the entire villa and penetrated into the bones obviously stagnated.
"..."
Looking at the mirror placed alone there, the look on the night owl's face seemed very inexplicable for a while.
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It was as if his body had passed through a layer of bubbles. When Bai Zhi opened his eyes again, he found that he had come to a rather... strange place.
The surrounding environment is still the hall on the first floor of the villa, but the sound of the rainstorm outside has disappeared at some point, but the rain is still falling silently, and everything around me is deathly silent. , the strange dark red light, like blood, emerged from nowhere and enveloped everything in front of it, making it look extremely strange.
"Is it true? The physical consumption in this place is almost twice that of the previous world... "
Reaching out and touching the black finger marks that also appeared on his neck, Bai Zhi couldn't help but frown slightly.
In fact, judging from the previous situation, the most suitable person to enter here is the night owl who is in the best condition among them. However, with the timid character of the other party, it is estimated that after entering here, he will probably hold his head and huddle in the corner. Trembling there...
Although the environment here is strange, the strange red light that appears from nowhere and spreads throughout the space provides a very good lighting function. However, when Bai Zhi was about to seize the time to search for the last necessary item in this villa, While the corpse was being pieced together, unusually clear footsteps suddenly came from the stairs.
"Tsk, so I hate sweets..."
Looking at the stairs, and after muttering something in his mouth, Bai Zhi took out a piece of chocolate, unwrapped it and stuffed it into his mouth without looking at it.
According to the normal way to clear the level, he would have to avoid the attack of the resentful spirit in this dilapidated villa while searching for the final puzzle piece. This method was the safest, but also the most time-consuming.
They didn't have much time left. In the real world, the bearded man might not be able to last that long with two oil bottles, so he had to take a riskier approach.
About ten seconds later, a ferocious figure appeared at the entrance of the stairs. The not-so-tall body was covered with stitching marks. A pair of hollow eye sockets with eyeballs dug out slowly looked around the entire hall. The white bone stubble can be seen vaguely at the wound joints where the wounds were forcibly sutured with hair.
"Is it so explicit..."
After complaining, Bai Zhi, who was hiding behind the stairs, decisively threw his homemade white phosphorus incendiary bomb at the opponent, and then ran upstairs without having the intention to see the results of the battle.
At the same time as angry and painful roars came from behind, Bai Zhi had already run straight to the second floor. He didn't even bother to hide his figure. He kicked open the door and entered each room one by one. Started rummaging.
What he was most worried about was the kind of resentful spirit that had no body and could walk through walls at will. Being that had a body and could be attacked made him feel a little relieved, but if it was really the kind of spirit that had no body and could not be attacked, As for the attacking ghosts, he would have to consider whether this novice mission was based on the idea of torturing them.
However, he had just finished searching the three rooms, and the body, which was all wet and looked like it had rolled around in the heavy rain outside, roared and chased him to the second floor.
What made him feel even worse was that the other party, in an extremely angry situation, actually took off his head that was forcibly sewn to his torso and smashed it towards him.
Because he didn't expect that the opponent actually had this kind of "split action" long-range attack method, he was stunned by the opponent. While his right hand was bitten tightly, the headless sutured corpse also followed. He ran towards him with long strides.
"This is so fucking outrageous, isn't it? This thing actually knows how to put out fires. I think you can be the ambassador of fire protection knowledge..."
With one kick, he kicked away the head that was biting his hand. Bai Zhi got up from the ground and already had several simple grenades he had made before. He threw these grenades behind him. As he went, he quickly hid behind the corner.
Along with the sound of several explosions, nails, blades, glass and other things flew everywhere, making a ping-pong-pong sound.
"Tsk, if it weren't for the fact that you can't buy rocket launchers and C4 on a certain store..."
He glanced at the bite wound on his hand that was bleeding with black blood, and didn't bother to deal with it. Before the angry roar sounded again, Bai Zhi hurriedly left there.
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Volume 1 The Gap between Virtuality and Reality: Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Pain is the best way to forget fear
As the saying goes, good fortune never comes in pairs and misfortune never comes alone. Bai Zhi was now in such a situation.
The black finger marks on his neck were still sucking his energy away. The bite wound on his right arm had gradually become numb as time went by, and his whole hand became unruly. got up.
Holding his breath and hiding under the bed, Bai Zhi listened to the heavy footsteps gradually leaving the door. After breathing a slight sigh of relief, Bai Zhi took out the medical tools from his backpack and simply treated the wound on his right arm. one time.
I have to say, the way he treated his wounds was simply outrageous.
Without changing his expression, he continued to clean the wound with high-purity alcohol until no black blood oozed out. He used a knife cleaned with alcohol to accurately cut off the rotten flesh that had been bitten off by the opponent and stuck there, and then used a stapler to forcibly cut off the wound. Stitch to stop the bleeding, and finally wrap a large industrial tape around the wound tightly...
—This was the inspiration he got from a certain gangster drama about wanting to become a Yangko star.
I have to say that although the processing process seems very simple and crude, the effect is immediate.
After finishing the set, he reached out to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, tried to make a fist, and made sure that he could basically hold on until the end of the time. After that, Bai Zhi crawled out from under the bed.
But when he carefully walked to the door to explore the current situation, the unique stench of corpses mixed with the sound of breaking through the air came from above his head.
—The body didn’t leave at all.