Mu Qianse was not very courageous to begin with, and this did not change much even after becoming a player.
But she still has no problem with things like being alone or staying in a hotel alone. After all, compared with her previous self, she has grown up a lot after experiencing so many things.
But now after a certain inhumane guy very carefully and considerately told her a lot of horror stories that happened in the hotel... Let alone going to the hotel alone, she felt that she would be scared to death if she slept alone tonight. .
"Well, my place has a structure of three bedrooms and one living room. In addition to me and Qingyi, there happens to be one more room. You can live here temporarily until the cold wave recedes. I won't charge you rent."
Pushing open a door, Bai Zhi introduced enthusiastically to the girl who was following him slightly stiffly.
As for things like bothering the other party to cook, he did not choose to say it explicitly. After all, this kind of thing does not need to be said. Unless the other party is willing to eat instant noodles with them every day, otherwise things like cooking are basically There is no need for him to speak.
"... While it's still early, let's go to the mall to buy some food and come back."
Forcing herself to ignore the rather hostile eyes of a certain lolita, after taking a general look at her room, Mu Qianse reluctantly spoke.
"There are basically no ingredients left in the refrigerator. There are only a few sausages and a few eggs left. For the sake of health and nutrition, I think it is best for us to buy some food."
"Well... that's right."
After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi nodded thoughtfully.
"I didn't think about this before, so all I bought were some instant noodles and snacks. Let's set off now. While it's still early, I remember there seem to be a few self-service electric cars downstairs..."
As he spoke, Bai Zhi turned his head and glanced out the window to observe the sky, but this unintentional glance made him froze there for a moment.
"What's wrong?"
A strange look came to Bai Zhi, whose expression suddenly became serious. Mu Qianse also followed the other person's gaze and turned her head. Then, like the other person, she also froze there, her expression quickly changed. Get pale.
"What... is that thing?"
Outside the window, a long black shadow hung down.
Volume One: The Gap between Illusion and Reality: Chapter 207 Chapter 204: Things that come with the cold wave
I don’t know when, or rather not long ago.
—The icy world outside, invaded by the cold wave, has become a little different from before.
This is the seventh floor, and this building has a total of 21 floors. Logically speaking, at the height of the seventh floor, apart from some birds that can fly here, nothing else can be seen outside the window.
But I don’t know exactly when, a long, black shadow-like arthropod-like leg hung down from the window, blocking most of the window.
Bai Zhi has the best eyesight. With the help of [Pluto? Lack]'s eagle eye, he can even see the sharp barbs on this long leg.
"What... is this thing?"
Looking at the thing hanging from above outside the window, Mu Qianse's tone contained a slight tremor.
She had seen it before when she came here. This was the seventh floor. There was nothing to use as a footrest under the window, and the air conditioner was not installed here. So this also meant that there was an unknown creature outside the window. The height of the feet has already reached the height of seven floors... What kind of behemoth is this!
"I don't know. The shape of the legs looks a bit like a cockroach, and a bit like a spider... A spider or cockroach that is more than ten stories high? Where did this thing come from?"
Bai Zhi frowned slightly, without any intention of worrying about anything, and walked straight to the window.
"Don't be so nervous, and there's no need to be so afraid... As a player, shouldn't you be mentally prepared to deal with all kinds of weird and weird things?"
"But... I know."
Seeing a certain loli who was following someone straight towards the window without flinching, she secretly gritted her teeth, suppressed the fear in her heart, and Mu Qianse quickly followed.
-This is a huge spider that is dozens of stories tall.
The eight jointed limbs of the giant spider penetrated deep into the building complex, and its huge body covered the sky. One of the spider legs landed just in front of their window.
If they looked at it from the angle they were in, they could still vaguely see a giant spider leg that penetrated straight into the wall on the left front.
"It's not an entity, it's just an illusory projection, and it seems that ordinary people can't see this thing..."
Looking towards the opposite floor, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly.
The view provided by the eagle eye was absolutely top-notch. On the floor directly opposite his floor, through the closed window, he could clearly see a thick spider leg hanging from the ceiling. Then it sank straight into the floor.
The owner of the room was unaware of this. Even though the spider legs penetrated the sofa and landed next to him, he was still lying leisurely on the sofa watching TV...
"...Is it really just an illusory projection?"
Looking back from above, Mu Qian's complexion looked slightly pale.
"But this spider was still moving just now..."
Before she finished speaking, the spider leg hanging in front of their window slowly lifted up and moved a long distance forward. In the process, the giant spider's actions did not affect the surrounding people. If there is any damage to the building, the eight long spider legs will sink straight into the building, as if those buildings are false projections.
In less than five minutes, the giant spider, which was dozens of stories tall, was already far away. Along with the obstruction of the buildings in the city, it quickly disappeared from their sight.
"Okay, stop looking, stop looking. People are shy and left, and you still look at it. Isn't it just a spider magnified thousands of times? What's so interesting about it?"
Clapping his hands, Bai Zhi attracted the attention of the other two people.
"So what if it's not just an illusory projection? To deal with such a huge guy, I only need a sliding shovel to disembowel it, just a spider..."
"It's not just that."
Exhaling in his mouth, Qingyi stretched out his hand and tugged at the corner of his clothes.
"Look at the horizon, it's behind and to the left of your line of sight."
"horizon?"
Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows and turned his head slightly.
When he saw the scene on the horizon, his expression turned gloomy involuntarily.
In his sight, an indescribable strange scene was emerging in the sky. On the extremely bleak sky over there, a large number of lead-black clouds had gathered at some point. These clouds gathered together, as if they were like a storm. The signs before the coming...if you ignore the tentacles poking out from the clouds.
Dozens of long blood-red tentacles hung down from the lead-black clouds. They twisted and tangled together in mid-air, but they persisted in exploring the world below.
… An extremely real and absurd scene was playing out in front of him.
"Uh... I'm hungry again."
Turning his head, Bai Zhi spoke to Mu Qianse solemnly.
"Can I trouble you to make a piece of takoyaki?"
Mu Qianse: "???"
When I type a question mark, it’s not that I have a problem, it’s that you have a problem.
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"That's really not an octopus..."
Looking at someone sitting on the sofa without any psychological pressure in front of him, Mu Qianse weakly repeated these words again.
"Octopuses have tentacles, and those that stick out from the clouds are also tentacles. According to the famous Occam's razor principle, I think the two can be equated."
Bai Zhi had a serious look on his face.
"...I've never heard of that theory."
"Oh, of course you can't have heard it, because I made it up on the spot."
Bai Zhi waved his hand with an understatement on his face.
"The focus of the problem now is not on this, but on other aspects. It is better for us not to avoid the important things and ignore them. At present, according to my observation, ordinary people cannot see those things, but players can see them. Although it is not possible for the time being. I don’t know what the connection is between the sudden cold wave and these things, but there is definitely a connection between them... Then the question arises.”
He stretched out his fingers and knocked on the coffee table in front of him, and looked at Mu Qianse, who unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva due to the suddenly serious atmosphere, and looked a little nervous. The expression on Bai Zhi's face was... Quite serious.
"Do you know there is a store selling takoyaki in Xinglong Mall? Or there is a seafood store selling octopus."
Mu Qianse: "..."
Volume One: The Gap between Illusion and Reality: Chapter 208 Chapter 205: I am at odds with evil! !
Although I don't know exactly what happened, some weird things have happened.
The sudden cold wave brought something ominous to the world...or to Binhai City.
The Internet has not yet been cut off, and large-scale power outages have not yet occurred. As a city near the sea, the cold wave that has descended on Binhai City is actually not a big deal nationwide, and it is only a minor issue in the news. A slight mention.
And on the Internet, this is not even as important as the top priority of a little kid getting his finger cut off with a knife...
Well, the current headlines on Weibo are exactly what happened when a popular young star accidentally cut his finger with a knife while rehearsing a show and was rushed to the hospital.
You must seize the time to get to the hospital. After all, if you get to the hospital late, the wound may heal on its own...
"It's confirmed. Ordinary people cannot see these things. Those who can see these things are players. At the same time, on the player forum, the relevant departments also gave explanations about the incident that happened in Binhai City."
Bai Zhi raised his head from the computer and snapped his fingers.
"To be honest, the explanation is very vague, and there is a very obvious official written expression in it... The cold wave lasts for a month, but the temperature will rise slightly after that. Judging from the explanation given by the relevant departments, According to my prediction, within this month, a large number of players from other cities and even foreign players will come to Binhai City."
"Eh? Why?"
After hearing Bai Zhi's words, Mu Qianse was stunned.
"Because this is the first time in this world that a large-scale copy has been launched... or arrived."
Shrugging, Bai Zhi turned his head and looked out the window.
"The first large-scale dungeon has opened. Although there are bound to be quite a lot of dangers, the benefits are also unimaginable. Props, equipment, levels, skills, game currency...the temptation of these things is bound to attract people. A large number of players came over."
"... The so-called large-scale dungeon doesn't require us to fight those things, right?"
Pointing to the window, Mu Qianse's mouth twitched slightly.
"Giant spiders dozens of stories high, large tentacles protruding from the lead-colored clouds...are these things really something that we players can deal with?"
"Who knows? After all, the official organizations haven't given out much information. We will just have to explore it ourselves... But I don't think the relevant departments will know too much."
Bai Zhi closed the laptop in front of him again and shrugged nonchalantly.
"This is the first large-scale dungeon in this world. Anything can happen. Players have never experienced this kind of thing. Who can explain it clearly?"
While saying this, Bai Zhi glanced at the white-haired Lolita.
If there is anyone in this world who knows the exact information about large-scale dungeons, it would only be alien beings like the white-haired Lolita.
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"…This is erosion from other worlds."
In Bai Zhi's room, Qing Yi found an excuse to sneak in with a solemn look on his face.
"erosion?"
Turning his head to look at the white-haired lolita in front of him, Bai Zhi, who was standing in front of the closet, raised his eyebrows slightly.
"You know, there is not only one world like yours that has been invaded by ghost stories. For example, the world I am in has been completely destroyed."
Sitting down on the chair, the white-haired Loli took a deep breath in her mouth.
"You know, during my last mission, I went to a world similar to this. Although that world was not destroyed, it was actually almost there. The humans in that world were all in a state of captivity."
Bai Zhi took out a piece of clothing from the closet and placed it on the bed. Bai Zhi nodded.
"You mean that the nature of the advent of large-scale copies is actually the erosion from other worlds?"
"Yes, at its heart, this is a war."
The white-haired loli nodded seriously.
"In the world I used to live in, I have encountered dozens of large-scale dungeons coming and opening. Strange stories and players from other worlds took this opportunity to invade our world... This is also one of the factors that led to the rapid destruction of my world. Key factor."
"...player?"
Bai Zhi frowned slightly as he keenly captured a key word in the other party's words.
"As long as the world is not completely eroded and destroyed by Kaitan, there will always be new players born."
As if she had thought of something, the white-haired Loli sighed softly.
"Weak worlds are destroyed the fastest, slightly stronger worlds can hold on for a while, and powerful worlds can form a stalemate with Kaitan... Your world is considered a powerful world, and it's only been a few months. It’s been a long time, and it’s almost unbelievable that ordinary people in your world still know nothing about it and can even live a peaceful life.”
"Is it powerful..."
For some reason, Bai Zhi suddenly thought of that trip to Hell Town, the old director who guarded the area of the orphanage alone... and the night watchman organization that Chu Ci mentioned.
"Yes, your world is indeed quite powerful. Even in the past, you even suppressed the strange stories for a time."
The white-haired loli nodded seriously.
"Myths and history are not just legends, and gods and monsters are not just lies. Your world was once protected by powerful gods. But it is a pity that when ghost stories come to this world again , it means that there are no more immortals and Buddhas in your world... They have fallen, and no one knows the reason."