The host said "get out" casually, but his expression was extremely serious.
The achievement points came unexpectedly. Sur lowered his head and found that the badge seemed to be a little bigger than before. He couldn't help but sigh... This was the road to evolving into a shield and there was no turning back.
The Sage Qinglian has already made his stance clear; staying any longer would only be annoying.
Having obtained an extra team item, Su Er felt that it was not a bad thing. He asked realistically, "How do I use it?"
"Break it open and each take half."
The surface of the seeds was smooth, and it sounded unrealistic to break them open with bare hands. He began to try with uncertainty, but unexpectedly he succeeded easily.
Half of it was handed to Ji Heng, but it was not transmitted in real time.
Now everyone's attention is on the two of them, wondering what will happen next.
The Green Lotus Sage continued to move forward, and Sur hesitated for a moment and followed behind.
The group stopped at Forest Park.
Even the breeze in the early morning has a faint fragrance, which makes people's mentality become much calmer.
The Green Lotus Sage looked at the artificial lake and whispered, "Jump in."
Suer's eyebrows twitched, and he had reason to suspect that he wanted to murder.
After saying this, the Green Lotus Sage remained silent, waiting for them to decide for themselves.
The wind blew back and forth three times, and only two splashing sounds were heard. Except for the initial moment, there was no ripple on the lake.
The last thing Su Er saw reflected was the pines and cypresses on the other side of the lake. A faint voice reached his ears: "When facing a life-or-death situation, you can use that piece of paper and silently recite 'Flowers Bloom' three times."
The tone of voice carried a strange emotion, a hint of sarcasm, and seemed to be mixed with the mockery of the onlookers.
There was no time to think more and I fell into darkness completely.
The team props provided by the host were of very high quality. This was the most comfortable transmission. In the chaos, the body was surrounded by a gentle force, as if rising and falling in the clouds.
Suer enjoyed it quite a bit and even had the urge to give it a five-star rating.
·
In the distance was an overpass, its neon lights flashing vibrant colors. Traffic was bustling, and people returning home at night could be seen everywhere.
Ji Heng stood in the square, with middle-aged and elderly people dancing behind him. He walked around the perimeter, quickly scanning every corner to make sure there was no sign of Su Er.
"Big brother." A little boy came over and said, "Someone asked me to give this to you."
As he said this, he turned around and was about to point under the tree when the little boy suddenly exclaimed, "It's gone. It was an uncle with a cane."
Ji Heng gently touched his head and said, "Go play."
After the little boy walked away, he opened his tablet and a pop-up window automatically popped up on the screen:
Please choose teammates to join you (up to two, and you must form a team before dawn).
Zhu Yu (3 points)
Xu Yangyang (1 point)
Ji Heng (1 point)
Xu Fan (4 points)
Sur (5 points)
500 grams (2 points)
Jia Kanhua (1 point)
Liu Lang (3 points)
Ji Heng quickly clicked on Sur's option, and the specific location appeared below. He then clicked on a few more, and the addresses also appeared, showing that one could change their mind at any time before forming a team.
He felt in his pocket to make sure the game came with a wallet.
He quickly walked to the side of the road and hailed a taxi. Ji Heng said, "Go to Mingjiayuan Community, No. 236 Xinhua South Road."
The taxi drove onto the overpass and tall buildings flashed by outside the window.
Ji Heng's eyes darkened. He had teleported to the square, an easy-to-find and safe location. According to this logic, players with higher initial scores were more likely to be in danger... and Su Er was undoubtedly the best among them.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shook his head: "This unlucky child."
The driver, on the radio, didn't hear his mumbling. He said with a local accent, "It's been rumored that the Mingyuan has been haunted for the past few days. Is that true?"
Ji Heng said calmly: "I went to see a friend, I don't know much."
The car was driving very fast and stopped outside Mingjiayuan Community twenty minutes later. Ji Heng paid the toll and got out, staring ahead through the night.
It was an old residential complex with no security guards. The entrance was a shabby little iron gate. At this moment, a worker who had just finished his night shift was walking across the street.
Ji Heng stopped him and said, "Excuse me, how do I get to Building 3?"
The worker yawned and pointed in a direction.
There is a row of trees planted in front of the apartment building. No one has trimmed them all year round. Some of the thick branches blown down by the wind force people to bend over when walking.
Ji Heng walked sideways all the way with light footsteps. At this moment, he saw two figures in front of him looking left and right from time to time, hiding behind an old tree.
Unexpectedly, there were two people hiding behind the tree, one squatting and the other standing close to the bark.
In the moonlight, they could barely make out the names on each other's badges; they were all ranked one point apart.
No one suggested forming a team, and together they only had three points.
As they disliked each other, the silence of the night was broken——
"Is the news accurate? It's almost time."
"It's still ten minutes until midnight, please wait a little longer."
The furtive figures ahead were whispering to each other and lingering at the door of a unit.
Ji Heng frowned. Sul's location was also displayed at 101 in Unit 1.
23:56, inside the rental house.
The beautiful woman closed the refrigerator door and slipped when she turned around. Fortunately, she grabbed the table in time.
She didn't have time to think about why there was water on the floor when it hadn't been mopped for several days. She immediately protected her stomach, bent over and sweated profusely.
The woman, still a month away from her due date, felt something was wrong. She wanted to call for help, but the pain was so intense she had no strength left. She barely managed to hold onto the table and walk to her room to get her phone.
An incredible thing happened. The next second, the child fell out of the body.
The woman was stunned for a moment, as if all her strength was drained away in an instant, and she fainted on the spot.
Outside the unit door.
"Almost done." After glancing around, the two men walked into the unit door. One of them used the key that had been assigned in advance and opened the door smoothly.
The sound of a baby crying was heard.
"That old Taoist priest is amazing!" The taller and thinner man was shocked. He quickly walked over, cut the umbilical cord, picked up the child, and urged his companions: "Hurry!"
Ignoring the unconscious woman, his companion quickly took the raccoon cat out of the bag and placed it next to the woman.
The player secretly followed and was amazed when he saw this scene: "What era is this? Are they still playing the cat-for-prince trick?"
The location was still in a dilapidated rental house.
The sound is not loud, but people with a guilty conscience are particularly sensitive to it.
His body trembled suddenly, and the tall and thin man turned around and saw several figures outside the door. He was distracted for a moment and shouted hurriedly: "I'll run with the child, you follow behind!"
The companion cursed, pulled out a knife, slashed at the air randomly, and then jumped out of the window.
The house of more than ten square meters was clearly visible at a glance. After making sure that there was no one else there, Xu Yangyang's eyelids jumped and he immediately went to grab the baby.
The other player obviously had an idea as well, so he set his sights on the baby. As he jumped out of the window to chase after it, he was thinking a thousand "fuck"s" in his mind... Could this copy be reborn?
Ji Heng did not join in the chase. He first called the emergency number, then walked around the house carefully. For some reason, he bent down to pick up the small animal on the ground and pushed away the fur on his chest.
The fingernail-sized breastplate revealed the tip of the iceberg.
"It's you…"
Sur opened his cat pupils wide, feeling the power that was restraining him disappear, and tried to make a sound: "Ah——"
After making sure he could speak, he straightened the messy hair on his chest. His mouth was dry, so he stuck out his tongue suggestively.
Ji Heng gave him a sip of water.
His thirst was relieved, and Su Er said helplessly: "In the story of the raccoon cat replacing the prince, the prince is still alive, and it is the raccoon cat that is in danger of death."
Ji Heng smoothed his hair and asked, "How did it become like this?"
"When I opened my eyes, I was in a black bag. I couldn't speak and I couldn't use my strength. I'm only now gradually getting better."
Ji Heng: "Where are the props?"
Soul: "I can summon it if I want, but I can't use it."
The main reason is that claws are not as flexible as fingers.
"Strange." Ji Heng frowned, walked over and put a piece of clothing on the woman on the ground, not daring to touch her casually.
While waiting for the ambulance to arrive, Ji Heng stared at the civet cat for a few seconds: "Do you want me to help check your identity?"
Su Ermu was confused. What was there to check about a cat?
""gender."
"…"
Before the claws could scratch him, the tablet made a beeping sound, saving Ji Heng from the side. He sat down and put the cat on his lap.
A line of small words appeared in the center of the screen: Do you want to team up with player Sur?
Ji Heng pressed the OK button, and the system prompted that the team was successfully formed.
Soul hung his head. "I don't even have a tablet."
"You can't use it even if I have it."
Faced with the harsh reality, Suhr chose to look at things in a positive light, pointing out the current problem: "The police will inevitably question you later."
The ID card in his wallet avoided the embarrassment of being an illegal resident. Ji Heng had no intention of leaving: "This woman's situation is very strange. We can try to find a breakthrough from her."
If he left now, he would be easily labeled as a suspect.
The ambulance arrived quickly, the woman was carried into the car on a stretcher, and the two men followed and sat in the back of the car.
There were not many vehicles at night, and the ambulance arrived at the hospital smoothly.
The woman was taken to the emergency room. Because the situation was special, Ji Heng paid part of the fee first and sat quietly on the bench waiting for the police to arrive.
To avoid having your lip shape captured by the surveillance camera, you should lower your head while speaking.
Recalling the conversation between the two outside the unit door, Ji Heng pondered and said, "They know the exact time of birth of this child."
Being able to do this proves that this world involves the supernatural.
Su Er rested his head on his arm and said, "There's no need to speculate. I'm the best example."
Ji Heng shook his head: "As a rule of thumb, the higher the team points, the better. If nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to recover before dawn."
Sur shook his fur: "So I turned into a cat just to complete a test?"
Ji Heng nodded and opened the tablet.
Su Er pressed his paw on one spot. "This guy named Xu Fan has four points. Do you want to go find him?"
Ji Heng shook his head and clicked on his name, but the location was still displayed in the square.
"The tablet only gave us the initial location," Suhr said after some thought. "We've wasted so much time. If we go there now, we might find nothing."
Ji Heng: "The initial choice is very important. Players with high scores can't get out of danger. Players with low scores can only stay where they are and wait for people of the same level to come find them, or they can take the initiative to attack."
There is no point in forming a low-level team, and no one may come. However, any player with a little experience will definitely choose the latter.
Su Er changed his leaning position and asked: "What will be the result if the team fails?"
Ji Heng uttered the word "die".
Suer's pupils suddenly contracted and he looked up at him.
"If the host doesn't show up, all the effort of arranging team games and no blood is wasted would be a waste of effort." Ji Heng said calmly, "Those with low scores probably won't get any good results."
Sur's voice hasn't changed much, except it's a bit weaker, with a bit of a "milky" tone. After listening to the analysis, he exclaimed, "Social society."
Ji Heng flicked his tail and said, "Be serious."
There were not many people in the hospital at night, and the sound of shoes hitting the ground was very loud. He stopped playing with the cat and saw two police officers, one old and one young, coming towards him.
Ji Heng described the entire incident as a brutal incident involving human traffickers snatching children. Before the police could ask for his home address, he spoke up, "I heard Mingyuan Garden has been haunted these past few days, so I wanted to go there and do a livestream."
After a pause, he deliberately asked, "Can you please post this online?"
The police already had some issues with live broadcasts by internet celebrities that caused disruption, so when they heard this, they subconsciously labeled the other party as a difficult young person.
"Not yet."
Ji Heng then introduced the somewhat fantastical news: "It seems that the kidnappers knew in advance that this woman would have an accident at home. One of them even mentioned an 'old Taoist priest.'"
The older officer paused as he took notes.
Ji Heng pretended to be a chatterbox: "If this is posted online, I will be famous."
The police quickly gave advice.
Ji Heng finally said, "Leave me your contact information. I paid for that lady."
This was exactly what the other party wanted. There were still many details that needed to be asked for and investigated later, so he not only left the police station's phone number, but also added his private mobile phone number, and asked him to contact him at any time if he remembered more details.
Too much is as bad as too little. Ji Heng nodded and left with Suer in his arms.
A young police officer muttered behind me: "Why are there so many strange things happening lately?"
The older man reminded him seriously: "Don't say anything you shouldn't say."
There were shops open all night around the hospital. Ji Heng bought a lot of snacks, stuffed Sule into a plastic bag, covered most of his body with the snacks, and found a hotel to book a room for an hour.
After entering the guest room, Suer came out to get some fresh air.
"Sorry," Ji Heng explained calmly, "Pets are generally not allowed in hotels."
Sur jumped onto the window to get some fresh air, and suddenly realized the agility of the cat's body. Looking down at the scenery below, he felt quite heroic.
"Come down." Ji Heng said.
Su Er wagged his tail and said, "Every pet has the right to be willful."
Emphasis on the word 'pet'.
Before he could sway enough, his body suddenly stiffened and he felt a strange coldness. Sur first touched his hands and found that he was naked and pressed against the glass.
At this moment, he finally understood why Ji Heng came to get a room... It was still dark and there was no clothing store nearby.
He smiled awkwardly and walked forward with the quilt wrapped around him.
"Your guess is correct."
He transformed into a raccoon cat, mainly to serve the team game. In other words, now that it has been restored, does it mean that most people have successfully formed a team?
A knock on the door interrupted my thoughts.
The corridor was empty. There was a tablet on the ground. Ji Heng picked it up and handed it to Su Er: "Yours."
Suer frowned. This time the host was being too mysterious.
There is a new message on the tablet: Check out the morning news.
In order to avoid missing it, he set the alarm in time and took the time to catch up on his sleep.
Ji Heng stood by the window for a while and went to sleep when it was almost dawn.
The morning news starts on time at 6:30.
The first few broadcasts were about civil matters. When the next news item was about to be broadcast, the host's expression became more serious: "Last night, a horrific murder occurred in our city. A woman was brutally murdered by having a tree branch inserted into her neck..."
Suer was busy searching for news on his tablet. There were some unharmonized pictures on the forum, and the scene was quite bloody.
The woman's slender neck was used as a vase, and the branches inserted on it were carefully trimmed and arranged in accordance with the requirements of normal flower arrangement.
'Beautiful', 'thoughtful'... There were actually many comments praising this as a work of art.
Ignoring the uncomfortable comments, he read through them one by one, and one comment caught his attention:
[Netizen 001: I live nearby and was terrified! Also, not far from where the crime happened, someone was hit and killed by a car last night.]
When I turned the page, the webpage froze and after refreshing, the post had been deleted.
After exiting the browser, Su Er discovered a new program on his desktop called Player Squad. Upon entering it, the names of Xu Fan and Wu Baike appeared gray, with their death times noted behind them. The names of all the others were in red.
Su Er's eyes changed slightly: "If you hadn't arrived in time last night, I would have been in great danger."
The envelope icon in the upper right corner flashed. The message was posted two minutes ago, notifying players to gather at Hongquan Shopping Mall at ten o'clock.
I turned my head to talk to Ji Heng and saw that he was in a chat group.
Subconsciously, he glanced at the tablet in his hand, which also had a chat software. After logging in, there was a verification message to add him to the group. Su Er thought about it and clicked "Agree".
The group leader's avatar is a lame duck using a crutch, and her online name is Camellia Princess.
Su Er clicked on the other party's personal information. The gender column was male, and the personal signature had only three words: host.
He couldn't help but twitch his lips as he began to look at his account information. It was probably registered in the game, and his name and age were all real. He tried to change it, but it was all just gray boxes that wouldn't click.
No longer wasting effort, I sent a message: [Why only three people? ]
[Camellia Princess: Players with low scores are so busy that they haven't noticed yet (smile).]
Then another popped up:
[Camellia Princess: I heard you're good at reading comprehension @Sul, can you show me one?]
Suer raised his eyebrows as he stared at the message. Now that there were only him, Ji Heng, and the host in the group, he felt less concerned when speaking.
He looked up at Ji Heng and said, "Someone is provoking me."
Ji Heng raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Fight back."
In order to confirm that the host's identity was not fake, Su Er tried to ask: [Do you know what BSJ is? ]
[Camellia Princess: Isn't it just a situation where everyone around you is doomed? I even managed to get the host of this show just to watch you perform (smile).]
Suer decided to meet his request and started performing:
[Among the information obtained from Nongxu, there is a very interesting psychological monologue: Darkness is about to come, I long to see a young soul... So the question is, this is Ji Heng's self-analysis before entering the game. Time flies, and now, has darkness already arrived?]
After a brief pause, he continued to send messages:
[Assuming darkness has descended, why hasn't the replica world been destroyed yet? I can't help but doubt the reality of this world before my eyes.]
When I tried to send a message again, I failed.
You have been muted for one hour by the administrator.
"…"
Su Er's eyebrows jumped, and he sent a private message to Camellia Princess: [Can't you afford to play? ]
After taking a sip of water, the ban was still not lifted. He sent a string of smiling emojis with an expressionless face.