Chapter 103 Chapter 103
The Day of Doom (Part 6)
If it were in the real world, this price would not be a problem for Song Yanchi, but this happened to be in a dungeon. He was not a person who liked to wear accessories, and because he was worried that the watch would get in the way when entering a dungeon, he took it off as well, so he had nothing on except the clothes.
Song Yanchi's first reaction was to take off his shirt and use his own clothes to pay off the debt. His short-sleeved shirt costs six figures in the real world, and he only wore it once, so he waited until the next day to find other clothes. Unfortunately, this brand did not exist in this world, so not only did he fail to pay off the debt, but he was also almost fined by Zhaocai as an exhibitionist.
Zhaocai: "I am a vegetarian and I cannot stand the sight of meat~"
Song Yanchi: "...This is muscle."
And what can the other person eat with a ceramic?
Lucky draw: "Muscles are also meaty~"
Song Yanchi's arms were already tense under his sleeves, his muscles were smooth and obvious, and he wanted to fight the lucky cat for hundreds of rounds. He didn't know why, but he always felt that he couldn't get along with the lucky cat in front of him.
Qiao Yuan also gave up the idea of using his coat to pay off the debt, and instead thought about words that could attract wealth.
Self-worth...
Of course, losing hands and feet is impossible. After all, the copy world is full of dangers. Losing hands and feet is equivalent to putting yourself in a dangerous place.
Zhaocai was still there saying: "The face is also OK, I can peel the face skin very quickly meow~"
This is really based on appearance.
Of course Qiao Yuan would not consider it, so Bi interrupted him directly: "I have a message to share with you."
Zhaocai didn't say anything, obviously not very interested, but Qiao Yuan continued: "There is an empty villa area nearby, you can divide it into your own territory..."
Zhaocai finally responded this time: "Toyama Villa District, but there are already infected people there, it's a bit difficult to deal with meow~"
Qiao Yuan knew that the infected person that Zhaocai was talking about was Xiaowei. It seemed that Zhaocai had indeed set his sights on that villa area before.
Qiao Yuan: “It used to exist, but it doesn’t exist now.”
A puzzled look appeared on Zhaocai's smiling face: "Meow?"
Qiao Yuan: "I just killed him."
"As long as you go, the land in the villa area will be yours, and you can do whatever you want with it. Of course, you have to be quick, otherwise it is likely to be occupied by other infected people."
Qiao Yuan was thinking about how to prove himself when he felt a gaze that seemed to want to dissect everything fall on him, followed by Zhao Cai's voice: "I just used the skill 'Integrity First' to check, you are not lying~"
I didn't expect that Zhaocai actually had this skill. But in some ways she did not lie. Shadow killed him, so to be exact, she was the one who killed him.
"But there are few people now. I heard that there is a base in District 9. The messenger of God in the base claims to have seen God, so everyone ran there. The land is not valuable. Your information is only worth 20,000 yuan, meow~" Zhaocai said quickly and lazily.
Judging from its tone, it obviously doesn't believe this.
Qiao Yuan's guess came true. She didn't expect that there were few residents here because most of them went to District 9. But she hadn't heard that the other party had seen a god, so she became more interested in the base.
But she didn't show it on her face. After all, 20,000 yuan was enough to book two single rooms.
Zhaocai also gave each of them two meal tickets, saying that the restaurant was on the second floor and provided dinner tonight and breakfast tomorrow morning. He also kindly reminded the two to hurry up and have dinner, otherwise the dinner would be stopped soon.
Qiao Yuan took the key and wanted to continue asking Zhaocai some questions, but Zhaocai was already impatient to leave and occupied the Toyama Villa.
The shutter door that closed silently at the door also indicated that they were the last two guests.
Qiao Yuan decided to go with Song Yanchi to check out the dinner supplies. After all, she and Song Yanchi had just consumed a lot of energy and water, and they still had to continue searching tomorrow, so it was definitely impossible not to eat some food.
The premise is that those foods are normal.
The spiral staircase was narrow and could only accommodate one person. Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi walked up the stairs one after another. Song Yanchi was still complaining that the price of the fortune-telling device was too high.
As soon as I reached the second floor, I saw the word "restaurant" written on a red sticker at the end of the corridor.
There are others...
It is also possible that they are infected.
The frosted glass door was closed, and there seemed to be several figures walking back and forth inside. Although the house looked simple, the sound insulation was really good, so they could not hear any sound from inside.
After realizing this, Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi took out the daggers they had looted before, and then Song Yanchi, who was walking in front, pushed open the door.
However, after pushing the door open and looking inside, the two of them soon met several gazes.
The leader, Qiao Yuan, was very familiar to him. It was Sheng Guiye, whom he had just met a few days ago.
The good news is that the other person was still wearing the Buddhist beads on his wrist.
Sheng Guiye looked like he had just been teleported out of a business meeting. He was dressed in a suit and tie without a single wrinkle. His originally calm black eyes revealed a hint of surprise the moment he saw Qiao Yuan, but it quickly disappeared.
There were four other people beside Sheng Guiye. In the silence, one of them, a cute girl with twin ponytails and one eye wrapped in gauze, spoke first: "You are Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi, right?"
“We are players too.”
The restaurant of the small hotel is not big, in fact it is very simple, with just a long table and a few chairs around it. It looks a bit like a mobile stall, with grids of food placed on the table next to it.
The food is all home-cooked and looks quite hearty.
Including Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi, there were seven players in total sitting at the dining table and introducing themselves one by one.
The first to introduce herself was the girl with twin ponytails. She said with a smile, "My name is Yu Guo. I won't introduce my profession. I have participated in two dungeons. This is my third time. I used my eyes to pay for the room. It's your turn next."
As she spoke, blood was still oozing from her right eye which was wrapped in gauze, rolling down her fair cheek, which she then wiped away without a care.
A boy with curly hair and a melancholy look called himself Yan Yi, a cellist who had participated in a dungeon once. This was his second time participating in a dungeon. Another muscular man with a stubble on his face was called Li Qiang, a fitness coach who had participated in three dungeons.
Qiao Yuan noticed that where Yan Yiben's left hand should have been, there was only a bare wrist left, which was also wrapped in gauze, probably used to pay the room fee.
I have to say that Zhaocai knows how to choose. He wanted her and Song Yanchi's faces, so he took Yan Yi's left hand. Yu Guo looked like a motorcyclist, so he took one of the other's eyes.
Strangely, there were no wounds on Li Qiang's body.
A boy wearing black-framed glasses subconsciously adjusted the frame of his glasses, and then said nervously: "I, I'm Le Wenfei, this is my first time participating in a dungeon..."
The voice was trembling, very much in line with the characteristics of a novice, but like Li Qiang, he was unharmed.
Qiao Yuan originally thought that these two people were exchanging information like himself, but seeing that Le Wenfei looked like a novice, he didn't think they were capable of exchanging information.
Fortunately, Yu Guo explained for the two of them that Le Wenfei woke up in a gold shop and found a golden object in the crack in the corner.
For veteran players, they know that gold leaves are generally useless in dungeons, so they simply ignore them. However, Le Wenfei is a novice and not very rich in the real world, so he immediately took the gold leaves and put them in his arms. As a result, he didn't even have time to listen to the task and let his shadow run away.
Although his shadow was not running very fast, by the time he finished listening to the mission again and came out, it had disappeared without a trace.
At that time, he regretted that he picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelons, but he didn't expect that it would come in handy at this time and paid the room fee for him and Li Qiang.
In Yu Guo's words, Le Wenfei is a lucky newcomer.
Judging from the fear in his eyes when he looked at Li Qiang, it was obviously unlikely that he would volunteer. Not to mention that an old player has many ways to control a new player, Le Wenfei's physique is not someone who can go head-to-head with Li Qiang.
Sheng Guiye was also one of the people who was not injured. He never mentioned his acquaintance with Qiao Yuan. He introduced himself as if it was the first time he met Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi.
Qiao Yuan noticed that the beads on his wrist were missing a few beads, which must have been used to pay for the room, and it turned out to be true. However, Zhao Cai obviously followed his character of lowering the price, so this bead, which cost at least hundreds of thousands in the real world, ended up being just the room fee for a single room.
Thinking that the gold leaves could replace two single rooms, Qiao Yuan could only sigh that gold is still the best investment option as it can always maintain its value.
Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi also introduced themselves. Although Qiao Yuan did not say how many times he had experienced the dungeon, from the expressions of others except Le Wenfei, they had already known from various channels that Qiao Yuan was not a novice.
When Qiao Yuan said that he had exchanged information for the rent, Yu Guo asked directly what it was. After learning that it was information about the land, he sighed: "Alas, the information is poor!"
"If I knew the news, I wouldn't have to exchange my eyes for mine."
Song Yanchi also whispered to Qiao Yuan, using only two voices to indicate that these players were not the ones he had met on the road before, which meant that there were not only these few players entering the dungeon this time.
While talking to Qiao Yuan, Song Yanchi felt a deep gaze falling on him. When he looked up, he found it was Sheng Guiye.
Song Yanchi:?
Although he didn't dislike Sheng Guiye, he still felt puzzled by being stared at like that. Just when he was about to say "What are you looking at", he found that the other person had already averted his gaze.
Song Yanchi could only complain quietly to Qiao Yuan that Sheng Guiye also looked abnormal.
Qiao Yuan knew that he was talking about the fact that Sheng Guiye always looked at her. Since they entered the door, she felt Sheng Guiye's gaze looking at her several times, but he never spoke to them. Therefore, Qiao Yuan did not take it to heart and turned her attention to other people.
After all, she had not forgotten what the system had said before, that the shadow was likely to replace the real person. However, except for Sheng Guiye, she and the other players were meeting for the first time and were not familiar with each other, so she could only confirm that the players in front of her were all very human.
Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi ordered some food and sat down again.
Yu Guo was a cheerful and outgoing person, which reminded Qiao Yuan of Nan Keke whom he had met in the previous dungeon. After introducing himself, Yu Guo started chatting with everyone enthusiastically, but apart from Qiao Yuan, few people present were in the mood to respond.
From Yu Guo, Qiao Yuan learned that these people had woken up in different places before, and came to the hotel while chasing shadows and investigating clues, and then met in the hotel. Although they arrived earlier than Qiao Yuan and Song Yan, they also felt the high temperature, so even if they knew that the fortune cat's mouth was wide open, they had no choice.
Everyone came from different streets, but they all saw this hotel when they turned around. However, when you think about the fact that it is the end of the world, it doesn't seem so strange that even the lucky cat pendant has a soul.
Yu Guo touched the gauze and said, "Boss Zhaocai didn't even give me anesthesia. It was quite painful. It was just a raw dig. I could even feel my optic nerve being torn off..."
The vividness of her words was so strong that Li Qiang could not help but say "Stop talking". Le Wenfei hugged himself tightly and trembled, with a mixture of fear and relief on his face.
Yu Guo waved his hand: "Okay, okay, I won't talk about digging out eyes anymore."
"But he was much better than the player who came with me. He didn't want to pay the price and wanted to sneak attack the store owner. As a result, the palm-sized fortune cat suddenly grew so big that it ate him directly without him even making a sound."
After hearing Yu Guo's words, Qiao Yuan was glad that he did not directly attack Zhaocai at that time.
Song Yanchi: "...Didn't it say it was a vegetarian and didn't eat meat?"
Yu Guo: "Ah, after it finished eating, it said that person was as thin as a bean sprout."
Le Wenfei, who was also as thin as a bean sprout, remained silent.
Song Yanchi: "..."
He understood that the right of interpretation belonged to Zhaocai.
This time it was Li Qiang who spoke up. He was obviously dissatisfied with Yu Guo's attitude of always talking about trivial things, so he took the initiative to start the topic: "Okay, let's talk about something useful. What is going on in this world?"
"How on earth are we going to find our own shadow and change it back?"
As expected of someone who had gone through three dungeons, the other party asked several to-the-point questions.
Although he was interrupted several times by Li Qiang, Yu Guo still responded enthusiastically: "I don't know, anyway, this world is very strange."
Li Qiang: “…”
Fortunately, except Le Wenfei, everyone else had collected the information.
Because we have only been here for a few hours, everyone has similar information -
The world has ushered in the end of the world and is divided into two camps: humans and the infected. In the latter, all things can become spirits, and the weather at night is also very extreme.
Except for Le Wenfei and Yu Guo, the others found flyers about the District 9 base.
According to Sheng Guiye's research, the urban area where they are located is District 3.
The people who had received the flyers were just like Qiao Yuan, hesitating whether to go. After all, they didn't know whether Yingzi was still in this city. But when they heard Qiao Yuan mention Zhaocai saying that the man who claimed to be a messenger of God had seen God, they became curious again, wondering if the other party could help them find Yingzi.
Just then, a dull knocking sound was heard, like the sound of a clock.
Yu Guo looked up at the clock on the wall and revealed a look of sudden enlightenment: "We should go back to the room. Boss Zhaocai said that we have to go back to the room before nine o'clock in the evening."
Except for Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi, no one else looked surprised, obviously they had been warned in advance.
Qiao Yuan didn't expect that she almost missed this important reminder. From the way Zhaocai was in a hurry to leave, she judged that the other party had forgotten to say it.
She glanced at the time on the clock. It was less than ten minutes until nine o'clock in the evening. However, since several people still had to find their own rooms, they did not delay and got up and walked out of the restaurant.
As the last person stepped out of the restaurant, the door closed.
The small hotel has three floors in total. The second and third floors are restaurants and rooms. Qiao Yuan, Song Yanchi, Le Wenfei and Li Qiang's rooms are all on the same floor and are not far apart.
But this is actually of no use, after all, as you can see from the restaurant, the room is well soundproofed.
Le Wenfei obviously didn't want to live in a single room. After discovering that his companions had their eyes gouged out and their hands severed, he also realized how horrible the dungeon was. He wanted to follow Li Qiang, but was driven back by Li Qiang: "That Taoci said that the room can only be occupied by a specified number of people."
After saying these words, Li Qiang turned around and went back to the room, not giving Le Wenfei a chance to follow him. Le Wenfei could only walk towards the room alone, shaking like a candle in the wind. The short distance seemed to consume 5,000 calories.
No matter how reluctant Song Yanchi was, he and Qiao Yuan still had to return to their respective rooms.
After using the key to open the thin wooden door, the scene in the room appeared in front of Qiao Yuan -
The room is less than 15 square meters, with a yellow light bulb above the head, a simple wooden bed, a clock, a table, a wardrobe, a TV, a bathroom, and two potted plants that are even more wilted than Song Yanchi just now. These are all the things in the room.
The window was closed. Qiao Yuan tried to open it. She only opened it a crack and felt the scorching heat. She quickly closed it again. Even so, her arm was already red from closing the window.
Looking out the window, there was nothing on the street except for the closed shop doors. Qiao Yuan didn't see any other tenants besides the player, so he didn't know if Shadow was affected by the high temperature and had hidden somewhere.
However, Qiao Yuan was not worried that anything would happen to Shadow. After all, her mission had not yet shown signs of failure.
Because there was a light bulb above his head, Qiao Yuan wanted to find the remote control and tried to turn on the TV. With a slight sound of electricity, the TV screen actually lit up and began to play the content -
What appeared on the TV was a room exactly like the one she was in now. Even the angles of the two wilted potted plants seemed almost the same. However, the person standing on the screen was not her, but a strange middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman was also turning on the TV, but the woman herself was shown on TV.
There is a camera.
Qiao Yuan thought.
The middle-aged woman was obviously aware of the problem and immediately started searching. Her first target was the ceiling, and she immediately stepped on the table to search, but found nothing, so she had to turn around and search somewhere else, with an angry expression on her face.
