Chapter 111 The Day of Doomsday (XIV)
Although the players regarded the first half of the native's words as crazy, after hearing the second half, some perceptive players noticed something was wrong and asked, "Run away? Why is he running away?"
"Because I'm stupid." The native replied, and then his attention fell back on the blood-stained poster in his hand. His eyes were fixed on the poster, as if the poster in his hand would disappear if he looked away. The wound bled more due to excitement, and he turned a deaf ear to the questions from other players.
Seeing his reaction, the players knew they couldn't ask anything, so they could only give up.
Qiao Yuan, who was sitting in the front row, also heard what the native said and realized that there was something wrong with District 9. However, she was about to arrive at District 9, and other areas might not be free of problems, so she was not prepared to change her original idea of going to District 9.
Districts 8 and 9 are not far apart, and it only took half a day to drive there.
After the bus stopped at the station, almost two-thirds of the players on the bus got off. A few people did not have tickets and felt that District 9 was very strange, so they decided to continue taking the bus to District 10 or subsequent areas.
Because of Qiao Yuan's previous performance on the bus, some players who didn't know her had a different view of her. Some looked at Qiao Yuan with fear, while others looked at her with admiration. Therefore, when Qiao Yuan got off the bus, many people came to her to try to get close to her, but they were blocked by Song Yanchi and Yu Guo on the left and right.
Qiao Yuan's attention was focused on the base not far away.
She was originally thinking about how to find the base in District 9, but she didn't expect that the base was actually built near the bus station. A tall wall stood not far away, blocking any prying eyes. Outside the wall was the golden eye on the poster, and no matter from which angle you looked at it, it seemed like it was being stared at with emotionless eyes.
It looked okay on the previous poster, but when it was zoomed in, it really gave the feeling of a god sitting high in the clouds overlooking everyone.
There is a dark tunnel at the gate.
There were several people standing outside the tunnel, also holding flyers. Some were injured like the indigenous people, while others were pale and thin, with tattered clothes, but they all had expressions similar to that of the indigenous person just now.
Compared to the players who observed carefully first, the native seemed much more impatient. He walked quickly towards the gate with the flyer in his hand to meet up with those people.
The other players hurriedly followed, and when they got closer they realized that the people standing outside the tunnel were queuing.
Qiao Yuan heard the indigenous people in front of him who were chatting while queuing say that this was to prevent infected people from sneaking in. After all, some infected people looked exactly like normal people.
Qiao Yuan had already guessed that the base should have a way to distinguish between normal people and infected people, so she was not surprised, but what made her more concerned was the words of the natives next -
If you enter the base alone, you will live with other people in the base, but if you enter as a family of three or four, you can get a separate apartment.
For these natives, this is a good opportunity to meet new friends, but for the players it means being dispersed, so many players choose to disguise themselves as one family, which can also solve the problem of not having admission tickets.
Originally, because Song Yanchi didn't have an admission ticket, Qiao Yuan planned to continue their sister-brother relationship and take him in, so that they could be together. However, Yu Guo said pitifully in a voice that only they could hear: "Qiao Yuan, I don't have an admission ticket. Can you take me in? Anyway, one ticket can bring three people. I can be your sister..."
Although she is a few months older than Qiao Yuan, she does behave like a younger sister in some ways.
After thinking about it, Qiao Yuan decided to agree. After all, he could get a separate house.
What she didn't expect was that Sheng Guiye also expressed his willingness to join.
Like Qiao Yuan, Sheng Guiye also received many invitations to live together with other players, including some more experienced players who had gone through more than a dozen dungeons.
Since Sheng Guiye's attitude seemed to be keeping a distance from her, Qiao Yuan always thought that she was waiting for him to catch up because there was only their team of players at the time, and their target was Area 9. Now that Area 9 had been reached, Sheng Guiye would leave after finding other players.
She subconsciously glanced at the Buddhist beads on Sheng Guiye's wrist, and the beads were clearly still there.
Noticing Qiao Yuan's puzzled look, Sheng Guiye rubbed the Buddhist beads with his fingertips and explained calmly: "Don't get me wrong, it's just because we have participated in a dungeon together before."
"You can also choose to refuse."
After hearing what Sheng Guiye said, Qiao Yuan felt relieved and agreed. After all, Sheng Guiye's computer skills were very useful and might come in handy.
When he heard Qiao Yuan's agreement, Sheng Guiye breathed a sigh of relief and moved his fingertips away from stroking the Buddhist beads.
When Zhaocai took away a few Buddhist beads because he had to pay for the room, Sheng Guiye felt inexplicably anxious. However, he had long been accustomed to not showing his joy on his face, so he remained calm and did not show it when facing Yu Guo and other players.
But he didn't expect Qiao Yuan to appear here. The anxiety in his heart, which was about to calm down when he saw the other party, suddenly surged up again when he saw the young man standing next to Qiao Yuan, as if to drown him.
Sheng Guiye didn't like the feeling of such ups and downs in emotions, especially when he realized that he saw the two people, the first reaction in his mind was "Who is this man and why is he standing next to her", and he realized that it was the emotions of his second personality that were leaking out.
Sheng Guiye didn't expect that the missing beads would also affect him, as if the barrier that trapped his second personality in his heart was weakening. In order to prevent Qiao Yuan from continuing to influence him, he just wanted to stay as far away from him as possible, but when he heard Yu Guo mention that this would leave Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi alone in their own world, he followed him again.
But he happened to be going to District 9 as well, so they would separate after arriving there.
He thought.
However, seeing how intimate Song Yanchi was with Qiao Yuan along the way, and that they would have to live in the same room together later, even though Yu Guo was there, the anxiety in his heart became even worse.
By the time he realized what he had said, it was too late. He could only suppress his panic and add that Qiao Yuan could also refuse.
While waiting for Qiao Yuan's answer, his heart was subconsciously tense. He was even more nervous than when he experienced the company's listing in Country A many years ago. At this moment, it seemed as if the soul in his body had merged into one, both waiting for Qiao Yuan's answer.
Fortunately, Qiao Yuan finally agreed.
Sheng Guiye heard a cheerful shout in his ear, but he didn't know whether it was from himself or his alter ego.
Qiao Yuan was thinking about assigning a brother role to Sheng Guiye when she saw the people in front of her had already entered the tunnel, so she hurried to follow.
While passing through the tunnel, Qiao Yuan heard a gentle female voice coming from above his head, saying that this was a detection tunnel, and that the data and indicators of their bodies to determine whether they were humans or infected.
Qiao Yuan could feel countless red, green and yellow rays of light falling on them. Just as she was thinking about what would happen if she found out that the other party was infected, she saw the person standing in front of her suddenly being pointed at by a gun after a few rays of light flashed.
The man or the infected person also realized that his identity was exposed, and he quickly tore off his disguised indigenous face. However, before he could resist, he was killed by the spray from the gun.
Then the gentle female voice sounded again, reminding everyone to go around the corpse and keep moving forward.
Qiao Yuan felt that he had been walking for about ten minutes, being illuminated by various lights along the way, before he finally arrived in front of the gate.
The door had been opened, and a row of people wearing uniform and armed with real guns stood at the door. Standing in the front was a woman with golden curly hair who looked to be in her thirties. A mole under the corner of her lip made her look even more charming. Standing next to her was a young man who looked like an assistant.
She had a gentle smile on her face as she was checking the admission ticket in the hand of the person in front of her, while the young man was registering simple information and distributing keys.
