Chapter 31 Vehicles
Dark green and dark trees enveloped the center of the island, and the sky was an eerie blue, gloomy and lonely.
The light from the lighthouse gradually weakened, but there was still a long way to go.
The staggered arrangement of trees would blur the location, but Chu Li had a good sense of direction. She only needed to glance at the direction of the light to find a path that only she had walked on.
The three of them walked in the woods in silence, the blue night casting their figures in black, each with distinct lines.
"Wait a minute," Chu Li stopped and looked back at the two people behind him, "I remember!"
Miao Zhen raised his eyes from his toes, with confusion in his eyes.
The same goes for Qu Liuyun.
Chu Li: "The ship is gone! The ship is gone. I finally understand why the sea feels so empty."
A word can wake a dreamer up.
But surprisingly, the two did not react much. Miao Zhen just shook his head and said, "The way to leave the island is not to repair the ship. The NPC said to repair the vehicle, but he did not say which vehicle to repair."
Chu Li sighed deeply, turned around and continued to lead the way: "I see."
There was a sudden weight on his shoulders, and Chu Li was pulled to the side and staggered, bumping shoulders with Miao Zhen. Qu Liuyun stood behind the two of them, holding one of them in each hand, and a joyful voice sounded in their ears: "Don't be too heavy, you two. Now our island's exploration level is only 10 points away from being full, and the main storyline is also approaching the end. We will definitely win, don't let fear drag us down to failure."
After a long while, Miao Zhen's voice came out muffledly: "I feel really sorry for Duan Sen. I obviously didn't completely trust that NPC, but I still let Duan Sen be alone with her."
Chu Li's mind flashed back to Duan Sen's gaze as he fell. She took a deep breath and turned to comfort Miao Zhen: "Don't blame yourself too much. What if this is just a game? Duan Sen and Jiang Yu died in the game and woke up in the real world?"
"They will not die in vain. Qu Liuyun is right. Don't let fear drag us down into failure."
The forced consolation made the three of them smile reluctantly, but they knew in their hearts that if they died in the game, they would really die.
The third condition of the beta test invitation letter: Life in the game is equal to life in the real world. If you die in the game, you will die in the real world.
The light of the lighthouse went out completely. Xiang Liangyu kept a distance from the players. Forked branches cut through the sky, and the Klein blue night gradually deepened behind her.
The sound of waves in the distance was extremely clear, and she asked the system everything about Quan Shengyan.
[Quan Shengyan, as the first merman, lived in the sea for tens of thousands of years. After the mermaids became endangered, he led the remaining tribe to live on Zero Island. In his cognition, there would be no human beings at the end of the world.]
[After settling the tribe, he fell into a deep sleep at the bottom of the sea. When he woke up, he was already imprisoned by you.]
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
She changed the question: "Is Quan Shengyan an NPC?"
【Cannot tell.】
Xiang Liangyu asked: "Am I an NPC?"
【Cannot tell.】
Xiang Liangyu asked again: "Will there be any connection between the NPCs?"
【Cannot tell.】
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
What a complete stranger who knows nothing about anything.
"ah--"
The screams startled the birds and animals, and Xiang Liangyu's heart tightened, and she rushed forward faster. She stepped lightly and hid under a tree, and found that five steps ahead, the dense short grass on the ground suddenly turned into dense coarse leaves, which spread on the ground to form a large circle, which was darker in color and higher than the outer grass.
In this large circle of coarse leaves, there was a gap of moderate size at the edge. Through the gap in the coarse leaves, she could vaguely guess that there was a huge pit below, and the coarse leaves above were there to cover the pit.
The player who had been following disappeared, and there was a covered earth pit in front of him. It was covered with a thick layer of coarse leaves and there should have been no gaps, but there was a circle at the edge where it shouldn't have been.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like they fell down.
Xiang Liangyu walked gently to the edge, bent his knees and squatted, pushing aside the dense and coarse leaves, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
Buried in the pit was an intact helicopter!
She guessed that the player's way of escaping was to find a vehicle, but she really didn't expect it to be a helicopter.
Based on her experience of playing so many games, when players enter the helicopter control room, the helicopter will start and carry them away.
Then her mission would fail.
Xiang Liangyu calmed down and walked around to the other side to observe the helicopter. Through the windshield covered with dust and weeds, she saw that there was no one in the cabin.
The dust and branches on the plane showed no signs of movement, indicating that the player had not touched the helicopter.
That's strange. It found the plane but resisted touching it to explore it. Was it hiding in the corner and waiting for the right opportunity to attack me?
She doesn't believe it.
Xiang Liangyu walked around the edge and when she returned to the starting point, she looked up at the sky and without any hesitation, stretched her legs and jumped down.
With this jump, she finally understood why the player didn't touch the plane.
She was now facing the pit wall, and what she saw in front of her was neither dense green moss nor withered yellow earth wall, but an iron door.
Xiang Liangyu was about to step forward when he suddenly thought of something and turned around and ran towards the helicopter.
She stepped on the landing gear and pushed hard with her feet, and her body naturally slid to the top of the plane. She steadied herself, grabbed a rotor with both hands, and pulled it upwards with force, twisting it all over the place.
The other rotor was the same. After successfully twisting the takeoff rotor, Xiang Liangyu nodded with satisfaction, then jumped down from the top of the plane and walked towards the door.
The smell of blood was pungent and unbearable. She endured the strange smell and walked to the end. There was another door, but it was relatively high-end compared to the iron door at the entrance.
The rusty lead door was tightly closed, and a rectangular password fingerprint lock was hung on the door, with a red dot flashing in the upper right corner.
When she was hesitating whether to open the door manually, Xiang Liangyu heard deliberately light footsteps behind her. She quickly opened the map and saw that the player's green dot was in front of her red dot, so there was no player behind her.
Xiang Liangyu put away the map, pretended not to hear, and continued to stare at the iron gate.
She held her breath in advance, and as expected, her mouth was suddenly covered by a piece of cloth, and her body fell softly.
"Why is the island owner here? What should we do?"
"The doctor hasn't found it yet, so send it back first."
"Okay, hurry up, be careful."
The natives lifted Xiang Liangyu up one by one. They spoke in a hurried and low voice. Xiang Liangyu felt like he was being carried around in a circle by them.
"What are you doing?"
The friction sound when the lead door opened pierced the eardrums, and a hoarse voice was heard.
The natives paused and said hesitantly, "The island owner has come to the wrong place. We need to send her back."
The three seconds of silence seemed to stretch infinitely, and a hoarse voice with a strange clucking sound said: "Carry it in."
"But this is the island owner, we can't..."
"I said bring it in!"
"yes……"
Xiang Liangyu felt that she had turned around again, and at the same time, a burning gaze was staring at her. In the bumpy ride, she smelled a more pungent smell of blood, and the temperature suddenly dropped to a chill.
Until her back touched the icy surface, the restraints on her hands and feet disappeared, and the sound of footsteps gradually faded away.
"Doctor, we can't hurt the island owner. You accidentally hurt her before, which caused your wound to relapse."
"I know. I will apologize to her. Now, you guys go out and find the bodies of the other two outsiders. I need them."
"Okay, Doctor."
The lead door closed, Xiang Liangyu listened carefully to the footsteps coming from far away. When they passed by her, she could sense that gaze coming at her again, but this time it lasted only a few seconds. The doctor's voice murmured, "Failed again. This time, this time it's...ah, it's your turn."
The sound of wheels rolling on the ground was heard, and it was quite far away from me. I didn't know which unlucky guy was going to be subjected to human experiments again.
Xiang Liangyu roughly figured out the background of this copy. The doctor was a crazy oceanographer. After catching a mermaid, he began to conduct crazy research. But for some reason, he had a distorted research on mermaids. He tried to create a mermaid, and the mermaid he created was the upper body of a human being sewn together with the fish tail of a mermaid.
However, judging from the large number of abandoned culture tanks in the guest house, this experiment was likely to fail. Repeated failures caused the doctor's psychology to become more distorted. He began to capture players for experiments, and the first team that entered the island died in the experiment.
Now it's time for the second wave of teams.
The door closed heavily and the room was silent. Xiang Liangyu slowly opened his eyes and the blood-stained ceiling appeared before him.
She sat up. This was a storage room, which was much more advanced and complete than the laboratory in the guest house. She was lying on a flat bed, with a row of flat beds on her left and right, a white wall behind her, and neatly arranged culture tanks in front of her. In each culture tank were humans and mermaids, as well as "mermaids" that had been stitched together.
Next to her, the three missing players were lying straight on the bed, looking like they had been unconscious for some time.
The players' exploration level increased by another five points, and the main quest was about to be completed. She guessed correctly that the helicopter outside the door was the key to their escape. Fortunately, she had damaged the helicopter in advance.
She walked up to Chu Li, her pink hair making her face look even paler. In her memory, Chu Li was more of a colorful high school student. This was the first time she had seen him look so listless and dull.
Xiang Liangyu shook her head regretfully, thinking that she was too naive. She, Xiang Liangyu, had never lost before. If she lost, it was because she lost on purpose.
“Dongdong——”
The silent knocking sound was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for Xiang Liangyu to notice. She turned around and saw the figure moving around in the culture tank.
Soaked in light green liquid, with black hair and black eyes, and a platinum fishtail, she is the spring smoke in the basement.
Just as Xiang Liangyu was about to ignore it, the sound of the doorknob turning suddenly rang out. She quickly pressed the door opening button, and the moment the door opened, she hid in the neatly arranged culture tanks, constantly changing her position as the footsteps sounded.
Through the gap, she saw the doctor standing in front of the door, muttering to himself: "Run away...?"
He turned around abruptly, and his sharp eyes swept through the culture tank. Xiang Liangyu reacted quickly and dodged. She was hiding behind the culture tank containing Quan Shengyan. She had a small frame, and hiding behind the upright Quan Shengyan, she was well shielded.
The doctor's eyes rolled, and when he saw Quan Shengyan, his eyes instantly became gloomy. He no longer cared about Xiang Liangyu who had disappeared. He turned around, closed the door, and pushed the flatbed cart carrying Chu Li into the laboratory quickly.
Only then did Xiang Liangyu realize that the structure of this place was surprisingly similar to the basement structure of the Guest House.
Before she could think about it, Quan Shengyan turned around abruptly, sank in the culture tank and looked at Xiang Liangyu. He clenched his fist against the thick glass and opened and closed his mouth: "Save me."
He shouted more and more urgently, and his fists pounded on the glass faster and faster, repeating only one sentence: "Save me."
Now he had none of the arrogance he had in the basement. He kept floating up and down out of fear, trying to break free from this small culture tank.
Only then did Xiang Liangyu discover that he had several more wounds on his body. Because of his swimming, the wounds that had just healed opened again. A streak of blood floated in the water and merged with the liquid because of his swimming.
Xiang Liangyu had a strong desire for revenge. His actions to tease her were still vivid in her mind. Seeing him so pitiful, she immediately became playful. She grinned, her lips opened and closed, and she silently mocked, "How pitiful."
Quan Shengyan pursed her lips, put her fists against the glass, and stared at Xiang Liangyu.
At this time, the doctor who had originally entered the laboratory suddenly turned back and headed towards Quan Shengyan's culture tank.
The moment Xiang Liangyu heard the footsteps, he moved to the back of another culture tank, which contained a dead "mermaid".
His body was already festering, with purple seams on his upper and lower torso, almost two fingers wide. It was obvious that the fish tail under him had been sewn on.
Xiang Liangyu avoided his gaze and looked ahead through the liquid.
To facilitate pushing, two rollers were installed under each culture tank. The doctor walked straight to the Quan Shengyan culture tank, turned on the rollers, and pushed it towards the laboratory.
Quan Shengyan kept swimming in the culture tank, with countless bubbles rising. He knocked on the glass with an anxious look on his face, looking in the direction of Xiang Liangyu and asking for help.
What was pushed in were two complete people and a mermaid, but what was pushed out was not known whether it was complete or not. Xiang Liangyu knew what the doctor wanted to do, he wanted to sew Chu Li and the fish tail together.
It's just that this is doomed to fail.
Quan Shengyan's cry for help seemed to reach her ears through the glass. Xiang Liangyu rubbed her hair impatiently. Under Quan Shengyan's gaze, she rushed behind the doctor and punched him on the head.
The doctor was caught off guard and was knocked to the ground by Xiang Liangyu's punch.
She shook her hands, and the hard touch made her even more irritated. She looked down and saw the doctor lying on the ground without any reaction, because his exposed skin was made of iron.
"Ha ha……"
Xiang Liangyu raised his eyes. He didn't know when the culture tank was pushed into the laboratory. The real doctor stood behind the door, holding the door with one hand. His old, cracked face, like fish skin, glowed strangely:
"If I had known that the island owner had not left, I would have asked him to come over. But unfortunately, the preparations have been completed and I am afraid that my experimental experience will have objections to the temporary replacement."
