Chapter 69 Blue Ice Hotel (Part 3)
The red heart beat slower and slower. Opposite the dining table was a large gold-rimmed glass window. The glass was shiny and dust-free, allowing for a better view of the magnificent aurora outside the window. This slowly beating heart calmed down under the gorgeous aurora and died completely.
The hotel's special delicacy is this? Eating a raw heart?
Xiang Liangyu couldn't accept it, but what made her even more unacceptable was that she was really greedy. She didn't know if it was due to her status or if she was really abnormal, but she could feel her saliva secreting and her stomach, which never felt hungry, was making a "gurgling" sound.
After the heart stopped beating, a stream of blood slowly flowed out, like tears.
Cui Daoping really couldn't accept the perverted settings in this copy. When he was matched to this world, his first thought was that it was over. They had drawn the most disgusting and nauseating world in the entire game.
Jiang Cangshu has done some research and found that among all the dungeon worlds, there is a type of dungeon that players don’t even want to hear about. She gave this type of dungeon a name, called “the worst in history”. The Blue Ice Hotel is at the top of the list and has been popular for a long time.
According to the players who have participated in it, this dungeon is too bloody. All kinds of organs are high-definition, and the ways of death are unimaginable. What's even more outrageous is that the players who usually enter this world are guests, but they become employees, and the objects of service are still this group of NPCs who are like crazy.
Two people have died in less than a day on the job. It’s a deadly start. How can we play this game?
Xiang Liangyu forced himself to look away, then turned his head to look at Cui Daoping who was standing next to him with a dull look, and asked, "What are you still doing here?"
The butler also needs to watch me eat?
Cui Daoping came back to his senses and stared at Xiang Liangyu for a long while, completely forgetting his current identity. He bent his upper body and looked at Xiang Liangyu at eye level: "Did you kill Chen Haonan?"
Xiang Liangyu picked up the goblet and shook it gently. The sticky red liquid rippled out a beautiful arc. Xiang Liangyu turned his head and looked directly at it: "Is the service attitude of the hotel's butler so casual?"
As she finished saying "ma", Cui Daoping's whole body trembled and his face turned pale, as if he was enduring great pain. He held onto the table and said through gritted teeth, "Please forgive my rudeness, Ms. Xiang. The food has been served. I wish you a pleasant meal."
"Your travel suite has arrived at the first stop of the floating island. For your personal safety, please do not leave the hotel before dawn. If you want to enjoy the beautiful northern lights, I recommend the open-air hot spring on the top floor of the hotel."
After he said this with a ferocious expression, his face didn't improve, and he didn't leave either, as if he was waiting for something.
Xiang Liangyu raised the corner of his mouth, put his hands on the table and slowly stood up: "I want to complain about you."
The door knocked and the manager's voice came from outside: "Hello, Ms. Xiang, I am the complaints manager of this hotel. What happened? What can I do for you?"
Xiang Liangyu walked to the door and opened it. Before she could say anything, she heard an extremely loud bear roar. Then, Xiang Liangyu's head felt dark. She looked up and saw a brown bear covered with barbs suddenly jumping over her head and rushing towards her, roaring.
The complaint manager covered his face with his hands in horror, his appearance similar to the "Scream" hanging on the wall behind him.
Xiang Liangyu had a blank expression on her face. When the brown bear was about to crush her, she raised her hands above her head and easily lifted the brown bear, which was several times stronger than her.
The bear was confused, and the man was confused too.
Quan Shengyan, who opened the door upon hearing the sound, and the two paintings that sneaked out: "..."
Xiang Liangyu raised the bear and threw it at Cui Daoping. She clapped her hands with cold eyes and said, "The prop has been upgraded? The small animal has become a big animal."
Indeed, Cui Daoping's personal information has been updated, and the B-level prop magic hat has been upgraded to A-level, which is estimated to be able to summon many ferocious animals. These animals, without exception, not only have wounds all over their bodies, but also have a tendency to mutate.
Cui Daoping was unable to dodge, and even had no time to take off his hat and put the animal in, before he was pinned to the ground by the brown bear, and his hat slipped out of his hand and fell to the side.
The brown bear came to its senses without any hesitation, smacked its lips angrily, and bit Cui Daoping's arm hard. With a "rip", his hand was torn off. Then, he was held in the bear's mouth, with murderous eyes, staring at everyone present.
Xiang Liangyu was not afraid at all. She walked to the brown bear and patted his barbed head. The bear did not react. It was not known whether it was shocked by Xiang Liangyu's suicidal behavior or it had not yet digested the image of her lifting him up.
Anyway, after feeling that the bear would not attack her, she walked to the viewing window opposite the dining table. The closed window was tightly closed, so she clenched her fist and smashed the window. The shatterproof safety glass broke into pieces and fell off, and the biting cold wind instantly rushed in.
She looked at the bear and pointed out the window. "If you don't want to go back to that tiny hat, leave. It's quite high, but I think you have these strange thorns on your body, so this height shouldn't be a problem, right?"
The brown bear was not frightened by the cold wind. On the contrary, the stronger the wind, the thicker the thorns on its back became. The bear ran out of the window holding Cui Daoping in its mouth.
After a while, the system broadcast truthfully conveyed:
[Player Cui Daoping's health has returned to zero and he has died. ]
[Many players' health points have been reduced to zero, and they have died. ]
[Player Xuzhou Meng's health has returned to zero, and he has died. ]
[NPC Xiang Liangyu obtained 3 heart gems. ]
[NPC Bone also received 3 heart gems. ]
Bones? Xiang Liangyu stood in front of the window, wind mixed with snow slag poured into the room, she looked at the world of ice and aurora, her eyes were also brightened by the dazzling aurora.
In a blink of an eye, the wind was blocked, and Quan Shengyan stood in front of her, his hands suspended in the wind. The broken and disappeared windows returned to their original state, and the room became warm again.
The manager who made the complaint was so scared that he apologized once every second, almost falling on his knees in regret.
Xiang Liangyu was confused: "What are you doing? We are all family."
The complaint manager repeated the shouting action and said in horror: "No, no, please forgive our employee's disrespect!"
Quan Shengyan gave the manager a look, and the manager hunched over and left the room.
In the end, Xiang Liangyu didn't eat the heart on the table, even though her identity drove her reaction. The destination of this heart is not a trash can, but a painting.
When Xiang Liangyu walked into the master bedroom with the plate in her hand, the two paintings had already made the room a mess, with debris and garbage scattered all over the floor. She stepped forward and grabbed the painting, laying it flat on her back, and as she cried and cursed, she aimed her heart at the empty heart of the woman in the painting and poured it into it.
As she expected, the heart slowly sank and finally merged with the painting. The woman in the painting magically sat up with an expression of great surprise: "Oh my God, I can feel my heart beating!"
Because of her action, all the animals around her that were eating her body scattered. The woman lost her gloomy aura and looked radiant. She blew a kiss to Xiang Liangyu: "Thank you, beautiful lady. I apologize for destroying your room just now. You are such a kind person, you will be blessed by God."
After saying this, she happily walked to the front of the painting, revealing only her upper body, and fixed it there.
The line drawing also looked very happy and no longer playful, and it was fixed.
Xiang Liangyu smiled and casually hung the painting on the wall. However, when faced with the mess on the floor, she completely lost her patience and turned around to go out to the second bedroom.
System announcement:
[Main quest [Eat special delicacies] progress 10%. ]
Quan Shengyan followed and asked, "Why...why did you do this?"
Xiang Liangyu walked slowly: "She looks pitiful. A person without a heart would have died long ago. Although I don't understand whether this painting has become a spirit, whether it is a painting or a person, it is a miracle that she is still alive without a heart. It must be very uncomfortable to have an empty heart."
Quan Shengyan pursed her lips and stopped to look at Xiang Liangyu's back. The curtains in the living room were not drawn, and the aurora in the sky was dreamy, beautiful but ethereal. With the faint aurora, Quan Shengyan looked at Xiang Liangyu.
She took off her bun as soon as she entered the room. Her slightly curly red hair was blown by a gust of wind, causing the ends of her hair to curve dramatically. At first glance, her curls looked like waves.
It was not until Xiang Liangyu's figure completely disappeared that he came back to his senses. He turned his head and saw that the color of the aurora had turned red.
He turned and walked out.
After tossing and turning in bed unable to fall asleep, Xiang Liangyu simply sat up and took out the copied prop [Future Hacker].
A suspended transparent screen appeared in front of him, with only a thin search bar in the middle and constantly running codes around it.
Xiang Liangyu hesitated for a long time, raised his hand, typed his name on the search bar, and then searched.
To her surprise, the new interface that popped up was actually the cloud network, a huge online platform that brought together all players and NPCs.
There are actually thousands of results for the keyword "Xiang Liangyu".
She took a quick look and found that the first 1,588 messages were from players who had teamed up with her. Most of them complained that she was too perverted and violent, and that teaming up with her was a misfortune. There were even people who fell in love with her at first sight and wrote fan fiction about her and many NPCs.
There are hundreds of articles about fan fiction.
Xiang Liangyu was completely speechless: "..."
When she scanned the 1589th article, she frowned immediately.
"[Help] Does anyone know how to defeat BOSS Xiang Liangyu? I've played 5,000 games, and I've encountered her 4,500 times. Are there no other BOSSes in this game?"
She clicked on it and found that the time posted by the player below was after completing the S-level world [Zero Island].
Xiang Liangyu's heart sank suddenly.
Including this game, she only participated in four games in total, but the title of the post said that she was matched with more than 4,000 games.
If she remembered correctly, Zero Island should be a novice village, so why did it suddenly become an S-level world?
Moreover, the S-level world belongs to the high-level world, and the highest level of the current world is obviously the middle level.
Xiang Liangyu glanced through the comments below. Most of them were complaints about her. The words were full of anger and the hatred level was probably about to explode. Xiang Liangyu even wanted to beat herself up.
The next second, when Xiang Liangyu slid, the screen went black, then closed and disappeared.
Xiang Liangyu continued to summon the computer, but was warned by the system:
[S-level items have usage restrictions and can only be used for ten minutes per game. ]
Xiang Liangyu was shocked by the system's statement: "Ten minutes? Then what's the use of this copy?"
The system died again.
It was late at night and Xiang Liangyu was lying on the bed. The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. When she thought about what Quan Shengyan had said to her, she became irritated and uneasy for a moment.
She has witnessed the changing times and the rise and fall of technology. The journey she has taken is still vivid in her mind, and she can connect the past and the present. There has never been a sudden break or lack of connection in her memory.
If she really had been to this place, when was it and how could she have been so happy without feeling a bit strange?
A sense of strangeness arose in my heart. If this game was purely intended to punish players who committed many evil deeds, then why did the NPC on the side of justice become an evil person who had done all kinds of bad things in every world?
At the same time, she wanted to know what standards the system used to measure a bad person and what standards it used to measure a good person.
It seemed like the world had been hiding a lot of things from her.
Including the sudden alarm on the second floor of the cloud, she sensed something was wrong, but couldn't know the truth. Quan Shengyan wanted to speak, but she couldn't hear it.
For no reason, a balance scale suddenly appeared in Xiang Liangyu's mind. The upturned end was high in the air, while the lowered end was placed on a treasure box, which was extremely heavy.
It seems that the only way to know the truth is to get the treasure box.
Xiang Liangyu sighed. The more she thought about it, the more annoyed she became. Let’s talk about it tomorrow, she thought.
Xiang Liangyu closed her eyes, feeling the warm quilt and listening to the faint sounds of ice cracking and chirping. She soon fell asleep until she felt the bed beneath her getting warmer and sinking deeper and deeper.
She suddenly opened her eyes, supported herself on the bed and sat up, her palms pressing on a wet and sticky place. Xiang Liangyu looked down and was shocked to find that the bed under her had turned into a squirming cushion of flesh without her knowing when.
Xiang Liangyu was suddenly frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.
