I'm almost done with this chapter, but I haven't thought of a title yet. I think I'll publish it in half an hour to an hour.]
Hai Tianqing rubbed his face as if he had just woken up from a long dream. The chaotic images and fragments gradually faded from his mind. Hai Tianqing opened his eyes. He looked around in a daze and his gaze fell on three familiar figures not far away.
The hot rain and white fog had already subsided. Under the starry night sky, the three figures sat in a circle, far away from each other. The atmosphere was heavy and strange.
"What are you guys doing?" Hai Tianqing sat up. As he moved, he felt a faint pain in his temples. "How did I fall asleep here?"
Just as he stood up and was about to walk towards his companions, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. After he used his mind to sense his surroundings, his face turned ashen.
"Where's my Advanced Ability? [Fitness Coach's Glory]? Where did it go? "
At that moment, the three figures in front of him finally moved. Hu Changzai slowly turned his head. Hai Tianqing wasn't sure if it was an illusion, but he felt that he was very reluctant to do that.
"Executive Hai, you're awake?" There was some reluctance in his voice. "You don't have to worry. Your abilities are with Xiao Jiu, and some of your special items will be returned to you soon."
"… Could it be that I wasn't dreaming about that duel?"
Hai Tianqing glared at him. His knitted eyebrows showed that he was in disbelief.
"Yes, it was real. But it's over now."
"What happened to your face?" Hai Tianqing couldn't help but ask.
Hu Changzai's face was covered with geometric patterns. His expression was almost indiscernible. As he laughed dryly, the two rows of ink-colored patterns on his skin, which looked like the circuit of a computer's motherboard, bent slightly. The geometric patterns followed his neck and extended all the way to his collar. "We accidentally ate something called Wusu poison in the game, so we became like this …"
Before Hai Tianqing could look at the remaining human and rabbit, Lin Sanjiu and B.Rabbit had already turned their faces around, as if they had accepted their fate.
Lin Sanjiu's slightly slanted cat eyes were now covered by a few circles of complicated patterns. She looked like a panda with dark circles carved into its eyes. Even though it was a little weird, Lin Sanjiu found it acceptable after looking at it for some time.
However, when Hai Tianqing saw the brown-furred rabbit, he was dumbfounded.
The rabbit was only wearing a black leather eye patch, and the remaining eye was covered with thick, black, smokey eye makeup. There was a ring of purple lipstick around its three-petaled mouth, and there were metal rings hanging from its long ears. The holster around its neck was gone, replaced by a black, spiky collar. In such a Gothic outfit, the most noticeable thing was the little pink carrot pattern all over its fur.
"Too, too curious," Hai Tianqing blurted out unknowingly.
The expressions of the two humans and the rabbit seemed to have sunk to the bottom of the valley.
"The side effect of eating Wu Su poison is that it will grow patterns on the face or body." Lin Sanjiu's voice was filled with pain, "As for what kind of pattern it will grow, it all depends on what image appears in your mind at that moment."
Hu Changzai lowered his head and looked at the back of his hands. Both of them were also covered with intricate patterns that looked like electronic circuits, "I heard it as my face and body … That's why the patterns are everywhere …"
The Gothic rabbit's face was tense, and it didn't say a word.
However, Lin Sanjiu didn't let it go, "As for B.Rabbit, its outfit is caused by a Special Item. The carrot is the pattern … I don't know why it would think of that pajama-like pattern. Fortunately, this Wu Su poison is only temporary. It won't last forever. "
Hai Tianqing heaved a sigh of relief. He walked over and wanted to sit beside B.Rabbit. However, just as he was about to bend over, the other three people jumped up at the same time and shouted, "Stay away from me!" Then, all of them retreated to a safe distance.
"What's wrong with all of you?" Hai Tianqing's expression didn't look too good.
Lin Sanjiu let out a long sigh and rubbed her forehead.
[Wu Su poison]
Description: A new type of virus from the laboratory of Hickory Pharmaceutical Company. The first person who eats the virus will become a carrier of the virus, and they won't be harmed by the Wu Su poison. However, if someone comes into contact with the carrier of the virus, they will be infected by the virus and suffer from an incurable blood disease. They will bleed to death from their pores within a short period of time. If two carriers come into contact with each other, both of them will die. If there is a barrier between their skin, they won't be infected.
Time limit: The effect of the Wu Su poison will disappear after killing six people who come into contact with it.
Side effect: The pattern that you think of will appear on your face or body for six months.
After listening to the explanation, Hai Tianqing took the initiative to sit further away from them. His body was twice the size of the others, so he couldn't afford to accidentally touch anyone.
"From a positive point of view, this is a very good defensive measure. Now, no one will dare to touch you guys. However, B.Rabbit's outfit and my ability … What's going on? "
The two humans and B.Rabbit looked at each other. Lin Sanjiu, who suffered the least from the disaster, explained the situation to Hai Tianqing from the fourth round onwards.
After the game ended, the three of them sat at the dining table in a daze. They watched as Mr. Dot stood up with a smile and announced the results. Although Hai Tianqing was the one who opened his mouth, his voice came from a loudspeaker somewhere and echoed through the entire room.
Surprisingly, they weren't the only four survivors. Zhong Junkai had fainted early on, so he maintained the least amount of stamina and survived. The long-legged woman from the White Team didn't have much of a chance to survive, but her desire to live was too strong. She squeezed out the blood from her teammate's corpse and forced herself to drink human blood to survive until the end.
As for the heavily injured old lady and the defeated team members, they had already died.
However, unlike the previous time, they couldn't extract their abilities from the dead this time. This was because the man in the stronghold said that the ability had exceeded the "preservation period".
After waking Zhong Junkai up and feeding him something, Mr. Dot listed out the abilities of the White Team members.
Hu Changzai's two advanced abilities: [Discern Truth from Falsehood], [Truth Cannonball]
Hai Tianqing had an advanced ability: [Glory of the Fitness Coach], an advanced ability obtained from the rabbit: [Rabbit Idiom], and an advanced ability obtained from Lara: [I Feel Pity When I See].
Long-legged woman's one advanced ability: [A Twinkle in the Sky]
There were a total of six abilities, and four of them belonged to their teammates. It could only be considered a pyrrhic victory.
Regardless, the abilities were distributed to the members of the Red Team based on their contributions and wishes. [Rabbit Idiom] and Hu Changzai's abilities were given to B.Rabbit, while Hai Tianqing and the long-legged woman's abilities were given to Lin Sanjiu. Even though Zhong Junkai was absent in the fourth round, he was Lara's boyfriend, so Lin Sanjiu made the decision to give him Lara's ability.
As for the five Special Items she found on the White Team members, she kept them safely. Other than Lin Sanjiu, the other three didn't have anything valuable on them, so they needed Special Items. After counting the three Special Items they won and the three Special Items they found on the old lady, they had a bountiful harvest this time.
Lin Sanjiu took out the three orbs from the wooden box and watched them melt into her skin. Then, she raised her head and asked, "Mr. Dot, can each of us request for a Special Reward?"
She remembered this very well.
Mr. Dot still maintained his appearance as Hai Tianqing. For some reason, he didn't reveal his real body, "Sure, you guys can request for it."
Zhong Junkai, who was lying lifelessly on the side, suddenly had his eyes light up as he struggled to get up.
Lin Sanjiu lifted a corner of the wooden box and took out the Diary Card that she had pasted at the bottom. She quickly scanned through the Diary Card and heaved a sigh of relief. She smiled at Mr. Dot and said, "B.Rabbit and I both want this wooden box."
B.Rabbit, who was suddenly represented by Lin Sanjiu, was stunned for a moment. He was a little dissatisfied, "Hey, I haven't thought about it yet!"
Lin Sanjiu didn't say anything. She just handed the Diary Card to him.
B.Rabbit held the card with his front paw and looked down. He was instantly speechless.
On the Diary Card, there was a detailed record of Lin Sanjiu converting the wooden chest into a card during her second game. Even though Lin Sanjiu was afraid of being punished by Mr. Dot, she only turned the wooden chest into a card for less than a second before putting it back in its original spot. However, since she had called out the Diary Card beforehand, all the information about the wooden chest was recorded. Even the process of using the wooden chest in the future was recorded in the Diary Card. Everything was recorded in the Diary Card.
It was this wooden box that had the magical ability to take other people's abilities and use them for oneself.
With it, they could return their abilities to Hai Tianqing and Mr. Dot. Not only that, this wooden box could even take the abilities of a newly deceased person. In other words, this wooden box was like a cheat!
"I can't give this wooden box to you," Mr. Dot suddenly laughed, "If I give it to you, I won't have it anymore."
Lin Sanjiu, who had always been full of confidence, was stunned. She had forgotten that Mr. Dot had never said that he couldn't refuse.
Mr. Dot observed her expression calmly, as if he was happy to see her bewildered expression. After a while, he smiled and said, "But … I can give each of you a replica."
It was only then that Lin Sanjiu and B.Rabbit felt their hearts returning to their original place.
After receiving the replica box and distributing the Special Items, the Pocket Dimension finally ended. When they walked out of the Instance Dungeon, they found that the white fog outside had dissipated, revealing a world that had been mostly destroyed. It made sense. The time they spent in the Pocket Dimension was equivalent to two to three months. No matter how heavy the rain was, it couldn't last for so long...
After explaining the situation to Hai Tianqing, Lin Sanjiu opened her palm and took out the [Rob the Poor to Feed the Rich Box].
The crimson replica was very small. It was about the size of a lunch box, so it could only be called a wooden box. Lin Sanjiu put her hand into the box and whispered to Hai Tianqing, "This replica is much weaker. Each box can only be used twice, and it can only take one ability each time. Also, it can't be used on a dead person. But no matter what, your ability can be returned to you now … "
In order to return Hu Changzai's ability, B.Rabbit had already used up two uses of the box.
Hai Tianqing looked down and saw that there was a ball of light floating in the wooden box that was handed over. When he stretched his hand out, the glowing orb immediately flew into his hand as if it knew the way home. Then, it melted into his skin and disappeared.
Hai Tianqing stretched his arms and felt that his ability had returned. He nodded at Lin Sanjiu and handed the wooden box back to her. At the same time, he asked a question that had been bothering him for a long time, "Since you have taken the Special Items, you can return my ability … Why are you guys still sitting here?"
There was no longer any hot rain. The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The white fog and the strong wind had disappeared. The yellow sand had been drenched by the rain and had turned into mud. They couldn't fly freely in the air for the time being. In such weather, they could see clearly. It was the best time for them to set off.
Hu Changzai sighed heavily and said in a tone that sounded like a sigh, "Cadre Hai, do you see our cars?"
"Huh?" Hai Tianqing was stunned. He immediately stood up and looked around.
At this time, three people and a rabbit were sitting alone on the empty road. On the side of the road, there were a few dilapidated cars covered in thick mud. Behind them, apart from the ruins, there was only a building that was on the verge of collapse. It was only then that Hai Tianqing realized that the two cars filled with food and water had disappeared.
"We stayed in the Pocket Dimension for two to three months … Our cars have long been stolen," Lin Sanjiu's muffled voice came from her palm. "Since I can't convert such heavy things into cards, they have been parked by the side of the road."
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