1.4 We are frozen
"Wu Chen, are you asleep?" The central control screen lit up with Bailiyan's audio.
"Not yet." Wu Chen lay flat on the driver's seat and was looking up at the stars through the sunroof.
"How much do you remember about the shelter?" Bailiyan asked lightly.
"Not much." Wu Chen thought for a while and said: "Perhaps just like my ae86, the memories related to the shelter are also sealed in a certain node in the past. You need to file it first before you can get it."
"I think so too." Bailiyan said softly: "So, we are fixed."
"Yes." Wu Chen revealed the truth: "This is the first time I have experienced the broken shelter."
"Me too." Bailiyan always felt that he and Wu Chen had known each other before. Unfortunately, the memory of the shelter was also broken together with the shelter. Although the memory could not be taken with him, the heartfelt and inexplicable feeling of closeness was still there.
No matter what, there is no lie. So it can be determined that they must have interacted with each other when they were in the shelter before. Therefore, although there is no memory, the good feelings are always there. The fact is just as Bailiyan thought, Wu Chen is very familiar with her.
"What's in the Land of Exile?" Wu Chen asked about the destination of this trip.
"I heard that there is a 'Broken City' at the end of the 404 roundabout highway." Bailiyan also heard about it from hearsay. Along the way, someone always mentioned it repeatedly in the player channel.
"The place of exile, the broken city." Wu Chen kept it in mind.
"Players also call it the 'city that never sleeps'." Bailiyan said with a smile: "It sounds like science fiction."
"It sounds like it's a land without an owner again." Just by looking at the words "City That Never Sleeps", Wu Chen has already realized that there is a mixture of good and bad, and a large number of players.
"I heard that the Nightless City has a master." What Bailiyan said was not beyond Wu Chen's expectation. Once upon a time, he was a powerful demigod-level plot lord.
"Who is the Lord of Nightless City?" Wu Chen asked.
"No one knows yet." After all, like Wu Chen, Bailiyan is also new here.
Looking up at the starry sky gradually blurring, Wu Chen blinked subconsciously: "It's foggy."
"Annihilation is approaching." Bailiyan hurriedly started the car: "Hurry up."
The RV of the player couple also started in an emergency: "Quick, hurry up."
Bailiyan took the lead, followed closely by Wu Chen, with the RV trailing behind. The three vehicles accelerated out of the observation deck and rushed onto the round-island expressway.
Looking back in the rearview mirror and seeing the fog gradually getting further away, Wu Chen thought: "Wait a minute."
"What's wrong?" Bailiyan asked lightly.
"Escape will only freeze the frame." Wu Chen expressed his worries.
"Well...that's right." Bailiyan agreed.
"What should we do?" the male player asked hurriedly.
"Return to the service area." Wu Chen said in surprise.
"Now?" the male player exclaimed.
"Now." Wu Chen became more and more certain.
"Okay." Bailiyan turned around first.
The three cars were traveling in the opposite direction, turning back on their original route and rushing into the fog.
Not long after driving backwards, the fog became thicker. The AE86 car shell rustled. The car paint was eroded first and flew into fog. Visible to the naked eye, the color of the car body gradually faded, exposing the super-hit car shell.
"Master, the car body is suffering from unknown corrosion." Ai, the in-vehicle brain, also noticed something unusual.
"Quantify erosion data and create an annihilation progress bar." Wu Chen remained calm in the face of danger.
"Yes." Before Wu Chen finished speaking, the annihilation progress bar was displayed on the large central control screen. Born in Wu Chen's exclusive main world of New Hong Kong, the vehicle-mounted brain created by the Cybertronian Transformers is powerful enough.
As the retrograde travel deepens, the fog flying from the car exceeds the surrounding environment and can even temporarily cover the car windows.
"Be careful." Bailiyan swerved to avoid the oncoming car.
Wu Chen and the player and his wife hurriedly evaded danger. The two cars crossed each other, and their eyes met. The eyes of the strange player said everything. Annihilation is coming, and it is impossible to escape even if you don't have wings. There are actually people who have thrown themselves into the trap. What are you doing back?!
It stands to reason that the super alloy shell of ae86 should be stronger. However, the accelerating annihilation progress bar is no different from that of the two vehicles before and after it. Perhaps it means that the encounter before us is another level of rules. The material solution at the level of rules
Lifting and annihilation correspond to visible erosion, atomization, and even the accelerated disintegration of the entire world.
It seems that the situation is unavoidable. However, Wu Chen and others are stuck on Highway 404. They can't find a breakthrough and can never reach the Broken City at the end of the highway.
"The car hood has been corroded." Aiyi, the in-vehicle intelligence, broadcasts in real time.
Just looking at Bailiyan's rusty and riddled front car, you can see that the condition of ae86 is not much better. With the billowing smoke, the rust spots are visible to the naked eye and continue to expand. Once the car shell is gone
, players are in doom. No matter their body or mind, if they are exposed, they will be corroded. This is a strangulation at the level of rules. Players have no power to fight back.
Seeing that a large part of the car hood disappeared, the hood would also be damaged. Bailiyan finally broke the silence: "We're here."
The male player exclaimed: "Oh my god..."
I saw that the sky above the service area was shrouded in the eye of the storm. From top to bottom, large pieces of buildings fell off and disintegrated. They gathered into huge smoke pillars, twisted and rose, and were swallowed by the eye of the storm. Those buildings were torn away by invisible forces.
The fragments are the same as the main body of the building. They are visible to the naked eye and turn into dust. The fragments are all over the sky, like flint embers of different sizes. Thick smoke rises around the body, atomizing and dissociating at a faster speed. Before they hit the ground, they are all sucked into the eye of the storm.
——
It seems like a black hole that tears through time and space and swallows everything hangs above everyone's heads, destroying the entire world.
"Don't get out of the car." From the loudspeaker, the sound of a male player slamming the door was heard: "As long as you are exposed, you will be covered in smoke."
This is a profound lesson for male players to take risks. The broken plot world is difficult for players to resist.
"Rush in." Bailiyan made a quick decision.
Four people and three cars crashed into the door.
The seemingly intact service hall is riddled with holes inside. On the leaky walls on all sides, the holes are visible to the naked eye and are rapidly expanding. When fragmentation strikes, players who are stranded in it and have no clue about the plot clues have no time to escape.
.I didn’t dare to take the risk to pick up the car and rushed out of the service area. So the situation took a turn for the worse and I was forced into a desperate situation.
Seeing Wu Chen and others driving through the door, the stranded players swarmed up and surrounded the three cars.
There were especially many people around the couple's RV. They banged on the car door desperately and scrambled to escape.
There are also players who knock on the ae86 car window urgently.
"Let it go or not?" Bailiyan asked first.
"Running away will only freeze the frame." Wu Chen responded.
"If you don't run away, it will break." The male player couldn't hide his panic. He saw that the service hall was in pieces and about to collapse. If he didn't run away now, it would be much later.
"What's behind the eye of the storm?" Wu Chen always felt like someone was spying from behind.
"No one knows." Bailiyan spoke quickly: "There are no survivors."
As time passed by, the male player spoke anxiously again: "Someone is willing to pay 1 coin to take him to the parking lot to pick up his car."
"It's feasible." Bailiyan answered first.
"Okay." One coin is enough to gain a helping hand. The male player opened the car door and let more than ten players into the car. Then he turned around and drove out and rushed to the parking lot. Every time he came back, he earned ten coins. However, there are advantages and disadvantages.
As soon as they entered and exited, the corrosion of the car body worsened. Without enough time to feel heartbroken, more than ten players crowded into the RV. Wu Chen and Baili Yan, also loaded with players, went to the parking lot to pick up the car.
After going back and forth like this several times, there were very few players left in the hall. The player and his wife earned dozens of asylum coins. Wu Chen and Baili Yan also received ten coins each.
At this time, there were only a few people left in the hall. I don’t know if they were penniless or had other agendas.
"Take them with you." Wu Chen made a quick decision.
"Where are we going?" The male player was nervous but could not hide his excitement.
"Go to the maintenance station first." Wu Chen remained calm in the face of danger.
"Okay." Bailiyan understood.
Chapter completed!