That night, eight people gathered in the villa to eat and chat, as if it were a festival. They chatted until eleven o'clock before going to bed.
Xiao Lou gave everyone a day off. He had the whole day off on Tuesday, so everyone could sleep in.
Everyone who let themselves go slept together until noon and got up at noon. When they were bored in the afternoon, everyone watched TV at home. Liu Qiao turned on the news channel and happened to hear a news bulletin: "This weekend, Ocean Cruise Line's Caribbean cruise ship and Starry sky cruise ship
Encountered a typhoon and sank in the open sea. The wreckage of the cruise ship has been salvaged. According to statistics, a total of 386 people died in this shipwreck."
Xiao Lou immediately raised his head after hearing this. In the picture, the rescue team was salvaging the wreckage of the cruise ship at sea. It was the Caribbean ship they were on. The 386 people killed included aboriginals, Challengers and Hunters.
There are tens of millions of challengers in this world. It is impossible for Zhou Chang in the endless sea to die so few people. Xiao Lou looked at Mo Xuemin doubtfully, "Old Mo, there should be many cruise ships going out to sea at the same time as Zhou Chang's mission. What's the news?"
Only report on these two ships.”
Mo Xuemin explained, "Other cruise ships have no indigenous people. They are all challengers. They may have been pulled into another dimension, and no one will know if they die. Our cruise ship will be highlighted in the news because there are indigenous people."
Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "You mean, the entire ship of other Zhou Chang dungeons is full of challengers and they were transported to a different space."
Mo Xuemin nodded, "Yes. Every time Zhou Chang 99's challenger will be transported to a different space, and no one will know if he dies. The local residents have long been used to the sudden disappearance of foreigners. And the mixed hunter
The complex dungeons of killers and challengers have a probability of only about 1. If we encounter a hunter, we will only be unlucky."
Moreover, after meeting a hunter for two consecutive weeks, Mo Xuemin felt that his luck was really bad. He must wash himself from head to toe before the next week.
With a probability of 1, my brother happened to buy a ticket in advance and come in. Is it such a coincidence?
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, and at the same time thought of a possibility: the master hacker from the Intelligence Bureau.
In the afternoon of that day, Xiao Lou checked the forum's reaction online. External forums expressed condolences for the shipwreck, while Challenger's internal forum was full of complaints. Some people said that the elimination rate of the ship he was on was as high as 50.
The challengers were half eaten by sharks; some people say that when the boat capsized, they fought among themselves to grab the escape boat, resulting in heavy casualties.
There were also some Zhou Chang secret rooms that encountered large guild control, and everyone survived.
Taken together, the weekly elimination rate is controlled between 1020. This week, the only team that encountered the Predator was Xiao Lou and his crew, the Caribbean.
The next day is Wednesday, and the Intelligence Bureau will be open today.
In the afternoon, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang drove to the Intelligence Bureau together.
Liu Qiao walked over, looked at Xiao Lou and said, "Professor Xiao, can I follow you?"
Xiao Lou knew that she wanted to continue to investigate her sister's whereabouts, so he took her with him. Qu Wanyue was worried that Liu Qiao could not bear the blow, so she also followed.
Yu Hanjiang drove the black car, Xiao Lou sat in the passenger seat, and two girls sat in the back seat. When the four of them arrived at the Intelligence Bureau, there was a long queue at the door, and they waited for half an hour before it was finally their turn.
The woman on duty at the lottery shop today was still the same woman as last time, wearing silver-rimmed glasses and with a cold expression. She glanced at the four people and asked, "What are you going to check this time?"
Liu Qiao took a step forward and said, "Continue to help me find Liu Ying's whereabouts. Thank you."
The woman's slender fingertips tapped quickly on the keyboard for a moment, and then handed a copy of the search results to Liu Qiao. When she came to check last Wednesday, the result was "no such person found". Unexpectedly, there was news today.
Liu Qiao was delighted and immediately took it over to look at
The girl in the photo has a delicate appearance, an oval face, and a high ponytail. She is indeed her sister Liu Ying.
Xiao Lou also remembered this girl, whom he met once in Plum Blossom 2. Although she was wearing a mask, her height, hairstyle and eyes matched.
However, the rows of query results below the photo shocked Xiao Lou.
Liu Ying and her teammate Zhong Tong came to the main city last Thursday, which is why her whereabouts were not found on Wednesday. She came to the main city one day later than Xiao Lou and Liu Qiao. Liu Qiao
When I checked her last week, she was indeed still struggling with the first four levels.
It was not easy for the two girls to get out of the first four levels, but they made a fatal mistake.
They did not collect enough information, underestimated Zhou Chang's secret room, and did not look for a strong team. Instead, the two of them entered the "endless sea" of Zhou Chang's world, and then their whereabouts were unknown.
It is now Wednesday, three days have passed since Zhou Chang has passed, and everyone knows what it means to be missing.
The woman sitting in front of the computer pushed up her glasses on the bridge of her nose and said, "It's a pity that your sister participated in this week's weekly meeting without being fully prepared. No news about her has been found in the main city, which proves that she died in
Zhou Chang's secret room."
Liu Qiao clutched the piece of paper tightly.
Thinking of the sharks at sea, her hands trembled.
She followed Team Yu to chop up dozens of sharks, and even turned into a shark to try out her Qinggong card. Under the leadership of Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou, she easily passed Zhou Chang. At the same time, her sister might be in another area.
Sea area, bitten to pieces by sharks
Two girls entered Zhou Chang's secret room, and the possibility of survival was really low.
It was difficult for Liu Qiao to accept the fact that her sister had passed the first four levels with difficulty, but was eliminated in the weekly competition. The photos on the information sheet gradually became blurry in her field of vision, and unknowingly, tears welled up in her eyes.
Qu Wanyue hugged Liu Qiao gently and said softly, "Xiaoqiao, just cry when you feel sad. Don't hold it back."
Liu Qiao's body was trembling all the time. She clutched the questionnaire with her sister's photo printed on it and choked out, "My parents are busy at work. My sister is four years older than me. She took care of me and cooked for me when I was a child.
Tell me stories to lull me to sleep. Is she really dead?"
Xiao Lou was silent for a moment and suddenly said, "She just disappeared from this world, not necessarily dead."
Liu Qiao was startled and looked up at Professor Xiao, "What do you mean?"
Xiao Lou said, "If my inference is correct, after we clear the level, the way the gatekeeper allows us to return to reality is to be reborn and go back to the past to change history, because only in this way can we survive. Since you and your sister were in a car accident together
, then, once you can go back and be reborn before the accident, you can save your sister in reality."
Liu Qiao's eyes suddenly lit up. She quickly wiped away her tears and asked seriously, "Is it true? I can go back in time and avoid that car accident."
Xiao Lou nodded, "The possibility is very high."
When the woman sitting in front of the computer heard this, she couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Your reasoning has no basis in fact."
Xiao Lou looked back at her, "But you can't deny that my inference is wrong. Only by reaching the end and clearing the SS-level secret room can we know the way to return to reality."
The woman shrugged and said, "That's right, after all, I haven't passed the level either."
Yu Hanjiang stepped forward and said, "Continue to help us check a few people."
The woman nodded, "Please tell me."
Yu Hanjiang took the questionnaire and quickly wrote down a name, Lu Jiuchuan.
After the woman entered the information, she concluded, "This person was not found."
This result was not surprising to Yu Hanjiang, because the master of the Intelligence Bureau had completely erased his brother's information, and no one could find out the whereabouts of Ninth Brother.
He then wrote down a few names: "Guiyuan Zhang, Chu Huaying."
The woman looked it up quickly and said with a smile, "No such person was found."
Yu Hanjiang raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiao Lou, "Nothing can be found."
Xiao Lou nodded, "It seems that the director of the Intelligence Bureau is very powerful. Senior Gui, Spider Goddess, all the information about these teammates was erased by him. This is also a way to protect them."
Yu Hanjiang looked at the woman and said, "I want to see the director of your Intelligence Bureau."
The woman smiled and said, "Our director is not that easy to meet. I have never seen him before."
She picked up her phone and sent a message, saying, "However, the director specifically ordered that if Professor Xiao and Officer Yu come to your door, they will take you to a place." She glanced at Liu Qiao and Qu Wanyue and said, "
I’m only taking you two.”
Xiao Lou looked at Qu Wanyue and whispered, "Teacher Qu, you and Xiao Liu take a taxi back first, and we'll go see Director Tang."
Qu Wanyue nodded, "Don't worry, I will take Xiao Liu home safely."
He watched the two people get into the taxi with his own eyes, and then turned back to the lottery shop.
The woman wearing glasses closed the door of the lottery shop, put up the "Closed for Business" sign, then turned and walked towards the wall. The wall looked like a security door in a science fiction movie. After scanning her pupils, it suddenly opened, revealing a
A long and narrow corridor with no end in sight.
The two looked at each other and followed her.
After passing through the corridor and taking the elevator to the underground parking lot, the woman asked Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang to get in the car and drove out of the basement. The scene outside the car window receded quickly. After about half an hour, she parked the car.
At the gate of the abandoned factory, he said, "The boss asked me to take you here. You two can wait here."
Xiao Lou took a closer look and saw that the factory was three stories high and very empty. It should be an unfinished building.
Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou looked at each other, wondering why Director Tang brought them to such a desolate place.
At this moment, a strange sound suddenly sounded around, and the ground began to shake. Before Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang could recover, the ground beneath their feet suddenly collapsed.
Their bodies fell rapidly
The feeling of weightlessness made Xiao Lou nervously grab Yu Hanjiang's hand, "Is there an earthquake?"
Yu Hanjiang held his hand back and comforted in a low voice, "Don't be nervous, it's not an earthquake, it's either a card effect, or there's a dungeon hidden here. Where we stand is the elevator leading to the dungeon."
The man's slender and strong fingers gently held him back. Xiao Lou noticed this and his ears suddenly felt warm.
Nothing could be seen in the darkness, and the feeling of being held by the other person's fingers became particularly clear.
Xiao Lou heard his heart beating violently.
The corners of Yu Hanjiang's lips were slightly raised. He could sense Professor Xiao's nervousness. Xiao Lou's fingers were smooth and delicate, unlike him, whose palms had many calluses from missions. Holding Professor Xiao's hand, it felt unexpectedly good.
, he really didn’t want to let go at all.
One person didn't struggle, and the other person was reluctant to let go. The two held hands inexplicably like this until there was a loud "boom" in their ears, the elevator stopped, and a dazzling light appeared around him, and Xiao Lou was shocked as hard as an electric shock.
He pulled his hand back.
His ears were a little red. Xiao Lou took a deep breath to steady his heartbeat.
He actually grabbed Yu Hanjiang's hand out of desperation. It was really inappropriate. What would Captain Yu think of him?
Yu Hanjiang looked calm, as if nothing had happened.
An empty corridor appeared in front of the two people. After looking at each other, the two took a few steps forward. A mechanical voice came to their ears, "The identity verification was successful in the pupil scan. Xiao Lou, Yu Hanjiang, welcome to the Intelligence Bureau."
A metal door slowly opened in front of you.
Xiao Lou looked at the scene in front of him and was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
I saw an underground factory as big as two football fields. Countless mechanical equipment were running regularly. Those precision instruments and conveyor belts seemed to be producing some tools. However, there was not a single worker in the entire factory. It was all intelligent assembly lines and many robots.
A man was sitting in front of the console. When he heard footsteps, he turned around.
The man looked very young, wearing white clothes, and his whole body was spotless.
He has a delicate appearance, a face with delicate features, but his face is a little sickly pale, and his body looks a little thin, giving him the image of a "sick beauty". What's even more strange is that he is sitting in a wheelchair with a thin mask covering his legs.
Can't his legs stand on the blanket?
There is a large blackboard in front of him, with countless drawings filled with formulas posted on it. The dense data in the computer on the table makes people have a headache just looking at it. The man's wheelchair does not need to be turned by hand. It seems to be equipped with a special device.
Can move by itself.
He came to the two of them in a wheelchair and said, "Hello, I am the director of the Intelligence Bureau, Tang Ci."
His voice was as cold as spring water in winter, and his eyes were extremely calm, making his seemingly weak facial features appear somewhat cold.
Before meeting him, Xiao Lou had imagined many images of him, but never imagined that he was a sickly handsome man with disabled legs.
Xiao Lou smiled and said hello, "Hello, Mr. Tang."
Yu Hanjiang also whispered, "Brother Jiu asked us to come to you."
"I know, he told me." As if aware of the two people's doubts about the wheelchair, Tang Ci explained calmly, "My leg injury was caused when I escaped from the Plum Blossom J secret room. In the S-level secret room
After being injured, the data will not be cleared, but will be taken out of the secret room. This wheelchair was developed for myself, and the direction and speed of movement are controlled by buttons."
Xiao Lou widened his eyes slightly. The injuries in the previous secret room will be restored automatically, which is equivalent to allowing the player to automatically restore full health. However, the injuries suffered in the S-level secret room will be brought out. The later secret rooms will be level after level. If the injuries accumulate, you will be able to pass the level.
It will become increasingly difficult.
Yu Hanjiang asked doubtfully, "What is this underground factory?"
Tang Cidao said, "My research base. In reality, I am a software engineer responsible for the research and development of intelligent robots."
Xiao Lou looked back and saw a cute one-meter-tall robot putting materials on the conveyor belt.
The master of programming is really awesome. Not only did he invade the official database of Card World and let the Intelligence Bureau master the challenger's data, he even built an underground factory in Card World.
Looking at his wheelchair, Xiao Lou was extremely impressed.
Although he was physically disabled, he did not feel sad and depressed, but made himself an automatic wheelchair to get out. With such a tenacious character, it is no wonder that he became one of the four survivors in the Jiu Ge team