The Uncanny Valley Travel Guide

Along the way, the players whispered and looked at Wen Zheliu and He Qin over and over again with surprised eyes. With a smile on his lips, He Qin led Wen Zheliu to walk behind the team.

"What on earth are you..." Wen Zheliu couldn't figure it out, he was both happy and terrified.

"Hush." ​​He Qin pressed his slender and powerful index finger to his lips, "Find a safe place, and we'll talk slowly."

Wen Zheliu's face was a little hot, but He Qin suddenly pinched his chin, staring at him with dark eyes.

"What happened to the face?"

"What?" Wen Zheliu pulled his hand down embarrassedly, "My face..."

Then he suddenly realized that the image of the virtual world truly reflects the state in real life. The wound on his face that Liu Tianxiong slapped has not fully healed. I am afraid that the corners of his mouth are still bruised and his cheekbones are still bruised. Also some bruising.

"No, it's nothing..." Wen Zheliu hesitated, "It's just... I got into a fight with someone."

With cold eyes, He Qin continued to ask: "Who hit you?"

He let Kai Wen Zhe Liu hold his hand, and pressed his fingertips firmly and gently on the corner of his injured lips. This cherished and careful movement was like a ball of fire, burning into Wen along with the temperature of He Qin's skin. The heart of a broken willow.

"Anyway, we are here now, people in the real world... it will be difficult to meet again in a while..." Wen Zheliu's ears were burning red, and his heart was also boiling non-stop. He hastily used With some strength, he pressed down He Qin's arm again, "It's okay, it will be fine in a while."

He Qin looked at it for a long time, then turned his eyes away, and said with a sneer, "Okay, let's wait until we get out."

He was still wearing the black sweater and army pants of the same color as when Wen Zheliu saw him for the first time, but the mask on his face was missing. The figure with broad shoulders, wide shoulders and long legs is very eye-catching, like a nimble and wild leopard.

The two walked side by side, Wen Zheliu thought for a while and asked, "Shall I return the dog tag to you?"

He Qin said: "Go ahead and keep it. It's not bad for me to appear here now, and the dog tag is free for me."

Wen Zheliu nodded, at this moment, Mu Tuo couldn't hold back after all, he leaned over and said, "This friend..."

He Qin replied: "My name is He Qin, and I am his elder brother."

"Ah, Brother He Qin," Muto said, "what's going on with you?"

Before Wen Zheliu could speak, He Qin said: "We are also at a loss now, we don't know what happened."

Wen Zheliu made a look of surprise, tugged at He Qin's sleeve and said, "But wouldn't it be nice to have one more person to help, I was so shocked when he was called by the system."

Muto was skeptical, but there was no better explanation right now, so he could only say congratulations angrily, and then walked to the front.

He Qin glanced at him, smiled and repeated in a low voice: "Are you really taken aback?"

He raised his dark eyebrows, his pale peach eyes were full of playfulness and tenderness, Wen Zheliu couldn't laugh or cry: "You are so annoying."

A group of people walked along the path to the end, and finally saw a towering wooden sign in the fog that appeared and disappeared from time to time.

"What is that?" Zhou Qing ran over first, "Come on, let's go and see together!"

Zhou Yao hurriedly said: "Be careful, don't be so rash!"

A group of people stepped forward one after another and looked at the lonely wooden sign. Its wooden color was already very old, and the curly English painted on it with dark red paint had been washed by wind and rain all year round. Most of it had fallen off, leaving only mottled spots. The marks of refutation are left on it, and it looks extremely dilapidated.

"Next stop...Maryann's hut..." Wen Zheliu struggled to identify it, "At the end of the path, there is a small wooden house... If there are travelers coming from afar, you can go there for a night..."

This is an old stop sign.

At this time, the system prompt sounded again in everyone's ears.

【Sub-quest: Finding the main thread (1/1) has been completed. 】

[Rewards: 200 experience points, 500 copper coins, the rewards have been sent to your package. 】

[Congratulations, your level has risen to: level 5, and the system rewards have been issued to your package. 】

[The main task has been started. 】

[The main mission has been updated. 】

[Main task ①: Reach Maryann's cabin (0/1)]

Wen Zheliu was confused by a series of system prompts. Before he could see the changes in attributes after reaching level five, someone in the team took out the system rewards in the package: "Hey, it's a stick for self-defense!"

Wen Zheliu also checked the package, and found that what was given to him was a pair of steel long knives, the level of which had also reached level E. Compared with his previous [rusty dagger], it was no longer better. up.

"Here you are," he separated one of them and handed it to He Qin, "One for each."

"Hmm." He Qin nodded, and thoughtfully said, "You are half, I am half, you are my other half?"

Wen Zheliu: "...What is this advertisement from the ancient times?"

Du Zijun next to him was smoking a cigarette, and when he heard this misleading dialogue, he couldn't help but glanced at them with the tails of his slender eyes in surprise: "Tsk, you fucking gay."

Suddenly receiving this inexplicable verbal attack, Wen Zheliu couldn't help being taken aback, before he could speak, Zhou Qing hugged Du Zijun's slender waist from the side carelessly, and said kindly: "No, Sister, it’s already 2301, an era when even humans and robots can marry, so don’t be so rigid. By the way, your name is insulting. If it was in an ordinary game, I would be able to Report you to the United Anti-Discrimination Association."

A strange blush appeared on Du Zijun's pale face. She glared at Zhou Qing, broke away from her intimate embrace in silence, and walked to the front of the line. baton.

Wen Zheliu thanked Zhou Qing for his rescue, and complained to He Qin: "Look, it caused discomfort to the teammates."

He Qin curled his thin lips, glanced at Du Zijun who was walking in the front row casually, and shook the long knife twice in his palm, as if he was getting used to the feel, "Honey, wait until my brother walks with you this time, don't worry about it." Knowing where to go next, do you have the heart to stick my mouth shut right now?"

Wen Zheliu was about to refute, but after thinking about it, the result of summoning He Qin this time can only be regarded as a coincidence. If he really survived the first world, when he arrived in the second world, He Qin would still be there. Can it maintain the current state of the props?Where can he find the novice lucky wheel and draw the second prize?

He sighed and stopped talking.

He Qin saw his depression, took the initiative to hug his shoulder, and comforted him: "It's okay, there must be a way for the car to reach the mountain, and the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge, just let nature take its course."

"En." Wen Zheliu nodded.

At this time, Zhou Qing blinked, and quietly approached from the side: "Brother, you and this brother Chi Mian...are you really a couple?"

"Huh?" Wen Zheliu was taken aback, and retorted with a little guilty conscience, "That must not be the case! He is just more gay, but in fact we are both straight, okay?"

"Really?" Zhou Qing was dubious, "But I heard him calling you...calling you baby."

"Nope." Wen Zheliu couldn't laugh or cry, "It's just his habitual spoken language. If you want to hear it, I'll let him call you that too."

He Qin and Wen Zheliu were walking side by side, he didn't speak, but his eyes were half a smile, and he glanced over from the side, which made Zhou Qing tremble, and hurriedly didn't dare to talk to Wen Zheliu, and trotted forward to find her brother up.

Wen Zheliu murmured: "The girl now can really think."

He Qin said casually, "Really."

Zhou Qing sighed: "Straight men nowadays really don't know if they are gay."

Zhou Yao: "?"

Gradually, as time passed, there were only sporadic and brief conversations among the people, and everyone concentrated on continuing to walk along the path.Although the sun was still covered by thick clouds at this time, it was already approaching noon after all. However, the forests on both sides of the road were still filled with milky mist, hazy, like a layer of lingering clouds that sometimes thins and sometimes thickens scrim.

In this unusual silence, Wen Zheliu keenly sensed a different kind of dangerous atmosphere, it felt like there were many pairs of eyes staring at them.

Wen Zheliu slowly straightened his waist, clenched the steel knife in his hand, he felt a sticky chill running up his spine, he said softly: "Brother."

"What?" He Qin frowned, his thin lips moved slightly, and his voice was equally soft and fast, "I found something."

Wen Zheliu said: "I think..."

Before he could completely blurt out the word "get", an extremely ear-piercing scream suddenly came from the front of the line!

"Help——! Something, something caught me! Help——!"

The players were in an uproar, and the two suddenly raised their heads. If they heard correctly, this should be the voice of the woman in the couple!

"Fang Fei!" her boyfriend yelled, "Don't be afraid, I'll save you!"

Including the later He Qin, there were thirteen players in the whole group, but the path was muddy and narrow, and could not accommodate all the players. Everyone consciously dispersed into groups and walked forward one by one.Although Wen Zheliu and He Qin looked very suspicious and ranked last, the self-defense weapons assigned to them were also relatively powerful among the players.At this moment, Wen Zheliu pushed aside the panicked people in front of him with one hand, and raised his knife to move forward, "Give way! Those who are not strong in combat will automatically retreat!"

At this time, there was another loud howling sound in the forest, but the sound was inhuman, like a hysterical laugh, and also like the panting and roaring from a dilapidated bellows. Wen Zheliu and He Qin Before rushing to the crowd, he couldn't help being shocked for a moment.

I saw a purple-black, thick, bloody tongue shooting out from the bushes obliquely in front, covered with dense barbs, it was entwining Lin Fangfei's waist and abdomen, trying to pull her into the dense forest. Boyfriend Lu Hai held a long stick and hit it hard twice, but both had little effect.Seeing that the weapon was useless, he simply threw away the stick, hugged his girlfriend with both hands, and dragged her back vigorously, "Help! Help her!!"

"Idiot, pick up your weapon!" Du Zijun clenched his cigarette tightly, and hit his tongue with a stick. The tiny electric current rushed around, and at the same time angered the creatures lurking in the forest. It suddenly loosened its grip on Lin Fangfei, The tongue, which was as thick as the forearm of an adult male, twitched violently, whipping Du Zijun's abdomen with a piercing sound, and sent her flying. Lu Hai, who was holding his girlfriend, also fell backward due to the huge inertia. Rolled into a mess on the ground.

"You fucking..." Du Zijun's mouth was bloody, and his expression was sullen. Apart from the mud spots on the white skirt, there was mucus from his tongue that seemed to be mixed with blood, flesh and filth. She was about to hold her belly and get up. , Wen Zheliu jumped out from behind, drew his knife and slashed at the bloody tongue that swooped towards Lin Fangfei again at a speed like a snake!

"Go to the back." He Qin followed closely behind, without even glancing at the young couple from the corner of the eye, he ordered coldly.

The defense breaking power of the steel long knife was many times greater than that of the wooden stick. It was heard that when the knife fell down, the arm was numb from the force of the recoil, and the blade also bounced half an inch.In his mind, the five fingers of his right hand opened instantly, his left hand took the knife, changed it from chopping to slashing, and stabbed obliquely, the steel blade actually sank half an inch into the meat tongue, and rotten black blood poured out!

The monster hissed in pain and flicked its long tongue wildly in the forest. Wen Zheliu was not greedy for knives, and hurriedly retreated back, while He Qin shook his long knife and took over his position the moment Wen Zheliu retreated. position, the two sides cooperated perfectly and had a tacit understanding.If it is said that Wen Zheliu is only a beginner in using knives, and only has quicker reactions than ordinary people, then He Qin is obviously a master at this.

Just like what Wen Zheliu saw in Survival World, his sword light is like thunder, and he comes and goes to take pictures. Obviously, he can wield the edge of a world-renowned sword with only an E-level prop.The creature in the forest was acutely aware of the danger at this moment, it wanted to pull its tongue out immediately, but was unable to match the speed of He Qin's sharp knife, the tip of its tongue fell to the ground instantly, and flew into the grass together with the smelly rotting blood!

The bloody tongue contracted like electricity, and the hidden monster also let out a mad roar and howl of pain, and the forest shook violently from far to near, as if some giant monster was about to rush out of it.

There was a loud noise, dust flew up, and the players behind collectively gasped, Wen Zheliu put down his hand blocking the sand and stones in front of his eyes, and clenched his teeth unconsciously.

...What stood in front of them was a huge humanoid creature that was half prostrate on the ground.

It has neither skin nor hair, and the naked, knotty purple-black muscle texture is dripping with disgusting rancid mucus, and there are no eyes and noses on its face, only a huge ferocious mouth, which occupies half of the entire face .This mouth was split almost to the back of the head, and it was filled with dense, uneven, sharp teeth. A long tongue was hanging down from it, swaying from side to side like a live snake.It's just that the tip of the tongue is broken at this moment, and mucus mixed with black blood is constantly dripping, eroding the ground into a scorched black.

"Blood is corrosive," He Qin said in a low voice to Wen Zheliu without changing his expression, "Pay attention to this."

He Qin's calm and calm attitude also infected him, Wen Zheliu nodded lightly.At the same time, he also noticed its deformed and huge claws supporting the upper body. This humanoid creature with hands and feet is nearly three meters long, even if it is only half lying on the ground, it is enough to look down on a An adult man of average height, fortunately, his legs have been bent in a twisted posture, and he may only be able to move by using his hands and feet. This may be a good thing for the player.

Wen Zheliu also noticed that the monster's lower body was festered, and it didn't even have obvious sexual signs, and it was unknown why.

While the players were observing it, it was also shaking its head left and right, observing the movements and states of the players with its non-existent eyes. What level is it?"

He Qin said: "Don't fight hard, you can't fight hard."

At this moment, Wen Zheliu was at the back and He Qin was at the front. The two formed a diagonal defensive formation virtually, blocking the ten players behind them.

Mu Tuo was very surprised: "Wen Di, you..."

"Brother Mu, keep an eye on those two people." Wen Zheliu didn't turn his head, "Although I don't know the reason, it is obviously aimed at them."

Muto clenched the harpoon in his hand, and said solemnly: "Then be careful..."

Before finishing speaking, the monster on the opposite side seemed to have finished assessing their combat power. It let out a heavy panting sound, grinned its sharp teeth, and raised the corners of its long and narrow mouth to the sides, showing an almost grinning expression to the players.

"Warning!" He Qin's muscles tensed up, and he shouted at Wen Zheliu. At that moment, the posture of holding the knife in one hand changed to that of holding the knife tightly with both hands. At this moment, the leopard, which was about to be pushed to the extreme, showed a cruel and cruel heroic spirit——

"Follow me!"

Wen Zheliu's heart twitched suddenly, as if there was a transparent and invisible thread, holding the two of them together in the dark.With a movement of his footsteps, he held the knife in both hands, and crossed He Qin's knife one after the other to form an X shape. The two joined forces at the same time, and collided with the crazy rushing monster amidst the loud noise of metal and bone colliding!