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The hearts of all the NPCs present sank.

Dang Shan Xiu Ze, melted...?Even Vivian, who escaped by chance, had her jaw and two calves melted off.

Even though he was an NPC, he couldn't escape the punishment of the no-entry zone. No, is it really a no-entry zone outside the hospital?

The usual definition of a no-go zone is "an area where no copy content occurs", that is, an area that cannot be explored and does not need to be explored.

For example, there is nothingness outside the building of the [-] shopping mall; the giant indoor and outdoor where Oberon’s Monopoly track is located is also nothingness.Therefore, when the outside of the hospital became deserted, the first reaction of the NPCs was to enter the restricted area.

But because there were large buildings outside the hospital before the dungeon started, Huo Lvxing sent the natives to explore.Vivienne and Dang Shan went to explore the strangeness of the native's death.

Everyone has no expectations for the results of the exploration, just in case, to ensure that there are really no clues in the barrenness, the worst is to be bounced back, but now...

One death and one injury.

According to Vivienne's slurred voice and hand gestures, she said that if she didn't use the flying props to return in time, she would also be in trouble.

"When the 'melt' happened, there were no signs," she recalls, "no pain, no itching, nothing."

"When I turned my head to talk to Dangshan, I realized something was wrong—Dangshan was as tall as my head, but when I turned my head, he was as tall as me. It was already too late, and the limbs below the ankles had melted into mud, but we didn't Feel the slightest pain."

"The feeling of not being able to find our own limbs is indescribable... It's as if... We were originally clay figurines. In that barrenness, we returned to our nature and returned to the earth."

As she said that, Vivienne trembled weakly again, and the wet water on the raincoat dripped down the brim of her hat, along her jawline...

With a "snap", a piece of paste-like flesh on her lower jaw fell to the ground.

She screamed impatiently: "Why is it still going on...!"

Xie Huating asked her to calm down: "Have the healing props been used?"

"It works!" Vivian sobbed, "It didn't work! The medicine for limb regeneration and the medicine for healing didn't work! I... When I set foot on that land, my body was no longer a human being, I was a lump Mud, melting..."

Vivienne's mental state is very bad.

Xie Huating and Huo Lvxing looked at each other. The former squeezed out a small bottle of medicine and poured it into her mouth, but it was useless. Vivienne cooperated and drank it all, but nothing happened.

"I gave her the [A-level props Rejuvenation], a copy can only be used once," Xie Huating looked ugly, "Theoretically, people who only have a torso can grow back to limbs after drinking... There is only one explanation : I don’t know whether it was the moment they set foot on the barrenness, or the moment they began to melt, their bodies are no longer human.”

Several people came up with suggestions, and used item repair props, such as "full repair glue", and "expanding agent from small to large", but it was useless.

Xuelu had an idea: "During the investigation of the clues, we found that the identity of the NPC was the body that died in January - there may be 'time' confusion in the dungeon, why don't you try to go back in time?"

Time props have many uses and are rare items, but seeing Vivienne's misery, everyone feels sorry for them, and they don't care about saving in order to find out the truth.Matilda took out [A-level props 24h retrospective tape].

"Where is it wrapped?" Matilda held up the tape and worried, "More than 70% of the area must be wrapped to go back to the time of the item..."

Tape is a consumable prop, one centimeter wide and one centimeter thick, leaving only a thin centimeter thick.As a rough estimate, if you wrap a person, you can wrap at most one leg.

Xuelu said: "Can you give me a try?"

Everyone looked at the newcomer's face, questioning and sizing up, but Matilda didn't mind and handed him the tape.

He tore off a length of more than ten centimeters, gently supported Vivienne's trembling head, and wrapped one side of her jaw.

3 seconds of the item's action time passed, and nothing happened.

Vivian's jaw didn't grow back.

Just when Jie Nuo sighed "It really doesn't work", Matilda stared: "No, it works! The tape didn't fall off! If the tape doesn't work, or if the tape is used in the wrong way, it will lose its stickiness!"

Everyone's eyes focused on Vivian's jaw wrapped in tape again.

Vivienne didn't dare to move, she twisted her tongue uneasily: "Well...how...how?"

"No change?" Sean frowned, "Why don't you take off the tape and have a look?"

"No need," Matilda's eyes didn't blink, "wait a little longer. If the tape works, it will fall off automatically in one minute."

45...55...

As the countdown in Matilda's mouth ended, the tape fell to the ground as expected.

But it's disappointing that Vivienne's hideous jaw section doesn't show any "repaired" sights.

"Are you sure the tape is the way you said it was used?" Jie Nuo scratched his head, "Did you remember it wrongly, and it will be invalid if it falls off automatically after 1 minute."

"Impossible!" Matilda vetoed, "I have used this tape five or six times, can I not know how to use it? I guarantee it will work."

"Assuming that the adhesive tape takes effect, but Vivian's chin has not been repaired, it can only explain one thing..."

Xie Huating followed Xuelu's words, and said in a deep voice: "The time outside is heterogeneous. It seems that it only takes a few minutes from going out to returning, but in fact it may have passed several years, or even tens of thousands of years. Therefore, we have successfully traced back 24 years. Hours didn't seem to work."

Xie Huating had already guessed about the barren "silt".

Soil, oil, and many organic substances have all undergone millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and have become from the corpses of living things.

People who "melt" in the barrenness are not poisoned or supernatural events, but their bodies are swallowed by mottled time and evolved into the future.

"So those silts..." Matilda couldn't bear to shudder, "It's all... the past... oh my god."

The hospital did not travel through space, nor was it "uprooted" from the ground and thrown into another dimension.

It is the outside world of the hospital that really experiences time travel: buildings, flora and fauna, and people.

In the rainstorm, in the sudden earthquake, everything is swallowed by the chaotic time, and evolves into the final product forever.

"I remembered a novel, but I forgot who wrote it," Jeno murmured, "A woman woke up and found herself in a tropical rainforest. She suspected that she had been kidnapped, and tried to survive and escaped from the rainforest. She tried every means to find her way home, but after she found out the truth, she committed suicide in despair."

"What is the truth?"

"The truth is... no one kidnapped her, she just fell into the gap of time and space. The time and space she lives in are completely different from the original world, and her family in this world is still with her. Not the family in the original world. She will never go back home."

551 complained: "It feels like a clichéd novel, what parallel worlds, what chaotic timelines, ten suspense novels that don't come back, nine of them use this method, oh yes, the remaining one is the dream space."

After he couldn't help complaining, 551 realized that he had to perform well in order to be a Bubble friend, and shrank away in fright, only to find that Xuelu had no sign of beating him at all.

Instead, he stared blankly at the bright flames of the kerosene lamp under the round table in the gazebo.

Ripples of light rippling on his smooth porcelain-white skin, jumping on his curly eyelashes, it is so beautiful that it does not seem to be a human thing, as if in the next second, it will fly across the floating sky in the hazy water vapor up.

551 was a little uneasy: "Master... I just said it casually, not to mock your reasoning."

"I know," Xuelu stared blankly at the jumping lights, "You're right."

"It's really a cliché, one that doesn't catch people's eyes."

He just put himself in the protagonist's shoes, and then felt... If this kind of thing happened to him, it would be really hopeless.

Trying to escape from the predicament, trying to find my family and hometown, and finally found it, but found...

You will never get the result you really want.

Three-dimensional creatures, even if they fight for life and death, cannot cross the dimension of time.How weak, small, and sad.

Xie Huating noticed that something was wrong with Xuelu, he thought that Xuelu was frightened by the death of the NPC, and gently patted him on the shoulder: "We did our best, don't worry, Dangshan is fine, he was just forced to eject the dungeon after his body was damaged .”

Xuelu gave a soft "hmm" and lowered her eyelashes.

Xie Huating looked at Vivienne again: "It's really not possible, you should also apply to get out of the dungeon, it's too painful to continue, and you can't act."

Vivian sighed: "It's just... that's the only way to go."

With Vivian's figure disappearing, there were only 7 people left at the round table.

The kerosene lamp burned out, making a slight "cracking" sound, and then the fire disappeared, and the gazebo fell into boundless darkness again.

The priest smiled and dispelled the embarrassment: "Look at my carelessness, this kerosene lamp is really not durable... Next time, fill in more oil."

It's getting late, there are still 15 minutes to 7 o'clock, everyone should go back to their places and continue working.

Xuelu declined Xie Huating's invitation: "Vivienne and Dangshan have left, and there are two less people who are 'stalking players'. Brother Huating, you go with the big team. It is enough for Brother Huo to accompany me in the jungle. "

Xie Huating is worried about leaving Xuelu, but Xuelu is right, work is more important than personal relationship.He gave a few more worried words before leaving with the others.

The sound of footsteps stepping on the dull wet mud gradually faded away, and under the pitch-black gazebo, only Xuelu and Huo Lvxing were left.

The wind-blown damp hair sticks to her face damply, but Xuelu has no mood to push it away.He sat on the cool stone bench, quietly recalling the newspaper whose information had been changed.

Is it a bug?Or is the copy designed that way?What Olga Qi said has nothing to do with Xuelu herself, right?

For some reason, Huo Lvxing remained silent.

The kerosene lamp was burned out, and the silhouette of the tall man disappeared in the darkness, but Xuelu felt that he was still there.

The subtle breathing sounds rise and fall, gradually merging into one.

After staying in the dark for a long time, the eyes will lose focus, and the biological instinct of fear of the dark will emerge irresistibly. Xuelu suddenly raised his eyes and looked for the man indiscriminately.

Was he silent because he didn't speak?Yes, Huo Lvxing's real character seems to be cold and arrogant.During the more than ten hours of getting along formally, he never took the initiative to talk to anyone other than himself, and looked at him accidentally several times. His stern face was always expressionless, as if what happened before him was not worthy of his presence. , and there is no need to pay attention to the same.

This reminds Xuelu of a researcher who pays attention to the activities of mice in the experimental box.

He wanted to be sure more than ever before, whether the man was still with him, and whether he would believe his words.

...Is he really still there?

Is he gone long ago?That's right, although the two are no longer hostile and have become teammates, their relationship is not that good after all.

When he was thinking wildly, the man in his mind suddenly said: "In a bad mood?"

The wind lifted the wet hair and scratched Xuelu's eyes, and he closed them uncomfortably.

hurts a little.

However, he is still there.

"I found a...strange newspaper. I don't know what to say, just, the content I saw the first time was different from what other people saw."

The man didn't open his mouth, and seemed to be listening carefully to the absurd words, which gave Xuelu the desire to confide.

Xuelu told the story quickly, his tone changed from pretending to be uncontrollably anxious, and then he took off his raincoat, and wanted to show Huo Lvxing the newspaper hidden in his white coat.

But fate made fun of people, and the wet water stains on the raincoat penetrated into the inside at some point, wet the white coat, and the newspaper was completely wet.

He hurriedly took it out and tried to rescue it, but it was useless.

The quality of the newspaper was unbelievably poor, the ink stains were all black, and most of the content was blurred, only the photo in the center could vaguely see Xuelu's appearance.

Under the light of the flashlight, amidst the black ink and the shattered paper, only a pair of resolute and quiet eyes are clear and beautiful.

No matter who sees this photo, they can recognize it with those eyes, this is Xuelu.

Xuelu met those eyes, and suddenly felt wronged.

"I'm not lying," he shook his head impatiently, "Really, the text on the first page of the newspaper...is not what it is now. It's not Olga Celan, it's Olga Zie, whose name is pronounced exactly like mine Me, isn't my name randomly chosen by the system?"

His voice then weakened, accompanied by a deep sense of powerlessness.

There is no evidence, and even the evidence is damaged. He felt that he was a fool, and he said unbelievable words to everyone, and he couldn't believe it in the end.

But a big warm hand suddenly rubbed his hair, and then lifted the wet hair that was sticking to his face and pinned it behind his ears.

Then, Huo Lvxing naturally embraced the back of Xuelu's dazed head, and pulled him into his arms involuntarily.

The man's voice was helpless and distressed: "Looking at your grievances, I thought something was wrong. Okay, okay, don't feel wronged, huh? What a big deal."

Huo Lvxing's voice was very gentle, completely different from Xie Huating's tit-for-tat confrontation.

As soon as he was comforted, Xuelu's uneasiness faded away, but he struggled dissatisfied: "What is a big thing... a big thing, okay! What the hell is going on here? If it doesn't happen to you, it will naturally happen." Talking sarcastic..."

"It's not a sarcastic joke," Huo Lvxing restrained Xuelu's small arm, and said patiently to him, "I believe what you said, you read it right."

Being patted down, Xuelu was quiet for a few seconds, then shook his head again: "You just fooled me casually. What everyone sees is different from what I saw at first, and the printed words have also changed. You must be laughing at me in your heart." Stupid."

"No," Huo Lvxing said firmly, "You are not mistaken."

"Then tell me, why does the word change?"

Huo Lvxing just looked at him gently with his dark golden eyes, without saying a word.

Xuelu has always been serious about his work. Even though he likes to break the law and make extra money, no one can deny that he is dedicated and loves this job.

But things beyond common sense and beyond the cognition of the "Nineteenth Floor" dungeon made Xuelu feel particularly out of state today.

——Involving himself, something abnormal and unexplainable by common sense made him wonder whether the change in words was covering up something.

Xuelu's sensitive intuition told him that this matter is not simple.

"Look, you can't explain it, you just comfort me casually..."

That being said, Xuelu still has expectations and natural trust in Huo Lvxing.

After all, he has witnessed Huo Lvxing's huge authority with his own eyes. Maybe Huo Lvxing will know the inside story, such as there will be bugs when the dungeon is generated, or tell him that the wrong thing is the design of the dungeon, which is used to confuse players...

As long as he gives an explanation, Xuelu thought, he will believe it.

Even if it contradicts his own conjecture, he will believe it.He needs an explanation to stabilize his trust in the nineteenth floor.

But Huo Lvxing didn't answer directly.

He sighed and said, "I don't need to fool you. Just now I saw you out of your mind, do you know what I was thinking?"

"……what?"

"I thought you were injured, or you were wronged by the players. You may wonder why I have been silent, but I am actually enduring it."

Xuelu raised her eyelashes, a little puzzled: "Patience?"

"In that short ten seconds, I thought of many solutions." Huo Lvxing's eyes sharpened for a moment, and softened again when he looked at Xuelu's puzzled face, "If you want to violate the killing rules, just kill the rest Forget about the destruction of the player group; if you want to tear apart the space-time wall, directly destroy this copy, and take you out forcibly... There are countless ways to leave directly."

"But in the end I held back."

"You..." Xuelu was speechless, "What are you talking about? There is no need for this, I am not fragile, even if I am bullied by players, it is not impossible for me to solve it... Besides, I am not injured."

Huo Lvxing shook his head: "So I held back. You are not fragile, and you are not someone who will swallow your breath without me. If I do that, it will make you even more angry."

"You understand very well," Xuelu subconsciously hooked the corners of her mouth, "I warn you never to do this, I will really be angry.... Are you recalling the copy of Monopoly, I pretended that time Lah, I'm just afraid that you will catch me and lie to you."

"I finally laughed."

Xuelu was taken aback.

He touched the corners of his mouth that didn't know when it would stop drooping, and couldn't bear to show a bigger smile: "What do you mean! How hypocritical of me are you talking about? I'm not too sad, actually. It’s just that something incomprehensible has happened to you.”

Huo Lvxing looked at him with a smile, without saying a word, the hands holding him were tightened, Xuelu couldn't stand still, and was hugged into his arms again.

He put his chin on the top of Xuelu's head, and his voice came from above: "Next time, when you encounter such a thing, you can be the first to tell me."

Xuelu struggled slightly, but was held down by Huo Lvxing again.

The man's broad chest was very warm, and through the raincoat, white coat and inner lining, a strong heartbeat surged with a sense of security.

Ah...the temperature is so high.Xuelu thought endlessly, Huo Lvxing's raincoat is dry, does this person burn nuclear power in his body?

This hug lasted for a long time, so long that Xuelu felt that his raincoat was about to be dried.

He pushed the person away with all his strength, and the latter also relaxed his arms, watching the shy child take a few steps back hastily with a smile on his face.

"Sure enough, you are fooling me!" He stared at him in embarrassment, "changed the topic for a long time, and said a lot of things that should be said or shouldn't be said! They took advantage of me in vain, and didn't say what was going on in the end !Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Regarding his words, Huo Lvxing raised his eyebrows: "I see, you little money fan, you have to pay, right? Let me think about it..."

He pretended to sigh with embarrassment: "Well, I can't let you wrong me for prostitution. I'll tell you what's going on when I get back to the main city."

"Really?"

Xuelu's eyes, which had been melancholy for several hours, lit up, but he didn't know it, the uneasiness between his brows had already been swept away.

This is all thanks to Huo Lvxing.

Huo Lvxing nodded seriously: "Really, I never break my promise."

"That's great, I knew it was reliable to find you!" Xuelu was coaxed to be happy, and her mouth became sweet, "Brother Huo is awesome, Brother Huo is very knowledgeable, a walking encyclopedia, awesome! "

Hearing the little villain's rhetoric, Huo Lvxing still looked at him with a smile in a good mood even though he knew that he was deliberately flattering him.

But then a voice sounded faintly.

"...Are you sure? This message...for him now, it is absolutely unbearable..."

If the surroundings were not completely dark, even if there was even a little bit of firefly light, anyone who saw the scene in front of him would stay away from Huo Lvxing and fall into indescribable fear.

Taking Huo Lvxing's feet as the origin, a huge, transparent "curtain" looms in the air.

Like animal heads protruding from a crowded pen, and like ghosts wailing in a river of darkness, thousands of human faces are squeezed layer by layer into an overwhelming net, enveloping the entire space.

This net has the shape of a "human", wriggling its "limbs" irregularly, like a narrowed waist, standing on the horizon.

It is really too big and too wide. The whole hospital is like a model in a sand table, and the sleeping people are like insect eggs, unaware that life and death are in the hands of the Destroyer.

And the voice of "it" is so distant and vague, as if thousands of people are speaking together, mixed with countless languages, even words that humans cannot understand, making people irritated, nauseated, and panicked.

It said: "He doesn't have to know this...will be fine..."

Huo Lvxing just raised his eyes, and let it go lightly.

Sensing the man's displeasure, the transparent giant bowed without saying a word, and then disappeared into the sky and the earth.

Xuelu seemed to have noticed something, he turned his head and looked at Huo Lvxing who followed him silently: "Did you speak just now?"

Huo Lvxing was noncommittal: "I'm communicating with my system."

"Ah... ah? You also have a system!" Xuelu was startled, "I thought you were an authority dog...ah no, the boss doesn't need a system."

"some."

He looked at Huo Lvxing repeatedly, and the curiosity in his eyes almost turned into substance: "What kind, let me see."

Huo Lvxing stroked his hair: "It's shy, wait for a chance."

The author has something to say: Lao Gong: For the first time, I feel that the system is too ugly to meet people, what should I do.Oh, by the way, hurry up and download Deadman's Belt 551, you can't let Xiegou's system get the most out of it.

System: Download the dead overnight...why do I have to learn this...that's all, the master's task is all...