Chapter 20 Two Salted Fish Looking Up at the Starry Sky
"Sister, it's time for you to lose weight."
When Bai Siyi switched back to his body and jumped off the back of the panting Lin Feifei, Lin Feifei complained to her as expected.
Bai Si didn't get angry at all because of this sentence, but patted Lin Feifei's shoulder as if rewarding.
It's really embarrassing for this child, carrying a person taller than himself on his back and running a distance of more than fifty meters in one go, this child is also missing half an arm, and it is difficult to grasp the balance. was just complained about being fat, and Bai Siyi was not so stingy and angry with him.
"Now is not the time to relax, who knows if those two people will catch up, let's hurry up." Bai Siyi said to Lin Feifei. She offended that little man just now, maybe that person caught up with him on impulse?
Bai Siyi stopped Lin Feifei's move to find a place to sit, the boy was covered in sweat, panting in his mouth, obviously really tired.
"Hey, okay." Although Lin Feifei was very tired, when he heard Bai Siyi's words, he still agreed obediently, and continued to run forward along the row of white houses with Bai Siyi.
As soon as Bai Si heard Lin Feifei's answer, his body ran forward, but thousands of thoughts turned in his mind.
Bai Kong is always like this, as long as he makes a decision, the boy will only listen, and there is almost no opposition. Now that I think about it, this kind of obedience is not at all like the well-behaved and supple Bai Siyi once thought, but more like a boring marionette, as long as Bai Si moves the string in his hand, the puppet will make the actions that Bai Siyi wants accordingly. As for the hundred turns and knots in the puppet's belly, the puppet never said it, and Bai Siyi never took the initiative to explore it.
Bai Siyi suddenly found that he and Bai Kong grew up together, but he had never understood Bai Kong's heart.
Lin Feifei is different. Although the time spent knowing this boy only adds up to an hour or two, and there has been no in-depth communication between them, this boy's eyes are smart and he seems to be full of interest in everything, even if he agrees with Bai Siyi's decision, it will make people feel that this is indeed the boy's heartfelt approval, and it is by no means perfunctory.
Bai Siyi's ankle hurt, it was sprained when he went down the stairs just now. This sharp pain suddenly recalled Bai Si's thoughts as soon as he flew away. Now is not the time to think about that.
Bai Si looked left and right, and at this time, the two of them had already run along the row of white houses out of the square in front of the hotel. Until now, Bai Siyi didn't know what this row of white houses that didn't match the style of the hotel was for.
The two of them were now on the road outside the hotel.
The road is wide and smooth, and the street lamps on both sides hang high and shine brightly. Carefully manicured plane trees are planted on both sides of the road, and the leaves of the plane trees rustle softly in the night breeze, casting layers of shadows on the sidewalks under the bright street lamps.
Bai Siyi simply hated these small black squares of deep and light colors that were constantly shaking. These little squares only made her dizzy, and there was no beauty in the slightest.
Bai Si felt that the so-called vision of death was to kill her vision.
A short distance along the road was an intersection, and the red text that Bai Siyi had seen in front of the hotel fountain appeared at the crossroads.
The two of them ran to the intersection, and Bai Siyi glanced at the text and found that it was still a message indicating the direction of the vegetable market. Next to this text, there is still an arrow pointing in one direction of the intersection.
When Lin Feifei saw this text, he immediately subconsciously turned around, wanting to continue running in the direction indicated by the arrow. Bai Si grabbed him one by one, dragged Lin Feifei and ran towards a women's clothing boutique with an open door not far from the intersection. The shop is neither in the direction indicated by the arrow nor in the opposite direction to the arrow, but in the third remaining direction of the intersection.
The two of them went headlong into this stylishly decorated women's clothing store.
The store is dimly lit, with several eeriely styled black models in street-facing windows, with small yellow lights projecting from the bottom to the top of the models' feet. It's hard to describe the style of the clothes on the models, and the clothes are full of colorful accessories. In short, Bai Siyi was reluctant to wear such complex and exaggerated clothes in the past.
The clothing store is divided into several parts by heavy curtains, and people hide behind the curtains, and under the not bright lights of the clothing store, it is like hiding in a maze, and it is difficult for people to find out.
Just as the two of them had chosen a location where they could hide and see out of the glass window of the store, two figures came running quickly from the direction of the hotel.
It was the skinny man with a furious face, and Billy the dog, who was panting with his tongue sticking out.
The thin man came to the crossroads, looked down at the red text on the ground, shook his head from side to side, looked in several directions, and then ran away with the dog in the direction indicated by the arrow.
Just when Bai Siyi and Lin Feifei breathed a sigh of relief and were about to come out from behind the curtain, the thin man ran back with the dog again.
This time, the thin man did not stop at the crossroads, and ran away in one breath in the opposite direction to the arrow.
Bai Siyi and Lin Feifei waited for a long time to confirm that the thin man really wouldn't come back, and then walked out from behind the curtain.
Lin Feifei kept patting his small chest with his palm, making a scared expression, found a round chair with soft cushions, and sat on it.
"Sister, where are we going after that? Why don't you go to the wet market? Lin Feifei looked at the street from the shop window, although from this angle, he couldn't see the words written at the intersection at all, but obviously, the vegetable market mentioned in those words was taken to heart by him.
Bai Siyi didn't answer immediately, but looked back and forth at the women's clothing store, looked at the clothes displayed in the store, and then looked at the tattered rags on his body that were still sticking to dried blood, and a green light appeared in his eyes. Of course, she couldn't do it if her eyes didn't glow green.
On this day, Lin Feifei, who was not very old, experienced the pain of accompanying a woman to go shopping and try on clothes for the first time in his life.
Lin Feifei sat bored on the round chair, watching Bai Si carry a stack of clothes into the fitting room again and again, and throw the clothes out of the fitting room one by one, it seems that every piece of clothing has a place of one or another, which can make Bai Si picky.
Just when Lin Feifei didn't know how many yawns he had, thinking that he was going to sleep like this, Bai Siyi finally chose his clothes and stood in front of Lin Feifei.
Lin Feifei raised his head, and as soon as he glanced at Bai Si, he fell backwards and fell from the round chair, his eyes were immediately full of tears, and his lips began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Sister, sister, my own sister, you ......"
With an unfinished expression on his face, Bai Siyi reached out and touched the metal rivets on his clothes. The rivets shimmered with a cold, metallic sheen in the dim light of the clothing store. In fact, the cheongsam chosen by Bai Siyi is loose and not cumbersome, and the sleeves are close and not tight, which is a rare dress that will not trouble Bai Siyi in this women's clothing store with complex styles as the main style.
That is, the pattern composed of rivets on the clothes is a little ...... It will frighten children.
The rivets on the clothes are connected to each other, and according to the proportions of a normal person's human body, on the front and back sides of the clothes, they form the appearance of a human skeleton. The black fabric of the clothes is even more set off by the rivets sparkling. If the light were a little dimer, a person would definitely think that it was a skeleton shelf running around the ground with a human head on top of it.
If you add it to Bai Si, the eyes that will glow green like a lich...... Lin Feifei, who was lying on the ground and crying, is the best example.
"Look at your guts." Bai Siyi grabbed Lin Feifei's right hand and dragged Lin Feifei up from the floor. Lin Feifei's hand was soft and white, and it was not as big as Bai Siyi's hand. Bai Siyi couldn't help but pinch Lin Feifei's palm, he was very sorry that there was only one such soft palm left, and he didn't know how this child's left hand was lost. Bai Siyi looked at Lin Feifei's empty little arm on his left, and felt a little more pity in his heart.
Lin Feifei felt Bai Siyi's action of pinching his hand, and retracted his hand with a "poof", and he didn't dare to look at Bai Siyi with a sideways face, and the roots of his ears were dyed with a trace of redness.
As soon as Bai Si saw the pink color on Lin Feifei's side face, he smiled wickedly in his heart, feeling like a strange aunt who was teasing Xiao Xianrou. Ay? By the way, isn't the name of this child's game just a little fresh meat?
After this little episode of Bai Si changing clothes, the two of them walked on the road again, and the night was already dark.
Bai Siyi didn't know if the other dungeons were all like this without residents, but this dungeon was the same as the novice training ground, with only a variety of life-filled items and buildings - Bai Siyi remembered the birdsong coming from the birdcage in the hotel lobby, but he had never seen a single person living in this world.
It's as if the whole world is a well-arranged stage backdrop. Only the players are playing out a tragedy or a comedy on this stage. So, who will be the audience of this big show?
In a world where there are no human activities, there is no pollution in the air, and in the deep night sky, the brilliance of the stars is smoothly projected on this brilliant but uninhabited city, these stars seem to be eternal and unchanging, and they are also so bright that they seem to compare with the lights of human cities.
Bai Siyi and Lin Feifei walked in the shadows of trees or buildings as much as possible along the way, trying not to expose themselves to the bright street lamps. Along the way, the two men saw many red letters written on the ground or on the wide walls indicating the direction of the wet market. The text is very user-friendly, and whenever you encounter an intersection that needs to be turned, or a complex group of buildings, a piece of text and arrows will appear, pointing the way to the player.
Although the words are different, each time the words appear, they clearly express the same meaning: the vegetable market goes this way, and the vegetable market is a safe area.
"Sister, you say, is there really a safe zone in this dungeon?" Finally, Lin Feifei, who was too shy to speak to Bai Siyi since Bai Siyi pinched his hand, couldn't help but ask this question.
Bai Siyi tilted his head and thought for a while, and replied, "According to my analysis, there must be a place in this dungeon where players can exchange ingredients with each other, otherwise this dungeon will become a complete task of luck." Bai Siyi reached out and touched the rivets on her body, since she put on this dress, she stopped pulling her hair when she was thinking, and changed it to this small action. The organization called Pepsi, I've seen it on the forum, is a very well-known player organization, and it often releases some very professional guides, and I've also seen their posts that broadcast major events in the game. If it's really a vegetable market created by this organization, it may indeed be a safe zone in this dungeon, I'm afraid of ......"
Bai Siyi paused, and picked at the rivets on his clothes with his short-trimmed nails. Bai Siyi has never had long nails, after all, she has to work often to support herself and her younger brother, and she has done a lot of work, so it is really inconvenient to keep long nails.
"My concern is, is this wet market really organized by Pepsi? Will someone use this name to set a trap to entice players to fall into the net? After all, in the dungeons I've been involved in that require each other to kill, players like to hide themselves and find them one by one, which is really inefficient. ”
Lin Feifei immediately became nervous, and pulled the corner of Bai Siyi's clothes with his right hand, and seemed to be afraid of the skull skeleton composed of rivets, so he hurriedly withdrew his hand, "Isn't that dangerous, do we still want to go?" ”
"Go, after all, I have too few copies of my experience to be used as a basis for judgment at all. Let's go over there and take a look, and if it's okay, it's all right. Now the two of us have the same combat power as salted fish, if this vegetable market is real, then maybe this is our chance to complete the copy. Bai Si said categorically.
Lin Feifei thought about Bai Siyi's words for a while, and felt that what Bai Siyi said was right, so he responded with a crisp "yes" in his voice, and continued to walk forward side by side with Bai Siyi.
The two of them walked cautiously all the way, although they heard strange noises more than once, but either those sounds were far away, or the two of them were alert and hid in time. Along the way, no player succeeded in turning them into salted fish and making a pot of salted fish soup.
The two of them walked for almost half a night, until they followed the text instructions to a bridge across the river, Bai Siyi stopped and grabbed Lin Feifei, who still wanted to continue walking.
The bridge is a cable-stayed bridge, a magnificent one, with two pillars rising from the center of the river reaching into the sky, and thick steel bars pulling the deck from the pillars. The parallel left and right lanes connect the two banks of the boiling river, and if in the real world, such a traffic artery, I don't know how many cars will be transported between the two sides of the strait in a day.
At this time, the wide bridge deck was tightly clogged with various types of cars. The cars were silent and unstarted, one after the other, and some were even stacked on top of each other. It's like a toy car that has been randomly placed by a naughty child, and it is very chaotic, but there is no trace that should be left after a car accident.
As soon as Bai Si looked at the many silent vehicles, he immediately became alert.
Along the way, the two of them didn't see the car parked on the road, and Bai Siyi even considered getting a car to drive away, after all, there was no one in the copy to investigate and punish the unlicensed female driver. However, the two people helplessly found that the reality is not like in the movie, how can two people with no experience in car repair be like in the movie, they can open the car door with two random tinkering, and then connect two wires to start the car. Maybe someone can drive the car in the dungeon at will, but it's definitely not Bai Siyi or Lin Feifei.
Bai Siyi felt that no one should have the leisure to spend so much effort to pile so many vehicles on a bridge, just to block the road meaninglessly.
There must be something in the shadows cast by the cars, waiting in ambush for passers-by. There's no better place to hide and trap than a man-made labyrinth on a traffic artery.
"Sister?" After Lin Feifei carefully observed the car maze in front of him, he was also worried, and the words and arrows on the ground clearly indicated that he wanted to pass on this bridge. However, it is clear that this will be a dangerous task that is incalculable.
Bai Si looked left and right, thought about it, and pulled Lin Feifei into a residential building closest to the bridge.
"Let's find a place to rest until tomorrow morning." Bai Siyi said his decision. "Wait until tomorrow morning when the sky is darkest and see if we can cross the bridge."
Lin Feifei, who had no way to do it, obediently said hello, and followed Bai Siyi and began to climb the stairs.
In fact, the two of them did not feel sleepy, tired, or hungry at all. In this dungeon, there doesn't seem to be a set of human physiological needs, as long as it's not a strenuous exercise or a combat state, and a gentle speed of action is maintained, players are just a set of stats that can move until they are killed.
It's a dungeon created just for players to kill each other. This thought crossed Bai Siyi's heart.
However, the two people who did not need to rest, climbed several floors, and did not find a room with an open door that would allow them to shelter.
Bai Siyi didn't know if there was also a pair of eyes behind these tightly closed security doors, looking into the corridor from the cat's eyes. Bai Siyi could only let go of Lin Feifei's hands and feet, groping up layer by layer in the dark, without making a sound to trigger the sensor lights in the corridor.
In fact, Bai Siyi felt that such a darkness was much more comfortable than all kinds of dazzling small color blocks. She missed the feeling of seeing the world through the eyes of a corpse. Unfortunately, the corpse didn't even have a head, and now it has no vision. Bai Siyi decided that he had to get a new corpse as soon as possible, even if it was just to avoid using the death vision that would make people dizzy all the time. However, according to the rules of this dungeon, it is unlikely that Bai Siyi wants to get the corpse.
The two of them climbed all the way up to the top floor of the residential building, and did not find a room to enter.
Bai Si looked at the iron door leading to the rooftop, which was open.
Bai Siyi simply asked Lin Feifei to wait outside the iron gate first, climbed to the rooftop first, and confirmed that the rooftop was empty, so he called Lin Feifei up.
The door of the roof has a latch from the outside and from the inside, which is convenient for two people not to worry about finding something to block the door, or take turns to keep guard.
Bai Si plugged in the latch of the iron door and looked back at the rooftop.
There are several pillars on the rooftop, and the pillars are pulled with ropes, presumably used to dry clothes. On top of that, there's some mess like antennas. In general, this roof is wide and flat, and if you want to sit down, you can only choose the ground.
Bai Siyi glanced in the direction of the bridge across the river. In her eyes, she saw a picture with a small number of pixels. The bridge is brightly lit and intertwined with the light from the buildings on the other side of the river, creating a picture of the metropolis lit up at night. From this point of view, if there were some moving cars on the bridge and some boats on the river, Bai Siyi would have thought that he would still be left in the hustle and bustle of the city where he lived before entering the game.
Although he was not physically tired, Bai Siyi, who had only been in the game for three days, felt that his heart was a little tired.
Bai Siyi simply found a flat and clean place to lie down, looking back at the starry sky.
This damn starry sky, in Bai Siyi's eyes, is a large black and blue color block dotted with small silver color blocks, without the depth and beauty that the starry sky should have.
After a period of silence, Lin Feifei, who had nothing to do, also came over and lay down beside Bai Siyi and looked at the starry sky.
Bai Siyi knew how beautiful and brilliant the starry sky should be in Lin Feifei's eyes. That kind of natural, without the slightest trace of artificial beauty, used to be one of the most obsessive scenes of Bai Siyi and Bai Kong.
Thinking of Bai Kong, who didn't know where he was in the game, Bai Siyi's heart began to ache faintly again.
Just when Bai Siyi was sinking deeper and deeper into this pain, Lin Feifei suddenly spoke, and the young man's voice was clear and bright, which suddenly saved Bai Siyi from that dull and depressed mood.
"Sister, the way we look now, I thought of a dish."
"What?" Bai Si asked with a hint of warmth as soon as he heard his soft voice.
"Look up at the stars." The boy laughed happily, with a dimple on his left cheek and a cute little tiger tooth at the corner of his mouth.