"Can't you just knock the twelve of them out and take them out of the border? It's easier to do. "Xie Jinzhi asked so before." Ying Han replied: "No, no. It's just that their consciousness is already very weak, and if they knock their consciousness out in the virtual space, it will hurt their brains after all. ”

Xie Jinzhi and Ying Han sat at a small square table to eat, still choking snail meat, chicken bean jelly, scrambled eggs with melon and green vegetable soup. On the ground more than ten meters away, Chen Nan squatted to feed the dog bones. Ye Zi walked up to him and stroked his forehead: "Does your head still hurt?" ”

……

After eating, Xie Jinzhi and Ying Han did not go out, but went back to the room and waited. After a while, there was no one in the courtyard, Ye Zi took the child to take a nap, and Chen Nan went to the kitchen. And the dog, lying in the corner of the wall, with bright black eyes, looked very quiet.

Ying Han led Xie Jinzhi and jumped down, and the dog stood up all of a sudden, staring at them. As they approached, Xie Jinzhi took out a small tranquilizer gun from his pocket and aimed it at it. This was also arranged by Xiao Qiongyan in advance, to deal with a dog, you can't let the commander fight.

Who knew that the black dog was very alert, as if he knew that a gun was not a good thing, and ran away with a whoosh. Ying Han took the gun in Xie Jinzhi's hand and chased after him. The dog ran straight into the hall, and in the hall, Ye Zi was sleeping with the child.

Ying Hanshi and Xie Jinzhi moved lightly, and when they walked in, they saw the black dog beside the bed of the mother and son, biting the corner of the leaf's clothes, as if to drag her to the ground, and as if he wanted to wake her up. It turned its head and saw Xie Jinzhi and the others, and immediately let go of its mouth, turned around and lowered itself on the ground, as if it was a sworn guard.

Xie Jinzhi looked at the black dog's round eyes, a little stunned. Ying Han had already fired a shot, and with a soft "snort", the black dog whimpered and fell to the ground. Next to him, Ye Zi's mother and son were still asleep. The cool wind blew in through the door, whirring.

Ying Hanshi and Xie Jinzhi carried the dog back to the upstairs room and closed the door. Xie Jinzhi said: "This dog's nature is not bad, and he must have been very loyal, but only when he was exposed to radiation, he would become fierce in reality." Do we have to kill it? Ying Han groaned for a moment and replied, "You can not kill." Leave it here, forever in the virtual world and cycle every day, it won't wake up. ”

Xie Jinzhi imagined that the sun rose in the east and set in the west every day, and the dog would keep repeating the day's life, thinking that he was living with his masters. "So be it." She said.

When it was cold, he tied the dog to the corner with a rope. By the time it woke up, they were probably gone.

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The two went back to the kitchen in the backyard. Standing at the door, I saw Chen Nan with his back to them, bowing his head and eating. Hearing the movement, Chen Nan turned around and was stunned.

Xie Jinzhi said: "Chen Nan, we are here to help you, and we are also here to save your family. Do you remember a few days ago, together with some villagers, you went into the mountains to Shiayaji Temple, and then dug up some wreckage? ”

Chen Nan was still that restrained and silent, and nodded: "Remember." Xie Jinzhi asked again: "After that, do you often have headaches?" Chen Nan was stunned for a moment, then nodded again.

Xie Jinzhi understood that he, like her just now, was unaware that he was in a virtual space. But the memories that were there are still there.

He just didn't realize it.

Xie Jian explained succinctly: "You have been exposed to radiation and have mutated. Now the dog's consciousness, and your consciousness, are in your body at the same time. Now this is not a real space, but a false one. As long as you come with us and leave the dog here. You will come to your senses, you will be rescued, and you will be able to return to your wife and children. ”

Chen Nan showed a shocked and confused expression, Xie Jinzhi glanced at Ying Hanshi, and Ying Hanshi nodded. So she simply grabbed Chen Nan's shoulder, and a silver light appeared.

When Chen Nan opened his eyes again, he found that he was actually standing in a dense forest. His heart was pounding, and his palms were soaked in cold sweat. Xie Jinzhi stood beside him and pointed to the scenery outside the forest: "Look, that's the boundary of the virtual space, streamlined. Chen Nan raised his head and saw that there was no longer a blue sky, but a bright and shining water pattern, meandering, like a river hanging in the sky. But inside it is chaotic, and I can't see anything clearly. His expression became even more shocked, and he took several steps back.

Xie Jinzhi smiled slightly and said, "Now I believe this is a virtual space." You think about the past few days, stay here, don't move, don't leave. When we save the others, we'll take you out. The dogs will stay here and can't hurt you anymore. ”

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Time, both inside and outside the virtual space, passes quietly as well.

In the cave high on the cliff, Xiao Qiongyan sat in front of the computer, boredly crossing Erlang's legs. There's nothing to do with him now, just wait. After being stunned for a while, his eyes lit up, he opened the entertainment disk on the computer, and began to watch a recent hit series on the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. He only caught up with the tenth episode before.

The night was quiet, and the robot's cold and hard face, reflecting the light on the screen, could not take its eyes off it. And the group of people lying next to him were also motionless.

I don't know how long it took.

Xiao Qiongyan was suddenly stunned and raised his head.

A man walked through the hole, thin and straight, with the dark and silent night behind him. Xiao Qiongyan rolled his eyes, stood up, and looked puzzled: "Why are you here?" ”

Without saying a word, the man raised his hand, which was a gun. Xiao Qiongyan let out an "ah" and wanted to ask: "Are you ......" but it was too late, the bullet was silent, and it accurately hit Xiao Qiongyan's left chest. Xiao Qiongyan was planted on the ground, his silicon-red eyes turned twice, and he froze.

The man walked in quickly, and when he saw the situation on the ground, he was slightly startled. Then he walked to Ying Hanshi's side, reached out to probe his snort and heartbeat, and after finding that it was stable, the man withdrew.

Then the man began to search in the cave. After a long time, a small metal box was finally dug up in a piece of dirt near the cave wall. The man pried open the metal box with a dagger, saw two shining chips lying inside, quickly closed the box, and turned and walked out of the cave.

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The sun is gradually turning westward.

More and more people are being brought to the virtual border. Although some of them were skeptical of Xie Jinzhi's words. Some simply don't listen at all. But after seeing the appearance of the border, they were all as shocked as Chen Nan. Then they all waited there according to Xie Jinzhi and Ying Hanshi's instructions.

In the open woods, the villagers talked and looked around uneasily. "Your dog has been fierce lately, as they say?" "yes, you too? This is really eight lifetimes of blood mold. "Hey, who are the two of them? Monster Hunter? "Chen Nan, why don't you speak? What do you do standing that far? ”