After that, no matter how hard Song Yang and the others tried, they could no longer affect the monster in the slightest.
Above the vast grassland, under the dark night sky.
The terrifying noises of "bang", "bang", and "bang" rang out again and again, and each one seemed to cause the ground to tremble.
The huge black shadow as big as a mountain repeated the mechanical wrestling motions, and the ball in his hand gradually became almost unrecognizable as a human form.
In the glass house, Xu Ning covered his eyes and dared not look anymore. He squatted down crying. Sun Qianqian was also pale and frightened.
After more than ten minutes, the monster finally disappeared and silence returned to the grass.
Song Yang and the others, breathless after their efforts, rushed to the place where Li Shanyin fell for the last time.
When the figure on the grass came into their sight, some of them looked away, while others closed their eyes.
Not as lucky as the first night, Li Shanyin was beaten to pieces when the monster finished the punishment.
Only a layer of skin remained of the head hanging on the neck, the left leg had long been flown out, the right leg was bent backwards, not to mention the torso in the middle.
Soon, his figure disappeared from the spot.
Song Yang and the others took a deep breath.
They adjusted their mood and looked at Sun Qianqian together.
There was no extra time for them to feel sad, as the main monster's inspection rhythm was too tight, and they had to immediately turn their attention to the next player.
When Sun Qianqian was caught by the monster that broke through the glass wall, Song Yang frowned and shouted, "Trust us, don't resist the secondary monster, understand?!"
Sun Qianqian had no protective gear, but there was no guarantee that she would not resist instinctively.
Sun Qianqian was lifted to a high place by the monster. She bit her lips tightly to prevent herself from screaming, and nodded vigorously with tears in her eyes.
Trust is often the most fragile thing at such a juncture, and it can be completely destroyed by a single thought.
Fortunately, Sun Qianqian is a smart child.
No matter how frightened or scared she was, she knew how to survive. She successfully let her reason take over, and the same tragedy did not happen again.
More than ten minutes later, the monster disappeared, and Sun Qianqian quickly regained her mobility with the help of several people.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
In this way, Xu Ning was the only one left in the glass house.
Xu Ning had not yet recovered from Li Shanyin's death. She was still squatting on the ground, hugging herself tightly, tears streaming down her face.
She was so immersed in fear that she was completely unaware of the gazes of the group.
Song Yang wanted to remind her that even though she was in the glass house, she should keep an eye on their progress and stay alert at all times, but seeing Xu Ning's expression, he knew that it was useless to say anything.
He was silent for a moment, then he was the first to look away and said, "Let's hurry up."
The other four nodded.
Feng Shi took out the props and activated it silently. The props suddenly stretched out and quickly rose into the night sky.
The maximum extension of this prop is one hundred meters, and the height of the tower not far from them is about eighty or ninety meters.
If you are lucky enough, then perhaps as long as the seal is stretched to its limit, it will naturally touch the top cover of the box.
Unfortunately, after a few minutes, the prop stopped extending, but the night sky remained motionless, and the two did not seem to be touching.
The group looked at each other in confusion.
Bian Ya said, "Feng Shi, I'll squat down, and you can try stepping on me."
Feng Shi nodded, and seeing Bian Ya bending down, he raised the prop and planned to step on Bian Ya's back——
At this moment, Xia Jing suddenly said, "Don't move."
Feng Shi was stunned and stopped moving.
After realizing what was happening, he and everyone else quickly looked up.
There is a moon and naturally stars in this night sky.
The stars are densely distributed and twinkling. The manufacturer has obviously made a beautiful Milky Way into this box.
And precisely because of the reference object, they could clearly see that in the night sky where the end of the prop touched, the stars were suddenly much denser than the surrounding area, as if a small whirlpool had appeared there and the galaxy was pouring into it.
——It's the prop that deformed the night sky!
Everyone's eyes lit up!
They don't need to think of any other ways, this height will do!
Song Yang immediately held Feng Shi's hands and pushed the prop upwards with force.
This time, Sun Qianqian pointed to the distant sky and exclaimed, "The box is opened!"
Four long, narrow, bright white slits of light appeared simultaneously in the four directions of the night sky: east, west, south, and north.
These four long and thin slits of light were connected end to end, splitting their vision into two parts!
——The bright white light obviously came from the world outside the box!
——There was no wrapping paper outside the box, and they successfully opened the box as planned!
At this moment, everyone's heartbeat quickened.
Sun Qianqian asked excitedly, "What should we do next? Should we open the box completely?"
Song Yang and Xia Jing pondered, wondering if they took the initiative to open the lid, would the system still determine that the main monster was reborn in the hands of the "master".
At this moment, Feng Shi and Bian Ya seemed to have seen something and suddenly took a step back together.
They quickly took back the props, and Song Yang and Xia Jing also raised their heads quickly.
——Without the support of props, the four slits of light in the night sky disappeared instantly.
The next second, the entire night sky disappeared!
——The lid of the box was completely opened!
Instead, the face of a real giant appeared above them!
At this moment, everyone held their breath.
That's a girl.
She was wearing a beautiful little white dress with a doll collar, had smooth black hair that reached her shoulders, a colorful conical hat on her head, and a beautiful hairpin on her forehead.
With a pair of big, bright eyes, the girl, who looked only in her early teens, looked down at them curiously, as if wondering how the lid of the gift box could "float" by itself.
Just one face filled the entire sky.
All the players standing on the grass were no more than ants to this giant.
The contrast between hugeness and smallness made everyone freeze in place, unable to move.
Sun Qianqian raised her head and trembled, "This... is this the 'Master'?"
This girl was so big that she instinctively aroused fear in the hearts of humans. Even Feng Shi and Bian Ya forgot what they were going to do next for a moment.
In the glass house, the light that came from the sky pulled Xu Ning out of his fear.
She looked up blankly, looking at all this, as if she was stupid.
Only Song Yang and Xia Jing were still paying close attention to the dynamic changes in their consciousness.
Song Yang loudly reminded the others: "If you find that the system pops up the option to exit the copy, choose to exit immediately!"
In this copy, it was impossible for them to divide the monster's body.
Moreover, unlike other dungeons where the game ends when the main monster dies, in this dungeon, they are unlikely to see the main monster truly "die".
After the system determines that the main monster is "dead", the plot in the copy may continue. If the player continues to stay in this copy, who knows what he will encounter!
As soon as Song Yang finished speaking, the girl reached out her hand.
The next second, the ground beneath their feet began to tilt!
——For the girl, she just took out a doll at random, whether she held it horizontally or vertically.
But for the players, a random action of the girl can turn their world upside down!
The grass became vertical at ninety degrees, and Xu Ning in the glass house suddenly fell to the left and hit the glass wall, screaming, and everyone on the grass rolled down suddenly!
They took out props and inserted machetes, swords, daggers and other weapons into the cotton wool under the grass to help themselves stabilize their bodies.
Song Yang gritted his teeth and shouted, "Is everything okay?!"
Facing the wind, several people responded.
When they looked down, they found that they had "taken off" into the air, and under their feet was a huge piece of white cardboard - that was the base of the gift box!
The front, back, left and right sides of the gift box are all covered with 3D textured sparkling sea.
The girl kept lifting the doll higher and higher, and the box under their feet became smaller and smaller in their sight.
Gradually, they could see that the gift box was placed on a table similar to a coffee table, with the lid opened and placed aside. A line of cursive characters was printed on the outer packaging of the lid:
Please give your dolls a real home so they won't be lonely anymore. — Smiley City Doll Factory
All of this is almost the same as Song Yangxiajing's speculation.
At this moment, the doll is already in the hands of the "master". When will they be able to face the "death" of the doll and get the option to exit the copy?
Next second?
In a little while?
Everyone was paying close attention to their own conscious world, their hearts beating fast, waiting for the end of the copy.
But no, as time passed, nothing emerged in their consciousness!
Could it be that they guessed wrong on this point, and the main monster's death was not that simple?!
Song Yang frowned and opened the small holographic screen, looking at the time on it and calculating the time in the copy.
There are only a dozen minutes left before the last day.
In the distance, Xu Ning kept banging on the glass wall, crying and shouting for them to think of a solution.
what to do?
What should they do next to make the system determine that the main monster is dead?
Do we really have to trick the "owner" into destroying the doll?!
The girl walked to the sofa in the living room and sat down with the doll in her hand.
She was just putting the doll away and everyone was back on level ground.
They quickly stood up and looked around. The world outside the windows of the huge living room was pitch black. There was a clock hanging on the wall in front of them. The minute and hour hands on the clock showed that the time was about to reach midnight.
Besides the girl, there were many large humans in the room.
They seemed to be the girl's parents, relatives and friends, surrounding her and singing birthday songs to her enthusiastically.
The resounding voice almost stunned all the players, but Song Yang and Xia Jing kept their heads raised, staring at everything calmly without blinking.
——They believe that there must be more information hidden in it!
When the birthday song ends, the clock in this huge living room and the time in their copy will also come to an end.
Five minutes left.
Four minutes.
Xu Ning in the glass house burst into tears. Feng Shi, Bian Ya and Sun Qianqian broke out in sweat on their foreheads. They turned their heads rapidly, observing everything around them, trying to find any clues.
Three minutes.
Two minutes.
The giant girl smiled happily amidst the birthday wishes and received kisses on the forehead from her parents.
Her parents took off her birthday hat and put a brand new one in her hair, saying, "Happy birthday, baby!"
At this moment, Song Yang and Xia Jing's hearts moved.
They exchanged a quick glance.
Giving birthday gifts is a very ritualistic act on the birthday.
Jia Jia used NPCs to give them the task of making dolls. Those dolls were exactly "the gifts Jia Jia wanted." This actually means that Jia Jia cares very much about this sense of ritual, right?
So, will the owner give Jia Jia a gift to truly allow her to achieve "rebirth"?
Thinking of this, Song Yang and Xia Jing took out weapons from their space bags at the same time and threw them towards the tall tower in the distance with all their might.
Song Yang's sickle cut off the top of the tower!
Xia Jing's machete directly embedded into the base of the tower, and the heavy impact caused the tower to suddenly tilt.
The noise startled the others, including the giant girl.
She looked at the doll in her hand in confusion—at the hat on the doll's head that was suddenly tilted and missing a pointed corner.
The next second, she seemed to suddenly think of something and clapped her hands!
She squinted her eyes and smiled, took off the top hat, and then took off the hairpin on the doll's hair.
Then she took off the hairpin on her forehead and clipped it on the doll's hair.
He then put the brand new hat on his head on the doll's head.
The big hat was tilted on the doll's head, which seemed a little out of place. However, the doll in the giant girl's hand just looked at her devoutly, with its eyes sparkling.
When the clock struck midnight, the girl kissed the doll's forehead and said happily, "From today on, your name is Jia Jia! From now on, you will be my good friend!"
——
On the vast grassland.
Everyone looked in shock at the glass house that was thrown away by the girl, and Xu Ning who was screaming in fear inside the house.
The moment the option to exit the copy emerged in their minds, the glass house fell to the floor of the living room and was crushed by a giant who walked over.
The giant quickly raised his foot, looked at the broken transparent hairpin under his feet, and repeatedly apologized to the girl that he had not noticed.
The players on the grass fell into silence.
Sun Qianqian said in disbelief: "Is this considered...an NPC directly killing the player?!"
Song Yang was silent for a moment, then said, "Normally, this kind of situation wouldn't happen very often, but this instance is too special."
Even in the "Everything Grows" copy, although the NPC attacked the player, it was still the seed that directly killed the player.
But just now, the one who stepped on Xu Ning to death was indeed an NPC.
If you say it's unreasonable, it's natural.
But this was also the first time they encountered such a monster.
This is the first time I've encountered a situation where the life control of both the monster and the player is in the hands of an NPC.
This is the first time that the main monster has died in this way.
Similarly, Song Yang had already given sufficient warnings when discussing this operation during the day.
At this moment, Sun Qianqian opened her mouth but couldn't say anything.
In a dungeon game, a single thought can determine a player's life or death.
"When variables occur, it will be very dangerous if the player's range of movement is restricted" - this is the experience Song Yang gained from countless games, and when life is involved, experience is very valuable.
Unfortunately, Xu Ning did not choose to believe it.
Now, it's too late...
Everyone's mood was a bit heavy and complicated.
After a moment of silence, Song Yang took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "It seems that the story in this copy will continue. In order to prevent other variables from happening, everyone should exit quickly."
In the living room, the giants began to divide the cake, and it was obvious that the birthday party was not over yet.
The girl stood up holding the doll, perhaps to go back to her room and put it away.
Their world began to shake violently again, and everyone closed their eyes quickly when they heard Song Yang's words.
Xia Jing closed his eyes gently, and the mechanical sound of the system sounded in his mind.
"Congratulations to player Xia Jing for passing the three-star dungeon 'Creation'!"
"The maximum score for a three-star dungeon is 50 points, and player Xia Jing scored 50 points for completing it!"
"Player Wang Lian has died, and his total points of 117 will be distributed; player Zhang Li has died, and his total points of 201 will be distributed; player Sun Fujing has died, and his total points of 198 will be distributed; player Li Shanyin has died, and his total points of 236 will be distributed; player Xu Ning has died, and his total points of 98 will be distributed."
"The total points to be distributed are 850 points, and player Xia Jing receives one-fifth, or 170 points."
"Player Xia Jing's total score for clearing the game is 220 points, and the current accumulated score is 223 points. Please keep up the good work!"
*
The door to the login room was opened, and a tall and slender young man with a strange mask on his head stepped out.
The game hall outside was as bustling as usual, and the young man's appearance did not attract anyone's attention.
He turned around and walked straight towards the official supermarket.
After Xia Jing took two steps, he saw Song Yang waiting in front of him with a nonchalant look on his face.
Song Yang stood up straight and said seriously, "What a coincidence."
He and Feng Shi went their separate ways after leaving the login room. Feng Shi happened to hit the edge of a cliff, and the two planned to exchange contact information. Song Yang walked straight over here, intending to intercept him on the road.
Xia Jing curled his lips, walked past him and continued forward. Song Yang followed him into the supermarket.
When the purchase was made, the game lobby just updated the player rankings for this week.
There was an uproar all around, but the two of them didn't even look up. Song Yang asked in a low voice, "Come with me now?"
He was still thinking about bringing the person back to his place.
Xia Jing said in a gentle voice, "I need to go back to the safe house first. You can go back first."
So Song Yang sent the person to the entrance of the winding corridor in the corner of the game hall.
It was not until today that he knew that Xia Jing entered and exited through this place.
Song Yang put his hands in his trouser pockets, looked at the corridor, and fell silent.
Xia Jing said before that he encountered some problems.
Song Yang actually wanted to follow in to see what Xia Jing had encountered, but even if he had not eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. Song Yang felt that if he really did that, it would probably be very annoying.
He could only let out a breath, grabbed a handful of hair, and turned back to his own space.
…
At the same time, Xia Jing stepped into the safe house.
Tuanzi came out to greet him happily, wagging his tail.
Xia Jing rubbed Tuanzi's head, then stood up and scanned the walls of the entire house with his black eyes.
No cracks.
All walls are intact.
Of course, it is limited to all the walls in the living room.
The scenery outside the window began to change, and the safe house began its daily drift.
Xia Jing let go of the golden retriever, walked into the depths of the corridor, and began a new round of inspections.
Ten minutes later.
A player broke into the safe house, and Xia Jing came out to greet the guest, looking thoughtful.
He checked all the rooms and found nothing unusual. This time when he returned from the game, the safe house was intact.
So was the appearance of that crack last time really just a coincidence?
The guest who was being chased by the monster shouted excitedly, "So this is the safe house." Xia Jing thought for a while, then smiled with his eyes curved.
Never mind, he had plenty of time to wait for the prey to show up.
Just let them take their time.
Xia Jing lowered his head and sent a message to Song Yang through the holographic screen.
"I was planning to come over, but there were customers in the store."
An hour later, Song Yang sent a message: "......[resentment]"
Xia Jing raised the corners of his lips and closed the small holographic screen.
Dr. Song is so cute.
It made him want to play with him.
*
Two hours later, in Song Yang's personal space.
After Feng Shi left the dungeon, he never returned to the real world.
Later, Jia Qing had nothing to do and logged into Smiley City, and the two chatted about some real-life things.
The only advantage of this place is that it allows people from different places to gather in one room and meet in an instant.
Ever since Song Yang opened up his personal space, they would come in and talk regardless of whether they had something to talk about or not.
Song Yang had just been sulking in a corner for a long time, and finally returned to the real world half an hour ago with a sad face. Feng Shi and Jia Qing didn't know whether he had taken the wrong medicine or what, so they didn't think too much about it.
At this moment, the two were chatting when a door suddenly appeared in the living room.
——Someone opened the space key!
The two were stunned.
It can't be Song Yang, he just went back half an hour ago, there's no way he would be back so soon.
Could it be Lu Chenfei, who was holding the spare key? Or...
As a result, the door was opened, and the young man who appeared behind the door stunned Feng Shi and Jia Qing.