Chapter 255: Ice Age

After Mu Ke finished reading all the faxes and lab reports, his expression became more and more solemn, he turned his head to Liu Jiayi: "Is it possible that the satellite phone can't contact them?"

"I can't get in touch with them." Liu Jiayi didn't look too good either, but he was still calm, "With Mu Sicheng and Tang Er following, Bai Liu won't have an easy time when he encounters these monsters, so you continue to watch, and I'll go outside to deal with that monster in the basement."

According to the lab report, this monster can't be killed with a gun, so the monster in the basement is still alive.

Bai Liu left a barrel of fuel oil next to the basement, and she's got her own corrosive poison, so I don't know if a two-pronged attack will work.

Mu Ke said, "After the process we head for the Tarzan station, they need to know about this."

When the door opens, outside hurriedly walked into three people full of frost, Mu Sicheng huffed and puffed and stamped his feet, Tang Er hit off the gun and put it by the door, Bai Liu walked in the forefront, eyelashes hung full of snow, sideways look over.

"We're back."

Mu Ke lifted his gun without hesitation, Liu Jiayi held up the poison and looked warily at the group of teammates who had suddenly turned back as they took two steps back to put some distance between them and the three men, questioning in a low voice, "What are you doing back here?"

Bai Liu sidesteps slightly to make way for a ragtag, freshly dug out of an ice rift, group of Tarzan Station players behind him.

This group of players are not covered, shivering in the snow walking for so long, obviously should have been frozen to death, but now look at the face is only blue, vital signs are still relatively stable, just the face of the expression of depression and dull, as if undergoing what unbearable torture, the soul has been separated from the body.

"We found this group of Taishan Station team members buried in an ice rift, and we were going to take them directly to confront the team members in Taishan Station, but we found that they all had mental conditions that were problematic, and there was no way for them to communicate properly, and one of the team members was slightly more mentally sane, which is this Fang Xiaoxiao."

A man stood out behind Bai Liu and greeted them with a forced smile, "Hello, I'm Fang Xiaoxiao."

"He told me that these team members needed psychiatric medication, so he turned back with them first to get it." Bai Liu looks over calmly with raised eyes.

Mu Ke's blackened muzzle was pointed right at him, his tone cold, "I don't believe you, pull up your system panel and show me."

"You can't see my system panel." Bai Liu retorted faintly, giving Mu Ke a compliment, "That was a good use of the verbal trap set for me."

In the game pool, due to the set league model, the players' system panels are not only devoid of the store function, they are also kept secret from each other, which means that even if one party pulls up their system panel, the other party can't see it.

Mu Ke glanced at Liu Jiayi skeptically and withdrew his gun at Liu Jiayi's hint, but his fingers were still on the handle so that he could bring it up at any time.

They sidestepped out of the way, and Liu Jiayi hid the poison behind her and said softly, "Come in first."

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The other end.

Bai Liu took the group, dug out of the ice rift and in rags, toward the Taishan station.

At a distance of less than five hundred meters, they spotted another aircraft docked next to their plane on the helicopter hangar outside the Taishan station, with markings identical to those of their plane.

"It's another helicopter from the Edmund Observatory." Tang Er hit a glance and recognized it, he frowned, "How did it get here? Mu Ke, they're coming over?"

Bai Liu swept a glance at the plane and narrowed his eyes without knowing what he was thinking before turning to Fang Xiaoxiao behind him, "You guys stay out here and find a place to hide, we're going to take care of a little bit of team business on our end first."

After the members had obediently left, Bai Liu gave Mu Sicheng and Tang Er a look, and both men raised their guns in understanding.

Mu Sicheng's grip on his rifle was faintly warring as he gulped nervously, "Holy shit! The ones coming over are not monsters, are they? Then where are they? They won't be stolen by these monsters, right?"

Tang Er coldly holding his gun and sticking behind Bai Liu, Bai Liu did not take the gun, walking like a Tarzan station doorway over there.

The sentry at the door let them in after another extraction of their oral mucous membranes, and although they did question them about where they had been last night, they were simply fobbed off by Bai Liu.

Even though they knew Bai Liu was trying to deceive them, the Sentinels didn't dwell on it too much, because Bai Liu had more important and exciting matters to deal with in front of him.

Through the doorway and around a ventilation shaft, Fang Xiaoxiao's high-pitched, excited voice could be heard all the way from the Taishan station, coming from Bai Liu's cabin, where they had briefly settled in last night:

"Geez! How did you guys find all this information on Mr. Edmund!"

"With this first-hand information about climate anomalies and those creatures, we'll be able to work on a solution to the dilemma at hand!"

Bai Liu pushed open the door of the cabin, Fang Xiaoxiao was sitting cross-legged on the bunk bed, holding a paper document with tears in her eyes, reading it softly and choking on her sobs.

The word written on the header of the document is [fax record], which Bai Liu does recognize.

Liu Jiayi stood close to the door, smiling in a very good and polite manner, Mu Ke was sitting on the upper bunk, his eyes lit up for a moment when he saw Bai Liu come in, and then quickly cooled down, he jumped down directly from the upper bunk, and held the gun at the back of Liu Jiayi's back without moving his head.

These two people look like they've suffered a lot of frostbite, and the tips of their noses and lips show signs of healing after the frostbite has broken out - Liu Jiayi should have administered the antidote.

After seeing Bai Liu and the others come in, Fang Xiaoxiao's face changed slightly and left after putting down the fax fondly, "The person you are looking for is back, you guys talk about things first, after that we will talk about the information."

As soon as Fang Xiaoxiao was gone, Tang Er fought Mu Sicheng and Mu Ke Liu Jiayi on the opposite side of the room stared at each other for a few seconds, and then without hesitation drew their guns and aimed them at each other's fatal points.

Bai Liu sat motionless in a blank cubby space surrounded by two teams of four guns.

Both sides of the confrontation tacitly bypassed him, leaving the man free to comment on the scene at hand with amusement, "It seems we mutually suspect each other of being monsters rather than real people."

"Why don't we see which one of us can convince who first." Bai Liu turned sideways to look at Liu Jiayi, "Why have you brought Mu Ke over?"

Liu Jiayi pursed her lips, "Because Edmund Station is infested with monsters."

"We rummaged around inside Edmund's station and found the fax logs, which I'm sure are important gaming clues, but the satellite phone can't reach you guys, and the system panels are blocked between players in the gaming pool, so we're just going to get ready to burn the monsters in the basement before we try to figure out a way to get the fax logs to you guys over here on Tarzan's station."

Tang Er frowned, pointing out the holes in Liu Jiayi's story, "But neither you nor Mu Ke can fly a helicopter, and I'm the only one in the team who can, so how did you guys fly a helicopter here?"

Liu Jiayi looked up at Tang Er and typed, "We are not going to, but just know that you will."

Bai Liu hooked a smile meaningfully, "Not a bad plan, you guys held his clone hostage?"

"Right." Mu Ke took a deep breath and added, "But as Jiayi was getting ready to go out and burn the monsters in the basement with fuel and poison, the door opened and you guys came back with a team of Tarzan Station crews saying they wanted to pick up the medicine, and we suspected that it was a replica of you and gave them the false hope."

"But the blunder is that both Mu Ke and I are lacking in combat power, while these three guys who mimic you are half as strong as you are, and can even mimic the way you use your skills."

Liu Jiayi held up his gun and added with a grim face, "After we killed [Mu Sicheng] with fuel and poison, we couldn't kill [Bai Liu] by any means, this thing is really too cunning, eventually we had to settle for the second best, taking advantage of [Tang Er fighting] being unprepared for us, and holding him hostage in a helicopter with poison. and then left the base for them."

Mu Sicheng's hairs stood on end as he listened: "Then, what about Tang Er's fight?"

Liu Jiayi shrugged, "After arriving at the Taishan station, it died in the helicopter's pilot's seat with a single shot to the head, and I doused it with fuel-burning poison to prevent it from scamming-which is supposed to be the creature's weak point, and my monster book lit up."

Tang Er hit his eyes down, and he noticed blood stains on the cuffs of Liu Jiayi's jumper after wiping it off.

At this moment, the Edmund Observatory.

Upon entering the observation post, Tang Er fought and Mu Sicheng quickly pulled out their guns and pointed them at Liu Jiayi and Mu Ke, who quickly armed themselves with poisons and rifles.

Bai Liu nonchalantly walked to the center of the four men who were comparing guns with each other, "Wow, it looks like the scene that appeared at the Taishan Station has once again resurfaced, and you suspect that we're monsters too?"

His dark eyes looked straight at Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi : "I suspected you guys as well, that little trick of using the game's hidden settings to turn the tables and win my trust just now was well used."

"Unfortunately, you already used it once at Tarzan Station, Mu Ke."

Mu Ke wrinkled his brow and asked rhetorically, "What are you talking about?"

Mu Sicheng side-stepped his face and yucked a mouthful of bloodied spittle, his gums were filled with oozing blood left over from the punches he had received, he grimly turned his head to look at Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi, baring his teeth and showing a blood-curdling grin, "I really fucking hate this copy."

"We've already encountered [Liu Jiayi] and [Mu Ke] once at Taishan Station, and they said they were here to deliver information to me, and they've already experienced a fight with the monster at Edmund Observatory, holding it hostage and Tang Er fighting it before they managed to escape."

Bai Liu smiles, "But unfortunately, we realized that they were nothing more than creations that had been simulated to deceive us, which is why we flew back with the remaining Tarzan Station crew in the Tarzan Station's helicopter after killing them, to see what was going on here, and-- "

He raised his eyes, his tone incredibly light, and there was not a trace of light in his eyes, as dark and deep as the polar night, looking beyond the edge of the light:

"-Where the hell did my real crew go?"

"It really upsets me slightly that I can't find them hidden by you."

Bai Liu dropped his eyes, lifted his hand and moved his fingers, ordering without a rise or fall in his tone, "--Strike and kill."

Mu Sicheng and Tang Er fought expressionless as they raised their guns, triggers knocking down, the bright red color of the bullets about to burst into flames faintly peeking from the chambers.