The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 24 Emergency Rescue

Star Police led them to the school's enforcement department, which was at the other end of the school.

The star police drove the school's aircraft to take her there.

The scenery along the way is pleasant. There is a vast forest on the right, and a clear green lake on the left, sparkling with waves. Occasionally, fish jump out of the water to catch flying insects on the lake.

After a while, Su Ninglong saw the executive department.

It was a brand new building complex that was much larger than the Ministry of Information.

As you get closer, you can see many teenagers in uniform coming in and out.

They all had their own things to do and no one had time to pay extra attention to one child.

Star Police used his pass bracelet to scan three doors.

Yun Fei was here. He took over Su Ninglong and said, "Ninglong, you said before that you wanted to enter the simulator. Today is an opportunity. Do you want to enter?"

"Yes." Su Ninglong fought for it himself, so of course he couldn't refuse.

"Wait." Xing Yuan repeated what he had just said to Xing Jing. Although Su Ninglong volunteered, as the guide, he couldn't help but ask the reason.

Why the rush? This isn't normal.

"Someone is trapped in the simulator and can't get out. They're trapped in the black sky, and to enter the black sky, you need light. Su Ninglong has the ability to use fire, which is very suitable for this mission. At the same time, it is also to determine whether you have the ability to enter the simulator. Don't worry, I will go in with her." Yun Fei spoke quickly. Before putting the helmet on Su Ninglong, he asked her: "What equipment do you want in the simulator? We can give it to you when you upload your consciousness."

"What is the black sky curtain?" Su Ninglong was confused.

"The secret spirit creates a spatial layer to trap its prey. This consumes the spirit's own power, but also blocks outsiders from observing. The simulator is no exception. At this time, we need to make a decision on whether to rescue it."

Since Yun Fei called Su Ninglong over, he confirmed that the other party needed rescue.

Su Ninglong said, "I want your dagger and the spirit anchor. What are the characteristics of the secret spirit and what do I need to do?"

Yun Fei pulled out his dagger and asked the staff to scan it and prepare for transmission.

"We only allow you to use the anchor for one minute. Any longer and it will cause brain damage. We'll discuss the rest after we get inside."

Xing Yuan couldn't stop it, he worked for the Star Alliance.

"Ning Long, you must be careful, understand?"

"Got it." Su Ninglong said, "By the way, if I complete the mission, will I get points? I'm short of points, no, I'm short of materials. Boss Yun, after I complete the mission, can you give me, the almighty and lovely me, a little reward?"

Yun Fei sat on the simulator next to her, the helmet accurately placed on her head, and said with a smile, "I don't want to suffer any loss."

"I'm a big eater, but I won't suffer any loss. You definitely wouldn't have the heart to bully a four-year-old."

He was so talkative that Yun Fei just turned off the microphone.

Su Ninglong's eyes went dark, then brightened again, and she and Yun Fei appeared in the simulator.

But this time, something was different, she was no longer a child.

She was given the body of an eighteen-year-old adult.

"This is a virtual body designed for you based on your current appearance. Try it out for yourself as an adult."

"This one is good." The person has changed, but the voice has not changed. Su Ninglong looked at herself in the glass next to her. When she grew up, she was tall and cool, with a slightly big breast.

It lacks some of the immortal aura of the previous life.

"Can you adjust the meat in the front to be flat? It will make it easier to move."

Most people would not be able to answer such an embarrassing question, but Yun Fei was not an ordinary person. He calmly said, "Just treat it as a burden."

Su Ninglong: "Oh, that makes sense."

The staff in front of the monitoring: "..."

Su Ninglong then observed her body. Her long legs with smooth muscular lines were wrapped in elastic black trousers. Her skin was rosy and fair, and she looked like a healthy baby who could eat three bowls of rice at every meal.

She moved her body and jumped up on the spot. Except for the fact that her shoes were a little heavy, everything seemed natural.

"Are these shoes too heavy?"

"It allows you to temporarily ignore gravity and walk on walls, just controlling it with the wristband."

The interface in front of the two of them displayed various equipment. Yun Fei picked out a few and said, "Take whatever you know how to use. Be careful not to overload. The simulator is a semi-realistic dimensional world. Unbelievable things will happen, but it doesn't deviate from reality."

"Our mission now is to enter the Black Sky Curtain and pull the consciousness trapped inside out."

Su Ninglong: "Don't we need to destroy the secret spirit?"

"Try to eliminate them, or you don't have to. The simulator can adjust the parameters to significantly reduce the strength of the secret spirits, and then let people in. You may not know this, but there are three types of hunters: Net Hunter, White Hunter, and Star Hunter."

"Net hunting is what we're doing now. Through the simulator, we'll split the captured secret spirits into countless pieces, then drop them into the simulated field for hunters to eliminate. With some diligence, you can still earn money to support your family, but the Star Alliance Academy generally uses it as a training device. Hunters who graduate from the Alliance Academy are primarily based in the real world."

Yun Fei briefly explained the situation. "A group of eighteen-year-old youths entered the simulator to hunt secret spirits. These spirits are called Corruption Spirits, and they are starless. They can cause all living things to rot and collapse, and humans who come into contact with them will also suffer skin ulcers. One of them probably devoured its own kind and human consciousness, growing into an ogre and creating the Black Sky Curtain. In this situation, we can't force anyone out, as that would pull the secret spirit out of the simulator as well, and the trapped net hunters would likely die."

"Corrupted spirits have the characteristics of imitating spirits. Have you learned how to imitate spirits?" Yun Fei didn't know the progress of Teacher Su Ninglong's lecture, so he asked specifically.

"If it learns it, will it pretend to be me?"

"No, it can only transform into someone you know. Don't respond to it." Yun Fei said, "We only have ten minutes. Follow me closely."

"Another ten minutes?"

"The rescue operation is always urgent. They have been trapped for half an hour."

Yun Fei started running and Su Ninglong followed.

The two ran on the streets where space collapsed, and everything was out of place.

Neon holographic advertisements overhead twitched into mosaic fragments, and the steel skeleton seemed to be twisted by giant pliers and then inserted into the building.

There was a tired wail of metal, the steel skeleton fell down, and Su Ninglong stopped and jumped back.

Yun Fei turned around and Su Ninglong followed him again.

"You reacted well."

"I'm grown up, and my body is in great shape. If I just work a few more years, when I turn 18 and look for a job, I can write on my resume that I've been in the industry for 14 years and have extensive work experience."

Su Ninglong was secretly delighted to have stood out from the army of cattle and horses.

Yun Fei was unable to refute, and all words seemed pale and powerless.

Crossing the railing with a warning sign saying "Keep Out of the Way", behind the railing, a black curved sky blocked the way ahead, emitting a strong ominous atmosphere.

Zou Shuyi's voice rang out from behind, "Ning Long, why are you here?"

It was the voice of a corrupted spirit in disguise.

"Don't look back." Yun Fei's back stiffened. "We are ready to enter the black sky."

Su Ninglong didn't care. She walked forward a few steps and entered another world.

It was a pitch-black environment with no light source. Su Ninglong lit a flame to illuminate the surroundings.

The strange thing is that Yun Fei is not around.

At this moment, Yun Fei was suddenly ejected from the simulator.

He was stunned for a moment, then yelled at the monitor, "What are you doing?"

"We...just now the simulator suddenly experienced a data turbulence, instructing Hunters above two stars to enter. This will only be used during the Hunter Exam." The staff member said, "We are urgently processing and deleting the data." "The Black Sky Curtain has been implanted, and the Hunter Exam program has been implanted. Is your technology so low-end that it can only be detected if you're framed? Where's Ling Fei? If you can't do it, call her over."

Yun Fei's questioning made the staff feel ashamed. "We'll deal with it immediately. Give us some time."

Xingyuan had been asked to leave the house and had no idea what was happening inside.

Su Ninglong looked at the countdown. One minute passed. Where should she find it?

Behind the black sky curtain, there are two completely different worlds.

There was no road behind him, so Su Ninglong hooked her fingers and knocked on the wall.

There was a faint echo in the distance, like some annoying whisper.

In front of him were two high walls, extending towards the sky like the spine of a giant beast, with no top in sight.

The walls together form a 30-meter passage, with left and right sides at the end.

Su Ninglong thought about it and decided to move forward until she reached the fork in the road.

At the end of the forked roads on both sides, there are two more forked roads. This must be a maze.

A prompt suddenly popped up in front of her. A string of golden letters read, "The person is unconscious at the exit of the maze. Find the exit."

Is this a beginner's guide or the simulator's built-in smart prompt?

"Heh, nine minutes, not only do you have to rescue people, but you also have to navigate a maze. Is that a test?"

Su Ninglong let the spiritual fire float two meters in front.

Under the cover of night, the flame swayed gently, and the tip of the seedling brushed to the left. There is no smoke without fire, so there should be wind at the exit.

Su Ninglong ran to the right, and the flames turned and moved forward with him.

As I walked, I heard heavy footsteps behind me.

A heavy, blanket-like feeling of oppression swept over my body.

Su Ninglong stopped and listened carefully, but there was no more.

He took a heavy step forward, and the repetitive footsteps of "da", "da" appeared again.

She had heard it correctly; it wasn't an echo. Every time she took a step, someone else took a step behind her.

Su Ninglong jogged again, and the people behind her kept pace with her.

Ancestor Su has never been a timid person.

The spiritual fire floated behind him, and Su Ninglong turned around to see what ghost thing was causing trouble.

"Ning Long, why don't you wait for me and act on your own?" Yun Fei's face was revealed in the light of the spiritual fire, with a faint smile, like a woman's.

Looking down, his body was covered with tumors. The tumors expanded and contracted several times, spewing out powdery substances. The bubbly tumors were like a piece of rotten meat, fermenting and stinking.

As soon as Su Ninglong thought of this, he smelled a foul odor.

The ugly thing that was tied up with hunger actually had the function of realizing imagination, which refreshed Su Ninglong's cognition.

"Hehe, now that you've seen through me, don't run away. Become one of us." Yun Fei turned his head and saw two faces. One was unfamiliar to him, and the other was Zou Shuyi's.

"Come, come to Godmother's arms. It's okay to be afraid. Godmother will make you food."

"Forget it." After eating Xingyuan's food, who would want to eat Zou Shuyi's pig food? Su Ninglong turned and ran.

It was chasing after it relentlessly, but it could not run any faster.

When she is slow, it is slow too; when she is fast, it is fast too.

Running like this, in the past three minutes, Su Ninglong passed countless forks in the road.

To maintain the spiritual fire, spiritual energy needs to be consumed continuously.

So she made her choice without hesitation.
As the spiritual fire grew weaker and the aperture shrank, the ghost thing behind him became restless and began to make small movements.

The closer you get to the exit, the walls on both sides are no longer a solid, unchanging substance. They have flesh and blood, and the pulsating blood vessels nourish many rotten flower buds.

Black pollen drifted away, and Su Ninglong blinked. The exit that was just in front of him became farther and farther away, and out of reach.

Countless whispers echoed in my ears, "You're just like them, unable to leave. Stay here, stay here, you can also experience the joys and sorrows of others."

At first, it was a vague mumble, then slowly solidified into a curse, "Forward or backward, can you really believe your eyes?"

The syllables penetrated into the ears, tampering with the sense of direction transmitted by the nerve signals.

Su Ninglong was not at all flustered.

Experiencing the methods of the secret spirit, it is really powerful. It is just a small secret spirit, but it can affect her judgment and emotions.

Darkness amplifies their power.

Spiritual power was injected into the spiritual fire again, and the range of light suddenly became larger. The flesh and blood buds that were continuously illuminated retreated in fear, and the sound of the curse gradually faded away, but it still existed, eroding people's will bit by bit, and it could not be shaken off.

Su Ninglong exhaled lightly, walked quickly forward, and ran towards the exit.

In front of the exit, there is a large open space, and the young consciousness body that Yun Fei mentioned is here.

But their appearances became ugly and horrible, and one of them was seriously injured, with injuries to the bones.

The surface of the bones was woven into the patterns of coral reefs. Mutations began within the bones, contaminating the epidermis. The surrounding skin was covered with etching marks, as if it had been crawled by deep-sea tube worms.

Humans are not like humans and ghosts are not like ghosts.

They were stuck to the wall with their heads tilted. Su Ninglong looked around and tried to burn them with spiritual fire.

The mucus slowly shrank, and the three young men on the wall fell down, showing no signs of waking up.

Su Ninglong looked around but didn't see any ropes. She couldn't carry them out one by one. What if she went out and came back in, she would have to start the maze all over again, which would be a waste of effort.

Then how do we get everyone out?

Then her eyes settled on their belts, which were sturdy.

Su Ninglong helped them loosen their belts with disgust, then tied their hands. She dragged the three of them towards the exit with difficulty.

"You can't leave."

The ogre who had been following Su Ninglong all the way finally broke free from the constraints of the rules.

The exit of the maze is his base camp. No matter how much the simulator system restricts him, it cannot limit his movements here.

It chased Su Ninglong relentlessly in the maze, just to make Su Ninglong feel fear of it.

Where fear lingers, it prevails.

Pity.

But it would be better to deal with Su Ninglong here, so it doesn’t have to move the prey.

Here, there are no more rules.

The ogre came in from the other end of the maze, leaving behind phosphorescent slime on the ground where he walked.

(End of this chapter)