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Chapter 297 - 297 296 This Works
Chapter 297 - 297 296 This Works
?Chapter 297: Chapter 296: This Works? Chapter 297: Chapter 296: This Works? The people present were shocked, and so were the viewers watching the live broadcast.
After all, the audience had seen with their own eyes that after the Huaxia Team had taken the box, no other boxes had appeared on the shelf.
The situation that now arose was undoubtedly the work of the intelligent virtual system.
“Brother Ning really is a divination master, he even guessed this.”
“Brother Ning is awesome, blinding these self-righteous foreign teams.”
“Go Brother Ning, outsmart them.”
Those who had come to participate in the finals all had relatively strong mental fortitude.
They quickly accepted the fact and guessed that it was the virtual world creating true and false objects.
So the teams corresponding to the national scripts on the boxes stepped forward and took them.
Then another box appeared and was taken away.
Until the last team took their box down, no new boxes appeared on the shelf anymore.
It was exactly as Luo Ning had said.
This also caused the teams that had never taken Luo Ning seriously to regard her with newfound respect.
This woman was not simple; the changes in the Huaxia Team were definitely brought about by her.
“Do you want to open the boxes together or separately?”
Luo Ning, seemingly oblivious to their guarded expressions, continued with a smile, “There are many empty rooms in this lab. You can take the boxes there to unlock them on your own.”
Though they knew Luo Ning meant no good and sensed the provocative undertone,
they couldn’t deny that her suggestion struck a chord with many teams.
The leader of the first team nodded, “Miss Luo’s suggestion is good, we’ll go unlock ours first.”
He then emphasized, “But we’ll have to trouble you later to wait for us; once we get the second clue, we are chartering a flight to the base.”
Meaning they intended to charter a flight and asking Luo Ning and her teammates to wait.
Several other team leaders expressed the same sentiment.
However, nearly half of the teams did not look too pleased.
They simply were not sure they could crack the password lock on the box.
Initially, they had hoped to leech off other teams, but now that plan had fallen through.
Luo Ning was clearly here to stir the pot.
But now, with the other teams obviously unwilling to share, they had no choice but to begrudgingly accept it.
Luo Ning said with a smile, “This password lock is not easy to crack, it will take at least an hour, so take your time.”
She added, “We’re going to check out the nearby area outside the lab building to see if there are any survivors, and if there are, we’ll bring them back to the base.”
Everyone nodded, “Okay, go ahead.”
The leader of the first team, who was rather shrewd, said, “Could one of your people stay behind? If we can’t break the password lock, they could help us out.”
He added, stressing the point, “We can pay for the unlocking service.”
He himself was quite skilled at breaking such password locks and after observing, he knew it was just a matter of spending some time.
Although they didn’t need to pay for the unlocking service, he was worried that Luo Ning’s team would not return once they went out.
After all, she was the only one who could open the door to the place; if she played dirty and locked them all in the lab, they wouldn’t be able to get out.
Then there would be only one outcome: starve to death or be trapped in the lab for a month, which would be as good as being eliminated.
His suggestion that the Huaxia Team leave one person behind prompted the smarter ones from other teams to catch on.
They chimed in, “Yeah, you guys should leave one person here.”
How could Luo Ning not understand their thoughts?
She said to Bo Xuan, “Captain, how about you stay?”
She continued, “Besides, you were the one who unlocked our password lock, so if they need unlocking service, you can help them out.”
Bo Xuan nodded and smiled, “No problem, I’ll stay then.”
“Everyone, be careful when you head out.”
With the captain of the Huaxia Team staying in the laboratory, everyone felt at ease.
Luo Ning led the three clueless fellows out of the research building.
Outside, numerous zombies roamed, and as soon as they sensed the smell of fresh human flesh, they immediately surrounded Luo Ning and her group.
Fan Ye and the others’ complexions shifted, “Should we clear out the zombies first?”
There were just too many.
Luo Ning pondered for a moment and said, “Let me try to see if I can immobilize these zombies, and then we can go look for people.”
There was an inconvenience in having to kill so many zombies, and the others could also encounter danger.
The three teammates of Fan Ye were a bit confused, “Ah, how do you plan to immobilize them?”
Luo Ning took out a brush, vermilion, and blank yellow talisman paper from her backpack.
“I’ll try drawing some talismans.”
This was what Luo Ning had gathered when they drove past a mortuary shop near the hospital.
Right after speaking, she placed the yellow paper on the ground and quickly started drawing with the vermilion.
In just a few seconds, she had sketched a talisman and handed it to Fan Ye.
“Find a zombie and stick it on its forehead to try.”
There was a substantial amount of evil spirits formed around her, and she used these spirits in every piece of talisman paper, which should enable them to bind the zombies.
The zombies were simulated by a virtual intelligence system and thus retained general characteristics of zombies.
Luo Ning had also used talismans to immobilize zombies in the Little World during the apocalypse, so based on attributes, it should work here as well.
However, it still needed to be tested, and if it didn’t work, they would resort to other methods.
Fan Ye took the talisman with an expression that said, “Are you kidding me?”
But seeing Luo Ning’s serious demeanor, he swallowed the words he was about to say.
“Okay then, let’s give it a try.”
Yue Xiao and Jin Feiyang helped grab one of the zombies that approached first and temporarily restrained it.
Fan Ye then accurately affixed Luo Ning’s drawn talisman to the zombie’s forehead.
Then the unimaginable happened.
The zombie, which was previously snarling and flailing, came to a halt in the middle of its last movement upon having the talisman pasted on it.
Yue Xiao and Jin Feiyang let go of the zombie, which remained motionless.
Fan Ye’s eyes widened, “Holy shit, this works?”
Yue Xiao and Jin Feiyang were also gaping in disbelief.
What’s with this world?
Was it the world that was off, or were they?
The talisman drawn by Luo Ning had managed to immobilize the zombies, completely overturning their understanding.
Turning to Luo Ning, Fan Ye couldn’t help but say, “Brother Ning, you’ve amazed me once again.”
Yue Xiao and Jin Feiyang also looked at Luo Ning with admiration, “Brother Ning, you’re incredible, I can’t believe this actually works.”
Luo Ning smiled, “I was just trying it out, I didn’t expect it to truly work, but indeed, these zombies are simulated by the intelligence system based on real people infected by the virus.”
Seeing that the talisman was indeed effective, she immediately continued to draw more.
Her speed was swift, and in no time, she had drawn a stack and handed them over to Fan Ye and his team to apply.
They also looked for some long sticks nearby and placed the talismans on the ends, then pressed them onto the foreheads of the zombies.
The talismans would automatically stick onto the zombies’ heads, and then the zombies would freeze as if they were paralyzed.
This method was time-saving, labor-saving, and not very dangerous.
Therefore, Luo Ning continuously drew, and Fan Ye and his team continuously applied the talismans, creating quite an eccentric scene to behold.