Something's not quite right.
Li Ke frowned.
If it were a normal living person, seeing two wandering figures, even if they didn't think they were zombies, they should have reacted after the two figures circled around twice.
The problem is that there was absolutely no reaction, whether it was greeting them or trying to drive them away.
"strange..."
However, Li Ke suppressed his doubts, walked to the front of the iron gate, coughed lightly, and then called out to the inside.
"Excuse me, may I open the door?"
He tried his best to make his voice audible without attracting any zombies, but there was still no response.
The merchant neither started charging and destroying everything in front of him like a zombie in response to the voices of the living, nor did he react in any way, let alone respond to their arrival.
Like a sculpture, it still stands there, swaying and breathing, then looking straight ahead.
What's going on?
Li Ke couldn't help but ask, he had a bad feeling, and the fact that the other party didn't react at all made him feel a little creeped out.
But now that we've come this far, there's no reason to back down.
"Shall we go in?"
Erina Nakiri gripped her axe nervously, looking at Li Ke with a questioning expression.
"Well, we should still give it a try. You don't need to go in yet; I'll go in and take a look by myself."
Li Ke took a deep breath, gripped his axe tightly, and squatted down to try and open the iron door, which resembled a roller shutter. However, when he hooked his hand around the bottom of the door, he found that he couldn't open it no matter what.
Is it locked?
As he looked at the door, the thought had barely crossed his mind when he felt something within his body being stirred.
The next moment, he felt his fever worsen, strange distortions began to appear before his eyes, and then...
Press 'E' to open.
A strange line of text appeared before his eyes.
Hallucination?
Am I turning into a zombie?
Li Ke felt a little dizzy and hurriedly grabbed the door of the store for support.
'Ding!'
A piercing sound came from where he was in contact with the store, directly assaulting his and Erina Nakiri's eardrums, causing them to instinctively cover their ears.
Then, Li Ke felt even more dizzy, which made him feel even more that he was close to death.
Because Li Ke vaguely saw several strange squares appear in his field of vision, and the first square in the first row of the squares was the hammer in his hand.
Am I really going to die?
The dizziness was so intense that Li Ke couldn't help but gasp for breath. He took a long breath to clear his head a little, but more hallucinations appeared before him.
He seemed to see a strange cursor and north-south indicators above his line of sight, and on the far right of his field of vision, there was a sign that read "Collect Resource".
It's starting to look more and more like a game.
"Is this end-of-life care?"
Li Ke couldn't help but think this way, but looking at the iron gate of the shop, a thought still subconsciously formed in his mind.
The thought of pressing E.
The next moment, something happened that put his worries and doubts to rest.
His hand, which was holding onto the iron gate, went straight through the slowly rising gate. Losing his balance, he fell directly into the gate and entered the store.
"Mr. Li Ke!"
Erina stared in horror at Li Ke, whose body was half-passing through the iron gate. She felt that she must not have woken up properly, and a wave of terror washed over her.
But as the iron gate slowly rose, her fear disappeared, because Li Ke was unharmed; he had simply lost his balance and fallen.
As Li Ke fell to the ground, feeling the intense pain and the slowly disappearing dizziness, a thought involuntarily popped into his mind.
"Optic Illusion?? Am I really dying and hallucinating?"
He looked at Erina Nakiri, who had come to his side and wanted to help him up, thought for a moment, and then reached out his hand.
"If it's a hallucination... then there's definitely no real sense of touch."
As he muttered to himself, he placed his hand on Erina Nakiri's chest, who was crouching down. The soft, full feeling immediately enveloped his right hand, and the warmth of the girl gave him a rare experience.
It's certain that it's a kind of beauty he's never experienced before.
For a moment, he thought it was real, but seeing Erina Nakiri standing there dumbfounded, her mouth agape and her face turning red, he nodded with certainty.
Because a red health bar of 85/100 appeared above Erina Nakiri's head, and she did not react in any way because of his action of crossing the line.
"Hmm, so it really is a near-death hallucination? Then I won't be polite."
So, he reached out with his other hand to touch Erina Nakiri's equally soft and slender thigh.
But before he could even touch that wonderful thing, Erina suddenly stood up, freeing her chest from Li Ke's ever-changing right hand and the hand reaching for her left leg, and whispered to Li Ke, her cheeks flushed.
"Mr. Li, Mr. Li Ke, what are you doing?! Have you lost your mind? Are you turning into a zombie?"
Li Ke shook his head, and the strange characters began to disappear before his eyes. The cursor and the squares also began to vanish.
It seems that they are not really like that, but only because of their own perception.
Furthermore, Li Ke sensed that something within his body seemed to be dormant due to a deficiency in certain aspects.
As the text completely disappeared, Li Ke's dizziness vanished, and his intelligence and composure returned to his mind.
"Maybe so, but if I'm not mistaken, our lives might be a little easier from now on."
Li Ke's heart began to beat faster. Since arriving in this world, he had tried to call out to the system or something similar, but all attempts had failed. He had also thought about pressing E to interact or pressing B to open his inventory.
After all, they've already travelled through time, so it's normal to have some kind of cheat code.
Unfortunately, there was no response at that time.
If there's any difference between now and then, it's probably that I've come into contact with this store and killed a lot of zombies.
Oh, and there's also the issue of being infected.
What exactly is it?
Li Ke was very curious, but now he wanted to verify something else.
Looking at the raised iron gate, Li Ke focused intently on it and mentally summoned that power. The next moment, that power reappeared, and the words 'Press E to close' appeared in Li Ke's eyes.
"So confusing..., press E."
As soon as this thought crossed his mind, the iron gate, which no one had touched, slowly closed.
Erina Nakiri's mouth dropped open once again. She looked at the beautiful merchant who was still standing in the room without making a sound, and then at Li Ke, who had a smile on his face. Her mind was full of question marks.
Looking at the closed iron gate, Li Ke finally breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but laugh.
"Indeed, if I am not in a real hallucination right now, then I have been able to ascertain some information about this world."
Erina Nakiri didn't quite understand what Li Ke meant. She looked at Li Ke, then at the strange merchant, and couldn't help but grab Li Ke's arm.
"Li Ke, where exactly is this place...?"
The sudden rise and fall of the iron gate, and the motionless, puppet-like merchant, all filled her with fear, making her afraid that this was a trap.
"Ah, although I don't quite understand yet either, this should be a good thing."
Li Ke strode towards the small room where the merchant was. As he walked, he kept looking around, but he couldn't find any other people. There was only a door separating him from the merchant.
Moreover, this door, like the door at the entrance, cannot be pushed open or turned, but as long as you imagine pressing E in your mind, you can open this door instantly.
Even if your hand isn't actually on it!
As Erina Nakiri watched Li Ke open the door without using his hands again, her mind was still reeling.
Li Ke didn't intend to explain to her for the time being, but instead went directly into the room and looked at the beautiful merchant who hadn't moved an inch.
She was described as beautiful, but only slightly above average. She had black hair, a stethoscope around her neck, and tattered clothes.
But she really is very big; although her chest is much smaller than Erina Nakiri's, it is still quite large.
Most importantly, Li Ke also saw a prompt on the other party: "Press E to talk to the merchant Jane."
Li Ke couldn't help but cover his head. He wanted to laugh, but he had other things to verify. He stretched out his hand and shook it wildly in front of the beautiful merchant. But no matter how he shook it, the woman in front of him didn't react at all and continued to smile at him.
"Li Ke, this is..."
Erina Nakiri's fear rekindled, and then she saw Li Ke swing his axe and chop it hard on the beautiful merchant's head.
The next moment, another 'ding' rang out, and Li Ke's axe stopped on the merchant's slightly upturned hair. No matter how much force Li Ke used, he couldn't chop the merchant's head.
"Indeed, an invincible building, an invincible person."
After putting away his axe, Li Ke took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down as much as possible.
"What exactly is this...?"
"You've played games, haven't you, Erina?"
Li Ke released his axe and leaned against the shelf behind him. He was now certain that it wasn't a hallucination.
Because if it were a hallucination, his hand would not feel pain from the recoil, nor would he have the sensation of touching a girl's breasts.
"I know, it's the kind of thing that boys really like."
Erina Nakiri nodded, looking at Li Ke with some confusion, wondering why he was so relaxed at a time like this and why he was asking such a question.
"We've probably been thrown into a game world now."
Li Ke voiced his guess, and Erina's first reaction was disbelief. But after looking around, then at Li Ke and the merchant in front of her, she finally spoke, her voice somewhat hoarse.
"Who, who would do such a thing... And, it can't be true, right... Li Ke."
She felt another wave of fear; things were getting increasingly bizarre, making her instinctively want to deny it.
"This is something that cannot be denied. We can only choose to accept it or not. As for who did it, whether it's a wicked god or a demon, it's something we can't resist now. All we can do is try our best to live on."
Li Ke sighed. He wasn't sure if this was some kind of infinite flow game within the God's Space or something else, but all he could do now was live as freely as possible.
"This woman is probably the kind who's in charge of supplies and issuing missions; she's invincible."
Li Ke chuckled, reached out his hand, and pinched the chest of the beautiful merchant in front of him. The soft and warm feeling was transmitted to his palm once again, along with the real heartbeat and the sensation of the fabric.
"Li Ke…"
Erina Nakiri wanted to stop Li Ke from doing this, but the next moment, Li Ke grabbed the beautiful merchant's clothes and ripped them off.
The woman's clothes were pulled back, revealing her white underwear, but she still didn't react. She continued to smile at Li Ke and Erina, making Erina feel even more terrified.
She was also shy; she hadn't forgotten that Li Ke had pinched her chest earlier!
"Look, even though I treated her like this, she didn't react. There are probably no living people left in this world, only NPCs and zombies. And what's worse is that this is obviously a survival game. These kinds of games either use zombie viruses to kill us or use various hordes of zombies to increase the difficulty of survival. And we probably can't stay in this building forever, since it's an 'invincible' place."
Looking at the merchant who hadn't lost a single hair under his axe, Li Ke couldn't help but think of the post-apocalyptic survival games he had played.
However, no matter which post-apocalyptic survival game it is, it will not so easily provide players with a safe place to live. In fact, there will inevitably be random or fixed-time disasters that strike the players, giving them something to do.
Such a mechanism is perfectly acceptable in a game and can only increase the fun.
But in reality...
"I'm afraid we won't be able to spend the night safely here, Erina."
Li Ke stared intently at the merchant, released her clothes, and then mentally pressed the E key.
The next moment, the merchant came back to life.
She smiled broadly, even waving her arms and smiling at Li Ke and Erina.
"Hello, friend, what do you need?"
Before Li Ke, something invisible surged within his body, then twisted before his eyes, eventually forming three options.
1. Shop.
2. Quest
3. Exit.
Without hesitation, Li Ke chose the first option. The next moment, he felt something inside him begin to boil and swirl, forming a window just like in the game, and displaying a variety of items.
"This is... my cheat code?"
Li Ke frowned as he looked at the goods and the female merchant, and couldn't help but feel suspicious.