"How did you get out?"
"I was sent out through a...well, I can't tell myself..."
The Traveler's House is also a lively place, at least for now. The still simple hall is full of customers coming and going. Some of them finish their meals impatiently, and then quickly walk out of the door carrying their luggage. , seemed to be in a hurry, and some were shouting and drinking with their friends at the same table, enjoying the time of gathering, which seemed to never stop. Didn't some drunk people get into an argument, and both parties yelled and cursed for a while, and then walked out of the door and ran to a duel somewhere in the school grounds? Looking at the innkeeper's arrogant face, they It seems that they don’t dare to make trouble here.
In such an environment, Duan Qing and the other three found a corner near the inside and sat down. The player, who was shirtless and still looked like a shameless man, sat on the outside seat with his sharp-edged helmet hanging down. He scratched his head with his hands out of habit, which resulted in a harsh friction sound like nails scraping metal. Then, he was slapped on the head by the little girl next to him.
"Don't attack with noise! Also, don't block other waiters from delivering food..."
"Ah! Oh! Got it..."
Xiao Hongchen moved his seat forward with difficulty, then lay down on the table in a panic, and continued in a weak voice.
"That's a road I don't know. It seems to be a secret passage. Two people from the Shadow Society came out with me..."
"What, Shadow Club?"
"Yes." Xiao Hongchen nodded weakly: "I went to look for materials that afternoon, and then I was stopped by the Salted Fish King. He said that he had received some news and that the situation of our adventure group would become very dangerous in the future. , so he wanted to send us out of the city..."
"And you ran away?"
"How is that possible! Am I the kind of person who abandons my brothers?" Xiao Hongchen yelled, and then lay down on the table in despair: "I...I was deceived."
"The Salted Fish King told me that Wiesel had already organized people and planned to transport everyone in our adventure group out without anyone noticing. I just happened to come out and was met by them, so they sent me out first. But when we arrived outside the city, when I asked those two people when they would be able to meet up with their teammates, they started to act dumb and said that there was no such thing at all."
As if he had been hit hard, Xiao Hongchen's voice became very low: "They said they were only responsible for completing the orders given by their superiors and escorting me to Tania, the capital of the principality. They would tell me the specific details when they get there. ..."
"Well...why are they sending it to Tania?"
"How do I know..." Xiao Hongchen faced down: "I don't want to know either. I just know that I can't just leave, so I found an opportunity to escape."
A waiter came from behind and brought the food that Mengzhu had ordered before them. Duan Qing took his portion of the food and was about to continue his question when he saw the dying man in front of him suddenly suddenly disappeared from the scene. He jumped up in his seat.
"Finally..." His eyes were full of tears: "Finally, I have something to eat!"
"You...have you never eaten?" Looking at the man who was devouring his food, Mengzhu had a black line on his head: "Have you been hungry all day?"
"Yes...yeah." Xiao Hongchen's words were a little slurred because of his mouthful of food: "Even if you go offline...you're full...you'll still be there when you come back." Hungry......"
"Of course, it's a virtual reality game." Duan Qing closed his open mouth: "Otherwise, how could it be real... I said, don't you have a penny on you?"
"No...I ended up living in this place after I ran away alone. I spent my last effort to get here..."
"Okay, I can feel this feeling of despair." Duan Qing took a bite of bread, and then continued to ask: "Where is your good friend Salted Fish King? Why didn't he follow you?"
"He...he won't leave." Xiao Hongchen stopped for a moment while devouring his food, and then continued to pick up the food: "I don't know why he stayed there, serving Wiesel. Since I He has been like this since I met him..."
"Oh? How do you know him?"
"I saved his life once when I was out wandering around." The shirtless man seemed to avoid this matter, so he just mentioned it and stopped saying: "Because of that incident, he has been treating me... .Well, he is a pretty good person anyway, don’t blame him..."
"We don't mean to blame him, after all, he has helped us." Duan Qing said with a meaningless look: "Although when we first met, well..."
He looked at the little girl who was also eating, and the latter stared angrily.
"Since you can still find us, it means that we are still destined, then... do you still want to follow us?"
"Of course! We are brothers, how could we forget you... Hey, where is the smiling butcher?"
"Well, he went to another guild..."
In the noisy hotel lobby, the three people introduced each other to each other about the situation they knew, lamenting from time to time about certain things that had happened, and lamenting about their fate. It wasn't until lunch was gone and the three of them began to enjoy their afternoon rest that Xiao Hongchen asked the most crucial question.
"By the way, why are we running?"
"Don't you know yet... Oh yes, you really don't know." Duan Qing and the little girl looked at each other, and finally Duan Qing explained: "The Speaker of the Principality knows about our affairs. So I became ruthless and wanted to take everyone back to make an explanation."
"Ah?" Xiao Hongchen was shocked: "Then how can we hang out in the future?"
"Well, Richard told us before he left that he would settle this matter." Duan Qing said helplessly: "Although I don't know how the so-called settlement is achieved, but since he said so, let's just Just believe it. According to normal time, the envoy sent by the principality will arrive soon..."
"Maybe you will pass by here?" the little girl said suddenly.
"It's possible." Duan Qing looked at the other party, then lowered his head and thought: "And the most serious incident also happened here. Those people might investigate here before leaving... ....”
"Why don't we go and take a look?" Mengzhu suddenly shouted: "If we can find out the truth behind this matter, maybe we can clear ourselves from suspicion?"
"What a beautiful thought!"
Xiao Hongchen on the side was just about to applaud and praise, when Duan Qing poured cold water on him: "With the ability of that old man Rama, how could he possibly leave us any clues if he did something like frame-up? Look at what happened before Yasiqi, and the things we encounter later..."
Several people fell silent in unison. After a while, Duan Qing continued: "In short, we little players just do our own thing. The struggle between NPCs is left to the NPCs themselves to resolve. Anyway, That Jin has already taken away the key doll... Sigh, I don't understand why he hasn't come out, that person still seems to be a very upright person..."
Wu Yan appeared again for a while, and finally the little girl broke the silence: "No matter what, we still decide what to do next. Xiao Hongchen, since you have returned to our Fool Adventure Group, I will give you a chance. Where do you plan to venture next?”
"How do I know? I know Greenstone Village and Fenghua Town..."
"It would be a mistake to count on you." The girl patted her forehead, and then began to think hard again: "Well, after passing the pass to the west, we will enter the hinterland of the principality and walk all the way to Tania. Maybe we will actually meet each other. Plunging into the war...it's so dangerous, I still want to go to the Andacier Mountains to see..."
"What's so good about mountains..." Xiao Hongchen muttered.
"Falling Star Mountain! The highest mountain in the free world. Do you want to challenge it?"
"Wow!" The shirtless man immediately jumped up: "A man's challenge! Let's go!"
"Calm down, calm down!" Duan Qing waved his hands: "Even if you risk your life, you have to plan before sending it away... How far is it from the highest mountain?"
"I don't know." The little girl raised her hand and said.
"I hope you are really hopeless." So Duan Qing also rubbed his forehead: "If Norman told me correctly, we are about a day's journey from Tania, the capital of the principality, well... Of course it’s by car, not on foot. If we have horses, it might be faster. As for the mountain peaks in the north... Hello, this adventurer."
He stood up and walked towards a group of players with IDs at the next table: "Do you know how far it is to the Falling Star Mountain in the north?"
"Two days." The player looked at Duan Qing and then at the people at Duan Qing's table: "You guys go faster, it's only one and a half days."
"Isn't there any transportation available?"
"Of course not." The player looked at Duan Qing and regarded him as a newbie: "Falling Star Mountain is not a place of interest, nor is there any city. We are the only ones who play... We adventurers are willing to To go to that place, so... naturally there are no buses going there.”
"Oh, thank you."
Duan Qing secretly gave Mengzhu a thumbs up, thanked him, and then returned to his desk: "Did you hear that? It's unwise to go like this..."
"Then...do we really want to go to Tania?"
"My suggestion is to go there. After all, it is the capital of a country. It has the most people and resources, and it is the most comfortable. It can provide us with watching games...ahem, and space for development."
Duan Qing cleared his throat: "Don't our adventure group have some kind of privilege? If we don't develop it well, I'll be sorry for the piece of paper in your hand!"
"Well... okay then." The little girl thought for a while, and then nodded reluctantly: "I reluctantly agreed. Anyway, I'll come back if I have a chance...laugh Where is Hongchen?”
"As long as you take care of my food, I'll agree to wherever you go."
"You...ahhh, let's go!"
Mengzhu scratched his hair frantically, then stood up with a sigh and walked out of the hotel first. Duan Qing and Xiao Hongchen behind them looked at each other helplessly, so they had no choice but to follow.
"Do you want to take a look around here? I see there are quite a few stalls..."
"No! Well...otherwise it's better to go shopping, maybe you can find something good..."
"Ahem, Xiao Hongchen, why don't you consider getting a top to wear? You can't resist any attack at all."
"This is my style! The light weight can make me more flexible, so that I can perform beautiful and gorgeous attacks... Oh, by the way! You promised to teach me! Quick, teach me, How did you do it at the door of the Adventurers Association..."
"...Did I promise you?"
"Absolutely! Yes! You promised me! Little sister Mengzhu, come and prove it to me!"
"Ni Zuokai! Who is your sister!"
Under the hot afternoon sun, the three figures slowly walked into the depths of the large market full of tents, and then gradually disappeared among the ever-changing crowds.
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A hundred miles away, in the Eta County territory, in a forest not far from Tania City, a woman in a black cloak was leading a horse and was resting by a small river. The midday sun moved forward slightly and cast the shadows of the leaves onto her head again. The woman raised her head, which had been lowered, and looked in a certain direction in the forest.
"Come out, I won't take action." She stood up.
"You...have sent back two groups of people, so I have to be careful."
Behind that direction, a player wearing a robe walked out from behind the tree and walked out with a wry smile.
"It's you." It seemed like she was someone she knew well. The woman covered in a black cloak put away her sharp eyes and nodded slightly: "They actually sent you here."
"As a former member of the first team, of course I am here." The man walked over with his hands raised, indicating that he had no ill intentions: "Of course, I am also here to advise you."
"Let's go back."
The breeze blew through the gaps in the woods, blowing the woman's cloak slightly, and then fell with the treetops. She stood quietly for a while, then turned around and walked away.
"Hey, you can't go on like this." When the mage player behind saw this, he immediately shouted: "Don't you even want to participate in the game?"
"Everything I did was for the guild." The woman took the reins of her mount and began to slowly leave the place: "Since the guild doesn't need me now, then why should I... do it for the guild?" And what about struggle?”
"But Wings of Freedom has paid so much for you!" the man said sternly: "Even if you don't ask for anything in return, you still have to think about your family and your father..."
"The Wings of Freedom want to ask for something in return. I have no complaints, but they didn't give me a chance." The woman stopped her movements and interrupted the other person's words: "And...everything in this world Everyone can talk about my father."
"Only you can't."
She led the horse and gradually disappeared into the woods.
