"..."
The rising sun stirs up the autumn wind, mixed with the occasional whistling and vague noises in the distance, and sends them into the house where the door has been opened, taking away a little of the decaying atmosphere that has not been there for a long time. Injecting the place with the energy of an afternoon retreat. ??Net However, even a newcomer to this game, a fool who doesn't understand the atmosphere at all, can still detect the slightest thing wrong in the strange atmosphere of this scene - as if the dull breathing is gradually stopping, In the suddenly quiet cabin, the player staring at the white cloth maintained his previous actions and stood there motionless, seeming to be thinking about life. However, no one in the small room laughed at the player as if he was frozen. The same action, but a moment later, the player seemed to have figured something out and silently pulled out his weapon.
He looked up suddenly.
"...Big Fatty, Brother Monkey, come and take a look."
He stared at the top of the house, in the middle of the spire structure, where several beams were staggered and enclosed: "That thing... huh?"
"Brother Monkey? Fatty?"
As a result of the lack of response, the hair on that person's body stood up as if he suddenly thought of some possibilities. He held the sword in both hands and stared upward for a moment, while his feet slowly retreated towards the door: "Brother Monkey? Where are you, Brother Monkey?"
"a#% of..."
Cursing in a low voice, he retreated to the door and suddenly looked back at the empty place behind him. Then he immediately turned back again and looked at the top of the beam - a disheveled, pale body, leaning on a handle. The exaggerated figure of a kitchen knife was standing there motionless, with a bright light seeping out from the middle of the scattered head, staring at him quietly.
"……oops!"
It seemed that he was tripped by something. The guy who had been retreating staggered, and then he got up again with his weapon raised. Big beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and he shivered and retreated again. Two steps: "You, you, you, you, don't come over..."
His pupils suddenly dilated.
In his sight, the person who looked like a female ghost slowly raised her long knife, and then slowly lowered it toward him, as if she was going to chop something. He wanted to turn around and run away, but his body went limp, and then he slowly fell to the ground outside in the still warm autumn wind.
Plop.
"call……"
The long knife hung down feebly: "I'm so exhausted..."
"Not bad, not bad, I have a lot of acting potential." Duan Qing, who was hiding in the darkness, clapped his hands and said, "I'm just a little nervous."
"Aren't you nervous?" The girl pushed her head away, and then sat on the wooden beam at her feet: "Your weapon is so heavy, I just held it for a long time, and I almost breathed out. …”
"There is no way, there is nothing more suitable." Duan Qing spread his hands helplessly: "You can't use your staff to scare people, then it is not a female ghost, but an angel sister."
"But..." Rubbing his arm, Qianzhihe asked doubtfully: "I didn't expect this game to really scare people to death, right?"
"The game cabin must be equipped with a special first aid device to rescue players who cannot bear the fear, excitement and other emotions in the virtual reality system." Duan Qing read slowly: "This thing is even worse than the virtual reality system. The purpose of doing it early is to prevent us from being frightened, so... it is almost impossible to scare people to death."
"But just now..." Qian Zhihe scratched his face cutely: "He is indeed dead? And I only saw one person..."
"They are indeed dead." Duan Qing said with a smile: "But they were not scared to death."
With his silence, the dusty and sunny room became quiet again. The girl who looked at the other party's strange smile gradually put her hands around her shoulders: "It's difficult, can it be said... there is really... here..."
call--
"Ah ah ah ah ah--"
The sound of breaking wind suddenly appeared behind Qian Zhihe, frightening the already nervous girl to scream, but when she slightly raised her head holding her hands, what she saw was Duan Qing A very exaggerated smile.
"Pfft hahaha!"
"What, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, nothing...hahahahaha!"
Amid uncontrollable laughter, the puzzled girl finally plucked up the courage to look behind her, only to see a woman wearing a blue and white maid uniform.
"Hello." Standing quietly in the middle of the narrow wooden beam, Ninglan smiled and pulled up her skirt: "This is my lady."
"Who are you?"
"I am Ciyu Ninglan, I am..."
"She is a member of our adventure group." Duan Qing, who was still smiling, hurriedly stopped the maid: "One of my own, one of my own... Hahahaha! She just thought you were a ghost, hahahaha..."
"Hey! Don't laugh!"
"Don't laugh, don't laugh...were you the ones who killed those people just now?"
"Yes." Enyu Ninglan nodded, and then stretched out a hand to pull the girl beside him up from the beam: "When Ninglan came here, she just saw those people entering Got here, so..."
"Okay!" Qian Zhihe, who finally understood, suddenly shouted: "So you know everything! You just want to see my joke, don't you?"
"No, no, absolutely not!"
"Humph!" The girl turned her head bitterly, and then, as if she was upset, she raised her foot and kicked Duan Qing: "I told you to laugh, I told you..."
Her movements suddenly stopped - a cold dagger suddenly appeared, lying across her neck as white as a swan: "This lady."
The maid's usual smile appeared on her face: "Please don't hurt Mr. Qingshan, okay?"
"Hey, hey, don't, don't, don't."
Before Qian Zhihe could recover, Duan Qing, who was sitting in the corner, hurriedly climbed up and reached out to press the dagger: "We are all our own, don't be so impulsive, okay? Well, that..."
"Let's go down first."
"OK."
The maid looked at Duan Qing with an incomprehensible look, then nodded, then withdrew her weapon, turned around and jumped from the rafter.
"Huh..." Duan Qing shook his head, then patted Qianzhihe on the shoulder: "Okay, it's okay, don't be afraid..."
"snort!"
The girl broke free from the other party's hand, and then jumped down from above. She stared at Ningyu Ninglan, who had been smiling all the time: "You..."
"How did you find this place?"
It was not Qian Zhihe who asked this question, but Duan Qing, who jumped down last. However, the maid who looked at him did not answer his question immediately. Instead, she glanced at the bleeding bandage on Duan Qing's waist, and then lowered her head. He took out a bottle of magic potion and walked to Duan Qing: "The competition is still in progress, but the team leader suddenly had something to do, so we were allowed to move freely."
She motioned Duan Qing to sit on the old wooden chair aside, then knelt down beside him, carefully but quickly untied the unprofessional bandage: "After Ninglan returned to the game, she heard When the news arrived in the city, Ninglan couldn't find you anywhere, so she guessed that you might be involved in this turmoil, so..."
"Ninglan followed the traces of your past troubles and found this place." She raised her head and glanced at the angry red girl next to her, and tilted her head cutely.
"Hey, your ability is still as reliable as ever." Duan Qing raised his arms and said with a grin: "But... we have suffered an unreasonable disaster."
"Sir went to Stanford's apartment, didn't he?"
"Yes, the mission that the captain gave me has been completed... Hey! So, so I opened the envelope and wanted to complete the mission inside... I always hate trouble, you know of."
With another gnashing of teeth, the maid who had finished applying the potion smiled and nodded, then glanced at Qian Zhihe again: "So... who is this?"
"Oh, I happened to meet this when I was opening the envelope." Duan Qing explained: "It was a... comrade-in-arms I met when I was in the fortress, um, comrade-in-arms, ah ha ha ha..."
Amidst the dry laughter, the girl who had always been a little angry seemed to have figured something out. She walked to the maid's side and put on what she thought was a gentle smile: "You... hello, I am Qian Zhihe."
"Hello." Anyu Ninglan did not respond to the girl's outstretched hand. Instead, she stood up with a smile and gave a slight salute: "I am Anyu Ninglan, and I am... a member of the Fool's Adventure Group."
"The Fool? Adventure group?" The girl turned her head to Duan Qing: "Why is the name of your adventure group so strange?"
"It's all caused by the name." Duan Qing said with a wry smile: "Also...don't smile so fake, it's not suitable for you."
"You... Huh!" The girl gritted her teeth bitterly and wanted to kick the other person's calf, but after thinking about it, she endured it: "I won't help you put a bandage on me anymore..."
"alright."
Before she finished speaking, Anyu Ninglan clapped her hands, then stood up with a smile: "That's all right, sir."
"Well……"
While Qianzhihe wrinkled his nose, Duan Qing checked his character status: "Sure enough, the bleeding effect has disappeared. The system judgment of this world is really amazing..."
"snort!"
"Uh, ah, um... thank you, Ninglan."
Scratching his head in embarrassment, Duan Qing rolled his eyes for a long time, and finally decided to change the topic: "By the way, where are the others?"
"Miss Liu Shang also went offline with the leader, and she seems to have gone to rest. As for Mr. Xiao Hongchen..." the maid tapped her cheek with her finger: "When Ning Lan left, he seemed to be still there, and seemed to want to I have to keep reading.”
"Alas..." Duan Qing sighed: "In other words, you are the only one in our group who can use it now?"
"Sir, next..."
"Hey!" Seeing this, the red girl on the side suddenly shouted: "Am I not a human anymore?"
"You are, you are." Duan Qing said with a headache: "But the next thing... forget it."
He frowned and looked at the other person, as if after deliberation for a long time, he slowly made a decision: "Let's..."
"Just try the normal way first."
"The normal way?"
"...The Speaker is usually in the parliament hall, right?"
"Yes, sir."
"Let's go to the Central Council and see if we can... talk to him first."
Looking up at the already late morning sky, Duan Qing put the weapon behind him again, and then walked out of the door first.
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The Parliament Hall of Tania is located in the center of the circular city of Tania, where several radiating streets point to the same place. Judging from the surrounding design, the scenery here should have been very charming. The waterways crisscrossed the surrounding area, completely surrounding the central area surrounded by trees. Dome houses of different heights in the front and back were scattered around the circular square, in the middle There are also some various statues left over from ancient times, all staring at the center of the square, on the giant domed building like an opera house. The fountains around the circular open space and the waterways with guardrails should have been flowing with clear spring water. However, because Tania is located in a drought and it has not rained much all summer, these beautiful scenes cannot be passed by. what travelers have seen.
However, according to old players who have come here, even if it rains all summer, the fountains here will not spray, and the specific reason... no one can tell.
"There are so many people here."
Hiding behind a circular building somewhere around the square, Duan Qing sighed softly: "It is indeed the highest power in the principality..."
"These people are here to protest, sir."
Cinu Ninglan, who was standing at the back, smiled and said: "Due to the advent of the Adventurer's Act, many nobles believe that their noble status has been harmed, so they gather here every day to protest solemnly."
"That is to say..." Looking at the gentlemen and ladies sitting around the road eating food and chatting as if they were basking in the sun, the red girl beside her said with her eyes raised: "These look like they are so idle. Are all our noble men?"
"No, most of them are members of noble families and dependents." The maid explained with a smile: "Since the members of the parliament made a statement at the beginning, they have never appeared again. Even these seemingly The protest was just a formality."
"It's exactly as I imagined."
After moving his arms, Duan Qing pointed to the lowest point of the square, the door of the building in the center where all the roads point, and said: "That's right there, right? The wind is still blowing, so I'll go and ask, where are you?" Waiting, just in case.”
Pulling on the brim of the hat he bought, he walked slowly across the square, passed everyone, and then walked to the door of the large and dark hall under the gaze of the guards around him: "This...brother, I I would like to meet the Speaker, please..."
"You? Adventurer? Want to see the Speaker?"
The guard standing in front of him showed a look of disdain: "How can you, Mr. Speaker, be able to see you whenever you want? Go back, go back."
"Brother, please come in and inform me. My name is Mo Shang Qingshan. I believe the Speaker will definitely agree after hearing this..."
"What are these names? You adventurers, each one is stranger than the other..." The guard smiled viciously, then pointed behind him: "Have you seen the row of nobles at the door? They are stuck here every day. If you want to see the Speaker, shouldn’t you just wait here honestly?”
"I'm different from them. I have important things..."
"Listen up!" The guard raised his eyebrows and cocked the spear in his hand: "The Speaker is busy with official duties and you don't see anyone now! If you continue to pester here..."
"I'll beat you out!"
Following his movements, the surrounding guards also raised their spears in unison, and then fell to the ground at the same time. The neat earthquake sound immediately echoed inside and outside the circular square, frightening the nobles who were still enjoying the food and sunshine. De looked over. In their sight, the adventurer who was obviously frightened stood motionless for a long time, and finally lowered his head and took a step back.
"...You guys are awesome." He said softly, "Can't I just leave?" (To be continued.)
