The crisp sound of swords then echoed in the dark underground passage, and bright metal sparks collided in the air again and again. The battle that sparkled with several auras also flashed back and forth with several figures in the darkness, along the damp And the wall full of danger extends outward. It seemed that he was affected by his state of mind. The number of shots taken and the number of times he was knocked away by one of the fighting parties began to appear more and more on the surfaces of the walls covered with sword marks, but he was still alone and continued to attack. Pulling his back out of the depression in the wall, he rushed towards the proudly erect swordsman in front of him again and again: "Let her go!"
"You're not shouting loud enough, why don't you shout louder?"
"...I don't have time to play games with you. If you have any requests, please tell me immediately."
"Our demands have been made from the beginning."
Once again, he raised his sword to fend off Duan Qing, who only had a pair of fists and two broken chains. Luo Tu, who was dressed as a scholar in green shirt, once again let out a proud laugh: "Give us your followers, and you can do whatever you want." Anything from you...what a simple request."
"..."
"The first player in the free world to have followers."
Seeing the panting Duan Qing no longer answering, Luo Tu's long laughter spread forward again with his footsteps: "If I hadn't seen all this with my own eyes, I still wouldn't believe this game that claims to be real. There is such a setting as a follower! Come on... if you are not stingy, can you tell us how you persuaded that woman? Did you use XX? "
The harsh sound of metal friction echoed in the dark passage ahead again. It was the collision when Duan Qing responded with actual actions. Luo Tu, who once again used his sword to pick out the opponent, then took two strange steps. With a quick pace, he turned around and sent another ray of sword energy in front of Duan Qing: "Is he angry because of shame? Did I tell you right?"
"...She can't even speak yet."
His eyes fell on the trembling figure hiding in the corner behind him. Duan Qing gritted his teeth and replied: "Insulting an NPC woman in this way may make the other party's emotions unbalanced, but for her, it's It’s ineffective.”
"No, no, of course it works."
The front-fingered sword tilted to one side as he shrugged, and Luo Tu's eyes showed a bit of sarcasm: "Just look at your embarrassed appearance now."
"..."
"We know you're busy right now."
Inexplicably pointing to the top of his head, Luo Tu, still smiling, slowly walked up to Duan Qing: "You should have a lot of things to deal with now, right? Why don't you give up entangled with us and concentrate on dealing with you? What’s the most important thing in front of you?”
"..."
"After all, the lives of NPCs in the game world are not as important as the lives of girls in the real world... isn't it?"
Tilting his head, Luo Tu's face became more sarcastic: "Don't do it at this time, Shi Lezhi, the old king."
"...I'm very calm now." Duan Qing seemed to have calmed down his breathing, and finally spoke again: "Otherwise, I wouldn't have appeared here at this time, you bastards."
"No, you're not calm at all right now."
Shaking his arm, Luo Tu pointed the long sword that made a slight sword roar at the tip of Duan Qing's nose again: "You have lost all your equipment after being imprisoned for such a long time, and now you don't even have a decent weapon. , do you just want to save people in this state? Just rely on those two broken chains? "
"That's right, just rely on these two ordinary chains."
Duan Qing's eyebrows gradually knitted together without any change in his eyes because of the long sword so close at hand: "To deal with you guys..."
"That's enough."
The harsh sound of breaking through the air appeared in the dim air accompanied by the sudden lifting of the two iron chains. Duan Qing suddenly turned around and threw a backflip and struck Luo Tu in front. The loud sword The ringing sound then appeared on the left and right sides of the long sword, and with Lotu's movements of flicking his wrist and shaking the sword, the ends of the two iron chains flew into the air. His feet took strange steps again. Luo Tu, who was always smiling at the corner of his mouth, stretched his body in a forward stabbing posture in front of Duan Qing, who had the door wide open in front of him. He continued to retreat with the force of the counterattack, but he suddenly closed his eyes. He raised his arms and entangled the two chains together again.
clang!
The sound of metal-to-metal collisions once again appeared inside and outside this passage, carrying sparks drawn by countless iron chain fragments and flowing into the deep darkness. However, the source of the sound came from Duan Qing's arms. The left and right ends that were hugged together - the tangled iron chains passed under the sword at the moment it came near, bringing out two dazzling golden arcs, and then forced back Lotuna's shocking blow. While stabbing, he drew a black dagger that secretly came to his waist: "Who are you?"
"turbid wine." In the scene where the flying sparks were gradually extinguished, the figure who retreated to the side of the passage replied in a low voice: "We have met last time."
"...how many of you are there?" So Duan Qing focused his attention on Luo Tu in front: "Where is the cannon from before?"
"He stayed in Fenghua Town and was responsible for solving some temporary affairs." Lotu answered him and shook his head with a smile: "As for how many of us there are..."
"If I tell you, will you still be willing to continue playing with us?"
The white sword energy began to gradually rise as his words fell, dyeing the light around Luo Tu into the same white, and the little bits of light also followed the blue-shirted swordsman's hands that he stretched out again. , drifting away around like brilliant starlight. He took a step forward vigorously, and the long sword in Luo Tu's hand also flashed with starlight, but this time, there was no pride or arrogance on his face. He smiled: "Legendary Swordsman, the 28th generation successor and senior brother of the Star Sword Sect, learned from Luo Tianfeng's Seven Star Sword Technique..."
"Luo is not talented, so this is the best identity he can come up with."
The Star Sword Qi, which had not been disturbed by anything again, gradually condensed and took shape in front of Duan Qing, with the seven brilliant stars combined spurting towards the front of Luo Tu's sword: "Although it's better than having more games. There is a big gap in experience for you, but I still hope that I can give you some advice."
"……Understood."
The raised chain and the dagger in the hand of the gray-black cloaked thief player behind him met again in the air for a moment. Duan Qing replied in a low voice with his squeezed words: "Since you want to see it so much..."
"Then let me show you."
As he closed his eyes, a clear whirlwind gradually formed on one side of the passage. Accompanied by it was the strange sight of chains gradually floating and swinging around. Duan Qing's voice also followed this. The appearance of a whirlwind became ethereal, and the sparks drawn from the ends of the iron chains flying in the sky slowly collided with the white stars that rushed in front of them. The chaos that seemed to turn the air into gel then completely engulfed one end of the passage, and then a large area of subtle explosions erupted, and the white stars like flowing silver gradually joined Duan Qing's dancing vortex. Mixed into a beautiful nebula, and finally gradually flew away like blooming clouds.
"Such a counterattack..."
The brilliant galaxy began to blur as time passed, and finally the two confronting figures wrapped in it appeared again. Duan Qing, who stretched forward with one hand, then put the sheath on the tip of the sword with a smile on his face. The buckle of the iron chain on his body was pulled into his arms: "I wonder if you are satisfied?"
"Nebula Vortex...is this Nebula Sword Technique?"
After taking a few steps back, Luo Tu raised his sword again and focused his attention on the tip of the sword that had been twisted off in front of him: "But why..."
"With intention, everything can be a sword."
He waved his hand and put the tip of another chain in the direction of the other dagger that arrived later. Duan Qing, who still had his eyes closed, turned around and used the same method to fly out the weapon holster from the darkness: "There is no such thing. Comprehension, why do you still need to use a sword?”
"...I see, I've learned a lesson."
His eyes lingered on the lingering aura around the opponent for a while, and Luo Tu's originally condescending voice became much deeper: "I guess this is the prototype of the Intention Sword, right?"
"If you have any intelligence at all, you should understand that this is not a good thing."
After swaying away the last few sword energy gathered around him, Duan Qing slowly opened his eyes: "I appreciate you being able to study this way of using the Yi Sword on your own, but its negative effects are also It’s huge, and you may not be able to feel it now, but as time goes by... the situation may not get better than it is now.”
"……What did you say?"
"I don't know who introduced you to this style of play or who encouraged you to use them."
Slowly walking past the opponent, Duan Qing, with the sound of iron chains clanking, staggered into the other side of the dark passage: "But something happened three years ago, something that has not been exposed by the alliance. …”
"If you don't want to become what they are, or what I am now, you'd better stop now."
His steps paused for a moment, and then he showed his face turned sideways: "Otherwise... you will have to bear the consequences."
A sharp whistling sound then appeared at the feet of Luo Tu, who had just wanted to take a step forward again. It echoed towards the far end of the passage with a clear sound of metal collision. He was forced to take a step back and then lowered his head. Turning his head, his eyes focused on the twisted tip of the sword in front of him. The slight sound of clothes breaking through the air then appeared beside him, and at the same time, the figure of the thief who called himself Zhuojiu slowly appeared in the invisible air. However, the two players in front of him were He did not catch up again, but looked at Duan Qing who was gradually squatting in the distance with inexplicable and complicated eyes: "...how are you doing?"
"fine……"
"It's my fault for frightening you, but... why don't you run away?"
"Because...because...you...are not...here, you...didn't...said..."
The anger in his heart was once again suppressed by the cowardly expression of the woman in front of him. Duan Qing let out a long sigh, but the hand he wanted to stretch out stopped in mid-air again, seemingly Because he didn’t want to touch the poor follower in front of him with his blood-stained look: “In the future, when I’m not around, you can act as you please, okay?”
"..."
Staring closely at Duan Qing's face, the woman shook her head vigorously, and then pointed to the ground nearby when the other party sighed again: "He, they..."
"They're okay, they're...well, not dead."
Understanding that the other party was referring to the people from Legend of Flames, Duan Qing raised his arms slightly awkwardly: "When we escape from this place, you can see them again... Well, can you walk?"
"……yes."
Nodding lightly, the woman named Ayina slowly stood up under Duan Qing's gaze. The exotic hands that were still holding her arms gradually loosened, regardless of the dirty ground. He grabbed Duan Qing's arm. Scratching his head in embarrassment, Duan Qing finally gave up the idea of struggling, but when he turned around and looked around, he unexpectedly didn't find Luo Tu.
The next moment, he understood the reason why the other party disappeared.
"...The trouble you have caused is really big."
Still wearing a wide robe, still having a wide body, the figure belonging to Earth Mage Jin suddenly appeared in front of the passage as if it had existed a long time ago. With a face as stiff as a rock, he looked around for a while. The expressionless great magician then withdrew his scrutinizing eyes, but his doubtful eyes passed over Duan Qing, one of the instigators, and landed first on Ai. On Ina: "Who is she?"
"A genocide remnant who escaped from Anderson."
Subconsciously protecting the woman behind him, Duan Qing replied slightly unnaturally: "You are now one of my followers."
"Follower?" Then Jin's eyes became more puzzled: "What's her name?"
"...Aina."
After hesitating for a moment, Duan Qing finally reported the name prompted by the system: "Someone just wanted to harm her and cut several of my companions. If you hadn't arrived in time...this girl I still don’t know what the outcome will be.”
"...are you also a restorer?"
As if he got down to business, Jin's eyes became sharp: "What did they do?"
"Are you referring to those things outside?" Duan Qing raised his head full of sadness: "Sorry, I fell into someone's trap before, so..."
"The situation is getting very troublesome now." Jin frowned: "You'd better come with me."
"certainly."
What answered him was Duan Qing's eyes that turned cold again: "Even if it's for Maggie..."
"I will definitely go back."
