Chapter 115 The Strange Legend of Music
On April 8, the second week of the bloody countdown, the large public copy of "Pollution Paradise" was opened for more than a day.
The surrounding roads became more messy... or, to use a more appropriate adjective -
Weird!
On the ground, you can always see a little blood, either distributed in dots or stretched into a long, twisted line, leading to a dark, hidden, unknown alley beside the road.
At the same time, there are many wandering figures on the street. Some of them look numb, some look sneaky, and some lower their heads, making it difficult to see their faces, but when they raise their heads, they can see a pair of dangerous eyes, reflecting the sins of this world, like a hunter hiding in the dark looking for prey around.
If there are players with good hearing, passing by this place, they can detect a deeper place, as if there is a faint strange sound coming from it.
It seems that there is something unknown, hidden in the dark, chewing and swallowing...
According to the posts on the forum, the recent weird events have gradually spread to the streets.
Many players, even the aborigines, disappeared inexplicably while walking.
Moreover, compared with the first week, there were more shadows of activities even during the day.
Even in the safe area, there were many unknown crises at this moment, and the danger level was a full half star higher than when the bloody countdown came!
Of course...
All this can be attributed to the pollution of the Xijiang River.
Since the opening of the large-scale dungeon, all players have gone to the forum to share what they saw and heard, and gradually gathered the following major changes:
1. Resource shortage: Because the water source of the Xijiang River is not drinkable, the system of this city has been severely conflicted. The economy is in a great depression, and the boss of Gui is also laying off employees crazily. The players who originally had stable careers have become "unemployed" and are facing a survival crisis.
Although some players dug canals and added a lot of water sources, it seemed that there had experienced a war in just one night.
When the players arrived there, they found that the canals they dug had become dry, and they didn't know what had taken them away.
At the bottom of the canal, there were densely packed corpses lying in a mess, including players and indigenous people.
At present, it is impossible to guess who the murderer is. After all, the indigenous people of the strange world also have the instinct of "seeking benefits and avoiding harm", and they may not snatch survival resources from the players.
Of course... most players hope that the perpetrator is an indigenous person, because the impact has already affected the second point to be mentioned next.
2. Trust crisis: In the past few days, some players have found players with resources in the name of cooperation, but in fact, they are killing and snatching resources.
Although it has been confirmed that players cannot explode any special items when killing players, survival resources such as food and water have become the target of competition in the current extremely scarce situation.
Therefore, a group of murderers were born, often in the name of cooperation, hanging on the forum to find allies. In fact, if a lone player meets offline, he will encounter a gang's backstab.
At present, a group of names have been exposed to the forum, but it is obvious that this is just the tip of the iceberg of the crime. Moreover, after understanding this mode, there may be new players who choose to join the criminal gang... Of course, they look like hunters, but they may also become prey.
Therefore, the players originally cooperated to overcome the difficulties, but since encountering this wave of crisis, all players have been more vigilant against their accomplices.
Sometimes, the human heart is more terrible than the trick!
3. The number of refugees increased: This group of refugees includes players and indigenous people. They are unemployed, hungry and thirsty, and go to the vicinity of the Burning Sun Church.
The Burning Sun Church has clear regulations-it is forbidden to fight, dispute, kill, rob, and steal nearby. If anyone violates it, he will be cursed by the Lord, suffer from the punishment of the scorching sun, and lose the qualification to walk in the sun.
Therefore, in order to avoid the framing of players and the backstab of indigenous people who seek benefits and avoid harm. The surrounding areas of the Burning Sun Church have become an excellent place for refuge.
It is said that there is also purified holy water there, which can be safely drunk, and has the effect of restoring vitality and clearing diseases, but the price has risen to 100 copper coins to buy a barrel.
Therefore, a group of players specifically blocked the only way for the Lieyang Church to see if they could intercept some rich people who were going to buy holy water halfway, and kill the ghosts to rob them of their money.
This "ghost" is not limited to the natives, but also includes players.
Although the special items will not be dropped when killed, there are still copper coins!
This is enough to become a target point for competition and killing.
4. Some pioneer elite players began to go to the paradise in groups.
They have faith, goals, and the great cause of saving the world. After all, as long as the source of pollution is solved and the original order is restored, the current chaos may be solved.
This group of players set up a camp near the paradise not long ago, intending to form the first group of strategy groups, go to the paradise, explore intelligence, and intend to gather the strength of all players to solve the source of the crisis.
Of course... who is the specific organizer and the mode of the strategy have not been announced yet.
5. Strange Talk Legends: Recently, there are more and more strange talks and legends circulating on the forum.
The most typical thing is that when it is late at night and everyone is asleep, you can always hear music played by two instruments on the street.
As long as they hear this song, the audience will temporarily lose their ability to manage their emotions, and both players and aborigines will be forced to pay...
If you are an aborigine, you will find that your pockets are empty when you regain consciousness; if you are a player, you will find a prompt popping up on your bloody phone——
[Congratulations on listening to a wonderful concert, pay twenty copper coins! 】
Suddenly, music intrigue became a hot topic among all players.
They were all speculating, where did such shameless characteristics come from?
Could it be the taboo mystery that appeared in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River last time?
However, this speculation is still doubtful, because according to forum discussions, the real identity of the Taboo in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River is a player, and it does not have such powerful characteristics yet.
At least in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River, you can still hear the clear suona, and you can choose whether to listen to the entire music.
But this musical trick that suddenly appeared gave me no choice at all. I couldn't even tell what instrument was being played, and my personal assets disappeared inexplicably.
In order to verify this guess, some players tried to find ways to capture the existence of this characteristic ability. They organized a large group of gangs to guard the vicinity of the "crime scene". Dozens of players were distributed across various places, with a clear division of labor and separate operations. They planned to catch this thing when the music started playing!
Unfortunately, their operation ended in failure.
According to the revelations of the victimized players: Even if they are in a group, their emotions will be affected by the music, and they will temporarily forget themselves and ignore everything happening around them.
Immediately afterwards...
When they came back to their senses, they didn't even see the shadow of "Music Trick" and the money in their pockets was gone.
Even the blood-colored mobile phone will send information about deductions and liabilities!
Many players were still laughing at the unlucky people who had their property harvested by the forbidden trick, mocking them for not even being able to circumvent this rule, like fools. At this moment, their defenses were completely broken. They couldn't help but curse on the public screen. It was the first time they saw such a disgusting special ability. They were so angry that they were half dead. They asked why this special ability didn't belong to them?
Gradually, the location of the "crime scene" moved closer to the vicinity of Lieyang Church.
As a result, the players who were robbing nearby did not dare to stay here.
I was worried that the money I just robbed would be robbed by the "music trick" not long after.
What's funny is that the area near the Burning Sun Church, where fighting is prohibited, has become a gathering place where sin spreads. But this evil was actually stopped by a greater evil force!
However, since the area where the Music Trick committed crimes came to the vicinity of the Lieyang Church, there seemed to be fewer and fewer of them. I don't know if it's because the players have learned to hide, or because of other reasons.
As a result, the area around the Sun Church has returned to a subtle critical point.
The folk customs are a bit simple and a bit harmonious, but not much...
Looking in front of the church, in the open semicircular Roman square, there are refugees wearing ragged clothes and looking numb everywhere. They made simple beds with tattered cloths, using the sky as quilt and the earth as bed, and slept together like this. Occasionally, the lucky ones could get a drop of holy water from the Church of the Burning Sun, which was used to maintain the The vitality that was almost crippled in the first place.
On this day, April 11, Lieyang Church was crowded with people as usual, but unusually quiet. Figures are located in their own bed area, with numb expressions, looking up to the sky, staring at the dim sky in a daze to pass the meaningless time. There are even some players who have been here for a long time and who originally looked like normal people, but now they are no different from the aborigines.
Nothing particularly unusual happened on this day. If anything, it was when the flow of people reached its peak and was so crowded that there was almost no room for a liquid cat to get in... Two more figures appeared. .
An old man and a young man.
The old man held an erhu in his hand, and the young man held a suona in his hand.
"Is this the Church of the Burning Sun?"
Chen Ye stood on the side of the square, looking through the black crowds of heads, he could see the white-painted walls of the church and the gold-plated tiles on the dome. A simple copper bell was hung from the pointed arch on the top floor with a steel rope. When the hour came, the melodious bell rang, echoing in the lonely sky above the square.
He saw a glazed silk thread passing through the "Bloody Mary" in the mountains and rivers, connecting the church and himself.
In the halo, the star-like colored glaze gradually converged into a line, leading to the interior of the Burning Sun Church.
Nearby, the ring of disaster surrounded by ink blackness and bloody light seemed to become deeper and richer.
But in the distance, the rice-like star exuded an even more dazzling light in the wandering concerts... I wonder if it was an illusion, but Chen Ye felt that the golden star seemed to be getting closer and closer to him. , no longer so ethereal and illusory, but becoming solid.
When his figure appeared in the square of Lieyang Church, the [Wanderer Map] in his mind suddenly bloomed with a dazzling light again.
Near the square, the streets are intertwined like Rome, either wide or narrow, like an orderly dense network, connecting the church in the center.
The church was built in the deepest part of the arc square, backed by a low hill, and behind it was a mist.
If you concentrate and zoom in on the details, you will find that in addition to the spacious hall, the church also has layers of attics inside, which seem to form a maze of blocks composed of secret rooms.
"Disciple, there are many listeners here. Do you want to play a song here? I think we will get rich!"
The old man with the erhu swept across the dark crowd of heads, his eyes excited, as if counting the copper coins in his pocket.
Chen Ye sighed: "Master, didn't you say that robbery is not allowed near the Lieyang Church?"
"Yes!"
"Are you sure we call this playing, not robbery?"
"What you said makes some sense..."