Chapter 188 Ancient City of the Dead (Free 1w3)
[Because the Ancient City of the Undead involves resistance to Japanese aggression, it was rectified and put here for free! bow--! 】
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"The long and desperate winter, the fire covered by ice, the shocking dash, the backbone of the rebel..."
The moving Connector suddenly fell silent.
The joyful singing made the glazed surfaces on both sides ripple like water ripples, and the hexagrams in the square bricks also swayed, blurring out the traces of ink.
The Mad Hatter was humming an incomprehensible song, with the suspicion of being out of tune, and would not give the people on both sides a look at him with bated breath.
"Sir, please wait a moment."
Suddenly someone made a voice behind him. The Mad Hatter stopped and looked at the girl approaching with a signature pad in confusion.
"I, I have been following your channel," the connector who boldly stepped forward said nervously, his eyes still shining, "Can I ask for a blessing? I'm about to test the waters of Keneq!"
"Of course, respect is the bottom line, and respecting women is a necessary etiquette."
The Mad Hatter reached out and took the pen from her hand, tilted his head and said with a smile:
"Do you only need a signature? Do you need other blessings?"
"Anything is OK!" The girl couldn't help but get excited, clenching her hands uncontrollably, her face turning slightly red.
"OK."
The Mad Hatter wrote his blessing on the signature board and signed his name.
"Then I wish you good luck in testing the waters, excellent and beautiful lady."
After signing, the Mad Hatter returned the pen slate, raised his hand to his head, and seemed to have taken off an invisible top hat, making a simple gentleman's hat-off ceremony. His behavior was elegant and inexplicably weird.
"Thank you for supporting me."
As he said this, he bowed slightly. His white hair, which was somewhat silvery, hung down. His long eyelashes were ceremonially lowered to cover his eyes. His light golden eyes gave off an indescribable divinity to his whole person.
Like a crazy gentleman left over from an old era.
The girl covered her mouth with one hand and held the signature board tightly with the other, almost making a sound with excitement.
The Mad Hatter straightened up and walked towards the innermost door.
"Ekhi's frequent visitor is known as the 'crazy gentleman' in the game. Even though he is still normal now, he starts to go crazy after entering the game."
Song Jingyun clicked his tongue and said: "Often people will go crazy without even using the brand. They can't control their temper at all. They will start to mess up without being affected by the boss. Almost every time they will crash and log out."
Sang Ting nodded: "Will we play against him?"
"If we want to get the "First Order", we will definitely run into him - but we should try not to run into the Mad Hatter before the global competition. If we accidentally do it in the intercontinental competition... hiss. "
Song Jingyun's fingertips holding the copper coin went numb, and he suddenly took a breath and dropped the coin.
Sang Ting's eyes were quick and he moved faster. He kicked up the copper coin with his toes and caught it in the palm of his hand.
"What's going on?" Sang Ting frowned and threw the copper coin to Song Jingyun.
"Something doesn't feel right," Song Jingyun suddenly felt uncertain, "I have an unknown premonition..."
[All-border channel news: Zone 1 IMAX Theater-Channel 1 has been opened and connected to the connector Mad Hatter channel line! You can enjoy the teleportation privileges in Zone 1 without entering the teleportation gate. 】
The channel prompt suddenly sounded, and Song Jingyun was shocked: "When did I follow the Mad Hatter?"
He hissed and scratched his chin, "Oh, I remembered it. It was when their club bought trolls to support them two days ago. 100 game coins will be given for following, 100 game coins will be given for positive comments, and players from other clubs will be kicked. Give me another 100, and I’ll take the first 200.”
"You really let me know what it means to be a fool if you don't take advantage of something." Sang Ting was convinced.
"Really? Why don't you say that your boss will retaliate, take things by force, and pluck out the feathers of wild geese?"
Song Jingyun said several words in a row, and clicked on the new prompt, "And your boss doesn't like those few hairs of others, so he just ripped off their skin, and wants to sell their kidneys... I'll go?!"
Song Jingyun's eyes widened in astonishment, and his chin almost hit his instep: "What kind of tricks are you doing?!"
[Ding dong! The professional players you are following, Quan Heng, Mu Jing, and Mad Hatter, have formed a group and you can freely choose the angle of view to watch! 】
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[Channel News: The professional player you are following - Quan Heng has opened a new map...]
Viewing platform coordinates: District 4-No. 6
[Ding dong! The "first sequence" privilege has been detected, and the VIP viewing channel has been opened for you to enter the online exclusive viewing platform]
The top floor of the Empire of Thorns.
The Forbidden Queen glanced at the large LCD screen suspended in front of her. The channel that hadn't started yet showed a black screen, so she withdrew her gaze and dropped sunspots on the chessboard.
"Aheng didn't deal with the matters on the seventh floor, but those people were left to dry, like ants on a hot pot." She crossed her legs, and her slim-fitting black gauze skirt shone like stars, and was gently blown up by the wind on the top floor. A corner of the upper level.
"This is the right decision. Don't be impatient when dealing with those thorny people on the seventh floor," the man holding the white piece chuckled, "but the people on the seventh floor are still afraid that Quan Heng will settle accounts with them, and they wanted Nirvana to protect them before. It’s suddenly stopped recently.”
Taboo picked up the red wine glass on the table, took a sip, and said with a smile: "It's just a bunch of idiots."
"Most humans are stupid, you have to understand." The man said, "But she really went to Ekhi this time. I thought she would be more conservative and choose Keneq."
"That's because you overlooked one thing."
The taboo queen looked at the blond man dressed as a priest opposite:
"Tomorrow the Intercontinental Tournament starts. After the opening, the door to Ekhi will be closed - or the door that really leads to the core of the new world will be closed. We start preparing for the game, and the monsters must also start preparing, which means Today is the last chance to observe the difficulty of the global competition.”
"The "First Sequence" permission has been used for too long, and I almost forgot about it. The blond priest lowered his head slightly and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for reminding me." "
Taboo nodded lightly, and the blond priest praised when he raised his head: "Your Majesty has excellent vision. There are very few newcomers who dare to enter Ekhi. She is as charming and courageous as you."
"What I like is naturally the best."
The Forbidden Queen gave him a meaningful look, "But Father Crescent Moon came here just to play a game of chess with me?"
The man dressed as a priest pursed his lips, and a little bee holding a mini-horn buzzed down on his shoulder.
"I want to talk to you about the Mad Hatter."
"It turns out something happened to the team's ace. No wonder," Taboo smiled, "If you're talking about his madness, then there's nothing I can do about it."
She swayed the red wine glass and turned her head to look at the glow of the red sky, looking far away:
"If a person insists on pursuing the ultimate freedom, he will inevitably become a madman. The biggest cause of his illness is that he realized what 'freedom' was before he was imprisoned, so he drove himself crazy."
The Forbidden Queen drank the red wine in one gulp, with an unobvious sarcasm in her charming eyes that were as charming as the deep sea.
"But this also stems from his fragility. He is a coward who can only escape and is afraid of taking responsibility, just like his cowardly father. As for the freedom he wants to pursue, maybe he can get it by opening his skull. Come on."
"Please don't do this."
Father Xinyue lowered his eyes and lightly pressed the cross on his chest. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were already somewhat obvious.
"He is a very good child, with the sorrow and pain of a normal person - the grim fate of his fate is not his fault. His madness is all for struggle. I don't want him to fall like a meteor, so I come to you for help."
"The grime of fate..."
The Forbidden Queen stood up. Her ankle-length black gauze skirt made her look more elegant and tall. She slightly pulled down the wide brim of her black hat, and her red lips curved in a perfunctory arc: "Then let the ridiculous fate save him. ”
bite! "The Ancient City of the Dead" officially started.
The floating screen suddenly issued a prompt:
[VIP Special News (Report on the special concerns you set)
Name: Ancient City of the Dead
Difficulty: Ekhi
Type: Multiplayer (3/3)
Game rules: Following Ekhi’s special rules, players complete character tasks within the specified time and can log out after obtaining the specified game currency]
[VIP Tips: The members this time are Quan Heng, Mu Jing, and Mad Hatter; you can turn on God’s perspective or any perspective to watch]
Mad Hatter? !
The Forbidden Queen was startled for a moment, then turned to look at Father Crescent Moon sitting beside her, her eyes sweeping over the little bee on his shoulder.
——Brainwave communication items.
In an instant, the blue eyes were like a sea full of clouds, brewing danger:
"What do you want to test?"
"As you can see," the priest with pale temples said in a calm voice and his eyes were silent, "seeking the favor of fate for the children shrouded in dusk, seeking a salvation from the dawn."
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[Channel News: The professional player you are following - Quan Heng has opened a new map and organized a group to start! You can click to check the coordinates of the transmission port of the viewing platform! 】
Viewing deck coordinates: No. 6 viewing deck, District 4
In the borderland of day and night, Yan Su stepped towards the portal.
Quan Heng?
Oh yes, the connector that Deputy Tang is particularly concerned about.
Yan Su pressed his temples tiredly. He had just finished Vlam and his mental state was not very good.
Except for the games he must play every three days, he basically spends the rest of his time in the research room. He rarely even opens the forum to take a look.
There is no way, I don't know if it is because the total number of connectors in the past generations is constantly increasing. The anchoring of the new world is becoming more frequent, and the invasion of the human world is also faster.
Those who do research must develop new products and improve containment methods and containment materials based on the evolving status of aliens.
"She has only been in the game for more than a week. I only heard that she has unlocked many achievements and broken many records. I didn't expect that she has already entered the fourth area - they are all high-sequence gathering places. Let's go and take a look first."
Yan Su thought as he walked towards the teleportation area of the viewing platform, "With so many achievements unlocked, there are also a lot of sequence buff rewards. Her sequence should have been raised to A. She passed Keneq last time, and she still needs to be stable this time. Keneq?”
"You don't know what the forum was like. I didn't expect that she actually entered Ekhi!!"
The connector passing by was so excited that he danced, "I knew our sister Quan was awesome! I specifically bet on her [passing Ekhi], but I didn't expect that I actually won! Although the betting rate was not as outrageous as before, I also made a profit." Enough for this month’s transit tax!”
Ekhi?
Yan Su's mind was like a firecracker going off, and his tired brain was shaken to half consciousness, and he murmured:
"Isn't it the fourth time for Quan Heng to register? She is a newcomer, isn't it? Only the chief and deputy chairmen can join Ekhi?"
Yan Su couldn't help but rub his ears with his palms, suspecting that he had serious hearing impairment.
"Okay, I know Quan Heng is very powerful. Seeing how excited you are, I should suppress it."
The connector muttered, and the two of them walked beside Yan Su and heard it clearly, "It's just that they bet on both sides, so they earn less."
"Quan Heng is now a hot commodity, or to be more precise, her gambling plate is a hot commodity!"
The person who won the money jumped up and down, excitedly saying, "I know that I have to bet on Quan Heng no matter what, and I will definitely make money! Anyway, the difference in the gambling plate is made up by Bian Yu, and I didn't make money from Sister Quan. I gave money to Sister Quan in disguise!"
Indeed, the gambling money obtained by the winner in the gambling plate was provided by Bian Yu in addition.
He looks like a kind boss, but this method of combining taxes and gambling money is to force connectors to become professionals, or even induce them to join the league.
Yan Su rubbed his temples, and his brain, which had been awakened, began to ache again.
"Hurry up," the person who was connecting with you urged, "You have to grab tickets to watch a movie, and you have to reserve seats for classes in college. If you don't hurry up, you won't have a good seat."
"Okay, okay, I got it. When will this game have a ticket grabbing system? Anyway, it's all like a movie theater. If you grab a ticket, you have a fixed seat, and you don't have to worry about leaving the seat and having your seat taken away."
Yes, the program has been changed!
Yan Su patted his brain, which was hesitant because of fatigue, and found a place to sit down.
The Day and Night Border can use branding, but it will automatically block damage.
[Branding-crawler bug, shackles have been removed]
[Details: Release the crawler virus, change the program on the virtual network-clang! The crawler is good, and you go to jail early. Remember not to touch the restricted area! ]
The virtual fluorescent green bug disappeared in the opened page, and the online channel, which was originally extremely limited and full, suddenly had a hundred more places!
The connectors who were staying in the human world and trying their best to enter the channel: "???!"
Wow, why did the God of Wealth suddenly appear? !
Yan Su sat on a bench by the road and sighed: "Just consider it a benefit to the collective."
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"Ding Dong! The game "Ancient City of the Dead" is officially open-"
"This time, the KP (host) will be personally served by this system, providing you with 360° humanized service, and sincerely reporting your death progress~"
The Keeper's notification voice penetrated the darkness.
[Name: Ancient City of the Dead
Difficulty: Ekhi
Type: Multiplayer (3/3)
Rule Book: Follow the special rules of Ekhi. Players can log out after completing the role tasks within the specified time and obtaining the specified game coins. ]
Quan Heng opened his eyes, and the first thing that came into his sight was the dim starry sky. The red crescent moon hung in the thick night, like a gloomy and depressing oil painting that was torn open with a thin crack, revealing a blood-red background.
【Welcome to the new world - Edge of No Man's Land, I wish you a happy time. 】
Quan Heng closed his eyes to relieve the dizziness brought by logging into Ekhi, and moved his hands slightly.
Warm and sticky.
This touch, Quan Heng thought, I don't need to see what this is.
Quan Heng sighed, and wanted to lean over to prop himself up, and just at an angle, he suddenly faced a face covered with pus and blood bubbles.
It looked like sulfuric acid corrosion, or like bacterial infection, or scald, this face completely lost human skin, only deformed facial muscles.
Quan Heng's pupils contracted, and his heartbeat accelerated for a moment.
[Fuck! I'm scared to death! Why is it like this again, lightning strikes as soon as the screen opens? ! ]
[Is this a burn? It feels like scratches and rot. Wait, what level is Quan Heng in? ! ]
[Finally, I don't have to watch those dramas of hiring monsters to play NPCs. It's so exciting to go directly into the city. Give me a location, and rush over now! ]
Quan Heng's fingertips moved slightly, and he quickly calmed down: "Excuse me, what can I do for you?"
This face was only a finger away from her, and the broken right eyeball slowly turned under the burned eyelids. The left eye was cut by something like a bayonet, and the old scar could not bleed. Only the irregularly growing polyps under the knife could be seen.
The eyes blinked, and only half of the eyelids were left.
"Yes." He spoke, and his broken eyes were still bright.
Quan Heng looked down and found that he had no nose, or even lips.
When he spoke, he could only see the black and empty mouth, and his voice was vague, "You don't look like you are from the ancient city, you look like a living person, are you a player here?"
Player?
Does he have this concept?
Quan Heng supported himself and sat up, only to find that he was surrounded by gray-black walls-
She was in a huge pit.
The things under her body looked like ash, and the sticky objects she just touched were all roasted meat pieces or limbs under the ash.
Quan Heng looked at the red blood that was faintly visible under the ash, and suddenly had an ominous premonition.
"This is a mass grave," the "person" also sat up, his voice still vague, "It's not buried, it's burned."
Burned? Mass grave?
Quan Heng's heart moved, his eyes fixed on the face of the "person" in front of him, and his tone was calm and firm when he spoke:
"You are from Gujiang, right?"
"Ah! Are you from Gujiang too?!"
The person in front of him suddenly became excited and grabbed Quan Heng's hand, "Then we are fellow villagers! My name is Jiang Jin, what about you?!"
"Indeed, we are fellow villagers, just call me Ah Heng."
Quan Heng smiled, and felt the uneven texture on the back of his hand, with a sticky feeling of flesh and blood.
[I thought Quan Heng really let his guard down, but it seems that he didn't]
[It is a taboo to tell other beings your name at will. This is not a worker who plays the role of an NPC. This is Monster City. Citizens are highly free and are not controlled by the border.]
Jiang Jin seemed to realize that something was wrong. He quickly withdrew his hand and looked at the blood on Quan Heng's hand with some uneasiness.
"Sorry, I stained your hands."
"It's okay."
Quan Heng ignored it and just looked up at the top of his head. "Let's climb out of this pit first. Here..."
She paused and swept her eyes through the dark and silent pit. "Is there anyone awake here?"
Quan Heng did not say "alive" because the NPC who came to this place no longer had this possibility.
Jiang Jin was silent for a moment and shook his head slowly: "No."
"I am the only one who survived. Many people could wake up at this time before, but this year I am the only one left."
Quan Heng looked back at him: "Before?"
"Yes, we can wake up once a year, and then pass through three cities, get the passes for the three cities, and then visit the living family."
Jiang Jin opened his mouth and tried his best to make his words clear.
"I've been waiting here for a day, and none of them woke up, only you, comrade..."
He paused, stretched out his hand and pointed at Quan Heng and then at the sky.
"Fell from the sky - I just wanted to get close to see if you were still breathing, and you woke up. By the way, comrade, are you okay?"
Quan Heng: "."
[Laughing to death, a sister Heng fell from the sky]
[Then this sister Heng has a good physical fitness, and she didn't get hurt even if she fell directly]
"I'm fine," Quan Heng said, "Let's go up first."
The pit is ten meters deep, and even if it is full of bones, it is more than five meters deep, and it is straight up and down all around.
Quan Heng turned around, and the dark red electric light of "Tianshu" burst out. The moment it was thrown into the pit, it locked itself and tied up the nearby big tree.
She stretched out her hand and motioned Jiang Jin to come closer, "Do you want me to pull you up, or do you come by yourself?"
There are no humans in the new world, and this height is nothing to him, not to mention that Jiang Jin goes out from here once a year.
Jiang Jin was stunned, hesitantly glanced at Quan Heng's thin arms, shook his head and waved his hands: "No, no, I can jump up by myself, comrade, you don't have to worry about me."
[What he meant was: I'm afraid of breaking your little arm. ]
[I'm so happy, I'm not saying that Quan Heng doesn't have to be polite. ]
Quan Heng nodded and used the force to climb up.
Under the pit, Jiang Jin squatted down like a horse stance to accumulate strength, jumped up suddenly, jumped straight out of the bottom of the pit and landed steadily on the ground.
When he reached the ground that was faintly illuminated by the red crescent moon, Quan Heng saw his tattered clothes, and his exposed abdomen was full of festering scars and obvious knife wounds.
It penetrated from the front to the back, piercing the abdomen and chest.
He noticed that Quan Heng was looking at him, looked up and smiled embarrassedly, and reluctantly gathered up the torn clothes:
"I was wearing winter clothes, but then the yellow ghost threw a fire stick from the pit, and the fire was too severe, so I had to take off my cotton clothes."
Quan Heng put away his weapon and took a piece of clothes directly from the club warehouse and handed it to Jiang Jin.
"The number should be suitable, you change first."
Jiang Jin looked at the cotton coat in Quan Heng's hand and waved his hand quickly: "No, no, not to mention that we have discipline, but this cotton coat is so precious, I can't just accept your things."
"Mr. Jiang knows that I am a player, so he should know that I come from the current human world," Quan Heng smiled, "For the current economic situation, it is not difficult to take out an ordinary cotton coat."
Jiang Jin was stunned, and when he reacted, the cotton coat was already in his hand.
He moved his lips, and finally put his hand lightly on the cotton coat, and whispered: "Thank you."
This thank you is not only for this cotton coat.
There is also news from New China.
Quan Heng bowed his head slightly and said, "Mr. Jiang, you are too polite."
When Jiang Jin went behind the tree to change clothes, Quan Heng finally had time to look at the panel: "Character card extraction."
"Ding! KP prompt: Please extract the character card"
The Keeper prompt sounded - two character cards slid open with their backs facing Quan Heng, with the same pattern.
[Oh, it should be four cards, so the other two have already been extracted. ]
[By the way, I still don't know who Quan Heng logged into the game with. It seems to be with the child holding the puppy. What about the other one? Song Jingyun? ]
[Upstairs, Song Jingyun can pass. He is leading a child through the blind map. It is very likely that he is the new teammate that Quan Heng wants to recruit. The basic sequence is very high. ]
[Everyone mute, everyone mute, the climax is coming, the character card extraction I have been looking forward to for a long time! ]
[Bet two coins, it must be a joker! ]
"The first one." Quan Heng was too lazy to choose, so he just said it casually.
The character card with a light purple sheen was turned over, and it was not the familiar hooded black man, but the fisherman holding a bamboo pole?
[Character Card: Ferryman (Ordinary)]
"?!" Quan Heng raised his eyebrows in surprise.
[Huh, it's not a joker this time? My youth is over]
[Impossible, absolutely impossible! If there is a joker, Quan Heng will definitely draw it]
[I know the answer to this question. There is usually a joker in the four character cards. Now there are two left. What does this mean? It means that Quan Heng didn't draw it because someone drew it before! It's definitely not that she didn't draw it]
[The above person is right, bet two coins]
[You guys, is it impossible for Quan Heng to have a good hand once? ? ]
[Possible, but I just want to see her eat up (a dog’s head holding a rose in its mouth)]
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"It's not a fake card this time?"
Quan Heng carefully wiped off the blood on Shibazi and whispered: "Does this mean that my luck in drawing character cards can still be saved?"
She couldn't see the "impossible" that filled the screen. She just lowered her eyes and wrapped the beads around her wrist, thinking in her heart.
She couldn't see the last character card, so she wasn't sure whether there was a ghost card or not.
But the first thing on the priority list is to find Mu Jing.
The teleportation distance won't be too far apart, it should be around here.
"It fits perfectly, thank you very much."
Jiang Jin walked out from behind the tree as he spoke. The clean cotton clothes on his body covered most of the scars, and he could vaguely see his tall and upright figure in life.
"Did Mr. Jiang study before?" Quan Heng looked at his faintly bookish look and asked with a smile on his face.
"It is."
Jiang Jin's voice was hoarse, her burned vocal cords were trembling, and her words were also hoarse, but she could still hear the firmness.
"But later when the country was in trouble, Jiang gave up his writing and joined the army."
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"Abandon your writing and join the army to protect your family and country."
Under the warm yellow light of the memorial hall, the hero's medal in the glass case shone with golden luster. Next to it was a small yellowed book and a rusty pocket watch.
Nie Cang stood in front of Jiang Jin's introduction of personal deeds and sighed slowly.
"Why is Captain Nie Cang sighing?"
An old and kind voice came from behind. Nie Cang quickly turned around and walked a few steps quickly, helping the old lady from the hands of the staff.
"Why did Director Liu come out in person?"
"Of course, we are cooperating with the organization's work," the old curator said with a smile, folding his hands and leaning on the cane, "Is there anything Captain Nie Cang needs our help with?"
"Maybe we can't help with professional matters, but if it's related to the library's collection of books and materials, architectural layout, etc., we can help."
Nie Cang also laughed: "You must ask the old curator about these matters. How can we laymen keep up with the professionals?"
"What kind of professionals are we? We just watch the deeds of heroes every day, and explain these precious heroic relics and the stories behind them over and over again with the students who come to visit."
The old curator looked at the bulletin board in front of him and then at the items in the display cabinet, his eyebrows gentle.
"Over time, the beliefs of these heroes are engraved in our souls."
Just as Nie Cang was about to say something, he suddenly glanced behind the old curator and saw the commentator secretly wiping his tears, and was stunned for a moment.
"Ma'am, what's wrong with you?"
The little girl was suddenly noticed, and she hurriedly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, her voice still hoarse and choked with sobs.
"Nothing, nothing."
"Oh," the old curator sighed, took the guide's hand and patted it gently, "It's okay, it's okay, we just need to strengthen our beliefs and don't think so much."
Nie Cang looked back at the team members behind him. The team members he saw immediately couldn't help but start talking, with resentment in their tone.
"Just now, Ms. Lin was explaining about bacterial weapons. When she was talking about the live bacterial experiments, a tourist aged 17 or 18 took off his coat, and he was wearing a kimono underneath!"
Nie Cang was stunned and looked at the commentator who was crying in disbelief, then looked at the team members: "In the memorial hall?!"
"Where else could he be?" The team member became more and more angry as he spoke, "Ms. Lin asked him to go out after stopping him. That tourist was simply... unreasonable!
“Not only did he talk about the freedom to dress, but he also criticized the establishment of Miss Lin’s memorial hall as harmful to peace. Building a building specifically to commemorate the past would only waste resources, not be environmentally friendly, and also affect cultural exchanges!”
"Have you notified the Security Department?" Nie Cang frowned tightly, "Maliciously causing trouble and insulting the martyrs, leave this matter to them."
"It has been notified." The team member looked at the commentator who was crying and sobbing, and quickly took out a bag of tissues from his pocket, opened it and handed the paper to the commentator, "Ms. Lin, wipe your tears, your eyes will hurt if you cry again. of."
The commentator took the tissue and said "thank you" in a hoarse voice.
The old curator sighed, as if he wanted to sigh away his loneliness:
"This is the Fujiang Memorial Hall. It is not only the historical museum of the Fujiang War of Resistance, but also the place of silence for the massacre. Even if there is peace now and people's lives have improved, the history and suffering should not be forgotten.
"The speeches and thoughts of some young people nowadays..."
The old curator looked up at the heroic statue in front of him. There seemed to be tears in his eyes, and his voice was trembling and hoarse, "You said, how can we who enjoy peace and happiness now have the qualifications to make decisions and forgive for our ancestors?
"They...how could they just say those words?"
Her sorrow and pain seemed to be turning into reality, and sadness surged in everyone's heart.
The commentator lowered her head and sobbed softly. Just as the team members beside her were about to comfort her, their own eyes became red.
Nie Cang opened his mouth, his eyes fell on the mottled knife marks on the old man's neck, and finally he lowered his eyes and fell silent.
He knew that the old curator's husband was named Jiang Jin, and he was a hero who defended his family and country.
We also know that the old curator led the women in the city to form a team to fight when Furue fell. Later, they were captured and became comfort women. They managed to survive the inhuman torture and rescued several women in the concentration camp.
Later, he became a red agent and lurked in the core of the white area for a long time.
No one here would be more saddened than her by what the tourists said.
"I'm sorry." Nie Cang responded softly. The deaf old man just stared at the familiar statue without moving his eyes.
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"So you want to visit your family after getting the three-city pass. Is there any time limit?"
Under the bloody crescent moon, Quan Heng walked beside Jiang Jin.
"Yes, if you get a pass stamped by the three cities when the red moon is full, you can cross the river to visit your relatives."
"Crossing the river?" Quan Heng captured the information, "What river?"
"The river that connects this place with the human world is called the Dark Dirt River in the Three Cities Home Guide."
Dark dirt river?
Is it the current "Wugou River" she knew?
Jiang Jin sighed: "Last year, many comrades woke up with me, but I didn't expect that I would be the only one left this year."
Quan Heng paused slightly: "Are there any conditions for waking up?"
"There needs to be someone in the human world who remembers you and knows your basic life. It would be better if the items you used during your lifetime could be kept basically intact. But what if..."
Jiang Jin paused, looked up at the moon in the sky, and pursed his lips:
"If everyone forgets about you, you will never wake up again, and we will usher in true death.
"Forgetting is erasure in the true sense."
Jiang Jin smiled at Quan Heng, his eyes shining like stars.
"Actually, we don't care whether we will be remembered, and we have never regretted devoting our blood for our faith and a bright future - we just have this hope every year and want to go home and see. See the people who care about us, and the people who care about us "
Quan Heng was quiet and asked, "When was the last time you crossed the river?"
"This, I feel ashamed to say it." Jiang Jin scratched his hair in embarrassment, "Actually, I have never successfully obtained a three-city pass."
Quan Heng: "..."
"Um, cough." Jiang Jin put his fist to his lips and coughed seriously, "It's really hard to get a pass for the three cities. I try very hard every year."
Quan Heng reached out and rubbed his eyebrows: "Then my teammates and I will help you get it this year."
"Do you still have teammates?" Jiang Jinxian noticed the first message, "Then why don't you see anyone else? Did you get separated from your teammates after falling into a pit? Let me help you find them. I'm very familiar with this area."
After this series of events, Quan Heng didn’t even have a chance to refuse.
"The most common place for players to log in around here should be in this forest. There is a half-exploited mine over there."
Jiang Jin motioned for Quan Heng to follow him inside and started talking:
"Speaking of which, our platoon also conquered an enemy-occupied mine. We overfulfilled our mission. I even seized two pocket watches! Later, the organization rewarded me. I kept one piece for myself and one for my wife. !”
He said taking out a golden pocket watch from his pocket with a smile on his face.
"There is also a photo of my wife in it. I am so precious."
Jiang Jin said as he opened his pocket watch, revealing an old black and white photo——
The elegant yet heroic woman smiled and looked towards her like-minded husband behind the camera.
Warmth freezes this moment, where love and faith are all present.
"My wife, Tang Xinlan."
Jiang Jin brushed the photo with care, "My wife and I were childhood sweethearts. Later, we attended a new school together and participated in various new movements. Later, I gave up writing and joined the army, and she supported the civilian industry in the rear."
"The relationship between you and your wife is so good." Quan Heng sighed, "It is a blessing in one's life to find a like-minded love."
Jiang Jin was a little embarrassed by the praise, and looked down at the photo on her pocket watch, reluctant to part with it.
"I'm ashamed to say that, not counting the days here, I haven't seen Xinlan for three years during my lifetime - the war was raging, and only letters traveled thousands of miles. I originally promised to accompany her to see Kapok, but it's a pity... …”
Jiang Jin paused, sighing long and silent.
It's a pity that the artillery fire is scorching, the war is cruel, and the hero has no return to shed his blood, so he can only break his promise to his beloved wife.
"Although the flowering period of kapok is already over, I have some ideas," Quan Heng said with a smile. "When we get the three-city pass and cross the Wugu River, I will fulfill your wish to enjoy the flowers."
Jiang Jin suddenly raised her head and couldn't help but want to laugh, but felt that it was not polite. She tried her best to hold her lipless mouth, and finally gave up hiding it and thanked her happily: "Thank you!"
"It should be." Quan Heng nodded with a smile, "After all, this is also my mission."
[KP Tip: Congratulations to player Quan Heng for unlocking the "Ferryman" role mission! 】
[Character mission: Help Jiang Jin get the three-city pass, cross the Wugou River, and cross the river before the full red moon]
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"Sister! Is that you?"
A crisp call sounded from the grass on the side of the road. Mu Jing and a half-size wolfdog with its tongue sticking out its tongue emerged from the grass, holding a small flashlight in his hand:
"Wow! Xiaoliu is so awesome, he found his sister!"
Mu Xiaoliu raised his head proudly: "Ouch!"
Wolf dogs have very sharp noses, not to mention monster wolf dogs.
Quan Heng was not in a hurry to find someone because it was faster and easier for Mu Jing to find her than for her to find Mu Jing.
"Sister." Mu Jing said, trying to pull herself out from the grass. Mu Xiaoliu escaped from the predicament with a quick jump and took Mu Jing's collar in his mouth.
"Thank you, Xiaoliu!" Mu Jing patted it and hurried back to Quan Heng, "Is sister in danger? Is she injured?"
"There is no danger, let alone no injuries," Quan Heng replied patiently, "Just don't worry."
"Is this a hound?" Jiang Jin looked at the wolfdog obediently following Mu Jing in surprise, "It's so obedient, it's really a good dog with only intelligence."
Mu Jing smiled and hugged Mu Xiaoliu's neck, not afraid of Jiang Jin's face at all, and smiled brightly: "Thank you, uncle!"
"No thanks, no thanks," Jiang Jin rarely saw such a lively child, and said softly, "You are a member of the little comrade's team."
"Yes!" Mu Jing looked up at Quan Heng first, and answered when he saw the other party acquiesced.
"What about uncle?" Mu Jing was curious, "Is he a resident of the new world or a player?"
"Mr. Jiang is a compatriot who needs our help to get a pass to go home to visit relatives." Quan Heng answered this question first.
She reached out and touched Mu Jing's head, changing the subject, "Did you get your character card?"
"I got it, it sounds like it should be the same as my sister's," Mu Jing knew that he had asked the wrong question just now, scratched his head and looked at Quan Heng again, "They are all 'ferrymen'."
[Congratulations to player Mu Jing for unlocking the "ferryman" role mission! 】
[Role mission: Help Jiang Jin get the Three Cities Pass, cross the Wuqi River, and cross the river before the full red moon]
"Well, it's the same." Mu Jing concluded.
"Only one?" Jiang Jin asked, "If we are all together, we can take a rest and then set off for the Three Cities."
"One more is missing, and the enemy and friend are unknown."
The teammates don't know whether they are all together. After all, in addition to the person Quan Heng is looking for, there is another person whose identity card is uncertain.
"It's because the role mission is different," Jiang Jin has seen more than one tasker, Quan Heng, and has some understanding of these things. Hearing this, he also reacted, "Then we can go forward, or let the hounds find it directly."
"Then choose B!" Mu Jing raised his hand actively, "Let the super powerful Xiaoliu come!"
The super powerful Mu Xiaoliu was very pleased and held his head high, not feeling that he was being asked to work by pua at all.
"Xiao Liu," Mu Jing encouraged, "It's time to show your real skills!"
Mu Xiao Liu let out a "wow", his nose twitched to distinguish carefully, and suddenly shook his tail to excitedly glance at the three people, and ran in a certain direction.
Quan Heng: "..."
Well, it really complements Xiao Ting's feelings and intelligence.
...
The blood crescent moon hung high, and dark clouds floated from time to time, covering the light vaguely. Under a towering ancient tree in the forest that three people could hug, the blood-red transparent chain flashed dimly, illuminating this small place.
The chain hung high, and the blood-red color condensed into blood dripping down. The two ends were tied to the tree trunk, and the part hanging in the middle pierced the neck of a pure black monster. It was two meters tall, and the neck was full of rotten eyes.
The uglier head was nowhere to be found, as if it was kicked high into the air by the hunter as a football, and flew to an unknown land.
"Hmm, hmm, happy night! Eat monsters!"
The young man hummed a song out of tune under the blood-red light, and talked to himself from time to time.
"The internal organs must be cleaned, otherwise there will be a fishy smell. The skin must also be peeled off. Although this one is a cub, it seems to have a skin disease... Cut off the feet too, it seems to have athlete's foot."
He talked incessantly, like a mental patient talking to himself.
Holding a silver needle larger than an adult's palm, he cut open the monster hanging in front of him and picked out the internal organs and other dirt with a thick needle.
The flesh and internal organs fell from the monster's abdomen, and the blood flowed down, dyeing the dark black soil under his feet red, accumulating into a puddle of blood, and kept flowing towards the puddle.
"It's done."
The young man stepped back with satisfaction, holding the huge silver needle in his blood-stained hand and turning it easily, but the splashing blood stains were bounced away by an inexplicable force before they touched his body.
"Put the spices in later, and buy some vegetables to put in," he said with a happy smile, "then sew it and bake it, and you can make a delicious meat dish!"
He patted his stomach as he said this, but the blood did not stain his clothes, "Speaking of which, my stomach is already starving."
A very subtle sound came from behind, and the young man in retro clothes paused and slowly turned around.
One of his eyes was covered by the black and white Joker card, and the other light golden eyes swept over Quan Heng and others, and he casually shook the blood on his hands.
"Are you the connectors who teamed up with me?"
He tilted his head, his white and silver hair fell on his cheeks, his eyebrows curved, and asked friendly:
"I plan to bake this monster, do you want to eat it together?"
[Brothers, sisters, relatives and friends!! Who is this? ]
[With this sequelae after ascending, who else can it be? It must be the Mad Hatter!! ]
[Although I know that Quan Heng has a certain physique that attracts high-order, I didn't expect to really meet the Mad Hatter! ! ]
Quan Heng's eyes fell on the young man's iconic black and white Joker poker. This is...
Monster Party's first main battle, SSS sequence——
Mad Hatter.
If this face is not disguised, or this crazy temperament is not changed, relying on the support in the Day and Night Border, the dynamic pictures on the twin screens, and the eye-washing of the group of fans + water army buffs on the forum, Quan Heng can't help but recognize it.
Mu Jing blinked at him, and suddenly frowned and looked at Quan Heng, with a clear look in his eyes that meant "I know him".
"Thank you for your kindness."
Quan Heng touched Mu Jing's head with one hand, indicating that he didn't need to speak, and raised his head and politely refused, "No need for dinner."
"Okay then."
The young man shrugged and flicked the long needle in his hand indifferently——
Like "sweating", a layer of water droplets gradually condensed on the surface of the long needle. It did not flow down the needle body. Instead, it absorbed the dirty blood and peeled off the long needle, which dispersed into black mist and disappeared in the darkness.
"I haven't eaten in three days. So I plan to finish the game before starting the game."
He didn't have any airs. He thought about it and said seriously: "Can you wait until I finish dinner? I eat very quickly and won't delay you for a long time.
"——It's hard for me to meet new faces here. There's always not enough people to join the multiplayer games. It would be great to be able to open a multiplayer game once a month. But I like the excitement and hate being alone. I want to be with you. Team up and complete the mission together.”
Ekhi is accessible to ordinary players, and those who can enter are high-sequence ones.
These people are basically the top fifty in the club rankings, that is, the chiefs and deputy seats in large organizations.
There were only more than a hundred people in total.
The number of connectors is always inversely proportional to the sequence, which is a positive pyramid-shaped distribution.
The top level brings new people into the two-player version while seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and even own people occupy all the spots in the multi-player version - this has nothing to do with the Mad Hatter.
but……
Quan Heng first looked at Jiang Jin beside her. After all, she was not as clear as Jiang Jin about the time of the red full moon and the difficulty of the three-city pass.
"It doesn't matter, I won't be able to enter the Three Cities tonight anyway," Jiang Jin nodded, "Today is December 12th, and the Three Cities will only open on December 13th. You can't enter until midnight on the 13th."
Quan Heng paused: "December 13th?"
"It was the day we came here. Of course, we are just the city defenders." Jiang Jin sighed longly, looking lonely. "After more than forty days, many fellow villagers came here."
Quan Heng pursed his lips and finally closed his eyes without answering.
She turned to look at the confused young man who was turning the lighter in his hand, and answered his question:
"Can."
"Oh, that would be great!"
The Mad Hatter smiled with joy evident in his words. His light golden pupils shone like a golden ocean filled with sunlight.
"You are such a kind lady! Am I lucky enough to know your name?"
Quan Heng smiled and said nothing.
"Sorry, the gentleman should introduce himself first." He knocked on his head as if to wake up, "I apologize for my rude behavior."
The young man was born with smiling lips, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and his thin lips were not dotted but red. He looked like a very lovable young man.
"I was abandoned by my parents and rejected by my family. I am an eternal mistake in living, so I am nameless and homeless. I am an unrecognized ghost and a madman who is regarded as a monster."
He raised his hand, as if he was holding an invisible hat in the void above his head. Judging from the posture, it should be a top hat. The young man raised one arm and bent down to perform an elegant but non-standard gentlemanly salute.
Behind him, the bloody giant beast cub was imprisoned and hung in bloody shackles, disembowelled and slaughtered.
The young man was dressed in retro attire, his white cloak was spotless, and even his hair was clean white.
——Like a holy free bird in front of the night and shackles.
"But here..."
The young man raised his eyes, raised his hand and took out a white hat from the void, straightened up with a smile, and put it on his head.
"Everyone likes to call me 'Mad Hatter'."
Top of the global rankings, "First Sequence·Main Battle Position" Mad Hatter.
Although I thought I would meet Ding Wan, the Ding Wan among Ding Wan was indeed a bit unexpected.
Quan Heng thought about it in his mind. If he was a cheat, it would be a good thing to some extent.
"What about you, madam? What's your surname? What's your name?"
The Mad Hatter put on his hat and looked at Quan Heng.
"My surname is Quan, Quan Heng." Quan Heng nodded slightly and made a polite gesture.
"Quan? Quan Heng?"
The Mad Hatter frowned. He looked carefully at Quan Heng but didn't recognize him. He could only try to remember with some confusion.
"It sounds familiar, but my memory is very bad. Sometimes I forget how long I haven't eaten. Maybe it's because I'm mentally ill."
The Mad Hatter pried off the lid of the windproof lighter in his hand and threw it backwards into the fire pit under the monster.
"It's better not to think about it. My memories are all fragmented and I can't even think about it."
He doesn't care at all about revealing his own information, he just picks up information points casually, and he doesn't seem to have much defense against strangers.
"By the way," the Mad Hatter turned around to continue butchering the meat, then suddenly turned back and confirmed seriously, "Are you really not going to eat it? My cooking is delicious, even an old man who thinks it tastes delicious."
Crazy old man?
It should be referring to the leader of the monster party and the commander of the starting team - Father Crescent Moon.
"No," Quan Heng refused again, "Thank you."
Unless special treatment is given, the quality of monster meat will have an impact on human flesh, and the lower the sequence, the greater the impact.
"Okay then," the Mad Hatter said with a slight regret. Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly remembered something, "I remembered one more thing."
Quan Heng had a guess: "What?"
“I just said I would team up with you, and I don’t want to go back on it.
"But I remembered something important. I didn't think it was very important, but the old man said it was important and I needed to ask. Don't let me kill the wrong person."
As the Mad Hatter spoke, he turned the barbecue monster behind him, sprinkled some special seasonings on it, looked at him nonchalantly, and asked:
"I am a ghost card, are you too?"
"If not, I might kill you."