First Player

Chapter 2·"Yate is my ship"

At this time, the morning light had just risen, and the water city looked shiny, and the water stains on the ground shone like diamonds.

Lu Shu stood in the sunshine, still carrying the blood from the night.

"If you are a traveler from the outside world, you should be prepared to leave as soon as possible. Once the sea feast is held in seven days, the entire Praia will turn into a carnival killing zone, and even the locals may be affected. ..." The attitude of the landlady seemed a little too enthusiastic. As she spoke, she got close to Lu Shu who was standing in front of the counter, as if she wanted to hug him.

Lu Shu frowned slightly.

"I have experienced the chaos at night." He said: "The soul clan is too rampant... There don't seem to be many soul clan hunters in this city..."

"That's it." The landlady got a little closer: "The only god in the City in the Clouds has blessed the hunters with great strength, allowing them to subdue these races that make trouble at night. But after all, the soul race in Praia has been overrun. After a long time, the number has been hard to estimate... Even with the suppression of soul hunters, they will still appear repeatedly like hateful cockroaches and mice..."

When she said this, she sighed: "So, travelers, it's best to stay in the caravan room at night and don't go out at will. This is what I have advised you, Duoya... A fair-skinned outsider like you , It’s really rare, I really don’t want to see you die under the mouths of those murderers..."

Lu Shu opened the map of Praia in his hand and began to study where the registration office for soul hunters was.

But at this moment, the landlady seemed to have caught an opportunity and walked out from behind the counter, as if she wanted to touch him...

"Mir!"

Suddenly, a female voice shouted from the side. The proprietress was frightened and retracted her restless hand.

The one who yelled was a girl wearing a headscarf and with loose black hair. She was sitting on a white boat, slowly paddling from one end of the waterway.

"Mir, I have found the registration point for soul hunting. As long as we confirm that our strength is qualified and our identity is correct, we can join the soul hunter camp. I have seen it and there are quite a lot of players who have signed up. After all, I don't know how to join the soul hunter camp. , players can only start from the soul hunter camp..." The girl said, standing up from the boat.

"Lin Yin?" Lu Shu was stunned.

The girl frowned: "Don't call me Lin Yin. Please call me by my identity name Nata. You can't call me by my real name. What if other players hear me? Just like if I call you Lu Shu now, others will know it as soon as they hear it." Su Ming'an is here, aren't you a drag?"

"!" Lu Shu realized this and immediately rolled up the map in his hand.

He got down to the girl's boat and said goodbye to the landlady:

"Thank you for answering my question." He said, "I'm leaving first."

His tone of thanks was stiff and his expression was dull, as if he would just throw it away after use, and there was almost no sense of gratitude in it.

The landlady heard this, but she just smiled slightly.

"It turns out he's a devoted little brother." She smiled, glanced at Lin Yin next to her, and waved to him charmingly: "I guess Duoya made a mistake today, it's okay. I'll answer the favored brother once in a while. The question can be regarded as a kind of fun..."

Her words were frivolous and bold, full of provocation, which made Lin Yin next to her frown.

Ever since she opened the dungeon, she had always felt that the people in this city were very unrestrained. Some residents seemed to fall in love with everyone they met, and they would tease every outsider they met. Unexpectedly, Lu Shu was also harassed.

She quickly raised the oar and began rowing rapidly.

The water rippled behind the boat, and the white boat slowly broke through the mirror-like water surface. The two of them soon escaped from the sight of Doya, the proprietress, and paddled to the other side of the waterway.

Lu Shu sat down on the boat and opened the map in his hand.

The morning light shone on the yellowed map in front of him, and he saw the criss-crossing waterway marks on the map, like giant spider webs, completely wrapping the entire Praia.

This time, Lu Shu started in the sea city of Praia. He was a traveler from another country who came to Praia to hunt for treasure. Lin Yin is a local resident and the daughter of a blacksmith in a blacksmith shop.

As for other teammates, they are still in contact. After all, daytime has just arrived the next day, and the team chat channel has just been unblocked.

Yesterday was the first day the dungeon was opened. Lu Shu immediately walked around Praia to learn about this maritime city.

As Duoya said, this city is peaceful during the day, like a city on the water that is isolated from the world, but it is a paradise for sin at night.

The soul tribe flooded at night, and the hunters also raised their guns in the struggle. Innocents, criminals, predators... countless people will face the challenge of life and death when night falls.

He also experienced a crisis in this city last night. When they first reunited with Lin Yin, some soul tribe attacked them, but they were still defeated.

Through that battle, Lu Shu learned that the Soul Clan is actually not weak. It is equivalent to a mini-boss with a combat power ranging from 400 to more than 1,000. At least the average player certainly has no ability to fight back. Players need to form a team to fight against ordinary souls.

On the eighth day after the dungeon is opened, a PVP cannibalism event called "Sea Feast" will be held here. The winner can get a pass to the City in the Clouds...

"Now let's go to the nearest hunter guild registration point to get the hunter medal and get points for hunting souls at night." Lin Yin was rowing in front, his voice drifting along the warm wind:

"There is no news yet about players possessing the soul clan. The players seem to be generally local residents or outside tourists. I heard that there are about hundreds of people who were born on a ship named "Asia" at the beginning. On the giant ship named "Special", we are still on the way..."

Lu Shu listened to her words and looked at the scenery beside the boat.

The weather in Praia is a bit hot, and the wind in the air is hot and humid, and seems to carry a bloody smell that remains at night.

Clean buildings slowly passed before his eyes, and along the skyline with white clouds floating, he could see the endless blue sea in the distance. People of all kinds shuttled between the ports, and freight carts passed by his sight.

The waves washed away blood accidentally splashed on some buildings, and some shriveled bodies were hurriedly dragged away. After wiping away the blood, the buildings still looked like they were newly built, as if they had been washed by sea water. Never happened either.

…What a wonderful city.

"Our current location is in the west city of Praia. Noel just responded to the message. He said that he was in the east city and met Mo Wen..."

As Lin Yin spoke, he suddenly turned around: "Why are you distracted? What are you thinking about?"

Lu Shu rolled up the map in his hand.

"There is still no news about Su Ming'an..."

"Don't worry about him." Lin Yin laughed: "Even if something happens to our team, nothing will happen to him. He has no news until now. He is probably too busy to reply. After all, chatting The channel has just been unblocked.”

"Um."

Lu Shu nodded.

In the lower left corner of his field of vision, the channel chat in the newly unblocked dungeon had exploded. Players who had just experienced a night in the underworld began to complain about this city that seemed to be in the underworld.

[Abner (World Tree Guild):? Can anyone tell me why! Why are these murderous things so powerful at night! My teammates, all my teammates were wiped out! 】

[Chad (Santa Marta Guild) I seem to have arrived in a legendary vampire city...]

[Li Hao (Huxin Xiaozhu): Recruiting temporary teammates only requires exploration skills. There are two elemental combat systems here. An extermination mission has been received. The experience of completing the mission can be shared. 】

[Nishizawa (Yixiu Adventure Group): The third soul hunting team is recruiting! Recruiting players who can understand human speech! There are too many NPCs in the three teams and they can't be commanded. Come here with a few players with 300+ combat power and you can survive the night without paddling! 】

[Qian Ning (Moker Organization): Damn it, a big shot has become the captain of the third team? It’s only the second day since the dungeon was opened, and I can’t even find the soul hunting registration point…]

[Ke La (United Group): It should be related to the hunting points. The boss may have hunted a very powerful soul clan on the first night. The accumulated points can allow him to get a high-level position as a soul hunter. 】

[Yan Zi (unaffiliated): By the way, haven’t you joined the soul clan camp? I see those soul tribes killing people on sight at night, and I can’t even talk to them. 】

[Maki Aida (Sakura Tree Guild): You can hold them down and ask them, but normal questioning probably won’t work. 】

【……】

For now, players are adapting well to the situation.

Perhaps it is because there is no harm without comparison. Compared with the entire underworld in the sixth world, the seventh world is only the underworld at night, which is already acceptable to players.

They even turned the channel chat into a world chat in the game and started forming teams using game terms. Since the players' camps are basically soul hunters, many can even form temporary teams. As long as it's not time to break up, the players are still happy to cooperate hypocritically with each other.

Lu Shu watched these chats and suddenly heard a "ding-dong" sound.

This is a prompt for party channel chat.

He quickly clicked on the channel.

The channel chat was started at six in the morning, and there were several messages recorded that they had just sent. The name is followed by the specific time the message was sent.

【Lu Shu(The way is opened.】

[Lin Yin (The tree is still together, but where are the others, deduct 1 for those who are still there.]

[Mo Wen (6:01): 1]

[Noel (, don’t worry, ordinary soul tribes are no threat to us. Mo Wen and I are now signing up for the soul hunting camp in Dongcheng. We will disperse for the time being. We will gather together when we need to form a team at night. 】

【Lu Shu(】

…

【Where is Lu Shu?】

【Noel (where is Su Mingan?】

…

The news ends here.

By the time the new message was sent, more than an hour had passed.

This sudden "ding-dong" sound instantly attracted the attention of four people.

There is a certain loading time when sending messages, resulting in some things not being delivered immediately. While waiting for the loading message, the four of them were looking forward to it.

[(Message is loading...)]

【(Loading completed.)】

…

[Su Mingan (7:46): I am here. 】

…

"Finally a reply." Lin Yin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the sender of the message: "This reply is really late. What big thing is he doing?"

Lu Shu didn't say anything. He looked at the message and typed it immediately.

[Lu Shu: Where are you? is it safe? 】

"Ding dong!"

After a while, a new message appeared:

[Su Mingan: I'm on the Yate. 】

…

[Noel: Art No.? I saw from the channel chat that someone said that there were souls raging on that ship. Are you okay? 】

[Noel: How far is it from Sea City? How long is the voyage? Do you need help? I have positioning teleportation props and can go over and help you. 】

[Lin Yin: We actually started on the Yate... This is such a disadvantage. We can only arrive tomorrow, right? Our soul clan has killed several people, so your camp points will be far behind. 】

…

Lu Shu looked at the messages that were pouring in and wanted to send some greetings, but found that Su Ming'an didn't reply again.

"What is he doing, so busy?" Lin Yin said with a smile from the front: "Let me guess... well, he doesn't want to capsize the whole boat, does he? It's like his style."

"It's not like that." Lu Shu said.

"What? Then what do you think he is busy with?"

"He probably..." Lu Shu thought for a while: "He is trying to convince the upper-class nobles on the ship to gain benefits through NPCs. That's it."

As he said this, he suddenly heard a series of "ding dongs" again.

In the team chat, messages are constantly flowing upwards.

[Su Mingan: I'm fine. You can find tasks first. 】

"Ding dong!"

[Noel: I heard that the soul hunters on the Yate are very strong, they are S-level and A-level. The average soul hunter in Sea City is only C-level. Don’t be misled by the world chat. The soul hunters they encounter are not strong. . Also, there seems to be a Soul Clan on board the Art, so be careful. 】

"Ding dong!"

[Su Mingan: I know. 】

"Ding dong!"

[Su Mingan: Now he is my subordinate. 】

"Ding dong!"

[Su Mingan: Yat number. 】

"Ding dong!"

[Su Mingan: It’s also my ship]

…

"Crash-"

Under the pouring rain, the Yate was like a paper sail swaying in the waves.

The blazing white thunder point shot down from the sky like a long sword, bringing with it a violent explosion.

The black-haired young man wearing a raincoat approached the side of the ship and looked at the turbulent waves below.

Behind him, lifeboats were being transported one by one. People were full of panic, and negative emotions spread rapidly on the deck.

"Lord Puller died in the early morning... due to a soul clan attack..."

"What to do, what to do, the soul hunter is dead, what should we do..."

"Don't panic! Don't panic. Get the lifeboat in order first. There are still two soul hunters alive. During the day, the soul clan doesn't dare to come and go at will..."

People's panicked voices echoed on the deck amid heavy rain.

Su Mingan walked away from the side of the boat and walked indoors.

He took off his raincoat and walked up against the hurried downward flow of people, like parting through the waves.