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On April 8th, the second week of the bloody countdown, it was more than a day before the large-scale public copy of "Pollution Paradise" opened.

The surrounding roads became even more messy...or, to use a more appropriate adjective -

Weird!

On the ground, you can always see dots of blood, either distributed in dots, or stretched into a long, twisted line, leading to a dark, hidden and unknown alley next to the road.

At the same time, there were many wandering figures on the street. Some of them looked numb, some looked sneaky, and some had their heads lowered, making it difficult to see their faces, but if they raised their heads, they could see To a pair of dangerous eyes, reflecting the evil of this world, like a hunter hiding in the darkness looking for prey around him.

If there are players with good hearing who pass by this place, they will be able to detect a strange sound coming from deeper places.

There seems to be something unknown, hiding in the dark, chewing and devouring...

According to forum posts, recent strange events have gradually spread to the streets.

There are many players, even indigenous people, who disappear inexplicably while walking.

Moreover, compared to the first week, even during the day, there were a lot more activities.

Even though it is a safe area, there are many unknown crises at this moment. The level of danger has risen by one and a half stars compared to when the bloody countdown came!

certainly……

All this can be attributed to the Xijiang pollution incident.

Since the large-scale dungeon was opened, all players have gone to the forum to share what they have seen and heard, and the following major changes have gradually come together:

1. Resource constraints: Because the Xijiang water source is undrinkable, the city's system is in violent conflict. During the Great Depression, Boss Gui was also frantically laying off employees. Those players who had stable careers were all reduced to "unemployed" and faced a crisis of survival.

Although some players dug ditches and replenished a lot of water, it felt like a war had occurred there in just one night.

When the players arrived there, they found that the excavated water channel had dried up and had been taken away by some unknown entity.

At the bottom of the canal, densely packed corpses lay scattered in a heap, including players and aborigines.

At present, it is impossible to guess who the murderer is. After all, the natives of the strange world also have the instinct of "seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages", and may not snatch survival resources from players.

Of course... most players prefer that the perpetrators are aborigines, because the impact has spread to the second point to be mentioned next.

2. Crisis of trust: In the past few days, some players have found players with resources in the name of cooperation. However, what they actually performed was to kill and snatch resources.

Although it has been confirmed that players who kill players cannot explode any special items, but survival resources such as food and water are still the target of competition under today's extremely scarce circumstances.

Therefore, a group of murderers are born, often in the name of cooperation, looking for allies on forums. In fact, if a solo player meets offline, they will be stabbed by a gang in the back.

There is currently a batch of lists that have been exposed to the forum, but it is obvious that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Moreover, after understanding this mode, new players may not choose to join the crime gang... Of course, they may seem to be hunters, but they may also become prey.

As a result, the players originally worked together to tide over the difficulties, but since encountering this crisis, all players have become more wary of their accomplices.

Sometimes, the human heart is more terrifying than deception!

3. The number of refugees has increased: This group of refugees includes players and aborigines. They are unemployed, suffering from hunger and thirst, and go to the vicinity of the Lieyang Church.

The Church of Lieyang has clear regulations - fighting, disputes, killing, robbery, and theft are prohibited nearby. Anyone who violates this will be cursed by the Lord, punished by the scorching sun, and lose the qualification to walk in the sun.

Ever since, in order to avoid being framed by players, as well as the backstabbing of the indigenous people who seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The area around Lieyang Church has become an excellent place to take refuge.

It is said that there is purified holy water there, which is safe to drink and has the effect of restoring vitality and clearing away diseases, but the price has risen to one hundred copper coins to buy a barrel.

Therefore, a group of players specially blocked the only way to pass through the Lieyang Church to see if they could intercept some rich people who were all going to buy holy water and kill them to steal the money.

This "cunning" is not limited to aborigines, but also includes players.

Although the kill does not explode the special items, there are still copper coins!

This is enough to become a target point for fighting and killing.

4. A group of elite pioneer players began to head to the park in groups.

They have beliefs, goals, and the righteousness of saving the world. After all, as long as the source of the pollution is solved and the original order is restored, the current chaos may be solved.

Not long ago, these players set up a camp near the park and planned to form the first strategy group to go to the park to explore information, with the intention of gathering the strength of all players to solve the source of the crisis.

Of course...the specific organizer and the strategy of the strategy have not been announced yet.

5. Strange legends: Recently, more and more strange legends have been circulating on the forum.

The most typical one is that whenever it is quiet at night, there will always be music played by two musical instruments from the streets.

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 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 actions. They planned to catch this thing when the music played!

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, not even the shadow of "Music Trick" was seen, and the money in their pockets had been lost.

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 already on the verge of being crippled.

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 star like a grain of rice emitted an even more dazzling light during the wandering concerts... I don't know 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 open hall and auditorium, the church also has layers of attics inside, which seem to form a maze of stacked blocks composed of secret chambers.

"Disciple, there are a lot of listeners here. Why don't you play a song here? I think we will make a fortune!"

The old man Erhu glanced at the dark mass of heads, his eyes excited, as if he was counting the copper coins in his pocket.

Chen Ye sighed: "Master, didn't you say that robbery is not allowed near Lieyang Church?"

"yes!"

"Are you sure this is called playing and not robbery?"

"What you said makes sense..."