The author's diary of ghost stories

"Then tell me, what kind of person is Xue Wubin, what does he want to do, and how to do it?" Yu Liang did not answer the question, but raised a new question.

"Save Lao Ma and Sister Hua, they have been on the island for a long time. They are not like me. They are not guilty, but they just can't die. Help them." The lighthouse man was mumbling something, and his words were nothing more than "I am guilty, and they are innocent, and they must be saved."

It seems that this lighthouse man is on the verge of self-consciousness collapse, and he is only one step away from madness. He can't ask anything valuable.

Helplessly, Yu Liang had to take a deep look at the other party, turned around and prepared to leave this place. The people in the lighthouse had very little information, and he had never seen the real source of the barrel man, so the information he had was really limited.

And when he walked to the spiral staircase, a low murmur from the lighthouse man came from behind: "Xue Wubin is a bad barrel man, but he must be a good person."

A bad barrel man, but a good person?

I hope so.

Yu Liang walked down the lighthouse and entered the island with the Grass Infant Mech guarding nearby.

There is a low hill in the center of the island, with relatively flat beaches on all sides. It is not until about one kilometer into the island that there is a relatively dense forest. Before that, it was all overgrown wasteland.

There are occasional gullies in the wasteland. Yu Liang almost recognized at a glance that these were man-made traps or trenches. It seems that they were set up by the former island wanderers to fight against the barrel man.

However, after the barrel man was left on this island, these things to fight against the barrel man were completely useless. This may be the reason why this place gradually became overgrown with weeds.

The Grass Infant Mech walked in the front, using the sharp steel knife assembled on the mech to constantly clear the wasteland and clean up every trap, while Yu Liang was pulled by the snake to fly 30 centimeters above the ground, moving all the way to the town he had seen before.

The town is located halfway up the mountain, with a small number of buildings tens of meters high, but most of the buildings are just low and small houses.

Obviously, there are not too many residents on the island, so there is no need to build tall buildings. A small number of small houses are enough.

When approaching the middle of the mountain, Yu Liang and his party had already encountered a large amount of reclaimed land with strange plants planted on it. He took a little from something similar to wheat ears and crushed it with his fingers.

The snow-white fruit crumbs fell from his fingers, looking like some kind of carbon water, which can supplement the most basic nutrients for the human body.

The whole piece of farmland is cultivated in a relatively primitive way. It is not intensive cultivation, but rough cultivation, using the vast area of ​​arable land to produce a large amount of required food.

Part of the farmland is abandoned, probably to restore the fertility of the soil.

From this point of view, the people on this island have formed their own way of life, which is quite pastoral.

However, along the way, Yu Liang did not see any barrel people, and there were no farmers working in the farmland. With a sense of curiosity, Yu Liang moved up along the slightly raised hillside.

There is a large flat land at the junction of the mountains, and this is the foundation of the town. Yu Liang saw the sentry towers guarding the two low hills, but he did not see any soldiers on guard on the sentry towers. Looking from a distance, the sentry towers have probably not been put into use for a long time.

Therefore, when a human like Yu Liang appeared on the streets of the town belonging to the barrel people, he could clearly feel that the whole town was in a slightly sluggish mood.

There were some scattered barrel people walking or shopping on the streets. They had slender six or eight limbs, and the heavy barrel bodies were like the huge abdomen of spiders hanging on the ground, dragged by the limbs to walk.

It seems that because the pace of life here is relatively slow, the barrel people have more bloated barrel bodies, and they all have a peaceful and satisfied smile on their faces.

After discovering Yu Liang and the grass infant mecha beside Yu Liang, the barrel people who were still on the street fled like frightened birds, fled back to their homes, closed the door tightly, and only looked at Yu Liang, the foreign human, curiously from a certain gap.

It seems that humans haven't been on this island for a long time, so the barrel people are beginning to fear the presence of humans.

A barrel man in uniform on the corner of the street also noticed Yu Liang's presence. He subconsciously drove his body to escape to a hidden place, but he might have suddenly remembered his duty. He turned around tremblingly and faced Yu Liang. Eight limbs slowly moved over and asked with a vigilant face: "Who are you? A wanderer? You shouldn't come here. You should follow the guidance of the route to find the wanderer conversion base. This is the territory of the barrel people. Only barrel people can enter this town."

"Conversion base? Please take me there." Yu Liang smiled. He wanted to understand the general situation of the entire island and make a decision based on this.

Judging from the current situation, the barrel people on this island are well managed. They have made this place like a paradise. For such simple barrel people, he does not want to raise the butcher knife for the time being.

Of course, the most basic precautions are still needed. According to the memory recording of Xue Wubin killing S1 at that time, the barrel man may have some ability to kill instantly at close range, so Yu Liang has always paid attention to keeping a distance from these barrel men, and has even prepared paper man summons to die in his place.

After the ten paper men on his body [form a party], they can burst out the power of the T1 gradient, and in this case, using [falsely accused], they can instantly create a new "doll Yu Liang" in front of Yu Liang, which can resist the damage of some special abilities.

There is no way to affect the root ghost talk, but the ability to counter these barrel men is definitely more than enough, because the literal description of [form a party] contains the advantage of "the first-hand right to fight against the same gradient".

Under the dual effects of [form a party] and [falsely accused], the ability of the T1 gradient and below is difficult to hurt Yu Liang himself, and now there are no barrel men of the root ghost talk level in this town, so he naturally does not need to worry too much about his own safety.

Well, if these barrel men have bad intentions, Yu Liang will be even happier, because the double guns around him will give the answer, so that he doesn't have to worry about the guilt of the massacre.

Of course, guilt is something that will only arise after the massacre is completed. He always has to try to know the result, right?

"Okay, please follow me. No matter what you meet on the road, don't make too much noise. We are restricted from having single contact with humans. Your breath may cause us discomfort." The patrolling barrel man told Yu Liang the rules in a serious manner, and then he took a look at the group of strange and special creatures around Yu Liang, and honestly held back the unfinished words.

This foreign wanderer possesses a very special and powerful power, which is something that any ordinary barrel man can see, so the patrolling barrel man didn't dare to ask more questions.

The patrolling barrel man in front took small steps, but the speed of his steps was very fast. His eight limbs were full of movement like a pair of hands playing the piano, which gave his bloated body a sense of agility.

Soon, after passing through the town, Yu Liang, led by the patrolling barrel man, came to the other side of the mountain. There were also some sparse buildings here, and there were also some barrel men who looked a little numb.

They were doing mechanical movements over and over in a large open space, either turning in circles or doing ups and downs like push-ups.

After crossing the mountain, Yu Liang also scanned the half-circle island as soon as possible. He did not see the second lighthouse on the island, nor did he see any remains of the lighthouse being demolished.

There is only one lighthouse on the island, which is unreasonable.

For an island, preventing foreign invasion is not like the Great Wall. The enemy will attack from the other side of the Great Wall with a high probability. There may be barrel men attacking from all directions of the island. So is it reasonable to have a lighthouse in only one direction?

Obviously not.

If the barrel man only comes to the direction where the lighthouse is, Yu Liang feels a little cold on his back.

Because he also came from that direction, but he did not meet the barrel man at all along the way.

Where is the barrel man?

What about the groups of barrel people in the ocean?

Has their attack route been completely replaced?

Yu Liang has not figured out the answer yet, but just kept this doubt in mind.

"A new human? Sorry for not welcoming you." While Yu Liang was thinking, a high-pitched female voice came from the top of the building, and then the hook rope swung violently, throwing the female barrel person at the end in front of Yu Liang.

Yu Liang felt a little uncomfortable with the sudden approach of the female barrel person, so he took a small step back and let the snake and grass infant mecha block in front of him.

"Who are you...?" Yu Liang looked at the female barrel person in front of him. Her barrel was slightly smaller, and the overall barrel person's figure was more symmetrical. Even if the face on the barrel was bare, it could still show a good appearance.

The gentle and generous appearance matched with a slightly sharp look, the whole barrel person gave people a very different feeling.

Like an elite monster.

"You can call me... Sister Hua. I am the guide for all the wanderers who come to this island. I can help you complete the transformation." The woman who called herself Sister Hua looked at Yu Liang with a smile, and applied for "transformation" as if it was a routine.

"Sister Hua, I know you, but I don't need to transform." Yu Liang shook his head, his eyes passed over this guy who had been mentioned many times in the lighthouse man's diary, and fell on the so-called barrel man transformation base, and then he gently patted the back of the snake.

The snake looked back at Yu Liang, and then rushed out like an arrow from a string, with lightning flashing on his body. At the same time, his body quickly grew larger, and soon reached a size that made the barrel man dumbfounded, and suddenly hit the building.

If the original snake can still be regarded as a giant python, then the snake that now shows half of its true body undoubtedly has the divinity of a dragon, comparable to the thunder and lightning of a real dragon.

In just a moment, the entire building began to shake with Snake's [Thunder Charge], and Snake simply wrapped around the building and twisted its body violently, twisting the entire building in two, and then collapsed.

During this time, the paper man came out of the universe and filled Snake with electricity through [False Sense]. After coming to the island, Snake was no longer strongly suppressed by the ocean, and at least it could release attacks far exceeding the strength of T1 gradient monster creatures.

"And, there will be no need to transform in the future, and the power of the barrel man cannot continue to increase." Yu Liang said slowly. He knew that there were still some humans in this dungeon who did not know why they appeared, just like the islanders on Anbuchen Island. In order to prevent these islanders from being affected by the so-called barrel man transformation base, it was necessary to dismantle the base.

At the same time, this was also putting pressure on Sister Hua in front of him.

To be honest, he did not really want the barrel people on this island to continue to exist, but perhaps the theory of cause and effect could be used in the future, and he still wanted to give them a chance now.

"You..." Sister Hua watched the snake-eating snake shrink its body again and come to Yu Liang's side. The pair of noble and proud dragon eyes seemed to glance over indifferently, and immediately made all the barrel people present stand up, and cold sweat "whoosh" left.

Is this powerful creature just the pet of this player?

In any case, this was the most powerful player she had ever seen, even more powerful than the once stunning Xue Wubin, and the most important thing was that she did not feel any concern for the barrel man from his words and deeds.

Yes, in his eyes, the existence of the barrel man was a mistake. He would not care about the reason why humans became monsters. He would only weigh the pros and cons and kill the monsters easily, that's all.

"You have the opportunity to ask a question, but after you ask it, don't speak until I ask a question." Yu Liang gave Sister Hua time to ask a question. He was not kind, but trying to promote some kind of causal conditions.

Sister Hua took a long breath and asked carefully: "Who are you? I mean, there has been no trace of new players entering this dungeon for a long time. The wanderers who drifted to this island before were players. Now they are almost all islanders from different origins, swept here by the ocean current..."

"GM." Yu Liang clearly uttered two letters to interrupt Sister Hua's words. When people are nervous, they may inadvertently say a lot of nonsense, and it seems that the current barrel man Sister Hua is no exception.

"GM?" Sister Hua was slightly stunned, and it seemed that she still didn't react to what identity Yu Liang was talking about.

Yu Liang shrugged. He probably understood what era Sister Hua entered the dungeon, so he kindly explained: "Game administrator, this dungeon has reached the point where the official needs to take action, and your existence will cause me trouble."

He paused: "So before I can't stand it anymore, you need to stand on the side of humans well and well."

While saying this, for some reason, Yu Liang felt that his mind became extremely clear, and he almost seamlessly thought of what he needed.

Metaverse designer, yes, not only does the barrel man need him, Yu Liang also needs him. The ability to blur the boundaries between reality and dungeons combined with [Overstepping] may produce a wonderful chemical reaction.

It's like he once thought of this idea, and it's like there's another "Yu Liang" who helped him make the decision.

Everything is a natural thing.

Now he is a GM, and he needs to start cheating people.