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Chapter 245 You don’t want to disappoint Brother Tiandi, right? (Please subscribe~)

Will people turn into sand after death?

Isn't that just ashes?

Could it be that the entire Wailing Desert was made of ashes? ?

Looking at the old lady with a kind smile, Xia Ling suddenly got goosebumps all over her body.

It wasn't that she was afraid, but she felt a chill. The thought of being half buried in ashes both times she entered the book made her feel uncomfortable all over.

Gu Chi pulled the girl's hand and signaled that she was okay.

These are not real ashes, but the expression is closer. When you hold a handful in your hand, you can feel the fine and dry graininess, with a smell of dust. Even if they were indeed flesh and blood before, they have now become a handful. Yellow sand doesn't have any strange smell, just don't think about it.

"Do many people die here every year?" Xia Leng asked.

"Yes, it happens every year," said the old woman, "but people will die all the time while they are alive, so there is nothing surprising about it."

Xia Leng: "Then why are there so many people in the town?"

There was not a single empty room, and every house was occupied.

"If someone leaves, of course someone will come." The old woman raised her arm to wipe her sweat and said with a smile, "Look, didn't you just come?"

Xia Ling: "???"

These words were too suggestive. Xia Ling had been a little wary after hearing the ashes. Now that she saw what the old lady meant, alarm bells rang in her heart. She took out her dagger and protected Gu Chi behind her. Staring at the old lady, she seemed to respect the old and love the young if something went wrong.

But the old woman didn't make any attack moves, nor did she pay attention to the twin daggers in Xia Ling's hands, she just smiled and shook her head and continued sweeping the floor.

She stooped to the street, and the broom swept over the uneven road, making a slight "swish" sound.

But there was no sand on the ground.

The more Xia Ling thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong: "If we don't have divinity, and the bells still rang last night, should they sweep our ashes today?"

Is the Sand Sweeping Festival a festival for players?

"It's hard to say." Gu Chi said that there was no dungeon in his memory that had settings just for players. "It's possible that they will die when they hear the bell."

Only because the bell did not ring for some reason, these NPCs were able to survive - it is not yet certain whether they are all alive.

There are no deaths in Town No. 1, but what the situation is like in other towns will only be known after visiting them.

"Let's take a closer look." Xia Leng said.

Gu Chi nodded: "Yes."

Logically speaking, with such a large urban area and hundreds of thousands of NPCs, there should be a lot of clues, but the result was just the opposite. They spent most of the day searching all ten towns, and even quietly went to some NPCs' homes to search. Again and again, no valuable information was obtained.

These NPCs will chat with the players and make things happen, but when it comes to key topics, they are clueless.

Or just say something ambiguous like an old lady.

The residents of the town only regard the bell as a timekeeping tool. They don't even know that this world is a prison specially designed to imprison them. They even think that their lives are pretty good and they are muddle along. They kind of look down on life and death and enjoy their old age. a feeling of.

"No wonder Lao Litou and the others couldn't open the mission after playing so many times before." Gu Chi sighed.

Don't say that you don't have enough time because of the bell. Even if you have enough time, you won't be able to ask too many things.

The NPCs in every town were sweeping the sand, and they swept it all day long, and they cleaned up all the moss and dirt on the road.

When one or two people sweep the floor, it means that they love cleanliness. When people in a town sweep the floor, it means that the town has a good atmosphere and strong environmental awareness, which can be judged as excellent. But when everyone is sweeping the floor, the style of painting is a bit weird - especially when there is no sand on the ground. Ten towns have no sand.

If there is no sand during the Sand Sweeping Festival, why sweep it?

Customs and culture?

In the afternoon, the weather became hotter and hotter.

That's what happened after staying in the desert for too long. Someone brought a device that could measure the temperature. The temperature didn't change much from yesterday, but it was inexplicably hot and annoying.

Fortunately, Qi Ye Nan Huan, Ye Mao Han and others were well prepared. There were many players with water skills in the logistics team who could get out of the water at any time. Otherwise, they would have to go to the NPC if they were thirsty.

At around four o'clock, everyone gathered again in the square of Town No. 1.

Everyone "got up early" today, and the census operation ended a few hours early, which was very efficient.

There are two teams that are far away and have not returned yet, but this does not affect their communication with each other first.

All night long, Nanhuan gathered the team leaders and asked, "How are you doing? Did you find anything?"

"Today is Sand Sweeping Day." Old Li Tou said, "But there is no sand."

Chengcheng couldn't wake up: "What a coincidence, this is also Sand Sweeping Day."

Ye Maohan: "I even borrowed a broom and swept it twice, but there was nothing special about it."

Strength 39 said inexplicably: "Are you all sweeping the sand?"

The second-hand dealer took out something like an ancient celestial sphere, but it was very compact. The sphere was transparent, with a stone slab embedded horizontally inside.

"I found this thing, but I don't know what it's used for." said the second-hand dealer.

The killer said not too coolly: "I also took one of these. I have them in many houses over there."

Cheye Nanhuan took it and looked at it, then asked, "Where are the others?"

Second-hand dealer: "Sweep the sand."

The killer was not too cool: "Sweep the sand."

It’s hard to rejoice all night long: “…”

Well, he also sweeps sand.

It seems that the clues for the first stage are hidden in the sand sweeping festival and this small transparent celestial globe.

Enough is actually enough since they are now in "god mode".

The goal of the first phase is to "destroy the Dark City".

The goal of the second stage is to "find the old kingdom of God".

Originally, they should start the first stage of the task based on the clues, complete the task, and then get the clues of the second stage, and repeat this until the level is cleared.

But now they have known the task content in advance through another method, and their thinking method has inevitably changed from forward thinking to backward thinking.

All night long, he didn't want to care about the City of Darkness and the Kingdom of the Old Kingdom. Yesterday, he refused to let Gu Chi say it was because of this. He wanted to rely on himself.

But it turns out that he can never rely on himself.

People will always subconsciously think in the right direction. The concepts of the Dark City and the Kingdom of the Old Kingdom have been engraved in his mind. He can't completely stop thinking about it. This leads to the difficulty of the entire first stage of the game. It drops sharply and completely loses the sense of accomplishment and fun of deciphering.

"Aren't you surprised why the towns are full of people?" Chengcheng asked.

Xia Leng had asked this question before, but she had already figured it out.

"These NPCs are a bit strange," the second-hand dealer said. "They slept together yesterday and swept the floor together today. They are like a bunch of programmed robots. They work at certain times and rest at certain times."

But they are indeed living people, with natural emotions and joys. When he went to steal the celestial globe, he was chased for several streets by the owner, scolding him.

"They should all be real people." Old Li Tou said. He was quite confident in this judgment.

I couldn't be happy all night long: "So sure?"

Old Li Tou said seriously: "Because they will blush."

Everyone: "..."

So what exactly are you using to spy on information?

Strength 39 said: "I agree with Old Li Tou's view. This place is not like the horizon."

In other words, it’s not like the technological world.

The fact that bells can turn people into yellow sand is full of metaphysics inside and out, and the residents in the town believe in gods. This is information that has been obtained before. You only need to ask: "Aren't you afraid of the insects outside? "

The answer was always the same: "God will bless us."

Not even a single god.

Power 39 can only be known through the jailer, there must be a god of violence here.

Of course, it is not impossible for gods and technology to coexist. Morning Star has this trend.

Qi Ye Nan Huan sighed: "I give up. Anyway, we have obtained the clue points. Let's go directly to the third stage."

Chengcheng: "Huh?"

Chu Liuxiang was confused: "It's just a ball and a sand sweeping festival. Are you sure you have enough?"

Not to mention getting 100% of the clue points, you must at least be able to deduce the goal of the first stage, right?

I couldn't rejoice all night long: "It can already be pushed out."

Chu Liuxiang: "?"

It was hard to rejoice all night long: "Didn't Chengcheng just say that the number of people was wrong?"

"It's indeed wrong." Chengcheng said, "Didn't you notice that there are no children in the town?"

If there are no children, it means that there is no option to "grow up". If one dies, one will be missing. If the sand in this desert is really full of ashes, then who knows how many people have died. This town should have been empty for a long time. How is it possible? Is every room occupied?

The second-hand dealer seemed to understand something: "So there must be someone replenishing ashes resources for these towns on a regular basis?"

Looking through the smoke: "Then where do these people come from?"

It’s hard to rejoice all night long: “It’s a dark city.”

The correct answer is of course not the City of Darkness, but the Kingdom of the Old Gods.

But as long as they analyze this place, they will definitely search the Wailing Desert again to see where they can hide people.

If you can't find it during the day, then look for it at night. Sooner or later you will find the Dark City.

As long as you enter the Dark City, you should be able to start the first phase of the mission.

And 80% of the Dark City has any connection with the Old Kingdom of God. If the city is destroyed by them, the Old Kingdom of God will react. At this time, they will find that the Dark City is the wrong answer and cannot solve the question "Where do people come from?" "This question will inevitably continue to be searched, just in time to meet the jailer who came to check the situation.

The ideal result is to capture him alive, extract some information from the jailer's mouth, and start the second phase of the mission.

It doesn't matter if they can't ask, because once they meet the jailer, "where do people come from" becomes "where does the jailer come from". They can completely follow the clues and find out where the jailer came from. The mission is still "???" complete the task.

Combined with this strange celestial sphere, as well as the simple guess that "the ancient kingdom of God was buried under the sand" and the appearance of "the jailer emerged from the sand", it is easy to think that this world is not a sphere, but the true meaning The sky is round and the place is round.

One side of the stone slab in the middle of the celestial globe represents the Wailing Desert, and the other side represents the old kingdom of God.

The strategy process for the first and second stages is probably like this.

Gu Chi, who had been silent until now, was suddenly shocked: "You are so smart!"

Chengcheng almost laughed out loud. She knew that Gu Chi had already sorted everything out, so she suppressed her laughter and repeated, "You are so smart!"

Everyone: "You are so smart!"

It’s hard to rejoice all night long: “…”

So smart!

All this reasoning is based on already knowing the mission objectives.

In other words, Gu Chi is like a teacher who asks a question, tells them the answer, and then lets them do the math on their own.

Is this difficult?

There is no difficulty at all!

Not only is there no difficulty in deciphering, the exploration and combat processes are also omitted.

You must know that not a single brick in the Dark City can be touched. Entering the city cautiously in the middle of the night will be very thrilling no matter what you do. Once you successfully complete the task, you will feel an overwhelming sense of accomplishment, but the reality is that Yes, they were led by Gu Chi, who passed the first two stages lying down...

Although it was very relaxed, it did not prevent Nanhuan from looking at Gu Chi with a resentful look all night long.

That look in her eyes was like that of an unsatisfied little resentful woman.

All night long, I felt that my happiness had been stolen by Gu Chi.

Gu Chi coughed lightly: "Personally, I think it's more important to clear the level."

This matter cannot be blamed on him. It is purely a deliberate mistake in the copy. Didn't he also lose the joy of decrypting it?

It’s all Xiao Poyou’s fault!

"So he is right?" Chengcheng asked Gu Chi.

Gu Chi: "Yeah."

Almost like ten.

This is why he told Xia Ling to sleep under the bed yesterday.

This world is a very strange "board". They are on top, the Kingdom of the Old God is on the bottom, and the gravity on both sides is towards the ground.

Just digging out the sand is not enough, you have to penetrate the "bottom shell".

For a group of top players, this shouldn't be difficult, but they don't know the corresponding relationship between the sections of the Wailing Desert and the Kingdom of the Old God. If they accidentally dig into the face of the Shadow of the Old God, they will die suddenly if they go down. , so the safest way is to find the passage through which the jailer came - this should also be one of the "clues" in the first two stages.

"Then what are you waiting for?" Chengcheng was eager to give it a try, "Go, go, go!"

So everyone didn't eat dinner. When the last two teams came back, the whole group followed Gu Chi to the place where the jailer appeared yesterday.

Just dig right in!

Hundreds of people each found a position, six or seven meters apart from each other, like a large square array. They waved their tools and dug a big hole in this area in a few clicks.

The sand accumulated outside the pit turned into small sand dunes visible to the naked eye, and the sand surface in the pit became lower and lower.

After all, there are only a few people who care about the gaming experience like Qi Ye Nan Huan, and they agree more with Gu Chi’s point of view.

Just kidding, how is the game experience as important as the first pass?

At this juncture, players across the country are paying close attention to Dust Death Knell, and the official has even issued a reward. If they can pass the level this time, they will be named on the gold list on the spot.

We are all players in the first tier, and with the SS first-pass titles and rewards, who can’t help but respectfully call them “big boss”?

Isn't this much more comfortable than the so-called wasteland experience?

For example, Power 39 and Chengcheng have already looked away.

Have they had any gaming experience since they met Gu Chi?

No, it doesn't exist.

They can only become Gu Chi's gaming experience.

It's better to lie down and wait for Father Heaven to take them flying.

"Hey, I seem to have found a passage, come here and take a look!"

Soon, a female player shouted excitedly.

She put wind magic on the spear and attached a spiral wind blade to the tip of the spear. It was more like drilling than digging. The speed was several times faster than the others. The boy next to her only dug two or three meters deep. , she was almost drilling out of a well. Everyone only heard her voice, but no one was seen.

Everyone gathered around to take a look, only to find that the girl with a face full of yellow sand was climbing up quickly to avoid falling into the passage.

The bottom of the "well" is still filled with sand, but this layer of sand is very thin, and it is vaguely visible that there is a round smooth crystal surface buried underneath.

Waves of light flowed on the crystal surface, emitting a shimmering light, like a crystal ball that had been flattened.

"Good job." Cheye Nanhuan patted the female player on the shoulder and praised her.

Chengcheng leaned over and said, "It seems a bit narrow?"

The entrance to the passage is not much bigger than a manhole cover. Even if it is vertically placed, only a few people can pass through it at a time.

"This should be the portal on the mysterious side, right?" The second-hand dealer looked at the crystal surface and pondered, "It has been added with a screening spell to block the sand, so it can only pass people but not sand?"

If it is a passage in the physical sense, it is too small. There are hundreds of thousands of residents in the town, and they come up one by one. It will not take a year or two to replenish a wave of ashes?

"You'll know after you try it." Cheye Nanhuan said. He looked at Gu Chi, "Are you coming?"

There is probably someone guarding the other side of the portal. Among the thousand of them, only Gu Chi has the ability to clear the way.

"There is no need to trouble my brother, the Emperor of Heaven." Old Li Tou said, "Let the force 39 go!"

Power 39: "?"

The Heavenly Emperor brothers are brothers, but the Jiuer brothers are not brothers, right?

Old Li Tou said happily: "Look at your outfit, wouldn't you like to go back and report the news?"

One came out before, and now one returns, just in time to sneak into the enemy's territory.

Gu Chi was also happy. Why didn't he think of this?

Think carefully for two seconds, this is most likely a serious strategy.

Power 39: "?"

"Repay your sister, I look different from him."

"This is simple."

Gu Chi snapped his fingers and said, "Change."

"Uh-huh!"

Strength 39 immediately had several black tattoos on his face, and his appearance also changed, highlighting a wild and violent person, almost exactly the same as yesterday's jailer.

Power 39: "???"

Old Li Tou was overjoyed: "Look, the Heavenly Emperor brothers have personally helped you, how dare you shirk it?"

"Since ancient times, undercover agents have been the first to succeed, and they will get points."

"Besides, you don't want to disappoint Brother Tiandi, right?"

"Stop talking, let's go!"

Lao Li gave Force 39 a kick on the head.

Boom!

The roar of Power 39 came from the bottom of the well.

"Old dog Li, you are your uncle!"

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