Quadruple split.

Chapter 2323 Interlude: Stalemate

The battle lasted less than five minutes before Black Onyx City turned into a veritable meat grinder, devouring the lives of soldiers from both sides.

Thanks to the pioneering work of the brother and sister in the Haunted Church, the assassins under King Wu Ye had no reason to hesitate and after crossing the moat that had turned into a smooth road in front of them, they fought to the death and killed the defenders entrenched in the city without any tricks. Someone fell down every minute and every second, and someone took his place every minute and every second, as if the meaning of their existence was to turn everything, including themselves, into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

At this point, the evil beast called "War" finally showed its fangs and unscrupulously turned every living life into a series of cold numbers, subtracting it elegantly and efficiently, neither fast nor slow.

If there is an artist with a rich imagination at this moment, the works he creates with this inspiration will most likely have a sufficiently elegant, intellectual and calm appearance, and will explicitly portray the madness, cruelty and malice hidden beneath this appearance.

That would be a work that even the most vulgar viewers would be able to see through for its essence at a glance, and would feel uncomfortable and curse the author for blaspheming art. And just as those mediocre people intuitively say, the so-called war has never been an art.

In other words, the art of war has never been about war itself, but about the light that people shine in the process. It may be wisdom, morality, philosophy and reflection, but it can never be war itself.

As someone who was watching the game at this moment and who rarely understood the entire command ideas of the attacking side said, the battlefield was just an act of violence that was whitewashed by people for various reasons and was essentially a simple and terrible act of violence. The "small fight" happening in front of people's eyes right now was the most intuitive, naked and essential part of it.

It is precisely because of this that, less than five minutes after this meat grinder and blood mill started running at full capacity, more than 40% of the audience felt noticeably uncomfortable. Although the system camera mostly revolved around the players on both sides, after this siege battle had clearly become the core of the game, at least in the shots mainly featuring Yidong, Mika, Gu Xiaole, Lucy and Christina, the essence of war as mentioned by someone had been vividly reflected!

This thoroughness, apart from the impact and pleasure in the initial stage, is only left with the negative feeling of gradually becoming disheartened.

Humans are essentially very 'carrying' creatures, and that is why we are afraid of skeletons, which clearly represent 'death', 'end', and 'loss of everything'.

And what is happening in [Black Onyx City] at this moment is, in a sense, much more excessive than simple skeletons, corpses, or anything else that can symbolize the end of life.

……

"Tsk tsk, after all, this is going on now, it's normal to feel uncomfortable."

In the temporary meeting room of the Broken Wind Bird Club, Baihuasha took a bite of the roasted hot pepper, smacked his lips while hugging the pale-faced Fenghuaxueyue into his arms, and comforted her softly, "Don't worry, Xiaohuahua. Especially at times like this, you should leave everything to your sister. Hey, I know you don't want to show your weakness in front of your brother Wushuang, so why not let your sister take good care of you, and we can enjoy while adapting... Xiaoke, you want to come too? No problem, wait until I finish eating the hot pepper and my left hand is free!"

Keren grabbed Baihuasha's right wrist with one hand and pried his claws away from Fenghuaxueyue's shoulder little by little. She shook her head and said indifferently, "I just don't want you to take advantage of the situation and leave this child with bad memories that will take a lifetime to heal."

"Oh, what are you saying, little sister Ke?"

Because the physical fitness of players in public spaces is always the same as that outside the game, Baihuasha, who was completely unable to stop Keren from pulling her away from Fenghuaxueyue, looked bitter and said pitifully: "Sister, how could I be that kind of person? And don't tell me you don't know, this damn [Boundary of Innocence]... I mean, this 365-degree game with no blind spots has no loopholes to exploit. If I really had any ill intentions, the system would definitely come out to warn me immediately."

Keren was completely indifferent, just continued to look at Baihuasha coldly, and said calmly: "So you only interact with the girl you like in the [Boundary of Innocence] in a normal way, creating an atmosphere that you have no bad intentions, and then use the convenience of the same gender to get contact information, and finally create a series of 'coincidences' and 'encounters' through various investigations, and then achieve your sinister purpose outside the game, which is known to everyone but cannot be revealed."

Baihuasha: "Ah this..."

"I'm not a child, I'm an adult."

Fenghuaxueyue refuted Keren's words with a slightly frowned brow, but her body very honestly hid behind the other person. Her face did not look better than before, but became even paler.

Obviously, although Baihuasha did divert the attention of Fenghuaxueyue, who had rarely seen such a scene and had never watched any war films, it frightened the latter on another level.

As a high-level philanthropist of beautiful girls, although Baihuasha felt sorry that she did not have the opportunity to develop further with Fenghuaxueyue, she did not vent her anger on Keren. After all, she was very clear that she was the one with impure motives, and there was an essential difference between her and those scum who were doing dirty things without knowing it.

"Ugh."

Therefore, Baihuasha, who failed in his attempt to flirt with his target and alerted him, sighed and turned to look at Jiuchong, who was sitting on a chair drinking juice like a primary school student: "I'm injured, Jiujiu, it's a long vacation now, can you go shopping with me?"

Jiu Dian nodded and said with a smile: "Okay."

Baihuasha lowered his shoulders and said helplessly: "Okay, I knew you... Hey? Sister Jiujiu, what did you say just now?"

"I said 'OK', since I really don't have anything to do these two days anyway."

Kunou smiled sweetly and added, "But I will bring Meimei with me."

Bai Huasha, who had already shown an expression of ecstasy, suddenly froze and said in a dry voice: "Ah... bring Sister Yangmei..."

"no?"

Hanmei, who had snatched a piece of pork belly from Xueran, turned her head and glanced at Baihuasha, and said casually: "Am I not a beautiful girl that you yourself admitted to be? Or is it because I have grown old over the years that you despise me?"

Bai Huasha pulled the corner of his mouth awkwardly and said softly, "How dare I? Let me tell you, Sister Yangmei, you have always been in the top five of my most wanted-to-sleep list of beautiful girls..."

"Think about it, no one is stopping you from thinking about it."

The female self-defense technique has reached perfection. She was able to kill at least three weaklings like Baihuasha on the spot in a few breaths. Hanmei raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "In short, as long as you don't have any bad ideas about Jiujiu, I can absolutely guarantee your personal safety during the trip and prevent any harm from anyone...including me."

Baihuasha: "...but I will definitely have some evil ideas!"

"Then get rid of the yellow waste in your brain."

Han Mei, who knew Bai Hua Sha very well, snorted and said lightly: "Or I can help you clean it up."

"..."

Just like that, knowing that the other party would definitely not use the method of 'making himself satisfied and then turning into a state of nothingness' to clean up the yellow waste in his brain, Baihuasha shrank his neck and dared not speak anymore.

Hanmei easily subdued the difficult lesbian and brought the topic back to the topic. She turned to the girls around her and said seriously, "I also think the current scene is bad enough... even a little scary, but I don't think avoiding it can solve the problem. Since we are playing the game [Boundary of Innocence], we need to adapt to this kind of unpleasant scene, even if it makes people uncomfortable."

"agree."

The Cheese Cat Demon stuffed a piece of roasted kidney into his mouth, and agreed with a greasy mouth: "It's actually quite delicious when you get used to it."

Hanmei: “Ugh!”

"Hey Hey hey!"

After realizing that the other party was not trying to seduce him but was actually retching, the cheese cat demon was shocked and asked hurriedly, "So you feel uncomfortable too? No, if you feel so uncomfortable, why are you still pretending?!"

Han Mei, whose face turned pale, took several seconds to catch her breath. She glared at the cheese cat demon and said through gritted teeth, "I said I don't advocate avoiding the problem. I never said I wasn't uncomfortable watching this slaughterhouse-like fight!"

"Don't watch it if you feel uncomfortable."

The cheese cat demon looked confused and asked, "Why are you trying to make yourself unhappy? Are you a masochist?"

"I'm not a M, this isn't a question of whether it's fun or not." Han Mei, who knew very well that the other party had no ill intentions and was just being rude, rolled her eyes and gritted her teeth and said, "It's mainly because this damn game is too real. It's too real in every aspect. We're all professional players, and we've all massacred people in MMO games before, right? Which game is as real as [Boundary of Innocence]?"

The girls around shook their heads, most of them frowned thoughtfully. After all, they were not stupid. After Hanmei's "pointing", they naturally realized that if they wanted to survive in this game, they had to adapt to all kinds of places that were too real and made people feel uncomfortable. In fact, these girls who excelled in the gaming field realized this a long time ago. Not to mention such a tragic scene, the feeling of killing a rabbit in [Realm of Innocence] was completely different from that in other games.

In the end, Fenghuaxueyue, who had just shown obvious discomfort, nodded and said with a pale face, "Senior Hanmei is right. Thank you."

"You're welcome. I'm just a little mad."

Hanmei glanced at the girl who forced herself to look at the screen again, and said helplessly: "Two non-professional teams stepped on us and made it to the finals. Even if [Boundary of Innocence] is different from the previous games, it's still a bit... a bit..."

"A bit fucked up?"

The cheese cat demon kindly provided the following adjectives.

“It’s a bit frustrating!”

Hanmei gritted her teeth and said angrily, "We make a living by playing games. It's okay this time, but if we are left behind by ordinary game enthusiasts in the future, we will be ashamed!"

"I don't make a living by playing games."

The cheese cat demon raised his right hand and blinked innocently.

"Hey, Sister Cat, eat meat, and stop talking."

Jin Beibei, who was standing by, was quick to hand a piece of grilled ribs to her companion when Hanmei was almost furious. This finally distracted the attention of Yuhuo, an ordinary game enthusiast, and temporarily shut his mouth.

It can be seen that Miss Beibei, who became the chief steward of the guild after joining, did not want [Bath of Fire] to be targeted by [Red Constellation], so at least before those bitches of typing warriors could not help but make a move to cheat people... she did not want to attract the hatred of any member of the club or studio present.

The girls, who had corrected their professional attitudes, also turned their attention back to the competition. After adapting a little, they started discussing from an objective perspective again. The quality of their content was not inferior to that of the men next door, and the sophistication and professionalism of some details were even higher.

"The durability of the city walls and gates is problematic."

The vice-captain of Yingyingyan's main team, the only black-haired office lady wearing glasses in the entire club who had not been attacked by Baihua's anti-virus tool, 'Grandma Li' narrowed her eyes and said lightly: "This does not conform to my understanding of structural science. Even if we take into account the elements of mysticism such as barriers and magic, it still seems a little too fragile. If it continues like this, it will be difficult to defeat the beautiful girl..."

The main member of the Undead Studio, the masked girl with extremely dark circles under her eyes, 'Steep' nodded slightly and said concisely: "I guess it's a mission."

"The quarry. I remember Lucy mentioned it once."

Jin Beibei, who was in a state of panic, also reacted quickly. She clapped her hands and exclaimed, "It seems that the condition of the city wall has been a little bad since it was breached over there."

"more than."

Jiuzhong smiled and added softly, "Also, the efficiency of the catapults has obviously decreased. However, the other side has also encountered many problems. For example, after Christina returned to the city, the morale of the siege team was obviously greatly reduced. Not only that, every half an hour, the NPCs on the side of the [Haunted Church] will be weakened. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be some kind of punitive task mechanism."

“I’ve noticed this too…”

Lorelai from Tokiwa Studio pushed up her glasses and said calmly, "Mika and Lucia from the pretty girls' side have already taken a lot of attacks, but without any blood recovery or medicine, their health percentage has never dropped below 98%. This is definitely not normal. You know, Christina's lowest health percentage has been 95% since she left the city."

"So, does the pretty girl have a good chance of winning?"

“I want them to win.”

"But the [Haunted Church] is... well, I can't say for sure."

"Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to break through the city so early, but this is a competition after all, and there are tasks representing the power of the system involved."

“The main thing is that the moat has been destroyed.”

"By the way, those two seem to be siblings, right? Tsk, I remember that contestant Winter seemed quite handsome!"

"Tsk, I remember the last time you were in love, you were so scared that you cried for two nights after meeting in person."

"Shut up! Don't think I won't tear your mouth off just because you changed jobs!"

"There's nothing I can do. I have limited talent, so I definitely can't play as a starter in the main team. We're offered more here, so... Hey?! How come the other two sides of this city are also surrounded!"

"The NPC army is coming over, the beautiful girl is in danger."

"We can hold on. According to what Senior Jiu Chong said, the NPCs at the Haunted Church will be weakened again in a few minutes."

"But the number of people guarding the city..."

"Wow, they're still rushing in! There are too many people attacking the city!"

"We can't rush in all at once. Can we kill Gu Xiaole or Lin Dong at once? Otherwise..."

“I’m too busy!”

"It's a stalemate!"

"Well, it's a stalemate."

Just like that, just as these professional players who were heavily inclined towards the Sailor Moon team said, the situation once again fell into a tragic stalemate after the assassins under King Wuye continued to pour into the city and surrounded the Black Onyx City on all sides.

This round of stalemate lasted for a full hour!

until--

……

  Game time AM04:41

On the Haunted Church side, the absolute main force 'Great Onmyoji Gu Xiaole' and on the Sailor Moon side, the healer 'Mika Yuke' were killed at the same time on the banks of the Samler River.

Chapter 2314: The End