As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 579 New Memories One Hundred and Thirty Years Later

The words are divided into two parts.

The places in the world where people can let down their guard the most are "bathhouses" and "brothels", so when Li Nuo was fighting, Xiao Wu brought Cha Bai to the brothel... They really were planning to collect information about the "Twelve Evils of Tianlou".

However, in the brothel, a place full of lust, Xiao Wu was not treated as a woman. She then went crazy and insisted on gambling here. She would only feel comfortable when she lost herself to the brothel.

In order to keep the business back on track, the madam gave Cha Bai a shopping coupon and drove the two of them away.

"Reluctant, unhappy, and lonely."

Xiao Wu frowned, complained, and followed Cha Bai.

"nice one."

Cha Bai shook the shopping coupon between his fingers.

[Shopping coupons for unsaleable scrap collection stations]

[Quality: Junk~Epic]

[Effect: Can only be used in "White City", go to the "Scrap Collection Station" to buy goods at a 50% discount]

[Brief description: It is garbage to the natives, but an "epic" good thing to the players, because the store only sells clothes that the players don't want, and the natives can't use them, so it is named the Scrap Collection Station]

This is a "player gathering area", so there are a lot of players' things here.

According to Basel's Law, quite a lot of players will sell useless things to merchants. For example, unscrupulous merchants like Wink like to buy them and resell them at high prices.

"I almost forgot that there must be a lot of player stuff in the player gathering area."

Cha Bai's tone was very pleasant.

Xiao Wu felt strange.

"Aren't you worried? He's missing."

"I'm worried, but it's useless." Cha Bai walked in front and said with a sidelong glance: "Instead of thinking about it and causing trouble, it's better to do your own thing."

The two of them walked along the alley and left the brothel.

During this time, Cha Bai took out the long-lost poison gas mask from the magic element grid and put it on. Xiao Wu followed suit and put on a [Bandit Mask]. Although it was not very useful, it was better than nothing.

Opening a shabby wooden door, we arrived at the busy road in the west of the city.

Boom!
The big clock floating in the sky shook and announced "12 noon".

High-rise buildings are stacked up, and a group of two-headed migratory birds fly over the dome at the top of the city, circling endlessly.

Suddenly it began to drizzle, and the rain, carrying incense ash, fell onto the crisscrossing pipes between the high-rise buildings.

Looking further up, statues of gods and Buddhas are lined up around the building, covered in graffiti, urine stains and cracks caused by unknown impacts.

"Chinese Cyber... or Oriental Punk?"

Xiao Wu was mesmerized. It was the first time for her to come to a world with ancient oriental style. She didn't expect it to be the "Broadsword" world with a western fantasy theme.

"Cha Bai, do you think this place came into being after the players appeared, or did it come into being first and then the players came?"

"Who cares?"

Cha Bai felt that it was not her job to think about this.

"This way."

Cha Bai looked at the map and walked out of the path, motioning Xiao Wu to follow him and not get lost, and turned the hammer into an umbrella to cover Xiao Wu's head.

"I'm not afraid of the rain."

"This umbrella can whiten your skin." Cha Bai's words made Xiao Wu excited and she moved closer under the umbrella.

The two of them walked across a street and entered a dark alley. At the entrance of the alley, there was a furious Vajra statue with a colorfully painted face. Its black eyes with yellow pupils rolled around and looked at them.

"monitor."

Xiao Wu's voice was very low.

"fine."

Cha Bai shook the umbrella, meaning that there was an umbrella to cover him.

The rain got heavier again.

The mist spread quickly and the wind blew up the garbage. There was so much paper money that came from nowhere in this city that the water could hardly wet it. It floated all over the sky like snow.

In the windy alley, signs with red lanterns hanging on them are crowded like poker cards on a gambling table.

In a corner of a dark street, a "Scrap Purchase" sign is hidden behind a dead tree.

Inside the room, the boss took out a pile of clothes that he thought were waste and piled them on the ground. He then talked about a special place in "White City", where the natives did not know the identities of the "End" players and thought they were outsiders.

These outsiders sold him the boring stuff, and he sold it to other outsiders.

"During the past two weeks, the war has caused no one to buy from me."

The boss complained.

Xiao Wu narrowed her eyes and asked about the situation of the players here.

"Fight? Who against whom?"

"The people in power here are outsiders, and the ones who can fight them are also outsiders."

"By the way, boss, you know the person in charge here..." Xiao Wu was about to say this, but she shut up when she felt it was inappropriate to ask directly.

But the boss said indifferently: "How should I know? I'm just a businessman. Outsiders are so strange, I dare not ask too much. By the way, do you want to buy?"

"Buy it, let me take a look first." Cha Bai was holding clothes and choosing.

The props and weapons are not very good, but the clothes are interesting. Most of them are clothes that players get in various scenarios and cannot be equipped.

The shells of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Alice's sanitary napkins, Ada Wong's black stockings, Mai Shiranui's underwear, Goro Daimon's pants, Iori Yagami's wig, and other things that look like they are of low quality are all piled up here.

Xiao Wu looked at him with some disappointment.

"Chabai, it's not a good thing, don't look at it."

“There’s something good.”

Cha Bai took a stone from the shelf.

【Teleport Stone】

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: Teleport to a safe area at a fixed point, invalid after one use]

[Brief description: Do you know what a safe zone is? It is an area where no one is watching you even if you are naked. It is an area where no life exists.]

It's a very "endless" summary mode. If it were a "endless corridor" summary, it might write a long paragraph about Xiao Ming's story.

The player of "End" added a layer of "data trap" magic on the stone, and that player just thought it was fun.

Cha Bai can see the real panel because she comes from another corridor.

"Well, fifty is fine."

The boss asked for a price very casually. He felt that the stone couldn't even be sold for double digits, so it would be better to have a sucker.

Once an area becomes a gathering place for players, the currency there will also become gold coins that players need to use. This is the case with White City. The gold coins that players take out will become materialized.

But Cha Bai didn't pay, instead he used the [market auntie's chat technique] on the boss.

[Effect: When you activate the skill, the opponent will tell you some critical or non-critical gossip and information at a lower level. The cooldown time is 48 hours, and the success rate of use is 50%~88%] (obtained in Chapter 346).

Xiao Wu is sometimes a little clumsy when dealing with people.

In contrast, white tea is blackened by the company of black tea. She realized that it was impossible for the owner of a shop catering to players to not know the rules of this place.

"Tell me some gossip about this place so I can buy some good stuff."

Cha Bai tried to induce her. She imagined how Li Nuo would flirt and chat with the boss if he were present, and then she learned according to her imagination.

The boss then leaned in and whispered, "This shabby place is not a place for human beings to stay."

Three and a half years ago, after an outsider organization settled in this place, the city developed rapidly, but the outsiders, or players, treated this place as an experimental base.

In fact, if you think about it from a player's perspective, you will understand what is going on.

The "Twelve Evils of Tianlou", a large organization of "The End", has obtained White City as a gathering area. When they are not working on scripts, they do research here. Their main goal is to find those powerful abilities among the "Great Sword Warriors" and use them to transform warriors. If successful, they can use them on the players themselves.

It's very similar to what the Umbrella Corporation did in Resident Evil.

The special feature of "The Corridor of the End" is that in all gathering areas, players and natives can harm each other.

This has resulted in an extremely harsh living environment for players.

It also created a group of thousands of players who are always in a state of madness.

Cha Bai was curious: "Where do they do their research?"

"I don't know." The boss said, "There are about 20 organizations in this city that were established by outsiders, big and small. There is also a big organization above them. We have to call them 'the upper echelons'. They are people that ordinary people can't see."

The ensuing conversation lasted nearly five minutes.

There were originally two great empires in this world. One was a huge country of "descendants of dragons" and the other was an alliance organization of multiple countries. Among the allied countries, Baicheng belonged to an oriental-style "wulin" country. It was originally a beautiful oriental town.

Today, the city has changed drastically compared to what it was three years ago, but there is still no law enforcement organization and the crime rate is surprisingly low.

First of all, any criminal act that benefits outsiders is not against the rules.

Secondly, thieves, murderers, robbers and other criminals that affect public security will be expelled to the vicinity of two large experimental factory areas in the south and east of the city. It will be difficult for ordinary people to survive in those two places.

Li Nuo went to the experimental area in the south of the city. It would be difficult for the indigenous people there to avoid becoming experimental subjects. They would eventually become monsters or meat in the monsters' mouths.

So far, no one has ever walked out of there alive. Those who want to escape are blocked by the barrier separating White City from the outside world, and those who want to run into the city will encounter a wall of ghosts.

All of the above is done by the players.

There are also landlords and wealthy businessmen in this city. They cooperate with large organizations of outsiders. They are not coerced but do it willingly. It is hard not to suspect that they have been bewitched by something like "hypnosis".

A resistance organization emerged last year, and the leader of the organization was a mayor of Baicheng a few years ago. What's interesting is that the big outsider organization didn't care about them, and actually treated the members of the resistance organization as part of the experiment.

The ultimate goal of all the player's actions is to create something useful here, which will eventually play a role in the script.

This behavior is very similar to that of Maljie, except that Marjie's experiment was only aimed at Li Nuo, while the experiment of "Twelve Evils of Tianlou" was aimed at the indigenous people of the entire city or even the entire country.

When the boss said this, he lit a cigarette and puffed out smoke with a worried look on his face.

"Four years ago, we could still see blue skies here, but these past few years, it's been gloomy every day. I can't live happily, so I might as well die."

Compared to Basel's sunshine and the optimism of its natives, the White City is hell.

Xiao Wu winked at Cha Bai.

Cha Bai then remembered Xiao Wu’s business.

"Do you know the Great Sword Warrior?"

"I don't know, but I have seen giant dragons flying in the sky."

The boss suddenly touched his nose when he said this.

"Wait a minute..."

Plop, a few drops of blood flowed out of the nose.

"It's over..."

The boss looked ashen.

The next second, veins popped out on his face, his teeth became sharp, and then the skin and flesh inside his face turned inside out, turning him into a monster-like thing.

Cha Bai and Xiao Wu stood still. They had seen too many bizarre things and were no longer surprised.

The demonized boss crashed into the wall, and with the last bit of human consciousness left, he ran and shouted, "Hahaha, I'm going to die! Great!"

The sound disappeared into the gloomy alley.

Cha Bai pointed to the gas mask and said, "It's probably because of the air pollution and the poison gas that caused the mutation."

Xiao Wu frowned: "I haven't asked about my question yet..."

It is not easy to find a hidden place in this city to inquire for information, not to mention that Xiao Wu’s goal is to find the greatsword warrior to transform her body and lift the curse of "no attraction to the opposite sex".

"You'll find it eventually...don't worry."

Cha Bai looked around the empty room, thoughtfully.

At this time, a customer came in.

"I just saw the boss..."

The customer hesitated to speak.

Cha Bai: "He asked us to help watch the store, and he just... ran into the wall and ran away."

The customer did not come for the boss's safety, but to buy something.

"I'm here to buy some cheap weapons. Also, do you have any of that food called 'instant noodles'?"

Actually, there was, but Chabai said, "We are closed."

After tricking the customers away, Cha Bai and Xiao Wu packed up the goods in the shop. They found a cart and boxes and prepared to clear out the place.

At the same time, Malje's signal came in.

"Hmph... My charm is a whirlpool like the Stone of Destiny. No one can escape my persistence."

"You fucking speak human language."

Obviously, the one who scolded Maljie could only be Li Nuo.

There was a "bang" in Cha Bai's head and smoke came out of his ears.

Xiao Wu felt increasingly threatened, thinking that Cha Bai was being remotely attacked by someone. She pulled out a dagger from her waist, but Cha Bai held her back and signaled that it was okay.

In fact, Cha Bai was just relieved when she heard that Li Nuo was fine. Her brain was overloaded and the mechanical chip in her brain exploded. After all, she was just worried about Li Nuo.

"Old Ma, what did you find?"

Li Nuo was not in a hurry to explain his own affairs.

Malger said, "People from the Sky Corridor arrived a week ago. The leader has straight blond hair. Judging from the rumors about his abilities, I guess it's Brupu."

Li Nuo also knew the news. He knew that Brupu had been there from Mulan's perfume.

"During this period, most of the players in White City have been fighting the people from the 'Sky Corridor'." Malger paused, snorted, and said, "White City is full of biological poison gas, which can mutate people into monsters. The researcher is a player from the 'Twelve Devils of the Sky Tower'. He is the only one in the organization who did not participate in the suppression of the 'Sky Corridor'. He is currently studying the flesh and blood genes of the 'Great Sword' world and is an alchemist."

This passage contains a great deal of information.

The greatsword warrior that Xiao Wu is interested in and the alchemist that Li Nuo is interested in are both reflected in this player.

What's more, the main quest is to "expel [Scholars]", so it is inevitable that they will have in-depth contact with "End" players.

"Where is it?" Xiao Wu asked.

"Ghost Market." Maljie said, "I'll give you the address. I won't get involved in the fighting. I'll just do the logistics."

The ghost market is only open at night, in the sewers.

Xiao Wu was curious: "How did you find out so quickly? This is the 'End'."

Marger: "Humph."

He just wouldn't say anything, and if you listened carefully, you could hear a group of dogs barking behind him.

In a city, who knows the most secrets?
The answer must include stray animals.

So who knows a lot of secrets and won’t be silenced?
The answer must be stray animals.

Maljie's starting point for gathering intelligence was different. He turned into a dog and looked for stray dogs to gather information. Less than ten minutes after entering White City, Maljie had become one of the dog kings in this city.

"Li Nuo, how are you?" Cha Bai asked.

"Fortunately... I'm afraid my ability of 'Denisa' has been targeted."

Li Nuo was able to restore the signal to communicate with the outside world only after he killed Zhou Bing and his group. He had just captured a player who possessed the [Reincarnation] item, who was being tortured in his weapon box.

"The players here are studying things from the world of Great Sword. I happen to have the most useful Denise gene... I don't plan to leave here for the time being. First, it would be risky for you if I show up. Second, there are some interesting things in the slums."

Li Nuo found a map.

The map shows the underground world of White City, which has been transformed to look like a "soul-like" game. Li Nuo believes there will be interesting things in it.

Mulan had been listening to Li Nuo talking. Even though she couldn't see, she knew that Li Nuo was talking to the "air".

"Brother, are you infected?"

The air in the slums is poisonous. If you breathe too much, you will mutate, just like the group of monsters Li Nuo met on the way here.

"Just shut up for a moment."

Even though Li Nuo said so, Mulan couldn't see it. This girl was really worried.

"Brother... I know a place called 'Ghost Market', where they sell all kinds of folk remedies, how about I take you there?"

On the other end of the communicator, Cha Bai's ears twitched.

"Li Nuo? Whose brother are you?"

Li Nuo was stunned and looked at Mulan. The girl had bandages wrapped around her eyes and was blind. Mulan's image reminded Li Nuo of a game character that could be used for fun: the Fire Keeper.

"Oh, don't believe me when I tell you this, I'm the Fire Keeper's brother."

……

The world one hundred and thirty years later.

Chen Shou was helping to pack supplies for the trip. They decided to send fifty Steel Soul Sisters out to search for treasures in this world, while Chen Shou and Die stayed in the town ruins to guard the home.

Everyone is busy.

Only the old man in a bamboo hat was sitting idly on the gray stone steps, smoking his pipe.

The more Chen Shou looked at the old woman, the more curious he felt. He actually called himself a "fire keeper girl", which was very abstract. Considering that the old woman didn't fit in with everyone, Chen Shou walked over with a soft heart.

"Uncle, come and help me?"

"Forget it. I'm an old man, not suitable for hard labor."

The old man in the bamboo hat suddenly frowned slightly, he hissed, and then his facial expressions were almost squeezed together.

"it's wired……"

Chen Shou felt that something was wrong with the old man's condition, and touched the slingshot at his waist to prevent the old man from mutating.

"Uncle, is there something wrong with your brain?"

"There is something wrong with my brain... but it's not what you think."

The old man in the bamboo hat turned his head to the side, and his wrinkled face looked a little scary under the light of the fire that had not yet been extinguished in the town.

"Just now, just now... a memory that I never seemed to have had before appeared in my mind. The blindfolded girl, the original fire keeper."

(End of this chapter)