As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 580 Ghost Market
Skipping Li Nuo's teasing, about the fireproof girl and the like, everyone knew that this guy probably took in the blind girl for some benefit.

Li Nuo's idea was very simple. There were two reasons for saving Mulan. One was that Mulan looked like himself when he was a child, which accounted for 20% of the reason, and the other 80% was because he needed a guide.

"I have a few things to say. Please wait a moment."

As Li Nuo spoke, he took out two bottle stoppers from the medicine bag and plugged Mulan's ears.

"Brother, what are you doing? I only have one ear left!"

As Mulan complained, he leaned in and took a deep breath.

"I'm actually your father!"

"What? Bro, did you say something?"

"Your mother is not your mother! It's your grandfather!"

"Brother, I don't like skipping rope!"

Li Nuo patted the girl's ear, took out a bottle stopper, and asked, "You can't hear it, right?"

Mulan nodded: "I can't hear it."

Very good, this girl is so smart, Li Nuo thought.

On the other end of the communication headset, Cha Bai and Maljie were calm, while Xiao Wu looked blankly: "Mr. Li Nuo, what are you playing?"

"I am reviving your love..."

"Please get down to business."

"Okay." Li Nuo paused and said, "Xiao Wu, come back to life..."

Xiao Wu: "Shut up!"

Malger: "My love!"

Xiao Wu: “Ah——!”

Cha Bai had a blank expression on his face, but he was quite happy in his heart. With these two funny guys around, no matter how depressing the situation was, it would be particularly cheerful. The original talent of "Endless Corridor" players is to liven up the atmosphere.

"Okay, this is what happened. I was attacked just now." Li Nuo said, "In the slum area, I killed the person. I captured a player with the [Reincarnation] item. I put that guy in a box and he is being tortured now."

"Brother, your way of changing the subject was a bit awkward." Xiao Wu complained.

Maljie: "Hmph, then let's talk about Douluo..."

"I was wrong. I shouldn't have spoken. You guys continue." Xiao Wu admitted her mistake very straightforwardly. She was much cuter than Nanami, but also much more cruel.

Li Nuo continued: "I have drawn Xiao Wu's H comics."

Xiao Wu: "I..."

Cha Bai: "Li Nuo, tease her later."

Xiao Wu was shocked, you guys must be running a business as a couple!
Li Nuo: "Oh, let's get down to business. I found something interesting about the [Reincarnation] item."

What he discovered was neither simple nor complicated.

The review starts from when Li Nuo was teleported to the slums. From the outside, what he experienced was a well-planned trap. The players of "The Corridor of the End" were greeting him with something they had prepared long ago, because Li Nuo's "Denise" trait was what they needed.

But is it really like that?
One of the characteristics of madmen is that you should not look at them with the logic of normal people. Their behavior may not have any great reasons, and they have no loyalty or responsibility. Everything is just a game.

"I thought about it and looked at this matter from a different perspective."

Li Nuo sees himself as a player of "The End" and lives in "White City", and then what will happen.

"You can see from the task panel I accepted, Chabai, that the villains in the tasks we, as bastards from the outer corridor, experienced were actually players from the End. Don't you think... this is intentional?"

Maljie was the first to react.

"The system of 'End' will deliberately increase the strength of its own people."

"Yes, so the players of 'End' made an interesting rule for themselves."

Zhou Bing and his greatsword warriors, as well as those demons, are all part of their game. Relying on the existence of the [Reincarnation] item, these guys turned the slum area into a small box map, but here, the villains are the ones who own the save files.

[Reincarnation] has the best identity ability in the beginning among all [identity ability users], but has the worst identity ability in the later stages.

Its basic features are: saving and loading files.

In the two corridors of End and Eternal Life, there is a technology that can turn certain [identity holders] into props. Lillian also mastered some of it at the beginning, which enabled her to use the [Absorbing Magic Crystal] to capture the [Rescuer], but Lillian's method was a wild one.

The [Reincarnation] item held by the player captured by Li Nuo is the regular item. It is said that not everyone can use it and it depends on luck.

"The traces of the fight between Zhou Bing and me were very deliberate. They were deliberately testing my abilities and they knew some of my hidden abilities."

Li Nuo's eyes rolled around, thinking about what had happened.

"So I was thinking at the time that I might be part of their archive, and they were just playing a real-life game, at the cost of their own lives being part of the game. The function of the [Reincarnator] is a memory. As long as the memory is not killed, their game can continue, but if the memory is gone, their game will be declared bankrupt, but there will always be successors. Well... then, I found a map. The underground world was made into a sandbox passage. I fully believe that the players here have transformed the gathering area itself into projections of games. Do you still remember the classification of each corridor? Endless is leisure, emptiness is fantasy and adventure, immortality is fighting and technology, death is supernatural and ghosts, but the end has nothing. Xiaowu, you have not participated in the world war, and you don’t know the situation at that time, so Cha Bai and Lao Ma, think about it, the world war is actually turning the train carriages into various games for us to "play". Think about it again, who is the organizer of the world war?"

The organizer of the world war is "The Corridor of the End".

"There will definitely be rewards for clearing the game, am I right, system?"

[From the "Endless Corridor", do you need to get out of the slums first? 】

"Finally you've spoken."

Li Nuo's purpose is to lure out the "staff" of "The End".

"Is this considered triggering a hidden worldview?"

[Okay, so I came out, but there is no reward because this is not your territory. ]

"Then I have a question. What we are doing now, our position, our abilities, and our purpose, do your players understand it?"

[We will be able to control some of them, but they are in their home turf, so they don't need much help. If they go to your home turf, I'm sure your corridors won't help them, but we treat everyone preferentially here.]

Li Nuo paused and shrugged subconsciously.

"What we're saying is, play fair."

[There is no fairness. I mean for our players. You only need to complete the main quests. Don't worry about the rest. We will increase the strength of our players.]

"If your behavior in the corridor was replaced with the comics I drew, readers would definitely scold you to death."

【On behalf of the working group, I would like to remind you of one thing. 】

【Don't make a big fuss. 】

[You may not be able to afford to offend those people of "Twelve Devils of Tianlou", so please stop while you are ahead. ]

"If I dropped a nuclear bomb..."

[I advise you to forget it. If you go too far, our own protection mechanism will not be polite. ]

"Okay, thank you."

The information received by Li Nuo could also be heard by Cha Bai and others.

"Pity……"

His original intention was to find a high point to stage Cuihua's self-explosion to destroy Baicheng, and then return to the future to see if he could change history.

Xiao Wu pursed her lips. For the first time, she truly realized that she had found the right person.

However, Li Nuo had another purpose in bringing out the system, which was also the most important purpose: how necessary it was for Maljie to stay in the dark, and he could not appear in everyone's sight, because the [Rescuer] had signed a resurrection contract with Li Nuo and Cha Bai.

"Old Ma, just be a dog."

"Humph."

"Oh, there's one more thing. Pay attention to the 'field' issue and don't enter the opponent's track easily."

In the process of fighting with Zhou Bing, whether it is the save and loading of [Reincarnationist], the box garden venue in the slums, the hidden demons and monsters, or the formation constructed by Zhou Bing using the greatsword warrior, they all belong to a kind of "tactical venue" ability.

The tactical field, if we use the terminology of "Pokemon", is the "attribute field" or "weather strategy", that is, to build an environment suitable for your own performance and pull your opponent into the environment to fight.

Also known as: creating home court.

Li Nuo's [Moment of Demonic Hour] is a kind of field-based thing. The characteristic of [Moment of Demonic Hour] is to regard the opponent as a demon. The hidden mechanism in this environment is that as a demon hunter, he causes a small bonus to the damage to the demons. The biggest function is to suppress the opponent's field ability that is obtained first.

So far, the biggest tactical venue they have encountered is the "threshold" created by Cha Bai in the "Vaporwave" script. Just like the way Lillian cracked the "threshold" was to build a new venue. This ability is common among high-level players.

Occupying the home court means taking the initiative and the right of interpretation. In the White City of "End", various areas are divided by players, and they will make their own areas into the most difficult "venues" to deal with.

These are all Li Nuo could tell you.

He had a map in his hand that showed the transportation routes to the area below.

"I plan to go to the 'Ghost Market', but I have to go there from another direction."

"Xiao Wu and I will go there too." Cha Bai paused and said, "The players related to the main storyline are there. We'll talk when we meet. Be careful."

Li Nuo said "hmm" and turned off the communication. In fact, he didn't want to turn it off, but the time was up.

The effect of [Pixel Slash] lasts for one minute. With the help of the newly made [Mosaic Potion], the time can be pushed to five minutes. The only cost is that the pixelated effect caused by [Pixel Slash] will disappear after one minute, but at least you will not turn into a paper man immediately.

He calculated the time and realized that he would be turned into a paper man in less than a minute.

So he took off Mulan's earplugs and took the little girl to the only boundary of the slum.

[Side quest completed: Denise's past]

[Task Difficulty: lv110]

[Mission details: Take this girl out of the slums and give her a safe environment. In the process, you may encounter an experience similar to that of Denise.]

[Task Reward: Two special items from a certain player]

A dragon head cannon appeared at Li Nuo's feet. It was the cannon that Zhou Bing brought from the next room.

[Ghost Cannon +19]

【Excellent quality】

[Equipment requirements: Strength 200, Broken Limbs]

[Effect: In addition to ordinary gunpowder shells, there are two special shells, one is the breath cannon of the "Male Rathalos" (cooling time is 5 minutes), and the other is the "DEBUFF state" cannon (cooling time is one month)]

[Tip: Regarding the "DEBUFF state", 70% of your own life will be deducted, the effects of all the opponent's guardian skills will be reduced, and the opponent will be forced to lose 40% of his life]

[Brief description: It puts a huge load on the arms, and the wearer needs to have a well-developed physique]

This is tailor-made for Cha Bai.

Li Nuo stuffed it into the mask and then looked at the second reward, a book, which was also the most important thing.

[Zhou Bing's superior table: basic information of "Twelve Evils of Tianlou"]

He memorized the things in his mind and used the voice-transmitting elf to bring the booklet to Cha Bai. When he was only about ten seconds away from turning into a paper man, he gave Mulan a slap on the head.

"Girl, protect me."

"Brother, do you want to practice?"

"In a moment you will grab a small piece of paper. That is me. Keep it safe. I will be back in about 48 hours at most."

"it is good."

Mulan is particularly obedient because she has no one to rely on.

"Brother, before you disappear, I want to ask you something."

"Say it."

"You just said I was the Fire Keeper. What is that?"

"A recorder or something like that."

Before Li Nuo could finish his words, he turned into a paper man. Mulan couldn't see him, so she just grabbed him and the paper money falling from the sky in her palm and put them in her pocket.

Then she clumsily found a corner and hid in it.

Although Li Nuo had become a paper man in Mulan's pocket, he was still conscious and he felt a burning sensation in his waist.

It's the Poké Ball that's restless.

The fighting dragon may be "born".

……

"What is the original Fire Keeper?"

One hundred and thirty years later, Chen Shou was caught in a mental storm because of a casual remark from the old man in his pocket.

"No, no, no... I don't know. I don't know what she did. She was a figure from one hundred and thirty years ago."

The old man in the bamboo hat took a puff of his pipe.

"I was created by humans, and my name was given by some bored outsiders. How could there be an original 'Fire Keeper'?"

Chen Shou narrowed his eyes. He knew very well what Li Nuo and the others had done in the world one hundred and thirty years ago.

Change is coming.

……

The image of Cha Bai crushing the Voice-Transmitting Elf made Xiao Wu shudder.

"So cruel."

From the voice-transmitting elf, they both received the booklet titled "Zhou Bing's Superior List: Basic Information of the "Twelve Evils of Tianlou"".

Blue cover, exposed spine, and threaded nail holes.

After opening it, a large amount of information flooded into my mind.

Twelve Evil Spirits of Tianlou:
The helmsman of the White City gathering area.

They enjoy biological research and killing people, and they accept any commission that pays enough and does not violate their principles.

Internally it is called “the organization”.

In the "Death Stranding" scenario five years ago, all seventy-five players were killed, and the plan behind it was none other than "The Organization."

Four years ago, many masters in a gathering area of ​​"End" died mysteriously one after another. The cause was the work of two players dispatched by the "organization".

In the same year, the "Organization" came to "Claymore" and planned the internal turmoil of the war between the "Descendants of the Dragon" and the "Empire", pushing the outbreak of the Awakeners to a peak and causing the world to split. In the same year, the "Organization" completed enough achievements and gained control of the White City of "Claymore".

There is no good or evil. All people have thrown away the shackles of good and evil and exist only for interest.

But so far, no one has ever seen the highest executor of the "organization" [scholar].

Except for the first [Scholar], seven of the next eleven people are active in White City all year round.

These seven people control all the resources of Baicheng, including brothels, ghost markets, human experiment factories, machine gun rooms, assassination troops, and the fortress compound in the center of the city.

The brothel that Cha Bai and Xiao Wu visited was managed by a person called "Xiao Qing", who was in charge of pleasure matters, while the "Ghost Market" that everyone was most concerned about had two "organization" players.

"Kunqiong" who is in charge of the ghost market.

The alchemist "Alifa" in the "experimental factory" inside the Ghost City.

Cha Bai and Xiao Wu wanted to go there without stopping.

But Malj gave an order.

"Wait two days."

Li Nuo has just gotten into trouble, so don't make any more trouble. Be careful this time.

Maljie sat among a group of stray dogs, thinking about what he could do.

"Destroying that biological factory may change the future."

The best card in their hand is that they can go back to the future once, so they have to work hard before going back to the future, just in case there is an unexpected gain.

The more he thought about it, the lonelier Maljie felt.

He is a [rescuer]. He cannot show up in public and become a hero, so he might as well be a bear.

So he turned back into a big white dog.

[Side quest has been triggered: Become the Dog King of White City]

Ma Ge wants to take another main line that belongs to him alone.

He wanted to convert all the hungry people in "White City" who worshipped gods and Buddhas into his followers, starting with this group of dogs.

...ghost market.

The busy streets were filled with hungry people and lunatics.

In a cave below the noisy street, there is a temple, desolate and depressing, as if it were a temple deprived of sound.

A man named "Kunqiong" was sitting in the temple. He wore a big bamboo hat, crow feathers, and black armor. He was sleeping with his head down as if he was meditating.

The face of the Buddha statue he was facing suddenly shook and turned into a lovely and pretty face.

"Your lovely Alifa is here, come and greet me~"

Kunqiong still kept his head down.

"I'm sleeping."

"Then wake up."

Alifa shook her head and laughed like a mad woman.

"Hehe, Denise's genes were lost in the slums."

Alifa said again.

"If they come to your place, give them a good game. I also want the blood of that white-haired girl."

"2B?"

"That's the blood of the ancients, a good material for alchemy. Don't you want to fight with Denise who possesses the blood of the ancients?"

Kunqiong raised his eyes, and his pale face showed an expectant expression.

"Boss..."

"We can just fool around while we deal with the Sky Corridor and the resistance organization."

"it is good."

……

Two days later.

Cha Bai came out of the wallpaper room.

It was deserted all around.

"No problem."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Wu jumped out of the house like flying.

"stinky!"

Garbage is automatically produced in the wallpaper room, which is nothing for Cha Bai, who lives in the smell of biogas and boiled medicine all day long, but Xiao Wu is a little bit of a germaphobe.

Xiao Wu leaned against the wall and vomited. After a while, she turned around listlessly like a lustful man and asked, "Let's go?"

"Well, it's been two days, that's enough." Cha Bai said as he picked up Xiao Wu's vomit, put it in a bag and threw it into the wallpaper room, because vomit will leave traces, and it will be troublesome if it is collected by the enemy.

Near the south of the city.

The ghost market is in the sewers beneath the city.

The most despicable people in Baicheng live in the smelly pipes.

The buildings were staggered along the pipes, and the lanterns hung on the doors of the shops on the left and right sides of the street swayed left and right, with bright lights extending far away.

When Cha Bai passed by a dilapidated house, he saw a drunk man beating a child and heard the harsh sound of chopping meat upstairs. There were two banners hanging at the door, the left one read "Sunny" and the right one read "Happy Life".

“It’s pretty much the same environment as when I was a kid.”

Xiao Wu grabbed Cha Bai's hand and stepped forward.

"Are you starting to compare misery?"

"You should learn something from him."

"Besides brains, he also has something I need to learn, right?" Cha Bai knows Li Nuo very well.

Xiao Wu smiled and "stole" a tomato from the vegetable stall next to her, took a big bite, and her mouth was full of red juice.

"In their words, my mom is that kind of porn star, and I have many dads."

Cha Bai: "It's not miserable, don't compare."

"That's true." Xiao Wu nodded and stuffed her mouth with tomatoes: "Compared to you, I'm much better."

She pointed to a sign ahead.

It says that the ghost market is in the area further down.

There was a house there with two white lanterns hanging outside, and the door was bustling with activity.

The gatekeeper of the ghost market was an old man, who was sitting at the door with two green bricks under his buttocks. He was smoking his pipe with a clacking sound. Halfway through the pipe, he raised his rough fingers to touch his rotten teeth.

"This is my first time in the ghost market. I want human flesh."

"How many pounds?" Xiao Wu asked.

"It depends on sincerity."

Xiao Wu pulled out a dagger, cut off a small piece of flesh from her ear and handed it to the old man.

This was the first time that Cha Bai took a good look at Xiao Wu. Li Nuo had said that although this girl with a ponytail seemed docile in her daily life, Xiao Wu was actually a very cruel person.

The old man stared at Cha Bai.

"You have beautiful eyes."

"Thank you."

"Girl, I mean, you have to give me eyes."

"No."

"Then don't go in."

She took out a bag of "gold coins" that she had stolen from the junk shop.

Money can make the world go round.

The old man called out, "Two guests!"

If Maljie hadn't told him to "follow the rules", Chabai would have forced his way in.

Wait a few seconds before the old man finished speaking.

thump~
The rows of red lanterns on the roadside starting from the end of the long street went out one by one, and darkness approached step by step.

thump~
The lights came on again, but this time they were white lanterns.

Cha Bai and Xiao Wu were already in a strange place they had never been to before.

Ghost city.

The puddles on the ground reflected the neon lights, as well as the ghost market that looked more like a city than the White City.

"Shit, this place is evil."

Xiao Wu frowned.

Suddenly a whistle startled her whole body.

The sound of the train passed by my ears.

The station that carries the immortality train of new players makes a sound in the distance.

A holographic sky clock floated over the station gate, showing - Newcomers entering.

Usually there are some old players sitting on the dividing wall at the station, waiting for the new players to get off the train and then opening fire and killing them.

In the "End Corridor", newcomers with poor grades will be randomly dropped off in a gathering area controlled by the players, where an even more terrifying escape from death awaits them.

The new players are lucky today. The old guys are being held back by the outsiders from the "Sky Corridor" and have no time to come here to have fun.

Other lucky ones include Cha Bai and Xiao Wu.

The two stood on the main street of the ghost market and heard the system's announcement.

[Main Quest Branch: The Ruler of Ghost City]

[Task Difficulty: lv180]

[Mission details: Since we want to expel the traces of the "scholar" in this world, of course we must first kill its subordinates and kill the alchemist "Ailifa"]

[Task Tip: Look to the right and kill her and her accomplices]

Suddenly a light laugh came from their right side.

The tea-blue eyes glanced to the right.

A woman wearing a half-mask passed by them. Her porcelain-white cheeks were painted with blood-red dimples, her eyebrows were crooked, the corners of her mouth were exaggeratedly raised, and her eyes were cold and cunning.

The woman was pulling a little girl covered in bruises.

She walked to the end of the dark alley and was still looking at Cha Bai, as if she was looking at a commodity.

Xiao Wu took a step forward and followed, killing the woman with a dagger in the alley. Blood splattered all over the walls. The bruised little girl who was dragged away by the woman huddled in the corner.

"Do not kill me……"

"I won't kill you."

Xiao Wu pointed to the entrance of the alley.

"Walk."

The girl's pupils flickered and she nodded.

"Thanks……"

She ran out in her slippers.

Cha Bai walked towards this side in high heels.

"What did you find?"

Xiao Wu stared at the woman lying against the wall and raised her eyebrows.

"Ah."

……

The girl ran to a shantytown full of rough men, and an old woman ran out and hugged the girl.

"Girl! I thought you were lost!"

"A sister saved me..."

The girl was in tears and was very frightened.

"elder sister?"

"Ok!"

The girl nodded heavily.

"Delicate skin and tender flesh."

The girl laughed.

“The kind that can be sold for a good price!”

The men behind the old woman raised their heads, and their mourning faces suddenly showed the excitement of hungry wolves seeing meat.

"Where is it, honey?"

The girl pointed in the direction she came from: "Just..."

Before he could finish his words, the door of the shed was pushed open and Xiao Wu poked her head in from outside.

"Hey, I found it."

Cha Bai was guarding outside the door, listening to the screams in the shed. She realized that it made sense for Xiao Wu to survive so many scripts alone and become an extraordinary person. This woman had a very strong observation ability. She looked like Nanami, a woman with no breasts and no brains, but in fact, she was very smart.

The masked woman who was just killed by Xiao Wu was a ghost who specialized in recruiting child laborers. The little girl was the child of a "human trafficker" and was sold to the ghost because she did not meet the business standards.

Ghost people: Workers who specialize in collecting useless people. They will find a deserted place and teleport the useless people to the factory to be used for demonized biological experiments.

“What a messy place.”

Cha Bai was becoming more and more confused as to why this place had no order and was so strange and twisted.

This is the area managed by the "End Corridor". It is not simply scary, but also weird and illogical.

Xiao Wu came out of the house and washed the blood off her hands and face with clean water in the bucket beside her.

"Got this."

She pulled out a wooden "sign".

[Main quest branch update: The Lord of Ghost City]

[Task Tip: The sign is a key. Use it to go to the "Ghost Market Arena". The person you want to kill is there.]

Cha Bai's eyes lit up: "Want to fight in a ring?"

……

"Brother, are you done with your cultivation?"

Mulan felt that Li Nuo was back.

"Ah... I have already mastered the Nine Yang Divine Art..."

Li Nuo stretched his shoulders and stood in front of her. This time the paper man lasted the longest time in history, and he felt pain all over his body.

"Brother, where are we going?"

Li Nuo glanced at the task Cha Bai was doing.

"Let's go to the ghost market."

"What are you doing there?"

"Take you to meet my sister-in-law."

"Ah?" Mulan was shocked. "Which woman is so blind? I'm not saying that you're a bad person, brother. Although you're a good person, normal people probably won't like you. For example, I've never imagined marrying you when I grow up. No... Brother, what are you doing?"

Li Nuo tied a rope around Mulan's neck so that the girl would not get lost.

"I'm afraid you'll get lost, so I'll tie a rope around your neck, silly child."

"Brother, are you walking the dog?"

"It will be convenient for you to hang yourself this way."

"Brother, how did you grow up? What did you experience as a child? Do people around you hate you?"

"How about I tell you a story and you shut up for a minute?"

"Okay!"

The two chatted as they came to a sewer entrance outside the slums. According to the map of the underground area, they could directly enter the ghost market from here, but the journey was a bit difficult.

For example, there is a sign in front of the sewer that says: Welcome to Silent Hill.

Li Nuo took a deep breath.

He smelled the odor of a "soul box-like area" and "a group of experimental demons" from the pipe.

He felt that he needed to change his role. Now he was a priest and had to clean up the demons in White City.

Li Nuo stopped and changed his mood, and Mulan bumped into his arm.

"Brother, don't stop. Tell me quickly what happened to Big Sister Bai Jie? Who won the battle between her and the ghost father? Did Lance fall in love with her? And why did that big brother who dared to eat [shit] dump Bai Jie?"

(End of this chapter)