Something strange is coming: I have 9000 trillion merits

Chapter 182 The Stranger

[Name: Nujiang Glazed Vase]

[Type: magic weapon]

[Quality: LV7]

[Ability: Stores the entire Nu River water. 】

[Special effect: Consume 2100 points of merit to activate the ability. 】

After Liuli Ping was upgraded to LV7, his ability changed from a lake of water to a river of water. This change was something Duan Yuan did not expect.

The upgrade of Qiyao Shangqing Sword from LV6 to LV7 was a huge improvement, and it even had a new special effect.

Is it...

The improvement from the water of this lake to the water of a river is far greater than Duan Yuan thought?
You can't just put this thing around to test its power. The [Raging Dragon Essence and Blood] has been consumed. Even if it doesn't improve, there is no regret in taking the medicine.

Duan Yuan shook his head, took the [Nujiang Glazed Vase] into his arms, and ran along the road towards Yuntian City.

An hour later.

There is a river at the end of the road. There is a ferry on the river, but there is no ferry on the river.

Several people stood on the ferry, seemingly waiting for the ferry.

"Why hasn't the ferry arrived today..."

"Oh, I don't know. In the past, I should have come a long time ago."

"Hurry up. If you don't come, you'll run into those strangers again later."

"Yeah, you'll be unlucky if you meet them!"

Stranger?
Duan Yuan stood near the people and keenly captured a key word.

Are the strangers not the aborigines in the painting of mountains and rivers, who came in from outside the painting like me?
Duan Yuan was originally planning to use the ghost claw to throw himself into the air and use the shadow platform to jump to the opposite side.

At this time, he gave up the idea. He wanted to see what kind of people this group of strangers were.

Duan Yuan stood there and looked around.

Soon, he noticed a noise in the woods to the right.

Sure enough, a group of people dressed in rags soon emerged from the woods.

These men were sallow and thin, holding sharp wooden sticks in their hands. They roared and rushed in front of Duan Yuan and others.

Those people looked a bit worse than the people at the gate of Bailong Town. They must have lived a very hard life.

There were about 20 people in the group, and they surrounded 8 civilians including Duan Yuan.

A man wearing clothes made of animal skins looked at the eight people, pointed toward the woods, and said:

"follow me."

The people around him seemed to have become accustomed to this. There was no fear or any words of begging for mercy. There was only deep helplessness on their faces.

Duan Yuan followed suit and mingled among the common people.

Although he could kill these people with a wave of his hand, he didn't want to do that.

In a world where such monsters are everywhere, and can even openly act as the God of Earth and God of Rivers, was it always like this from the beginning, or is there some special reason why the world turned into this situation?
This is what Duan Yuan wants to know.

And for this reason, there will definitely be no answer if you ask those monsters, and you probably won't get the answer if you ask the people.

Duan Yuan had an intuition in his heart that this organization called "Stranger" might know the reason.

Since he could find "strangers" by following these people in front of him, Duan Yuan was not willing to create any extraneous problems and use force to suppress them, and let these people take him to their hometown.

If these people are not afraid of death, Duan Yuan's plan will come to nothing.

The man wearing animal skin clothes must be a small leader of the "Stranger". When he saw his men escorting the people towards the woods, he suddenly reached out to stop Duan Yuan.

The entire team stopped immediately, and everyone looked at Duan Yuan and the little leader.

The little leader looked at Duan Yuan carefully, frowned and said:

"There's something wrong with this guy...let me search him."

Four people immediately rushed out from the team, two of them pointed wooden spears at Duan Yuan, and the other two people reached out and started searching Duan Yuan's body.

Duan Yuan has a [different-dimensional stomach bag], and he can instantly put everything on his body into it.

"Brother Wu, he has nothing on him."

The little leader, known as Brother Wu, waved for several people to leave, smiled at Duan Yuan, and said:
"I see that your clothes don't look like ordinary people. Are you working for those monsters?"

After Brother Wu finished speaking, he raised his fist and smashed Duan Yuan in the face.

This move made everyone around him shout softly.

However, that seemingly powerful punch stopped when it was about to hit Duan Yuan's door.

Brother Wu looked at Duan Yuan, who seemed to be stunned and unable to move, his fist turned into a palm, gently patted Duan Yuan's shoulder, and said with a smile:

"It seems you have nothing to do with those monsters."

Duan Yuan had a fake look of fear on his face, but he was secretly laughing in his heart. I just saw your shoulders shaking and knew what you wanted to do. Are you still trying to fool me with this little trick?

After this test, Leader Wu no longer had any doubts about Duan Yuan, and led several people into the woods.

After walking for a while, a black cloth was covered over the eyes of all the people and Duan Yuan.

I walked for a long time.

The team stopped, and the black cloth in front of Duan Yuan's eyes was removed.

A small camp appeared in front of him.

The camp is not big, but it is crowded, about 200 people.

The entire camp is surrounded by wood. There are two high platforms on both sides of the camp entrance. On the high platforms stand two guards carrying wooden bows and arrows.

Leader Wu did not let everyone enter the camp, but left them at the door and entered the camp alone.

After a while, a middle-aged man wearing blue coarse cloth came out of the camp.

Seeing this person, the people around him quickly raised their hands and said:
"I've seen Military Master Li..."

military adviser?

Duan Yuan thought of this small camp with more than 200 people. Although he felt a little funny in his heart, he also handed over and said:

"I've met Commander Li."

"No need to be polite..." Military Advisor Li waved his hand.

Just when he was about to speak, he heard one of the people say:
"Commander Li, don't bother me. Just follow the previous rules. If we all pay ten copper coins for incense and wishing strength, Commander Li will let us go down the mountain."

"Are you really unwilling to join us? Only if more people join us can we have a chance to defeat those monsters and welcome back the righteous God!

As long as we welcome back the True God, everyone's life will not be so difficult! "

It was the commoner who spoke first. He sighed heavily and said:

"Alas! Stop talking, we hate those monsters too, but we all have young families and it's impossible to join you.

If those monsters find out, our whole family will be killed! "

"I would like to join you!"

Just when Commander Li thought this time was the same as before, a voice sounded.

Military Advisor Li looked excitedly at the source of the sound.

It was a child with tears in his eyes, and his voice was choked with sobs:

"I join you. My parents were killed by those monsters. I want revenge!"

"Okay!" Military Commander Li held the child's hand and said solemnly: "You will definitely find an opportunity to avenge your parents!"

Military Advisor Li was very happy to be able to recruit a new member. He held the child's hand and said to Leader Wu:
"Just do what you just said, collect the money and take them down the mountain."

"If you pay forty copper coins for incense and wishing strength, you will be let back." Leader Wu turned around and said to everyone.

"what?"

"How many?"

"Weren't they always twenty in the past?" The remaining people screamed in alarm, not expecting that this "stranger" organization would actually increase the price.

Leader Wu said nothing and looked at everyone silently.

When the people saw this, they knew that they would not be able to leave without paying the money, so they took out forty copper coins for incense and incense from their pockets. Some of them did not have enough money, so they borrowed some from others to get it together.

Duan Yuan frowned as he watched this scene, his impression of the "Stranger" organization was quite different.

Duan Yuan naturally didn't know how to pay. Thinking that the secret hadn't been figured out yet, he quickly shouted to Military Advisor Li who was about to enter the camp gate:

"I want to join you too!"

"Oh?" After hearing this, Military Commander Li turned back to Duan Yuan and looked at Duan Yuan carefully.

"I see that you are well dressed and you don't look like a poor man. Why are you willing to join us?"

"...I have offended the river god of Bailong Town, and he will definitely not let me go."

Hearing this, Military Advisor Li nodded, and after whispering to Leader Wu for a while, he said to Duan Yuan:

"Then come with me."

Duan Yuan bowed his hands and followed Commander Li into the camp.

The camp is also very simple, with a few rows of houses on the left side of the camp, some single-family houses on the right, and a martial arts field in the center.

On the martial arts field, a mixed team of about 80 men and women was practicing.

Although those people have yellow faces and thin muscles, they have a perseverance in their eyes that the people at the foot of the mountain don't have.

This scene surprised Duan Yuan. He had just seen the "stranger" forcibly collecting forty copper coins for incense and incense from the common people. He thought that these people were just a group of rabble, and overthrowing the monster was just a slogan, but he was using this slogan to plunder. …

Duan Yuan originally had a very different impression of "strangers", but now looking at these people practicing, Duan Yuan became confused again.

Are these people not who I think they are?

After passing through the martial arts arena, Military Advisor Li led Duan Yuan and the child further inside.

It turns out that only the front of the camp was fenced, but not the back.

About a few minutes after leaving the camp, the three of them came to a cliff.

On the edge of the cliff, there is a wooden house. The house is circular in shape, about 20 meters in diameter and about four meters high.

With the manpower and material resources of "foreigners", it should be very difficult to build such a large wooden house.

But why should such a house be built, and why should it be built on the edge of a cliff...

Duan Yuan suppressed his curiosity and followed Commander Li to the door of the house.

Just when Commander Li was about to knock on the door, the door opened by itself.

"come in."

An old voice came from inside.

Military Advisor Li bowed respectfully to the room and stepped into the room.

Duan Yuan and the child followed closely into the house.

In the center of the room sat seven gray-haired old men. Their eyes were closed, and they seemed to have no reaction to the three people who walked in.

There is an incense table at the very end of the room, and there is a small statue of a god on the incense table.

The statue was hidden in the shadows, and Duan could not see clearly from a distance.

Military Advisor Li signaled Duan Yuan and the child to stay where they were. He walked to the statue alone, took out three incense sticks, lit them and worshiped.

"Stand in the middle." Military Advisor Li waved his hand to Duan Yuan and the other two to stand among the seven old men.

Duan Yuan was not afraid at all and did as he was told with the child.

After a while, Duan Yuan suddenly found that the environment in front of him had changed.

The wooden house was no longer there, and the seven old men were no longer in front of him.

He was in the sky, with everything on the ground in full view.

Mountains, rivers and earth each have their own gods.

Villages, towns and cities are full of smiles.

Sudden.

The gods disappeared and monsters began to occupy the earth. The gods of the mountains, rivers and earth were replaced by those monsters.

The smiles of the people gradually disappeared, and there was resistance everywhere, but they were suppressed by the monsters.

Since then, a small number of people have begun to go underground and fight against monsters. They believe that one day they will welcome back the righteous gods and let the righteous gods take back the authority that belongs to them.

They claim that the current world is not the original world, that they are not their hometown, and that they are wanderers living in a foreign land.

They eventually called themselves "strangers."

Strangers and monsters fight, with fewer and fewer casualties...

After all the changes, only a few hundred people remained.

The scenery in front of him disappeared, and Duan Yuan returned to the wooden house again.

It turned out to be like this...

Through this illusion, Duan Yuan understood what was happening in this world and the origins of these strangers.

But why those righteous gods suddenly disappeared, why monsters can have the authority of righteous gods, and whether righteous gods will come back again, these three things are still not explained in the illusion mirror.

However, Duan Yuan could also figure out that if this "stranger" organization really knew the reason, it would not tell him who just joined it.

"From now on you two are brothers who are strangers in a foreign land."

Seeing the illusion that Duan Yuan and his children had escaped, Military Commander Li said with a smile:

"Brothers who are strangers, every one of them is working hard to make this world return to normal..."

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." After listening to what Commander Li said, the child next to Duan Yuan cried loudly, "I must welcome Zhengshen back! I don't want to live the old life anymore!"

Duan Yuan saw this and quickly raised his right hand and shouted: "Welcome back to the righteous god!"

"My name is Li Tiansheng."

Military Master Li introduced himself first, then pointed at the seven old men and said:
"They are the seven envoys of strangers..."

"My name is Li Huzi." The child quickly replied after hearing this.

Duan Yuan cupped his hands towards Commander Li and said, "Duan Yuan has met Commander Li."

"Okay, okay, we will all be brothers from now on."

Military Advisor Li smiled and patted Duan Yuan and Duan Yuan on the shoulders, then his face turned serious and his tone became solemn:
"Now there is an important task that you need to complete."

When Li Huzi heard this, he looked at Military Advisor Li expectantly. He was able to receive important tasks as soon as he joined. Li Huzi was extremely happy.

Why does this organization feel unreliable when two people who have just joined are asked to complete some important tasks?

Duan Yuan cursed in his heart, but there was a look of expectation on his face.

"Everyone in our camp has registered with the monster and is easily exposed. You two have just joined, so it is most appropriate for you to go on this mission.

... Bai Lang of Yuntian City is going to hold a wedding in a few days. You sneak into his wedding team and use this to notify me. "

Military Advisor Li took out two yellow talisman papers and handed them to Duan Yuan and Li Huzi respectively.

Yuntian City?
Isn't this a coincidence?

But isn't Bai Lang the brother-in-law of Snake Lao Liu?

Duan Yuan calmly took the talisman and said:
"understood."

"As long as you can complete the mission and welcome back the true gods, you will be the first to achieve success! Maybe I can also confer a few minor gods on you by then..." Military Advisor Li said with a smile.

Duan Yuan looked at Commander Li's excitement and thought to himself that this trip to Yuntian City is very important, but does he trust us so much?
And this mission is also related to welcoming back the true god...

Don't you usually get something good for this kind of mission?
Thinking of this, Duan Yuan asked:
"I heard this mission is very dangerous. Can you give us something to defend ourselves from?"

"Well...you are quite right."

Commander Li nodded and took out two leaves from his arms.

(End of this chapter)