Chase Game

The attacker was none other than Zhao Dayou, the blond-haired man.

A ring of air currents surrounded him, which allowed him to slowly descend from the treetops.

With the opening of the 【Fire and Fire Transformation】 dungeon, he was selected and became a new player as the "Pursuer".

He had just used his special skill to fly to the treetop and happened to see a donkey cart traveling on the road.

I casually tested my abilities.

Feeling the extraordinary power surrounding him, he was filled with excitement.

"Is...is this the power of God?"

This is the superpower that Pockmarked Face had always dreamed of, but unfortunately, he had already become Yellow Hair's scapegoat.

Huang Mao felt no remorse whatsoever; he even spat at the pockmarked face.

"Damn it, you're always the most arrogant one around. You guys eat and drink like royalty while I'm stuck guarding the door..."

"Heh, in the end, he just became my stepping stone."

The blond-haired man landed on the ground, withdrew his powers, and continued walking into the rugged mountain forest.

Ling Yi and Huang Mao were quite far apart, and neither of them could see the other clearly. Ling Yi, being a fugitive, was unable to pursue Huang Mao, who was a pursuer.

Huang Mao was only trying out his skills and never intended to pursue someone over a long distance.

Moreover, he also has his own individual character quests to complete.

He is now a bandit whose mission is to rob the Meng family mansion. Once he reaches a certain value, he can leave the game.

The higher the value obtained, the higher the score will be, but the upper limit is only A.

"Hey, it's just a simple search, attack, and retreat game, isn't it? That's so boring!"

Huang Mao usually does nothing but spend his spare time playing games at internet cafes whenever he has a little money.

Being a young person, he could immediately adapt the rules to his own familiar and understandable terms.

In fact, not only Ling Yi and Huang Mao, but another person was also on their way to the Meng residence.

Zhuncheng County is located by a large river. On the river, a ship is sailing towards the county's dock.

The ship had a sign with the character "Meng" on it, so it clearly belonged to the Meng family.

Visibility is poor at night, and the river is swift, so other boat owners are unwilling to travel at night.

Only the young master of the Meng family, who was in a hurry to return to the Meng residence and had his own boat, was able to rush back overnight.

The young master of the Meng family standing at the bow of the ship was none other than Meng Dong.

You couldn't discern any emotion in his eyes.

Until the captain jogged over, bowed slightly beside him, and said:

"Young Master, we still have two hours to go. Why don't you go back to your cabin and rest?"

Meng Dong dismissed the captain with a few words and stood there for a while longer.

A gust of river wind swept over him, and he felt a slight chill before turning around and walking back to the cabin.

The sign with the character "Meng" hung above his head. Meng Dong looked up and gazed at it for a while, his eyes subtle.

"The Meng family... Is it a coincidence, or is it because of me?"

In fact, in real history, that once wealthy family was the Meng family.

Meng Dong is indeed a descendant of this family.

After the Meng family mansion was destroyed, the Meng clan members fled to various places, and to this day, they have even forgotten where their original ancestral home was.

Meng Dong's great-grandfather's generation wished to return to their ancestral home and rebuild the Meng family mansion.

By his grandfather's generation, the feudal family tradition had become a thing of the past, but the idea of ​​"finding one's roots" still lingered.

So his grandfather dug out the information his great-grandfather had said from his memory, wrote it down on paper, and hoped that future generations would find it.

Finally, in early winter, he became a player and, with the aid of skills, thought he could find someone to help him fulfill the old man's wish.

Now, not only have we found it, but we can also truly experience life in that era.

Meng Dong shook his head helplessly, looked away, and continued walking into the cabin.

At least he had a boat to sail on, but Ling Yi on the other side had lost his donkey and could only measure the land on foot.

After more than half an hour, he finally arrived at Zhuncheng County.

But after running around all day, he also felt a little tired.

Along the way, he had already seen some buildings, indicating that he had entered the county town area.

Thus, his [Lottery Roulette] is now unlocked, and he can start drawing prizes.

The roulette wheel spins, and this time the pointer points to an unknown area.

Congratulations on winning the "Rejuvenation of a Dead Tree" prize!

Oh?

It's like a pillow being delivered just when you're about to fall asleep!

Ling Yi looked at the skill description and felt a slight surprise in his heart.

【Rejuvenation】 - When used actively, it can instantly restore physical condition. Limited to three uses per game.

Even without active use, it will automatically but slowly restore the body's state, which can be considered a passive effect.

"This skill works well when paired with [Wind Speed ​​Boots]."

The side effect of the Wind Speed ​​Shoes is exhaustion, which greatly limits his mobility.

Now that I have the [Rejuvenation] skill, at least I don't have to worry about being hunted down during the side effects period.

Ling Yi closed his eyes, feeling the passive recovery effect brought by the skill, and thought to himself:

If you walk normally, the recovery is greater than the consumption, but if you run, you can't keep up with the consumption.

At this stage, it is indeed a very powerful skill.

After drawing all the skills, he continued on his journey.

Zhuncheng County has no city walls, but it is divided into inner and outer cities.

As Ling Yi traveled along, he saw more and more buildings, but this was not yet the outer city.

It wasn't until he climbed over a high slope and saw a vast expanse of houses that he had reached the outer city.

However, this outer city was not quite what he had imagined.

Ling Yi originally thought that the outer city was just adobe houses and the environment was a bit worse.

But what he saw were refugees lying on both sides of the road, their clothes tattered, huddled together for warmth.

Seeing this, Ling Yi thought to himself:

Fortunately, it wasn't winter yet, and the weather wasn't too cold; otherwise, these refugees would probably have frozen into ice sculptures after sleeping outside for one night.

But where did all these refugees come from?

The scholar had no explanation for this phenomenon in his memory, perhaps because he had only recently returned home.

Ling Yi carefully made his way through the haphazardly packed refugees, observing them as he went.

Among these refugees, the majority were women and children, with fewer men and the elderly; without exception, they were all emaciated and pale.

This short stretch of road, only a hundred meters long, is teeming with refugees. What a terrifying scene it must have been, with "thousands of corpses starving to death" as recorded in history books.

These refugees were just NPCs in the game, and Ling Yi's feelings towards them were limited to humanitarian concern.

As for helping him, well, let's wait until he can protect himself first.

As a player, he should perhaps think more about the purpose of placing these NPCs here.

In a game, the appearance of an unusual scene is always meant to convey a special message to the player.

The simplest way to obtain this information is, of course, to ask the person involved directly.

Luckily, I had some dry food with me. Otherwise, waking someone up for no reason in the middle of the night and asking a bunch of random questions would probably make no one happy.

This is similar to the real world where offering a cigarette before asking someone for a favor.

But before he could decide who to ask, he saw a shadowy figure sneaking around among the refugees.

Ling Yixin had an idea and quickly hid.