North of Fenghua Town, in front of the city gate.
The bustling city gate in the past has now become much deserted. In addition to the fact that the newcomers from Greenstone Village have gradually matured and left the town that took them on their journey, there is another very important reason, which is because the city gate
The standing guards from the principality capital have strictly guarded all the gates of Fenghua Town, including this gate.
Due to reasons well known to everyone, Fenghua Town has entered a temporary state of martial law.
The town's city guard has been temporarily banned on the grounds that "many improper actions have been taken", and many officials in the town hall have also been removed from their hats and temporarily isolated to several different places. Many have never seen the world.
The townspeople of Fenghua Town would hide in the corners of those places every day, watching the "noble officials" from the Principality wearing top hats and gorgeous clothes. They would hold a pile of documents in their hands and go in and out of those places every day.
The place where the members of the original town hall of Ge Fenghua Town "lived" seemed to have been asking about something.
However, some of their more famous townspeople have organized a team to protest to the investigation team from the principal's high-level officials. The specific content of the protest is unknown, but they are now almost always stationed on Huawu Street.
While discussing with each other every day what to do, they are also harassed by numerous adventurers - in the eyes of players, these people are already one of the most accessible sources of quests in this situation, but they can
The players who snatched tasks that have an impact on the future of Fenghua Town from them are basically the forces of large guilds with key members here, such as some guilds that were originally hidden here but lacked strength, and those like Red
Most of the original gangsters in Fenghua Town like Hun have moved to the guilds in the capital, and now they do not have the ability to snatch and complete these tasks that will change the future of Fenghua Town. As time goes by, the new people who stayed here are lost.
Instead, more veteran players have been dispatched, but it is still a little difficult for them to enter the city, because the entrance and exit of the city gate has been taken over by the guards of the principality, and strict inspections are required every time before they can pass.
In the past few days, not only the aborigines from various parts of the principality, but also players from various parts of the principality, and even players from all parts of the world have learned about Fenghua Zhensheng through various channels. In addition to those who are interested and related to the power,
Most of the players have gradually begun to develop a strong interest in this place where such strange stories happened. Some of them who are relatively close also came to this place, wanting to enjoy the beautiful scenery and its scenery of this town.
The future. However, players who recently came to this town saw a more beautiful landscape in the direction of the city gate in the north - a female player, standing quietly on the road not far from the city gate every day, seemed to be waiting for something.
Same.
The main reason why this is called a beautiful landscape is because of the woman's dress and attire: short black hair, a blue and white maid outfit, a pair of women's unique black pointed-toe shoes, and ruddy round hair.
On her face, those slender eyes were tightly closed with her calm smile every day, as if she was smiling forever at the road leading to the north of the principality. Every morning, players and passers-by could see that woman.
Holding on to his hoop, he folded his hands and placed them in front of his belly, facing the north of the road and waiting quietly. He didn't notice anything until night fell. Players with good intentions even came up to chat with them, but all they got was curious looks.
Outside of his eyes, the only thing left was a warning from the official guards of the principality: "Don't cause trouble."
Today is the third day that this maid has stood here waiting.
The far end of the road gradually disappears into the horizon as it continues to bend, and the vehicles and people passing by also continue to disappear and appear at the far end. Some are still dressed as novices, and some look like they are from somewhere else.
Some of the veterans who came here even brought their own horses. Just like the four or five galloping horses that passed here nearly a month ago, they are transportation tools that players try their best to obtain from NPCs. This kind of
To a certain extent, things can already prove a certain player's strength and identity, so players usually keep a respectful distance towards people holding horses in the crowd, but the indigenous people of the Free Continent may have
The difference is, for example, the guards guarding the city tend to be more vigilant when checking people like them.
On the far side of the road, a person holding a horse appeared again, appearing in the sight of the city gate of Fenghua Town as usual. It seemed to be a female swordsman with long flowing blue hair. Judging from her dress and
Judging from the equipment, it seems to be the same as usual. She is a figure who cannot be underestimated. The principal guards guarding the city had early paid attention to this woman who was slowly walking towards this side. However, what surprised them was that,
That person was stopped early by other people.
"Long time no see, Sister Lou." The blue and white maid figure walked up to her: "How have you been recently?"
"It's you." The female swordsman raised her head and looked at the name above her head. After a while, she sighed and nodded: "You actually..."
"Alive?"
The ID on the maid's head reads: Code Word Ninglan.
"Service is my duty." The maid's voice was very pleasant, but at this time it showed a little calmness: "So after hearing the news, Ninglan rushed here as soon as possible."
"Hmph." To everyone's surprise, Lan's female swordsman pressed her sword with one hand and looked at the other party with cold eyes: "You actually come here so actively?"
"Ninglan has never had the idea of giving up." The maid player dressed in a special dress put her hands in front of her in a salute without realizing it, and then looked at the other person with her big eyes: "So... please don't
I continue to misunderstand Ninglan.”
The female swordsman frowned and said nothing. She looked around at the crowd of onlookers who seemed to be growing in number nearby, and wanted to leave the place impatiently: "Forget it, since he is still here, I won't pursue it.
Where is he? I want to see him."
"This is exactly what Ninglan wants to tell you." The maid bowed her head again and said, "He... seems to have left this place."
"What?" the female swordsman asked in surprise: "Left? When?"
"Ninglan doesn't know either." The maid tilted her head and smiled cutely again: "When Ninglan rushed here, the master... he had already left, and Ninglan seemed to have not caught up.
"
"Where did he go?"
"Ninglan has also investigated, and according to... he seems to have gone to Tania."
"You didn't lie?" The female swordsman looked at the other party with suspicion: "It's not...that person wants to use this reason to let me leave, right?"
"Ninglan knows you will think so, so..." the maid's tall figure lowered her head again: "If you don't believe it, Ninglan will accompany you..."
"Go to the city and take another look."
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Just when the two women were planning to enter Fenghua Town and conduct a comprehensive investigation of the town, the person they were looking for was hanging on the cliff of Falling Star Mountain, rippling in the wind with the biting wind and snow.
He grabbed a protruding rock with all his strength, opened his eyes hard, looked in the direction to his right, and then at a certain moment let out a dull cry.
"Hey-hey!"
He jumped over, grabbed another sunken hole buried in the ice and snow, and then steadied himself again.
"Hey!" Nan Tieshan's loud voice came from his left hand in the snow and wind: "Is there anything?"
"No!" Duan Qing gritted his teeth and said loudly: "If you don't want to come... just stay there honestly!"
The process of advancing along the "mountain road" that may not exist is not smooth, but since Duan Qing started climbing, he has never thought about going back. This is not only driven by his determination to move forward, but also because of his determination to move forward.
Because during the climb, he found many abnormal signs.
For example, the hole in the cliff that he is currently holding in his hands.
"I have opened a way for you!" Duan Qing shouted in the direction he came from: "Climb along those holes...you will find it!"
He rubbed his hands hard around the hole for a while, then groped around to make sure there was nothing strange before he started to look for the next place to stay.
The cliff here seems to have gone through a long period of time, and the holes in the wall have been blocked by snow. Regardless of the snow blocks that have been frozen hard inside, they are just blocked by snow.
After the color changes, it is already difficult for people to detect the existence of these holes in the wind and snow, let alone people who want to use force to scratch on them, but also need to use their hands to overcome the obstacles of the cold snow. Fortunately, Duan Qing has this difficulty.
It can still be overcome, but the more troublesome thing now is that these holes are not easy to find.
So he felt that he had found so many holes for his companions behind him, and if they didn't come through... he would really be sorry for the path he had pointed out.
Once again, he found a new hole. Duan Qing touched it carefully, then cleaned up the snow inside, withdrew his somewhat sore hand, and suddenly turned around and looked behind him - the sound of breaking through the air was coming.
Coming from there, it seemed like the sound of something flying in the air.
Then, intermittent urging sounds followed the wind and snow and reached Duan Qing's ears.
"...Don't be afraid...boy...dare to fight..."
"Ahhhh..."
"You...in front of me, I'm walking..."
"Because...just in case..."
I don’t know what you are doing... Duan Qing shook his head, and then continued to grope forward with his right hand - in front of him, the cliff had begun to turn along a certain arc, so from his angle,
It is also difficult for him to see what the situation is in front of the cliff. Without protective measures, any movement of stretching the body forward may bring danger to himself, although adventurers in this world are not afraid of death.
Yes, but if it falls like this, it will really become a long march to get back to this place.
In order to maintain the results of his adventure, Duan Qing had to continue moving forward - he groped back and forth about the situation ahead, and then... pulled out his dagger and suddenly jumped into the air ahead.
.
There was a harsh friction sound in the wind and snow, which was the sound of a dagger being inserted into a crack in the stone.
"What are you doing?"
"...You actually caught up?"
Duan Qing, who was holding the hilt of the sword in one hand and hanging in the air, looked at the direction in which he came. There, the black cloak had been tied around his waist by the woman, and the hood had been taken off. The woman held something on something with both hands.
On a hole, his feet were staring at the cliff below, and he was looking at himself with a faint smile and tilted his head.
The long black hair fluttered in the air, flying randomly along with the wind and snow.
"Anywhere you can crawl over, of course I can crawl over." The woman's cold voice echoed clearly in Duan Qing's ears along with the wind: "Unless you used some cheating method."
"That makes sense...but the credit still belongs to me."
"It's up to you." The woman looked around and said, "I have no intention of fighting with you."
"Really?" Duan Qing laughed in mid-air, but judging from his situation, there seemed to be nothing worth celebrating here: "But maybe that's the end of it, according to what I just investigated.
Look, there seems to be no place to stay on this stretch of road..."
"So you...do it this way?"
"Isn't it great?" The man laughed heartily: "As long as we can get around this detour..."
"You can reach the place ahead."
"What...is ahead?"
"Of course it is... my new continent." Duan Qing lowered his head: "What a pity for my short sword..."
"...You want to give up your weapon?"
"Of course, otherwise how would you come here? The cliffs here are extremely smooth, so we can't let you leave your Holy Light Sword here, right?"
"Don't you have any other weapons?"
"There is also a black one-handed sword, but... that thing should be worth much more than the one I have now, so..."
"Wait a moment."
The woman suddenly stopped Duan Qing from speaking. She lowered her head, as if she was silently contemplating something. The next moment, golden light suddenly lit up from around her, and then went out again in the blink of an eye.
But the effect that followed was astonishing.
Amidst the deafening friction sound, a neat sword mark appeared from her position, and then extended straight out along the arc of the cliff, following the golden light that had flown out to an unknown distance. Because of the cliff wall
In an arc-shaped direction, the sword mark gradually deepened at the bend, and then gradually became shallower again along the straight direction of the sword mark, and finally disappeared on the cliff on the other side of the arc. Accompanied by rustling stone chips
He fell down the cliff in the wind and snow, and at the same time hit Duan Qing in the face.
"Pfft...are you going to kill me?" The man in the air took a deep breath, and then yelled at his back: "I almost let go!"
"You didn't seem to behave like this when you jumped just now, did you?" Slowly retracting her long sword, the woman said in a serious tone: "It's better now..."
"Young adventurer, continue to develop your adventurous spirit along this new path."
She pointed to the deep sword mark on Duan Qing's head: "If you are not satisfied, I can make two new cuts."
This chapter has been completed!