The atmosphere around the Nasio camp finally became calm as time passed. The temporary peace returned to the night around the settlement as everyone left, and the wind from the grassland also followed.
As time went by, they continued to sweep along the night sky far away from the settlement, driving the Sioux people who were still noisy back to their respective camps. They also shrank into the guild station that had not yet been completely built. With the help of those
The members of the Qingling Adventure Group, who were protected by the huge earth wall, also sat around the newly raised campfire. The weird atmosphere caused by some speculation during the day seemed to have continued to the present as they gathered among each other.
, making the crackling sound above the bonfire even more obvious: "Don't always be so silent, it always makes people feel a little, a little strange..."
"Although you still haven't said a word, you have seen everything that happened during the day."
He stretched out his hand in the direction of Mengzhu, who was the first one to make a sound. Duan Qing, who had kept a straight face since returning to the camp, finally smiled: "Don't care about your identity at this time.
Something like that? How’s it going? Is there anything you want to say?”
"No." Mengzhu turned his head away expressionlessly, and Mengzhu pulled his turned hood down a little lower: "Whether it's the matter of you wanting to participate in the duel or the matter of persuading the old businessman to retreat,
I don’t even have anything to say.”
"I'm not referring to those side stories, I'm referring to the conclusion we are guessing now." Duan Qing blinked his eyes and continued as if he was familiar with it: "The Nashi tribe has something to do with the Destiny Alliance.
Goulian - if this is the case, what are you going to do?"
"Do you still want to avenge Lorna?"
This sentence caused huge waves in my heart. The aura surrounding the shadow of the little girl sitting in the corner of the bonfire camp seemed to have changed a bit. The murderous intention that was so close at hand also gradually disappeared with the long golden hair.
, disappeared into the invisible darkness along with the flames that continued to surge outwards. He rubbed his shoulders uneasily, and Chao Ri Dongsheng, who was closest to Mengzhu, also waved his arms in the farther direction of the bonfire.
After moving for a few minutes, the originally sleepy appearance was completely dispelled as the murderous aura vaguely emerged, and even the voice seemed to shrink a bit: "Then, that -
—Let’s return to the old topic, how do you plan to conduct this duel?”
"Of course we will continue." Sensing the somewhat loose atmosphere around him, Duan Qing nodded as he should and said: "Even if our opponent has nothing to do with the Destiny Alliance, we are scheduled to win this battle, aren't we?"
"So confident? I like it." He shook his head, and a meaningful smile appeared on Asahi Dongsheng's face: "But just like the old businessman once said - don't say it's you, even if it's you
Plus our small team doesn’t have much strength or methods to defeat the enemy.”
"If you don't have strength, you can outwit it." Wiping the shield on his hand, Gedman on the side said his answer instead of Duan Qing: "And unlike the warriors of those tribes, our combat training and combat skills are
Unique.”
"Lu Fen has given us a lot of useful information."
Duan Qing, who nodded his head and kept moving his fingers, then said in a low voice: "If the price is right, we can consider buying more information about our opponent from him - Lingbing, you need these things
What?"
"If it were an ordinary battle, I wouldn't agree to do this." After a slight hesitation, Xue Ling Huan Bing also looked away from Duan Qing: "But since it is a matter of life and death, you just go ahead and do it.
Yes."
"According to the information left by Baibu Wushuang, the Lufen Chamber of Commerce now lives in the southwest of the Su settlement." Pointing to the outer perimeter of the earthen wall around the camp, Duan Qing's eyes then fell on Chaori Dongsheng:
"This is your specialty, is there no problem?"
"Of course there is no problem. After all, I am of no use now." Pointing to his broken arm floating in the air, Chao Ri Dongsheng replied with a meaningless look: "If I can't even do this, then I will
He has really become a useless person.”
"You might consider practicing the techniques that only one-armed people can learn well." There was a burst of half-joking laughter, but the voice belonging to Gedman gradually sounded as the wind of the grassland blew by:
"But I have a question that I haven't asked yet: The camp has been built, why don't you just jump into the sea and commit suicide?"
"I have become accustomed to a one-armed life, and the people of the Sioux tribe have also recognized my current image." Asahi Dongsheng replied nonchalantly: "If I appear in front of them with my arm restored, I will
He will be treated as a real monster by them."
"It seems to make sense." Looking at the other person's face with his chin raised, Goldman also showed a surprised expression on his face: "I didn't expect that you, who have always maintained the image of a reckless man, now actually
Have you given such careful consideration?"
"Don't try to use such words to prevaricate me. I have never given up on participating in a duel." Chao Ri Dongsheng, who twisted his eyebrows and stepped forward with one leg, warned the opponent with his eyes wide open: "Wait until the battle begins.
When the time comes, you must leave a piece of meat for me! My hands have been extremely itchy these past two days!"
"We won't let you play until we see no hope of you winning." As everyone shook their heads, Duan Qing's voice gradually rose along with his calm expression: "
Sending a dead man up there for no reason, wouldn’t it be more contrary to your previous considerations?”
"If you want to continue to live in this new world, you have to find a way to maintain this image first!" He laughed and slapped the other party's slightly depressed look. Gedman next to him seemed to have realized something.
General said cheerfully: "I'm looking forward to the appearance of another one-armed hero! Holding a heavy sword without an edge, he will fight against all enemies in the world - what are you doing? Are you not convinced? If not, come and hit me? Let's make signs.
ah?"
"Don't worry about these two fools for now." Shaking his head and looking in the direction of the two players who were confronting each other again as if they were blowing their beards and glaring, Xue Ling Huan Bing put back his sighing movements speechlessly: "Think about it.
With our current resources, even if we don’t put the enemy’s possible combat power level within the visible range, we don’t have many people to fight.”
"You, Gedman, and at most Mengzhu alone." Duan Qing, who understood what the other party was referring to at this time, nodded and said quietly: "If it is a one-on-one battle mode,
I can barely count half of it, and the rest—well."
"I wonder if Fulla has this intention."
As he said these words, his eyes fell on the far side of the camp where the bonfire could not reach. A blond dragon woman who did not know when she appeared there also gradually changed as Duan Qing said these words.
It became clearer, as if he had just stood up from that direction: "Why, what trouble have you caused today?"
"Ahem, it's not a problem for us, but it might be different for the Sioux people."
I don’t know if the other party knows everything that has happened to the Su clan in the recent period. Duan Qing finally briefly introduced what they had experienced in the clan: "...In short, that's it, we are going to participate in that'
Barish's ceremony is the last chance for the survival of the Nasio people."
"'Barish' what... Huh." She let out an inexplicable sigh, and Fulla, whose eyes were filled with divine light, seemed to have not moved even a little bit because of Duan Qing's words: "With me -
—Compared to what I discovered in the north, these struggles between humans are nothing at all."
"But considering my current status -" She looked at the expressions of Duan Qing and Xue Ling Huan Bing, and her original words were involuntarily lengthened: "Since I am still Qing Ling now
Members of the adventure group, I will certainly not sit idly by and ignore what happens to you."
"Well, it's best not to act rashly." Duan Qing seemed to sense the danger from the other party's eager eyes, and hurriedly grabbed the dragon woman's golden sleeve: "If someone from the Destiny Alliance really gets involved,
, your arrival is probably also in their calculations."
"Yes, forcibly intervening might make the situation worse." Xueling Huanbing on the side also hurriedly spoke out to comfort: "In addition, your injury has not healed, if you really encounter any trouble...
"
"It's not an injury that can be healed in a short time. There's no need to worry too much." Pulling Duan Qing's hand away, Fula, who looked unhappy, gradually brushed away the golden hair that was exposed on her temples.
He got up and said, "But since you said so, I will pay more attention."
"I have discovered many new clues to the ruins on the other side of the river in the north, and I am currently conducting a follow-up investigation." She sorted out her emotions, and her expressionless face was again in front of Duan Qing: "I originally wanted to
I’ll bring this news back to you, and let’s go out and explore together, but now—let’s wait until all your troubles are resolved.”
"I'll keep an eye on you."
She said these last words, and the movement of turning around and brushing her clothes disappeared among the golden energy transmission. The magic fluctuations that kept jumping in the air also followed Duan Qing's sight and appeared in his eyes.
The bitter smile on his face slowly spread towards the depths of the dark night: "It's really better not to count on her."
"After all, it is a plug-in. If it could be opened casually, the system in the free world would have been unable to stand it." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was on the side, also tidied up his white hair: "But this has proved something.
Thing: The battle we are facing is really not good."
"Not to mention Fula, even we have seen the methods of those in the Destiny Alliance many times." He lowered his head, and Duan Qing also showed a thoughtful face: "Use an almost futuristic vision.
The method knows all the possibilities and uses them as a basis for formulating countermeasures... As long as they have enough resources, these guys can almost do anything."
"But there must be something they can't calculate." Subconsciously answering Duan Qing's words, Xue Ling Huan Bing's eyes became brighter and brighter: "For example -"
"Player."
Pointing out this most critical word, Duan Qing's sight also reflected the bonfire beside him: "The thread of fate cannot regulate the player's existence, and what the player does must not be within the constraints of this system. If you want to
Only players can change the established destiny."
"Those Destiny Weavers always like to treat us differently, presumably for this reason." Xue Ling Huan Bing echoed: "For example, the title of Son of Destiny may also be because they discovered that you can easily change
Because of many predetermined fates?"
"It's better not to mention the past. Anyway, I have already paid the corresponding price." Taking a deep breath, Duan Qing also denied it softly as if he had never done such a thing before: "I want to change.
The price we need to pay for the current situation may be higher than we imagine, but considering our position, this battle may only be - What's wrong with you?"
"It seems there is news outside."
The uneasy feeling was quickly noticed by the man who was close at hand. Xue Ling Huan Bing, who had raised her hair, then smiled sheepishly: "It may be more important news, so it disturbed my emergency reminder status bar.
"
"Just wait for me for a moment."
She checked her surroundings, and her apologetic eyes gradually turned into white light and disappeared in front of Duan Qing. This woman also appeared in the game cabin in an apartment room in District D of Hualan City in the real world.
Her real body, her hair that looked longer because she had not taken care of it for a long time, was also dragged under the moonlight as she walked out of the game cabin: "...it's you."
"It seems that you have been immersed in the free world." Another man's warm voice sounded from the other end of the communication that was connected at some point: "Have you forgotten the agreement between us?"
"That agreement has not been started, so everything has not happened yet." Without making any movement towards the figure outside the window, the woman replied in a cold voice: "You should just wait patiently."
"It's really surprising that such a big battle didn't force you to ask us to take action." The man on the other end of the conversation was silent for a while, and then let out a deeper laugh: "But no matter what, if you
By always leaving us alone, our situation is a bit embarrassing, isn't it?"
"..."
"Well, in order for both of us to have a step down, I will reveal some more valuable information to you."
Faced with the silence of the woman in the room, the man on the other end of the communication laughed softly again: "It's not just free."
“And it’s freshly baked.”
This chapter has been completed!