"...Duan Qing."
"Um?"
"Do you want to go back or not?"
"..."
Some time later, outside the city of Tanzania, at noon on January 1, 796 in the New Calendar of the Free World, figures belonging to a man and a woman were located on the edge of the grassland not far from a certain river, standing and sitting.
The posture faced the scattered wild wolves that were gradually wandering around. In the surprised eyes of the players who occasionally passed by, the female player among them seemed to be protecting the male players. She waved the iron sword and created a formation around the grassland.
The sword wind of the formation was until the wild wolf near that area was almost dead. The woman who had been sparring with the wild wolf for a long time walked back to the man out of breath: "I thought you didn't care anymore.
As a result, I am sitting here in a daze until now..."
"I was just thinking about the formula for the violent torrent potion." Duan Qing, who was sitting on the floor, waved his hand indifferently: "As for the things you mentioned..."
"How could you not care?"
He smiled, and then slowly lowered his head: "But in my expectation, such a thing was impossible to happen, although I did not expect that after following you out, I would meet the Fool Adventure Group again so soon...
…oops!"
He covered his head, then raised his head and looked at Xue Ling Huan Bing's face. The latter had already taken off his hood, and at the same time retracted his action of hitting the other party's head: "What do you mean, follow me out? It's obviously us.
Can we decide together to leave Novice Village together?"
"Okay, okay, we decided together."
Duan Qing, who covered his head and waved his sleeves, curled his lips and put his hands on his knees: "In order to avoid those people's pursuit, we almost drowned in the river."
"It's because the quality of the boat you made is so poor." Xue Ling Huanbing raised her nose in dissatisfaction: "It turned into a water fountain after being bitten by a crocodile twice..."
"Don't underestimate the crocodile in the Gemenan River, that can be the BOSS in the Gemenan Jungle dungeon." Duan Qing commented without looking up: "Although that may be the only BOSS that is not a phantom, that one
The copy probably no longer exists..."
"So what? Can you use this as an excuse to excuse the fact that the boat capsized?" Xue Ling Huan Bing gestured at Duan Qing's body with his iron sword angrily: "We drank so much water...
…Tell me, how do you want to compensate me?”
"Compensation? What compensation do you want?"
"Why don't you just give me back the bag of platinum coins I gave you before."
"You want me to pay back the money? You actually want an alchemist to pay back the money? I earned those gold coins in an honest way. If you want me to give them away, you might as well kill me."
"Then, just pay me your whole body... Hey, hey, don't run away!"
The warm wind passes over the grassland, blowing the tall grass and constantly waving in one direction. The grassland that has begun to sprout countless new shoots due to the recovery of all things is also reflected under the sunlight that is not available in the real world.
The heart-stirring emerald green glow. The gradually rising slapstick sound also stopped with the gradual stop of the warm spring breeze, and the figures of two players running from one end of the grassland to the other gradually disappeared.
After submerging themselves into the tall haystacks, the two people became out of breath again for a while before they slowly distanced themselves from each other as they retreated. At the same time, they wiped the sweat from their foreheads: "...
This should be better, right?"
"Thank you for your concern. I'll be fine."
"But I saw that when you rejected that boy, the expression on your face was still very complicated."
"Are you confused? Where are you confused?"
Duan Qing straightened up and sat up from where he was, and asked with an expressionless face: "I just can't bear to refuse the invitation of a good person. I have an expression on my face. Is there anything abnormal?"
"That is to say..." With a playful expression on his face, Xue Ling Huan Bing, who also sat up, combed his white hair and asked: "The current Fool Adventure Group has nothing to do with you?"
"Don't ask questions like this on purpose. What's the use if you know it." Duan Qing spread his hands helplessly: "I just..."
"I just don't want to disturb their lives anymore."
The man in gray robe leaned back slightly, with his hands behind his back, and looked at the clear sky. His clear eyes seemed to see several people in the background of the blue sky.
An extremely familiar memory figure: "Those little guys, I don’t know how they are living now."
"If you want to find it, then go find it."
"I'm not as persistent as you, who even deleted your account just to find me."
"You are already a small account now, so you don't have to delete it even if you want. Besides... those people should be all over the world now. My method probably won't have any effect."
"Forget it, I don't have such an idea. If they are still here now, they have probably mixed up to the point where they can do well without me."
"No matter how good a person is, he is still a junior in front of you, just like the Walnut Rakshasa just now... At first glance, he is a fan who admires you."
"No matter how powerful you are, it's just the word "Fool" that's famous. It's not as loud as your name. Look at the group of people who noticed your ID just now... their eyes were like seeing a ghost, hahahaha!"
"Why are you laughing? I've already made it clear to them, and is anyone really afraid of a level 10 trumpet? If they kill me now, it's just a matter of raising their hands..."
"Raise your hands? Do they still need to raise their hands? When they see your face as beautiful as a fairy, they have already fallen under your skirt... Hey, hey, don't bite, don't bite! Is your zodiac sign dog?"
"You are the puppy!"
After another round of ambiguous fighting, the two people fell side by side on the grass. Duan Qing, who was looking at the sky together, closed his eyes lightly after a period of silence: "If there is
If I have the chance, I would still like to see how they are doing now, but it's a pity..."
"According to the current situation, this should be impossible."
"As long as you want to do it, there is nothing you can't do."
Xue Ling Huan Bing, who tilted her head and covered one hand in front of the sun, responded in a low voice: "Even if I am like that, you saved me in the end, right?"
"That is not a victory at all, but a concession forced by the situation." Duan Qing, whose expression did not change at all, sighed and shook his head: "Saving people and changing Kaisha's fate is the only thing I can do if I choose to commit suicide.
It was just the compensation I wanted to achieve, and the final result of that battle was what I expected."
"...That's why the alliance became what it is now." Xue Ling Huan Bing put down her hand disdainfully: "After committing so many crimes, in the end it was able to rule the entire player world... Could it be that
Are you willing to end it like this?"
"I'm not willing... yet."
Slowly opening his eyes, Duan Qing's eyes showed incomprehensible complex emotions: "Maybe it feels like this, but with the strength I had at the time, there was only that much I could do."
"People often say that only the weak will make choices, and the strong will only break through the shackles of choice." Xue Ling Huanbing turned her head: "Do you want to admit that you are a weak person?"
"The strong also have shackles that the strong cannot break through." Duan Qing's eyes showed sad feelings: "After all, power cannot solve everything. I am the best example now, not to mention... I am just a little magic
As a master and alchemist, I no longer have the ability to control this world."
"No, you have." He slowly sat up, and the long-haired Xue Ling Huan Bing gradually covered the top of Duan Qing's head by looking down: "Maybe you haven't noticed yet..."
"Now you have become stronger."
She closed her eyes quietly, and placed a kiss on Duan Qing's forehead. The latter lay on the grass in a daze for a long time, and then looked back at the full face.
A smiling and encouraging face: "I...have become stronger?"
"You must have become stronger." Xueling Huanbing gradually lay back: "Believe me, after experiencing so many events, you and I must have changed now."
"If you don't try what you can do now, you will definitely regret it in the future."
"...It seems to make sense."
Duan Qing closed his eyes slightly, and a smile gradually appeared on Duan Qing's lips: "Okay then."
"Back to the topic, what did you find in the VIP area just now?"
Facing the warm wind coming from the north, the two people sat up straight again. The white-haired woman, whose blush and smile gradually faded away, also revealed a light of thought, and answered slowly in a low voice.
Said: "The VIP area should not only be something unique to this place, so guilds like the Fool's Adventure Group can easily get such preferential treatment in Tanzania City. In addition, if they want to have a place on the second floor...
…The condition is probably to have both fame and strength.”
"The guild that Fatty Xingluo belongs to should be one of them, and the Beast Alliance that has been chasing us is probably also among them. The rest... I was still in the rows of rooms at the back, and saw Lan
The emblem of the glory of mountains and dawn.”
Her eyebrows were slightly darkened, and the face supported on her fingers also showed a look of reminiscence: "As for the things we are looking for, we almost didn't see them."
"It's normal. After all, no one would hang the list of members of their guild on the wall." Duan Qing sighed slightly: "But the problem now is... we have no way to confirm that the one called the Shadow of Change
The guy is also one of the players in the VIP area.”
"The worst case scenario is that they are affiliated with the Restorationists, so they will not be registered on the roster of the Adventurer Association at all." Xue Ling Huanbing waved her hand in vain: "But this possibility is very small. After all, if
If everyone knows that the nobles of the empire are colluding with the restorers..."
"This possibility cannot be ruled out."
After twisting his chin and thinking for a while, Duan Qing finally stood up with a frown on his face: "Since the Restorationists have been infiltrating all over the mainland for a long time, I would not be surprised at all even if they become undercover agents of the Restorationists.
.”
"But isn't that Lord Luxor the officer in charge of water affairs?" Xue Ling Huanbing raised the corners of her lips: "You don't know what the water affairs officer of Frey Empire is in charge of, right?"
"I don't want to know, but someone has told me the spoiler a long time ago." Duan Qing patted the grass blades stained on his waist and legs: "But since such a situation has arisen, we should naturally be prepared...
…”
"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you - that's what that sentence says, right?" Xueling Huanbing also stood up with a low smile: "Don't worry, didn't you publish the mission?
?Who will take the bait then..."
"We'll just have to wait and see."
She lifted her long sword and swung her wrist up and down for a while as she swung the sword. Her eyes, which were already focused on luck, suddenly turned around and focused on Duan Qing's body again after taking two steps forward:
"By the way, that NPC."
"I know, after all, we were able to go upstairs because of her." Duan Qing, who seemed to understand what the other party was referring to, made a push-hand gesture: "In any case, there must be something special about that person's identity, but I can't figure it out.
The question is...why did she let us up?"
"God knows, maybe it's because we are pitiful." Xue Ling Huan Bing, holding her long sword up and down, then put on a dissatisfied expression on her face: "Or maybe she's attracted to you or something..."
"How, how is it possible?" Duan Qing hurriedly yelled: "We, we are such weak adventurers, with no strength and no reputation, how can we easily fall into the eyes of those NPCs? Hahahaha..."
"Really?"
"It's really true, and look at that woman, she's not pretty." Duan Qing raised his finger and looked like he was swearing to God: "Maybe it's to invite us upstairs, and then we can have adventures in Tanzania.
To generate income from the performance of the Association of Investors and the like..."
"That's very nice to say."
Duan Qing was left with one last squinting look. The woman who turned around then started walking in the direction of the nearest wild wolf: "Then you should set up an adventure group."
"Well..."
"Are you interested?"
The long iron sword made streaks of reflection in the air. Bathed in the clear sky, Snow Spirit Huanbing gradually assumed a strange sword-drawing posture, and her long hair that floated up followed her as she returned to her previous state.
The deep voice slowly rose into the distance along the increasingly warm spring breeze: "I know a way to replace members with player signatures, if you are willing..."
"How about we set up an adventure group with just the two of us?"
"……talk later."
Duan Qing stared at the back for a while, sighed and replied, then lowered his head and held his forehead, watching the woman who no longer paid attention to him start running towards the distance of Kusano. The bright light of the metal cut through the clear sky followed by Ye.
The howling of wolves echoed in the grassland southwest of Tanzania City. At the same time, there were bursts of galloping horses' hooves, and the riders galloping together with the galloping horses passed by this grassland.
Shi glanced at them slightly, and then quickly disappeared under the horizon in the direction of the city without looking back: "Ignore these humble adventurers and leave quickly!"
"We'll be there soon!" (To be continued)
This chapter has been completed!