"It may be inappropriate for me to speak at this time...but how long do you want to hold me?"
Qianye coughed lightly and said to the two of them, like in the last scene of a ballroom dance, the female partner leaned back and the male partner hugged the female partner's waist.
"Pathetic guy."
Mu Su, who was addicted to role-playing, pushed Wangwen Wenche away fiercely, turned his head and spat, and glanced at the other players: "You brought a madman with you, huh? It won't be long before he kills you."
"I'm sorry, he hit the ground headfirst when he jumped off the boat..." Damian sneered, pulled back the unwilling gaze, gritted his teeth and whispered, "What are you doing?"
"He is Mu Su... If you don't believe me, go to the live broadcast page. There must be comments that agree with me."
Wangwen Wenqie broke away from his excitement. What he was worried about was not Mu Su himself, but why Mu Su appeared here and his purpose.
He still remembered the terrible third round of the tournament and didn't want to go through it again.
Well...unless it can help them pass the fourth round of the tournament.
Qianye handed over the communication with the scavengers to Mao Jiu and returned to Wangwenwenqie: "He is the first NPC we met, and maybe the only one. It is not a good idea to make him angry. No matter how you guess, confirm before
, treat him as an NPC for now."
"Okay, I will hide my temptation a little bit." Wang Wenwen asked Damian to let him go.
"Just don't get into trouble."
Forty-three players, Chiba doesn't think everyone will be honest. As long as what they do is beneficial and no one even does anything wrong, that's fine.
A small number of players stayed around the scavengers, while most players explored the island below.
They soon returned with the news they had investigated. For example, if they traveled one mile further north of the woods, they would see a sea of eyeballs. Those plant-like eyes were the same as those of scavengers strung on branches.
The fractured rocky mountain in the northwest also had many dark caves that preyed on people just as the scavengers said. They also found a pool of blood nearby, but no bodies.
"Do you have any advice?" Qianye asked.
The scavengers who came earlier obviously knew more secrets.
"Climb that mountain before dark."
"Why?"
The scavenger took a deep breath: "Stand high, and the sound will travel far."
"What?" Qianye asked subconsciously.
"I think it means standing high and seeing far," Mao Jiu explained.
He spared no effort in trying to talk to the scavengers more, and so far it seems to be working - he got a lot of information out of him.
"In my hometown of Teyvat, this is a proverb that everyone is familiar with." The scavenger looked into the gloomy clouds and whispered softly.
The players looked at each other and silently wrote down important information about the New World.
"Can you tell us more about your hometown?" Mao Jiu tried to cash in his good feelings and asked more.
"Knowing too much is not good for you." The scavenger clapped his hands and stood up: "Little guys, your goal now is to climb that mountain."
Players who explored have returned one after another, and except for Rock Mountain, all places have been explored.
The scavenger stamped out the bonfire, and the players followed him toward the rocky mountain.
"What is the monster in the cave?" Qianye replaced Mao Jiu and kept asking the scavengers.
"Mantis."
"Are they afraid of fire?"
"Mantises are weird creatures, not wild beasts. Fire can't scare them."
"Tell us a little more about the Mantis."
"I have already said that knowing too much is not good for you." The scavenger tapped his forehead with his finger. "Your sanity value is already declining."
After hearing this, the player subconsciously turned to the status bar in the upper left corner. The sanity value was oscillating and the capacity was slightly reduced.
"But knowing more about this place will help you more, right?" Qianye will not let the precious information go away. "Although we don't know enough about this world, we can definitely help you... This is why you will follow us.
s reason."
"I like smart people. But -"
The scavenger approached Qianye, and suddenly he licked Qianye's fair cheek with a "chirp" of blood.
"It smells like lying..."
…
"I want--"
Kallen stood up angrily, and a scream that was even more angry than her suddenly sounded from the side.
"I'm going to kill this woman!"
Looking at Lina who was being stopped by Wen Xiang and the transparent bridge and kept kicking her short legs, Kallen quietly sat back down by the hem of her skirt and secretly reached out to pinch out a potato chip from the bag.
…
Qianye's stiff and tense body gradually returned to its original state, feeling the coolness and smoothness on her cheeks. She remained calm and continued: "The truth is that we are about to encounter them. Compared with the loss of sanity, the result of being killed by the mantis is worse.
"
"And you asked us to climb the rocky mountain because you hoped that we could help you deal with the monsters that killed your companions, didn't you?"
"You convinced me."
The scavenger withdrew his face and continued walking forward.
Qianye breathed a sigh of relief, wiped his deformed cheek with his sleeve in disgust, and followed behind.
"The mantis looks like a mantis, but it stands taller than the big guy. It has a physical body, but can penetrate the physical body like a ghost. They have poor eyesight and rely on sound to hunt, but they can see you even if you are close."
"What's the weakness?"
"They're afraid of sound."
"What?" Qianye and the eavesdropping players around him couldn't understand. "Don't they rely on sound to hunt? Why are they... afraid of sound?"
"What if there were tons of people screaming around it?"
The scavenger substitutes rhetorical questions for answers.
The players were deep in thought, and the whispers of scavengers continued to sound.
"The shouting shreds their sensitive and weak hearing. They are almost like blind people. They can't hear the sound and lose their sense of direction. The panic will make them spin in place like a whirlpool man with broken limbs, attacking everything around... Just enough
Noisy, they will kill themselves."
"In that case, why do your companions..."
"In the quiet time..." The scavenger lowered his eyes. "It appears at an untimely time."
In the quiet time, they know what it is.
This was written in the logbook they found after boarding the ship.
The Time of Silence is a disaster that envelopes the world. When it comes, no one can speak.
It sounds like the Silent Shadow that appeared in Wanghaijiao during the tournament, but the essence is different. The Silent Shadow is an evil spirit that affects the surroundings, and the Silent Hour is a disaster that envelopes the entire world.
"Thank you for the tip, I will arrange a strategy for Rock Mountain."
Qianye thanked him and walked to the front with some players at a faster pace.
The scavenger was walking quietly among the players scattered in the woods. Suddenly he stumbled over a tree root in the soil and his cotton hat slipped from his head.
"Oops..."
The scavenger yelled unexpectedly, bent down to pick up the cotton hat, and put it back on to hide his name from being exposed for several seconds.
[Musu, the nephew of the ancient evil god]
After putting on his hat, the scavenger subconsciously glanced around and found Wangwenwenqie looking at him with a shocked face, and nodded to him gently in response.