readx; Lin Ziyun and Lin Ziyue chatted again, and then went offline after saying goodbye, and when Lin Ziyue returned to the door of the stone house, she found that only the shadow dance was still sitting inside, and the cards and gambling money on the table were all put away, and the shadow was holding a few coins, throwing one by one, grabbing one and then catching the one that fell, and kept circulating, and after seeing Lin Ziyue come in, she took out a pocket and threw it on the table. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Ah...... You're still keeping it for me, thanks. Lin Ziyue opened her pocket and put it in the package, and there were more than 2,000 gold coins in an instant, which made her smack her lips, what a lot of money.

"Are there so many?" Lin Ziyue said, taking out a thousand and throwing them back in front of the shadow, "Why are you adding more?"

The shadow snorted and didn't continue the topic: "Those three people have gone to the dungeon, and they plan to upgrade a few levels before the event, especially Yijian." ”

Lin Ziyue sat down next to the shadow, picked up a coin and spun it on the table, and said casually, "What about us?"

"Didn't you hear something in the Skill Guild before? I think we should go and investigate, maybe it will help in the future melee, the zombies are coming...... The apocalyptic scene is so exciting. As the shadow spoke, a grim smile appeared on his face, a far cry from his usual gentle smile.

Lin Ziyue looked at Leng for a moment, then quickly came back to her senses and said, "You will expect that kind of thing, although I have always thought that you are quite scary, but I always feel that your expression just now, how to say it? ”

The shadow cleared his throat, avoided Lin Ziyue's words, and said to himself: "I have heard the specific path to the core with a sword, let's go now?"

Under the leadership of the shadow, Lin Ziyue followed him, and the two quickly walked to the periphery of the city lord's mansion in the drifting city.

"Keep up. The shadow gestured to Lin Ziyue, seeing that he didn't plan to explain more, so Lin Ziyue had no choice but to go into the water, in the waist-high hot spring water, her vision was a little blurred, and she followed the faintly visible figure in front of her, feeling a little nervous.

Then Lin Ziyue saw the shadow of the figure swaying, disappearing directly on the water, she rushed forward a few steps in a panic, tripped by a stone in the hot spring water, and fell into the water, after she swallowed a mouthful of spring water, she maintained her balance and wanted to drill out of the water, but was pulled by the collar, like dragged under the water, Lin Ziyue did not struggle, tried to open her eyes, there was no imaginary sting, only a burning sensation came from the water, she saw the shadow holding his collar with one hand, and the other hand was pointing to a black passage under the water, bottomless。

The passage is actually in such a place...... Lin Ziyue was taken aback, accidentally swallowed a few mouthfuls of hot spring water into her mouth, she quickly closed her mouth, after the shadow dived, she also touched the stones under her feet and dived down, her water nature is not very good, fortunately, the stones in the passage are uneven, she has a lot of places to climb, but soon Lin Ziyue encountered another trouble, although she has been holding her breath, but after about a minute, a feeling of suffocation came, and then her physical strength began to decline at a rate of two points per second.

Lin Ziyue sped up slightly, and the figure in front of her suddenly rose, and she hurriedly kicked the stone wall, but the direction was not well controlled, and the two collided together, drifted forward for some distance, and floated to the shore together.

"Ahem, ahem...... Why did you bump into it all of a sudden...... I was so scared that I poured several mouthfuls of water, coughing, and thinking that I had been attacked underwater, I had no experience in underwater combat. The shadow wiped the water coughed up from the corner of his mouth and slapped a fist on Lin Ziyue's head.

Lin Ziyue apologized embarrassedly, the two got up and looked around, in this stone cave, there are fine fluorescent green algae attached to the side, in this stone cave, there is a cry full of pain in the ears, although it is very faint but it can be heard, obviously when it is on the ground, this sound can not be heard at all.

After Lin Ziyue got up, she walked to the edge of the stone wall and looked at it carefully, with the fluorescence in the stone cave, she found several grooves similar to oil lamps, she reached out and touched it, there was actually some kind of ointment-like substance, with a fishy smell, the shadow walked to Lin Ziyue's side, and took out a strange-looking pliers from his pocket, there were two stones that seemed to have been polished at the top of the pliers, and after the shadow pressed down the pliers hard, sparks came out between the friction of the two stones, and the shadow held the pliers above the lamp trough, and after lighting it several times, the sparks ignited the grease, emitting an orange-yellow soft light, illuminating the cave, Lin Ziyue and Shadow both noticed that the ground under their feet was unexpectedly smooth, obviously traces of artificial treatment.

"This hole is not natural...... I'm afraid someone dug it out, but if the Water Spirit Bead was under the Drifting City from the beginning, why do you want to do more?" Lin Ziyue casually said her question, and after listening to her words, the shadow chuckled: "Hehe, didn't you say it yourself? If the Water Spirit Bead was under here from the beginning." ”

Yes, the water spirit bead was not in the bottom of the drifting city at the beginning, but someone dug this cave and put the water spirit bead in, and linked to the task of three thousand them to investigate the drought, this is what was taken away, at first the drifting city was not a self-propelled city on the water, but someone or some people, brought the water spirit bead in an unknown way, and then modified the original city as a drive, so that the city went with the water, and at the same time, the land that was deprived of the water spirit bead withered day by day, and finally formed the wasteland.

"Can you hear that cry here?" asked Lin Ziyue while lighting the oil lamp on the wall along the passage, Lin Ziyue nodded, and the two continued to walk deeper into the cave, and within a few minutes they came to a stone door, on which were engraved ten big characters, "The rebel will always know his sin after the heavens and the land."

"Who do you say carved this letter?" asked the shadow thoughtfully.

"If it's not the people who expel sinners, they're probably unwilling sinners. Lin Ziyue said that this font is similar to the cursive script of the lingua franca, although it is scribbled but barely recognizable, but looking at that kind of trace, it looks like someone carved it in anger, so she still leans towards the second type of person in her heart.

"Unwilling to ...... Scold. The shadow chuckled and didn't say anything, Lin Ziyue thought about it and frowned.

"I haven't always understood, you are obviously the maker of the illusory world, why do you know nothing about this world? There is also a sword, it stands to reason that you, the producers and editorial departments, shouldn't you know your own works best?" Lin Ziyue raised his courage and asked this doubt that he had always cherished.

After the shadow glanced sideways at Lin Ziyue, he took out the dagger in his hand and threw it up and down, using this action to relieve the tension in his heart, he seemed to think about it for a while before he spoke: "Have you ever seen the building blocks?

Lin Ziyue nodded, and the shadow continued: "Even if you use the blocks to arrange them arbitrarily, you can also pile up things, after canceling the holographic online game, I was hooked on programming under this strange charm, and the more I learned, The wider the scope of trying, the more complex the things I can build, and the closer to the night, the more efficient I become, I began to live a day and night reversal days, but the year before last, I was sent to the eldest sister's house, my brother disappeared for more than two months, as a result, during that time I was dragged by the eldest sister because of my irregular schedule, while staying up late to type code, handling my brother's chores in the company, and finally had a serious illness, and when I woke up, I found that I was already in the hospital bed, the eldest sister said that I was overworked and shocked, and I didn't even sleep at night and sat in front of the computer to type the keyboard, she said that I was in that state like crazyBut I don't have those impressions myself. ”

Speaking of this, the shadow smiled bitterly, and Lin Ziyue asked, "Is it similar to a sleepwalking state?"

"Probably, after I was discharged from the hospital, I found the basic form of the illusory world in my computer, and after I restored the code in the document, I saw the various continents of the illusory world in this state, and the high intelligence that runs on its own, so I have always insisted that I didn't create the illusory world, I just discovered it, just like humans discovered that barley can brew beer and friction can make fire, and after sorting out those documents, my brother also came back, so I proposed a plan to construct the illusory world with him and my eldest sister. ”

Lin Ziyue said "En", as if there was something wrong, but she couldn't say it.

Shadow continued: "Then more and more details are formed, as if someone is guiding me in my ear, what to do next to restore the Phantom World completely, this world is getting bigger and bigger, more and more complex, plus the big sister over there Polyhedron Group financial resources, technology and other support, the Phantom World finally operates like an independent world, and then the Phantom Company was officially established last year, and launched a national publicity, conducted an internal test, received unprecedented praise, and then officially launched this year." So after the story is heard, let's go inside. ”

After that, the shadow put away the dagger that he had been playing with in his hand, and broke off a stone pillar next to the door, after the stone door slowly opened, the scene inside appeared in front of the two of them, and at the same time, the cry in Lin Ziyue's ears was much clearer.

Countless turquoise water pipes of different thicknesses extend from the outside of the stone cave wall, and are connected to an arched light mask in the center of the floor, the light mask emits light, reflecting the whole stone cave floating in bursts of dark blue, and when the two of them approached, they could see that under the arched light mask, there was a stone slab carved with messy patterns, and the stone slab was inlaid with the light source, a fist-sized bead, the outer layer was transparent, and the continuous flow of water in the beads could be seen through the light mask.

"Water Spirit Bead...... It's so beautiful. Lin Ziyue sighed, reached out and touched the light shield, and found that it was blocked out, and the shadow explained: "Only three thousand people can reach through this shield, but the water spirit bead can't be taken down, they have already tried it." ”

"It should be the relationship of the task...... Lin Ziyue no longer stared at the water spirit bead, but squinted her eyes and listened carefully to the cry in the cave, "The crying here is much thicker, but ...... Can't you really hear me?"

"Well, because I don't have psychic skills, I can't hear those voices. The shadow's eyes narrowed, revealing a somewhat sinister smile, "Maybe...... Your abilities are not accidental. ”

"En?" Lin Ziyue looked at the shadow in confusion, but the shadow did not answer, but pointed to the wall and motioned for Lin Ziyue to go over and take a look, and when Lin Ziyue walked over, after staring at the depressions for a few times, she immediately covered her mouth and retreated behind the shadow with a disgusted expression.

In the recesses on the wall are several murals, from left to right, the first one is a box without a lid, above which hangs a black mess of lines, and the box is empty, there are several stickmen on the side of the box who are making a gesture of worship, in the second painting many stickmen are twisted and are tearing each other apart, some of the twisted stickmen seem to be gnawing at something, the third painting is all red paint, drawing a round bead with a question mark on it, the outline of an island above the bead, and the last painting has been destroyed by someone and is completely indistinguishable。

Lin Ziyue couldn't say it, but she looked at these paintings, and subconsciously felt a kind of disgust and disgust in her heart, like some kind of malicious prank, especially the second and third pictures, there was a kind of disgust that made her feel uncomfortable, Lin Ziyue just looked at these paintings, as if she directly saw the tragedy that happened in the Drifting City, in the past.

The crying in her ears gradually subsided, as if she was soothed by her sympathy and grief after feeling Lin Ziyue's mood, and gradually disappeared, Lin Ziyue had some clues in her heart.

"It feels disgusting...... Full of intrigue and malice, I'm curious about who painted these paintings. Lin Ziyue said softly, patting her cheek lightly, trying to force herself to cheer up.

Seeing her movements, the shadow patted her head and said, "If you can't stand it, don't look at it." ”

"No...... I think at least, at least for the sake of the souls' pleas for help, I want to answer their prayers, I have to find out the truth, from the truth of the exile in Driftcaster, to the disaster, maybe a little bit of a virgin, but they can only rely on me, only I can hear their crying, maybe this is the responsibility of my power, since they call me the Inquisitor, then I want to be slightly worthy of this name. Lin Ziyue took a deep breath, the crying in her ears completely dissipated, she stared at a few murals, and her mind quickly connected all the known information.

The sound of water cascading in the blue pipes overhead was a bit annoying to hear.

The shadow raised his eyebrows, looked at Lin Ziyue and shook his head and frowned, and said: "Although I can't have your inexplicable sense of justice and mission at all, but I brought you down, I can't let you be taken up by me without arms and legs, so once you feel that something is wrong, ask me for help, you know? ”

Lin Ziyue flattened her mouth: "Wow...... You suddenly say something so strange, it's almost disgusting to catch up with this painting. ”

After the shadow snorted, he twisted his head to the side, obviously a little dissatisfied with Lin Ziyue's reaction.

Lin Ziyue stopped in front of the third painting, looking at the shape of the island, she noticed that the topography of some of the locations on the island was somewhat similar to the terrain of the Drifting City she had seen when she came, this blood-red Drifting City...... She stretched out her hand to wipe the red traces, but the red place was spent a little, Lin Ziyue was startled, and then asked the shadow for the black face towel that had been gnawed by the dog, and then used the face towel to rub it desperately on the third painting, the red powder and dust kept falling, and finally revealed a brand new painting, after the shadow took the dirty face towel back into his pocket in disgust, the complete mural was presented in front of the two of them.

The island turned blue, and its location was only the corner of a huge island, and the red beads also turned blue after being wiped, as Lin Ziyue thought, this is the original color of the water spirit beads, and there are many slender lines between the two, with a shape similar to clouds, as if to divide the upper and lower.

"It's ......" Shadow's pupils shrank, clearly remembering something.

"The kingdom on the clouds?" Lin Ziyue's index finger followed the shape of those clouds back and forth, and finally landed on the water spirit bead below, the water spirit bead belonged to the land, and the drifting city belonged to the sky, but the two were now together.

The shadow nodded, his face a little gloomy: "It was a giant island in the sky above the five continents, although I knew the existence of that floating island, but I didn't expect that Drifting City was actually just a corner of the floating island...... It turned out that he was exiled from the sky to the land. ”

Lin Ziyue came to the second painting, pointed to the shape of those twisted stickmen, and said to the shadow: "These should be the catastrophe we mentioned in the Skill Guild and Mixing before......, right? With such a horrific massacre, will there really be any insiders left?"

Then it can also explain some of the anomalies in the third painting. Shadow frowned and said, "I'm afraid that after the entire Drifting City was dyed red by this incident, that painting was dyed red by someone for some purpose, even a feeling of mourning, after the incident." ”

The blue light reflected on the wall, and the twisted stickman on the wall seemed uncertain, as if it could step down from the wall at any moment.

Lin Ziyue felt sad for a while: "En...... I'm afraid the whole Drift City ...... If we can find the survivors, we may be able to learn some of the scenes at that time, when the player may not have entered the Phantom World, so this is the historical background of the Phantom World? ”

The shadow leaned against the wall on the other side, and played with the dagger again, Lin Ziyue knew that he liked to do this when he was thinking, so without waiting for him to answer anything, Lin Ziyue said to herself: "I sorted out the current information a little, from the beginning, Drifting City was exiled from the sky to the land, and then someone stole the water spirit bead as a power source, and since then the city has been wandering in the river, but Pandora's box was opened, the disaster of the blood corpse broke out, and the entire Drifting City fell into chaos......"

"Not true. The shadow suddenly interrupted Lin Ziyue, "We don't know if the order of these paintings is the order of the incident, if Drifting City was exiled because the box was opened and the blood corpse disaster broke out, it is completely possible." ”

Lin Ziyue nodded, looked at the painted mural in distress and said: "We seem to be missing a very key piece of information, obviously that picture is probably the most important, just by that location can give us a lot of clues, but it was destroyed by someone like that." ”

"That's it when they came," Shadow shrugged, "and he's pretty sure it's someone trying to cover it up, presumably to avoid the truth." ”

"Such a desperate denial of the past...... Probably the same person who painted the murals and covered up the floating island. ”

Saying this, Lin Ziyue walked to the front of the first painting, looked at the bottom of the empty box, and suddenly a person flashed in front of her.

"Did we hear from a certain city lord himself, he ...... Thought the box had already been emptied, that's why I opened it?"