readx;“ My infection has been cured?!"

After Lin Ziyue said this, Shadow Dance and Black and White looked at her in surprise, so she repeated it again, and then turned to the middle-aged woman who was standing aside with an anxious face: "That...... I want to ask what the hell is this?"

"That, that's a reversal potion, and I've been researching ways to remove any curses or diseases!!!......! Do you feel anything after drinking?" the woman looked Lin Ziyue up and down, "The blood plague bird is gone, so did I succeed?"

"Success...... It's a success, right?" Lin Ziyue just waved her cane, and a burst of black light floated out from it, condensing into the shape of a small bird, and stopped on Lin Ziyue's shoulder affectionately, rubbing her face, "But I always feel that something is wrong." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"It's ...... Failed......" The woman looked at the black bird on Lin Ziyue's shoulder, her face full of disappointment.

Lin Ziyue shook her head and said, "No, your experiment was successful, my infection was cured, and this is my summoned creature." While saying this, Lin Ziyue quickly opened the skill interface and glanced at it.

[Phantom Zero]: The holy blessing of the plague is transformed and descended into the world.

Action skills

Consumes 10 stamina, 30 mana, and 15 skill to summon the Condensed Spirit of the Bleeding Plague.

Chanting: None

Equip binding skills.

Isn't the plague a curse...... Why do you write the word "Holy Blessing"?!

Shadow frowned, "What the hell is going on?"

Lin Ziyue shared her skill information with the other two, and the black and white boy said to the woman with some concern: "Auntie, you don't have to worry, that ...... Well, the potion seems to have an effect. ”

"But she ......," the woman hesitated as she looked at the bird on Lin Ziyue's shoulder.

The shadow walked to the cauldron, scooped a spoonful out of the steaming pot, and drank it directly, the black mist on his body was immediately swept away, and the shadow raised his eyebrows at the woman: "Look, it has an effect." ”

"En, En......" The woman nodded, with a look of joy on her face, "Great, this time it's finally successful, I'll go and let him try it immediately, it's great if you can get rid of the curse on him, don't move in the house, wait for me to come back!"

Then, before the three of them could react, the woman went out with her freshly filled bowl of potion.

"I'm a little worried, even if that potion works for us, but is she too anxious? After all, the utility of our players is not the same as the NPCs in the Phantom World, right?" Lin Ziyue asked, the shadow glancing at her and shrugging.

"Who knows, look at the woman's depressed appearance, she must have asked the player for help before, even if the NPC's help task bar is not displayed, players generally treat it as a hidden task, which is also my special request with the official to write, but when the player takes it and finds that there is no reward, and the experimental medicine has no effect, then there must be no interest in continuing to help this woman, you see her excited expression just now...... I'm afraid it's the first time I've detected a reaction to a drug. ”

Lin Ziyue sighed: "Alas, you said that if that medicine is useless...... Aren't we going to make her happy for nothing?"

"You have to try it to find out, maybe it will work, and then ...... Then she can give us the rest of the medicine?" said with a wink at Lin Ziyue, tugging at her arm and grinning.

"Hello cub, you're so optimistic...... Lin Ziyue said distressedly, still worried about what would happen in her heart.

The three of them didn't wait long, the woman came back, as soon as she walked in the door, Lin Ziyue secretly said in her heart that something was wrong, the woman's face was full of loss and despair that could not be hidden, and the medicine was ineffective.

"Auntie, did that medicine really not work?" asked Hei Baizai, his face was also a little worried, "Well, can you tell us about the reason why you made these medicines?"

The woman sighed, sat down at the table a little sluggishly, staring straight at the table with a blank gaze, and after a while, she looked up at Lin Ziyue and said, "He asked you, Judge......"

"Do you know the old gentleman?"

Then the woman told Lin Ziyue and the others a story about the past.

The woman's name is Maria, and she has three identities, one is the ex-girlfriend of the former city lord Christian, the second is a witch, and the third is ...... Mother of the monster ripper in Jack's City.

When Lin Ziyue heard this, her hand shook and she dropped her staff to the ground, and after the shadow helped her pick it up, the three of them also sat down at the table, and this story can be seen from this beginning, it will be quite long.

Maria continued, and in her story, Lin Ziyue finally knew what kind of sad emotional journey the mysterious former city lord, the old man whose full name was Christian.

Maria's village was destroyed at the hands of a demon, and the demon was angry with the whole village because she couldn't pursue the nuns of the village church, and Maria's home was also destroyed in that disaster, and she fled in a hurry and ran into the dense forest in the mountains, but fainted among the trees due to lack of physical strength.

When Maria woke up from the cave, she saw the young man sitting in front of her with his head tilted, with a green ponytail tied behind his head, and his eyes were full of worry.

"Who are you...... Did you save me?" asked Maria, then remembering what had happened in the village before she passed out, "Where is this?"

"This is the Water Moon Villa, my name is Christian, I picked you up at the gate of the villa, and I brought you back......" The boy said as he reached out to touch Maria's hair, and Maria let out a scream and shrank back away from the boy's hand.

"Y-What did you do all of a sudden?!"

Chris tilted his head and looked at Maria puzzled: "Why is your hair blonde? I've never seen hair like this...... What is it, sunflowers, wild daisies, honeysuckle??"

"What are you talking about?" said Maria, who couldn't understand the boy's words.

"Isn't it...... Is that an osmanthus?" The name of the flower kept popping out of the boy's mouth, and Maria finally came to her senses, and the boy seemed to ...... It's a little weird.

"My name is Maria. ”

"Mary?...... Mary, Mary...... I haven't seen it......" The boy frowned in annoyance, stared at Maria, and smiled at her.

This is how Maria and Chris met, and the moment Lin Ziyue heard "Water Moon Villa", she suddenly remembered that she had a mission related to that place, so she asked about the details of that place.

According to Maria, there are no humans in the Water Moon Villa, all of them are plants, not even animals, Chris is the only human she saw at that time, but later she learned that Chris is not a human, but a demon race, and then the scheming Chris told Maria that his natal plant is ivy.

"But you're telling me this kind of thing...... Aren't you afraid that I will harm you?" Maria took Chris's hand, and the two sat on the hillside, watching the stars in the sky come and go.

Chris lay on her stomach next to Maria's ear, her warm breath fell on Maria's ear, Maria's face flushed, she was glad that it was late at night, and Chris was a monster...... I guess I can't see my blush in the moonlight.

"Maria...... I'm telling you who I am, it's because I like you, you know, and once my race likes someone, then ...... It's not going to change for the rest of my life, right? That's why I want to be honest with you. Chris said this, his hand brushed on the grass, a wildflower sprang out from under his hand, beside Chris and Maria, enveloping the two, Maria's heart beat faster and faster, the moment Chris's kiss fell on her lips, she also vowed in her heart to maintain this mood for the rest of her life.

However, the restrictions of race made Maria's mood too ethereal.

The lifespan of human beings is like a sad joke compared to the demon race, Chris has taken Maria out of the deserted Water Moon Villa since he realized it, leaving the paradise where he has been since birth, in order to find a way to make his wife immortal, the two began to wander around the continent, through many cities, Walking through many mountains and rivers, seeing the darkness of the world, and seeing the contradictions of different ethnic conflicts, Chris is no longer the blank sheet of paper he was back then, but the relationship between him and Maria has not only not been diluted by the prosperous world, but has become deeper and deeper after the precipitation of time. Growing haggard, but Chris is still the same as when he first met, he tries to change his appearance, but he can only grow a few years older, standing with Maria, more like a mother and daughter than lovers, so the seeds of inferiority complex in Maria's heart gradually take root.

In order to delay the passage of her age, Maria resolutely chose the most dangerous black magic, and after signing a contract with the demon, she became a witch, constantly researching various plants and potions, trying to find a way to keep herself young through this means, but the traces of time are still becoming more and more obvious in her, although her relationship with Chris is still the same as before, but the two have never had children, which has also become Maria's heart disease.

Then Chris did something that finally caused Maria's inferiority complex and depression to explode.

In order to keep Maria young, Chris took advantage of one night to pass on all the vitality of his body to Maria, and then left a letter telling her not to see him again, and then resolutely left the forest hut where the two lived in seclusion, because of the loss of vitality, and became an old man Chris came to this small city on the coast, when there was an outbreak of flu in the city, Chris stayed to help the residents of the city because he was proficient in herbal medicine, and then he was given the position of the lord of the city, and had to stay in the city, and named it Jack City。

The name Jack was originally what Maria once said that if she had a son, she would want to call it that name, and Chris was thinking of Mary in his heart, so he named this small city Jack City.

When Maria woke up, she found that she had regained her youthful beauty, but the person who had been with her pillow for more than ten years was gone, she opened the letter left by Chris, and was immediately grief-stricken, Maria wanted to say that she didn't care what Chris had become, and she didn't want to keep her youth at the expense of Chris, but something more desperate happened later.

A few months later, Maria gave birth to her and Chris's child, but that child was neither human nor demon from the moment it was born.

"Me and his children...... Me and Chris's baby...... Become a monster!!Become a monster that devours life force......" When Maria said this, tears could not stop falling, and Lin Ziyue gently patted her on the back and comforted the woman.

The shadow showed a clear look: "So he is killing people everywhere in Jack City now, just because he needs to absorb life force?"

"Blood, soul, and the life force within...... When he was younger, I was able to satisfy him with small animals...... But as he grew older, the curse on him grew more and more terrible, and finally only humans were left to sustain his life......" Maria sobbed, stupefiing.

Lin Ziyue sighed: "Alas...... So you've been researching healing potions to remove the curse from him?"

"Yes...... I was able to stop the spread of the curse in his body through certain potions, but at night the potions would fail, and he would become a monster desperate for blood and vitality, roaming the city in search of lone people and devouring them...... Whining...... I—my poor Jack......"

Maria's cries rang out in the room, making several people feel quite depressed.

"I'd like to ask...... How old is Jack now?" Lin Ziyue's mind twitched, and in order to break this embarrassing atmosphere, she suddenly asked.

"It's twenty years old...... Now he ...... I'm at the age when my power is the most uncontrollable, and I'm ...... Woo-woo...... "Mary replied as she cried.

"Well...... It's just right in time for Jack City to be founded, but what are you asking for?" the shadow interjected.

Lin Ziyue frowned: "I'm thinking...... In all the years that the city lord has been with Jack City, do you say he knows about his son?"

Maria wiped her tears and said, "I, we only came to Jack City last year, as soon as I came here, I found out about him, I didn't expect him to become the city lord, but when I found this city lord's mansion, he was gone, but left a letter to the residents of the city, let Jack inherit the position of city lord...... Alas......"

"So you announced the curfew?" asked Black and White.

Maria nodded, "Yes, we have announced a curfew to ensure the safety of the residents, but this restriction will not affect you like you...... Visitors. ”

"Visitor?" Lin Ziyue suddenly noticed the strange title.

"It's a visitor like the Inquisitor, a visitor who can appear anytime and anywhere, and will not die, and it is because of you that Jack can continue to be his lord of the city quietly......"

"You mean...... It's because of the visitors that he can stay in Jack City?" Black and White Boy was surprised, "That's why he left his birthplace and entered Jack's City?"

That Jack ...... Survived by slaughtering players......

Lin Ziyue was a little puzzled, she felt that something was wrong, what kind of existence did the player have in the fantasy world?

The shadow suddenly spoke: "He's here, hmph, it's almost over." ”