On February 5, 795 AH, in the territory of the Duchy of Elnifia, Karon Pass. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The tall mountains, the congested city gates, and the traffic between the two passes are as usual. Travelling or merchandising traffic enters through the gates and passes through the small bazaars in the central area, continuing towards their destinations. Curious people will stop here to experience the prosperity of this city in the past, or to look for the historical relics of the town that used to be here, and by the way, also taste the food here, and visit the ever-changing stall market. Of course, most of the people who stay here to collect things are adventurers, who not only hope to find good goods in this more mobile place, but also hope to have a chance to participate in a bigger adventure.

This is because many people who venture from the south of the duchy to the Andacel Mountains pass through it.

Finding information, rearing logistics and equipment, and even finding companions - due to the special circumstances of Baikaron Pass, players looking to form a team have become frequent visitors here, and some have even held up signs in the square for this purpose, and have undertaken all kinds of team business. People who come out on an adventure and want to find out what is going on in the Falling Star Mountain in the north of this place don't want to suddenly have a pit in the same team, so how to find the most suitable teammate for themselves in this huge group of players is a matter of opinion. If you have the heart, you can see many people crouching at the east and west gates of Karon Pass, who are not recruiters of various guilds in big cities, but "observers" who are looking for high-quality wildlings for their team.

In fact, there will be such a situation around every adventure mecca, and there will be such people in every team. And this is also the reason why many teams, including guild forces, desperately want to fix good people.

To the south of Karon Pass, that is, when Greenstone Village had just become a novice village and was discovered by many players, many people who were keen on adventure, or wealth, also regarded the Emerald Forest next to Greenstone Village as a new land of adventure, and the people of Freedom Wings even reborn the main team early and arranged it in that place. However, with the later changes, these plans were all in vain, so the number of people who came and went gradually became fewer, and in the eyes of those who squatted in Karon Pass all year round and saw more high-level players, it became a complete disaster - in those days in the past, they could stop a few "like-minded" high-level players at the east and west gates of Karon Pass every day, and go to Falling Star Mountain with them to adventure, although one went to the south and the other went to the north, but after all, it was still a stop, wasn't it, and what forest was placed there and wouldn't run, and I heard that it is much more dangerous than Falling Star Mountain, so it is better to go here with them, everyone is an old driver who is familiar with the road, and I will give you a guarantee first, and I will definitely not let you go home empty-handed, etc...... Five out of ten will gladly go to ensure the success of an adventure, after all, a player is too skilled, but there is always no shortage of equipment and knowledge, which is much better than those who come from the south.

But now the good days are coming to an end - these high-level players have become a scarce resource, with Free City to the east, war to the west, Emerald Forest to the south, and Falling Star Mountain to the north. There are fewer and fewer players who have stopped in the past, and most of the team members who live on this food have also left, and after a long time, naturally no one is interested there. The world is so big, where can I go to see it? They haven't broken through the shackles of Falling Star Mountain until now, and they have never seen what the top of Falling Star Mountain looks like, so it's better to find a new place to improve themselves, and it's not too late to conquer this mountain in the future.

Of course, there are many reasons why you can't climb to the top of this invisible mountain, in addition to the lack of strength of the players themselves and the poor natural conditions on the high mountain, the decline in the enthusiasm of the players is also one of the important reasons. If a regional leader can't beat it, we can try it once, twice, ten times, and eight times, if we still can't beat it after trying for a few months, then someone will have already retreated. As the highest mountain in the free world, Falling Star Mountain is like the ultimate boss in the entire game, so many players who have been there assert that only after the players have generally reached the full level, and the equipment and field experience are almost the same, it may be possible to go to the top of that mountain to find out, but don't think about it now.

What's more, there are all kinds of strange creatures in that mountain range, as well as all kinds of reclusive races.

Today's Karon Pass carriage is still flowing, and there are many adventurers passing by, but Xiaodong is still as idle as a flagpole in winter, even if the cold wind blows, it can't make him move the slightest - the old players are all running their own ways, and the way is all novices, which makes him more and more diar, and his taste is getting higher and higher, and the team builder who is difficult to accept the little white player is very helpless. He is one of the few members of the player who still stays at Karon Pass and likes to go to Falling Star Mountain for adventure, not only because of the abundance of production there and the way to come back, but also because he likes to climb the mountain as an adventurous way, and in his heart, there are still some dreams that he will one day be able to climb to the top of that mountain, see the whole world from that mountain, and at the same time leave his name in the history of games in the free world.

But the current situation makes him only see that the dream is getting farther and farther away from him.

Most of his former teammates are now gone, and even his opponents are no longer competing with him, and even so, it is still difficult to find a good teammate during this period. He stood outside the road next to the east gate and chatted with the guards next to him, while watching the passing crowd, shaking his head and sighing at the quality of the players, while spending a lot of his free time thinking about his future.

Should I also consider it and develop in a different place? It's just a dream......

Alas.

He looked up at the faint mountain peak that towered into the sky in the distance, and wondered how he could have persevered until today if he hadn't seen the top of that mountain before. Every day, there are countless players who have inquired about the market to come to themselves to recommend themselves, but unfortunately those are from the novice village in the south, their goal is not a day trip to the Falling Star Mountain, but to climb to the top of the mountain, a group of people who "graduated" from the Falling Star Mountain climbed for a few weeks without success, how can a few hairy boys who have never seen the steep in the mountains go up?

He waved his hand, got out of the crowd, and looked towards the end of the road--I heard that from the end of this road, it was possible to reach the adventurer's paradise city, and many of his companions were now going to all parts of the continent to start new adventures, and some of them were going to develop by the sea, and a few days ago he sent a message to tell himself that the city of freedom had undergone another great reshuffle, that the two evil forces were no longer as arrogant as before, and that many new ruins occupied by them were also opened, and that they were going to prepare, Then go and break in, maybe you can dig up some ancient sword or something......

"When this is over, I'll also go to the east to take a look, there are brothers over there, it's better than going to war...... Hey? ”

He hurriedly stepped forward, staring not far ahead—in the middle of the road, a woman in a blue cloak led a horse in the direction of the city gate. The woman led the horse in one hand and the hilt of the sword at her waist in the other, her fur-trimmed leather armor framed the woman's perfect figure vividly, the crescent-shaped pendant in her ears reflected mesmerizing light in the sunlight, and the long purple hair that dragged on the back of her head was tied in a long blue ribbon that fluttered backwards with the oncoming wind.

However, even the woman's beautiful face was not the main reason for attracting Xiaodong's eyes, and when his keen gaze was a little patrolling, he could see that this woman was different - the woman's special thin sword, the gem on the hilt, and the leather armor with perfect color and style, the material of the leather armor he couldn't see at a glance, and some small carvings even he couldn't recognize even if he had seen too many advanced players.

The woman looked at the gate of Karon Pass, her pace was extremely slow, she looked at the guards on the left and right, and then looked at the scene in the distance, as if she was observing where the two sides of this pass could reach, Xiaodong's heart was happy, and she was about to step forward to discuss the formation of a team with this player who seemed to want to venture here, but the woman was stopped by a player on the side of the road.

"This young lady! You, you're here for an adventure, aren't you? We're the Bloodfang Adventure Party, is there ......"

"Bloody Fang!"

He hurriedly stepped forward and stopped in front of the two: "Why are you still here?" Still fooling people? Just the members of your three-legged cats, don't they all die every time they go to Falling Star Mountain! Why do you still have the face to pull people here......"

"I ...... What happened to us when we died? At least we went to the Ice Cave last time, so why don't you go there for me once? Oh yes, I forgot that you're all gone, and you can't go if you want to, haha! ”

"Me, we're a 68% map exploration team, and we're aiming for the top of the mountain! What about fewer people? In terms of experience, who can compare with me......"

"What's the use of experience, we can't climb the top of the mountain or can't climb the top of the mountain, we can go where we can go, why should we give it to you?"

On the side of the noisy road, the leaders of the two adventure groups stood on the side of the road, quarreling next to a female swordsman, the woman shook her head helplessly, and then reached out and pressed between the two people: "Two." ”

As soon as the gentle and mature voice came out, the quarrel between the two was suppressed, and the two captain-level figures who didn't know how many people they had seen seemed to be calmed by the perfect temperament of the woman in front of them: "I want to go to Fenghua Town, may I ask ......"

She pointed in the direction of the south: "Is it going south from this place?" ”

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It was another dark night, and Duan Qing and the others, who were taken by Nantie Mountain, found a place to camp again.

This road is close to the mountain, and it really takes a lot of long distances, because in Duan Qing's impression, the south of the route he took should be the Talong Avenue that they walked when they came before, so the current route is equivalent to them passing through the plain in the middle, directly diagonally to the direction of the north of Karon Pass, if it goes well, they will probably be able to reach the foot of the legendary mountain tomorrow.

However, the journey has not been smooth.

A few people first climbed over the layers of rugged mountain roads, encountered all kinds of strange creatures, and then encountered demonic creatures that appeared because of the rich earth element of the mountain range, and even elemental creatures, their trickiness even Nantie Mountain did not dare to deal with it head-on, not to mention that they had gone too deep into the wild, and those monsters appeared in groups.

They even encountered two natural disasters - a large pile of rolling rocks fell from the cliff on the mountain, and they were almost buried alive in it, but fortunately, several of them were good at playing the game, and their reaction and consciousness were quite high, so they were able to avoid this sudden catastrophe under the emergency outbreak. However, according to Nan Tieshan's later introduction and speculation, those landslides were likely to be the work of the earth elements on the mountain, which shocked Duan Qing into a cold sweat and gave him a new understanding of the monster abilities in this game.

So now that he was gradually approaching his destination, Duan Qing's heart was also slightly excited.

"Rest early, if it goes well, we'll be there tomorrow ......"

"Wait."

The night was already deep, Nan Tieshan went to his tent early to rest, Duan Qing looked at the night sky, and was about to say hello before going to bed to prepare for tomorrow's adventure, when the woman who didn't talk much all the way and was always indifferent suddenly stopped him.

"You...... How did you know I was coming to Falling Star Mountain? ”

"Blind." Duan Qing looked at the other party for a while, and finally smiled and said, "Can't you see this?" I'm going to fool that big black guy, I didn't expect you to ......"

"But I didn't want to go there."

"Huh?" Duan Qing was shocked: "Didn't you just say ......"

"I should have told you about the origin of this set of equipment on me, right?"

The woman sat on her knees by the campfire, her eyes fixed on the campfire in front of her: "Before...... When I was in the first team, I went to Falling Star Mountain once, and I was at that time...... Get this kit. ”

"So I still have an impression of that place, so I just follow the trend...... Said that place. ”

"Before?" Duan Qing was keenly aware of the hidden meaning in the other party's words: "Then ...... you now"

"Don't get me wrong, I'm still a member of the Wings of Freedom." The woman shook her head and said, "It's just ...... The first team is gone. ”

"A team disbanded?" Duan Qing said in disbelief again: "How could the Wings of Freedom be willing to disband? They're not enough? What about future competitions? ”

"Not a disbandment, but ...... It's not much worse. ”

Snow Lingling Ice looked at the black curtain not far away—the mountains that covered the sky.

"It's time for you to talk about it." Duan Qing looked at the other party for a while, then dispelled the idea of resting, and sat down beside the campfire beside her: "Why did you run out alone and run so far?" ”

"Nothing."

After a period of silence, Xue Lingphantom Ice stretched out his hand and flicked the firewood in the fire: "It's the same as that time in the forest." ”

"It's just a little unwilling."