“…… Duan Qing. ”

"Huh?"

"Do you want to go back?"

“……”

Some time later, outside the city of Tanzania, at noon on January 12, 796 in the New Calendar of the Free World, two figures, a man and a woman, were standing on the edge of the grassland not far from a certain river, standing and sitting in front of the scattered wild wolves that gradually roamed. In the surprised eyes of the players who occasionally passed by, the iron sword swung by the female player who seemed to be protecting the male player brought a burst of sword wind around the grassland, until the wild wolf near the area was almost dead, and the woman who had been practicing with the wild wolf for a long time walked back to the man's side panting: "I thought you didn't care anymore, but you ended up sitting here in a daze until now......"

"I'm just thinking about the recipe for the Raging Rush Potion." Duan Qing, who was sitting on the ground, waved his hand indifferently: "As for the things you said......

"How could you not care."

He smiled, then slowly lowered his head: "But in my expectation, such a thing would never have happened, although I didn't expect that after following you out, I would meet the Fool Adventure Group again so soon...... Ah! ”

He covered his head, then raised his head to look at Xue Ling's face, who had already taken off his hood at this time, and at the same time retracted his action of slapping the other party's head: "What do you mean to follow me out, obviously we have jointly decided to walk out of the novice village together, okay?" ”

"Okay, okay, we decided together."

Covering his head, Duan Qing, who waved his robe, then pouted and put his hands on his knees: "In order to avoid the pursuit of those people, we almost drowned in the river." ”

"It's the boat you made that is of poor quality." Xue Lingphantasm Bing cocked his nose dissatisfiedly: "Being bitten by a crocodile casually becomes a water fountain......

"Don't underestimate the crocodile of the Gemenan River, that's the existence that can be the boss in the Gemenan Jungle Dungeon." Duan Qing commented without raising his head: "Although that may be the only boss who is not a phantom, that copy is probably no longer there now......"

"So what, can you use this as an excuse to prevaricate the fact that the boat capsized?" Xue Lingphantom Bing angrily gestured at Duan Qing's body with an iron sword: "It's causing us to drink so much water...... Say, how are you going to compensate me? ”

"Reparations? What compensation do you want? ”

"It's better to ...... Just give me back the bag of platinum coins I gave you earlier. ”

"Want me back? You actually want an alchemist to pay back? I earned those gold coins in earnest, and if you want me to give them away, you might as well kill me. ”

"Then, then you will pay me your whole person...... Hey, don't run! ”

The winds with a sense of heat passed over the grasslands, blowing the high meadows that continued to ripple in one direction, and the meadows, which began to sprout countless sprouts due to the revival of all things, reflected the heart-shaking green glow under the sunlight that was not found in the real world. The noise that gradually arose then stopped with the gradual cessation of the warm spring breeze, and the figures of the two players who ran from one end of the grassland to the other gradually sank into the high grass, and the two people who became out of breath again slowly distanced themselves from each other in their respective retreats for a long time, and wiped the sweat oozing from their foreheads: "...... That should be better, right? ”

"Thank you for your concern, I'm fine."

"But I see that when you rejected that young man, the expression on your face was still very tangled."

"Got tangled? Where is the tangle? ”

Sitting up straight from the spot, Duan Qing asked with an expressionless face: "I just can't bear to refuse the invitation of a good person, is there anything abnormal about my expression?" ”

"In other words......" With a playful expression on his face, Xue Lingphantom Bing, who also sat up, pulled his white hair and asked, "The current Fool Adventure Group has nothing to do with you?" ”

"Don't deliberately ask this kind of question again, what's the use of knowing." Duan Qing spread his hands helplessly: "I'm just ......"

"I don't want to disturb their lives anymore."

Leaning back slightly, the gray-robed man with his hands behind him put his eyes on the clear sky, and his clear eyes seemed to be in the blue blue background, and he saw several familiar memories in the blue background: "Those little guys, I don't know how they are living now." ”

"If you want to find it, then look for it."

"I'm not as persistent as you, and I'm so decisive in deleting my number in order to find me."

"You're a trumpet now, and you can't delete it if you want to, and...... That group of people should be all over the world by now, and I don't think it will work with my method. ”

"Forget it, I don't have such an idea, if they were still here, they would probably be mixed to the point where they can mix well without me."

"No matter how well you mix, you're also a junior in front of you, just like the Nutcracker Rakshasa just now...... At first glance, it's a fan who adores you. ”

"No matter how powerful it is, it's just that the word fool is famous, and it's far less resounding than your name, look at the group of people who noticed your ID just now...... That look is like seeing a ghost, hahahaha! ”

"Laugh what a laugh! I've already made it clear to them, and is anyone really afraid of a tenth-level trumpet, and it's not a matter of raising my hand if they kill me now......"

"Raise your hand? Do they still need to raise their hand? When they saw your beautiful face, they fell under your skirt...... Oops, hey, don't bite, don't bite! Is your sign a dog? ”

"You're the puppy!"

After another period of ambiguous fighting, the two fell side by side on the grass, but Duan Qing, who was looking at the sky together, closed his eyes faintly after a period of silence: "If I have the opportunity, I still want to see how they are doing now, but it's a pity that ......"

"With the current situation, this should be impossible."

"As long as you want to do it, there is nothing you can't do."

Tilting his head, he whispered to Xue Lingbing who was covering one hand in front of the sun, "Even if it's me, didn't you save it in the end, didn't you?" ”

"It wasn't a victory at all, it was a concession forced by the situation." Duan Qing, whose face did not change at all, sighed and shook his head: "Saving people and changing Kaisha's fate line is just the only compensation I want to do under the choice of suicide, and the final result of that battle was originally something I expected." ”

“…… That's why the alliance has become what it is now. Xue Lingphantom Ice put down his hand disdainfully: "I have committed so many sins, and in the end, I can still rule the entire player world...... Are you willing to end there? ”

"Unwilling...... This. ”

Slowly opening his eyes, Duan Qing's eyes revealed incomprehensible complex feelings: "Maybe there will be such feelings, but with my strength at that time, that's all I can do." ”

"It is often said that only the weak will make choices, and the strong will only break through the shackles of choice." Xue Lingphantom Ice turned his head: "Do you want to admit that you are weak?" ”

"The strong also have shackles that the strong cannot break through." Sad feelings appeared in Duan Qing's eyes: "After all, strength can't solve everything, and now I am the best example, not to mention ...... I'm just a little magician and alchemist, and I don't have the skills to control the world anymore. ”

"No, you have." Slowly sitting up, the long-haired Xue Lingphantom Ice gradually covered the top of Duan Qing's head with a top-down movement: "Maybe you haven't noticed ...... yet"

"Now you're stronger."

She quietly closed her eyes and imprinted a kiss on Duan Qing's forehead with a kiss stroking her hair, who lay on the grass for a long time before she looked back at the face full of smiles and encouragement: "I...... Got stronger? ”

"You must have gotten stronger." Xue Lingphantasm Ice gradually lay back: "Believe me, after going through so many events, you and I must have changed now. ”

"If you don't try what you can do now, you'll regret it later."

“…… It seems to make a lot of sense. ”

Closing his eyes slightly, the corners of Duan Qing's mouth gradually pulled out a smile: "Okay then." ”

"Anyway, what did you find in that VIP area just now?"

Facing the warm wind from the north, the two of them sat up straight again, and the white-haired woman who gradually faded the crimson and smile on her face also showed a light of thought, and replied slowly in a deep voice: "The VIP area should not only be unique to this place, so a guild like the Fool Adventure Group can easily get such preferential treatment in Tanzania, and in addition, they want to have a place on the second floor...... The condition is probably both fame and strength. ”

"The guild where the star Luo fat man is located should be one of them, and the beast and bird alliance that has been chasing us is probably among them, and the rest...... I was still in the back rows of rooms, and I saw the signs of Arashiyama and the glory of the dawn. ”

Her eyebrows were slightly dark, and the face supported by her fingers also showed a look of reminiscence: "As for the things we are looking for, we have hardly seen them." ”

"It's normal, after all, no one would hang a list of their guild members on the wall." Duan Qing sighed slightly: "But the problem now is...... We don't have any way of knowing for sure, but the guy called Shadow of the Illusion is also one of the players in the VIP area. ”

"The worst-case scenario is that they are affiliated with the Restorationists, so that they are not registered on the roster of the Impostor Association at all." Xue Lingphantom Ice waved his hand meaninglessly: "But this possibility is very small, after all, if everyone knows that the nobles of the empire are colluding with the restorers......"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out."

Twisting his chin and pondering for a while, Duan Qing finally stood up with his frowning expression: "Since the Restorers have been infiltrating all over the mainland for a long time, even if they become undercover agents of the Restorers, I will not be surprised at all. ”

"But isn't that Lord Luxor the chief in charge of water?" Xue Lingphantom Bing curled the corners of his mouth: "What is the chief of water affairs of the Frey Empire in charge of, you don't know, right?" ”

"I don't know, but someone has already spoiled me." Duan Qing patted the blades of grass stained on his waist and legs: "But since such a situation has occurred, we should naturally be on guard......

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares at you—that's right?" Xue Lingphantom Ice also stood up with a low chuckle: "Don't worry, didn't you release the task?" Who's going to take the bait then......"

"We'll just have to wait and see."

She lifted her long sword, her wrist swung up and down with the movement of the sword, but her eyes, which were already lucky, suddenly turned around and put them on Duan Qing's body again after taking two steps forward: "That's right, 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 movement: "In any case, there must be something special about that person's identity, but what I don't understand is...... Why did she let us up. ”

"God knows, maybe it's because we're pitiful." Holding his long sword up and down, Xue Ling's face then put on a dissatisfied expression: "Or maybe I fell in love with you or something......

"How, how is that possible?" Duan Qing hurriedly snorted: "We, we are such weak adventurers, we have no strength and no prestige, how can we easily fall into the eyes of those NPCs?" Ahahaha......"

"Really?"

"Really, really, and you see that woman isn't pretty." Duan Qing, who held up his fingers, looked as if he was swearing to the sky: "Maybe it's also to invite us upstairs, and then generate income for the performance of the Adventurers Association in Tanzania City......"

"That's a nice thing to say."

Leaving Duan Qing with one last squinting look, the woman who turned around then began to walk in the direction of the nearest wild wolf: "Then you should set up an adventure group." ”

"Well...... this"

"Interested?"

The iron long sword drew a series of reflections in the air, and the snow spirit ice bathed in the clear sky gradually assumed a strange sword posture, and the long hair that fluttered up was then accompanied by her deep voice, slowly rising into the distance along the warmer and warmer spring breeze: "I know a way to replace members with player signatures, if you will......"

"How about we set up an adventure party with just the two of us?"

“…… Let's talk about it. ”

Looking at the back fixedly for a while, Duan Qing replied with a sigh, and then with the movement of lowering his head and supporting his forehead, he watched the woman who no longer paid attention to himself and began to run towards the distance of the grass. The bright light of metal piercing the clear sky then echoed in the grassland southwest of Tanzania with the wail of wild wolves, and at the same time there was a burst of horses' hooves galloping, and the riders who galloped with those galloping horses glanced at them slightly as they passed by the meadow, and then disappeared quickly below the horizon in the direction of the city without looking back: "Ignore these lowly adventurers, and go quickly!" ”

"We're almost there!"