The moon hovered lonely over the forest, and the light was dim, like tears in the corners of a woman's eyes.

"Brother, you say, why is this mission different from what we fought before, now this monster can speak, and this evil place is full of evil play."

We're only 13, 14 and 20 dungeons are skipping levels, so it's definitely difficult

But Blackbeard is right.,The monsters that were fought before were all brainless dead programs.,Could it be that all the monsters behind this game have their own consciousness.

"Look, brother, there seems to be a village on the top of the hill over there" I looked in the direction Blackbeard pointed, there was a distant hill away from us, let's go, I was expecting some monsters to meet behind me to verify my claim

A light rain slowly fell in the sky, and everything was damp in the night, and the skin of the trees and dirt began to fester, and the air was filled with a suffocating smell

"This bad place," I scolded with Blackbeard, "hahahaha"

As we moved forward, we had left the Skull Forest, and the name of the location displayed on the minimap had become a quagmire

There was a sound of a fierce fight and tearing in front of me, and I motioned for Blackbeard to make a quiet, and Blackbeard and I cautiously paced to a barley and crouched down

A large Nile crocodile was entangled by a giant python and was rolling and biting in the mire, good guy, shouldn't this monster come to beat us, why don't you have to fight yourself first

I looked at Blackbeard shyly, or the eldest brother would call the big guy and Ah Fu out, and have a 2v2 fight with them, hahaha

"Don't talk about calves, you should be the animal world, let's go, don't come out later, this place is evil"

After leaving the quagmire, I don't know how long I walked, I finally could see the general outline of this village.

In front of the village there was a bone-like dead tree, and the hemp rope hanging under the branches was blown by the wind, and the soaked corpse swayed slightly, the rope loop tightened the corpse's neck, the facial muscles contracted upward, and the root of the tongue in the throat stretched out desperately from the mouth, the eye sockets were wide open, and the round and convex eyes stared at the ground blankly

I looked at the hanged man, where his eyes were on the ground, and there were traces of burned paper money, as well as a dilapidated wine jar and a skeleton, which must have been left by human explorers before

If I'm not mistaken, this hanged ghost should be some kind of gatekeeper, the first time someone came to it to ask for paper money, the second time someone came to it to ask for wine, and the third time it asked for human life, but in the end the ending was the same, no one survived.

"Brother, let's go" I looked at Blackbeard, he had already walked past the dead trees, and was ready to enter the village when he arrived at the entrance of the village, I looked at the hanged ghost and did not react, could it be that I was too worried, what about it

The entrance to the village is also dead and lifeless, since the name of the mission is --- to explore the secrets of Tranquility Village

It must not be easy here, entering the village, except for the sound of our footsteps and wheezing, it was eerily quiet, the houses in the village were all half and half pulled, as if they had been invaded by bandits, and Blackbeard and I probed towards the ruins of the village.

There are also well-preserved houses here, but they all have a common feature, that is, there is a statue of an old Taoist in the center of the courtyard, except that these are no different from other houses

"Brother, you say, what secrets are there in this place, I don't have any culture and I haven't seen anything."

I don't understand it, except for the silence of this place, it's us now

Ancestral temple? There are two big characters written on the wooden plaque on this house, although the wooden plaque has been covered with dust, but it is still very eye-catching, proving that this ancestral hall should have been a more important place in the village before

Big brother, let's go in and have a look, I whispered to Blackbeard, and as soon as I pushed open the dusty door, the picture in front of me changed.

In the middle of the ancestral hall, a woman was tied with a strong iron chain, and wait, isn't this my artificial intelligence Xiaowei, and then a young and strong man rushed in and cut the iron rope with a sword and ran out

The picture returns to the current ancestral hall, which is covered with dust, only broken chains, and no other highlights

"Brother, did you just watch?"

You saw it, too, and sure enough, there's something strange here

"Brother, it's not too early, and I haven't found anything, let's go find another preserved house and prepare to spend the night."

Pushing open the door, the same picture changed, looking at the old man on the statue before, what was he doing with a big alchemy pot, just saw that the old man put the training materials in it for a while, and all kinds of materials that could not be called for a while, the old Taoist stopped for a while, and then took a piece of Tai Sui, carved and painted Tai Sui into the shape of a villain, and threw it into the pot, and then watched the villain jumping around, and slowly became the appearance of Xiao Wei, and the woman in the ancestral hall before should have been created by this old man

The old Taoist looked at the villain and smiled with relief, and then seemed to have an explosion of inspiration, and threw the various materials just now into the alchemy cauldron, and finally threw a piece of wood that he didn't know what to do, and the same villain came out, the old man looked at the two villains, and muttered in his mouth: Xiaowei has no heart, and peach wood has no nature

Then time became faster, the peach wood villain was worshipped by people, Xiao Wei was considered a filthy thing, it would hook people's minds, and was locked in the ancestral hall by the villagers, and then it was the scene we saw in the ancestral hall before, the village chief's son was confused by Xiao Wei and ran out, and then Xiao Wei began to take revenge on the village, killing, burning, Xiao Wei was ruthless in no one to do things, and the other peach wood villain did nothing, and the village seemed to be cursed by something, and fell into darkness all day long.

It turns out that Xiaowei came here like this, it should be because she is too old, and there will be an exact one in the split, so it was later made into a fixed program injected by artificial intelligence by the system to help novice players popularize the game

"Brother, come and make a fire"

Blackbeard didn't seem to see the scene just now, only saw Blackbeard filling the alchemy cauldron in the courtyard with firewood, and didn't know how angry the old Taoist would be if he was still there

Big brother, you can still make your own fire in this game, I watched Blackbeard's operation

"Brother, you don't know this, you really can't imagine the degree of freedom of this game, this is also what I discovered when I was in the mountains before"

Fire is hope. When human beings have fire, they have the basic power to survive and develop. Fighting off fierce beasts with fire and resisting the cold with fire, human beings survived; Using fire to open up land, build homes, use fire to cook food, and say goodbye to raw meat that is difficult to swallow, human beings have developed and grown with fire.

But it doesn't feel the same as having a fire, and Blackbeard is roasting and bragging in this wonderful village

Big brother, if you want to barbecue again at this time, you say, oops

I looked at Ah Fu who was warming up by the fire and glanced at Blackbeard

Ahh

"Little cub, today I will let you know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has."

Ahh

What we don't know is that a black tide is coming towards us......