Lin Chi still remembers that four years ago, when he first established the "Hellfire Squad", he planned to invite a professional gamer he met on the Internet. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although that guy's usual speech is very frivolous, he goes to tease the girl when he has nothing to do, but the game technology is still very reliable. And, like himself, he was also the first pioneer to install brain-computer interfaces.

At that time, intrabrain imaging games were not as "gentle and considerate" as today's games, and even though most games weakened the sense of pain, the system of protecting the player's sudden death by forcibly disconnecting the wire was not developed at that time.

Then, one evening, when Lin Chi found the other team members and was about to invite that guy, the other party took the initiative to send him a voice conversation.

"I'm sorry......"

The male voice sounded very weak, gasping for breath, mixed with snots and faint sobbing.

At first, Lin Chi thought the other party was joking, and casually teased, "You don't need to be so moved." But the other party's remarks then made the smile on his face disappear.

"I'll ...... later. Won't play this damn game again. ”

"Why?" Lin Chi immediately asked.

"Ah......" The other party kept inhaling the cold air, sounding like he was enduring severe pain: "Beware of a bastard called 'Bloody Blade', that person is a madman, a murderer." I was hung on a stake by him and tortured for more than an hour......"

"You have so much blood that it takes you an hour to die?"

"No, that bastard tortures me first, then uses healing to fill my blood and continues to torture me......" The other man sounded like he was going crazy.

"Wait, aren't you going to quit the game?" Lin Chi frowned.

"That madman didn't know what to do, and I couldn't concentrate on opening the game menu." The other party's voice was still very weak: "In short, if you meet this person in any game, don't hesitate, quit quickly, I'll ...... first"

Since then, this powerful player, who was famous at the time, has completely disappeared from the gaming circle.

Although he had never fought with the Blood Blade, after that incident, Lin Chi had also heard a lot of murderous legends about the "Blood Blade" intermittently:

This madman who kills people like hemp in the game is known for his extremely cruel methods, and the players and NPCs who die under his hands, let alone leave a whole corpse, it would be good to have a whole bone left.

In order to curb this mad maniac, the official has even issued a new rule that prohibits players from abusing other players and NPCs in the game.

Subsequently, all intracerebral imaging games were equipped with sudden death systems and adjudication procedures to protect the player's consciousness.

When the "adjudication process" is in operation, it will automatically determine whether there is any abuse and killing in the battle in the game. If abuse is detected for more than two minutes, the abusive player is immediately kicked out of the game and the abuser's account is suspended.

Since this program was forcibly added to all brain imaging games, the infamous "Blood Blade" has finally disappeared.

However, just when everyone began to forget the name, he appeared in the test suit of "War Paradise" again. And coincidentally, it happened to appear in the second game of the game that I was arranged!

Thinking of this, a strange look appeared on Lin Chi's originally listless face.

Realizing that he was likely to be facing a real strong man, he had never been interested in abusing vegetables, but he suddenly became much more serious.

Although he didn't know if that murderer was here or on the other side of the river, Lin Chi knew that if nothing else, he would face that guy head-on sooner or later!

"Here, that bastard is here." Shen Wenchong's old voice interrupted Lin Chi's thoughts.

The two of them slowly walked into the dilapidated but bustling bazaar, where the air was filled with a strange smell that was difficult to describe indescribable, and vendors of all appearances sat behind the rudimentary wooden tables on the side of the road, shouting the names of the goods they intended to sell:

"Miao Jiang Gu Poison Box, only thirty gold coins!"

"Old-fashioned feng shui engine, two hundred gold coins to take home!"

"Qin Huangling automatic terracotta warriors and horses commemorative doll, don't miss it when you pass by!"

All kinds of shouts echoed in his ears, looking at the strange goods sold by these dirty merchants, Lin Chi was about to go around here when he heard Shen Wenchong remind:

"It's all a lie, don't waste your time."

"I know." Lin Chi smiled.

Although the price of goods in the weapons store in Midtown is very expensive, at least it can be guaranteed that the goods sold are genuine. And what is sold in this kind of ghost place is basically fake and shoddy products, otherwise the price would not be so low.

"These guys are miserable." Lin Chi looked at the stall not far away, a skinny little boy who was selling "Tangmen Poison Needle".

"There's no way, who let them reincarnate at the wrong time, and they have become inferior people who can't turn over for the rest of their lives." Shen Wenchong sneered.

"I don't think so......"

Lin Chi said as he looked around, staring at the dirty and chaotic bazaar.

-- These poor people are forced to sell all kinds of messy goods. If it weren't for starvation, no one would have come to such a hellish place.

As for the customers who are shopping in the bazaar, they are not much better than the merchants, all of them are yellow and thin, and their nutrition is not good. Judging by their fanatical appearance of gamblers, they should be delusional to buy dusty "treasures" in this ghost place, and then resell them to collectors to make a lot of money.

"Where's the painter you're talking about?" Lin Chi asked.

"That's the man." Shen Wenchong raised his right arm and pointed to a wooden table diagonally in front of him.

Sitting behind the wooden table was a tall and thin man, whose appearance could be directly summed up by the word skull, except for the skin, which seemed to be only a bone.

The guy was dressed in a tattered gray robe, with an exposed head and arms, and he looked like a mummy with bandages off, and it was a miracle that he was still alive at this size......

"Are you sure he can still draw?" Lin Chi asked.

"He said that he was expelled from the upper city, and that he used to be a royal painter." Shen Wenchong pursed his lips disdainfully: "Maybe it's a down-and-out nobleman who can't get used to eating things in the lower city?" ”

Lin Chi was about to complain, only to see a real scarlet skeleton suddenly appear on the top of the "skeleton"—an icon, and a text introduction that only a few NPCs have.

Court Painter - ??? , Heroic NPC, recruitable (quest required).

"Wait a minute......" Lin Chi narrowed his eyes.

- Shen Wenchong, who is a special NPC, took himself to find a hero-level NPC. In this way, it seems that you have triggered a quest chain similar to the "Dark Tower"?

Thinking of this, Lin Chi walked quickly to the painter, stared at the other party's sunken eye sockets, and bowed politely:

"Hello, what does this store sell?"

Hearing this, the artist looked up at him, opened his mouth and made a hoarse voice that could be used directly as a dubbing for a horror game:

"Sell paintings, paint anything."

The artist's desk was not filled with the bells and whistles of inferior "treasures", but on a flat sheet of white paper, a brush, and an ink bottle and a red seal next to it.

――Even after falling to this point, do you still hold on to your beliefs as an artist......

Thinking of this, Lin Chi also went straight to the point: "Then, I need a complete human body structure diagram." ”

"One hundred thousand gold coins." The other party did not hesitate to offer the price.

"Can it be cheaper?" Lin Chi smiled.

"One hundred thousand." The other side has no intention of giving in at all.

Seeing the painter's resolute appearance, Shen Wenchong pretended to sigh: "The old man said that he is unreliable, you still have to come ......"

But now, Lin Chi didn't have time to pay attention to this old man, just stared at the painter's face, intending to find a "breakthrough".

Obviously, I didn't trigger the quest to recruit this NPC. So, what conditions must be met in order to trigger a task?

If this guy is really a painter who fell here from Uptown, then ......

"Do you want to go back to Uptown?" Lin Chi asked tentatively.

Before the words fell, I saw that the artist's sunken eye sockets seemed to light up with a gloomy "ghost fire".

At the same time, a line of mission prompts popped up.

Artist's Visitation:

This painter who has been expelled from Uptown still has a wish to be fulfilled, and I hope you will take him back to Uptown.

Reward: Unknown.