Exiting the icy desert and returning to the empty wilderness, the trio rode around the edge to find a dilapidated wooden house that was only half cut off.

"Here it is."

Seeing a place to sleep, Lin Chi leaned against the wall with satisfaction, and only said, "Sleep." He simply lost consciousness.

“……”

Looking at his defenseless appearance, the bloody blade that had just lit the torch and Andrea looked at each other. After a moment of silence, Andrea finally spoke:

"Master, why would you cooperate with such a lazy person?"

"No way...... He's pretty good at fighting. Bloodblade lowered his head: "And he was found by me, so I have to make sure he is safe." ”

"Do you need to kill him now?" Andrea raised her right hand, a sharp bone spur sticking out of her cuff.

"Don't do that, he saved my life just now. And......" Bloodblade narrowed his scarlet eyes, "I need his strength." ”

"Don't you trust me?" Andrea shook her head sentimentally: "It's just me." ”

"We need that 'old god' of his." Bloodblade lowered its voice.

This girl's specialty is killing people rather than finding people, and the success rate of finding a target is infinitely close to zero on her own. Now, he can only rely on the ancient god under Lin Chi's "command".

However, what Andrea cares more about is the mysterious ancient god.

"The messengers of the Old Gods cannot be trusted." The noblewoman, who sat on the cold wasteland, whispered, "Sooner or later, he will fall into madness and lose himself completely." ”

"Don't you understand?" Bloodblade looked up at his entourage, his scarred face turned bright red by the firelight: "He and I are outsiders, not the 'natives' here, and we will not be affected by the whispers of the so-called ancient gods." ”

- No country would allow a game that could kill people to continue to operate, and if players were driven crazy by such a simple approach, Paradise of War would have ceased to exist a long time ago.

In the eyes of Bloodblade, the NPCs that Andrea had encountered before must have been bewitched by the ancient gods and fell into madness.

However, what Andrea said next was completely unexpected by Bloody Blade:

"Master, I mean I once met an outsider like you, who became a madman under the spell of the old gods."

As soon as these words came out, the blood blade was speechless for a while. Lin Chi, who had still closed his eyes before, suddenly opened his eyes like a corpse.

"You haven't slept yet." Bloodblade chuckled a little awkwardly.

"I woke up." Lin Chi turned to Andrea as he spoke, and went straight to the point without hesitation: "You said that there was once an outsider who was driven crazy by the ancient gods, what is going on?" ”

"Do you really want to hear it?" Andrea's voice was still gentle, and it didn't sound like a murderous killer at all: "It's not a good story. ”

"Of course." Lin Chi nodded immediately.

"Master......" Andrea turned her head to look at the Bloody Blade, only to find that the Bloody Blade also looked a little expectant.

"Say." Bloodblade sat down beside her.

Lin Chi knew very well that what Andrea said was likely to be related to the inside story of the "player madness incident". Seeing that the two outsiders present were ready to listen to the story, Andrea sighed and took the torch from Bloodblade's hand:

"Well, here's the thing......"

With her gentle voice, the "souls" of the two players seemed to detach from their virtual bodies and returned to some unknown years ago, a sultry afternoon:

……

Andrea slowly opened her eyes.

At first, she didn't even feel the presence of her own body, but the sudden appearance of vision still revealed the fact that she had opened her eyes.

The first thing that comes into view is the gray sky that has lost its color.

She waited slowly for a few minutes, and the sight finally returned to color. Then the recovery of sensations other than vision begins.

The buzz of flying insects flapping their wings sounded in their ears, and many insects whose names they couldn't name were biting the rotting corpses next to them.

There was a putrid smell floating in the air, and the decapitated corpses were neatly laid out beside him.

I don't know how long it took, Andrea slowly opened her mouth, and a hoarse voice floated from her dry throat:

"I ...... It's dead. ”

That's right, I'm dead.

The picture when she was beheaded by her husband seems to be vivid. Andrea was certain that she had been executed by the "executioners" herself.

So, why did you come back to life?

She reached out and touched her neck, which should have been broken under the cut of the decapitator axe, but it was intact at this time, and she didn't even feel any scars.

"I ...... Still alive? ”

Andrea didn't know exactly what was going on, the only thing she knew for sure was that she who should have been executed was brought back to life again.

She sat up with a bewildered expression, feeling the strange feeling of "being reborn", and not only did she not have any joy, but she felt a little fear.

- What's going on?

I still have breathing, my heart rate is still normal, I can't find any scars on my body, and even a few scars on my wrist that I accidentally scratched during the previous experiments have disappeared without a trace.

Is it the power of the gods? Or is something else resurrecting itself?

Puzzled, Andrea slowly stood up, and was about to leave the foul-smelling open graveyard when she heard an excited male voice:

"Heroic...... Recruitable and rich! ”

What is this person talking about?

Andrea, who couldn't understand the other party's words at all, turned to look in the direction where the voice came, and saw a tall man, with long hair flowing and a brown robe, walking quickly towards him, his flawless handsome appearance did not look like an ordinary person at all, but more like those statues of gods carved by ancient Greek craftsmen.

"Who are you......" Andrea asked alarmedly.

Not only the appearance, but also the temperament of this person is not quite right. Andrea couldn't say why, but she could feel that this person and herself weren't from the same world. Other words......

"Outsiders?" A word came out of Andrea's mouth.

"Well, sort of." The man reached out and scratched his hair: "I'm new here, and I've only been playing this for a few days." ”

"What to play?" Andrea asked, confused.

"Nothing."

The man immediately changed his words, stood in front of Andrea, bowed politely, opened his black eyes wide, and looked at Andrea without blinking: "Do you need anything?" ”

"I don't need anything." Andrea shook her head.

"It's weird, there should be a mission...... No, I mean, you really don't need my help, do you? The man asked earnestly.

If it were someone else, Andrea might think that the other person was flamboyant. But this outsider has no intention of being immodest at all, and it seems that he is indeed serious.

The question is, why would such a man who is not related to him and has nothing to do with him take the initiative to choose to help him?

"What are your intentions?" Andrea whispered what was on her mind.

"It's okay, I'm just trying to recruit ...... Adventures with you. The man quickly changed his words, as if to hide something.

- This person is so suspicious.

Andrea was also well aware of this, and strangely enough, she didn't feel any malice in this man. He seems to be genuinely intent on helping himself, without the slightest hint of falsehood.

I haven't figured out what happened yet, but if I accept this man's help, I may be able to figure out the reason for my resurrection.

After thinking for a while, Andrea finally gave a slow reply:

"I want to go to the house, can you come with me?"

She is just a "scientific researcher", without any combat effectiveness, and her newly recovered body is still a little weak. In order to avoid being targeted by the guards, he was executed again, and he could only ask this unknown man to help.

Strangely, after Andrea's request, the man was even happier, and seemed almost to cheer.

"Leave it to me! Wrap it up on me! He happily patted his chest.

……

"He's trying to recruit you." Bloodblade pursed his lips contemptuously.

"I also realized later that I was not very conscious at that time." Andrea chuckled, "And that was the first time I met an 'outsider'. ”

"Haven't met anyone like it before?" Lin Chi asked.

"Nope." Andrea's tone was affirmative: "At that time, I didn't have a definite concept of 'outsider', but I can be sure that I hadn't met anyone like you once before that. ”

"Maybe they're well disguised." Lin Chi said a possibility.

"Nope." Andrea immediately shook her head: "Please don't question my way of looking at people, no matter how disguised I am, the 'outsiders' still have a feeling of being out of place in this world, including you now, they are all like what I said, and there will be a sense of disobedience." ”

So, is this NPC given the special ability to "determine whether the opponent is an NPC or a player"?

Lin Chi didn't know why Andrea had awakened this ability, but what he could be sure of was that NPCs with this ability had a much higher probability of "awakening" than others.

Perhaps, those NPCs in the rebels also have the same abilities as Andrea. That's why I noticed the strangeness of this world, but why did the creators who created the world give NPCs such dangerous abilities?

Lin Chi was thinking about it, and Andrea had already spoken again, continuing to talk about her not-so-pleasant "first adventure":

……

With the help of that man, Andrea, who was physically weak, finally set off smoothly.

She often came to the cemetery to carry corpses, and knew all the roads and buildings in the area. The house where I used to live should be less than a kilometer away.

Now, Andrea plans to return home and confront her husband to find out what happened on the execution ground.

However, the "beautiful man" who was escorting him seemed to be a little absent-minded.

"Are you feeling unwell?" Andrea looked at the other party's slightly hunched back.

"No, I'm looking for something." The man turned around and smiled at Andrea, both in expression and temperament, like an "innocent" child.

- This outsider once said that he was "new", maybe he had just arrived in this world, so he was so cheerful?

When this naïve guy learns the cruel rules of this world, I'm afraid his personality will change drastically......

Thinking of this, Andrea laughed mockingly. Follow the outsiders through the lush forest.

After walking less than two hundred meters, the man suddenly shouted excitedly: "There you have, this is it!" ”

Andrea followed the other's line of sight, and saw an altar made of human bones, standing quietly in the dense forest, the skeleton at the top of the altar, and a faint red light flashed in the hollow eye sockets.

"Here...... Is there such a thing? Andrea rubbed her eyes in confusion.

She remembered very well that there were no altars in this forest at all. But the altar that appeared in front of me didn't look like an illusion.

"You built it?" She stared at the outsider's back.

"No, but that's what I'm looking for. Picking you up is a bonus! The man said as he hurried to the altar, took out a black-covered book from his pocket, turned the yellowed pages, and began to read the contents.

"What are you doing?" Andrea asked in a low voice.

For some reason, she felt a hint of danger in the outsider's behavior. Although the altar does not appear to have any power, it is just a pure ornament. But......

"My mission is to find this altar and recite a spell to summon the Old Gods!"

The man was still smiling, as if he didn't feel any danger: "Please wait for me, this side will be fine soon!" ”

"Don't ......," Andrea muttered.

She wanted to stop the other party's move, but the outsiders were faster. Under Andrea's gaze, the outsider quickly recited the obscure incantation, and the skeleton on the altar began to tremble slightly.

- Danger is looming, get out of here!

A strong sense of danger erupted in her consciousness and Andrea couldn't help but retreat. And at this time, the outsider, who was "praying", suddenly had a frantic spasm in his body.

"Hey ......"

Andrea reached out to grab the other person's shoulder, but saw that the other person's body began to writhe like an octopus.

Compared to just now, this outsider is simply a different person. The previous innocence and liveliness are gone, replaced by utter madness!

“C-u-t-u……”

The man shouted something incoherently, and danced away quickly, leaving Andrea, who was still dazed, standing speechlessly by the altar.

"Are you sure he's not pretending to be crazy?" The voice of the Bloody Blade pulled Andrea back from her memories to reality: "I've seen a lot of drama spirits. ”

"It's all said, please don't doubt my eyes on people."

Andrea said word for word: "I can be sure that he is really crazy. ”