(21) The Soul Maiden
"Ahhh I don't seem to be very welcome here. ”
Although he was threatened by Ice Hunter with a knife in front of him, the ghost spider still looked unhurried.
"I'm just here to see how the warriors who gave up their comfortable lives are doing outside. Looks pretty good......"
As soon as he finished saying this, he saw the blade in front of him swing horizontally, and it slashed at his head.
The sharp Nine Forging Knife slashed the back of the chair in half, but it didn't hit the target, and Ice Hunter saw that this guy turned into a strange gray gas at the moment when the blade reached his body, and the sharp weapon couldn't cut through the air.
"What is this? It's not a skill in the game...... Knock knock! Get out of here! Hurry up and get out of here, everyone! ”
"This ...... What just happened? What's going on? Woohoo......"
Xiao Maoyu couldn't comprehend what was happening in front of her, and her mind was already in a state of confusion.
"It's a beautiful slash, and even in the war-torn era in which I live, it's a first-class one, and as documented, I have excellent fighting skills...... Ice Hunting. Although you are just an ordinary person now. ”
The gray gas reconstituted the body of the ghost spider, and he smiled and praised Bing Hunt's knife technique, which made the boy even more vigilant.
"Don't say anything inexplicable, I'm willing to chat with you in front of the cage if you are caught...... Not now! ”
As he spoke, Ice Hunt exerted force under his feet, and the whole person rushed towards this inexplicable enemy at high speed like a bullet out of the chamber, if the enemy would turn into gas to avoid the slash, then it would prove that this guy was still afraid of his own blade, so he needed to take out the knife before the other party turned into gas.
Although the world model of 'MineCraftOL' is as good as a god (outside of the setting of those cheaters), it still can't imitate the whistling sound of the human body when it rushes forward at high speed, so Ice Hunt's knife is silent.
Hearing only the sound of the moment, Bing Hunt was overjoyed in his heart, 'It's hit!' But although the shock from the hilt of the sword surprised him, the red-haired boy stepped back three steps away and watched his opponent vigilantly, this guy had somehow put on a very rough and primitive armor, made of the shell of a beetle.
"Excellent! It's outstanding! You can cut a crack in the armor of this Pluto beast with a simple knife, it's one of the strongest shells of any youkai, and you're just a mortal. ”
"The hardest armor of the youkai? Does this level make you complacent? I don't know where it came from......"
Ice Hunt sideways lunge with both hands in front of the knife, the blade lightly rested on the ground, he looked vigilantly at the unknown opponent in front of him, the skills used by this guy have gone beyond the realm of the game, whether it is the incarnation gas or the solid armor that suddenly appeared on his body, it is an unheard of ability of Ice Hunt, and this guy is by no means an unheard of beta player with rare abilities.
"It's just a youkai, right? To know the hand of the ghost swordsman holding the sword...... But the ghosts and gods from hell! ”
Although he was talking nonsense, Ice Hunter didn't forget to make a move, and as he spoke, he had already rushed forward again, swinging a knife at the other party's head, hands, and waist, which were not protected by armor.
"Interesting...... A sword from hell? Well, let's give you a little secret. ”
The ghost spider didn't care about the blade at all, but he smiled mysteriously, only to see a large diamond-like crystal cluster instantly grow on his body, and after growing to a certain size, it exploded, and a large number of deadly fragments flew towards the ice hunt that rushed over.
"My name...... In fact, it's called Naraku, and it's an infernal hell that can never be freed, and the Vajra gun is broken! ”
When Izumi and the others arrived at the new furnace hall, all they saw was Ice Hunter lying unconscious in a pool of blood, and Dong Dong, who was also covered in blood and was trying to plug the wounds on Ice Hunter's body with his hands.
"Why is this happening...... Can't stop it! Why can't it be blocked? ”
I don't know what happened just now, but there is something in my head that reminds him that the red liquid that keeps pouring out of Ice Hunt's body is blood, and if the blood flows too much, this person will die because of it.
Dongdong didn't want this person to die, although he had bullied his own villain, but he was a good badass, so she tried very hard to stop the red bunker from continuing to flow out, but no matter how hard she tried to plug it with her hands, the red liquid would still seep out from the edge of her palm behind her fingers, and her clothes had been stained by the blood.
The extremely fast ice hunter used the knife in his hand to block most of the fragments flying towards him, but as Naraku said, what he had in his hand was just an ordinary knife, and ordinary knives would break, and it was impossible to block this Vajra spear from breaking.
Ice Hunter was defeated like this, but the man named Naraku did not make up for the dying Ice Hunt, but quietly left.
"How can this be...... isn't there bloodshed in 'MineCraftOL'? Ice Hunt ......"
The blue-haired girl was dizzy from the bright red stimulation in front of her, she insisted on wanting to go to her friend's side, but she didn't take two steps and felt her legs go weak, she was just an ordinary person, and it was estimated that she would never have seen so much blood in her life.
Yan Feng Qili, who was following her, stepped forward in time to support the crumbling girl, he looked at the ice hunt in the pool of blood, and his expressionless face showed a very clear anxiety and worry.
"Ice Hunt! How are you? Ice hunting? ”
Here, the panicked Yu had already rushed forward, and the current tragic situation of Ice Hunt scared her, and she could feel that this person was not far from death.
"Ice Hunter, hurry up and tell me your real-life address...... I, I will definitely look for you when I return to reality, as long as I can find your body, even if only ashes remain, I can bring you back to life! So speak quickly! Don't scare me! Aren't you amazing? Aren't you a swordsman who is in the company of demons and gods? So speak quickly! Please, speak! ”
Maybe the girl's voice was too loud, but in short, Bing Hunt, who was already in a trance, heard her voice.
"Ahem...... Don't be your ...... What about zombies...... Plate Armor Little Sister...... Sure enough, as this party said...... Bloodshed game...... It's not fun at all...... Kazan? Rakshasa? Braheu? I think I should go......"
"If you don't be a zombie, then be a skeleton man! Phantom! Lich! Death Knight! Ghouls! Soulbinder! Whatever you want! Anyway, I won't let you go! This is the order of the Spiritual Master! ”
Many mages study necromancy in pursuit of power, but many more desecrate death because they want to keep those who have left, who are not allowed by secular ethics, and who cannot accept death and parting more than anyone else.
"Ahem...... I'm not dead yet...... He began to curse me...... Is there no peace after death...... Worthy of ...... Plate Armor Girl. ”
"There's a lot of red, why can't it be stopped! Why can't it be blocked! ”
When the scene was in chaos, suddenly a violent voice came.
"You, get out of the way! This kid is still saved! Knock knock you just keep holding it down! Don't do superfluous things, don't make a mess! ”
I saw the burly Makarov with a roll of canvas in his hand and forcibly squeezed through the helpless people to break in, most of the people who played the game were children and houses, these people had no experience in rescuing the wounded at all, but Makarov had, although he was not a professional medical soldier from the battlefield filled with gunsmoke and flesh, but he still had the ability to rescue the wounded!
He pushed the white-haired girl aside very roughly, and then used the canvas to tightly clamp the blood vessels around the wound.
"That's it! Ice Hunt Kid...... Pray now that you have a few liters of blood more than normal. It's the guys who survived! ”
And this sentence, Ice Hunt couldn't hear it anymore, and he had completely fallen into a coma.
"Unlucky...... It's so unlucky. I didn't even touch a monster today, and I even dug up a set of redstones. ”
In the evening, when Ma led his 'brothers' out of the mine and went home, the expression on his face was very uneasy.
As a teenager who no longer believes in his good luck, when he encounters this kind of luck, when he encounters it, he will always be scared.
But Dangma, who was worried along the way, was not attacked by monsters, and there was no disaster at all on the way back, which made Dangma's hanging heart full of doubts at the same time.
"Nothing happened...... Am I really not able to transfer it? Never mind! Hurry back to the Forge Hall and hand in the task. Today is really a bumper harvest! A considerable amount of iron ore and coal were excavated, as well as precious redstone. ”
When approaching the gate of the station, when Ma saw a small figure standing alone in front of the door, the owner of this figure was familiar to him, it was Bo Li Dongdong.
"Yo! Knock knock! Why did you suddenly remember waiting for me at the gate today? ”
Seeing the child come to greet him, the boy suddenly felt that his body was much lighter, and the fatigue caused by his long stay in the pit was all gone, and he was very happy to speed up his steps, but when he got closer, he realized that the situation was not right.
The child was indeed Dong Dong, yes, but now she lowered her head and let out a slight sob, when Ma could not see her expression, but he noticed that Dong Dong's clothes and hands were covered with red blood, and the white blouse stained the blood with a large area of red, which made him nervous all of a sudden.
"Knock knock! Are you okay? What's going on with this blood? What happened? ”
When Ma's anxious voice aroused the sobbing little Maoyu, she opened a pair of red teary eyes and talked for a while before she saw the person standing in front of her with a somewhat blurred vision, and then Dong Dong only felt a sour nose and couldn't restrain herself from crying.
What happened today was too sudden and too scary for her.
"What happened? Knock knock you're not hurt, are you? What's going on with this blood? Damn it! What's going on? ”
When Ma panicked and began to check the crying little Maoyu, he finally concluded that the blood was stained.
"This is real blood...... 'MineCraftOL' should be set without bloodshed! What's the deal with all this blood? ”
When Ma knew that he couldn't ask what was going on from the crying Dongdong, he began to look around for the other guild members, when he suddenly noticed that there was no one near the guild gate, and it was as cold as a haunting.
"When hemp...... You're back. There's been a lot going on in the guild just now...... Come with me. ”
At this time, a weak voice appeared at the right time, and when Ma turned his head to see that it was Yucurry Wood who was speaking, but her appearance did not look much stronger than Dongdong, and there was no previous words at all, as if the whole person had become silent.
Her current appearance matches her appearance, and perhaps this is the girl's body.
So, when Ma took Dongdong's hand and followed Yu towards the center of the station, he found that the guild members were all worried, as if they had been hit hard, and the entire guild had lost its vitality.
And when he came to the furnace hall, he was really frightened by the situation in front of him.
The whole hall was finally covered with traces of battle, and the broken knives on the ground and the undried blood were so striking that they all told Dangma something...... A very serious incident occurred in the guild today.
"Miss You, what's going on? This is blood, right? Whose blood is this? 'MineCraftOL' doesn't bleed, does it? ”
After listening to Dangma's question, Yu gave him a deep look, and then replied.
"Hmm. It was true that 'MineCraftOL' didn't bleed in the past, but now it will. ”
"What? How so...... What is this blood? ”
"It's Ice Hunt, and he's been attacked by a guy who sneaked in and didn't know what he wanted to do."
Soon, when Ma saw Ice Hunting...... Lying on the table Ice Hunt, because only when the player is still conscious can accept the recovery effect of the bed, Ice Hunt, who can't use the bed, can only move a table and put wool and canvas on it for him to lie on, the cadres of the guild can all arrive, everyone around the ice hunt on the table, kept silent, no one spoke first, only Xiao Maoyu's intermittent crying in the huge room, she was also tired of crying.
When Ma didn't know how to accept this situation, the red-haired merchant who was originally very powerful in his eyes was now lying on a makeshift hospital bed, with a cut strip of canvas wrapped around him like a sushi roll.
Later, he learned about the incident from Yan Feng Qili, including the attack on Ice Hunt and the sudden change in 'MineCraftOL', where the people of this world have become more real and close to reality.
"If it hurts just to bleed, there's nothing to be afraid of, right?"
After listening, Dangma felt very puzzled.
"The people who participate in this guild are all people who are not afraid of death if they are bold, if it is pain, how can the whole guild become this lifeless appearance?"
"They're not afraid of pain, they're worried about something else......"
Yu patted Dongdong's head, soothed her to stop crying, and sighed softly.
"They're all worried about whether they'll be able to go back to the real world, and the fact that the world is becoming more and more real has shaken a lot of people. They feel like they're not playing a game at all and they've traveled to another world, and they can't go back. ”
"I have another concern......
Yan Feng Qili also told his hidden worries.
"The guy who attacked the ice hunt, I asked Dongdong afterwards. It's just a guy who doesn't know why, and behaves like a game, so I don't know if he's sent by the guy who trapped us, or if it's just the guy himself. ”
Whoever that guy was and everyone who was present knew that if he intervened, it would get worse.
"What about the president? Where is she now? ”
When Ma found that the one who was present was missing, he asked Yan Feng.
"She's been hit a little harder, and she's adjusting in the room by herself...... Anyway, when you don't seem to be afraid of this kind of thing, don't you seem to be afraid of this kind of thing? You're just as ordinary as the president, right?"
"Actually, I'm scared too...... But it's useless to be afraid, isn't it? ”
Yan Feng Qili's stiff expression showed approval, and he was just about to say something, when he heard a somewhat tired voice coming from the guild radio.
"Everybody...... Everyone assembles in the Furnace Hall, I have something to say to you. ”
It didn't take long for the people present to see the blue-haired girl coming down from the upper floor, her face was not the usual optimism but a little more decisive and resolute, a temperament that basically does not appear in high school girls, this adult suddenly became reliable.
She went straight to the table in the hall, didn't speak to anyone, just waited quietly for the members to arrive.
The cadres didn't speak, except for Ice Hunter, who was still unconscious, they stood in front of this side in two lines, and soon the members of the guild had arrived.
This party looked at the faces full of worry, confusion and fear in the audience, and exhaled softly.
"I know everyone's mood now, and I know what everyone is thinking now, because I'm just like you and I'm an ordinary person with no ability, well~ Although there are indeed many people with valuable talents in our union, I believe that the vast majority of members are ordinary people, right?"
"I'm an ordinary person, I'm a dead housegirl who doesn't have many friends in reality, and my eloquence is not good...... But I'm your president, so even if I'm clumsy, I have to say something at this time. ”
"Yes, the world has become more real. Everybody's going to bleed...... So many people start to worry about whether they can return to our world, and they feel that they have crossed over. A bunch of! Remember how you ended up in that world? Caught in the toilet? Struck by lightning? Or did you click on a strange window on your computer? No! You put on a gaming helmet, lie down in bed, connect to the internet and enter your password...... That's how you came in. ”
"Even the people who deny their own memories and are blinded by blood are ...... A sucker! A sucker! Big stupid! ”
The girl's tone was a little excited, and those who were shaken below couldn't hold their heads up at her.
"That's right, our guild has been attacked by unknown people. This person is very powerful, and even Ice Hunt was easily put away by him. But if we are frightened in this way, then no matter whether this world is real or unreal, we will not be able to go back, and there is not even a 1% chance of it. ”
"Think about why you joined this happy home, think about why you turned down that contract, because we are all people who want to go home and want to die...... Isn't it? ”
"Does it matter to us whether the world is real or not? No...... Even if it really is another world, it has no meaning to our wishes, this is not our reality, let alone our home. ”
"So...... Please ...... Pick yourself up again...... All right? ”
The girl raised her left hand and gently covered half of her face, she didn't want the people below to see her crying, but she couldn't hide her crying, she didn't have any professional training, this girl called Izumi was just an ordinary person who was a little homely from the beginning.
But this small wavering was in stark contrast to what she had just said, and this encouragement went straight to the heart, and the dull expressions on the faces of the people in the audience gradually disappeared, and they suddenly felt that the virtue of being neither human nor ghostly was simply dead.
It wasn't just whoever started first, everyone started laughing, from snickering, chuckling to laughing.
Offstage, Xiao Maoyu, who stopped sobbing, was looking at the girl on the stage intently.
There was a glint of longing in her eyes.