Several of them were action-oriented, finalized their plans, and acted quickly.

After all, Cai Jie has also spent most of his time in this ash world.

"You're going out? Please bring these rice balls with you and wish you all the best. As they prepared to leave the shrine, Nadeshiko Fujii appeared out of nowhere, holding a wooden tray with several white rice balls decorated with flowers on top of them.

Fujii Nadeshiko had a gentle smile on her face, and she had long since turned pale because of Bai Chen's "momentary gaffe".

"Wow, thanks to Sister Nadeshiko! Eat it all! Cai Jie was the first to react, unceremoniously grabbed one to eat, and was eager to try.

The other three were silent for a moment, and Bai Chen picked up one first.

The sunlight and maple leaves weave together to create a bright and warm color, which makes people feel peaceful and peaceful.

Bai Chen stood on the sunlight falling through the gaps in the overlapping red maple leaves, and she could even feel the warmth added by the color, but the moment her hand touched the rice balls, a black picture flashed in front of her eyes.

A woman in a red kimono stood under the cold moon and cried out in despair, "Why...... Why ......"

Sand......

"What's wrong with you?" The picture flashed away, and Fujii Nadeshiko's eyes looked at her softly, with a little more worry, "Isn't it uncomfortable?" ”

She was slightly stunned, took half a step back, and shook her head: "I'm fine." ”

After Fujii Nadeshiko finished handing out the rice balls, she stood at the gate of the shrine and watched them go away, like a mother watching her children go to school, or a girl sending her parents away from home on vacation.

A piece of tranquility.

……

Dong Yingqin and Bai Chen are both people who don't seem to like to talk, and Lu Xinglin doesn't talk much about things that he is not interested in - but this line is actually a bit "lively".

"Look at me pinching my fingers! Those people should be right in front! Cai Jie grabbed his gossip weapon in his hand and shouted all the way, and then felt the coldness of the other three, and couldn't help complaining, "Hey, why don't you speak?" ”

Bai Chen and Dong Yingqin both chose to be silent, the former didn't know how to answer, and the latter didn't think it was necessary to answer.

Lu Xinglin showed a smile that can be called "charming": "The villain died from talking too much." ”

Cai Jie: "......"

Cai Jie: "I'm not a villain!" ”

"But for the 'Ember World', we are indeed the villains who prevent them from subverting reality." Lu Xinglin seemed to be smiling.

For other games, the villain is obvious, and the player is the unquestioned protagonist, although often ends up running errands.

"You treat the defenders as enemies." Bai Chen couldn't help but say, but when he said it, he realized that his statement was actually not accurate.

"Theoretically, the Guardians are the enemies of all players, they want to destroy reality, and we have to live in reality." Dong Yingqin said, "But they are not simple bosses, they sometimes create bosses for us, and they hide behind the scenes." ”

"In other words, it's strengthening the enemy." Cai Jie was moved.

"No, that's one of their strategies - rank players, and once there's a position, humans start fighting each other. That's what they're for. Dong Yingqin shook his head, "When necessary, I think they will also assimilate players who have become enemies, so that players can recognize the meaning of virtual existence." ”

In this game, no one is really the main character.

"Most people don't have time to care about what the guardians are doing, and every organization has to pay a lot of money to defend themselves against players who are supposed to be teammates - and this kind of thing will gradually continue in a cycle for the sake of existence."

What does "this kind of thing" mean?

Bai Chen wanted to ask, but he didn't ask.

Because Cai Jie suddenly stopped: "It's here." ”

They stood still.

It was a grove, and at the end of the grove was the city.

No sooner had they stopped than there was a tumultuous commotion—and when they looked out at the plants, they saw that it was a team on horseback.

Looking at the momentum of the procession, and the ornate decorations on the "station" not far away, it all showed that these people were indeed the people they were looking for.

Seems too simple?

"Lao Tzu is invincible in the world!" Cai Jie can simply praise himself to the sky.

"He has the ability to prophesy," Bai Chen glanced at him and asked suddenly, "but he didn't become the target of the King's Sword." ”

Although the system is different, Jiajia is targeted by the King's Sword.

Cai Jie: "......"

Cai Jie: "Wow, Miss Sanwu, I beg you to be kind, I don't want to be captured by those wolf grandmothers......"

"Actually, we don't know the exact reason." Dong Yingqin looked at him, but still explained, "The only reason that can be used now is that the rulers of the King's Sword are lovers of ancient Western culture, and they like to look at the style of the Star Kingdom from the perspective of the early 20th century, thinking that although the ancient culture of the Star Kingdom is brilliant, it is full of corruption and decay, and the concept of mysticism and the supremacy of the emperor is popular, and gossip, as one of the ideological representatives, is less reliable than the street diviners." ”

"It's all mysticism, why discriminate against gossip?! Damn, we're the essence! That's Eurocentrism! Cai Jie was extremely angry.

"So it seems that you are going to be captured by them in order to prove that you are the essence?" Lu Xinglin was even thinking about this possibility - the corners of his mouth were hooked.

Cai Jie trembled, closed his mouth, and was as quiet as a chicken.

"Ready, Bai Chen, can you?" Dong Yingqin waved his hand and lifted the topic.

Bai Chen nodded and quietly looked at the people not far away.

The city lord was followed by a few followers - Bai Chen remembered that in this kind of ash world, the data of the little monsters would be consistent with the real situation.

She suddenly found that one of the attendants beside the city lord looked ......

It's the one who was attacked in the haunted house last time.

She felt a little inexplicable, but she didn't have much time to think - Dong Yingqin and Lu Xinglin had already taken out their weapons.

In their hands, one held a simple shepherd's staff, and the other held a long, slender sword.

"I want to laugh every time I see Dong Yingqin's weapon, I think he will go to herd sheep in the next second......" Cai Jie couldn't help but complain.

So, Bai Chen's eyes fell on the shepherd's cane—the shape was simple, and even a horn was missing.

This is probably not plain, but can be called "poverty". If it weren't for Cai Jie, Bai Chen would prefer to use it as a crutch or a simple wooden stick or something.

But there was something different about it-Bai Chen couldn't help but keep staring at this wooden stick.

"Let's get started, and we'll get you a chance." Dong Yingqin said lightly as if he hadn't heard it.