Chapter 397: Souls Bound by Missions
On a crisp autumn night when the moon is high, the best way to ride a horse in the wilderness of the Northwest is exactly what the thousands of players in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon do. They scrambled over the sand dunes in front of them, and the windswept coats of the northwest were as majestic as cavalry warbands that had fought for thousands of miles.
However, their expressions did not look pleasant, and even a little frightened, and the players who were left behind turned back from time to time, as if they were afraid that something would catch up. When everyone had crossed the dunes, countless flaming arrows streaked through the sky and shot into the crowd of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
In the next second, the undead knights of the Kowloon Society leaped out from the other side of the sand dunes like hungry wolves hunting, and kept tilting their arrows into the enemy formation in front of them.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's thirteenth encirclement and suppression operation failed again in such a shameful way, facing this group of natural disaster-level opponents. Although many guilds have united, they still can't pose any threat to them. They appear at nightfall and disappear before sunrise, and even if they understand the premise, no one can keep them.
Unlike a week ago, at this time, almost the entire game's players knew that in the depths of the Northwest District, there was such a group of undead knights who came and went like the wind and invincible the world. Even though Blazing Feather had withdrawn the bounty on them, it still couldn't stop the vast number of curious players from flocking to them.
This invisibly drove the exploration progress of the Northwest Region, and more strange things were also known to players, such as some ruins buried under the sand dunes, and the same natural disaster-level insect king Diszon Zuosen.
Players don't know much about this big bug, but they have reached a consensus in a short period of time, that is, don't fight its idea, and all those who try to benefit from it have all been destroyed with equipment, including Blazing Feather Hongtu, who has just returned from Darkmoon Street.
It's not that Lieyu Hongtu deliberately provoked the insect king Dis Zuosen, this matter is also related to the thirteenth encirclement and suppression operation of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he originally planned to cooperate with the players of the Kowloon Club to perform a play, and then use this momentum to successfully return the first merit of annihilating the undead knights to the name of Haoran Villa.
However, the desert in the northwest region at night was very unfriendly, and after a gust of wind and sand, Lieyu Hongtu found himself disoriented, and by the time he reacted, he had already entered the territory of the insect king Dis Zuosen. So in this one-sided torture without any suspense, the five thousand cavalry of Haoran Villa were all wiped out, and Lie Yu Hongtu was even bitten by the insect king in his mouth and smashed his whole body equipment.
So there was the scene at the beginning, and the players of the Kowloon Society who couldn't wait for the Peerless Cavalry Regiment of Haoran Villa had to choose to kill the people of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to pieces, and once again return to the previous state of wandering in the depths of the Northwest Region.
The end result of this battle was that all three sides were in great pain, with Haoran Villa and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon suffering heavy losses, and they were unable to organize large-scale operations in a short period of time. The Nine Dragons Club players, who incarnated as undead knights, missed the opportunity to get a good day, so they could only continue to play the role of their undead scourge that plundered the Quartet.
It's not that the feeling of invincibility is bad, it's that they quickly discover that the mission is simply a trick. Because Mo Qianying suddenly couldn't get in touch, they could only repeat the raiding mission every night, and the system didn't care whether they wanted it or not, as long as the moon rose, they would send the mission on time, and if they couldn't complete it, they would be punished by demotion.
For these poor people who have temporarily quit the guild, the only way for them to get supplies now is to find someone to defeat them and get rid of their status as undead knights. Either you can only wait until Mo Qianying returns, and then help them untie their identity.
It's just that the more painful premise now is that Mo Qianying has also withdrawn from the guild, and even Lei Leopard can't find him. In this case, in addition to constantly sending messages to Mo Qianying to express their grievances, it seems that all they have left is to gallop around the northwest every night and dismantle those settlements.
In any case, there is no way to transmit the grievances of the five hundred people to Mo Qianying through the air, because he is now in a state of insecurity, and he has long forgotten about the five hundred Kowloon Club players who were thrown by him as homeless people in the Northwest Region.
Blood and slaughter for a better world.
Because of this sentence full of postmodernist neurosis, Mo Qianying was once again drawn into a plot hidden beneath the world, and was forced to form a two-person team with the Night Stalker to go to the ruins of the Black Dragon Cult headquarters in the southwest region to participate in a party belonging to the dark world held there.
The so-called dark world is actually a force like Dark Moon Street that cannot be put on the surface, and their more unified characteristic is that they have long been keen to oppose the local city lord's mansion, and take engaging in behaviors that harm others and benefit themselves as the core premise of all actions, in line with the basic spirit of killing all those who oppose them.
This kind of underground force can be found in every main city that has developed to a certain size, but in most cases the system does not allow them to have any contact with ordinary players, and their existence is nothing more than to simulate a more realistic society. The so-called place where the light shines will inevitably breed the seeds of darkness, and to put it bluntly, there will always be one or two people in a group of people who will cause destruction.
And the Oneiroi system seems to know very well that such a group of people will never get along well, on the one hand, after setting him up with an AI with a fairly high thinking logic, let them silently affect the game world in the process of letting go of themselves. On the other hand, the seeds of strife are planted in these advanced AIs, allowing them to balance each other and die out in the midst of each other's struggles.
However, all the changes in the system eventually escaped the task framework that had been set up a long time ago, although these underground forces were initially set to operate independently from the player world, but with the continuous development of the player base, the two groups eventually merged with each other.
In this environment of forced integration, these AIs, which were originally set to operate independently, also began to follow the settings of the system, through some special ways, allowing these players to trigger the mission to join the underground forces, and finally join this unprecedented bloody slaughter in this form.
After listening to the old man of Dark Moon Street's description of the mission, Mo Qianying already had some information. To put it simply, he has only one goal now, which is to take the final crown for Darkmoon Street in the next so-called blood killing. In addition to those NPCs from other underground forces, his opponents are likely to include some players who are also involved.