Chapter 464: Confused Truth and Falsehood
Due to the complexity of the Barbarian setting, it seems that in order to buy enough time for the player's development, the Barbarians in different regions have their own tribes as the core, so the relationship with the Barbarian King is also inseparable. But even so, the Barbarian King City was still one of the most prosperous main cities in the entire Barbarian Territory.
If it weren't for the obvious difference in the clothes of passers-by, Mo Qianying even had the illusion that he was not in the main city of the Central Plains. But that's not the point, the point is that the NPCs here give Mo Qianying a very strong sense of strangeness, which has been around him since he entered the main city.
Mo Qianying walked past a street stall, the owner of the stall was an old barbarian man who bought handicrafts, and a woman stood there with a little girl a few years old, the little girl looked innocent, and she showed a smile to Mo Qianying with a piece of pancake on her mouth.
At this moment, a thin man with obscene deeds passed behind the mother and daughter, and the woman was hit by the thin man, so he turned around and grabbed him and reasoned with him, just at this moment, a little boy with a gray face suddenly appeared behind the woman, and raised his hand to take off a money bag from the woman's waist.
And this scene happened to be seen by the little girl who was munching on the baked cake, the little girl stared at the little boy, seemed to feel her gaze, the little boy reached out and made a silent movement, and then turned around and ran away. The little girl was visibly stunned, and then reached out and tugged at her mother's sleeve, as if to tell her something.
However, the woman was still angry, so she shook her hand and pulled her daughter's hand away, and grabbed the thin man with an angry face. And the thin man opposite her saw that the little boy had succeeded out of the corner of his eye, and immediately apologized to the woman, and then before she could react, he also turned around and merged into the crowd.
The small turmoil quickly subsided, and the woman finally reached an agreement with the stall owner to negotiate the price, but when she was about to pay, she found that her money bag had long been gone, and an anxious expression instantly appeared on his face. The little girl at her feet looked at her mother's expression and told the scene she had just seen.
The woman was stunned for a moment, then became furious, and raised her hand to slap her daughter lightly, blaming her for not telling herself. The little girl cried aggrievedly, and the pancake in her hand fell to the ground. But the woman didn't care so much, and as soon as she picked up the little girl, she chased after the thief who touched the money bag and left.
The passers-by next to him witnessed the scene just now, and one by one they reached out and touched their money bags, and then talked about thieves with their companions. A passing beggar saw the little girl's pancake on the ground, and rushed to pick it up, but his colleague was quicker than him, pushed him away, grabbed the pancake and ran.
The beggar rolled around on the ground, turned over and stood up, and chased after him, scolding all the way and causing the laughter of passers-by.
And the stall owner who was laughing the most next to him didn't notice that there were already two barbarian guards standing behind him. The two barbarian guards held a scroll of paintings, and then compared the portraits while looking at the stall owner. Then they exchanged words, and then they grabbed the stall owner and took him and his stall away with him.
Mo Qianying stood in the crowd and watched the stall owner struggling all the way, and suddenly felt that the scene interaction of this group of NPCs was too rich. There are almost no objects and no people who have corresponding scene feedback, they seem to be living people, and the NPCs in the player's main city with dull faces and can only act alone are not in the same world at all.
Looking at the passing crowd, Mo Qianying suddenly felt a sense of fear in his heart, as if his consciousness was the heresy that did not belong to this world, and everything about the game and reality was just a conjecture of his.
Mo Qianying's consciousness appeared in a trance for a moment, when even if he was frightened into a cold sweat by his own thoughts, since he came to this world, he had never tried to have this feeling of doubting the authenticity of his existence. Perhaps it was indeed because the surrounding environment was so real that he would lose the sense of difference between the illusory and the real for a while.
He hurriedly shook his head, refocused his spirit, and kept hinting to himself in his heart that this world was just a virtual system. He made his way through the crowd and into a teahouse, where the troublesome guy from the night owl was willing to stay in the inn, and he was busy drinking a cup of tea to relax.
After all, there was not much time left for him to stay here, and once the night darkened tonight, it would be the opening of the Colosseum in the Royal City. As the host of this gladiator battle, the king of the barbarians will definitely appear here. As long as you can blend in, you can launch a sneak attack on the Barbarian King at the closest distance, and when the time comes, you can complete all the tasks in one go.
Mo Qianying looked out the window, and in the distance, there were countless colorful flags floating in the Colosseum, like a white giant beast lying on the mountainside. Mo Qianying recalled that when she and Lei Leopard were in the arena rankings, they were only one step away from the final Colosseum, but they were defeated in front of an unknown team. And now this regret will be made up for in another peculiar way.
A steaming tea soup is served, and the tea bowl here is a sea bowl unique to the barbarians, and the tea leaves are brewed with goat's milk. The mellow milky aroma mixed with the light taste of tea made Mo Qianying feel a little novel. He took a sip of the tea in the bowl, then slowly closed his eyes and tried to enjoy the rare peace.
However, before he could rest for a moment, there was a sudden chaotic sound of horses' hooves outside the door, followed by a strong smell of blood, accompanied by five tall barbarian guards.
Mo Qianying opened his eyes, his gaze wandered over their bodies for a while, he could already see the origin of this group of guards, and the gold-inlaid soft armor on their bodies indicated the identity of their royal city guards. It's just that the blood on these five people, as well as the murderous aura on their faces, seems to be able to tell that something not so good has happened to them.
The five royal guards sat down in the corner, and then looked up and looked around, and all those who had been watched by them couldn't help but bow their heads to avoid making eye contact with them. After making sure that no one was paying attention to this side anymore, they whispered something.
Mo Qianying was far away, but he wasn't completely helpless, he glanced at the cabinet stacked with wine bottles next to the five people, and then left the act quietly, walked around to the haystack at the back of the teahouse, and removed the mask. Then put on his hood, and with the stealth effect of the shadow state, he went back to the hall of the teahouse again, and opened the cabinet and hid in.
The five Wangcheng guards were startled, and quickly stood up and looked at the cabinet, but there was nothing inside, and the Wangcheng guards who came to check it slapped hard and closed the wooden door of the cabinet heavily.
Mo Qianying in the cabinet covered her nose that had been hit, and after cursing in a low voice, she leaned against the cabinet and eavesdropped on the conversation of the five people outside.