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"Hmm...... Yes, there are adventurers who also belong to our Dragon Slayer Society, and when they saw that the two adventurers who disappeared had come into contact with a sneaky man in black when they were notifying the aborigines in the area assigned to them," the pretty woman bit her somewhat purple lips, her face was ugly, as if she didn't expect that such a simple matter of notifying the aborigines would make such a big mistake, "and then ...... The two adventurers disappeared and were never seen again in the area assigned to them. ”

Yuzhou thought for a while and asked the pretty woman, "Has anyone seen the appearance of the man in black?" ”

The woman shook her head: "No, after all, it was an accident that the adventurers were able to see the man in black, and no one cared about it until they found out that those two people were missing...... I just heard from them that this man in black was extremely tall, and his body was covered with a black robe that should belong to a magician, and he couldn't see his face clearly...... However, since this man's size was so far from the average thin body of a mage, that it looked a little strange, adventurers who had seen him by chance were very sure of his dress. ”

Yuzhou was silent, looking thoughtful.

He looked around at the buildings that were lined up like chess pieces in the city, and thought to himself that the city was really a huge chessboard.

It's just a chess game that no one has played for many years......

Tonight seems to be a little restless.

He suddenly remembered what Lei Ruoya had said to him earlier.

"Sure enough......" he muttered to himself, "are there any other fallen children?" ”

His voice was low, and the wind that had gradually become mild in the night fell into the ears of the pretty woman.

It's just that the voice has been torn apart by the wind, and when it fell into her ears, only the vague word "Luozi" remained.

……

"Grow up." After assigning the task, he chose to let Xu Ke stay, and the other adventurers had already left one after another, Lei Ruoya suddenly stopped Yuzhou, who was also planning to leave.

Yuzhou was stunned for a moment, and looked back at the guy who claimed to be a high-end player: "Huh? ”

"There's something I want you to pay attention to, Grown."

"What?" Yuzhou was a little puzzled, thinking that there was anything to pay attention to in such a simple matter as awakening the aborigines in the city.

But Lei Ruoya obviously expected the thoughts in his heart, shook his head, lowered his voice, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "What I want you to pay attention to is not the awakening of the natives itself...... Rather, I want you to pay attention to the ...... in the city of Beria."

"There are no other people who have fallen behind."

“…… Drop? ”

"Yes," Lei Ruoya nodded, "Actually, tonight's war is a chess game, we are on the same side as Belia City, and those demons outside the city are on the same side, and our victory condition is to defend Belia City, and those demons are to attack Belia City." ”

"But whether it's us or the demons, we're just chess players on the surface, and what I'm worried about now is ...... Will there be other people with ulterior motives who will quietly settle between our two sides? ”

Yuzhou heard it a little strangely, and wondered why Lei Ruoya was so worried: "What did Miss Lei Ruoya say this?" ”

"It's been so long since the third act...... Elder, what about the fifty adventurers left behind in Act II? Lei Ruoya said in a deep voice, "Where have they gone?" Why did we return to the Azure Continent...... We haven't seen any other adventurers other than my brother? ”

"And...... There are no other people here, so I might as well tell you the Elder that the eighteen adventurers we disappeared in the second act...... They are still missing, if you want to come......

Most of them are dead.

Actually, it's a very simple truth, in the separate space of the second act, we are in a very simple environment to answer the question.

Answering the question correctly or incorrectly is only the final reward that affects our second act.

Even if the questions given by the system are all wrong, there should not be a situation where the adventurer suddenly loses contact!

In an environment where a simple system has been explained, the chances of an accident for adventurers are slim to none......

So, it's only possible that something happened outside.

Because of the setting of 'living and dying together' between adventurers' partners, the adventurers who stayed in the Azure Continent died......

The partners who led to their separate space in Act II were also implicated in death!

Why did these eighteen adventurers die?

I doubt it...... One person, a chess player we don't know existed, joined the game, which directly or indirectly led to the death of these eighteen adventurers! ”

Yu Zhou's eyelids jumped, and he also realized the seriousness of the problem, but he thought about it and asked again: "But in the second act, there was such a thing as a demon invasion, and it seems that it is not impossible for the adventurers to be killed by the demons without defense, and this alone does not seem to indicate that their deaths were caused by man-made." “

Lei Ruoya shook her head slowly, pointing to the dark sky above her head.

Seeing that Lei Ruoya's finger at the sky seemed to be a gesture of some kind of strange spell, Yu Zhou was a little inexplicable: "Miss Lei Ruoya, what do you mean?" ”

"Weather," Lei Ruoya said seriously, "I felt something was wrong when I first returned to the Azure Continent - the ground was full of water, and the ground under my feet was a little soft, and it felt like it had been raining for a long time.

So I asked the aboriginal soldiers, and they told me that before we came back, it was raining for about a month near the city of Belia.

If you count the time, from the fifth or sixth day after we left, dark clouds began to gather over the city of Belia, and it looked like a rainstorm was coming.

Lord, I would like to ask...... From your point of view, would you be willing to choose to go out and explore in an unfamiliar place in the midst of a rainstorm without any specific needs? ”

Yuzhou was silent for a while, and then replied:

“…… No. ”

"You see, a powerful man would not choose to go out in that kind of weather, and apparently the demons had never been to Belial before—otherwise the city would have fallen long ago. According to the normal situation, one or two adventurers had to go out and were eventually killed by demons, but the number of dead adventurers was ...... But there are as many as eighteen! And among these eighteen adventurers, there are also members of the Dragon Slayer Society. Lei Ruoya took a deep breath and continued, "Then there are only two possibilities left-

Or, these adventurers were killed directly by the person in the shadows.

Either...... There are people who lure adventurers into the wilderness. ”

Lei Ruoya looked at Yuzhou and said in a low voice: "The reason why I didn't let you, Lord Elder, stay and assist in the defense of the city is not because I want to target you, but because I feel ...... It is really possible that there is such a person, who secretly wants to interfere with this chess game. “

"Judging from the fact that he had killed eighteen adventurers directly or indirectly before, tonight ...... He is also very likely to attack the adventurers.

The other side of the city will be handed over to you, the Elder. ”

Yuzhou was silent for a moment, then nodded.

But just as Yuzhou turned around and was about to leave, Lei Ruoya suddenly said another word to him:

"Speaking of which...... Lord Yuzhou, your adventurer partner, I haven't seen it yet. ”

This sentence Lei Ruoya said extremely casually, just like a casual word mentioned in ordinary small talk, so Yuzhou didn't look back, nor did he deliberately answer the other party's question.

It's just that his body, which has always been immobile like a mountain, trembled slightly after hearing these words.

……

An adventurer walks briskly through the streets of the city of Belial.

Every time he passed a building, he would knock heavily on the door of the building, and then wait for the natives to get up impatiently or angrily to open the door for him, and then endure the stares that almost killed him, and eagerly tell them that there were a lot of monsters outside the city, and that they might attack the city at any time, hoping that they would get up quickly and be ready for battle.

Finally, under the suspicious gaze of the aborigines, he left and moved to the next aboriginal home.

The adventurer belonged to the Dragon Slayer Society, and at first he would be furious at the attitude of the natives, thinking that he had kindly informed a group of game characters about the current situation, and the game characters had not only appreciated the situation but also treated him with such an attitude.

Know that you are a player of this game, and you are also a player affiliated with the Dragon Slayer Society, and when the Elder Adult took them to kill a giant dragon a month ago, the characters in these games also welcomed them back.

So the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, thinking that the characters in this game were just a mess of data, why should they talk to him like this.

It wasn't until later that he felt the demons attacking the city, and the entire city seemed to shake violently.

At that moment, he really felt ......

If the demons outside the city really attacked the city, everyone in the city, whether adventurers or natives, would no longer be different.

Because they're all going to be a piece of meat on the board.

The demons in Marvel Games don't care if the meat is a character in the game or a player outside the game.

They only care if the meat is delicious or not.

So he finally understood his situation at the moment, and understood that what he was doing at the moment was actually increasing his hope of survival.

He began to repeat the whole set of movements almost mechanically, and his tone gradually changed from arrogant to humble, and when faced with the distrustful gaze of the natives, he nodded and almost knelt down in front of the game characters that he once looked down on.

And when the sky above the city wall burned, the clouds that had been black because of the lack of light turned into a large cloud of fire.

He was as humble as a speck of dust on the ground.

He walked forward eagerly, accidentally bumping into a tall man.

The man was covered in a loose black mage robe, his whole body buried underneath the robe, and the adventurer's face was too weak to see his face due to the darkness of the night.

Although judging from the man's strong body, it was really a funny thing to wear such a mage robe, but when the adventurer saw that the person in front of him was dressed as an aborigine, he quickly apologized to the other party: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... Master, I didn't pay attention to the front when I walked, so please forgive me if I have any offense. ”

"In addition, a large number of monsters have appeared outside the city, and their strength is extremely strong, and the army may need your strength......

Even he didn't notice that he was unconsciously using the title "you" when he faced such an unknown mage.

The man in black stopped when he heard this, seemed to glance in the direction of the adventurer, and then suddenly sneered: "Hehe." ”

The adventurer was stunned: "Master Mage, what are you laughing at?" ”

"Nothing," the man in black shook his head and said calmly, "I was just thinking...... Even when you were with me before, you never used the word 'you' on me. ”

The adventurer looked at the man in black with some inexplicability, not understanding the meaning of the other party's words.

"Didn't recognize me? Don't know what I'm talking about? The man in black approached the adventurer, "So, what now...... Bel? “

The adventurer known as Bell was shocked when he heard that the other party had called out his name, and he raised his head, only to find that the face of the man in black buried under his robe was right in front of his eyes at this moment!

After seeing the other party's face clearly, Bell's eyes widened, as if he recognized the identity of the other party, took a step back, pointed at the other party and said in surprise: "You...... You...... You are ......"

The man in black suddenly laughed: "Look, this is the most annoying thing about you, Bell......"

"As soon as you recognize me, you change your title to 'you' again."

"You...... How did you end up here? Where did you go before? What are you doing sneakily here? The adventurer was stunned for a moment, then asked loudly at the man in black.

"Look at what you said, we are all adventurers in Belial, you can be here, why can't I? I didn't go with you to Act II, so I stayed in Belial, and as for what I'm here for......" The man in black said to the adventurer in a relaxed and somewhat strange tone, "I came to pick you up on the orders of the Elder. ”

The adventurer just wanted to refute when he heard this, but the other party made a violent move in an instant!

The man in black stretched out his right hand and slashed the back of the adventurer's neck with a knife!

Although the level of the adventurer has been cleared, he also has a third-level fighting spirit protection on the left and right, and his physical fitness is still much stronger than that of ordinary middle-aged men.

However, this adventurer was stunned with both eyes, and then under this hand knife, he was chopped alive and fainted!

With the help of the adventurer's body, the man in black took out a burlap pocket from his wide robe, stuffed the adventurer into the pocket, and tied it tightly with a rope around the opening of the pocket.

After doing all this, he carried his pocket and walked into the darkness, dressed in a black robe, and it seemed that his whole person was hidden in the darkness.

After walking for a long time in the dark, he came to an alley where almost no one passed, and gently placed the sack of sackcloth on his shoulder against the wall.

And right next to this pocket, there are seven almost identical pockets.

If you're not paying attention, from a distance, it looks like a pile of debris.

Even this eerily bright crimson sky could not illuminate this unattended alley. (To be continued.) )