The three of them went all the way from the rarely visited path to the affairs center of the cyberpunk district, and stood in a familiar place again, Qiu Xuan and Bai Hexi stood behind, watching Liu Qing say in a shrunken and trembling voice: "I confirm the teleportation." ”

Qiu Xuan/Bai Hexi: "I confirm to follow the executioner Liu Qing into the trial ground. ”

This is the first time Qiu Xuan has borrowed someone else to pass the proving ground. The rules of Desperate Situations are like this, no matter the time or order, as long as you successfully clear all the Proving Grounds before the monthly deadline, it will be over, but each Trials can only be played once.

The familiar darkness turned, and when she came back to her senses, Qiu Xuan was already standing alone on the shaking deck.

She was now in a large cruise ship-like ship, traveling on the endless ocean, with no trace of land in front of or behind.

"Ahh Beautiful Aphrodite! My Afu, why are you wandering all this alone? ”

It was a man with messy pigtails who staggered onto the deck, looking like a homeless man who had accidentally slipped into a drinking party.

"My Aphrodite...... "are you also a traveler who is intoxicated by the sea of knowledge and cannot dock?" Yes! Let's rise and fall together on this ocean, come on, Afu, take my hand, and I'll take you to Bliss together! ”

Qiu Xuan turned sideways to dodge his outstretched hand and said, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”

"Afu...... Did you mistake me for someone else again...... It doesn't matter, of course you can call me, Hephaestus the Smith. ”

Another theatrical performance artist.

Qiu Xuan turned around and showed a professional smirk, "Hello." ”

"Why doesn't Afu want to take my hand?"

Where did the others go? Looking around, there was only her and the performer on the large and empty deck, and just as she was about to shirk "I'll go back first", there was a commotion in the cabin deep in.

"It's almost time to calm the city! I see the flag! "It's really the City of Pacification!"

With the first sound, the people in the ship rushed out one after another, and soon the deck was surrounded by water. Qiu Xuan huddled in the crowd, felt his arm being pulled by a force, and pulled all the way to the no-standing area on the deck to avoid the crowd that surged in an instant.

"Thank you." She briefly thanked the performer, then followed the crowd's line of sight and looked that way. Sure enough, on the east side of the sea, where there was no end in sight, the spire of the building faintly came into view.

"Hey, I'm Zhuang Xiao, and I'm also an executioner. This is my seventh proving ground, what's your name? Beneath the railing, a girl looked up at her, her twinkling pupils clearly expressing friendliness.

Qiu Xuan swept around the crowd and didn't find Bai Hexi and Liu Qing's figures, and when she saw this, she glanced at her and said, "My name is Afu." ”

"That's right! It's my Aph! All my loves and dreams, my fiery sorrows, my ecstasy, my hatred, my ......"

"Okay, please shut up for a moment." Qiu Xuan had a headache, and after confirming it several times in a row, he found that there was indeed no trace of those two people. She frowned, not expressing it in her look.

The sharp alarm bell instantly sounded throughout the deck, and the girl who called Zhuang Xiao hurriedly pulled her down. They hid in the crowd and watched as a few of the loudest people were scolded by the uniformed crew members who rushed out. What was strange was that the few people who could clearly see that they were also executioners stood quietly and did not dare to move.

"One of the rules of the Fool's ship," Zhuang Xiao whispered, "never get into an argument with the sailors on board." ”

Ship of Fools, sailors on board. Capturing these two keywords, Qiu Xuan was silent and mingled with the crowd, looking at the land towns that gradually revealed their full picture in the little shore navigation.

There are a few medieval-style spire houses that don't seem to be out of the ordinary. At this time, the location of the port was bustling with a large crowd of people, shouting and cursing something to the vacant space in the center, and when they got closer, they found that it was like a row of people who had been threaded by ropes.

In the middle and rear of about ten people, Qiu Xuan finally saw Bai Hexi and Liu Qing, who had disappeared for a long time, they were also wearing tattered white clothes and were tied hand and foot in a string of people. At the same time, the noise of the crowd was close to my ears.

"Get rid of them! These crazy people, they're going to make us all abnormal! ”

"If it's not for them, how can the city be polluted? Let's go! Never come back! ”

"Crazy, it's disgusting!"

Hearing this, Qiu Xuan understood.

Ship of Fools, as the name suggests. During the Renaissance, city authorities would send wandering madmen out of their jurisdictions. The towns banished them and drove them to ships called "Fool's Ships", which sailed from town to town with deranged passengers. From time to time, they will stop at the harbor to resupply, and they will also take in a new batch of deported madmen. These madmen never disembarked from the ship and lived a life of eternal drift on the sea.

From this point of view, Bai Hexi and Liu Qing are the "crazy people" who were expelled by Pingping City.

"The second rule of the Fool's Ship," the two of them lay on the deck, and Zhuang Xiao also said in a very low voice: "Once you get on the ship, you can never go down again." ”

"Why?"

"Because there are already ignorant newcomers who have confirmed it for us with personal practice." Zhuang Xiao shrugged his shoulders and glanced at the row of "crazy people" who were about to walk onto the boat. "Well, almost every world will meet one or two newcomers who try to make an example of the monkey. You see, the man who has been looking around, he must be a newcomer, and he is also a reckless man, I don't believe it. ”

Sure enough, in the next second, the man's eyes were completely shattered after seeing a group of strange people on the boat. "No, no! Where are you going to take me, what is this place? Who are you and do you know who I am?! I will definitely go to the Star Alliance to sue you, and then you will be finished! ”

It seems that he is still an aboriginal of a high-level civilization. As soon as the man was brought onto the boat, the restraints in his hands were immediately loosened, and seeing this, he hurriedly pushed away the executioner in front of him and wanted to run under the boat, and one of the people next to him also reminded him very kindly: "Rookie, I advise you not to act rashly without knowing the development of the situation." ”

But the man apparently did not listen to her, and hurried down the stairs, and the moment his feet were completely on the ground, he could only hear a soft pop.

He's gone.

Qiu Xuan raised her eyebrows and leaned forward a little, confirming back and forth several times. It wasn't a harsh punishment with some siren sounding, it wasn't a bloody scene of flesh and blood, he was just, gone. Completely disappear into thin air, as if the person didn't exist from beginning to end.

Absolutely. She sniffed and returned her gaze to Bai Hexi and Liu Qing, who were gradually walking onto the boat. I wanted to go up and ask why they were separated, but after getting on the boat, Bai Hexi pulled Liu Qing to stay in the corner alone and talk, he obviously saw Qiu Xuan, but for some reason he pretended not to know.

"Each port call lasts for one hour, during which time the crew disembarks for refills. In other words, the ship belongs to us during this time, and we can do anything except get off the ship. And in general, after an hour, it's time to regroup. Zhuang Xiao conscientiously talked to her about popular science. Qiu Xuan paused, turned to look at her expressionlessly, and said, "Why did you tell me all this?" ”

"Because I want to be in a group with you." Zhuang Xiao's answer was also extremely natural, "You look like you're very powerful, I want to find a more powerful teammate in this proving ground, isn't it strange." ”

"It's just my fourth proving ground."

"Wow, then you just came out of the personal dungeon, it's amazing!"

"It's just a fluke."

Not wanting to mention this topic again, Qiu Xuan thought about it, and just wanted to ask "what is the way of grouping", when she saw that after a commotion, a fight began in the center of the crowd.

The first to do it was the man with pigtails who was immersed in the theatrical performance. I saw the man fighting with the muscular man in front of him in a gorgeous and exaggerated aria, and began to recite 8,000 lines of poetry.

The muscular man was obviously made angry by his attitude, and with a heavy punch, he went straight to the chattering lower half of his face, and then was pulled away by a hammer.

The hammer, the kind that looks like a gentleman's cane, is actually a hammer.

"Come on, Hercules! I feel your rage! Burn, burn even harder, even if the heat is close to igniting me! ”

Even Qiu Xuan was made both hot and a little funny by this abstract form, not to mention the muscular man who was regarded as an opponent. I saw him roar angrily, and his already exaggerated muscles actually tripled, and he smashed the fist the size of a skull towards the performer.

"That's Hephaestus, and some people call him the caster, the caster Heffe." I don't know if the atmosphere in front of me is inexplicably hot, and Zhuang Xiao's tone began to speed up and hurry. "He probably looks...... The brain isn't very good, you know. But he's one of the greatest forges in the Desperate Realm, and he's also incredibly high in martial arts, so it's best not to mess with him if there's nothing to do. By the way, it's going to be settled soon, and I have to go! ”

After saying this, Zhuang Xiao actually joined the chaotic battle. More and more people pulled out their weapons or spells to fight together, and the originally prominent muscular man and Hephaestus were also mixed in the chaos.

"Don't use your real name, give yourself a pseudonym." When the situation was unclear, Qiu Xuan tried her best to shrink in a corner where no one was affected, and then she heard someone take advantage of the chaos to say something in her ear. "I'm already very conspicuous with a Qingqing who is obviously a newcomer, and if I bring you again, you will definitely become the target of public criticism. You first slowly familiarize yourself with the rules of this game, pretend not to know us, and then I will find a way to contact you, and then I will wronged us Xuanxuan. ”

Qiu Xuan: "The last sentence can be removed." ”

Bai Hexi: "Okay Xuanxuan, Xuanxuan is not aggrieved." ”

Qiu Xuan didn't bother to bother with him, patiently watched the chaotic battle on the deck for a while, and then at some point, everyone stopped acting together as if they had discussed it. Zhuang Xiao rushed straight to Qiu Xuan and stood with her, there were still undried blood stains on her hands, which seemed to be her own.

Scattered around, there were a few other executioners.

The shrill sirens sounded again, and the uniformed crew members climbed up the ladder one after another, shouting: "No one is allowed to move!" He began to count the number of people.

People maintained their positions for the last second, and Qiu Xuan only felt a flash of red light in front of her eyes, and the other ten people within her diameter were automatically marked with red dots in her eyes. And on her right wrist, there is a number imprinted: 0

"This time I'm in a group with Afu!" Zhuang Xiao said, "Look at the number on your wrist, that's your score in this trial ground, and it will be counted at the end." There are currently 203 people on board, and by the end of the day, the 50 people with the fewest points will be eliminated – you know, for us, elimination means death. ”

"Every time the ship docks, it will be re-shuffled and grouped, and the grouping is very simple, after the crew calls a stop, the ten players closest to you will be automatically divided into a group, and the few people will be automatically filled. The hour of each boat docking is the last chance to score points in the round, because the group points are shared, so it is important to try to join a strong group in each round. ”

Almost understanding the rules, Qiu Xuan watched the crew members who had re-boarded the ship expressionlessly dragging up the corpses that had stopped breathing in the melee, as if they were throwing the corpses of a big fish or some sea crab and throwing them directly into the churning sea.

In fact, if you put it this way, the later you ship, the more disadvantageous it is.

Qiu Xuan followed the ten people in this group to the common rest area of the group, because they were in absolute interest sharing in the short term, so generally no one would have trouble with their lives. So she came to the lounge with more confidence.

"Briefly introduce yourself." A man with a white valgus wound engraved on his face said in a deep voice, and Qiu Xuan couldn't help but look at it twice. Because for the executioners who have already entered a desperate situation, the greatly increased speed of wound recovery is almost a default skill that everyone has.

After all, it is too normal for people like them to lack arms and legs, and regardless of the speed of recovery, at least if he does not have the ability to regenerate limbs, then it is impossible for him to continue walking.

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