In fact, how could Hephaestus be completely unaware of the purpose behind Qiu Xuan holding the model key to exchange the shock cannon with him. A weapon, no matter how well prepared it is, no matter how much it is repaired to the end, if it can't run, it's just a bunch of useless parts.

Now Qiu Xuan is willing to exchange an easter egg reward from a proving ground for a pile of scrap iron with him, which in itself can explain a lot of problems.

It is impossible for someone like Hefphy, the smith, to be coerced by the words "don't be ignorant". Especially, after this massive blasting in the depths of the desert area.

He knew that the last step of the weapon needed a special way to activate, and Qiu Xuan also knew that that kind of rhetoric could not fool Hephaestus at all, but he still chose to keep his mouth shut, and the only reason was "reason".

It was the Forge's own rule to complete the transaction within the agreed time limit, and if Hephaestus himself took the lead in breaking the rules, not to mention whether his apprentices would care, the executioners who had maintained a trading relationship with the Forsmith for a long time would definitely be upset by it.

"It's really good, but it feels like it's too much movement, and it takes a long time to charge, so if someone interrupts you on the battlefield at that time, it's troublesome." Xiaolu walked beside Qiu Xuan, thought of something, and said, "What do you say will happen to that child?" The warrior was saved, and he must not be placed in the guild, because not everyone knows that we did it. ”

"Things have come to this point, Yuhir will definitely tell Cangwu about them, and let them solve it by themselves what to do after that."

Qiu Xuan raised her hand to tear off the wig that was messily glued to the top of her head, and took off her goggles. They walked all the way back to the abyss, and after a while, they saw a wanted notice issued by the independent mercenary organization in a madness.

On the bounty was a strange man with fried green hair, and under the seaweed-like green instant noodles was a strange face wearing huge goggles that covered most of his face.

Qiu Xuan: "...... The effect is quite amazing, I look like a drama version of Bu Jingyun, yelling, 'Kong Ci, don't die!! 'The one. ”

Xiaolu: "Oh? Which one is it called, I'll go back and download it right away. ”

Qiu Xuan: "Alas. ”

After returning home, Qiu Xuan spent another night in Linyuan, during which Yuhir came to look for her, and it seemed that he had found a place to settle the giant warrior.

The tall girl stood in front of her door and was silent for a moment before she whispered, "Thank you." ”

"I don't understand what you're saying." Qiu Xuan held the door panel very calmly, "At that time, after you suddenly disappeared, I searched for a while and found that I really couldn't find anyone, and then I went back." I heard that the mercenary headquarters was blown up, maybe it was feng shui in turn. ”

Yuhir looked up at her deeply, opened his mouth slightly as if he wanted to say something, and then swallowed it again without saying anything.

The day Qiu Xuan left Linyuan was no different from the usual moments when she went to the affairs center alone. There was no send-off, no advice to "come on and come back alive", and many people still didn't even know that she had run out again as they had done a few times before.

She actually thinks it's good, because she can't see the scene of being too uncontrollable when saying goodbye. As is the old tradition of desperate situations, it is rare for anyone in the guild to go out to see off their companions at the time of departure, and their way of saying goodbye is reflected in the meal that everyone who could be present the night before.

Whether this meal was the last time they saw it, or whether it could be remembered as a joke after a long time, no one knew.

Qiu Xuan walked into the affairs management center and came to the front of the virtual projection portrait.

……

"Please follow the instructions and be ready, the random occasion you came to this time is, 'Famine'...... Ding, special venue rules have been detected, and all related props will be frozen for you......"

Qiu Xuan subconsciously looked into her accompanying space, and found that all the nutrients in the space, as well as the things she bought from the store in the corner, such as compressed biscuits and energy-charging drinks, as long as it was edible 'food' and water, were all shielded in a gray net.

She tried to get through the nets, only to find that she couldn't hold the food, let alone stuff it into her mouth.

Something big happened.

"After the countdown is over, you will be teleported to the trial grounds, so be ready. 60、59、58…… 3、2、1。 The trials begin and I wish you a happy carnival. ”

……

"Here you go, the admission ticket, this is something more precious than your life, keep it for me."

When Qiu Xuan opened her eyes, something was almost immediately stuffed in her hand. She didn't look at the thing for the first time, but looked up at the person in front of her who was talking to her.

A relatively three-dimensional face, a bit like the skeleton of the Western countries in the native world, looked at her impatiently with a frown at the moment.

"It's almost time for the game to begin." The woman with pale blonde hair looked up at the sky, then reached out and pushed her again. "You hurry up, get a good seat, don't be late."

Qiu Xuan took two steps forward with the force of her pusher, and the place she was in now was a bit like the western pastoral style. The retro-style stone road and the warm color scheme of the mill house look quite warm and fresh at first glance.

As she said, what the woman stuffed her was a ticket.

Qiu Xuan picked up the coupon and looked at it for a few moments, it was a very ordinary paper material, what was not written on it was a field, but it was painted on the spray paint on a black background...... What's this, flies?

The wings and mouthparts of the flies, which have been magnified several times, lie across the so-called admission ticket, and the lifelike appearance is almost as if a nasty fly has been stopped in his own hand. The back of the fly, a flesh-colored dark red, wriggled with wrinkles, made it impossible to tell what it was.

Qiu Xuan put away the admission ticket after looking at it for a while, but in the next moment, her senses were raised high! She continued to walk forward as if nothing had happened, and the knife in the palm of her right hand slid out, and the calf muscles rushed out violently during her breathing!

"Ugh!"

The dagger was stopped in the air, and she was finally able to see the figure in front of her who was about to attack her through the bright light. It was a thin, thin man, even out of shape to the point of terrible disfigurement, he gave people the feeling of being the tailor shop owner in the world of desire before, the same skeleton covered with a thin layer of human skin, and it felt like it could be broken at any time.

"Give it to me!"

The macably-thin man's cheeks moved in a disjointed depression, squeezing the words out of his dry throat. Qiu Xuan's short knife was swung out of its sheath directly, and raised her eyebrows when she was stopped by the main weapon in the next second.

"You're also an executioner? How did it come to this, what do you want from me? ”

"Give me, give me ......"

The man's confused and crazy appearance made it seem that he couldn't hear Qiu Xuan's question at all, and the cloudy eyeballs that were close at hand stared at the position of her pocket. Suddenly, the man's hand holding the main weapon was raised fiercely, and the other dry palm took advantage of the emptiness to grab Qiu Xuan's body.

"Ahhh

Obviously, the short knife in the man's hand was still resisting the attack of his main weapon, but in his left hand, which seemed to be free, there was a smaller short knife at some point.

The knife pierced into the palm of his hand, and after seeing the man's action of wanting to stretch forward without giving up, he pulled it horizontally through the palm surface, and at the same time as the screams of pain came out, two fingers stained with blood also fell to the ground.

Qiu Xuan: "I don't want to kill you, you just have to tell me...... Tut. ”

Her words paused abruptly, because the withered man in front of her had his first reaction after seeing his finger cut off was nothing else. For a moment, he didn't even care about continuing to fight with Qiu Xuan, he slammed on the ground and picked up his fallen finger, put the whole one in his mouth and chewed it with a squeak.

“……”

Probably because he hadn't eaten for too long, the man's action of swallowing dates was hindered in the second after swallowing. His throat was too fragile now, and besides, he swallowed it with his flesh and bones, and he covered his throat with his backhand in pain and vomited. Qiu Xuan subconsciously took a few steps back thinking about not splashing on herself, and after seeing it for a while, the man's lips were always tightly closed, and he tilted his head, and rolled his throat again to make a swallowing motion.

Qiu Xuan didn't want to watch it anymore.

She put the knife back in her hand, and walked around the man again, strangely enough that there was no living person but the man, neither the executioner nor the native.

Because the road that the woman pointed to at the beginning was only in this direction, and there was no fork in the road, Qiu Xuan didn't have to worry about finding a place, she just had to keep walking along this stone road that looked very fresh.

Finally, a few minutes later, she saw a large, intricately carved arch.

The arch is out of place with the surrounding Western-style and fresh pastoral architectural pattern, and no one feels that anything is wrong here. She stepped into the confines of the archway, and a middle-aged man crouching by the door glanced up at her.

"Executioner, just here? I'm also just here, my name is Zhu Kunhai, what do you call it? ”

"Afu."

"Hello, hello, good luck."

The middle-aged man has a kind of officialdom in him, although it can be seen that he is already trying to show an equal and friendly appearance, Qiu Xuan guesses that he may be a big man in his native world.

"What are you doing here?" She said.

"It's not open yet, it's in preparation, I've been there just now, and they won't let me enter early." Zhu Kunhai stood up and subconsciously wanted to shake hands with her, but then reacted and shrank back. "By the way, did someone give you an admission ticket when you first came, and our initial main story should be the same, right?"

Qiu Xuan: "It should be." ”

Zhu Kunhai looked at her quietly up and down a few times before he changed his face and smiled. "You look very young, by the way, how long have you been in a desperate situation?"

Qiu Xuan: "Half a year younger." ”

This is true, after all, the speed of time calculation in the desperate situation is different from the proving ground, just like she spent more than half a year in the world where the game was broadcast live, and for the people in the desperate situation, she has only been away for a few days.

Normally, the concept of staying in a desperate situation for half a year is equivalent to the status of a newcomer or the level of getting rid of a newcomer who has just cleared a personal trial.

Zhu Kunhai said, "Oh, oh, young talent, it's very good!" In a place that was not easy to be noticed, his eyes flickered, and in his heart, he kicked the young man named Afu in front of him out of the list of "winning over teammates".

Qiu Xuan took a few steps forward, and the inside of the arch was a large open field that had been fenced out. And I don't know if it's a psychological delusion, she always smells the aroma of food coming from the so-called currently forbidden interior.

But with all food and water sources in the space forbidden so far, and the title of this proving ground is "Famine", how could they be so kind to prepare food for them?

"Did you meet any other executioners who came early when you came over?" After turning around, he found that he really couldn't enter early, so Qiu Xuan walked back and squatted opposite Zhu Kunhai. "The kind of person who comes up and sneaks up and steals things if you don't agree with each other?"

"You ran into it too?" Zhu Kunhai didn't seem to want to talk to her very much now, but they were the only two living people present who could communicate with her, so the middle-aged man still said patiently, "Indeed, I also met a strange person." The man was so thin, horribly thin, that he tried to steal my ticket as soon as he came up, and I killed him. ”

What those people want is to grab tickets.

Qiu Xuan sank down and recalled, looking at the state of the man he met before, he should be in a state of extreme hunger. And at this time, they are desperately trying to grab things, so it can only be said that the entrance ticket represents a high probability of food sources.

Is it an opportunity to trade for food, or is it ......

"Is it open, is it open, I don't know who will win today?"

"Ah, I guess it's still 'Chainsaw Man', I haven't seen a player win since he competed."

"Alas, although he is indeed strong, he eats so disgusting...... I still like the sister who participated in the last show, what's her name? ”

"Secobi, it's Secobi! Why can't you even remember people's names! ”

"Hey......

With the constant cacophony of human voices in the air, a dense crowd poured into the arch range. It's just that they didn't come from the direction where Qiu Xuan came, but from the other end of the arch, the opposite side that extended infinitely.

"Race?" Zhu Kunhai scratched his head and stood up, "What kind of competition, are we comparing ourselves with the aborigines or with our peers?" ”