When the rain was pouring down and thunder was roaring, the black wind carried Sandy and Clear Sky into the territory of the Crossroads Station.

Before there was time to observe the appearance of the whole station, the rain curtain had already soaked the whole world in the color of a gray curtain, drenching the people who had nowhere to hide, so that the clear sky could barely see the surroundings and the road ahead.

Hei Feng had already received the master's instructions to arrive at the hotel as soon as possible, so he rushed to the three-story wooden building without stopping before stopping with a hiss.

Sandy and Clear Sky immediately jumped off their horses, and before running into the house, Sandy patted Black Wind's left ear, and the very spiritual creature turned to one side and rushed into the stable, and went under their respective huts and sheltered from the rain with their masters.

Pushing open the sturdy wooden door, I saw a slender man standing at the counter on the side of the front hall to settle accounts, and saw Sandy and Clear Sky walking in, the lips on the knife's face trembled and moved, and then he said tremblingly: "Welcome two, come to the Crossroads Hotel......

"Boss, make a registration." Sandy patted Clear Sky on the back, prompting her to take the necessary next step, and then continued to make her request, "Two bowls of hot soup and hot wine, whatever kind of soup it warms the stomach, it must be hot!" Then a good venison and roast chicken, I'm already hungry and cold from this damn rainstorm. ”

"Yes, yes...... I'm going to prepare. The boss replied, and when he saw the clear sky put his palm on the back stone at the counter to register, he walked to the kitchen tremblingly.

After finishing the registration, Clear Sky walked into the dining area full of dilapidated wooden tables, but saw Sandy, who was the first to enter, standing in the center of the empty room and looking around, so he found an empty table and sat down, and beckoned him: "Sandy, here, come and sit down." ”

"It's kind of weird." Sandy came over when he heard the sound, sat down with a frown, and whispered his worries, "It's strange that there is no one here......"

"Maybe it's the heavy rain that prevents everyone from hurrying, and we just caught up with a gap period without customers. ......" Clear Sky looked around, and his heart was indeed a little panicked, but he still comforted Sandy like this, which can be regarded as self-comfort.

"A gap without customers? It's impossible......" Sandy took his opinion almost without hesitation, "The Crossroads is a very important post hub on the Keane Continent, located on the North-South Avenue, going all the way north, bypassing Wuyu Mountain, crossing the Flash River, and passing through Ranger Town, you can reach Apocalypse City smoothly. In addition, this place leads to the Green Dragon Mountain Range in the east, which is said to be one of the paths to the bottom of the Rainbow Valley and Rainbow Moon City, but it is only recently rumored that the mysterious disappearance of Dragon Slaying City and the secret passage of the mountain range buried under it have also disappeared, so that this route has gradually declined. From here, however, to the west is the only way to the Red Shirt Palace and the Holy Convent, and in short, the most important cities and palaces on the Keane continent need to pass through this station, and I have the impression that this place has always been a place where people come and go, and travelers pass through......"

While the two were talking, the innkeeper brought hot wine, hot soup, venison, and roast chicken, and was about to retreat, when Sandy grabbed him by the wrist and asked, "Boss, why is business so sluggish today?" Aren't there any other guests besides us? ”

The innkeeper's thin face was obviously a little blue, and his thin lips moved slightly, and then he whispered: "Guest, don't ask more, eat something and go upstairs to rest, I'm afraid it won't be ......peaceful tonight."

"What does that mean?" Sandy's brow furrowed even deeper, "Can't you clearly explain where all the people at the inn have gone?" ”

The innkeeper's body finally began to tremble visibly, and the fear was so real that for a moment Haruka almost forgot that he was just a system character in the game - "dead...... A lot of people died......" The boss finally shuddered and vomited out the fear in his heart, "Just an hour ago, before the heavy rain came, about a dozen people broke in, killed almost all the travelers here and left, only a few survived, and now they are hiding in the upstairs rooms and dare not come out...... It looks like the killers are looking for someone or something, and I have a feeling they'll be back soon, because they've searched the backpacks of every person they've been killed, but they've not taken anything of value...... Two guests, I advise you to hurry up and go upstairs and hide after eating......"

After hearing this, Sandy finally let go of his boss's hand, let him go, and fell into a brief deep thought.

"Is this also a PVP confrontation between players?" Seeing that Sandy was silent for a long time, Qingtian finally couldn't help but set off to ask.

"It should be, the sudden slaughter of players by the system characters is not at all logical, and the NPC should not be able to turn over the backpack after killing people, right?" Sandy took a hard sip of the hot wine and put down the bowl again, "However, even the PVP confrontation between players seems unreasonable to me!" ”

"Oh? What is an unreasonable law? Clear Sky asked again.

"There are all kinds of players gathered here, people come and go, what profession is not? Even if there is a fierce fight, there are usually logistics professions such as priests, paladins, druids, monks, etc., who lend a helping hand to heal the wounded and resurrect the dead...... But, you see, isn't it strange that no one has come back from the fierce fight that took place an hour ago? Sandy clenched his left hand into a fist under his snort and put it in a thinking pose, "In addition, these players are going to carry out such a large-scale massacre in a safe area, which will inevitably provoke NPCs to attack in groups, you must know that slaughtering in a safe area is a serious violation, and NPCs will judge and intervene in a certain order - first of all, it is basically impossible for characters with high hatred values to enter the safe area of hostile forces, and once they enter, they will immediately encounter attacks by militia and patrols, and these system characters are endless." In addition, if they are in a friendly state in this territory, the person who initiates the attack in the safe area will be judged by the NPC to be wrong and intervene, so if the player wants to compete with each other, he will either go to the arena dedicated to fighting or apply to go to the battlefield, or meet in the field area to settle the grievance - in this way, according to the description of the innkeeper, this gang is so brutal and dangerous, it is bound to have a lot of hatred in Keane's territory, I'm afraid that the militia and patrols of the post station have also been killed by them, batch after batch......"

"If they even killed NPCs, why hasn't the innkeeper died?"

"NPCs with special functions will take the initiative to hide in the face of fierce fights and dangers, or activate protective skills, which is not easy to die." Sandy explained.

"It's really strange to hear you say that...... What's going on here? After listening to Sandy's analysis, Clear Sky frowned.

"Didn't the boss say that there was a chance that these people would come back? It's windy and rainy outside, and we can't even see the road clearly, let alone do any exploration, so let's stay here for the time being, take a break, and wait and see what happens. Sandy said, and began to gulp down his flesh and wine.

The conversation fell into silence, and Clear Sky began to eat dinner attentively and quickly.

After dinner, Sandy told Clear Sky to go back to the house to rest, fall asleep as soon as possible, and never step out of the room tonight, and then the two went upstairs and went back to their respective rooms.

In the slightly musty room, the sky outside the house flashed with lightning, the room where the lights had just turned off, the hourglass of time pointed to more than half of the hour, lying on the slightly hard bed, the clear sky digested the conversation with Sandy during the day, and at the same time struggled whether to enter a deep sleep, and suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves and steps from the collision of muddy water outside the window.

Qingtian immediately got up from the bed, leaned close to the window, poked out half of his eyes, and looked out.

In the open space outside the inn's stables, in the open space outside the inn's stables, there seemed to be a crowd of people standing in black uniformly, uniformly draped in a dark black cloak with a hood, with the hood covering their heads, and their faces completely invisible.

The men in black jumped off their mounts one by one, and the clear sky found that their mounts were not as neat as their cloaks, and that they were of different shapes and widths, high and low, and that there seemed to be other creatures besides the horses. The mounts obediently entered the stables, and the men in black entered the gates of the Crossroads Inn.

[It seems that all the people who slaughtered innocents during the day have returned, as the innkeeper said?] The clear sky didn't realize that his heartbeat was several beats faster. She struggled in the darkness for a moment, but finally walked softly to the door and reached open the door.

As soon as Clear Sky's forefoot stepped out of the room, a hand rested on her right shoulder—