001 Forgotten Town, Ghost, Sakura

What is the real purpose of a person's life when he is born in this world?

For yourself?

For someone else?

Get everything that no one else can have?

Enjoy the most wonderful fireworks in the world?

Most people, whether it is the Blue Star period or the current Seven Continents period, they live just to survive mechanically, have money, have families, and have things worth doing every day.

Only a very small number of people think about this.

Then they realized that the most important thing for people to live is to leave a strong mark on this world.

For better or worse, prove that you've been here.

It is said that there are two states of human beings, one is physical and the other is spiritual.

When a person dies, the physical state disappears, and when the last person who remembers your existence dies, the mental state is also annihilated.

Even the five kings who are high in the sky, they can't stop this from happening, and only by trying their best to leave their traces can they "live" for a long time.

In this respect, humanity and all things are surprisingly equal.

And now, if she dies, Violet's existence will be completely wiped out, and no one will remember that she once came to this world.

Perhaps for most people, this is not a big deal at all.

But is it too cruel for her, for someone like her who has been persistent and trying to live?

Li Xiang looked at Shizuko Ise, who was a little panicked opposite, and sighed softly.

"About a few hours ago, I suddenly found that everything related to Senior Cullen had disappeared, as if he had never existed, and then I searched for a lot of information, and then Sister Violet, and the seniors who had been on missions together, [disappeared] one after another. ”

Shizuko Ise took a sip of coffee, but she was so frightened that she couldn't sleep, and the feeling of tiredness hit her, and she could only rely on coffee to keep her spirits shut.

With their current physique, staying up late at this level was nothing at all, but the double tiredness of spirit and ** coupled with the torture of the monthly exams these days made Shizuko Ise almost reach a critical point.

If it weren't for Li Xiang's call, she felt like she was going crazy.

She was worried that one day, like them, she would suddenly be inexplicably devoured by existence, and she could accept any other form of death, but this one, no.

"I, what should we do?" Shizuko Ise looked at Li Xiang a little helplessly, both of them had this situation, which proved that the matter was true, but looking at the attitude of the school, there was nothing they could help.

As Professor Jeffrey said, if it is really a calamity, then the calamity is at least level A or above!

There is no correlation between the level of calamity and its strength, and it does not mean that grade A is necessarily stronger than the lowest level of class F, and the classification of calamity is closer to comprehension.

Whether they are able to understand relative to the human mind.

Generally speaking, however, the more powerful the Calamity, the more chaotic and incomprehensible it is, but there are exceptions, such as the Humanoid Calamity that can trade with humans, as mentioned earlier.

Some of them are incredibly powerful, but these calamities are uniformly classified as F-class.

But no matter what level it is, as long as it is a calamity, even the player does not dare to face it alone.

The imprint left by the Thousand Tooth Phantom on Heatria's body is still fresh in Li Xiang's memory, and it still torments her, but she is helpless.

"At the very least, we have to confirm the life and death of Senior Sister Violet, and why are we the only ones who have not been affected?" Li Xiang frowned, if it was just him, he could move closer to the direction of the bloodline and some calamities, after all, he also had many connections with that camp.

But Shizuko Ise is different, she has basically nothing to do with the calamity side, except for the identity of a descendant of the Seven Veins of Guwu.

"Could it have something to do with the time at the bottom of the dead sea?" Shizuko Ise regained her composure and began to think calmly.

Li Xiang nodded silently, he thought so too.

All the changes have happened since that **.

Osiris took away the token of the demon family, and a group of calamities were inexplicably released at the bottom of the Dead Sea, and then the mission hall continued to issue some tasks related to the Dead Sea.

The tide of xenomorphs at the border also came suddenly and quickly.

Professor Jeffrey, they must have sensed something, but they don't know if it has anything to do with the death omen star curtain this time.

"I want to go to Senior Sister Violet and their mission point again, this weekend, together, right?" Li Xiang always felt that he had to check it, as if a vague voice had been calling him.

Shizuko Ise was silent for a moment and asked, "Just us?"

"It's just us. Li Xiang nodded.

......

Friday night.

The two of them were fully armed and quietly came to the tarmac, and with the special passage permit given by Dean Lei Lin, Li Xiang could leave the school every week to go to the border or Maria's laboratory.

Some time ago, the measuring device reached a bottleneck period of research, and he couldn't help much, so he didn't go back.

However, once a week, Li Xiang never stopped, after all, outside, he could collect the calamity aura and disassemble the mechanical device to obtain essendric particles.

After boarding the float boat and looking out of the window in the gloomy night, Li Xiang always felt that the black fog was a little thicker.

He had deliberately written down several missions about Violet, which were located at the junction of City 0010 and the Dead Sea, and a little further out of the beach, and Li Xiang relied on his strong memory to draw all the charts.

Shizuko Ise, who was sitting in the cabin, rubbed the Taidao in her hand, and after the last time the Taidao that was warmed with her own blood was deconstructed by Li Xiang, she spent some grade points to buy a new Taidao from the school mall.

After all, the two magic tricks she had just learned could only be activated with a sword.

The sudden disappearance of Senior Karen still makes Shizuko Ise still tremble, especially when she hears that he just found Li Xiang not long ago, which makes her feel more and more weird.

Listening to Li Xiang's description, Senior Karen seemed to have lost his mind, and it should be the last remaining reason that made him make a move to find Li Xiang.

Violet must have left something behind before she disappeared, or had told him something, she was afraid that she would have realized the problem earlier, but unfortunately she couldn't hint at anything to the two of them after all.

After that, Li Xiang also went to Karen's class and dormitory, and like Violet, there was no such person at all, and the dormitory was empty, as if it had always been empty and uninhabited.

How powerful is it to completely wipe out a person's existence?

The float docked in City 1.

Li Xiang and Shizuko Ise hurried through the night, taking advantage of the city gate before the city was closed.

Stepping on the soft beach, you can still smell a faint smell of blood, the recent xenomorph tide has become more and more frequent, the withdrawal of the border military headquarters has caused the pressure on the border troops to increase sharply, and even some interns and newcomers who have come to watch have been forcibly dragged onto the battlefield.

It's not just a matter of one place on the border of City 0010.

There are also border areas with greater pressure, and they have begun to deal with the never-ending offensive of the xenomorph army day and night, which has alarmed the interior of the Seven Continents, and they have sent a lot of reinforcements to assist.

When Heatheria sent him a text message and a picture, he couldn't believe that the xenos were all over the place, frantically attacking the borders of humanity.

It's the same apocalyptic vision he saw in the final qualifying.

The Void Wormholes opened one by one, as if the end had come, and countless xenomorphs crawled out of them, fearless to the death.

The two rented a cheap sailing boat from the black market and headed towards the end of the beach.

Said that it was rental, but in fact this price was enough to buy two such sailing boats, and the merchants bluntly said that they felt that they were going to the Dead Sea now to send them to death, so they naturally only accepted the price of one hammer.

The powerful mechanical control ability makes Li Xiang, who has never been in contact with this kind of transportation, instantly familiar with it, the sailing boat is similar to the sea motorcycle in the previous life, open-top, only two seats, there are relatively old gun positions on both sides, and the oldest hand-controlled control is used.

Shizuko Ise spreads out the chart to make it easier for Li Xiang to watch.

In the Dead Sea, countless black mist swirled upward, and they had just left the beach before they could see anything behind them.

It's like a lonely boat sailing on the vast sea, all around are exactly the same scenery, and she doesn't know how Li Xiang's sense of direction came from, but she can still drive smoothly.

In fact, Li Xiang basically lost the ability to distinguish the direction in this environment, but he could clearly feel the breath of the calamity, and the taste of each one was very unique, so he could easily distinguish it.

What's more, at the Dead Sea, there is basically no calamity lingering.

"It's still here......" Li Xiang frowned, what did that guy want to do?

It should be clear, after so many people have an accident, the school will inevitably be aware, once the player team comes to clean up, then it will inevitably avoid the edge for the time being, isn't it the best thing to choose to leave now?

As we get closer, the sweeter the smell becomes.

Soon, a small island gradually appeared in the eyes of the two of them.

It can be seen that it was once inhabited, but now it is shrouded in a faint green light.

You can vaguely see all kinds of dilapidated mechanisms, as well as countless old buildings that have been constantly lapped by the sea.

There is only one town on the entire island, and the architecture is very dilapidated, and everything is incomplete.

Li Xiang drove the sailboat to dock at the outermost dilapidated dock, and there were only a few nearly broken wooden boats in the dock that was originally used to dock passing ships, which were chained with dark green iron chains.

He and Shizuko Ise jumped off the sailboat and held it in chains.

A breath of rotten vicissitudes hit the face.

Outside the town, a stone monument slanted into the soft earth, with the words "Forgotten Town" written in scrawled steam language.

The two glanced at each other, and when they looked again, they found that the stone tablet was already empty, only countless weeds overgrown.

Since departure, Li Xiang has always had a strange sense of disobedience in his heart, but every time this feeling arises, it will be suppressed because of the traction of that breath and the inexplicable call.

He couldn't say why, but he just knew something was wrong.

Walking into the Forgotten Town, he was greeted by a magnificent but dilapidated cathedral, and he remembered that there were very few religions in the Seven Continents that could spread their faith without being restricted, and even if they did, it was because of the support of some players.

But looking at the magnificent green cross in front of him, Li Xiang suddenly remembered something.

This is not the faith of this world.

The black clock on the church came to the punctual point and made a roaring bell.

At the same time, a large number of ghostly figures poured in from all over the town, heading towards the church.

Their bodies are almost transparent, and their faces are expressionless, but they can clearly see the various costumes and appearances.

Obviously, this group of people came from different places on the Seven Continents, and they could be distinguished by their race and clothing.

There were many figures, as if a group of lonely ghosts suddenly had a goal, and they poured towards the dilapidated church.

Li Xiang noticed that the Forgotten Town was not uninhabited, these ghosts were aborigines, they lived here, just like normal humans, but without voice, thought, emotion, and repeating things mechanically like puppets.

The more I look at it, the more weird I feel.

"Li Xiang, look!" Shizuko Ise suddenly grabbed his arm, pointed not far away, and suppressed her voice to a minimum.

Li Xiang looked along and found that there was a familiar figure in the crowd.

Cullen walked among the ghosts, his face dazed, and he was dragged into the church by the sound of the bells.

"Gege ......"

Suddenly, there was a screeching sound of bones folding behind him.

Li Xiang and Shizuko Ise turned back as fast as they could, and found that it was a skeleton soldier who was approaching at some point.

This is a dead thing without the breath of life.

So his perception was not even perceptible.

Bang!

The skeleton soldier drew his bone knife and collided with the pursuer that Li Xiang quickly swung.

The force shook the entire skeleton with a cracking sound, and the stalker's rainbow light flashed, and it actually absorbed its only bright pupil onto the blade!

"Shhhh!!h

Screams and screams overlapped, and before they melted, the skeleton let out one last howl.

A piercing sound resounded through the Forgotten Town, suddenly overshadowing the terrifying bell.

"Oops. Li Xiang looked up and saw that the group of sluggish ghosts suddenly stopped and looked towards their hiding place.

"Let's go!" Shizuko Ise took the first step to hide in the shadows.

Her ninjutsu can be more effective in this environment, and Li Xiang also covers her body through the shadows.

But it was as if it no longer existed in the eyes of the ghosts.

They lunged at them, their suffocating breath threatening to drown them both.

Whoosh –

The sword pierced through a ghost as if it had penetrated into the air, only to see him twist for a moment, and then sprint again.

The ghost's claws slashed at Shizuko's shoulder, bringing up a bright splash of blood.

She covered her wounds and looked at the surrounding ghosts in amazement, a little overwhelmed.

Bang!

Silver bullets poured out from the muzzle of the White Snake X, and the explosive flames were fleeting, and after a loud bang, a large area of ghosts was engulfed by the scorching light and burning flames, and let out a terrible scream!

Like the Void creatures, they are immune to most attacks, but they are terrified of bullets.

In this gap, a petite figure suddenly descended from the sky, scattering countless pink cherry blossoms from her body, and the petals froze and melted away as soon as they touched the ghost.

A soft arm climbed up Li Xiang's back, and then jerked it up.

"Follow me, this way!"

The voice has a faint loli sound, and it is human.

"Shizuko, retreat. Li Xiang picked up Shizuko Ise, who was besieged in the shadows, and ran in the other direction with the petite figure.