On the way back to City 0001 on the armored train, Li Xiang refused the invitation of Liya and Bai He, and sat alone in the carriage with his eyes closed.

His mind still echoed the tragic situation of the He family, they plundered in the name of cleaning, human life is like a mustard, even if it is as strong as a family, once it becomes a product of the failure of the political struggle, it will have no dignity at all.

If you want to detach, only if your strength reaches the player level, you won't be constrained too much.

Each player has a very wide immunity, and several players who went out of the He family disappeared long before they were cleaned up.

They learned the news, but they didn't come back, and let the family annihilate, but just like Heatheria said, they became players and completely broke away from the previous circle.

You'll have a whole new identity and status.

As soon as he got off the armored train, he took off the black robe on his body and returned it to Wang Yuan. Heatheria stood far away, quietly waiting for him to return, and seeing that it was a level 3 player, Wang Yuan swallowed back the words that were about to be blurted out.

"How's that, isn't it tiring. Heatheria smiled and put on a cloak for him.

November in the north is different from the south, there is no sticky humidity, but the cold wind and cold air are really biting, and the scrape on the body is like a knife cut.

"Sort of. Li Xiang nodded slightly, "I'm not used to that kind of occasion." ”

"It's good to have seen it once, that's why Lord Night Shadow is reluctant to blend in with the high-level circles. There, every day is a variety of open and secret battles, according to the words of adults, and you can't meditate to improve your strength, and you don't really enjoy life, such a day is simply worse than death. ”

Heatheria mimicked the tone of the shadow of the night, which was so vivid that Li Xiang immediately thought of her expression and demeanor when she said this.

"What are they for?" Li Xiang waved goodbye and got into the carriage with Heatria, they were about to rush to the Magic Society's stronghold in City 0001.

"Power, resources, women, and the thrill of dominating everything. Sitting in a position every day, tapping a finger can decide the fate of countless people, which is a fatal attraction for some people. Heatheria poured a cup of black tea and handed it to him.

"Especially after going to the border, going to the Great Wall of Calamity, and fighting the real Calamity, their hearts have already been sharpened into fragile toys, and they dare not improve their strength, nor dare they take another step into their comfort zone. She pursed her lips, her eyes full of disdain.

Li Xiang recalled the scene of the first encounter with the aliens, and the indescribable horror really made people's scalps tingle.

If you fight monsters more terrifying than this all year round, people will not only be numb, but they will become insane.

"Heatria, have you ever been to the border?" Li Xiang turned back to ask her, she didn't like the title sister very much, and asked Li Xiang to call her by her first name.

In her opinion, Li Xiang is the successor of the Shadow of the Night, and the second master of their Rose Maid Group, that is, the relationship between master and servant, not sister and brother.

"My ex-husband died at the border. Heatheria hesitated, and suddenly slowly untied her maid suit, revealing a white, flat, elastic-looking belly.

Near the navel, there was a hideous scar.

Or, to be more precise, a large indescribable "area".

The texture was obviously different from the skin around her, like a pile of carrion being forcibly sewn together, and it would squirm slightly as she breathed, and if you looked closely, you could see rows of tiny teeth gently biting on it.

"Isn't it disgusting?" Heatheria closed her clothes and slowly fastened the buttons, she felt Li Xiang's eyes still fluttering on her chest, and she paused after seeing this injury, "Feel a little mental pollution, right?"

"Well, sort of. Li Xiang forcibly resisted the vomiting sensation that came up from his stomach, not because he was poor in receptivity, but as Heatheria said, mental pollution was spontaneously formed, and his body instinctively rejected, "How did you get it?"

"He was bitten. It might be more accurate to use 'it'. My ex-husband and I met when we were in college, he came from a well-known gamer university, and it was a joint holiday event between our two schools, and he and I were in a group and did individual instruction. At that time, I was just a young girl who had just entered college, ignorant and longing for the future, and had no resistance to a handsome and powerful teenager like him. ”

Heatheria showed a young woman's expression, then closed her eyes and slowly remembered, she suddenly conjured a magic staff, and with a wave of her hand, a dark green projection appeared in the carriage, and a young man and woman were exploring a dark forest.

"As I told you before, a school like ours can't be compared to a top college at all, and after four years, it is difficult to become a magician, let alone a player. At that time, our strength was far inferior to that of you now, and the summer joint activity was originally to draw lots to solve the weird ** that came out of various places, but we didn't expect to run into a critical xenomorph. ”

The picture turns into black and white.

A vague shadow of mist suddenly appeared in front of the young girl's eyes, its appearance was very strange, rising in the shape of smoke, and every wisp of mist was covered with fine and sharp teeth when you looked closely.

"I passed out, and when I woke up, he told me that the Critical Xenos had been killed by him. At that time, I was in love and couldn't extricate myself, and the so-called drawbridge effect, I didn't even think that his strength was simply not enough to deal with a critical xenomorph. We exchanged the bounty for killing the Critical Xenomorph for a huge resource, and he gave it all to me, which is one of the reasons why I was able to go further later. ”

Hearing this, Li Xiang had already heard a hint of strangeness, but he didn't speak, letting Heather continue to recall.

"When we went back to school, we hadn't seen each other for four years. During this period, there were occasional exchanges of letters, but basically once a month. At that time, the communicator was still a rare commodity, and the communication of that era was still very dependent on the messenger bird, and now, the messenger bird has sunk to the general population. After graduating, I passed the player assessment in a thrilling way, only to learn later that he was expelled after returning to school, because his strength has not changed for a year, and he has always been stuck at the level 2 magic apprentice. ”

The picture is constantly changing, and the girl who has become a player and the boy who is still at the bottom meet again.

The status of the two has changed 720 degrees.

Heatheria did not dislike him, and used her player power to obtain a position in the military department for him, and then secretly married when no one was favorable.

"This is probably the last immaturity I was before I left the ordinary world. On one mission, we went to the border together, and he finally showed his fangs. ”

"He was corrupted by the Critical Xenomorph at that time, so why has he not been discovered in human society for so long......" Li Xiang asked.

"No, not a borderline xenomorph. At that time, he had already been transformed into a calamity. It needs to hibernate and has the ability to hide its breath, and to truly survive, it must leave the human society full of strong people, return to the border, and return to them. And after being with me, he said that he had low self-esteem and was afraid, and I thought that the identity gap made him unbearable, so I promised him to live away from human gatherings, and players have their own circles anyway. ”

"So ......"

"On that mission, our exploration team was almost wiped out, and I was only a new level 1 player, who had never had the experience of fighting against the Calamity, and it left this mark on me, tormenting me day and night, and as long as it was alive, it could gain strength from my pain, insecurity, and fear. ”

Li Xiang gasped, especially when he learned that Heatheria was actually married to a Calamity and was deceived......

"No. C-98665, Calamity Named Thousand Tooth Phantom. They can imitate human speech, action, and thinking, feed on the negative emotions of human beings, enjoy the feeling of destruction and destruction, they can learn, they can grow, and they will attack your weaknesses specifically. Every player has such demons in their hearts to a greater or lesser extent. Heatheria chuckled and unconsciously touched her abdomen, "Now can you understand why they are so powerful, and they still cower in human cities, not daring to go to the border to fight the Great Wall of Calamity?"

"Too many people think that becoming a player has the ability to face the calamity, but they don't know that most players are just slightly stronger ants in the face of the calamity. You have to be strong, to be very strong, to be a little bit more resistant. ”

"Sorry...... Reminds you of something that wasn't so good. Hearing the name of [Thousand Toothed Illusory], he felt an inexplicable shudder, these powerful calamities had been able to penetrate countless time and space, and transmit the fear he exuded here.

It's just a name.

"Nothing, I just want to tell you that even then, Calamity is nothing more than imitating human beings and doing evil with human fears. As powerful as they are, we still need to learn and analyze, and we ourselves are born with these things. Heatheria meant, "Humanity is the greatest calamity." ”

This is where the topic comes to an abrupt end.

Heatheria began to talk about the Magic Society as if the conversation hadn't happened at all, but the Thousand Tooth Phantom and her story were already ingrained in his mind.