Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Player's Graveyard
2020 is the time when the game has just been released in closed beta in reality.
The dates here use their real-world dates, not the dates of this world, which are completely different from the tombstones of the residents of Huanshan Town outside.
Wanderers from another world, this is clearly talking about the player.
The tombstones inside are engraved with the words they know, while the tombstones of the residents of Huanshan Town outside are engraved with the words of this world.
Xiao Zhimiao moved the lamp ball and looked at it, all of them were tombstones with wanderers from another world written on them, and there were at least thousands of them.
This is a graveyard that belongs to the player.
Xu Zhilan walked forward and squatted down in front of a tombstone, Xiao Zhimiao followed to take a look, and saw the name of the owner of the tombstone on it: Xu Zhilan.
And the date on it reads: July 27, 2021.
According to the actual date, today is July 24th, and Xu Zhilan died three days later.
Xiao Zhimiao glanced at it, and saw Mo Ke and Shen Mi next to the tombstone, they were all players who were in the same copy as them, according to the somewhat crooked tombstones, there were a total of eleven players' names, only hers were missing.
"And."
Xu Zhilan got up and took two steps forward, standing in front of a tombstone, which still said Xu Zhilan.
The date is July 25, 2021, and he died again tomorrow.
The light ball was controlled by Xu Zhilan, illuminating the tombstone in front of him, and the small piece of tombstone around them was the name of the player of their copy.
Xu Zhilan and their names appear at least four times, starting on July 23, the first day they entered, with different dates, but the furthest date is also July 27.
In the last row of tombstones they saw, there were only nine players' names, missing Xu Zhilan and a player named Mu Yuan.
"Not quite right." Xu Zhilan said softly.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Zhilan went back to the place where he first saw his tombstone, looked behind him, and pointed to the tombstone in his sight, "This tombstone is the name of the missionary, according to the arrangement of the tombstones, there is no name on his side, he is the first to die." ”
Xiao Zhimiao looked and saw that the tombstone belonging to the missionary said the date July 24, 2021, which is today.
"And ......" Xu Zhilan rubbed the tombstone, "This tombstone is very new, those tombstones are all the same aging traces, and they should look like they should be from the same period." ”
Xu Zhilan turned his head to look at Xiao Zhimiao, and said slowly: "Don't you think that our copies of the same period, except for this relatively new one, the others look like those from the last century?" ”
Xiao Zhimiao groaned: "It has indeed been some years. ”
Xu Zhilan hooked the corners of his mouth, and half of his body was hidden in the shadows, making his expression look a little obscure.
"I've died so many times, but it seems that I also lived once, and I'm alive now, but judging by the dates of these tombstones, maybe I'll die tomorrow, or maybe I'll die the day after tomorrow, this copy is really interesting."
Xiao Zhimiao felt that the magic array outside was already in jeopardy, and moved the lamp ball towards the puppet standing in front of them waiting for them, glanced back at Xu Zhilan and said, "You are not dead now, don't think so much about what hasn't happened yet." ”
Xu Zhilan laughed and followed, "That's right, after all, those tombstones don't have your name on them, and you don't have a psychological burden." ”
Xiao Zhimiao glanced at Xu Zhilan strangely, "You actually have a psychological burden?" ”
Xu Zhilan is not afraid of death at first glance.
"I don't have a psychological burden on my own death, I just watched me die alone so many times, but you are still alive, maybe the two of us are living and dying in a certain time and space, it's really sad that heaven and man are separated forever, as long as I think about it, I have a very heavy psychological burden."
Xu Zhilan's voice was soft and fluttering, not at all like how sad he looked.
"If the tombstone had your name on it and there was no mine, I would be sad, but if we lived together, or died together, I would not have this burden."
Xiao Zhimiao: Okay, Xu Zhilan is starting to get sick again.
Xu Zhilan looked at Xiao Zhimiao and didn't want to respond to him, and said, "I don't think that except for the missionary's relatively new tombstone, the other tombstones are from the same time period as us. ”
Xiao Zhimiao gave him a glance, "What do you say?" ”
Xu Zhilan: "Xiaozhi, do you believe that there is time to reset?" It's as if we've already gone through this dungeon, or rather, we've been through this life, or to put it a little shorter, we've all gone through the game, and then the time has all been reset and we've all started all over again. ”
"Now, we're at a new point in time."
Xiao Zhimiao nodded: "The conjecture can be established, but do you have anything to rely on?" In addition to these tombstones. ”
Xu Zhilan: "There is one, I heard about it in the intelligence department of the Shenwu Bureau. ”
"Tell me about it."
"I heard that there is a prop that can go back in time, and this prop is one of the god-level props."
Xu Zhilan specially emphasized: "It is a god-level prop, not a gift." ”
God-level props are items used by gods, and their power and effect are extremely powerful against the sky, which is incomparable to gifts.
God-level items, which are items that even gods are afraid of not being able to resist twisting, are just high-level items given to players in this game. Gifting may sound like a great honor from God, but it actually has a sense of charity.
At this point, Xiao Zhimiao and Xu Zhilan have the same idea.
Xu Zhilan: "The three props of this copy are god-level props, but the three are combined, and they can only be regarded as sub-god-level props when they are separated." ”
After all, these three props, one is to snatch people from the hands of the Grim Reaper, one is to deceive the Grim Reaper, and the other is to harvest anyone's life at will on behalf of the Grim Reaper.
Grim Reaper: I didn't mess with any of you.
The doll led the two of them into the middle of the cemetery and stood in front of a tombstone, which lacked a palm-sized circular hole in the middle, which was the tombstone they were looking for.
There are no words engraved on this tombstone, and it is blank.
There was a circular depression under the hole of the tombstone, looking at the size of this depression, Xiao Zhimiao thought about it and took it out of the system backpack at the location of the waterwheel at the entrance of the town in the afternoon, and found a circular pendant from Bunian's bones.
I took the pendant and compared it with the depression, and it fit perfectly.
Sensing that the magic array outside the cemetery had dissipated, Xiao Zhimiao tore off the pendant chain and inlaid the pendant into this depression.
A bright light snaked up from the base of the tombstone, and the blank surface of the tablet began to show words and patterns.
Under the drawing of the glittering white light, a carved pattern of thorn roses appeared on the surface of the tombstone, and the name of the owner of this tombstone reads: Secia
This is the tombstone of the witch Sessia, who looks like her and is resurrected with a puppet.
The light continued to wind up the tombstone, finally converging at the circular opening, creating a bright beam of light that shone diagonally behind them, pointing somewhere above.
Under the illumination of this light, Xiao Zhimiao caught a glimpse of the name engraved on a crooked tombstone next to Secia's tombstone, which read:
Xiao Yun, a wanderer from another world
A good knight
Date of death: 18 October 2020
Xiao Zhimiao's pupils shrank, and her heart shook dramatically, this was her ...... Brother's tombstone.
The date of death on the tombstone is the same as the date of Xiao Yun's death in reality, and this day is also the date when Xiao Zhimiao, who was in a car accident and became a vegetative person, regained consciousness and woke up.
Xiao Zhimiao's mind began to become chaotic, and something began to surface as the plot of her copy was pushed, and it was a fact that almost frightened her.
Puppet Town, the Soul Bead that Came Back to Life, and the Brother's Tombstone.
Her awakening, his death.
Xiao Zhimiao connected this series of events and got an answer that frightened her, a string about her brother Xiao Yun that had been tense in her brain for a long time was pulled tightly at this moment, almost broken.
"Tell me to go, they're coming!"
Xu Zhilan threw out the golden long whip in his hand, defeated the rushing monster, and pulled Xiao Zhimiao up from the ground.
An assassination puppet monster pounced towards Xiao Zhimiao, and the mutilated puppet that had been standing aside to guide them stood in front of Xiao Zhimiao.
The mutilated puppet is slashed by the scythe in the puppet's hand, revealing the cotton wool in its body, and the hood it is wearing is also scratched to shreds.
Xiao Zhimiao immediately came back to her senses, and pulled her bow and shot an arrow at the face of this stick insect-like puppet monster.
The stick insect puppet was disemboweled by a magic arrow.
After Xiao Zhilan threw out another whip, Xiao Zhimiao then shot out a magic arrow, which stored enough magic elements to blow up a group of puppet monsters in front of them, and the puppet monsters couldn't catch it for a while.
This arrow consumed a lot of Xiao Zhimiao's mana, and she could see that the gray part of the mana bar had advanced to the red part by a third.
She also only has 30 points of stamina.
She had already consumed a lot of her physical strength by running to the cemetery with Xu Zhilan before, and these 30 points of physical strength were at most enough for her to return to the hotel with this group of puppet monsters.
Xiao Zhimiao took a deep breath, turned her head to look at her brother's tombstone again, and suppressed the emotions in her heart.
After she has passed this copy, she will check this matter carefully, if her brother is really buried in this copy for her, then she will have to find a way to get the resurrected soul bead anyway.
Xiao Zhimiao retracted her gaze, and inadvertently glanced at the broken doll next to her, the doll that led them over to find the round tombstone had been scratched into tatters, it turned to look at Xiao Zhimiao, revealing a face that Xiao Zhimiao was extremely familiar with.
Xiao Zhimiao's eyes widened slightly, this puppet is ...... Carthus?