Volume 2: The Game of Zero Chapter 13 Fright
Ning He glanced at the star bracelet in his hand:
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[Player's Name: Ning He.] γ
[Number of Star Crown Fragments Owned: 0.] γ
[Storyline cracked: 0%. γ
[World Level: 1.] γ
[Ability: Vision.] γ
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[World Sequence: One.] γ
[Faction: Io, Douglas Adams.] γ
[World Key Patchwork: 25%.] γ
They went through a day and a night of hunting, and the progress of the world key patchwork increased by five percent.
In addition to Ning He, Lin Ling also glanced down at the Star Bracelet, she frowned slightly, and also found the patchwork problem of the world key. She was a little displeased, they almost paid with their lives, but in the end they had increased their progress by five percent, and they had stopped at the castle for a moment and exchanged ideas with each other, but from nothing they had increased by twenty percent, one fifth!
Douglas had already noticed the silver-white luster bracelet on the stranger's hand, and he asked with some curiosity, "What are you guys here?" β
He gestured to their wrists.
Ning He was stunned for a moment, his gaze came out of the Xingchen bracelet, and he looked at Zhu Yaotang.
Zhu Yaotang smiled slightly, and had already thought of the wording, "When we came here, this bracelet was already on our hands. β
"What are you looking at? Can you see something from this bracelet? β
Douglas was very keen, he stared closely at Zhu Yaotang's left hand, the bracelet with a metallic luster, and he even had the urge to reach out and touch it.
"Maybe, maybe not." Zhu Yaotang smiled noncommittally, "These things won't affect you, so why should you dig deeper." β
Douglas nodded silently, he had tried to get the Outlander's bracelet before, but to no avail. When strangers die, the bracelets they wear will dissolve automatically, and they cannot be removed while they are alive, even if they do it themselves.
The thing that strangers called the "Star Bracelet" was like a deep embedded flesh and could not be removed.
Douglas was a little jealous, people will always be curious and afraid of the unknown.
"Okay, I just went to find someone to prepare some equipment, let's act together at midnight tonight, this is the map of White Lamb Town." As he spoke, Douglas pulled out a roll of torn and dusty parchment from his body and spread it out on the table.
The parchment is not small, taking up half of the entire desktop, and there are many irregular shapes and lines depicted on it, surrounded by dense text notes that are as thin as ants.
"The map is a little damaged, after all, there is nothing to use, my people have been looking for a long time in the town library to find this volume, now the periphery has expanded a lot, but the town area in the center should not have changed much." Douglas explained with a little annoyance, "In the Kingdom of Io, this kind of city map is required to be drawn every three years, and there must be at least five copies, three of which are kept in the local lord, church and library, and the remaining two copies are sent to the royal capital, one is handed over to the royal family for safekeeping, and the other is stored in the national library. β
"This map... It's a few years......" Ning He looked at the parchment scroll, which was a little blurry in the picture, and whispered.
"These bastards." Douglas scolded, he was also very helpless, drawing maps is such a thing as labor, the reason why the three-year system is because of the amount of work and fees to understand this matter. In addition to the city plan, the kingdom map requires that the terrain around the town be included. Through the map, the royal family can learn about the development of various places, and some fast-growing lords often take measures to balance the power of the kingdom, so many lords are not concerned about updating the map, or even intentionally ignore it.
It has long been the norm for many cities to hand in outdated maps, and as long as the reviewers are bribed, the kingdom does not have the energy to check them one by one. Over time, the provision of map updates has gradually become a formality, feeding many people on this line, but it has not played a role.
Douglas didn't bother to explain the way to the strangers, and he quickly skipped it after scolding.
Look at the map, look at the map.
This is a detailed map of the town of White Lamb, next to the square in the center of the town is a separate church building of the Church of Light, which occupies a large area, and is separated from the surrounding housing area by the street, and it is troublesome to get close to it during the day without being obtrusive.
"Here." Douglas pointed to the north of the Church of Light on the map, where there was an extended shantytown, and Ning He's gaze followed Douglas's finger swipe, extending from a corner of the shantytown to the southwest corner of the town, where the poor ghetto of White Lamb Town took on a diffuse shape from the center outward.
Douglas pointed out where they were, a street next to the shantytown in the southwest corner, separated by a wall from the shantytown.
"At night we went into the shantytown, along the shantytown road into the center of the town and then into the church. According to the intelligence, the Church of Light was lit up all night last night, and there were people busy inside all the time, and there were samurai patrols from the church outside. β
"And what about these samurai?" Zhu Yaotang frowned slightly, he didn't hear anything substantive about this plan.
"Someone will make trouble in the town to help us get their attention, and the defenders of White Lamb Town and the people of the church will be drawn there." Douglas smiled confidently.
Zhu Yaotang looked at his smile and frowned deeper, "Are you sure they will all be attracted over?" Are you reliable in White Lamb? β
"I'm looking for the Adams family's informant in White Lamb Town, and tonight's operation equipment was also prepared by them, without going through the hands of outsiders."
Zhu Yaotang nodded hesitantly, he had a conjecture, but looking at Douglas's confident appearance, he still didn't say it in the end.
The sun was setting in the west, the sky was getting dark, the sky was golden, and Ning He was standing in the courtyard, this was their second night in the One World.
"How's the preparation going?" Zhu Yaotang walked out of a room, he had already changed into a black night walking suit, holding a long sword with a flickering cold light in his hand, and two short daggers pinned to his waist.
Ning He looked at the uncle, "Hmm." β
He had also changed into a black night suit by this time.
It didn't take long for Lin Ling to come quite far, and she looked very neat and heroic when she changed into a night dress and pulled her hair up.
The last to arrive was Douglas, who pushed the door in, followed by five fierce-looking strong men.
"They're from my family, and they'll be in charge of picking us up tonight."
Douglas introduced, and he nodded in satisfaction with the three of them, at least as if it looked like that was the case.
Night has fallen, and midnight has arrived.
On the street separated from the shantytown, a closed gate was quietly opened, and four figures flashed out of it, and Douglas, who was in the lead, led the three of them to the low wall of a laneway that had been prepared long ago.
The four of them climbed over the low wall in turn and entered the shanty town.
The moon stars are scarce, and the pouring moonlight forms patches of light on the potholed road through the roof of the shed, and the speed of the four of them is not fast, except for taking care of Lin Ling, it is more to avoid causing too much movement.
The shanty town is no more complex than other areas of the town, and even at midnight, Ning He can hear the faint sound of laughter and scolding. In the shantytowns, the people who had toiled all day had already fallen asleep, and the nightlife of the ruffians had only just begun, and many dark transactions were going on under such moonlight that no one paid attention to the movements of the four.
It's not uncommon for people dressed like them to be seen here, and many have never left White Lamb Town in their entire lives, and it's a whole world for them.
The kingdom of Io, the adjacent empires, and the continental wars are all too far away.
Ning He followed Douglas in front, and the shantytown exit to the center of the town was already close at hand.
At this moment, Douglas stopped in a hurry, Ning He followed, he stretched out his head to look at the exit in front of him, his pupils shrank, and his hand unconsciously pressed on the sword covered by his robe. Two fires lined the road at the exit, and several men in white robes and swords stood by the flickering of the firelight.
"Samurai of the local church."
Zhu Yaotang, who was behind the mat, also discovered the situation in front of him, his eyes narrowed slightly, the level here should be set up temporarily. In the moonlight, Douglas's face was extremely ugly.
"Five... They shouldn't have armor, we can ......," Douglas said reluctantly, interrupted by Zhu Yaotang.
"Let's find a house facing the street and see if there are any windows facing the center. By the way, how long did you plan the riots? β
"A moment or so." Douglas sweated on his forehead, and he looked at the rows of houses on either side, and saw that one of the houses on the edge of the shantytown was still lit with flickering lights, and a figure was shaking by the window on the second floor. He gritted his teeth and whispered, "Follow me." β
The four quickly approached the house, Douglas drew his dagger and tried to push the door with his other hand.
"Crunchβ"
The door was unlocked, and Ning He breathed a sigh of relief, it was not a good thing to knock on the door late at night.
"Enter!"
Zhu Yaotang looked around vigilantly, and the long sword in his hand was unsheathed. Douglas slowly pushed the door open with a short sword in his hand, and the first floor was pitch black, and the stairs leading to the second floor had a faint light.
Ning and Lin Ling entered in turn, and Zhu Yaotang came in and closed the door.
In the darkness, Ning He's heart was calm, and he turned on his spiritual vision again at this moment, so he saw a different world.
The four of them were standing near the porch behind the door, Ning He moved slightly to look ahead, and he was shocked.
One, two, three!
Douglas should have been alone in front of him, but he saw three dark shadows with blurred outlines in the night!
Inheriting the instinct of crawling and rolling from the street, Ning He did not hesitate, he stepped forward and pulled Douglas sideways, and threw the short sword in his hand directly in front of him.
"Ugh!"
A low snort, followed by heavy back-stepping footsteps.
Douglas and Zhu Yaotang reacted almost at the same time, Douglas directly kicked forward and slammed forward, while Zhu Yaotang opened the door of the house, grabbed Lin Ling's back collar and threw her out like a chick!
Then a wrong step had already come to Ning He's body, and a set of actions were completed in an instant.