Do people turn into sand when they die?

Aren't those ashes?

Could it be that the whole wailing desert is all made of ashes??

Looking at the old woman with a kind smile, Xia Ling suddenly had goosebumps.

It's not that I'm afraid, it's a chill, and she feels uncomfortable when she thinks that she was half buried in the ashes twice in the book.

Gu Chi took the girl's hand and signaled that she was fine.

This is not a real ashes, but the form of expression is relatively close, grabbing a handful in the hand can feel a fine dry grain, with a smell of dust, even if they were indeed flesh and blood before, now they have become a pinch of yellow sand, there is no strange smell, just don't think about it.

"Do a lot of people die here every year?" Xia Leng asked.

"yes, every year." The old woman said, "However, there is nothing strange about people who live and always die. ”

Xia Leng: "Then why are there so many people in the town?" ”

There was not a single empty room, and there were people living in every room.

"If someone leaves, of course someone comes." The old woman raised her arm to wipe her sweat, and said with a smile: "Look, aren't you coming?" ”

Xia Ling: "??? ”

The implication of these words is too strong, Xia Ling was a little vigilant after hearing the ashes, but when she saw that the old woman meant something, she suddenly became alarmed in her heart, and suddenly took out a dagger, protected Gu Chi behind her, and stared at the old woman directly, it seemed that if there was a slight mistake, she should respect the old and love the young.

But the old woman didn't make any attack, and she didn't care about the cold light in Xia Ling's hand, she just shook her head with a smile and continued to sweep the floor.

She walked out into the street in a staggered manner, her broom sweeping across the uneven pavement with a slight "sizzle" sound.

But there was no sand on the ground.

The more Xia Ling thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong: "If we don't have divinity, and the bell rang as usual last night, shouldn't they sweep our ashes today?" ”

Is the Sand Sweeping Festival a festival for players?

"It's hard to say." Gu Chi remembered that there was no dungeon that only existed for the player, and said, "It's possible that they will die when they hear the bell." ”

It's only because the bell doesn't ring for some reason that these NPCs survive - it's still unclear if they're all alive.

There are no dead people in Town 1, but we won't know what happens to the other towns until we have been there.

"Let's take a look again." Xia Leng said.

Gu Chi nodded: "Hmm." ”

It stands to reason that there should be a lot of clues in such a large urban area with hundreds of thousands of NPCs, but the result is the opposite, they spent most of the day searching all ten towns, and quietly went to the homes of some NPCs to rummage around, but they didn't get any valuable information.

These NPCs will chat with the player, but when it comes to key topics, they don't know anything.

Or just say something ambiguous like an old woman.

The inhabitants of the town only regard the bell as a timekeeping tool, and they don't even know that this world is a prison specially used to imprison them, and even feel that they are living a good life, and they have a feeling of looking down on life and death and enjoying their old age in peace.

"No wonder Lao Litou, they have fought so many times before, and they can't start the mission." Gu Chi sighed.

Not to mention that there is not enough time to be pressed by the bell, and even if there is enough time, there is not much to ask.

The NPCs in each town are sweeping the sand, and they sweep it for a day, and the moss and dirt on the road surface are all cleaned by them.

One or two people sweeping the floor shows that they love to be clean, and people in a town sweeping the floor indicate that the town has a good atmosphere, strong environmental awareness, and can be evaluated, but everyone is sweeping the floor, and the painting style is a bit weird - especially if there is no sand on the ground, and there is no sand in ten towns.

There is no sand in the sand sweeping festival, what else is there to sweep?

Customs?

In the afternoon, the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

It's like staying in the desert for too long, someone has a prop that can measure the temperature, and the temperature hasn't changed much from yesterday, but it's inexplicably hot.

Fortunately, the night is hard to enjoy and the night cat Han and others are well prepared, and there are many players in the logistics force who can use water skills, and they can go out of the water at any time, otherwise they will have to find NPCs if they are thirsty.

At about four o'clock, the group returned to the square of Town 1.

Today, everyone "got up early", and the census operation ended a few hours early, which was very efficient.

There are two teams that are far away and haven't come back yet, but it doesn't affect them to communicate with each other first.

The team leaders gathered together all night and asked, "How is it, have you found anything?" ”

"Today is the Sand Sweeping Festival." Lao Li said, "But there is no sand." ”

Orange Orange couldn't wake up: "Coincidentally, I'm also a sand sweeping festival." ”

Night Cat Han: "I also borrowed a broom and swept it twice, and I didn't feel anything special." ”

Power 39 said inexplicably: "Are they sweeping the sand?" ”

The second-hand dealer took out something like an ancient celestial globe, but it was very small, the sphere was transparent, and a stone slab was embedded inside.

"I found this thing, I don't know what it is for." Second-hand dealers said.

The killer was not too cold and said: "I also took one of this thing, and I have it in many houses over there." ”

All night long, I took it and looked at it, and asked, "What about the others?" ”

Second-hand dealer: "Sweep the sand." ”

The killer is not too cool: "Sweep the sand." ”

Bad Night: "......"

Well, he is also a sand sweeper.

It seems that the clues to the first stage are hidden in the Sand Clearing Festival and this small transparent celestial globe.

Actually enough, because they are now in "God mode".

The goal of the first phase is to "destroy the Dark City".

The goal of the second phase is to "find the old kingdom of God".

Originally, they were supposed to start the first stage of the quest according to the clues, complete the quest, and then get the clues of the second stage, and so on until they cleared the level.

But now that they know the content of the task in advance in another way, their way of thinking has inevitably changed from forward to backward.

The night was unpleasant and he didn t want to care about the dark city and the old kingdom of gods yesterday he didn t let gu chi say that it was because of this that he wanted to rely on himself.

But it turns out that he can never rely on himself.

People always subconsciously think in the right direction, and the concepts of the Dark City and the Old Kingdom of God have been engraved in his mind, and he can't help but think about it completely, which leads to a sharp decrease in the difficulty of the entire first stage of the game, and completely loses the sense of accomplishment and fun of decryption.

"Don't you wonder why the town is full of people?" Orange asked.

Xia Leng had asked this question before, but she had already figured it out.

"These NPCs are a bit weird too." The second-hand dealer said, "Yesterday we slept together, today we swept the floor together, like a bunch of programmed robots, working at the point and resting at the point." ”

But they were indeed living people, and had natural joys and sorrows, and when he went to steal the celestial globe, he was scolded by the owner and chased him for several streets.

"It's supposed to be real people." Lao Li Tou said that he was still relatively confident in this judgment.

The night was hard to see: "So sure? ”

Lao Li Tou said seriously: "Because they will blush." ”

Everyone: "......"

So what the hell is you spying on?

Power 39 said: "I agree with Lao Li Tou's opinion, this is not like the horizon. ”

Or maybe not like a tech world.

The fact that a bell can turn a person into yellow sand, is full of metaphysics inside and out, and the townspeople believe in the gods, this is the information that you have received before, you just have to ask, "Aren't you afraid of the insects outside?" ”

All we get are the same answer: "The gods will bless us." ”

None of the gods will be spoken.

Power 39 can only be known through the jailer, and there must be a god of violence here.

Of course, it is not entirely impossible for gods and technology to coexist, and Morning Stars has this trend.

The night was unbearable and sighed: "I gave up, anyway, the clue points are already in hand, let's go directly to the third stage." ”

Orange Orange: "Huh? ”

Kizuka was puzzled: "Just a ball and a sand clearing festival, are you sure you have enough?" ”

Not to mention getting 100% of the clue scores, at least you must be able to deduce the goal of the first stage, right?

The night was hard to overcome: "It's already been able to be launched." ”

Kiru Ruka: "? ”

The night was unpleasant: "Didn't Orange Orange just say that the number of people is wrong?" ”

"It's really not right." "Didn't you notice that there were no children in the town?" ”

If the sand of this desert is really full of ashes, then I don't know how many people died, this town should have been empty a long time ago, how could it be that every room was occupied?

The second-hand dealer seemed to understand something: "So someone must regularly replenish the ashes resources for these towns?" ”

Looking at the flowers in the fog: "Then where did these people come from?" ”

The night was unpleasant: "Dark City." ”

The correct answer, of course, is not the Dark City, it should be the Old Kingdom of God.

But as soon as they analyzed the place, they would surely search the Wailing Desert again to see where they could hide people.

If you can't find it during the day, then look for it at night, and it's only a matter of time before you find the Dark City.

As soon as you enter the Dark City, you should be able to start the first stage of the mission.

And what is the connection between the dark city and the old kingdom of God, the city is destroyed by them, and the old kingdom of God will react, and then they will find that the dark city is the wrong answer, and it cannot solve the question of "where do people come from", they will inevitably continue to search, just in time to meet the jailer who came to check the situation.

The ideal outcome is to capture him alive, extract some information from the jailer's mouth, and start the second phase of the mission.

It doesn't matter if you can't ask, because once you meet the jailer, "where did the person come from" becomes "where did the jailer come from", and they can completely follow the vine and find out where the jailer came from, and the task is still "??? to complete the task.

Combined with this strange celestial globe, as well as the simple guess that "the old kingdom of God was buried under the sand" and the appearance of "the jailer came out of the sand", it is easy to think that this world is not a spherical shape, but a real round sky.

The stone tablet in the middle of the celestial globe, one side represents the wailing desert, and the other side represents the old kingdom of God.

That's probably the way the strategy process for the first and second phases is.

Gu Chi, who had not spoken, was suddenly shocked: "You are so smart!" ”

Orange almost laughed, she knew that Gu Chi had already sorted everything out, and she repeated with a smile: "You are so smart!" ”

Everyone: "You're so smart! ”

Bad Night: "......"

Clever fart!

All this reasoning is based on already knowing the objectives of the mission.

In other words, Gu Chi is like a teacher, who comes up with a question, tells them the answer, and then lets them do the math by themselves.

Is it difficult?

It's not difficult at all!

Not only is it not difficult to decrypt, but the exploration and combat process are also omitted.

You must know that every brick and tile in the dark city cannot be touched, and it is very thrilling to carefully touch into the city in the middle of the night, no matter what you do, once you successfully complete the task, the sense of accomplishment is absolutely overwhelming, but the fact is that they were specially taken by Gu Chi and lay down to pass the first two stages......

Although it was very relaxed, it did not prevent the night from being unhappy and looking at Gu Chi with a resentful gaze.

That look looks like an unsatisfied little resentful woman.

I couldn't stay up all night and felt that my happiness was stolen by Gu Chi.

Gu Chi coughed lightly: "I personally think that it is more important to clear customs." ”

This matter can't be relied on by him, it's purely a copy of deliberately touching porcelain, doesn't he also lose the joy of deciphering?

It's all to blame for Xiao Po You!

"So he's right?" Orange asked Gu Chi.

Gu Chi: "Hmm. ”

Eight or nine is not far from ten.

This is why he said yesterday to let Xia Ling sleep under the bed.

This world is a very peculiar "board", they are above, the old gods are below, and gravity on both sides is towards the ground.

It's not enough to just dig the sand, you have to break through the "bottom shell".

For a group of top players, this shouldn't be a difficult task, but they don't know the correspondence between the Wailing Desert and the old kingdom of God, and if they accidentally dig into the face of the shadow of the old god, they will die violently, so the safest way is to find the passage of the jailer - this should also be one of the "clues" in the first two stages.

"So what are you waiting for?" Orange Orange is eager to try, "Rush rush!" ”

So, everyone didn't eat dinner, and when the last two teams came back, the whole group followed Gu Chi to the place where the jailer appeared yesterday.

Dig straight!

Hundreds of people each found a good position, six or seven meters apart from each other, like a large phalanx, waved their tools, and dug a big pit in this area in three or two clicks.

The sand piled up outside the pit has visibly turned into small dunes, and the sand level in the pit is getting lower and lower.

After all, there are only a few people who care about the game experience like Sleepless Night, and they agree with Gu Chi's point of view more.

Just kidding, how important is the game experience to be the first pass?

At this juncture, players across the country are paying close attention to the dust deathknell, and the official has also issued a bounty, if they can clear the customs this wave, they will be able to title the gold list on the spot.

Everyone is a first-echelon player, plus the title and reward of SS first pass, who can't respectfully shout the big guy when they see it?

Isn't this much more comfortable than the so-called wilderness opening experience?

Like Power 39 and Orange Orange, they have long seen it.

Have they ever had a gaming experience since they met Gu Chi?

Nothing, non-existent.

They can only be Gu Chi's gaming experience.

It's better to lie down in peace and wait for the Emperor's father to take them to fly.

"Eh, I seem to have found a passage, come and have a look!"

Soon, a female player shouted excitedly.

She put the wind magic on the spear, attached a spiral wind blade to the tip of the spear, not so much digging as drilling, the speed was several times faster than others, the little brother next to her only dug two or three meters deep, she was about to drill a well, everyone only heard her voice, but did not see anyone.

Everyone gathered around to take a look, only to find that the girl with a face full of yellow sand was quickly climbing up to avoid falling into the passage.

The bottom of the "well" is still filled with sand, but this layer of sand is very thin, and it is vaguely visible that there is a round smooth crystal plane buried underneath.

The crystal surface is flowing with light and emitting a faint light, like a crystal ball that has been flattened.

"Well done." The night was hard to pat the female gamer's shoulder and praised.

Orange Orange poked her head over and said, "Seems a little narrow?" ”

The entrance to the passage is not much larger than the manhole cover, and even if it goes down vertically, it can only pass a few people at a time.

"This should be a portal on the mysterious side, right?" The second-hand dealer looked at the crystal surface and pondered, "With the addition of screening techniques to shield the sand, only the sand is not surpassed?" ”

If it is a passage in the physical sense, it is too small, there are hundreds of thousands of residents in the town, and a few of them come up, and it is not possible to make up a wave of ashes for a year or two?

"Just try it." After all night, he looked at Gu Chi, "You're coming?" ”

It is likely that there are guards on the other side of the portal, and among the thousands of them, only Gu Chi has the ability to open the way.

"What's the need to trouble my Heavenly Emperor brother." Lao Li Tou said, "Let Power 39 go!" ”

Power 39: "? ”

The Emperor brothers are brothers, and the Jiu'er brothers are not brothers, right?

Lao Li Toule said: "Look at your dress, don't you just go back to report the news?" ”

One came out before, and one will go back now, just to steal the beams and change the pillars, and break into the enemy's interior.

Gu Chi was also happy, why didn't he think of this stubble?

If you think about it for two seconds, this is most likely a serious way to do it.

Power 39: "? ”

"Report your sister, I don't look like him anymore."

"It's easy."

Gu Chi snapped his fingers and said, "Change." ”

"Huh!"

Force 39 immediately had a few more black tattoos on his face, and his appearance changed, highlighting a wild and violent man, almost exactly like yesterday's jailer.

Power 39: "??? ”

Lao Li Tou was overjoyed: "Look, the Emperor brothers have personally helped you, are you embarrassed to shirk?" ”

"Since ancient times, undercover agents have been the first merit, and they have a share."

"Moreover, you don't want to disappoint the Emperor brothers, do you?"

"Stop talking, go you!"

Lao Li kicked the power 39 with a kick.

Boom!

From the bottom of the well came the roar of Power 39.

"Uncle Li, old dog!"

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