On April 8th, the second week of the bloody countdown, it was more than a day before a large public copy of "Polluted Paradise" began.

The surrounding roads have become even more unruly...... Or, to use a more apt adjective –

Uncanny!

On the ground, there are always dots of blood, either in dots or in a long, twisted line, leading to a dark, hidden, unknown alley next to the road.

At the same time, there are many wandering figures on the streets, some of them look numb, some look sneaky, and some have their heads down, so that people can't see their faces clearly, but when they raise their heads, they can see a pair of dangerous eyes, reflecting the evils of this world, like hunters hiding in the dark looking for prey around them.

If you have a good hearing, you can detect a deeper place when you pass by here, as if there is a faint strange noise.

It seems that there is something unknown, hidden in the shadows, chewing and devouring......

According to a forum post, the recent bizarre events are gradually permeating the streets.

There are a lot of players, even the aborigines, who walk and walk and disappear for some reason.

Moreover, compared to the beginning of the week, even during the day, there are many more shadows of activity.

Even if it is a safe area, there are many unknown crises at this moment, and the danger level is a little and a half stars higher than at the beginning of the bloody countdown!

Of course......

All this can be blamed on the Xijiang pollution incident.

Since the launch of the large dungeon, all players have gone to the forums to share what they have seen and heard, and the following major changes have gradually converged:

1. Shortage of resources: The Xijiang River is undrinkable, leading to a violent conflict in the city's system. The Great Depression and the treacherous boss are also frantically laying off employees, and the original group of players with stable careers have all become "unemployed" and are facing an existential crisis.

Although some players dug a canal and refilled a lot of water, it was as if there was a war in just one night.

When the player arrives there, they find that the dug ditch has dried up, and it is unknown who has taken it from a being.

At the bottom of the canal, there are dense corpses scattered in a row, including players and aborigines.

At present, it is impossible to guess who the murderer is for the time being, after all, the aborigines of the strange world will also have the instinct of "seeking advantages and avoiding harm", and may not snatch survival resources from players.

Of course...... Most players prefer that the perpetrators be native, as the repercussions have already spread to the second one.

2. Crisis of trust: In the past few days, some players have found players with resources in the name of cooperation, however, what is actually executed is killing and grabbing resources.

Although it has been confirmed that players cannot explode any special items by killing players, survival resources such as food and water have still become the target of contention in today's extremely scarce situation.

Therefore, a group of murderers are born, often in the name of cooperation, hanging on forums to find allies, in fact, if there is a lone player offline appointment, it is a gang backstabbing.

At present, there is a batch of lists that have been exposed to the forum, but it is clear that this is only the tip of the iceberg of the crime. Moreover, after learning about this mode, it is not necessary that new players will choose to join the gang...... Of course, they may seem to be hunters, but there is a good chance that they will also fall for prey.

As a result, it was originally the players who cooperated to tide over the difficulties, but since this wave of crisis, all players have become more vigilant against their accomplices.

Sometimes, the human heart is more terrible than treachery!

3. Increase in the number of refugees: This group of refugees, both players and natives, are unemployed, hungry and thirsty, and go to the vicinity of the Church of the Sun.

The Church of the Sun has a clear rule - it is forbidden to fight, strife, kill, rob, and steal in the vicinity. Those who disobey will be cursed by the Lord, punished by the scorching sun, and disqualified from walking in the sun.

So, in order to avoid the player's frame-up, as well as the aborigines' backstabbing to seek advantage and avoid harm. The area around the Church of the Sun is an excellent place to take refuge.

It is said that there is also purified holy water, which is safe to drink, and has the effect of rejuvenating and cleaning away diseases, but the price has risen to 100 copper coins to buy a barrel.

Therefore, there is a group of players who are specifically blocking the path of the Burning Sun Church to see if they can intercept some rich people who have gone to buy holy water halfway to kill and rob money.

This "trick" is not limited to the aborigines, but also includes players.

Although it is a non-explosive perk item to kill, there are still copper coins!

This is enough to become a target point for fighting and killing.

Fourth, some of the pioneer elite players began to go to the park in groups.

They have faith, they have a purpose, and they have a sense of salvation in the world. After all, as long as the source of pollution is solved and the original order is restored, then the current chaos may be solved.

Not long ago, this group of players set up a camp near the park, planning to form the first group of raiders to go to the park and explore intelligence, with the intention of gathering the strength of all players to solve the source of the crisis.

Of course...... Who the specific organizers are and the mode of the strategy have not yet been announced.

5. Strange Legends: Recently, there have been more and more strange legends circulating in the forum.

The most typical is that in the dead of night, there is always music from the streets with an ensemble of two instruments.

As soon as they hear this tune, the listener will temporarily lose their ability to manage their emotions, and both the players and the aborigines will be forced to pay for it......

If you are an aborigine, when you regain consciousness, you will find that your pockets have become empty; If it's a player, then you'll find a prompt popping up in the blood-colored phone-

[Congratulations on listening to a wonderful concert, pay twenty copper coins!] 】

Suddenly, music became a hot topic for all players.

They are all speculating, where did such a shameless feature come from?

Could it be the taboo trick that appeared in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River last time?

However, this speculation is still doubtful, because according to the discussion on the forum, the real identity of the Forbidden Trick in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River is a player, and it does not have such a powerful trait for the time being.

At least the taboo in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River, you can still hear the clear suona, and choose whether to listen to the whole music or not.

But this sudden musical trick has no choice at all, and you can't even hear what the specific instrument is playing, and your personal assets disappear inexplicably.

In order to verify this speculation, some players have found a way to capture the existence of this characteristic ability. They organized a large number of gangs, specially guarding the vicinity of the "crime scene", dozens of players are distributed all over the place, with a clear division of labor, and they act separately, intending to arrest this thing when the music plays!

Unfortunately, their actions ended in failure.

According to the revelations of the victim player: even if it is a group group, it will be affected by the music, temporarily forget about yourself, and ignore everything that happens around you.

Followed by......

When they came back to their senses, they didn't even see the shadow of "music tricks", and the money in their pockets was gone.

Even the scarlet phone will send a message about the deduction of the debt!

Many players were still laughing at the unlucky people who harvested their property by the forbidden trick, mocking them for not even being able to circumvent this rule, like a fool. At this moment, they completely broke the defense, and they couldn't help but scold in the public screen, the first time they saw such a disgusting characteristic ability, they were half angry, and said why didn't this characteristic ability belong to themselves?

Gradually, the location of the "crime scene" moved closer to the vicinity of the Burning Sun Church.

The players who were robbing in the vicinity didn't dare to stay here.

was worried that the money he had just robbed was robbed by "music tricks" not long after.

Funnily enough, the area of the Church of the Sun, where fighting is forbidden, has become a gathering place for sin to spread. But this evil was stopped by a greater evil force!

It's just that since the area where the music trick committed the crime came to the vicinity of the Sun Church, it seems to be becoming less and less. I don't know if it's because the players have learned to hide, or if it's for another reason.

As a result, the area around the Church of the Sun was restored to a subtle tipping point.

The folk customs are a bit simple, a little harmonious, but not much......

In front of the church, the wide, semi-circular Romanesque square is full of refugees in ragged clothes and numb looks. They made rudimentary beds out of tattered fabrics, using the sky as a quilt and the earth as a bed, and they slept together in a huddle, and occasionally the lucky ones could receive a drop of holy water from the Church of the Sun to sustain the vitality that was already about to be crippled.

On the 11th of April, the Church of the Burning Sun was crowded as usual, but it was unusually quiet. One by one, figures were in the area of their beds, looking numb, looking up at the sky, staring at the dim sky in a daze, in order to pass the meaningless time. There are even players who have been here for a long time and originally had the appearance of a normal person, but at the moment they have become no different from the aborigines.

Nothing particularly unusual happened on this day, if anything, at the peak of the crowd, when it was so crowded that there was barely room for a liquid cat...... Two more figures appeared.

An old man, a teenager.

The old man held the erhu in his hand, and the young man held the suona in his hand.

"Is this the Church of the Sun?"

Chen Ye stood on the side of the square, looking through the black pressed human head, he could see the white-painted walls of the church and the gilded tiles at the dome, and the pointed arch of the top floor hung a simple bronze bell with a steel rope.

He saw a glass thread, through the [Bloody Mary] in the mountain scroll, connecting the church and connecting himself.

In the halo, star-like glasses gradually converge in a line that leads to the interior of the Church of the Burning Sun.

Nearby, the circle of calamity surrounded by inky black and blood light seemed to become deeper and richer.

But in the distance, the rice-grain-like star exuded a more dazzling brilliance in the wandering recitals...... I don't know if it's an illusion, Chen Ye felt that the golden star seemed to be getting closer and closer to him, no longer so ethereal and illusory, but became solid.

When his figure appeared in the square of the Burning Sun Church, the [Wanderer Map] in his mind suddenly bloomed with a dazzling light again.

Near the square, the streets are crisscrossed like Rome, wide or narrow, like an orderly network connecting the churches in the very center.

The church was built in the deepest part of the arc square, backed by a low hill, and beneath it was a fog.

If you concentrate and zoom in on the details, you will find that in addition to the large hall of the church, there are also layers of attics inside, which seem to constitute a labyrinth of stacked blocks composed of secret rooms.

"Disciple, there are a lot of listeners here, why don't you play a song here, I think we'll get rich!"

The old man of Erhu swept over the black pressed head, his eyes were excited, as if he was counting the copper coins in his pocket.

Chen Ye sighed: "Master, didn't you say that robbery is not allowed near the Lieyang Church?" ”

"yes!"

"Are you sure we're calling it a performance, not a robbery?"

"You have a point......

(End of chapter)