Volume II: The Ferryman

Dark clouds enveloped the entire Linjiang City, and the drizzling rain hit the transparent glass shop windows, and the water droplets crawled through the windows, leaving traces that were winding like snakes.

The rain is no longer bloody, but normal.

In Linjiang City, where there is almost no sunshine, such a scene seems to be normal for a long time.

In the dim light, Chen Ye crossed Erlang's legs, leaned on the sofa, crossed his hands, and his deep pupils seemed to reflect a faint blood light.

He seemed to be looking at something in front of him, thinking intently.

But there was nothing in front of him, only cheese-smeared, delicious-looking cakes, neatly arranged in the surrounding windows.

Under the warm lighting, there is a bit of warmth and atmosphere.

"Master, I'm coming!"

Suddenly, a clear voice in the distance, in the form of a gray mist mass, rushed over in a frizzy manner.

The gray mist then outlined the feather strings wearing the mask of tengu and stepping on clogs, and jumped out of the gray mist air mass, with a shy and flattering smile, looking at Chen Yedao:

"Ahem, master, can I start eating?"

Chen Ye's body didn't move, but his eyes turned over and glanced at Yu Xian with a strange amplitude, and the whole person was motionless like a wax sculpture.

"That'...... Am I moving? ”

Yu Xian glanced at Chen Ye with some weakness, feeling a sense of oppression from his somewhat abnormal behavior.

Chen Ye didn't say anything more, just nodded his head in a slight and invisible way.

After gaining the owner's approval, Feather String carefully took a piece of cake from the window and began to chew it carefully.

I didn't even dare to make the usual sound of chirping.

While eating, he secretly leaned towards Chen Ye with his spare eyes, and found that the other party's eyes were deviated at a strange oblique angle, looking at him squarely!

This gaze ...... Inexplicably, it made Yu Xian's heart feel a burst of hair!

The cake in my mouth has become unfragrant.

He wondered what had gone wrong with his head. Or is the host not in a good mood? It can't be evil, right?

But after a while, Yu Xian found that Chen Ye's gaze was not actually looking at him.

To be precise......

It's like staring at something behind you!

Feather String shuddered suddenly, as if something was peeking into his secret, and he moved his body slightly to look behind him......

A delicious cake with a faint reflection on the window in the warm light.

Other than that, there is nothing......

Yu Xian was stunned for a moment, wondering if he was too suspicious, after all, that adult is usually like this.

The master must have the demeanor of the master!

Perhaps, this master, who looks only slightly older than himself, is also learning to take out the posture of being a qualified master, right?

In fact.

Chen Ye was indeed looking at Yu Xian.

But to be precise, it should be looking at the blood-colored words around Yu Xian, which are gradually condensed from sticky blood.

[Heh, the demon who kills two birds with one stone, the interest is very high today! 】

[Licking the dog's mouth, the tongue is fast and dexterous, no wonder he can serve the two masters at the same time. 】

[It's no wonder that I have gained benefits from the two masters and have become more and more confident. 】

That's right!

This blood-colored text is the exclusive talent that Chen Yexin has obtained.

Combined with the Pupil of Qi Luck, he saw that the aura energy of the feather string had indeed become stronger than before.

And......

The purple lines were thicker and more conspicuous, which meant that the feather strings were constantly swallowing the devil's cuisine, and their energy was increasing.

The information given by the blood-colored text has a certain value.

Part of the energy of the feather string does come from itself.

But if that's all it takes...... I'm afraid it's hard to achieve such a fast rate of progress.

This means that there is another part of the energy of the feather string, which comes from his original other master.

Present a bone ring that can penetrate the wall to help Chen Ye enter the owner of the broadcasting building.

"Feather String."

Chen Ye suddenly called.

"Master, what do you command?"

The moment he heard the call, Yu Xian suddenly stopped chewing, and stood up with a solemn expression, looking like he was going to stick a knife in his ribs and sacrifice his life to help him at any time.

"Who am I yours?" Chen Ye suddenly asked.

Yu Xian replied almost without thinking, "Of course you are my most honorable master!" ”

"Hey......

"You're the best for me!"

That harmless and flattering smile, combined with this white and plain face, is really hard to make people feel disgusted.

"This mouth is really clever enough!" Chen Ye sighed silently.

It seems that the information given by the blood-colored text is still very accurate!

Since almost 90 percent of the first two items are correct, only the remaining ones "have benefited from the two masters" is difficult to verify......

But that's enough proof that the Scarlet Text will give the right message.

It's just that in its own unique way, the presentation is given.

As for whether the receiver can interpret it accurately, it has nothing to do with the text itself.

In addition, Chen Ye's gaze moved up slightly, looking at the 'snake hair cream cake' placed in the window display case.

[The cake is beautiful, but it's ugly. 】

[It's delicious to eat, but it's hard to eat. 】

[The cake maker is really not a person! 】

If it is an ordinary player who sees the description of the blood-colored text, he must definitely turn black and wonder what this thing is talking nonsense?

What about playing contradictory literature on the shelf?

But Chen Ye knows that such a statement is actually quite accurate for the "snake hair cream cake" he carefully developed.

Wrapped in cream on the outside, it looks exquisite.

However, with just a few more bites, the snake inside will pop out and scare you!

From this point of view, Chen Ye's cake is indeed very beautiful, but it is also ugly.

Cream, which generally gives the impression to players, is sweet.

However......

The cream of the strange era, but with a very thick fishy smell, is not very tasty.

It needs to be paired with specific ingredients to be delicious.

Therefore, if you just bite into the outer layer of cream, you will feel very nauseous and nauseated, and you will not want to eat it after a few bites.

But if you eat it with snake hair and mushrooms inside, it will have a unique flavor.

It's really delicious, but it's also hard to eat.

Only the description of the last sentence made Chen Ye feel a little impolite.

Of course.

If you think about what it looks like to be a "devil chef" and make a meal, it's really hard to call it a "human"!

"Am I going to come up with this thing now whenever I look at anything?"

Chen Ye smiled bitterly, looking at the exclusive talent he had unlocked, he didn't know whether to laugh three times or cry three times.

It's a very useful talent.

However, it is everywhere, as soon as you see something, relevant words will pop up.

It's like a scene reflected in the pupils, there will always be a large barrage floating by, which is very obscuring the view!

It's hard to see even things.

Moreover, this thing still comes out in the form of blood, which is strange and infiltrating.

I'm always staring at this thing, and I'm uncomfortable.

But there is another convenient use for scarlet writing......

As Chen Ye's mind moved, the blood-colored words gradually formed a panel-

【Dashboard】

Player: Chen Ye

Identity: [Ferryman], [Devil Chef]

Spiritual Objects: [Wanderer's Map], [Sun Prayer Scroll], [White Flute], [Spirit Sea Fishing]

Personal assets: "36 gold coins, 166 silver coins 1253515 copper coins"

Property: 50 sqm

Title Aura: Grave Head Performance

Exclusive Talents: Pupil of Luck, Blood Character Research

Warpy Value: ???

Clear the game: 2

Class Traits –

1. Ferryman: [Voice of the Ferry] + [Gate of the Other Side] + [Soul Swing] + [Business Thoughts]

2. Devil Chef: [Devil Cuisine] + [Demon Devour] + [Demon Mask] + [Horror Blind Box]

3. Other characteristics: [Parasitic Title Deed], [Forbidden Tentacles], [Lucky Pitcher]

…………

At this time, Chen Ye's exclusive talent has a new talent-

【Scarlet Character Research】

This is Chen Ye's exclusive talent this month.

Wherever you look at something, blood-colored words appear, like an enigmator in an abstract way.

It seems that I have to study the mysteries hidden in these blood-colored words in order to know what the specific information is described.

In addition, [Blood Character Research] also has a special function -

That is, you can project the text on the screen of the blood-colored mobile phone into the field of vision directly in front of you.

Manipulating with the mind.

Not only can you open the personal panel, but you can also send messages smoothly, hang out on the forum, blow water on the public screen, and browse what items are newly listed in the [Weird Black Market].

This function is quite convenient, at least you don't need to take out your bloody phone, you can operate it.

I don't know if it's because the text on the blood-colored screen is also blood-colored, so it can echo each other's exclusive talent of [Scarlet Character Research].

As for Chen Ye's personal assets, copper coins are one million more.

The 1,000,000 was actually the copper coins collected from the players after the "All Living Concerts" were held.

After all, this is a concert that covers the entire city, and the amount of copper coins earned is of course extremely high!

With the exception of a few penniless homeless people, millions of copper coins have been taken from players.

On average, each listener pays one copper coin as a performance fee.

The unit price is not very high......

This should be due to the fact that Chen Ye's performance was completed in the form of "online", not offline face-to-face performance, so the performance fee charged is not very high.

If you think about it, it's normal.

A celebrity's song only costs three yuan at most on the online platform, but the tickets for concerts often cost hundreds or thousands.

The unit price of playing "online" in the weird era is much better than that of the stars of the old era.

At last......

Chen Ye's gaze fell on the strange value that turned into a question mark.

He's not alone.

Through the discussion on the public screen and the forum, the weird values of all players have become question marks.

It's like it's completely invalid......

After all, the bonus brought by the weird value is only more obvious for some classes.

But the specific improvement is still very vague.

And...... The weird value is only displayed on the screen of the blood-colored phone, and is used to represent the value of the month's growth.

However, it is not particularly obvious where the growth is.

"Is it just a month's worth of competitive games?" Chen Ye frowned and groaned secretly.

But if it's just that simple, then the "weird value" should be the same as the "governance value", and it will disappear when the list is settled.

However, each player's personal panel still leaves strange values.

It's just that...... The following values are not displayed and become question marks?

It's a bit of a counterintuitive.

At this time, Chen Ye's heart moved, and the 'good luck dice' appeared in the palm of his red glove.

That's when ......

Chen Ye's spiritual power suddenly came with a special feeling.

It seems that there is some kind of traction energy, binding itself to the characteristics of the fate sequence.

Since playing yesterday's "All Living Beings Concert", Chen Ye has clearly felt that his connection with the entire City of Destiny has become closer.

Every time he closed his eyes, he perceived as if there were countless indescribable, inscrutable, incomprehensible beings, lurking in the city, buried deep in the ground, or above the heavens......

This kind of feeling seems to be something that other players don't have, but when the weird value becomes a question mark, such special feelings often invade Chen Ye and make him feel inexplicably uneasy spiritually.

Chen Ye's intuition told him that the influence of the weird value still exists, but it is likely to be in a form that players can't understand!

What exactly is going on......

He recalled the sense of déjà vu that Bai Chen had said, thought for a moment, and finally let out a long sigh and gave up.

When the person is not enough, thinking about these things that are beyond oneself will do more harm than good.

According to the laws of the strange era, the smaller you are, the more you should not go beyond what you shouldn't know.

At the moment, the most important thing is to improve your strength as soon as possible, find the promotion materials of the fourth turn of [Ferryman], and determine the follow-up promotion sequence with [Devil Chef]!

Chen Ye plans to roll the 'good luck dice' again to see what the recent important events will correspond to.

As the dice are rolled up, they fall back to the ground......

Da-da-da-da!

The moment the dice fell to the ground, it made a crisp sound, rolled a few times quickly, and suddenly stood on it in a strange posture!

"3" and "4" are at angles, almost simultaneously upwards.

After a while, the dice lost their balance and automatically landed on the number "4".

"In other words, the next incident for me is related to the spiritual numbers three and four, and finally falls back to the fourth ......"

Chen Ye rubbed his chin and tried to interpret the dice that appeared more peculiar this time.

At that moment, the blood-colored text appeared in front of him again, curling above the dice.

【Luck?】 Something that the weak believe! 】

[But it's okay to believe in luck.] 】

[It is the whole, and it is also a part of it. 】

"Here we go again!"

"Exclusive Riddle ...... of Scarlet Writing"

Chen Ye complained in his heart, his eyes focused on the newly appeared blood-colored words, and he suddenly frowned and studied it carefully.

The description that appears this time is even more abstract!

Thereinto.

The first two sentences are very contradictory.

It is also a mockery of believing in luck, and understanding the reason for believing in luck......

What does the last "it" refer to?

What is the whole, and what are the parts?

Chen Ye was suddenly a little confused, and it was difficult to understand what the bloody words wanted to express.

But it's normal, after all, I just saw a 'good luck dice', and it was completely whimsical to expect an exclusive talent to solve the puzzle of the entire City of Destiny!

"Ding!"

At this moment, a prompt sound came from the blood-colored phone.

Chen Ye habitually took out the blood-colored mobile phone in his pocket, but his right hand stagnated in mid-air, and he was suddenly stunned.

That's right!

Didn't I have the talent of Scarlet Studies?

You only need to move your mind to open the panel, and what are you doing with wasting your energy to take your phone out?

Adhering to the principles of energy saving, convenience, courage to try and get used to the latest operations, Chen Ye communicated the bloody text with his mind and opened the information list.

Lines of cumbersome words, in that familiar tone, are presented in the center of Chen Ye's vision.

[Wang Jing: "Hahaha, big guy, I didn't expect you to really kill Hua Shao's thing!" ”】

[Wang Jing: "Hmph! The frogs at the bottom of the well in the forum always look down on the boss and think that you have no chance to kill the other side. ”】

[Wang Jing: "Now that group of players are completely dumb, the forums have been blowing you recently, it's so cool to watch!] ”】

Chen Ye suddenly felt that compared to Yu Xian, this was the real dexterous mouth...... No, to be precise, it should be a stormy mouth.

It's not an ordinary lick!

Compared with Wang Jing, the tongue of the feather string is as green as a clumsy rookie.

[Chen Ye: "By the way, how are you doing?" ”】

[Wang Jing: "It's still the same as always, but now this store is not only doing tasting, but also starting to do catering, and the business is better than it was at the beginning." ”】

[Chen Ye: "Are you interested in coming to work in my shop?"] ”】

Wang Jing: "What? Big guy? I have the opportunity to work under you. ”】

[Chen Ye: "Well, I will give you a salary of 200 copper coins every day, and I will pay it every day, until you don't want to do it." ”】

[Wang Jing: "Big guy, don't talk about salary, even if I work for free, hehe, I'll follow you in the future!" ”】

[Chen Ye: "Okay...... Free these impractical things, then think about it, you can come to the No. 5 shop on West Street 3rd Road when you have time, there should be no danger in this neighborhood. ”】

[Wang Jing: "Okay! Big guy waiting for me! I'm going to clean up the shop, it's a little late today, and I'll probably be there tomorrow. ”】

[Chen Ye: "Well, you can just come over when you have time." ”】

After finishing the communication, Chen Ye looked out of the West Street, and some of the shadows that gradually appeared in the gallery.

The nearby shops are transparently lit, but most of them are hung with curtains, so you can only see the vague wheel corridor inside, and you can't see what exactly is, ensuring a certain degree of privacy.

After all, most of the owners of these shops have already been rented by players.

Right now......

This park is going to be turned into a player's paradise once and for all!

After a period of adaptation, players have a relationship in the park.

The traffic on the pedestrian street gradually increased.

In addition to the players, there seem to be some aboriginal figures coming and going.

The honest restaurant that runs by itself is estimated to welcome a group of customers.

Wang Jing's stupid boy doesn't have much thought, he can still be recruited to help him look after the store.

Chen Ye does not intend to give up the revenue of the physical store.

After all......

This month's list has become a new list-

[Assets rise on the list! ] 】

(End of chapter)