Chapter 021: Stone Ridge Small Fishing Village
All right!
After a long period of psychological struggle, Wen Bin wandered back and forth for 30 million years in the feeling of 'drunk life and dream death' (here it specifically refers to the feeling of 'living like a year', 1 second of reality = 3 million years of feeling), and finally realized that if he couldn't overcome all kinds of difficulties and complete this Laoshzi task smoothly, then he (including Xiaoqing) would not want to leave this ghost place on time.
If you can't leave this ghost place on time, then you'll have to think about the 'Immortal Dao Martial Arts Conference' for a long time, and you will have to lose sight of this situation.
Well, if that's the case, it's too bad!
Wen Bin thought about it and couldn't help but sigh:
Is this for Maoli?
Anyway, I paid so much for tomorrow's 'Immortal Dao Martial Arts Conference', and I deliberately calculated the time so tightly, lest there be a mistake, but I didn't expect it to be a tragedy in the end.
Alas, alas!
Now there is only one perfect plan: that is, to do your best to do the task of "Princess Qingjiao's Rescue Diary", and then bring Xiaoqing back.
After bringing it back, I immediately left the 'Floating Life Palace' to return to reality ('Once bitten by a snake for ten years afraid of the well rope' rhythm, this is... Back to reality, after Xiao Jing woke up from his coma, he directly asked Senior Brother Luo to use the teleportation array to send the two of us to the scene of the 'Immortal Dao Martial Arts Conference', so as not to have too many dreams at night~
Although the teacher can also set up a formation to teleport, but it is not easy to explain after the end of the matter if the name is not correct and the words are not good...... What's more. He is like me now, and he doesn't know the specific location of the 'Immortal Dao Martial Arts Competition' at all, even if he has the heart, he is not strong enough!
In this way, it is better to please Senior Brother Luo.
That is, the name is justified, and after arriving at the scene, it is naturally excellent to be able to get his help to play a round.
By that time......
Hmmm, think too much, think too much!
I should think more carefully about how to bring that 'brainless' stupid girl back from this hellish place~
Next...
"Let's go. It's been so long since I've rested too. Let's hurry up and move on according to the instructions of the mission!"
"Huh?"
Xiao Jing was so surprised at this: "Xiaowen, why do you seem to have suddenly changed as a person?"
β......β
"What about Mao?"
β... It's not all your fault, you're embarrassed to say it!"
"What about Mao?"
"It's not for Mao~" Wen Bin was really depressed. simply reached out and pulled her: "Let's go, let's go." So much nonsense!"
"What about Mao?"
β......β
A certain article is impressed by her persistence & persistence. Decide to stick to silence is golden.
So the two held hands and continued on the road.
After walking along the river for about ten minutes, I finally saw a small village with a considerable scale.
Half of the land is cultivated by the mountains, and half is fished by the water.
None of this is surprising.
What surprised Wen Bin the most was that. Not far from the small village (diagonally upward), a small circular dam was built in the shape of a 'three-tiered staircase' with slender white stones.
In that case, it should be about one-third the size of an ordinary farmer's house.
At the lower edges, there are also unique low fortresses, which look like those of the frontier cities.
The fortress is very simple, but the round dam is carved along the edge with various kinds of intricate rune spells (strange shapes, like bird songs).
... All of these can be accepted by people, and they are all within the scope of thinking and understanding of a certain text.
The only thing he found unbelievable was that on the top of the circular dam, which was not too big, three inches above the ground, there was a brilliant golden magic circle suspended!
From a distance, it feels as if there is a layer of golden water suspended in the air.
It's beautiful.
At the same time, it's weird.
Is this it?
Wen Bin looked at it, and couldn't help but stare at the spot with his eyes straight, thinking about it for a long time, but he didn't understand the taste.
"Ahh
"Huh?"
What's that?
"It's the place to register the 'return to the city'!" Xiao Jing told him simply and straightforwardly: "That's, well, the 'return to the city spell' distributed by the system is the designated place for transmission, and it is also the 'resurrection point' after death, understand?"
β......β
This thing is so profound, Wen Bin hasn't played it, and he is still confused after listening to it for a long time.
"Anyway... Let's go and register first, so that we don't know who to cry with when we die in the wilderness. Seeing him like that, it seemed that it was difficult for the head to turn around for a while, and Xiao Jing was too lazy to talk to him about this kind of thing that could be understood after only one or two uses, so he directly dragged the boy all the way and trotted over, and jumped onto the round dam made of slender white stones.
'Ding'!
As soon as they jumped up, the two of them each saw an information prompt box appear out of thin air in front of them:
[Congratulations, the 'Stone Ridge Small Fishing Village' teleportation point has been added successfully!]
"Hey, wait, wait, waitβ" Wen Bin subconsciously wanted to stretch out his finger to point the 'OK' directly below, but was stopped in time by Xiao Jingyan next to him: "Don't panic!
'Replaces the original waypoint as the default return point. β
"You check this first, and then you're sure. β
"Oh. β
Wen Bin stretched out his finger and poked it in the blank box in front of the small line of small characters (so a small tick appeared in the small box), and then 'OK'.
'Ding'!
Unexpectedly, after it was confirmed, it popped up a message prompt box out of thin air:
[You have made 'Stone Ridge Fishing Village' your default return point.] γ
β......β
Wen Bin silently 'confirmed'. After being depressed for a moment, he couldn't help but complain to Xiao Jing: "Why do I feel as if I am still in the 'Floating Life Palace'?"
"Why?"
The 'brainless' next to him didn't bother to use his brain to think about it, so he asked directly.
So the 'unhappy' said: "Look at this (hanging his finger and pointing to the small teleportation circle under his feet), and this (raising his finger to point to the 'plot synopsis' that has been hanging high in the sky), and that prompt box, virtual information, 'OK', 'cancel' Shenma, etc., etc., etc., etc., isn't this series only stored in places like 'Floating Life Palace'?"
"It feels like it's fake!"
"In addition to the real-world environment, there is also some realism. These things that don't exist in reality at all are added to it. It's like, well~ it's really like playing a game!"
"yes, that's how it feels!"
Xiao Jing nodded as a matter of course, and said frankly: "This is the purpose of the operator - I originally hoped that as 'players', we would treat this as a 'virtual game'. β
"But ......"
But. And why did it choose a 'real world' as the setting?
It does. What are the rights and interests of indigenous peoples?
This kind of thing. Isn't it equivalent to a destructive existence that greatly 'disrupts people's livelihood'?
Has it ever considered how worrisome the living conditions of the indigenous people in this world and their future fate will be behind this 'high commercialization' based on 'huge profits'?!
If that were to happen in our world......
I can't imagine it!
This is the dark life of a 'slave'!
How terrible!
...... It's just too much!
It's a crime to do that!!
Above. These are actually what Wen Bin thinks in his heart and wants to say, but he hasn't had time to say it yet.
"Look!"
"It's an 'outsider'!"
"Two?!"
"Damn~"
"Don't be afraid, let's go together, and we'll get rid of them no matter what!"
"We must not let these human scum enter our village!"
"Yes!"
"These vile and shameless saboteurs ......"
"Get rid of them! Get rid of them!!"
β......β
At this time, they heard a chaotic sound behind them, and Wen Bin and Xiao Jing had just subconsciously turned their heads when they saw a stone flying through the air with a 'whoosh'!
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The two of them were taken aback, and each turned sideways to avoid it.
The stone flew through the air between the two of them, turned into a blue-white streamer in the darkness, and buried it in the sand and gravel field behind with a 'poof'.
Immediately afterward, more stones flew in a mess.
Wen Bin dodged and took a cursory glance: among the 'radicals' who had escaped from the village, there were adults and half-grown children, men and women.
I don't know why, they seem to hate 'outsiders' so much that they don't even ask (...) Don't talk about asking, these people don't say a word at all, and even the most basic communication between people is directly omitted), so they all picked up stones from the ground and smashed them at the two of them.
...... In fact, if these are a group of 'monsters', Wen Bin doesn't mind killing them as soon as possible.
But no matter how you look at it, they are all simple and native-born villagers in this area.
What's more, there are several children among them who are not very old.
Such a situation made Wen Bin unwilling to face him no matter what.
"Hey!"
He didn't speak, but it didn't mean that the little girl next to him could 'swallow his anger' like him: "I said, don't go too far!"
Whoosh -
As soon as the words fell, another stone passed by her in a majestic manner!
"Hey!!"
Xiao Jing is furious!
"Hey, forget it, let's go first!" Seeing this, Wen Bin hurriedly reached out to pull her, and by the way, he raised his other hand and pointed to the 'plot prompt' in the night sky that had changed at some point, and said, "Look at that." β
"Huh?!"
Xiao Jing reflexively raised his eyes and saw that it read:
[My companions and I ran exhausted and went through a lot of hardships to finally find the village, but to our surprise, the villagers hated the 'outsiders' very much, and when they saw us, they picked up stones from the ground and threw them at us. γ
β......β
Such a plot is really numb~
But!
Okay, well, since the 'plot' has been written like that, it seems that this is our unavoidable 'fate'~
It's better to plan first, and go for the upper plan!
As a result, the two of them, 'Clueless' and 'Unhappy', quickly fled the scene together as described in the "Mission Plot". (To be continued......)