Legend of the Knight

Chapter 19 Unexpected
This is a boy about fifteen or sixteen years old. Although it is late autumn, he is only wearing a dark blue short jacket.

He wears two dark blue cloth wristbands on both wrists. Looking at the color and material of the cloth, it makes people feel that the wristbands and the short jacket were originally one piece, but because the sleeves were torn, it became this style. .

The boy had a sunny face, his messy hair was randomly tied into a ponytail behind his head, and a yellow cloth belt was tied in the middle of his left arm.

Huang Xiaoshi doesn't need to take a second look at him, this person is the [protagonist] in the original game: Dongfang Weiming.

Huang Xiaoshi stood up instantly, no, he was not waiting for Dongfang Weiming, but for another important person, a storyteller—Xu Ziyi.

Huang Xiaoshi didn't care anymore, he wanted a showdown with Xu Ziyi: I'm not playing anymore, let me out.

There are two people in this world who must not be offended, and that is the Xu family brothers.

However, Huang Xiaoshi didn't want to go to Xingshi to inquire about the crime, he just wanted to have a polite talk with Xu Ziyi, and made a clear statement to him: "Your game is very good, and the immersion is great, but I don't want to play it anymore, please let me go immediately Walk.

Otherwise, believe it or not, my father's lawyers will directly sue you for illegal detention and sue your company for bankruptcy! "

Huang Xiaoshi believes that everyone is a civilized person. Since I have mentioned the lawyer team, you should also know that "I" is not easy to mess with.

As long as you let me go, everyone will be happy, and maybe I can let my dad invest a billion or so with you.

However, the two brothers of the Xu family can no longer be described as elusive. The two of them only appear at important plot points, and the characteristic of important plot points is that the [protagonist] Dongfang Weiming must be present.

Dongfang Weiming has arrived, where are the Xu family brothers? !
Huang Xiaoshi suddenly stood up and looked around, but he didn't see anyone waiting for him.

Anxious Huang Xiaoshi left the tea stand, and started to run wildly on the narrow village road in Dukang Village with his lightness kung fu.

Dukang Village is very small, within a few minutes Huang Xiaoshi had already circled around, and he returned to the tea stand.

No one was found.

Huang Xiaoshi forcibly suppressed the anxiety in his heart, he stood there and quickly thought about what was going on.

"Wow, Master Huang, I didn't expect you to be so good at kung fu!"

Huang Xiaoshi, who was thinking with his eyes closed, heard the voice, opened his eyes and took a look. It was the aunt who was selling breakfast and herbal tea.

After Huang Xiaoshi let go of his face and smiled at his aunt, he forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and walked quickly towards the outside of the village.

"Auntie, what can I fill my stomach with?" Dongfang Weiming came to the breakfast stall and said politely to the earlier auntie that he only had a dozen coins in his pocket.

Dongfang Weiming is an optimist, and he didn't care that he didn't have another meal after eating this meal. In the eyes of young people, the world is always full of opportunities.

After a while, a large plate of steamed buns and a bowl of warm crude tea were brought up, and Dongfang Weiming started to devour them.

……

Huang Xiaoshi was walking towards the outside of the village. There were many people coming and going along the way, but there was no one who looked like a scholar.

what happened?

Am I wrong?

When walking, the human brain will be more active, Huang Xiaoshi is thinking quickly.

First, maybe I made a mistake. In fact, this is not a game, but a real world that is very close to that game.

Huang Xiaoshi is already very familiar with concepts such as parallel worlds, main universes, and mirror universes. His first reaction is to determine which kind of world he is.

Many people may find it strange, whether it is a game or the real world, you are already in it anyway, why is it not a matter of time?
No, there is a big difference here.

Intuitively speaking, it would be easier to travel through the game.

After all, the game has procedural limits, no matter how you change it, you can't escape the most basic scope of the script, and the logic in the game is simpler, 1+1 must be equal to 2, and 2-1 must be equal to 1.

However, the real world is full of chaos and uncertainty, random events and various variables are too numerous for human intelligence to predict and estimate.

After thinking for a while, Huang Xiaoshi could only come to one conclusion: it was impossible to be sure.

Now Huang Xiaoshi is still not sure whether this is a simple game, or a data world similar to what Teacher Jue experienced.

Second, why the Xu family brothers didn't come.

Huang Xiaoshi quickly thought of three reasons:
One, they were late.

Two, they don't exist.

Three, the script has changed.

The possibility of the Xu family brothers being late should be zero, at least Huang Xiaoshi has never heard of the saying that the GM (game manager) will be late for key plots in the game.

Second, do the Xu family brothers not exist?
The answer is no, at least one of them is active in this world.

After so many years of walking in the Jianghu, Huang Xiaoshi made friends with many people in the Jianghu. Although these people may not have high martial arts skills, since they are people in the Jianghu, they naturally have a certain amount of gossip in the Jianghu.

Huang Xiaoshi has heard from many people that Jiang Hu Bai Xiaosheng often appears, no one knows where he came from, and no one knows where he went after that, anyway, Jiang Hu Bai Xiaosheng will appear every once in a while A storyteller in a tea shop and restaurant in a certain place is full of the most secret world affairs at the moment.

This Jianghu Baixiaosheng is the Xu family brother, but it is not known whether it is the elder brother Xu Ziyi or the younger brother Xu Ziqi, but what is certain is that the Xu family brothers are still active in this world.

Then, the biggest possibility left is that the script has changed.

After inquiring about the news from different people, Huang Xiaoshi integrated all the information, coupled with his own foresight, he restored an astonishing fact.

Fifteen years ago, when the six major sects besieged the Thunderbolt Hall, a fierce battle broke out with the Tianlong Sect.

After three days and three nights of fighting, the two sides suffered heavy casualties.

However, a sudden cataclysmic catastrophe wiped out all the people in a radius of a hundred miles, and wiped out the elite of the six major factions and the Tianlong Sect.

The aftermath of this fierce battle is still alive today.

First of all, the tragic casualties in this fierce battle can be said to be unheard of since ancient times.

Huang Xiaoshi didn't find out about the Tianlong Sect's situation, but the six major sects of the Central Plains directly broke the gap of a generation or two.

Second, there has been an endless blood feud between the Six Great Sects and the Tianlong Sect.

This caused many things in turn, sowing the seeds of future turmoil.

Huang Xiaoshi found that this was very similar to World War I and World War II.

Some people have concluded that World War II is a continuation of World War I, and World War I is the root of World War II.

This sentence applies here as well.

However, the high point in the whole tragedy is the catastrophe.Everyone thought it was a natural disaster, but Huang Xiaoshi knew that it probably wasn't.

Because there is no earthquake that can happen within a hundred miles, and it will not form an indescribable giant crater after the earthquake.

This kind of crater is more like a giant crater formed after a meteorite fell, but no one saw the starfall that day.

Knowledge limited the imagination of the ancients. Everyone could only think of the power of nature, but no one imagined in the direction of "manpower".

Xiao Xiami can defeat the top ten masters with one punch, this is the greatest imagination of people in this era.

And Mr. Saitama can blow up the earth with one punch.

As the GM with the highest authority in this world, the Xu family brothers should be somewhere in between.

According to Huang Xiaoshi's deduction, the reason why the Xu family brothers violated the rules (the GM is not allowed to interfere with the game process) and caused a large number of casualties, there is only one truth: those people in the martial arts have discovered the gate of the temple.

The gate of the sanctuary is the gate of crossing. Huang Xiaoshi doesn't know what it looks like, but he knows that the other side of the gate of the sanctuary is his hometown.

After those martial arts people found the door of the holy hall, they would definitely approach it curiously, and even stop fighting and try to touch it.

Once these people are allowed to touch the door of the temple, there will be an extremely serious "reverse time travel event", that is, people from another world travel back to the "real world".

As the GM of the Xu family, their first duty is to guard the gate of the temple. In desperation, who knows who gave a strong and serious punch to the place where the temple is located, directly hitting the palace of the temple? collapsed.

Yes, if you follow this line of thinking, wouldn't it be...

Could it be that I can't go back!

No, no.

Huang Xiaoshi rearranged his thoughts. I remember that the gate of the sanctuary was not destroyed, and the Xu family brothers even brought people back to the real world.

Yes, the underground palace of the temple is gone, but the brothers of the Xu family ran away with the door of the temple on their shoulders. Now they are probably the only ones who know where the door of the temple is.

The current situation is that the Xu family brothers are still active in this world. Well, here comes the question, why didn't the two of them come today?
You know, today is the first scene of the game, such an important plot node, as the GM, the Xu family brothers, they have to come and watch this, so as to avoid all kinds of uncontrollable incidents.

To put it simply, [Protagonist] Dongfang Weimingbie was hacked to death at the beginning.

unless.

Unless the game has already started, today is not the first act.

A flash of light flashed in Huang Xiaoshi's mind, and he suddenly remembered, isn't he the [player] of the game?
That is to say, this game has officially started at least when I traveled here, and it has been [in progress] for six years now!

Thinking of this, Huang Xiaoshi reacted in surprise, by the way, not only the Xu family brothers, but he didn't see any of the guys who were supposed to give Dongfang Weiming newcomers welfare tasks.

Old beggar Hong Riqing.

Taoist Guo who sells real pills.

And that wine and meat monk Shang Wudian who wants to eat bear's paw.

Wait, none of the NPCs came, only Dongfang Weiming came.

Suddenly, Huang Xiaoshi noticed that many people behind him were running towards this direction in a panic. He stopped a middle-aged man carrying a load and asked him, "Brother, what happened? What are you running for?"

"Run! The thirteen geese are coming!" The middle-aged man said to Huang Xiaoshi in a panic, and then he pushed Huang Xiaoshi away and fled forward with his load.

None of the people who were supposed to come came, and the plot actually started.

Huang Xiaoshi's heart tightened suddenly, it's too bad, is it possible that the elder brother didn't come?

Then, wouldn't Dongfang Weiming really want to be hacked to death?
Huang Xiaoshi activated his kung fu, raised his inner strength and ran towards Dukang Village.

……

"The geese are coming!"

Dukang Village, which was originally full of people and bustling, under this exclamation, those resting, setting up stalls, and carrying burdens, all panicked and fled.

This is also the norm in the current era. Although the world is peaceful, banditry is rampant.

One is that the government's control ability is really limited. In many cases, it is actually a low-cost job to commit crimes, especially for repeat offenders.

They committed a crime in place A, and then fled to place B overnight, which is basically equivalent to switching a large area, clearing everything in the past, continuing to do it again, and then fleeing.

As long as God forgives me, that is, as long as I don't go to the imperial court's sea arrest documents, then I'll be fine.

Even in the sea arrest documents, there are ways to change faces. In the era without face recognition, it is very easy to simply change a person's appearance.

In this case, the government can only guarantee the law and order in the towns at most, and it is basically a laissez-faire state for the countryside.

Of course, this does not mean that the countryside is a power vacuum.

In the countryside, it is the local clan or the elders and gentry who maintain the order of daily life, and the protection of the armed forces is provided by martial arts figures.

The world of martial arts is not black and white. In fact, there are a lot of gray sects, such as the Black Tiger Hall, which was invited by Wang Er to support the scene.

These sects don't care about good or bad things, they just do it for money.

But these gray sects also have their own bottom line. It is not realistic to ask them to help the old lady cross the road all day long. Similarly, if they are asked to do something that hurts nature, they will refuse.

This kind of gray is the mainstream color in martial arts world.

The reason why gray exists is that one of the most important factors is not fairness and justice, the conscience of heaven and earth, etc., but the command and deterrence of the righteous way of martial arts.

The righteous way of martial arts possesses absolute suppressive power, and they have the responsibility and obligation to kill the black scum of the rivers and lakes and the bandits.

That is to say, if you offend the government, you can squat on a hill and set up a stronghold at worst, and even a hundred officers and soldiers can't get in.

If you offend the integrity of the martial arts, they can send a first-generation or even second-generation disciple at will, and they can slaughter you all over the village.

Although this is a world of low martial arts, the martial power value is enough for ordinary people.

This is the second question.

Because 15 years ago, when the Six Great Sects besieged Thunder Martial Hall, there were too many casualties. Many sects lost one or two generations of disciples, and the vitality of the Six Great Sects was seriously injured. Condition.

Just like today, just a dozen bandits can scare the whole village into panic and flee in all directions.

When Huang Xiaoshi ran to Dukang Village, no one in the village could be seen.

The people in the village hid in their homes, all the outsiders ran away, and a lot of goods were still on the village road and it was too late to collect them.

Huang Xiaoshi ran to the stall at his own house, and he saw that the land was clean, and the two doormen had already carried goods and money on their backs, and he didn't know whether they had fled or hid in the villagers' homes.

Before Huang Xiaoshi could catch his breath, he heard a woman screaming from the end of the village.

"No, the geese bandits are attacking!"

(End of this chapter)