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Chapter 115 The Legend of Music
On April [-]th, the second week of the bloody countdown, it was more than a day before the large-scale public copy of "Pollution Paradise" opened.

The surrounding roads became even more messy...or, to use a more appropriate adjective——

Surprising!

On the ground, you can always see a little bit of blood, either distributed in dots, or pulled into a long, twisted line, leading to a dark, hidden, unknown alley beside the road.

At the same time, there were many wandering figures on the street. Some of them looked numb, some looked furtive, and some lowered their heads so that people could not see their faces clearly, but when they raised their heads, they could see See a pair of dangerous eyes, reflecting the evils of this world, like a hunter hiding in the dark looking for prey around.

If there are players with better hearing, passing by here, they will be able to detect the deeper places, as if there are faint and strange noises.

It seems that there is something unknown, hiding in the dark, chewing and devouring...

According to forum posts, the recent spooky events have gradually spread to the streets.

There are many players, even the aborigines, who disappeared inexplicably as they walked.

Moreover, compared with the first week, even in the daytime, there are many more shadows of activities.

Even in the safe area, there are many unknown crises at this moment, and the degree of danger has risen by 01:30 stars compared to the beginning of the bloody countdown!

of course……

All this can be attributed to the Xijiang pollution incident.

Since the opening of the large-scale dungeon, all players have gone to the forum to share what they have seen and heard, and gradually gathered the following major changes:

[-]. Resource constraints: The city's system was severely conflicted due to the undrinkable water source of the Xijiang River.In the Great Depression, Boss Gui is also furiously laying off employees. The original group of players with stable careers have all become "unemployed" and are facing a crisis of survival.

Although some players dug the canal and refilled a lot of water, it seemed like a war had been experienced in just one night.

When the player rushed there, he found that the dug out canal had become dry, and it was taken away by some existence.

At the bottom of the canal, densely packed corpses lay in one piece, including players and aborigines.

At present, it is temporarily impossible to guess who the murderer is. After all, the aborigines in the strange world also have the instinct of "seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages", so they may not snatch survival resources from players.

Of course... most players prefer that the perpetrators are aborigines, because the impact has already affected the second point to be mentioned next.

[-]. Crisis of trust: In the past few days, some players have found players with resources in the name of cooperation. However, what they are actually doing is killing and robbing resources.

Although it has been confirmed that the player cannot explode any special items by killing the player, survival resources such as food and water are still the target of competition in the current extremely scarce situation.

Therefore, a group of murderers were born, often in the name of cooperation, hanging on the forum to find allies. In fact, if there are solo players who meet offline, what they encounter is a gang's backstab.

There are currently a batch of lists that have been exposed to the forum, but obviously, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the crime.Moreover, after understanding this mode, there may not be new players who choose to join the criminal gang...Of course, they seem to be hunters, but they may also become prey.

Therefore, originally the players cooperated to tide over the difficulties, but since encountering this wave of crisis, all players have maintained a deeper vigilance against their accomplices.

Sometimes, the human heart is more terrifying than the cunning!
[-]. The number of refugees increased: This group of refugees included players and aboriginals. They were unemployed, suffering from hunger and thirst, and went to the vicinity of the Sun Church.

The Lieyang Church has clear regulations - it is forbidden to fight, dispute, kill, rob, or steal nearby.Anyone who violates it will be cursed by the Lord, punished by the scorching sun, and lose the qualification to walk in the sun.

Ever since, in order to avoid being framed by the players, and the backstabs of the aborigines seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.The surrounding area of ​​Lieyang Church has become an excellent place to take refuge.

It is said that there is still purified holy water there, which is safe to drink and has the effect of restoring vitality and eliminating diseases, but the price has risen to [-] copper coins to buy a barrel.

Therefore, a group of players blocked the only way that the Lieyang Church must pass, to see if they could stop some rich men who were going to buy holy water halfway, and kill tricks and steal money.

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

Although the kill does not explode the characteristic item, but there are still copper coins!

This is enough to become the target point for competition and killing.

[-]. Some pioneers and elite players began to go to the paradise in groups.

They have beliefs, goals, and the righteousness to save the world.After all, as long as the source of pollution is resolved and the original order is restored, the current chaos may be resolved.

This group of players just established a camp near the paradise not long ago, intending to form the first batch of strategy groups, go to the paradise, explore information, and intend to gather the strength of all players to solve the source of the crisis.

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

[-]. Strange stories and legends: Recently, there have been more and more strange stories and legends circulating on the forum.

The most typical is that whenever the night is quiet, there will always be music played by two musical instruments in the street.

As long as they hear this song, the audience will temporarily lose their ability to manage their emotions. Whether it is a player or an aborigine, they will be forced to pay...

If it is an aborigine, when they regain consciousness, they will find that their pockets become empty; if they are players, they will find a prompt popping up on the bloody phone——

【Congratulations, you have listened to a wonderful concert, pay twenty copper coins! 】

Suddenly, music became a hot topic among all players.

They were all guessing, where did such a shameless characteristic come from?
Could it be the taboo trick that appeared in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River last time?
However, this guess is still doubtful, because according to the discussion on the forum, the real identity of the taboo in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River is a player, and it does not yet have such a powerful characteristic.

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

But the music that popped up suddenly had no room for choice, and he couldn't even tell what the specific musical instrument was, so his personal assets disappeared inexplicably.

In order to verify this guess, some players tried to capture the existence of this characteristic ability.They organized a large group of gangs to guard the vicinity of the "crime scene". Dozens of players were scattered all over the place, with a clear division of labor, and they acted separately. They planned to catch this thing when the music sounded!

Unfortunately, their actions ended in failure.

According to the revelations of the victimized players: Even if they are in a group, they will be affected by the music, temporarily forgetting themselves and ignoring everything that happens around them.

Immediately after...

When they came to their senses, there was no sign of "Music Guilty" and the money in their pockets had disappeared.

Even the bloody mobile phone will send a message of deduction and debt!

Many players were still laughing at the unlucky ones who were harvested by the taboo trick, mocking them for not being able to evade this rule, just like a fool.At this moment, they had completely broken their defenses, and they couldn't help but yelled in the public screen. It was the first time they saw such a disgusting characteristic ability, and they were half-deadly angry, and asked why this characteristic ability didn't belong to them?
逐渐的，“案发现场”的活动地点，朝着烈阳教会的附近靠拢而去。

搞得在附近打劫的玩家们，都不敢在此地停留了。

Worried that the money he had just robbed would be snatched away by the "music trick" not long after.

What's funny is that the area of ​​the Lieyang Church, where fighting is prohibited, has become a gathering place for the spread of crime.But this evil was actually stopped by a greater evil force!

It's just that, since the area where music is committed, it seems to have become less and less after it came to the vicinity of Lieyang Church.I don't know if it's because the players have learned to hide, or because of other reasons.

As a result, the surrounding area of ​​Lieyang Church recovered to a subtle critical point.

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

Looking at the front of the church, the open semi-circular Romanesque square is full of refugees wearing ragged clothes and numb expressions.They used tattered cloth to make simple beds, with the sky as the quilt and the ground as the bed, and they slept together in a cluster. Occasionally, those who were lucky could get a drop of gifted holy water from the Lieyang Church to maintain that The vitality that was about to be crippled.

On this day of April NO.11, Lieyang Church was as usual, surrounded by people, but it was unusually quiet.One after another figures are located in the area of ​​their own beds, with numb expressions, looking up at the sky, staring at the dim sky in a daze, in order to pass the meaningless time.There are even some players who have been here for a long time. They originally had the looks of normal people, but now they are no different from the aborigines.

Nothing unusual happened on this day. If there was anything, it would be when the flow of people reached its peak and was so crowded that it could barely accommodate a liquid cat... Two more figures appeared .

An old man and a young man.

The old man holds an erhu in his hand, and the young man holds a suona in his hand.

"Is this the Church of the Burning Sun?"

Standing on the side of the square, Chen Ye could see the whitewashed walls of the church and the gold-plated tiles on the dome through his eyes through the black heads, and a quaint copper bell hung from the pointed arch of the top floor with steel ropes. When the hour came, the melodious bell rang, echoing above the square and the lonely sky.

He saw a glazed thread connecting the church and himself through the [Bloody Mary] in the mountains and rivers.

In the halo, the star-like glass gradually converged into a line, leading to the interior of the Burning Sun Church.

Nearby, the ring of calamity surrounded by jet black and blood seems to have become deeper and more intense.

But in the distance, that star like a grain of rice exudes even more dazzling brilliance during the wandering concerts... I don't know if it's an illusion, but Chen Ye feels that the golden star seems to be getting closer and closer to him , no longer so ethereal, illusory, but become solid.

When his figure appeared on the square of Lieyang Church, the [Wanderer Map] in his mind suddenly burst into a dazzling brilliance again.

Near the square, the Roman-like streets are either wide or narrow, like an orderly network, connecting the church at the center.

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

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

"Teacher, there are a lot of listeners here, if you want to play a piece here, I think we will get rich!"

The erhu old man scanned the mass of black heads with excited eyes, 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 Lieyang Church?"

"Yes!"

"Are you sure we call it performance, not robbery?"

"What you said makes sense..."

(End of this chapter)