return to edgar

Turning into a peregrine falcon and rushing back, I saw thick smoke filling the city from afar, and the guard team isolated the third floor and the outer three floors of the lord's mansion.When I went back to Golden Rose to inquire, I found out that Sherman frantically killed his wife and other close relatives after returning to the city, and set fire to the castle.But Sherman seemed to have evaporated from the world. Even the prophets only judged that he was still hiding in the city, but could not determine the exact location.

The work of extinguishing the fire continued until late at night, and the whole city was under martial law, only entering and leaving was imposed. At night, a curfew was imposed, and the mercenaries outside the city were also ordered not to make trouble.

Without divine revelation, Link could only wait patiently for the news from the spider web.Yuan Ye and Pan En arrived in Aiden after dark, and were trapped outside the city because of the curfew. Thanks to Hawke's well-informed news network, he knew that the two, especially the bard, had a close relationship with Link, so they Get someone to get them into town.

Dragging his tired body back to the tavern, he saw Link as soon as he entered the room, and Yuan Ye came out angrily after holding back his anger for a whole day.

"I think we need to have a good talk."

"All ears." Yuan Ye threw the mandolin and rattan shield on the bed, and stood there waiting for Link to explain.Paine wanted to avoid it, but was kept by Link.

"I told you before that this game was sent to me by my former classmate at the same table." Link did not tell Yuan Ye that his classmate died because of this game.One is that he feels that the matter has nothing to do with him, but he does not want to cause unnecessary panic.

"Actually...he died ten years ago because of this unreal world we're in."

Yuan Ye and Pan En were quite surprised. They had very little contact with players, and they didn't understand the dangers of the game as thoroughly as Link did. In their view, this was just a magical real-life RPG.

"You don't even know that this game will kill people?" The expressions of the two gave Link a bad feeling.It shouldn't be, they have been in the illusion for so long, how could they not know?

"What? You'll die if you play this game?" Yuan Ye immediately jumped up. He had more contacts with players than Pan En, but everyone was new to the game, and they only knew a little about the game.

"You don't know? Then why did you ask Lin Li for help in your dream and ask her to find a game expert to save you?" If it weren't for this, Link would not be re-involved in this weird illusion that he had avoided.

"Just kidding, if I have the ability to enter dreams, I will be trapped in a tomb by a necromancer? Besides, why should I find someone through her, instead of directly looking for my classmates who love to play games?"

Yuan Ye's words were like a basin of cold water pouring over Link's heart.

It's not Yuan Ye, who is that?

"Did Lin Li tell you that I play games?"

"I said, what does it matter?"

Seeing Yuan Ye's inexplicable face, Link finally chose to hide it.He didn't have any evidence, and he didn't know what was going on, so why bother to scare everyone, anyway, this game is more than just weird.Fortunately, Pan En intervened to divert Yuan Ye's attention away from entanglement on this topic.

"I only know that if the body dies in the game, it will affect the body in reality." Pan En knew a little more than Yuan Ye, but it was limited to causing damage to the body.The location of River Valley Town is remote. After playing for almost half a year, Paine only met three players. He asked Link how he knew this.

"My stepmother secretly intercepted the game CD sent by my classmate back then. I only recently found out that my classmate passed away because of this. If it hadn't been for him..." Link pointed at Yuan Ye. In the end, he didn't use the adjective 'stolen', he was vague After going through the process, he continued, "Actually, I also learned from my classmate's younger brother. He entered Edgar to investigate the cause of his brother's death. I learned from him and his friends in the game that my classmate was framed by a friend. The body died in the illusion, and the mind was trapped in the game, which led to the ** in reality turning into a vegetative state, and his family had to give up treatment after the hospital declared brain dead."

After saying this, the room fell into silence.

Link took a deep breath, "I didn't mean to hide your and my occupations. The old players I have come into contact with have repeatedly told me not to reveal their identities at will. Extraordinary occupations can easily cause jealousy, and players who died for this reason are not here. A few. If you find it unbearable, I will leave Aiden after I finish Lord Sherman's main quest, and find another map of a suitable level."

"Who said I can't stand it anymore!" Yuan Ye opened his mouth, and finally said something that made him feel ashamed, "I thought that after getting along with you for this period of time, you already regarded me as a friend, not just your sister's boyfriend .You make me feel like an idiot for acting like that."

Link obviously didn't expect to get such a reply. He was used to being alone, and he was used to thinking from his own point of view. Although he felt a little sorry to hide Yuan Ye, he never changed his mind.

"I admit it was a bit selfish of me to do that... Sorry, I shouldn't think too badly of people."

"Okay, two big men, are you disgusting? It's like a confession. It's not a big deal, let's just smile away the grudge. Come on, let's go down and have a drink?" Pan En broke in at the right time and proposed to go downstairs drink wine.

"Not now, at least we have to wait until Lord Sherman's matter is settled." It wasn't that Link was deliberately disappointing, and no one would have guessed the changes in the situation. What if there was news about Sherman in a while and the three of them were all drunk?

"That's right. Tsk~ Why is this lord crazy? It's not right for a good nobleman to collude with the undead." Paine scratched his hair irritably.

"How about your mission?" Apart from concealing his occupation, Link's biggest guilt now is to steal Paine's mission props.

"As soon as I returned to the city, people in the city sent someone to notify me, saying that the task had changed, and a higher-ranking member had already taken over, and asked me to wait for the arrangement. I knew they had no good intentions, and it was obviously such an important sacred object. They just want to take advantage of me. If it weren’t for you, I would have ended up in that base this time.” Paine was quite open-minded, and didn’t mind Lin Ke's concealment, this kind of little secret related to personal interests, no one has many.

"You have been with me all this time, how did they notify you?" Yuan Ye recalled that he didn't see any other pedestrians on the road, could the assassin's guild be able to transmit voices thousands of miles away?

"Assassins have their own way of contacting each other. If you want to communicate blatantly, can it still be considered secret?" Pan En felt that Yuan Ye's IQ was hopeless.

"Of course I know it's secret, I mean... hey, forget it, you all think I'm an idiot." Yuan Ye lay down on the bed angrily.

Without him interrupting, Paine and Link discuss Sherman's whereabouts.

Of course, it is impossible for the lord to still be hiding in the burned family mansion, which has been turned upside down by Chen Xi, the parliament, and the guards, and such self-defeating behavior means that he can only transform the undead. can go.

"Even if you run out of magic slots, you can still feel the breath of the undead." Paine asked. He didn't know anything about the Son of Nature, but he could guess as long as he brought in a druid or a paladin.

Link nodded, taking Dawn, which is more famous in human cities, as an example, "You don't need to cast spells to perceive the undead, just like Dawn believers, you can perceive the hostile camp without praying."

"Then you..." There is no need to say anything later, Link is still sitting here, which means that he does not know Sherman's whereabouts.This can also be understood as Sherman is still alive, or he has a way to hide the breath of the undead.

"I have both, and I'm just a novice. What's worse than you is that I don't have a reference yet."

While chatting, the topic turned to the main line of the Son of Nature. It was the first time Paine had heard so much news, and he couldn't help asking curiously, if the northern battle was lost, and the undead marched southward to turn the mainland into a country with only death, what would they players do? what to do?

What else can I do?When the game ends, the player must die.

Link's answer made Pan En and Yuan Ye, who had been listening to their conversation, shudder.Why is there no mention of the undead in their quests?

"This...probably has something to do with occupations. The Sons of Nature and the undead are old enemies." Link said the explanation he heard from Gonzales intact. The novice stage is for players to adapt, and the veteran stage is for players. For those who are upgraded, entering the expert stage is to subdivide professional specialization and rush to major by the way. The real main line will not appear until the master. At this stage, there is no need to deliberately upgrade. If you can still advance to the peak, you will be far away from the ultimate goal. The gods are not far away.

"By the way, has anyone ever succeeded?" Pan En was skeptical about summoning the gods. "This is not a manga where you can fulfill your wishes by collecting seven dragon balls. What we have experienced is almost a real game."

"Maybe this is the real purpose of the guy who made the game, to summon things that don't belong to the earth."

Link: "..."

Paine: "..."

Yuan Ye: "Why, did I make a mistake again?"

Link: "Actually, I had similar thoughts."

Paine: "Me too."

Yuan Ye was about to speak, but Link suddenly raised his hand to stop him.

"Wait, the druid is here, don't say in front of him that it will expose us as players."

There was a burst of brisk footsteps in the corridor, and then someone knocked lightly on the door twice. Yuan Ye opened the door, and it was indeed Jafar standing outside.

"Hawk wants to see you."

The servants working in the lord's mansion suffered heavy casualties, including the eyeliner of the maid who arranged the spider web next to Sherman.In addition to the burns, there were also serious knife wounds. The priest of Chenxi had been treating her because she might know the whereabouts of the lord. Now, she was finally awake.

The map on Hawke’s table includes Aiden’s various periods. It is almost unanimously confirmed by all parties that Sherman hid underground, but Aiden is an old city with a history of hundreds of years. Finding a mage who deliberately hid himself in a city that has been rebuilt several times on top of the ruins is simply an impossible task.

Although the spider web has left the Alliance of Nature, all parties are willing to spend a lot of money to buy information from it because of its well-informed information. Now it is not only the noble council and the garrison, but even Chen Xi, who cannot determine the exact location of Sherman, has sent an intermediary to contact him. Huo Ke reluctantly refused one by one, he really had no news about Sherman.

When Jafar took Link into the room, what he saw was the scene of the intelligence leader of the spider branch pacing back and forth irritably.