Infinite weird games

Weird game, Sunset Ruins.

The golden World Tree towers into the sky, standing in front of the black tower as the most prominent landmark, and the boundless square extends in all directions under the tree.

All players appear under the World Tree by default after opening the door of the game space.

The so-called "under the tree" actually means an area of ​​∞ meters with the trunk of the World Tree as the center and ∞ as the radius.

If there are few people under the tree, the player's birth point will be closer to the trunk; if there are many people under the tree...

For example, now, Qi Si is sitting on a protruding root in the square, and the list stone tablet appears to be the size of an eraser under the visual effect, which is at least 50 meters away.

According to the unit of one person per two square meters, the number of people gathered in Sunset Ruins today exceeds one thousand.

Qi Si just looked at Liu Yuhan through the Sea God Scepter, and after discovering that she was suspected of having a connection with the Libra, he sent a few words to scare her. At this moment, the spirit is still confused and tired from the convulsion in the big dream.

He stared blankly at the nothingness in front of him, and his whole body exuded a drowsy atmosphere.

The sea of ​​people separated him from the list stone tablet, and the flow of people passed him and gathered towards the black tower. Therefore, although there were many people around him, he did not feel crowded or noisy.

He just used the strong atmosphere and sweat to force himself to wake up from the haze.

The Ruins of Sunset was destroyed once twenty-two years ago. Except for the black tower and the world tree, the entire scene was swept by blood and fire. What we see now is the style after reconstruction.

On the piles of broken walls and ruins, a European-style town rose from the ground, as a place for players to stay and meet for a short time; besides that, there was endless desolation and ruins.

Qi Si lowered his eyes and stared at the huge cracked floor tiles, reached out and picked up a diamond-shaped piece of gravel, and could still feel the roughness of the surface through the gloves.

He dropped the gravel and poked the edge of the crack with his index finger. A golden root protruded from the gap and gently pushed his finger away.

This world obviously does not only belong to the players. The strange giant trees seem to have been standing here since the beginning of the world, and the arrangement of various details never considers the general aesthetics of human beings.

There are too many useless plots of land. A single floor tile is larger than the wall. It is enough to imagine how magnificent the creatures that once lived here were.

The creations that can be seen are ancient and old, and the history is far older than the thirty-six years since the weird game appeared, but there are no relics from the past.

Limited life faces ancient creatures, and thoughts are always inevitably flying wildly with the trembling of the soul.

What was the Sunset Ruins like before the destruction? In the distant past, who did the land of the Sunset Ruins belong to?

What happened twenty-two years ago that caused such a huge building complex to be destroyed?

"Ragnarok."

A whisper drifted in my ears.

In the upper right corner of the line of sight, the red-clothed chief priest raised the corner of his lips and bowed slightly. The cross in his hand seemed to pierce his heart for a moment, and then pulled it out after a moment, like an illusion.

Qi Si saw a trace of blood-red seeping out from his cuffs, growing like a plant for a while and then stagnating, like a deliberately dyed water sleeve pattern.

There were many more people gathered in the square, and the ears were filled with noisy discussions like waves.

"That tower has been quiet for many years. Yesterday, for some reason, a door suddenly opened for a moment, and then closed again half a minute later."

"Do you think something came out of the tower? He looked so panicked. Will there be ghosts everywhere in Sunset Ruins in the future?"

"What could be in the tower? Don't scare yourself. Fu Jue will come later. Let's see what he says."

"I bet he doesn't know. He comes to see this tower every year, but he never figured it out."

"Don't tell me, I'm quite excited. I've only seen Fu Jue in live broadcasts before, and I'll be able to see him in person later..."

Qis listened in silence for a while, and roughly understood a few points:

First, the popular Fu Jue will appear in Sunset Ruins on the afternoon of April 12 every year, standing in front of the black tower for a while, and no one knows what he is going to do.

Second, no one knows what the black tower in Sunset Ruins is for, whether there is anything in it; if there is something, what it is specifically.

Third, the door of the Black Tower was opened for a while yesterday. Most of the players who appeared in the Sunset Ruins now are here to inquire about the situation without fear of death.

Qi Si stood up, grabbed a player's sleeve, and smiled politely: "I heard from you that there was something unusual in the Black Tower. Can you tell me what happened?"

The player looked at him puzzledly: "Didn't you look at the game forum? The one on the hot list is it."

Qis raised his eyebrows: "Forum? Is it the one with the full name of 'Weird Game Research Association'?"

"Yeah... Hey, haven't you reached level 2 yet? Some posts can only be viewed after reaching level 2."

...That's fine.

Qi Si, who has not registered an account on the forum so far, maintained a friendly smile: "I see, it seems that I will have to post more watery posts when I go back."

"In fact, you don't need to post anything specifically, just follow along and curse Xila, copy and paste the Jiuzhou tenet, and post 100 posts to upgrade to level 2..."

The voice stopped abruptly, and the player who was still enthusiastically making suggestions a second ago suddenly shut up and looked behind Qi Si with shining eyes.

"Fu Shen! It's Fu Shen! The living Fu Shen!"

"Fu Jue is here, let's make way and don't block the way."

"Fu Shen came with the people of Tingfeng this time, does he want to join Tingfeng?"

The crowd was noisy, with all kinds of screams and roars mixed together, like geese about to be slaughtered in the vegetable market.

Qi Si's head was buzzing and the veins on his forehead were jumping unconsciously.

He turned and looked in the direction the players were looking.

At the outermost edge of the crowd, a group of people appeared in the shadows of fluttering golden leaves and gathered into a team.

The leader looked to be in his early thirties, wearing a neat suit, a pair of frameless glasses on his angular face, and his black hair was combed meticulously. He looked like an elite class, giving people a sense of distance.

Qi Si had been polluted by the text garbage in the forum for a month, so even though it was the first time he saw the real person, he easily matched it with the name -

Fu Jue.

The name that topped the comprehensive strength list, the so-called "savior" pushed into the spotlight by fans, is said to be the most suitable for players of weird games.

Fu Jue stood straight in the open space, his eyes without obvious emotions calmly looking forward, like a precise machine with a set running process that would not be shaken by any external interference.

One by one, golden leaves were pressed down to the ground by branches, and figures walked out from them and followed Fu Jue one after another.

There were more than a dozen people in different clothes, but their expressions were serious and solemn. From the discussions around them, they were all players of the Tingfeng Guild.

Qi Si saw a familiar face among them.

Wearing flat-frame glasses and a white coat, it was Shuo Meng who had seen him in the "Red Maple Leaf Boarding School" dungeon.

Shuo Meng moved his eyes slightly and saw Qi Si in the crowd, and nodded with a stern face.

Qi Si smiled at him, and his left hand reached into his right sleeve without leaving a trace, touching the curse pendulum hidden deep inside.

Except for some props with a limit on the number of times they can be used in a single dungeon, most of the props can be used in the Ruins of Sunset.

However, unlike the dungeon, the damage incurred in Sunset Ruins will be brought into reality, and it is difficult to heal through medical means in reality.

Therefore, the major guilds established a convention in the early years, prohibiting players from using props to fight in Sunset Ruins, and violators will be wanted by all guilds.

It is worth mentioning that the two guilds of Xila and Tianping also agreed to this convention. It is a good thing that the hostile parties who are incompatible with each other have reached a consensus on a certain clause for the first time.

Qi Si rubbed the curse pendulum for a while, and used the coolness of the pendulum to soothe the vague uneasiness and irritability in his heart.

Of course, he would not fight with others in public. Even if it was a sneak attack, with so many eyes watching, the success rate would not be very high.

He just suddenly had a strange feeling, as if there was an acquaintance nearby. It was not a dream... who could it be?

"Boss Fu Jue! Thank you for saving me in the dungeon of "Sui Gu Dao"!"

"Fu Jue, do you think we still have hope of passing the final dungeon?"

"Look here, Master Fu! We have always believed in you and will always support you!"

From the moment Fu Jue appeared, the crowd changed direction and surrounded Fu Jue within a few seconds.

It was not that they did not want to get closer, but the person who listened to the wind took out an umbrella-like prop and formed a circle of isolation barriers around the team.

People cheered and screamed, regardless of whether they had supported, opposed or ignored the previous position, they all showed the same enthusiasm at this time.

Humans are a species that follows the crowd, and their thoughts will be swept away by the group's ideas. When a voice is so powerful that it merges into a torrent, all the noise will resonate with it uncontrollably, be infected, be incited, and finally be polished into the same tone.

Amid the enthusiastic cheers, Fu Jue and others walked towards the black tower without looking away, their steps were calm and steady, as if they could not see the players surrounding them at all.

The crowd was split open by the barrier, and then closed behind the team. The crowds of people rose and fell, which made people think of sailing on the sea.

Qi Si looked twice again, and no longer stopped, walking in the opposite direction away from the crowd.

Suddenly, he felt a real gaze on his back, as familiar as if he had been staring at it many times.

He turned back suddenly, and the sight disappeared, and there was nothing in the crowd.

Everyone rushed to the black tower, and the people around him gradually became sparse.

In a grand carnival banquet, no one would notice someone quietly leaving the table, not to mention that someone's presence has always been very low.

Qi Si walked to the edge of the square unknowingly, stood on the jagged cliff, and looked down, he could see a larger group of ruins.

The bloody sun hung lonely and far away on the collapsed roof in the shape of a tombstone, and the afterglow painted the whole sky orange.

In the ID card, the red-robed priest inserted the cross into the ground at some point, and sat on it leisurely, his scarlet eyes drooping slightly, staring at Qi Si below.

Qi Si tilted his head: "I remember that the Sunset Ruins seem to refresh hidden tasks..."

The red ring on the middle finger of his right hand suddenly trembled, interrupting him.

Lin Chen's voice sounded at the bottom of his mind: "Brother Qi, I'm at the Sunset Ruins. Why are there so many people today?"

Qi Si gathered his messy thoughts and smiled softly: "Lin Chen, there is a restaurant called 'Lao Zheng's Stir-Fry' in the small town next to the square..."

...

From the time Lin Chen received Qi Si's call until now, he couldn't tell whether he was excited or nervous. He hadn't closed his eyes for 24 hours, and two heavy dark circles appeared on his face.

He naturally saw the posts on the forum that sounded like the real deal, and they labeled him and Qi Si as massacre players.

It was Huang Xiaofei who used her power to suppress others first, but she only said that Qi Si planned to kill her.

It was Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan who took advantage of Qi Si's misfortune and colluded with each other, but they said that Qi Si stabbed his ally in the back.

If he didn't know the inside story, I'm afraid he would also believe the criticism...

Lin Chen wanted to post a clarification, but at the last minute he remembered that he had live-streamed and exposed his real name before, so he had to stop.

He knew that public opinion was difficult to control, and rashly leaving would only make things ferment further and out of control.

It would be better to wait for ten days or half a month, wait for the topic to cool down naturally, and let the netizens whose memory was already worrying be distracted by other things.

Just thinking about it, Lin Chen arrived at the agreed place and entered the reserved private room.

The table was filled with rich dishes, including Longjing shrimp, squirrel mandarin fish, and dry mixed amaranth.

Qi Si sat on a chair in a white shirt with blood spots.

As soon as Lin Chen entered the room, he smiled bitterly with apology: "You should have seen the post on the forum, right? I have implicated you. I am afraid you will have to hide your identity like me in the future."

Lin Chen sat down on the chair and shook his head: "It's okay, Brother Qi, no one can predict such things. If it weren't for you, I would have died in the dungeon long ago."

Qisi picked up a chopstick of shrimp in the bowl and said: "You have to be more careful recently. There are unusual movements in the black tower of Sunset Ruins. It has been closed for the past few decades, but it suddenly opened for half a minute yesterday.

"You can go to the forum more often if you have nothing to do. You can upgrade to level 2 by replying to the post a hundred times to see more core information."

"Thank you for reminding me, Brother Qi!" Lin Chen held the chopsticks and dug a piece of rice a little awkwardly, "What is in the tower? Why did it open yesterday?"

"I don't know, no one knows. "Qisi swallowed the shrimp, "Fu Jue comes to Sunset Ruins every April 12th to keep an eye on the Black Tower, but he has not given a definite answer so far.

"By the way, didn't you ask why there were so many people today... Well, they came to see Fu Jue."

When Qisi said "see Fu Jue" in a casual tone, it was like saying "see the monkeys", and Lin Chen couldn't help laughing.

It should be said that after going through eight copies, Qisi's sense of humor has improved a bit.

The atmosphere eased a little, and Lin Chen felt that he seemed to be less nervous, so he chattered about what happened after they parted at "Rose Manor".

Qisi lowered his eyes and listened, his hands kept picking up dishes in his bowl, and mechanically stuffed the food into his mouth at a uniform and constant speed.

After the five flavors of the dishes, Lin Chen seemed to suddenly think of something, and hurriedly opened his pocket, took out a blade from it, and handed it to Qisi.

"Brother Qi, I've kept this knife with me, but I didn't have a chance to give it back to you..."

"I'll give it to you." Qi Si put down his chopsticks and looked at him, "Just consider it a gift."

"Ah?...Oh, thank you, Brother Qi!" Lin Chen put the blade back into his pocket.

The two of them were alone in a room, and it would be weird to put a knife on the table.

Qisi looked at Lin Chen's movements and asked abruptly: "Lin Chen, you haven't joined the guild yet, right?"

"Not yet." Lin Chen answered hesitantly, "I wanted to join Jiuzhou, but..."

He didn't say anything else.

What can I say? Say that after a copy, I have doubts about Jiuzhou's philosophy?

This is too illusory, and it seems self-righteous...

Qisi saw Lin Chen's hesitation and said lightly: "If you don't mind the guild ranking, you can join my guild."

Lin Chen's eyes widened: "Eh? Brother Qi, do you already have a guild?"

In his impression, the young man is a solitary person in his bones, and it doesn't seem like he will stick together...

"Not yet," Qisi said truthfully, "I know that 10,000 points can register a guild. Let's go register together later."

"Together...together?" Lin Chen's eyes widened even more.

Although it only takes 10,000 points to register a guild, most players will not choose to establish a new guild, just because there will be a lot of hidden management costs in the future, which is not an exaggeration to say that it is a bottomless pit.

Not only that, no matter how big or small the guild is, as long as it is not Xila or Tianping, it must act in accordance with the conventions formulated by the old guilds, including but not limited to contributing people and money to deal with mass incidents and emergencies.

If there is any inadequacy, at the very least, the guild will be sanctioned by the old guild and lose points, or at the worst, they will be collectively labeled as massacre players and everyone can punish them.

The most interesting thing is that except for the Jiuzhou Guild, which truly pursues the purpose of unity and cooperation, most other guilds regard the convention as nothing. But the only newly established small guilds are often punished for violating the convention.

Since Qi Si claimed to have understood it, he must have studied all these twists and turns and thought of a countermeasure.

There are certainly many difficulties in establishing a guild, but as long as you survive the most difficult time in the early stage, you can sit at the negotiation table to divide the interests, and even... use the customary organizational rules to exploit other players.

Lin Chen believes that with Qi Si's ability, the establishment of the guild must be aimed at making it bigger and stronger, and there is a high probability of achieving good results.

Saying that you want to register the guild "together" with him is equivalent to giving him half of the control of the guild. Under such a premise, it is completely letting him take advantage of it...

"Yes, together." Qi Si made arrangements in an unquestionable tone, "Each of us will contribute 5,000 yuan, you will be the president, and I will be the vice president."

He picked up the chopsticks again, his voice still as calm as water: "Eat quickly, don't waste your time." (End of this chapter)