Chapter 88: Holy Tour Guild

[Congratulations to the corpse collector Xia Bai for successfully unlocking the Dihao Apartment map. ]

[The game is calculating, please wait. ]

[The rewards and achievements obtained by the corpse collector Xia Baiben map are as follows:]

[Game props [reflective clothing]: protective props, divert any physical and mental damage in the game, including props, body and soul skill attacks, can only be used once in each map. ]

[Game points: 4802030]

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After coming out of the game, Xia Bai appeared on the 9th floor of Dihao Apartment, where they entered the game.

Lin Xiang, Lao Qian and Yang Yi from the apartment in the human world came out at the same time as him, and Ling Changye, Yang Mei and others from the apartment in the underworld also came out.

There were also two bodies that were thrown out for unknown reasons. They were Lan Xiang and Yu Chao, who were the first to die in the world of the living. However, the bodies of Ma Xinjia and Wei Jingyun were not thrown out.

Ye Jiyue was waiting for them outside, and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw nine of them come out.

Thirteen people went in and nine came out. Even with three members of the assault team, this result is still very good.

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone. Please follow me and get in the car. I will take you back now." She glanced at a few people and said, "If anyone needs medical care, please tell me. There is an ambulance waiting outside."

Those who were dead were completely dead, and those who were alive were barely injured, so they didn't need any medical treatment.

Ling Changye said: "There are two bodies on the 9th floor, go and deal with them."

"Hey!" Ye Jiuyue nodded and immediately found someone to deal with it.

The nine of them all got on the bus they had taken. Xia Bai looked at the time and found that only about 80 minutes had passed in the real world.

Lin Xiang slumped in a comfortable chair, looking exhausted and mentally tired. When he saw Yang Yi sitting in front of Yang Mei, he suddenly came alive and sat up straight in an instant.

Xia Bai also looked over there and said nothing.

He thought Yang Mei would remain silent as before, so he remained silent for a long time until the car started to move. As soon as Yang Yi turned around, he asked preemptively, "What evil plan did you come up with by entering this game?"

Xia Bai took the opportunity to complain: "He stole my hair."

“…”

Yang Mei's eyebrows immediately frowned, and her pretty face was almost frozen with snow. "Do you have any humanity? You only care about your research, right?"

Yang Yi said: "It's not just about research."

Yang Mei snorted coldly.

Then the two of them were speechless again.

Ling Changye then asked Yang Yi: "Where's your hair?"

Yang Yi took out a specimen folder from his bosom and threw it directly to Ling Changye. Ling Changye held the small transparent specimen folder between his index and middle fingers, observed it for a few seconds, and said, "This is not Xia Bai's hair."

Yang Yi's face became even uglier.

Xia Bai blinked and asked, "Why not my hair?"

Ling Changye said: "The hair color and length do match, but your hair is not that hard."

Xia Bai smiled, a little happy, "Captain, you are the first one to discover it."

Lin Xiang: “…”

He felt something was wrong, but he thought he might be influenced by Yang Mei.

Xia Bai said: "I used someone else's hair to replace this. I guessed that they might use hair to transfer the black magic, so they secretly replaced my hair with the hair of a dead person."

Yang Mei turned around and said, "We also guessed that the black magic was transferred by hair. This is very difficult to prevent. I am a little worried about you and Lin Xiang. The captain said he believes in you."

Lin Xiang: "That's definitely not what I meant."

Yang Mei and Ling Changye hummed at the same time.

Lin Xiang: “…”

He is a person who is very good at noticing when others are kind to him. He said, "It's okay. At least you are worried about me."

He didn't know that by saying this, he had offended another person.

After the game, they split into two groups, one Yin and one Yang, and neither side knew what happened on the other side. On the way back, they told each other about the game situation on their side, and after that, they didn't have to retell the game again.

Lao Qian was very confused. "I remember there was a part where we had to retell the game to the Gaming Authority? Could it be that I haven't played the game for so long that this part has been cancelled?"

Xia Bai couldn't tell him that the vice president of the research institute had downloaded the game with them, so there was no need to repeat it to the research institute.

He just said: "Someone has repeated it for us, we just need to rest."

Before we take a break, here are some bonus points.

Xia Bai, Ling Changye and Yang Mei discussed it and decided to give the reward props to Lao Qian.

First of all, the players who stayed in the underworld had no objections. They all knew that the players who went to the world of the living were the ones who contributed the most to the game.

Among the players who went to the mortal world, besides Xia Bai, there were Lao Qian, Lin Xiang and Yang Yi. Lin Xiang had no objection, and Yang Yi didn't care at all, so he didn't come.

Coincidentally, the prop reward this time is a camouflage prop.

Xia Bai said to Lao Qian, "You can take a step further on your path of disguise."

"Go away!" Old Qian said, "I don't need it anymore. Give it to Lin Xiang. The young man is busy running around."

Xia Bai: "Do you prefer your current disguise?"

Old Qian remained silent.

Xia Bai also fell silent.

Only Lin Xiang was stunned by the surprise. "This is not good, sister. Even if you don't want this prop, you can still sell it for a lot of money. How about this, sister? I will buy it from you. You name the price. My family is rich."

Lao Qian waved his hand and said, "I'm already old, what do I need so much money for?"

Lin Xiang: “?”

How can I say I am too old? Is this a new way of being modest?

Lin Xiang had heard his mother chatting with those rich wives since he was a child, so he felt that he understood women quite well. He immediately said politely, "No, no, my sister is young and beautiful, she looks about the same age as me, and she just graduated from high school."

“…”

Lao Qian didn't want a penny and gave the props directly to Lin Xiang. After giving it to Lin Xiang, he saw Xia Bai talking to someone and immediately wanted to slip away.

"Qian Xing! Wait, let's talk!" Xia Bai called him.

"Let's talk, let's talk." Lin Xiang also came over, "Sister, I can't ask you for props for nothing, how about I treat you to a big meal and give you jewelry and bags? You are so beautiful, you should wear jewelry."

Old Qian: “…”

Lao Qian had no choice but to stay, but refused to talk to Lin Xiang.

Yan Jingye, director of the Datai City Tourism Administration branch, may have known Yang Yi's identity. He was chatting with Yang Yi while pulling Ling Changye along.

Xia Bai glanced in their direction and took Lao Qian to his hotel room.

As soon as they reached the door, the team member who was taking care of Erwa brought him in. As soon as Erwa got off the ground, he ran over, holding Xia Bai's legs and looking up at him.

After only two hours of not seeing him, Erwa seemed to miss him very much. He kissed him more than before. Or should I say, he was bolder than before, because he didn't dare to hug him like this before.

But just like before, when he was happy, little white flowers bloomed on his ears, which made Old Qian marvel, "Is this the [Tree Planter] Erwa? The little trees can bloom."

As he said this, he reached out to touch her, but was blocked by Xia Bai's action of picking her up.

Being held in Xia Bai's arms, Erwa was not so scared. He poked out his little head and unexpectedly called out "Sister" politely.

Maybe it’s because old people like children very much. When Old Qian was called "sister", he didn’t act stiffly like when Lin Xiang called him sister. Instead, he smiled brightly.

Seeing that Erwa was not afraid, Xia Bai let Lao Qian touch his head and Xiaohua.

They went into Xia Bai's room together. The room prepared by the Tourism Administration for Xia Bai was very nice, a suite with a small living room. Xia Bai asked Lao Qian to sit down here and made him a pot of tea.

Old Qian stared at the full pot of tea and said, "It seems that I won't be able to leave so easily today."

Xia Bai first poured him a cup of tea, then took out Sister Xuemu to play with Erwa, and then said, "Just chat with you."

In the game, Xia Bai did chat with him about the [Never Contact Each Other Again] group, their identities and grandfather, but time was tight in the game, and Xia Bai still had some things he was curious about, so he didn't have time to ask.

Lao Qian said, "I've told you everything. Don't just pick on me, ask Lao Wang, or just video chat with him now."

Xia Bai said with a blank face: "I want to know about the Shengyou Guild. Do I want to video chat with Lao Wang now?"

Lao Qian: “…Don’t worry about him.”

Xia Bai nodded, "I thought so too. After all, your club is hostile."

Lao Qian said, "Don't say that. You are also from the Tourism Bureau. You are in the same group with him. Did he ask you to come and get information from me?"

Xia Bai said a little aggrievedly: "No, he doesn't even recognize me. The last time we met, he acted like he didn't know me."

Old Qian: “…”

Xia Bai pushed the tea in front of Lao Qian and said, "Don't be nervous. We are just chatting about family matters. Why did you come to Datai City?"

Hearing this question, Lao Qian was indeed not so nervous. He drank half a cup of tea and said, "Didn't I tell you that I was originally living in the village for retirement? They came to tell me that the Shengyou Guild had encountered a major crisis and asked me to leave the mountain, no, leave the village."

"I didn't want to leave the village. I'm old and my legs and feet are not very strong. They said that if I didn't come out, the Holy Tour Guild would be finished and many people would be killed. So I had no choice but to come."

It seems like I said a lot, but in fact I said nothing.

Also, how can the largest antisocial organization, the Holy Travel Guild, be described as a pitiful and innocent little team?

Xia Bai asked directly: "Is it because you are here to deal with the Half Moon Group?"

Old Qian stopped talking.

Xia Bai continued, "It's not enough to have just one vice president here, you even called the most powerful elders here. Your Shengyou Guild is going to fight to the death with the Half Moon Group. You won't stop until you bring them to the Shengyou Guild, right?"

Old Qian sighed, "Xiao Bai, I'm telling you the truth. I'm old now and I really don't want to get involved in these fights. I just want to enjoy my retirement. I'm not lying to you about this matter. It's really not the Shengyou Guild that's causing trouble. We're really protecting ourselves."

Xia Bai was slightly stunned, "The Shengyou Guild is at a disadvantage?"

Old Qian nodded. "You don't believe it either, do you? Shengyou Guild is such a big guild. They usually shout and kill in the game and are very arrogant. How could they be forced to this point by a small Half Moon Group?"

"Well, at first, the Holy Travel Guild didn't take the Half Moon Group seriously. But they saw that the members of the Half Moon Group were all good and suitable for the Holy Travel Guild. During this period, the Holy Travel Guild was expanding its influence, so they only sent a veteran player to talk to them about this matter, hoping to bring them into the Holy Travel Guild."

"It's okay that it didn't work. It's not like we haven't encountered this kind of thing before, and the people above us didn't take it too seriously. I just didn't expect that this time we'd hit such a hard wall, losing a vice president and so many high-level players. The key is that they died in such a horrible way."

Xia Bai asked: "Do you know how they died?"

He and Ling Changye also visited the scene where the vice president of the Shengyou Guild died. At that time, they guessed that a big shot had appeared. Of course, Xia Bai now knows that the big shot should be You Yue, whom they thought was an ordinary person at first, but they still don’t know what happened exactly at that time.

Lao Qian took out a small paper figure and gave it to Xia Bai.

Xia Bai already knew how to use the little paper man, so he immediately stuck it to his eyes and saw the scene as if he was watching a video, from the perspective of a player on the scene.

This player was not surprisingly, he was the player from the Shengyou Guild who was in the bar at that time. He was looking at Shi Danfeng who was being stepped on by Vice President Zhang Bingyu.

It was pretty much as they had speculated at the time. Before that big guy arrived, the Half Moon Group was at a disadvantage. But looking at the situation at the scene, it couldn't be said that they were at a disadvantage; they were completely crushed.

Shi Danfeng, the wife of the president of the Half Moon Group, was stepped on by the vice president of the Holy Travel Guild, and her hair was covered in blood.

The president was lying on the side, his hands nailed to the ground by the knife, unable to move.

Not far away, a player from the Half Moon Group was struggling to climb out, leaving a long, thick trail of blood.

This bar with swaying lights was like hell to the players of the Half Moon Group at that time.

The vice president of the Shengyou Guild stepped on Shi Danfeng's bloody head and said something with a smile. From her mocking and indifferent expression, it was not difficult to guess what she was talking about at the time. It was nothing more than mocking the Half Moon Group for overestimating their own capabilities and daring to go against their Shengyou Guild.

When Xia Bai saw this, he thought to himself that the Shengyou Guild here was completely different from the shabby and pitiful society that Lao Qian mentioned. This was the real viciousness and terror of the largest anti-social society.

But soon they were no longer ruthless.

This video shows everything seen from the perspective of a player of the Holy Tour Guild. He turned his head, and his sight passed through the blood and mess, and then stopped at the door of the bar, where a pair of cloth shoes of unidentifiable color appeared.

The cloth shoes were on thin ankles, and above the ankles were torn gray linen trouser legs.

A man walked into the bar.

She was very thin, with long hair on her forehead that half covered her eyes. She was still looking at the phone in her hand when she first came in.

You Mohan was a little excited when he saw her, and Shi Danfeng was also trying hard to turn her head which was being stepped on by the vice president.

No one knew what the people in the bar were laughing at or talking about. She put her phone safely into her pocket and looked at each of them with gloomy but calm eyes.

When looking at the player in the video, Xia Bai was also shocked by her eyes.

Then, she walked into the bar wearing a pair of thin cloth shoes. Wherever she passed, players either went crazy and committed suicide or killed others, or died suddenly.

The video suddenly became bloody. The player in the video had blood splattered in his eyes and fell to the ground soon after, but he was not dead yet. Players fell down one by one where the pair of feet in cloth shoes passed.

This place has become a real hell belonging to the players of the Holy Tour Guild.

The air was filled with blood, and the video suddenly ended completely.

Xia Bai sat there and didn't take off the little paper man for a while.

Lao Qian tore off the little paper figures covering his eyes, revealing his dazed face. "Do you understand? They didn't even see him do it."

Xia Bai understood that the person was really You Yue. He did not expect You Yue to be so powerful.

Lao Qian said: "I have never seen such a powerful player. She is just like what you said, the one called bug. I don't play the game often, but I have seen and heard of many players. Anyway, no one is better than him."

"After seeing this, the people of the Holy Travel Guild finally realized the seriousness of the situation. Another vice president [psychic] decided to take action himself. Not only him, but he also called me over."

Xia Bai: "What is your purpose here?"

Old Qian didn't answer, but he said it very directly, "If we don't kill her before she fully grows up, then all the players of the Holy Tour Guild may have to die."

"Of course, I didn't really participate." Lao Qian said: "One of the reasons I followed you into the game was to avoid them. I can't beat her."

Xia Bai: “…”

He heard from Ling Changye that the Holy Travel Guild had fought with the Half Moon Group several times, so Lao Qian, the veteran who was specially invited out of retirement, has been hiding?

"Did you lose every time you fought against the Half Moon Group?" Xia Bai asked.

"There are times when we win, as long as that person is not around," said Lao Qian.

Lao Qian drank another glass of water, sighed and said, "In these two days, we will have a fight to the death."

Xia Bai glanced at him and said, "Why are you telling me? You have bad intentions."

"You figured it out, haha." Old Qian said without any embarrassment: "I don't know how many people will die in this fatal battle. You have to take care of it at the Game Management Bureau. There are always some powerful players in the Game Management Bureau, right?"

The Game Management Bureau does have players who can resolve this matter, and also players who can stop You Yue.

But Xia Bai just kept a blank face and said nothing.

He now feels that he is involved in too much. He is a member of the Game Management Bureau's assault team, knows the elders of the Holy Game Guild, and has contact with You Yue of the Half Moon Group. It is too difficult to maintain a balance in the middle.

His position has always been firm. He doesn't care about world peace or power struggles. He just wants to enter the game and find the god of happiness in his home.

He is neither great nor despicable, just an ordinary member of the assault team. He just needs to complete the weekly game mission and doesn't care about anything else.

Xia Bai didn't want to be used as a pawn by Lao Qian for the time being, so he changed the subject and asked another question that he was very curious about, "What do you look like?"

Old Qian stood up and was about to leave, Xia Bai hurriedly called out: "Grandpa! This is the grandpa I want to take care of in my old age!"

Old Qian: “…”

Xia Bai: "I am just purely curious."

"It's purely personal. I can't tell Lao Wang about it." Lao Qian sat down again. "Our president...how does your Tourism Administration record our president?"

Xia Bai: “…”

You have to get something out of it, right?

"According to the records of the Tourism Administration, the president of the Holy Tourism Association is in poor health and has been bedridden for many years. He is more like a mascot president, and the two vice presidents are actually in power."

This is what Xia Bai was curious about. "The Holy Tour Guild is a group of lunatics and evil people. Do they still need a mascot? If a person is useless, why would he be honored as the president?"

Old Qian said: "It can't be called a mascot, it should be said that it is, um, like a sacred object. People below think that he is bedridden all year round. In fact, our president is a dead man."

Xia Bai was stunned.

The dead, the president, the holy objects.

He suddenly thought of something, but couldn't put his finger on what it was.

As can be seen from the name of their guild, the Shengyou Guild supports games. Why do they support games?

On the surface, they believe that games are the new era's law of "survival of the fittest," helping humans to screen genes, eliminate waste, and develop better.

In fact, many players know that there may be members of the Holy Tour Guild who really think this way, but more members are just using this excuse to satisfy their own desires. For example, people with antisocial personalities, under the banner of this, have done many heinous things in the real world.

Is it really just like that?

The Shengyou Guild has a lot of people, including some well-known intellectuals, and they are quite cohesive. Even Lao Qian, Xia Bai knew that although he said he didn't understand it back then, there must have been some reason why he really wanted to join the Shengyou Guild.

That was three years ago, and he was not an impulsive, hot-blooded young man at that time.

Xia Bai: "Did you discover something from this dead guild leader? It must be something very important and related to the game, so you worship him as a holy guild leader, and that's why you are determined to become a member of the Holy Tour Guild."

Old Qian began to press his forehead. Old Xia's grandson looked stupid, but how could he be so smart?

He just said that their president was a dead man, and he touched the core of their Holy Tour Guild.

Old Qian sighed. He was 67 years old this year. It was said that a man knows his destiny at the age of 50. According to this saying, he had known his destiny for more than ten years. For the first time, he inexplicably felt a sense of fate in Xia Bai's intelligence.

Xia Bai came over, put his hands on Old Qian's arms, and asked eagerly, "What did you find from the president of the Holy Relics Association, Grandpa Qian?"

Old Qian: “…”

How can it be so illegal?

Xia Bai: "I promise I won't tell anyone."

Lao Qian: "You can't tell your captain either."

Xia Bai: "I already said I wouldn't tell anyone, why did you mention him specifically?"

Old Qian glanced at him, looking like he knew everything but didn't want to say it, and told Xia Bai the secret that was not unspeakable: "We have learned from the president that games are irresistible, and humans will never be able to compete with games."

Xia Bai was slightly stunned. "Is your perception reliable? Could it be that someone is using this to incite people?"

Lao Qian said, "I can only tell you that it is very reliable, and has been proven reliable time and time again. This is the fundamental reason why the Holy Game Guild is called the Holy Game Guild. The high-level players of the Holy Game Guild dare to be so disrespectful to the Game Administration Bureau because they think the Game Administration Bureau is a joke."

"No matter how hard the gaming authority tries, it will be useless. Humans cannot fight against games. Humans will eventually realize their own insignificance and meanness and succumb to the rules of the game."

While Xia Bai was lost in thought, Lao Qian stood up and said, "Alright, you've drained me of my money. I have nothing more to tell you. I'm leaving."

He had already reached the door and saw Xia Bai running towards him, looking like he had something important to announce to him.

It would be difficult for the members of the assault team who were trying to fight against the game to accept this, he thought.

"No." Xia Bai said, "It's not emptied yet. There's still room for help. Grandpa Qian, please help me keep an eye on my God of Happiness. There are so many people in the Shengyou Guild, maybe someone has seen him."

Old Qian: “…”