Chapter 431: The Land Forsaken by God (20) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

People come and go outside the city of Besse, and fighting is not allowed inside the city, so many people keep their grudges outside the city.

Fighting is not uncommon here, but it is a bit rare for the other party in the fight to be dragged out from underground.

An adventurer who had seen the whole process turned his head and asked in a low voice: "What kind of earth spell is this?"

Can you hide underground and follow the person you are tracking?

This thing looks very dangerous. We are all adventurers. It is inevitable to make enemies with all kinds of people when we are out there. Today, I saw other adventurers passing by being tracked by their enemies in this way. Maybe tomorrow it will be me.

This seemingly powerful wizard may be able to discover that he is being followed, but they may not be able to discover it.

"It doesn't look like a spell," the archer in their team narrowed his eyes and carefully observed the tracker who was trapped in the air by invisible magic. "Look at his hand."

"Hand?" The soldiers in the team looked up. "What's wrong with the hand?"

"It seems to have taken something," the archer squinted his eyes to identify it, "It should be... an alchemical vessel?"

The Beardless Wizard is one of the most famous shops selling alchemy magic in the city of Besser. Basically all adventurers who can use this kind of creation will patronize his shop.

Unfortunately, his disguise as the white-bearded old man was exposed by Bai Jinshu a few days ago. Now there are so many adventurers gathered at the city gate, but no one recognized that he is the owner of the alchemy shop in Besai City.

In front of the exploration team, Hector briefly explained the origins of their relationship with the stalker, and then added cautiously: "Sister Yan, this man is a liar. He has lied to me before and even pretended to be over a hundred years old in Besser for several years."

The beardless wizard shook his head and waved his hands wildly in the air, as if denying Hector's statement.

"The profiteer who cheated you..." White Moth looked the beardless mage up and down for a few times, and confirmed that he had no similarities with the sneaky attacker who followed the player in the original plot, except that they both followed them. Then his eyes fell on the object in his hand, "What is this?"

The profiteer was holding something that looked complicated.

"Dermis?" She asked for help from the necromancer in the team who might recognize this thing.

Bai Jinshu glanced at the alchemical creation in the beardless wizard's hand: "A single earth element alchemical creation."

He waved his hand, and the alchemical item in the beardless wizard's hand flew in front of him.

"Dwarf craftsmanship, superimposed with goblin magic," he looked around the thing, "goblins are a very stingy and greedy species, they will never let their magical creations fall into the hands of outsiders, unless they die... Did you kill a goblin?"

The beardless wizard shook his head wildly in the air.

"It doesn't seem so." Bai Jinshu looked at the creation carefully again. "Fairies are magical creatures. Their death has a magical meaning in mysticism. If you kill a goblin and take its treasure, the taken things will be attached with the goblin's curse. There is no curse on this thing."

The beardless wizard nodded frantically.

That is what the fairy voluntarily gives to the other party.

The exploration team members looked at each other.

"Dermis," Xu Zichen called softly, "Have you read the information Guan Hongyan posted in the group a few days ago?"

"No." Bai Jinshu answered confidently.

"She sent us the original main storyline. In the original storyline, the fuse of the defense of Besser City was the goblin's long sword in the city lord's arsenal," Xu Zichen tried to be concise and summarize the dozens of hours of plot with the simplest narration. "This long sword is said to be the key to unlocking the goblin treasure house in the goblin forest. It was stolen by an unknown thief. The goblins followed the information of the long sword and found that the sword was in the warehouse of the city lord of Besser City. The subsequent plot is that the noble who stole the long sword caused trouble, causing the angry goblins to attack Besser City, hoping to overthrow the rule of the current city lord."

The final result is naturally a happy ending for everyone. After a battle, the goblin got his sword back, the noble who intended to become the city lord had his conspiracy exposed by the players, and the city lord also obtained a long sword that was truly given by the goblin and put it into his collection inventory.

The problem now is that the story about this long sword happened a long time ago, and there is no problem with the long sword given by the fairy himself in the city lord's inventory. So where did the fairy item in the hand of the person in front come from?

"There are too many people here," Yun Guang whispered, "We need to find a place with fewer people and ask the mage who is following us what he wants to do and where the thing in his hand came from."

Is this the inevitability of the plot, or a coincidence that fits everything in?

Bai Jinshu nodded, looked around, and took the lead, leading the beardless wizard who was still in the sky like flying a kite, and walked towards the woods far away from the city of Besser.

Everyone behind him hurried to catch up.

The adventurers outside the city of Besser had no more fun to watch, so they scattered in their respective directions.

After avoiding the crowd, Bai Jinshu followed the crowd slowly. The people in front had already surrounded the profiteer mage flying in the air. Su Hao spoke first: "Tell me, what are you doing here?"

The wizard pointed at his mouth in the air and made random gestures.

"He seemed to be here to deliver some information," Guan Hongyan said cautiously, "but someone sealed his mouth?"

"It doesn't seem like it," Zhao Yinglai muttered, "If he came to deliver information, he should just deliver it properly. Why would he hide underground? Who would follow him underground to deliver information?"

"In order to avoid being discovered?" Lu Changfeng also guessed, "He may have taken a great risk to come here. Once he is discovered, it will be over?"

This is the n.pc setting in the plot that conveys key information to the players, a maid hired by a noble who heard the key information.

——The player once helped her heal her mother who was attacked by a wild beast with crude healing skills while running errands in the early stage.

In order to repay the favor, the maid passed the message to the player, but after returning to her post, she was killed by the noble who discovered the clues.

"It's not quite the same..." Xu Zichen denied, "In the plot, the player helped him, but what does this profiteer have to do with us now? He even cheated Hector out of his money."

No matter how you look at it, it's impossible that he came here to repay a favor.

"Then what's wrong with his mouth?" White Moth used his imagination to guess, "If someone didn't forbid him to say some key information, then why was he fine a few days ago, but couldn't speak today? There must be some villain who didn't let him say the information, just like Voldemort, he would hear it if he called his name... How about I give you a pen and paper so you can write it down?"

Bai Moth searched in his backpack and actually found a roll of parchment and a quill pen.

"I sealed it," the beardless wizard had just taken the paper and pen when Voldemort's voice rang out from behind the crowd, "Any objections?"

White Moth: ...

"No problem," she said without any temper, "Just ignore what I said."

"So," she paused for a few seconds and couldn't help but say, "So this guy came after you. It's not because you sealed his mouth, and he came to you to unseal it, right?"

"Maybe." Bai Jinshu said casually.

"Then why didn't you solve it just now..." Guan Hongyan said speechlessly, "You kept us guessing for so long, what plot and what fairy..."

It made everyone think it was an inevitable part of the plot.

"I forgot," the person she accused said confidently, "I have silenced too many people. If I were to remember them one by one, I would have to write dozens of rolls of parchment."

This is not something you can just write casually. If you really need to remember it, who would be able to remember it?

"Well... since it has nothing to do with the plot, why don't we just unseal this profiteer now?" Su Hao interrupted.

"No," Delmis said more confidently. In everyone's confused eyes, he said casually, "He came to me to unblock him, so I unblocked him?"

Where does he put the reputation of the number one necromancer?

"Besides, doesn't it mean he deserves that I blocked his ability to speak?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.

If this unscrupulous businessman hadn't stopped his apprentice from trying to cheat people and belittled the sword, who would have the urge to shut up a passerby?

Delmis is a villain, not a psychopath.

The beardless wizard struggled frantically in the sky, trying to attract everyone's attention.

"What do you mean... for us?" Bai E turned her head and found that what he was waving in his hand was the piece of paper that she had once given him. There was a line of words on the paper that were so ugly that it was shocking because they were floating in the air without a fulcrum.

"Dermis," White Moth identified it and quickly raised the parchment to look in the direction of Delmis, "He said that he can exchange the news of the Grand Mage for you to unlock the seal that prevents him from speaking."

The Grand Mage in the Mage Tower?

Everyone's expression was a little moved.

Hector said bluntly: "You can't even enter the Mage Tower, how can you know the news of the Grand Mage."

Although it was unknown how much of the story told to him by the fraudulent wizard was credible, it was obvious that the fact that he opened a shop in the city of Besser instead of studying in the Wizard Tower, which was the dream of every wizard fighting, was enough to show that he was not qualified to be an apprentice at all.

The mages in the Mage Tower didn't know the news, so how could this liar shop owner know?

The beardless wizard quickly wrote a few lines on the paper.

"I really know... the magic knife of the Mage Tower... something something broken," Guan Hongyan tried hard to recognize these lines of words, "Hey, you should practice your handwriting, I really can't understand it."

"Dermis, just let him speak directly," she looked in the direction of Bai Jinshu, "If he really knows the news about the Grand Mage, then maybe that's a clue. If he's lying, just sew his mouth shut."

The disappearance of these career mentors is strange in itself.

Bai Jinshu waved his hand, and the beardless wizard in the sky finally regained the ability to speak.

"I really know news about the Grand Mage! Don't sew my mouth shut!" He said impatiently, "I know you guys are looking for him. When I was following you, I heard you guys say you wanted to find his whereabouts!"

Guan Hongyan: "Where is he?"

"I... I don't know where he is," the beardless wizard hesitated, "I just said I know news about him..."

"Sew his mouth." Guan Hongyan turned around and said ruthlessly, "Let's go to Cyril City."

"Hey, hey, hey, no, no, no!" the beardless wizard said quickly, "I know this news that others definitely don't know! The Grand Mage has actually been out for the past few years and rarely stays in the Mage Tower!"

The eyes of the exploration team members nearby flashed.

This news is indeed unknown to others.

Most people, even before they came to Besser City, believed that the Grand Mage had always been in the Mage Tower. It was only when they found the city lord that they learned that the Grand Mage had been looking for a purple-haired adventurer in the past few years.

The city lord knew this because he had a good relationship with the grand magician, but why did this wizard know this?

"This is... my guess," the beardless wizard gestured, "The alchemy I learned is very niche. There are very few people who know this kind of alchemy, so there is no one else in Besser City who can use this alchemy technology. Therefore, the alchemy materials I ordered are also different from those of most alchemists."

At the beginning, he was the only one in the city of Bessey who ordered materials, and he often had to pay more for the transportation costs of this separate line than for regular materials.

But I don’t know when it started, but there was a material called magic sand, and the travel expenses suddenly dropped a lot.

At first, the beardless wizard thought that the supplier had miscalculated the price, so he didn't mention it in the hope of getting a small advantage. However, it was normal to miscalculate the travel expenses once in a while, but it was a bit strange to miscalculate three or four times in a row. He finally couldn't help asking, and got the answer that "there is another customer in Besai who ordered magic sand, and the order is large, so the other party borne most of the travel expenses, so his expenses were naturally reduced.

"At first I thought there were other alchemists who knew this kind of alchemy trying to steal my business. They ordered such a large amount of magic sand. When they started selling the goods, they would steal my market. So I wanted to find out which store it was so I could ruin their business in advance." The beardless wizard was indeed a profiteer. "After asking around, I found out that the one who bought so much magic sand was the Mage Tower."

Since it is a mage tower, it has nothing to do with the market.

The beardless wizard spent a long time enjoying the shade of a big tree and a 10% discount on his travel expenses.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. After a while, the travel fares returned to their original prices.

The Mage Tower no longer orders this magic material.

In this kind of large wizard tower, it is very common to need some special materials for a certain research. As the research succeeds or is cancelled, the ordered materials will not be ordered.

At first he thought this was the case, but strangely, after a few months, the travel expenses were reduced again.

The Mage Tower has started to re-order.

This kind of repeated ordering was carried out for about five or six times. By chance, the beardless wizard suddenly discovered that this pattern was related to the movements of the grand magician.

The time period when you can see the Grand Mage appearing in the Mage Tower is when the magic sand and horse fees are cheap. When you can't see the Grand Mage, it is when the magic sand and horse fees are expensive to recover.

The beardless wizard seemed to have guessed a truth that not many people in the entire city of Besse knew. The great magician seemed to be doing some research that required the consumption of this material, and in addition to his research, he was frequently leaving Besse City and going to other places.

"And then?" Yun Guang frowned slightly, "Do you know what the Grand Mage is researching?"

"Of course I don't know..." The beardless mage said awkwardly, "I just guessed that he might be in the Mage Tower sometimes and not sometimes, but... but but!"

He quickly added: "However, this method no longer works now. I changed the magic sand provider! So now three or four years have passed, and I have no idea what happened to the Grand Mage!"

"Three or four years, that's a difference of several years," Xu Zichen let out a long sigh, "The God of Light disappeared seven years ago, the Great Mage disappeared three or four years at most, and he was looking for the purple-haired adventurer ten years ago..."

"The God of Light has disappeared?!" the beardless wizard exclaimed in shock when he heard his muttering.

"Tsk," Guan Hongyan rolled her eyes, "If you don't want to be silenced, then don't shout so loudly. If you know anything else, please tell me."

"Nothing more," the beardless wizard stuttered and swore quickly, "I won't tell anyone about the God of Light! Can I leave now?"

He couldn't wait to leave this place now.

"No," Xu Zichen closed his watch, "You haven't explained clearly why you brought the goblin's things with you. Also, why did you change the supplier of raw materials for no apparent reason?"

Isn’t it true that the longer you cooperate with a raw material supplier, the greater the discount you will get?

Moreover, this is a Western fantasy world, and the magic materials produced in different places are different. If you are used to using the ones from place A, you may not be used to using them from place B.

"Because the original supplier of raw materials no longer sells to the public," the beardless wizard explained, "I heard that they seemed to have been bought by someone and no longer sell to the public. I had no choice but to change the supplier."

"As for the goblin stuff you mentioned..." He looked at the alchemical vessel in the necromancer's hand reluctantly, and then quickly retracted his gaze after meeting the other party's line of sight. "That is the reward that the dwarf craftsman in my shop received after making a crown for the goblins. It allows the user to travel through the land without being discovered by anyone."

"You haven't been discovered by anyone, but you have been discovered by Dermis, haven't you?" Zhao Yinglai twitched his mouth, "It seems that you fairies are not reliable either."

"Besides, why are you following us like this?" She couldn't help but complain, "Since you have news about the Grand Mage, why don't you just come to us directly? Why do you have to follow us secretly?"

Beardless Mage: ...

The beardless wizard couldn't help but feel the urge to complain.

"I also want to go directly to you!" He stared at Hector with tears in his eyes, "I haven't been able to speak for five or six days! I have always wanted to find the adventurer who was almost deceived by me to remove the curse, but who knew that he changed his clothes as soon as he entered the city, and I couldn't find him!"

Who could have thought that a nice young man who came into the city would turn into a Disney princess with long hair and a long dress after spending a day in Bessie?

You are a pervert!

"After so many days, the dwarf craftsman in my shop finally saw you appear on the commercial street again, preparing to leave Besser City. Of course I have to follow you to confirm whether the person in the skirt is the adventurer!"

Hector, who was forced to run around in a long skirt and long hair: …

Others who forced Hector to wear long hair and long skirt: …

Is that really the case?

Everyone looked away silently, no one wanted to continue to embarrass the poor shop owner.

"Address," only Bai Jinshu stretched out a hand and held it in front of the shop owner, "Magic Sand."

The Grand Mage purchased a large amount of this magic material when he was in the city of Besser, and it was later sold to someone else. So the person who bought the magic material from its origin was most likely him.

So is it possible to get information about the Grand Mage here?

Since we all have to travel across the mainland anyway, it doesn't matter where we go, so it would be better to go to places where there might be clues first.

The shop owner quickly gave out an address.

"Hiss..." Bai Jinshu heard his teammates behind him take a deep breath.

"This place," White Moth took a breath, "isn't this..."

Isn’t this the next place players will go in the main storyline?

After all the twists and turns, is this still the inevitability of the plot?

"So will Besser City be attacked again next?" Lu Changfeng suddenly asked after a pause of several seconds.

"Not necessarily, because everything we are experiencing now is only similar in form, and it does not completely replicate the main storyline," Yun Guang frowned and thought, "but the inevitability of us entering the plot now is actually a good thing."

No matter what, in the main storyline of the game, at least the protagonist played by the player will not die, will definitely save the world, and will become famous, so as long as they follow this plot to discover, they will definitely achieve the final result of opening the door to the kingdom of God.

"So our strategy worked," Guan Hongyan's thoughtful gaze swept across Hector's face, and he looked away only after his back went numb. "This space seems to have identified him as a player, but because his timeline is different from that of a normal player, the main storyline about him has been reset."

It became "Searching for the mystery of the departure of the Grand Mage".

So as long as they follow this plot, in the end they will naturally discover the reason why the great magician left.

"In the plot, the player meets his sister who is also an adventurer in Besai City, and works with her to find out the truth..." Su Hao looked at the information thoughtfully.

Hector was alert: "My sister is only eight years old! She can't be an adventurer yet!"

This is still a minor!

That's true.

If you really want to match the plot everywhere, you can't harm Hector and then harm his sister.

Everyone looked at each other. Zhao Yinglai was silent for a moment, then opened Pandora's box: "In fact, we just need to take someone out of Besser City and forcefully say that this is Hector's sister, right? It doesn't have to be a biological child."

The player in the plot and the n.pc sister made up of data are not real siblings.

"Then who should we take away..." Su Hao moved his eyes away.

"Yes, who should we take away?" Guan Hongyan asked excitedly.

"My friend," White Moth's gaze smoothly shifted to the beardless wizard, "are you interested in going on an adventure with us?"

The beardless mage was horrified: "How can I say no..."

"No," Zhao Yinglai put his arm around his shoulders and led him towards Guan Hongyan, "Mr. Shopkeeper, you don't want your four dwarf craftsmen to know that you are wearing women's clothes outside, do you?"

The beardless wizard: "Where am I wearing it!"

"You're about to put it on," Zhao Yinglai said solemnly, "If you don't go on the adventure with us..."

"You want me to go back wearing women's clothes?" The beardless wizard was horrified.

"What are you thinking about?" Guan Hongyan said cheerfully, "How could we be such wicked people? We would just kill you."

Beardless Mage:!

*

Half an hour later, the teller at the Adventurer's Guild discovered that the man who had said he was leaving Besser City, "How do you know that my teacher and his mistress are so loving?", had returned.

"I'm here to register my sister as an adventurer," Hector smiled brightly, feeling that he had never been so sunny and cheerful since meeting his teacher, "This is my sister."

Behind him walked out a person wearing a more luxurious and exaggerated cake dress than his and with more dazzling purple hair.

"Hello," the man said with a tearful tone, "My name is [Happy 523rd Wedding Anniversary to Teacher and Wife]."

"Hello... hello," the teller's pupils trembled, "Sir, how do you know that my teacher and his wife are very affectionate? Is this really your sister?!"

This is a man!

This is a man wearing a skirt!

Please don't treat me like a blind person! At least change your voice!

"No, she's my sister." [How do you know that my teacher and his wife are so loving?] The gentleman smiled brightly.

"But..." The teller looked at the information in her hand weakly, "His information was registered with us more than ten years ago... He is a man..."

The younger sister of this gentleman [How do you know that my teacher and his wife are very loving] even registered more than ten years earlier than him, and is an adventurer who is even older than him!

Hector smiled even more brightly, obviously prepared for the current situation.

He repeated the conversation skills that Guan Hongyan taught him before he entered the Adventurer's Guild: "No, my sister is actually a person with gender identity disorder whose biological sex is male but whose psychological identity is female."

"He came here today to update his gender information. He hopes that the Adventurer's Guild will not discriminate against him."

Teller: “Ah?”

The author has something to say:

Guan Hongyan: If that doesn't work, you can also say he is a Wal-Mart shopping bag or an armed helicopter.

Adventurer's Guild Teller Lady (weakly): I feel like I'm being discriminated against by you hipsters.

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