Chapter 448: The Forsaken Realm (37) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

Enoch's memory seemed to be gradually recovering as he saw more magic patterns.

After digging several unloading points, everyone had accumulated ten magic patterns. These ten patterns were all on one route, and the end point of the route was Cyril City.

When there were only two pieces of the pattern, Guan Hongyan could still try to piece it together. As the number of patterns increased, only Dermis, his partner, and Enoch were able to look at the pieced-together pattern normally.

One time, Su Hao was half asleep and yawning as he passed by Enoch's table, who was racking his brains to recall the details of a pattern. He quickly glanced at the half-drawn simplified version of the magic pattern and almost died on the boat.

Before the magic pattern had time to be transmitted from his cones through the nerves to his brain, two streams of blood and tears suddenly spurted out of Su Hao's eyes.

If Lu Changfeng hadn't been right next to them, everyone else would have died here.

After this, everyone on the ship avoided the gradually perfected pattern like a snake or scorpion. When they saw Enoch holding the paper, their expressions were no different from those of a ghost.

It's strange to say, but every time the big pit buried with the magic pattern fragments was dug, everyone was present and could see the patterns dug out, and it was not just Guan Hongyan who used paper and pen to trace these patterns buried underground.

But in this process, no one was hurt.

Only after being completed by Enoch and the patterns connected through some complex patterns will they become dangerous.

Moreover, the more connections a pattern has, the more dangerous it is. For example, the time when Su Hao ran into Enoch who was trying to complete two newly discovered pattern lines.

Seeing the restored pattern that only connected two magic pattern fragments, Guan Hongyan's pen ran out of ink, the paper cracked, the table fell, and his eyes were bloodshot. Su Hao's eyes were directly splashed with blood and tears, and he almost died on the spot.

"The most dangerous part of this magic pattern fragment is the part that was completed by Enoch," Yun Guang analyzed as he helped Su Hao wrap the bandage. "If we assume that this thing was really made by the great magician, then this thing is hidden under the building and there is a risk of it being discovered."

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of the discoverer, the great magician deliberately left only the safe part and hid the dangerous part.

"The Great Mage is a pretty nice guy," Guan Hongyan blew some bubble gum beside him, "Su Hao, why do you have bandages wrapped around your eyes? Didn't Rice Noodle Roll cure your condition almost completely before?"

Lu Changfeng was vomiting all over the place. The captain's screams resounded through the sky. The boat was stopped immediately and he was thrown into the woods to vomit slowly.

When it landed, it scared a group of innocent adventurers. A ghost ship fell from the sky, and there were shrill screams from the ship, which scared the clergy in that team so much that they started praising the God of Light on the spot.

The God of Light certainly did not show up, but Dermis did.

He forcibly sewed the captain's mouth shut.

Under the captain's incredulous eyes, Lu Changfeng just went down and vomited. Today it was his turn to be a noble lady, Xu Zichen, who ran down with her skirt lifted up. She smiled a few times in a friendly manner at the priest who was muttering to himself and holding holy water, ready to throw it if something went wrong, and used the common excuse of everyone.

The adventurer team received a commission to escort a noble lady from Besse City to Cyril City.

Xu Zichen's appearance seems to be as different from the "noble lady" as the Mariana Trench, but with the elf boy's more lifelike performance and the adventurer's emblem that Yun Guang took out, this team of adventurers still half-believed and half-doubtedly accepted the setting that "this ship is a special kind of aircraft."

"Then why is he..." The clergy in the team looked hesitantly at Lu Changfeng who was vomiting all over the place.

"He's seasick," Zhao Yinglai laughed. "He's from the inland area. It's his first time on a boat. He's not used to it and vomited."

The adventurer from the opposite team: "Okay... okay."

This team still looks weird.

But the other party is holding the emblem of the Adventurer's Guild, so he should not be a bad person.

The adventurers observed their behavior warily and found that this team seemed to have landed just to make the fat man vomit because he was seasick, so they had to leave scratching their heads.

"Adventurer's Emblem," Yun Guang held the emblem in his hand and looked at the backs of the group of people. "It was like this in Outlanklee last time, and it's the same here..."

In Alterac, the first miner who disappeared in it completely believed in them after seeing the adventurer's emblem. This time, they showed their adventurer's emblems to another team of adventurers, and the other party gradually let down their guard.

"Is there anything special about this thing?" Zhao Yinglai picked one up and shone it against the sky. "Isn't this just a simple emblem? I thought the Grand Mage had stuffed something in it that could confuse the other party's mind."

"Of course the Grand Mage didn't stuff anything in," she observed for a long time before hearing Delmis speak faintly, "Because I did it."

At first they couldn't enter the city of Besser, and they were allowed to enter only after he copied the emblem, which was not a proper adventurer's emblem at all.

"Oh, that's right..." Zhao Yinglai took a few seconds to react, "This is not the original, it's a high-quality imitation."

"There shouldn't be anything like this in the original version," Yun Guang shook his head, "If there is anything related to magic, then Delmis should have been reproduced as well."

There is no way it could be missed.

"What about physically?" Zhao Yinglai guessed.

"That's impossible," Yun Guang shook his head more decisively this time, "They haven't observed the emblem carefully."

Just seeing them take it out, the balance in these people's hearts shifted.

"So why do they believe that we are not bad people as soon as they see this?" Xu Zichen also came over, lifting his skirt.

"Hey, do you remember?" Guan Hongyan poked him, "When Enoch said he had many creditors, he mentioned that the assassins from the assassin club could not enter the city of Besser."

"I remember, what's wrong?" Xu Zichen didn't understand.

"You are stupid," Guan Hongyan twitched her lips, "which means that people who do dirty work are not qualified to enter Besai City. The invisible qualification to enter Besai City is to wear the Adventurer's Guild emblem, which means that people like this cannot obtain the Adventurer's Guild's adventurer status."

In other words, adventurers who can enter Besai City are certified "good people."

Let’s not talk about how the people in the Adventurer’s Guild judge whether a person is a “good person” or not, but holding the Adventurer’s Guild emblem that allows entry and exit from the city of Besser means one thing: this person is a good person certified by a large organization like the Adventurer’s Guild.

That's enough for most people to believe them.

But the question is where does the credibility of the Adventurer's Guild come from?

How can they judge whether a person is good or bad, and label them based on their own judgment and restrict them from entering certain places?

Isn’t the Adventurer’s Guild a commission-taking platform?

"Grand Mage..." Hector asked weakly.

"Didn't the teacher say that the magic pattern in this emblem belongs to the Grand Mage..." He added, "So everyone actually believes in the Grand Mage?"

He looked hesitantly at the circle of teammates around him.

A few seconds later, Guan Hongyan let out a hiss.

"Why is it him again?" She frowned and crossed her arms. "What on earth does this great mage want? Why is he everywhere?"

How come he is the one looking for the purple-haired adventurer now? He was the one who bought the Perrin Mine? He was the one who buried the magic patterns under every unloading point? He is also the one behind the Adventurer's Guild.

Having done this, no one would believe that his disappearance and the plans before his disappearance were not part of a big game.

"So whatever is discovered next, can we blame it all on the Grand Mage?" Zhao Yinglai seemed to be thinking about something.

"I think it's okay." Xu Zichen nodded.

It feels like any unsolved mysteries found on this continent now can all be attributed to the conspiracy of the Grand Mage.

The great magician takes the blame.

"Lu Changfeng, have you finished vomiting?" Guan Hongyan shouted in the direction of Lu Changfeng, "Get ready to go!"

"Wait, wait a minute..." Lu Changfeng supported himself on the tree trunk, feeling dizzy, "I have to... I have to slow down a little bit..."

Although she had been a wet nurse many times, it was usually okay for a knife to cut into the flesh, but this time it was a bit too much to stab the knife directly into the eyeball.

It is acceptable psychologically, but the side effects of his fixed attributes are obviously unacceptable.

Before he could pull out the handle of the knife, he was sweating profusely and almost collapsed.

Xu Zichen and the others had given him all the blue potions from the mall to replenish his strength, but he vomited them out now. His stomach was empty but he was still regurgitating acid, and his brain was extremely confused.

It is foreseeable that this kind of "nausea" and "unbearableness" that exceeds his current tolerance threshold will continue to accompany him during some ordinary treatments in the next period of time.

Everyone learned their lesson after this incident. Whenever they saw Enoch holding a piece of paper, they would hide as far away as possible. Su Hao even bandaged his eyes with bandages every day.

Guan Hongyan was curious about what happened, so Lu Changfeng endured the dizziness in his brain and added: "The last time the treatment was not thorough."

Before he could completely pull out the knife, tears and stomach acid came out at the same time. When he pulled out the knife, he still couldn't complete the treatment completely.

Su Hao touched the bandage, confirmed that it was tied properly and said, "It will take a few more days."

He felt fine on the first day, but after seeing the strong light, black spots started to appear in front of his eyes. He was so scared that he immediately found a bandage to wrap his eyes.

Lu Changfeng had reacted too strongly when he was being treated. Now it would be healed in a few days, so Su Hao was embarrassed to trouble him to go through it again.

"Ah? How many days do you have to do this?" Guan Hongyan looked down, "We are about to reach Cyril City?"

Everyone has been eating and sleeping on the boat these days. Su Hao's life is not affected much by having his eyes blindfolded, but what should we do after entering Cyril City?

"Find a wheelchair?" Yun Guang thought for a moment. "We can't fight in the main city. It shouldn't be a big danger. I can just push him."

Su Hao nodded: "Anyway, I'm not really blind. When it comes to a critical moment, I can still figure out whether my eyes or my life is more important."

Guan Hongyan: "Also?"

The ghost ship stopped outside the city of Cyril as usual, leaving some distance for everyone to go in.

Today, the role of "noble lady" returned to Hector. Bai E took over and pushed Su Hao in the wheelchair towards the nearby Cyril City.

"It feels like the surroundings around Cyril and Bethesda are much more desolate?" Guan Hongyan looked around as she walked.

Outside the two main cities, there are endless vegetation of all kinds, but compared to the lush vegetation in Besse, Cyril's place is much more desolate.

The leaves of many trees on the roadside have turned yellow, and the fallen leaves on the ground include not only the normal yellow leaves, but also a lot of green leaves mixed in.

The tree trunks are bare after the leaves have fallen. From a distance it looks like autumn, but the time doesn't seem right.

"It's always summer in Breath of Slenkmed, right?" White E looked around. "I remember the documentation said that they were going to make a season system at first, but later they found that simulating four seasons in the entire world was too difficult and the resources consumed were too extravagant, so Slenkmed is set up as a world with only summer."

In other words, it is a world where "most areas of the world will be summer", and in some special maps, there will be snow all year round.

Now all the leaves here have fallen. Could it be that Schlenkmade also has four seasons?

"Then don't the people in this world find it strange?" Xu Zichen muttered, "There were never four seasons before, but now there are. It's like the world that only had four seasons before suddenly became eight seasons. People will definitely not be able to adapt."

And where it is still summer in Bethel, it is autumn in Cyril.

They flew all the way here from over the forest, and most of the forests they passed by had no fallen leaves?

"I don't know," Zhao Yinglai shrugged, "Maybe it's a regional characteristic?"

"Look around you," she quickly changed the subject, "Why are there so many players around?"

There were actually quite a few more players on the streets outside Cyril City.

In this game, the difference between players and n.pc can be seen almost at a glance. As a game that has become completely unpopular and has completely become the tears of the times, "Breath of Slenkmed" also struggled.

It has all the common problems of online games. In the later stages, in order to save revenue, the costumes in the game became more and more modern, the lighting effects became more and more dazzling, and it looked less and less like the original Western fantasy game.

Now the players on both sides of the road are wearing all kinds of colorful clothes.

Although we say “so many”, there aren’t actually that many. At most, we only saw about a dozen players along the way.

It’s just that the clothes of these players are too shiny, to the point that they can’t be ignored. What’s more, some of them are wearing futuristic technological fashions that are at least three or four technological revolutions away from the Western fantasy world. It’s hard not to notice them.

"You can tell from this dress..." Bai Moth whispered sympathetically, "how ugly it was when the production team rescued Liu Shui."

In order to keep the game running, they even go so far as to sell this kind of fashion. I guess the production team has no way to retain players in the endless stream of holographic games.

However, no one probably thought at that time that although Breath of Slenkmed was out of date, it was not shut down, but was retained. As Weiyu launched generation after generation of games, it became a framework that supports all games.

There are suddenly so many more players around, something must have happened.

Guan Hongyan glanced at her watch and looked up: "Hiss, it's bad, come to find Enoch."

Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows and took a look at the content sent by Hongyan on his watch.

In the mother world outside, someone was bored and started an activity to find Lao Zhang. In order to prove whether the producer Lao Zhang was dead or not, many players returned to the game and wanted to talk to "Enoch" face to face in person.

After all, no one could rush to Weiyu to ask this question. The internet was in an uproar, but no relatives or friends of Lao Zhang came out to speak. The netizens who had nothing to do could only do it themselves.

This activity has been going on for several days, but the popularity has not decreased. Instead, it has become more and more popular as no one can find Enoch. It's just that everyone was busy digging holes in the mountains and forests in the past few days and didn't notice that more and more players were joining the game.

And it's not just the old players who have come forward. The topic has become more and more popular. Many players who started playing games after Breath of Slenkmed died have created accounts in this ancient holographic game just to join in the fun.

With the influx of new players, some strange discoveries gradually fermented.

For example, there is a new player doing the main quest, and he gets stuck after reaching level 50. The quest requires him to find a career mentor, but the career mentor is not at the location shown on the map.

Most of the old players who know the truth explained that "Breath of Slenkmed" was a game that was released more than ten years ago. It was later used as the classic framework of the Weiyu holographic game. The server has not been maintained for so many years, and various resources have been constantly diverted. It is normal to have some bugs in the game.

However, only a few people come here to play games. Most people come here with the curious mentality of "If I meet Lao Zhang, I can make big news."

The players outside Cyril City didn't expect that Lao Zhang would appear like this.

The exploration team members dug the soil for several days in a row, and the air of dejection was overflowing, not to mention Su Hao who was in a wheelchair. At first, the players didn't pay attention to this line of NPCs.

Until someone suddenly noticed Bai Jinshu.

The shape of half body and half skeleton was still too advanced. The player turned his eyes and saw Enoch next to him.

"Hey——" he shouted quickly, "Isn't that Lao Zhang!"

"Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang?" The player shouted and everyone around looked over.

Before the exploration team members had time to figure out what to do, their identities were exposed by several players.

"Why isn't Lao Zhang wearing women's clothes today?" someone shouted.

"Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, someone said you are dead!" the busybody shouted.

"When will Lao Zhang release the 2nd edition? Aren't you running out of ideas and using being a vegetable as an excuse?" This is a die-hard fan of "Breath of Slenkmed".

The players gathered around at once, and many of them probably immediately turned on the recording button in their hands.

"Dermis..." Guan Hongyan whispered, "Can you take us out quickly?"

They knew that Enoch was not Lao Zhang, and these people would not be able to get anything out of him no matter how much they asked.

Bai Jinshu looked at the players who had gathered around him.

There seems to be an increasing trend of players calling on their friends.

Just when everyone turned on the screen recorder and prepared to record the clip of Lao Zhang's appearance to slap the faces of netizens who thought Lao Zhang was dead, there was a sudden flash in front of their eyes, and that group of people suddenly disappeared.

"Where's Lao Zhang?" The crowd suddenly exploded.

"Old Zhang tore up the teleportation scroll and teleported away?"

"I didn't see him take out the scroll just now. Besides, there are NPCs around him. If he can tear the scroll, how can the NPCs leave?"

"Could it be that GM* moved Lao Zhang away?"

"No, something is wrong. The old Zhang just now didn't seem to be an account, but an n.pc."

"Dude," someone put his arm around his shoulder, "Lao Zhang's ID is that color. This is the producer's privilege. It's the same color as n.pc's ID."

"No, I'm an old player. I've been here since the server was first launched. I have a friend named Lao Zhang." The player whose shoulder was touched was still wearing the original 50s-era max-level suit. It looked gray and out of tune with the glittering players around him. He lowered his head and operated on his panel for a long time. "But just now when I tried to click Lao Zhang to send a message, it kept saying that the other party was a non-player character and couldn't send a ciphertext."

In the friend list, that ID is always gray.

The "Enoch" that appears here is not a player, but an n.pc.

At the same time, a group of adventurers suddenly appeared at the side gate of Cyril City.

"Huh..." White Moth let out a long breath, "Finally it came out."

"The players are all looking for Lao Zhang, and they also know us," Xu Zichen frowned, "How can we enter Cyril City?"

If you go in, you will be caught.

We can't all be in disguise, right?

With Enoch's appearance this time, it is estimated that the [Find Lao Zhang] event will become even more popular. After all, the players in this session get more and more excited the more they talk, and the more they hide something, the more they want to find out the truth.

Are they going to hide in the mountains and not come out anymore, digging up all the unloading points?

"A good MMORPG experience card turned into a pit-digging simulator..." White E twitched his mouth, "Give us back! Are you worthy of us?!"

“Okay, okay, digging simulator…” Just from these few words, you can smell the dust blowing in your face.

Just when everyone was still worried, two dissatisfied voices suddenly sounded not far away.

“What kind of quality is this!”

"You're just trying to fool us with this cat grass?"

“Give me back!”

"Are you worthy of such a big customer like us?"

The sound was so loud that it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Bai Jinshu, who was closest to the source of the sound, glanced towards the source of the sound.

Not far away, by the small door for purchasing goods, there were two cat girls wearing black and white maid outfits. The one on the left looked very angry, with her tail standing up, and the one on the right was also very unhappy, and the cat ears on her head had turned into airplane ears.

Standing in front of the two men was a young man in jodhpurs, who was unable to defend himself: "How could we fool you? The quality of our pasture has always been much higher than that of our competitors. The goods we gave you this time were picked from the same place as last time. How could the quality be poor!"

"How is that impossible? You are the cat and I am the cat," the one on the left was so angry that his voice became louder. "I knew something was wrong with this batch of goods as soon as I smelled it. Your quality this time is worse than ever! I don't feel anything at all!"

The young man in jodhpurs was also anxious: "Don't blackmail me, I am a human, how do I know the quality of this batch of catnip? You two are slandering me right under my nose, and I can't verify it!"

As the two sides started arguing, suddenly, the cat girl on the right saw a group of people here.

"In that case, let's ask other cats!" She suddenly strode over, grabbed a handful of catnip and stuffed it into Enoch's arms, "Smell it! Smell it! This batch of catnip has no smell at all. Isn't this bullying cats?"

The cat girl on the left: “That’s right!”

Enoch: ?

hello?

Excuse me.

Is there a possibility...he is not a cat either!

The author has something to say:

Isn't this bullying the cat? (Shouting)

GM: Game Master

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