Chapter 30 Demon God Amy: Thank God for the buffet
The platform of the Sun Chaser train in Night City.
In the tall and bright waiting hall, the Squid Detective Agency ate rice balls bought from a convenience store in a relaxed atmosphere. Bai Ye yawned lazily, and like a terrible and contagious virus, You Yu, Shuise, and Ling Lan could not escape the bondage of sleepiness and began to yawn one after another.
Last night, just as he returned to the basement of Fangkuai's house in the early hours of the morning, he was pulled into the private group of Squid Detective Agency on the social software by Youyu's life-threatening voice call. Because Wonder couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, Youyu shared everything about Wonder's appearance and what he said with the other three people.
Now, no one can sleep.
Shuise Wonder's obsession also came back. Right after finishing the midnight performance, she started to complain about Wonder's arrogance in the stage preparation room: "What do you mean by be careful with the fireworks? Is this to tell you that guy is going to tamper with the fireworks festival on Yedao Island?!"
The Fireworks Festival is one of the folk specialties of Yedao Island, usually held in the summer from June to August. This time, the DM system chose the right time, right during the period of the Fireworks Festival.
"I don't understand. Why can't this guy speak human language? Is he using his mouth to perform magic? Could it be that Youyu is so unlucky that he can be killed by fireworks?"
Lily of the Valley's words were as poisonous as ever. Bai Ye was silently complaining on the other end of the phone: Is it possible that Phantom Thief Wonder is also T173's messenger? The future he saw was only the first half of the Night Island game. He had no idea why T173 asked him to tell You Yu to "be careful of the fireworks."
Shuise's voice became ominous: "Sister Linglan, don't say anything...what if Youyu gets into trouble..."
You Yu: "Hey, hey! I'm not that unreliable, am I?!"
Linglan: "Forget it, forget it. Let's go to bed early. We have to go to the station tomorrow."
You Yu: "Listen to me!"
Last night's voice call ended with You Yu trying to prove that he was very reliable, but the president of the detective agency did not forget the most important thing. At least he remembered to send the ticket information of the Daily Train to other people last night.
At the Sun-Chasing Train Station the next day, Bai Ye saw the three members of the Squid Detective Agency who, like him, had black eyes due to sleeping too late the night before.
Bai Ye: ...It seems that even though the voice call has ended, no one really chooses to sleep.
For example, he spent a long time admiring the beauties of these three on the Sun Enforcement Bureau's new Demon Game Player Official Valley display page, and then used his remaining funds to eat up the multiple.
He may starve to death, but his grain rack cannot.
"It's okay," Linglan said as carefree as ever: "It's the same whether we sleep on the train or not. Just get enough rest. We can start looking for clues right after we get to Night Island!"
The Sun-Chasing Train is one of the most important means of transportation in the surface world. It is managed by the Sun-Chasing Train Railway Bureau, which is hosted by the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau. Its tracks have spread across dozens of major urban areas, becoming an important means of transportation connecting urban areas in the surface world.
The Sun-Chasing Train travels very fast. It only takes about ten hours to get from Night City to Night Island via the sea railway. The train's arrival whistle soon sounds near the platform. The boys and girls drag their suitcases, and with the ethereal sound of "ding dong", the doors of the Sun-Chasing Train slowly close at the prompt of the announcer who starts the train, making a "beep" electronic mechanical prompt sound. The platform of Night City flies quickly outside the window, and the scenery soon changes from bustling skyscrapers to lush woods and wheat fields.
The train passed through Maitian Town. Bai Ye closed his eyes lightly, looking like he was taking a rest, but in fact, his heart was filled with complex emotions.
Faust...that bastard has a long way to go, and the interests of the people behind him are too involved. What needs to be dealt with most now is t173, which has seriously affected his normal life.
He took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
“Take a look at this!”
Lily of the Valley screamed and took out her cell phone. As one of the few owners of a modified plum-shaped cell phone that could still get a signal on the daily train, Lily of the Valley consciously placed her cell phone screen in the center of the table. She turned on the projection mode, and a red and blue overlapping pixel panel appeared in the air for everyone to watch.
This is the interface of the Garden of Eden app.
Fortunately, since the expenses for going to Night City were reimbursed by Red Heart, the seats they chose on the train were all in a private room with good sound insulation. After closing the door of the room, they could not hear the conversation outside, and the sound inside could not be transmitted to the outside.
Bai Ye took a closer look and said, "The DM system has been updated again? The information is updated one day before the official start of the competition?"
Linglan rolled her eyes. "Yeah, it's really timely. If it weren't a system instead of a person, I would have scolded it for being blind."
For the first time, Youyu felt as if he could not understand the words. He stared at the words on the red and blue panel and began to doubt his eyes with a good vision of 5.0.
"Information other than the preliminaries... The contestants are divided into the Red List and the Blue List, representing the surface world and... the inner world respectively? The Blue List is human, which means that the Demon Apostles are contestants on the Red List, and are ranked together with the Demon Gods?"
Shuise's voice was very low, almost talking to himself. He never dreamed that the DM system would be so bold that it would directly divide the opposing surface world and inner world into the red side and the blue side to play the game. It seemed that the demon apostles also belonged to the red side. In other words, those vicious guys who usually appeared on the official wanted list would directly confront them, the players.
"If it wasn't for the fact that death in the competition wouldn't really kill people in the surface world, I would have thought that the DM system had finally been convinced by the devil and started the human elimination plan."
Lily of the Valley rolled her eyes, and Bai Ye silently gave a thumbs up to the Squid Detective Agency for its good words: What you said is really great.
His eyes never left the DM's communication panel. The first game was played in huge city circles, randomly scattered around the surface world, and the game was played by players triggering superimposition events. The game field for each superimposition event was essentially a superimposed space between the surface and inner worlds caused by several demon apostles or demons. It was not equal to the real world, so the death of a player in it did not mean real death.
Although the DM system threw out a bunch of rich details, the Squid Detective Agency was obviously not the type to be affected by the DM system that only released the specific competition system before the game started. You Yu quickly recovered his usual energy from his meditation and pulled others to play a four-person 1v4 competitive game to pass the time.
The time on the train is like the scenery flying by outside the window. In a flash, the wheat fields and woods have disappeared. Outside the train, there has been the blue ocean and sky for a long time, and birds are circling not too far away.
The first gift that Night Island near Edo Short Sea brought to Squid Detective Agency was a cool and comfortable sea breeze, which was fresh and gentle.
Yedao Station is a world-famous transportation hub with a vast building area and a huge flow of people. The four of them queued for half a day before they finally squeezed out of the station and got a taxi parked at the station entrance.
Hongxinding Hotel is located in the Yedao City Business District, not far from the station. The street scenery looks like a picture cut out from an anime, with tall buildings and bright and beautiful colors.
The layout of the hotel is a loft with four bedrooms and upper and lower floors. The Sun Law Enforcement Bureau has never been short of money, so Bai Ye, who had lived in the basement for several days, almost suspected he was dreaming when he saw the loft rooms on the upper and lower floors the moment he opened the door with the room card.
"Okay, after we rest for a while, let's go and complete the warm-up match tasks that Sun General Administration and DM threw at us! I didn't expect that we don't have to draw lots, what a pity."
You Yu clenched his right fist and gently waved it in the air, blinking his eyes.
Linglan said bluntly: "Thank goodness we didn't draw lots. If we had drawn lots, who would have won over you, you detective classmate with built-in cheats?"
Bai Ye and Shuise nodded as they packed their things in an orderly manner.
Faced with the new demon game system and rules at the time of reunion, the DM system has opened up an online game space Dionysus [Dionysus Space] in the Garden of Eden APP in advance to deal with the demons. It serves as the venue for the warm-up games and a practice venue for the confrontation between demons and humans. Both red and blue players can match in real time in the Dionysus Space and familiarize themselves with each other's routines in advance.
As a neutral player organization bound to and cooperating with the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau, the Squid Detective Agency naturally undertook the special task of helping to "evaluate" the [Dionysus Space].
Moreover, according to the DM system, there will be clues about the official game in the [Bacchus Space], and it would be a waste of 100 million if you don't miss it.
"We can just click on the Dionysus Space on the Garden of Eden App. It looks like the principle is similar to that of a normal escape-type demon game. Death still requires points to redeem... We can also practice Ms. Plum's new invention - those voice microphones that can be used in the other world."
Bai Ye's luggage was neatly organized. When packing, he divided it into toiletries and clothing bags for different purposes, so he packed his luggage quickly. He sat on the sofa downstairs in the loft and began to check out the new features in the Eden APP.
Along with the release of the real competition rules, the DM system also took this opportunity to update many special functions in the Eden APP to match the reunion, including but not limited to smart live broadcast and live broadcast traffic statistics. The latter can even be converted into personal competition points, but the proportion is not high, but it is better than nothing for players.
Bai Ye: ...I don't know if this is a talent show or a reunion contest...
"Let's go! Let's go play in the Dionysus Space - no, let's participate in the warm-up match. If we complete the tasks of the Party A fathers as soon as possible, we can go to Night Island to play earlier - I haven't been to Night Island yet!"
Bai Ye: ...Shouldn't we complete the mission and get the clues earlier so that we can prepare for the first game earlier? Is this the wisdom of Night City’s number one detective? I don’t understand. I don’t understand.
Shuise: "...Youyu, you let something slip."
Faced with the helpless expressions of Bai Ye and Shuise, You Yu used his universal method of playing dumb. He showed a smile like the cartoon character on the Fujiya lollipop, said "hehe", confirmed that everyone was ready, and clicked on the DM player panel.
"Dionysus Space—start up!"
The boy's cheers were swallowed up by the dizziness of switching between the inner and outer worlds and gradually faded away. Just before Bai Ye regained consciousness, he saw a line of fonts that could not be ignored appear on his red and blue player panel. It was an overview of the game information.
【Dionysus Space Information:
Dungeon Name: Corrupted Yellow Spring Town
Instance type: Escape
The most famous tourist destination in the Yedao urban circle, with its outstanding hot spring resources and red flowing water, has become a forbidden area for humans after a fire caused by an epidemic. 】
Bai Ye opened his eyes, and saw in front of him a dilapidated Japanese-style wooden courtyard with black marks like burns under the night sky. There was a gurgling stream in the courtyard, which had turned into a blood-red color.
Map templates are randomly loaded areas where demons have been or are active. Their ages span thousands of years and are basically related to some famous demon activity events in the surface world. The game boss demons in the Dionysus space will also be randomly refreshed. After all, the previous game only cut off the projections of ordinary demons in the game, and it does not affect the new projections of the new game at the time of reunion, nor does it affect the Dionysus space created by the DM system based on the Wheel of Fortune database as the information source.
The name of this map... It seems that the first game is closely related to the Yellow Spring Country in the mythology of Yedao.
Bai Ye walked along the wooden stairs in front of him to the highest point of the wooden house. The higher position could give him a wider view. Bai Ye raised his eyes and looked into the distance. He heard a monster's roar. The huge humanoid demon shadow quickly enveloped the entire charred town. Smaller humanoid fire shadows were generated on the streets farther below. Bai Ye watched as some charred wood around him was directly ignited by the burning wind rolled up by the demon, and the whole town was lit up by the burning wind.
The boss of this game is actually... Hellfire [Amy].
We are old acquaintances.
In the special setting of the warm-up match, because the game venue is located in the inner world rather than the superimposed world, humans will be contaminated by the breath of demons. When the pollution level rises to the limit, humans will become "demon species" and be eliminated.
So please remember to tell others through the headset to be careful of the demons wandering around the map.
Bai Ye narrowed his eyes, and before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he saw a familiar water color.
Shuise was probably unlucky, as there were only two broken walls between his birthplace and Amy's main body.
Bai Ye: "...hiss, it's over, what's the difference between this and a buffet? It melts in your mouth."
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