Chapter 47 Fire Bone: How to dodge when the attack starts at zero frame?
"Are you okay? Can you breathe?"
Someone patted the side of his face roughly, and Bai Ye woke up in an almost sharp chill. He tried to open his eyes, but his vision went dark due to the extremely cold temperature around him. After a slight relaxation, Bai Ye finally regained his vision.
He opened his eyes and saw the Yamagumi warrior with a high ponytail leaning over him, with her palm raised high, looking as if she wanted to slap him again.
Bai Ye's eyes widened, his pupils were trembling. Although he knew that people should not be allowed to fall into a coma under low temperature conditions, as that was a very dangerous situation and they might never wake up again after falling asleep, Shizayoi's actions were still so rough that they were a bit scary.
"Have you regained consciousness?"
Izayoi raised his eyebrows, his eyes were colder than the snow around him, and the momentum of the top leaders of the organization was finally revealed at this moment: "If you don't wake up, I will chop off your fingers, you delicate student of Night City."
"...Don't worry about it. My fingers are still useful."
Bai Ye regained consciousness, the black-haired boy stood up and swept away the snow on his body. His voice was weak but firm. He staggered but did not hold the hand that Shizayoi extended, but stood firm on his own.
"It took you so long to regain consciousness in the explosion. I don't know who gave you the courage to register as a demon player."
Izayoi stood in the snow with his arms folded and sneered.
Bai Ye didn't bother to care about him. For him, the most important thing now was to observe the surrounding environment and whether the people he was working with could be trusted. Not to mention that Izayoi was a member of the notorious □□yama Group, he had to find someone trustworthy to act with.
[Friendly reminder, the superimposed event [Train to Sanzu River] has been completed. Players are encouraged to keep up the good work and continue to work hard to trigger the event! 】
DM's laughter echoed in his ears, and dots of white snow flickered in the dark environment. Bai Ye looked up and found himself in a dense forest. The tram was tightly blocked at the entrance of a tunnel in front of him, and there were burning debris from the explosion around him. In the dark night, it was clearly the time for the July Fireworks Festival, but Bai Ye could confirm that it was snowing in this forest.
The wreckage of the tram lay quietly on the track in the dense forest. The body of the tram was severely twisted and deformed, and the flammable materials left by the explosion were still burning on the track. Together with the tram body, it divided the entire ground into two ends centered on the track.
Bai Ye looked down and noticed that the tram track looked very old. The track ahead was even covered with twisted vines and weeds.
Not far away, the black-haired, blood-red-eyed Xuedie was standing high on the stacked iron plates, overlooking the surrounding situation. Noticing Bai Ye's gaze, Xuedie turned into a flying group of butterflies, surrounding the two people and condensing into a human form. She shook her head regretfully: "No, there are others."
Bai Ye looked at the deformed tram and burning debris that completely blocked the tunnel entrance. It seemed that the sudden strange explosion just now had allowed them to escape from this infinitely looping tram, but it had divided them into two teams and forced them to act separately.
Bai Ye's gaze swept over Xuedie and Shizayoi imperceptibly. These two were the troublesome guys who harbored strong malice towards his identity as Wonder. Even Yang Yan would be easier to deal with than these two. Unfortunately, his extraordinary luck, which was almost completely opposite to You Yu, made him encounter this one in three bad luck probability.
In front of the tunnel was a mound covered with maple-like trees. The terrain was higher and was where Bai Ye and the other two were. Looking from the height, they could clearly see that in the dark night, where the moonlight was shining, not far away along the direction of the tram tracks, between the mountain contours outlined by the snow, there seemed to be a dilapidated prosperous building complex sitting deep in the plain not far away.
"It looks like we have to move forward along the track. The snow is getting heavier and there is no shelter from the wind in the wild. If we want to survive this night, we have to get closer to that building complex."
Izayoi's fingers rested on the long sword at his waist, and as he moved, the blade and the hilt collided, making a crisp sound.
The blood butterfly just stared at him steadily without moving.
"Before the explosion, the red and blue DM virtual lines and the sudden change in the climate had already announced the beginning of the Devil's Game. Mr. Yamagumi, you seem to be very familiar with this place?"
Bai Ye interrupted the confrontation between the two. When they met again, the superimposed events in the competition might have already begun. He was in urgent need of necessary information, such as... the real terminus of this tram track, and the possible current situation of the girl who posted the help request online.
The Yamagumi members, who know every corner of Night Island better than the Metropolitan Police Department, are obviously the best subjects to question.
"…For the sake of us being in the same devil's game, I will temporarily bypass your disrespect."
Izayoi glanced at Bai Ye and stopped the pointless confrontation with Xue Die: "I don't know much, but I can roughly describe it."
The warrior with a high ponytail took a step forward, speaking in a calm tone.
"That's already a story similar to an urban legend."
Among the numerous daily tram tracks on Yeshima, there is one line that is extremely special - that is the tram line that passes through Tanghongshan Station and goes to Tanghongshan Tanghongtaisha, a famous shrine in Yeshima that enshrines the mythical Tanghongshan mountain god.
The line extends deep into the landmark of Yoshima Island, Karabe Mountain, and its terminus is Gozen Inari Station, which is being built less than 500 meters in front of the shrine's torii gate.
But eight years ago, the focus of this tram line was not Gozen Inari, but a hot spring town called "Yellow Spring" deeper in the mountain.
Tanghong Mountain has rich geothermal resources, and Huangquan Town has made full use of its unique conditions to vigorously develop its hot spring resources, becoming a prominent tourist destination. It is said that the hot springs there are divided into red and white soups, and hot springs of different colors have different effects. The most precious red soup is said to have a special effect of maintaining eternal youth, attracting countless tourists.
Unfortunately, eight years ago, strange situations occurred one after another. Later, in an unexpected geothermal fire, the entire town was dragged into the sea of fire and disappeared into the depths of Tanghong Mountain, becoming a little-known urban legend.
"...I searched for information about Huangquan Town before coming here, but there was nothing on the Internet."
Bai Ye shook his head, and Xue Die also showed a confused expression. It was obvious that as a ninja hunter of the Metropolitan Police Department, she did not understand this. Izayoi sneered, "Of course it's because the spring water in Huangquan Town is so effective that the town became a place where dignitaries flocked to, so much so that among the people who died in the sea of fire, there were also some nobles from Yedao. In order to prevent the scandal and the secrets of Huangquan Town from being exposed, those nobles deliberately blocked the news..."
An abnormal red flashed in Izayoi's dark eyes. He paused and said, "Plus, this town isn't a famous place, so it's normal that you can't find any information."
Bai Ye stared at Shizayoi's back and noticed something strange.
Bai Ye has never seen Izayoi, but Wonder has, and they have even fought against each other. Izayoi is a typical rigorous and serious samurai, so why is his attitude so meaningful when he mentions Huangquan Town?
Is he hiding something?
Bai Ye fell into deep thought. No matter what, the relationship between Shizayoi and the Yellow Spring Town should not be as simple as it seemed.
"Here we are."
Xuedie led the way in front. She drew her knife and chopped off the last thorny vine that blocked the way. At the end of the mountain road, in the snow, the ruins of a dilapidated town that seemed to be Huangquan Town were sleeping quietly there.
"This is... Huangquan Town."
Without the need for any road signs to remind them, Bai Ye, who had circled Huangquan Town hundreds of times in the Dionysus Space, recognized the identity of the charred town in front of him at a glance. Even the Great Evil Hot Spring in the center of the town looked exactly the same as what they saw in the Dionysus Space.
"It looks like no one... huh?"
As soon as Xuedie finished speaking, countless blue fireflies that had just been seen on the tram flickered. They were like burning souls, lighting up every corner of the town, blending with the dense snowflakes and covering the entire town.
[Friendly reminder, the main location of the game has been successfully found. Players are requested to follow the player rules and work hard to complete the tasks and accumulate points! 】
The DM's prompt sounded, and under the gaze of the three people, a miraculous change was taking place in the town.
The bustling cries of hawkers and the sound of flowing hot spring water were the first to sound, and a crowded crowd slowly emerged on the deserted street. Young travelers wearing winter fur-collared kimonos smiled and handed each other local specialty apple candies.
White snowflakes sprinkled lightly, and bright lights illuminated the snow. In just a dozen seconds, the abandoned hot spring town regained its former prosperity eight years ago among the fireflies.
It is also a prosperous place that is a famous tourist destination and the home of hot springs.
This space in the surface world is being dragged into the inner world and is beginning to overlap with spaces in different periods on the timeline.
This is the season of reunion. The DM system gives players the opportunity to return to the past, and also gives the demon apostles and demons the same opportunity. They will reunite with the past in the gap between the inner and outer worlds.
Bai Ye looked up and saw fireworks blooming towards the coast of the central area of Yedao city circle. The only part that caused the superposition of the inner and outer worlds seemed to be the old Huangquan Town. The central area of Yedao in the distance was still in the fireworks festival season, like a hole dug out of a complete cake.
The crowd around them, dressed in Night Island style clothing, continued to do their own things, indifferent to the point of being at a loss. Xuedie looked at Bai Ye unconsciously: "Are we... still in Night Island? Remember, everyone, it's not like this."
Bai Ye nodded: "It's not considered that anymore."
The emergence of Huangquan Town, which does not belong to this era, means that the DM system has completed the superposition of the inner and outer worlds in the entire Night Island. The place where they are is neither the outer world nor the inner world, but somewhere in between the two. It may be twenty years ago, or it may be more than ten years ago, a Night Island in a special space on a random timeline.
The current Huangquan Town has apparently become the famous hot spring town that existed eight years ago and has not yet disappeared due to the fire.
Bai Ye glanced at his phone. The signal was still normal, but many functions in the Eden App were temporarily blocked. However, they could still watch other players' live broadcasts, but only for a dozen seconds. In just these few seconds, Bai Ye saw that some people had already triggered the game space and began to face the devil apostles and demons.
The game context of the Reunion Season finally became clear here. The real competition field was divided into city circles, and the game space they could trigger was a part of the superimposed city circle that had been designed long ago by the red team composed of demon apostles and demons.
Players can randomly trigger superimposed events that lead them into the game space in various ways. Completing the events will accumulate points and provide clues about the token. Only after finding the token can they open the security door and leave.
Izayoi looked at the living people who suddenly appeared around him, and for the first time asked from the bottom of his heart: "Are they considered NPCs in the game space of Diehuaye Island?"
Bai Ye shook his head: "Not entirely. They are all people who have lived in this land in the past or are currently living here. It's just that their personalities have been forcibly copied by the DM system and then placed here. However, due to the superposition of the inner and outer worlds, I estimate that if there is any problem here, the people in the outer world will also be affected to a certain extent."
Izayoi smiled and said, "After the fire, these people's bodies in the surface world must have died a long time ago, so it doesn't matter if I kill them here. I really want to burn everything..."
Xuedie was about to draw his sword. Bai Ye raised his head alertly, looking at Izayoi, who showed no sign of hiding his malice. "Even if you are the one who is ...
"I'm just kidding." Izayoi waved his hand: "But you seem to be very familiar with these... and you analyzed the rules of the game very thoroughly. If you put it so directly, aren't you afraid that other competitors will snatch your points?"
Izayoi paused, and raised the corner of his mouth in a very arrogant arc: "Oh, by the way, isn't the blood butterfly next to you just one? You are not teammates, but competitors."
"You're not Izayoi."
Bai Ye was not affected by the other party's words. Instead, he raised his eyebrows in a joking manner: "There is no point in pretending. Even the most shameless □□ would not say something in a live broadcast that disregards the lives of the people in a town."
"Show your true self, demon apostle."
Bai Ye narrowed his eyes and named the person in front of him word by word: "Huo Gu."
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