Chapter 48 A long tunnel across the county border leads to Huangquan Town, Huangquan Town in winter. A long tunnel across the county border leads to Huangquan Town, Huangquan Town in winter.
"It wouldn't be fun to reveal the truth so soon, but I'm really too lazy to pretend anymore."
Izayoi spread his hands and finally stopped pretending: "Although I usually hate that guy, the Thousand Faces Wizard is indeed different from the Flesh Technician. He is good at disguise. It's worth it that I deliberately looked for him before coming to Ye Island. Seeing that you are so smart and can fool people, but you also fooled me, I feel relieved."
"Izayoi" laughed a healthy and sunny laugh, he suddenly raised the haori behind him, his blood-red hair flying under the warm yellow light of Huangquan Town, a strange yet familiar young man appeared in front of everyone, it was the fire bone with flesh and blood, but his face was still burned, only half of it was flesh and blood, and the other half was a scary skeleton.
“Blood Butterfly! You, the guy disguised as a blood butterfly! Don’t run!”
Bai Ye, Huo Gu and Xue Die turned their heads at the same time, only to see that at the intersection of the fork in the dense forest on the other side, You Yu and his companions were chasing after the "fake Xue Die" who was obviously not the real Xue Die. Among them, in addition to the real Shizayoi with a stiff face, there was also a girl who was supported by Ling Lan, with short silver hair and wearing the white and blue college uniform of Tang Hong High School.
Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief. The silver-haired girl was the forum poster who had rushed to the station regardless of anything. It seemed that Youyu and the others arrived just in time and stopped the conspiracy of the devil apostle before the tragedy happened.
At least ordinary people were not hurt or suffered unnecessary disasters.
"I?"
Xuedie widened his eyes, staring at the "fake Xuedie" who looked exactly like him but had a completely different temperament, and even forgot to draw his sword.
"Oh, I forgot about you guys. You're so annoying. I didn't expect that we would be recognized before we even managed to lurk among them. The plan is over. Amy, let's go first. After all, the tasks given to them by the DM system will be issued soon."
Huo Gu snapped his fingers and mocked the players in front of him in a very arrogant tone. The fake blood butterfly lowered his head, and as his voice sounded, his whole body was swallowed up by a small rotating fire tornado. When he appeared again, he was already the "Demon God Amy" who confronted the Squid Detective Agency in the Dionysus Space warm-up match.
The demon didn't say anything, but just quietly held Huo Gu's hand and pulled him into the depths of the boiling fire tornado.
"Dear Bai Ye, although I am very upset, according to what the flesh and blood technician said, I also want to thank you for exposing me now, otherwise it would be difficult to trigger the superposition event in this town."
The demon lit up everyone's panel, as if announcing that the devil's game had officially begun. Huogu laughed very ostentatiously, so ostentatiously that people wanted to beat him up. Xuedie thought so, so he did it.
The girl drew out her knife. The bright red blade light was tinged with gold, like gilded paint scattered in the air. It made terrifying slashes in the air that were visible to the naked eye. Huo Gu instantly stopped trying to stick his head out of the fire tornado and shrank back into the demon's protective circle with a scream. He no longer had the slightest arrogance he had just had.
“Ding—ding—ding”
As if it was a death knell for someone, the DM's cheerful voice, who was watching the fun and not minding the trouble, echoed throughout the Yellow Springs Town. For a moment, Bai Ye could see that the "tourists" on the streets who were screaming and panicking because of the noise made by the fire bones all froze in place for a moment, just like when they first appeared.
[Congratulations!] Congratulations to everyone in Huangquan Town Game Space! Not only did we find one of the largest game spaces, but we also successfully encountered the red opponent, triggering the main storyline superposition event "Corruption and Plague Yellow Spring Town". Players, please keep up the good work and continue to work hard to accumulate points! 】
[The main storyline has officially begun. In this warm hot spring town, no matter who you are or where you come from, there are demons lurking among you who intend to commit murder. 】
[Everyone's words have become unreliable. Now the only ones who know their innocence are you, and no one knows who has been replaced. Players, please find the evil murderer lurking in the surrounding environment as quickly as possible! 】
"... Doesn't this mean that everyone could be a demon? Whether it's a player or an NPC in the game... What a vicious competition system, with such a wide range and no clear explanation, doesn't it mean that even the ants next to the hot spring could be demons? How do we find this thing?!"
Without caring about Huo Gu's escape, Yang Yan's eyes darkened and he burst into tears as soon as he heard about the main plot of the mystery. Bai Ye patted his shoulder comfortingly and said, "Calm down first. Even if we take a step back, according to the plot setting of the mystery novel, there is no death yet, and we cannot set the first goal as finding the murderer."
Yang Yan became even more desperate: "Isn't this kind of reasoning task even more terrifying? We don't even know when the murderer will make a move."
You Yu was very calm and still smiled: "But that also means that we can face the murderer in the process of committing the crime, or even stop them from committing the crime. This is much better than being thrown into the murder scene right away."
Bai Ye also nodded: "Yes, and this competition system reminds me of a game mode that is very familiar to the public. I don't know if you have played... Werewolf?"
Werewolf is a multiplayer strategy board game that is driven by language description and tests eloquence, analytical and judgment abilities. In each game, there will probably be three professions of werewolves, villagers, and clergy fighting each other. The main events of Huangquan Town, which is now controlled by the DM system, are very similar to the mode of Werewolf.
There is a wolf called the devil lurking among you, please find out the real devil.
It turns out that this is what was mentioned in the previous DM system revelations, that there would be demons lurking in or around the players... Fortunately, it is a special event system, and not all players in every city circle or game service circle have to face it.
Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that statement meant that there would be random demons disguised as humans moving around the Night Island city circle, and they had to find them in the vast Night Island.
The DM system is really a bad taste. A lot of the information released in advance is misleading and different from the direct impression.
…It doesn’t feel good.
"You! What did you monsters just do?!"
A shrill scream was heard, and the people who were standing there in a daze came to their senses. They saw a middle-aged man in a winter kimono roaring angrily. Looking in the direction of his finger, everyone's eyes stopped on a huge, hideous knife mark on a Japanese-style building on the side of the road that was used to cover the hand bath hot spring for passers-by to wash their hands.
"You are the owners of the Soul Tag, right?! With such great power, why would you destroy my assets!?"
The middle-aged man gnashed his teeth and said, "Who is it?! Who cut it with this knife?"
Everyone involuntarily turned their eyes to the upright Xuedie who was standing there. Xuedie had no expression on her face and still looked fearless. She quickly put the long knife in her hand back into the scabbard and said, "It's me."
Yang Yan: "Wow, so neat and simple."
"You must compensate me for the repairs!" The middle-aged man pointed at the blood butterfly, his tone still angry. Even though the other party was the owner of the soul tag, he was still right.
"I'll pay you back." Xuedie took out a bank card from her pocket. The color of the card was very noble black and gold. It was obviously an official savings card of the Metropolitan Police Department. However, she didn't expect the other party to get even angrier: "Are you planning to fool me with this? What kind of crappy card is this?"
Not only Xuedie, but everyone else was also stunned. No one expected that the people in this small town didn't even recognize savings cards.
It seems that Huangquan Town is more closed than imagined, Bai Ye thought, and he doesn't know what shocking secret it is hiding.
The arrogance of Xuedie suddenly weakened: "...I can work to compensate."
The main feature is the ability to bend and stretch.
"Oh, I knew that a warrior girl like you who hacks and chops recklessly like this would definitely not be able to come up with the money. Only warriors of the old times like you like to rely on the thing called soul tag to hack and chomp recklessly, and then pay all the money back."
The middle-aged uncle sneered. He paced back and forth in front of Xuedie, his eyes fell on the terrible knife marks made by Xuedie, and touched his chin: "Since you... uh, are a warrior, then come to our Tangju to be a 'Tangwei'."
In a small town with concentrated hot spring resources, every hot spring house has its own secret recipe to adjust the effect of the hot spring. The flow of people in Huangquan Town is dense and complex, so they need a certain amount of force to maintain order in the hot spring house. Tangwei is a special profession that was born for this reason.
"Seven days. Your salary from the Great Evil Tangju will be used as compensation for this hand soup. The Tangju will provide food and accommodation. How about that?"
The middle-aged man was calculating very loudly, and seemed very eager to have Xuedie join their hot spring. He didn't even recognize that the person in front of him was Xuedie, a very famous demon player in Yedao.
"The Great Evil Soup Residence..."
Bai Ye’s eyes turned. Isn’t that the largest hot spring house in the entire Huangquan Town, located in the center of the town?
He and You Yu looked at each other and immediately saw the same attitude in each other's eyes. Bai Ye stepped forward with a kind face: "You seem to be short of manpower. It just so happens that we are new here and have no place to stay. What do you think of the two of us?"
"you?"
The middle-aged uncle looked at them with disdain. The two teenagers looked like they had no fighting power. However, after thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Come on, we are really short of people recently. But there is no salary."
"It's okay, it's okay. We just want to find a place to stay. We don't have money to find a place to live in such a cold winter. Thank you so much."
Bai Ye didn't care at all. His mind was only filled with the main event and he nodded repeatedly.
"Well, you guys will come to the largest Yuju building in the town center and report in. My name is Kisaragi Maru, and I will be your leader from now on. When the time comes, mention my name to get your work badge."
The middle-aged man waved his hand and said, "You are all warriors who have been wandering together, right? I'll only give you one minute to say goodbye."
Bai Ye looked at himself and the others and saw that they all looked disheveled as they had just walked through the mountains. It was understandable that they were mistaken for wandering samurai. Shizayoi nodded to the others and walked alone into the depths of Huangquan Town in the snowy night. It seemed that the Yamagumi had their own things to accomplish.
The weak-looking black-haired girl behind Mizuiro and Linglan raised the wallet in her hand and said, "I still have some cash here, which should be enough for you two benefactors to live with me in this town in the game for a while."
In the recent train explosion, it was Suzuran and Mizuiro who first found Saotome Rin trekking in the woods, and they protected her from the explosion, so Saotome Rin is now very willing to help the two benefactors in her eyes.
However, as an ordinary high school student, she did not have much money on her, only enough to support three people for three or four days at most.
"So Yang Yan, what about you? What are you going to do?"
Bai Ye looked at Yang Yan who was thinking on the spot and asked doubtfully.
"I'm going to go check out the shrine."
Yang Yan pointed to a young man and a girl wearing fox masks and red and white clothes next to a lantern not far away: "As for the most important place, the Great Evil Hot Spring..."
Yang Yan smiled and said, "It's okay. I believe the detective president. After all, I am a fool who is easily deceived. That place is a place where big things can easily happen. I'd better go somewhere else and hide secretly to look for other clues."
Bai Ye: ...The problem is that he is also a fool who is easily deceived!
Just a smart idiot.
"Hello," Yang Yan ran up to the two boys and girls wearing fox masks with a smile, "I'm a newcomer. I just checked a few hot springs and they were all full. Do you have any other recommendations?"
"I'm sorry to hear about your experience, but anyway, welcome here, travelers."
The girl wearing a fox mask bowed slightly, and the boy behind her, also wearing a fox mask, ran to enforce the law.
"There is a curfew in Huangquan Town at night. Because it is located deep in the mountains, wild beasts often roam around, so the administrators of Huangquan Town set a curfew rule. It would be very dangerous if you don't have a place to stay. If you don't mind as a tourist, the shrine still has a few guest rooms. Please come with us."
It went unexpectedly smoothly. Youyu and Baiye looked at each other and realized something was wrong again.
You could say they were warm and hospitable, but everyone here was too enthusiastic, as if they couldn't wait to settle them all down.
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