Chapter 108 Blue Tea Island 2
Xia Bai tried to talk to the game system in his mind for the first time, [Game, hello, we meet again. ]
There was no response in my mind.
Xia Bai tried again: [Hello, system, we meet again. ]
After a long while, just when Xia Bai thought he would not get a response, a very weak voice appeared in his head, which quickly disappeared, "Hello, corpse collector Xia Bai."
This voice was the same as the one that welcomed him after the public announcement of the game ended; it was not a mechanical system voice.
But there was only this one sentence. No matter how much Xia Bai said to it, it didn't respond.
From its seemingly secret response, Xia Bai felt that it seemed to be different from the game, and it was afraid of being discovered by the game, so it responded to him so quietly and quickly.
This discovery made Xia Bai a little excited. In this case, he no longer tried to talk to the system.
Everyone in the restaurant heard the voice in their heads. No one doubted that the game was a joke anymore, except for a few veteran players, who were all tense.
"Did you hear any noise?"
"It sounds like crying."
It was almost dark when they had dinner, and it was still dark when they entered the game.
From the dim night came a faint, mournful cry, seeming far and near.
Several new players who were already nervous about the game felt terrified when they heard the crying, as if a female ghost was approaching in the darkness while crying.
"Boss, is this game a horror or mystery game?" a middle-aged man with a beer belly asked the man in the flowered shirt tremblingly.
The man in the flowered shirt glanced at him coldly, "Are the two things contradictory? Can't mystery games be scary?"
The middle-aged man looked outside again. It was shrouded in darkness. He didn't know what kind of world it was. "So, it might be scary. Are there ghosts?"
"Look at your useless look. Isn't it normal to have ghosts in a weird game?" The man in the flowered shirt said disdainfully, "That's not the point."
He glanced around the restaurant and said, "We are not stingy people. Let me tell you directly. Did you hear that this is a normal map? The way to play a normal map is to find the truth. This method was given by our president. If you don't know this method, I don't know how many people will die."
"What truth are you looking for?" someone else asked.
"Should I tell you the entire game script?" The man in the flowered shirt frowned tightly, "Fuck! You're acting stupid."
He didn't want to say anything more. Seeing that no one had come to pick them up yet, he jumped off the table, walked to the door and gently opened it.
There seemed to be a lot of fog in the darkness outside, and visibility was very low. He couldn't see what was inside. He shouted, "Medusa."
The snake-haired woman immediately came to the door.
Medusa, this should be the female identity in the game, very vivid. The Medusa in Greek mythology is such a long snake.
Xia Bai then remembered that he had seen people discussing Medusa in the player communication center. She has been quite famous recently.
The veteran players of the Holy Tour Guild have met with accidents one after another, but the Holy Tour Guild is not in a period of transition. There are some very good new players appearing. In fact, they are not new players. Medusa should have been in the game for two years, but her skills were acquired this year.
This Medusa became famous because she dared to go against Gu Quankun, a veteran player of the Holy Game Guild, in a game.
Indeed, she can.
Snakes are natural enemies of earthworms.
Xia Bai, who always has earthworm arms, is a little bit resistant to her.
Judging from Medusa’s attitude towards the man in the flowered shirt, this man in the flowered shirt should not be an ordinary player of the Holy Tour Guild, but Xia Bai doesn’t know who he is.
It’s okay, there are psychics you can ask, and there are psychics who can act as your protection.
While Xia Bai was thinking this, the long snake on Medusa's head had already crawled out through the crack of the door to explore the way. After perhaps less than two minutes, she stood up straight, slightly opened her eyes and looked forward, "There is something."
The flowered shirt said, "We just entered the game, there shouldn't be any danger to our lives, let's go out and take a look."
He was the first to walk out of the restaurant door, and his three companions immediately followed him. The others were a little hesitant and didn't dare to go out.
Xia Bai looked at Ling Changye and the psychic, and the three of them followed him out.
It was not as hot outside as the Blue Tea Island in the real world. The cool breeze at night brought with it the dampness of the fog, slowly blowing away some of the haziness, and the figure in the darkness ahead gradually emerged.
He was an elderly man with a smiling face, wearing gray clothes. His face was full of wrinkles from smiling, and somehow it looked like a cat's face, which was a bit creepy.
His voice was shrill, "Why did you come so late? Was it because of the heavy fog at night that you got lost?"
Among the four people in the group, the gentle-looking man in a black shirt nodded, "Indeed, please come and pick us up."
Many games start with an NPC similar to a guide, who may participate in the whole process like the village chief of Wugu Village, or he may be like the dormitory manager of Heping Medical College, who only provides guidance at the beginning. This old man should be the guide of this game, but I don’t know if he is an important character.
The old man glanced in their direction, roughly seeing how many people there were, and said, "Okay, follow me."
The four of them immediately followed the old man forward. Xia Bai and Ling Changye followed behind. Seeing the new players were a little hesitant, Jiang Qingfeng called out "Lao Yang". Lao Yang said, "There is no other way. Let's follow them."
After Jiang Qingfeng and Jiang Yitong walked out together, Xia Bai and Ling Changye followed.
This is actually not Xia Baijin’s first island game. The second half of Harmonious Cinema is also set on an island.
The islanders on that island are also very primitive, they are just people in the movie. But the theme of the primitive island should be the same.
Primitive and barbaric, violent and bloody, ignorant and feudal, and with strange beliefs.
The game system says that this Blue Tea Island was originally very primitive, but later some people came and some new things appeared.
The identities of these players should also be those of these newcomers.
Pristine island, newcomers.
There are two possibilities. One is that the newcomers suppress the original islanders. There are many similar things in history, even to the extent of invasion and slavery. The other is that the islanders suppress the newcomers. This possibility is very common in the game, such as trafficking, and there are also many types of fraud.
Xia Bai has read many copy analyses from the Game Administration Bureau and has become more and more familiar with the game routines. Of course, this understanding may also be due to the fact that he himself participated in the game's internal testing.
While guessing what kind of game this island map would be, Xia Bai held Ling Changye's hand and followed the old man.
There were a lot of vegetation on the island, and if you were not careful, you would easily trip over it, so everyone walked extremely carefully.
The crying became more and more obvious, and they seemed to be walking in the darkness following the crying sounds.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, they finally saw the light and the source of the crying.
In front of us are rows of green seaweed houses. The houses are quite big and more spacious than ordinary earthen houses. However, the green on the roofs looks quite scary under the lights, especially when one of them has red lanterns, red silk and wedding couplets hanging on it.
Red round lanterns extended from the door to the road in front of the door. A woman in a red wedding dress stood upright on the road, crying sadly, and her cries spread throughout the entire island.
The new player was almost scared to death by this scene.
Gray fog, black sky, green roofs, big red lanterns, and a bride in a red wedding dress standing on the roadside crying.
Anyone who has watched a few horror movies will understand how eerie and terrifying this scene is.
"Hey, here, did you see the woman in the red wedding dress? Am I dazzled?"
"I see it, I see it. Is she a female ghost?"
The old man leading the group turned around and glared at the man who talked about the female ghost, but said nothing.
As they got closer, they discovered that it was not just the bride in the red wedding dress who was crying. There were several other people crying on the road behind her. They were all women, old and young, crying along with the bride in the red wedding dress. When the bride's crying voice became weak, they would cry even louder to ensure that their cries would be heard throughout the island.
With the appearance of these people, it is not so scary, but more weird.
Unfortunately, the old man said nothing. They didn’t understand what it was and could only follow him.
The old man led them into a seaweed house in the middle of the village and pointed to a few cushions, "Kneel there and worship."
The players did not dare to resist. They knelt on the mats in three groups and worshiped a black statue covered with thorns.
Looking at the strange statue, Xia Bai felt that the islanders here, like those in the Harmony movie, believed in some evil god.
Seeing that they had all finished their worship, the old man said with satisfaction: "It's too late today. I will arrange a place for you to stay first. There is a wedding tomorrow. I will arrange a job for you after the wedding."
What else could the players do but nod and agree.
Someone asked him, "Is the wedding tomorrow the same one as the one with the red lanterns hanging outside the door just now?"
The old man nodded, "It is his family. You should bless his daughter tomorrow."
If it is, it is. If it is not, it is not. What do you mean it is her home?
But the old man yawned, looked very sleepy, and asked them to leave quickly. Seeing him like this, the players didn't want to embarrass themselves by asking more questions.
The old man took them to the three seaweed houses and said, "It's getting late, and I have other things to do. You can divide the three houses among yourselves."
After saying that, he left, as if he was just a simple guide who had completed his mission by bringing them in.
The players looked at each other.
"What is all this?"
"Is that a marriage? Is she crying so miserably because her daughter is going to be sent to a ghost marriage?"
"No, that's crying at a wedding." said a clear voice.
All the players looked towards the source of the sound, Jiang Qingfeng.
Jiang Yitong asked: "Husband, what is crying at a wedding?"
Jiang Qingfeng said: "I don't know if there will be real customs in the game. In our real world, there are some places where there is the custom of crying at weddings.
In these places, when a girl gets married, the more miserable she cries, the better. A bride who cries miserably will be considered a virtuous wife, and both her husband's family and her parents' family will have face. In those places, many girls practice crying for the day of their marriage from a young age."
Several players were stunned.
In their minds, getting married is a lively and happy event, and everyone is happy. Even if they have heard that there are brides crying on their wedding day, crying is for reluctance and filial piety. The most exaggerated saying is that crying is shedding gold beads for her parents' home, but this crying at a wedding is too exaggerated.
How can there still be a festive atmosphere if someone cries so miserably during a happy event?
What’s even more outrageous is that a girl has to practice crying from a young age just for the wedding day. A girl’s most innocent time and beautiful blooming season will be filled with tears and crying because of the wedding day?
Jiang Qingfeng said: "On the day before the wedding, the bride and her family will stand on the road where they will get married the next day and cry. The longer they cry, the better. I think they are doing this."
Xia Bai secretly looked at Jiang Qingfeng who was talking. When he was having dinner with Jiang Yitong, he looked like a fool who was easy to coax. She didn't expect that he was so knowledgeable.
Yes, he is a painter, and maybe a painter needs to understand the cultural customs of different places?
The man in the flowered shirt said, "This may indeed be a crying wedding. The game will refer to our reality."
After knowing that this was a crying wedding, they were not so scared anymore and started to allocate the houses.
Many new players were vying to live with the four-person group. There were seventeen of them in total, and five or six people lived in one seaweed house. The man in the floral shirt looked around and designated Xia Bai and Jiang Yitong to live in a seaweed house with them.
“…”
Xia Bai said: "I want to live with my boyfriend."
The man in the flowered shirt squinted at him. A flaming flying knife suddenly appeared in his hand and he was playing with it like a walnut. "Your boyfriend? You have a boyfriend? I want to see who your boyfriend is."
There was a threat in the last sentence, and it was even more obvious in the look he gave the player.
Everyone in this game, even the waiters, are smart. They can tell at a glance that the man in the flowered shirt has taken a fancy to the beautiful Xia Bai, so they let him live with them. Everyone knows what his intentions are.
What he meant was that he wanted to see which blind person was Xia Bai's boyfriend and dared to stand up.
If he dares to stand up, the consequences will be disastrous.
He was just warning Xia Bai's boyfriend not to stand up and let Xia Bai live with them.
What else can they do? In this game, their lives are tied to these four players with superpowers. Staying alive is more important than anything else.
Unexpectedly, Xia Bai's boyfriend stood up.
Ling Changye held Xia Bai's hand and said kindly, "I am his boyfriend."
The man in the flowered shirt laughed, "Who are you?"
Ling Changye: "I'm his boyfriend."
The man in the flowered shirt frowned and asked, "I'm asking what your name is."
Ling Changye said: "I am his boyfriend."
“…”
The flowered shirt used the last bit of his patience to look him over. "Where are you from?"
Ling Changye: "From the largest civilian player organization."
“…”
The psychic put his hands on his forehead and half turned away, not wanting to look any further.
"Are you fucking kidding me!" The man in the flowered shirt finally got furious, his voice suddenly became sharp, and the fire knife in his hand instantly turned into countless ones and flew towards Ling Changye.
The raging flames behind the countless flying knives illuminated his crazy and distorted face, making him look mentally ill. But in less than two seconds, his eyes, which had been made crazy by the firelight, suddenly widened. At that moment, his body seemed to tremble violently, and the whites of his eyes covered his pupils, with only fear in his eyes.
The players who were about to scream from being burned by the flames saw the fire knives falling to the ground one after another, and finally became one, which also went out on the wet ground.
"Yan Quan, what's wrong with you?" Medusa quickly reached out to support the man in the flowered shirt who was about to fall.
Big beads of sweat appeared on the forehead of the man in the flowered shirt. He covered his head with his hands. It took a while for his eyes to return to normal. He looked at Ling Changye in fear.
Xia Bai also looked at Ling Changye curiously. He didn't know what Ling Changye had just done. He only saw Ling Changye shook his head at the man in the flowered shirt, who immediately lowered his head and stopped talking.
From beginning to end, Ling Changye stood there quietly without moving his hands, and the man in the flowered shirt turned from a mad beast into a domesticated dog, and it was sweaty at that.
Not only him, the other three members of the four-member group also changed their eyes when they looked at Ling Changye.
The same went for other novice players. They realized that the man in the flowered shirt named Yan Quan had hit a wall.
When a person shows off his abilities, he gives people a far less profound impression than a person who always keeps a low profile and inadvertently reveals a corner of his abilities. Several people approached Ling Changye without making a sound.
Xia Bai said: "It seems that I can't live with you."
After saying that, he glanced at Jiang Yitong and Jiang Qingfeng, wondering whether to invite them to live with them.
After hearing what Xia Bai said, Jiang Yitong immediately responded, "Since this lady can't live with us, let my husband live with us. He sleeps very quietly and will definitely not disturb you."
She was giving the four people a way out and at the same time allowing Jiang Qingfeng to have a relatively safe place to live.
With this step, the four of them naturally went down.
Medusa said: "Since you said so, then so be it."
This is fine. I don't know what Ling Changye did to Yan Quan, but Yan Quan doesn't look normal. If Jiang Yitong and Jiang Qingfeng were to live with them at this time, they might be mistaken for their side and they might secretly retaliate.
Xia Bai didn't say anything else.
Jiang Qingfeng asked: "Can we let Lao Yang stay with us? Lao Yang won't disturb you. He can just stay in the same room with my husband and me."
"You can have as many people live here as you want. Come in quickly!" Medusa said irritably. She probably wanted to go into the house quickly and ask Yan Quan what was going on.
Xia Bai was also curious, so he and Ling Changye dragged the psychic who was looking up at the stars into a seaweed house, and immediately three people followed them.
The seaweed house they entered had three bedrooms. Xia Bai and Ling Changye naturally lived in one, and the psychic also squeezed in.
As soon as he came in, he asked Ling Changye: "What did you do to Yan Quan?"
The roof of the seaweed house is made of layers of seaweed, and the walls are made of stones and sea mud. It seems to have better sound insulation than the stilt houses in Wugu Village.
Ling Changye lowered his voice still a lot, "I can see that you don't want them to know that you play the game with us. I also don't want to expose my identity and waste a high-level prop to invade his brain."
He looked dissatisfied, but smiled, "You guys from the Holy Tour Guild are really amazing. So this is how you act when the people from the Tour Management Bureau are not around."
The psychic's face darkened. "It has nothing to do with you."
Ling Changye: "If they do something too extreme next time, I hope you can handle it yourself, and don't expose our identities."
"Of course I am the one who disciplines the people in our Holy Tour Guild. You should stay out of it." The psychic said coldly.
Xia Bai was stunned. "The vice president of the largest civilian player organization is so unreasonable. If my boyfriend doesn't take action, he will be killed by him."
"Heh." The psychic looked at them and sneered, "Captain Ling, do you still think I don't know your skills? You are an immortal. No matter how many pieces your body is chopped into, you will not die. Even a few more Yan Quans can't kill you."
Xia Bai and Ling Changye both frowned.
The psychic admired their expressions for a few seconds longer and left in a happy mood.
As soon as he left, Xia Bai's expression changed back to normal. He moved closer to Ling Changye and asked him in a low voice: "Captain, what did you do to that guy named Yan Quan just now?"
Ling Changye did not answer him, but his eyes turned blue and he pointed at the door that the psychic had just walked out of.
Xia Bai: “…”
He silently gave Ling Changye a crooked thumbs up.
His captain copied the psychic's skills.
When the psychic was communicating with him at night, Ling Changye was watching beside him. The psychic thought that Ling Changye was worried about him and was afraid that he would do something to him, so he let him watch.
He was worried. What the psychic didn't know was that while Ling Changye was watching him communicating with spirits, he was also copying his skills.
Yes, in this game, Ling Changye's choice to copy and use the psychic's skills is the best option. Not only can he use this skill to pass the game and restrain the psychic, but he can also communicate with him more times, and maybe it has other wonderful uses.
Ling Changye whispered in Xia Bai's ear: "His skills are very secretive and not easy to copy. Fortunately, it has been copied successfully. His skills come with soul attack skills. I just tried to use this skill on Yan Quan. Yan Quan probably thought I was their vice president."
Xia Bai: “…”
It really is useful.
He finally knew what it felt like to laugh secretly under the covers.
In the seaweed house next door, Medusa helped Yan Quan into the largest bedroom, and the other two teammates followed in.
As soon as he entered the room, the man in the black shirt asked, "Is that man also a gamer? He said he was from the largest civilian gamer organization. Could he be from the Game Management Bureau?"
"Bullshit!" Yan Quan said, "He is our vice president and psychic!"
The other three were stunned.
Yan Quan said, "You were like me. When you first joined the Holy Tour Guild, you were disobedient and were taught a lesson by him. You will never forget that feeling, right? I was taught a lesson by him again just now!"
Yes, they entered the Holy Tour Guild together. They were used to doing whatever they wanted in the real world, and it was the same when they first entered the Holy Tour Guild. The psychics were specifically there to discipline people like them. They would remember the feeling of having their souls devoured for the rest of their lives and would never make a mistake.
Yan Quan said: "At that time, he shook his head at me, and I knew he didn't want to reveal his identity. You guys don't have to say anything, just pretend you don't know."
"I want you to pretend you don't know for another reason." Yan Quan said, "Don't I think that woman in the green dress looks familiar?"
"Are you interested in me and trying to flirt with me?" the man in the black shirt said with an "I understand" look on his face.
"Fuck you for flirting with me!" Yan Quan kicked a stool while lying on the bed. "Just now, I was stimulated and remembered who she is. She is the girlfriend of Bald Liu Qiang! Last year, I saw Liu Qiang hugging her and leaving at the Holy Tour Guild. Liu Qiang's mouth was almost smiling to his ears."
“…”
After a strange silence, the man in the black shirt said, "No, she is the girlfriend of veteran player Liu Qiang. Not long after the veteran died, the vice president... brought his little wife to the island for vacation? No wonder he had to disguise himself."
"Why not? He's the vice president. What's wrong with helping take care of his girlfriend after his subordinate died?"
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