Chapter 18
[Welcome back!] 】
As the game's return voice sounded, Su Xingyuan opened his eyes, and the scene in front of him loaded into his field of vision without any lag.
At the same time, a gentle white light shot out from the backpack bar and quickly covered Su Xingyuan's entire body.
He could see his health replenished in an instant, turning into a reassuring green color, the wounds on his body healed as before, and the frostbite debuff was dispelled.
Su Xingyuan stood up, moved his hands and feet, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, I have recovered and am back to being lively and energetic.
Although after this incident, his feeling was not "never going out to play when I'm only thinner than before", but "it turns out that I still need to stock up a few hundred bottles of red medicine in my backpack for emergencies."
But Su Xingyuan couldn't think so much now. He felt uncomfortable with the dirty appearance and urgently needed to tidy himself up - it turned out that the real gaming world experience was not all good.
But the question is, where should he go to clean himself up?
Su Xingyuan fell into deep thought.
Su Xingyuan's meditation failed.
Even if we go to a hostel or hotel, his appearance would only make people want to call the police.
Su Xingyuan walked along the sewer towards other exits while looking at the small map, trying to find a place that would accept unidentified people.
Suddenly, he noticed that something seemed to have passed by on the minimap.
Su Xingyuan stopped sliding the map, adjusted the map back to the previous position, and continued to zoom in.
At the end of a private alley on the edge of J City, there was a place with a purple name, which was different from the ordinary buildings with white names.
【Purification of the body, nourishment of the soul and welcoming of the gods】
Su Xingyuan raised his eyebrows slightly.
This name... doesn't sound like a good thing.
The players immediately became eager to try it out.
He clicks on locations, marks them, and tracks them.
The game system was very smart. It detected that he was in the sewer and even provided route guidance within the sewer, so he didn't even have to go back to the ground.
But when he got there, he found out—
Wow, it turns out they have their own underground route.
The closer we got to our destination, the more signs of people moving around in the sewer we saw. When we reached the place that overlapped with the mark, we could even see a ladder being lowered from the top of the sewer.
Su Xingyuan did not rush over, but hid in the darkness of the sewer with the help of his black clothes and extremely high concealment value for ordinary people.
After waiting for a while, he saw a man in a black robe coming from another direction, climbing up the ladder, and tapping the manhole cover above five times, three long and two short.
After the filming, the manhole cover was removed by the people above and the man crawled out.
Su Xingyuan waited patiently for a while, and then repeated the same actions as the man as if he had just arrived.
Sure enough, the manhole cover was opened from above, and a hand even reached down to help Su Xingyuan get to the ground.
"Welcome to our..." Before he finished his opening remarks, the man who came up from Laxu Star Plain twitched his face twice.
The reason was simple. Even if other believers came from the sewer, they would only have some dirty water on their shoes. But the person he had just pulled up was almost soaked in dirty water all over his body. Now even the hand he was holding was not spared.
How did this guy get into this state? Did he do a backstroke in the sewer? ?
Even though he wanted to shake the hand off immediately, he still managed to force a smile out of professional ethics, even though the smile was so twisted that it made people feel a little distressed:
"Welcome to our meeting to purify the body, nourish the soul and welcome the gods. You will be saved here. The favored one of the gods outside the gate, the great God King, will protect us all."
When he said these words, Su Xingyuan was also observing him and the environment here.
The man in front of him was wearing a black robe with a wide hood covering most of his face, leaving only the part below his nose exposed. Around his neck hung a string of wooden beads that looked like they had been soaked in the blood of some creature and were dyed black.
Surrounding it were thick red and black curtains that blocked out most of the light, making people feel very gloomy.
All in all, the atmosphere was very weird.
From this point of view, his appearance is quite suitable for this place, and even the smell of blood on his body does not seem so abnormal.
"Is this your first time at the party?"
The man who was guiding them asked.
Su Xingyuan's gaze fell back on the man. Although his face showed no emotion, his words seemed to carry emotion. He seemed a little nervous and a little neurotic, speaking incoherently:
"Yeah... I was living a mess. I didn't even want to take out the garbage. It was all piled up in my rented house... or that's what I lived on. It was also crawling with rats and cockroaches."
The guide's mouth twitched, and he stepped back a little as gently as possible.
From the blue veins on his hands that had begun to look somewhat hideous, it could be seen that he was indeed enduring it with great difficulty.
Su Xingyuan: "I have completely lost hope of living. Can the Divine King save me?"
The guide said as if he was being driven by something: "Of course, of course, as long as you enter the cleaning room, wash off all the filth on your body, then put on the holy robes, and worship the God outside the door with us, all your past will be forgiven by the great God King."
"But before that," the guide took the same wooden beads from the shelf beside him, "you need to wear this."
Su Xingyuan's eyes fell on the string of beads, and he concentrated slightly.
[Name: Beads containing trace amounts of magic]
——Only hunters have magic power. It seems that there are hunters behind this church.
He looked down at the item description.
[Description: It has the effect of confusing the mind, making it easier for the wearer to believe the words of those with the same magical power. It is not recommended for players with low intelligence to wear it.]
Su Xingyuan: “…”
Low intelligence, this game will design the copy.
From this point of view, intelligence not only represents the mana bar, but also represents the resistance to mental magic.
Su Xingyuan has not yet acquired any magic skills, nor has he changed his job. The only place where he can use his magic power is to provide magic power amplification for the magic slate, so he has not spent any time to improve it.
But looking at the initial attribute panel, you can see that the upper limit of ordinary people's intelligence is about 10, so an intelligence value of 22 should be enough.
And...if possible, Su Xingyuan actually wants to experience what it's like to be confused in the game.
He took the beads and hung it around his neck.
Almost at the moment he touched the beads, two pop-up windows flashed out at the same time.
[Get debuff: Bewitched]
[Intelligence>15, the bewitching effect has been broken]
Seeing that he was wearing the beads, the guide's smile finally seemed a little more genuine. He opened the curtain on one side for him and motioned for him to go out.
Behind the curtain is probably the so-called cleaning room, which is spotlessly clean. Even in the corners where dirt and grime are easily hidden, there is no dirt to be seen.
Su Xingyuan entered one of the compartments, opened the cabinet, and saw a brand new black robe inside.
He checked the compartment and found nothing else that might affect his mind, except for the words "The Godly King will lead us to the world outside the gate of paradise" written all over the walls.
Once outside the cubicle, he looked no different from the other members of the church.
Su Xingyuan pulled down the brim of his hat and opened the door.
The moment the door opened, countless people in black robes turned their heads in unison and looked at him without saying a word, as if they were watching a lamb walking into a pack of wolves.
They didn't even seem to have their own consciousness, completely different from the guides. Perhaps because they didn't have to deal with newcomers, they were controlled more harshly.
On the high platform, behind the crimson gauze, a man's slow voice came: "Let us welcome our new friends, our new companions to the gate to the other world!"
The next moment, the puppet-like people suddenly burst into wild cheers.
But the people who were being cheered were not distracted in the slightest by these voices.
He was like every believer who came here. Even though his eyes were covered, one could still see the fanaticism emanating from his body. He stared at the God-King behind the curtain eagerly and sincerely.
Su Xingyuan's heartbeat indeed quickened for a moment, his eyes lit up, and the fingers of his right hand moved slightly as if he wanted to hold something.
——In his field of vision, the so-called Shaman King who was blocked was indeed not visible, but the blood bar with perfect shape and bright color kept flashing its presence in front of his eyes.
One would particularly like to see it emptied.
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