Star Trace Gate

Qijia Town.

Hundreds of players and local supernatural powers were still searching for the Night Wanderer. They searched the town and the mountains, and searched every nook and cranny, but still found nothing.

On the north side, a young man with fluttering red hair shouted with a stubborn and unwilling expression: "I don't believe it. Although the Night Wanderer has no star source fluctuations, he is still a living person who can run and jump. Is it possible that he can evaporate out of thin air?!"

"But he's gone." A teammate frowned and said, "This place is so small, the mountain is already..."

He had barely said half of his words when all the players in Qijia Town heard the Star Gate's reminder in their ears.

[All members are reminded: The artifact treasure - Nine-bend Blue Cloud Bamboo, has been successfully won by a player from the Abstinence Camp. ]

[Congratulations to all players in the Abstinence Institute camp for winning the final victory in the "Sin" Star Gate. Please help Shen Yuan fulfill his last wish as soon as possible. All rewards will be settled after leaving the gate.]

[Players from the six factions will be judged as having failed the mission and will automatically leave the gate after ten minutes. Special reminder: The rewards obtained in the process of restoring the truth of the story will not be deducted from this star gate.]

[Blessings from the Star Gate of Sin: From the day you were born, you have grown up with countless inner desires. Desires can give people enough motivation or goals, but they can also make people sink... I hope you can gain something from this Star Gate. ]

[Special thanks: The gameplay mechanism and part of the story adaptation in this star gate were provided by a person named "Keyboard Warrior Who Doesn't Want to Fail". ]

A series of voices appeared in the ears of all the players, and then slowly disappeared.

it's all over……

In an instant, it seemed as if the entire Qijia Town had fallen silent. The players who were originally looking for the Night Wanderer all stood there in a daze, some with confused and desperate expressions, some with unwilling and angry expressions.

The last hope is gone. Many people have paid with their lives, or lost their friends and teammates, or have played all their cards and lost everything.

After a war, there will definitely be only a few people cheering, and most of them will be left with mess and endless regret.

But soon, a player reacted first, shouting with a puzzled expression: "That's not right. It was the Night Wanderer who stole the bamboo, and no one has found it, so why did the Abstinence of Desire camp win in the end? Didn't the kid surnamed Li say earlier that... the person who conspired with the Night Wanderer was Old Qu?"

"Yes. If it was Lao Qu who conspired with the Night Wanderers, then why did the Abstinence Camp win?"

"Liar, they are all liars! It is obvious that the Li guy is slandering Old Qu. They are the ones who conspired with the Night Wanderer. The latter stole the bamboo and must have given it to the Abstinence Institute."

"What a beast! He instigated internal strife among us, but secretly took the bamboo. He is a hypocrite who talks a lot about morality but actually has a dirty heart!"

"Mad, go find him!"

"Yes, there are still ten minutes before we leave. Even if there is no time to fight, I can still pee or spit on him."

"Let's go, let's go to the gate of the Abstinence Center and block them."

"...!"

This group of people who had just gambled everything were now unwilling to give up. After speculating that Ren Ye and others might be related to the Night Wanderers, they prepared to take revenge.

Human nature being what it is, anger has to have an outlet.

A large group of players, along with local magical masters, were leaping and flying in the air in a mighty manner.

But just when they were about to reach the abstinence center, they saw Yu Weifeng and others blocking the road on a wide street.

"Don't go." Yu Weifeng shouted at the sky.

"What do you mean, Old Yu?"

"Are you in league with them?"

"...!"

Everyone stopped and asked.

Yu Weifeng put his hands on his hips and looked at them with a relaxed expression: "You guessed wrong. Xiao Li's group has nothing to do with the Night Wanderers. They killed Lao Qu and controlled the Night Wanderers to achieve the final victory. That group of people not only won, but also avenged the group of players who were killed by the Night Wanderers before."

He was very smart. He did not mention Jiang Qin, nor did he say what happened in the warehouse. He only said that the person who controlled the Night Wanderer was Lao Qu.

Everyone was stunned for a while, and someone was dissatisfied: "What evidence do you have?"

Yu Weifeng stepped aside and pointed at the body a brother was carrying and said, "Old Qu's body is right there. He was indeed killed by Xiao Li and his men when he was hiding in the dark and controlling the Night Wanderers."

Seeing this scene, everyone was speechless.

"Well... Xiao Li not only got the Nine-bend Green Cloud Bamboo, but also... he also snatched the Night Wanderer away?" a smart person asked tentatively.

"Yes." Yu Weifeng nodded: "It seems that he snatched two or three."

"Fuck it!" The smart guy immediately started to criticize: "This person is ridiculously lucky. How hateful."

"Yeah, that kid is so hateful. I suspect this is his father's star gate."

"...!"

Although everyone was unwilling, jealous, and had many regrets, at this moment they could only accept the fact that they had missed the opportunity.

After a while, many players who had met and gotten to know each other during this period left their contact information to each other, and then... waved goodbye to Qijia Town with reluctance, regret, experience and gains.

……

Lust Village.

Ren Ye, Xu Qingzhao, Lao Liu, A Pu, Mad Dog, Tang Feng, followed the thin and weathered Shen Yuan and walked to the village entrance together.

In the warehouse, Ai Fei used the soul bell to control the night wanderer who had seized the bamboo and quietly went to the evacuation point that had been set in advance. Afterwards, Tang Feng used his consciousness to contact Shen Yuan and called on him to leave the abstinence center. Finally, everyone rushed to the Desire Village together.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they did not inform the players of other teams in the Abstinence Institute. Since they had already won, those brothers just needed to wait for the exit and take the settlement reward. There was no need to endure the temptation of the Nine-bend Blue Cloud Bamboo again.

It was noon now, and the Love Village looked desolate and dilapidated.

Not far ahead, Shen Yuan stood at the entrance of the village, staring at the village that was both familiar and unfamiliar, in silence for a long time.

Afterwards, Tang Feng thought about it again and again, and could not help but ask: "You insist that we take back the bamboo, not for revenge?"

"I have killed 1163 people. What right do I have to talk about revenge?" Shen Yuan stared blankly at the ruins. "Because of my cowardice, greed, and uncontrollable desires... I killed an entire village. Gao Jiansheng, Wang Shoucai, and even my father... They were just pitiful butchers, and I was the culprit, the one holding the knife."

"I have never dared to face it. Even if I die many years later, I will still have a trace of obsession left here, and this star gate has evolved." Shen Yuan sighed, his eyes full of regret and sadness.

Ren Ye was confused when he heard this: "What do you mean? What do you mean that after many years you died, and this star gate evolved?"

Shen Yuan did not answer, but just stared blankly at the panoramic view of the Love Village. He slowly bent his knees and knelt on the ground with a thud.

"...I dream of returning here. This is my home, where I grew up. But I know you don't welcome me, and I have no right to apologize to you."

"Fortunately, fortunately I died in the future. This can be considered a kind of atonement."

"My fellow countrymen, parents, and family members... may you rest in peace."

As he spoke, his face was covered with tears and his whole body was convulsing.

Shen Yuan kowtowed three times to the ground, then raised his hand and called out, "The water of the Nine-bend Styx flows through the human world for eternity!"

"Boom!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the Nine-bend Green Cloud Bamboo that was temporarily kept by Ren Ye flew out on its own, soared up, and floated towards the sky.

A phantom of the River Styx suddenly appeared across the sky, with no end in sight at either end, as if there was no other shore.

The green bamboo in the Styx Vase, in the blink of an eye, became as tall as the sky, and the bamboo leaves were lush and covered the sky.

"Get up and rest. Leave that stormy night, let go of all obsessions, return to dust, return to earth, flow into the River Styx, forget this life, and get rid of the suffering of the next life!"

Shen Yuan knelt on the ground and recited softly.

"Whoosh whoosh...!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Qingyun Village not far away was suddenly covered by dark clouds and heavy rain began to fall.

In the rain, the residual souls and obsessions, as if washed by holy light, slowly floated up from the village and flowed into the phantom of the Styx in the sky.

Ren stared blankly, and he saw that the night watchman who was going home to repair the house on a rainy night was among them; the remaining souls of the servants who were killed over and over again by the players were also all among them.

“Son… my son…!”

Two unwilling and reluctant cries rang out, and Yin Wan'er's remaining soul also flowed into the Nine-bend Styx.

After a long time, all 1163 wronged souls in the Love Village were liberated, and everything here was completely buried over the years.

Between heaven and earth, Shen Yuan's figure was gradually disintegrating. When he slowly stood up, the tears on his face had not yet completely dried.

It was not until this moment that Ren Ye and the others finally understood that the reason Star Gate asked them to help Shen Yuan take back the Nine-bend Green Cloud Bamboo was not to help him get revenge, but to help the souls of the dead in the Lust Village rest in peace.

This was Shen Yuan's obsession. Now that it was eliminated, he seemed to be about to disappear.

He slowly turned around, looked at Tang Feng, and asked softly: "There is one thing I don't understand."

"What's the matter?" Tang Feng asked back with a serious expression.

"I observed this when I was in the abstinence center. When you treated players whose mental health values ​​were over ninety, you rarely used your ability to extract desires. Instead, you amplified their desires. For the lustful ones... you let them do shameful things on their own. For the gluttons, you even provided them with opium paste to smoke... why is that?" Shen Yuan's disintegrating shadow showed a hint of confusion.

Tang Feng blinked and replied seriously: "Because I think... trying hard to restrain desire is also a kind of desire, and it will also lead to loss."

When Shen Yuan heard this, his eyes lit up: "Very good, very good, you are more talented than me."

Tang Feng looked at him and asked in confusion: "You said you were dead? What does that mean?"

"72 years later, I died. I died in battle in the Land of Fallen Angels." Shen Yuan replied.

"?" Ren was also stunned for a moment: "I still don't understand. What does it mean to die in battle? Who did you fight against?!"

"Demon monk."