Fantasy Game: Infinite City

The four players crossed the buildings and ran a long distance on the top floors of these old buildings. They stopped on the roof of a building and hid. It was very quiet around them. The four people gathered together and communicated quietly.

"What has the old man become?"

"I don't understand at all.. We may need to collect more information."

"The monster must be fighting with that man and didn't follow us."

"Our weapons won't do much against that monster. Maybe we should be more careful."

The four people looked down cautiously from the roof, but due to the influence of the thick bloody fog, they could not see the street below clearly from this position, so the four people prepared to leave here and go to the street to take a look.

The building was completely dark and lifeless. The bulletin board in the corridor was covered with flyers about missing persons, including people of all ages and even a few missing soldiers.

"This building should be a residential building or something like that."

"But the doors were nailed shut from the inside, and there was a lot of dust in the corridor. Apart from our four footprints, there were no other traces."

"It's similar to other buildings we've seen before."

"There's a sign at the door, come and take a look!"

When I walked out of the building, there was a road sign not far from the first floor entrance, but the words on it were scratched and I couldn't see clearly what was written. And from the traces, it looked like the traces of rodent teeth, such as rats.

The buildings in the old city looked similar from the outside, and the four people lost their way for a moment. After a brief struggle, they headed along a fork in the road with the most street lights.

"There are more and more missing persons flyers."

"Someone wrote on the wall here in red paint, 'STOP GOING AHEAD!!!', with three bold exclamation marks after it."

"There was a cordon on the door and a sign nailed to it that said 'Once you go in, you can't get out'."

"It seems that we can get some important information here. However, we even ran into that old man on the street before. I think the things in this house may be more difficult for us to deal with. I think we should wait until daytime to investigate here."

The four men determined their target and made a mark on the door of the building, preparing to find a safe place to spend the dangerous night. They didn't know if it was an illusion, but the longer they stayed in the thick fog, the slower their control over their bodies became.

"Boom."

There was a sound of something falling in the house. The four people who heard the sound immediately took out their weapons and pointed them at the door.

"Squeak!"

But it seemed to be a false alarm, a rat came out from the hole in the building and ran away quickly. But this rat seemed to be much larger than a normal rat.

After walking forward for a minute or two, the four players saw the figures again, and when they were about to catch up with them, the figures quickly left.

However, those figures kept moving and stopping, and never left the four people's sight. The four people did not chase those figures at full speed, but followed them carefully with weapons in hand.

After walking about two blocks, the figures stopped moving and the four men stopped chasing them, watching them from a distance.

The figures stood under two bright street lights. Judging from their outlines, they were ordinary residents, but their faces could not be seen clearly due to the thick fog.

He approached the figures cautiously with weapons in hand, almost face to face with them, and suddenly the figures disappeared, and the street lights next to them also suddenly went out.

"Crack!"

The sound of breaking wood was heard not far behind them. The four players immediately turned around and wanted to leave the spot, but the stiffness of their bodies made them a step too late.

The bodies of the four players fell uncontrollably into the darkness below. About five or six seconds later, there were four dull sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground. Four flashes of light appeared, and four old-fashioned clockwork music boxes appeared on the edge of the cliff, playing harsh circus music.

"Item Name: God of Mischief's Clockwork Music Box"

"Item effect: Create a perfect avatar with half the stats. The avatar can act on behalf of the player. The avatar can use the same abilities as the player, but the effects are halved."

"Item Description: This is a music box with a spring doll inside. It was created by a crazy god on a whim when he was drunk."

"Features: The clockwork music box creates a double with no distance limit, but the farther away from the main body, the more vulnerable the double is. After the double dies, the music box will appear in a safe location 10 seconds before the death time and automatically play harsh circus music for five minutes. After the music disappears or the music box is destroyed, the music box will automatically be transferred back to the props column and can be used again after ten minutes."

Five minutes later, the music stopped and the old-fashioned wind-up music box suddenly disappeared. The cliff was very quiet, without any sound. It seemed that there were no other creatures nearby, and no one knew where those figures had gone.

"Om~"

However, more than ten seconds after the clockwork music box disappeared, a faint sound of fluttering wings was heard in the darkness. The sound quickly faded away, and peace returned to the place.

The dock management office in the old town.

"It seems that those figures should be some kind of illusion."

"It might be a strange creature."

"The music box went into cooldown, what do we do now?"

"Check the surroundings. We'll wait here until daybreak."

In several corners of the management room, four players walked out of the darkness again. It turned out that they had never left here from the beginning.

On the ceiling of the management room, something seemed to be moving, and it looked like a few flying insects.

Inside the old town, next to a bench in a square.

"I thought so. The four old six! But you know what, they are really patient."

Han Zu withdrew his swarm perspective and stood up from the bench.

"Let me see... that man's location is..."

Switching to the swarm's perspective, Han Zu searched for the mysterious man.

"Found it! Here, let me take a look... Okay?"

Before Han Zu could move, from the perspective of the swarm, he saw that in Cemetery No. 9, the dedicated phone line that could only be used to call the supervisor rang again. After a simple decision, Han Zu bent down to gather his strength and jumped towards the direction of the cemetery.

The mysterious man came to the edge of the cliff and bent down, thinking about something.

"The circus music just now came from here, it should be correct, but it's not here now..."

"Um... this... sir?"

The man stood up, tightened his grip on the machete disguised as a simple cane, and slowly turned around to see the person who had chatted with him, a middle-aged woman, a little fat, wearing a scarf, a loose farm jumpsuit and shirt, holding a lever rifle in her hand. The rifle looked a bit old and the butt was a little worn.

"Are you human?"

"Yeah, I'm not one of those damn rats!"

"Why are you here?"

"I heard some shrill music, which has never happened before, so I came out to check it out. What about you, sir? Why are you here?"

The man didn't say anything, but stretched out his wrist, which showed a watch. On the watch strap was an image of a rat's head crossed out by two lines.

"So you're from a rat removal company! Great! We're saved!"

"Don't talk so early. Four of you have come, and I am the only one left alive."

"What?! Even you guys... Never mind! At least there is still hope! Come with me first, my home is relatively safe! I haven't seen anyone from the rat removal company for a long time!"

The mysterious man now doesn't know what to do next. Maybe finding a safe place with this woman and spending the night there might be the right choice.

Maybe it was a coincidence that the middle-aged woman's home was near the cliff. When she opened the door, three people stood there, a young woman and two children. The young woman looked worried and asked the middle-aged woman.

"Mom! Why did you go out so suddenly? It's not safe to be in the city so late!"

"It's okay, daughter! I just heard some shrill music, so I went out to take a look. Unexpectedly, I ran into a man from a rat removal company! By the way, sir, I haven't asked your name yet!"

"Rod. I don't know your name yet."

"Oh excuse me, my name is Mary, this is my daughter Bella, and these two are my grandchildren, the boy is Timmy and the girl is Lisa."

"Uncle...Hello uncle..."

The two children held their mother's hands and hid timidly behind her.

"Let's deal with it here tonight, Mr. Rhodes. The old city is too dangerous at night."

"Thanks."

"Since you are an employee of the rat removal company, I don't need to explain the rules of the old city. You can come to me if you have any questions."

"Ah."

Mary led the children away from the doorway and into the house.

There was no light in the house, as in the rest of the old city, and the windows were boarded shut from the inside.

Rhodes turned around and looked at the wooden board that had been removed from behind the door. Judging from the marks, it seemed that it was not removed just now, but had been removed a long time ago.

And rather than being dismantled, it looked more like it was destroyed by something, like a rodent.

Rhodes couldn't help but become more alert. Perhaps this family of four was not simple.

Rhodes clenched the cane in his hand, walked into the house, came to Mary and started talking to her.

"It seems like you have lived here for a long time, why don't you move out?"

"Let's talk in the living room, Mom. Don't let the kids hear us."

At Bella's request, Rod followed Mary to the living room, and Mary explained the reasons why she didn't move out.

"I have lived here for 50 years. I was born here, grew up here, got married here, and after my husband died two years ago, I didn't want to leave."

"What about your daughter and her children? Why don't they leave here?"

"When my husband was buried, my daughter, her husband and their children came back to attend the funeral. Not long after they came back, the old city was filled with this bloody fog. As you know, the only places that can leave the old city are the docks and the mines. But the factory area in front of the docks was locked from the outside, and the mines were entrenched in those... damn rats. We couldn't leave."

"Maybe I can help you get away..."

"Wow~ wow~"

The sudden cry interrupted their conversation. Mary said she was going to see the children and left the living room.

Sitting on the sofa, Rhodes was about to close his eyes and rest for a while, but he inadvertently recalled the conversation just now, and Rhodes immediately drew out his scimitar and the crossbow at his waist.

"No, he came back two years ago? This bloody fog had clearly appeared five years ago! And this crying sound doesn't sound like a child of a few years old. It's more like... a baby?"

Something must be wrong. After checking the crossbow, Rhodes took the weapon and slowly walked towards the direction of the crying.

They passed by Bella and the children's room, which was empty, which made Rhodes feel even more wrong.