Quadruple split

The [Gloomy Swamp] located outside the territory of the Violet Empire and bordering the Baroka Territory is the destination of Mo Tan's trip. As the name suggests, it is a barren land that looks like a bird without shit. In the past thousands of years, , nothing but deadly swamps and miasmas.

Not to mention that places like swamps are not suitable for survival. In fact, even if those swamps that swallow people are filled up, the already self-contained miasma ecological model will greatly shorten the life of ordinary people, and they will have to live there for a long time. If so, I would conservatively estimate that my life would be shortened by more than 20 years.

Starting more than half a year ago, an area composed of thick fog suddenly appeared on the edge of this swamp, not far from the Baroka Territory.

From the outside, the area is not large, but according to the investigation by the ambitious regent of the Violet Empire, the thick fog is not simple at all. It is not only complicated, but can even be called weird.

First of all, according to Xiu's understanding, the real area of ​​the fog area is many times larger than it appears from the outside, or even more exaggerated. The 'space structure' inside may be extremely unstable, or follow a different set of rules from the outside world. .

This sounds a bit ridiculous, but in the world view of the "Innocence Realm", it is not at all out of line. After all, according to the current world view, phenomena such as "ghosts hitting the wall" in reality are also a kind of spatial disturbance. In this world, Under the premise, it is completely normal for some "space problems" to occur in a game based on swords and magic.

Secondly, the swamp also has a certain 'disorienting' effect. In other words, it will confuse any existence including but not limited to human beings, causing them to lose their sense of direction and then get lost in the thick fog. , and finally came out from the west in a daze.

It needs to be explained here. Suppose we regard the foggy area as a square, then its north, south and east sides are basically facing the shady swamp. A little further east is the sea after passing the shady swamp, and it To the west is the Baroka Territory of the Violet Empire.

According to the information provided by His Royal Highness the Regent, although there are no restrictions on movement in the swamp while avoiding the fog area, as long as someone enters the thick fog, no matter which direction they enter, they will definitely end up from Coming out from the west, that is, the side close to the Baroka Territory, it is impossible to leave the mist from the other three directions.

Therefore, the wild and wild man who wants to unify the empire, and is thinking about fighting against the outside world while keeping his peace, believes that there may be some secret hidden in that foggy area, and no matter what the nature of the secret is, it will be very important to the future of the empire. It was not a pleasant thing for the emperor.

In Xiu's blueprint, the Dark Swamp must be part of the Violet Empire in the future, but now, even if it is not yet designated as its own territory, it must be the back garden of the Violet Empire.

And that unpleasant foggy area was now like a shadow lingering in the back garden, which was absolutely intolerable to Xiu.

Because of this, he had actually secretly launched an investigation into the thick fog before the Violet Coup, but the result was that he found nothing.

The reason is very simple. In addition to the above two points, namely the 'unusual space structure', the 'lost attribute' and the last 'time flow rate', everyone can basically only go in prepared and come out in a daze.

Of course, unlike space, Xiu doesn't think this misunderstanding can really shake the concept of 'time'. You must know that although we often talk about 'time' and 'space' together, these two concepts actually exist. The huge difference, in simpler terms, is that 'space' still has room for manipulation, but 'time' has gone beyond the scope that ordinary mortals can influence.

Note that what we are talking about here is 'absolute time', which means that although there are almost no forces that can affect the flow of time, there are many ways to create somatosensory illusions, such as making people think of 'absolute ten minutes' as ' There are many ways to starve oneself to death, such as "ten days", or to make people mistake "absolute ten days" for "ten minutes".

In short, combined with the above reasons and the fact that one of his operators disappeared during the process, His Royal Highness the Regent finally decided to use Motan, a weapon that can be considered a double-edged sword, and asked the latter to go to the foggy area to explore after all.

There are two reasons. First, as Xiu said before, although the foggy area can make people lose their sense of direction, it does not seem to pose much of a threat to people like Mo Tan who have no sense of direction; in addition, Xiu has great confidence in the 'Tan Mo' he knows, and feels that this person is a heavy chess piece that can break the deadlock no matter what the situation.

In other words, in Xiu’s eyes, Mo Tan is the Eighty Thousand in chess, the King Bomb in Army Flags, the Chariot in Go, the Wizard’s Chess in Chess, the Royal Flush in Magic: The Gathering, and the Flying in DND. The Pot of Desire in Chess and Landlords highlights a piece of nonsense.

Everyone knows that the regent never fights an uncertain battle, so he thought he could successfully convince Mo Tan, and in fact, he did succeed.

Among them, Xiu himself, through his own influence or [Female Bee]’s previous help and favors to Mo Tan in the past, present and future, can probably account for about 5% of the persuasion chips, and the other 95% ...It is a mission that may be dangerous, but the reward must be extremely generous!

Yes, even though Hugh Blaise is a real native of the Innocence Realm, like many people including but not limited to the Saint Fairy Graham of the Wealth Sect, he has no regard for outsiders/ The player's understanding is quite detailed. You must know that in the high-level final issue of the previous exchange meeting in Academy City, the information on the 'outsiders' provided by the Violet Empire has basically become the final reference for all forces, and that thing even It's still an abridged version.

All in all, His Highness Xiu, who has a deep understanding of aliens and game concepts, believes that anomalies of this level are definitely a very tempting task for players, and the base must be of [epic] quality.

On this basis, combined with the news of the [Inquisition and Controversy], His Highness Xiu believed that it was impossible for Tan Mo to refuse such an epic mission that would bring a lot of benefits as long as it could be completed.

And this is also true.

In view of the temporary benefit that System Sauce suddenly provided, that is, the only 'character switching' system in the game [Innocence Boundary], regardless of the fragmentation situation, the three characters under Mo Tan's name already have the ability to participate in the competition at the same time. Conditions, under this situation, the strength of the chaotic neutral personality is far from comparable to the T0 level combat power of Futaba and Mu Xuejian. He is planning to participate in both individual and group battles. Naturally, he also wants to sharpen his skills before the battle. .

And the special mission chain named [Jackdaw's Oath] with the quality of [The Only Epic] did have considerable temptation for him. That is what was mentioned in the remarks, as long as the final completion rate can reach above 95%. You can obtain [Epic-level professional mission: Fog Ghost].

This is so tempting.

You know, even T0-level experts like Futaba and Mu Xuejian are only high-level, even though they are the kind of non-mainstream who can fight dozens or even hundreds of ordinary high-level ones. , but high-level is high-level after all, and there is still a gulf-like gap between it and epic level.

At that time, Ito relied on the power of the super spirit body to temporarily break through to the epic after paying a huge price. As a result, Futaba was beaten to the point where she was unable to fight back. This is the best evidence.

Epics have absolute level suppression on high-level ones. In other words, even a crappy epic like Ito with an unstable foundation is stronger than the pinnacle of a high-level pyramid like Futaba.

Although the 'epic career mission' is not directly given to the profession, for a rich, well-connected, and capable player like Mo Tan, as long as he encounters something that is too exaggerated, it is actually the same as giving it directly to the profession. .

You must know that the reward for the third place in [The Controversy] is only an 'epic career mission clue'. Only the runner-up and champion can directly get the same 'epic career' as the reward for high completion of the mission [Jackdaw's Oath] Task', that is to say, even if the first and second place winners of the team battle are all five-man teams, after an innocence battle, only a total of 12 people can get the epic level professional task. If you do it based on ranking rewards If there is no strict equivalence, then the epic career mission is at the same level as the 'legendary mission chain', 'legendary equipment', and 'regional mission chain', which shows its gold content.

It is true that it is already September 13th, and there are only less than three weeks until October 1st when the [Inquisition Controversy] begins, so even Mo Tan under his current personality does not think he can complete the entire set of [ Jackdaw's Oath] this special task chain, and to say the least, even if he could really complete [Jackdaw's Oath] with a completion rate of more than 95% within this period of time, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to complete the epic-level professional task. So even if we do it, it will only be done after the prosecution and debate.

But it doesn't matter, because the fundamental reason why the character 'Tan Mo' became stronger is because of the killing game with Futaba, and in the team battle of the crime debate, the two were teammates, so if Futaba can win When it comes to the epic profession, he, Mo Tan, can naturally get it.

As for the individual battle... To be honest, Mo Tan didn't think Futaba had a chance to win second place.

The reason is very simple. It is because the epic level absolutely suppresses the higher levels. According to Mo Tan's judgment, taking Cordoba as a reference, the Awakening Dragon ranked fourth on the list is definitely not an epic. The chaotic and evil one is definitely not an epic. The third question mark may be an epic, Cordoba is an epic, and the question mark ranked first is naturally 100% epic.

Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible for Futaba, who is almost impossible to defeat even the Awakening Dragons, to win the championship. Therefore, although Mo Tan attaches great importance to this task, he is not in a hurry.

It was precisely because he was not in a hurry that Mo Tan, who had been delaying his journey, had just arrived near his destination.

In addition, there is another reason why Mo Tan came so late. After he conducted a very simple investigation, he found that this mission was much more dangerous than he had previously expected.

There is no other reason. After Mo Tan's investigation, although Xiu did not lie to himself, except for the fact that 99% of the NPCs who entered would get lost and then walk out from the west of the foggy area in a daze, there was only one person who has not been heard from until now. The regent did not mention this matter...

That is to say, all the players who entered it, that is, the ‘outsiders’ like Mo Tan and Yu Ying, were unable to come out.

In fact, this matter became a minor topic of discussion a few months ago, but because Mo Tan's three characters were too busy at the time, they even had to worry about things in the game during the day. , so I didn’t pay much attention to it.

After re-improving the information, things became a little weird.

First of all, Motan, who has conducted several investigations inside and outside the game, can be sure that the dark swamp located in the eastern part of the Violet Empire and bordering the Baroka Territory used to be fog-free.

In fact, the so-called fog area actually only appeared on the 1st of the Shadow Moon in the year 9570 of the Holy Calendar.

And that day happened to be the day when the realm of innocence was launched.

To say that this matter was just a pure coincidence, Mo Tan definitely didn't believe it, especially after a series of subsequent situations were made public on the forum and he found out those things, he didn't believe it even more.

As for the conclusion, as of early August this year, more than 300 players have stated on the forum that they are lost in a foggy area and cannot get out no matter what, although some of these people know where they are. , some were completely confused, but according to research, the places where they got lost should be the thick fog in the Shadow Swamp in the eastern part of the Violet Empire!

Unlike those NPCs who would inexplicably leave the fog area from the west side after being lost for a period of time, those players who were lost inside were really lost and couldn't get out no matter how they walked.

And in this case, those unlucky ones who accidentally enter there have only two choices left. One is to continue to go around in crazy circles, entering the fog on time every night until they close the server; the other is to Just cut off the strong man's wrist, delete the account and start again.

In this situation, although there are some people who do not believe in evil, the vast majority of lost players still choose to compromise and give themselves a break.

After that, although the matter never became popular because there were too few victims, after many people have summarized how to play the game well and summarized it in posts, few players will deliberately look for this. This kind of wilderness where there was no way to improve oneself suffered, the number of victims naturally dropped sharply, and the popularity of the topic gradually cooled down.

but……

There are fewer victims. In the final analysis, the behavior of the players has changed, and it has nothing to do with the silent, strange and mysterious fog area.

That thing eats people when it should!

Chapter 1,708: End