Daoist, Zhenshanhe!

When the blood runner was entangled with the boss, Gu Shubai took the lead in stepping into the small town of Azeroth.The further you get into the small town, the denser the surrounding fog becomes, and there are almost no signs of people coming and going on the empty streets.

Gu Shubai walked all the way along the central street, not only the aborigines of the small town of Azeroth, but even the patrol soldiers of the high priest Sodar disappeared.He has never experienced the plot of opening a new map in the previous life, and only got a rough idea of ​​some superficial plots from the plots compiled by the players. At this point in time, everyone in the city should be baptized by Sodar next to the stone statue of the chief priest.

The so-called baptism sounds holy, but it is nothing but a dirty sacrifice.

Regarding the sacrifices of the Dark Cult, Gu Shubai once read a book with very detailed records.

There are two kinds of sacrifices in the dark religion. One is the daily sacrifice, which is to pray for the blessings of the dark god every night. water; the other is the great sacrifice.

The big sacrifice is held once a year, presided over by the priest, the date is not fixed, and the dark god will entrust the priest with a dream.On the day of the Great Sacrifice, all the believers gathered together, piously prayed for the protection of the dark god, accepted the baptism of the priests, and prepared the heaven, earth, human, three animals as sacrifices for the dark god.

Heavenly animals refer to birds, which means freedom, and the braver they are, the more they can prove the piety of believers; ground animals refer to beasts, which mean toughness, mainly wild animals, followed by domestic animals; as for humans and animals, they mean liberation. As the name suggests, it refers to people.The requirements for humans and animals are much stricter than those of heaven and earth. Humans and animals often choose virgins with noble status. Regardless of gender, they are raised in the temple of the dark religion since childhood, and sent to the altar when they are about 15 years old. To the Dark God.

Fifteen is a certain age. According to the records of the dark religion, the dark god Thanatos left the human body on his 15th birthday and became a great immortal god.The number fifteen has a very sacred meaning in the dark religion.

On the day of the sacrifice, the high priest will first recite a hymn in praise of the Dark God, and all believers will bow down to the statue of the Dark God, sing hymns, and then hold the three sacrificial ceremonies.

The sacrifices of the heaven and earth sacrifices are tied directly on the sacrificial altar.The human sacrifice will follow the high priest, and the high priest will take off his clothes, smear his body with the black secret medicine, and then pump all the blood from his body and put it in a white earthen jar.His blood will be shared and drunk by the believers, which is what baptism is really about.In the end, the human sacrifice that had been drained of blood was tied up on the altar together with the heavenly sacrifice and the earth sacrifice, and burned to death by black flames.The whole ceremony will not really end until they are all reduced to ashes.

This sacrifice was officially made into a video as part of the promotional film, but there is no CG for this part in the game. After all, Wangu is a game. Even if it is clearly marked as an adult-oriented game, it is impossible for it to appear so bloody. Violent scenes, every time a player happens to meet a dark sect doing baptism, and when they arrive, there is already a scene of burning three sacrifices.

Gu Shubai thought for a while, but instead of going to the altar, he walked towards the market in the small town.

There were a little more people on the market side, and the windows and doors of the shops were all closed. Occasionally, a few townspeople passed by wearing hoods, with their heads bowed and hurried past. The scene was very depressed.

The figure of the patrolling guard appeared in front of his eyes. Gu Shubai hid in an alley, and did not dare to come out until the patrolling guard had gone far away. He walked cautiously along the street, looking for a shop according to the information in his mind.

Most of the materials that Gu Shubai saw were after Azeroth was destroyed and rebuilt. The entire town was destroyed in the ensuing war, and more than half of the buildings had to be rebuilt. This store was the center of the storm. To identify, you can only feel the general location.He stopped when he saw a towering old tree. This ancient tree, known as "the green seed of the city of death", survived the war and was destroyed after Azeroth was rebuilt. It was officially changed to a wishing tree. Many gamer couples come here to pray for everlasting life. It is one of the famous dog abuse spots in the past, and it is also the symbol that Gu Shubai is looking for.

Gu Shubai stood under the old tree, looking for a protruding tree root, and the direction of the raised straight line was the place he was looking for.

Gu Shubai looked along a straight line, and as expected, he saw a shop with a closed door. When he walked closer, there were four big characters "open for business" posted on the door.Gu Shubai rang the bell at the door, and there was a quick response from inside the house. The person inside asked cautiously, "Excuse me?"

Gu Shubai said: "I'm a passing traveler, here to do some shopping."

"Ah." There was an exclamation from inside the door. The door was not opened, but a gap was quietly opened on the side window, and a dark eyeball was exposed through the slit, and the eyes were full of nervous and vigilant scrutiny.

Gu Shubai pretended not to notice this, and continued to talk to the people inside the door: "I'm from Hercules City."

"Hercules City?" There was another exclamation from inside the door. After a moment of silence, the store door was opened carefully. The man only opened the store door half a person's width away. After Gu Shubai was fine, he quickly opened the door, looked around, and pulled Gu Shubai in: "Come in quickly."

Gu Shubai was pulled into the house, and the door was locked again. As soon as Gu Shubai entered the shop, he could smell the strong aroma of wine.He carefully looked at the furnishings in the shop. There were several well-sealed wine barrels stacked on the ground, and exquisite porcelain bottles filled with fine wine were also placed on the shelf behind the counter. There is a feeling of floating.

This is a liquor shop, and only liquor.Eternal wine exists as a fun tool, and it is basically useless except for restoring a certain amount of physical strength. It tastes different, and some top-quality wines have tastes that cannot be tasted in real life, which makes many players who are addicted to alcohol I really like to collect these fine wines in the game, the hyped price is not much cheaper than the famous wines in reality.

The store owner was a middle-aged man in his fifties. He was wearing an apron and was holding a spoon for making wine. When he saw Gu Shubai, he was very surprised and asked anxiously, "How did you get in here? It has been completely closed, and the entrance is guarded by the stone statue of the high priest, so no one can enter the town."

"The stone statue has been destroyed. I'm sorry that I was worried that the wall has ears to deceive you. In fact, I am not a passing traveler. I am an adventurer sent by Mr. Lawrence, the city officer of Hercules. He received the letter sent by your mayor. The distress letter, other people will come soon, I am here to ask your mayor to respond."

"What?" A little boy about ten years old emerged from the side room. His short hair was shaved very short, his nude scalp could be seen faintly, his big eyes were watery, and he looked quite cute and pleasing.

The cute boy stared at Gu Shubai, and asked, "Whose distress letter did you say your lord received?"

"Master Sander, the mayor."

"Grandpa——" the boy's voice was hoarse, with a pitiful cry, "Grandpa, is he okay?"

"Aili." The store manager Nasra turned back to the boy and whispered in Aili's ear, "Be careful of revealing your identity."

When Gu Shubai heard this name, he was stunned for a moment, and his brows frowned slightly. He carefully looked at the boy named Aili, and vaguely found something.

This Eli should be the granddaughter Lily of the mayor of Xerath. Sander's son and daughter-in-law were all killed by the dark cultists, leaving only the granddaughter Lily. The future mayor of Xerath will be Lily. inherited.Probably to deceive others, Nas cut off all of her beautiful long golden hair after taking in Lily, and raised her as a boy, whose gender is the most ambiguous at this age.

He likes the NPC Lili very much, because Lili's character is very similar to Gu Shuyi.

Gu Shubai said to the store manager Nass: "I haven't seen Lord Sander yet, I came here to ask for your help."

"I'm just a wine merchant, what can I do for you?" Nass spoke very cautiously, with a pale face, covering Aili with his whole body.

Nas's hotel is actually very dangerous. He is one of the few shops on this street that is still open, not because of how dedicated Nas is, but because of the mandatory requirements of these patrol soldiers of the dark religion.The fine wine made by Nas is very famous. Before Azeroth was controlled by the dark cult forces, travelers passing by Azeroth would buy a barrel of fine wine from Nas to chat and rest.Since Sodar led the followers of the Dark Cult to come here, the nearby shops were forced to close, but Nas's hotel was ordered to continue to supply fine wine to the followers of the Dark Cult and these barbaric guards.After they came to Nas' shop, they drank fine wine but never paid a penny. When they were unhappy, they would wantonly damage the shop, and even beat Nas when they drank too much. They beat Nas half to death and left him alone. Tone continued to brew fine wine, and Nas's wife and children died at the hands of these hateful barbarians.

Nas's identity is indeed just a simple wine merchant as he said, but he has a very good relationship with the city officer Sander, so Sander entrusted his daughter to Nass, and there is a very clever coincidence that In the cellar of Nas's tavern, there is a secret passage leading to the town hall of Azeroth. Sander's granddaughter Lily escaped to Nas through that passage.

That's why Gu Shubai came to Nass, hoping to meet the mayor through that passage and hand over the task assigned by Lawrence.

There was a sudden noise outside, and the guards rushed towards a certain direction. Gu Shubai guessed that Chi Wei and the others knocked down the stone statue and attracted the attention of the high priest Suo Daer.Thinking of this, he said to Chi Wei: "Be careful, I see patrolling soldiers rushing towards you. The congregation at the High Priest's side is holding a sacrifice, so they won't act for the time being, and the follow-up situation is unclear."

Chi Wei soon came back with a message: "Well, we found out, we retreated temporarily, and sent a few assassins in to check the situation, how is your side?"

"I'm trying my luck with the store."

"Then I'll tell them not to go there."

"So worry about me?" Gu Shubai asked back.

"Of course." Chi Wei said with a smile, "We are a family."

Gu Shubai said: "You and I can be a family, but for now, we won't be with those who are bloody."

Chi Wei remembered Gu Shubai's resistance to these big guilds, sighed, and said, "Shubai, I've been thinking that our two families can form an alliance."

Gu Shubai said: "If there is a chance in the future, we can do it. Forming an alliance now will only make our faint fluorescence be wiped out by the bloody glory."

"Are you praising us in disguise? Besides, you Fenshi are very famous now, you see a lot of people on the forum are crying and you are not open to recruiting people, they are very wronged." Chi Wei smiled and teased Gu Shubai, everyone has his own ambitions , He never likes to force others, even if others run counter to his wishes, Gu Shubai always has his reasonable reasons for what he chooses to do.

"It's not enough." Gu Shubai said, "The light that burns the world needs to shine a little more."

When the two were chatting, Gu Shubai was still taking care of the plot here. Seeing the restlessness of the patrolling guards, Nas drove Ai Li to the side room and told Ai Li not to come out if anything happened.

Gu Shubai felt that he couldn't drag on any longer, and said to Nas: "Sir, I know you can take me to the mayor. I have a letter from Mr. Lawrence to forward to him."

"Lawrence's letter?" Nas said cautiously, "Can I have a look first?"

"Of course." Gu Shubai handed the letter to Nass. The wax seal on the envelope was the symbol of Hercules City. After identifying it for a while, Nass was sure that the letter was genuine, and he returned the letter to Gu Shubai. After locking the door, he said solemnly, "This way please."

Gu Shubai followed behind Nas, and Nas took Gu Shubai all the way to the wine cellar, pushing away the heavy wine jars on the ground, Nas gritted his teeth and pulled away the stone slabs on the ground, looking at the dark Pass the torch to Gu Shubai: "This is right here. You can go to Sander's office by walking along this secret passage, but I'm not sure if he's still there, after all..." He couldn't bear it. Go on, gritted your teeth and said, "Don't let others discover this passage, otherwise, Lily won't be able to survive!"

"I know." Gu Shubai took the torch, set a signal with Nass to knock on the door, and then walked down the corridor. Above his head, Nass pressed the stone back again, and only Gu Shubai was in the long dark space. The torch in his hand was still flickering faintly.

Gu Shubai put the torch in his backpack for emergencies. He is a night killer, and his vision is particularly sharp at night, so he doesn't need a torch, which is easy to reveal his existence.

Going all the way along the corridor, Gu Shubai finally stopped. His current position is surrounded by walls on three sides except the way he came from.

Dead end, this is a dead end.