King from scratch

As the sky was getting dark, Wang Lun and the others stood guard in the center of the village to ensure that no matter where there was an abnormality, they could react immediately.

In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, they also made complete preparations. Wang Lun even equipped the exoskeleton armor rewarded by previous missions.

After all, there is no such thing as binding equipment in this game. Players can be resurrected after death, but if the equipment is dropped, it will be lost. If you are lucky, you can pick it up after being resurrected. If you are unlucky, it can only be one-time. that's it.

Therefore, the normal state of players has become reckless without wearing equipment. The exoskeleton mecha has never played a few times in the hands of the player, and most of the time it only plays a role in screenshots and videos.

The sky was getting dark, and Manxing appeared on time across the sky, showing the passage of time.

Wang Lun flipped through his space ring and equipped himself from head to toe. If the exoskeleton armor was lost due to death, then he could immediately compete with Ye Yeye for the top spot in the annual joke list.

Wang Dazhuang squatted aside silently, waiting for the target to appear.

Luye and Li whispered about the attack mode later.

Ye Quan wandered around the well.

It was getting dark, coupled with the overly quiet atmosphere, combined with the mission description, it was really hard to stop all kinds of ghost stories from popping up in my mind.

Especially in Kopkesulu, where the barrage is still enthusiastic, Wang Lun stopped his action and looked at other players: "Do you feel that the atmosphere is not right?"

Li conditioned reflex: "I think you think too much."

Green Leaf glanced at the dark sky, then at the village with closed doors, and comforted Wang Lun: "Even if there are ghosts, they are under the control of Undead Canyon, and they cannot appear here."

Wang Lun was convinced.

After all, this is a world where the dead can be resurrected. Most of the fear comes from the unknown, but in this world, ghosts can only be regarded as the bottom of the food chain, and they are not worth fearing at all.

Ye Quan, who was wandering around, took over the conversation: "So what exactly are unspeakable creatures?"

"The official description of this is: a kind of pollutant between evil gods and evil thoughts." Li said: "They drive the agents to find more 'believers' for their growth."

"It sounds more like Cthulhu." Ye Quan: "However, this explanation means that if this murmur is really made by something unspeakable, then what we have to face is very likely Is it their agent?"

Li snapped his fingers: "That's right."

Ye Quan looked around, as if he wanted to find the trace of the agent: "In other words, there may be agents of unspeakable things hidden in those villagers?"

"But we investigated during the day, and no other abnormal events have occurred here," Luye said: "The only abnormality is this murmur. How did the agent pretend to be a villager?"

"It's said to be an evil god, maybe it directly seduced the villagers?" Ye Quan said with reason: "Let the other party fall, and then follow his orders."

The atmosphere of academic discussions gradually became stronger, and even Wang Lun added some guesses about the mission goals while being somewhat vigilant about the surrounding environment.

When they almost confirmed that there must be a certain villager in the village who is the representative of the unspeakable things, a sudden change occurred.

They heard the murmur with their own ears, sounding from the night, it seemed to be everywhere, and it seemed to be close to their ears.

The ongoing conversation is momentarily suspended.

Wang Lun spread out the mechanical wings behind him, and the exoskeleton computer armor led him to suspend in the air, overlooking suspicious targets.

The other four players acted separately, setting up a group of machines to prepare for the next big battle.

The murmurs could not form intelligible words, more like meaningless moans.

Wang Lun looked around the village shrouded in darkness, but found no sneaky figure.

Players who were ready for battle didn't wait for the attack, only murmurs could not stop wandering, showing their sense of presence.

Ye Quan looked at his character panel several times, but didn't see the buff. Obviously, the murmur itself has no other effect, or it may have no other effect for them.

Time passed, and the scene seemed to be at a standstill without any changes.

No matter how tense the nerves are, they will relax during the long wait, let alone the players.

Wang Lun lowered the height a bit, and the leaf dog circled around the mouth of the well again. Li lowered his voice to talk to the green leaf, while Wang Dazhuang squatted aside, doing nothing.

Wang Lun: "I didn't see any suspicious targets."

Li: "I think it may not come out, after all, this task is easy and difficult."

Ye Quan: "Don't let us find the culprit?"

Green Leaf glanced at the mission description: "The mission is to let us solve the source of the murmur, maybe we really need to find the culprit ourselves."

Li: "Isn't it? This thing can't hear the sense of distance at all, it's like ringing in the ear, and the npc doesn't cooperate, how can I find it?"

Ye Quan wandered around for several times, but he didn't calm down, he turned a little dizzy, and kicked the well next to him angrily: "Can this be considered easy?"

The well fell in response, making a loud crash.

The eyes of the other four players instantly fell on Ye Quan.

Ye Quan didn't expect his foot to be so powerful, he looked down at his foot, then at the mouth of the well made of bricks, and argued for himself: "I didn't use any force, and I don't know how it came out. Sudden……"

In the quiet night, there was a slight noise suddenly.

Ye Quan stopped the sound instantly and looked in the direction of the sound.

A villager walked slowly towards them.

The players took a step back in unison, and reacted again, grabbing their weapons and preparing for the battle.

But the villagers didn't pay attention to them at all, or in other words, they didn't exist at all in his eyes.

He passed the player, walked to the mouth of the well, squatted down and began to clean the well mouth that had been kicked down.

One, two, three... Villagers kept approaching in the darkness.

The player exits the encirclement step by step, stares at their actions with vigilance, and then finds that they are really just cleaning up the wellhead that was kicked down.

Although the situation was visibly weird to the naked eye, Li and the others couldn't help casting condemning glances at Ye Quan.

Ye Quan was wronged, he really didn't use his strength, and he didn't know why the mouth of the well was so brittle, it collapsed with just one kick...

The player watched for a while, and found that the villagers did not seem to intend to talk to them, so they lowered their voices and began to communicate in a low voice.

"What's the situation now?"

"Is there something wrong with this well?"

"I think it's already obvious."

"So, shall we rush up?"

Speaking of this, the player looked at the villagers who were diligently cleaning the mouth of the well. Their movements were dull, their eyes were dull, and they did not look like normal people...

Ye Quan: "Isn't it good to just kill the employer?"

Wang Lun pondered for two seconds: "You kicked and collapsed, and you are responsible for solving it."

"Then how do I solve it?" Ye Quan stared at the mouth of the well surrounded by villagers, a little incredulous: "It won't collapse the whole well, right?"

Green Leaf whispered: "I have observed, there is only one well in the village."

Ye Quan: "Then it can't be collapsed, otherwise what will the villagers do with their daily water use?"

Wang Lun: "Can't you just dig one more bite?"

Leaf dog:? ? ?Didn't expect you to be such a big anchor?

Luye: "I think it's a good idea."

Leaf dog turned to look at Luye, shocked: I didn't expect you to be such a green leaf?

Li pushed Ye Quan and signaled him to hurry up.

Ye Quan took a step forward, glanced at the well surrounded by crowds, and retracted his feet helplessly: "I can't squeeze in either..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Dazhuang, who had been waiting for a long time, directly activated his madness, rushed out, pushed away the villagers surrounding the well, dug up the collapsed well head, and jumped down without saying a word. Even Ye Quan, who had reacted, couldn't pull it.

There was a knocking sound from the well, and the ground began to vibrate.

Ye Quan withdrew Erkang's hand, amazed: "Is this guy trying to knock down the well?"

Li: "As expected of a berserker, reckless enough."

Wang Lun: "Let's just watch it like this? How about I do it? Or how long will it take for Wang Dazhuang to bump into each other?"

Wang Lun, who was wearing an exoskeleton mecha, found that the villagers had no fighting power, and his mentality suddenly changed from "protect me" to "let me show the operation".

Ye Quan and Li Mouchao took a step back to give Wang Lun room to show off.

Wang Lun, who was stagnant at a low altitude, approached the wellhead surrounded by the villagers. The villagers still ignored the player all the way. After being pushed away by Wang Dazhuang, they circled the well again and continued to clean up the collapsed wellhead.

Wang Lun walked around the top of the well, and found that the villagers were too densely surrounded, and he couldn't find room to attack—unless he killed the villagers together.

But the villagers are at most bewitched. Judging from the fact that they are not even aggressive, they are not guilty of death, right?

When Wang Lun fell into the dilemma of how to break through the densely packed villagers surrounding the well and attacked the well, the barrage was also vigorously brushing.

"Didn't the anchor start to be in a daze again?"

"I haven't heard that the anchor has intermittent mind-wandering problems before?"

"Hurry up, wash away the shame! The opportunity to prove your strength has come."

"Fire directly!"

"Is there something wrong with killing the client while completing the task?"

""Do you think you can turn it into a light novel by adding the title of the book? That's right, that's it!""

"That's right, these npcs are still employers. But the mission didn't say to protect the employer? It only said to solve the source of the murmur, then kill them directly, loot the village, and then ask Ai Zhijin to hand in the mission, get Wouldn't it be flattering to spend money twice?"

"This idea is too dangerous. Although it is said that other games can open evil routes, in this game, I doubt that you kill people and steal money in one second, and become Ye Yeye in the next second."

"... Miserable is still Ye Yeye Miserable. To this day, it is still a negative teaching material for all players."

"Sacrificing one of them will bring happiness to tens of thousands of families. The anchor, hold on, be a good person, and we can win."

"This place does not belong to the kingdom. Strictly speaking, it is still a hostile area. Can this be regarded as killing people and taking goods? That is called glory for the country!"

"So the anchor isn't in a daze? Instead, he's thinking about killing people and getting more money?"

"What's there to think about? Don't be cowardly, just be reckless. It's just an npc. When the task is completed, it will be refreshed again."

"Really? As far as the authenticity of this game is concerned, it still breaks the urine of the fourth wall at every turn. I think it is more likely that the npc will not refresh, and it will trigger a chain reaction, such as the wanted of the Diman Empire, or something like Talk about Ai Zhijin's anger or something..."

"Hey, if you can't play a game of massacre, it's not a good game!"

"The game that was agreed, why did you suddenly start building a spiritual civilization?"

"Who told you the game? This is an ether learning simulator in the compulsory education stage. The country promotes it and goes deep into the grassroots. Is it possible for players to start a massacre? Without spiritual civilization construction, can this game be promoted so vigorously?"

"It makes sense, I was convinced, anchor, keep in mind the core values ​​of socialism, and be a young man with four talents in the new era, be unique, I'm afraid you will become the next Yeyeye."

"Ye Ye Ye: Burn paper if something happens, don't cue."

Satisfied, Wang Lun walked around the top of the well, and came back disheartened.

Li said that he was not surprised: "I was still thinking about how to deal with so many villagers, but I didn't think about it at all?"

Wang Lun lowered his altitude, cast his eyes frequently at the villagers surrounding the well, and complained, "Didn't I find it difficult to start after I walked around the well?"

Ye Quan was thoughtful: "Looking at it this way, Wang Dazhuang's reaction just now was correct. He rushed directly down the well. Even if the villagers wanted to protect the well, there was nothing they could do, unless they also jumped down..."

Having said this, Ye Quan suddenly reacted and rushed towards the mouth of the well.

Almost at the same time, Wang Lun who stopped above left an afterimage with a whoosh, grabbed the villagers who jumped into the well, used himself as an obstacle, and tightly blocked the hole where the villagers jumped down— —Thank God, thanks to the exoskeleton he used, otherwise he wouldn't be able to react when the villagers started jumping into the well without saying a word.

Ye Quan and Li took a step back. Fortunately, Wang Lun blocked the mouth of the well in time, giving them enough time to drag the suddenly mad villagers away from the well.

It was just a little bit difficult, and the villagers were very uncooperative, and as soon as they let go of their hands without paying attention, they rushed towards the mouth of the well again.

"Fuck," said Li, one in one hand and another in his elbow, using all his strength to stop them from moving around, so that his facial expression was very grim: "What is this unspeakable thing, co-authoring is brainwashing?"

Ye Quan was no better than him. He pulled the villager in his hand as hard as he could, and said through his teeth: "No, what do they want to do in the well?"

Luye gave the villagers a knife one by one, and the struggling villagers fainted limply, and the somewhat out-of-control situation was brought under control in an instant.

"Wang Dazhuang hasn't solved it yet?" Luye pushed the villagers to the ground aside, felt the violent vibration from below, and was a little puzzled: "With the addition of his power after berserk, can such a well last for so long?"

Ye Quan put down the unconscious villager in his hands, and cast his gaze at the wellhead, which was tightly blocked by Wang Lun: "Look at the situation below?"

Wang Lun flew upwards, revealing the half-covered mouth of the well after the collapse, and cast his gaze downwards.

He froze.

Li and Ye Quan cast their gazes down the well.

The goal of entering is a boundless white space, not like a well, but like another world. Wang Dazhuang repeatedly hits the non-existent "wall" in the white space.

Li and Ye Quan also froze.

"Is this easy difficulty?" Ye Quan made a puzzled voice: "Why do I think we are really going to fight against Cthulhu?"

"Illusion?" Li tried to rationalize the current scene: "Maybe there is just a well underneath, and what we see is an illusion created by the bluff of the unspeakable."

Wang Lun raised his hand, and the exoskeleton mecha assisted the ether to operate more efficiently, pulling the ether into shape and attacking the space below.

Wang Lun waited for a while, but the white space did not give any feedback.

"If it's an illusion, then the well should have collapsed..."

Before Wang Lun finished his well-founded analysis, he heard a loud voice behind him, accompanied by the modern mantra that green leaves rarely utter.

"Fuck! They're going to commit suicide."

Although they hadn't realized what happened, Ye Quan and Li turned around and counterattacked almost immediately.

The stunned villagers woke up at some point, or strictly speaking, they didn't wake up, but were controlled by some kind of existence, and they grabbed the ground with their heads expressionlessly.

In just a few minutes, the air was filled with the smell of blood.

The method of stunning them has lost its effect, as if they have lost their pain nerves, or lost all their instincts. Under Luye's strong efforts to stop them, they are still trying to commit suicide with an extremely determined posture.

The scene became flustered, Wang Lun and the others left behind the strange scene in the well, and devoted themselves to the huge project of preventing NPCs from committing suicide.

The smell of blood drifted away, and the vibration of the ground continued.

Fortunately, the productivity of the Diman Empire was not developed enough, and the villagers in this kind of village could not buy ironware such as daggers and knives, so the ways of committing suicide were very limited at the moment. No villager suddenly took out a dagger from his arms and said, just die.

But this is already enough for four players to be in a hurry, and they can't even stop them. After all, the number of villagers is several times that of players.

In the chaos, strands of blood that drifted away suddenly became thicker.

A muffled sound broke the confrontation at the scene.

Wang Lun turned his head and found that a certain villager in the outermost circle had been bumped and his head was bloody. The ground was soaked in blood, but the other party still didn't stop, and crawled towards the well as if summoned by some kind of existence.

The scene that was too bloody and mixed with the sense of sacrifice made Wang Lun stunned on the spot, and he deeply understood why the unspeakable things are regarded as existences that must be eliminated in most forces.

Let alone a god, it is impossible for any race with normal social forms to accept its existence.

Green Leaf moved quickly, grabbed the crawling body, and dragged him away from the wellhead.

The other party was very uncooperative, obviously bleeding all over the ground, a big hole was opened on the head, and even the heartbeat disappeared, but he was still trying to climb to the well unrelentingly.

Fortunately, while the opponent lost his pain perception, his combat power did not improve at all, so that Green Leaf could hold him firmly.

Wang Lun was stunned for a few seconds. He didn't have much time to waste. A group of villagers stared at him. If he didn't pay attention, he would be the next bloody corpse.

The etheric affinity brought by the exoskeleton armor made him clearly perceive the agile movement of the surrounding ether, and he had an unprecedented sense of presence, so that he had an illusion that he could do more.

Or to be precise, it was not an illusion, but the "artifact" of exoskeleton armor that enhanced his abilities.

He had never seen ethers so alive, they surrounded him, they waited for his command.

At first, it was just a ripple, emanating from the ether ball, like a small temptation, but the temptation was responded, and the exoskeleton armor built a communication channel for them, strengthening the transmission of ether.

So the ripples turned into waves, spreading layer by layer, flexibly bypassing all the npcs present, and heading towards the mouth of the well, never to return.

With a sound of "pa", Wang Lun fell from the air and fell solidly onto the ground.

With a loud bang, the well suddenly collapsed from the inside, layers of stones were tightly blocked, and it sank down.

The struggling villagers suddenly fell silent.

"Is this... the end?" Li let go of the villager's hand, studied the pile of rubble, and confirmed that it had completely collapsed, then turned to look at Wang Lun, and said perfunctorily, "Brother Lun, you are still alive." ?"

Ye Quan leaned forward to look at the bloody and bloody villagers, and confirmed that he was completely dead, and it was absolutely impossible for him to come back to life. He had lingering fears in his heart: "He was going to run to that well just now... It wouldn't be death or blood that could invigorate that evil god." buff, right?"

Luye clicked on the task list and glanced at it: "It is highly probable that this is true. Otherwise, why would he have to die, even if he committed suicide, but he still had to die on that well?"

Wang Lun let out a trembling groan: "At least you should take a look at me."

"Aren't you alive?" Li said regretfully: "If you die, I can help you pick up an exoskeleton armor or something..."

Green Leaf: "The task is completed."

Ye Quan: "Where is Wang Dazhuang's resurrection point? Let's meet and review what happened just now?"

Li speculated with reason and evidence: "He knocked down the well? I didn't expect that brute force would actually work..."

Wang Lun raised his hand tremblingly: "I used ether to confront that guy..."

The other three turned their heads to look at Wang Lun in unison: "Win?"

"I don't know, anyway, I was sucked dry," Wang Lun said tremblingly, "I feel like my whole body is paralyzed now, and I can't even move my fingers."

Ye Quan immediately threw him to his side, and helped Wang Lun attentively: "Brother Lun, why don't you tell us in detail how you used the ether to confront the evil god head-on?"

Li has a bit of reason left: "Can be defeated by players with ether... Isn't this evil god a little too weak?"

Luye looked at the mess at the scene, and felt that the biggest problem right now was another one.

"So, how do we explain it to the villagers?" Luye: "They were always wary of us, but now they wake up and find themselves lying on the ground with injuries all over their bodies, surrounded by the corpse of an acquaintance..."

Ye Quan made a decisive decision: "Anyway, the task is completed, how can I explain that I let Ai Zhijin figure out a way by himself, let's run away."

Li hesitated for two seconds: "Is this not very good?"

"Then you stay and explain?"

"Let's run away."

As the sky slowly brightened, Li and Ye Quan helped Wang Lun remove the exoskeleton armor, recovered the mechanical artifacts on the scene, and took a second look at the village with closed doors. , but swept away all the npc's homes" Regrettably, he committed suicide and went back to the nearest resurrection point to join Wang Dazhuang.

Once again, the players who skillfully rolled into the cave, avoided the deadly killing intent, and reached the weapon room through the corridor, successfully joined in the underground passage of the endless forest.

Wang Lun leaned against the wall dying, watching Ye Quan and the others cordially and friendlyly expressing condolences to Wang Dazhuang.

Wang Dazhuang took out a rag doll, and briefly described the process of bumping and bumping at the bottom of the well, knocking out a rag doll, and then the well suddenly collapsed.

Ye Quan and the others moved a little distance away from Wang Dazhuang, and no one took the initiative to do it, to see how the rag doll was doing.

Who knows how unbelievable that unspeakable thing is, what if people can be infected by dolls?

Keeping vigilant, Ye Quan and the others said that they would go to Ai Zhijin to appraise this thing first.

"Let's go," Ye Quan suspected that Wang Lun was deliberately pretending to be weak: "No, they are all resurrected, and the debuff on your body hasn't been refreshed yet?"

"This doesn't seem to be a buff that can be refreshed by resurrection." Wang Lun weakly leaned against the green leaves and the others, and hummed: "My character panel shows that the ether is exhausted, and the countdown is 6 hours (real time)."

They found the Everfree Forest's Gold once again.

"Congratulations on completing the mission," Aizhijin said routinely, handed over the mission rewards, glanced at the doll and said, "Currently, your bounty hunter points are -4, and you will not be able to enjoy all the discounts for purchasing Aizhijin products , Aizhijin will charge a certain handling fee for all the services provided to you to bear possible risks."

Although Wang Lun was dying, when it came to money, he immediately came back to life: "Is this part of the mission? Is it unethical for you to collect money?"

Ai Zhijin thought for two seconds and gave relevant information: "The unspeakable thing is born from the desire of intelligent creatures. If the desire is too small, it will not be able to form a strong belief. Then the unspeakable thing born from this desire , will also become extremely weak."

"The murmur in this village comes from a weak, unspeakable thing. It has no power to confuse the agent, and it can only parasitize in the place where the desire is the strongest when it was born."

The players turned their heads in unison to look at the rough rag doll.

"Wait, what is this desire to make it born?"

"A strong desire for friends." Ai Zhijin sternly colored this quest that was terribly scattered by the players with childishness: "Those whispers are the other party inviting others to be their friends."

The scene was quiet for a few seconds.

Wang Lun asked tremblingly, "So how did you accomplish this task?"

Ai Zhijin glanced at Wang Lun: "An indescribable thing that is too weak will dissipate automatically if the desire to make it be born is exhausted and there is no follow-up energy replenishment."

Luye suddenly realized: "So, it wants the villagers to commit suicide because..."

"In that way, it can obtain the strong emotions of intelligent creatures when they die, barely maintain their own existence, and even transform their desires from the desire for friends to death. Most of the weak and unspeakable things will eventually choose to use death to obtain Great power, because it's a shortcut for them."

Wang Lun asked again: "So, I exhausted the ether...it's useless at all?"

Ai Zhijin was silent for two seconds: "Maybe it also played some role? For example, speeding up the consumption of the opponent's power?"

Wang Lun was not comforted, he once again clearly recognized the cruel reality that players are weak chickens in this world.

Ye Quan had new doubts: "How did this unspeakable thing come about?"

"After the end of the dark age, they appeared on the mainland unknowingly." Ai Zhijin has very detailed information on this: "We suspect that this is directly related to the death of God the Father..."

"After all, there is no god in this world."

"So something that wanted to be a god was born."

Wang Lun murmured in a low voice, "Can an evil god be considered a god?"

Ai Zhijin laughed: "This world has cut off the orthodox method of becoming a god. They can only find unorthodox methods to try to reach the end."

"But the unorthodox method of becoming a god is inevitably easier to get wrong results than the orthodox method of becoming a god."

Li remembered the white mist, and then understood something: "They want to be the father god of this world?"

"The reason why Father God is Father God is because he created this world and all things. Even if a new god is born, he cannot become Father God. What's more, it is impossible for this world to give birth to another god."

Ye Quan asked subconsciously: "Why?"

Instead, Ai Zhijin cast a puzzled look: "Aren't you the ones who know the reason best?" He reminded them with a series of words: "South China Sea, sea, death."

The kingdom npc who was parasitized by Zerg and unshackled was not a demon.

He is God.

Bearing the crime of slaughtering gods, those who are not forgiven by this world are not only the gods and great demons who disappeared on this continent overnight, but also the two races of gods and great demons.

This world no longer allows the birth of gods.

Even if there is something unspeakable who chooses the right path from countless mistakes and becomes a true god, then only death greets him.