The brave man who runs a hotel in an RPG

Even if I had prepared mentally in advance, the pain when the sharp blade wrapped in black flames was inserted into the abdomen was far beyond my imagination. In an instant, all the nerves were concentrated in the soft part that was penetrated, and they were crushed one by one along the edge of the sharp blade. The cut cells scrambled to scream and cry, the blood flowed out and took away the remaining body temperature and strength, the fainting feeling like a sap hitting the head hit the top of the skull, my eyes were black and I fell straight forward, the hilt of the sword was squeezed by my own weight Pressing, pulling the big sword wound upwards all the way, creating more sharp stinging pain at the same time, it was barely stopped until my head protruded from the back of my waist.

Once, twice, three times... I buried myself in the sand and counted the sound of my heart beating. The frequency of blood vessel constriction became slower and slower. On the contrary, the blood flow in the abdomen became faster and faster. I crawled close to Kane Lie down on the ground, the thick black fog blinded the eyes, and the eyelids were heavy and tired. Every minute and every second waiting to die in the desert full of wind and sand is like walking on a boiler. At the moment of completion, I will definitely choose a quicker and more direct way of death to avoid this kind of pain.

"Main quest: Dragon Graveyard (60) has been completed, reward travelers with [-] town reputation points according to the degree of completion, and the excess reputation points will be converted into town contribution points. Town contribution points can be used to purchase advanced hidden equipment and props in various stores. Urban Development The speed has risen, the new hotel building has been unlocked, and other mainline task rewards have also been distributed, please pay attention to check. The mainline story is over, the archive function is restored, the teammate dialogue function is restored, and the resurrection function is restored.”

I used to think that the mechanically cold system prompt sounds like heaven to my ears at this moment, but I can no longer study the content of what it said, and I only exhausted my energy after listening to the last word.

Then I fell asleep in a state of confusion with the wish I had just made.

……

The first thing I heard when I opened my eyes was Brian’s loud, nostalgic voice. Starting with him, the other undead were also chirping and making noise. Lucy's chorus to stop the undead rescued me from the noise—the scolding was quite powerful, and she must have a lot of prestige among the undead.

After quieting down, Lucy asked me about Kane's situation. According to her, Kane used the golden pupil's "closed" skill to shield a group of undead very early, and when they regained consciousness, they had already transferred to my body. Everyone was at a loss, not knowing what was going on outside.

I did not answer Lucy's inquiry, because I am more confused about the purpose of Kane's move than they are. If I can, I hope I have the opportunity to seek the answer to this question from him in person.

If there is still a chance...

After pressing my temples for a while, I tried to use "closed" to shield the consciousness of the undead. I don't like being spied on by people other than Kane.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the gate of the hotel in front of me, which was the last save place before I entered the main line. The last touch of orange was floating in the sky, and the sunset had already sunk below the horizon. I saw the waiters inside pushing the dining car around in a hurry.

It was nearly six o'clock in the afternoon, and it was time for dinner. No wonder the waiters were so busy.

I pushed open the door of the hotel and walked in. The maid at the front desk immediately bowed to me. I saw that she was hesitant to speak after she straightened her back, thinking that she wanted to report the hotel's turnover during this period to me. I waved my hand to show that I didn't want to hear this for the time being, and then walked through the lobby to Kane's door.

Staring fixedly at the wooden door engraved with exquisite patterns for a while, I gave up the idea of ​​knocking on the door, and reached out to twist the handle of the door. No accident, the door was unlocked. After turning the handle, the door slowly slid to the side. There was no traffic in the house. make any noise.

The darkness spreads evenly in every corner of the room. The air inside may have frozen, and the truth inside may be covered up by something. If I step into this threshold, the frozen air inside will be stirred, and the buried things will also be buried. There will be nothing to hide, it will not ask me if I am afraid of this reality, no matter what is hidden in the house, as soon as I enter this room it will be exposed to my eyes.

——After realizing this, I panicked for no reason.

But Kane was saved in the bedroom, and I had to go in to confirm his condition, so I turned on the light and walked.

The light drives away the darkness, and the scene in the room can be seen at a glance. There is a person lying on the bed with his back facing me and sleeping on his side. The light that has just been turned on dances lightly on the ends of his golden hair, just like a certain afternoon not long ago, bathing In the sunset, his whole body was covered with an illusory color, and the edges of his body blended with the background, as if he would be blown away by the wind at any moment.

It took me a long, long time to get to Kane's bed.

During the short distance from the door to the bedside, I kept wondering if he would wake up in the middle, and then rubbed my foggy eyes to try to recognize my appearance like every time after a nap. Played nasty tricks on him all the time, but he never got mad, or at least he never got mad at me about it.

Thinking about it carefully, he was probably smiling in front of me, and even if he wasn't smiling, there was always a gentle smile in his blue eyes.

— Kane, what are you thinking when you smile at me.

Is it because Kane didn’t wake up? The temperature in the room seemed a bit low. I lifted up my collar, put on a natural expression and walked to Kane’s front. His shoulders hugged his upper body without feeling it.

I patted my face and pulled a dry smile: "Kane, if you pretend to be asleep again to scare me, I will tickle you."

The extreme silence made me once again have the illusion that the air had frozen.

"I changed my mind, how about this, I will unbutton you for every minute you snooze, and by the way, the button of your trousers also counts."

I didn't expect Kane to be quite calm, and he still closed his eyes and remained indifferent even after I offered unfair conditions.

"I'm serious. I'll count one, two, three, and I'll do it when I'm done. Don't regret it then."

After I finished speaking, I put my hand on the first button under his neck, and the back of my hand accidentally rubbed against his soft jaw. The cold touch made my movements stagnate.

Unexpectedly, I touched his chin to the sideburns and then touched his lips from his forehead. I withdrew my hand and looked at Kane's sleeping face again. His face was slightly red, and his lips were also brightly colored, which was clearly the same as usual.

The soft sound of "click" shook the eardrums, and when I reacted, I found a small circle of wet marks on Kane's face. When I realized what it was, I quickly wiped it off with my fingers. He quickly wiped his eyes twice with his hand.No new liquid fell after this, as if the previous drop was just a dream.

After waiting for a long time, when a petite figure passed by the door, I stuffed Kane back under the quilt and stood up.

"I'll be back tomorrow morning."

After saying my goodbyes, I walked out of Kane's room and closed the door.

The person peeking in the corridor was Wensania, and the other one leaning against the wall with a weak face was Dieter. Wensania opened her mouth when she saw me coming out, as if she was considering how to speak.

"Go to my room."

After leaving this sentence, I passed through them without looking back.

The body is very light, the steps are heavy, I seem to have been deprived of all the reasons to live, and my whole heart is empty. To describe it in four words, I am probably devastated.

The low table is square, and I sat the two of them first, and the remaining two seats, Winsania and Dieter, seemed to have no choice for a moment—without Kane, it would seem empty no matter how there were only three people sitting.

- Can't think about it, don't think about it anymore.

I tried my best to ignore the empty seat, suppressed the overwhelming emotions in my heart, and calmly recounted the process of completing the main task of the fifth ring.

Self-deception can't change the truth. The undead don't know why Kane did this, but I should know better than anyone else.

The only thing that can resist the "evil" that has shaped the body of shadows is the "goodness" that has fought against it for hundreds of years. In order to awaken the "goodness", it is necessary to destroy the shackles of light and release the instinct of "goodness" to seize the power of shadows. Killing me will complete the mission and end the main plot, but I don’t always have the strength to fight against “evil”, most of the time the instinct of “good” is sleeping, while “evil” is always active, especially at midnight every day This is especially true when the light element in the world is the weakest. Without the shackles of light, I have almost no ability to maintain a "good" personality. Once the body is occupied by "evil", it will devour life and elemental factors everywhere. The huge evil dragon at the end of the main line can It is possible to reproduce the world.

After completing the main line of the fifth ring, the task name is displayed as the Dragon Graveyard, but I am sure that if the brave army is completely destroyed, the task name will definitely be changed to the Brave Graveyard.

The rewards of the missions have raised the levels of Windsania and Dieter a lot. Dieter's level was lowered due to the death penalty. After the main storyline ended, he was compensated by generous rewards. Their average level is 55. Travelers The prestige points of the town are full like mine, and there are 25 more town contribution points.

My current level is level 68. There are two reasons why there is no excessive inflation. One is that most of the experience points Kane transferred to me were lost during the transfer process. Only the abilities of Breath of the Dead and Different Eyes are complete; The second is that the power of shadow that I have used since Quanyue has been forced to be sealed by myself under the pressure of the plot, and the decline in strength is inevitable.In contrast, I learned all of Kane's skills, including the skills of Yi Tong, and took over the items and equipment in his backpack, and my profession also added an elemental magician on the basis of the magic warrior.

All of this made me feel like a choke in my throat.

Is this insinuating that I'm inheriting Kane's will or taking his role?

Our destinies are connected, I believe that there are signs of our destinies overlapping, and I also believe that I can't accept that only Kane bears the punishment of fate one step ahead of me, if this is what Abis said "not good" If this is the "Christine's footsteps" that Melody said, isn't it too ironic? Is it because I am the reincarnation of Quaid and Kane is my most important person, so He must bear the consequences?

I suddenly remembered the oath Kane made to me in the ear-shaped space of the nine-pointed star array, or the promise.

——"Kill you before the worst result, stop you, fulfill the duty of the brave-I can do the same thing that Christine can do."

He did say so at the time.

He said he wanted to stop me, stop me like Christine did, although the memory of the previous life is still a lot of blur, I also know last week that Christine personally killed the devil is an established fact, it is Knowing this fact, powerlessness, frustration, and the lingering haze and anger will fill my mind. When Kane made up his mind, I happened to be a puppet who could do nothing. Impossible to help him, there is one and only one way to avoid the wrong ending at such a moment, and that is the way Kane used.

We who jumped into the pit step by step according to the instructions of the Creator, aren't we the clowns whose faces are covered with colorful paint, and who stand in front of the curtain and forcefully smile and pretend to be poses?

Although I have been very dissatisfied with the Creator for a long time, but today I have a deeper understanding of the meaning of the sentence in the young Kane’s mouth that the Creator is the real enemy. It plays and distorts our lives in places we cannot see, and makes us As a toy in its hands, it has staged countless absurd and funny stage plays. For this alone, it is our sworn enemy, the mastermind who will overthrow it at all costs.

After exchanging information from the three parties, I felt deeply exhausted. I casually opened the panel of the hotel building and looked at the requirements for unlocking the new building. According to the conditions, I called Windsania to remind her to go to the mercenary union tomorrow. Just sent them to the door.

Windsania is extremely reticent today. She and Dieter did not mention Kane at all during the exchange of information. No matter why they were silent, I intend to accept it as the concern of my companions. Caring can also bring me enough heat to resist loneliness and grief.

Dieter stayed here after Windsania returned to the room.

Dieter's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish bubbling in a garden pond.

I looked at him, invited him back into the room and asked him to sit down, he shook his head, walked to the wall and clenched his fists awkwardly.

I moved onto the bed a few steps, indulged myself in the mattress crookedly, feeling more tired, I raised my eyelids and said: "You can say whatever you want."

Dieter was uncommonly straight to the point: "I was sent to Ibis after my death."

I asked, "What did he say?"

Dieter raised his voice slightly: "He said Kane...can be saved."

I trembled all over, turned over and jumped off the bed and stared at him. His eyes were determined, not like lying.

"How to save?" The voice was a little hoarse as soon as the words came out.

I didn't ask Abby's asking price, as long as he has a way to wake Kane, I will pay him even if he asks for it.

Dieter swept away the fact that he couldn't print a word after the previous three shots. He accepted my gaze frankly and said fluently: "Kane's consciousness is still in his body, and the elves living on the top of the spiral have The way to wake him up is to find President Melody and get the certificate from the elders before he can be qualified to enter the World Tree."

"The next main line?"

After a brief moment of surprise, I recovered my expression. Isn’t this the easy direction to think of? Only with Kane as a threat, we have to go to the home field of the next main line. The main line of the Tomb of the Bandit King can still ignore the lives of the girls Selfish escape, but the next main line is bound to go, in order to save Kane, but also to take a step closer to the reality of the world, no matter what you say, you have to climb to the top of the spiral on the upper level of the world tree.

After saying this, Dieter turned around to leave. When he stepped half a foot outside the door, I remembered something and stopped him. Dieter turned around with a puzzled expression.

"I remember you vomited blood in the nine-pointed star array, now, is there anything else?"

Dieter was stunned, looked away and lowered his head: "The transformation is actually almost successful, and the sequelae... are not without it."

Having said that, he raised his head and looked at me, and I motioned him to continue talking with my eyes.

"...Because of the sequelae, I can't last long after leaving the Nine Pointed Star Formation, but I... also want to do something." His expression darkened.

So, instead of dying without doing anything after going to the altar capital, why don't you contribute your own value and die with the "eighth work" before that?It's quite in line with his style.

I thought for a while and said, "Next time there is a situation, let us know first, don't carry everything alone."

Dieter froze for a moment, then nodded his head heavily.This is what I mean.

Seeing his sincerity, I nodded and lay back on the bed and pulled the quilt over my body.

Dieter moved his lips and squeezed out a word: "Late..."

I couldn't wait to welcome tomorrow, so I interrupted him: "Goodnight, Dieter, close the door for me."

However, Dieter still stubbornly said good night before going out, and he turned off the lights thoughtfully.

Slowly poking my head out from under the quilt, I forced my eyes open in the overwhelming darkness with exhaustion I don't know whether it was mental or physical.

Sleepless nights.