Shuraba Player

Chapter 173 Those things about the guardian of the world

Ten minutes later, under the leadership of a stern butler, Bai Zhi went to a room similar to a tea room.

In the room, the old man who called himself X was already sitting at the table. There was a pot of tea and two tea cups on the tea table, and an incense burner was lit in the corner of the room.

The aroma of tea in the room was wafting, mixed with a faint smell of green grass.

"What do you want to know?"

No longer procrastinating and rhetoric, after Bai Zhi sat down at the table, the old man opened his mouth and asked him.

"...let's start from scratch."

Putting one hand on the table to support his chin, after a little thought, Bai Zhi answered.

"I want to know more about your guardians of the world. For example, how many guardians of the world still exist in the tomb of the world?"

"Now?"

The old man sighed in his mouth.

"When our group escaped into this kind of ghost place collectively, I remember that the number should have exceeded 300 people, but after such a long time, the old, the old, the dead, probably only left. That's about a dozen people."

"How many casualties are there?"

After listening to the other party's words, Bai Zhi couldn't help frowning slightly.

"At that time, it was no different than now. Before the system appeared, the level of chaos here was far beyond your imagination."

The old man shook his head.

"And besides, not everyone wants to stay in this kind of place all the time. As the guardian of the world, everything about him is closely related to his world, even if we forcibly brought our own world to this place. A place of death, but with the passage of time, those worlds will gradually be eroded by the breath here and die."

"and after?"

"Later? Then one day, the system suddenly appeared inexplicably. With the help of the system, it took us a long time to gain a firm foothold here..."

Speaking of this, the old man showed a wry smile in his mouth.

"People like us can only be considered deserters at best, and they don't even have the courage to fight those things."

"So you don't know the origin of the system..."

Reaching out and touching his chin, Bai Zhi looked thoughtful.

"Then what about the guardian of the world named Lan? What's the matter with him?"

"Different ideas are different. After all, for so many years, he has always wanted to go back and take revenge..."

The expression on his face showed a bit of complexity, and the old man sighed in his mouth.

"The disaster came suddenly... No, it should have been planned for a long time. Countless worlds were polluted and corrupted at the same time, and his former companions were alienated into unexplainable monsters by its influence. His wife and others were also affected by it. The person who was affected, used his life to open up an escape route for us to this place of death... He always wanted to go back."

"Is it dangerous?"

Bai Zhi frowned slightly.

"After you heard him go out earlier, your expression seemed strange."

"Do you know why we haven't dared to leave the grave of the world for so long?"

Picking up the teacup in front of him and taking a sip, the old man sighed.

"For those unspeakable beings, we, the guardians of the world, have a fatal attraction to them. Now is not our era. Our power and authority have been lost quite seriously. As long as we are exposed a little outside, the consequences will be It's unimaginable...he went out and didn't want to come back."

"So, you guardians of the world, what have you been doing in the [Tomb of the World] for so long?"

As he spoke, Bai Zhi, who happened to feel a little thirsty, also picked up the teacup in front of him and took a big sip.

The taste of the tea is a bit bitter, but it feels good.

"In the beginning, we wanted to find the "Laplace Demon" in the [Tomb of the World], but after the system appeared, we established a place like a transit place, and began to provide services for those who came The players here provide the service.”

The old man had a wry smile on his face.

"The maintenance of this kind of place is inseparable from us, otherwise it will take a long time to be swallowed up by the breath of death that exists in the tomb of the world, which takes a lot of energy and resources, otherwise we will not only Nine such places have been established."

"Well... I met someone named Yuxing before, you should know him, right?"

After thinking for a while, Bai Zhi changed the subject.

"Can you tell me what his identity is? I have a collaboration with him, but I'm a little worried about his identity."

"..."

This time the old man did not choose to answer.

"Okay, even if you don't say it, I probably guessed something. Anyway, he can't be an ordinary aboriginal, and there are only a few suitable options."

Stretching slightly, Bai Zhi tapped the table with his fingers.

"Okay, my questions are over, you can ask yours now."

"...Why did Lan suddenly want to leave the tomb of the world?"

After a moment of silence, the old man raised his head and looked at him.

"Although he has always wanted to leave, he doesn't seem to be someone who would do something that is not absolutely certain. There must be some reason."

"Well, this kind of thing..."

After thinking for a while, Bai Zhi repeated what he said to the young man before.

Frankly speaking, he was skeptical in his heart about whether the young man could rescue Xiao Xiaobai from the restaurant, especially under the premise that once the other party was exposed, he would be ambushed from all sides.

The water in that restaurant is quite deep.

"...she's still alive?"

After listening to Bai Zhi's words, the old man's eyes suddenly lit up slightly.

"It turns out that, if it is this kind of news, then..."

"What? Is she famous?"

Seeing the rare gaffe of the old man in front of him, Bai Zhi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

——Xiao Xiaobai's reputation among the guardians of the world seems to be far beyond his imagination.

"Of course, you are not from that era, so you may not know that she used to..."

The old man's slightly excited words were just halfway through, and they suddenly got stuck there.

"What happened? This is going to be sold out?"

Looking at the old man in front of him, Bai Zhi asked a little inexplicably.

"...I can't remember."

The old man sat back on the chair with a little dejection.

"What she ate was not only her name, but also her past... I don't have much memory of her left."

"Can even this kind of thing be eaten... How much do you remember about her?"

Bai Zhi frowned slightly.

"Uh...she's very beautiful, we often go to her restaurant for dinner or something..."

After thinking for a moment, the old man spoke a little hesitantly.

"Old man."

After hearing the other party's words, Bai Zhi's complexion suddenly turned black.

"My slender lady, gentleman, do you understand?"

Then after listening to Bai Zhi's words, the old man's face also darkened.

"Don't look at how old I am now, I was much more handsome than you in the past!! If it wasn't for staying in such a ghost place for a long time and working too hard, you thought I would grow old so fast!?"

Glancing at each other's face, Bai Zhi returned with a standard sneer.

"Ha ha."

Old man: "..."

Chapter 174: Void Creatures

In the secluded tea room, the fragrance of tea is endless.

"...Forget it, I don't care about you as a kid."

After staring at the person who was about to write handsome words on his face for a moment, he waved his hand, and the old man picked up the teapot on the tea table and poured himself a cup of tea again.

"Since she is still alive, we must rescue her no matter what. We have to prepare early for this kind of thing... By the way, how did you get that thing from that world?"

As if suddenly thinking of something, the old man raised his head and looked towards Bai Zhi.

"In that world, there are terrifying things, how did you survive from that kind of place?"

"It's scary? What do you mean?"

Thinking of the nine possible worm eggs locked in the ancestral cage, Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.

"do not know."

The old man shook his head very simply.

"We can only vaguely feel that there is a big terror somewhere, and we usually don't even dare to get close."

"Yeah, you don't even know how I know?"

Curling his lips, Bai Zhi took the [Safe Room] out of his backpack and put it on the table, he simply staggered the topic.

"I think 1,000 source coins are a bit too little, can you add a little more?"

Although [Safe House] is easy to use, the sleeping mimetic bug will wake up within a day or two. Under the premise that there is no way to repair [that breeding box], this thing is equivalent to a time bomb.

In the past, Bai Zhi had personally experienced the mimetic ability of [Safe House], and that level of mimesis was simply terrifying.

It can be expected that once this thing wakes up, he won't even think about finding this thing, and adding the invincible means that can parasitize people's spirits, once this thing is given time to develop, it will not be a problem to destroy a world.

He is incapable of dealing with this thing, and the final result is either to sell it to the system, or to the Mr. X in front of him. Compared with the purchase price of 100,000 game coins given by the system, he thinks that the old man may be here. You can also strive for a little more.

Although the exchange rate between source coins and game coins is 1:100, source coins can be exchanged for game coins at any time, and game coins may not be converted into source coins at any time.

"1000 source coins is already the highest price."

Glancing at the safe house on the table, the old man shook his head.

"Although this thing is almost extinct now, it has degraded a lot, and it takes a lot of effort to cultivate it again. My price is very fair, even if you sell it to the system for recycling, It should be about the same price."

"What, was there a lot of this stuff before?"

After listening to the other party's words, Bai Zhi was slightly surprised.

"What do you think it is? Strange talk?"

The old man laughed at this time.

"In the past, what did you think our world guardians did? We guard the world, what do you think we are preventing?"

"That is to say, at that time, your enemies were these things?"

Bai Zhi stretched out his finger and pointed to the safe house on the table.

"It can't be said to be an enemy. It should be considered to be similar to the relationship between humans and wild beasts. They had a collective name in the past, called Void Creatures."

The old man smiled slightly.

"These Void creatures have a variety of abilities, some are gentle, some are cruel, some are delicious, some are self-contained... Although there are occasional conflicts sometimes, but most of the time, we Both are in a state where the well water does not violate the river water.”

"Void creatures... are they strong?"

Unconsciously, Bai Zhi suddenly thought of the huge eye he saw on the moon when he had just boarded the train to the Tomb of the World.

Not only that, but those possibility worms... Void creatures?

"Of course we are strong, we are evenly matched with each other, but there are occasional situations of cooperation."

But he didn't notice Bai Zhi's abnormality, the old man took a sip of the tea cup in front of him.

"It's just that those Void creatures are more susceptible to pollution than our world guardians. We fled into the tomb of the world in a hurry shortly after the disaster, so I don't know how they are now..."

Putting the teacup in his hand back on the table, the old man continued to speak.