A Delicious and Flammable Backlands Tour

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"..."

Qiao Yi took the lunch box in a daze, his eyes wide open.

"I want to...go take a rest first."

Xia Zhi waved his hand.

"Understood. Remember to call me when you go out at night. I am not responsible for being captured by the mummy."

Captain Mojin nodded in a daze, and went into the innermost room with his lunch box in his pocket, and there was no sound.

"Tsk, off topic. But he'd better not listen to what follows."

"So you scared him away on purpose?"

Tuantuan looked at Xia Zhi curiously.

"Yes. He may not want to hear that."

Xia Zhi lowered his voice.

"I've never heard of the Twin Demon Eyes corrupting the terrain. A mechanical boss may mess up a city, but what about corrupting the original terrain? The upgraded version of Hei Changzhi—Hard and Straight doesn't have the ability .”

"So, you suspect—this is what other players did?"

Rebecca's face became serious, and she pursed her lips tightly.

"I can't pretend that I didn't see this matter."

"However, it's also possible that after the Twin Devil Eyes attacked, this place just happened to be corrupted? There are such coincidences in the world!"

Tuantuan raised a possibility.

"Hmph. Others may be deceived by this reason, but this kind of illusion can't hide it from me."

Xia Zhi pushed the non-existent glasses, acting like a famous detective.

"Although the power of corrupting the environment is terrifying, it is also limited. There are at most three ways to naturally generate corrupted terrain. First, after killing Roshan, the ancient dark spirit is liberated. This is only counted when we killed it. If it is effective, it will be impossible to have it later. The second is to spread on the basis of the original corrupted land—there must be stones and sand in between.”

Tuantuan looked at Xia Zhi tangledly.

"I understand what you're saying. But what about the third one?"

"The third type is that a new thing that sprays saliva will be created in the corrupted land, called the corrupter. The corrupted saliva it sprays is like the water of evil, and it will infect all the terrain it touches with corruption—but Ah, the monsters in the Corruption are not like life in the strict sense. They are just the existence of flesh and blood mixed with evil forces. Just like robots, leaving the Corruption is equivalent to cutting off the electricity, and they will not live long. "

Xia Zhi took a sip of water and concluded.

"It's also impossible for corrupters to travel long distances to open up a territory. I believe Hei Chang will do this directly."

"So, the only possibility is that the player did it?"

Rebecca's face turned cold.Although Xia Zhi also started to transform the terrain of Chenghai City, Xia Zhi was also responsible for leading people to defend the city.

The act of "destroying corpses and exterminating traces" of corruption on a newly destroyed town has gone beyond humanity.

"I don't say [-]%, but the probability is very high."

Xia Zhi thought for a while and replied.

"The terrain of the desert is not conducive to concealment during an encounter. Both sides can easily find each other. I didn't find anyone following me during the day, and I can't take it lightly at night. In addition... there is a group of people who know the location of the pyramid."

He put the Blade of Eternal Night on the table.

"Do you still remember how this sword came from?"

"Forget it." Rebecca and Tuantuan shook their heads.

"When I searched for the Thirteenth Bureau, I took away the Flying Carpet and the Blade of Eternal Night at the same time. Since there is a flying carpet in the Thirteenth Bureau, it means that they may have occupied the entire pyramid."

NO.382 Dangerous Corrupted Desert

"Have you ever told anyone about this matter?"

"No, you can't tell about the pyramid, or I'll be in a little trouble."

"What do you mean?"

Tuantuan looked at Xia Zhi in confusion.

"For the enemy, wouldn't it be good to just destroy it?"

"After the disbandment of the Thirteenth Bureau, some personnel were not recruited smoothly, but escaped. The imperial capital has been chasing and fleeing these people, because they are considered to be 'scourges'."

Xia Zhi shrugged.

"I don't want to cooperate with the investigation because of this. Reasonably, this matter itself should cause headaches for the surnamed Wang."

"I thought you would settle accounts with those guys hiding in the pyramid."

Rebecca sighed and stared at Xia Zhi, this guy was about to be lazy again.

"Well, even if we don't get involved in this matter—knowing this, we can't do nothing."

"Tsk...we are here to kill the Twin Demon Eyes, not to track down fugitives."

Seeing Rebecca's complexion gradually becoming ugly, Xia Zhi hurriedly added a sentence.

"But the remnants of the thirteenth bureau lived here and did nothing when the twin demon eyes struck, causing the tragedy to happen. It is really shameless."

Now that I think about it, the reason why the Twin Demon Eyes attacked the town was probably because the people from Bureau [-] were hiding inside.

"Oh? So what."

Rebecca snorted coldly, leaned close to Xia Zhi, looked into his eyes, and said word by word.

"If you don't have a sense of responsibility, you can't get my favor, team, leader, big, man?"

Xia Zhi's scalp was numb from being stared at.

"Well...then make them pay—something."

"Barely qualified. Then act according to this policy, and there is no need to force it."

Rebecca sat back and looked at him with a smile.

"Countless summer solstice."

Tuantuan was on the side, quietly making a face at Xia Zhi, complaining.

"Now you can't just hit Gemini and leave, the task has become heavier."

"What can I do? Sometimes it's just such a coincidence that I didn't plan to go to them, and they ran into it by themselves."

Xia Zhi waved his hand gloomily, signaling the end of the conversation.

"It's getting late, get ready to turn off the lights and go to bed."

He had a hunch that tomorrow's task would be a bit heavy.

......

Before dawn, Xia Zhi woke up the rest of the people, taking advantage of the only night to go out.

Qiao Yi also obediently took up the dagger and followed Xia Zhi out - he also knew that Xia Zhi and the others couldn't take too much care of him and left one person as his bodyguard.

Tuantuan looked at their direction of travel, towards the underground passage in the center of the town, and began to mutter.

"I don't understand the idiot Xia Zhi. Since you are going to catch the people in the thirteenth game, shouldn't you leave here and go find the pyramid?"

If it doesn't work, it's good to hide in the basement and keep an eye on it. It's super cool to use the eldest sister as an air conditioner.

Anyway, those people from the thirteenth game will come to collect materials sooner or later—otherwise, what are they doing to corrupt the desert.

"Words about the pyramids—don't worry, I have no clue anyway."

Xia Zhi pointed to the hollow entrance in front, and the buried town went down there.

"I want to check the ruins and find the traces they left behind. This way I can analyze the information."

"Oh, do you have any anthropology?"

Tuantuan glanced at Xia Zhi.

Xia Zhi honestly shook his head.

"No. But Shanren has his own tricks."

"Come on!"

"This—I'll see through first, find out where they might live, and then..."

Xia Zhi pointed at Qiao Yi.

"I'll leave it to Captain Mojin, I believe he won't let us down."

Qiao Yi, who was named, was in a bad mood at the time.

"Wait, I'm just stealing something, I don't know any anthropology! You should go to a professional detective or the police for this kind of thing!"

"Nonsense. Who will use you if the police follow you?"

Xia Zhi glanced at him with contempt, and pointed to the pothole in front of him.

"Ready to jump. There is a landing place twenty meters below, here is the rope for you."

"I&%#*@......"

After Xia Zhi finished speaking, he jumped down - Tuantuan and Rebecca also followed him.

Half a minute later, Qiao Yi came down along the rope and Shabi.

With the help of the illumination provided by the flames, Tuantuan could see the surroundings clearly.

The whole town seemed to have been translated directly. Except for some distortions, most of it was not buried by sand and could still pass through normally.

"This... is simply an underground town. It shouldn't be a problem to hide and live here!"

"Don't be too idealistic, Tuantuan."

Xia Zhi drew out his sword and stared vigilantly at the broken doors and windows of a building.

"The people living here are not normal humans. Be careful."

Hearing what he said, Rebecca and Tuantuan also took out their weapons in time and put on a fighting stance.

There was only a rustling sound, and the damaged door and window panels were pushed open.

A short, dirty humanoid creature crouched and trotted out.

Its mouth was close to festering, with sharp and jagged fangs sticking out, dripping saliva continuously.

Seeing four living creatures, it excitedly exhaled stale air and let out a terrifying cry.

Immediately, this kind of creature continued to emerge from the darkness of the street, and some monsters still had human arms dangling from the corners of their mouths.

"Joe, that's not a monster you can deal with, hiding behind the three of us!"

Summer Solstice reminded.

"I know. But—uh..."

In the end, Qiao Yi couldn't hold it back and vomited it aside.

"These—what are they!"

"Ghoul. A monster that likes to eat human flesh."

Xia Zhi reluctantly made a joke.

He didn't like these human-eating monsters when he used VR to explore the desert.

"What the hell is a ghoul?"

"It's the so-called ghoul. This kind of ghoul is unique to the Corrupted Desert—a despicable ghoul."

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