When it rained heavily and thundered, the black wind carried Sandy and Clear Sky into the territory of the Crossroads Station.
It was too late to observe the appearance of the entire post station, the rain curtain had already soaked the whole world into the color of the gray screen, drenched the whole body of the people who had nowhere to hide, and made Qingkong almost unable to see the surroundings and the way ahead.
Hei Feng had already received instructions from his master to arrive at the hotel as soon as possible, so he rushed to the three-story wooden building without stopping, and stopped with a hissing sound.
Sandy and Qingkong immediately jumped off their horses, and before rushing into the house, Sandy patted Heifeng's left ear, and this very spiritual creature turned to one side and rushed into the stable, entering their respective rooms one after the other. under the roof of the house, a shelter from the rain.
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Pushing open the solid wooden door, I saw a slender man standing in front of the counter on the side of the front hall to settle accounts. Seeing Sandy and Qingkong walk in like soaked chickens, the slightly pursed lips trembling and moving , and said tremblingly: "Welcome to the Crossroads Hotel..."
"Boss, make a registration." Sandy patted Qingkong on the back, reminding her of the necessary next step, and then continued to make her request, "Two bowls of hot soup, hot wine, whatever soup that warms the stomach, Hot anyway! Then a good venison and roast chicken, and I'm starving and cold from the damn rainstorm."
"Yes, yes... I'll prepare right now." The boss entertained, seeing Qing Kong put his palm on the back wall stone on the counter to register, and tremblingly walked towards the kitchen.
After finishing the registration, Qingkong walked into the dining area full of dilapidated wooden tables, but saw Sandy, who walked in first, stood in the center of the empty room and looked around, so he found an empty table and sat down Come down and greet him: "Sandy, here, come and sit down."
"It's a bit strange." Sandy heard the sound and came over, sat down with a frown, and whispered his worries, "There is no one here, it's really weird..."
"Perhaps the heavy rain prevented everyone from going on the road. Maybe we happened to catch up with a blank period when there were no passengers?..." Qingkong looked around, feeling a little panicked, but still comforting Sandy in this way was considered self-comforting .
"A blank period without customers? This is impossible..." Sandy answered his opinion almost without hesitation, "The crossroads is a very important post hub in Keen Continent. Walk, cross Wuyu Mountain, cross the Shining River, and pass through Youqi Town, you can reach Tianqi City smoothly all the way. In addition, this place leads to the Green Dragon Mountains in the east, and it is said that it leads to the bottom of Rainbow Valley and Hongyue City One of the passages, it is only recently rumored that Zhanlong City mysteriously disappeared, and the secret mountain road buried under it also disappeared, which made this route gradually sluggish. However, from here to the west is the road leading to the Red Shirt Palace and the Holy Seminary The only way to go, in short, the most important cities and palaces leading to Keen Continent need to go through this post station. In my impression, this place has always been a place where people come and go, and travelers are busy passing through... "
While the two were talking, the hotel owner brought hot wine, hot soup, venison, and roast chicken all at once, and was about to step back, when Sandy grabbed his wrist and asked, "Boss, why is business so sluggish today? Are there no other guests besides us?"
The innkeeper's thin face was obviously a little blue, and his paper-thin lips moved slightly, and then he said softly: "Guests, don't ask any more questions, and go upstairs to rest as soon as you have a good meal. It won't be too peaceful... "
"What does this mean?" Sandy frowned even deeper, "Can't you explain clearly where all the people at the post station have gone?"
The innkeeper's body finally began to visibly tremble. The fear was so real that Qingkong almost forgot that he was just a system character in the game—
"Dead... a lot of people died..." The boss finally vomited out his inner fear tremblingly, "Just an hour ago, before the heavy rain came, about a dozen people broke in and killed almost all the travelers here They walked away, only a few survived, and now they are hiding in the upstairs room and dare not come out... It seems that those murderers seem to be looking for someone or something, and I feel that they will come back soon, because they turned over Checked the backpacks of everyone who was killed, but did not take away all the valuables... Two guests, I advise you to go upstairs and hide after eating quickly... "
After hearing this, Sandy finally let go of the boss's wrist, let him go, and fell into a short thought.
"Is this also a PVP confrontation between players?" Seeing that Sandy remained silent for a long time, Qingkong finally held back and asked.
"It should be that the sudden slaughter of players by system characters is completely unreasonable, and the NPC shouldn't turn over the backpack after killing people, right?" Sandy took a sip of hot wine, and then put down the wine bowl forcefully, "But , even a PVP confrontation between players is very unreasonable in my opinion!"
"Oh? How is it unreasonable?" Qing Kong asked again.
"The players gathered here are all kinds of people, people come and go, what professions are there? Even if there is a fierce battle, there are usually logistics professions such as priests, paladins, druids, monks, etc. to lend a helping hand, heal the wounded, resurrect For the dead, even if all the support jobs are dead, one hour is enough to return from Rashomon for soul resurrection... But, look, no one has returned from the fierce battle that happened an hour ago, isn't it strange? ?” Sandy put his left fist under his nose, and put on a thinking posture, “In addition, these players are carrying out such a large-scale massacre in a safe area, which is bound to arouse NPCs to attack in groups. You must know that massacres in a safe area It is a serious violation, the NPC will judge and intervene according to a certain order—
First of all, it is basically impossible for characters with high hatred to enter the safe area of hostile forces. Once they enter, they will be attacked by militias and patrols immediately, and these system characters are endless.
Furthermore, if they are in a friendly state in this territory, the person who initiates the attack in the safe area will be judged to be wrong by the NPC and will intervene. The arena of competition or apply to the battlefield, or meet in the wild area to settle grievances—
In this way, according to the hotel owner's description, this group of people is so cruel and dangerous, the hatred value in Keen's territory is bound to be high, I am afraid that the militia and patrol soldiers at the post station have also been killed by them batch after batch. …”
"If they even kill NPCs, why isn't the hotel owner dead yet?"
"NPCs with special functions will actively hide when encountering fierce fighting or danger, or activate protective skills, and it is not easy to die." Sandy explained.
"It's really strange to hear you say that... What happened here?" After listening to Sandy's analysis, Qingkong frowned unconsciously.
"Didn't the boss say that this group of people might come back? It's windy and rainy outside, and we can't even see the road clearly, let alone do any investigation. Let's stay here temporarily, take a short rest, and wait and see what happens. "Sandy said, and began to eat his wine and meat with big mouthfuls.
The topic fell into a serious situation, the two fell into silence, and Qingkong also began to concentrate on eating dinner quickly.
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After dinner, Sandy urged Qingkong to go back to the house to rest, to fall asleep as soon as possible, and not to take a step out of the room tonight, and then the two went upstairs and returned to their respective rooms.
In the room with a slight musty smell, the sky outside the house was bursting with lightning, and the room that had just turned off the lights was shining white. He was struggling whether to enter a deep sleep state, when there was a sudden sound of horseshoes and footsteps from the collision of mud and water outside the window.
Qingkong immediately got up from the bed, leaned close to the window, poked out half of his eyes, and looked out—
In the hazy field of vision obscured by the curtain of heavy rain, in the open space outside the hotel stables, there seemed to be a group of people standing darkly and densely. With his head down, he couldn't see his face at all.
The people in black jumped off their mounts one by one, Qing Kong found that their mounts were not as neat as their cloaks, they were different in width, narrowness and height, and there seemed to be other creatures besides horses. The mounts filed into the stables obediently, and the people in black also walked into the gate of the Crossroads Hotel.
[It seems that, as the hotel owner said, all those people who slaughtered innocent people in the daytime have returned? ] Sunny Sky’s heartbeat beats faster without realizing it. She struggled in the dark for a while, and finally walked to the door lightly, and stretched out her hand to open the door of the room.
As soon as Qingkong's front foot stepped out of the room, a hand was placed on her right shoulder—