After watching his teammates lying in the coffins one by one, Xia Qi also covered his own coffin.
“Pah.”
After the coffin lid closed heavily, everything in front of him was completely dark. Xia Qi placed his hands on his abdomen and lay quietly.
It was the first time he was trapped in a square box, and the feeling was really weird.
The camps of the Light Extinguisher and the God of Fortune have been assigned. Dear survivors, let's start the fun game!
After the game prompt sounded, Xia Qi felt the entire coffin sinking, and then, the coffin seemed to fall onto the water.
Crash-
There was a sound of water outside the coffin, and as the coffin floated gently, Xia Qi thought that they should be floating on a river now.
After floating for a while, the surroundings were immersed in an eerie silence. There was no human voice or animal sound nearby.
Xia Qi lay quietly, his eyes closed, listening carefully to the sounds nearby.
I don’t know how long I floated on the water. After a while, I heard the sound of "da, da, da" from the coffin board again, as if water was dripping onto the board above my head.
Until Xia Qi felt his back was numb from lying down, suddenly, the coffin seemed to hit something and stopped with a "bang".
Xia Qi was hit on the head.
Suddenly, a vague voice came from outside the coffin. An old man sang in a hoarse voice: "Those who know me say that I am worried, but those who don't know me, what do they think I want?"
"Leave the gate of life, forget the sorrow of separation, forget the joy..."
"Come to Death Gate, the city that never sleeps, no..."
The old man's voice was vague, filled with a hint of melancholy and sadness. Just by listening to these few words, Xia Qi felt as if he had come to some unknown place.
Suddenly, there was a "creaking" sound, as if someone had taken the initiative to open the coffin lid, and then a familiar female voice yelled, "Speak human language!"
The old man choked for a moment, cleared his throat, and even his voice became weaker: "Welcome to the City That Never Sleeps."
Xia Qi: “…”
This red-haired girl... Are all high-level players like this
With the red-haired girl taking the lead, Xia Qi also opened his coffin lid. With a "splash", his coffin lid fell into the water, splashing a sparkling water.
There seemed to be some light in the surrounding environment. Xia Qi rubbed his eyes and then he could see the surrounding scene clearly.
At this time, the coffins of all six of the light extinguishers floated down the river to a dock, but this dock was not built in an open environment, but in a dark cave.
Countless white lights shone in from outside the cave, coating the old man with a layer of white.
At this time, the old man was sitting across from them with his legs crossed. He was wearing a tattered yellow Taoist robe, and the few sparse white hairs on his head were loosely tied up and stuck with an ebony hairpin. He was holding a big cigarette in one hand, shaking his head and puffing out smoke. If it weren't for the red-haired woman's scolding, Xia Qi might have really thought he was an old immortal from somewhere.
"Why don't you hurry up and come out? What are you all lying in the coffin for? If you really want to sleep, just sleep to death in it." The red-haired woman had already climbed out of the coffin and was standing on the dock urging them.
A well-mannered man wearing glasses who looked like a financial worker muttered, "Did this woman get burned in the central space?"
"I've never seen a survivor like this before..." another fair-looking man whispered back, "She's probably a top-notch old woman."
"The old woman is really awesome, but it's a pity that she's too hot and I don't dare to do it." Another middle-aged man looked at the red-haired woman evilly and licked his cracked lips in an obscene manner.
The red-haired girl felt that someone's eyes were not right. She suddenly turned around and looked at the man with an evil smile fiercely, saying fiercely: "If you dare to have ideas about me, be careful or I will break your little toothpick with my own hands!"
Evil man: “…”
Financial man: “…”
White-faced man: “…”
Xia Qi: “…”
Are all the female players who can stay so fierce
A group of men climbed out of the coffins in silence and lined up to board the dock.
Xia Qi looked back at the river again and felt a stinging sensation in his eyes. When he looked more closely, he found that what was flowing in the river was not water, but a liquid like silver.
The water here... is not water, but mercury
The old man was still smoking his opium, and he said slowly, "All the lamp-extinguishers, it is your destiny to come to the city that never sleeps. There is no return. Are you ready?"
The evil man chuckled in a low voice: "Ha, do we have a choice?"
"Ahem." The old man coughed dryly and looked at the red-haired woman helplessly. Ever since he was humiliated, this group of new extinguishers no longer respected him. However, he still tried to maintain his immortal demeanor. "Well... since you are ready, let's go into the city."
"Old man, what should we do after entering the city?" the financial man asked in a kind voice.
"Have you, a bunch of new extinguishers, not received any training?" The old man gave them a strange look, then raised his right hand and made a heart shape to everyone, "Are you students who failed the exam? I don't offer make-up exams for failed courses. If you must pay the make-up exam fee, I will accept it with reluctance."
Looking at this unreliable NPC, everyone fell into a strange silence.
"Okay, this is how the game works, let's go in." The red-haired girl lifted her curly hair and walked towards the light in her red high heels.
"What? Is this the end of the novice guide?" The finance guy wanted to continue asking, but was pulled away by the white-faced guy.
Everyone walked into the light in confusion, and when they came out of the cave, the whole world suddenly became clear.
They were standing on a broad loess avenue. Not far away was a towering city gate. The city gate was built with three floors and three levels. From the inside to the outside, there were a gatehouse, a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof arrow tower and a three-story hip-and-gable roof main building. The arched doorway was extremely high, about 20 meters high and about 6 meters wide.
A glittering golden plaque was hung on the city gate, with the three big characters “City That Never Sleeps” written on it.
"What the hell is this place? It's a city that never sleeps." The evil man sneered, obviously despising this strange building.
After Xia Qi finished looking at the city, he looked up at the sky again. When he saw the overly dazzling sun and the white sky, he couldn't help but frowned.
"This... There's something wrong with the sky." Xia Qi reminded.
After he said this, everyone looked up at the sky.
“Although the sky is vast, I don’t know why it gives me a sense of oppression.”
"Yes, and the sky is a little weirdly white, and there are no moving clouds."
The teammates echoed, Xia Qi was silent for a while, and then expressed his doubts: "Maybe... This is not outdoors at all."
After hearing this, everyone suddenly realized and said that they had the same feeling.
"It looks like we are still indoors, and the sky here is an artificial landscape." Xia Qi said calmly.
Everyone nodded. Since they were indoors, they had to be careful. If they ran into something spooky, they wouldn't even be able to run away.
After reaching a consensus on the goal, the six continued to move towards the city gate.
Two teams of armored guards in ancient costumes were guarding the city gate. From a distance, they all looked dusty and dirty, as if they had just been dug out from the loess plateau.
Xia Qi followed the crowd and slowly approached. When he came near the guards, the white-faced man gasped and uttered a low cry: "Oh my god, this is not a living person!"
Hearing this, Xia Qi also frowned and looked forward carefully.
I saw that the group of guards all had bloodless faces. Some of them had dark blue skin, some had purple red skin, some of them had a pair of gray eyes, and some even had eyes that had rotted and fallen out of their sockets.
Someone among the guards had already seen them. The "man" walked towards them stiffly, pointed a knife at them and said, "Who are you?"
"Don't answer randomly!" The red-haired girl sensed a hint of danger and suddenly shouted in a low voice.
The pale-faced man who was just complaining quickly shut up.
No one dared to continue talking. The guard approached them again, his dark blue lips opening and closing, revealing a mouthful of rotten teeth and a black tongue: "Are you new to the city?"
Everyone looked at each other, and the red-haired girl touched Xia Qi's arm and whispered, "You say it."
Xia Qi looked at her puzzledly, wanting to ask why she let him speak
However, everyone had already turned their eyes to him. Xia Qi paused, thinking that except for the red-haired girl, no one else was reliable, and it would be safer for him to answer.
Xia Qi said with a stiff upper lip: "Yes."
After he finished speaking, the guard easily put the knife back into the scabbard and grinned at Xia Qi, saying, "Then you can go into the city. There have been a lot of scoundrels sneaking into the city recently, so we will check more strictly than before."
Seeing that the guard was about to let him go, everyone looked at Xia Qi strangely, thinking, "Yeah," how could he be allowed in? Could this person have cheated to get into the game
Hearing that the guard wanted to talk, Xia Qi raised his eyebrows and continued to ask: "What happened?"
"Alas, it's still those bad guys from outside." The guard spread his hands helplessly and started chatting with Xia Qi.
"Oh... Besides us, has anyone else entered the city recently?" Seeing that the guards had no hostility, Xia Qi asked again.
The guard shook his head heavily, but because he shook his head with so much force, his head fell to the ground with a "pop".
However, he did not think there was anything wrong with him. Instead, in the eyes of everyone's disbelief, he picked up his fallen head, put it back on his neck, and said, "Except you, I haven't seen anyone else."
Xia Qi nodded, and then said with an extremely serious expression: "Then you better be careful, there is a group of bad guys behind us who want to enter the city."
"What?!" The guard was suddenly shocked, and the corners of his mouth stretched all the way to his cheeks. Just when Xia Qi suspected that he would tear his face off, the guard hurriedly ran back to the group of guards and whispered to them.
After the conversation, a guard captain who was dressed more elegantly than the guards just now came over and personally invited them into the city. At the end, he said to them: "Thank you for your reminder. We will strictly guard the city in the next few days and not let any scoundrels sneak into the city."
In this way, everyone entered the city that never sleeps effortlessly and inexplicably.
After the city gate behind them was closed, his teammates looked at Xia Qi with eyes full of intriguing respect and admiration.
"Sure, you can do this? Now all the people who know the secrets can't get in." The financial man laughed.
"Tsk, what are you thinking?" The red-haired girl sneered and looked at him with contempt. "Are they stupid? Can't they find another way to get in?"
"That's right, let's go in quickly and see if we can get any tasks or guidance." Xia Qi did not feel proud at all, but instead urged eagerly.
Looking at the roads in all directions in the city and the lifeless men, women, and children coming and going, the white-faced man swallowed his saliva and said, "It seems a bit difficult to find the next clue from these zombies."
That's right, walking in front of them at this moment were a group of ancient zombies of all ages and genders. There were even human heads rolling on the ground or patrolmen with only half of their bodies left and their intestines flowing on the ground. Each of them looked extremely disgusting.
Fortunately, the group of zombies completely ignored them and no one came up to talk to them.
"It looks like we have no choice but to take the initiative to question them." Xia Qi watched the busy street for a long time and concluded helplessly.
Just as Xia Qi was about to find a zombie to ask, the red-haired girl glanced at the group of men who refused to move, and raised her hand to stop a jumping little girl zombie.
The red-haired woman transformed into an auntie who kidnapped kindergarten children and asked the little zombie with a smile: "Little friend, where are you going?"
The little zombie girl was suddenly stopped by the red-haired girl. Instead of running away, she raised her head, blinked her gray eyes, opened her mouth full of fangs, and called out to her tenderly, "Mom."
Xia Qi froze when he saw the red-haired girl.
When the little zombie girl saw that the red-haired girl didn't answer, she took the red-haired girl's hand and shook it, crying weakly: "Mom, don't you want me anymore? I will be very obedient and I will never run around again."
The rotten hand of the little girl zombie holding the red-haired girl's could not be called a hand at all. It looked more like a skinny black chicken claw. Just when Xia Qi thought that the red-haired girl would take out a kitchen knife and chop off the little girl zombie's hand, the red-haired girl actually held her hand with her backhand and even whispered, "No, no, I don't want you."
The red-haired woman's voice sounded a little hoarse.
After a while, the red-haired woman did not turn her head and said to the people behind her: "I... received the identity and side quests, you can stop them yourself."
Just then, an old zombie woman carrying a basket and hunched over passed by Xia Qi. Xia Qi took a step forward, blocked the old woman's path, and greeted her gently, "Old lady?"
The old woman zombie was not very decayed, but her face was a little pale. If you didn't look closely, she didn't look like a dead person at all, so she looked quite pleasing to the eye.
Hearing Xia Qi's voice, the old woman slowly raised her head and showed him a wrinkled pale face. She looked at Xia Qi with a smile and said lovingly, "My granddaughter, you are back?"
Ding Dong! Survivor Xia Qi accepts the identity of a new resident of the City That Never Sleeps and accepts a side mission!
Identity: Meng Po's granddaughter
Side Quest: Meng Po's Ideal
Mission description: Meng Po's granddaughter is already 26 years old this year, and she is already an old girl that no one wants! However, Meng Po has always had an ideal, which is to let her granddaughter marry the most powerful man in the world! Old granddaughter, you must work hard, otherwise Meng Po will die with regret.
The granddaughter Xia Qi, who is exactly 26 years old this year: "..."
Is it too late to change my identity now