"The Heavenly Secret Master has arrived so soon?" Sister Hong was obviously getting nervous. She turned around and tried to catch up with him. "Let's go!"
The Tianji people are the opponents of the Lantern Extinguisher. Before the Lantern Extinguisher knows the purpose of the opponent, he must not give up any clues.
Just as Sister Hong was about to leave, Xiaoyu suddenly called out in a low voice: "Mom, where are you going?"
Sister Hong paused.
"Mom, you don't want Xiaoyu again?" Xiaoyu sobbed and said aggrievedly.
As we watched, Sister Hong instantly became dispirited again.
Seeing Sister Hong's hesitation, Xia Qi turned around and left, saying, "I'll go after her first! You stay with Xiaoyu!"
Because of Xiao Yu's delay, when Xia Qi caught up, Cha Gong was already far away from him. Cha Gong shuttled among the zombies and soon disappeared.
Because there were so many zombies nearby, Xia Qi soon lost his way in the bustling streets.
Xia Qi was about to turn back to look for Sister Hong, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice calling out, "Don't miss it if you pass by. Come and taste the fresh watermelon. If it's not sweet, you don't have to pay!"
Xia Qi turned his head and looked towards the voice of hawking.
I saw many green watermelons placed by the river not far away, and the finance man was sitting on the ground next to the watermelons.
However, completely different from the daytime, the financial man tonight was dressed very shabby. He wore a ragged white vest and held a worn-out palm leaf fan in his hand, which was far from the exquisite dress he wore when he first entered the game. Next to the financial man, there was a very weak boy lying. His face was gray, and there were two dark spots under his eyes. He looked like he was seriously ill.
If Xia Qi hadn't been born with the ability to remember other people's faces, he probably wouldn't have recognized such a miserable financial man.
When the finance guy saw that no one was buying his watermelon, he started to wail miserably again: "Brothers and sisters, please be kind. I have a 70-year-old mother and a seriously ill younger brother. My family is really short of money. Please come and buy my watermelon..."
Just when Xia Qi was about to go find the finance guy to chat, two people suddenly rushed out from the side and almost bumped into him.
"Dad, you've gone too far! Do you have any conscience? You actually sold mom to pay off your gambling debts!" The white-faced man stood beside Xia Qi and kept retreating backwards.
Completely different from the daytime, the white-faced man tonight was wearing a loose school uniform and holding a middle-aged woman tightly in his arms.
At this time, a middle-aged lame man rushed out and slapped the pale-faced man in the face, causing his mouth to twist to one side. His originally pale face instantly turned red like watermelon flesh.
The lame man cursed at the pale-faced man: "Your mother is the wife I bought! She has to do whatever I tell her to do. Even if I tell her to die, she has to die!"
Although the lame man's words made sense, the white-faced man still refused to let go and yelled at the lame man: "She is my mother, who gave you the power to sell her out!"
"Hahaha, you ask me? Then why don't you ask the human trafficker who sold her to me?!" The lame man laughed loudly with his head raised.
Xia Qi looked at the elite financial man who was selling watermelons on his left, and at the pale-faced man who was having a family conflict on his right, and couldn't help falling into deep thought.
How come my teammates have become like this after not seeing them for just one day
Feeling that the financial man and the white-faced man were fully immersed in the copy script, Xia Qi did not interrupt their story performance, but continued to walk back.
As he walked, he saw the old man coming towards him again.
Compared to the finance guy and the pale-faced guy who are addicted to games, the old man looks like a normal player.
At this time, the old man was surrounded by a group of high school girls. Next to him, there was a sister wearing a JK uniform, and three girls wearing various Tang and Song Dynasty costumes.
These girls are all pretty, with a youthful look on their faces.
However, the old man who was surrounded by so many stars had an expression as if he was haunted by a female ghost, and he looked so depressed that he seemed like he could die suddenly at any time.
Xia Qi looked at his guilty expression and couldn't help asking, "Are they all your students?"
Xia Qi felt that if he didn't ask today, he might not be able to ask after a while...
The old man wiped the sweat from his forehead and said hesitantly, "No, I don't know them."
"Teacher." A female student suddenly turned her head and looked at the old man with a smile, "How could you forget me? Didn't you tell me to come to your office after class every day?"
"Yes." Another female student answered, revealing her privacy without any hesitation, "You took me to have an abortion, but the operation was not successful. I seemed to have lost a lot of blood... Hey, why is the hole in my stomach gone?"
Hearing this, the old man's face turned even paler, and his whole body began to tremble. He kept repeating in a nervous tone, "Stop talking, stop talking..."
"Teacher, you haven't forgotten what you promised me, right?" The elder sister suddenly took the old man's hand, her eyes shining, "You once said that you would give me a lot of money."
Hearing this, Xia Qi was shocked.
In the Rose Earl instance, he had heard about his sister's life from his sister. His sister was vain and seemed to have been in contact with an old man in order to get more money. The reason why she joined the game was also because of the ticket given by the "old man".
Could this "old man" be the old man in front of me...
Xia Qi's expression changed instantly when he looked at the old man.
"Wuwuwu... make money. OK, I'll agree to anything you say." The old man was so scared that tears flowed down his face when his sister held his hand with her soft, white hand.
After the old man agreed, my sister moved closer to him and even held the old man's hand intimately.
The old man was shaking all over, and even though he was scared to death, he didn't dare to break free from his sister's hand.
"Teacher, why do you only like her and not us?" The remaining three female students in ancient costumes also came over. They each chose the direction of front, back, left and right and stuck closely to the old man.
They pushed the old man forward while talking and laughing.
The man and four ghosts walked forward closely, but their direction gradually deviated from the main street.
Xia Qi suddenly realized that they were not heading towards the center of the City That Never Sleeps, but were heading directly to the river.
The river water shimmered under the moonlight, and countless river lanterns were floating on the river. Unlike the river lanterns that Xia Qi had seen in the real world, the river lanterns here looked old, and the edges were even a little yellow, as if they had been floating on the river for a long time.
What is even more different from the real world is that the wicks of the river lanterns are filled with pale candles, and the dim green flames emit cold light, adding a bit of eerie color to the beautiful river.
The old man came to the river, surrounded by four female students.
Looking at the bottomless river in front of him, the old man let out a shrill scream: "Stop, stop..."
"Teacher, can we go play in the river?" a female student said with a sweet smile.
At this moment, the old man suddenly trembled all over, turned his head stiffly, and looked in the direction of Xia Qi.
He widened his eyes in horror, his bloodshot eyes bulging out, he opened his mouth exaggeratedly, and said silently to Xia Qi: Save me.
Xia Qi looked at him silently, then slowly approached them and asked, "Do you plead guilty? The only one who can save you is yourself."
"I, I, I..." The old man suddenly shuddered, tears streaming down his face, and he sobbed desperately, "I plead guilty."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sister covered her mouth and laughed, as if she didn't believe it at all. Without waiting for the old man to continue speaking, she suddenly stretched out her hand and gently pushed the old man into the river.
With a "plop", the old man's fat body fell into the river like a kite with a broken string.
“Ahhh!”
After being pushed into the river, the old man struggled desperately in the water, trying to swim back to the shore, but at this moment, the four female students suddenly straightened their bodies and jumped into the river in unison, as straight as dumplings.
"Teacher, please stay with us." After jumping into the water, my sister's hair was all spread out, wetly draped over her face and shoulders, like a water ghost crawling out of the river.
Four female students swam to the old man from four directions. Each of them stretched out her hand, climbed onto his neck, shoulders and arms, and then, together, they pushed the old man into the river.
"Ahhh—poof."
After the old man was pressed into the dark bottom of the river, the four female students raised their heads at the same time and gave Xia Qi a strange smile.
Then, they sank into the river together like four wooden stakes.
Ding Dong! There are 5 remaining lamp extinguishers, and 1 is dead.
Looking at the ripples forming on the water, Xia Qi sighed silently.
"The Luna Lantern Festival's major show is about to begin! Everyone, hurry up and watch it!" A man hurriedly walked past Xia Qi, loudly cheering something like "fate" and "the main event".
Xia Qi looked at the direction he disappeared in confusion, and continued to move forward with the crowd.
There were more and more lights hanging around, and Xia Qi looked at them carefully one by one.
Originally, when he first entered the bustling streets of the City That Never Sleeps, these lanterns were just paper rabbits, white goats, or white ponies. When he reached the city center, he found that these paper lanterns had become strange in appearance. There were shapes of cranes stepping on auspicious clouds, white phoenixes pulling carts, and finally, there was even a golden dragon throne.
Even though he had never attended many funerals, Xia Qi knew that these lanterns were not made for the living, but for burying the dead.
Xia Qi followed the crowd across a white three-bridge system and stopped when they arrived at a square.
Xia Qi looked up and saw a tall brick-red city wall in front of him. There were three golden arches on the wall. There were two stone lions at each arch. The lions opened their mouths towards them, looking very imposing. In addition, there were guards on both sides of the arches. The city wall looked very much like the palace where ancient emperors lived.
A woman pointed at the moon-like sky lantern rising above the city wall and shouted excitedly, "Oh my God, will His Majesty appear tonight?"
"Hasn't your majesty been asleep for a long time?"
Listening to the excited discussions of this group of men and women, Xia Qi couldn't help but frowned.
Your Majesty, who is it again
Could it be the boss of the Never-Sleeping City dungeon
Just as he was thinking this, Xia Qi had another bad feeling.
He took some small steps and prepared to go back.
However, several waves of people suddenly surged out from behind him, inexplicably blocking his way back and squeezing him right in the center of the crowd.
Not only that, this group of people pushed him forward like waves, allowing him to experience what it felt like to advance instead of retreating.
The woman continued gossiping, "His Majesty has been sleeping in order to wait for his Moon Goddess. He finally woke up tonight. It must be that his true love, the Moon Goddess, has appeared in the City That Never Sleeps."
Xia Qi: “…”
Another man shouted in surprise: "Look, the Moon Goddess's lamp that guides the direction of the Moon Goddess is coming towards us!"
Seeing the flying moon lamp as if it had eyes and was flying rapidly towards the top of his head, Xia Qi gritted his teeth and turned around without hesitation.
He looked at the men, women, and children who were blocking his way behind him and said expressionlessly, "Excuse me, can you please make way?"