"Of course." The official team members affirmed proudly, "We still have to rely on ourselves. How can we rely on those stragglers who are greedy for profit and fear of death?"
Xia Ruize nodded in agreement, and the regular team members really talked more, and turned to appease the younger generation:
"You don't need to worry, I heard that you will have a chance to go out of the city to hunt evil spirits in a few days, and you will get a lot of spirit stones at that time. As for the full moon calamity, don't worry too much. Once the city defense spirit array is opened, The evil spirits can’t get in, we just need to kill the evil spirits outside the city.”
This was the first time Xia Ruize heard the specific information on the defense of Ping'an City against the full moon calamity, so he hurriedly inquired deeply.
On the other side, Cheng Huaiqian was following a taciturn official team member. They didn't even arrange tasks for him, so the two of them sat silently in a hidden position, making no sound except breathing. Therefore, Cheng Huaiqian had enough energy to participate in Xia Ruize's communication. middle.
According to the official team members, before the full moon, more and more evil spirits will return to the land from the evil sea. The moon becomes rounder day by day, and the number of evil spirits will also increase day by day. , A large number of evil spirits will even attack human cities in turn.
The spirit hunters are fine, unless they are severely injured, they will not be easily killed by the evil spirits, but ordinary people are different, low-level evil spirits can easily kill them, so, in order to prevent the evil spirits from entering the city, When it really can't resist, Ping'an City will activate the anti-spirit array to protect the entire city.
After a little hesitation, Xia Ruize asked suspiciously: "I heard that the last time the full moon robbed the Ping'an City defense team suffered heavy losses. Didn't the anti-spirit formations be activated at that time?" With such a sharp defensive weapon, why did they suffer heavy losses
Unexpectedly, the official team members were stunned by Xia Ruize's question, and asked back: "I joined the moat team two years ago, why didn't I hear that the last full moon calamity suffered heavy losses?"
Xia Ruize's tone faltered, and he said casually: "I also overheard people in the city chatting about it by chance, and I don't know if the news is true or not." Then he continued to ask: "Did the anti-spirit array remain open during the full moon calamity last time? Is there a big loss for the moat team?" You should know about the recent events, right
"I heard from the seniors in the team that the anti-spirit array is always open, and the loss is not great." The regular team member replied hesitantly, thinking that the new temporary team members were young and afraid of death, and they were concerned about safety issues, but he He believed in the seniors in the guarding team. When the public chatted, they would always exaggerate, so they comforted Xia Ruize instead: "You don't have to be afraid, it's always right to follow the seniors."
While Xia Ruize nodded in agreement, he felt a little strange in his heart. Logically speaking, after recruiting new city guards, shouldn't he talk about the previous achievements to unite people's hearts? Why is this official player not very clear about the big battle that happened the year before he joined the moat team
Soon Xia Ruize didn't have the energy to think about this issue, and as the time got late, some spirit hunters who left the city began to return to the city.
Unlike the usual spirit hunters who climbed directly over the city wall, whether it was discussions or conflicts, they avoided the vicinity of the city wall to show respect for the city guard team. This time, a small team actually fought directly on the city wall!
Several members of the official city guard team hurried forward to maintain order and shouted loudly at the spirit hunting warriors who had formed into a group, but the red-eyed spirit hunting warriors ignored them and continued to fight each other frantically.
Annoyed, the guards tried to suppress them, but unexpectedly, the red-eyed spirit hunters even attacked the guards, and because there were many spirit hunters and few guards, the guards were crushed and beaten!
Is this worth it
Being bullied by unreasonable stragglers on their own territory, the angry guards sent out a summoning signal. Soon, all the guards on duty rushed over, and finally suppressed the troublesome spirit hunting warriors. Unexpectedly, before they could relax, another summoning signal was issued from another part of the city wall.
During the night when Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were on duty, there were four conflicts between the spirit hunting warriors on the nearby city wall, and the guards were mobilized to suppress the conflicts.
At the same time, similar incidents occurred in other sections of the city wall, so that in the end, not only the temporary team members who were on duty on the first day were all transferred to suppress the conflict, but even the team members who were supposed to rest were called up urgently Part of it is to supplement the shortage of manpower.
In the end, the spirit hunters who made trouble were escorted separately to the barracks of the city guards to guard them. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were arrested, were allowed to go back to rest. It was already past one o'clock in the morning, far longer than the time they were supposed to be on duty.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked solemn when they followed the corporal leader back to the barracks where the temporary team members were.
"These spirit hunting warriors who came back from outside the city all seemed to be possessed by evil spirits. They were impulsive, irritable, and extremely irritable. When conflicts broke out, their eyes were bloodshot. I went to test it in front of me, and they obviously don't know me and have no conflict with me, and they have strong malice against me."
Xia Ruize talks about his discovery.
Four conflicts occurred near the section of the city wall on duty. Xia Ruize was transferred to participate in the suppression of the last two cases. He purposely swayed in front of the spirit hunters who broke out in conflicts, and found that the spirit hunters were completely irrational, and all of them were angry at him. Aroused malice and aroused his malicious perception.
"I tried it out from a few regular team members, and it seems that I haven't heard of similar situations before the full moon calamity." Cheng Huaiqian's voice was thoughtful, "Do you feel that our teammates' emotional state last night A little abnormal? I feel that there is a big difference in the attitude of that big cow towards us before arriving at the Evil Sea and after leaving the Evil Sea.”
"Could it be that evil spirits can affect people's minds and make people fall into negative emotions?"
Xia Ruize guessed based on what he saw and heard in the past two days.
"Observe again. If the spirit hunting warriors in the city are controlled by evil spirits before the full moon calamity comes this year, the situation will be interesting." Cheng Huaiqian is not in a hurry. It's getting clearer.
Xia Ruize participated in the escorting of the spirit hunters who were making trouble, and took the opportunity to put the system ghost bat on one of the spirit hunters. Tomorrow they will know what information the moat team will use to ask for information.
The two fell asleep quickly after returning to the barracks. During the break for breakfast the next day, the two deliberately discussed the conflict between the spirit hunters and warriors they encountered while on duty in front of a few soldiers on duty at the city wall from 1:00 to 3:00 in the morning.
Sure enough, those small soldiers also naturally joined the topic, saying that they also encountered conflicts among spirit hunters returning to the city during their on-duty. Conflicts broke out directly on the city wall, and some, even before they reached the city wall, they couldn't bear to break out fierce conflicts.
The temporary team members originally thought that there would be no major incidents when they were on duty. Who would have thought that they would run around all night to suppress the conflict, and some soldiers were even accidentally injured.
Several people sighed and exchanged information with each other, and they all felt very strange.
It is understood that among the teams of spirit hunting warriors who broke out in conflicts, there are many teams who have worked together for many years and cooperated with each other. What is inexplicable is that some conflicts between them suddenly broke out together last night. Because they are too familiar, they attack each other. The moves were aimed at weak points, and even death occurred before the guards could stop them.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other with a tacit understanding. From this, they speculated that the evil spirits outside the city might have the ability to influence people's hearts and fill people with negative emotions. Although this was unheard of before, they had seen it with their own eyes. of.
In addition, the interesting point is that according to the news from the system ghost bats, most of the spirit hunters who were arrested by the moat team and made troubles were not even interrogated. He was released under the order of the city lord.
Holding the entry and exit card obtained from the cooperating sergeant, Dahei, who sneaked into the surveillance of the city lord's mansion, returned the news. Facing the objection of the captain of the guard team, the city lord suppressed all of them with the reason that resisting the full moon disaster was the most important thing in this special period. Opposed, not only released all the imprisoned spirit hunters, but also posted notices in the city to encourage the spirit hunters to go out of the city to kill evil spirits.
As long as the number of spirit stones brought back by killing reaches a certain level, the city lord will also give reward spirit stones in his own name.
Dahei specially brought back a notice to the owner. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian thought about this series of events before going to see the city owner, and felt that his behavior was very interesting.
The difficulty of the training on the fourth day was also not high. It was mainly to practice the cooperation between the small soldiers, so that they could get used to fighting as a team of guards instead of the scattered spirit hunters fighting alone.
As a result of the low training difficulty, nearly 200 small soldiers received the rewarded spirit stones. Many small soldiers expressed satisfaction with such a day, worked hard to perform, and wanted to fight for the opportunity to become a regular team member.
On the fourth night, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian arranged to be on duty from 8:00 to 10:00. At this time, it was just getting dark, and most spirit hunters who wanted to leave the city would go out at this time.
Only Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian counted 27 teams of spirit hunting warriors who climbed over the city wall and left the city. This is only a short section of the city wall, which is enough to show that the city lord's encouragement announcement is very effective. The spirit hunters were inspired by the city lord , also forgot the previous lesson, and rushed out of the city one after another.
After the duty was over, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai, who had returned to the barracks, set up an illusion and sneaked out of the barracks again while the soldiers in the same army were resting.
They went to Homeway Tavern first, but found that the tavern street was even more desolate. Including Homeway Tavern, there were only three pubs open on the whole street, and even some signs of fighting could be seen in the street that was not cleaned up in time.
Entering Homeway Tavern, I found that the scene was in stark contrast to the outside of the tavern. The inside of the tavern was extremely lively, and people kept walking up to the small high platform in the middle of the tavern to recruit teammates loudly. The first day is even more lively.
The two sat in the corner, keenly aware of the fanatical atmosphere in the crowd, as if they could grab a gold mine if they went out of the city, but they couldn't if they went late. Obviously, the tavern was extremely deserted the day before, and everyone was anxious.
Xia Ruize's mental strength swept the audience and suddenly found the old white-haired man. He hadn't seen him for two days. This white-haired middle-aged man seemed to have encountered some difficulties. He was walking around the venue with a wine glass, carefully rejecting other people's applications for forming a team .
"Old white head, long time no see."
When the old man walked past the two, Cheng Huaiqian suddenly called out and stopped them.
Old Baitou saw that the two of them entered the tavern without taking off their hoods, and immediately recognized them. He sat down at their table with a wry smile on his face, and asked, "Why, are you going out of town to send someone?"
"Aren't you planning to leave the city before the full moon?"
Cheng Huaiqian was amused, and asked back.
"Oh, don't mention it, the city lord accidentally issued a notice today, saying that if the spirit hunters get more than ten spirit stones from killing evil spirits by themselves every day, they can receive an extra spirit stone from him, and there is no limit!
I don't want to go out of the city myself, I can't hold back my friends' hearts are moved. In today's day, there are five people who have invited me to form a team! Many friends have a good relationship, and I can't do without explaining it myself. Alas, if you also want to invite me out of the city, I have told you in advance that I will not agree. "
The old white head was very distressed. His house had been visited by familiar spirit hunters since early in the morning. After figuring out the whole story, he had no choice but to come to the Homeway Tavern to inquire about the news and reject the invitation to form a team.
Old Baitou had his own worries. After returning to the city on the first day, he thought everything was fine, but his nephew Xiao Nan fell ill the next day. He woke up several times every night, kept saying he was afraid but couldn’t say anything. What are you afraid of? The old white head has been very troubled taking care of his nephew these two days.
"Old Baitou, I don't know if you have heard the news that many teams had conflicts and were locked up by the moat recently. You have experienced a lot of full-moon calamities, and this situation will also occur before the full-moon calamities. ?"
Xia Ruize asked in a low voice.
He even used telekinetic power to isolate a layer around him, so that only Cheng Huaiqian and Lao Baitou could hear his question.
The old white head was puzzled when he heard the words, thought for a while and replied in a low voice:
"I did hear that there was a fight in the tavern the night before yesterday and last night. This has never happened before. The power behind this tavern is not small. I have never heard of anyone daring to make trouble here before. Before the full moon calamity, everyone was busy forming a team to hunt down evil spirits, and they didn’t have time to fight in the city.”
"Not only." Xia Ruize shook his head with a deep expression on his face, "We also heard that many teams came back from outside the city last night and fought directly under the eyes of the city guards. Can have a good rest."
Xia Ruize continued to disclose "internal" news. The news of the conflict on the edge of the city wall last night seemed to be suppressed and did not spread widely.
This news completely changed the face of the old white head, and he lost his voice: "Impossible! It is the tacit understanding of all spirit hunting warriors not to cause conflicts near the city wall!"
Seeing Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian sitting calmly and not moving, the old man realized that these two were mysterious and powerful bosses, and the news they revealed was extremely likely to be true. Thinking of this, the old man became nervous After getting up, fidgeting and meditating for half a minute, the old white head suddenly lowered his voice and said to the two:
"Old Cheng, Ozawa, I have lived a long time and have seen many things. Many people laugh at me for being timid, but I know that the reason why I can live so long is because I am not Good hunches often come true, so live very cautiously.
To be honest, since the day we came back from our cooperation, I have inexplicably had the idea of leaving Ping An City to avoid this full moon calamity. After that, I was very careful not to go out of the city again, but the various news I heard now made me Not only did the idea not subside, but it became stronger and stronger.
Anyway, I'm going to take Xiaonan away tomorrow. You two are beyond my judgment, so you must be fully prepared, but I still advise you, if you can, avoid this round of catastrophe in Ping An City. "
After quickly finishing these words, Lao Baitou got up and left without waiting for the two of them to speak again, rushed out of the tavern gate, and his figure quickly disappeared within the coverage of Xia Ruize's mental power.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, Xia Ruize saw the joyful fire in the lover's eyes.
Under the wide cloak sleeves, Cheng Huaiqian held Xia Ruize's hand and interlocked his fingers, his voice full of interest: "Interesting, the situation is getting more and more complicated, I think this mission world is getting more and more interesting."
The three mission worlds in the white paper area are very simple and straightforward, just rush forward all the way, but this mission world is different, it seems that there are traps everywhere, hiding many secrets, which fully aroused Cheng Huaiqian's interest.
"Then are you planning to go to the City Lord's Mansion or leave the city?"
Xia Ruize understood, and asked with a smile.
"Leave the city directly!"
Cheng Huaiqian's voice was affirmative. There is no special news from the city lord for the time being, why not go out of the city to experience it yourself, what happened to the spirit hunting warriors who went out of the city in the past two days
Xia Ruize had no objection, and the two of them didn't try to find other teammates. After going out of the city twice in a row and guarding the city wall for two nights, they learned a lot about the city wall of Ping'an City, so they simply found a section of the city wall by themselves. They climbed over the wall together behind another team that was out of the city.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian quickly noticed the changes outside the city. After only one night without leaving the city, the number of evil spirits outside the city suddenly increased.
The number of low-level evil spirits that could only be seen close to the green warning line before, this time they encountered it not long after leaving Ping An City. As a result, many spirit hunting warrior teams did not continue to go deep at all, and killed the evil spirits not far from the city wall.
There are a lot of teams leaving the city tonight, and they can still see each other faintly. Unlike the previous two days, I never saw other teams along the way, as if my team was the only one leaving the city.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian unceremoniously let go of their hands and feet to kill the evil spirits wantonly. They didn't go out of the city the day before and didn't have any spirit stones, so they just made up for it now.
Now there are only two people, Xia Ruize simply took out the laser gun, first attacked the evil spirit with the laser gun itself, and found that it took three rounds to kill a low-level evil spirit.
But after sticking a spirit exorcising talisman, one flick of a low-level evil spirit did not run away, and the battle was easier than when outsiders were around.
The two easily broke through the encirclement of the evil spirits, and went all the way to the vicinity of the green warning line. This time, the middle-level evil spirits did not set a trap, but huddled together on the other side of the green warning line, waiting for their prey to come.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were even happier. After dissolving a low-level spirit stone, Xia Ruize worked hard to dissolve a middle-level spirit stone in the past two days. Tier Lingshi is very powerful, adding up to 0.3 points of physical fitness.
The reason why I say add it up is because the effect of the mid-level spirit stone he dissolved is strength +0.1, agility +0.1, spirit +0.1, among other things, as long as it can increase the spirit attribute, Xia Ruize is very interested and happy Collect a lot of middle-level spirit stones.
The two had a great time killing the evil spirits, consumed a lot of Exorcism Talismans, and successfully reached the red warning line.
"how do you feel?"
Xia Ruize, who was always observing his lover, asked Cheng Huaiqian.
Cheng Huaiqian smiled happily, his tone full of indifference:
"Staying in this environment for a long time will indeed make people feel irritable unconsciously. However, I am used to this state, so there is nothing to worry about."
Before meeting Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian couldn't get high-quality rest all year round, so he was very irritable and irritable, but he was calm enough, and he was very clear about his state. The irritability he showed was because he deliberately let himself go As a result, he has enough control when he doesn't want to let himself be irritable.
Therefore, Cheng Huaiqian is very sensitive to his own emotional changes. Now he seems to be in a state where he has not slept for three consecutive days and is facing a lot of troublesome work. Every strand of his hair is written with irritability.
But he was able to forcibly restrain these irritable emotions and prevent them from jumping around. What's more, this way of controlling his emotions made him feel like he was holding a few struggling fish in his hands, which was quite interesting.
"And you?"
Cheng Huaiqian in turn cared about Xia Ruize.
Xia Ruize blinked suspiciously, "I don't seem to feel anything special, except that I'm a little nervous about having to juggle multiple directions during the battle, everything else is fine."
"It may be because your mental strength is high and you are resistant to this kind of emotional pollution. Then let's go on and go to the beach."
Cheng Huaiqian was relieved and wanted to move on.
He felt that the high-level evil spirits were quite useful. This time, he might be able to subdue two more, and kill a few of them by the way, so as to obtain high-level spirit stones.
The two crossed the red cordon side by side, just like before. After walking a few steps, the thick fog quickly dissipated, revealing a rounder and brighter moon and a sky full of stars.
Ahead, the waves of the Evil Sea were extremely rough, and there seemed to be a mournful sound in the howling sea wind.
The two stood on the beach and watched the magnificent scenery quietly. It didn't take long for four black shadows to rise from all around them at the same time, and the size became larger and larger, eventually reaching five or six meters high.
"Yo, there are indeed more than before, very good, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
The corners of Cheng Huaiqian's mouth curled up, he clenched the knife in his hand, and rushed towards the huge high-level evil spirits in front and left.
On the other side, Xia Ruize confronted the high-level evil spirits with a long sword in his hand. What was strange was that he did not put away the laser gun and the cloud-breaking crossbow. On the contrary, he took out a few more guns. Finally, a cloud-breaking crossbow And four laser guns appeared around Xia Ruize.
Facing the high-level evil spirits in the ascending zone mission, Xia Ruize cautiously displayed his current strongest attack form, a full-armed state of melee weapon attack plus read power control and multiple long-range weapons.
Xia Ruize in a fully armed state can be called a mobile turret, which can be used for close combat and long-distance combat, and is not afraid of group battles at all.