It took a while for Bai Zhi to find Ah Lu lying on the grass with his legs crossed and his head resting on the grass on a certain hillside, basking in the sun.
Perhaps because the life inside was too moist, this guy not only wore an extra pair of sunglasses for himself, but also had a cup of milk tea with a straw on the grass next to her.
What's even more outrageous is that there is even an old radio playing opera on the side. If there are a group of chickens and ducks as decorations, the scene in front of you will look like the daily life of a retired old man in the countryside.
"This is called life~"
Looking at the white clouds flowing in the sky, feeling the warm sunshine shining on my body, I picked up the juice on the side and took a sip. Ah Lu sighed with emotion in his mouth.
"It's such a good place, it's a pity, what if..."
"What's a pity?"
After walking to the radio and turning it off, Bai Zhi turned to look at him.
"Of course it's a pity... uh... hello boss!!"
Quickly taking off the sunglasses on her face, Ah Lu quickly sat up from the grass. After adjusting her sitting posture to a standard duck sitting in just a few seconds, she raised her head and faced Bai Zhi. A rather cute smile appeared here.
"Today's boss looks very handsome and handsome~"
Bai Zhi: "..."
… Did the guy in front of me take the wrong medicine
"… boss?"
Looking at the green-haired girl sitting in front of him with a very well-behaved posture, Bai Zhi looked suspicious.
"That's right."
Ah Lu nodded fiercely.
"From today on, I am your loyal employee, boss. If you want me to beat a dog, I will never catch a chicken. If you want me to touch a chicken, I will never beat a dog. I will always follow your will, boss!!"
"speak English."
Bai Zhi rolled his eyes.
"To be honest, I'm not in a good mood right now. If you..."
Before someone finished speaking, he suddenly felt his feet sinking. When he lowered his head, he saw a green-haired girl holding his thigh looking at him with sparkling eyes.
"Boss, please accept me!! I'm very capable!!!"
"..."
Bai Zhi admitted that he was frightened.
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"...So you want to stay here forever?"
A few minutes later, Bai Zhi looked speechless as he looked at Ah Lu sitting there with his hands covering his head.
"To put it more simply, do you want to stay and work in the Huzhong Realm?"
"That's right, the team I formed is no longer in name only, so I don't plan to go back to the transit place."
While covering his head with his hands, Ah Lu looked up at him with resentment.
"And I like this place very much, so I want to live here for a long time, so I want to get permission from you... Don't hit me on the head in the future."
"No, are you sure you're not joking?"
Looking at the green-haired girl in front of him, Bai Zhi had a strange look on his face.
"It's okay to live here for a short time, but do you think it's possible to live here for a long time? Don't forget, you are a player."
"What happened to the players?"
Putting his hand down, Ah Lu looked slightly unconvinced.
"No big deal, I'll just pay your rent. I still have a small treasury here, so it should be fine..."
"The place we are currently in is the [Junzhongjie], which is the inner space of a mythical item [Demon Refining Pot]."
After glancing at the other party, Bai Zhi interrupted her.
"It's okay to live there for a short time, but if you live there for a long time, your strength improvement is bound to be limited, let alone other problems. Do you want to die in a mandatory mission?"
… Ah Lu stopped talking.
"Okay, there's no need to be so downcast. I have a place here that's more suitable for you wandering players."
Looking at the man in front of him who had all his hair down, Bai Zhi changed the topic and mysteriously took out a few cards from his backpack and handed them to him.
"Let's take a look. This is a brand new world that can accept wandering players like you. There will be big rewards recently. All comers will be welcome."
The situation in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is special, and people cannot be pretended, but in the Shadow World, there is no such concern. Currently, the most lacking thing in the Shadow World is the population. Even the 100,000 people with red leaves are still a drop in the bucket for the entire Shadow World.
In this case, wandering players like Ah Lu and others who have lost their belonging to the world are a good choice.
"Shadow World... is there really a world willing to accept wandering players like us?"
After carefully reading the temporary residence permits several times, Ah's green eyes suddenly lit up.
Only homeless players can know the suffering of homeless players.
Because they no longer have a world to belong to, it is quite difficult for them to obtain resources. In addition to the system mandatory tasks guaranteed once a month, if they usually want to improve their strength, they can only try their luck to pick up resources like Shan Hai. Such a dangerous commission in the world.
Although it is said that there is a transit place for wandering players like them to live, that place has never seen the light of day. At the same time, it is also quite uneven. Conflicts between players are common.
Although she is doing quite well now and has even formed her own team, there are quite a lot of problems in the team, and everyone has their own agenda.
Even behind the scenes, several people in the team were secretly planning to capture her as the leader and sell her as a slave. Even the next family had been found in advance.
If she hadn't been quite alert and had some little trump cards, she would probably have become the plaything of those disgusting guys by now.
It can be said that a large part of the reason why her team has been reduced to a near-annihilation is because of her... In other words, at least most of the people in her team were turned into flower fertilizer by her own hands.
... How could someone who could survive in a place like a transit place be as simple as it seemed
"Of course, Shadow World is in urgent need of manpower."
Sitting cross-legged on the grass, Bai Zhi looked serious.
"I'm not familiar with the transit area, but if you call me the group leader, I should be very familiar with it. Your task is to try your best to pull people from the transit area to the Shadow World. Every time you successfully pull one person, I will give you a commission of 10 source coins, with no upper limit."
"you sure!?"
She suddenly raised her head to look at him, her green eyes seemed to be faintly glowing green.
"certainly."
It was a major matter of the recovery of the shadow world. Bai Zhi nodded seriously.
"And in fact, I have no need to deceive you."
"...A gentleman's word?"
“It’s hard to chase a horse!!”
"Brother!!"
"Second brother... Bah, okay, I will issue you 100 temporary residence permits at the beginning. After all the cards are sold, you can go to this location to report my name and collect them at the cost price."
After waving his hand, Bai Zhi took out a large stack of cards from his backpack and handed them over a piece of paper with an address.
"You can discuss the specific details with the businessman with a jar on his head at this location."
"Okay, I remember."
Carefully putting these things into the system backpack, Ah Lu nodded seriously.
"Okay, let's leave it like this for now. Now I have another thing to ask you."
While talking, Bai Zhi took out a piece of drawing paper from his backpack, unfolded it and placed it in front of the other party.
"Do you know the person in this portrait?"
What he took out now was a temporary sketch he had made before. In the portrait, the man's long hair was tied into a ponytail and draped over his left shoulder. He was wearing a white shirt with a pink tie on his upper body, gray trousers on his lower body, and a pair of bare pants on his feet. Wearing socks and leather shoes, but the facial features on the other person's face are completely blank.
This portrait is exactly what Bai Zhi drew of the Mythical Riddler player based on his memory. With his memory, it was quite simple to describe the other player.
But he didn't know what was going on. He clearly remembered the facial features on the other person's face, but he couldn't draw it at all, and he couldn't describe it in any words, so he had to settle for the next best thing and draw such a sketch. picture.
"This... this is the initiator of our mission. The box he handed to you before was handed to me by him. Although he doesn't remember what the other person looks like at all, he still remembers the matching of his clothes. "
After looking at the sketch in front of him for a moment, Ah Lu nodded, then looked up at Bai Zhi.
"What, have you seen this guy?"
"That's about it... Okay, you can continue to bask in the sun."
After getting the answer he wanted from the other party, Bai Zhi reached out and pressed his forehead as if he had a headache. Bai Zhi stood up from the grass.
"I guess it won't be long before you can go back to the transit point. Then... By the way, I'll give you this."
As if he suddenly thought of something, Bai Zhi reached out and took out a rolled scroll from the void, and then threw it to the other party without looking at it.
"As a price for your help in running errands, let this be a prerequisite thank you gift."
—For players, the household registration that can better understand their own situation is still very useful.
Over at Hu Zhongxian, just such a household registration was sold for a sky-high price, and now he is giving it away for free...
There is no doubt that the other party made a lot of money this time. (Bai Zhi nods)
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Compared with Queen Bai Xin's players who can only stay in a limited area, Bai Zhi still gives certain preferential treatment to his friends.
Those people don't even know the functional buildings and regard the most basic wooden houses as treasures. On this side, except for some more critical functional buildings such as the "Ghost Tower", other functional buildings are very important to Urobo. Los Angeles they are fully open.
When Bai Zhi came here, Ouroboros and the West Pavilion Master surprisingly did not play cards. Instead, they gathered around and discussed something unknown.
On the table in the middle of them, a large glass container was placed there, and in the middle of the container filled with green liquid, a head with closed eyes sank quietly to the bottom of the liquid.
"Why, his condition has stabilized?"
Bai Zhi walked over and glanced at the head on the table, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked.
What was in the glass container on the table was Hanzo's head that Nu Liang had snatched back from [Wan Shu Sheng Hua] with all his might.
However, even though his head was taken back, the opponent's condition was not good. If Bai Zhi hadn't helped give him some [Netherworld Divine Power], the opponent's last remaining consciousness would have been melted.
"It's not bad. Although I became a vampire, at least my life was saved. As long as my head is still there, my body can still recover easily."
Glancing at Bai Zhibian, the West Pavilion Master smiled and nodded.
—In the past, the reason why he didn’t appear much was because he spent most of his time in the Huzhong Realm to help with treatment.
As for the reason why he acted so generously... After all, he and Nuliang could be regarded as poker buddies who had played several games.
... Of course, it was mainly for Bai Zhi's favor.
"Thank you, I owe you a favor."
Looking away from the table and looking up at the West Pavilion Master, Nuliang spoke in a deep voice.
"If I have a chance in the future, I will..."
"Don't, don't thank me. The one you should thank the most is him."
Waving his hand, the West Pavilion Master interrupted Nuliang's words.
"Without the maintenance of Yin Tianzi's divine power, he wouldn't be able to survive the moment he transforms into a vampire. The best I can do is give him a try. If you really want to thank him, then..."
"Okay, stop being so polite. Don't you feel tired?"
Bai Zhi rolled his eyes as Nuliang turned to look at him again.
"Have you rested enough inside? Be prepared. After half an hour, we will launch a general attack on the city."
"General attack... have you found the clue?"
Looking up at him, Ouroboros asked with interest.
Under the current situation, everyone with a discerning eye knows that in the end, the heirs to the legacy of the [Mechanical Empire] will only emerge from two parties.
One side is the Son of Heaven, and the other side is the King of Hades.
As players who belong to Yin Tianzi's faction, they naturally hope that Yin Tianzi's side will win in the end.
"It's not quite found, but it's close."
Bai Zhi yawned and sat down at the table.