He feels warm.
The warmth is born from the heart and spreads to the limbs in an instant. The pain in his body disappeared, and he opened his eyes in a white light.
Lin Huai saw herself sitting on the sofa in the system space.
The chest wound has healed. Lin Huai lay on the sofa, looked at the white sky for a while, and then reached out and pulled out his own character panel.
Name: Lin Huai
Age: 21 years old
Status: senior field player
Title: Joyful Clown
His interface no longer has a numerical bar representing experience, and there are no more detailed words such as the so-called faction judgment. Instead, there are only a few lines of words, which are more like a business card than a personal panel.
Lin Huai clicked on the title of the high-level player, only to find the small words in the following remarks.
"Because your experience value has met the upgrade requirements, and you have already experienced the high-level field. Your ninth copy experience has offset the upgrade field, and you have successfully promoted to a high-level field player."
The line of small characters only flickered in the air for a short while before disappearing completely.
The room was very quiet, and Lin Huai didn't hear any more beeps. The half-chained door was still in his room, silent.
Nor had he heard the voice of the shadow.
He let himself sink into the sofa and looked at the sky. After a long time, he raised a hand, put it on his forehead, and said, "Well, I seem to be angry..."
In the empty space, there is no echo.
"But what are you angry about?" After a long time, he stared at the sky and thought, "It's so troublesome... It seems that it needs to be coaxed to get better?"
Thinking of this, he kept this matter to the bottom of his heart. For Lin Huai, it was very convenient to coax Chu Tianshu. Although they often quarrel with elementary school students until now, they have never had a real cold war. Even if he offended Chu Tianshu one time, Chu Tianshu just nestled back on the sofa to read comics, and when he saw him approaching, he picked his ears and asked him "what's the matter".
"System, system?" Lin Huai tapped the wall with his fingers, "Where is the advanced field camp? I want to go to the advanced field camp? System?"
He barked a lot before he realized—
Hey, the system didn't seem to talk to him this time
In the past, every time he entered the space, the system would say "Welcome back" to him, but this time... he didn't seem to hear these four words
"Is this some kind of Tmall ○ city killing activity? After becoming a high-level VIP, there will be no welcome service, and no voice service?" Lin Huai muttered, "There is no chance to send it out. Shut up here?"
system:…
After a long time, a line of black characters appeared on the white wall.
"Push open the door and enter the advanced field camp."
Lin Huai:?
Lin Huai's system space is very simple - pure white, a sofa, a display screen, a lottery drawer, nothing more. Therefore, when he looked to the right, he found the new door that he had overlooked.
Lin Huai got up from the sofa, grabbed the doorknob, and pushed the door open. The moment the door was opened, the blowing wind messed up his forehead hair and made Lin Huai narrow his eyes.
The next moment, everything outside the door, along with all the noise, finally rushed towards us!
Lin Huai stood at the door of her space, stunned.
At that moment, the wind blew his forehead hair, and he stood there blankly, looking like an ordinary slender young man for the first time. The huge setting sun was reflected in his eyes, and his pale face seemed a little weak at this moment.
Weak and beautiful.
This is a place that is difficult to describe in words. What he saw was a huge sunset. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, it was the camp he was in, or the city.
Beside Lin Huai, countless capsule-shaped buildings are stacked and placed like building blocks. And the place where Lin Huai came out is also one of these countless building blocks.
He looked back at the space he left. Judging from its appearance, it was indeed a long capsule. But when he walked in, it became a pure white space.
Lin Huai walked around her own space. It was not until he had completed the circle that he stood where the door of the chains should have been. There, he could only see smooth walls. Lin Huai put his hands on the wall, thinking.
"This is the high-level field?" He said to himself, "And this capsule is my space?"
He was thinking like this when he suddenly heard a strange voice behind him. Lin Huai turned around, and there was such a capsule not far behind him. However, that capsule was in the blink of an eye...
It disappeared!
The place where the capsule used to be is now just an empty flat field. Lin Huai blinked, and he heard another voice behind him: "That senior player is dead."
"Why, it feels terrible, right? Here, people simply disappear, leaving no trace." The man continued, "You think the same way, right? You just Are you coming to the high-end field? Are you going to report in the lobby soon? Can we be together? Ah, I don’t know why, but when I see your back, I always feel that you look familiar, as if I’ve seen it somewhere before, hahaha Of course it’s not a word to strike up a conversation with, I only like pretty girls…”
In his field of vision, the young man looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, looking a little bright and sad, shook his head and said, "I didn't think that much, I thought just now..."
that person:
Lin Huai: "The system is taking medicine."
that person:…
Lin Huai turned around, and when he saw that familiar face, that person's expression froze.
Then, tears welled up in my eyes.
"Ah!! Brother Lin!!" Lu Xiaotian made a huge voice, "Why did you come to the high-level field?? How are you so fast??"
Lin Huai:?
"It's me, it's me, I'm Lu Xiaotian, a young genius in the mid-level field, the savior of the civilized world, the founder of the Greenhouse Entertainment Company, the old enemy of Zhao Jingtian, the cold-faced knife king, and the fateful friend and partner of No. 81..."
"Wait, what's the matter with the last two titles." Lin Huaixu said with a narrowed eye, "Let me think about it, I seem to have a little impression of you..."
Lu Xiaotian showed expectant eyes.
After a long time, he finally heard Lin Huai's voice: "I really remembered."
Lu Xiaotian: "If you think about it, I am a young genius in the middle class, the savior of the civilized world, the friend of fate on the 81st and..."
Lin Huai: "I think you seem to be my fan."
Lu Xiaotian: ...
"No, I remember wrong." Lin Huai uttered the next sentence coolly in Lu Xiaotian's expectant eyes, "You seem to be bought for me by the surname Chu, fake fan."
Lu Xiaotian: ...
…
"The advanced field camp is composed of the sky city in the center, the four main cities and various functional cities under the sky city. In total, there are nineteen cities in total. Except for specific functional cities, the higher the ranking The more prosperous the city, this is what I heard people say in the upgrade field."
Walking with Lu Xiaotian is really beneficial. Although Lu Xiaotian's words are as much as his hair, there are always many effective messages in those words. For example, now, Lin Huai is in his infinite bar, and roughly knows the functions of each city.
"Of course, most of these cities are occupied by specific power groups, or there are different players forming groups here. For example, the city of mercenaries, the city of visa officers and smugglers, the city of medical treatment, etc. There are Some city-states are warlike, some are peace-loving, each city-state has different characteristics, we need to discover these later..." Lu Xiaotian said.
Lin Huai walked with him on the streets of this "capsule city". There are similar capsule rooms, large and small, along the streets. Occasionally, he passed by an area with a relatively concentrated flow of people, where many players gathered and set up stalls listlessly.
"Of course, the first thing we have to do is to register our information in the municipal center in the capsule city, so that we can officially activate our identity. Only after we have the ID code can we legally stay in the city-state and use it in many places. Transportation in this city-state." Lu Xiaotian said happily, "By the way, we are now located in the sixteenth city, and it is also the birth point of all players, where the dream first started..."
Lin Huai thought for a while, and thoughtfully said: "Sounds very good, 16/20, at least it's an average level..."
Lu Xiaotian: "Oh, the seventeenth city is a visa city, a functional city, so it's not included in the ranking."
Lin Huai: "... Where is the Eighteenth City?"
"The Eighteenth City is full of fish and dragons, and its nickname is the City of Sin. Many players on the wanted list live in the Eighteenth City. It also has a nickname, Za'an City." Lu Xiaotian said.
"...It's really a way to vividly show the degree of danger of the city-state." Lin Huaixu said with eyes, "It must be there, only the strong can have a mother, then..."
"The nineteenth city is a garbage city, it's full of ice and snow, and it's full of all kinds of garbage. Only those who can't survive in the eighteenth city will go to the nineteenth city." Lu Xiaotian said, "I heard that the only advantage of the people there is that they don't need to sort garbage."
Lin Huai: "... that's really a huge benefit."
"Then the twentieth city is where the prisoners who violated the camp agreement and were exiled here are held. It is said that the people imprisoned there are the most dangerous gamers, or the lowest level of scum among gamers. They can enter the dungeon, but after leaving the dungeon, as long as they enter the high-level camp, they will be wanted and imprisoned... "
"Wait, the twentieth city? Didn't you just say that there are nineteen city-states in total? The Sky City is the first city, and the four connected city-states are the second to fifth cities, and they are lined up in order. It is the sixth city to the nineteenth... "
Seeing that the municipal center was not far away, Lu Xiaotian lowered his voice and said: "Because it is said that a year or two ago, there was a thirteenth city, but..."
"It seems that because of something, the Thirteenth City disappeared!" Lu Xiaotian said, his eyes flashed with horror, "The entire Thirteenth City kept shrinking, and finally, it was sucked in by something like a black hole. And since then, the entire Thirteenth City has disappeared!"
Lin Huai listened to his words, and cooperated: "So it's so powerful?"
"Well, it is said that there is a person who did something terrible, causing the entire Thirteenth City to disappear." Lu Xiaotian lowered his voice out of fear, while mysteriously saying, "The name of that person, in the Absolute no-no in the entire senior field camp, but…”
He looked around vigilantly, and seeing that no one was paying attention, he continued to stick to Lin Huai's ear and whispered to him, "But I've heard something about him..."
Lin Huai's back straightened slightly, and he keenly noticed that there seemed to be some people with cold temperament in the nearby streets.
These people look nothing like the other players walking around. They stood there, pretending to be unintentional, but actually their sharp eyes scanned the surroundings, as if they were trying to find someone among the people coming and going...
Lin Huai remembered the puppeteer's earrings.
He suddenly understood something.
He pretended that he didn't find anything, and continued talking to Lu Xiaotian: "What kind of person is that?"
"Huh? Brother Lin, you don't look like someone who would be interested in such things?"
"I have a friend who is very interested in this matter." Lin Huai did not blink his eyelids, "He is also very interested in how other people describe this person."
"Oh..." Lu Xiaotian responded, then, after thinking for a while, he said in a low voice, "That person's nickname is 'Crow', do you know why?"
Lin Huai glanced at the people under the tree in the distance, and said, "I don't know."
"It is said that this nickname was given to him by those passers-by, because he really looks like a crow." Lu Xiaotian said, "I heard that this person..."
Lin Huai held his breath.
"He's black, black as a raven."
Lin Huai: ...
"His voice was terrible, he croaked like a crow."
Lin Huai: ...
"Also, he lost his hair and eyes, like a crow..."
"You don't need to talk about it." Lin Huai said weakly, "I think that 'crow' is still a burly man."
Lu Xiaotian: "That's not true, I heard that he is very thin and tall, hey..."
"Eh?" Lu Xiaotian looked at the hall in front of him, "The order inside is pretty good, and it's also very quiet, much better than the political hall in reality..."
There is a sofa in the hall. Lin Huai glanced over and saw a person sitting on the sofa at a glance.
Black clothes, black hair, white skin.
Chen Lixue.
Xia Xingye's... half-brother.
Unlike other people in every corner who were looking at him coldly. Chen Liexue just sat on the sofa, wiping a long knife with a handkerchief.
The knife is long and black. Usually it is carried on his back.
But no one would doubt the power of that knife—the blade hidden in the scabbard, once it comes out, it will definitely see blood!
Lin Huai lowered his gaze. He didn't intend to go crazy here, but was running his head very fast. Obviously, these weird mercenaries gathered here in the registration hall...
They were obviously looking for him.
Come to the "crow" as the puppeteer calls it.
Before dying, the puppeteer used the earring to send out the message "The crow is still alive, he is coming back...". But obviously, he didn't have time to say more, and he didn't have a chance to reveal which dungeon he was in, and Lin Huai, even an unexpected intruder in this dungeon, wanted to chase after him. His whereabouts became even more difficult.
"The Crow" returns to the advanced field camp. Where will he be most likely to go
'... But no matter how you look at it, I feel that these people really misjudged my prediction. Lin Huai twitched her eyebrows in her heart, "Obviously, even if I really come back, I won't obediently go back to the government affairs hall at the birth point to register for a household registration... What kind of legal citizen would do this. If it were me...'
He thought about the city-states that Lu Xiaotian introduced just now: "Well, according to the general prediction, I should go to the city of Zaan, or the city of ice and snow. However, other people should easily predict my prediction, so instead, the most dangerous place is the safest place, and I will go to the four most prosperous cities, but the risk of exposure there is even higher. And maybe they will predict the prediction after I predict their prediction. Therefore, instead, the birth point has become the least predictable place... Wait, isn't this back to the first floor? '
'This Chen Liexue... seems to be my former boss. Is he on the first floor, or is he on a very high floor far away? '
The waiting line was quiet and orderly. Lu Xiaotian whispered again: "I heard that as long as you have accumulated enough merits and plots and passed the exam, you can stay in the camp and serve as civil servants. Of course, they can only take on the least important positions. Therefore, the first Liucheng is also known as the city of exams, where there are cram schools for civil servant exams everywhere, and candidates who want to stay in the camps... "
Lin Huai: ...
He pretended that he didn't see Chen Liexue, nor did he feel the other person's eyes on him.
Sitting at the end of the line are some weird dolls. Whenever a person arrives, one of them lifts its eyelids to give him a glance and tells him to place his finger on a stone, while the other puppet types on the same weird keyboard to enter the person into the system.
The whole process was quiet and fast, until a woman with long curly hair came to the stage. She seemed a little nervous, and even the mercenaries nearby looked at her frequently.
The puppet raised its eyelids and glanced at her, and the woman put her finger on the stone—
"Ah-ah!!"
The originally transparent stone turned blood red in an instant. At that moment, all the mercenaries were ready to go. And the puppet grinned.
"Ah." It said in a strange voice, "Your soul—has already registered here once."
"Second registration! Second registration!"
"Hidden identity! Hidden identity!"
"illegal!"
The woman howled miserably, and the stone seemed to have a huge suction force, making it impossible for her to leave the stone. A few mercenaries were about to step forward, but the man in the black windbreaker raised his hand.
That move seemed to carry infinite power, and soon, all the mercenaries returned to their previous state.
All the players are trembling. They finally figured out where the red stone was coming from - it wasn't any optical reaction or something, the flowing red that was inside -
It's that woman's blood!
The blood was finally drained. The woman fell to the ground withered. Several puppets came up, and one of them grabbed the chin of the mummy and mercilessly tore off the woman's skin.
Under that layer of dry skin, there is actually another layer of skin!
There is another person... hidden in that layer of woman's skin!
"The fugitive from the twentieth city is going to call the twentieth city again." A puppet moved to the phone, and the puppet in charge of registration continued, "next."
The other players saw that the dolls cleaning up the scene took out a bottle—after the bottle was taken out, the invisible soul that was fleeing in the sky screamed and was imprisoned in the bottle. They shook the bottle and locked it again.
"this is… "
"The city hall has the means to identify players from the soul. Each person can only register once."
"Multiple registrations, being identified, if it is a criminal, it will be wiped out..."
"Damn it, it's too disgusting to hide it in the skin."
The players whispered. Lin Huai took a step back indiscriminately, and then...
A cold feeling attached to his spine.
Chen Liexue was looking at him.
He was watching him, all the mercenaries in the city were watching him, waiting for him. They are here, looking for the return of the legendary "crow".
Lin Huai didn't know that before he stepped into the camp, a message had entered the mailboxes of many mercenaries.
"A high reward is offered to find the 'crow'."
The sender is the Mercenary Association.
There is no need to bring a high amount of money, just the word "crow" is enough to attract many mercenaries desperately trying to find his whereabouts!
As long as he makes any suspicious actions, then they will try their best to investigate him and finally identify his true identity. They are not only Chen Liexue, not only the puppeteer, but also many high-level players. They are frantically looking for him with various purposes!
Seeing, the next one is Lu Xiaotian. Lu Xiaotian put his hand on the stone, the puppet raised his eyelids and looked at him, another puppet hit the keyboard, the code belonging to Lu Xiaotian was entered into the system.
Something like a string of passwords flashed by. It flashed so fast that only Lu Xiaotian could see it clearly. Lu Xiaotian wrote it down, and said to himself: "So this is my identification code... My high-level player status has been activated!"
As he said that, he patted Lin Huai on the shoulder and said enthusiastically, "Brother Lin, you come to register too, we can have a good time in the city later!"
The colorless stone was right in front of Lin Huai. Lin Huai stared at it for a long time without moving.
The people behind looked at Lin Huai, and seemed to be slightly agitated, and the mercenaries around him also looked over.
Lin Huai watched it for a long, long time.
In the end, he sighed: "No, I still have to..."
The mercenaries are ready to go.
Then…
They saw Lin Huai and took out a bag of...
Alcohol wipes? ?
Lin Huai took the alcohol wipes and wiped the stone skillfully and brutally. The puppets stared at him dumbfounded.
"Sorry." Lin Huai said, "I'm a bit of a clean freak."
Lin Huai put the wipes back into the bag, and he looked at everything in front of him, curling up the corners of his lips.
And resolutely, put his hand on the stone.