The airship landed safely on the island, and the passengers left one after another. Several men and women who wore the same uniform as Al boarded the airship and took away the two robbers who had not woken up.
Chen Baiqi smiled at the four of them friendly, and left with the little girl who seemed to be her sister.
"Here we are, here is Sunset Island, the settlement of players in Dusk Township. I haven't returned here for many years, and I really miss it." Su He looked at Sunset Island, which was sleeping in the sunset, and said softly.
Qi Le people stood at the hatch and looked at this small island together. It was like a pure land in the ocean, exuding a longing but dreaded atmosphere under the bright sunset. In the nightmare game, he heard them mention this island in the conversation with the NPC, but he had never been there, and he was a little regretful at this time. If only I had been more serious about the game back then...
Dr. Lu stuck his head out from behind Qi Le: "Let Rang Rang Rang, stand aside, don't get in the way of the goblins!"
"That's right, the two of you are more conscious!" Xue Yingying also said.
Qi Le and Su He were driven aside, and they simply walked down the airship along the metal escalator and followed the sparse crowd to the outside.
"This should be called a steampunk style? It's strange, that airship looks no different from a ship at sea. It's incredible that it can fly in the air." Qi Leren pointed back at the spaceship and said.
"There are too many incredible things here." Su He said with a smile.
The four of them walked through the narrow street and came to an iron bridge. The surrounding buildings are full of a mechanical and decadent style. Walking here is like walking through a large factory area in the industrial revolution era. Steam pipes, which discharge cloud-like steam into the sky.
"This restaurant is very famous. I was there when I was practicing in the Land of Twilight. I was worried about what to do if the owner was gone," Su He said.
"The boss is also a player?" Dr. Lu immediately realized the key.
Su He nodded: "There are also some players here who don't rely on quests to earn survival days, such as Chen Baiqi, Al, and the others, all have other survival days income, but the monthly mandatory quest is impossible to escape. dropped."
The three nodded understandingly, and followed Su He into this seemingly ordinary restaurant.
To be honest, the environment here is not very good. Qile people think that this place will definitely not pass the health quarantine. The dim lighting cannot cover up the mottled marks on the walls and the ground. There is a faint smell of oil in the restaurant - all the way. After getting this taste, Qi Leren felt that his nose was about to be scrapped, so that the aroma of the food became a little subtle.
The four found a small box where they could talk quietly. It took Xue Yingying a little psychological construction to let herself sit down on the sofa that didn't look so clean. Dr. Lu had a dead look on her face, trying to overcome the doctor's occupational disease. After barely sitting down, it was Qi Le who sat down casually, picked up the greasy menu and looked at it.
"It's all Western food?" Qi Le people have a general feeling for Western food, and are even more insensitive to those suspicious foods on the menu that can't be seen.
"There are also Chinese restaurants you want to find. Go there next time." Su He said warmly.
Waiting for the time to be served, the three fresh and tender newcomers can finally start to talk about their stomachs full of questions. The most concerned and most important question is how to return to the real world.
In the expectant eyes of the three, Su He sighed indistinctly: "You really asked a question that I can't answer. It should be said that no one living here can answer it."
"If I die here, can I go back?" Xue Yingying asked expectantly.
"If you have the courage, you might as well try it, but no matter whether you succeed or fail, people living here will not know." Su He said lightly.
"It shouldn't be possible," Dr. Lu said suddenly and firmly. "If it was possible, the two robbers on the airship wouldn't risk their lives to ask for the number of days to live."
Su He nodded lightly: "It is said among players that if you die, you will die, you can't go back, you will disappear forever in the real world, and you will also disappear in the nightmare world. If you want to really return to the real world, you must clear the main quest completely. this game."
Completely over? To what extent is it completely over? Qi Leren thought of a lot in an instant... The "Nightmare Game" he played did indeed have main quests, but he died too fast in the main quest, and he didn't make up his mind at all.
"As for the main game, we must talk about the history of Nightmare World." Su He patiently told them the history of Nightmare World.
"The beginning of the nightmare world was probably more than 20 years ago. According to the clues collected by the players, the first batch of players entered here about 22 years ago, but the earliest players have already The disappearance should be dead. And for the nightmare world, the biggest change started more than 20 years ago." The never-falling sunset outside the blurry small window shines warm afterglow into this dim room. The room also illuminated the profile of Su He Junmei. He spoke softly and eloquently.
"Twenty-two years ago, the Demon King opened the door to the human world through the sacrifice of believers, led a group of demons to the human world, and took advantage of the eclipse to capture the Holy See, the holy city that suppressed the seal of the demon world. Trapped in never-ending chaos, demons slaughtered and enslaved a large number of human beings, and after gaining enough faith and a steady stream of sacrifices, they returned to the demon world contentedly, leaving behind a devastated, faith-collapsed human world."
"Since then, human beings have become confused about where they will go. Some people are content with the status quo, believing that this is the doomsday judgment, the punishment of the gods for the degenerate human beings. They followed the Holy See to move to Neverland and rebuild their homes. People have to fight the devil to the end, so this group of people has been committed to building a place that can preserve human civilization since the invasion of the demons more than 20 years ago, that is, the land of dawn and the land of dusk. These two places are located in The two ends of the human world are thousands of miles apart. For some unknown reason, the sun is always in the sunset in the land of dusk, and it is always dawn in the land of dawn. The commoners live there and start their lives again. Some people of insight believe that the demons will come back sooner or later, unfortunately, their judgment is correct, three years ago, the demons came to the human world for the second time."
"Come back?" Xue Yingying whispered with a bitter face.
Su He smiled with a good temper: "Yes, but this time, the people who lead the Demon Race are no longer the Demon Kings more than 20 years ago, but three new Demon Kings, symbolizing power, killing and deception. Under their leadership, the demons once again came to the human world to stir up disputes and absorb beliefs. Because of the particularity of the land of dawn and the land of dusk, these two places are difficult to conquer, so it is still peaceful, but once Leaving these two areas, the human beings outside are living in dire straits, some have converted to the Demon Race, and some are still struggling to survive."
The more and more Qi Leren listened, the more frightened they became. This background was too familiar, it was completely the background in "Nightmare Game"!
"The background of this story should be related to the player, right?" Dr. Lu pondered for a while and asked, "Is there any main quest that requires us to help humans defeat the demons?"
"I'm afraid it will be difficult." Su He said lightly, "This time the demon invasion has not ended. Although most of the demons have returned to the demon world, the passage has not been closed, and they can enter and exit the human world at any time, and there are still many inferiors. Demons are wandering outside, and these are not easy for players to deal with, let alone the Demon King."
The three of them couldn't help but feel a little frustrated, but for the newcomers, it was hard enough to survive here, and they couldn't think about longer-term things for the time being.
The dish had been delivered. Su He glanced at the lamb chops in front of him and asked, "Has the original chef changed?"
The waiter took a beat before asking back, "Which chef do you mean? It's not been long since I came here. I heard that eight chefs have changed in three years."
Su He stared at him blankly for a while, and there was a rare confusion in those bright black eyes. He politely thanked him, and then took a knife and fork and said regretfully to the three of them, "It seems that I can't invite you. You guys have eaten the lamb chops that made me reminisce for three years. It's a pity, I really like that taste..."
Su He's words lingered in the silent afterglow, accompanied by the roar of the locomotive driving by outside the window, the life of Qi Leren and others in this nightmare world officially began.