Absolute Death Game-Chapter 486 - 52 The Story of Bai Yunfei_3
"You guys need to leave that place quickly," Xiao Buli said, "the system fugitive warrant will start issuing in 48 hours, and by then all players will begin hunting them down."
"Mm-hmm, the first thing Zhang Yaoyang did when he came back was to lead us on a continued flight. We entered the forest because there are fewer players there, and although there are more monsters, they are all within our ability to handle. We started living like we did in the beginning, but it was precisely during that time we mostly lived in the jungle, killing monsters for experience, occasionally finding small instances to beat and getting equipment drops. Everyone's leveling up was quite fast. This went on for almost twenty-something days, then our food supply became critical again. The stuff we looted from the villages wasn't enough to keep us going, so we pooled some money together and sent Zhang Yaoyang to a nearby village to buy some food because he was the only one among us who wasn't a wanted fugitive. He came back very late that day, looking extremely bedraggled; it turned out he was attacked by everyone shortly after entering the village, and the people who approached him automatically became aggressive monsters. Fortunately, the village he went to wasn't big, and there weren't any particularly powerful NPCs, otherwise he might not have been able to make it back alive."
"But he didn't participate in the massacre of the village, and he's not a wanted fugitive, so why did that happen?" Xiao Buli was somewhat puzzled; generally, the NPCs in villages are neutral units and wouldn't attack without any particular reason.
"Exactly, we were baffled at the time. Then Zhang Yaoyang told us about when he went to the Nuwa Temple to resurrect his sister. One of the Nuwa attendants gave him three warnings: stay away from cities, find your true self, redeem yourself. He didn't understand the meaning at the time, but now it seems he understands why he was told to stay away from cities. If this sort of situation isn't a coincidence, then cities would be nothing but a monster-filled castle to him."
"Oh~, I get it now." A lightbulb went off in Xiao Buli's head, "You are intruders to the system, so the system wants to eliminate you. You are like aliens invading Earth, and no matter what your intentions are, the first thing that earthlings think when they see you is to get rid of you." He had discussed this issue with the old man Wuming when they talked about the Ancestral Dragon entering the game, so now he immediately understood. He had doubted the old man's theory when he learned that Nine Dragons City showed no unusual changes after the Ancestral Dragon's invasion, but it looked like the theory was valid.
"Yeah, if we had known this earlier, we wouldn't have been foolish enough to enter the game and become public enemies, right? Anyway, after we realized this problem, we thought the situation was serious. If it kept up like this, we would have to spend our whole lives in the game on the run, even if we hadn't massacred any villages. That's when that voice in my head, what did you call it? A Heart Demon?"
"Yes, that's what the Taoists call it," Xiao Buli explained.
"Anyway, it told me that as long as I gave up control of my body, I could be freed from this state. We would become part of the game and preserve our lives. It wasn't just me; gradually, everyone began to show signs—strange mumbling, spacing out, doubting life, becoming irritable or violent, and so on. Negative emotions started to explode. I couldn't take it anymore, so under the name Yaoyang, I gathered everyone for a meeting and frankly told them about the voice I heard. As it turned out, everyone admitted they too heard that strange voice. I think it's very likely this was Nuwa's second piece of advice, finding the true self. Who is the real one? Is it our main body, or that voice inside us? In the end, of course, no one wanted their bodies controlled by someone else, to become a Walking Corpse, even if it had the same memories as us, because then it wouldn't be us anymore. Eventually, we decided to look for a solution. We went back to Nine Dragons City. Since we were now public enemies, we didn't have to play by the rules anymore—coercion and threats, theft and kidnapping, and finally, we slowly found a possible solution, which was to traverse the Barbaric Forest and find the Pure Land of the Ancient God, and look for the Ancient Temple. We didn't have any other choice and found the nearest Teleportation Portal to start our journey together."
"Was that Teleportation Portal in Blackwind Stronghold?" As Bai Yunfei was telling the story, Xiao Buli suddenly remembered the ghost of Liu Xing he found in the channel leading to the portal.
"How did you know that? Oh right, you're now the leader of Blackwind Stronghold, what a coincidence, huh?" Bai Yunfei suddenly remembered that Xiao Buli had mentioned when telling him about his experiences that he had taken over Blackwind Stronghold and now had a significant armed force. These events did indeed make one frustrated; they entered the game and in order to survive, had to become the ghostly things they were now, but Xiao Buli, who had joined the game later than they did, actually had his own stronghold now.
"I discovered the Undead of Liu Xing in the channel," Xiao Buli didn't mention the reluctant act of killing Liu Xing's ghost, as that would upset everyone's feelings.
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"Oh," Bai Yunfei reacted to Xiao Buli's comment, as if he suddenly remembered something, but like their massacre of the village, Bai Yunfei didn't like this topic. He cleared his throat softly before speaking in a low tone, "The bandits were chasing us, and Liu Xing stayed behind to cover our escape, but he never caught up."
