Chapter 198 Sunset Ruins

Qisi returned to Qijia Village, took the medicine to reduce fever, and then lay down on the bed and entered the game space.

This time he directly spent 200 points, and renewed the time for two hours in addition to the daily one-hour stay.

He covered his face with a human skin mask, pinched an ordinary, particularly gentle student face in front of the mirror, and dyed his pupils ordinary brown and black.

After making sure that there was no trace of "Qisi", he walked down the throne, walked all the way to the bronze door of the temple, and pushed the door out.

…

Strange Game Player Square, Sunset Ruins.

The dark yellow sky reflected the color of dusk, and a bloody sun hung on the horizon, never setting, and never rising.

The broken building debris lay on the ground, the skinny columns tilted east and west, the air was filled with lingering dust, and the traces of fire mixed with golden slurry crawled all over every corner.

A black tower rises from the ruins, overlapping and leading to the sky. The six iron doors on each floor are blocked, like a long-silent grave.

At first, this place had no name, just "Player Square" or "Game Hall".

Later, someone gave it the nickname "Sunset Ruins", which was unexpectedly appropriate and gradually spread among the player community.

Now, the weird game also recognizes this name.

The main body of Sunset Ruins is a golden giant tree, with deep roots extending to every corner like blood vessels, and half-real and half-virtual branches and leaves extending in all directions. There are floating light spots floating around, and the bright glow emanating from it gives the ruined scene a sacred atmosphere.

The tree is hung with golden fruits, and the vines growing inside and the figures of people coming and going can be seen through the translucent shell.

Under the tree is a large square, where men, women, young and old in different costumes come and go, sometimes disappearing among the branches and leaves, and sometimes appearing out of thin air.

Qi Si came out of the game space and stood beside the tree trunk in the center of the square. As soon as his vision settled, he saw a vine shadow hanging from the top of his head.

The giant tree growing in the Ruins of Sunset and the golden plant behind the high-backed chair are obviously of the same species, but they are much more luxuriant and stretch freely in infinite time and space, with no end in sight.

After Qi Si cast his gaze, the non-narrative information gently told him the name of the tree——

"World."

Under the World Tree, there is a row of stone tablets engraved with the rankings of players and guilds, which are slowly changing their rankings.

Qi Si had heard of it before, and walked over to hear a cold electronic sound from the bottom of his mind:

[You currently have five first-pass records and one list record]

Although the game will not actively inform the player whether it is the first pass after clearing the dungeon, Qi Si still has a general idea of ​​which dungeons his TE has cleared for the first time.

"Rose Manor", "Carnivore", "Hopeless Sea", "Grand Performance", "Red Maple Leaf Boarding School", exactly five.

As for the list...

Qisi walked to the new player list, and two lines of prompts appeared in front of him:

[This list only includes players who have cleared ten copies (excluding the novice pool) or less, and is ranked based on comprehensive military strength, skills, props and other dimensions]

[Your ranking is: 93]

The new player list only shows the top 100 players. Qisi looked at the end of the list and saw a row of records:

[93, ** (the player has not set a display nickname), male, cleared 4 copies]

Nearly half of the names of the players on the new player list are asterisks, so Qisi's record is not conspicuous among them.

The first on the list is a female player named "Li Yunyang", who is not discussed much in the forum. It is likely that she has never broadcast live and has few first pass records.

The top 20 players on the list have all cleared 10 copies. The older the qualifications, the more points and the more reward props, which is reasonable.

Qisi looked down and saw three familiar names.

[21, Chang Xu, male, cleared 6 dungeons]

[49, Dong Xiwen, male, cleared 6 dungeons]

[85, Lin Chen, male, cleared 3 dungeons]

He almost understood that martial power played a big role in this list, and the evaluation of the strength of props and skills was mostly based on whether they could directly help improve martial power.

Among them, I don’t know what props Lin Chen got after clearing the dungeon of "No. 33" in TE, but he was able to rush to the top of the newcomer list.

"Looking at it this way, I can't beat most of the people on the list." Qi Si sighed.

He has always been self-aware of his martial power, so he is quite satisfied with the ranking of 93.

In his opinion, he has been in a state of kneeling down at the slightest touch for a long time, and now he can be on the list thanks to the prop [Cursed Pendulum].

In fact, if only the survival probability in the dungeon is considered, Qi Si can be ranked very high; the old players who have cleared 10 dungeons in the middle of the list may fall directly off the list.

Although wisdom, knowledge and puzzle-solving skills cannot be quantified, they are very important in dungeons. Although Qis's abilities in these aspects may not be comprehensive and top-notch, he can always be ranked in the first echelon.

The newly acquired [Scarlet Priest] identity card gives him the ability to gain faith and transform faith into power. The [Soul Contract] skill allows him to recruit strong players for his own use, and his shortcomings in force may not be bridged by this.

His [Rose Heart], [Human Skin Mask] and other props may not seem to add much to force when taken out individually, but their compatibility is very good, and they can be linked and coordinated with each other to help him defraud and use others.

People without morals are prone to gaining an advantage in a crowd of law-abiding people. Even the strongest players may be killed by a small blade.

If a hundred players on the rookie list were put into a dungeon for a melee, Qis was confident that he could survive to the end through various operations that normal people could not think of.

Of course, there was no point reward for being on the list, and he was anonymous, so it made no difference to him whether he ranked high or low.

But, will someone combine the clearance records and the number of clearance dungeons to clarify a thread in a pile of intricate anonymous information and lock his existence?

Qis fell into deep thought.

…

Away from the main trunk of the world tree, the outer periphery of the square is surrounded by circles of European-style buildings made of stone slabs and dead branches, rendering the atmosphere of the doomsday wasteland.

Most of these buildings were built spontaneously by players to earn points that mean survival. It is full of entertainment such as gambling and eroticism that are not allowed by federal law. It is bustling and quite lively.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Yuhan entered the game space on time, and soon received the coordinates sent by Qis through the soul leaf.

Following the guidance of the leaves, she entered the player square, walked through the streets of Sunset Ruins, entered a secluded alley, and walked into the restaurant's private room.

There was only a plate of vegetables and two bowls of rice on the square table. A gentle young man in a white shirt sat behind the table, holding his chin with his hand in a trance.

Seeing her come in, the young man smiled at her gently: "Yuhan, long time no see."

The voice was particularly familiar, and Liu Yuhan would never forget it in her life. She realized belatedly that the young man in front of her with a strange face was Qi Si.

After only clearing a few copies, could even the face be changed?

Liu Yuhan thought of the expression "no self, all beings" for no reason, and sat down opposite Qi Si anxiously, with her hands on her knees stiffly.

Then the young man smiled and said, "I hope you will join the Jiuzhou Guild within a week - I believe that with your reputation, you will not be rejected."

She raised her eyes suddenly, and the young man was speaking cruel words with a childish face like a student: "After a week, if you still haven't succeeded, you will be wiped out."

The bright red contract scroll materialized in the air, and new golden handwriting was written on the last line as a supplementary clause.

Liu Yuhan saw her pale face in the young man's eyes, and her face became even paler as the last word fell.

She remembered that a week ago, when she joined the Tianping Church with all her might, the believer in charge of recruiting people also said to her: "We hope you can join the Jiuzhou Guild as soon as possible."

She kept silent at the time and never intended to really carry out this task.

When she was a rookie, she had come into contact with the Jiuzhou Guild, and always felt that it was just another tower that needed to be climbed. She had just escaped from the endless climb and just wanted to breathe freely.

Now the world has changed. With her reputation, she doesn't have to climb up from the bottom like ordinary people, but she is still unwilling to join and be a shameful undercover.

Jiuzhou, no matter how it shows its decline, is the "lighthouse" in the minds of players; their ideas, although illusory, have been her lifelong pursuit...

Liu Yuhan swallowed her saliva and said in a hoarse voice: "I have cleared twelve copies, and there are still eighty-eight copies left."

"Isn't this just right?" Qi Si tilted his head, smiling, "Joining a big guild like Jiuzhou, you may be able to find a way to deal with me in advance - who knows?"

How is it possible? Even if you find a way, you can kill me with just an idea...

Liu Yuhan thought bitterly, lowered her head and said nothing, but after a while, she heard the young man lower his voice and said in a seductive tone: "Let's make another deal."

The golden vines fluttered in the void, and the blood-colored scroll that had just faded not long ago solidified again.

The devil in charge of the contract smiled strangely: "As long as you can find solid evidence to lock me in from public information, I will let you go in advance."

"Records, lists, forums... You are always good at analyzing these, aren't you?"

Thanks to whoever gave me the name Hanjiang Chuxue for 5,500 coins! Thank you Rongke for 2,000 coins! Thank you Qi Zhining for 500 coins! Thank you Pretty Girl for 100 coins!