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Chapter 29 Malik's Shadow (5)

He turned into a peregrine falcon and rushed back. From a distance, he saw thick smoke in the city. The guards isolated the three floors of the lord's mansion. After returning to Jin Rose, he found out that Sherman had gone crazy and killed his wife and other close relatives after returning to the city, and set fire to the castle. Now there is nowhere to be found. The Dawn Sect, the noble council, and the guards are all looking for him. But Sherman was like evaporating on earth. Even the prophets only determined that he was still hiding in the city, but he could not determine the specific location.

The firefighting work continued until late at night, and the whole city was martial law only, but not out, and a curfew was imposed at night, and mercenaries outside the city were ordered not to cause trouble.

Without God's Revelation, Link could only wait patiently for the news from the spider web. Yuan Ye and Paine arrived at Aiden in darkness, and were trapped outside the city because they caught the curfew. Thanks to Hawke's Lingtong News Network, he knew that these two people, especially the bard, had a close relationship with Link, so he found someone to bring them into the city.

He dragged his tired body back to the tavern. As soon as he entered the room, he saw Link. Yuan Ye was angry for a day.

"I think we need to have a good talk."

"Listen attentively." Yuan Ye threw Mandolin and the Vine Armor Shield onto the bed, and stood waiting for Link's explanation. Paine wanted to avoid it, but was kept by Link.

"I told you before that this game was sent to me by my former classmate." Link did not tell Yuan Ye that his classmate had died because of this game. First, he felt that the matter had nothing to do with him, but he did not want to cause unnecessary panic.

"In fact...he died ten years ago because of the illusory world we are in."

Yuan Ye and Paine were both quite surprised. They had few players in contact with and did not know the dangers of the game as thoroughly as Link. In their opinion, this was just a magical real-life RPG.

"You won't even know that this game will kill people, right?" The expressions of the two made Link feel bad. It shouldn't be. They have been in the illusion for so long, how could they not know?

"What? Will you die if you play this?" Yuan Ye jumped up immediately. He had contacted more players than Paine, but everyone was a novice and had only a little understanding of the game.

"You don't know? Then why would you ask Lin Li for help in your dream and ask her to find a game expert to save you?" If it weren't for this, Link wouldn't have been re-entered into this strange illusion that had been avoided.

"Just kidding, I have the ability to fall asleep and will be trapped in the tomb by the necromancer? Besides, why should I find someone through her? I won't just look for my classmates who love to play games?"

Yuan Ye's words were like a basin of cold water that made Link feel cool.

Not Yuan Ye, who is that?

"Have Lin Li told you that I'm playing games?"

"I said, what does this matter?"

The relationship was so big. Seeing Yuan Ye’s face inexplicably, Link finally chose to hide it. He had no evidence and couldn’t explain what was going on. Why bother to scare everyone? Anyway, there are more than one weird things about this game. Pane interrupted and turned Yuan Ye’s attention away, so that he did not continue to get entangled on this topic.

"I only know that if the body dies in the game, it will affect the body in reality." Panen knew a little more than Yuan Ye, but it was limited to causing damage to the body. Hegu Town is located in a remote location and has been playing for almost half a year. Panen has only seen three players. He asked Link how he knew about this.

"The game disc sent by my classmate was secretly intercepted by my stepmother. I only recently learned that my classmate died because of this. If it weren't for him..." Link pointed at Yuan Ye, and finally did not use the adjective of "stolen". He continued to vaguely, "Actually, I also learned from my classmate's younger brother. In order to investigate the cause of his brother's death, he learned from him and his friends in the game that my classmate was framed by his friend, and his physical death in the fantasy and mentally trapped the game, which led to the physical body in reality becoming a vegetable. After the hospital announced his brain death, his family had to give up treatment."

After saying this, the room fell into silence.

Link took a deep breath, "I didn't mean to hide your profession. The old players I have come into contact with have repeatedly reminded me not to reveal their identity at will. Extraordinary professions can easily cause jealousy. There are many players who die because of this reason. If you feel unbearable, when I finish Lord Sherman's main mission, I will leave Aiden and find a map of the right level again."

"Who said I can't stand it!" Yuan Ye opened his mouth and finally said something that made him feel embarrassed. "I thought after this period of time, you have regarded me as a friend, not just your sister's boyfriend. Your behavior made me feel like an idiot."

Link obviously didn't expect to get such a reply. He was used to being alone and was used to considering things from his own perspective. Although he felt that it was a bit disgusting to hide it from Yuan Ye, he never changed his mind.

"I admit that I'm a little selfish in doing that... I'm sorry, I shouldn't think too badly."

"Okay, are you disgusting with two big men? It's like confession. It's not a big deal. Just smile and forget your grudges. Let's go down and have a drink?" Pan En inserted it in at the right time and suggested going downstairs to drink.

"Not now, at least we have to wait for the matter of Lord Sherman to be resolved." It was not because Link was deliberately disappointed, no one could guess the situation changed. What if there was news about Sherman in a while and the three of them were drunk?

"That's right. Tsk~ Why is this lord crazy? I'm not good at being a nobleman, I'm going to collude with the dead." Pann grabbed his hair irritably.

"How is your mission?" In addition to hiding your profession, Link's biggest guilt now is snatching Paine's mission props.

"As soon as I returned to the city meeting, I sent someone to notify me, saying that the task had changed and the higher-level members had taken over it, and asked me to wait and arrange it. I knew they were not kind. They were obviously an important task like a sacred object, but they insisted on sending people like me who were almost novice to participate. They just wanted to use me. If it weren't for you, I would have been in that base this time." Paine was quite open and didn't mind Link's concealment. There were not many such little secrets that were about their vital interests.

"You have been with me, how did they notify you?" Yuan Ye thought about not seeing other pedestrians on the way. Can this assassin's guild still transmit messages for thousands of miles?

"Assassin has a unique way of contact. Can it be considered a secret if he wants to communicate blatantly?" Pan En felt that Yuan Ye's IQ was helpless.

"Of course I know it's secret, I mean... Oh, forget it, you all think I'm an idiot." Yuan Ye lay on the bed in anger.

Without him interrupting, Paine and Link discuss Sherman's whereabouts.

Of course, it is impossible for the Lord Lord to hide in the burned family mansion. It has been turned over by the morning light, the council, and the guards. He has done such a way to cut off his back, which means that he can only transform the undead.

"Even if the magic position is used up, you can feel the breath of the undead." Paine asked. He knew nothing about the Son of Nature, but he could learn more than half of it by bringing in the Druid or Paladin.

Link nodded, taking the example of Morning Light, which is more famous in human cities, "I don't need to cast spells when perceiving the undead. Like the believers of Morning Light, I can sense the hostile camp without praying."

"Then you..." There is no need to say anything later. Link is still sitting here, which means he does not know where Sherman is. This can be understood as whether Sherman is a living person, or that he has a way to hide the breath of the dead.

"There are both, and I'm just a fledgling novice. What's worse than you is that I don't have a reference yet."

As we chatted, the topic turned to the main line of Son of Nature. Paine, who heard so much news for the first time, couldn't help but ask curiously, if the Northern Battle is lost and the undead goes south to turn the continent into a country with only death, what should these players do?

What else can I do? The game ends and players are going to die.

Link's answer made Panne and Yuan Ye, who had been listening to their conversation with their ears prickly, shudder. Why was the undead not mentioned in their mission?

"This... is probably related to profession. The son of nature and the undead are old enemies." Link said intact the explanation he heard from Gonzalez. The novice period is for players to adapt, the veteran period is for players to upgrade, and the expert period is for players to enter the expert period. The real main line must be revealed until the master. At this stage, there is no need to deliberately upgrade. If you can further advance to the peak, it will not be far from the final goal of summoning the gods.

"Has anyone ever succeeded?" Paine was skeptical about summoning the gods. "This is not a comic that can satisfy your wishes by collecting seven dragon balls. All we experience is almost real games."

"Maybe this is the real purpose of the guy who made the game, to summon things that do not belong to the earth."

Link: "…"

Paine: “…”

Yuan Ye: "What are you doing? I'm wrong again?"

Link: "Actually, I have had similar ideas."

Paine: "So too."

Yuan Ye was about to speak, but Link suddenly raised his hand to stop him.

"Wait, the druid is here, don't say in front of him that it will reveal that we are players."

Suddenly, a brisk pace rang out in the corridor, and then someone buckled the door twice. Yuan Ye opened the door, and it was indeed Jafar standing outside.

"Hauck wants to see you."

The servants who worked in the lord's residence suffered heavy casualties, including the maid who was wrapped in a spider web and arranged next to Sherman. In addition to burns, there were also serious knife injuries. Because she might have mastered the whereabouts of the lord, the priest of Chenxi had been treating her. Now, she was finally awake.

The map on Hawke's table includes Aiden's period. Sherman hid underground and was confirmed by almost all parties. However, Aiden is an old city with a history of hundreds of years. After wars between the orcs and the empire, it is impossible to find a mage who deliberately hides himself in such a city that rebuilt several times on the ruins, especially with night elves around him, which is simply impossible to complete.

Although the spider web has left the Alliance of Nature, because of its well-informed information, all parties are willing to spend a lot of money to buy news from it. Now it is not only the noble council and the guards, but even Chenxi, who cannot determine the exact location of Sherman, also sent an intermediary to contact him. Hawke refused one by one, and he really has no news about Sherman.

When Jafar brought Link into the room, he saw the scene of the intelligence leader of the spider-web branch paced back and forth in annoyance.

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