Chapter 160 The Old Man Telling Stories


    “Are we going to meet up with other players?” Tao Chengxin asked as he followed the girl in the white dress.


    In addition to them and the dead Shen Tai, there are also Wang Qiao, Gao Baimei and Tang Yuan.


    "Of course not." Sun Jiju said: "Those three people are not honest, especially Tang Yuan."


    “The two players who held him hostage the day before yesterday probably died in his hands.”


    Of course, Tao Chengxin was not really so kind to bring the others with her. She was worried: "The third task of the dungeon is to find things. The three of us are a bit small."


    “There were other players who didn’t show up yesterday and followed us.” She looked at Xu Huo, “Is that player and Tang Yuan together?”


    “You want to know?” Xu Huo asked unclearly.


    Tao Chengxin was not sure what he meant, so he hesitated and said, "Actually, I don''t really want to know."


    The girl in the white dress walking in front smiled and said, "If you want to know, it''s very simple. Yesterday, three groups of people came to see me. The first was a man and woman, the middle was a ruthless man, and the third was polite. , gave me money.”


    “Mr. Xu must know these three groups of people. You installed a monitor on my umbrella and you should have heard our conversation.”


    Tao Chengxin and Sun Jiro looked at Xu Huo at the same time. His expression at this time was completely different from yesterday. They had always felt that something was a little strange before, but they were so nervous that they never realized it. Now that they were reminded by the girl in the white skirt, they realized People here are pretending to be pigs and eating tigers!


    Xu Huo did not deny that his goal had been achieved.


    “If Wang Qiao and Gao Baimei didn’t go to the Jimu Bun Shop, they must have gone to the Xianmei Sausage Shop. As for the person following me, if he were alone, there would be no need to question me and the tour guide.”


    He looked at the girl in the white skirt and said, "You told him about the Bear Claw Restaurant and the Sausage Shop. If Tang Yuan goes there, the two of them will most likely be together."


    "You deliberately deceived us yesterday and asked us to check the authenticity of these places!" Sun Jirou immediately thought of his performance yesterday. He deliberately said confidently in front of other players that he had clues, but half-hidden them. The exposure was so fascinating that other players came up with the idea of ??following him!


    Tao Chengxin stared at Xu Huo, "We were all fooled!"


    "I didn''t expect anyone to be so cooperative beforehand." Xu Huo glanced at the girl in the white skirt with a pointed look. At most, he wanted to get some information from the local people, but his age range was thirty-five. Above, even if the elderly people in the Jimu Fairy Tale City are almost dead, no one can verify it.


    Let other players find people on their own initiative, which is more convenient than him using words to persuade.


    Whether anyone finds a clue or not, this is progress.


    It’s just that he didn’t expect that the girl in the white dress would take the initiative to show up.


    ?The girl in the white dress smiled but said nothing.


    A few people arrived at their destination quickly in silence.


    ??This is a small courtyard at the corner of the fairy tale city. The girl in the white skirt opened the door and invited them in.


    The yard was full of sunflowers. As soon as the four of them stepped in, the two sunflowers that were originally facing the door suddenly turned their backs.


    Xu Huo and Sun Jirou didn''t take it seriously, but Tao Chengxin was startled, "Isn''t this a prop?" The girl in the white skirt turned around and said, "I heard that this is a specialty of E19 Wormhole Point, and it''s called the not-so-smart sunflower. , likes to carry people on their backs.”


    Tao Chengxin said dubiously: "Has the sunflower become a spirit?"


    The girl in the white dress laughed, "Humans will evolve, and so will plants. This kind of sunflower generates a special pollen projection range under special circumstances. Its pollen will surround the sunflower to form a complete cycle. Once someone breaks this cycle, the sunflower will re-project pollen in another direction.”


    “That’s it.” Tao Chengxin said: “I have only seen evolved animals before, and this is the first time I have seen plants.”


    “Plants are not like animals, they do not change obviously.”


    ??The girl in the white skirt invited them into the house and said hello to the old man sitting in the rocking chair by the window, "Grandpa Bai, I''m back and I brought a few friends with me."


    ??The old man in the rocking chair seemed a little slow to react. It took him a few seconds to turn his head and said slowly: "Tea."


    ??The girl in the white skirt made tea, pushed the rocking chair next to the sofa, poured a cup for each person, and then raised the cup to feed the old man to drink.


    ??The old man''s hands were shaking so badly that he couldn''t hold the cup at all. He held the hand of the girl in the white skirt and drank two sips of tea, then smiled at her and said, "You drink."


    ??The girl in the white dress wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief.


    Xu Huo and the others did not touch the teacups, and the girl in the white skirt didn''t care. She held the teacup and said to the old man, "Grandpa Bai, they want to know what happened twenty years ago."


    The old man''s expression suddenly changed and he immediately asked: "Are they players?"


    After the girl in the white skirt nodded, he seemed a little excited and tried to sit up from the rocking chair, but before his back straightened, he fell back. In the end, he could only hold on to the armrest and gasp, "Okay, okay, as long as you are players, The truth about Fairytale City must be spread.”


    Sun Jirou and Tao Chengxin looked at each other and said, "Old man, please tell me about what happened twenty years ago."


    The old man''s cloudy eyes were shining brightly, and he said: "There used to be players in the fairy tale city, but unfortunately they were all killed by the people from the government office."


    "Twenty years ago, not long after Fairy Tale City entered the game, the government department deceived many players into LT Biopharmaceutical Company with lies about cultivating players, and conducted experiments on players. In less than two years, they developed a drug that can A potion that allows ordinary people to evolve quickly."


    “When evolvers first start using this medicine, their physical strength and intelligence will increase rapidly. Over time, xenogeneic symptoms will appear.”


    “But LT only told the players that this was a side effect of the medicine, and the symptoms could be relieved by taking the antidote they developed.”


    "Players are not all fools. After entering the dungeon, some people discovered the truth and united other players to resist LT. However, they unexpectedly framed them as cannibal players and injected them with a large amount of evolution potions, allowing them to survive in a short period of time. Become a human being and a ghost.”


    "Some players were deceived into helping LT hunt down alienated players. Players who knew the truth died and those who were caught were caught. Those greedy people wanted more players to get useful props and weapons from the dungeon. , actually put the medicine into the drinking water system of Fairy Tale City. "


    "In just three months, half of the tens of millions of people slowly turned into alien species." Tears flowed from the old man''s eyes. "In that month, the fairy tale city almost turned into a dead city. Except for the alien species, There is not a living person to be seen outside, there are rotten corpses and blood everywhere, and those who were once compatriots are wandering in the streets in groups, eating the remaining corpses when they are hungry..."


    (End of this chapter)