Great time travel

Chapter 34. Thinking about the future
On the morning of the tenth day when the Great Tomb of Nazarick descended on the different world, the fortress city.Rantel's outskirts
The sky on the grassland has already dawned, the fortress city.Lantel was trapped in a pitch-black hell deeper than night.

Although the majestic and tall city walls are still the same as before, they are no longer a barrier against foreign enemies, but instead become a cage that prevents citizens from escaping from hell.

As the sky gradually brightened, even though the bright sun had fallen on the ground, the entire city seemed to be shrouded in a layer of dark miasma.There are not only the smoke from the wooden houses being burned by the fire, but also the evil black air caused by the raging undead creatures: this is the member of the evil organization behind the scenes, after sacrificing the whole city to the dead, because A terrifying spectacle caused by monstrous negative energy!
However, even though the whole city has been engulfed by the undead frenzy and turned into a paradise for the dead, some citizens, militiamen and adventurers escaped after all. Running desperately in the wilderness outside.It's just that their nightmare doesn't seem to be over yet.Not long after that, the undead creatures in the city also rushed out from the open city gate, continuing to hunt and kill the surviving people...

Although the undead creatures chased out at first were just some zombie skeletons and the like, not only were they slow in movement and unresponsive, but their combat power was pitifully weak.But those survivors who escaped by chance have already become terrified birds, and they are still so frightened that they shiver and their livers are torn apart!So these people didn't dare to resist at all, and just ran away with their heads covered. Many of them saw Sebastian's campfire and ran over to ask for help.

Therefore, the more than 200 low-level adventurers who were hired by the butler Sebastian to work in the forest as laborers had no choice but to take up weapons and go forward to fight, trying to destroy these undead creatures and rescue the survivors who escaped from the city—— It is also their job as adventurers.

"...【Negative Energy Protection】!" "...【Magic Arrow】!" "...【Lightning Strike】!"

"...【Martial Skill: Unfalling Fortress】!" "...【Martial Skill: Double Slash】!" "...【Martial Skill: Thrust】!"

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Accompanied by bursts of shouts in various accents, magical auras one after another, and the whistling of sharp blades piercing the air, all kinds of undead creatures fell to the ground in groups.Due to the barrier of the triple city wall, there are not many undead creatures that really spewed out of the city, and their level is not too high. kilometers away.After one of the most threatening ghouls was burned to charcoal by a fireball from a certain cat mage, the surroundings of the camp finally calmed down temporarily.

And more and more refugees who fled the city in a hurry and were at a loss at this time also noticed the movement here, and rushed over to join them-the city is surrounded by endless empty grasslands, which are so flat that it is almost like a desert. Zhang Dabing, there is nothing to block the line of sight.

After listening to these survivors' descriptions of the tragic situation in the city, the bronze and iron adventurers who slept in the outskirts were either filled with righteous indignation or distraught—although, like temporary workers in all metropolises around the world, the fortress city.The adventurers in Lantier are mainly foreigners, but there are also many people who have already settled down in the city, have relatives, friends and children... However, in the end, they can only sigh silently and look at the land in the distance. A ruined city, choked with tears for a long time: such a heinous catastrophe, it is really not something they low-level adventurers can contend with.

Next, Ainz, the Lich King who was in the great tomb of Nazarick, also learned about the fortress city Yeh through [message] magic.The tragedy that happened in Lantel suddenly turned pale with shock, he quickly changed his clothes and put on a mask, and opened the [Transportation Gate] to rush over.But at this time, the fortress city.Lantil's destruction has long been a foregone conclusion. Apart from standing in the wild and lamenting the vicissitudes of ups and downs, he didn't know what to do for a while.

"...Didn't it mean that this place has been a place where undead often occur since ancient times, have the locals already gotten used to it? How could it be such a tragedy?"

Looking at the fortress city that has been reduced to a dead city for a while.After Rantil, Ainz recruited Peter, the leader of the "Dark Sword" adventure group who was familiar with the local situation, and asked with a puzzled expression, "... Didn't the city take the minimum precautions? It fell in just half the night. ? And the cemetery where the undead frenzy broke out is actually located inside the city wall! How did this happen? Do you know anything about it?"

"...This...Although skeletons and zombies appear in the public cemetery in the fortress city E-Rantel, it is as common as wind and rain. We have also been conscripted to watch the cemetery several times before. But under normal circumstances , so many army of undead creatures will never appear all at once."

Captain Peter scratched his hair and replied with a wry smile, "...Otherwise, who else would dare to live in the city? I suspect that behind this disaster, there may be demon worshipers, or the church of evil gods. Only in this way will it be possible to destroy the entire fortress city in a short period of time.”

"...Devil worshipers and the church of evil gods? Well, I said about these people! Guys who perform human sacrifices to evil gods and demon kings to satisfy their desires."

Ainz nodded, "...So, do you think these guys lurked in the city in advance and planned such a cruel conspiracy?"

"...Yes, for their own desires, these guys would even sacrifice an entire city of humans as sacrifices without hesitation."

Peter replied with a look of disgust, "... I once saw the ruins of the blood sacrifice of the cultists by chance. That kind of inhumane scene is really disgusting. Just seeing it once can make people unforgettable for a lifetime... I can't think of it now I saw another catastrophe that was a hundred times more tragic! Sigh~~”

"...In this way, if the cultists really planned this tragedy behind the scenes, then after sacrificing the lives of tens of thousands of people in the fortress city E-Rantel, they must have gained quite a lot of power. Well, the experience points alone can accumulate a terrifying number..."

Ainz lowered his head and pondered, "...such a guy...seems not to be underestimated...By the way, has the kingdom that rules here reacted?"

"...Reporting to the master, before the fall of the fortress city E-Rantel, the city authorities seem to have sent a lot of messengers and magical communications to other nearby towns and noble territories, especially to Gazef Shi on his way back to the royal capital. Captain Toronov calls for help."

Steward Sebastian stood up and replied, "...we just rescued a messenger who broke his leg. When he was ordered to carry a letter of help, he was thrown off by the horse not far from the city when he was riding a horse to break through in the middle of the night. , broke a leg, and did not climb to the side of our camp until half an hour ago. From the mouth of this messenger, we learned some information about the battle situation on the eve of the fall of Ye-Rantel, and we can already confirm that this engulfing The undead disaster in the city is by no means a natural occurrence, but someone planned behind it, but the identity of the mastermind and the forces behind it are not yet known..."

"... Captain Gazef? Why did you meet him again in just a few days? Sigh, it seems... the disaster that happened in the fortress city may not be simple, and it is likely to be the same as the previous Slane sect. People dressed up as imperial knights attacked Karn Village, the water behind them is very deep!"

Ainz shook his head and sighed, "...Forget it, logically it shouldn't be our turn to worry about this matter. First rescue the survivors who escaped from the city, and put them here temporarily. Enemy situation, let’s talk about it while waiting for the warrior commander to bring someone over!”

And at the moment when the Lich King Ainz, who still basically maintains the conscience of mankind, and everyone in the campsite in the outskirts are deeply aware that the current situation is turbulent, some secrets are behind the scenes. They have already started to use the biggest gains of their operation...

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In the modern world, the intensive care unit of a hospital in Changsha, Hunan
The first thing to recover is the thinking consciousness in the mind, and then I smell the pungent smell of disinfectant around me, as well as the unique smell of the bed sheets being sun-baked, and the pleasant fruity sweet aroma.There are also faint noises that seem to be coming from a very distant place.

Slowly opened his eyes, and suddenly felt two strong white lights like searchlights were about to penetrate deep into his head, so he had to close his eyes tightly again.Not long after, she cautiously tried to open her eyes again, and she could still see all kinds of light clusters flying. After a while, she finally regained her vision, and then found that there was a strange ceiling above her head, and there was a metal Fence vents and surveillance cameras.

The female college student who was not fully awake blinked her eyes, as if she still didn't know where she was.

Turning his head to look, the golden sunlight came in through the white curtains, and the rattan flower baskets in the corner were filled with various fruits and flowers.

A medical instrument about the size of a microwave oven was placed next to the bed, and numbers and curves were constantly beating on several small screens.

Pulling his eyes back to his body, he could see the metal drip needle fixed by tape on the inside of the elbow, and a thin tube spread upward from the needle.Keeping her eyes on the pipeline, she found that the pipeline was connected to a transparent medical plastic bag.The bag itself was hung on a silver pillar, and it contained about five hundred milliliters of milky white liquid, which was slowly dripping down at a certain speed.

Looking at this small ward repeatedly, the female college student whose mind was still in chaos began to try to sort out her disordered thoughts.

Then, she finally remembered what she had just experienced before she lost consciousness.

"...Well... So, I'm already back!"

Sai Feier, a female tiger warrior in the game world, or Zhang Jingjing, a girl from Hunan University in the real world, sighed so murmured that she wanted to sit up from the hospital bed, but her dull body could not exert any strength at all. They don't listen to orders.She only lifted her shoulders a few centimeters, and immediately sank down again without hope: no way, her body seemed to have been lying on the hospital bed for several days, and she couldn't recover for a while.

Just as she was struggling and tried to sit up again, she was helped up by a pair of strong hands, and a pillow was placed behind her, and a familiar voice sounded beside her ear, "...Sister, you wake up too!" Huh? Would you like some water or an apple?"

Looking back, I saw the little elf player Yingwu Piaoxue who is a male college student but has a female number in the game, and her younger brother Zhang Ye, who was wearing a hospital gown, holding a plate of apples cut into small pieces and Standing beside her hospital bed with a cup of hot water, she showed a gratified smile.

"...cough cough, what's going on? I feel like my mind is still in a mess... We seem to have traveled to another world before and turned into non-human monsters, right?" Zhang Jingjing swallowed hard. Drooling, he said in a hoarse voice, "...Do you remember that I was roasting a rabbit on the grassland just now? Cough cough, could it be that I was dreaming of all this?"

(Wang Qiu did not ask for their own opinions before using the points to eject the trapped people in the infinite space.)
"...Sister, you didn't have a dream, and you didn't remember wrongly. We did time travel. But it's just a soul time travel, and the body is still in this world. I just woke up half a day earlier than you. Oh, yes, In addition to the two of us, our English teacher (Cat Priest Chen Xin) is also back and is undergoing a physical examination right now. Besides, our story has even been published in the newspaper!"

Zhang Ye scratched his chin and explained this, then took out a local newspaper published a few days ago from a nearby cabinet, and spread it out in front of Zhang Jingjing. Online games lead to mass coma and hospitalization, and the education department ordered the school to strengthen ideological education" news, which made Zhang Jingjing a little dazed: Is this a public relations method to cover up the truth?

But wouldn't the sky be turned upside down in my own home?Alas, no matter what, I have already traveled to another world, and it is not a dream to expect to live a stable life?However, it is a pity that although I have undertaken an incredible trip to another world, in just a few days, I have neither performed any heroic deeds worthy of praise, nor experienced any wonderful things worth mentioning. legend.Except for breaking into the Great Tomb of Nazarick at the very beginning, the next thing is basically just eating, eating and sleeping... The agreed time traveler is awesome, why don't you explain it?Could it be that I'm really just a sideshow, without the great luck of the protagonist?

While Zhang Jingjing was thinking wildly and complaining about herself, Zhang Ye was still serving the elder sister to drink water, while mumbling:
"...The first batch of rescued from another world is only the three of us. The remaining twelve students are still lying in the next ward at the moment. Wait for you to feel refreshed later. , let's go and see them together. Oh, yes, I have already called my parents. I heard that we are all right, and they are relieved. They will come to see us by train in two days. Alright, the matter in the other world has nothing to do with us, sister, you can concentrate on recuperating from now on. Everything is over, as long as there is nothing wrong..."

Hearing the words of his younger brother Zhang Ye, Zhang Jingjing, who was still a little bit tangled, suddenly felt enlightened. The little lump that had accumulated in her chest before seemed to melt away in an instant: Yes, everything is over!As long as it's okay.

The reality is not as romantic as the novel. Expedition teams throughout the ages have always been high-risk occupations.I am not the kind of adventure lover who is dedicated to the pursuit of excitement.To be able to return to the original life safely after a big adventure through a different world, without missing arms or legs, without disfigurement or any root cause, is already a great thing in itself, so why bother? Desperate for more?
Just as she calmed down, the sound of footsteps from the medical staff hurriedly came from outside the ward...

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At the same time, Wang Qiu also watched the interaction between the siblings and the hospital's inspection report through the screen at the "command center for combat against foreign worlds" far away in Beidaihe, "...well, everything is normal? Okay, finally nothing happened. Hey, we spent 15 points and rescued three people. We have achieved preliminary results this time. However, how did the order of the rescue list come out? yes?"

He turned around and asked Political Commissar Guo curiously, "...Aren't there supposed to be 'women first, students first'? Why is it that the first batch of rescue and repatriation lists are a girl, a boy and the oldest Female lecturer? It feels weird!"

——From Wang Qiu's personal point of view, among the fifteen trapped people in the world of "Overlord", it doesn't matter which one is rescued first.But the relevant experts assigned to the command center didn't seem to think so, but after researching and discussing, they issued a list, asking Wang Qiu to rescue the trapped people in the world of "Overlord King of the Undead" according to the order on the list. You can't mess around at will.

"...It is reasonable for us to formulate such a rescue sequence. The boy suffers from congenital heart disease. If he remains in a coma for a long time in the hospital, he is most likely to have an accident. Although the female lecturer has no illness, But she's been pregnant for more than two months, so she should take care of it. In the end, the girl's body is very healthy, but her game character is a tiger... I don't need to say more about the rest!"

Commissar Guo glanced at Wang Qiu and replied calmly.And Wang Qiu just thought about it for a while, and he understood the mystery.

——Although they are both cats, they are different from the cute and cute kittens. The tall and ferocious tigers have a lot of children in the human society in the fantasy world of "Overlord". Crow's horrible reputation, as well as the real and common deeds of cannibalism.

In that fantasy world, human beings are not the masters of the continent, and they don't even have a comparative advantage.After the destruction of the dragon kings who ruled the world at the beginning, the next overlord who truly ruled the essence of the mainland was actually a brutal orc.On the other hand, the human country is located in the northwest corner of the continent, which is considered to be a desolate and backward poverty-stricken area.The human beings in that world are far inferior to the orcs in terms of quantity, dominance, and civilization (that world is set so that the orcs entered civilization earlier than humans, and early humans need to learn from the orcs).

Therefore, in places ruled by orcs, human beings are generally regarded as food and slaves.And among these bloodthirsty and brutal orcs, there are tiger people: Therefore, when humans in that world see tiger people, they are similar to modern earth civilized people seeing cannibals. They are either scared to death or desperately resist.Letting a tiger player with a reputation worse than that of the undead appear in the human society over there is basically tantamount to actively creating riots, and even makes people mistakenly think that the alien traveler is a spy sent by the orc empire to human society.

——In view of the above-mentioned information, the "Command Center for Combat against Foreign Worlds" has been hiding the female tiger warrior Safiel in the snow, preventing her from participating in any external contact operations, so that she can only be bored in Nazarick. Playing with rabbits on the grassland near the big tomb...

But even so, letting the tiger woman warrior who everyone shouted to stay in that world is still equivalent to an extremely dangerous time bomb. There was an uproar, and they were even attacked by groups.Now that a sum of reward points has been collected, it is naturally ideal to be able to send back this female tiger warrior who was shouted and beaten by everyone in the other world, and completely cancel the account to eliminate the above hidden dangers.

"...Well, indeed, it's okay to send her back. Tiger people have a terrible reputation in the human kingdom of that world. Even if she stays there, she won't be of much use, but may bring disaster..." Wang Qiu After thinking for a moment, he nodded in agreement.

"...Well, no matter what, as long as you can collect enough points as soon as possible to send everyone back and end this worthless rescue mission in another world, don't worry too much about the specific details!" Ma Tong, who was interested, interrupted and muttered.

However, her complaint above was immediately refuted by Commissar Guo.

"...No value? Well, I don't think so at all, Xiao Ma. You can't just look at everything from the perspective of economic interests. If everyone thinks this way, why do humans still want to explore the moon and Mars? How about even sending probes to the outer reaches of the solar system?"

Political commissar Guo took off his presbyopic glasses, wiped them lightly with a handkerchief, and commented, "...not to mention the exploration value of that fantasy world, the Lich King protagonist of "Overlord" I, that Japanese office worker Suzuki Satoru, described his human society on Earth in 2138, so I couldn’t help but be deeply touched, and even feel infinitely worried about our future!”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help sighing deeply, "...I really don't know how to comment on this! In that future world, the proletariat of the whole world is not united, and the whole world Did the bourgeoisie achieve the great union first?"