Urban Odds: Cry Game

As the morning approached, the garrison area of ​​the capital of the sea of ​​clouds was full of chaos.

Due to the shortage of manpower, the dragoons put on the costumes of waiters and came and went to arrange the venue.

"Is there another person?" Sally Fando carried colleague A out of the crowd and put him on a chair in the corner, "Why didn't he come?"

"Which... which one?" Colleague A was panting from exhaustion after carrying two baskets of fruit, and slumped on the chair limply.

Sally Fondo made juice for him, and while making it, she pretended to be casual and said, "That tall man with a hood and a black robe all over his body."

Colleague A didn't know about the relationship between Mo Yu and Sally Fando, so he casually said, "Oh, Mo Yu!"

Sally Fando's hands trembled: "...so his name is Mo Yu?"

Colleague A: "Yeah...but he is elusive, maybe he came during dinner."

Sally Fondo smiled and said, "Isn't he a member of your team? You don't know where he went?"

Mo Yu usually kept silent, and his colleague A didn't know much about him. He recalled: "I met him in Tiedao Town. He seems to be... an individual merchant from Shacheng!"

"... Individual merchants in Shacheng, huh!" Sally Fando handed him the prepared juice, but looked past colleague A thoughtfully at Aix, who was chopping vegetables.

Just in time, Ax also raised his head and met Sally Fando's gaze.

"Go and help him, let's chop vegetables together!" Sally Fando patted colleague A, "He doesn't seem to be in a good mood!"

"...Hmmm!" Colleague A rubbed his nose, thinking, it's not bad for Aix to stand up!

Aix had a splitting headache and had double images when he saw everything.The temporary hangover medicine prepared by colleague A was obviously not effective...or he had eaten too much garlic...X was tired and exhausted, but surrounded by the dragoons, he had to cheer up and pretend that nothing had happened.

A hot meatball was brought to his lips, and Ax turned his head, looking impatiently at his blood feed.

"It's just cooked!" Zhou Yang said with a smile.

"No." Aix had no appetite.

"Oh..." Zhou Yang blew cold, took a bite, and passed it to Aix's mouth, "Look! The stuffed ones are fresh and juicy!"

Ax glanced at the meatball, then at Zhou Yang who was full of anticipation, and took the meatball away with an expression on his face that he was really helpless.

Zhou Yang guarded a big pot to cook meatballs, which he and Ferrero made together.Ferrero put the time magic on the cauldron. The dish that was supposed to be cooked for N hours now only takes half an hour.Aix handed the big bowl full of stuffing to Zhou Yang, and got another warm meatball.

Aix: "...remuneration?"

Zhou Yang: "Hmm!"

"Hmph!" Ax wrinkled his nose in disdain, and secretly licked his mouth after eating.

Zhou Yang shook his head with a smile, lowered his head to cook the dishes, and pretended to say casually, "Daddy, can I ask you something?"

Aix didn't say a word—the protagonist in the sober state was very quiet, and his indifference was like Mo Yu's. Zhou Yang missed the drunk Aix a little bit.

Ferrero stood by the pot and ate the meat, Zhou Yang also got all the meat, and his mouth was full of oil.Seeing that Ferrero handed him another small egg, Zhou Yang passed it to Aix, and said casually, "Big brother, do you know who Zhou Yang is?"

Ax didn't expect to hear this name, and was stunned for a moment with a small egg in his mouth: "You... who are you talking about?"

"Zhou Yang." Zhou Yang lowered his head, not daring to look into Aix's eyes.

Alex asked, "Where did you hear that?"

Zhou Yang said: "What you said in your sleep...do you know him?"

Ax said nothing, and ignored him again.Zhou Yang was bored, and thought he would repeat the routine another day.Only he himself knew the name Zhou Yang, and he never mentioned it to anyone else.In the eyes of others, he should be called "Jack".

But Aix was talking in his sleep, not only saying that Jack was dead, but also calling out the name Zhou Yang.

Where did he hear it?

Zhou Yang buried his head in thinking, kneading the balls absent-mindedly, not paying attention to the gaze from the other side—Ferrero was also watching him secretly.

Ferrero said, "Zhou Yang, bring the plate over there!"

"Hey!" Zhou Yang handed the plate to Ferrero.

Ferrero didn't answer, and looked at him with a half-smile: "My name is Zhou Yang, why did you answer?"

No one in this world knows Zhou Yang, and Zhou Yang, who almost revealed his stuff, looked as usual, and said confidently: "I'm the only one next to you, and I won't pass you the plate, so you still count on that Zhou Yang?"

"Cut!" Ferrero snatched the plate in frustration and made a face at him.

Zhou Yang turned his head with a smile, and met Aix's eyes.

Aix looked at Zhou Yang expressionlessly, with a trace of scrutiny in his eyes, and as if he was certain of something, he glanced at him like a stranger, and looked away.

Zhou Yang had never felt such strange and vigilant eyes.At that moment, Zhou Yang suddenly realized, did the protagonist really know something - the person who used this "Jack" body was a strange soul named Zhou Yang?

Maybe when he came down from the giant tree, he already knew...

Accompanied by Wei Long, Sally Fando, who was wearing a dress, came to the place where the members of the Demon Race were imprisoned.

The specially made cell was stained with blood, and the remains of demon members were scattered around.The blood meanders like a stream, flowing to the position of the enchantment, as if blocked by an invisible glass wall, gradually accumulating and converging.

A short figure sat in the center of the barrier, the hand hanging by his side had already turned into a sharp cone, dripping blood dripping.

Hearing the movement, he raised his head and glanced at the young imperial female general.

"You killed it?" Sally Fondo stood outside the barrier, staring at him coldly, "It's cruel enough that you won't even let your teammates go?"

The little man's eyes were glazed over, and he was drooling dumbly, opening and closing his mouth and saying, "Hehehehehehe..."

"General, don't go any further!" Wei Long nervously stopped Sally Fando, "There's something wrong with this guy!"

"It's okay." Sally Fando gently pushed Weilong away and walked into the barrier.

Wei Long was blocked by the barrier, staring blankly at her walking forward step by step.The little man's eyes were empty, as if he was looking at her, and at the same time he seemed to be looking at the air behind her.

"Lilith is dying soon." The little man looked like a fool with drooling eyes, but his words were very clear, "Her sleep period is getting longer and longer, and if she wakes up again, she will fall into eternity." sleep."

"Who are you?" Sally Fando stopped in front of him.

The little man grinned and seemed to smile: "This is the last chance to see Lilith...General Sally Findor, please pass this sentence on to the Holy Son!"

The little man raised his awl-like hand and plunged it into his heart.The short body paused and fell slumped into the pool of blood all over the ground.

Outside the room, a dirty little puppet jumped off the ledge and rattled into the darkness...

The feeling of being spied on disappeared, Sally Fando removed the barrier, took a step forward, and was stopped by Wei Long who followed closely.

"It's okay, he's already dead." Sally Fando looked around sadly, "All the demons are dead... He should have been controlled before entering the barrier, but I didn't realize it..."

Wei Long waited for a while, seeing that Sally Fando hadn't given any instructions, he couldn't help reminding: "General, the Beastmaster is coming soon, should we strengthen our security?"

"No need, that person's goal has been achieved, and there will be no further actions." Sally Fando looked through the little man's body, hoping to find some clues.The demons are cunning and insidious, mostly using spells or runes to manipulate secretly.She searched for a while, but found no trace of the spell. Instead, she touched a thin silk thread about ten centimeters long behind the little man's neck...

"Uncle, what do you need from me?" Zhou Yang followed Ferrero to a remote corner.

Ferrero turned around and said seriously, "Zhou Yang, there is something I want to ask you."

Zhou Yang chuckled: "My name is Jack, not Zhou Yang!"

Ferrero lay lazily on the fence, looking at the burning mountain fire in the distance, and said casually: "Do you still remember that when you escaped in Railway Town, you couldn't move for a while and asked Aix to carry it?"

Zhou Yang lay beside him, also looked at the burning mountain fire and said, "Well, what's wrong?"

"At that time, I'm going to put a time magic, so that you can go back in time and return to the state where you can move." Ferrero whistled at the passing maid, and got the big berry thrown by them.

Ferrero split the berries and gave half to Zhou Yang: "As a result... I found that the magic circle is useless to you, it's invalid."

Zhou Yang didn't know about this, he held the berries and stared blankly at the other party.

"Don't look at me like that, my magic has never failed. In fact, there are a few times before, I have posted time magic for you, and it was effective, but it happened in Railway Town... It failed." Ferrero said, "What was your situation at that time? Do you remember that time...how did you feel? Or was there any discomfort?"

"I didn't feel uncomfortable at all. I just couldn't control my body at the time, and I had no strength." Zhou Yang recalled, "It felt very strange. I had never tried it before... It was as if... my body was not my own."

Ferrero didn't say a word. He gnawed on a berry and looked into the distance. After a long silence, he said, "My time magic is only ineffective against two things. One is the existence beyond me...that is, the god-level life form. The other is that there is no Life, long-dead corpses... time magic is not magic, it cannot bring a dead thing back to life."

The fallen leaves rolled up by the breeze lightly brushed Zhou Yang's face, passed Ferrero, and flew unsteadily into the distance.

In the camp, Aix stopped what he was doing and looked up at the direction Zhou Yang was leaving.

Ferrero stared at the dazed man in front of him: "Do you understand what I mean? Zhou Yang?"

Zhou Yang was silent, Ferrero raised his hand to touch Zhou Yang's chest, through his clothes, he could feel the beating strong heart under his palm.

"During that time in Railway Town, you said that you couldn't control your body, as if your body was no longer your own. In fact, what Aix was carrying was just a lifeless body...your soul is related to you for some reason. The body is repelling, although it is still on the body, but it has not reached the fusion state, so you are conscious, but you can't control the body." Ferrero looked at him and said, "Is this body really yours?"

Why... Why would Ferrero, as an NPC, have such doubts?

He was just playing a game, the person playing the role was Jack, of course this body was not his!

This is normal isn't it?

Why did the NPC in the game actually question his existence?

—— Stranger, I don't know who instilled the wrong perception in you... Everything that happened here is not a game!

What the giant tree once said rang in my ears, like a thunderclap—everything that happened here was not a game!

——It’s not a game!

"It's not...a game?" Zhou Yang squeezed the railing tightly, sweat dripping from his forehead, "How could it not be a game? I clearly..."

"Yeah—" There was a sudden commotion in the camp, followed by a huge rumble and earthquake.Zhou Yang looked up, billowing smoke and sparks appeared on the horizon like a storm of flames.

"What is that?! Tornado?! Whoa!!!" Zhou Yang fell to the ground following the broken railing.

"It's not a tornado..." Ferrero picked up Zhou Yang, staring nervously at the approaching flame storm, "That's... Beastmaster!"

The Beastmaster rushed out of the forest, and his huge body set off monstrous flames.Outside the forest was an empty plain. The Beastmaster was wrapped in raging fire. As he ran, the flames faded away little by little.Accompanied by sparks all over the sky, the huge figure of the Beastmaster finally appeared in front of everyone—the head of a dragon and the body of a lion, covered in solid armor, and the furious mane extending along the spine to the long tail.After stepping on the last trace of sparks, the Beastmaster stood outside the camp like a hill, looking down at the dragonriders holding various fire extinguishing powders.

"Isn't this...a unicorn?!" Zhou Yang was dumbfounded, the appearance of the beast king was quite similar to the legendary unicorn!

"Shh, the Beastmaster has a bad temper, don't talk nonsense!" Ferrero carried him to Aix's side, "Stand with the team!"

The people present stood in line on both sides—in fact, most of them were dragon knights, standing on the front line to defend against the beast king and protect everyone.

Sally Fando was standing at the end of the welcome line in a formal dress, her long hair was tied up in a bun, and some face powder was smeared on her face. Although her clothes were not as good as those of noble women, she was a soldier, exuding a kind of heroic majesty. momentum.

The Beastmaster ignored everyone, raised his neck all the way, and walked towards Sally Fando aggressively.

Lao Jin, who was following the Beastmaster, looked left and right, probably because he was hungry, seeing the pots of meatballs drooling.When Zhou Yang passed by, Lao Jin grinned at them.

The Beastmaster only brought Lao Jin with him this time—to be precise, it was Lao Jin who sensed the Beastmaster's thoughts and took the initiative to follow him.The two giant beasts came to Sally Fandor and waved their tails as a greeting.

Sally Fondo bowed to the Beast King, smiling before she could speak, when she saw the Beast King suddenly opened his mouth wide, with sharp fangs like giant daggers...

—The general is in danger! ! !

This idea popped up in everyone's mind at the same time.

The dragoons set off and ran towards Sally Fondo at the same time, but... it was too late, the Beastmaster was too close! ! !

"General!!!" Everyone's eyes were fixed on the Beastmaster!

The Beastmaster opened his mouth wide, rolled his tongue, and handed an unconscious girl to Sally Fando...