triple world

In midsummer, it always gets dark late, the red glow in the west is extremely bright, and the residual heat of the sun still makes people's skin hot.

When the sky gradually darkened, Fu Yan and the others still hadn't waited for the villagers who came to look for them.

The disappearance of a few of their tourists didn't touch anyone's heart at all, as if they had lost all value after paying for a boat charter for the day.

Song Yu jokingly said, "Will the old man come to us for the 100 yuan when he finds out that the boat has not been returned tomorrow?"

Although the possibility is not high, there is a little possibility, but no one except Song Yu himself laughed.

Because they can't wait for tomorrow.

Tourists will stay in the old house at the east end of the village at night, not on this small island in the river where no one comes.

If you can't go back to the old house at night, the game world will probably fail to clear the level. That kind of punishment is worse than swimming back from this dangerous river, so most people are already considering swimming across at this time.

The river is actually not very wide, even people who can't swim are planning to see if they can float across without holding the bundle of grass, but Fu Yan thinks that he can go across first, and then find a boat to come back to pick up Gu Wensheng and the others.

Although he knew it was very dangerous, it was impossible for him to abandon them.

As the sky got darker, the faces of the group became more and more anxious. After all, danger is always scary.

"Why are you so calm?" Fu Yan looked at Gu Wensheng and asked jokingly, "Don't you know how to swim? Shall I take you there?"

Gu Wensheng shook his head: "No, but it's not like there is no way out."

His words themselves smacked of prophecy, and Song Yu always regarded his words as a guide, and never doubted them.

Gu Wensheng suddenly looked at Fu Yan, looked him up and down with some doubts, and Fu Yan looked a little creepy: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Brother, you must have forgotten the shadow, right?" The words were clearly doubtful but said in an affirmative tone. When Gu Wensheng's words just fell, Fu Yan himself was a little dazed.

It seems that he has never really thought of calling out the shadow when he is in danger. Whether it is in the dark and narrow corridor in the hospital or the riverside that seems calm but hides a huge danger now, it is clear that the shadow once I told him that when he was in danger, all he had to do was call him out, but subconsciously, Fu Yan put this matter behind him.

Song Yuguang knew that Gu Wensheng's guess was right just by looking at the embarrassed expression on Fu Yan's face, and he was a little surprised at the moment. Could it be that Brother Fu hasn't let the shadow work hard from the beginning to now...

He thought about it and asked the same question, Fu Yan could only smile awkwardly.

"Although the points consumed by the shadow's appearance are very high, and the points obtained by clearing the customs and scoring SS can be completely consumed in five hours, but you don't have to be so economical, Brother Fu, after all, it is five hours..." Song Yu expressed his gratitude to Fu Deriving this behavior is very difficult to understand.

Although it is not easy to get an SS level customs clearance score, as long as you don't rely too much on the shadow's own ability, his existence will become a sharp weapon for customs clearance.

What can Fu Yan do?Could it be that he forgot?

Gu Wensheng just glanced at him, then signaled Song Yu to shut up, and said softly: "Brother, this is not the past, some things don't need to be done by yourself, you have a shadow, you still have me, you—you have to get used to this Life."

It was the same with Gu Wensheng a long time ago. He held back everything by himself and didn’t rely on anyone. He was so used to being alone that even asking for help seemed meaningless to him. It was his shadow that slowly changed him, and Now, he hopes that he can get Fu Yan out of his previous life.

Of course, if it weren't for the inseparable relationship between Fu Yan and his shadow, Gu Wensheng wished that he would be alone by his side.

It's just that he can think these words in his heart, but he can't say them out. On the surface, he is still very serious.

"Brother, although it may be cruel to say this, the relationship between the shadow and the editor is to live and die together, and the shadow will not die, even if you don't tell them, they will try their best to save you. All I can do is treat them as my relatives rather than props, and it is a matter for two people to survive in this world." Gu Wensheng said.

"Props?" Fu Yan grasped one of the words sensitively.

Song Yu scratched her hair, and said with some embarrassment: "Brother Fu, no one can guarantee that the person pulled in by the mirror is not a desperado, as Gu said, only the editor is alive and the shadow can live, and the editor is dead The shadow will disappear completely, so some editors don’t regard the shadow as a person at all, but just as a prop that will not die, this is the "shadow prop theory", and there are many supporters for this kind of speech."

"You may not meet many people like this, but to be honest, there are quite a few editors like this in the black card hall. The more dangerous they are, the more you can see their attitude towards shadows. It's very polite to be bait or something. That's right, I usually take pleasure in torturing them, but even if their lives are in their hands, Shadow can't resist."

"Is that so..." Fu Yan was a little surprised. Among the editors he has met so far, he has not seen such an encounter, but it is indeed not impossible to have such an encounter with Shadow's embarrassing situation.

"Hey, Brother Fu, let me give you an example." Song Yu pointed to the river in front of him, "Didn't we see something in the water before? If we say that the editors who appeared here today are all 'Shadow Props Theory' '' supporters, they will probably send a shadow directly to see what's going on. As for whose shadow to let go, this is a matter for the editors to consider. Whether they can come back alive is not within their scope of consideration, anyway. After clearing the customs, you will be resurrected."

Song Yu directly pointed out the cruelty of this world, which made Fu Yanming realize that the relationship between the editor and the shadow is still very harmonious. After all, it is a clear relationship between the ruler and the dominated, which he should have thought of earlier.

"And Brother Fu, you know the power you can control!" Song Yu asked.

Fu Yan nodded, he would hear this term every time he cleared the customs, but he never got it.

"The abilities of the editor and the shadow are not universal, but they can be obtained from the outside world."

"It is difficult to obtain this kind of ability in ordinary worlds, but in some relatively rare worlds, various weird abilities are more likely to appear, and monsters in some game worlds will bring their own abilities. With some mysterious abilities, if they are injured by them, if they can survive, it is very likely that they will become immune or even acquire this ability. Although the probability is very small, those editors will intentionally put their shadows in danger. "

"Hey, anyway, as long as you know that we have to do our best to survive, no one can decide what kind of editor you will meet after you become a shadow. At least you can ensure your survival and get along with the shadow!" Song Yu concluded in this way. Said, Gu Wensheng next to Fu Yan also agreed.

Fu Yan has never fought for anything except his younger brother, and their greatest wish is to live. He is not a perpetrator, so he will not do anything excessive to the shadow.

But what was strange to him was that the shadow had indeed reminded him at the beginning, but he didn't mention it again later, so what was the reason for this.

Gu Wensheng looked at Fu Yan's pensive side face, patted him on the shoulder and said, "He is waiting for you, waiting for you to truly realize that you and him are one."

In this way, Fu Yan's understanding of the shadow is really poor except what he himself told Fu Yan, and he doesn't know the other party's ability, everything is blurred.

"Then we need Shadow to help us cross the river now?" Fu Yan asked.

It's just that even if the shadow comes out, there seems to be no other way. He can neither conjure up a boat, nor single-handedly drag the thing under the water. The current method seems to be to swim there.

"Brother Fu, using abilities is not a simple thing. Do you know what Brother Gu can do?" Speaking of Gu Wensheng, Song Yu knew more than he himself did. He stretched out his hand and gestured, "Just With a 'whoosh', the river freezes and we can walk across."

freeze?

When Fu Yan looked at Gu Wensheng, he didn't miss the smugness in his eyes. Suddenly, everything became dreamy. Although it's not normal for him to be in this world now, how can he freeze? The ability looks too much like magic, so that it is quite different from others.

"Wait a little longer, if there is no other way when the sky gets dark, we can only do this." Gu Wensheng said, although the shadows have powerful abilities, but their appearance is indeed very expensive, and most of the editors also We all know that if we don’t need the shadow, we don’t need the shadow.

Except for Fu Yan and the others, the others are probably also waiting, when it gets dark, when they really can't find hope in other places.

Fu Yan originally wanted to experience the so-called disposable ability, but probably he had no chance, because when the sky was getting darker, there was movement on the water surface.

The movement was not big, it was just a small vortex at first, but everyone present was tense, and would not let go of any disturbance, let alone a vortex that suddenly appeared on the calm river.

Everyone stood up and looked towards the middle of the river.

The vortex didn't move at first, but gradually the water in the river became a bit black, moving along the flow of the vortex like silk thread.

Fu Yan, who had been in the water earlier and seen the scene under the water, immediately realized that what was in the whirlpool was nothing but the hair of the monster in the water.

As time passed, the vortex became bigger and bigger, and there were more and more twisted black hair in it, almost occupying that vortex, as if what was spinning was not water, but a mass of black hair.

Li Qian, who was standing alone in one place, looked pale, and she was obviously a little scared when she saw the black hair, because she had seen the power of those black hair long ago.

But Wang Xiaona and the others showed disgust visible to the naked eye. After all, those hairs that twisted and twirled like bugs really couldn't make people feel good.

When he glimpsed underwater before, Fu Yan only saw hairs, but he didn't expect that there would be so many of them. Now the river is densely packed with almost all hairs.

At the same time, the lights of the houses standing on the other side of the river were quickly extinguished.

When Fu Yan and the others shouted, no one came out of those houses, but after the movement on the river surface, even the lights disappeared. It can be seen that the people in Sanlong Village have been paying attention to their movements, and at the same time, they also know what is in the river. , also afraid of this thing.

The expressions of Gu Wensheng and Song Yu also became serious.

After waiting in the back, Fu Yan and the others even heard laughter, muffled laughter from the bottom of the water, as if separated by a huge barrier, it was inaudible but real, the voice was indistinguishable, Fu Yan Only then did he recall that he hadn't been able to tell whether the other party was a man or a woman at that moment.

But the laughter was not malicious as if it was fun, but no one let down their vigilance.

To their surprise, although the black hair grew more and more, until it even occupied the entire water surface, they never did anything to Fu Yan and the others. Instead, something floated up from the vortex. When there were more and more parts, Fu Yan and the others realized that it was the boat that disappeared with Shen Wen.

It didn't take long for the whole boat to appear on the surface of the water. It was wet and covered with some water plants. It just floated up from the bottom of the water.

No one knew what was going on, and it didn't make sense to return the boat to them so they could go back.

But they couldn't figure out what the other party was thinking, and soon the boat slowly drifted from the middle of the river to where they were in the absence of wind, and finally hit the edge of the small island, and stopped there firmly, even tied to the boat. The thick rope at the head also floated to the bank of the river with the current.

The long black hair that originally occupied the entire river channel disappeared into the water.

Although they didn't see the true face of the thing underwater, the other party did send back the original ship they lost.

"What's the situation?" Gong Ming asked.

In fact, everyone present did not know why the boat was sent back. After all, the other party had already killed Shen Wen, so it was not a friendly existence. For him, it seemed to him that the remaining people had no means to cross the river and had to go into the water. more favorable.

But now, the sky is getting dark, and it will be dangerous if they don't go back. The ship has been delivered to them, and everything is waiting for them to make a choice.

Gong Ming turned his attention to Fu Yan and the others. After Fu Yan and the others were tricked into the water by Li Qian, they suddenly realized that these people were not as simple as they seemed.

"Are we going up?"

Fu Yan looked at Gu Wensheng, whether to go up, and whether something bad will happen after going up, it is best to leave these things to Gu Wensheng to judge.

Gu Wensheng just looked at the stern of the boat. Under his gaze, a small strand of black hair slowly slipped into the water from above.

Although these hairs have sent the ship back, they are still paying attention to them, rather than disappearing completely as it appears.

After a while, Gu Wensheng nodded to Fu Yan and said, "Let's go up, it's getting dark, we should go back."

Naturally, Song Yu and Fu Yan would not object, and with them taking the lead, Gong Ming and Wang Xiaona felt relieved, since they were all together, Gu Wensheng and the others would not die in vain, there must be some reason.

Only Li Qian stood still and hesitated. After she was dragged into the water, she was full of fear of those black hairs. The black hairs that covered her so tightly that she couldn't even feel the water. As for her now, just imagining it will make her legs weak.

But all but her were on board, and she alone stood where she was.

"Aren't you afraid that it will capsize the boat later?" Li Qian tried to suppress her fear, "If the boat capsizes, none of you will survive!"

Wang Xiaona couldn't stand the curse-like words to her.

Shen Wen's death did make them full of sympathy for Li Qian, but the subsequent development let them know that there might be something hidden in it, Li Qian was not innocent, and this sympathy was gradually discounted.

"If you don't come up, we will leave." Wang Xiaona's voice was impatient.

Li Qian hesitated for a while, and then gritted her teeth and boarded the boat. She was indeed terrified, but she also knew that staying here waiting for her would definitely not be better than now, and she had to go back to that house.

After Li Qian also boarded the boat, Gu Wensheng and the others propped up the bamboo poles in their hands.

Fu Yan pulled the hemp rope tied to the bow back to the boat. There were a lot of black hair wrapped around it, which looked disgusting.

The afterglow of the setting sun was still there, and they went back along the way they came. During this period, the hair appeared again, clinging to the edge of the boat and twisting, even faintly pulling the boat, and the hull heaved up and down in the water.

Everyone looked nervous, for fear that the boat would capsize if they were not careful.

While paying attention to Fu Yan, Gu Wensheng was on the alert for accidents that might happen at any time, and was ready for a water escape, but what was unexpected was that their boat swayed and turned into the river they came from, and the hair on the boat It disappeared slowly, and the hull was very stable.

Fu Yan breathed a sigh of relief quietly, which probably meant that they had returned safely.

Not long after entering the river, Fu Yan and the others found that the old man they rented to them in the morning was still sitting in the same place, with a lamp lit by his feet, which illuminated a small area, reflecting his There was something strange on the old face.

"You are back." The old man smiled, "I thought you were not coming back."

He saw the stern from the bow in the silence of everyone, and the smile on his face became more and more obvious.

He has found that compared with when he went, there is one less person on board.

But the old man didn't ask anything, he just took the hemp rope with countless hairs from the boat and tied it to a stone pillar on one side, fixed the wet cement boat in this small river channel, and watched Fu Yan and the others walked down one by one.

As soon as Li Qian stepped on the shore, she threw herself to the side and vomited. No one knew how much mental torture she had experienced in this short period of time.

Seeing that they had all disembarked, the old man stood up tremblingly, lifted the lamp at his feet, and was about to leave.

Gu Wensheng suddenly stopped him.

"Master, don't you wonder where our companions have gone?"

The old man was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Gu Wensheng to ask such a question, but he quickly replied: "I can't figure out what you young people are thinking. It's because the scenery on the island is good. Are you going to spend the night there?"

There was a bit of imperceptible malice in his old tone, but it was incomparably obvious at night, his cloudy eyes were dimmed by the small lamp and glowed white, and he didn't look old like a person.

But everyone knew what scenery there was on that small island that didn't even have a name, it was just a small piece of wasteland, and their lost teammate Shen Wen did stay there, leaving his life there.

It seemed that the old man knew that there was danger in the water, but he didn't warn them.

After the old man finished speaking, he swayed away. Li Qian stood by the river and stared at his back, with hatred in his eyes.

It was already dark, except for the row of houses where Fu Yan and the others lived, there were no street lights, so they had to go back as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Sanlong Village is not very big, so they returned to the old house soon.

When they first arrived, the hostess next door ran out, as if she was a little surprised by their return: "Why are you coming back now, it's so dark, old uncle said you went to the island, what's there to do there Yes, it is not as good as the lotus pond in the back!"

"Old uncle?"

"It's the old man who rented the boat!" The woman noticed with sharp eyes that one of them was missing, but she continued to ask calmly, "You haven't eaten yet, I've prepared all the meals for a while, Come, come, eat first."

She beckoned everyone to go in, with the same enthusiasm on her face as before.

Fu Yan stood by and glanced at Gu Wensheng. The woman mentioned "Lotus Pond", which was where they were going tomorrow, but Fu Yan always felt that there was something ominous about what the woman said.

Everything can only be seen tomorrow.

The group ate dinner and took a bath at the house next door, and finally gathered in the east house.

There was still Shen Wen in this room yesterday, but today, this person has disappeared forever and will never appear again.

Li Qian sat on the bed with a cold face and didn't speak, and the others didn't pay much attention to her.

"I'm going to see the lotus tomorrow." Gong Ming said, holding the map that appeared in his backpack.

When it comes to lotus, there must be water. They stayed by the water all day today, and just thinking about water makes them feel uncomfortable.

"What should we do next?" Wang Xiaona asked.

One person died on the first day, and an accident may happen tomorrow, and everyone may encounter danger.

Although they were still calm, they were already a little disturbed by the hair that appeared today.

Gu Wensheng stood at the stairs and looked down.

The lights in the corridor were on, so it was fairly clear, and the stairs went straight down to a place they hadn't been to yet.

"Let's go down and have a look tonight." Gu Wen said.

Wu Bin, Gong Ming, and Wang Xiaona looked at each other, obviously hesitant, just had an accident on the water today, are you going to take another risk now?Who knows what's down there.

Fu Yan also looked down, because of the light, it was not as scary as it looked yesterday.

He understood what Gu Wensheng meant.

"We have to go out during the day, and we may not be able to come back during the day like today. If we want to go on, I'm afraid it will only be at night." Fu Yanwen said.

"There should be some clues we need below."