The room fell into a brief silence and even seemed a little depressing. This kind of pressure was different from the embarrassment brought about by their own injuries when facing the Westerners. The Westerners were just a nuisance and there was not much pressure to speak of. However, the mysterious people that Su Bai mentioned were mysterious, unknown, and infiltrated step by step.
What it brought was a solid sense of oppression.
It was like a dark cloud rolling over the surface of the sea.
"Could it be a new wave of NPCs?" Fatso began to analyze. "There's a game that I don't know if you've played before. The monk and Gyatso probably haven't played it before, but Ah Bai, you should have played it before. It's called Grand Theft Auto.
It's a city game in which you control a person to complete a mission. Of course, you can also kill people, set fires, and steal cars for fun. In the first few generations of the game, it was actually very crude. For example, in the city background, there were only a few types of pedestrians and cars. Wherever the game protagonist went, he could see the same pedestrians and cars constantly circling and moving in many corners of the city.
"In the later generations, with the improvement of the game's research and development level, the NPCs' facial features have been greatly improved. However, this problem still exists. After all, it would be a massive project to change all the cars and pedestrians in a city to look different. It's unrealistic."
Su Bai smiled. "Fatso, do you mean that there's something wrong with the Horror Broadcast that caused these NPCs to be confused? It means that the beggars who cooked the Beggar's Chicken yesterday are one group of people, the table of people eating downstairs is another group of people, and the waiter who just served the tea is another group of people. However, because of the Horror Broadcast itself, they all look the same? "
Fatso nodded. "We can't rule out this reason."
The monk retorted directly at this time. "The Horror Broadcast can make mistakes, but it won't make such an obvious mistake. There's no need to doubt this. Its mistake may be in the inexplicable ending we had on Mount Fulong, but the signs of the error are just a feeling that we speculate. It will never give us obvious evidence.
If we can even mistake the faces of the NPCs in the story world, we're underestimating the Horror Broadcast. "
"That's right. This shouldn't be an error in the terrorist broadcast, and it definitely won't be an error in the terrorist broadcast. Even if a supreme being makes a mistake, it would only make a mistake at its level. It wouldn't make a mistake so obvious that we can see it with our naked eyes.
I agree with Su Bai's point of view. We're being watched by a group of mysterious people, but for some reason, they didn't attack us directly. Instead, they chose to observe and follow us. They even disguised themselves as a waiter to serve tea just to observe us further. "
"Stop guessing. Why don't we catch a tongue and ask them?" Fatso.
Then, Fatty noticed that everyone else was looking at him as if he was an idiot.
Fatty smiled bitterly. "Hehe, that's unrealistic. I was just joking, just joking. Haha."
How could it be so easy to catch a tongue? The other party's surveillance on them was already thorough. It would be too presumptuous if they wanted to catch one of them for questioning.
Not to mention whether they could succeed or not, if they succeeded, before they could tie him up and interrogate him, his accomplices would have already appeared. What was the point of interrogating him then? They might as well just declare war on each other.
"It's not the right time to do that now. If they want to follow us, let them continue to follow us. Let's hurry up and recover. No matter what happens or accidents we encounter, our own strength is the most fundamental thing we can rely on. Su Bai, do you think we should continue to move now?" The Monk asked.
Su Bai smiled. "With this group of dog skin plasters around, it's meaningless for us to go anywhere. Since they're not going to make a move now, let's continue to stay here. It'll save us a lot of trouble. Hurry up and take a few more breaths."
"Alright, let's go back to sleep." Fatso didn't care about anything else. He lay back on the bed and planned to take a nap.
The little guy who was originally placed on the bed by Su Bai climbed onto Fatso's stomach. Fatso wasn't angry. Instead, he deliberately shook his belly to play with him. The little guy was closest to Su Bai. In addition, he played well with Fatso. However, he was very cold to Monk and Gyatso. He didn't even smile at them.
Obviously, although the little guy looked like a naked child crawling around, his heart was very pure. Monk and Gyatso were the ones who wanted to eat him. Naturally, he wouldn't be nice to them at this moment.
Gyatso sat on the ground again. After meditating, there was a constant sound of bones rubbing against each other. It was obvious that he was suffering great pain. However, it was also this method that sped up the recovery of his bones.
Monk wasn't in a hurry. He took out Old Time Tea and poured a cup of herbal tea for himself and Su Bai. The two of them sat silently.
About half an hour later, Monk was a little tired. He supported his chin with one hand and fell asleep at the table. However, his calm posture made Su Bai feel very strange. It was a feeling that couldn't be described with words.
Everyone had their own secrets. Among the four of them, Monk obviously had the most secrets. Su Bai didn't care about this. He stood up. The little guy was already lying on Fatso's stomach and taking an afternoon nap with Fatso. Although there were four adults and a child in the room, it was very quiet. It was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.
Su Bai opened the back window of the room. Outside was a very quiet forest.
Leaning against the edge of the window and looking into the distance, Su Bai unconsciously fell into a daze for a while. Then, as far as his eyes could see, he actually found a slight crisp sound coming from the forest. He closed the window as if nothing had happened. Then, he stood on the side of the window and secretly looked outside through the gap of the paper window.
It seemed that the people outside heaved a long sigh of relief after Su Bai closed the window. They finally began to move again.
Then, a group of well-armed Qing soldiers appeared in Su Bai's sight. Moreover, these Qing soldiers were obviously not the local Green Camp or ordinary soldiers. Their strict and strict atmosphere could be clearly felt by Su Bai even through a glance from afar.
However, after these people approached, they all hid in the forest and did not make any more movements. But Su Bai knew that things were not that simple. If those mysterious people were just monitoring their every move, it would not be a big deal for the time being. However, the approach of these soldiers meant that there was not much time before they took action. Those mysterious people might have a special ability to slowly hide, but these soldiers were all ordinary people. How could a large group of people like them hide for a long time?
The monk, who had taken a nap, also woke up at this time. He walked behind Su Bai and asked,
"Poor Monk smelled a murderous aura."
Su Bai pointed to the window and said, "There is a group of soldiers outside. There are quite a lot of them. I estimate there are at least three to four hundred people here. If they are surrounding us, I guess there are nearly a thousand of them."
"They are going to take action." The monk also looked solemn. "Unfortunately, we can't wait one more day."
If they waited one more day, they could recover a little more strength. At that time, it would be easier for them to deal with the situation.
"A group of mysterious people is responsible for monitoring us, and now there is a group of Qing soldiers outside. Monk, what do you think of?" Su Bai asked.
The monk pondered for a moment and said, "It is said that Nurhachi, the first ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, found the Dragon Vein of the Female Zhenren. That was why he was able to raise the army with the help of the Thirteen Suits of Armor and eventually made a fortune. In this period of time and under the background of this world, since there is a real expert like Lin Cheng-ying, there are also many monsters in the Demon Cave, there are also devils on the Hidden-dragon Mountains and the Taoist execution ground that originally existed, how can the imperial court in the secular world not have a group of experts that they have raised in captivity?"
"It is similar to what I thought. We have been ignoring them. Therefore, we have only avoided the sight of ordinary people when we do things, but we are still being watched by others."
"The fact that they can call the Qing soldiers over means that their identities are confirmed. Those mysterious people can confirm our location in advance and even calculate some of what we are going to do. There should be someone among them who is good at deduction. However, it is impossible for them to calculate everything. At least, they should not be able to calculate that you have already remembered their faces, even if they were still beggars at that time."
"If we had known this earlier, we could have directly rushed to the Demon Cave. If we are delayed here, we will be trapped like a turtle in a jar." Su Bai teased and then shook his head. "It is meaningless. Since they can pretend to be beggars and wait for us outside the city, it means that they have already known our location. They can intercept us wherever they want."
"Actually, entering the city is still the right thing to do. They are obviously afraid of hurting the innocent. Otherwise, they would not have given us an extra day to breathe. After all, it is not the time when the Manchurian Qing just entered the pass. Things like Ten Days in Yangzhou and Three Massacres of Jiading could be done at the beginning. Now, it is not suitable. They are also afraid that we will go crazy and cause too much trouble."
Just as Su Bai and Fatso were chatting, there was suddenly a violent sound of weapons rubbing against each other outside. Su Bai leaned over and looked outside. He found that the Qing soldiers who had just sneaked over were retreating like the tide, and there was a faint sound of fighting at the entrance of the street over there.
Su Bai opened the window and looked out. He saw a man waving a magic wand on the opposite street. Groups of Qing soldiers swarmed over, but many of them were killed by the wind blades.
"Oh, that group of Westerners actually stepped on a mine first." Su Bai pointed at the group of Qing soldiers who swarmed over but fell to the ground like leeks being cut, and said, "Monk, doesn't this scene look like the scene of Senglin Qin's cavalry charging at the British and French Allied Forces?"
The monk shook his head. "It is not the same."
As expected, as soon as the monk finished speaking, a few customers in expensive clothes, who had been eating on the ground floor of the inn where Su Bai stayed, all came over with long swords in their hands and pointed at the Western magician.
"Qi Practitioner." The monk confirmed, "This is really a messy story world. All kinds of monsters and gods are here."
