HPDBC Chapter 332 The players have all gone mad
Chapter 332 The players have all gone mad
The rift above Hidden Star City has completely closed.
West Gate Square was shrouded in grief.
Saros slung the battle axe back onto his back.
He turned around and walked heavily down the city wall.
"Why not wait for him to be resurrected?" Auro asked, following behind.
Saros stopped and glanced back at Oro.
"Can't we just play some games tonight and see him?"
Oro remained silent.
"It's not that simple." Moon Arrow walked past the two of them. "Perhaps, this train won't be able to depart today."
Oro and Salos were both taken aback upon hearing this, and then showed expressions of regret mixed with resentment.
Whether it's the three guild leaders or ordinary players, everyone regards Chen You as a top player on the leaderboard.
The death of this being is not as simple as waiting for resurrection.
The leaders of the three major guilds ultimately did not go to the square to join the commotion, and quietly withdrew from Hidden Star City.
The players have finally emerged from their grief.
"Go to the respawn point! Hurry to the respawn point to pick up the wandering god!"
Someone shouted something, and hundreds of thousands of players erupted in cheers.
The crowd spontaneously split up and surged toward the four resurrection points in the city, facing east, west, south, and north.
The respawn point at the west gate is the most crowded.
The players were packed shoulder to shoulder, with no room to even stand.
"Make way! Get out of my way!" A berserker, holding up ninety-nine roses, shouted at the top of his lungs.
"I want to offer flowers as soon as the deity appears! I want to be the first to thank him!"
"Get out of the way!" A guild leader next to him kicked the berserker aside and beckoned over a few of his underlings.
"I spent a fortune hiring eight high-level golems to carry my sedan chair! The wandering god just died and is in a weakened state; he needs to rest in the sedan chair!"
Some people even unfurled a banner that was 100 meters long, which read: "Warmly welcome the triumphant return and resurrection of hero Chen You."
Five minutes passed.
The resurrection point array lit up with white light.
Several ordinary players who had been killed while grinding monsters outside the city walked out.
Seeing the dense crowd and banners outside, they were so frightened that they retreated to a corner of the safe zone.
Ten minutes passed.
The formation flickered again, but Chen You was still nowhere to be seen.
Half an hour passed.
The noisy crowd gradually quieted down.
The berserker lowered his aching arm, and a few rose petals fell.
The guild leader waved away the golems carrying the palanquin.
He turned to look at his deputy beside him.
Have the people sent to the starting villages and respawn points in the surrounding towns returned with news?
The deputy swallowed hard, his voice trembling, "Chairman, we've searched everywhere. Nothing."
There was no trace of the wandering spirit anywhere.
A commotion broke out in the crowd.
"What's going on? Shouldn't players immediately respawn at their designated respawn point after dying?"
"Yeah, even if they're weakened from losing a level, they should still come out!"
The thief player who had been bounced away by the fat on Qiao Biluo's abdomen was pushed to the front, his eyes red-rimmed.
"Don't you understand?" The thief looked around, his voice hoarse.
"Of course, one can be resurrected from an ordinary death. But was the death that You Shen just experienced an ordinary death?"
Everyone was stunned.
The thief pointed in the direction where the sky had just split open.
"That skeletal dragon is a mythical cataclysmic event! The wandering god, with only a drop of blood on his remaining body, forcibly unleashed that world-destroying power. Do you really think the system will only deduct a little experience from him?"
A female pastor covered her mouth, tears welling up in her eyes.
"You mean... the wandering god...?"
"He paid an irreversible price!" The thief slammed his fist on a nearby stone pillar.
"Perhaps it's a wound to the soul, perhaps it's a permanent ban!"
"He lost his own account trying to save us!"
"Goddess!" Qiao Biluo suddenly knelt on the ground, covered her face with her hands, and wailed loudly.
Crying is contagious.
The entire Resurrection Square was soon filled with wails.
Players cannot accept this fact.
A super-rich player who spent money like water and treated 100,000 gold coins as pocket money died protecting a group of unknown low-level players.
"We can't let this go!" A berserker stood up, his eyes red. "The God of Travel died for us; we must see him off on his final journey!"
"Yes! Give the ghost a grand and glorious funeral!"
A few minutes later, at the West Gate Square of Cangxing City.
This is the place where Chen You disappeared, and it has now been turned into a huge open-air mourning hall.
The players' execution reached its peak at this moment.
Hundreds of earth-elemental mages joined forces to raise a ten-meter-high obsidian altar in the center of the plaza.
In the very center of the altar hung a huge portrait.
That was a screenshot taken by a quick-handed player in the world announcement.
The screenshot quality is very poor.
In the scene, Chen You is looking up at the crack in the sky. Due to the lighting, he is rolling his eyes, and his mouth is twitching with pain from the cost of the props.
But in the eyes of the players, this expression became a perfect portrayal of "compassion for all living beings and fearlessness in the face of death".
Below the portrait, there were many strange offerings.
Someone placed a set of red medicine.
Someone left a white dress.
An orc player stepped forward and solemnly placed down a half-cooked snow rabbit leg.
"God of Travel, I don't have much money. I was planning to eat this leg as a midnight snack. You can eat it on the way."
Qiao Biluo led a group of female players, who used strips of cloth to tie countless white flowers and covered the steps of the altar.
A powerful figure in the business world brought over a pair of enormous gold foil wreaths.
The inscription on the left side of the wreath reads: "His voice and appearance are still with us."
The right side reads: "A Journey Through the Ages."
Players spontaneously formed long queues in the square.
Without incense, the monks would rub together thin flames and hold them in their hands.
Without paper money, professional players would cut parchment on the spot, draw gold coin symbols on it, and throw it into the brazier.
"Go in peace, You Shen. From now on, we'll protect Cangxing City for you!"
"God of Travel, don't be so generous in your next life. Keep some of the blood vials for yourself!"
The funeral music was played on harps by several bards, and the melody was mournful.
In the square where hundreds of thousands of players gathered, there was no other noise except for the sounds of crying and piano music.
……
Thousand Light City, Supreme Training Room.
The vortex of spiritual energy surged back in a frenzy.
Chen You sat cross-legged on the prayer mat, receiving no paper money and experiencing no other feelings whatsoever.
He closed his eyes and guided the vast spiritual energy within his body to circulate along the pathways of the "Nine Revolutions Primordial Chaos Technique".
The meridians continued to widen, and the bones emitted a crackling sound like popping beans.
The intense pain went straight to the brain.
Chen You gritted his teeth, sweat dripping down his chin and onto his moon-white Taoist robe.
He forcefully channeled all his spiritual energy into his dantian.
The vortex of energy within the dantian continuously stirred the source of spiritual power.
boom--!
The cyclone suddenly exploded, then coalesced again, flowing slowly like a liquid.
A system notification sounded in my ear.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining!]
[You are only one step away from the Foundation Establishment stage, triggering the special quest "Building the Foundation of the Great Dao".]
[Note: This quest can only be accepted once. Failure to complete the quest will result in the loss of all cultivation points.]