Chapter 63: Express Route to the Beginner’s Village

After Old Li had walked some distance, he still hadn’t figured out why the life-skill players were so confident in completing the mission.
Had they secretly practiced combat skills?
While thinking this, he walked towards Scott’s appraisal shop—

That guy stayed there every time he was online.
It was always right to look for him at the shop.
On the way, he could also purchase some food from the market at the entrance for replenishment.

But when Old Li actually arrived at the market entrance, he found that the usually very lively market was now empty.
Not to mention people, not even a single fishtail could be seen.

“What’s going on? Hasn’t everyone logged on yet?” Huahua rubbed his eyes and asked in disbelief, “That’s not right.
Everyone should have been here by now!”

At this moment, a player was rushing past them.
Seeing the three’s shocked and confused faces, he kindly stopped and said to them, “You’re here to buy things, right?
The market has been closed for three days starting today.
You can trade with everyone when you get to the new village.”

This kind player was clearly from the life-skill player faction.
Even while rushing, he still didn’t forget to hold two strangely shaped pots.

“Why is it closed?
If we set off from here to the new village, what about our supplies on the way?” Old Li hadn’t expected to get this answer.
It was actually closed for a full three days?

The health-restoring supplies they had stored up before had already been half consumed during their last trip, and this was with the help of the red-topped snake.
If they had to rely on themselves to swim, the remaining supplies might not even let them see the shadow of the new village?!

Had the life-skill players all gone crazy?
Why would they suddenly make such a decision?

Hearing Old Li’s question, this life-skill player said in confusion, “You haven’t been to the boundary gate of the outer lands yet, have you?
Hurry over, otherwise you won’t make it in time.”

After speaking, the player had already rushed away with his belongings, heading in the direction of the boundary gate.

“Then let’s go have a look too,” Old Li glanced at the still-closed appraisal shop and finally made a decision.

By the time the 123 team officially arrived in the direction of the boundary gate, they saw a very incredible scene—a giant, pitch-black snake with an crimson head was waiting at the exit of the outer lands, resting its chin on the ground out of boredom.

Isn’t this the red-topped snake that had brought them to the new village and then disappeared!

And at this time, the red-topped snake also saw them, and the whole snake visibly became happy.
The tip of its tail circled from the back to the front, then bent into a small hook and hooked towards the three of them.

As if to say: Hurry up and come over, I’m just waiting for you few~

So that’s how it is.
The moment Old Li saw this snake, he had a sudden realization and understood why the market could safely move to the new village.

Of course, the developers couldn’t really force the players to their deaths.
It was unrealistic for so many players to want to reach the new village at the same time by their own strength.
It might be possible after the open beta had been out for a long time, but for now, it seemed that both the reserves of magic power and cooking food were far from enough to support two hundred and fifty players on a long journey to a new map.

Under these circumstances, it seemed to make sense for the developers to arrange for the snake that had appeared before to act as a convenient express train between the territory and the new village?

So the strange snake he had met before was actually a plot foreshadowing laid by the developers?
Old Li marveled in his heart.

His imagination was too barren to keep up with the game developers’ wild ideas.

After Old Li figured it out, he breathed a sigh of relief.
When he turned around again, he saw Hua Yibing with a blank expression, as if his whole person had lost all color.

“Huahua?
What’s wrong with you?”

Old Li’s words seemed to have woken him up.
Huahua took several steps back in shock, his baby face turning deathly pale.

He said in a panic, “I just remembered I have something I haven’t done yet.
I’ll be right back.
You guys go ahead!!”

After speaking, he turned and was about to run away, but his collar was accurately grabbed by a hand that had appeared from nowhere.

Huahua looked up in despair and found that the owner of the hand had a very familiar face—gray hair, gray eyes, and an appearance that, although very ordinary, gave a very comfortable feeling.

“Scott, who did you learn these bad habits from!” he shouted indignantly, but in the end, he couldn’t go against his companions’ wishes and was dragged onto the VIP seat on the red-topped snake’s body with a look of utter despair.

Still the familiar posture, still the familiar shape.
Huahua was held in one hand by Sykes.
When he saw the curious gazes cast towards him by the other players, he couldn’t help but cover his face with a ‘woo’.

“Scott,” he extended his free hand and tugged at Sykes’s sleeve in despair.

“Hmm?” Sykes lowered his head and glanced at him.

“Are there still people looking?” came from below.

Sykes scanned the area… “Yes, they’re all looking here.”

Hua Yibing: QWQ

Actually, it wasn’t just Huahua’s unique way of riding—though that was certainly true of their location.

Although there were many players riding along, they were only allowed to sit on the red-topped snake’s body.
It wasn’t that no players had tried to climb onto its much more stable-looking head, but they had been firmly blocked midway by its tail.

Someone could actually ride on the snake’s head?

The four people, looking down from above , offered a cool, unassuming look to Hua Yibing, who was full of resistance . “Even if I have to be carried, I’m willing!

Another ten minutes passed.
By the time the first batch of players who had logged in had almost all gotten on the snake’s body, it was almost ten o’clock in the morning.

The red-topped snake finally raised its head high and let out an excited hiss.
Then, like a suddenly starting train, the high-speed movement, comparable to a high-speed rail, made all the players on the vehicle feel a wave of dizziness, and then they fell off the snake’s back with a ‘pitter-patter’.

However, the imagined large-scale car accident did not happen, and the reason was the ropes that those players were holding on to tightly—

Because the snake’s body was not very flat, and there were no fixed seats or the like… it was impossible for such things to exist.
So, someone had put a large, rock-and-roll style leather on the middle section of the snake’s body, with many silver rings hanging from it, and a rope tied to each silver ring.

When the system prompted them to hold on to the ropes when riding, some people had been dismissive, claiming, “I wear a seatbelt when I’m in a car in real life.
Do I really have to wear one in a game too?”

As a result, when the snake set off, that person was also the first one to be thrown off.
He simply couldn’t keep up with the red-topped snake’s speed and could only stand dumbfounded at the entrance of the outer lands.
He couldn’t go back, and there was no point in moving forward.
Not only did he waste a life, but he also had to accept the system’s mockery—

[A warm reminder from the system: There are thousands of roads, but safety is the first.
If you don’t wear a seatbelt while riding, your loved ones will cry two streams of tears.]

The players who didn’t follow the prompts were extremely depressed, not to mention that the experience of the other players who had honestly held on to the ropes was not very wonderful at the moment.

Originally, sitting on the snake’s body didn’t feel like anything, but when this snake started to move, the inertia brought by the high-speed movement caused most of the players to fall off.

In order not to fall behind like that unlucky player, everyone could only hold on to the rope in their hands tightly.
Then, like the tassels on a Chinese knot, they danced wildly in the water waves;
or like the common spinning flying chairs in an amusement park, except that now what was hanging on them was a string after another of merfolk.

“Red red fire fire hahahahahaha!” Huahua, who had been in a state of self-pity just now, instantly recovered to full health after seeing this scene.

As the saying goes, when one person is embarrassed, it’s really embarrassing;
but when a group of people are embarrassed, this embarrassment turns into a joke.
After comparing his riding posture with the spinning flying chairs in the back row, he suddenly felt that being carried by Scott was actually a very decent way to ride.

Sykes looked at the kite-like players flying around in the back row and said thoughtfully to Hua Yibing, “The back seat might be more suitable for you.
Look, they’re not even touching the snake’s skin.”

“No!!” Huahua’s gloating expression instantly froze on his face.
He wailed and hugged Sykes’s arm tightly.
“Scott, please, please, don’t ever abandon your cute teammate!”

By the time the Red-Topped Snake Express arrived at the new village, the passengers were infinitely close to the air-dried salted fish hanging on the clotheslines at every household’s doorstep during the festival.
They were strung up on ropes, one by one, with dead fish eyes.

Seeing that they had finally arrived at the station, everyone’s eyes lit up, and they couldn’t help but cheer.

The players eagerly dropped the ropes in their hands and were about to swarm towards the new map when a slender snake tail appeared in front of them.
At the same time, a prompt popped up in the system—

[A warm reminder from the system: The express train has arrived at the station.
Players, please pay the fare.]

Pay the fare?
How to pay, by deducting reputation points?

Just as the players were looking at each other in confusion, the system automatically sent out a music score.
On the score were five big characters—”The Most Dazzling Ethnic Style.”

[Players, please sing a song for the red-topped snake to pay your fare.
The payment will be considered successful when the other party falls asleep.]

The dazed players: “…”

Old Li, who had guessed this would happen but was still speechless: “…”

The unprepared Sykes: “…”

The merman pinched the bridge of his nose with a headache.
He hadn’t expected Ella’s unconventional approach to one day bite him in the back.

But what could he do?
Between singing the square dance song himself and dragging everyone down with him to sing it, the players reached a surprising consensus.
They actively supervised each other to ensure that the players in front, behind, left, and right were not slacking off.

Among them was Hua Yibing, who had been carried all the way.

He raised an eyebrow mischievously and poked Sykes next to him.
“Hey, Scott, you can’t ride without paying the fare!”

This consciousness of Sykes didn’t have those magic scrolls with him, and it was even more impossible to confuse the players’ consciousness and get away with it.
He could only helplessly open his mouth and sing this song from another world with them.

When was the last time he sang?
The merman recalled the past, somewhat lost in thought.
It seemed like a long, long time ago, so long that he couldn’t remember clearly.

Almost at the moment Sykes opened his mouth, the big snake in the distance, which was half-asleep with its eyes narrowed, trembled all over, from the back of its neck to the tip of its tail, and then quickly fell into a deep sleep.

[Beep, payment successful.
Welcome to ride again next time.]
The system’s prompt also sounded accordingly.

“Strange, this time seems to be much faster than the last time?” Yan Shuangwen touched his chin thoughtfully.
“Is this the power of a group chorus?”

Sykes silently turned his face away, pretending it had nothing to do with him.

Although Huahua was also regretful that the snake had fallen asleep too quickly and he hadn’t had time to hear Sykes sing, he quickly cheered up.
“Who cares?
Charge!!
Slime, you just wait!!”

As the players poured into the new territory from the Sea of Death, the slimes still hidden in various places in this ocean suddenly had a bad feeling.
They warily opened their two black-bean-like eyes, as if smelling the scent of their natural enemy.

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