Chapter 437: Replay of "Evil Code"
Six days ago, when the black-robed leader got into trouble, the half of the God's Seed that the priest had fused almost went out of control, and it was unstable in itself.
This time, the priest was just too excited due to his tense nerves, and this half of the divine favored creature lost control on the spot...
Fortunately, the large group of players from the Qin Guan Blood Alliance were very close to the runaway and deformed monster, and this place was far enough away from the town so that the townspeople would not be caught off guard and see its true form up close, causing them to not go crazy on the spot.
When the noise here alarmed the townspeople of Baboba Town, they saw not only a terrifying monster as big as a heavy truck, but also more than 400 fully armed skeletons, which was enough to stop the young and strong townspeople who came after hearing the noise.
Just like the American and Mexican people on Earth would not be so stupid as to run to the scene of a street gunfight to watch the excitement, the natives of the alien world would never easily approach such a weird scene... The young and strong townspeople holding all kinds of crude weapons did not need anyone to "evacuate the crowd", and they retreated again and again on their own until they could only see the vague outline of the monster.
"What are those?"
"Oh my god, monsters and the undead are coming near our town to fight?"
"Fortunately there are no fields around..."
The militiamen led by Adler had just delivered two anti-cult propaganda speeches. Only a few townspeople had heard half of it by chance. Most of the townspeople were still unaware that the anti-cult movement of the Tarantan Undead had been led by Tachia.
Because the players' overall attack power was not high enough, it took a long time to defeat this kind of "BOSS"; a group of young and strong townspeople watched from afar with jaws wide open for nearly twenty minutes, and there was no sign of the battle over there ending. After discussing with each other for a while, they returned to the town with worry.
After returning to the town, this group of young and strong townspeople did not disperse, but rushed to the town hall in unison.
Because the city of Lars does not intervene much, the towns and villages in the southern mountainous area have a high degree of autonomy. Take the town of Baboba for example. Whenever something big happens in the town, such as bandits moving around nearby or wild animals appearing around the town, the town hall will find a way to solve it on its own - either they have to pay the bandits to leave, or they will hire mercenaries from other places to help.
The young and strong townspeople who came to report the news just arrived at the town hall, and were shocked to find that... there was a lot of people gathered in front of the door of the town hall, and there were women crying and men .
"What happened again?"
The young and strong townspeople forced themselves to ask people they knew.
"Those outsiders led by Adler outside the South Gate said that the 'Holy Church' is a cult, and that all those taken away by the 'Holy Church' were killed." The townspeople gathered outside the town hall said with grim expressions.
"What?!" The young and strong townspeople, who had been away from the town for no more than half an hour, were horrified.
The townspeople who happened to hear the shocking news from the outsiders' camp during this period of time gestured to give more information: "It's true, those outsiders have photos of the 'holy land', and they even enlarged the photos many times and showed them to people... There are many dead people, wearing clothes worn by locals, their skin and flesh have been rotten away, and it's hard to recognize who they are!"
"Oh my God——" The young and strong people felt dizzy after receiving too much information in a short period of time.
The young and strong men whose family members had also followed the "Holy Religion" to the "Holy Land" ran anxiously towards the south gate of the town.
There were many people surrounding the camp of outsiders outside the south gate at this moment, more than those surrounding the town hall.
The huge screen in the camp was still projecting a huge picture that was not very clear in broad daylight, but many details could still be made out.
The foreign woman holding a strange object (microphone) whose voice would be amplified countless times by a machine was still repeating the promotional content on the script with a dry mouth.
The young and strong townspeople who had just arrived stood outside the human wall, looking up at the cruel or shocking scenes on the screen, listening to the clear introduction of the female militia led by Adler, with dull faces and turbulent hearts.
A few minutes later, the young and strong man, who realized that he had lost a family member forever, squatted on the ground and covered his face and cried bitterly.
There were also young and strong men whose families had no one who believed in the "holy religion" and whose family members had not followed the "priest" away, and they patted their chests and shouted that they were lucky.
"So that's how it is. Those undead are Tarantan undead. They are here to deal with the hateful cultists. So we don't have to worry about them harassing the town."
The townspeople who came to the outsider camp to watch learned from the young and strong that the Tarantan Undead had appeared outside the town and was dealing with a monster that looked terrifying and amazing from afar. They spread the news in surprise.
This morning, no one in the entire Baboba town was in the mood to work. They were all talking to each other about the rare things that happened in and outside the town.
At noon, Innadri Radio's regular programs and popular radio dramas began to be rebroadcast.
In order to cooperate with the occupation... uh, liberation of the Taqiya Territory, the radio station has been rebroadcasting two dramas during this period. One is "The Legend of Susan" and the other is "The Deceiver's Code".
The first episode to be rebroadcast today is the latter.
As the clock struck punctually, loudspeakers installed in the streets and alleys of Baboba Town and Lars City, thirty kilometers away, simultaneously broadcast cheerful Christmas carols and a chorus of men and women that was so eerie that it made people feel creepy the more they listened: "The time for His return has come..."
Residents who gathered around the town hall to ask the old mayor for a solution, residents who gathered in groups of three or four in the streets to discuss, and townspeople who had just returned from the outsider camp after the propaganda and returned to their homes, looked around in astonishment, looking for the source of the sudden singing.
The town of Baboba is quite closed in terms of both environment and local customs, and there are not many rich people. The townspeople have only seen radios in outdated newspapers, but have never seen the real thing in reality. After the prelude of a modified version of the Old Ones' hymn was played, countless people were still scratching their heads in confusion about the source of the sound, ignoring the loudspeakers that had just been installed on the roofs of the buildings along the street.
The prelude ends and the plot begins. The evil cultists "loudly conspire" all kinds of bizarre means of harming and deceiving people, which quickly makes the townspeople forget to look for the source of the sound and become dumbfounded on the spot.
Most of the lines in "The Deceiver's Code" are based on listing and explaining the scams, rhetoric and psychological warfare used to defraud the poor and ordinary people.
All these ruthless tricks and schemes could make even the well-informed church members' blood pressure rise, and even the middle class in the capital could break out in a cold sweat, not to mention the local townspeople who had never seen much of the world and most of whom had never even been to Lars City...
Especially the second act, which specifically explains how to gain the trust of the poor with insignificant favors, and then use empty promises such as "believe in our God and your children will not get sick, your family will be free from illness and disaster, you can easily get wealth and power, and you will be blessed after death" and other empty promises that do not need to be fulfilled to deceive the poor and let the cultists take whatever they want, which made countless townspeople grit their teeth and their blood pressure rise...
When people from other places hear this story, they may just feel that the door to a new world has been opened, but the people in Baboba Town have experienced this themselves!
There are many people who have been deceived badly!
The second act, which contained a huge amount of information, ended. I don’t know how many people rushed to the streets without caring about anything, cursing the sky and the earth, beating their chests and stamping their feet, crying bitterly, and regretting their actions.
Act III, Act IV…
The 90-minute radio drama ended, and countless people were squatting, sitting or lying on the roadside in the streets and alleys of Baboba Town.
The girl Bennett's family did not succeed in taking their daughter back.
After returning from the outsider camp, Bennett's mother ran to the town hall and begged for help for a long time, but the old mayor did not dare to promise to help her. When she returned home in despair, she heard this radio drama that seemed to be adapted from their family's personal experiences.
The slightly skinny mother seemed to have lost her strength and could not even walk back home. She sat dazed on the side of the road.
The husband and eldest son came over, but didn't say any words of comfort. The family just snuggled together, sitting quietly under the eaves of someone's house, not moving a muscle.
Loudspeakers were installed in the streets of the town, and Bennett's father and brother listened to the entire radio play.
It was like going through a nightmare that was extremely exhausting and terrifying, and it took a long time to get out of it even after waking up. Bennett's usually dull and rude father, and her brother who never paid much attention to her, both seemed a little absent-minded at this moment.
In an ordinary town family like the Bennetts, the family members are not very harmonious and rarely talk to each other calmly. Who said that the environment in Baboba Town is not good and the family's economic situation is too bad? The whole family has done their best just to make ends meet, and there is really no energy to manage family affection.
Bennett's mother always yelled at her, always complained about her losing her job, and was always annoyed that she couldn't be more sensible and obedient like "other people's children" who didn't cause her any worries. In fact, it was just because she was always worried about how many days the bread stored at home could last and whether the household expenses would be enough to fill the family's stomachs in the coming days.
Bennett's father and brother always ignored her and never showed any concern for her, simply because the work of a bricklayer was too heavy and hard, the wages were too low, and he had to compete with many people for the same job.
But it is not true to say that they all don't care about Bennett... After all, Bennett is still their family, their blood.
"Dad, Mom...we almost lost Bennett."
Bennett's brother murmured, fear revealed in his expression.
The family stayed in silence for a while, then stood up together and staggered towards the South Gate of Zhen again.
There are many families like the Bennett family... When the Bennett family stood outside the fence of the isolation camp again, they were surrounded by townspeople who were standing on tiptoe and looking out anxiously.
The militiamen once again called out the civilians from the quarantined town.
After crying again, Bennett's mother touched her daughter's head with trembling hands for the first time in her life, and comforted her daughter with a slightly awkward and gentle tone: "Stay here, Bennett, don't cry easily, don't quarrel with others, and control your arrogant temper... Wait until the militia here says you can go home, and we will come to pick you up."
"I know, Mom." Bennett said, wiping his eyes.
There were speakers installed in the quarantine camp to play radio dramas, and she had just heard the drama, "The Deceiver's Code," which had given her a chill.
This bloody film, which unabashedly exposes the viciousness of the cultists, is as shocking as the image of the mountain of corpses projected on the big screen.
After the players spent more than an hour of game time defeating the BOSS and another half an hour of game time auctioning the spoils (including the previously captured bandits), they heard from the fishing community's Crouching Dragon and Phoenix that there was an NPC town nearby. Some players decided not to rush back to the city with the main group, but to go there first to see if there were any quests to take on in this NPC town.
Among these players, there are also those who are good at writing.
"We don't know whether there is a mission or not, but we both came here in the beginning because we received the errand task." said Wolong, a member of the Salted Fish Party.
"The camp outside that NPC town seems to be the camp of NPC Adler." said Feng Chu, a member of the Salted Fish Party.
"Oh... that should be the follow-up plot of the world view breakthrough mission we are doing." Miaobishenghua pulled out the large map and took a look. He found that this area was not far from the canyon where they had done the mission before (not far for players), and nodded in understanding.
The mission "The Lone Watcher" ends after you escort the black-robed cultists captured in the canyon back to Kata Town and hand them in.
When the player handed in the quest, the NPC Zombie Frank said some lines encouraging the player to go north. At that time, Miaobishenghua and Entropy were excited that there was a wider space in the north for them to explore. But when they turned around, the Undead Chamber of Commerce openly issued quests to the northern city of Lars to all players on the server... The two girls were so angry that they gritted their teeth.
It's obviously them who worked hard to organize people to run maps and dig out breakthrough tasks, and in the end, the benefits are shared by all players, which is not bad!
A group of players ran to the camp outside the south gate of Baboba Town and found that all the NPCs active inside were Adler militiamen who had received civilians from them before. Their brilliant writing further confirmed their judgment.
"Although the breakthrough missions we are doing are shared by all servers, now that the teleportation points in the new map are open, if we can continue to dig out hidden missions, then the benefits should be ours, right?" Miaobishenghua thought for a moment and gradually became excited.
"Uh...right?" Yang Ying, who was running around with her, scratched his head.
"Let's go and take a look!" With a wave of his bone claw, he picked up his robe and ran towards the NPC town.
The knowledge that "Tarantan Undead are friends of mankind" spread throughout the town just this morning, but this does not mean that the townspeople of Baboba Town can immediately accept these non-human skeletons; wherever the players go, the townspeople scream and flee...
Fortunately, the players were already accustomed to this kind of scene and didn't care about the "atmosphere group" running around. They went straight to the most "glorious" building in the town, the only three-story wooden building.
The militia officer, who had been invited by the old mayor of the town to talk for a long time, had just come out of the town hall. When he looked up, he saw a dozen undead rushing into the town hall compound without treating him as outsiders.
The team officer's eyes lit up, and he immediately waved and chatted with the "NPC quality": "Good day, respected undead warriors, I need your help."
Miaobishenghua was overjoyed: "Look, I told you there was a mission!"
