The Lost Land of Gold

Mu Sicheng ripped off the white uniform gloves that had been pierced, pulled off the monkey headset from the helmet, and when he saw the hip-hop monkey logo stuck through his head, Mu Sicheng's gaze suddenly paused for a moment, then he moved away and put it on again as if nothing had happened.

...... It's been so many years, and he still carries this monkey symbol on anything his desires generate.

Yuan Qingqing ...... has that much influence on him?

It's just a desk mate from high school, and she's been dead for years, so it's time for him to move on.

[Mu Sicheng] narrowed his eyes at the fading monkey symbol on his dangling earpiece, averted his gaze, and turned away.

Game.

Mu Sicheng, pursued by the hurricane, had already reached the bottom of the castle - the furthest place he knew of from the mines - but the hurricane behind him was still in hot pursuit, and Mu Sicheng looked back twice and could only vaguely see Armand coming this way, hidden among the swirling golden phoenix eyes of the hurricane. Armand.

Damn, Armand does this skill take so long to use?

Mu Sicheng looked at his nearly depleted stamina bar and skill time, and gritted his teeth and stopped - he couldn't run at full speed anymore, and preferred to stop and eat Armand's skill for a while, lowering his life value.

With the antidote Liu Jiayi gave him to restore his life, he should be able to eat Armand's skills at least twice, and if he doesn't let Armand interact with Georgia, he should be able to hold Armand off for about three hours.

...... three hours, Bai Liu said that if he moves fast enough, this copy should be able to push to the end.

In fact, Mu Sicheng didn't understand why Bai Liu was in such a hurry, after seeing everyone inhaling the gold powder, their spirit value and life value didn't drop, Bai Liu just thought a little bit and doubled the speed of the fast-paced confrontation that they were originally doing - the original pace was already very fast, striving to finish this book in one day within the game time. The original pace was already fast, aiming to finish this book in one day within the game time.

But Bai Liu later turned that time into three hours.

This kind of speed matchup is especially stressful and demanding for everyone, especially for him as a roving position player who has to consistently hang the lead.

The speeding hurricane almost in the twinkling of an eye slowed down Mu Sicheng engulfed into it, countless chains in the golden hurricane crisscrossed and saved, in an instant Mu Sicheng's hands and feet bound, other chains in his body constantly rubbing over, cold metal in Mu Sicheng body left scars, his life value visible to the naked eye began to decline.

Grass, that hurts!

Mu Sicheng's features were wrinkled into a ball.

Armand in Hurricane Phoenix's eyes slowly walks towards him.

Mu Sicheng said loudly in color, mentally calculating the time he had to eat his skills, "How dare you leave the main team so easily, you are the main attacker, aren't you afraid that your own team won't be able to hit the output and will be directly sent away by our team in a wave?"

"Our main offense is awesome!"

"You do have a point." Armand, who had stepped in front of Mu Sicheng, raised his eyes, "Your main attacker is quite a deterrent, but I can't let you go on stealing, and the thought of you stealing would have a bad effect."

"You who watched Yuan Qingqing die in front of you know this best don't you?"

Mu Sicheng's pupils shrunk for a moment when he heard this, then he gave a vicious laugh and provoked in a mute voice, "...... What nonsense are you talking about, you're starting to talk nonsense, are you that afraid of me?"

"An act like stealing is inherently unjust." Armand looked calmly at Mu Sicheng, "Once you were tormented by it, any pleasure you derived from it eventually turned into pain back at yourself."

"I'm not going to let you steal and I'm not going to let my team be governed, so I'm going to keep you here and return to help."

"How long do you think a hurricane without you to guard it can trap me?" Mu Sicheng laughed as if he had heard a very funny joke, "If I can steal your hair ornament from the hurricane, I can naturally break free from your hurricane!"

"You know I'm not talking about me." Armand's tone was flat, "I'm talking about Yuan Qingqing."

"The logo on your headset is still a monkey, so you should remember the name, right?"

Mu Sicheng's expression froze completely.

"I know a chained hurricane can't trap you without me to hold it down, so-" Armand raised his hand, the butterflies stopping at his fingertips, his gaze becoming condensed, "[I'm] going to stay here. "

"But I will also return to help, in another form."

[System Alert: Player Armand equips Monster Book Form - (Hurricane Butterfly)]

[Butterflies and human souls are interchanged, the butterfly enters the player Armand's body and can act as the eye of the hurricane, continuously causing hurricanes and tracking down suspects, at the same time, the soul of the human enters the butterfly's body and is free to move around and cause a new round of hurricanes, the form is equipped with a double line of multiple points that the player can cause hurricanes.]

[This form can be interrupted by an exchange between the two sides after the butterfly's weakness has been detected].

The butterfly vibrates its wings and flutters away, and left in place Armand loses all light in his pupils, leaving only inorganic murderous intent and a cold light, and a butterfly symbol with spreading wings appears above the knot of his throat, like a tattoo of color with a sheen flowing over it.

This [Armand] raised his head and stared at Mu Sicheng, who was trapped by the chains, with those emotionless eyes, and let out a creepy and peculiar sound with a voice that sounded as if an insect was lifting its wings:

"Use the hurricane and kill, Mu Sicheng."

Stronger hurricanes are coming.

Inside the mine.

After passing through countless caves, the mine cart finally went to the deepest part of the mine, Bai Liu They jumped down from the mine cart and looked up to the subtle sky light falling down from the very top, and looking along the sky light, they could see a golden sculpture bending down and digging something.

"This man doesn't seem to be a miner." Mu Ke leaned over to look, he scrutinized the statue that was crouched on the ground, looking anxious as he dug for something, "Judging by the clothes, he should be a priestly type of figure of notable status in this country."

"It surely wasn't gold that the priests came here to dig for."

Liu Jiayi followed the priest's digging movements and picked at the ground twice, there was mineral soil and scattered gold nuggets on the ground, "This hole isn't deep."

"It doesn't feel like digging ......" Liu Jiayi frowned, "It feels like burying something."

"But the question is bury what?"

"Could it be the Sands of Time?" Tang Er asked.

"Not like that." Bai Liu stroked his chin, "This priest is obviously carrying some sort of mission, riding out the critical juncture where the people outside come to protest and drag their feet, coming to bury something behind someone's back, and the person who asked him to do so should be of a low status and unavailable, which is why a figure of his stature would be used to do such a grunt work. "

"It makes some sense to come and bury the Funnel of Time at a point like this."

"Then this person who asked him to come and bury something is either a king or a Georgia, only these two people are qualified to ask a priest to come and bury something." Liu Jiayi stared at the sculpture for a while, then suddenly reached out and pulled a silk scarf-like object out of the sculpture's tunic that was covered in gold dust, "What's this?"

Liu Jiayi shook off the gold dust on the silk scarf, then realized that a wedge-shaped black mark had appeared on the yellowed white silk scarf.

"It looks like some kind of stone, traces of an explosion." Liu Jiayi looked closer and saw half of it, she suddenly covered her mouth and choked violently, her fingertips kept overflowing with gold dust, she coughed and wrapped the silk scarf and stepped on the ground to keep the others from touching it, "Cough cough ...... this should be the heretic that can generate gold, that heretic here shattered, this silk scarf is the thing that wrapped that heresy."

"This priest came here to bury this heretic, too, who is supposed to be ...... ahem, the king's man!"

"Jiayi, is there a drop in your panel?" Bai Liu inquired quickly and calmly.

Liu Jiayi tapped the panel while coughing vigorously, then shook her head, "There's no drop, life and spirit values are normal."

"Don't mind me, the overall situation is basically out now, ahem, time is of the essence, organize the information and push the line first!"

"Ten years ago, gold production in the country of Gurolum dropped, the people panicked, prices climbed, the king got his hands on some kind of heresy given by the gods to get gold production up again and wanted to make another deal with the gods to get more of this heresy, and the great Wang Zi Georgia at the time didn't agree, and this secondary burst of output of gold caused many miners to develop a peculiar organ sclerosis disease, Georgia thought that this gold was faulty, some sort of heresy, and wanted to turn over the mines to the Disposal Bureau, which deals with heretics, for internment." Mu Ke quickly deduced.

"And the people at that time couldn't accept it, and on the day Georgia forcefully handed over the mine, they came to the entrance of the mine to protest, stalling the people from Georgia's faction who wanted to hand over the mine, while at the same time-" Bai Liu shifted his gaze to the High Priest who was digging something, "The King took the opportunity to secretly send the High Priest into the interior of the mine with the heresy he already had, wanting to bury the heresy into the ground and turn everything into a fix."

"But for some reason, it didn't work to bury it, and it made this heretic explode."

"It seems that you guys still have the ability to deduce things." A light male voice came from above, "Since you guys have guessed my identity, you should know that this is my home map, so why did you follow me without thinking of yourselves?"

Bai Liu's speaking voice lurched as he turned his head to look over, raising an eyebrow at the sight of the flapping butterfly resting on Georgia's shoulder, "So that's it."

--No wonder Armand's skill can deal so much damage over such a wide range and still have such a low presence, it turns out it does it in the form of a butterfly.

Attracting people's attention with [Carapace], hitting a hurricane to lure people into attacking for the purpose of roaming, while the one who really took on the main attacking duties was an inconspicuous butterfly - I have to say it was really a subtle skill, it was almost as if it was made to restrain Mu Sicheng, the high-speed roaming positional player on their team.

"Was hoping to scatter you all one by one." Bai Liu shrugs and raises his hands in a gesture of surrender, "Now it looks like you've been guarding us against this for a while, Captain Georgia."

"You've got the Funnel of Time, too, don't you?"

Bai Liu's eyes shifted downward to the hidden hourglass in Georgia's hand and asked with a smile, "But Your Highness, Great Wang Zi, have you ever thought of anyone whose tears could fill this hourglass?"

The moment his words fell, the index finger of his right hand gouged downward. With a sweep of the tail of his eyes, Mu Ke quickly understood the meaning of Bai Liu's gesture and disappeared from his position, and in the next second, appeared behind Georgia, his sharp dagger jammed in the front of Georgia's neck, pinning him backward.

"Action." Bai Liu calmly ordered, "Follow the previous plan, one drag and one distract them, and confront them with all your might."

Ornamental Pool.

"Bai Liu is at a disadvantage." Lu Yizhan stared at the big screen for half a day, thinking for a moment, and then suddenly popped out this sentence, "Georgia's home field advantage is too big, Armand's skill is equivalent to adding an extra player to their team, and that's hard to deal with."

Liao Ke looked helplessly at Lu Yizhan, who couldn't avoid his previous question : "Captain, that wasn't the match I just asked you about."

"I'm asking you what's going on with Georgia, the heretic under the sea, and you don't have to keep me in suspense when I'm calling you to the corner of the viewing pool to avoid the Spades, do you?"

"This thing had your hand in it at first glance, Georgia was only sixteen ten years old, how could he handle the country he turned into a heretic when the Heresy Authority at the time didn't have the funds or the ability to sink a heretic the size of a country to the bottom of the ocean."

"You're the only one who could have done this and managed it, so tell us what's going on and what have you done?"

"Eh ......" Lu Yizhan rubbed his head sadly, "If I tell you, you will definitely scold me again."

Liao Ke took a deep breath, he propped his hands on his knees, "You say it first, I'll try not to scold, ten years ago, didn't you watch Bai Liu in the orphanage, why did you go back to meddle in this matter?"

Lu Yizhan covered his face and escaped from himself for a while, and finally spoke helplessly under the ghostly gaze of his lieutenant, "I was indeed in the orphanage at the time, but the identity of the Heresy Handling Bureau's First Captain that Bai Liu set to me was still there, but the body I landed on in this world line was only fourteen years old, so how could I go over to take charge of things ah, and thought of scamming my way out of the world. "

"But before walking away, the Georgia thing was reported to me."

"He was seeking cooperation with the members of the Third Bureau stationed closest to the Gurokai." Lu Yizhan said as his eyes and tone of voice got complicated, "But the people from the Third Bureau soon realized that this was not a small matter and reported it to the General Directorate here, and I got the message and was ready to go over there to deal with it."

"On the day of the incident, Georgia was ready to close the mines, but it was impossible to do so because of the popular protests at many of the mines, meaning that the boy had already lost the game with Bai Liu, but he didn't give up at that time, and he contacted the three bureaus at that time, wanting to use our power to guard the mines from the people, and then dispose of the gold inside. "

"The members of the Third Bureau field team, guided by Georgia into the Gurolum country, lurked in the mines, ready to wait for Bai Liu to show up with the Points of Gold and then to take them in."

"But Georgia didn't realize that her own father had actually made a private deal with the Evil God to preempt the suffering of the nation, had already gotten his hands on the Pointed Stone, and was going to have the High Priest bury it in the veins of the earth ahead of time while the populace mopped up the people of Georgia's faction."

"The king, not wanting to break out in a head-on confrontation with Georgia, chose to do so, wanting to put a stop to all the farce."

"The Gurolum Kingdom was hidden by that Bai Liu guy, and someone from the Gurolum Kingdom had to be guided in, and when I went over there, Georgia came out and guided me without any knowledge of it."

"And at the same time, two waves of people who had both lurked in the mines ahead of time met, and a clash erupted between the Priests and their party, who were trying to forcefully bury the Points of Gold, and the members of the Third Bureau, who were trying to shelter the heretics."

Lu Yizhan wiped his face somewhat tiredly, "When Georgia and I entered the Gurolun country, the entire country, except for some critters that were farther away from the mining area, basically everyone, including all the field team members that went to the third bureau at that time, were all turned into golden sculptures."

"Only Armand, his brother, who was sent ahead of him to be housed at the third station, was spared."

"Georgia is broken."

"He feels that he caused all ...... of this, whether it was the destruction of the Gurolum Kingdom or the deaths of these members of the Third Bureau."

"The gold dust was still spreading outward, and to prevent this heretic from turning the entire world to gold, I used my heavy sword to cut the country of Gurolum from the sea in front of him, wrapped it in the Heresy Authority's protective shield to prevent the gold dust from spreading, and then sunk the country into the deep sea."

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes, "...... There were many other members of the Third Bureau who knew about this at the time, and as you know, while I trust the members of the Heresy Disposal Bureau, there are many times when I have to plan for the worst."

"This heresy is so attractive to people that all they need to do is to steal a little gold dust up from the heresy at the bottom of the sea, put some small animals together with this gold dust, and they will be able to create gold in a constant stream, and it is hard for anyone to resist such a temptation."

"So I used my skills, and I said to Georgia that I would erase any trace that this Golden Land had ever existed from everyone's memory, including yours."

"...... He begged me on his knees for a long time, begging me not to erase his memories, even saying that it was okay for him to remain under the supervision of the Third Bureau, to be monitored as a heretic, as long as I didn't erase his memories."

"I ended up keeping Georgia's memories, but the kid knew enough to go into the Third Bureau on his own, make it to Director, and basically place himself under the supervision of the Heresy Handling Bureau and me all the time."

"He felt sorry for the three bureaus and his brother, so he has always tried to make it up to them, turning the three bureaus into warehouses, turning them into the first heresy handling localized doors without field teams, but rushing to the front line of sheltering heretics himself, and all of the expenses for the three bureaus' expansions came out of his account, and refusing to let his own brother into the three bureaus, all of which he did in an effort to make it up to them. "

"Gold from the Third Bureau Expansion ......" Lu Yizhan sighed as he looked up at Georgia on the big screen, "Originally it was still the Great Wang Zi period of the Gurolum Kingdom Georgia Sold off much of his belongings, saved from the Gold Issuing Agency in the changes, and stored outside, ready to be used as a lump sum of gold to get the nation through the long winter that will soon be gold-less."

"But in the end, the gold was not used to distribute to these nationals, but to expand the three bureaus."

"Georgia relocated the three bureaus to the side of the Sea of Guro, and he has kept them, by the sea, by the bottom of the sea his homeland, forbidding himself to laugh, forbidding himself to be happy, forbidding himself to be irresponsible, wanting to keep everything protected, and slowly becoming what he is today."

"I don't know what Bai Liu said to him."

Lu Yizhan lowered his head wearily, "But that Georgia kid, no matter what happens, hasn't cried since he was sixteen."

"I asked him about it, and he answered me that the gods had fixed his people at that moment ten years ago, that they were painless, and that if only one day he could pay off the thousand years of gold equivalent of pain owed to the gods for all the people of the country of Gurolum, as promised, the deal would stop, time would be reversed, and these people would be brought back to life again, and the people of the Three Bureaus wouldn't be dead, and the country of Gurolum again can return to the earth."

"And everyone can be as happy as they were in the beginning."

"For this reason, he can no longer shed a single tear because of his pain; he has to store it up and put it in an hourglass."

"But the game with the evil god ...... was originally full of traps." Lu Yizhan closed his eyes, he took a deep breath, "I sometimes want to persuade him, but when I think about myself, isn't it also on the path of the game with God?"

"Maybe there's nothing else he can choose or expect but that, just like me."

The game is on the outskirts of the palace.

The hurricane keeps on rolling without stopping, Mu Sicheng struggles to get off the chains, but [Armand] steps in closer.

The thing moved very briskly, but caused significantly less of a sense of compulsion than the real Armand had before, acting not like it was thinking afterward, but like a real butterfly rounding up its prey as it did, hidden in its chains as it kept closing in on him.

But it's still a pain in the ass.

It wasn't that he couldn't break free, it was just that his hands were shaking.

...... Yuan Qingqing ...... How long had it been since he had heard that name, and why did this Armand guy know Yuan Qingqing?

Why did this person know, why did this remember, why did this person remind him, when even he was on the verge of forgetting?

[Stealing is an unjust thing, Mu Sicheng.]

[It's wrong to steal, Mr. Mu Sicheng.]

Cold male voices and stern female voices mingled in Mu Sicheng's brain, his pupils trembled from the various agitated emotions, and the scaly powder of butterflies appeared in the hurricane winds, entrapped in the golden dust that he inhaled.

[System Warning: Player Mu Sicheng has inhaled butterfly scale powder, resulting in a state of vertigo and psychedelia, and his mental value has begun to drop!

The moment [Armand] approached him along the chain, the blank-brained Mu Sicheng subconsciously stretched out his monkey paw, grabbed the golden hair ornament on the side of [Armand]'s hair, and ripped it off.

The golden hair ornament fell from the middle of the hurricane and tumbled to the ground with a crisp tinkling crunch.

--The sound overlapped with the sound of the dismissal bell of the evening study hall in Mu Sicheng's memory.