This isn't a souls-like game at all.

The female knight forced a smile and, imitating his example, raised her hand and waved.

Seeing Bai Yu, who was nicknamed "Second Wife" by many players, again, Ye Yiyi felt happy but also had some complicated emotions.

After not seeing each other for a day, Bai Yu is still the same Bai Yu, but I am no longer the same myself.

He is no longer clean! (Sad)

"Ugh……"

"Ugh……"

Whenever he thought of this, he felt complicated and felt sorry for the Saint who was far away in the Cursed Hall. He couldn't help but sigh.

But who would have thought that Bai Yu also sighed deeply.

"..."

"..."

They both looked puzzled and stared at each other blankly.

"Bai Yu, why are you sighing too?"

He looked carefully at the female knight wearing dusty leather armor, with slightly messy light blond hair and bloodshot deep blue eyes, and felt puzzled.

Why does Bai Yu look so tired?

He vaguely thought of something and asked with an uncertain tone:

"Bai Yu, I heard from Alice that you traveled by car overnight... Could it be that you haven't slept since last night?"

"Don't worry, Michaela!"

Bai Yu's expression was solemn, and he said in a deep voice:

"The fatigue from the journey is nothing. It's not even as bad as the training I experienced when I was serving in the legion. I just..."

Her expression froze slightly, and she hesitated and stopped talking.

"Just what?" Ye Yiyi asked in confusion.

The female knight frowned, pursed her lips but did not speak, her face seemed to be covered with a layer of dark cloud.

The female knight's appearance made him a little worried, so he couldn't help but say:

"Bai Yu, if you have any difficulties, just tell me. It's okay. Since I'm here, I will definitely help you."

Bai Yu lowered his head to look at Ye Yiyi's face which was full of worry. After taking a long breath, he spoke in a dull voice.

"We'll talk about this... later. What about Michaela? Why are you sighing?"

"I?"

Ye Yiyi was a little dazed. Why did he kick the ball to me again?

"My words were just a lament about the fickleness of fate."

He looked down at his translucent arm and said softly:

"There are so many uncertainties. Even the future, which I once thought would remain unchanged, has become unpredictable. This feeling has been particularly profound since I met Alice."

In addition to the NPC side quests, the main storyline of the game is extremely clear.

Kill from A to B, kill from B to C, then use the teleportation array from C to D, then kill from D to E, and kill the King of Decadence at E.

After repeating this cycle three times, go to the Broken Continent to kill the original stagnation curse!

Great! The main storyline is over.

The plot of Souls-like games is inherently fragmented narrative. If you don't pay attention to it, don't actively try to understand the plot, and just focus on killing, you won't be able to appreciate what the plot is.

Just mindless killing and it's over.

This is what Ye Yiyi did when he was in the Principality of Ritter.

But when he reached the southern border and met Alice in the Lupe Rainforest, he felt that the complexity and logic of reality began to emerge.

All kinds of settings and props that he had never seen in the game appeared one after another at this moment.

All signs indicate that the current border is no longer a simple game where you can just kill, kill, and be done with it.

The bordering waters are deep, and they hold all sorts of conspiracies and mysteries that cannot be solved simply by killing.

This made him, a player who only knew how to kill and pick up trash, feel a little unfamiliar and at a loss.

"I just suddenly feel that it's becoming difficult to completely resolve the stagnation curse without using my brain."

After he finished saying this, he suddenly realized that he had been sitting at the small table by the window without knowing when, and had been talking to Bai Yu for a long time under the light of the electric lights in the house and the dusk outside the window.

"Sorry... I said some unnecessary words."

He scratched his head, but didn't notice Bai Yu pursed her lips and gave him a worried look.

"Mikaela, you don't need to shoulder all the responsibility. Destroying the Stagnation Curse is the fate of all Nameseekers, not just you."

"Not all name seekers will agree with what you said."

Ye Yiyi recalled the NPCs he met in the game and the ending of the game called "The Cursed King", and couldn't help but pout.

"You take responsibility too seriously."

Bai Yu said softly, "Although I am a soldier, I have never wanted to shoulder all the responsibilities and do everything by myself like you do.

"If you keep going like this, sooner or later you'll be crushed by the pressure you put on yourself."

"It's ok."

Ye Yiyi patted his chest and gave Bai Yu a bright smile.

"I'm very resilient, and I'm so strong that I can't die, so there's nothing to be afraid of."

"I understand."

Bai Yu exhaled slowly and looked at Ye Yiyi deeply, his eyes no longer confused.

She stood up, opened the glass window beside her, and pointed at the "giant tree" standing in the dusk.

"That is the Lingering Temple, our target tonight."

Ye Yiyi also stood up, walked to the window, and finally took a closer look at the city and the temple standing deep in the city.

Looking around, the first thing that catches your eye is the neat and orderly stone streets.

Tall metal lamp poles stand by the roadside, with warm lights blooming at the top, illuminating the surroundings.

Although it was dusk, people wearing all kinds of woolen coats and wide-brimmed hats were still walking on the road, and from time to time, horse-drawn carriages passed by.

On both sides of the road stand tall buildings that are five or six stories high, covered with arched glass windows and decorated with flower-shaped iron guardrails.

In the sky not far away, neon lights have been lit up, and several beams of white light shot out from the ground, pointing straight to the treetops blooming in the sky, and sliding back and forth with a certain point as the center of the circle.

As for the Lingering Temple, the tower with thick black vines penetrating the walls and spreading out like a ivy stretching towards the sky has a huge green crown growing at the top, almost covering a small area of ​​the sky.

"The Sky-reaching Tree is the name of this city, and it's also the name the citizens here gave to the Lingering Temple."

Bai Yu looked up at the "giant tree" blooming towards the sky, and a hint of nostalgia could not help but carry in his words.

"It's spectacular." Ye Yiyi said softly, "And this brightly lit city looks more like a real city than Lupe Castle in the Fire Sparrow Kingdom."

"Although I'm not sure about your situation on the southern border, there are many cities like this on the eastern border."

Bai Yu said softly, a smile on his face.

“Although it’s still not as good as our time.”

"...Yes, is this within the territory of the Rodno Empire?"

"No, Tongtianshu is an autonomous city within the Cuilengye United States. The Rodno Empire is further east."

"The Towering Tree, the United States of Green Cypress, and the Autonomous City? It's really complicated." Ye Yiyi sighed.

He knew about the Cui Lengbai United States, a small coastal country consisting of three states, a composite racial nation composed of humans and cat people.

Because of its proximity to the sea and its excellent shipbuilding technology, it is a famous seafood producing country.

But he didn't know about the city of Tongtianshu.

"Is it complicated?" Bai Yu tilted his head and then shook it.

"If you spend some time in East Border and read more newspapers, you won't find it complicated anymore."

"It seems you have integrated into this city."

Ye Yiyi smiled and said, "Tell me about the 'Sky-reaching Tree' here. We've chosen the night as the time. Are we going to sneak in?"

"Yes." Bai Yu nodded, "I wanted to go to the Yinghui Temple this afternoon, but was stopped by a group of cat knights.

"They said that except for Holy Days, the Babel Tree and the Church of the Earth Mother are not open to the public, and asked me to come back at another time."

"Holy Sun? Mother Earth?"

"The former is the day when the Tongtian Tree bears fruit every year. On that day, the entire city is on holiday, and the Earth Mother Church built around the Tongtian Tree is also open. Citizens will go to the church to celebrate the Tongtian Tree's birthday and the arrival of the New Year."

"It sounds like New Year's Day... and the whole city is on holiday?" Ye Yiyi muttered in his heart, "We don't even have a holiday on New Year's Day..."

"What about the Church of the Earth Mother?" he asked again.

"The people of Cui Lengbai believe that the Tongtian Tree is the incarnation of the Earth Mother on earth. The Earth Mother is the mother of nature, whose roots spread all over the land, and from her, all things sprout.

"Influenced by this belief, a cult was born that worshipped the Earth Mother Goddess—the Lingering Vine Veins. The Tongtian Tree is the cult's holy temple."

"In a sense, they are not wrong to worship."

Ye Yiyi smiled and sighed, "So, what we are planning to do is to invade their temple?"

"This is also something that can't be helped."

Bai Yu sighed slightly, "According to the information I checked, the last Holy Day of the Tongtian Tree was three years ago.

"In other words, this tree hasn't borne fruit in three years, and the next Feast of the Blessed Sacrament is nowhere in sight. Without special means, we can't get in."

"Is there such a thing?" Ye Yiyi couldn't help but frown.

"It seems like there's something wrong with the Lingering Vine Vein, but three years ago... that doesn't match the time the goblins were asleep. It could be some other problem."

"We'll have to find out the specific situation after we enter the Lingering Temple."

Bai Yu felt a little heavy-hearted.

“What I’m worried about is that the abnormality of the Tongtian Tree will affect the incarnation of the Earth Vein. If something goes wrong with the incarnation, not only the ceremony, but also the sacrifice will be affected.

"In this case, not to mention getting you here, Michaela, even the Tower of the Cursed Death will become a problem."

"Since there is a problem, let's find a way to solve it." Ye Yiyi said helplessly: "We came here to solve the problem."

"Well, that's all it can do."

Bai Yu nodded, then took out a gray ring from his arms and handed it to Ye Yiyi.

"This is for you. Otherwise, moving around in the dark as a spirit would be too conspicuous."

"ring?"

Ye Yiyi took the ring and looked at it, and a light curtain popped up.

Fake Ring

Chapter 221 Catman and the Moon Mystic Art Workshop

Fake Ring

Item Description: Used by Ghost Walker,

One of the camouflage rings.

Can take on a non-spiritual physical appearance.

If I could hide my illusory form,

You can blend into the crowd without being noticed.

"Ghost Walker's Ring..."

After reading the item description, Ye Yiyi raised his head thoughtfully and looked at Bai Yu who was taking off his leather armor and putting on a black wool coat.

"Bai Yu, have you encountered the Ghost Walker before?"