High Energy QR Code: 58. City Lord
Since when, the younger brother Xing Shuo has gradually become digital in Xing Ye.
Xing Ye thinks he understands and loves his younger brother, but in fact, all he knows is data.
How many points did Xing Shuo score in the city's college entrance examination, which university he went to in which year and month, the results of each course in each exam, the results during the exchange study abroad, and the journals published in journals during his graduate studies Papers, every data Xing Ye remembers in his heart, and he does not forget to ask his assistant to give Xing Shuo a gift on birthdays and festivals.
Xing Ye always thought that he cared about his younger brother.
But this kind of concern does not seem to be much stronger than treating company customers.
After a moment of silence, Xing Ye decided to change the subject and said to Guan Ling: "Your abilities are very useful, we can form a team temporarily. As a temporary teammate, I want to remind you, don't trust the family affection that the system bestows on you. "
Guan Ling became nervous, he only had old Nick as his relative, "You mean, could Old Nick be a player?"
"If you're not a player, you can't have your own ideas?" Xing Ye asked back, "You have to remember that your family relationship with Old Nick was endowed by Benedict, who created two completely different puppets. Tell the puppets that you are father and son, and you should be kind and filial. But at the same time, he gives you humanity. There may be misunderstandings between normal fathers and sons. What is Old Nick's attitude towards you? You are not related by blood, and you are forcibly given Parent-child relationship, are the puppets willing to admit it?"
Guan Ling fell into deep thought.
Xing Ye said to the two: "My principle has always been to make bold assumptions and carefully verify them. When analyzing the form, we should try our best to think of all kinds of possibilities, but we can't trust any of them. Possible assumptions, understand?"
Guanling was in awe.
He has a father's spouse, so he can't stay here with Xing Ye tonight. After the three of them finalize the itinerary for tomorrow, Guan Ling leaves Xing Ye's small warehouse and goes home.
With Linda as a cover, Cao Qian doesn't have to go home for a few days. And according to Xing Ye's analysis, a leisurely player like Linda usually doesn't have too aggressive players around her, after all, she is lucky.
Cao Qian glanced at the small mirror that was quietly leaning against the wall as a wallflower, and was full of doubts.
Believe that Guan Ling is the same, and don't believe too much in the statement that the mirror is stupid. Xing Ye's attitude towards the little mirror is very trusting, even more trusting than them.
Xing Ye also knew that Cao Qian and Guan Ling couldn't believe it. Fortunately, the little mirror can change bodies in the next world and won't be fixed on an object, which will be much safer.
This is also one of the reasons why Xing Ye acquiesced to the little mirror's random actions.
Fortunately, Cao Qian won't talk nonsense, so let's not explain for now.
Puppets don’t need to sleep, but human beings need to rest their spirits. The three of them leaned against the wall and closed their eyes to rest. Our points add up to more than 10,000, who will we meet?"
Xing Ye: "I don't know."
Currently, they only encountered one strange player, Linda. Xing Ye didn't understand Linda's thoughts at first, but now that he calmed down, he felt that what Linda did was actually a choice that most ordinary people would make.
The game is played once every seven days, and players who follow their fate will have a good time in the game. As long as they pass through the novice world, enjoying life as if the melee world is a holographic game is also a passive way of life. Games in the real world There are also players who do not live for the purpose of upgrading.
But will the system really allow players to do this? You must know that obedience is a **** of the system. Players like Little Mirror who earnestly complete the task will eventually be destroyed under the arrangement of the system. Can Linda continue to muddle along?
Xing Ye always felt that something was wrong.
He told Cao Qian about Linda, and Cao Qian didn't know about it, but she had seen players like Linda before.
"If I had chosen to obey my fate, I would probably have chosen to live in safety." Cao Qian thought for a while, then denied, "No, I won't admit defeat, even if I play mobile games, I still have to win. Once."
"Why did you choose the fate-defying camp?" Xing Ye asked.
"I want to choose players from the fate-defying camp. The reasons are almost the same, and they all refuse to accept their fate." Cao Qian said.
Xing Ye understood her thoughts very well, and so did he himself.
Xing Ye realized that he must be lonely because the little mirror who had been sitting beside him, who had never spoken, moved his legs.
Obviously I have a body, but still pretend to be stupid; I can kill a submissive player as a disguise, but I have to keep the bottom line in my heart and never take the initiative to hurt others.
What a reassuring mirror.
Xing Ye stretched out his arm, taking advantage of the darkness to hold the rusty finger of the mirror.
No matter how finely the puppet is made, the skin feel is also very dull. At this time, the handshake does not feel the temperature of the other party at all, but two metal blocks put together.
But the little mirror suddenly felt warm, psychologically warm.
Spent the night quietly like this, and after dawn the next day, Guan Ling came to knock on the door, and several people rushed to the gate of the city immediately to wait for the door to be opened.
City gate officials generally don't check the items going out of the city, but they will check the items entering the city. The main purpose is to check whether anyone has brought more than the original ore into the city. It is said that the official mine will also search it.
Xing Ye and others still don't understand what raw ore is, it can be used as currency, and it is mined in a limited amount.
Finally, when they left the city, they walked towards the moat according to the map. Because Xing Ye often went out to pick up junk, he didn't attract anyone's curious eyes when he went to the moat. This is a very common thing, and it would be surprising if Xing Ye went to the mine.
In addition to them, there are also people who go to the moat to take a bath. There are special scrubbing and derusting shops in the city, but the charges are expensive. Many puppets who love to clean but have no money will go to take a bath outside the city, but if you don’t dry them as soon as possible, they will easily rust or rot. Xing Ye’s body is This situation.
Puppet City does not advocate this cleaning method, but it cannot control the residents.
"Why is there a gap between rich and poor among the residents of Puppet City when each puppet can mine one piece of raw ore every day?" Guan Ling was a little puzzled.
"There is a difference in buying and selling," Xing Ye said, "Some puppets only consume and do not make money, so they can only be reduced to miners. A puppet like Old Nick can have a lot of raw ore without going out to mine, so I Very strange, why did he want us to go to the illegal mine, is it really just for the raw ore? Did he tell you anything in particular last night?"
Guan Ling shook his head: "He only told me to tell him the scene in the mine in detail when I come back."
"I see. It seems that we have to be careful. Illegal mines must be very dangerous." Xing Ye said.
So what? How is it determined that the mine is dangerous? Guan Ling didn't understand how Xing Ye came to the conclusion with the same information!
Is Guanling stupid for gambling? No wonder he could lose all his family fortune.
Xing Ye sighed in his heart and explained to him: "Old Nick is not short of money, he didn't let us come here for mining at all. He only asked you to tell him what you saw and heard in the mine, on behalf of Old Nick The real purpose is to observe this mine, and want to find something or some clues from it, so why didn't he come by himself?"
Guan Ling: "Isn't it because following you can mine more? The city gate officials won't check the garbage in your bag in detail."
Cao Qian: "..."
Xing Ye: "Puppets in Puppet City can lie. I said it at the beginning. Old Nick is not short of money. He doesn't want to train you. Of course, the purpose is not mining, but the mine itself."
"Oh, that's right." Guan Ling finally understood. He scratched his head and said, "Is my head rusted? Why can't I think of such a thing?"
"Just practice more." Xing Ye said weakly.
The four of them walked along the river towards the mine. After walking for an hour, there were fewer and fewer people by the river.
Xing Ye felt vigilant in his heart, and continued to walk for half an hour. When the two were still following, Xing Ye stopped and turned to look at them.
Cao Qian also assumed a fighting posture, and the mirror stood behind Xing Ye, using her body to support him.
Guan Ling is hiding behind Cao Qian. He is a nanny, and his task is not to charge forward, but to protect himself.
In the last world, Xing Ye also guessed that Guan Ling might be the one with the ability to repair, so Cao Qian kicked Guan Ling downstairs immediately.
One of the two puppet figures is a shabby and poor puppet figure similar to Xing Ye, and the other one can be seen from the clothes that are either rich or expensive.
"Don't be so vigilant," said the tattered puppet, "it's unlikely that the person who came here is not a player. Let me introduce myself, a fate-defying player. You can call me Randy, this is the name of this body."
The rich new Tin Woodman does not seem to be close to the tattered puppet, but there is no hostility either. The two keep a safe distance, and seem to have reached a tacit understanding.
"I'm the son of the city lord," said the rich tin woodman, "I'm obedient, I got news of the illegal mine from Randy, and decided to cooperate with him to investigate the mine for the time being."
Son of the city lord? Linda's suitor? It is the people with power in the city.
Randy said: "Don't look like you're at war, this is not fighting the world, our positions are not opposing, right? We can cooperate to complete the task."
Battle the world? The three of you look at me and I look at you, and none of them has experienced fighting against the world.
Little mirror knows, but he can't talk nonsense at this moment.
"It seems that you are newcomers," Randy said very calmly, "I don't hide it, the melee world is mainly about story decryption, and the advanced world is mostly the battle world. Even if you enter the advanced world, the points will be reduced to Those below 50,000 will also return to the melee world. I’m not interested in the points gained by killing players. It will be very disadvantageous to waste the special QR code in the battle world in the future. It’s better to save a province and prepare more money for yourself. When you come to the battle world Only then will you be able to do a job with ease."
Xing Ye once analyzed that there should be players in the high-level world who guessed that the melee world can get a lot of points by cracking the correct plot, but he didn't expect to encounter one.
Actually, as he said, there were seven players in the last world, and Cao Qian and Wu Yu had very few points. Even if Xing Ye killed the other six players by himself, he could only get 4200 points, but unlocking the real The points obtained by completing side missions at the end far exceed these.
The real purpose of the melee world is not to allow players to fight, but to accumulate, find the QR code, get points, and prepare for the battle mode of the advanced world.
The son of the city lord said: "I also learned about this from Randy. There will be many side missions and hidden endings in the melee world. Completing these missions will give you far more points than hunting players. In this case, we Why kill each other, it's better to cooperate to pass the test, of course, to get points, each depends on his own ability."
What they said is very reasonable, this is the correct way to get along in the world of melee.
Several people put away their hostility temporarily, but did not let down their vigilance.
Randy said: "I know you don't trust me. In this way, I will walk in front and you will follow. Let's do it like this."
Facing other players with his back, Randy is very confident in himself. Is this the aura of an advanced player?
Cao Qian and Guan Ling looked at Xing Ye at the same time, Xing Ye said: "Be vigilant."
The three briefly introduced themselves. When they arrived at the small mirror, Xing Ye was a little worried about how to introduce the mirror.
Maybe because he cares about it, he wants to protect the mirror, and he doesn't want the mirror to be hurt.
"He is an obedient player, a bronze mirror man." Xing Ye finally introduced briefly.
"Follow the player? Huh." Randy glanced at the mirror and smiled inexplicably.
His eyes seem to say, I know everything, you don't need to lie to me.
This made the mirror very uneasy, and involuntarily grabbed Xing Ye's arm.
Mirror is very regretful, he shouldn't have changed his body. If he was still a small mirror, he could safely hide in the puppet's body without facing the eyes of so many people.
"Don't be afraid." Xing Ye comforted in a low voice.
Thinking that Xing Ye is so smart, the mirror feels a little more at ease.
It was still far away from the illegal mine, and they exchanged information as they walked. There was no news from Xing Ye. He concealed the fact that the bronze mirror man was salvaged from the river, and only talked about the strangeness of old Nick.
Randy said: "I'm an apprentice in a shoe store. I don't know why I have a contract with the boss. I'm not free. I met the son of the city lord who came to shine shoes yesterday. I exchanged information with him from the high-level world. He used five A piece of raw ore to help me redeem myself."
Looking at it this way, Xing Ye is much luckier than Randy. Although he was disabled at first, at least he is free and has a small warehouse, but owes a lot of foreign debts.
Cao Qian has a family, but she is a stickman who may spontaneously combust at any time.
It's hard to say which of the three rebellious players is more miserable, and it looks particularly bleak next to the two obedient players.
The son of the lord of the city continued: "After I took him home, I overheard the conversation between the lord of the city and his subordinates, and found that he was looking for Benedict's whereabouts, and if someone found him, he would be killed immediately."
"Kill your own creator?" Guan Ling asked puzzled.
Randy: "If you are a toy, after gaining consciousness and knowing that your master has the power to dispose of yourself, you will also want to kill the master to be free."
The son of the lord of the city continued: "The lord of the city sent many people to look for Benedict before. They found Benedict's whereabouts in this mine, and sent one person to guard outside the mine, and the rest entered the mine with heavy weapons. In the arena, the gatekeepers waited for three days but did not see anyone coming back, so they reported to the city lord, and I happened to hear their conversation."
As expected of a player of obedience, he can easily get important clues.