Wu Chen seemed to have opened the door to a new world. The entrance is an ancient stone path. Before the cold wind from Hanluo Valley could hit my face, I heard the sound of gurgling water from the White River.
At the end of the ancient stone path, facing an ancient stone wall, there is also a corridor built on the stone wall that spans the entire valley.
This is the Ximu Town in my memory. No, to be precise, it was the Ximu collar on the postcard that Wu Chen saw in the memory chain of Queen Frigga of Asgard. In Wu Chen's copied memory, the competent housekeeper, after receiving a golden mountain sent back across dimensions by Wu Chen using the Furnace Gate, took drastic measures to reorganize the entire territory. Not only did they build the towering graystone castle and Hanluo Fortress for him, but they also expanded the Coal Camp, renovated the Annis Hunting Village, built the White River Farm, and added the Northern Feitian Outpost.
On the last postcard sent. The competent housekeeper even planned to transform the entire Hanluo Mountain Peak into a large-scale mountain city, which was said to be called Azarudeng.
Wu Chen originally thought that the Ximu Territory, which only existed in Frigga's memory chain, had already been broken together with the shelter that had been broken nine times. And on a certain cleaning day, it was completely deleted and ceased to exist. However, it seems now that this 5-star exclusive land: Ximu Ling is still built! As for whether it is intact, you only need to go in and take a look.
With something in mind, Wu Chen set off immediately.
However, things backfired, like a mirage far away in the horizon but close in front of us. No matter how long Wu Chen walked, it seemed that the clearly visible gate of Ximu Town would always be out of reach.
Wu Chen hurriedly stopped his anxious steps. After calming down the excitement, the dim little universe immediately felt the slightest influence. From the perspective of the spirit body that disappeared in a blink of an eye, we still got a clue. The energy bracelet nested in his left hand was still there. Therefore, the Ximu collar, which is out of sight and out of reach, is still in the loop of the "circle of life" and the "circle of time".
Previously, Wu Chen had a vivid metaphor about the "circuit of life and time". I clicked on a short video with an attractive cover, only to find that the content inside was lackluster. I pulled it down skillfully, and there was indeed a message from the audience below: The cover content is 1:38 seconds, you can take it away without any thanks.
So I manually dragged the progress bar to 1:38 seconds, saving a lot of time.
This is the important role of the "bracelet" in the entire "ring of life and time". It allows Wu Chen to use the fastest way to show the most important "picture" hidden in the circuit.
The Ximu collar in front of me is this "frame of picture".
When Wu Chen tried to light the cold flame and control the bracelet. "Life Circle" and "Time Circle" are linked immediately.
He was motionless, but he was getting closer and closer to the gate of Ximu Town.
Until the interlocking secret engraved lines spread across time and space, perfectly overlapping to form a complete dharma ring. It’s like a “puzzle” where the pieces are constantly changing and updating the picture. When every "fragment of Ximu Territory" scattered in the "Time Ring" is updated to the latest node, the frozen picture immediately flows. It was as if the frozen world in front of me suddenly "came alive".
This familiar feeling is like when Wu Chen first entered the 404 Road of Destruction, when he woke up from the viewing platform and opened the front cover of the AE86, he saw the engine compartment divided by the wandering "colorful light curtain". The colorful light belt seems to be a branch of a certain plot time and space. A branching plot line from the "past", "present" and "future" in different time and space. What looks like a meandering colorful light is actually a "different plot line." It is incompatible with the existing world. It is precisely because of the fetters of this different line that it is difficult to develop the existing plot. The concrete manifestation is that the car cannot start and Wu Chen cannot move forward. It was "fixed" on the viewing platform.
This is also due to the plot mode of "Broken Crystal Ball" as Wu Chen calls it.
And in the broken plot fragments: the 5-star exclusive Dixi Wood collar feels more direct.
Let’s use a simple analogy.
Think of Ximu Ling as a postcard puzzle, or a postcard that has been torn into pieces. Each small piece of the puzzle, or each fragment, is at a different plot point. Chaotic nodes will inevitably produce divergent plots. Or to put it simply: "Confusion inevitably breeds disagreement."
The entire Ximu collar was "frozen". Only by first resolving the differences among all the fragments of the Ximu Territory scattered at different plot points can the whole story be pieced together. Only the frozen plot can flow again.
Yes, this plot line of the Ximu Territory recorded in the "Loop of Life and Time" can resolve differences by manipulating the "Life Circle" and "Time Circle". All the "fragmented plot puzzle pieces" that appear to be complete but are scattered at various nodes are simultaneously updated to the same plot node as the 0326 branch plot line carried by Wu Chen himself: now.
"Now Wu Chen" and "Now Ximu Ling" have synchronized plot lines. This is also the profound connotation behind "uploading" and "loading".
"So, 'Magic ring is also a kind of memory'. Just like everything in Broken City is related to memory."
What Wu Chen meant by this was that just like the fragmented memory method of the Broken Guardian, the magic ring could remember "a memory" loaded into the secret circuit. No matter how broken, scattered, frozen, and divergent this memory is. As long as the magic ring is driven correctly, all the fragmentation, scattering, freezing, and differences can be pieced together and the memory (plot) can be reorganized.
This is also the reason why Ximu collar can be preserved to this day.
"Dang, Dang, Dang..." The familiar sound of blacksmithing came from the open gate of Ximu Town. The coachman who was puffing away at the road sign in front of the door suddenly opened his mouth wide when he saw Wu Chen.
boom!
A sharp arrow hit the crack in the stone, its feathers trembling, and it was inserted into the ground in front of Wu Chen.
The person who shot the arrow was exactly the carpenter and hunter Faendal from the "Ximu Town Love Triangle" team.
"Hey, Farndale, be careful not to shoot the chicken(?)."
"A big... person?" Farndal was shocked, and his shocked expression said it all.
"It's me." Wu Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. This is indeed his territory.
"You're finally back." Farndal, who was so excited that he was at a loss for words and couldn't speak coherently, expressed his true feelings from the bottom of his heart.
"My lord is back, my lord is back -" Fandal rushed into Ximu Town shouting.
"Why don't you give me a big hug first?" Wu Chen smiled and shook his head.
When passing the stage carriage, the coachman stopped him: "Sir, please get in."
"No, I won't travel far." Wu Chen waved his hand with a smile. Ximu Town is so big, it can be reached in just two steps.
"It's 50 miles to your gray stone castle. That's a long way." The coachman didn't intend to give up today's journey? First business.
"How much?" Wu Chen was also shocked. Just take two steps in the game and you’re there!
"57 miles. The distance between the front and rear Ximu gates is 50 miles. It is 6 miles to the limestone gate and 1 mile to the castle." The coachman could not be wrong.
"Okay then." What else could Wu Chen say. There are only a handful of five households in the game. However, in the world of the shelter plot, unexpectedly, unexpectedly...
The moment he entered the door, Wu Chen was shocked.
"Are you doing too many MODs..."
Good guy, I'm straight up a good guy.
It's like entering the mouth of the legendary treasure bottle. The Shirakawa Valley, which suddenly expands outward, is filled with criss-crossing streets. There's so much traffic and so many people, it doesn't look like a remote place at all.
This main street, which Wu Chen had traveled on countless times, was actually so wide that ten cars could pass abreast.
"grown ups!"
"grown ups!"
"grown ups!"
Among the people who stopped to salute, Wu Chen finally found a familiar old face: "Arvo, how is business?"
It was the blacksmith of Ximu Town: "Thanks to you, business is booming. Even recruiting 100 apprentices is not enough. By the way, sir, can you please slow down the order for the fortress for a while..."
Wu Chen subconsciously looked at the old house on the other side of the Baihe River.
Only then did I realize that the bank of the White River seemed far away from the main street and was also occupied by densely packed buildings.
"Look, Arvo, the butler's suggestion is my opinion." Wu Chen waved his hand without looking back.
"Okay, sir. We must send it to the fortress on time." Arvo's smile was as warm as ever.
