Now Gu Chi believed Cui Sili.
Just because she can still give quests to players even after she dies.
Gu Chi took a picture of Lingmao's masterpiece with his mobile phone and sent it to Dr. Chen.
Dr. Chen: "?"
Two seconds passed.
Dr. Chen: "9."
Gu Chi: "Did you find anything there?"
Dr. Chen: "No. I didn't see anything important."
Translated - Yes, and there are important discoveries.
Dr. Chen is still in the blighted area right now, so he needs to look at the opposite of what he said.
In other words, they are adopting a two-pronged approach this time, with Ephtris blossoming on both sides.
Gu Chi was in a good mood.
With the final goal in mind, it’s not far from completing the level.
When we came out of Daisy's house, it was already dark.
It has never been exposed.
Most of the afternoon was spent taking pictures of Cui SiLi's paintings. In addition to the family portrait put together by Lingmao, Gu Chi also didn't miss other paintings.
Especially "leaflets".
Even Gu Chi took pictures of Cui SiLi's positive and uplifting work when she was young. After confirming that nothing was missing, she bid farewell to Daisy with Lingmao and ended today's task.
The two of them did not go to the Blight Zone, but walked towards the Andel Hotel in the Evil Zone.
On the way, Lingmao looked at Gu Chi longingly, almost writing the words "please praise" on his face.
Gu Chi asked knowingly: "What are you doing?"
Lingmao pouted: "Don't you even praise me?"
This is one of the few highlight moments since she became a player.
Although Lingmao knew that even if she continued to compete stupidly, Gu Chi would discover the problem with the oil painting sooner or later, but this did not affect the fact that she suddenly became smarter!
Gu Chi said: "I just praised it in my heart."
Lingmao: "I don't believe it!"
Gu Chi: "Really, you know I never lie."
How strange!
Lingmao denied it: "Then I didn't hear it either, so it doesn't count, unless you repeat what you just praised me in your heart."
Gu Chi: "6."
Lingmao: "?"
"That's it?"
"yes."
Gu Chi showed his phone to the girl: "Doctor Chen praised you in the same way."
Lingmao: "..."
They are indeed brothers, equally straight.
"Can't you praise me more?" Lingmao said coquettishly with her big watery eyes open, "A few more words to make your words longer."
Gu Chi thought for a while: "A few more words won't do it, but a longer one will do."
Lingmao: "Huh?"
How can you make a long story if you don’t have many words?
Gu Chi: "6——"
Lingmao: "..."
I think you are more like 6.
Lingmao was full of resentment.
Gu Chi stopped teasing her: "I'll buy you something delicious as a reward."
Lingmao's eyes lit up again: "What's delicious?"
Gu Chi: "Don't move around here."
After that, he walked into the bakery next to him and brought out a thick and long stick.
Bellcat exclaimed: "Baguette!"
Gu Chi: "Wrong, it's a trick-style long stick."
Lingmao quickly hugged the stick handed over by Gu Chi. It was so hard and still warm.
The freshly baked long sticks are the most fragrant.
Lingmao asked happily: "What's the difference between French style and trick style?"
Gu Chi: "You'll know after you take one bite."
"Really?" Lingmao put the long stick in front of his eyes, looked around, then found a good angle and took a sip.
Eyes suddenly widened.
This long stick can actually explode!
Her mouth was instantly filled with rich cocoa-flavored cream.
It is said that desserts can increase people's happiness, and Lingmao's experience is particularly profound at this moment.
Especially the sweet stick was given by Gu Chi. Lingmao took another bite, his eyes were crooked, almost overflowing with satisfaction.
She swallowed hard,
He asked Gu Chi curiously: "How do you know the bread in this store is delicious?"
They haven't eaten bread in the past few days since they came to the dungeon?
I saw Gu Chi entering the store again and leaving a sentence: "Don't you know this?"
Lingmao: "???"
So this guy is trying to test himself?
Damn, but...
It's really delicious. Woohoo.
The time comes at night.
Dr. Chen and Huang Ya returned from Shengfang Manor.
Today’s dinner is a variety of breads and desserts, which can be considered as a way to experience the special delicacies of the City of Creation. After all, French baguettes in reality are generally not bursting with juice.
"This stick tastes really good... Come, take a look at this." Doctor Chen took out a piece of light green women's underwear from his bag while chewing on the long stick.
Gu Chi: "?"
Lingmao: "?"
Only Huang Ya was not surprised.
"Don't look at me like that, look at it." Dr. Chen said.
Gu Chi: "Is this what Tiantian is wearing?"
Dr. Chen: "?"
How could Tiantian wear this style?
The color is not Tiantian's favorite color either.
Regardless of the color, the shape of this underwear is very avant-garde and bold. Simply put, it is two-thirds less than normal underwear - two-thirds less horizontally, and the fabric is extremely thin, made of lace, and has hollow patterns. , basically it means wearing it means not wearing it.
Gu Chi stared for a while, then a line of small words popped up in front of his eyes.
[Underwear lock (magic type): attached to the bottom of underwear, can set a magic lock seal]
Gu Chi suddenly understood what Dr. Chen meant: "Is this the personal belongings of Sir Avreya?"
Dr. Chen nodded: "That's right."
The underwear lock is a game prop in the Pure Land Mall. Its appearance in Avelia's wardrobe only shows that Avelia is also a player.
"That's not the point yet." Dr. Chen said.
Gu Chi answered: "The focus is on the underwear lock version."
Lingmao was slightly stunned: "What do you mean?"
Gu Chi asked her: "Do you remember the update announcement of version 0.20 last week?"
Bellcat: "Remember, underwear locks are one of the newly launched products."
"No, no, no." Gu Chi corrected, "What's on the shelves is the underwear lock, not the magic type underwear lock."
Along with the underwear lock, there is also a bamboo dragonfly colorful version - the words "colorful version" are marked, but the underwear lock is not. This means that the underwear lock in front of them is different from the underwear lock that was put on the mall last week. are two different things.
"Based on normal logic, there should be the original version first, then the upgraded version and other fancy versions."
Gu Chi carefully considered his words and said, "This should be a shopping mall prop from the future of our real world—or the future version of the Pure Land game."
"But isn't this a contradiction in the timeline?" Lingmao said, "If Avreya is a player from the future, then she should enter the game later than us. Can she still jump in line?"
Gu Chi looked at the veteran player Dr. Chen.
Dr. Chen denied: "No."
According to the game rules of Pure Land, only if they fail in the strategy, this copy will enter the game library and open the game rights to other players. In the same way, after Avreya fails, this copy should also enter the game library and will not appear in the recruitment. model.
If the strategy is successful, the copy will not even enter the game library and will disappear directly.
It can be seen from here that the time when the Efreya strategy failed must be after them.
Unless Avreya entered the same version as them, but happened to have the same picture.
But there is still one thing that doesn't make sense - if Avreya is really a future player, then no matter what, her personal belongings should not appear now.
If only the past affects the future, how can the future affect the present?
"If this underwear lock cannot be obtained through other means other than the store, then the only reasonable explanation I can think of is that the future Efreya went back to the past and got a person related to our original version before us. Copies - they cannot be the same copy." Gu Chi said, "Otherwise, the copy we are currently in will not exist."
Dr. Chen: "..."
Lingmao: "..."
Huang Ya: "..."
"Efreya from the future goes back to the past?" Lingmao asked weakly, "Is this really reasonable?"
"It's reasonable. What if there is a time-traveling prop in the future?" Gu Chi said, "More reasonable, it may be that the past Efreya went to the future, bought some things, then returned to the past, and then entered the book. "
Everyone: "..."
Dr. Chen complained: “The more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes.”
"Don't forget that time in our reality is jumping." Gu Chi said, "Assuming that the 'eye' exists in reality, the possibility of the second kind of repeated horizontal jumps is actually greater than the first."
With the ability that "Eye" has shown so far, Gu Chi has no doubt that he can send a person to the future, travel around, buy some souvenirs and come back.
"Wait a minute." Dr. Chen was confused, "What is an 'eye'?"
Gu Chi glanced at Lingmao, who immediately understood and briefly explained the content of the copy of "The Eye Through Time".
"But didn't you succeed in the strategy?" Huang Ya said confusedly, "Can the 'eye' travel through time on its own?"
Gu Chi: "This fits the name of the game, doesn't it?"
Dr. Chen was dumbfounded: "So this is a good thing you did?"
Not to mention the various accidents and disasters caused by time jumps in the real world, from the perspective of life span, everyone will live less than 2/7 of their time. Nowadays, fertility rates in most countries around the world continue to decline. When combined, this wave is equivalent to a slow doomsday.
Dr. Chen was still thinking at the time, had someone deliberately let a big boss come out to cause trouble, but after a long time, the black hand was actually beside me?
Gu Chi looked innocent: "You can't blame us. There are more than one in Shigui City. No matter we save it or not, the 'eye' still exists."
After all, the mission of "The Eye Through Time" is to let them find the "Eye", not to save the "Eye".
"Forget it, let's discuss this issue when we go back." Dr. Chen rubbed his feverish head, "Let's clear this dungeon first."
Lingmao whispered: "Then put this thing away quickly."
It always feels weird to lock up your underwear on the table while eating and chatting.
Dr. Chen didn't want to accept it at all.
What does it mean for a grown man to carry an underwear lock in his bag?
But when he thought about a friend named Tiantian who seemed to be short of money, Dr. Chen felt relieved again.
After all, it’s a prop. You can still sell it if you don’t need it, so you won’t lose money if you keep it!
Gu Chi picked up a piece of bread, took a bite, and said, "Tell me about other clues."
Dr. Chen took out a silver sword.
The sword has a checkered pattern printed on it, and the hilt is simple and elegant, but it has lost its luster for some reason. It is as dull as dust, and it cannot be wiped clean. Only the tip of the sword is slightly bright.
This is what Dr. Chen said was a major discovery.
[Hungui's Judgment: It can resonate with the source of distortion, giving you endless power. Unfortunately, darkness breeds, light no longer exists, and it has lost the ability to administer justice]
"No surprise, it is the sword that Avreya pointed at the sky and scolded her mother." Dr. Chen said, "It is also the reason why she is extremely powerful."
This sword is now useless, but it should have been usable in Avreya's time.
"Does darkness refer to Guize?" Lingmao's little brain was squeezed dry again. "Without this sword, we can't kill Guize. But in order to restore the function of this sword, we have to kill Guize first?"
Isn't this an infinite loop?
Meow meow meow?
Gu Chi looked at the girl with a distressed look, feeling that the child was probably hopeless.
Avreya's goal is the same as theirs, which is to kill Deception, which means that Deception has always existed. If Avreya unsealed the sword at that time, wouldn't it just mean that whether it fails or not has nothing to do with Deception?
In addition to referring to the rules of darkness, darkness also has another thing.
"Shadow." Gu Chi said. He took the big sword and ran his palm over the blade, resting on the shiny tip. "We have dealt with a shadow before, Huang Ya has also dealt with it, and other players participating in the dance should also deal with it. So it has regained its luster a little bit.”
Then as long as all the shadows in the Capital of Order are cleared away, this sword can see the light again.
"Huang Ya and I think so too," Dr. Chen said.
Huang Ya nodded.
She and Dr. Chen had a small discussion in the afternoon when they saw the sword. This was relatively the most reliable answer.
"Are there any other gains?" Gu Chi asked.
"Yes." Doctor Chen said, "There are two remaining areas - the stone statue area requires you to remain in a non-fully awake state, and the weathered area cannot walk upright."
The information on these two tricks comes from the map in Avreya's study, with only simple markings.
The trick in the weathered area is easy to understand, just bending down should be enough, while the "remaining not fully awake" in the stone statue area is a bit abstract.
Before Dr. Chen and Huang Ya came back, they went to the junction of the Stone Statue Area and the Withered Area. There were many cigarette shops there. It was unclear what the cigarettes were, but the wine must be good, at least with a high alcohol content.
Almost all passers-by in the area have a wine bottle in their hands, and they walk unsteadily, as if they will fall over if the wind blows.
The stone statue area is the area with the largest concentration of entertainment venues in the City of Order, and is also the area with the highest number of security incidents and death rates.
If you fail to refill your cup in time when you wake up the next day, the result will be that you will look like the statue of Avreya and turn into a stone statue in various postures.
"In addition, there is another important point." Dr. Chen gave the last information. "Efreya's house is cleaned regularly, but the people who clean it are not very careful. There is dust on many cabinets, and these The dust trail is uneven.”
Lingmao was startled: "Has any player entered the house before us?"
Gu Chi thought: "Maybe he is not a player, but simply a thief?"
Players can see the item information, so there is no reason to leave Evelea’s iconic sword behind.
The underwear lock should be taken away too.
"Whether it is true or not, the conclusion will not change." Dr. Chen said, "The clues that Huang Ya and I found are not necessarily all the clues about Avelia."
"It doesn't matter." Gu Chi said, "We can look for it while clearing the shadows."
It can be used to verify whether Cui Sili is a key NPC.
The remaining two areas have to be visited to unlock the world view and achievement conditions. On the contrary, it is the achievement in the blood mist area. Gu Chi is not in a hurry now. He has to kill Guize anyway, but it is really not possible. When the task is almost completed, he can go back and yell. Same.
"Then let's settle it."
"The painting of the stone statue area will begin tomorrow!"
The night outside the window is sultry.
Shortly after dinner, when Gu Chi went into the bathroom to take a bath and Lingmao listened to the sound of water and imagined whether he would be tied up tonight, the Blooming Manor, which had only been visited once in the afternoon, welcomed two new guests.
…
4200. If there is no update today, it will be 8000 tomorrow. I am adjusting the time difference and got up in the middle of the night.
(End of chapter)
