"Based on these two points alone, it is still difficult for me to agree to you. After all, whether it is the fact that you have not turned against us before, or the loss of moral integrity, it is not convincing enough for us now." Qi Zhen still said.
"Not only that, on the one hand, according to what you said, he did not completely complete the step of absorbing ghost power in the end, but was interrupted. Not only that, the woman also counterattacked at the last moment. On the other hand, , your attack penetrated the opponent's calf, that is to say, as an Earth Immortal, his golden body has been broken at this time, which is the best opportunity, and this is also the most important reason why I ask you here. !" Xiao Ao said.
"You mean, in fact, he has not completely absorbed the ghost power?" Qi Zhen asked.
"That's right, in this kind of thing, a slight difference can make a thousand miles difference. Even if it is just a slight difference, it will be like a chasm in the sky." Xiao Ao nodded and said.
Everyone in the team was silent.
Xiao Ao reminded: "The sooner you act, the sooner you have a chance. I hope you can make an early decision."
"There's one thing I don't quite understand." Li Qiang said.
"But it doesn't matter." Xiao Ao looked at him.
"Before Lin Xi died, he once said that the other party was also a ghost, but since the City God is a loose immortal, how could he be a ghost?" Li Qiang asked doubtfully.
"This is one of the reasons why I judged that person to be the City God." Xiao Ao nodded and said, "You may have accidentally understood the rules of canonizing immortals. No matter whether they are humans, ghosts, or demons, anyone who has practiced to a certain level can become an immortal. After cultivating the immortal body, you may not be able to accept the title of being conferred by heaven. Yin virtues and good and evil have their own clear laws of nature, which is an important basis for the canonization of immortality in heaven."
"But whether you are a massacre of thousands of people on the battlefield, or a generation of emperors and generals in the world, your merits and demerits cannot be judged by human eyes. As the saying goes, the power of God is unpredictable, not you and I can speculate."
Xiao Ao sighed, and then said: "I have been practicing for three hundred years. It took a hundred years to develop spiritual wisdom, a hundred years to obtain human form, and it was only in recent years that I was canonized by the heaven. However, until now, I don't know why."
Qi Zhen thought of Sang Yuan.
Although assisting in killing King Xiangli was meritorious, killing the demon was only one of the reasons for canonizing her as the Goddess of Yuemeng Mountain, and the most important thing was those four words - the opportunity has arrived.
What opportunity? Who provided the opportunity?
It is true that God’s grace is unpredictable and God’s destiny is hard to violate.
Now that Xiao Ao had openly told the team everything he knew, Qi Zhen no longer refused to cooperate with him. After the two finalized some details of the operation again, everyone said goodbye to him and headed to Wuhu City.
On the way back to Wuhu, Li Qiang asked Qi Zhen, "Is this Xiao Ao trustworthy?"
Qi Zhen said: "Now it's not a question of whether we trust him, but a question of whether he can trust us in this situation where we can leave at any time."
Li Qiang nodded to express his understanding.
"But one thing that I don't quite understand is that according to Xiao Ao, the City God is a ghost and immortal canonized by heaven. Why does he do these things? And since he suspects that Zhang Dacai has something wrong, he Why did you tell us clearly to go to Jiuzi to find someone? Isn't it possible that Cheng Cheng is not afraid that Zhang Dacai will find the city god to report the news that night?" Qi Zhen wondered.
"I also have some questions about what you said. As an ordinary person, how could Zhang Dacai avoid the detection of your illusions? This seems a bit unreasonable, unless..." Li Qiang said this and stopped talking.
"Are you trying to say that either Zhang Dacai is completely unaware of this matter, or that he is not the City God's informant but Xiao Ao's?" Qi Zhen asked.
"But judging from the situation when they met at Yuelai Inn, that's not the case." Li Qiang shook his head, denying his guess.
"Anyway, since we are unfamiliar with the place here in Wuhu, why not just throw ourselves into a trap?" Qi Zhen asked.
"Good idea." Li Qiang nodded and acknowledged what Qi Zhen said.
Needless to say, Jiang Yan, Meng Ran and Li San had no other objections, so everyone decided to go to Zhang Dacai's mansion as their first stop after heading to Wuhu. This might be an important opportunity for the team to break the situation.
When everyone returned to Wuhu City, it was around four o'clock in the afternoon, but everyone did not go to Zhang Dacai's mansion immediately.
Even illusions have lost all their effects in front of him. No matter whether it is torture or coercion, there will be no good results.
The only way left is to visit Zhang's house at night, which may bring some unexpected surprises to the team.
At this time, Qi Zhen had gradually begun to adapt to the system design logic in this game.
To give a simple example, during the development of the game plot, that is, when the main mission is in progress, NPCs often ask or entrust players to complete related story lines.
However, at this time, when you have not contacted the relevant NPCs or obtained key clues, or have not completed key conversations, the plot will not continue to develop downwards.
When in Suzhou, when setting off from Yuemeng Mountain, when going from Taihu Lake to Yixing, every key node triggered by the main plot must be a team member who inadvertently completed a key action, which will affect the plot. development of.
If Li San had not purchased the purple clay pot in Yixing, or if Lin Xiao had not chosen to follow Lin Xi away, the plot would not have progressed to this point.
Once there are no team members involved, and the system or NPC does not prompt the key plot to occur at key time points, the plot will be completely unable to advance.
For example, this time Xiao Ao asked the team to arrive in Wuhu as soon as possible to stop the City God's conspiracy, but he did not give a specific time for the City God to take action.
According to Qi Zhen's idea, compared to the team, Cheng Huang should maintain his original appearance regardless of his injury or broken golden body.
At this time, the team can take a look around, even if they are traveling around the world, as long as they do not come into contact with the key figures prompted by the NPC, and do not trigger certain key conversations or events, then compared to the team, all tasks will be The behavior of the relevant NPC is static.
When you arrived at Mount Hyjal, Archimonde was trying to destroy the World Tree? When Mr. Kui arrived at the highest mountain in Midgard, he happened to see Balder chatting with Mimir? When the magic sword is being forged, if an enemy invades, must nightshade jump into the sword-making pool to inject spirit into the magic sword?
Coincidence? nonexistent.
If you follow the logic that it doesn’t matter what you, the player, do when you manipulate the protagonist, it has nothing to do with the development of the plot, then what’s the point of the existence of the game?
Under Qi Zhen's popular science, everyone can roughly understand that although it feels very real, there is still a huge difference between this place and the real world.
And accepted Qi Zhen's request to enter Zhang Dacai's mansion some nights later.
The five people returned to the inn arranged by Zhang Dacai the night before, but unexpectedly something happened that made everyone feel sad.
It was almost dinner time at this time. Wuhu City was backed by the Yangtze River, so it was naturally more lively than Liyang and Yixing. Even Suzhou was not willing to give in.
Feeling the lively sounds of changing cups and drinking wine in the inn, and the aroma of wine and meat coming from their noses, the five of them all felt that they were indeed hungry.
Because of the seed bag, the financial power of the team has always been in the hands of Yu Liang. According to Yu Liang's own words, he and Qi Zhen are two completely different people, so whether it is food, drink or other things, he is indeed generous along the way. Very, I don’t know what saving is at all.
On the one hand, Qi Zhen is very concerned about whether the money in the game can be exchanged for real game currency after being spent. On the other hand, he is really worried that there will be places to spend money later, so as long as the money is in his hands, it will be difficult to get it out. Take it out again.
This is the consensus reached by everyone in the team.
Qi Zhen decided to be generous.
Because Lin Xiao's death made everyone feel a little disappointed, Qi Zhen also thought clearly. As the saying goes, you must have all the joy in life to be successful. I'm afraid you never know which tomorrow or accident will appear first in your life.
However, the moment they entered the inn, it was as if the mute button had been pressed inside the inn, and they were greeted with completely surprised looks.
Just like the first day they came here, the expressions of the people they met on the street and in the restaurant were almost the same when they saw them.
Some people didn't notice Qi Zhen and his group, and they even wanted to brag that they slept with the top guy in a certain building last night, but they were suddenly kicked by someone at the same table. Before he could react, he walked towards He pouted at the door.
When the man looked back, his eyes suddenly widened and his mouth turned into an O shape. The only thing missing was that sound - Ouch?
"Can anyone tell me how we ended up like this again?"
Qi Zhen, who originally planned to just eat and sleep quietly, looked around and said helplessly to her teammates.
"Waiter!" Meng Ran shouted.
The waiter stepped forward and knelt down.
"What are you doing to the four masters?"
When several people turned their heads, it turned out that Li San had left unknowingly.
"Why did he go?" Jiang Yan asked.
"I didn't pay attention." Li Qiang shook his head.
At this time, Meng Ran had already looked around, and then asked the waiter: "What's going on here, this, this, this?"
"To tell you guys, it's okay." The waiter said with a smile.
"Shit! Why are you staring at us without eating?" Meng Ran asked next.
"To answer your question, I don't know." The waiter bent even lower.
"Find us a table to eat!" Meng Ran was a little angry and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
"Okay, please come in." The waiter moved a few people to a quiet table and symbolically wiped the table with the rag on his shoulder that had wiped countless tables and chairs.
"What do you guys want to eat?"
"We'll make some cold dishes and some hot dishes." Qi Zhen said.
"Don't make too much, you won't be able to waste it." He then added.
Meng Ran and Jiang Yan both looked at Qi Zhen a little unkindly.
Qi Zhen pretended not to see it.
"Would you like some wine?" the waiter asked.
"That's good, I haven't drunk the wine here yet!" Meng Ran said.
"What kind of wine do you have here?" Qi Zhen asked.
"To answer your question, we have twenty years of green bamboo leaves, forty years of daughter red, seventy years of Shaoxing yellow, and one hundred years of immortal drunkenness," the waiter introduced.
"Oh, how to sell it?" Qi Zhen asked again.
"A pot of bamboo leaf green costs 10 taels of silver, a pot of daughter's red costs 20 taels of silver, and a pot of Shaoxing yellow costs 45 taels of silver. I'll give you a cheaper price for Immortal Zui. I'll give you sixty taels of silver. What do you think?" the waiter asked happily. .
"Cough!" Qi Zhen coughed softly.
"Is there any cheaper one?" Qi Zhen asked.
"There are cheap ones too. I'm afraid you won't be used to it. After all, you were introduced by Mr. Zhang." Mr. Zhang was naturally referring to Zhang Dacai.
"Tell me everything." Qi Zhen pretended not to see Meng Ran staring at her with murderous eyes.
The waiter even showed a look of helplessness.
Qi Zhen slapped the table.
"What? If you don't sell cheap wine, are you afraid that I won't give you money?!"
