The Trial Game of Life

In the dungeon, Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng set off fireworks boredly for half the night, and finally ushered in a sunrise.

The two rested for a while, went to Cecilia's bakery to eat some bread to pad their stomachs, and then continued to wander around the city like headless chickens.

Jin Cheng said, "In the end we might not be beaten to death by the boss, but died of thirst."

There is no water in the city, let alone washing, and you have to be careful not to choke to death when eating bread.

Tang Cuo didn't want to waste his saliva, so he wisely chose to shut up and switch to energy-saving mode.Jin Cheng didn't say a word, he held a glazed lamp in his hand, and he didn't put it down even after dawn.

For the rest of the day, the two of them still spent the rest of the day on side missions.Repair a roof, find a few items, and then run a little leg, from the west of the city to the east of the city, and wandered around the palace in the center of the city on the way.

The vines will not suddenly come to life without the player's hands.The two walked to the gate of the palace smoothly, and tried all the reward items of the side missions, including the nightingale ring, but none of them triggered the effect.

The reward items that have been and have not yet been used are: a glazed lamp, a small round mirror the size of a palm, a handkerchief and a quill.

There are also a few things, such as Cecilia's key, which disappeared after opening the Ivy League office.

Jin Cheng walked around the palace again in disbelief, trying to find another breakthrough, but he still found nothing.It seems that this dungeon requires them to complete all the side tasks. Thinking of this, Jin Cheng tilted his head and exchanged a look with Tang Cuo.

The two unlucky ghosts who had no water to drink, saved every drop of water in their bodies, relied on tacit understanding instead of talking, and continued to do the task.

About 15 minutes later, Jin Cheng couldn't help but speak again, and said, "This Mark is not very good. He even has to ghostwrite the love letter to the girl he loves. No wonder Cecilia prefers Lancelot."

Tang Cuo: "You write?"

In the side mission "Mark's Love Letter", players need to write a love letter for Mark to his beloved Cecilia.Poor Mark, he nearly lost all his hair to write this love letter.

There are paper and pens on the table in Mark’s hut, and there are countless crumpled paper balls on the ground, all of which are his failed works.Jin Cheng picked it up and read a few articles, his expression was indescribable.After a while, he roughly figured out Mark's writing ideas. He picked up the quill and was about to smear on the paper, but he couldn't write the clinker at all.

Change one, can't write it out.

Another one, still unable to write.

Tang Cuo understood, and took out a reward item - a quill.

This time, the quill was soaked in ink and wrote extremely smoothly.Jin Cheng didn't make a draft, and with a smile on his lips, he wrote the love letter in a few swipes.

[Dear Cecilia:

The hidden moon country has no flowers,

The bard will bring back the most beautiful flower in the world,

Searching all over the mainland, I don't know the date of return.

And I'm so lucky,

Because in my heart, you are the most beautiful flower in the hidden moon country.

——Love you Mark]

Tang Cuo did not comment on Jin Cheng's sour poem, but his focus was on—"Mark also mentioned Lancelot's wish?"

Jin Cheng: "That's right. I guess Lancelot is so famous that the whole continent knows his wish."

Tang Cuo: "..."

Jin Cheng: "Aunt Anna's son Louis, the previous king, and Mark all mentioned that they wanted to bring flowers back here. It can be seen that there are indeed no flowers in the hidden moon country. The roses that are blooming here can only Lancelot brought it back."

Tang Cuo was thoughtful, "Lancelot thinks the rose is the most beautiful?"

Jin Cheng crossed his arms, "Roses are very similar to roses, but if you compare the two, people usually think that roses are more beautiful. It represents love, strong and hot, but in this story, roses represent evil. If a rose blooms The hidden country of the full moon, then I have to suspect that Lancelot is the big boss behind the scenes."

The clues that the love letter could provide were limited, so Jin Cheng put the letter in an envelope, and the task was considered complete, and he was rewarded with a paper cutter.

For the next three hours, the two continued to sweep side missions in the city.Using the reward items of this task to complete that task is like solving a chain link. No one knows what the last link will be.

Sometimes they receive a side quest, but they can't complete it because they lack a key item, so they put it on hold.Most of the time, there are six side quests hanging on their task panel at the same time, and they finish another one on the way to do this, and the city is busy-there is no water to drink.

When the moon rose again, the two had completed 59 side missions in total, walking around the hidden moon country three times.

Tang Cuo's face darkened, he no longer knew whether it was his luck or misfortune to trigger this hidden mission.And the real strong can always find another way in adversity, for example-drinking healing potions to quench their thirst when there is no water.

It was Jin Cheng who did it in the first place. He is rich and powerful and has no shortage of healing potions.

Seeing this, Tang Cuo also took out a bottle of potion that he brought from the magic house with a blank face. He drank the potion when he was not sick, and the taste was quite good.

Eating bread while drinking medicine will taste even better.

But they didn't know at this time that this situation would continue for three full days, and the further they went, the more difficult it was to trigger side missions.Sometimes they have to wander around the city for more than four hours before they can find a side quest.

Because it might be hiding under some broken slab in some obscure corner.

The 98th ring of the chain side mission, Charlie's pocket watch.

An old pocket watch was hidden under the broken slate.A phonograph magic circle is engraved on the pocket watch, which can record any wonderful music in the world.Watchmaker Charlie wants to give the pocket watch to his uncle as a birthday present, but he needs a piece of music.

If there is anyone whose music can touch people's hearts the most, it is of course the most popular bard in the entire continent, Lancelot.

But Lancelot was dead.

Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo looked at each other, and said in unison, "Little Jack."

The first side quest, "Cecilia's Bakery", has a small harp and Lancelot's sheet music hidden under the bed of one of the guests, Jr. Jack.

Fortunately, Jin Cheng happened to be able to play the small harp.

The two returned to Little Jack's house again and found the wooden box under the bed.Jin Cheng picked up the small harp and tried to play it a few times, the sound was good.

He looked at Tang Cuo, and Tang Cuo took out his pocket watch, pressed the small button on the pocket watch, and said, "It needs magic power to work."

For some reason, seeing Tang Cuo's serious expression of "injecting magic power", Jin Cheng suddenly thought of Ba La La Xiao Moxian.He tilted his head, suppressing a smile.

Tang Cuo narrowed his eyes and saw it on the spot.

Want to hit someone.

Forget it, your lips are so dry that they are almost peeling, so save yourself some effort.

Tang Cuo continued to study the pocket watch, trying to inject his limited magic power into it and activate the magic circle.But he is a beginner and knows little about the working principle of the magic circle. Although Jin Cheng is an old player, he is not a magician, so he can't help him much.

The two of them moved the small low stools in the house and sat in front of Little Jack's house. One was learning music with his legs crossed, and the other was tinkering with his pocket watch with his head bowed. The clumps of roses crawled over the window sill and hung on Jin Cheng's shoulders. In the distance, the golden sea Another round of sunset came.

Jin Cheng hugged the small harp and fiddled with it lightly, contentedly.

Looking out from here, the towers in the west of the city stand tall, and the city walls covered with roses and the chimneys of the bakery are faintly visible.When the rosy sunset fell from the spire all the way to Tang Cuo's feet, he finally successfully activated the magic circle.

"Tick, tick." The pointer recovered, and the dial of the pocket watch, like a vinyl disc on a gramophone, began to rotate slowly.

Tang Cuo looked at Jin Cheng and cast a questioning look.

Jin Cheng raised his eyebrows, plucked the strings with his fingertips, and the melodious sound of the piano flowed from his fingertips into the rosy sunset.It was the voice of a foreign land on a distant continent, mysterious and melodious, filled with some unknown emotion, filling my heart.

Tang Cuo couldn't help thinking of the sound of the piano at the bonfire party. He played a strange Nordic folk song.Through the flames, nothing could be seen clearly.

Jin Cheng played to his heart's content, it had been a long time since he sat relaxed in the sunset like now, calmed down to play the piano, or did something else.

The place in Eternal Night City is far away from life.Although Jin Cheng had companions who could trust his back, but they had never participated in his past, so he always felt that something was missing.

With the music, the streets of the Moon Hidden Kingdom also have a few traces of freshness.The flowing wind no longer smells of long-standing dust, and the pure white rose is shaking gently in the wind, as if in the next second, there will be a trotting all the way from the flower court with a skirt on the corner of the street. The young girl who came back from Christmas.

This song by Lancelot is called "Lovers at Evening".

Tang Cuo quietly listened to him finish playing a song, then pressed the button on the pocket watch again, "Ding", the side mission was completed, and the reward item - a key.

Another key.

Tang Cuo looked at the key in his palm and frowned slightly. After a few seconds, he suddenly felt that the shape of the key was familiar, and he had a flash of inspiration, "Bronze statue!"

Bronze statue of Lancelot with a keyhole over his heart.

The two quickly got up and rushed to the small square where the statue was.

About 10 minutes later, the bronze statue of Lancelot appeared in their sight, still smiling and plucking the strings, but in the setting sun, his face was more gentle.

"Ding!"

"Trigger the side mission - Lancelot's Heart."

Tang Cuo had just stepped into the area of ​​the small square when the system broadcast sounded again.This was not there last time I came here, so the key to triggering is this key.

"Travellers in foreign lands, you are welcome to cross the long river of time and finally come here - the Kingdom of the Hidden Moon. Are you ready to hear the last story?"

"Please take Lancelot's heart."

"Let the most popular bard in the whole continent tell you personally."

The 99th ring of the chain branch task.

Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng looked at each other, did not speak, but walked to the bronze statue tacitly.Tang Cuo, who was holding the key, squatted down and inserted the key into Lancelot's heart with a little solemnity.

"Click." A perfect fit.

Open the heart door, inside is a red gem.The gemstone is small enough to fit on Tang Cuo's ring, as if it should have been there.

Jin Cheng: "99 side missions, the final reward is this. I think we can go to the palace in the center of the city now."

There are still a few reward items left in the side missions, because some missions do not require additional items to clear the level.But Tang Cuo agreed with Jin Cheng's point of view that 99 is a special number and a special task.

He puts the ruby ​​on the ring, and the gem fits automatically, and the side quest ends.At that moment, Tang Cuo finally felt the flow of magic power on the ring, as long as he had a thought, he could immediately use the engraving skill "Moonlight Tide".

Task reward - a pair of golden scissors.

"Let's go."

Neither of them wanted to wait any longer, and rushed to the palace at full speed.

At this time, the moon has risen, and the roses all over the city are bathed in the moonlight, quietly revealing their fragrance.Tang Cuo was walking on the road wearing the full version of Nightingale, and he clearly felt a different aura lingering around him - it was kindness.

The roses all over the city released gentle kindness towards him.

This point was perfectly verified before arriving at the palace, because when Tang Cuo walked to the gate of the palace, the entangled vines seemed to sense something, and automatically retreated to the sides, revealing the heavily covered gate.

Jin Cheng couldn't help teasing: "This is the treatment only the protagonist has."

Tang Cuo: "I can let you open the door."

Are you sure you're not afraid of arrows shooting out of the door?

Jin Cheng slandered the little bastard in his heart, but he still stepped forward honestly. "Squeak—" the heavy door opened slowly, and the dusty time began to flow at this moment.

However, there is nothing in the palace, only a well in the middle, and rose flowers growing in the well.

Tang Cuo: "The Well of Time."