The Trial Game of Life

The fact that the mouse is an elf prince shocked Jin Cheng quite a bit, because in his impression, all princes wanted to turn into frogs.Moreover, the name McCown is not more like an elf prince than Legolas.

Thinking of this, Jin Cheng opened the task panel again.

The side quests are still unchanged.

Jin Cheng looked at McCown, and related to his identity and the elves' abnormal manipulation of the secret lake, he roughly judged that McCown's behavior might have something to do with the secret lake.

Something must have happened in the royal court, the elf guards will not arrest their prince for no reason.

The most important thing is that there is really a way to the outside or the royal court at the bottom of the cliff, otherwise how would the elf guards get down?It's not always like jumping off a cliff like Jin Cheng.

When the guards left, Jin Cheng resolutely led McCown towards the direction they came from.It was only before he left that he fed some food to the griffin, and then regretfully gave up on this cool mount.

In order to prevent another guard from appearing, Jin Cheng walked close to the cliff, which made it easier for him to find the passage.It stands to reason that the passage should be on the side close to the royal court, so this natural moat can be used to deal with some people who are inconvenient to deal with in public.

Jin Cheng searched very carefully, paying attention to every inch of the cliff. After 15 minutes, Huang Tian paid off, and he finally found a passage at a certain cliff about ten meters above the ground.

The passage is covered by magic, and a person who doesn't know magic can't find it at all.Moreover, it is more than ten meters above the ground. Ordinary people will subconsciously think that the passage is close to the ground when looking for a passage.This distance just avoids the cognitive range of the world, and it will not be too high to cause falls.

The entrance of the passage was not closed, presumably the guards had to go back, and there was only one road here, so it was not closed.Jin Cheng walked in swaggeringly, and after walking through a long corridor, he saw the upward stone steps.

This is indeed the way to the royal court.

"Squeak." McCown grabbed Jin Cheng's pocket, with sad eyes.Then he slid down Jin Cheng's arm again, raised his finger to point to the stone steps, and squeaked a few more times excitedly.

"You lead the way?" Jin Cheng finally had a tacit understanding with him.

McCown nodded sharply, and one person and one mouse set foot on the road to the royal court.

This road is not short, because the stone steps are not straight, but twists and turns, some places are wide and some places are very narrow, and there are no guardrails on both sides.And this space directly below the royal court is actually a hollow underground cell. These intricate stone steps connect the cells. The cell is basically empty and there are no guards around.

The higher you went, the smaller the space, and Jin Cheng finally saw the prisoners, and they were basically elves.

With McCown leading the way, Jin Cheng didn't waste time asking questions one by one, but he would try his best to pass by the cell door to see if he could trigger any tasks.

McCown had a clear goal, and soon brought him to a prison door, where lay a dying young elf dressed as a guard.

"Squeak!" McCown, who was small, got in at once, and put his head on the elf's face, trying to wake him up.

Jin Cheng directly took out a healing potion and threw it to him. The little mouse bowed vigorously with tears in his eyes, and then tremblingly held the potion taller than the mouse to the elf's mouth.

The elf still had some remnants of consciousness, and his mouth was slightly open, which allowed him to pour the potion into it.It's just that as a mouse, the action of pouring the medicine was too strenuous for him, half of the bottle of medicine was poured out, and he almost cried out of anxiety.

"Okay, he's going to be fine." As Jin Cheng said so, he checked the side missions again, and the missions remained unchanged.The people lying on the ground also showed no signs of recovery for the time being, so Jin Cheng no longer delayed and called McCown to leave.

McCown nodded, climbed to the elf's waist and took out a bunch of keys, and then reluctantly got out of the cell.

The key was handed over to Jin Cheng, and Jin Cheng raised his eyebrows—this was a pleasant surprise.

Soon, one person and one mouse came to the end of the stone steps.There is a stone door here. Surprisingly, the magic mechanism on the stone door is located outside, and they can open it from the inside without hindrance.

But what was even more surprising was that there were people outside the door, and the sound of conversation came in through the gap in the stone door.

"Elder Evans, what about the secret lake? This person dared to follow you, he must have discovered something."

"Just lock him up, and ask him about the origin of his companion."

"The young knight?"

"Well. When I blessed him, I vaguely sensed a bit of elf blood in him."

"This……"

The conversation was interrupted, and the person who spoke seemed to be lost in thought, or maybe he suddenly thought of something, so he didn't say anything further.After a while, Evans asked again: "Where is our prince? Haven't found it yet?"

The other party replied: "No, we have already sent more people to look for it, but you have ordered us not to disturb other people, Elder. Especially Elder Filgaro, he seems to be unwilling to believe the accident of the secret lake and the prince Your Highness, if he finds out that we did it, then—”

"Hmph, Filgaro, that idiot who tried to subvert the blood of the elves, how could he tolerate a half-breed elf ascending the throne? This would be a disgrace to the elves! Don't worry, none of us can enter the secret lake now. What's the use of those foreigners, they are absolutely impossible to awaken the real secret lake."

"Elder Evans, the secret lake has become so cruel now, so many foreigners have not returned. Is there any problem with the method we obtained from those people?"

Hearing this, Jin Cheng couldn't help frowning.

When the man mentioned "those people," there was a noticeable pause in his speech.Earlier, Evans said that McCown's blood was impure and opposed his ascension to the throne. This is probably the source of a series of changes.As an elder, in order to maintain the purity of blood, Evans did not hesitate to assassinate McCown, and even tampered with the secret lake.

"Those people" proved that he had accomplices, and McCown got the method to cause the misfortune of the secret lake from someone else.Judging from the tone in which they were mentioned in the conversation, most of them were people other than the elves.

Jin Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking of the general setting of this Western fantasy world, he had a guess in his mind.

"Don't think about it too much. Finding McCown is the key." Speaking of this, Evans' words showed a trace of fatigue, "Take him down, lock him at the bottom, and don't allow anyone to touch him."

Hearing this, Jin Cheng immediately took McCown out of the stone gate.There was no good hiding place in the dungeon, so he simply found an empty cell and lay down with his back facing.

Almost the moment he lay down, the stone door was opened.The sound of footsteps came from far to near without stopping, and directly skipped over Jin Cheng who was lying in the shadow with most of his body.

After they walked over, Jin Cheng quietly opened his eyes, and saw the figure being dragged away by two guards - Celtic.

At the same time, the battle by the secret lake finally came to an end.

With the joint efforts of everyone, the abyssal python let out a howl and sprinkled blood into the secret lake, and its huge body gradually sank to the bottom of the lake, and the illusion was naturally broken.

It's a tough fight.

Although the giant python died, everyone was more or less injured.In particular, the two druids were covered in blood and their faces were pale. They slumped on the ground and gasped for breath, their faces full of fear and joy.

Hess, who had been staying at the lakeside for long-distance assists, was the least injured. He helped Heimeng, Donne and the others together to rest, and when he saw Tang Cuo coming over, he said, "In the illusion just now, the fighting power of the giant python Should have been cut in half from the real thing."

Heimeng also nodded, "Indeed, otherwise we wouldn't be able to fight."

Tang Cuo also nodded pretendingly, and then said: "The question now is, if all we see are illusions, where is the real secret lake?"

"Cough, cough..." Dorn covered his heart and coughed a few times, and said: "If there is no way to find the truth, then we may not be able to last long if we break one illusion after another."

There are a total of more than ten people in the team. If everyone brings a mirage, this is the second one.

Hearing this, the expressions of Heimeng and Hess also became serious.

Tang Cuo paid attention to Celtic and Druid. The expression of the former remained unchanged, while the eyes of the latter flickered when they heard their conversation.

Druid, are you hiding something?

Little Windmill Harbor and the five adventurers are still missing. Who is the enemy?Who is You?

What Tang Cuo didn't know was that about two kilometers away from here, the two groups of people he was talking about met.It's just that the people in Little Windmill Harbor quietly hid behind the trees without making a sound.

The five adventurers were sitting or standing, and one of them seemed to have just woken up, rubbing his head.Hawke and his companion looked at each other, and they all guessed that this person was probably the owner of the illusion just now, just like the dwarf Hammo.

"Why did you fall asleep just now? I was obviously careful, and I didn't drink like that vulgar dwarf." The one who rubbed his head was puzzled.

The rest of the people said: "Don't discuss this, we have to act quickly. Kill everyone as soon as possible, so we can go back and return."

"We pushed people down just now, no one noticed, right?"

"There shouldn't be, otherwise they wouldn't let us go easily."

As soon as these words came out, the three of Hawke who were hiding behind the tree almost made a sound.They never thought that the adventurer who died in the dwarf fantasy was actually pushed into the lake.

And the meaning of their words is even more surprising. Is this to drive everyone to death?

why?

Hawke's eyes widened, and then, a scene that shocked him even more appeared.The five adventurers got together and muttered something, one of them shone with light, and with a flash of light, that person turned into the image of Tang Cuo.

He touched his face, stretched his neck, and said, "This guy named Theodore seems to be the most difficult to deal with. I'll go and meet him first. You all hide for now and don't come out."

"Remember, don't fall asleep easily again."

The five discussed for a while, then turned and left.

The three of Hawke came out from behind the tree, looked at the direction the five left with complicated expressions, touched their backs, and were already sweating.One of them said: "What should we do now? Shall we go back and remind them? If they are all killed, we won't be able to escape."

Hawk frowned: "Who are these people?"

The other touched his chin thoughtfully, "Look at how they transformed, they look like druids. What if he goes back with that Theodore's face on his face, and the two Theodores confront each other? What will happen?" Two druids are already there, and the remaining five are human adventurers, and they won't doubt that there are druids who can transform among the five."

Hawk: "But doesn't that Theodore have a companion? Doesn't his companion have a way to tell?"

The companion asked back: "Don't you think that companion is also weird? He was the first person to get separated from us, why didn't you suspect that he was also dropped by someone? In this way, both of their identities are in doubt, who to trust?" ?”

No one can be trusted.

"However, since they said that they want to go back and return to their orders, it means that there is still a way to leave here. Let's follow quietly, and don't make any noise yet."

In the end, Hawke adopted his companion's suggestion, and the three of them followed behind the fake Tangcuo, watching him appear in front of everyone pretending to be flustered from afar.

The calmest Heimeng brothers were stunned, two Theodores, how could it be possible?

"He is a fake. He must have been deceived by the fantasy of the secret lake. Everyone stay away from him, and don't be fooled!" After the fake Tangcuo finished speaking, he pointed at Celtic angrily, preemptively attacking, " I obviously separated from Celtic from the beginning, who are you? Are you his accomplice?!"

Tang Cuo watched the farce with cold eyes, quietly observing everyone's reaction, without answering.

The other party snorted coldly, "You don't speak, are you guilty? Say, what is your intention to sneak into the team by pretending to be me? Is it also your fault that I got separated from Celtic?"

This hand of framing the blame is really perfect.

Tang Cuo couldn't help but want to applaud him because his hands were itchy.And he really didn't want to talk nonsense with the other party, so he drew his sword directly, and before everyone, including the other party, hadn't reacted, a sword pierced the other party's heart, with a speed as fast as the wind.

The opponent subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold the blade, but he couldn't stop it at all, only touched his hand full of blood.That face, which was exactly the same as Theodore's, was full of shock, astonishment, and even a great sense of absurdity.

How did he get stabbed? !

Tang Cuo couldn't explain to him, he pulled out his sword suddenly, and watched him fall expressionlessly.

All around, there was no sound.

After thinking about it, Tang Cuo felt that he had to say something, so he took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood on the sword, looked at the person lying on the ground, and said, "I won't be as noisy as you."

The rest subconsciously took a step back, but faced with the current situation, it was hard to judge.And when Tang Cuo finished wiping the blood on the sword, the fake Tang Cuo finally died, and his body after death flashed and returned to its original appearance.

This is neither Theodore's face, nor the face of the five adventurers, but a druid with horns on his head.

All eyes were fixed on the two druids again.