A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

Fang Shiqing looked at the map and found that the mine she mentioned was very close to the current location.

"Want to see it?"

Fang Shiqing bought a watch for 150 yuan from a stall at the entrance of the timber market, and confirmed that the current time is 12:47 noon.The return bus departed at 4:[-] pm, and the time for them to explore was very limited.

However, for players, metal materials are a necessity for development.Although I don't know what kind of mines this mine produces—of course, according to the settings of the simulation management game, it is likely to produce everything, but there is no harm in looking in the past.

Thinking about it this way, the two finally set off to go there.

Compared with Fengyue Town, the condition of the neighboring town is relatively developed, but it is still built against the green hills. It is not surprising that there is a mine.The mines here are also not forbidden to mine. When they came outside, they could occasionally see miners carrying pickaxes coming in and out.

The two stopped an NPC casually to inquire about it, and learned that this is a rather large mine pit, and there is really everything inside, as long as they go deep enough, gold can be dug out.However, the internal roads extend in all directions and are very complicated. If you are not careful, you will get lost, and occasionally there will be some strange beasts underground, so you need to be careful.

"Beast?" You Qingyu asked blankly, "Can there be any beast in the mine, pangolin?"

Fang Shiqing felt that it might be the monster or spirit that Xiao Fengdi had mentioned before - I don't know if this kind of trouble is unique to Fengyue Town or it is also found in neighboring towns, but there is nothing wrong with being careful.

Fortunately, he always carries a flashlight and common tools when he goes out, which is convenient to use now.

The two walked down the road that had already been paved. There was silence in the darkness, only the sound of walking and breathing.

It was the first time for You Qingyu to come to this kind of place, the dark and quiet environment made people frightened, but her character did not allow herself to express her fear, so she could only talk to her companions to relieve her mood.

"In a place like this...how do I find mines?"

"I don't know either." Fang Shiqing swept the flashlight on both sides, scratched his head and said, "Should be looking for it with eyes? If you see the ore, just tap it, probably."

"Oh……"

So when the two saw places with different colors, they lowered the pickaxes, tossed and tossed, and finally only knocked out a pile of waste, the kind that was worth one yuan each.

"...I can't do this," You Qingyu couldn't help but said, "Well, Shi Qing, have you ever been in a mine before? Was the situation at that time the same as it is now?"

"No," Fang Shiqing said gloomily, "When I went digging cinnabar with the boss, I just knocked on the places where the color was obviously wrong. I knocked wherever he pointed, and soon... shit."

You Qingyu looked at him quietly, and he finally realized what was wrong.

Speaking of which, wasn't Xiao Fengdi the one who found the cinnabar last time?Someone found the map marked with the mine, someone found the exact location, someone found the cinnabar ore... He seemed to have only swung the pick a couple of times, and did nothing else.

And swinging a pickaxe is purely a professional bonus, and has nothing to do with his own ability.

You Qingyu hesitated for a moment and said, "Why don't we just call it a day? It's too much for you and me alone. We're here for the first time this month, and we mainly inquire about the situation, and there's no need to take risks. Let's make more preparations next month before further exploration."

Although she said it very euphemistically, Fang Shiqing understood that she actually meant "ask brother Xiao to come with me next time, this time he's not here, we definitely can't".

He was silent for a while without speaking.

It's embarrassing to say, except when he was in the dungeon, he didn't seem to have explored any unknown places independently, such as mines, underground labyrinths, etc., all of which were accompanied, pointed, and taken care of by Xiao Fengdi.

Because of this, I... am I a little bit, too dependent on others?

--Too dependent.

He suddenly shivered heavily.

It's not good to be dependent on others, especially if the relationship is based solely on the other's goodwill.If one day, this kindness is exhausted by my endless dependence...

At that time, will there be no friends left?

Never let yourself go on like this.But You Qingyu is right, the current situation is not suitable for further exploration.

"Let's turn around a little bit more," he said after thinking for a while, "go a little further in, and we'll go back the same way in 15 minutes, okay?"

You Qingyu did not refuse.The two continued to walk forward. This time, Fang Shiqing no longer just knocked off the parts with different colors on the surface, but knocked as deep as possible - anyway, it is impossible to explore the interior, so it is better to dig more stones and bring them home. chant.

Unexpectedly, such a dig really dug up something.

Several pieces of dimly colored ore rolled to the ground, Fang Shiqing picked them up in a daze, and the passive skill immediately recognized their names——

"Red copper...?" Fang Shiqing looked confused.He thinks he should have seen this term in his high school chemistry textbook, but he can't remember it.

"Did you really find it?" You Qingyu took it and looked at it again and again, and was very excited at once, "Did we find the ore vein! Do you want to dig again?"

Fang Shi said with a clear heart, there should be no "mineral veins" in this game, all ores are randomly generated in a mess.However, he still swung his pickaxe and dug a little deeper, and picked up some copper ore intermittently. In addition to red copper, there was also common brass.

Unknowingly, a deep hole had been dug out in the stone wall in front of him, and Fang Shiqing was almost buried in the stone wall. When he went down with the pickaxe, the tactile sensation in his hands suddenly disappeared.

"Hey……?"

"What's the matter?" You Qingyu who was behind couldn't see the situation, and asked nervously when he saw him stop suddenly.

"It seems to be empty behind here," Fang Shiqing expanded the hole to over a foot wide, and inspected it with a flashlight, and gasped suddenly, "We...maybe we accidentally opened it to the hidden area. room."

You Qingyu could understand his stalking: "Is there an interlayer behind the stone?"

Fang Shiqing further opened the hole until it was the size of a person, and then turned sideways to let You Qingyu come over to look at it.

You Qingyu squeezed in and took a look, and was immediately stunned.

Inside the stone wall is a small interlayer, only a few meters square, about the size of her toilet.Facing their position on the opposite side of the mezzanine, a skeleton was lying there in a distorted sitting posture.

Its clothes and decorations are almost completely rotten, except for a few rusty copper pieces.

"...It's really a hidden room," she murmured, "Is there anything in this hidden room? Props... something like that."

After the first two dungeons—especially the baptism of the second dungeon, they are now basically immune to corpses, and they can't arouse their fear at all.But the appearance of corpses also predicted a crisis to a certain extent, so we need to be more vigilant.

Fang Shiqing tried to calm himself down.He didn't step into the mezzanine rashly, but checked the walls around the mezzanine, and soon found that the entire stone wall behind the skeleton looked unnatural, as if it was filled with crushed stones.

"It seems that this is not a mezzanine, but a depression in the mine..." he said, "Later, someone specially filled the opposite side to death, turning it into a closed space."

You Qingyu understood what he meant: "But, why did those people do this? In order to make it—" She pointed to the skeleton, "Is it trapped here to death? This is not a hidden branch, is it? There won't be an undead popping up all of a sudden, asking us to avenge him or something."

Fang Shiqing had a vague guess in his heart, but this guess was too forced.

"Wait here for me." He told You Qingyu, and stepped into the mezzanine.

"Wait—" You Qingyu was startled.

The moment he came in, nothing happened.The bones were still crooked as they were, with no intention of raising the corpse.

Fang Shiqing squatted down slowly, groping the ground in the mezzanine, and when he touched the skeleton, he vaguely felt a strange touch on the bottom of his hand.

——The ground here is uneven. It seems that, like the opposite wall, it is filled with gravel. It should have been a hole.

"Shiqing," You Qingyu called him from outside, rather uneasy, "what are you doing? Let's leave as soon as possible, I always feel that this place is very dangerous—ahh!"

Her ending suddenly turned into a scream.Fang Shiqing stood up in shock, only to see her figure disappearing at the entrance in a flash, as if she was dragged out by something.

"—Qingyu!"

He immediately set off and rushed out, but suddenly his back tightened.

That skeleton, at some point... fell on his back, and firmly grasped his waist with both hands.

"Fuck?!"

When Fang Shiqing turned his head, he almost had a face-to-face encounter with the bones.

This shock was not light.His mind was blank, but his movements were very quick, and he tapped on its joints with the flashlight in one hand.

These are all conditioned reflexes formed by the previous experience of blood and tears.

This skeleton has been lying here for an unknown number of years. The bones are so brittle that they shatter into several pieces with just a casual knock.But its strength is quite impressive, and it dragged Fang Shiqing backwards before he took the opportunity to break free——

At the same time, the gravel-filled hole collapsed suddenly.Skeleton grabbed Fang Shiqing tightly, stepped on the edge of the hole, and fell down with him.

"—"

The falling process seemed to be only for a moment, and it seemed to be extremely long.In mid-air, Fang Shiqing smashed the other arm of the skeleton with all his strength, and broke free from its death embrace, but before he could adjust his posture, he fell heavily on the gravel on the ground.

The back of his head seemed to have hit a sharp edge, and he felt a chill in his head, followed by sudden dizziness.

When he fell, his limbs were bruised to varying degrees, his wrist was twisted violently, and the flashlight fell out of his hand, and he didn't know where it fell.

It was pitch black all around.In the chaotic mind, only the cold system prompts echoed back and forth——

"Your health drops by 30 points."

"Your health drops by 10 points."

"Your health drops by 12 points."

……

He temporarily lost consciousness.

I don't know how long it has been in the mist.He only felt that it was getting colder and colder, and his consciousness was becoming more and more erratic, as if he was being pulled away from his body by something.

In a trance, he even felt that he saw a revolving lantern, and saw every scene in his past life.I saw the people I used to know and get along with, my boring life, the games I had cleared, and the floating st○am achievement icons——

——No way, he thought, he could only see these things before he died, and his life was really boring.

will i diehe asked himself next.

Will he die in such an unknown place?He was obviously saved when he was determined to die in the dungeon before, but now he capsizes in the town map. What irony and reality is this.

wrong.It was not because of his own ability that he was able to barely survive before, but because someone came to save him at the risk of danger.As a result, he is not here now, and no one can help, and he immediately fell into this situation——

...Damn, why do I feel that I am even more useless.

However, because of this, the emotion called "unreconciled" burned even more violently.

If he died like this, wouldn't he have failed the benefactor who had risked his life to save him?

If he finds out that he is dead, Xiao Fengdi... the boss, will he be sad?Will you blame yourself?

People have done so many things to help him save him, and he has no time to repay him, if he just died like this, isn't it too heartless——

Driven by this kind of thought, the desire to survive was burning like never before, overturning the revolving lantern and breaking the hazy illusion in front of him.He felt that his soul was pulled down violently and pressed back into his body.

The entire field of vision suddenly became clear.There was a little buzzing in his ears, but his mind returned; he realized that he was still lying on the rubble.

There is a black hole above the head, and stones fall from time to time. The hole is about ten meters deep, which is equivalent to the height of a four-story building in reality, which is quite impressive.

——I fell from this hole just now.Before that, You Qingyu seemed to be taken away by something... Is You Qingyu alright? !

Fang Shiqing sat up all of a sudden, feeling dizzy for a while.

The yellow light of the flashlight is projected on the opposite side. It can be seen that this is a relatively open underground space, and the four walls cannot be seen at a glance.

He found that his health value hadn't dropped too much, at least he was far away from death, it was just that he was particularly uncomfortable because he hit his head.

I don't know how the near-death illusion just appeared.

At this moment, the light of the flashlight suddenly shook a few times, as if someone was swinging the flashlight around.

He turned his head sharply.

A petite figure was sitting on a stone a few meters away, holding Fang Shiqing's flashlight, and fiddled with it with great interest.It was a black-haired girl with a delicate and beautiful appearance, just like someone who came out of an animation——

Damn it, right? ?

Fang Shiqing scrambled to hide to the other side.This "girl", without a doubt, was the puppet that had just appeared in front of them yesterday.

Why is it here?

Shouldn't this be the map of the neighboring town? Can this monster cut the map by itself?

The doll girl turned the flashlight this way and looked at him without blinking.

"you're awake?"

"—uh, uh..."

Unexpectedly, it would speak so normally, Fang Shiqing didn't know what to do for a while.

It stood up slowly, the wooden joints were somewhat stiff, but its movements were very graceful.

"Do you still remember what happened just now?" She tilted her head, pointing to the hollow above her head, "You fell from above, as if you hit your head."

Fang Shiqing touched the back of his head reflexively and got blood on his hand.

He thought it was a little strange.

So far, the other monsters he has seen either have low IQs or have deep obsessions. Even if they can communicate, it is often only temporary.However, this puppet girl was able to observe the current situation and even communicate with him—just like ordinary NPCs.

"You..." He stared at the doll and asked, "Why are you here? What do you want to do?"

The puppet pursed its lips, looking aggrieved.

"I'm protecting you," she said, "without me, you'd be eaten by them."

"……they?"

The puppet reversed its wrist and directed the flashlight to the other side of the darkness.

It was a dark corridor.A few zombies were hovering at the entrance of the corridor. They opened their mouths wide and looked at this side eagerly with cloudy eyes, as if they wanted to pounce on him and tear him apart, but they were imprisoned in place by some special force, unable to take a step forward.

...why are there zombies here?The corner of Fang Shiqing's mouth twitched.

He felt that his previous guess might be correct.Here—the bottom of this mine is very likely to be connected to the underground labyrinth at the bottom of Fengyue Town.

Xiao Fengdi's book "A Moment" states, "...Just half a month ago, the surrounding land was occupied by the nearby lord leading an army...", but Fengyue Town is surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on the other, the lord It is not easy for the Chinese army to break into the mountains.In comparison, the geographical location of the neighboring town is more in line with the description in the article.

Given this premise, it's no surprise that there are zombies here.

"...Thank you." He hesitated, but still said.

In any case, since it really saved itself, then thanks should be given.

"You're welcome," the doll's eyes slightly curved, "who made me like you."

"..."

Fang Shiqing was not sure what the other party meant.He glanced at the hole above his head, thinking that he had to find a way to go up quickly; he didn't know what happened to You Qingyu, whether it was safe now... He insisted on exploring the mine again, and if it caused any damage to his teammates , then he will have to feel guilty for the rest of his life.

The height of the hole obviously exceeded the limit of his ability to climb with bare hands, and it might be difficult to go up.

"That..." He couldn't think of any other way, so he could only try to ask the puppet opposite, "Then, can I trouble you to help me again? My friend is still up there, she is in danger now—"

The puppet looked at him and smiled slightly: "No."

"Why should I help you?" She smiled sweetly, propping her chin with the back of her fair hand.Her knuckles are also spherical, but the gap is very inconspicuous, "You have already rejected me - unless you are willing to come to me, otherwise I will not help you."

"..." There seems to be nothing wrong.

Fang Shiqing had no choice but to take out the rope from the tool bar, turned his head and found a stone of suitable size from the ground, tied it to the front end, and made a simple hook.

This thing is not easy to use, but it can only barely try.He stood up and tried to round his arms and throw the rope up through the hole to get stuck.

"Wait a minute," the doll girl said suddenly, "Why do you think I will let you go?"

"……Hey?"

"It's hard for you to be alone with me," she stood up, and brushed the dust off her body gracefully. "There is no obstacle between us anymore—what a rare opportunity. How could I let you go?" where to go?"

"Uh, but, didn't it already..." Fang Shiqing felt a chill on the back of his neck, "It's already agreed..."

"—Didn't I say it? It's just that there is no way for the time being, but I won't give up. Now is the best opportunity. The unlucky man who hindered me is finally no longer by your side. He sees you so strictly, Tougher than the dragon guarding the treasure in the story, I can't even find a chance to meet you."

"..."

Big brother, I was wrong!If you have the life to go back this time!Please allow me to continue living with you!

He wanted to cry without tears.

The girl suddenly disappeared, and then appeared directly in front of him less than a foot away.

"I will make you feel what happiness is," she whispered, and began to burrow into his arms, "that is a dreamlike, beautiful scene that you have never experienced before——"

"—"

Fang Shiqing wanted to retreat, but dozens of wooden arms emerged from the ground, grabbing his legs tightly.

The girl tossed the flashlight casually, approached him, raised her head, and wanted to grab his chest with both hands.The same action also appeared in the dream. If she caught her, she would probably kiss him in the next moment.

He tried to dodge back, but it was useless.Those white hands grabbed his collar.

The next moment-

"ah!!"

The puppet screamed, and suddenly moved back for a long time, and the wooden arms protruding from the ground disappeared.

Her hands emitted bursts of blue smoke and smelled of burnt black, like ignited wood, even a little cracked.

This scene is also very similar to a dream.But the one who protected him in the dream should be the boss who slept with him, so what's going on now?

Although he was saved, Fang Shiqing couldn't help but look confused.He subconsciously looked around for Xiao Fengdi's figure, but failed——

I also know that it is impossible for him to appear here.The boss should still be working in the library right now. What happened to that scene just now?

"You..." The puppet girl stretched her hands, exasperated, "What did that man leave on you? What did he do to you?"

"--Aha?"

Fang Shiqing continued to be confused.

What can be left behind, this game is automatically refreshed every two hours, even if you draw symbols on your body, it will be refreshed regularly, there is no way to form a lasting protection... Wait, wait a minute, he seems to have thought of it.

He quickly took off his coat, turned it over and saw, as expected, there were seventeen or eighteen yellow talisman seals tucked into the lining of the coat, and the scarlet strokes on them were densely packed, as if they were shining slightly Light.

——Most likely Xiao Fengdi stuffed it in when he didn't wake up in the morning.

Although I don't know why the boss did this, and why he didn't tell him after doing it... But anyway, these things really saved his life.

Worthy of being a boss, he is so foresighted!He breathed a sigh of relief, put the coat in front of him, and faced the doll girl again.

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In today's update, the hidden room stalk of "The Binding of Isaac" is used

I said before that I want to add more, but I haven't caught up with it, and it was delayed until today to offer the belated 6k words

Thank you all for reading!