A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

Chapter 97 Carpenter Wang's Hobbies

When they left, Fang Shiqing and Zhang Yu shared an umbrella.Zhang Yu silently held the umbrella handle, staring at the rain curtain in front of him, looking very sad.

——It's not incomprehensible, after all, he was completely ignored by the person he likes just now.

"that……"

After the previous embarrassment passed, Fang Shiqing soon couldn't bear the delicate atmosphere in this small space.He began to try to find a topic, glanced at the book in Zhang Yu's hand, and found that it was a well-known detective novel, "Do you like reading detective stories?"

"It's not bad," Zhang Yu forced a smile, "This book is actually lent to Xiaoyu, she likes to read such thrilling stories. I prefer the following one."

He moved his arm, letting the title of the book below leak out: "I Loved You Only for a Moment."

——Obviously a romance novel by Wen Yifan.

Fang Shiqing: "..." Both of you have strange hobbies.

"I like to read love stories," Zhang Yu said with a sigh of relief, "especially the kind of flat, sweet and sweet stories, the kind of stories where lovers live together—that girl Xiao Yu has been laughing at me for having the wrong gender, saying that my Ideas are easy to come up with girls who are husbands and tutors, and normal men should yearn for the outside world more and want to make a career."

"No, no one stipulates that boys can't like love stories and a comfortable life," Fang Shiqing comforted, "That gender-fixed concept should have been updated a long time ago."

Zhang Yu smiled when he heard the words, and there was a rare warmth in his smile.

After talking a few words about irrelevant topics, the atmosphere finally eased a lot.

After returning to the front and back of the grocery store, Zhang Yu told him the location of the cinnabar mine according to the previous agreement-the specific location was deep in the mountains further west of Qingliang Farm.

"You must not let others know about this," Zhang Yu kept looking around cautiously while speaking, "If someone really finds out, it must not be said that I leaked the news to you! But our family's industrial secrets, if my father knows that I tell this to others, he will definitely beat me to death."

"Don't say it, definitely don't say it." Fang Shiqing immediately promised.However, he added in his mind that this promise is only valid for NPCs. As for other players, such important information may still have to be shared.

"If you go, you must prepare a torch, and you'd better buy more charms in my store," Zhang Yu said again, "There are a lot of wild animals over there, and there are also many... It's very dangerous, you should pay attention to safety."

He blurted out a little in the middle of his speech.Fang Shiqing knew that the "what" in his mouth referred to things like ghosts and zombies, and was suddenly surprised: It seems that Zhang Yu can really "recognize" and "mention" supernatural things?

"I will, thank you for reminding me." He replied seriously.

It was still raining, and probably it was going to be like that all day.

After Zhang Yu went back, Fang Shiqing put on the newly bought raincoat.The raincoat was a bit big, covering him from head to ankle, and he set off to walk back along the road while thinking about the situation of Zhang Yu, an NPC.

Xiao Fengdi said that he was very negative, and he couldn't enter the library... Is there anything wrong with these things?

At that time, the boss seemed to want to explain something to him, but probably because Zhang Yu would come out at any time, coupled with doubts about his IQ, he didn't say anything in the end.

Thinking of this, Fang Shiqing was very depressed.He felt that his IQ must be above the average level. After all, he missed so many classes in middle school due to physical reasons, and finally got admitted to university smoothly.But why do I always have a feeling of lack of brain power recently?

Or, did the direction of my thinking deviate?

Thinking about it this way, he gradually realized where the problem was.

He considered Zhang Yu's matter entirely from an emotional point of view, and regarding his "going to the library no matter what", he just felt emotionally "he really loves the boss deeply".But if you think about it carefully, there are many unnatural places in this matter itself.

When a normal person finds that he cannot enter a building, the first reaction is probably that it is strange, right?

But Zhang Yu showed no doubts about this matter at all.

Instead of chasing Fang Shiqing and asking "Did your boss do something strange to the library, why can't I get in?!", he started to think of a way to solve this problem.

This probably means that he is very clear about the reason: whether it is his own body with too much yin energy, or the library's defense against ghosts.

Then he accurately found the player Fang Shiqing who could take him in, and——

No, wait.

Fang Shiqing stopped suddenly.

The surrounding rain was still falling and the temperature was cool, but he broke out in a cold sweat all of a sudden.

Zhang Yu has accurately found himself as a player—doesn't this mean that Zhang Yu has a sense of his identity as a "player"?

This possibility made his hairs stand on end, and he felt a strong sense of fear.

This feeling is completely different from that of entering a dungeon. If the scare when encountering ghosts comes from the stimulation of the executives, then the fear at this time comes from the instinct deep in my heart.

Players who have been frightened by meta games may understand this mood better.

For "NPC", the "player itself" should be a high-dimensional creature that they cannot recognize.They can see the player's avatar (the role played by the player in the game), because this avatar is something on the same latitude as them; but it is impossible to observe the real player through this role.Even if the game is as real as reality.

That NPC——Zhang Yu, can he really break through the boundary between games and reality?The NPC that could have been seen by the player has broken through its own latitude. This kind of thing - thinking carefully is terrifying.

He almost wanted to turn around and run to the library right away to ask Xiao Fengdi about this matter, but after running for two steps in the rain, the rain splashed on his face made him calm down somewhat.

He gradually realized that even if it was true, there was nothing to be afraid of.

Among other things, he has always been prepared to "die here and become an NPC".I don't care that my self as a player will be erased, why should I be afraid of the observation from NPC?Since he is not even afraid of death, what is he afraid of?

Besides, Zhang Yu didn't necessarily know the identity of their "players".Maybe he just found out that he has a good relationship with the boss, and happened to meet him in the store today, so he took advantage of the opportunity and asked him to go with him?

And the latter possibility is much more reliable than the former one.

After calming down, he recalled his thoughts just now, and he realized that those were basically his own imagination, and there was no fact to support them.

He immediately felt ashamed, so he immediately dismissed the idea of ​​returning to the library, and continued walking back instead.

After returning to the farm, he still had nothing to do. Fang Shiqing cleaned up the weeds and stones in the open space under the rain, and all he could do after that was sit under the eaves and walk the dog.

He thought about it in his mind, and felt that the big hole behind the barn was always a problem, so he decided to go to the house of that apprentice of Carpenter Qi. It would be even better if he could directly hire someone to work.

It may be impolite to visit your home on a rainy day.But at least there is a high probability that it will not fail.

Just doing what he said, he left the farm again, and searched all the way according to the address left by Carpenter Qi.

Carpenter Qi's apprentice is surnamed Wang, so he can be called Carpenter Wang directly.As mentioned before, his residence is in the same area as You Qingyu's house, and Fang Shiqing had already been there, and he was fully prepared for the surrounding environment, but when he actually arrived there, he was still a little surprised.

The style of this residential area is very old, the drainage system is not as developed as the main road of the town, and the ground is full of stagnant water.

He managed to wade through the water to find the place, and found that it was a small yard shared by several families. The yard was in a mess, with some vegetables planted sparsely, and some wild vegetables were dried beside it, covered with a rainproof plastic sheet. Crowded brick houses.

Carpenter Wang lived in the smallest room among them.

Fang Shiqing went up and knocked on the door.The person who opened the door was a middle-aged man who fit his imagination, wearing overalls, carpenter's gloves, cropped, clean-shaven, and looking quite energetic.

"Excuse me, are you Carpenter Wang?" Fang Shiqing rubbed his hands together and said hello, "Well... I run a farm on the west side of the town, and Qi Bo introduced me."

"Oh, you are the grandson of Uncle Fang, you come to me because there is carpentry work on the farm, right?"

Carpenter Wang reacted quickly, and let him in readily, so that he could sit down and talk about the situation in detail.

Up to here, everything is normal.

However, after entering Carpenter Wang's residence, Fang Shiqing was frightened all of a sudden.

At first glance, this house looks like a bachelor's residence. There is no partition, just one room.There is a single bed in the corner, next to it is a long table and small stool for work, and two wooden boxes, and the rest of the place is full of high and low wooden shelves.

Almost all the wooden shelves are filled with all kinds of wooden figures.

Moreover, without exception, they are portraits of young women.

The smallest of them is only a dozen centimeters, and the details are vividly carved, while the largest is the size of a real person, in a lazy lying position, lying on the entire shelf.Some are busts, busts, and even have only one head, while more are small figures scaled down in proportion to real people.

Some of them are solid ornaments, while others have ball joints and can move up and down. The former are like figures, and the latter are closer to traditional puppets.

The point is...the wooden dolls here are really—too many!

There are so many that people doubt that this is a doll shop.

Fang Shiqing shivered several times in succession, and had the illusion that all the wooden dolls were staring at him.

"This, these are..."

"Oh, this is my hobby." Seeing that he paid attention to these wooden dolls, Carpenter Wang showed a little pride, "I like to make this kind of things when I have nothing to do. I have been doing it for more than ten years. How about it, the craftsmanship is alright."

"..."

His attitude was so ordinary and natural that Fang Shiqing was a little embarrassed.

However, looking at the colorful wooden dolls in this room, he probably knows why Carpenter Wang is still a bachelor... Which girl dares to marry him? When she wakes up in the middle of the night, the room is full of dolls, so don't be scared to death.

Taking a closer look, the figures on these shelves are far more diverse than previously thought.Among them are models with normal human proportions, and Q-version villains with big heads. Fang Shiqing even found dolls similar to Japanese Hina dolls—of course, Hina dolls are probably not made of wood, as well as several sets of Russian matryoshka dolls.

He thought to himself, this person is a fan of figurines, maybe he would get along well with He Xiangwu.You can introduce him later.

But after looking at it for a while, he found that these dolls had different costumes, postures and styles, but their appearance was exactly the same.All the figures here - if they are figures, they are undoubtedly figures of the same character.

This discovery stirred up his mood that had just calmed down again.

Wang Carpenter himself behaved very naturally, a stranger he met for the first time, and he had no position to inquire about anything.

The two sat down and talked about the purpose of Fang Shiqing's visit. The hole itself was not a big project, and Carpenter Wang was easy to talk to. They quickly finalized the details of the work, and agreed that if it was sunny tomorrow, he would go to the cave. Cool Farm to help repair it.

This kind of work practice is to settle the money first, and Fang Shi paid 1000 yuan, then got up and left.

Many human beings have a natural and physiological fear of things like "dolls".He wasn't sure if he was the same, but he felt that it was difficult to stay in this room for a long time.

As he was leaving, he caught a glimpse of something on the workbench.

That should be the doll's head too, just half done, only the lips and eyes are colored.At the moment when he turned his head, the doll's eyes seemed to move slightly, and the corners of its mouth slightly lifted——

No, no, wait, it's not dark yet, and it's not time for demons and ghosts to go to work. Don't rush to scare me! !

When I looked at it again, the face of the doll was still the same as before.

But Fang Shiqing believed in his first impression. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat. After leaving in a hurry, he turned his head back two or three times in the rain to make sure that there was nothing chasing after him, so he was a little relieved.

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Regarding the meta game, my understanding is "a game beyond the game", that is, "a game in which the existence in the game (pseudo) crosses dimensions and communicates with you outside the game".

Of course, this statement is very inaccurate. If you are interested, you can search for the definition.

Among the more typical ones are "undertale", "Stanley's Fable" and gal "The Love between the King and the Girl and the Girl", "Heartbeat Literature Club" and so on... If you want to play, please be sure to pay attention to the rating of the game

The next dungeon should not be opened for the time being. Recently, it is relatively leisurely farming and living

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