The Uncanny Valley Travel Guide

In the early morning, the sun is shining brightly, and the light pink, deep orange and magnificent misty purple dawn colors spread a veil of wild sky brocade to the sky.Marianne is sitting in the house. Now she doesn't need to hide her ghost identity in front of the players. She is sitting in front of the fireplace, letting the raging firelight penetrate from her hazy body.

When they returned here last night, the torn mansion had returned to its original state under the moonlight, and it had lost nothing except the magic circle that had been burned to ashes.

"The carriage I bought will be here at noon today." She said softly, "Take out your tickets and let me sign on them."

Although the departure time was much earlier than expected, everyone knew that this was the result of completing the task ahead of time, and they did not raise any objections.

Wen Zheliu rubbed a thin ticket in his hand, and watched his companions step forward one by one, asking Marian to sign their player names, and he gradually fell to the end.He Qin stood beside him, his warm palm gently brushed against his back, like a wordless urging.

"Go, baby," he said slowly, "You've done a good job, now it's time to go."

His strength was extremely gentle, but Wen Zheliu's body was unstable, and he staggered from this push.He Qin hurriedly grabbed him, and found that the skin in his hand was as cold as snow.

"What about you?" The young man turned his head, his lips were pale, and his eyes were almost fiercely staring at him, "You... what are you going to do?"

Marianne by the fireplace stopped writing and looked at the two in amazement. The players in the room also turned their eyes with different expressions, looking at the pair of brothers who seemed to have a secret.

He Qin's expression was cold, and he looked around the room casually. This action was like a declaration of calling the territory, which made everyone's hearts tremble, and they turned their eyes away wisely and tacitly, and went to do their own things.

He walked out of the room with Wen Zheliu, and the pale golden sunlight in the morning shrouded his face, casting a soft glow on his deep and sharp facial features, like a golden tulle covering a peerless sword blade light.

Wen Zheliu sniffed, unwilling to look at him.

He Qin stared at the stubborn side face of the young man, his eyelashes were long and long, his eyes - these eyes were as clear and light as a deer, but they had a sharpness that a deer did not have.The young man has a handsome silhouette, and his skin is glowing with warmth. This flexible and youthful body wraps an equally flexible, youthful, but also kind and persistent soul.

This child not only smiles like the sun, he thought, the warmth radiating from his whole body is inviting the attention and approach of this monster that grows in the darkness, forges ahead in the fight, and advances in the blood.He is incomparably warm, and the contrast with a kinslayer and regicide like himself is equally stark...

"Do you think killing me will stop the plan? You are dreaming, He Qin, you are dreaming!"

The mad tiger has been put into a deadly cage. It is covered in blood, its fangs are broken, and its sharp claws spatter blood stains in the struggle. However, it is still unwilling to roar, and hits the bone-piercing shackles with its fierce and strong body ——

"Do you think you did it to me for Wei Guangzheng's name, my good brother? You are wrong, don't lie to yourself!" In the ear, the roar of the former monarch is still echoing wildly on the blood-stained throne , "You are for inheritance, for your desire, for your power and selfishness!"

"You and I shed the same cruel blood—no, no, you are a hundred times more hypocritical and vicious than my brother. If you sit in this position, you will only follow in my footsteps! I am here to watch you, see Watch your final fate!!"

The mad king's crazy laughter gradually faded away, and he stepped on the blood, on the fire, and on the tip of the knife——

"Baby." In the illusion, he heard his own voice, as if separated by a layer of misty mist, but at the same time it was so hard and clear that it was terrifying, "If I can still walk with you for the next eight worlds, then Of course it's fine. But if it doesn't work...it's my life."

This is also my life.

After being silent for too long, only such a sentence came.

Wen Zheliu nodded indiscriminately, then turned around without saying a word, and walked into the room.

"Baby, baby!" Unexplainable, He Qin was a little panicked, he hurriedly grabbed Wen Zheliu's hand, "Listen to me..."

"I don't need to listen to you!" The young man stared back at him blatantly, whether it was because of anger or panic, his body trembled, and his dark brown pupils trembled slightly, "I will find a way myself!"

He Qin didn't hold back, he strode his long legs, left him as fast as a real deer, and ran into the house.

He was unwilling to give up on himself, such a hypocritical and vicious person who was full of lies.

Thinking of this, He Qin couldn't help feeling a bit of bitter sweetness in his heart.He followed the young man's footsteps, unexpectedly seeing him half-kneeling in front of Marianne, holding the ticket in his hand, begging her for something.

"Get up!" His heart suddenly flared up, he pulled Wen Zheliu up, and then stared at Marianne viciously.

"My brother doesn't need to kneel to anyone." He clenched his teeth, his voice soft and poisonous, and the last words were like snakes whispering in the night, only Marianne could hear, "—especially people like you. "

Marianne turned pale again with fright, and she tremblingly said: "Your brother...he, he just asked me to..."

"I just asked her to write your name at the end of the ticket." Wen Zheliu pulled back his hand, and replied firmly. He took a deep breath, and when facing Marianne, his tone changed. Softened, "Is that okay? I'm willing to exchange Jenny's pendant."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and in the palm of both hands was a shiny old photo frame pendant.

But Marian just took a look, as if she was stung on the pupil by some poisonous pincers, she hastily opened her eyes sideways, and replied softly: "This is a gift from my sister, it already belongs to you, I can't want."

"Then..." Wen Zheliu was at a loss, he thought for a while, and said distressedly, "But I don't have anything worth exchanging with you..."

"It's okay, it's just a name." Marianne smiled at him comfortingly, and turned to He Qin, her tone became cautious and low: "May I ask your name?"

He Qin didn't think it would be useful, but he couldn't bear to refuse the opportunity that Wen Zheliu had won for him, so he replied with a half-smile: "He Qin."

What he said was not the player's name, but his real name.

"Can't write? Can't write, do you need me to teach you?" He Qin smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes.He leaned over, grasped Marianne's cold palm, and used his ring finger and thumb to control the movement of her wrist, teaching her to write "He Qin" stroke by stroke on the small ticket. Two Chinese characters.

Everyone else, including Wen Zheliu, had their player IDs entered by the system, so Marianne didn't have to bother about it, but to write real Chinese characters, according to her nationality and settings, it was much more difficult.

While writing, she whispered to He Qin: "I didn't insult your brother, so you don't have to reject me so much..."

"Although it is said that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil, not all evil deeds will be judged, can they?" He Qin interrupted her, his brows lightly raised, and his peach blossom eyes sparkled, "Why do you have to be judged so early in the morning? To see through the disguise in front of your own people, it is better to save some effort."

Marian's complexion turned blue, she opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything, and finished writing the name in silence.

He Qin straightened his body, and handed the small ticket to Wen Zheliu, with an extremely gentle expression on his brows, "Satisfied?"

Wen Zheliu took the ticket and walked out while muttering. He Qin crowded beside him like a clingy big cat, "Aren't you angry?"

Wen Zheliu lost his temper after being tortured by him, so he could only give him a sideways look and asked, "You have something against Marianne, why?"

Although he didn't hear the conversation between He Qin and Marianne, he could detect something sensitively based on his attitude.

He Qin didn't answer this question directly, he thought for a while, and said with a smile: "I will go with you when I get on the carriage. Before leaving, you bid farewell to Marianne and say something to her by the way."

"What?"

"'I know what you did, don't try to deny it'." He shrugged, "Just remember to say that."

That afternoon, the purchased carriage arrived as scheduled, and the players bid farewell to Marianne one by one. It was Wen Zheliu's turn at last. He hesitated for a moment. When embracing this cold-skinned ghost, he opened and closed his lips, but finally forgot. Keeping He Qin's advice, he said in a low voice: "...I know what you did, don't try to deny it."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the click of the lock being unlocked.Marianne's body trembled violently like an electric shock. She hurriedly pushed the boy away and fixed her eyes on him incredulously, but the coachman's whip cracked crisply in the air, and the wheels of the carriage turned immediately. Their eyes were momentary. They converged, and were soon staggered in the dense fog.

Wen Zheliu sat back in his seat, he asked He Qin suspiciously, "Why did you ask me to say this?"

He Qin raised a finger: "Shhh, look carefully."

The carriage was moving forward, at this moment, the system's female voice prompt suddenly sounded.

[Accomplish the achievement of customs clearance, and get rewards for watching the end cg. 】

"Hey, there's an ending animation?" Zhou Qing wondered.

The space in front of them was small, and the interior of the rickety carriage was gradually covered by the fog. When the fog cleared, what appeared in front of everyone was the beautiful town in 1740, Arlington.

"Isn't this back to the past?" Muto rubbed his eyes, "This is what the town used to be like..."

The old town is bustling and lively, and children are chasing and playing in the streets and alleys, making cheerful and playful sounds.The smell here is hot and humid, and the sweet fruity and fishy smell fills the nostrils. In front of a dilapidated house, they saw two blond girls who looked like twins, struggling to carry the jug.

"Marian, Jenny." Zhou Yao couldn't help saying.

Marianne walked ahead, older than her sister, delicate and thin, with blond curls that fell in strands from the white kerchief that bound her hair.

Behind her was Jenny, the radiant girl.Sometimes, human beings have to marvel at the magic of the Creator. Two highly similar faces only make the pupils of the other face clearer, the skin fairer, and the lips more rosy. The younger sister is more beautiful than her older sister. Very radiant and beautiful.

Marianne was jealous of her sister, no doubt about it.

Their father passed away very early, and only their mother lived with them.Jenny was the youngest daughter, and a very good one at that, and her mother was inevitably more pampering and loving to her, and more severe to her sister Marianne.The surplus money from spinning was used by the mother to buy Jenny's clothes, and she adorned her little daughter like a rose at dawn.

Marianne and Jenny grew up gradually, and they both admired the son of the rich businessman in the town, but this handsome young man only wanted to focus on Jenny, because she was the most beautiful girl in the town.

"...Wait," Du Zijun was smoking a cigarette, "This direction doesn't seem right?"

"This faint triangular breath... seems to have something wrong..."

The neglect of the mother, the indifference of the beloved, Marianne has lived under the light of Jenny for a long time, but day after day, silently carrying the water pot, going back and forth between the creek and the family.

Until one day, the new magistrate traveled thousands of miles and came to this remote town to take office.On the first day he came here, he brought his idle nephew and a group of young people who were also misbehaving and idle.

The residents of the town talked a lot about this, but after they became the guards of the town, this dissatisfaction was forced to become a whisper that they only dared to communicate in private.

Zhou Qing scratched his chin, wondering: "We already know all this, what's the use of letting us see this now?"

The pictures in front of everyone flowed rapidly, and soon came the second year, when the young believer girl was victimized.

There was darkness in front of them, except for the faint light of the fire flickering beside the straw pile.The obscene whistles and laughter of the drunks were piercing, and the white dress torn off by the young girl was flying in the wind. Her intermittent screams pierced the night and continued into the day.

The expressions on the faces of the players changed all of a sudden.

As soon as this incident happened, even though the priest protested angrily, the magistrate just raised it high and lowered it lightly.Seeing this, the priest had no choice but to leave Arlington overnight with his troops, leaving behind this small town that was like a paradise.

The atrocities continued, and everyone in the town was in danger. One evening, Jenny was really thirsty, but there was no water in the house, so her mother asked Marianne to take her to the stream across the town to fetch water.

Before leaving, Marianne suddenly said to her sister: "Honey, you haven't worn the new dress that your mother made for you during the day, have you?"

Jenny looked at her trusting sister ignorantly, and shook her head slightly.

Marianne smiled.

Her seductive smile was lost in the dim candlelight, she said softly: "Anyway, there is no one on the road, show me the clothes, okay?"

Jenny in her new dress was as dazzling as the moon. However, her light did not attract the eyes of admirers, but only brought her a humiliating death.

Except for He Qin, everyone was dumbfounded, a kind of Japanese impulse spread deeply from everyone's heart, Mu Tuo murmured: "I... Japanese..."

Wen Zheliu looked at He Qin dumbfounded: "You, you know again?"

"Until the last moment, never give up thinking," he said with a smile on his lips, gently sniffing Zheliu's head with his fingertips, "because secrets always appear in series."

Years passed like water, and after her mother died, Marianne had to bear the burden of the family alone. Fortunately, she was in a state where one person fed the whole family without hunger, and she struggled for a long time.

The dictator guarded the entrance and exit of the town, turning this small town with only a few thousand people into a closed miniature kingdom.Every night, women were forcibly dragged into the magistrate's mansion. Most of them became corpses lying horizontally, and were thrown out bloody from the gate in the early morning of the second day.Marianne prayed day and night about it, terrified that it would soon be her turn.

Gritting her teeth at night, she grips her hair, muttering complaints to the void.Now she thought of her sister who had died tragically, her mother who had passed away, and of herself who was helpless, and of the tragic situation she would face next, and finally couldn't restrain herself, crying bitterly.

——The player's eyes fell into darkness again.

An indistinguishable female voice whispered in Marianne's ear: "Lost lamb, why don't you fall into my father's arms? My father is as powerful as the sun and stars, and my father's brilliance shines like the moon. Write down the language calling for him, and come to a new shore Bar……"

A drop of black blood spilled into the River Styx, and a drop of molten silver shone in the corner of the Madonna's eye.

Marianne didn't know where to get the method of drawing the magic circle. With selfishness and hypocrisy, she summoned the soul of her sister's tragic death back into the world.

"Jenny, my favorite sister... Since your death, I have been thinking about revenge for you all the time. I am sorry for you, but you are my favorite relative. This magic circle can give you great power, let me come Guide you how to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye!"

As the day and night rotate, the players' field of vision suddenly rises, the scorched town, the corpses lying all over the ground, the body of the eyeless monster scurrying and looking around flashes by, and the eagle holding the golden tassel flag flies in an uproar, falling on the sparks and ashes. Among them, the lush illusion covers the field of vision and the world...

The magistrate's mansion was rapidly dilapidated and rebuilt in the passing of time. Countless tourists came and went, until the next frame was frozen, they saw their panicked figure and panting face running away.

Marianne watched them warily and slyly. She opened the door, turned sideways, and said softly, "Come in."

The sun rises and sets on the horizon, and the camera freezes at the moment when all the secrets are released and the souls imprisoned here for a hundred years dissipate into the sky.Facing the snow-white skeleton of her sister, Marianne couldn't stop the transparent tears from between her fingers and splashed onto the ground.

In the next second, the scene changed and stagnated, and everyone bid farewell to her one by one. Wen Zheliu saw himself on the screen, and he gently hugged this animal-faced woman, whispering in her ear: "I know everything you do , don't try to deny it."

The carriage rumbled away.

Marianne pursed her lips tightly, her face under the hood was pale and weak, she stared at the silhouette of the carriage disappearing in the thick fog, and the corners of her mouth slowly curved into a sarcastic and vicious arc.

She turned around, and the door of the mansion closed with a bang, shutting all the unknown past in silence and darkness.

As the breeze blew, a broken and curled golden flag with the eagle's title flew over the desolate ruins here, and flew into the high and boundless blue sky...

[Congratulations to the player Wendi, the first world has been successfully cleared, and the system is settling rewards. 】

[Clearance Type: Escape Mode]

[Evaluation of ending achievement: perfect]

[Your strength increases by 9 points, your stamina increases by 9 points, your agility increases by 10 points, your spirit increases by 9 points, and the upper limit of truthfulness increases permanently by 4 points]

[Items/equipment obtained during the mission: Jenny's Pendant (unknown level/inactive)]

[Complete the main task: 2/2]

[Complete side mission: 0/1]

[Complete hidden mission: 1/1]

[Unlock Story Achievement 1 Sharp Eyes Like an Eagle]

[Unlock the storyline achievement 2 to understand the meaning of the dog]

[Unlock plot achievement 3 omniscient all-seeing]

[There is only one truth to unlock personal achievement 1]

[Unlock Personal Achievement 2 The truth is not always only one]

[Unlock Personal Achievement 3 You two, just date and forget it]

[Rewards received: 5500 experience points, 23 gold, 53 silver, and 22 copper. The rewards have been delivered to your package. 】

[Rewards for props: ordinary iron rods, the rewards have been distributed to your package. 】

[You have unlocked all the story achievements in the first world, and obtained an extra item reward: secret black box b, and the reward has been distributed to your package. 】

[Settlement has been completed, I wish you a pleasant journey, goodbye. 】