The Invincible Dad of Online Games

"...Sorry, Mr. Pastor, I really can't remember." Louise was embarrassed.

It seems that there is no information to be obtained from this love brain NPC, Xiao Wenyuan shrugged and said nothing.But Fifth Lin seemed to have thought of something, and after a while of silence, he said to Xiao Wenyuan, "Ask her again... Has she seen any familiar faces in 'Hell'?"

"Yes, father and mother, and some old people who died in the village." Louise said.

"...The third mirror image is still a place like a mass grave, it's a bit creepy to think about it." Yang Rui complained in the WeChat group.

"There is one thing... This also shows that there is indeed a curse in Clark Village, which can be regarded as pointing the direction for players to solve the puzzle." Xiao Wenyuan nodded.

Fifth Lin frowned, as if thinking of something.

When dealing with Yiqi, everyone had chosen Gaoshan Village as their base, and they were very familiar with this village facing Liangyin Town.

The process of sending Louise to Jeremy's house was also very simple. It was still Wu Lin who went to talk to Jeremy's family to attract attention, and Yang Rui covered Xiao Wenyuan and put the box with the skull in his house In the corner of the yard; the box sank after touching the ground, and the ghostly beautiful girl possessed behind Xiao Wenyuan said gratefully, "I will always be with the one I love in the future", which seemed affectionate but thought carefully. If it is extreme... it floats behind the young NPC named "Jeremy" above its head...

"Wait...the next step is to 'uncover the secrets of Clark Village'?" After leaving Jeremy's house, Wu Lin was taken aback when he heard what Yang Rui and Xiao Wenyuan said in the WeChat group.

"Well, this branch line is much easier to do, Alisa gave a hint..." Xiao Wenyuan said that he wanted to read out the message in "Alisa's kindness", Wu Lin raised his hand to stop him.

"Don't read it... Either there is an ancient cellar hidden in the underground of a certain villager's house, or there is a dusty basement in someone's yard, right?"

Xiao Wenyuan looked at Yang Rui, "Yang Liu, have you told Fifth Brother?"

Yang Rui said inexplicably, "Ah, what did you say?"

"Needless to say...the reasoning can be deduced." Wu Lin paused, turned sideways and looked at the two with piercing eyes: "I think I have figured out the routine of this task. You are going to follow the steps, Or simply solve the puzzle directly? Let me remind you, if you follow the steps, the degree of completion will not increase much... This is a task that is interfered with the process and obtainable information by the advanced intelligent NPC, not only compared to the one arranged by the optical brain system The development of multi-linear branches is even more uncontrollable, and it may be used and teased by NPCs if it continues."

Yang Rui and Xiao Wenyuan never expected Fifth Lin to drop such a blockbuster out of nowhere, they were both dumbfounded, "Huh?"

"Fifth, speak human words..."

"Well, now the real time is past nine o'clock, Yang Liu, you want to log off at ten o'clock, right? If we want to solve the puzzles in this mission within tonight, we don't need to follow the branch line. Of course , The fun of solving puzzles lies in the reasoning process, I will uncover the mystery step by step, and you two can also try to solve the mystery, how about it?" Fifth Lin said and smiled at Xiao Wenyuan, "Also, Wenyuan, That advanced intelligent NPC should be uncapturable if I'm not mistaken, it's just that the NPC wants you to follow its routine and give you the carrot hanging in front of it."

"WTF?!" Xiao Wenyuan, a gentleman, suddenly swears.

"It's no wonder you were confused. It's because I didn't do the task with you, and I wasn't disturbed by those specially arranged processes, so I can see the problem clearly from the perspective of an outsider. Do you two have any opinions? If you don't have any opinions, let's start." !" Fifth Lin said honestly.

"I don't have any objections, but when you say this, I feel that the missions in this game are even more terrifying. Why do NPCs still talk about playing with players?" Yang Rui was completely confused.

"It can also be said to be a kind of inductive psychological warfare. It is not difficult for NPCs to do this...Yang Liu, do you still remember the task of dealing with rural nobles in the pastor's job change? The ordinary intelligent NPCs in the raid have this skill , or how many grand guilds are tossing hard at the completion of the dungeons. Wen Yuan, what do you say?"

Xiao Wenyuan was in pain: "...what else can I say, you said you deserve to be tricked and applauded by NPCs if you continue to follow the branch line, wouldn't you be stupid if you went to the dark all the way..." After a pause, he I still find it incredible, "I can also see that the process and difficulty of our mission have been changed, but this is...how can it be used by NPCs?"

"When you play this game, it's bad luck to underestimate NPCs..." Fifth Lin said meaningfully, "Let's not talk about high-level intelligent NPCs, ordinary intelligent NPCs have their own positions, and they will fight for their own interests and fight openly and secretly. ... Well, if I continue to talk about it, it will be a spoiler, so let me keep it a secret."

Yang Rui and Xiao Wenyuan were anxious to know the answer, and eager to try to reveal the answer in person, not to mention getting entangled.All the way back to Clark Village without saying a word, Fifth Lin gave the two of them a wink and didn't say much, and actually led them to join each other in the village.

There are more than 30 households, but Fifth Lin didn't go to every one of them. He just chose those with elderly NPCs. After entering the door, the topics of chatting with these villager NPCs were not very profound. How many people in your family? What kind of relatives, what are the children doing, how is life, etc., are almost the same as veteran cadres going to the countryside to condolences, making Yang Rui and Fifth Lin completely confused and even more confused.

After hanging around like this for about ten minutes, Fifth Lin led the two of them to Joseph's house again, turned around and smiled before entering the door: "Now do you two see anything?"

Xiao Wenyuan's eyes were dead: "I can see that you are so bored that it hurts."

"..."

Seeing Wu Lin coming to the door for the third time in a short period of time, Joseph's wife looked a little strangely at the mage; Wu Lin chatted with the housewife, and suddenly asked: "Ma'am , is your family adding a new member?"

"Ah, Mr. Mage, did you see it?" Joseph's wife laughed happily and touched her stomach happily. "Yes, my child is about to become an older brother."

Yang Rui and Xiao Wenyuan looked at the fat peasant woman's slightly thick waist with four eyes, and looked at Wu Lin with incredible expressions - how can this special meow be seen as a woman? Pregnant woman?

Fifth Lin chatted with the housewife again, and asked seemingly casually, "Madam, where did your family live before Joseph bought this yard?"

"The sour jujube forest to the west of the village..." Joseph's wife asked strangely, "What are you asking for, Mr. Master?"

Fifth Lin said solemnly: "Madam must have doubts about my multiple visits today, in fact..." He spread his hands to the two pastor companions, "My pastor friends think that this house is entwined with people from the house. The breath of the dark world, ma'am, please allow me to say something... this courtyard has been corroded by some kind of ominous force, if it is not purified, it may be harmful to the newborn baby."

"Oh, my God!" Joseph's wife screamed in fright, "Mr. Master, Mr. two pastors, please help me and our unborn child!"

"Of course, ma'am, that's why my pastor and I have visited you many times." Fifth Lin said without changing his expression, "During the purification ceremony, the hidden darkness in this yard will emerge from the shadows, Please avoid it for now with your children."

...Yang Rui and Xiao Wenyuan were both stunned, and Wu Lin coaxed the owner of the yard out...

"Hey, hey, you two, don't look at me like a family salesman, my behavior is at least based on the fact that I really don't want to make money." Fifth Lin glanced at them, "Besides... The next movement is not acceptable to the resistance of this civilian NPC."

"Fifth brother, you said that you would reveal the secret step by step, and let Yang Liu and I try to solve the riddle..." Xiao Wenyuan swallowed, "But if you can solve it, it's called hell!"

"Okay, then I will give you two more hints. There is no doubt that you have lost a lot of opportunities to obtain correct information during the mission." Fifth Lin turned to face the two, stretched out two With a finger, "The first and most obvious point is that Joseph lived in the original Louise's house after last year's Harvest Festival during the game time. Then, where did he and his family live before?"

"It's not the sour jujube forest in the west of the village... huh?!" Xiao Wenyuan felt wrong just after saying something, "Wait a minute—the six farmers we visited just now, the immediate and collateral relatives of these families almost cover the entire village. The people in the village, the four families on the other side of the jujube grove, don’t seem to be related to Joseph’s family? Eh?! Let’s put it this way... Although Joseph said that his grandmother lived in Clark Village, but this closed small The villagers in the village are basically related to each other, but it seems that Joseph's family is not related to anyone!" At the end, Xiao Wenyuan yelled directly.

"Don't forget about it, Wen Yuan. The villagers are familiar with Jack and Harley's family, but they are not related to Jack and Harley's family. If you continue to think about it, the source of the residents in this yard all the time It's worth pursuing, isn't it?" Fifth Lin laughed, "If there are no high-level intelligent NPCs intruding, then the normal task flow should be that Joseph's wife and children are pretended to be dead to put psychological pressure on the players. But in your During the mission, the advanced intelligent NPC covered the entire Clark Village with this illusion, so that you never interacted with other villager NPCs, is there any hidden problem here?"

Even Yang Rui understood it, and said in disbelief, "That is to say, the residents of this courtyard have always been 'outsiders'?"

"Let's put it this way...every ten years, a family with a daughter or a daughter who is about to give birth moves in. Not only did the villagers not suspect...these families even thought they were local villagers in Clark Village." Xiao Wenyuan swallowed He spit out, "It's a big hole! This plot is hidden deep enough, and this weird horror stalk can be made into a movie!"

Yang Rui, who is used to watching Thai ghost movies, felt a little cold, and hissed: "According to this formula, it means that a family with a daughter lives in this yard to make offerings to the century-old female ghosts Sally and Alyssa. tribute?"

"With my demonstration and reminders, I should be able to think of these basically." Fifth Lin smiled and said hurtful words in a friendly tone. Then he looked up at the ceiling and calculated the layout of the house to find out. Stand still in one place, raise your hand and point upwards, "This is the second reminder. This location is facing the center of the attic. If the player in the mission breaks this floor, what strange development do you think will happen?"

Xiao Wenyuan stared blankly at the ceiling for a while, then turned his gaze to Wu Lin stiffly: "Fifth brother, do you want to say that the female ghost Sally... is actually in this room?"

"You can still think of this, Wen Yuan." Fifth Lin nodded in praise, "Obviously, after releasing the mission, I deliberately disappeared with the dawn before your eyes... and gave you the night when Sally was only in the game." Then, inferring from the opposite direction, is it possible for Sally to return to the village after possessing the player like Louise in the ghost state?"

"Hehe..." Xiao Wenyuan smiled weakly, "If you ignore the interference and look at this task calmly, it is indeed possible. In the game steps, Louise also hinted to the player as a ghost... The person on the mission got two more reminders than Yang Rui. Before she met me, Sally moved with Joseph. After she met me... as long as I was within her line of sight, she would stare at me like a curse. I, then..." he complained very angrily, "according to the best trigger for this task, it should be picked up by a girl who plays a priest. Using such a malicious task to scare girls, planning to have sex with female players Have a grudge?!"

"I want to be fair. Men and women feel the same fear when watching horror movies. Female gamers may not be scared out of their minds if they do it." Fifth Lin gave Xiao Wenyuan a stab at him calmly. .

"..." Xiao Wenyuan was speechless for a while, and said weakly, "Then I don't need you to remind me step by step, fifth brother, I have already guessed... Anyway, maybe Yang Liu is the one who discovered this first." He looked at Yang with a wry smile. Rui, "Yang Liu, do you still remember what you said when you saw Alisa?"

"Uh...these two girls' resentful spirits are similar to light and shadow?" Yang Rui thought for a while, "Just like Aretha from Silent Hill."

"This is what I misled you. I first asked about the relationship between Alisa and Sally." Xiao Wenyuan continued to smile bitterly, "You forgot, you still have the second half of the sentence."

"I mean, I think they both look like the dark side..." Yang Rui's expression changed after he finished speaking, he was not stupid, and he was not frightened like Xiao Wenyuan, "...Uh, I am Just say it casually, don’t tell me what you said again, right?”

Xiao Wenyuan raised his hand and threw a reading spell on the top of his head, and the floor blew open a gap the size of a washbasin, and the dust rustled down; he performed a purification technique to disperse the dust, and the three of them could Take a clear look at the gap in the floor that exploded... Just like a creature bleeding from an injury, a viscous pure black liquid slowly dripped down...

The three watched silently as the black liquid pooled on the floor, more and more, and then vaporized and distorted into a human shape, revealing a child's skeleton.

"'Sally' will disappear at dawn, and 'Alyssa', who showed her original shape in front of us, insists that she can't get out of the forest. The purpose of doing this is to play two roles for one person." Xiao Wenyuan had a toothache He said, "I was very cooperative and asked about the relationship between Alyssa and Sally... I guessed that they are twin NPCs or something, and we came up with our own brains, tsk tsk..."

"...Tet Meow is so curious, this mission." The corners of Yang Rui's mouth twitched.

"Earn a loss and gain a wisdom. In the future, it is enough to understand that intelligent NPCs are hard to deal with." Fifth Lin said calmly.

They chatted lively in the WeChat group on the external network, but Alisa—or, the female ghost Sally couldn't intercept any information; this advanced intelligent NPC was forcibly exposed in advance and stood in place for a while. The three players kept moving their mouths, but they didn't feel any sense on their side. They couldn't help it slowly, and their skulls turned to look at Xiao Wenyuan.

Xiao Wenyuan switched the voice back to the game, with a straight face: "We have seen through your tricks, Sally."

The female ghost Sally was startled, the bones made a sound, and she staggered back a few steps.

"Don't get angry, be rational, Wen Yuan." Fifth Lin persuaded, "This is an intelligent NPC, it's easy to kill, but you have to speak well to complete the task."

"Let me come." Yang Rui stood up, "Sally, you can interact with us, you don't have to be a female priest, do you?"

The skeleton of the female ghost Sally groaned again, "Adventurers, are you... unwilling to help Sally?"

"Of course we are willing to help you, but you can't play with us like this, can you?" Yang Rui is still patient with children, but he is not willing to be taken advantage of.

An ordinary NPC might not be able to understand such player-like words, but Sally is an advanced intelligent NPC with an independent intelligent calculation template, so she can understand this, "Sally, I'm sorry... Sally just wants to get help." .”

"Yangliu." Fifth Lin stopped Yang Rui in the WeChat group, "Don't rush to agree."

"How to say?" Yang Rui stopped the interaction first.

"As I said before, ordinary intelligent NPCs will fight for their own positions, not to mention this kind of advanced intelligent NPC." Wu Lin gave him an analysis, "From the perspective of your mission, the original purpose of the mission should be The category of 'breaking the curse' and 'destroying the curse' is to let the player stand on the opposite side of the NPC Sally, and let the player go through different side tasks to destroy or imprison Sally."

"Obviously, the NPC Sally is not willing to be the one who loses, so she wants to promote the progress of the player's side plot by changing the task flow, and change the ending of the main line to something similar to 'get rid of the curse' so that the player and Sally stand side by side. to a purpose on one front."

"We are still unable to determine the specific form of the curse of this village, and I can't give you any advice on the choice and trade-offs, so you have to be cautious. The choice of missions in this game will affect the player's 'camp'. You who came to Wild Wolf Village should be impressed by this setting, right?"

Yang Rui was really impressed with this game setting, not to mention the unlucky wolf village he experienced, he was also happy to see the post of the player who accepted the younger brother for the demon "Queen", Immediately nodded solemnly at Wu Wulin, "I understand."

Then Yang Rui looked directly at Sally and said seriously: "Before we choose whether to help you, you must be honest with us. Tell me, did you kill Louise?"

"No." Sally shook her head.

Yang Rui stretched out his hand to hold Sally's bony palm and shook it, "Okay, help me."

Fifth Lin slipped, and Xiao Wenyuan also staggered.

"Yang Liu——If Sally is the big villain, we won't be able to do this mission and it will be unfinished!" Xiao Wenyuan cried in the WeChat group, "Have you forgotten how she tossed people in the mirror world? The soil-eating girl, Timing, should be hung up for her!"

Yang Rui looked at Xiao Wenyuan strangely: "Didn't you all say that this is an intelligent NPC with no combat power, it's no surprise that he can't compete with others in terms of IQ, so it's so strange to lose."

"Uh." Xiao Wenyuan choked on him.

"Besides, Sally is also the NPC who issued the mission anyway. How can the big villain find someone to yell at her? According to the urine nature of this game... the mission she gave is either a path of tragedy or something that must sacrifice herself I choose to believe in Sally compared to the sleazy mission planning of the bloody plot." Yang Rui is straightforward.

"..." Xiao Wenyuan couldn't refute his thinking, and even vaguely felt that it made sense, so he said dryly, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

So...the three of them put on a three-trial posture for the female ghost Sally, and it was Yang Rui who came to ask her about the nature of the curse in this village.

"Curse, is this what it looks like in the eyes of adventurers?" The female ghost Sally was much more honest, and she sat on the small bench obediently and confessed, "I may be what you think is a curse, but the meaning of my existence is an altar."

Wu Wulin and Xiao Wenyuan's expressions changed when they heard the NPC say the word "altar".

"Hmm..." Yang Rui didn't understand, so he simply asked Sally, "What do you mean?"

The bones of the female ghost Sally rang again, and she stuttered again: "I am... the altar to suppress the souls of Kangna Village, and the villagers in Clark Village are the cover to cover up the existence of my altar. And... like Like Louise, the girls who will become my family in a few years are tributes placed on my altar."

"I have been guarding here for hundreds of years according to my father's order." The female ghost Sally said tremblingly, "If I can survive by chance, I must do my best to maintain it. Secrets must be carried into the abyss.”

"...that is, you do the work, and you take the blame." Yang Rui complained.

Xiao Wenyuan looked at Fifth Lin: "It matches our previous speculation. To get rid of this curse, we must at least deal with enemies at the noble level."

"The ones with this kind of skill can only be noble NPCs." Fifth Lin frowned, "But...it's not easy, the family that can make an altar of this scale is not small, use the player's ability to deal with the real For the nobles who have gained power, it is quite challenging at present."

"Uh..." Yang Rui asked carefully, "Then can this task still be done?"

Fifth Lin looked at him, "Do you want to do it?"

Yang Rui pointed at Sally, "Look, she's such a poor girl... Little Skeleton, isn't she?"

Fifth Lin was as kind as a spring breeze, "Then try it, it doesn't matter if you don't succeed, at worst, go to another main city to develop."

Xiao Wenyuan stared blankly at Wu Wulin, no matter how slow he was... he also realized that Wu Lin treated him differently from Yang Liu.