This NPC really has a problem

Lu Ren opened his eyes, and what he saw was the dark ceiling. The ceiling was so low that he could clearly see the waste paper stuck on it even when he was lying on the bed.

He sat up from the bed and seriously considered whether his head would touch the ceiling if he stood on the ground.

Looking around, I saw that I was in a cramped bedroom.The bedroom is so small that the furniture in it is crowded together, even if there are only three pieces of furniture in the room - a bed less than 1.2 meters wide, a desk with a crippled leg that needs to be padded with bricks, and a pitiful dog A wardrobe tucked in the corner.

There were still some sundries in the room, most of which were put in a few wooden boxes that had been stuffed in at random. The lid of one wooden box was not closed tightly, and Lu Ren saw the exposed corner of the bowl and chopsticks.

It seems that his current status is quite embarrassing.

On the table, Lu Ren saw the clothes folded the night before. The clothes were washed and faded, but they were still in good condition.There are no chairs in the bedroom, the table is next to the bed, and the small bed takes over the role of chair by the way.There were two wooden boxes under the table. When Lu Ren opened one of them, he saw that there were clothes neatly placed inside, but unlike the clothes on the table, most of these clothes had patches.

There is also a small window next to the desk without curtains.Lu Ren looked out of the window and saw pedestrians walking on the narrow road, also wearing shabby clothes.

The sound insulation in the bedroom was poor, and the noise from the outside poured into Lu Ren's ears.

Maybe it can no longer be called a bedroom.

Lu Ren reasonably suspected that he only had such a room in this dungeon.

It was okay when he was lying down, but once he sat up Lu Ren felt a pang of hunger.After getting dressed, he got out of bed and searched the room for a while, but found nothing to eat, only a few pitiful coins, which were only enough to buy him food for a day.

In this dungeon, Lu Ren knows some sporadic settings about this NPC. The reason why he knows so little is because the settings of the NPC itself are very thin.

In this dungeon, he is a complete passerby.

Lu Ren walked to the door, twisted the handle and pushed the door open. The sunlight pouring into the room made Lu Ren subconsciously close his eyes.

The uproar was clearer now. Even with his eyes closed, Lu Ren could still feel the pedestrians coming and going in front of him, talking and laughing as they walked in front of him.There were still people setting up stalls on both sides of such a narrow street, and the cries of the stall owners mixed with the chatter and laughter of passers-by, and it was a blur in Lu Ren's ears.

Standing in the crowd, Lu Ren was at a loss.

It was the first time that Lu Ren was surrounded by a large number of NPCs in the game while having real memories.

Everything around him was incompatible with him, Lu Ren frowned uncomfortably, and opened his eyes to look around.

Suddenly a shadow was cast overhead.

A voice came from above: "Lu Ren, are you ready to go to the festival?"

Lu Ren looked up and saw that the house he came out of had three floors, and each floor seemed to be as big as a small room.The owner of that voice was lying on the railing on the second floor and talking to him with his head bowed.

Lu Ren didn't remember what the word meant for a while: "Sacrifice?"

The person who spoke was a young man who looked bright and sunny. He looked at Lu Ren and said, "It's rare to see you put on this suit. Don't you want to participate in today's ceremony?"

He smiled: "Yes, after all, the festival this time is different from the past."

The thinking mode of ordinary NPCs in the game is not complicated, and Lu Ren is not at all afraid of saying something wrong to make NPCs suspicious."What's the difference?" he asked.

The young man wondered: "You didn't know? You just caught a believer of an evil god two days ago?"

Lu Ren was taken aback for a moment.

The plot of the previous dungeon gave him a certain idea of ​​the City of Reflections. It was a hundred years ago that the priest escaped from the City of Reflections. At that time, the Holy See of the City of Reflections had already locked the evil thoughts of the citizens with keys.Even if there were believers of the Evil God who resisted at that time, after so many years, the believers of the Evil God should no longer exist.

Lu Ren knew too little information at the moment, so he really didn't know what was going on in the City of Reflections.

Lu Ren decided to go to the festival first.

The festival hosted by the city lord in the middle of the month is an important event in the City of Reflections, and it was mentioned in the meager information that Lu Ren obtained.The ceremony was held in the central square of the City of Reflections. Lu Ren found the next direction and set off.

The young man jumped down from the second floor, followed Lu Ren a few steps, and asked as he walked, "Where are you going?"

Lu Ren said, "I'm going to attend the ceremony."

"Don't go in such a hurry, the ceremony will start in a while." The young man said, "Let's go there together."

Lu Ren didn't care that there was a native of the City of Reflections by his side, and let the young man follow.

The place they were in before was a slum in the City of Reflections, and the roads inside were intricate. Lu Ren accidentally walked into a dead end several times, and finally it was the road led by the youth.

"You can't remember where you went." The young man said casually, subconsciously wanting to grab Lu Ren's hand.

Lu Ren put his hands behind his back reflexively.

He was not in the mood for love before, so he didn't care about the slightly intimate behavior of the same sex before, but now he wants to avoid suspicion.

The young man looked back at him strangely: "Are you sleepy?"

Lu Ren pursed his lips: "You just need to walk ahead, I won't lose you."

The NPC is very big-hearted, and he doesn't feel that his good brother has been dropped.

After following the young man through several alleys, Lu Ren finally came to the main road.There are two centers in the City of Reflections, one is the mirror lake, and the other is the central square.The slums are closer to the central square and can be reached in a short walk along the boulevard.

When they came to the central square, the ceremony had not yet started.

"They came so early." The young man couldn't help but said.

Although the ceremony hadn't started yet, the central square was almost full of people.

The crowd surrounded the burning frame, which was specially elevated, so that even if Lu Ren and the others stood on the periphery of the crowd, they could easily see the scene on the burning frame when they looked up.

I saw an old woman tied to the stake. She was so thin that she looked like a thin piece of paper. Even if she was bound by chains, she would be blown away by the wind.

The young man gasped in surprise, "I've seen her before."

Lu Ren asked, "Who is she?"

"Haven't you seen her? She lives not far from us." The young man said, "It's just two alleys away, and sometimes she will come to us to sell vegetables."

The young man said with emotion: "It's really unexpected that she will be a believer of the evil god."

How does Lu Ren feel, how does this frail old woman look like nothing.

He asked the young man, "How do others know that he is a believer in evil gods?"

The young man seemed to be asking a lot of gossip, and quickly replied: "Someone found out that she hid the key given by God. Only believers of evil gods will hide the key."

Lu Ren generally knew about the key.

Every citizen of the City of Reflections must participate in the ceremony held by the Holy See to lock up the evil, and then throw the key into the tomb of Mirror Lake.After all, a key can be used to lock and unlock the lock, and no matter what, the key cannot be kept with the city residents themselves.

But those who keep the key...are they really believers of evil gods?

Lu Ren looked up at the old woman.

For a moment, he seemed to see tears in the old woman's eyes, but under the sun's exposure, the tears disappeared in an instant.

"How long has she been tied here?" Lu Ren murmured.

"I was tied up the day I caught it." The young man said, "I haven't found a believer of the evil god in the city for a long time."

One could faintly hear the whispers of the surrounding people, and the townspeople were pointing and pointing at the old woman, as if this elderly woman was really a heinous person.Lu Ren was not feeling well, and even had the thought of leaving, but as soon as the thought arose, he heard heavy footsteps.

A group of city guards came from a distance.

A carriage was guarded by them in the middle of the procession.After seeing the city guards, the crowd spontaneously gave way.

The carriage stopped in the distance, and a majestic middle-aged man got out of the carriage.

Lu Ren heard someone whisper, "It's the city lord."

The city lord walked all the way to the stake.

He turned his back to the stake and faced the crowd, thanking the city residents for coming to today's ceremony.Lu Ren heard him say meaningless words for more than ten minutes. He was talking about the City of Reflection, the work of the City Lord's Mansion, the life of the city residents, and the festival.

"However, what makes me sad is," the tone of the city lord suddenly changed, becoming cold and serious, "I didn't expect that there would be a follower of an evil god among us."

The square was silent, only the voice of the city lord could be heard.

"God gave us the key, let us lock the evil in our hearts, so that the prosperity and peace of the City of Reflections can be found today. But there is an evil lackey dormant in the dark, she hid the key, trying to destroy the harmony of the City of Reflections "The city lord said loudly, "Belief in evil is unforgivable, and only flames can eliminate a trace of sin!"

Someone in the crowd echoed loudly.

"No...no, I'm not..." The numb old woman on the burning rack seemed to have finally returned to her soul at this moment, she shook her head desperately, and shouted, "I'm just afraid of becoming like other people, I just ……I just……"

She seemed to be stuck, and she couldn't get the words out of her mouth no matter what.

It wasn't until the torch was raised high that she struggled and shouted: "I am human! Why should a key determine my soul!"

No one paid any attention to her defense.

Two guards held up a white shroud to cover her head, and then wrapped her up layer by layer, covering her whole body.Another guard poured a bucket of oil on the old woman after the shroud was wrapped.

The torches fell.

The flame instantly ignited the dry grass above the firewood, and the flame on the dry grass spread to the firewood again.

The old woman screamed, and she turned into a living person in an instant, and the old woman's sharp cry came from the flames: "What kind of living people are you! You are all puppets of the key!"

However, the flames made her scream very quickly.

Lu Ren lowered his head, unable to bear to look again.

The flames lasted for a long time.