This NPC really has a problem

The screams of the old woman were covered by the shouts in the square. The townspeople cheered and waved their fists high. Among them, Lu Ren, who kept his head down, was undoubtedly a different kind.

However, at this moment, no one pays attention to the people around them.

The cries gradually weakened, and the screams could not be heard at that time.Lu Ren looked up at the scorched body on the stake, and quickly averted his gaze.

The death of the old woman does not mean the end of the ceremony, and the ceremony continues after the fire.Under the auspices of the city lord, workers from the city lord's mansion distributed melons and fruits to the city residents, musicians took off violins from their backs, young men and women danced arm in arm, and laughter echoed over the square.

And the charred corpse hadn't even been lowered from the stake.

□□, the scene in front of me is too magical.

Lu Ren was speechless, he refused the melons and fruits offered to him by the youth around him, and left the square silently.

……

Lu Ren didn't quite know which street in the City of Reflections he was walking on, and he didn't think about it.He spent a whole day walking around most of the City of Reflections.

The production team spent more effort on this city than the sum of the other six dungeons combined. It basically has the size of an ancient city with thousands of permanent residents.The houses in the slums are the most dilapidated and the smallest in the city, but it is also the most densely populated place in the City of Reflections.Outside the slums, most urban residents can own a house of their own, with religious decorations on the house.

Lu Ren once saw the patterns on the decorations on the sacrificial robes of the clergy.

Everywhere you look, everyone is so friendly.When Lu Ren cast his eyes on a certain citizen, the citizen would smile back with kindness.Children playing on the street will be looked after by strangers, pedestrians will help elderly people with disabilities avoid passing carriages, residents will bring tea to patrolling city guards, and even stores and customers are desperately thinking about each other when buying and selling.

This is a beautiful world that feels unreal.

However, whenever Lu Ren thought of the old woman who was burned to death and the absurd people in the square, this beauty seemed strange, and even the smiles on the lips of the townspeople seemed to have a sinister aura.

Lu Ren didn't pay attention to the stone at his feet, stepped on it and staggered a bit.He steadied himself quickly, and a passerby who walked past him held him up.

"Are you okay?" the pedestrian asked him with concern.

Another passer-by also stopped: "My clinic is just ahead, if you are injured, you can go to me and get some medicine."

Lu Ren declined their kindness: "No need, I'm fine."

That's it.

As long as you show a little need for help, people who are doing different things around you will put down their work to help a stranger.

The smiles on their faces are always standard, and what they do is always beyond reproach.Before seeing these people, Lu Ren would feel that being an absolutely kind person is not bad, but after seeing them, he no longer thinks so.

People are always different. The difference between people is not only reflected in appearance, but also in character. People's faces may be the same, but people's thoughts cannot be the same.

However, the thoughts of the citizens of the City of Reflections seem to be exactly the same.

It doesn't look like a living person, but rather like a machine produced on an assembly line.

……

Time passed without knowing it.

Lu Ren stopped suddenly, looked up and saw clouds in the sky.

It was already evening at this time, and he came to the edge of the City of Reflections, the city gate was only a hundred meters away from him.

The heavy city gate was closed and locked, and there were no city guards around.

On the day of the festival, most of the city residents will not work, and even the city guards are off.Thinking about this city, it seems that there is no need to defend it. People in the city don't want to go out, and people outside the city don't want to come in.

Lu Ren suddenly wanted to climb up the city wall to have a look. He was looking for a way to climb the city wall, but he saw a small figure on the city wall.

It seemed to be a girl, her back was facing Lu Ren, because of the light, Lu Ren could only see the outline of a dark human body.

When Lu Ren finally climbed to the bottom of the city, he couldn't find the girl.

Lu Ren lingered on the city wall for a while, and also stopped to look at the scenery of the field in the distance. The sky gradually darkened, and when only the distant sky could still see the sun, Lu Ren planned to leave the city wall.

At this time, he seemed to hear someone knocking on the city gate. Because the distance was too far, the sound sent by the evening wind seemed to be broken.

Lu Ren lay on the edge of the city wall and looked down.

The people under the city wall only knew how to knock on the city gate but did not raise their heads until Lu Ren called one of them by name, and that person raised his head.

After seeing that familiar face, Lu Ren felt a lot lighter after a heavy day. Lu Ren raised his eyebrows and waved to him.

"Wait a minute," Lu Ren shouted at Bai Zhu, "I'll see how to open the city gate." The lock on the city gate is false and cannot be opened outside the city, but people inside the city can easily remove it , Lu Ren opened the city gate in almost no time.

He was embraced by the young man who rushed over.

Lu Ren rubbed Bai Zhu's hair, buried Bai Zhu's head on his shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry, I came in a little late because there was something going on outside."

"It's okay, it's just..." Lu Ren hesitated for a moment.

Bai Zhu: "Huh?"

Lu Ren wanted to raise his hand to cover his face: "I realize I'm hungry."

The nutrient solution maintains his physical needs in the real world, but he still feels hungry in the game.

Lu Ren hadn't eaten anything for almost ten hours.

Before, he was thinking about things endlessly and never paid attention to them. When he saw Bai Zhu's wandering soul returning to his body at that moment, he finally noticed the protest from his stomach.

……

The night market in the City of Reflections is more lively than the morning market.

During the day in the middle of the month, people go to the central square to participate in the festival, and at night people come to the night market together.On both sides of the street are small stalls next to each other. In the distance, someone is playing the piano, and there is a girl dancing in front of a stall.

Lu Ren and the others found a barbecue stall in the corner, where there were many empty tables.

"It's so caring, so caring." Chen Jin sighed, holding the fruit plate presented by the boss and sitting on the empty table farthest from Lu Ren and Bai Zhu.

Xu Yan nodded in agreement, and took away three napkins that he didn't expect to see at the barbecue stand.

"I won't bother you guys anymore." Zhong Changya said and took away the lemon juice as a gift.

"This barbecue stall...has a lot of gifts." Bai Zhu coughed lightly.

Lu Ren responded vaguely, his eyes fixed on the lines on the table.

It’s as if the light bulbs consciously left space for the young lovers when they were dating. Although they were happy in their hearts because of what their friends did, they couldn’t help being ashamed on their faces.

In the end, Lu Ren couldn't help but speak first: "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Although Bai Zhu didn't say it clearly, Lu Ren had already noticed that Bai Zhu had something on his mind from his hesitant eyes.

"There is one thing..." Bai Zhu hesitated, "Then what, you, you should make mental preparations first?"

Lu Ren sat up straighter.

"Didn't I say that I have something to do outside..."

Bai Zhu's eyes wandered: "I told my family about me and you."

Lu Ren: "..."

Lu Ren: "???"

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