This NPC really has a problem

The moon is in the middle of the sky, but the heat of the market still does not go down.Although the city guards of the City of Reflections were also on holiday on the day of the festival, there were still some city guards patrolling the periphery of the market spontaneously.

A city guard dressed as a team leader leaned against a pillar, drinking a bottle of wine slowly while talking with the stall owner at the side.He didn't pay attention to the movement around him until someone

A man came up to him and called him.

It was a young man in his early 20s, and the team leader had never seen him before, so he couldn't help showing a slightly puzzled look on his face.

He quickly thought that this was a strange townsman he had never seen before, and naturally thought that he needed to ask him for help, put down the bottle and asked, "Hello, what can I do for you?"

The young man hesitated for a moment, and was pushed from behind by his friend before hesitantly said: "...we are from outside the city, may I ask... do you have a hotel here?"

The captain was taken aback for a moment, and then he noticed that the young man had two companions, a man and a woman, and he immediately showed a friendly smile: "There is no hotel in the City of Reflections, but the City Lord's Mansion has rooms specially for outsiders. You know that the City Lord Where is the government?"

The team leader didn't wait for the young man's answer, and continued by himself: "Let me take you there."

It wasn't until Xu Yan and the others left with the team leader that Lu Ren and Bai Zhu emerged from the shadows in the corner.

The idea of ​​revealing the identity of an outsider and directly contacting the people in the city was put forward by Bai Zhu.Bai Zhu pulled Lu Ren to sit down at the food stall on one side, ordered two more drinks, and watched the backs of his companions disappear from sight while holding warm hands.

"Is it really okay to let the three of them go together?" Lu Ren asked uncomfortably.

The security there is quite guaranteed, but it is hard to say whether the whole army will be wiped out after going to the City Lord's Mansion.There are a total of six locks to be opened in this dungeon, and Lu Ren has not made a decision before, whether it is better to act separately or together.

Their current situation is equivalent to being divided into two teams, one for Xu Yan and one for Lu Ren and Bai Yi.

"My mistake," Lu Ren sighed, "I let you go to the city and disrupted the dungeon process. You should go to the city by yourself."

He didn't think too much about it at that time, after seeing Bai Zhu and the others, he just wanted to open the city gate and let them in.

Thinking of the figure on the city wall seen under the city wall, he probably caused a missing link in the dungeon.

Lu Ren once asked Zeng Ge what to do if there are players who just don't follow the plot. Zeng Ge told him that the system will automatically correct the plot and bring the deviated plot back on track.Some small deviations are easy to correct, and the larger the deviation, the more difficult it is to correct. If it is really outrageous, then the plot will indeed fail to continue.

It's not that you can't pass the level, but the difficulty of finding the key will increase a lot.

For Lu Ren, it meant that it was much more difficult for them to find the lock.Moreover, his identity in the City of Reflections is just a passerby, and he doesn't know any core clues.

Lu Ren was blaming himself, when suddenly warm fingers stroked the center of his brows, loosening his frown.

"If you frown all the time, you will get wrinkles." Bai Zhu said.

Lu Ren had never considered this kind of problem, he was silent for a while and said, "It will be fine in the game."

"Where is Mr. Lu outside?" Bai Zhu asked, the three words came out of his mouth, inexplicably more teasing.

It was the first time that Lu Ren heard someone call him so indecently.

But it was already an established relationship between the two parties, and Bai Zhu was so unreasonable and confident.

Lu Ren thought about it seriously.

Then he realized with some reluctance: "I seem to be quite worried."

Who makes friends around me bigger than each other.

But in Lu Ren's eyes, maybe everyone other than himself needs to be taken care of.

"Will it be very hard?" Bai Zhu withdrew his hand and lay down on the table to look at him.

"It's okay," Lu Ren shook his head, "I'm used to doing this all the time."

How did you form this habit?

For Lu Ren, this is not a difficult question to answer.

He was said to be well-behaved since he was a child, but only Lu Ren himself knew that he also had a headstrong side, he would act like a baby unscrupulously, and he was the only person in the world who would tolerate him unconditionally.

The moment he heard the news of his parents' death, he knew that his little willful power had been lost.

Lu Ren's family was poor, and his parents left him little, but his life was not very difficult.The perfect social security system covering the seven galaxies has also benefited him, not to mention well-behaved children are always very cute.

The teacher at the school was the first to know the bad news about his family. Maybe he accidentally said something while chatting with others. Suddenly, Lu Ren found that everyone around him knew about it.Lu Ren had never had any enemies with others, so no one would use this incident to attack him. Instead, he was taken care of by others in everything.

Lu Ren only felt terrified.

He began to become quieter and more obedient, doing his best to help those around him and not causing trouble to others.

The people around him were kind to him, but those kindnesses were like apples without roots. Lu Ren didn't dare to have extravagant hopes, and the kindness of others could be easily withdrawn.

"I should comfort you at this time," Bai Zhu said in a low voice, "but I suddenly realized that my mouth is too stupid."

Lu Ren shook his head slightly: "That's good."

It is very easy for him to be with Bai Zhu. Bai Zhu will always express his thoughts directly, which makes him not afraid of ignoring his lover's feelings.Lu Ren knew that he was not an active person, but no matter in words or actions, Bai Zhu was telling him that he could stay where he was and he would come over.

……

The signature drink of this food stall is a kind of milk tea. The taste of milk is not very strong, but the taste of tea is more obvious.Bai Zhu ordered some more snacks, mostly dairy products.

The two stalls next to each other sell dairy products and the other sells wine. The same thing is that they are very quiet. When the team leader talked to the stall owner next door, he deliberately lowered his voice.

It was late after all, the central area of ​​the market area was still lively, but there were fewer and fewer people on the edge.Unknowingly, Lu Ren and Bai Zhu became the only customers of this food stall. After the stall owner cleaned up the kitchen utensils, he wiped his hands and sat down on a nearby chair.

At that time, Lu Ren and Bai Zhu were eating in silence without talking, and the stall owner couldn't help talking to them: "I don't think I've seen you two?"

Bai Zhu's expression changed, but most of his body was turned away from the stall owner, who didn't notice.Lu Ren smiled at the stall owner and said, "I live in a slum area and rarely come here."

"Oh," the stall owner nodded clearly, without showing the slightest disdain because the other party was poor, "I also lived there when I was young, but my father took me out after earning a little money. .”

People who rely on their own efforts to improve their lives are always admirable.

Lu Ren said: "Your father is an excellent person."

The stall owner laughed twice: "You're too much for the prize, actually, I don't think there's anything wrong with living in a slum."

Lu Ren didn't quite understand: "Most people want to leave, right?"

How can anyone be willing to spend their lives in poverty when they have the opportunity to live a better life?

"How is it possible?" Unexpectedly, the stall owner showed a surprised expression, "Everyone has their own place. Isn't the life of the poor living in the slums not good? How can they have a reason to leave?"

There was only one thought in Bai Zhu's mind: this is all a mess.

He didn't say that, Lu Ren's thoughts were no different from his.Lu Ren did not directly refute the stall owner's words, but asked, "Have you thought about opening a shop?"

The stall owner didn't understand: "Shop?"

Lu Ren said: "There are restrictions on setting up stalls in the city, anyway, shops are more profitable."

Hearing this, the stall owner shook his head vigorously: "It's not very good for me to open a small stall, why should I open a shop?"

This is a stagnant society.

Lu Ren lowered his eyes.

There is no mobility between classes, the people in the ghetto live in the ghetto forever, the people who set up the stalls always set up the stalls, everyone stays in their own class, and they are unwilling to leave even if they have the opportunity.

But after thinking about it, his conclusion has many loopholes.

After Lu Ren thought about it carefully, he found that no poor people had ever moved out of the slums in his memory, and according to the stall owner, he was taken away from the slums by his father who earned money.

At the age of the stall owner, that was about four or fifty years ago.

Did anything special happen four or fifty years ago?

Lu Ren's mind went blank.

Assuming that a major event that he didn't know happened four or fifty years ago, which solidified the class in the City of Reflections, then how did such a society survive in four or fifty years?

Lu Ren can't read sociology books, and he feels sleepy when he reads them. But thinking about it with the thinking of a normal person, he finds the current harmony in the City of Reflections incomprehensible.

The stall owner probably thought that Lu Ren and what he said were weird, so he found an excuse to leave without talking to him a few words.He hadn't walked a few steps before someone stopped him: "Boss, have a cup of milk tea!"

The speaker was a girl of fifteen or sixteen, her hair was tied into thick braids hanging behind her head, and she was wearing a long colorful dress. Her cheeks were red and her forehead was sweaty. She looked like she was at a dance in the market center just now. leave.

"It's already closed." The stall owner said, he didn't want to dig out the tools he had arranged again, and he couldn't bear to reject such a beautiful girl, and added, "I still have a glass of extra cooking here, but it's already gone." It’s not too hot, do you want more?”

"Yeah," the girl nodded, "Thank you boss."

She paid the money, took the cup from the stall owner, and sat next to Lu Ren and Bai Zhu's astonished eyes.

The young girl's attitude was as natural as if she and these two young people were good friends. After puffing her cheeks and inhaling a third of the milk tea, she greeted them with a smile: "How are you guys?"

"Uh," Lu Ren said uncertainly, "How are you?"

How strange this girl looked, Lu Ren was not sure if this was an ordinary NPC.

After taking that big gulp, the girl's speed slowed down, her gaze didn't stay on Lu Ren for long, and soon fell on Bai Zhu.

I watched it for a long time.

After a while, Bai Zhu felt uncomfortable. The girl's eyes made him feel very uncomfortable. It seemed that she was not looking at a real person like herself, but at a beautiful toy in the window.

Although exquisite, toys are just toys after all.

Just when Bai Zhu wanted to drag Lu Ren away, the girl suddenly tilted her head and asked, "Where did your three companions go?"

The author has something to say: I really want to fish...

But if you dove again, the year of the monkey and the month of the monkey will end.

Woo woo woo I want to be good.