This NPC really has a problem

Bai Zhu just wanted to get up, but froze in place because of the girl's words.

The girl looked at him with her chin resting on her shoulders, her eyebrows and eyes bent.It seems that she didn't say anything important just now, she was just joking with her friends in an ordinary way.

Bai Zhu stared into her eyes: "What do you want to say?"

The girl didn't answer his question, but frowned slightly, as if she was thinking about something that made her feel a little distressed.

"Have they gone to the City Lord's Mansion?" Although she was asking a question, the girl's tone was extremely certain.

Bai Zhu looked at her unkindly, and asked again: "What exactly do you want to say?"

"Don't be so hostile to me." The girl sighed, "Maybe in this city, I'm the only one who will help you.

……

Time passed minute by minute.Lu Ren, Bai Zhu and the girl sat on both sides of the same table and were in a stalemate. To be precise, it was just a one-sided standoff between the two. The girl took a sip of milk tea from time to time, and the cup bottomed out before she knew it.

She looked relaxed and comfortable, sitting on a slightly higher chair, shaking her calves boredly, and occasionally hummed a few small songs.

"Hey!" The stall owner called out to them, "I'm going to close the stall here!"

A slightly higher voice suddenly broke the stiff atmosphere, Lu Ren and Bai Zhu stood up together.

The girl tilted her head to look at them for a while, then suddenly laughed and jumped off the chair.

Lu Ren and Bai Zhu walked out side by side, and the girl followed closely behind them.

The girl's steps are small, but brisk, and she hops a little when she walks, just like a child.

"Where are you going, where are you going?" She was also a little like a child when she was talking.

Walking to a certain corner, Lu Ren suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The girl poked her head out from behind them and looked in, only to see that after turning this corner, there was a deep alley.

"There is no one else here," Lu Ren asked with downcast eyes, "Can you tell us who you are?"

"Of course," said the girl, "but... who are you?"

The night wind was blowing, and the heat brought by milk tea and snacks was carried away, leaving only the biting cold.The position they are standing in is especially bad, the wind keeps blowing towards them.

But no one thought of leaving.

"Obviously you are from the City of Reflections, how can you know people outside?" The girl looked at Lu Ren and asked in puzzlement, "Obviously... I have never noticed you before."

Lu Ren said, "I haven't noticed you either."

The girl stared at Lu Ren silently for a long time, as if she was thinking about something.

She suddenly burst into a smile: "I understand."

Lu Ren didn't know what the girl understood, the bad thing was that he didn't understand anything.

It seemed that an important matter had been resolved, the girl's expression became relaxed, and she kicked the stones by her feet back and forth.

"For outsiders, the City Lord's Mansion is not a good place." The girl smiled, "But they have no choice now."

"What's in the City Lord's Mansion?" Lu Ren asked.

"Things that make people no longer human." The girl said, "If you can't find a place to go, you can go to my place first."

When the girl said this, her eyes only fell on Bai Zhu.

"No need." It was Lu Ren who answered her, and Lu Ren grabbed Bai Zhu's wrist and pulled him behind him, "It's good that he stays with me."

"Ah," the girl smiled slightly, "Residents of the City of Reflections really don't need to think about this matter."

"Are you heading in the direction of your house now?" she asked. "If I remember correctly, this road just leads to the slums."

Lu Ren didn't answer her.

"Tomorrow is Saturday, a special day." The girl said, "We will meet again, maybe tomorrow we can have a more pleasant conversation."

She didn't say any more words, she turned around after she finished speaking, and walked in the same direction as when she came and went.Looking towards the end of the road, you can still vaguely see the lights of the market.

It seems that it can still be burned for one night, as long as people want to, people will stay up all night on the night of the festival.

Gradually, Lu Ren could only see a vague figure from the back.

The back figure was indescribably familiar, he thought about it for a long time, and suddenly realized that it was the figure he saw on the city wall.

The plot that deviated because of him may be back on the right track at this moment.

Bai Zhu stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Lu Ren, only then did Lu Ren regain his senses.

"Thinking about what?" he asked.

"It's nothing, let's talk when we get back." Lu Ren shook his head, took Bai Zhu's hand, and walked into the deep alley.

……

After returning to Lu Ren's residence, Bai Zhu realized that what Lu Ren said before was not an exaggeration at all, his room was so small that it would be difficult for another person to squeeze in.

Lu Ren groped on the wall for a long time before he found the light cord. After pulling it down, he heard two clicks. The light turned on tenaciously for two or three seconds and then went out. The room fell into darkness again.

Lu Ren: "..."

Bai Zhu: "...can you repair lamps?"

Apparently, no matter how full Lu Ren's life skills were, he couldn't fix such an old antique. Bai Zhu turned on his phone to illuminate him. He searched through the boxes and finally found three candles from the box.

Only one of the three candles was intact, and the other two were only half as good as the one that was intact.Lu Ren didn't find the candlestick, so he tried to put the candle directly on the table, but it fell down as soon as he put it on. He didn't fix the candle on the table until he found a match to light the candle and dripped the wax.

Candlelight filled the room, and Lu Ren's current residence was truly barren.

Lu Ren opened the closet and took a look, then said to Bai Zhu apologetically: "There is no extra quilt, you can only sleep with me tonight."

He was worried that Bai Zhu would not be able to bear the harsh living conditions, but he was very happy knowing that there was only one quilt for Bai Zhu.As if he was afraid that Lu Ren would find another quilt that could be covered, he threw himself on the bed first, hugging the only quilt on the bed, wishing he could roll.

Bai Zhu shrank back consciously, and left half of the bed inside to Lu Ren, saying, "I'll sleep outside, so I won't let you fall off."

Lu Ren said helplessly, "I rarely change my sleeping position, but you should be careful not to fall."

Will not.

Bai Zhuxin said, I will definitely cling to you.

Lu Ren shrank into the quilt after taking off his coat.Instead of lying down to sleep, he sat on the head of the bed, writing in a battered notebook.

"That person is really strange." Bai Zhu said looking at the dilapidated ceiling.

Knowing that he was referring to the girl he met at the market, Lu Ren answered him while writing: "She should be the NPC who escorted you, but I cut her off."

"Even so, it's weird." Bai Zhu said, "She seems to know a lot of things, but she refuses to say it outright."

"After all, it's a game, so I can't tell you the answer at the beginning." Lu Ren said.

Bai Zhu turned over, looked at Lu Ren's face from the bottom up, and asked, "What are you writing?"

"Who is the lock?" Lu Ren stopped writing and asked Bai Zhu, "Did you get a travel note in the second copy? Is it with you now?"

Bai Zhu shook his head: "Xu Yan found it, and kept it with Xu Yan—is there any problem with the travel notes?"

"I was there when Xu Yan found the notebook, and I read some of the content. The author of the travel notes wrote that he wanted to enter the City of Reflections, but he couldn't pass through the closed city gate. After shouting several times, something appeared on the city wall A girl, the girl asked him if he wanted to come in." Lu Ren said, "When I was under the city wall, I saw someone on the wall, but when I climbed up, the person disappeared. Now that I think about it, the outline of that person is similar to ours. The girl I saw at the market was very similar."

If it wasn't for Lu Ren's lack of confidence in his own memory, he even wanted to say it was exactly the same.

Bai Zhu was startled, and said hesitantly, "But that travel note was written many years ago..."

"Yes," Lu Ren nodded, "The time is not quite right."

"Then are they alone?" Bai Zhu asked.

Lu Ren pondered for a while, and finally said: "It's hard to say."

They still know too little now. Although there are already many problems, there are no clues to solve the problems.

"I'll see you tomorrow." Lu Ren said, "With a lot of contact, you can always know the answer."

Bai Zhu still remembered what the girl said before she left, but he didn't understand.

He asked Lu Ren: "Is there anything special about Saturdays in the City of Reflections?"

After Lu Ren wrote down a noun in his notebook, he put the cap back on the pen and put down the pen completely.

"Every Saturday in the City of Reflections is the day when the priests of the Holy See distribute food to the poor in the slums." Lu Ren replied.

……

The atmosphere in the slums on Saturday was different than usual.

Today is a sunny day, but the slums are unusually quiet.The hustle and bustle of the past could hardly be caught at this time. Many people opened the door and sat by the door, waiting for the priest of the Holy See to arrive.

The occasional chatter was deliberately lowered.

"Why did you leave without telling me yesterday?" Lu Ren pushed open the door, and heard an aggrieved voice above his head, "I've been looking for you for a long time, but I can't find anyone."

Lu Ren looked up and saw the young man lying on the railing looking down at him.

In this copy, the young man is not only his neighbor, but also his only friend, and the two are almost inseparable.However, these are all dungeon settings, the real Lu Ren is not lively, his indifference yesterday may have broken the young man's heart.

"I'm sorry." Even though the other party was an NPC, Lu Ren felt a little guilty and could only apologize.

The young NPC was very coaxing, and he had a bright smile on his face after a while.

He wanted to pester Lu Ren for a chat as usual, but he only uttered one syllable and stopped abruptly.

He saw a young man about his age coming out of the door behind Lu Ren.

"Hey...you are?" The young man stared blankly at the person who came out of the room.

The man looked like he hadn't woken up, because he was not in a good mood when he got up early.He looked up at the young man upstairs and looked away disinterestedly, stretched out his arms to wrap around Lu Ren's waist, rested his chin on his shoulder, and made a vague sound like he was acting like a spoiled child in his throat.

The young man blinked, feeling as if he hadn't woken up.

The author has something to say: I changed to another writing software, and after copying it, I found that the typesetting was different from what I was used to...

It feels okay, so I won't change it.