This NPC really has a problem

The Clock Tower is perhaps the most striking building in the City of Reflections.

The City of Reflections is built on a plain with no rolling hills around it, and you can only vaguely see the snow-capped mountains when you look far away.Standing on the top of the bell tower and looking down, the buildings below are extremely small, like small houses made of building blocks.

If you look closely, you can still see the city dwellers walking on the street, which are small dots in your field of vision.

If you are afraid of heights and dare not look down, you can also take a look at the sky rendered by twilight.Standing here, I even feel that I am much closer to the sky, and the clouds dyed pink by the sunset seem to be within reach.

It's a great place for a date.

Before climbing up the bell tower, Bai Zhu said that the City of Reflection must be very beautiful from above, but when he reached the top of the bell tower, his attention was only on Lu Ren.

Unknowingly, Lu Ren got used to his gaze, even if he was stared at for a long time, he would not feel strange.

Lu Ren couldn't take his eyes off the City of Reflection for almost a moment. Looking at the bustling city below, he felt a sense of pride spontaneously.

Once they could only build a small library, but now they can build such a lively city.

He couldn't help but want to share his joy with Bai Zhu, but when he turned his head slightly, someone bit his lip lightly.

The person who was attacked blinked, but did not react.

Bai Zhu licked it and then separated, as if just to taste the taste.Against the backdrop of the magnificent cloudy sky, the lover in front of him was stunned, his eyes widened slightly, his eyelashes looked like butterfly wings about to flutter, Bai Zhu said inexplicably, "It's very beautiful."

I don't know what I'm talking about.

Lu Ren echoed blankly: "Sunset glow is very beautiful."

Bai Zhu bent his brows and eyes without revealing anything, and his whole body stuck to Lu Ren's body like a boneless one. Lu Ren didn't mind supporting him, and leaned on the railing to point out to Bai Zhu the mirror lake, the central square, the city lord's mansion, etc. There are places where they live now.

"This place is just like the real world." Bai Zhu said in a low voice.

Lu Ren also replied softly: "Maybe for people in a certain era in the future, this is the real world."

The boundaries between virtual and real are not necessarily immutable.

When technology continues to advance, when people's senses cannot distinguish the difference between the virtual world and the real world, and when living in the virtual world becomes a habit, is that world not a real world?

Lu Ren's thoughts were suddenly interrupted.

There were clear footsteps coming from the corridor leading to the roof.

"Someone is coming up." Bai Zhu looked back.

His identity as an outsider is a bit subtle in this dungeon, and Bai Zhu couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

If you want to get to the top of the bell tower, you have to walk. The bell tower is a building with an area of ​​only about [-] square meters. Its center is completely empty, except for the roof. There are no other floor divisions. A spiral staircase spirals up to the top floor. .

The steps going upstairs are not fast, but they are very steady.Climbing such a high building is obviously exhausting, but those who go upstairs are obviously used to it.

The white hair first appeared in Lu Ren and Bai Zhu's eyes.

It was obvious that the person who came was an old man. When his whole face was exposed, Lu Ren realized that this person was much older than he imagined.There was a bell ringer in Father Lu Ren's memory. The priest had a very vague impression of him. It is said that the bell ringer had been ringing the bell for decades, from young and strong to very old.He was like an invisible man in the cathedral. Few people remembered his name, and they didn't think of his existence until they heard the bell ringing, as if the bell rang out of nowhere.

The moment he saw the old man, Lu Ren thought that this person was the bell ringer. It seemed that no one was more like the bell ringer of the City of Reflections than him. He was old and silent, like a building. The top black bell exudes a heavy atmosphere.

The bell ringer was stunned when he saw Lu Ren and the others, as if he hadn't thought that the top of the bell tower, which was never visited by anyone, would be visited today.

But then he saw Lu Ren's face clearly, his eyes widened in an instant, and he stared at Lu Ren, as if he was not a living person in front of him, but a ghost that shouldn't exist in the world.The old man clenched his teeth tightly, and his hands clenched into fists hanging by his side trembled.He suddenly let out a deep roar, and rushed towards Lu Ren.

Everything happened in a matter of seconds, Lu Ren was stunned, he retreated subconsciously, but the cold railing behind him told him that there was no way out.

The bell ringer was obviously aiming at Lu Ren. The moment Bai Zhu realized it, he pulled Lu Ren behind him, and stretched out a hand to easily block the rushing old man.

In front of a strong young man, the old man is like a light piece of paper, and Bai Zhu, who is waiting for the battle, never thought that the old man's strength would be so light.

The bell ringer is tall, like a big tree that is dying of old age. The appearance still retains the burly body of the prime of life, but the trunk is empty.

Lu Ren supported Bai Zhu's shoulders, and raised his head slightly from behind him, trying to comfort the old man: "...can you calm down? We can talk about something."

Isn't the clock tower not allowed to come?But in his memory, there was no such rule in the cathedral.

Hearing Lu Ren's voice, the bell ringer fell silent unexpectedly, but his eyes still refused to move away from Lu Ren. He looked at Lu Ren with complicated eyes, as if he was nostalgic, but also seemed to be With hatred, after Lu Ren opened his mouth, he was even more at a loss.

He opened his mouth and made a whoo-ho sound.

Only then did Lu Ren realize that the old man was actually a mute.

No wonder he uttered roars that were hard to understand before, and he didn't say a word.

Lu Ren tentatively asked, "Can you hear me?"

It should be audible, the old man was still quiet after he spoke just now, although he didn't think the old man would listen to him at first.

The bell ringer nodded, raised his hand and began to gesture, which seemed to be sign language.

Lu Ren... Lu Ren couldn't understand at all.

His eyes soon became even more dazed than the old man's, and so did Bai Zhu.

None of the two people in front of him could understand what the old man meant, and the old man couldn't help becoming anxious.

Most of the space on the roof was occupied by the giant clock, and the old man was pacing back and forth in the small space, which made Lu Ren tremble with fear.The old man gave him a very unstable feeling, as if he would go crazy again in the next second and rush over.

Bai Zhu was also very nervous by him. He felt uncomfortable with the hand by his side, so he simply put it in his pocket.

He was so hot that he shrank his fingers suddenly.

Bai Zhu froze for a moment, stretched out his fingertips, and carefully touched the hot object in his pocket again.

The key...is it hot?

The quest props that seemed useless since he got them suddenly appeared abnormal, Bai Yi suddenly realized something, and looked at the anxious old man in front of him in astonishment.

The author has something to say: a thing that is puzzling.

When taking the CET-[-] exam, I wrote the translation as an essay, but I had done the real test before the exam, so I knew what the translation looked like, and I also knew what the composition looked like.

However, during the exam, I sincerely regarded the translation as a composition.

Woooooo, I was so stupid to death.