This NPC really has a problem

A team of city guards suddenly approached the dilapidated and simple residential building, opened the door and barged in, searched for nothing before leaving.

Bai Zhu leaned against the window, looked out through the small window that was only a little bigger than his face, and waited until the city guards walked away before saying: "You guessed it right, someone really came to make a surprise inspection at night."

Lu Ren said: "I won't give up if I don't catch the two of us to the city lord's mansion and the Holy See, let alone I 'tricked the corpse' and ran out of the cathedral today."

They settled down at the young man's house tonight, and did not turn on the lights, and the city guards did not realize that the person they wanted was upstairs above them.

The real owner of the room was tied up and laid flat on the ground, with a towel stuffed in his mouth.Although he didn't know if the NPC would catch a cold, Lu Ren thoughtfully covered him with a quilt.

"A bad news," Bai Zhu said, "I can't contact Xu Yan and the others."

Because they split up, they exchanged their progress through mobile phones. When Bai Zhugang and Lu Ren escaped from the cathedral, they sent a message to Xu Yan, and Xu Yan also replied to him, saying that he and Chen Jin had sneaked into the City Lord's Mansion.That was the last time they had a conversation, after which Baizhu's news disappeared.

I don't know if it's because Xu Yan couldn't find time to reply, or...or he couldn't reply anymore.

Lu Ren also said: "We must be prepared for them to log out."

"The best case is that they succeed." Bai Zhu said, "The keys of the city lord and head maid are with them. If they log out before they succeed, we may not be able to take back the keys."

"Go out tomorrow morning and check the situation," Lu Ren comforted him, "We can only trust them now."

While talking, he had almost made the bed, and said to Bai Zhu: "Go to rest early, tomorrow we will go find the girl's real lock."

Bai Zhu hummed and left from behind the window.

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The next morning.

When Lu Ren opened his eyes, Bai Zhu had already gotten up and left. They had a good rest last night, and Bai Zhu woke up much earlier than usual.

Lu Ren didn't see Bai Zhu who was sleeping next to him, but met a pair of red-rimmed eyes instead.

Lu Ren: "..."

The young man looked at him with red eyes and accusing eyes.

Lu Ren coughed lightly, his eyes wandering: "Did you sleep well yesterday?"

After being tied up and put on the cold floor overnight, even though he was covered with a quilt, he didn't sleep well.

The young man didn't speak - because his mouth was still gagged.

Lu Ren hesitated for a while but still did not take out the towel from his mouth, he was worried that the young man would call for help and attract others.Last night he directly knocked out the young man because of this concern. The young man is just an ordinary citizen of the City of Reflection. He honestly uses the key to lock the evil thoughts. Lu Ren doesn't think that the young man will not report them if he can act. .

"I'm sorry." Lu Ren honestly admitted his mistake.

The youth looked hurt.

Lu Ren promised: "I will let you go when everything is over."

The young man said "hmmm" twice, but Lu Ren didn't guess what he wanted to say, he just gave the young man a guilty look, got off the bed after getting dressed and left.

Lu Ren found Bai Zhu on the small balcony outside the door.

Bai Zhu raised one hand so that the fingertips could shine in the sunlight.He doesn't have to worry about being seen by others. When he first came here, it was very lively outside the house every morning, but now it is extremely depressed.

Hearing the sound of the door opening behind him, Bai Zhu turned around and leaned forward to kiss the corner of Lu Ren's mouth.

Lu Ren is now very used to Bai Zhu's little intimacy, and he didn't show any abnormality.

"I went out to inquire about the news during the day." Bai Zhu said, he woke up an hour earlier than Lu Ren today, and took advantage of this time to inquire about something, "The city lord and the head maid should both be dead."

Lu Ren said: "There seem to be fewer 'living people' in the City of Reflections."

"Actually, they died a long time ago." Bai Zhudao, "It's just that the magic circle maintains the illusion that they are alive. When the magic circle is destroyed, more and more people will die and return to their original state."

In this game, the City of Reflections is called "Dead City" by people outside the city.

When the last formation eye is also destroyed, the City of Reflections will really become a veritable dead city.

"Now there are only the bishop, the girl and Father Lu Ren left," Lu Ren said, "Do you have any guesses about their corresponding real locks?"

Bai Zhudao: "The bishop and the girl still have some ideas, but the priest's real lock really doesn't have any ideas."

Lu Ren nodded in agreement. Even though he had been Father Lu Ren for a while, he still couldn't think of what his real lock would be.

"Let's deal with the girl first." Lu Ren suggested, "If there is no accident, her real lock should be in the small building."

The real lock is generally near the virtual lock.

The girl's usual whereabouts are strange, and her fixed foothold is the small building with a small courtyard in the slums.

Lu Ren and Bai Zhu were very careful when they went there, for fear of disturbing the people inside, but to their surprise, the small building was empty, and the girl and the priest didn't know where they went early in the morning.

After confirming that there was really no one inside, Lu Ren and Bai Zhu searched with confidence.

Engraving the magic circle somewhere in the house is something that girls are likely to do.Lu Ren could feel that the girl was different at home and outside. Although the difference was subtle, the girl was indeed more relaxed at home. She didn't have a fake smile on her face all the time, as if she only showed some self here.

Lu Ren and Bai Zhu searched all over the small building but couldn't find the real lock engraved with the magic circle, and the sun gradually rose, and the time approached noon step by step.

Lu Ren put down a chair and said thoughtfully, "Maybe the magic circle is on something that cannot be built together..."

His eyes fell through the window and fell on the wall of the small courtyard.

The fence is covered with unknown vines, which wither in winter, leaving only a snake-like trunk, and as the footsteps of spring approach day by day, there is obvious greenery on the wall.

Bai Zhu was downstairs, when Lu Ren came to the balcony and called him: "Bai Zhu, look at the fence under the vines."

Bai Zhu reacted quickly, strode forward a few times and tore apart a vine.

Under the vine is a nick nearly one centimeter deep—it is the magic circle.

Lu Ren ran downstairs, and together with Bai Zhu tore all the vines off the wall, a complete magic circle appeared in front of them.

He looked around and found a hoe in the corner. There were some plants growing in the small yard, and the hoe should be a gardening tool.It's just that it obviously hasn't been used much, because there is no soil to be turned with a hoe in the small yard, and the top of the hoe is obviously rusted.

Lu Ren tapped it on the wall to make sure it was still working.

As soon as he swung the hoe, the gate of the small courtyard was opened. Lu Ren swung the hoe down without even looking at anyone.

The material used to build the fence was not considered strong, and cracks appeared after a few strokes.The moment the girl saw this scene in the small courtyard, she rushed towards Lu Ren, but Bai Zhu who was standing by the side broke the key immediately.

The real lock, the virtual lock, and the key are closely related. They had guessed before that any damage would affect the other two.

As expected, the girl's expression changed, and she gritted her teeth to prevent herself from falling directly to the ground.

Kara -

The cracks in the wall grew wider and larger, and finally gave way after another blow from the hoe.

The girl fell to the ground, staring fixedly at the key broken in two by Bai Zhu.

"I should have found out sooner... You guys came prepared." The girl coughed, "I said why the old man who rang the bell suddenly destroyed the clock, and turning it off wouldn't change anything at all. In fact, at that time he had already Have you got the key?"

"You didn't enter the City of Reflections by mistake, you came to the City of Reflections specially with the key!"

Bai Zhu didn't answer. In a sense, they did come with a purpose.

But this purpose is to clear the game that NPCs cannot understand.

He may have to add one more goal - to fall in love with his boyfriend who has temporarily become an NPC in the game.

Lu Ren looked at the girl, then at the hoe in his hand, hesitating for a long time.

To be honest, killing the girl brought him a bit of psychological pressure. It would be fine if the girl had the appearance of a monster, but she happened to have the appearance of an ordinary girl.

A hand suddenly gripped the wooden handle of the hoe.

Lu Ren glanced at Bai Yi in surprise, not knowing what he was going to do.

Lu Ren was completely defenseless against Bai Zhu, and easily let Bai Zhu snatch the hoe from the girl.

Holding a hoe, Bai Zhu approached the girl step by step.

Lu Ren felt that his state was not right, so he softly called his name: "Bai Zhu..."

Bai Zhu didn't respond.

The girl looked up at Bai Zhu approaching her, as if she had fully accepted her ending, she didn't beg for mercy, and she didn't look away, she just watched the hoe quietly.

The rust on the hoe turned dark red against the light, like coagulated blood.

Shadows fell over her.

At the moment of death, a trace of unwillingness appeared in the girl's eyes.But that trace of unwillingness quickly disappeared without a trace, leaving only a daze.

Half the field of view is taken up by the color of blood, and the other half falls into a few vibrant greens.

The fence had been demolished, rubble crushed the vines.But they still grow well, and they seem to do so in the future, even if they are left unattended, they will continue to grow tenaciously.

A few leaves raised their heads and swayed in the wind.

"Bai Zhu?" Lu Ren stepped forward and grabbed Bai Zhu's wrist.

He saw that Bai Zhu's lifeless eyes suddenly became bright, and he seemed to wake up from a long dream, and his consciousness came back bit by bit.

Turning your head slightly, you can see Lu Ren's concerned eyes: "Are you okay?"

"...I'm fine." Bai Zhu frowned, "I seemed to be controlled by the system just now."

Seeing the girl's body lying on the ground, Lu Ren quickly understood the official intention of the game.The game company is in a hurry to be banned so that players can kill with their own hands in this extremely realistic holographic game. At least when the relevant regulations and mechanisms are not perfect, the game official chooses to let the system complete this behavior.

Bai Zhu threw the hoe aside.

The girl's eyes did not close even after she died, she was fixedly looking at the ruins of the wall.

Until the end, they didn't know the girl's past. They could only guess that she was the leader of the believers of the evil god in the City of Reflections, and wanted to overthrow the rule of the believers of the good god. Father Lu Ren gave her the key stolen.

At the end of her life, what was she thinking about?

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