This NPC really has a problem

After tidying up the girl's courtyard, Lu Ren and Bai Zhu left.

After another hole was cracked, the slums obviously changed.Lu Ren and Bai Zhu walked side by side on the road, and felt that the surroundings were lifeless. When they passed by an open yard, they saw a woman lying motionless on the ground, with an overturned basket beside her, and everything in the basket was scattered. come out.

Lu Ren quickened his pace, Bai Yiyi didn't understand what he wanted to do at first, until a familiar building appeared in front of him.

—their original residence.

Lu Ren quickly ran up to the second floor and pushed open the door.

He ran in a bit of a hurry, and he didn't pay attention when he pushed the door. The door hit the wall with a loud bang, which made people worry whether this seemingly weak door would retire early.

The person sitting at the table leaning against the leg was startled and stared at him blankly.

Lu Ren: "..."

Lu Ren looked at the young man with his mouth wide open in an "O" shape and couldn't help falling into silence. He didn't expect that the young man had pushed out the towel that blocked his mouth with his tongue while he was away.

It seemed that he was using the edge of the table leg to break the rope binding his hands, and he didn't know how far he was trying.

The young man looked at him and broke down a bit: "You, you, you...don't come here!"

He looked terrified, and Lu Ren didn't know what to say for a while.He really wanted to check the situation of the young man when he came back. After all, with the current level of damage to the magic circle, there might not be many living people left in the City of Reflections.

I didn't expect the young man to be so lucky.

Looking at the silent friend, the young man couldn't help thinking, and said pitifully, "You won't knock me out again, will you?"

Lu Ren asked: "If I don't knock you out, and don't restrict your freedom, will you tell us about our whereabouts and report us to the city guard?"

The young man thought hard for a long time, and finally closed his eyes with difficulty: "I think... I should do it."

Almost all the citizens of the City of Reflections will not lie, under any circumstances.

Lu Ren sighed, he knew it would be the answer.

The young man said aggrievedly: "What on earth are you trying to do... I was frightened to death when the city guards came to ask me about your whereabouts. They said that you colluded with people outside the city and are believers of evil gods. I didn't believe it at all. .If it's a misunderstanding, I can accompany you to explain it to them. Don't run away, let's explain it together, shall we?"

The young man looked at Lu Ren almost beggingly.

Lu Ren looked at the young man and shook his head cruelly.

"I have something to do." He said so, but he didn't tell the young man what it was.

Even if he said it, I am afraid that the NPCs in the game would be difficult to understand. Maybe it would be difficult to understand just seeing him talking to NPCs.

Maybe it's because he has also been an NPC for a long time, maybe it's because these NPCs are too realistic... It's hard for Lu Ren to treat them as pure cold data.

Lu Ren sat down in front of the young man, directly on the floor.

The floor was cold, but after he was "resurrected", his body was no different from a corpse except that he could move and think. Maybe his body was colder than the floor.

Lu Ren looked into the young man's eyes and asked, "What would you do if you found out that you were dead, but someone weaved a dream that you were still alive, and there were other things manipulating you?"

"Would you like to wake up from your dream?"

Waking up means dying.

The young man stared blankly at Lu Ren, as if confused by him.

How can a young man who is always nervous think about such a strange question.

Lu Ren quietly waited for his answer.

After a long time, the young man said hesitantly: "If I don't know it's fake in the dream, just keep lying to me... Even if I'm actually dead, but I feel like I'm still alive, it's no different from being really alive. ..."

Lu Ren nodded.

To Lu Ren's surprise, the young man continued, "But I don't want to be manipulated by others. If others control me to do what I think, then am I still me?"

Lu Ren was taken aback for a moment.

The young man looked at Lu Ren eagerly, and wanted to ask the teacher to praise his child after answering the question.

Lu Ren rubbed the young man's furry head.

"Are you hungry?" he asked.

It was noon, and the young man hadn't eaten since he knocked him out.

The young man nodded vigorously.

The topic was easily diverted.

Lu Ren fed the young man food and water, and when the young man thought they had reconciled and tried to persuade Lu Ren to surrender again, Lu Ren beat him unconscious mercilessly.

Putting a new towel into the young man's mouth, and changing the rope that bound his hands, Lu Ren reckoned that this time the young man would not even try to break free for a day.

When he went out, he saw Bai Zhu hanging on the railing of the small balcony boredly, and when he heard the footsteps, the expression on his face instantly became vivid, and he turned his head and waved at him.

"What's for lunch?" Bai Zhu asked briskly, "If there are not many people alive in the slums, does that mean we can go to other people's homes to find food?"

The foraging range suddenly expanded.

Lu Ren readily agreed to the proposal: "Didn't we pass by a vegetable garden before? We can cook something hot to eat."

The most they eat these days is bread.

Wherever the lock is, the magic circle there seems to be maintained by that lock.

So after the giant clock was destroyed, the area beside Jinghu Lake was the first to become chaotic, and after the girl's death, the slums were the first to be affected.

Lu Ren and Bai Zhu searched through half of the slums and found no more than a hundred living people.

The slum area is the most densely populated place in the City of Reflections.

They even felt like they were walking in an empty city.

Lu Ren and Bai Zhu, the woolen NPCs, had no sense of guilt, and took a basket full of vegetables to the girl's house after a while, intending to borrow her kitchen.Not every household in the slums has a kitchen, and bread is cheap here, so most poor people eat these things to survive.

Bai Zhu couldn't help asking the question he had asked before: "What do you like to eat?"

Lu Ren's answer didn't change: "It's all right."

He said it's okay, then it's true, it's okay, Lu Ren has never been picky about food.

"Is there always something you like most?"

Lu Ren thought about it for a long time, and then found that he was really easy to be satisfied.

"……It will be all right."

……

The girl is dead, and the priest is nowhere to be seen.

Lu Ren and Bai Zhu, who couldn't find the priest, could only choose to go to Bishop Lanna first, but they didn't even see the bishop until dark, so they had to go back to the young man first.

Early the next morning they went to the cathedral again.

After leaving the slums, the number of pedestrians on the side of the road increased obviously. A few areas from the slums to the cathedral were not deeply affected, but not completely affected.

Everyone that Lu Ren saw showed panic that could not be completely concealed.

Some people chose to stay at home behind closed doors in an attempt to escape bad luck, while others took to the streets to seek comfort from the clergy.

The clergy of the Holy See are almost in full force.

Perhaps because of the particularity of their profession, the ideals they receive after the magic circle is destroyed are not as deep as ordinary people, and they retain more power.The city guards were not so lucky. After the death of the city lord, the power of the city lord's mansion collapsed.

Clergy can be seen everywhere trying to appease the people, but the bishop never showed up.

Someone also asked about the whereabouts of Bishop Lanna, and the priests gave the answer that the bishop was praying for the City of Reflections in the cathedral.

Lu Ren felt that this was probably not the main reason. Bishop Lanna's purpose should be to protect himself and his corresponding virtual lock.Without his reassurance, the townspeople can go on strong, but if his formation is also destroyed, the City of Reflections will really be heading towards the abyss of destruction.

There are only two formation eyes that have not been destroyed.

Although knowing that it is not easy to find Bishop Lanna, Lu Ren and Bai Zhu still went to the main church. No matter how hard it is to find Bishop Lanna, it will not be more difficult to find than Father Lu Ren.

What they didn't expect was that the first person they saw in the cathedral, which was empty due to the large number of clergymen leaving, turned out to be a corpse.

A knight fell in a pool of blood, his body didn't move up and down, and he was obviously dead.

Lu Ren and Bai Zhu looked at each other, and both saw the doubt in each other's eyes.

They tried to go deep into the cathedral, and after a while they saw the second body.

Then came the third and fourth...the corpses fell on the ground in a mess, including priests and knights. The number of them was so large that one couldn't help but wonder if all the remaining people in the Holy See were dead.

They followed the body until they came to a prayer room.

The door of the prayer room was wide open, and there were only two people inside, one half-kneeling and the other lying on the ground.

The priest let go of his hand a little, and the old man who was strangled by him fell completely to the ground.

He maintained a half-kneeling posture without getting up, turned his face to the side and smiled slightly at the two people at the door.

The priest said softly, "I've been thinking about when you will come over."

Lu Ren saw the detached statue lying on the ground.

Every prayer room contained a statue of a good god, but this one was distinctly different.

From Lu Ren's angle, he could just see the black stone base of the statue, and the complex magic circle engraved on it was clearly visible due to the reflected candlelight.

The priest killed the virtual lock and destroyed the real lock. "! Mountain! And! 氵! タ!"

Lu Ren couldn't believe it: "What are you doing?"

The priest smiled: "I don't know what I want to do."

Maybe he's downright crazy.

"Maybe I just don't want to let anyone have their way."

Lu Ren even began to wonder if he was really Father Lu Ren for a short period of time in the last dungeon.

He found that he had no idea what this NPC was thinking.

At this moment, the priest's expression suddenly changed, completely different from the priest in Lu Ren's impression.Lu Ren saw in astonishment the sadness and pain in the priest's eyes. He lowered his eyes to look at the bishop's body and suppressed the emotions in his eyes, but tears flowed from his eyes.

Lu Ren suddenly realized that it was the priest's personality controlling his body.

That pure-natured boy only lived in memories, and this was the first time he had appeared before them alive. The "priest" wept silently while hugging the bishop's body. Without saying a word, he suddenly pulled out the dagger hidden in his sleeve and inserted it into his heart.

Lu Ren and Bai Zhu didn't react at all.

Bai Zhuzheng hurriedly found a key and broke it.He was about to break off the last key, but before he started, he frowned suddenly.

And Lu Ren stood there in a daze, almost unable to believe the scene in front of him.

Is this the end?

The priest committed suicide after killing the bishop. Could it be that this dungeon ended in such a bizarre way?

The blood stained the pure white sacrificial robe all of a sudden, and the "priest" and the bishop cuddled together, as if he had been taught by the bishop himself many years ago. heavy burden.

At the last moment of his life, those clear eyes were stained with a dark color little by little.

When he found "Father" looking at him with a strange smile on his lips, Lu Ren instantly understood that the evil personality had regained control of his body.

Lu Ren was ready to fight, but the priest did nothing.

He didn't take any action to save himself, as if he was willing to die.

But before he died, the priest looked at Lu Ren maliciously, and said angrily, "You guessed wrong..."

Lu Ren didn't react for a while.

Bai Zhu beside him said with a trembling voice, "Lu Ren...the key didn't respond."

The keys were hot as they approached the lock, but after he snapped off the key that belonged to the bishop that did react, the last remaining key remained cold.

Obviously the priest is here too!

At this moment, Lu Ren understood what the priest said.

Father Lu Ren is not a lock.

They've been guessing wrong all along.