This NPC really has a problem

The afterglow of the setting sun painted the cathedral an ominous color of blood.

A group of priests and knights chased someone and ran through a long corridor, but there was no figure of the two at the end of the long corridor.The leading knight glanced at the two roads leading in different directions, and said decisively: "Chase separately!"

After losing their footsteps, Lu Ren and Bai Zhu carefully walked out from behind the sculpture on one side.

They didn't stop here, they turned around and ran the way they came and went.

It's usually time for the evening bell to strike.

Even though the giant clock in the bell tower had been destroyed, the clergy who were active outside the cathedral seemed to have a clock in their hearts. Lu Ren and Bai Zhu, who hadn't noticed the time, were blocked by the returning priests and knights in the prayer room.

There were only two living people in the prayer room. Lu Ren and Bai Zhu couldn't argue with each other, and they were directly regarded as the murderers of the bishop.

The explanation didn't make any sense, they could only say that the people hadn't gathered yet, broke through the defense line and hid in the cathedral.More and more clergymen returned to the church, and they worked harder and harder to hide.

Bai Zhu felt his heart beating faster and faster, as if it was about to pop out in the next second.

A wave of irritability couldn't go away. The fact that the priest was not locked was clearly in front of him, which made him unable to accept it for a while, and his thoughts were like a mess.

If it wasn't Father Lu Ren, who else could it be?

Lu Ren got the priest's key in the last dungeon. It can be said that "the priest is the lock" is something they have decided from the beginning, but they are about to pass the level and find out that they made a mistake at the beginning?

The progress bar representing the assimilation value in the field of vision has turned dangerous blood red.

They only have one day and one night left.

"Don't panic."

Bai Zhu was stunned for a moment, his hand was suddenly held, and he spoke gently and without any impatience.

Lu Ren said to him, "There is still time."

Lu Ren was really confused at first.

But if the priest is not a lock, then there must be something that they took for granted and ignored it.

The game officials buried a big trap here, and they were deceived from the very beginning.

After thinking it over clearly, Lu Ren and Bai Zhu avoided the pursuers while thinking about what details in the dungeon they didn't notice.

Priest is not a lock, that's a fact.

But the key that belonged to the priest was indeed obtained in the last dungeon.It is even clearer that Lu Ren has a part of the memory of the priest. The priest used that lock to lock his good thoughts.

Who could be suspiciously the object of the lock during the time he gets the key and finally throws it in the dry well?

Lu Ren has been thinking about this question, recalling everyone the priest saw during that time.

Bai Zhu heard footsteps that did not belong to the two of them again.

Footsteps resounding in front appeared in front of him, Bai Zhu found a secret door beside him and dragged Lu Ren in.

After a short passage without light, another door appeared in front of Bai Zhu.

There is no absolutely safe place in the cathedral at this time, they can only keep changing positions.

Bai Zhu put his hand on the doorknob without hesitation.

Lu Ren suddenly realized that he could think in a different direction.

He remembered the map that the bell ringer gave him, which was actually very useful but ignored by them for a long time.

When more and more locks were destroyed, the red circle on the map gradually matched the position of the lock.

There are only five red circles on the map. During their discussion before, they thought it was because the priest had been outside the City of Reflections, so the bell ringer did not include the priest in his drawing.But if the priest is not a lock, maybe this map is not missing, and the five red circles do represent six locks.

The northwest corner is the location of the slums, and the solitary red circle unsurprisingly symbolizes a girl.

And the small red circle beside the big circle representing Mirror Lake, which also exists alone, should represent two locks, one is the city lord and the other is the head maid. They are almost in the same place geographically, so use a circle It symbolizes the two of them.

The remaining three red circles obviously represent the three locks located near the cathedral, one in the bell tower, one in the cathedral, and the remaining one is the real location of the only remaining lock.

Could it be the Knight Commander?

Lu Ren frowned slightly.

It seems that the only special people in the Holy See are the knight commanders, but according to the previous inference, judging from the usual geographical locations of the bishop and the knight commanders, they should only be marked with a circle.

If we start from the geographical location, Lu Ren can't think of any special places. The main church and the bell tower are located on the shore of Jinghu Lake alone, and there are no other buildings within a radius of two or three kilometers.

There was a soft knock on the door.

My eyes suddenly lit up.

The splendor came into view, and Lu Ren realized that they had come to the closed main hall.

A tall god statue strongly attracted people's attention.

Lu Ren suddenly understood.

Father Lu Ren was bewitched by the evil god and defected to the City of Reflections with the key.

It was their speculation from the beginning to the end that the lock should be a special person in the City of Reflections, and there was no information telling them that the lock could not be a person.

The last lock may indeed not be a person.

Apart from Father Lu Ren, there was also the evil god who touched the key.

The fog was suddenly dispelled, and all problems were solved.

How to contact the gods, and where is the closest to the gods?Everyone in the City of Reflections knows the answer.

The evil tomb where the key is buried in Jinghu is the closest place to the god.

And the Evil Tomb is near the main church!

"I know where the last lock is!" Lu Ren pulled Bai Zhu up and ran out of the main hall, "The last lock is in the Evil Tomb!"

Bai Zhu was at a loss: "Where is the evil tomb?"

Lu Ren explained very quickly: "After the citizens of the City of Reflections lock the evil thoughts with a key, they will throw the keys in one place, and that place is the evil tomb!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the expression of Shao Xuan who pushed the door change instantly.

Someone is going to enter the main hall!

Bai Zhu stretched out his hand and pushed Lu Ren into the shadow of the corner, and said in a low voice, "Go the same way as before!"

After finishing speaking, he ran towards the statue, and knocked down a row of candles in front of the statue without even looking carefully!Bai Zhu tore off the tablecloth, found all the combustibles he could find, lit them with candles, and threw them under his feet before he had time to throw them all over the main hall.

The priest who came in to light the candles for the night-lighting of the main sanctuary yelled in horror.

Bai Zhuli ignored it, and threw a burning tablecloth away from him in a hurry.As soon as he lowered his head, he saw the earthen jar on the ground. This earthen jar was quite strong, and the lid did not fall off even if it fell on the ground.

Bai Zhu suddenly remembered that one of the sacrifices offered to the good god was some kind of vegetable oil.

This kind of oil...should also be able to support combustion, right?

Bai Zhu suddenly realized that it seemed feasible to burn down the main hall.

"Come here! It's on fire!" the priest shouted at the top of his voice, resisting his fear and avoiding the flames, he rushed towards Bai Zhu.

The last twilight of the main hall that fell through the skylight disappeared in an instant.

The long night replaced the day at this moment.

……

Lu Ren took off his shoes and waded forward.

The sky had already darkened, but the moon hadn't risen yet, and the mirror lake was engulfed in darkness at a glance. The candle in Lu Ren's hand was the only light on the lake.

The water in this lake was very shallow, not reaching Lu Ren's calf. Lu Ren searched for the location of the evil mound based on his memory.

After a while, he stepped on something cold.

Lu Ren leaned down to let the candle approach the water, and under the lake were densely packed keys.

He has reached the edge of the evil mound.

More than 100 years ago, the ceremony lasted for seven days.

Almost every citizen of the City of Reflections came here to participate in the ceremony. They used the keys distributed by the Holy See to lock the evil in their hearts in front of the statue of the Good God, and then threw the keys into the lake to completely wipe out their evil thoughts. abandon.

This is where evil is buried.

So it is called evil tomb.

The people of Reflection City at that time must have longed for a beautiful world that seemed to exist only in fantasy.

The appearance of the key makes them feel that fantasy is about to become reality, and they hope to bury the evil, but what they don't know is that when the seven days pass, they can no longer be called living.

No newborns are born in the City of Reflections.

They stayed in that time forever, in the three-year reincarnation forever.

There are many basic rules in this world.

For example, gods exist, and ghosts will return to avenge their enemies.

Everyone in this world knows these things, and here they are common sense.

There is also a common sense - people will not live forever.

Anyone who seems to have achieved immortality is actually just an illusion, and a sufficient price must be paid in exchange for the apparent immortality.

The price of the City of Reflections is ego.

In fact, if you think about it, you can think that the gods only gave humans so many keys. What if there is a newborn baby in the future?

The answer Lu Ren found was that the City of Reflections will always be just that group of people, and there will be no fresh blood.

In exchange for false immortality, they became tireless puppets in reincarnation.The city seems to be alive, but it was dead more than 100 years ago.

Going all the way to the depths, Lu Ren saw the statue of the god.

Jinghu Lake is more like a mirror, the statue above the water is the reflection of the statue under the water.

And who can tell which one is the good god and which one is the evil god?

Lu Ren put the candle on the stone platform next to the statue. He searched around for a while, and when he found a larger stone, he threw it at the statue without hesitation!

……

After all, Bai Zhu hadn't been able to deal with people in the main hall for long, and he still had to run out and circle the main church with the pursuers after a while.

He felt he had made a mistake, as if it was more appropriate for him to go to that evil mound, although he hoped that Lu Ren could go to a safer place, but if he also died, wouldn't the dungeon end automatically?

Bai Zhu felt that he had been running for a long time. Although his body didn't feel it, the system might be going wrong.

In a panic, Bai Zhu ran into the bell tower, and it was too late to regret it, so he could only run up.

Yes, Bai Zhu smiled wryly, this time he was caught in the dark.

Bah bah bah, who is the turtle!

……

Broken idols piled up in the water, their heads still sticking out of the water.

Lu Ren saw that he had smashed the key, so he was about to break the key.

When the key breaks in half, it will all be over.

Just when he was about to make a move, the shattered head of the idol suddenly popped out

"Do you think ending reincarnation for them is the right thing to do?"

Lu Ren stopped.

The real image on the water and the reflection in the water seem to have two mouths opening and closing together.

The candle was flickering, the light was not very bright, everything he saw and heard seemed to be just an illusion.

But the bewitching words rang in my ears one after another.

"Do you think it's good for them?"

"They don't know anything, and if you don't do these things, they'll just go on living happily."

"Why change? Isn't the current City of Reflections beautiful?"

The idol asked:

"And why are you making these decisions for them?"

Lu Ren silently looked at the statue, as if he was convinced by its words.

But not long after, he suddenly smiled.

There was some helplessness in Lu Ren's voice: "Zeng Ge, Zeng Ge... You must have written this passage, right?"

Lu Ren felt that his friend Zeng Ge was a very contradictory person.

He was usually careless and thoughtless, but sometimes he was thinking about other things and chatting with Lu Ren in a chatterbox.

Ever since making this game, Zeng Ge has always asked Lu Ren: "Renren, do you think what I'm doing now is right?"

Even Lu Ren with such a good temper would sometimes be annoyed by Zeng Ge, which shows how many times Zeng Ge has harassed him.

Lu Ren straightened Zeng Ge's body, looked into his eyes and asked him seriously: "Do you think there is something wrong?"

Zeng Ge had a bitter face: "That world is too real."

Lu Ren didn't quite understand: "Is this not good?"

Those who study holograms, isn't the direction of their efforts true?

"It really makes me panic." Zeng Ge said, "I feel like I can't tell the difference between virtuality and reality."

Zeng Ge said that he didn't know whether the impact of such a real virtual world would be good or bad.

Their previous imagination of the virtual world was based on the premise that human beings need a "second real world", but do they really need it?

Phylion has conducted research among various groups of people, and the result of the survey is that most people don't know it at all.

There is another question in the questionnaire.

One question: What do you think are the downsides of a virtual world that is perceptually indistinguishable from the real world?

Many people mentioned the same point: fear that it will blur the boundary between virtual and reality.

Zeng Ge looked at a series of similar answers with minor differences.

He said with a serious face: "Think about it, there are still people who can't tell the difference between the virtual and the real, and commit suicide in the real world, thinking that they can go to heaven. Aren't there going to be more cases?"

Lu Ren felt that Zeng Ge's considerations were not unreasonable, and then pulled out the answer "What beneficial effects will the virtual world bring?" and pointed: "But the benefits in saving resources, protecting culture, and promoting social interaction are also obvious. Isn't the virtual library I made not long ago a good example?"

Zeng Ge was briefly persuaded by Lu Ren.

But after a few days, he started to get tangled up again, until later Lu Ren got used to it.

Lu Ren just didn't expect that Zeng Ge couldn't help asking himself this question in the game.

Strictly speaking, what the idol asked and what Zeng Ge wanted to ask were not the same thing.

Now that Lu Ren came here, he felt that Zeng Ge already had the answer in his heart.

"Did you finish it?" As if talking to a real friend, Lu Ren said, "A person has a good side and an evil side, and every thing has a good side and a bad side." You can’t give up life just because you have evil thoughts in your heart, and you can’t give up a thing just because it might be bad, regardless of the benefits it will bring.”

What people can do is to do their best not to let the evil side overwhelm the good side, and not let the bad side overtake the good side.

As Lu Ren spoke, he broke the key in his hand.

……

Bai Zhu felt that he was going to die, so he simply jumped off the building.

Maybe the time spent falling from the building can buy Lu Ren a second?

As he thought about it, he suddenly realized that the footsteps behind him had stopped.

Bai Zhu looked back in astonishment, only to find that the pursuers had disappeared.

He immediately understood the reason and breathed a sigh of relief.

When the wind blows, the passing city becomes barren. A hundred years seem to pass by in a gust of wind. The buildings are collapsed and dead trees are overgrown.

Bai Zhu leaned on the railing, overlooking the ruined City of Reflections.

The author has something to say: the text is finished! ! ! ! ! !

Wow wow wow wow I am also someone who has finished a long story!I am no longer a pigeon who can only dig holes!

There are three extra episodes, which are basically daily routines.