This NPC really has a problem

The players sat around Butler Lu one by one. They were terrified when Steward Lu first spoke out, but now they have calmed down and rushed to greet Butler Lu.

Steward Lu felt that this was the first time he was surrounded by so many people, and those people looked so excited that they were about to cry.Although they were noisy, Butler Lu was surprisingly not annoying.

"I'm fine." Steward Lu patted the shoulder of Bai Zhu who was closest to him. He wanted to pat his head, but he was still very tired and couldn't lift his hands that high.

He had seen the guests of the castle one by one, they were in good spirits and seemed to be fine.

Steward Lu tried to stand up while supporting the ground, but Bai Zhu quickly supported him.He barely stood up straight, and said to the guests: "You go to a place with me."

He took the guests to the second floor. Most of the corridors in the castle were in the shape of "back". Butler Lu asked the guests to follow him and walk along the corridor to the end.

"This room is the bedroom of the Tulun couple," Steward Lu said to the guests when passing a certain room, "Miss Rosa lives next door to them, they will fall asleep during the day, but it's not like they won't wake up, you guys Don't go in and startle them."

Steward Lu paused, and then said, "You guys leave today."

"I can't go." Zhong Changya said, "The gate is sealed by withered vines, and the iron arrows on the iron wall are too dense to get over."

Zhong Changya really stood on the awning above the window all night until the sun came out.She didn't sleep all night, watching the sky gradually become brighter, and also saw the iron gate tightly entangled by dead vines.

Naturally, they didn't have these dead vines when they came, and Zhong Changya didn't think they could use physical means to break these dead vines.Just like the heavy snow in the first dungeon, the withered vines play a role in confining the player's range of action to the dungeon scene, and they can't get out until they find the key to clear the level.

Butler Lu obviously didn't think so, and he took the players to the prayer room.

At first, I only felt a slight tingling pain on the surface of the skin. Gradually, it seemed as if countless needles were pierced into the skin fiercely, and there seemed to be a fire burning in the place where the heart should be in the chest cavity.Butler Lu stopped in his tracks, and whispered to others: "Go in, I'll wait for you outside. There is a small pool in front of the statue in the center of the room. You fill it up with glass bottles. There is not much holy water left. , Be careful not to waste it. The bottle is in the drawer of the nearby table, you can look for it a little."

Bai Zhu looked at Steward Lu worriedly.

Steward Lu knew that he must look terrible now, but just resisting the pain and staying awake had exhausted his strength.Butler Lu only pushed Bai Yi once, and urged: "Go in quickly, remember to close the door."

With the barrier of the gate, he can also feel better.

Watching the door of the prayer room open and close before his eyes, Butler Lu leaned against the wall in a daze, gasping for breath.In fact, he is almost out of breath now, and movements such as panting are just the body's response to pain as a living person.

A wind blew and lifted the curtains.

The sun passed over Butler Lu's eyes, and his drooping eyelashes trembled.

He tried his best to get up, closed the curtains, and then held on to the window sill without moving for a long time.

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There is light in the prayer room.

The lighting of the entire castle is worrying, but there are four stained windows in the prayer room that occupy half of the wall. The sunlight shines through the stained glass, reflecting beautiful colors.In the center of the prayer room is a statue of an unidentifiable gender. He has downcast eyes and a slight smile. His robe is sweeping the floor. One hand hangs by his side and is covered by a sleeve. The other hand stretches forward, holding a key.

The floor was like a bright but dark mirror, and the reflection of the god seemed to be another statue, a dull image.

The pool that Mr. Lu mentioned is right in front of the statue. It is a circular pool with a diameter of no more than fifty centimeters. It is very shallow. It is not so much a pool as it is a small water basin.

The water in the pool was only two knuckles high.

Although this is ordinary clear water no matter how you look at it, the players still remember that Steward Lu mentioned the word "holy water".This word is easy to associate it with props against demons.The players found the only four glass bottles left in the prayer room and carefully filled them up.

The pool is only one knuckle high, and the same four bottles can be filled at most.

Chen Jin was the first to collect the water and was about to leave, but was stopped by Bai Zhu, he said: "Stay here a little longer, let's find out if there are any clues here."

The prayer room can be said to be unobstructed, and the things inside are distributed symmetrically. The table with glass bottles is on both sides of the statue, and there are two candlesticks on it.The players searched carefully, and even pulled out the candle to see what it had to do with the candlestick.

All their eyes finally fell on the statue.

"Look at that key," Bai Zhu said, "it's exactly the same as the key needed to clear the level." Among the players, Bai Zhu has the most contact with the key, and he is most familiar with the appearance of the key.

Chen Jin scratched his head: "Can this be used to clear the customs?"

Bai Zhu shook his head: "No, it is cast together with the statue, and the material is different from what we got in the last copy."

"But we can guess the meaning of the key." Bai Zhu said.

There is no answer in the game for why finding the key is considered a clearance.In the first copy, they had to find the key. Without the key, they could not leave the snow mountain safely.In the second dungeon, based on what Bai Zhu got from the little girl, it can be guessed that the key is the key to maintaining the current state of the Tulun family. If they get the key, the Tulun family will probably become real corpses, and they can naturally Get out safely.

But there are a total of seven copies of this game, and they don't know the contents of the other copies yet.What we can know is that the nature of the last dungeon is different from the first six dungeons. The first six dungeons are the pre-levels of the last dungeon. The purpose is to collect keys. After collecting all six keys, a city called the City of Reflections can be opened. In the scene, the condition for clearing the last dungeon is to find the truth that the City of Reflections has become a dead city.

But why they want to find out this truth is still unknown.Their identities in the game are just unlucky travelers, at least for now.

"The key obviously has a certain religious significance." Xu Yandao, "That's why we can see a key that is exactly the same as the pass key on the statue."

Bai Zhudao: "This religion is either original to the game, or it is relatively rare and no one believes in it."

Bai Zhu is a student of the history department. He has taken the history of religious evolution and has a certain understanding of the more common religions that have appeared in history. This statue is extremely strange to him.

Zhong Changya squatted on the ground looking at the shadow of the god statue: "The city of reflections... reflections probably have extremely important meanings in this religion? That's why the floor is made like this."

Chen Jin was puzzled: "Is there any connection between the key and the reflection?"

No one else could think of a connection either.

They couldn't find any more clues, and thought that Butler Lu was still waiting outside, so they left the prayer room.

Steward Lu leaned against the wall, stood up straight when he saw them, and asked, "Did you get it?"

The players showed Butler Lu a glass bottle filled with holy water.

Butler Lu nodded: "Come with me."

Steward Lu took a black umbrella halfway, and led the players to the iron gate.With a black umbrella to block the sunlight, the discomfort was relieved a lot. Steward Lu looked at the withered vines and said to the players, "Try pouring holy water on the withered vines."

The players did.

However, the withered vine that should have been melted by the holy water in Lu Steward's imagination was intact.

"It shouldn't be..." Butler Lu frowned.

He felt the burning sensation when approaching the holy water through the withered vines for a long distance. Obviously, the holy water brought by the players was fine. Why did these withered vines have no response?

Isn't the power he and Kuteng rely on to maintain their current state from the same source?

Butler Lu couldn't think of the problem.

"... Butler Lu?" A guest called out to him.

Butler Lu came back to his senses, and said apologetically, "You may have to stay here for a while, and I will find a way to send you out as soon as possible."

Several people returned to the castle again. The players were in a good mood. It was meaningless for them to go out without getting the key, but Steward Lu's expression was much more serious than when he left.

He hastily said goodbye to the guests, and was about to find a way to get rid of the withered vine.

Butler Lu was stopped by Xu Yan.

"Um... Steward Lu, I have something to tell you." Xu Yan seemed a little confused, hesitating and not knowing how to speak.

"What's the matter?" Steward Lu asked gently, signaling him not to be nervous.

Xu Yan took a deep breath, took out a photo from his pocket and handed it over: "I found this in a study room last night, I don't know if you have any impression of it."

Xu Yan was puzzled by the fact that Steward Lu and Mrs. Tulun would appear in a wedding photo.

At first, he thought that Mr. Tulun's head was green, but when he thought about it carefully, how could an adulterer have such a bad relationship with Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Tulun... And the adultery is not so high-profile as to take wedding photos, right?

The most important thing is that Steward Lu doesn't seem like a cuckold.

Steward Lu took the photo, and when he saw the picture on it, he also showed a look of astonishment.

"I don't remember what happened in the photo, I will figure it out." Steward Lu said seriously to Xu Yan, "Thank you."

"It's all right." Xu Yan waved his hand quickly. It was Steward Lu who was helping them all the time. Xu Yan was a little embarrassed to be thanked.

Bai Zhu didn't know what kind of photo it was, so he leaned over to take a look curiously.

His eyes widened in astonishment.

The author has something to say: Bai Zhu (subtle upset): Is Butler Lu married?

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I may have to go out at night, and there will be another update if I can make it back.