This NPC really has a problem

"The key." After Boss Lu handed the key to the young man opposite, he propped his chin and stared blankly.

It was rare for him not to doze off today, but simply to be in a daze.

The young man named Danyou took the key and went upstairs to put the luggage. Boss Lu knew that he would come down after a while and asked him a question that he had probably asked a thousand times.

— Excuse me, do you know the City of Reflections?

Boss Lu didn't know, Boss Lu didn't want to answer.

When people are in a daze, their eyes will always fall on a certain place unknowingly. Boss Lu's eyes fell on a young man sitting near the cupboard.The boy was wearing white clothes. It was late winter and the temperature was still low. The thick clothes wrapped him like a white ball, and the soft black hair was well-colored.

The young man looks very good-looking. Boss Lu actually has no feeling for people's appearance. Everyone has two eyes and one mouth. Whether it is beautiful or ugly, after seeing it a few times and getting used to it, in Boss Lu's eyes, everyone is the same. people.

But Boss Lu felt very comfortable with the innocence and innocence of young people. After seeing such a person, his gloomy mood became brighter because of the discovery of reincarnation.

The "pure and innocent" boy approached his companion and said, "When he was in a daze, he really felt so obedient, confused, and bullying..."

Xu Yan was expressionless.

He felt that Bai Zhu had awakened to something strange, and his whole body was broken.

It's scary for a single dog to have a crush on someone.

Bai Zhu was so sad that he wanted to slap the table: "It would be great if my image in the game is the same as the outside, such a good opportunity is wasted like this!"

Xu Yan didn't want to know where the timing was.

He missed Chen Jin very much.

The distance is too far, Boss Lu doesn't know that the teenager who makes him feel comfortable is discussing him.His somewhat slack gaze didn't become solid until Danyou went downstairs.

He refuses to answer Danyu's question without hesitation.

Boss Lu still remembered that he was impatient with Danyou's question in the last reincarnation, and he didn't know how many times he answered Danyou's exact same words in the reincarnation that he didn't remember.

Danyu's expression was a bit pity, but the enthusiastic bearded man nearby answered his question in detail.Danyou chatted happily with the bearded man, and Boss Lu seemed to be in a daze again, but he was actually thinking about a very serious question.

How to end this cycle?

Boss Lu knew that he was dead, and all the guests in this hotel were dead, one night a few years ago.He remembered the content of the first two reincarnations, and knew that the chef's greed had led to Xiao Mengban's tragic death, but the dead who forgot who the murderer was were massacred one by one the people she thought were suspects.

Boss Lu found the murderer, but the death of the murderer is not the end of everything.The bearded man, shrouded in the shadow of fear, prayed for protection from the evil god. He attempted to kill living people as sacrifices to the evil god. The evil god let his incarnation and Xiao Mengban perish together as he wished.But the bearded man didn't know that the sacrifices that the evil god wanted were all the living people left in the hotel, including the bearded man himself.

The death of all people should have brought an end to this tragedy, but they fell into endless reincarnation, repeating the fear and pain experienced on the last night before their lives countless times, and their souls were trapped in the absurd reincarnation, unable to escape.

Boss Lu has already remembered everything. He wonders if other souls will discover the truth one day, and those who see the reality are destined to be knocked down by pain.

No one can afford never-ending death.

He wants to break the cycle.

The premise of breaking samsara is to know why samsara exists.

Boss Lu felt that there must be a reason for this, just like Xiao Mengban because of resentment and revenge, reincarnation must also have a basis for its existence.

Boss Lu was thinking about what the basis was, and at a certain moment, a sentence that sounded nearby caught his attention.

"...The key that flows out of the City of Reflections is said to be endowed with power by the gods. If it falls into the wrong hands, it may cause disaster."

"It seems that people disappear every winter in the snow-capped mountains in the northeast."

"Some say there's a key there, hopefully it's just a rumour."

Boss Lu suddenly said, "Maybe it's not a rumor."

Danyu, who was talking, and the bearded man looked at him together.

"Whoever has the key, the bad guy will become even worse. It's not surprising to become a murderer. Few people nearby have heard of the disappearance of the snow mountain. In winter, except for foreigners, basically no one goes there. Even No one is willing to do the work of the forest ranger, and the duty booth has been abandoned for many years, and the locals know that there is something wrong with that snow mountain." Boss Lu said, "If there is a murderer hidden in it, then how can he do it? To avoid revenge from the dead? How can a man have the power to fight against ghosts? If he has a key in his hand, everything will make sense."

The bearded man echoed, "Yes, the ghosts will take revenge."

Xu Yan said in a low voice: "The people here are very accepting of ghost revenge."

"This is not a materialistic world," Bai Zhu continued, "It should be a very common thing for them to get revenge from ghosts."

Xu Yan said with emotion: "The chef dares to kill people like this. He really wants money but not life."

Bai Zhu guessed: "Perhaps not all the people who were killed can get revenge. The chef is a gambler. It is conceivable for him to bet on such a thing."

Even if the chef was present and heard what they were chatting with, he probably would have murdered them for money.

Boss Lu thought: "What if the key is in the hands of a good person?"

After all, Danyou is an outsider who doesn't know much about it, but the bearded man is quite familiar with the surrounding things: "I haven't heard of any miracles from heaven to benefit the public. Maybe the good person who got the key didn't know how to use it. The power of keys, and perhaps none of the keys fell into good hands."

Danyou raised a question: "How does the key determine whether a person is a good person or a bad person? Ordinary people have always done good deeds and bad deeds. After careful study, there is actually no clear boundary between ordinary good people and ordinary bad people... "

"This..." the bearded man fell down when asked.

Boss Lu didn't pay any attention to what they said.

"Maybe the good guy who got the key didn't know how to use the power of the key..." Boss Lu murmured, repeating what the bearded man had said.

Does the owner of the key know that he wields the power of the key?

Is the owner of the key reincarnated with memory?

Boss Lu quickly answered the latter question. He must have reincarnated without memory. Who can die repeatedly without going crazy?The memory of the previous two reincarnations made Boss Lu roughly certain of one thing, that is, the past cannot be changed, they are destined to die at one time, even if no one kills them, they will die by accident.

For example, Xiao Mengban.

The boy like Bai Tuanzi and his companions are variables in reincarnation.

Boss Lu guessed that they were people at the right time, and wanted to stay in the hotel, but his senses were deceived by reincarnation, thinking that the place was still open, and that everyone here was still alive.The boy's companions were decreasing, Boss Lu didn't know where they went, and he didn't know why the boy still stayed in this hotel.

He doesn't have the energy to understand these, the most important thing for him right now is the end of reincarnation.

Back to the first question.

Boss Lu guessed that the key owner didn't know he had wielded the key's power, at least not until he died.

It can't be said that there is a guest who thinks the life in the hotel is too good, and wants to stay in that day forever?

The key is a dead thing.

Boss Lu thought, even with magical powers, it is still a dead thing.

Danyou wants to know how the key can judge whether a person is a good person or a bad person. Boss Lu thinks that the key does not have human thinking and does not know how to adapt, so its judgment must be very simple and rude.

For example, if a person does one more good deed than a bad deed, then he is a good person, and if he does one less thing, he is a bad person.

Maybe it can be simpler and rougher. The previous thing the key owner did when he got the key was a bad thing. Even if he has done a hundred good things before, this person will be identified as a bad person by the key.

Judging from the current description of the key, it is like a machine, and the machine naturally has no complicated ideas.

The way the key works, then, is something to think about.

The person in the snow mountain probably didn't even know that the key was useful. He only thought about not being killed by the victim, and the key automatically protected him.

The way the key judges the owner's will may also be very simple.

There is a high probability that reincarnation is not the original intention of the owner of the key in the hotel. His wish may be something else, but he was misunderstood by the key, and reincarnation was born.

The owner who has no memory has that wish in every reincarnation, so the reincarnation is endless.

What would that be a wish?

Boss Lu tried to push back from the result.

What are the characteristics of reincarnation?A certain day repeated indefinitely.

The owner may want to live forever, but the key may not be able to do this. Legend has it that the power of the key comes from the good god enshrined in the City of Reflections, and the immortal person sounds too much like a god.

So the key makes a certain day repeat, so that the person seems to live forever.

But this doesn't make much sense. If the owner wants to live forever, when is it bad to live forever, but on that bad night?When one's own life is threatened, normal people's thoughts are to live, and no one will add a requirement of eternal life to the simple matter of living.

Boss Lu suddenly realized something.

The strongest desire of the owner of the key should be to live. Normally speaking, the role of the key should be to protect that person, but why did reincarnation appear in the end?

In other words, the owner had another desire that was so strong that it overshadowed the desire to live.

No, maybe his ultimate goal is to stay alive.It's just that he expressed this wish in another way, and the key only fulfilled the superficial wish.

Boss Lu suddenly thought of someone.

If I'm not mistaken, that wish should be...