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Fang Zhou suppressed his doubts, glanced at the difficult street, turned back the same way, and turned into the dark Crow Street.

Walking past a mosaic jewelry store nestled in the corner and a clinic to be opened, Fang Zhou walked into Crow Fox Lane from a fork in the road, and once again found a Chinese medicine shop whose sign did not match the notice.The words "fox and crow" in the voice are reduced to the word "fox crow" on the shop sign.

Pass through the laneway and step into Red Fox Street.

After passing through various crossroads and illuminated fox signboard dry cleaners, snack shops, prosthetics shops, mask shops, haunted houses, etc., before walking to the street intersection, No. 1-07 Fox Street should be named "Fox Eats Grapes" A psychological counseling center, the store sign shows the five characters of "fox finger scolding Puti" in a polite way.

Going forward, turn into a red and white alleyway, pass by Store No. 1, and see the words "fox and crane intersect" written on the plaque of the tavern publicized as "White Stork's Revenge", which is no surprise.

Out of the alleyway, after visiting other streets and alleys, among a large number of easy-to-understand shop signs, after encountering incompatible old-fashioned shop names such as Repaying Grace, Dog Shadow, and Goose Raising Golden Eggs, Fang Zhou walked to a notice that reads "Turtle Rabbit Race", in front of the indoor gymnasium written as "tortoise and rabbit", I saw a poster on the door, which read:

"Hockey, a sport that originated from the Qing Dynasty..."

Fang Zhou stopped and stopped exploring the shop.

On the way back to the square, sporadic familiar figures appeared in the ark's field of vision again. Those players who explored the outside of the village came back covered in grass leaves and dust, obviously a bad start.

Fang Zhou ignored it and walked towards the library.

Walking around the library painted in white, red, gray and black, and then standing back to the main entrance, looking at every street represented by the color that intersects the library, lost in thought.

"...Do you want to come in here?"

A faint male voice came from the side.

Fang Zhou touched the goosebumps on his arm, turned his head to look at Jiang Xun who suddenly appeared, turned to leave, but was suddenly pulled by his arm.

Fang Zhou struggled a bit, but didn't shake it off, frowned, and suddenly recalled the discomfort of being followed for a long time in his sophomore year.

Suppressing the spontaneous boredom, he looked at Jiang Xun who was holding him firmly, "What exactly do you want?"

Jiang Xun scratched his face, "... If I trigger the library for you, can you add a friend?"

help him?Fang Zhou looked around at a few people, focusing on their sleeves soaked in morning dew and shoes covered with grass clippings, noncommittal.

But Jiang Xun and the others who came to the most conspicuous and suspicious library in the village just because they couldn't find a way to get out of the village, all looked at the sky and the earth with a guilty conscience under the suspicious glance of the young people, and even Jiang Xun touched his nose. want to explain.

Fang Zhou had already retracted his gaze, and simply responded, "Yes."

Not waiting for Jiang Xun to be happy, he said again: "Let go."

Jiang Xun was obedient this time.

Only then did Fang Zhou add: "However, for the sake of fairness, I have agreed to your request, and I have the right to make the same request."

He said: "So, if I find the trigger condition first, you can't pester me anymore."

"How can this be done? I don't agree!" Jiang Xun wanted to say a few more words.

Fang Zhou had already said, "Then I don't need to agree to your conditions." After finishing speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave.

Jiang Xun stopped him again, "Wait, let me think about it."

The Red Devil stepped forward and pulled Jiang Xun aside, sighing.

"Boss, I think the eyes of the masses are sharp, you should listen to the opinions of the masses..."

The Red Devils turned their heads and called their teammates to come over, and asked the IQ representative first, "Jay, what do you think?"

Li Jie was observing the paint color of the wall of the museum, looked away thoughtfully, and said absent-mindedly: "Equivalent exchange, it's fair."

"How about you, Weiwei?"

Weiwei blew her nails, "Don't ask me, I don't understand the love between men and men."

The Red Devil looked at the twins again.

"...In my opinion, with a normal IQ, the boss may not be able to play Mr. Unspeakable." He Xifeng started, and He Dongfeng followed closely, "not to mention every time you meet You can’t tell me, Mr., when your IQ drops to negative infinity..."

He Xifeng nodded, "In short."

He Dongfeng concluded, "This matter is useless."

Two words added: "In various senses."

The red devil looked at the boss who performed the unique skill of changing his face in an instant, kicked the two brothers, and patted the sullen boss, "Boss, don't be in a hurry, you are not fighting alone, are you and us?" There is an old saying in China that Zhuge Liang is the best of three cobblers. The six of us are at least two Zhuge Liang, and Jay’s IQ must be a multiple of that of the cobblers! So, we have two and a half Mr. Zhuge in charge, Over there, Mister Unspeakable is fighting alone, so you have a better chance of winning this bet."

Jiang Xun thought and thought, and walked towards the ark standing aside, looking directly at the void as if checking the panel, and reluctantly agreed.

Fang Zhou, who was linking to the external network to search for the name of the ancient shop, closed the search results, turned to look at the tall and handsome young man, "Have you thought about it?"

Jiang Xun had a bitter expression on his face, obviously he just wanted to please the good and didn't want to bear the consequences of failure, he nodded his head with difficulty under the encouragement of the surrounding team members.

Fang Zhou turned the button on the watch and sent his arm to Jiang Xun.

Jiang Xun looked puzzled, tentatively raised the back of Fang Zhou's hand, and was daring to seal a kiss, but was forced back by Fang Zhou's suddenly cold eyes, and then said pitifully: "...Then what do you mean?"

Ark tapped the flashing red dot on the dial, "Recording as proof."

"You don't believe me?!" Jiang Xun immediately felt the grievance of the heartless man, and his emotions were very intense.

The teammates watching were instantly disgusted by the boss who seemed to be possessed by something dirty.

Weiwei looked disgusted, and said, "This looks like the heroine of a romance novel, are you sure we are the boss?"

"Maybe we were transferred long ago when we didn't pay attention." The He family brothers deeply agreed.

Fang Zhou was unmoved, and his attitude was very tough.

As soon as he raised his eyelids, he said two words: "Let's talk."

Under Fang Zhou's ruthlessness, Jiang Xun repeated the bet with grievances. Seeing Fang Zhou's fingertips move, he suspected that he had deliberately uploaded to the cloud for backup. I?"

"What do you say?"

Fang Zhou recalled the bad experience of being followed by a certain classmate every day and called him "escort escort".

"...Then if this is the case, let's start?" Jiang Xun looked at Fang Zhou's face, saw him nodding, and turned to discuss clues with his teammates. Li Jie seemed to have an idea after observing the library, and thought of the contact information he was about to get. , Jiang Xun's heart, which was hurt by Fang Zhou's cold face, is also much easier.

However, when he passed by the ark, he saw the young man's foot move.

Jiang Xun thought he was looking for clues, but he didn't take it to heart. He saw the Red Devils who were gathering with Li Jie to support the boss and looked behind him in surprise, "FUCK!" came out spontaneously.

Jiang Xun frowned, and was about to reprimand, when he glanced casually out of the corner of his eye, he was surprised to find that the young man with his back turned went straight to the library door before stopping.

He opened his lips and said:

"In the shops in Fable Village, a group of easy-to-understand shop signs are mixed with some classical Chinese-style shop names, and the colors of the streets where these shops are located are all integrated into the library without exception."

The young man looked up at the closed windows on the second floor, and continued:

"...As early as the Ming Dynasty, there was already a translation of "Aesop's Fables", "Kuang Yi". Up to modern times, translations of various forms have been published. In the store that is about to open, the tortoise and the rabbit, the lying, the fox pointing and scolding The store names of Puti, Fox Crow, Fox Crane Intersection, Gratitude Rat, Farmer Rescue Snake, Dog Shadow, and Goose Lay Golden Eggs all come from the first translation in the late Qing Dynasty."

This is made clear thanks to that poster.

Fang Zhou is a student of architecture and is used to observing architectural styles. The appearance of the village is European, more precisely Greek, as can be seen from some carving details.This is in line with the provenance of Aesop's Fables.However, it is a little difficult to recognize the ancient decorations such as the "Wolf is Coming" teahouse, which is different in appearance and appearance. He is really not sensitive to the style of cups, tables and chairs. Some stores are set in the style of the Qing Dynasty.

"Besides, there should be some unopened shops..."

"Boom!" The sound of opening the window interrupted Ark's words.

A head poked out and yelled at Fang Zhou: "It's so noisy in the morning! Why don't people eat?!"

He was cursing, but he didn't splash water.

Before Jiang Xun stepped forward, Fang Zhou's voice only paused for a moment, and continued as if nothing had happened:

"There are also "The Rooster and the Pearl", "The Lion and the Bear Fight for Food", "The Lion and the Donkey Hunt Together"..."

As Ark announced a series of names, the NPC on the second floor slapped the window angrily.

But it still couldn't stop the system that responded accordingly, and the radio in the entire Fable Village rang two or three times:

[Fable Village Channel]: "...No. 2-02, Chicken Street, Fable Village, the "Rooster and Pearl" jewelry hall triggers the hidden real name "Rooster and Pearl", and the store sign is polished. Due to the unconventional trigger opening, the hidden task is automatically downgraded to daily Task……"

[Fable Village Channel]: "...Fable Village Shihu H Lane T-junction 1 Lvjiao Alley Entrance, "Lion, Donkey and Fox Hunting" shooting gallery triggers hidden real name "lion and donkey hunting together", shop signs are polished..."

[Fable Village Channel]: "...Fable Village Shihu H Lane T-junction 2 Xiongjiao Lane entrance, "lion, bear and fox" game restaurant triggers hidden real name "lions and bears compete for food", store signs are polished..."

……

In the blue sky and broad daylight, with the continuous beeping, street lamps were lit up one after another.

In the streets and alleys, watching some illegible store signs wipe off the mosaics one after another, the players who walked in the middle of it didn't know where they were, and they all said in surprise: "Damn! What happened? Opening ceremony?! Novice Village broadcast?!"

The shopkeepers finished reading the announcement viciously, got up and opened the door with dog shit-like expressions, and with a click, posted the business hours notice on the door.

Just looking at the door panel with the aftershocks still present, one can see the terrible mood of the NPCs.

After Fang Zhou reported dozens of names in a row, in an instant, all the streets where the shops with hidden real names were located were lit up with white lights, dazzling passers-by and players squinting their eyes, and people and animals could not be distinguished apart from palms.

All the lights converge to the library in front of the central square, reflecting the small two-story building like a scorching sun.

Ark was bathed in a large expanse of white light, as if he was wearing holy radiance, his face was translucently white, very dazzling.

Jiang Xun's eyes were so dazed that he was so dazed, and the long memory of youth was about to reappear before his eyes, when he heard that indifferent and steady voice penetrate the white light and fall again.

"To sum up all of the above constitute the trigger key "Yi Shi Yu Yan"." After this sentence fell, the library plaque, which had not responded until now, finally erased the mosaic.

Immediately, Fable Village issued a final announcement.

It is slightly different from before.

[Fable Village Channel] [Village Chief]: "...The library of "Aesop's Fables" in the central square of Fable Village triggers the hidden real name "Yi Shi Yu Yan", and the shop signs are polished.Because many shops that meet the opening conditions have too many unconventional operations that trigger opening, the library director and village head strongly condemns a certain player who took a shortcut!And because the village head is very unhappy, no reward will be given.

From now on, the village chief's office is officially open to players, and all players who have reached the level of leaving the village can go to the village office to apply for access and buy tickets to leave the village..."