Forces of Temptation

The moonlight gradually sinks to the west, and the brightest scene has passed away.

The news came back one after another.

But there is no exciting news.

Except for an extra iron box from one side, there is nothing superfluous in the town.

The clues about the "ticket" are still the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror, and even the specific appearance is hazy and uncertain.

The second round of search in the three worlds is complete.

So far, Nanzhou can basically be sure that he has not figured out the real gameplay of the game.

And the early evidence search wasted too much time.

There are only a few hours left before the departure of the train that does not know where it is.

Thinking of this, Nan Zhou jumped off the balcony railing and tapped on the window glass of the balcony.

I don't know what {Jiang Fang} in the house was thinking about on his own, the faint red cloud and water vapor lingered on his face, and it didn't go away for a long time.

He glanced lightly at Nan Zhou, meaning what do you want to do to me.

Nan Zhou didn't know that {Jiang Fang} had unilaterally determined that he was a stinky hooligan who would do anything to pass the customs, so he knocked on the window glass politely: "Please help me think about how to pass the customs."

{Jiang Fang} fanned his cheeks with his palm to cool down, and at the same time squinted at him pretending to be calm with his natural smiling eyes: "Sorry, I'm not as knowledgeable as Mr. Nan, so I can't think of such... an idea."

Thinking that Nan Zhou would have the cheek to court him, {Jiang Fang} used one hand to wrinkle the bed.

Nan Zhou noticed that the expression on his face was changing, gnashing his teeth for a while, and avoiding his eyes for a while, and suddenly realized.

...He thought that {Jiang Fang} had already figured out the joints.

He explained: "Mr. Jiang, hello, it's like this, I don't want to have sex with you."

{Jiang Fang}: "..."

Nan Zhou: "I don't care about this, but there is only one person who makes me have the urge to reproduce. I just put forward an idea of ​​customs clearance, please don't take it to heart."

{Jiang Fang}: "..."

Nan Zhou thought that his confession was quite sincere and enough to resolve the misunderstanding between the two.

{Jiang Fang} was strangely silent for a long time, biting the flesh on the side of his lips with a worried expression.

After a long while, he gave a stiff "ha" and changed the subject unwillingly: "...You ask me how to pass the test?"

Nan Zhou: "Yes."

He needs to talk to smart people to develop his own ideas.

{Jiang Fang}: "Are you not afraid that I will deliberately induce you to think in the wrong direction?"

Nan Zhou is not afraid: "I can think for myself."

{Jiang Fang} asked again: "Why should I help you? Who knows what will happen to me after you leave?"

Speaking of this, he pressed Nan Zhou's forehead with his backhand, and said with a smile that was not a smile: "If my world collapses and I don't have a home, how will you compensate me?"

After saying that, he lightly patted Nan Zhou's forehead back.

This is indeed a problem.

Nan Zhou kept his body leaning back, thinking seriously about {Jiang Fang}'s concerns.

Seeing that he couldn't answer for a while, {Jiang Fang} raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Forget it, Mr. Nan, I won't help you, even if I think of something, I won't tell you."

Nan Zhou asked back: "You hate me?"

{Jiang Fang}: "Ha, do you think you are very likable?"

Nan Zhou looked into his eyes: "If the game fails, I may stay here forever—"

In order to make himself appear even more annoying, he learned and used the yin and yang modal particles in the system when announcing tasks: "—oh."

{Jiang Fang}: "..."

...Sly little monster!

First he forced himself to say he hated him, and then threatened himself to stay.

Does he have to admit that he doesn't hate him?

{Jiang Fang} gritted his teeth and got sulking with himself for a long time, before he asked in a vicious voice, "The achievements you mentioned just now...how many have you collected?"

Nan Zhou: "Five."

{Jiang Fang}: "How many is the upper limit?"

Nan Zhou: "I don't know."

During the back and forth question and answer, {Jiang Fang} quickly adjusted his mental state, pointed his finger on his lower lip, and nodded implicitly: "Your ultimate goal is to get a 'ticket'. At present, if you want to find someone who is both Some physical 'tickets' can no longer be done."

Nanzhou took his words: "If you want to get a 'ticket', it may be to try to improve the overall evaluation and playability of the game, or it may be... to get all the achievements, you will be rewarded with a 'ticket'."

{Jiang Fang} raised his chin, disapproving of Nanzhou's speculation: "Hmph, you just said that the upper limit of all achievements is 'I don't know'. Since you don't know how many achievements you have to make to be considered 'full achievements', you Aren't you afraid that this is another trick to waste your time?"

Nanzhou explained: "This is just a customs clearance method that can be considered."

{Jiang Fang} snorted again, noncommittal.

{Jiang Fang} knew that Nan Zhou's analysis of "Full Achievements" was reasonable.

His pickiness was just intentional, just to hit him with a few words.

As long as he is willing to give in to himself and not talk to him so rigidly, {Jiang Fang} will not be so angry.

After enumerating the current two possible ways to pass the level, both sides fell into silence.

Nanzhou is thinking about other ways to play.

{Jiang Fang} is trying to find a way to toss Nanzhou.

Soon, he came up with an idea, and a smile unconsciously formed on the corner of his mouth: "Hey, I also thought of a third way to play here, do you want to hear it?"

Nan Zhou: "Well, I want to hear it. What is it?"

{Jiang Fang} picked up the box that was put aside, crushed the lock piece without warning, walked to a corner of the room, and gave him a sly wink: "...be patient."

The moment Nan Zhou understood what he wanted to do, {Jiang Fang} had already opened the lid of the box.

"Wait--"

Before he could stop it, the third world disintegrated at an extremely fast speed.

The surrounding light sources were shattered like glass, and Nanzhou fell into a drowsy darkness.

The world is reorganized, only in the blink of an eye.

For Nan Zhou, he just blinked his eyes, and saw his body that was broken along with the world gradually put together again.

He reappeared on the roof.

——When the world is reorganized, the refresh point of the iron box is uncertain, but the birth point of the personnel is fixed.

This time, Nan Zhou quickly stood on his feet, slid down along the curvature of the roof, landed on one foot, and landed on the balcony. When he looked into the house, {Jiang Fang} was holding on to the bed rail, his body was trembling, and his face and lips could not respond. It was snow white and snow white, and looked extremely tired.

Nan Zhou pushed open the balcony door, walked into the house, and confirmed the time at the same time: "One and a half hours."

{Jiang Fang} interpreted his words as thinking that his movements were slow, so he gave him a gouged look, panting slightly and said: "...I'm already...very fast."

Fortunately, the towns in the three boxes are limited in scope, and the layout of the houses is only slightly different. {Jiang Fang} aims to explore the way, looking for the iron box to travel across the world rather than the "ticket". Relatively speaking, The action is already very fast.

Overall, he takes the longest time in the first box world.

Because there is no helper.

"After you saw me in the second box, you quickly realized that you were quite cooperative." {Jiang Fang} curled his lips, "Much better than you."

Nan Zhou sighed, "It's too sudden."

{Jiang Fang} is weak, but still maintains a proud demeanor: "I just like to see you unhappy. If you are unhappy, I will be happy."

Hearing this, Nan Zhou lowered the corner of his mouth.

{Jiang Fang} couldn't help laughing: "What are you doing?"

Nanzhou: "Make you happy. And let you stop taking risks."

{Jiang Fang} sat down on the bed and snorted: "If you don't want me to use your task to do experiments casually, just say it, I don't want to help you that much."

"No." Nanzhou said truthfully, "I'm afraid the iron box will hurt you. I hope you all will be well after I complete the mission and leave."

{Jiang Fang} was taken aback, leaned against the head of the bed boredly, and closed his eyes.

After all, he is not Nanzhou. Although his body functions have become stronger in the long-term struggle with Guangmei, he still can't stand the turbulence of time and space.

{Jiang Fang}'s risky behavior did not bring any clues related to the "ticket". It just proved that no matter which of the three of them, as long as they open the box and do the iron box mission, they can return to the original point.

For extra income, there is only one achievement with unknown purpose.

[Ant's] Other little friends also want to see the world, and the little ant excitedly pointed out his way to them and said "Have fun".

With the return of {Jiang Fang} to this world, a new iron box was refreshed in this world.

Coincidentally, this time the tin box happened to appear on the table in {Jiang Fang}'s room, saving them the time to bother looking for it.

Nan Zhou picked up the iron box and was not in a hurry to open it again, but put it flat in the palm of his hand and studied it in detail.

Although the patterns on it are complicated, most of them are composed of lozenges and patterns, and there is no other meaning.

Observing, observing, Nan Zhou's thoughts suddenly moved.

Before he could speak, {Jiang Fang} suddenly closed his eyes and said, "Hey, tell me, do these three nested worlds look like a small train?"

This just expressed Nan Zhou's heartfelt feelings.

Each tin box is rectangular in shape, with the same size and pattern, and even the contents of the town are pretty similar, and they are indeed similar to train carriages.

"I have seen the schematic diagram of the train in the book." {Jiang Fang} explained, "The train is connected one by one, and there will be a certain buffer zone in the middle. We passed through a box and came to the next one. Box."

Nan Zhou answered: "Besides, the train is one-way, there is no turning back, and we have no way to jump directly from the first car to the third car. This is also very similar."

"Assuming we're already on a train that we're not even aware of... wait, no."

{Jiang Fang} pursed his pale lips tightly, ignoring what he said earlier, "I won't help you", and immersed himself in this unprecedented puzzle.

He said: "If every train is the same, your appearance will be very strange."

"We all have our own car, only you are an outsider. That is to say, there is no one in your car until you come. Only when you come, does the car really start running. That' ticket 'Could it have been on yourself?"

Nan Zhou said, "I don't have any in my warehouse."

He checked.

{Jiang Fang} spread his hands: "Then I don't know. You are the only extra thing in these three worlds."

Nan Zhou's expression changed suddenly.

...he had heard this before.

In the alley, {Jiang Fang} stretched out his hand leisurely facing himself in a mess.

I asked him if I found anything like a bus ticket in the town.

At that time, {Jiang Fang} joked in the same tone: "'Extra stuff'? Then it's only you."

To Nan Zhou, who was seriously injured and bleeding, this answer sounded like a gnat, submerged in the tinnitus, it was too weak to be heard.

At that time, he only noticed a slight disobedience.

But at this moment, Nan Zhou recalled that this answer was nothing less than a thunderbolt!

Not knowing where the impulse came from, Nan Zhou touched the back of his neck with his backhand.

It was empty there, without any trace of being bitten by Jiang Fang.

——When {Jiang Fang} controlled his breathing and leaned back against the bed rail, the fleeting abnormality came from this.

Nan Zhou's mind was in a state of confusion, and his steady breathing gradually became disordered.

Just when the page was opened, an [Achievement] popped up in the lower right corner, stayed for three seconds, and then disappeared.

Congratulations on obtaining the achievement: [Finally False].

[Finally illusory] Little ant, memory is the most meaningless thing, isn't it?

In an instant, countless thoughts flooded into Nan Zhou's mind, causing his originally orderly thoughts to become chaotic and defeated.

... After all, what is real?

...I...who is it?