Forces of Temptation

Nan Zhou was taken aback, quickly gestured to Li Yinhang who was just about to say something, and hurriedly boarded the No. 6 carriage.

Li Yinhang asked Yuan Mingqing with his gaze: What happened?

Yuan, Ming and Qing spread their hands.

Nanzhou entered the interior of the train again.

The smell inside the train is unique to closed spaces, with a faint mildewy smell.

He set off from the No. 6 carriage all the way, upstream.

……Gone.

All the strange phenomena he had seen disappeared.

There were bloodstains all over the place.

Broken glass windows.

Blood under the curtain.

Broken plastic tables and humanoid blood splattered.

It was clean and clean, without any trace of a fight.

Nanzhou walked to the No. 3 carriage, picked up the "departure record sheet" hanging on the wall, and checked it.

Attached was a brand new form with no records.

Nanzhou has traveled all the way, and the pillow covers, seats and table tops are all properly stored.

There are no magazines and melon seed shells, no discarded mineral water bottles, and no rotten spicy noodles.

This is an ordinary train that is old but has nothing special about it.

...It was so ordinary that Nan Zhou felt a chill in his heart.

He stepped out of the No. 1 carriage, pushed through the wet mist like a flower brushing a willow, and approached Li Yinhang and the others who were waiting in place.

Li Yinhang saw Nan Zhou getting on the train suddenly, and he didn't follow him like a headless chicken. He just waited on the platform honestly, and exchanged messages with the bewildered Yuan Mingqing softly.

After he turned around, Li Yinhang roughly figured out what happened.

...that is, is there anything unusual about the train itself?

She has always trusted Nanzhou 100%.

Therefore, before she got on the train herself, she had already begun to be three-point vigilant about the existence of the "train".

Li Yinhang called him: "Nan..."

Nan Zhou asked straight back: "How long is your game's stipulated duration?"

Li Yinhang didn't understand what he meant, but he answered crisply: "24 hours."

Nan Zhou: "You came out early?"

Li Yinhang checked his watch: "Yes. I came out 10 hours and 20 minutes early."

Yuan Mingqing heard the two ask and answer like a teacher giving a class to a student, and felt amused: "Hey, why don't you ask her what danger she encountered? Girls still need comfort at this time."

Nan Zhou asked back: "No matter what danger she encountered, she is standing here now. Why should I ask irrelevant questions?"

Yuan Mingqing made a big fuss: "..."

Nanzhou pulled Li Yinhang to sit down: "What kind of game did you encounter?"

Li Yinhang: "We are playing..."

She didn't know much about game terminology, so she thought about it for a long time: "It's an adventure-plus-upgrade game, the kind that randomly encounters monsters in the wild..."

Yuan Mingqing roughly understood: "A game similar to Pokémon?"

"Well. Almost."

Li Yinhang gestured: "The overall style of my game is quite cartoonish. It is said that a little ant has a dream of escaping from the farm and going to see the distant place. She has a good friend. She wants to escape with her. But animals Betrayal and escapees are not allowed on the farm. Every animal has its own place, if you choose to escape, you will only be trampled into severed limbs by countless feet in the future.”

"So, in order not to let my little ant die in reality, other animals on the farm will let me 'die happily in a dream'."

When he first entered the game, "Li Yinhang" was really confused by the scene design of the warm spring sun and the breeze blowing the grass around him at first.

After listening to the rules, her cold sweat came out together with goosebumps, and she lost all luck.

"The map is a place called Chunri Huahua Ranch. My task is to find the exit of the ranch within 24 hours. There is no other means of transportation. I have to walk on my legs. Monsters will spawn randomly in the ranch. Wait for the monster to jump After we come out, we have to play that kind of turn-based game. We can escape, but there is a chance that we cannot escape... If we win, the opponent will drop points, and monsters above the intermediate level will also drop map fragments. By accumulating enough map fragments, you can spell out the map of the farm and know where the exact exit is. As for the points... we can buy props such as blood bottles and blood-nourishing grass in some fixed 'shops' to restore blood. "

While talking, she took out a notebook, obviously a Miyoshi student who took detailed notes in the copy.

It's a pity that Nan Zhou's paintings, like her notes, cannot be taken out of the copy.

She had no choice but to restore and describe as much as possible according to her own memory.

"There are many types of monsters. The junior ones include elves such as slimes and grass spirits, and the advanced ones include pig-headed men and cow skeletons."

"I remember just the monsters we met, I remember 72 kinds, and the attributes and attack methods of each monster are different."

"The length of a game depends on the situation. The quickest game is done in 2 minutes. The hardest game, we spent more than 20 minutes, but found that we couldn't beat it in the middle. We tried to escape several times, but all failed."

Yuan Mingqing asked: "What are your summoned beasts?"

"The rules are all stated, there is only one friend who is willing to help 'me' escape from the farm." Li Yinhang said, "...the only Antarctic star is the only one. And as a game character, I am not counted in the battle order with the Antarctic star. Yes. In the beginning, all the battles were fought by Nanjixing. . . . Was it, Nanjixing?"

As she said that, she wanted to touch the South Pole Star, but it was in vain.

The revealing of his true feelings just now made Nanjixing feel so embarrassed that he wanted to find a tree hole to get in after recovering. He quickly transformed back into a sugar glider and was holding the stool legs firmly with a pair of front paws. Facing the wall silently and shutting oneself up, pretending that he does not exist.

... This is really a tailor-made copy for Li Yinhang.

She doesn't remember being false.

For an honest child like Li Yinhang, after she simply figured out the rules, she naturally obediently swiped the dungeon at first.

Therefore, she recorded the numerical bars of all the monsters facing her in detail, and made a very practical time allocation: she spent a lot of time on killing low-level monsters, and took the method of searching the turf in circles, expanding outwards in circles, so that Brush out as many primary monsters as possible.

She is not in a hurry to obtain the map, but concentrates on accumulating points, and does her best to accumulate original points for the fierce battles that follow.

To deal with those junior monsters, Nanjixing is quite dominant.

He has recovered the full body of the little boss, and can often knock off the opponent's head with one bite.

Li Yinhang persevered in fighting the battle that must be won, sticking to the Xinshou Village, not taking a single step, and stayed for three hours. He insisted on brushing the game and no longer causing monsters in the low-level wild monster area, so he reluctantly walked out .

After entering the development field of middle and high-level monsters, their battles are no longer so easy.

Fortunately, Nanjixing can also change into an adult.

Under Nan Zhou's precepts and deeds, he could easily break the neck bone of a sheep-headed man and deliver a fatal critical strike.

Only, he inevitably started getting wounded in the fight.

Due to the mandatory regulations of the game, Nan Jixing had to rely on the medicine purchased from the store if he wanted to recover his blood. Therefore, in order to save points, unless he had to knock a blood bottle to recover his blood when it was a last resort, Nan Jixing almost always fought with injuries.

Moreover, although the blood bar representing physical health can be restored, the mental fatigue caused by long-term repeated battles cannot be remedied.

They don't have time to rest either.

The scope of the farm is simply too large.

The worst part was that when they collected half of the map, Li Yinhang realized that according to the landmarks on the map, they should have chosen the wrong exit direction.

If the next battle is still as intensive as it is now, and monsters will be encountered every 5 minutes of walking, and the enemies encountered in the future will only become more and more fierce, then their prospects are really worrying.

Even if it is just a trance, it will be seriously injured.

When the game progressed to the 10th hour, Li Yinhang and the others encountered a very high-level pig-headed man.

It has thick blood, high attack and high defense. Even if Nan Jixing becomes a human, he is still a slender and frail young man in front of it, not half the width of its shoulders.

After Li Yinhang chose to escape but failed, it charged at high speed, pierced Nan Jixing's lower abdomen with its sharp fangs, and bit his whole body dripping with blood.

After finally killing it, Nanjixing was so weak that he could hardly get up on his knees, panting on the ground covered in blood, his blond hair was soaked by the blood gushing from his neck, and the blood was beaten until only a layer of skin remained .

Li Yinhang was so distressed that he could only feed him a big blood bottle, put him on his lap and hold his heart, for fear that his heartbeat that was as thin as a gossamer would stop suddenly.

……

Hearing what Li Yinhang said up to this point, Yuan Mingqing became more curious about how she broke the situation because of her understanding of her character.

Hearing him ask how he escaped from the dungeon, Li Yinhang replied embarrassingly: "I... Actually, I didn't figure it out either."

Yuan Mingqing was surprised: "You don't understand?...Then how did you get out?"

"After beating that pig-headed man, I feel that it's not right to go on recklessly." Li Yinhang said, "According to this way of fighting, Nan Jixing will die before leaving the farm. At that time, people with my combat power will not be able to participate at all." Fighting, there is no way to live alone. I used this matter to persuade Nanjixing to rest, but he refused."

The two of them maintained such a posture of pillowing their knees, cuddling each other and having a fight.

Li Yinhang lowered his head and said: "He yelled at me...that I was wrong. As long as he dies, I can live."

Nan Zhou frowned in thought.

...the South Pole idea is sound.

It can be seen from the previous battles that Nanjixing is Li Yinhang's summoned beast.

If the Antarctic Star was not there, Li Yinhang, a solo "summoner", might not have triggered the battle if he went all the way.

Therefore, from Nan Jixing's point of view, as long as he died, Li Yinhang could leave the farm unimpeded all the way.

Nan Jixing's plan was to piece together a relatively complete farm map for Li Yinhang before he died from exhaustion.

Li Yinhang murmured: "I don't believe it's that simple, but I can't find a reason to convince him, and I don't want him to die."

She looked at Nan Zhou, her tone apologetic: "Mr. Nan, I'm not very qualified.... At that time, I was actually very irrational."

Nan Zhou nodded, expressing his understanding.

Those ten hours are the ten hours of life and death.

Theoretically speaking, Nanjixing is indeed a game creature, which is not much different from the existence of other props.

But after experiencing those things together, not everyone can rationally regard the Antarctic Star as an item that can be sacrificed, and decisively abandon it to save their lives.

"Along the way, the two of us quarreled over this issue for more than two hours, and he was injured several times, which were very serious. I didn't believe he could survive 24 hours at all-later, in order to verify my idea was That's right, after entering a battle, I forcibly took the South Pole Star back to the warehouse."

"Sure enough, once he disappears from the team, I will be the next 'summoned beast' that is automatically put into battle by the game. Even if I sacrifice him, I can't live alone."

Speaking of this, she pursed her lips and chuckled lightly: "As a result, my skin was too brittle, and there was a pig-headed man on the opposite side, and I was... gone."

"But in the next second, I came to the station."

... Indeed, in a sense, Li Yinhang's sacrifice to protect his friends is also a "willing" suicide.

Speaking of this, Li Yinhang glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a tall and stiff man standing quietly in the fog only 5 meters away from them, like a lost ghost.

No one knows when it stood there.

Li Yinhang was taken aback by this dead-faced NPC. He peeked at Nan Zhou and Yuan Mingqing, and found that they were not different, and his heart settled down.

He began his usual inquiry: "Ma'am, gentlemen. Do you want to get in the car?"

Li Yinhang waved his hand politely: "No, we'll wait for someone."

Before he could repeat the reading for the second time, Nan Zhou asked the question that had been lingering in his mind.

He pointed to the old train in front of him: "After this train leaves, when will the next train come?"

The NPC replied blankly: "There is no next bus."

Li Yinhang was surprised, and held up the contract: "But didn't the contract say that after the ticket is in our hands, the time limit for using it is within 6 hours..."

Hearing this, the NPC turned his head and stared at Li Yinhang.

He has a dove-shaped zombie face, his eyes are wide apart, and his eyeballs have a huge roundness like that of fishes and animals.

He stared at Li Yinhang with more or less black and white wooden eyes, and repeated without emotion: "There is no next bus."