Forces of Temptation

With the personal reminder from the NPC, Li Yinhang finally remembered.

Isn't this the work of Mr. Andersen?

Eleven elder brothers were debuffed by the sinister stepmother's curse and turned into wild swans.

The beautiful and tragic little princess trekked all the way to find a way to break the curse for her brothers.

She would find the nettles from the church graves, crunch the threads, endure their stings and blisters, weave long sleeves and armour, and throw them over her brothers so they would be human again.

The ending is of course a happy one.

Jiang Fang lowered his eyes and asked Nan Zhou softly, "Do you know this story?"

Nan Zhou nodded: "Yeah." I read it while I was sleeping.

The blond girl in front of her had a pair of blood-stained hands hanging down, her peach blossom-like eyes were bent with joy and charm: "Please make a choice."

Nan Zhou will not be led by her words.

He asked back: "What are the rules of the game for the players and the selected 'wild swans'?"

"Very simple."

The girl's smile was stylized gentleness: "The two 'wild swans' that have been selected don't have to do anything. All they need to do is stay here, trust and wait for their companions enough, and that's it."

She stepped on the soft, fresh turf beneath her feet.

Amid the scent of grass juice, she continued to answer softly:

"As for the selected players, they will become 'princesses'."

"I wove two nettle garments and put them in one place."

"There is the starting point for the 'princess'."

"When you decide who the 'princess' is, she will come to her starting point. Just take the nettle armor I put there, put it on the 'wild swan', lift the curse, and the gate of victory will naturally It will be opened for you."

Nan Zhou confirmed to the girl: "Is this the end?"

The girl nodded gracefully.

Nan Zhou: "After we confirm the candidate for 'Princess', TA will be teleported from here to another starting point?"

The girl nodded again.

Nan Zhou: "Will it be dangerous for the princess to come here?"

The girl answered every question, very gently: "There is no danger."

This answer is quite surprising.

Nan Zhou frowned: "'No danger'?"

The melodious voice of a young girl's spring fits perfectly with the blue sky behind her, the fresh sea of ​​grass, and the pink lamb like cotton candy.

Very happy, but also very false.

The girl gave a firm and identical answer: "There is no danger."

"There will be no swamps. There will be no bad weather. There will be no kings trying to kidnap you, and no hunters—"

She seemed quite happy with the simple, fairytale-like design of the game.

Speaking of happiness, she opened her hands.

A gust of wind blew just right, lifting the corner of her blue dress embroidered with nettles.

She said with a smile: "In short, there will not be any 'foreign objects' that threaten the life of the 'princess'."

She used words to construct a game rule that was so simple that it was almost low-intelligence.

But all three of them noticed that her wrists were as slender as jade.

The palm was heavily bloodstained.

This added a different kind of weirdness to her light and gentle tone.

Seeing no response, she also didn't see any disappointment. She naturally lowered her arms and randomly curled a lock of golden curly hair on her forehead: "Of course, some physical strength is still required, and the level is not without difficulty."

"'Princess' has to go through 13 doors in total."

"The door that 'princess' walks through will never disappear, and will always wait for the return of the master."

"As long as the 'princess' finds the game too difficult and doesn't want to continue, she just needs to turn around and push open the door she walked through before, and she can leave the game directly."

"However, the two friends of 'Princess' will stay forever and live happily here—"

As if to echo her words, along with the four words "happiness and happiness", a row of swans with feathers in white, brown or fiery red flew together from a green pool in the distance, and sank into the sky. among the clouds.

The blond girl grinned, showing a row of beautiful and neat teeth, and concluded gently: "Of course, after successfully passing through 13 doors, the 'Princess' can take the 'Wild Swan' away."

Under the influence of Nanzhou, Li Yinhang also began to use reverse thinking to read the dungeon information.

She confirmed to the blond girl: "The physical strength required for this task can be completed by any of the three of us."

The girl nodded and smiled, "Yes."

Li Yinhang collected himself.

If the information provided to them by the girl NPC is true...

Li Yinhang turned his head away and volunteered: "I'll go."

Nan Zhou raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Of course I will go."

He thought this should be a non-controversial matter.

But Li Yinhang said: "People have said that if you want a princess, you want a girl by name. I am physically strong, and I need to exercise alone. Besides, she said that there will be no dangerous 'foreign objects' on the road. "

Li Yinhang gave four reasons in one breath.

Nanzhou's response was only four words: "No. I'll go."

He didn't think that Li Yinhang didn't need the opportunity to exercise alone.

He felt that under the candy-colored, transparent and harmless shell of this dungeon, there was a strange aura.

In this situation where he can't figure out the reality, letting her out is not exercise, but more like death.

Just as Nan Zhou wanted to dissuade him, he heard Jiang Fang take over the words behind his back: "I'll do it."

Nan Zhou turned his head and glanced at him lightly, not very happy: "..." You come too.

Nanzhou felt that his cavalier ability was being questioned.

Why don't you want my protection?

Jiang Fang stared at him without hesitation, and gave his reason.

"Just now, Yinhang and you both wasted a lot of energy in the library."

"Especially you. You are mentally sensitive. After doing so much damage, your body should not be fully recovered, is it?"

Nan Zhou pursed his lips.

This was a tacit agreement with Jiang Fang's judgment.

Jiang Fang took a step closer to Nanzhou and lowered his voice: "I am a person who cannot fully trust others."

"If I let you or Yinhang go, let me be a wild swan who can't do anything, wait here, and let others decide my fate, I can't stand it."

His rare candor stunned Li Yinhang beside him.

She had long seen Jiang Fang's indifference hidden under his perfect smile, and his almost fanatical desire to control.

But she didn't expect that he would realize and be willing to express his weakness.

"I don't want to put my safety in the hands of others..."

Jiang Fang lowered his voice to the lowest level, to the point where he could barely hear him: "...But, if you are at the finish line, I will definitely come."

That way, he can pretend he never said it.

And Nan Zhou could also hear what was in his heart.

After hearing Jiang Fang's confession, Nan Zhou lowered his head and looked at his heart with some surprise.

It jumped so fast that it hurt his ribs a little.

This made Nanzhou very uncomfortable.

He thought, obviously there is no full moon here.

After a brief silence, Nanzhou took out the light chain that had reached level 3 and the S-level skill card [Silent Burst] from the warehouse, and handed them to Jiang Fang.

This was a tacit consent to Jiang Fang's decision.

Li Yinhang took the initiative to give up her [Don't go out in blowing sand weather] and [Your mother told you to wear long johns].

Jiang Fang smiled, did not refuse, picked out a few unused props from his storage tank, and exchanged materials with them.

The two who decided to stay worked together and stuffed the most effective props into Jiang Fang's palm, so as to deal with the thirteen doors that the blond girl said were "not dangerous" but had unpredictable "difficulties".

The blond girl who had a panoramic view of this scene was unmoved.

Her smile seemed to be glued to her face alive.

She smiled and asked, "So, have you decided on the candidate?"

After getting a unanimous and affirmative answer from the trio, the girl raised her bloody index finger and drew two rays of light in the air.

In the warm golden light like a fairy tale, the figures of Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang quickly dwarfed and shrunk.

Clothes and skin were cast together by the light that flooded like golden water.

Rich and fluffy feathers grow and bloom from their bodies.

No pain, just itching.

After confirming that he had really transformed, Li Yinhang immediately spread his wings to see his fur color.

Even if she becomes a goose, she also hopes to become a beautiful little goose.

To her disappointment, she was a most ordinary gray feather swan.

Worse, she can't even tell her own male and female apart.

And even if Nan Zhou turned into another species, he was much more beautiful than her by naked eyes.

She thought sadly: ...is it so real in fairy tales?

Nan Zhou's feathers were clean and white, without any impurities.

The fur on the neck is particularly fluffy and soft, like a warm white scarf in winter.

The tail seems to be tied with a pure white streamer.

And bright red beak, and bright black eyes.

Every color has been brought to the extreme in him.

Both Li Yinhang and Nan Zhou have become goose queens, the only thing in common is that they both added a pure gold collar on the upper side of their left legs.

The collar shimmers brightly, and there is a smaller, decorative gold ring on top of it.

"This is a temporary mark, which means that you belong to this place temporarily."

Seeing Li Yinhang curiously pecking at the golden ring on his leg, the blond girl explained gently, "When the game is over, remember to take it off in time. Otherwise, it will hurt a lot when you become human again."

"However, if you are not willing to take it off, there is no problem. After a while of pain, it will be a permanent gift. Just treat it as a gift from me to you."

Nan Zhou didn't listen much to the commentary of the girl who talked and laughed at Yanyan.

He raised his head and looked straight at Jiang Fang in front of him.

Jiang Fang gently touched his head with his lips, and whispered to him: "Do you think this is where in your brain?"

Nan Zhou shook his head.

There is so little information that it is difficult to judge.

Jiang Fang just asked, so that he could think about other things and not worry about himself.

With his thumb, he tapped lightly on the soft patch between Nan Zhou's forehead, leaving a furry fingerprint.

...feel good.

Want to goose.

But he hid his thoughts behind a reassuring smile.

"Don't move."

"wait me back."

Nan Zhou suddenly heard these words very familiar.

... This face, this voice, these words.

It was so familiar that he was under the full moon again, and even his breathing became disordered for a few breaths.

But the familiarity is fleeting.

It seems that the constriction of the heart is just a product of illusion.

Nan Zhou nodded: "I will wait for you here."

Jiang Fang brushed the fluff on the top of his head with his fingertips, raised his head, and nodded slightly to the blond girl, indicating that it was time to start.

His figure was surrounded by the same golden glow as before.

When he emerged from the golden light covering the sky like a strange flower, what he saw made him slightly frown.

The scene has not changed much.

Clear sky, shady green grass, and a small pool in the distance.

It's just that there are no sheep, swans and Nanzhou.

Without any shelter, Jiang Fang could see without any hindrance that there was a small square black spot about 800 meters away from him in a straight line.

It seems to be a door.

The scene in front of him, as well as the mission he was going to accomplish in the end, reminded Jiang Fang of... a real-life simulation horizontal version of the game.

He looked down at his body.

The face is still his face, and the choker on the neck has not changed.

But his clothes changed.

Sapphire blue and beige set up a lo skirt in the main color, which made his complexion more cold and white than snow, which was raised in the Eastern European climate.

Thin white pearl brooches overlapped.

The particles that fell on the skirt were like diamond sand sprinkled after crushing the stars.

He tugged at the knot in front of his chest, then turned his head to look at the thin straps behind his back that exposed more than half of his right-angled shoulders, and was only willing to intersect his thin waist, almost laughing out loud Come.

... She really is a princess.

The girl stood gracefully in front of him, and said with a smile, "The game starts here."

"When you walk through the first door, you have the right to leave whenever you want."

Speaking of this, her smile became deeper and unfathomable: "Don't let your friends down. They are willing to become swans for you."