Forced to bind with escape game NPC [unlimited]

The players who followed Qi Anqi felt that today was completely different from yesterday.

Yesterday, I visited Xuyuan Village and then idled for an afternoon without any gains. Today, I first killed the dungeon monster in the Heshen Temple, then rushed to the small village in the rain, and rushed back to the Heshen Temple in the rain after making a wish.

When Qi Anqi took them to kill the dungeon monster and said that they were going to Xuyuan Village, the players resisted at first. It was a two-hour drive, which might not be finished in a day, but after walking for an hour, they saw the small wooden house. At that moment, the players suddenly realized that this female player knew much more clues about this dungeon than they imagined.

When in Xuyuan Village, the players even met the tour guide Madoka.She was sitting alone at the entrance of the village in the heavy rain, and she didn't show a hint of surprise when she saw the players appearing. Only the old lady of the village head gave the manhole cover key without saying a word. Maybe the paper figurine didn't work in the heavy rain. She This time, the players were not asked to make paper money and paper figurines first.Madoka, on the other hand, has been sitting at the entrance of the village, watching the players make wishes with some reluctance, and then watching them leave.

Two hours later, when they returned to the River God Temple, they all stopped in surprise.

"Where's this temple?!" Jiang Shuimiao tried to open his eyes wide, and rubbed his eyes hard without caring about the few drops of rain on his hands.

The square river temple that was originally located here, the red and blue exterior walls and gates have all disappeared out of thin air. If the cash box standing alone in the two abrupt small doors is still there, perhaps no one would believe it. Trapped them a few hours ago.

Bran's eyes immediately turned to Qi Anqi, and then he took it back silently without saying a word.

It seems that she and the guild once encountered a similar scene in a high-difficulty dungeon. The man first traded with them, exchanged their props with customs clearance methods, and always made some incomprehensible outrageous actions, but in the end he still passed the level got a copy.

At that time, her guild leader also joked that if it wasn't for this person, no matter who he was, he would find a way to get into their guild.

Is this woman really a novice player?Bran was lost in thought.

After staying in the Heshen Temple for not too long, they waited for the bus to pick them up.

The rain blurred the windows of the vehicle, so the players didn't know what was going on inside. They only knew that the tour guide, Madoka, got out of the car in a daze after a while after the door was opened.Her formulaic smirk was gone, and instead she stood in front of the vehicle, gazing in disbelief at the vanished river temple.

"Well, we don't know what happened, it will be like this when we come back!" Zhang Sen tried to separate their relationship with Heshen Temple.

And Madoka didn't say anything, just quietly looked at the empty altar in the hall from a distance.If the River God Temple is still there, then her location is still outside the gate of the temple.

Albugu was worried that Madoka would run away because of the destruction of the River Temple, so he had already taken out his machete, but after a while, Madoka suddenly said, "Ma... it's five o'clock soon, passengers, get on the bus."

The vehicle drove away slowly. In this continuous heavy rain, the River God Temple only lost the statue of the river god at first, but now it seems that even itself was washed away by the heavy rain.

After returning to the cabin, the players sat around the fireplace, drying their rain-soaked clothes.

"You said you would take us through." The young woman said suddenly at this moment.

Qi An looked at her, waiting for her next words.

"The dungeon mission requires us to pray three times. Today is only the first time. Only the three of you prayed yesterday, and there is only one day left in the dungeon."

After she finished speaking, the other players looked at Qi Anqi one after another. After today, they all understood the process of the so-called prayer in this dungeon.Tomorrow is the last day of the journey, and it is impossible for them to complete the remaining two prayers in one day.

"It stands to reason that, in this round, you won't have time to complete the three-day prayer." Qi An moved his eyes to the heavy rain outside the window.The rain shrouded the entire cabin and knocked hard on the glass windows. They were like a group of players in a small boat, sinking and floating in the rainy night.

"Ni Pianwo?" Albugu patted the coffee table, and this prairie man was the first to lose his temper.

Qi Anqi watched the eyes of several players sizing her up, which slowly turned into uneasiness and distrust, and said slowly: "Because from the beginning, what I said was to take you through the dungeon, not to complete the task."

"Isn't it the same?"

"It's different." It was Bran who said these words. The little girl's crisp voice sounded in the living room. At that moment, Bran had an intuition—all the players present would leave the instance safely.

At this time, the tour guide Xiaoyuan came. She wanted to introduce tomorrow's itinerary, but after saying a few words, she showed a helpless and obscure wry smile, then turned and went to the cafeteria. All wet, like the soul in that well.

"What's going on? Didn't she tell us tomorrow's itinerary?" Chen Ke pushed his glasses, a little surprised.

"She doesn't need to say it," Bran replied, "because no matter what you say, tomorrow's schedule will not change."

Players: ?

That night, everyone went back to their rooms to sleep. Although the camel fur coat was hanging on the hanger at the door, the clothes were not as damaged as after the fight with the river god statue, and the owner of the clothes was also lying on the floor. on the room.

Early the next morning, when the players went downstairs, they saw Xiaoyuan standing at the door. She no longer looked like the tour guide with a weird smile on her face, but looked at the heavy rain and fog and the still dark sky.

She glanced at Qi Anqi, and wanted to say something, but she hesitated.

Qi Anqi said directly: "Today's trip is cancelled, because the bus broke down."

And at this moment, Lu Qi also came out, and he added to Qi Anqi's words: "She's not wrong."

"What?" The players looked at the two NPCs, and then at Qi Anqi.Wait, who is the tour guide driver and who is the player?

At daybreak, Qi Anqi opened the door without hesitation.

"I don't need you today, you can choose to follow, or you can stay here and wait for customs clearance." She turned to look at the others, and then said to Jiang Shuimiao, "You too, stay in the house."

"What about you, Miss Qiqi?" Jiang Shuimiao asked.

At this moment, Qi Anqi raised the corners of his mouth and said, "I'm going to lead the Magpie Bridge."

If it is just to let other people stay here, no one will believe her when she goes out with Bran and Jiang Shuimiao, but if she keeps Jiang Shuimiao, other players may guess that she should not kill their own people. Also stay.

"I don't fully believe you, I'm going to the River Temple." The young woman said.

"The nest is going too!" Albugu also said.

Zhang Senlinlin looked at each other and asked to go, they didn't want to die without knowing why.

In the end, Jiang Shuimiao was the only one who decided to stay in the cabin.

"Then go if you want, remember to run fast." Qi Anqi shrugged indifferently.

"What do you mean..."

Just when the players didn't understand the inner meaning of the phrase "run faster", they heard the driver behind him who had barely spoken to them suddenly say, "I'll take you there."

Players: "???" Isn't the car broken?

Before they had time to question, they saw the door of the bus parked at the door open.

Jiang Shuimiao: "...This car won't explode while driving, right?"

"Get in the car, it's safer than getting in the rain, besides..." Chen Ke suggested.

"It's not you, it's her." Lu Qi interrupted unceremoniously.

Following Lu Qi's gaze, the players all looked at Qi Anqi.

"What? Aren't you going to the River Temple?" The young woman was surprised.

Qi An Qi opened Jiang Shuimiao's black umbrella and put it above her head: "When did I say I was going to the Heshen Temple today?" Then she said to Lu Qi: "Thank you for your kindness, but I want to walk." She After finishing speaking, he left in the direction of Xuyuan Village to the east.

"I'll walk there with you." Lu Qi walked into the rain nonchalantly, and walked to Qi Anqi's side.

The players were stunned again: Wait!If you don't sit, let's sit!

And Bran looked at this person, an NPC, and blinked slowly. Her intuition in the dungeon is always related to the events of the dungeon itself, but today, she had a completely different intuition from the past: she felt that Qi An There is a kind of connection between Qi and this NPC, as if the two were connected by a fragile rope before, and it was about to be disconnected in the next second, but the rope was still connected after the blink of an eye.

too weird.

Bran also held up his umbrella and walked towards the river temple.

Heavy rain pounded the fragile umbrellas.Although Qi Anqi was holding an umbrella, his lower body was wet.Lu Qi next to him was almost drenched. The white shirt was close to his skin, outlining almost perfect muscles and curves. His jet-black hair was dripping with water, and his eyelashes were also soaked by rain. His eyes were held in a hazy mist, and his beauty was not like ordinary people.But he is indeed not a human being, he is just a part of the game world, because he doesn't seem to care about the damp and cold, and silently follows Qi Anqi.

"You don't need to be like this." Amidst the sound of raindrops, Qi An's voice sounded.

"What's it like?" Lu Qi looked puzzled.

Qi An looked up at the endless road ahead and said, "Whether the person you are waiting for is me or not, you don't need to be like this. In my opinion, this is the same as these dungeon games. There is no predestined ending. You There are so many options to choose from...”

When she said this, she stopped, and she was suddenly not sure if this person had a choice.In her opinion, this NPC may be a joke played by the game on her. He is a real human teammate, and she is this NPC. Although she doesn't know the reason, she doesn't like this kind of destined arrangement.And what if he was different from her and had no choice?

When Qi Anqi began to think about what to do if Lu Qi told her that she had no choice, she heard the man beside her say in a stubborn tone: "I don't want it."

Qi Anqi stopped and turned to look at him. Lu Qi lowered his eyes and pursed his lips and said, "I've already made a choice, so I don't want to choose again."

Just when she hadn't figured out the complete meaning of his words, Xu Yuancun appeared in front of her.

This small village was soaked by rainwater at this time, the doors of each house were closed tightly, and the livestock raised were pitifully soaked in the pond.As for the window of the outermost house, the old lady of the village head leaned there, looking out of the window in despair.

Qi An knocked on her door, asking for the key to the well.

The old lady with wrinkled hands gave the key to Qi Anqi, and said silently: "It's all retribution, it's all retribution."

Qi Anqi didn't say a word, and opened the lid of the well with the key.

The day before yesterday, she delivered two extra paper money into the cash box, and yesterday she put in one extra, adding up to exactly three coins.

She decided to summon the soul under the well again, this time the system prompt was a little different from before.

[Player Qi Anqi triggers the task, prays to the well for the third time, the number of prayers is met, the player Qi Anqi will clear the level after receiving the reward... Player Qi Anqi is detected to start the hidden task: the soul at the bottom of the well, the copy continues , please choose to destroy this soul or redeem this soul. ]

"I choose to redeem this soul." Qi Anqi said without hesitation.

In the heavy rain, when the drenched woman crawled out from the bottom of the well, everything seemed less weird and abrupt.

The woman's soul raised her head quietly and looked at the heavy rain in the sky. The same day was the beginning of everything and her end.

"The rain will keep falling, and the temple is gone, come with me to see him." Qi Anqi said to this cold soul.

The woman lowered her head silently, looked at her, and then followed. This time, she did not attack Qi Anqi.

Her wish is not greedy, she made a wish to make the sky rain, she made a wish to destroy the river temple, she is different from those people, she is not greedy, she did not make a wish for herself.

On the west side of the cabin, Bran also led the players to put ingots into the cash box.

The statue of the river god was as intact as before. Although he was no longer restrained by the square walls and gates, he still stretched out his hand, looking upwards hopelessly.

"Are you crazy? What are you doing?!" The young woman almost threw herself at the mouth of the cash box.

But it was too late, in addition to the paper money of other players, Bran threw in a lot of paper money in one go.

Qi Anqi told her yesterday that she will come here alone to deliver the paper money today. Originally, she only needs to deliver one with the statue of the river and go to the direction of the cabin, but if other players want to follow, let the statue of the river be strong. to unbeatable.This way players have to run away instead of choosing to kill the river idol.

The little girl looked at the players surrounding her and smiled helplessly. She didn't expect that everyone followed as Qi Anqi said.

"Get ready to run away. The more paper money you have, the stronger this monster will be. No matter what, you can't kill him." After Bran finished speaking, he pinched his hands at the collar of his cloak. She turned and ran away.

Hearing her words, the players all moved away from the statue of the river god.From their point of view, yesterday's statue of the river god is already difficult to deal with. If the strength is doubled or even tripled, they may really die.

They suddenly understood why the woman would say "remember to run faster" before going out, and she had figured it out from the beginning.

The moment the river statue opened its eyes, the players all started running towards the cabin.After the statue of the river god walked out of the temple, he found that there was nothing restricting his range of activities, so he went straight to the east.

The cabin is obviously the safest place, but if there is only one player left, the atmosphere will be different.

Jiang Shuimiao huddled on the sofa alone. The sky outside the window was very bright, but it was still raining heavily, and the rain showed no sign of stopping.Apart from him, the rest of the people in the room—if they can be called human beings—the tour guide Xiaoyuan was still standing by the window, looking at something, obviously from Jiang Shuimiao's position, there was nothing outside the window.

The last time I was so nervous was before the results of the high school entrance examination two years ago.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.Before Jiang Shuimiao could sit up, she saw Xiaoyuan almost staggering towards the door.

She opened the door and saw a man and a woman standing at the door, and the soul behind them who should have forgotten everything but hatred.

"How do you know..." Madoka hesitated for a while before finally asking.

"Know what?" Qi Anqi was still standing in the rain, her umbrella was raised higher than when she left, because there were two people standing under the umbrella at this time, "I thought you were afraid of the river god statue at first, but after I confirmed The statue of the river god wears the same braided ring as you, and after hearing your story, I realized that maybe you are not afraid, but you can't get in."

That temple not only trapped the statue of the river god, but also blocked Madoka, so she couldn't get in.

The real background story in this dungeon is Madoka's second story. The man and the woman may have drowned in the well. Under the action of the heavy rain, the water was getting higher and higher, so the man lifted the woman up, If he wants her to live longer, as long as he supports for a while, the rain may stop, and once the rain stops, the villagers will definitely give up looking for them.However, that year was a relatively serious natural disaster, the rain did not stop, the man died first, and the woman froze to death in despair.When the villagers found their bodies, they were superstitious about the revenge of the woman's ghost. The villagers shrank her forever at the bottom of the well, and buried the man two hours away to the west of the village.

This pair of tragic lovers, even after death, are separated from each other.One will be trapped in the temple as long as he wakes up, and the other will go halfway as long as it doesn't rain. They will never meet each other forever.

This is the story that Qi Anqi guessed.

So she used her wish to make the sky rain, use her wish to destroy the temple, release the woman at the bottom of the well, and release the man in the temple.There has never been any river god, only the villagers who killed the pair of mandarin ducks because of superstition.

This is another method that Qi Anqi can think of, using a wish to clear the dungeon.

At this time, the players in the west also ran towards the wooden house. When they saw Qi Anqi, they all complained and felt that they were almost killed by her.The one running in the front was a gray wolf with pointed ears. She ran up to Qi Anqi, nodded her chin towards her, and got into the cabin.

Jiang Shuimiao was taken aback by the wolf that suddenly barged in. As soon as he jumped away, he saw the wolf squint at him with a disgusted look, and then ran upstairs.

"..." He seemed to be looked down upon by a wolf.

And behind the players, there is a man chasing their river god, or a man who turned into a river god.

"What is that?" The players didn't expect that, after finally running back, they saw a drenched female ghost at the door of the cabin.

The "female ghost" looked in their direction, and then walked straight over. When the players thought they were about to be attacked, the "female ghost" bypassed them and walked towards the "river statue".

In the pouring rain, a pale-faced and cold female ghost stood opposite a tall golden and copper-colored river god statue. Everyone felt they were looking at each other.

I don't know who stretched out the hand first, maybe at the same time, the female ghost and the river god statue intertwined their hands, and then slowly transformed into two translucent souls, the river god statue is no longer a bronze statue, but a handsome face The man, the female ghost is no longer in a panic, her clothes are tidy, her hair is no longer messy, revealing a delicate face, and where they hold hands, two identical rings woven from red string touch together.

"I can think of completing this kind of underworld hidden task."

A sudden sound came from behind Jiang Shuimiao, who was stunned. When he turned around, it turned out to be the little girl named Bran.

"You... When did you come back?"

The little girl glanced at him, then suddenly smiled and said, "Idiot."

Jiang Shuimiao:?

And in the heavy rain, the two souls holding each other held hands tightly and looked at Qi Anqi: "Thank you."

……

After the couple embraced and left, only the players and two NPCs were left at the door of the cabin under the heavy rain, but then the sky began to dim, and the players were shrouded in white light one by one, indicating that they had cleared the instance. .

"What's going on here?" Someone was surprised, obviously they didn't complete the task given by the system.

"Because this dungeon is going to disappear?" Chen Ke said, "The key monster of this dungeon is gone, does that mean the dungeon is over..." Few people could hear the second half of his sentence clearly .

When the night fell, the rain stopped, the cabin disappeared, and there were only two NPCs, Qi Anqi, Xiaoyuan, and Lu Qi left in the dungeon.

This was the first time Madoka showed a sincere smile: "I found out that it was raining the next day, and I didn't quite believe it. I thought it was just a coincidence, because I had seen too many greedy people, and I didn't think you would Do it."

"Do you have memories other than ours?" Qi An asked.

Xiaoyuan nodded: "Before this, I also met people like you, but the itinerary was a little different, and once those people realized that this was an endless cycle, they began to endlessly maximize Interest. There were also people who realized that I was one with that soul and tried to kill me and get out of here."

"Until one day, the itinerary suddenly became different, and then I greeted you. I thought that there wouldn't be much difference." Xiaoyuan said softly, "But there is a difference."

She suddenly remembered that before she swallowed her last breath at the bottom of the well, she prayed in her heart to the gods to save them.

Then the gods seemed to really appear, and he said that as long as they gave him their souls, he would avenge her and make these superstitious people live in pain forever.

What did she say?By the way, she said: "She doesn't want revenge, she wants to be with him forever."

He said yes, but not now.

Later, the woman in front of her later fulfilled her wish for her.

She used her wish to realize her wish.