Forced to bind with escape game NPC [unlimited]

The lawn at night extends infinitely, bordering the dark woods at the end, and above it is a deep blue sky. On the lawn, there are eight soil pots one person tall, each with a The saplings are quietly stationed in this night.

And in this night, there were a few insects chirping from time to time, and it was these insect chirping that scared the gardeners who had been working overtime back to the greenhouse.

At this time, only the players are resting in the greenhouse, and the beetles are nowhere to be seen.

In this small game, the daytime is about two hours, and the night is only half an hour, and it takes eight days or twenty hours.Qi Anqi sat in his seat and thought.

"The growth rate of plants is very fast, and the speed of temperature rise is also the same. The first day was only more than ten degrees. Today, the highest temperature during the day is already close to more than 20 degrees. If there is no accident, these eight days may be divided into four seasons. Tomorrow, during the day It's summer."

Qi An tilted her head and looked at the girl who was almost in sync with her mind.She sat on the opposite side of Shi Yi with her chin resting on her back, and analyzed seriously at the opposite Shi Yi.

Her voice was also heard by other players, and they looked at her in surprise, lamenting that she was indeed the person Shi Yi wanted to see.

The man and woman number 95 and 96 around Qi Anqi pushed the round tables together and drew them very close, and they also began to discuss in a low voice:

"This girl seems to be the former CP of Shi Yi, do you know what happened to her?"

"I also want to know, if she is a player, with Shi Yi as a teammate, it shouldn't be easy for her to have an accident."

"That's not necessarily the case. Maybe Shi Yi became so powerful because of the stimulation she received after the accident."

During their discussion, Qi Anqi also listened attentively.

"What do they mean by CP?"

Qi An raised her head, remembering that Lu Qi was sitting across from her, she could hear it, and he could hear it, too. At this moment, his dark blue eyes were staring at her.

"It's just..." Qi Anqi tried to find an appropriate explanation, "This game will pair two players and let them cooperate to clear the game. This is the so-called CP."

Lu Qi nodded with a half understanding: "Then what is the basis for the pairing?"

Qi Anqi sensed the other party's thirst for knowledge, so he had no choice but to continue to answer: "These two people will get a prop called 'token' when they enter the game for the first time, and these two props are often a unique pair." She didn't know if the other party could understand if she explained it this way.

"Like my earrings and your necklace?" Lu Qi asked calmly.

Qi An looked at him calmly: "Why do you think so? The CP I'm talking about is players and players." She never thought that Lu Qi ignored the necklace she had accidentally exposed, and he really remembered.

"But they are so similar, like... a pair." Lu Qi said with some persistence, "You didn't say just now that it must be a player and a player."

"...Then I'll say it now." Qi Anqi still didn't admit it, even though she also thought that maybe they might really be CP.

Lu Qi turned his head, as if unwilling to believe her words: "You said before that it was left to you by your dead blind date."

Qi An chirped: "..."

It was just then that day broke, and another night passed.

When the players left the greenhouse, they found that today's temperature is indeed much higher than yesterday, and summer is coming.

So what challenges do summer gardeners face?

On the soil pot on the lawn, except for the saplings No. 93 and 92 that disappeared because the two players quit, the saplings No. 95 and 99 are already in a mess at this time, and there is no intact leaf on the entire sapling , all were swallowed up like nets blowing around in the wind.

"Ah! I thought I cleaned up those aphids yesterday!" Woman No. 95 rubbed her temples with a headache, "Looks like I have to quit the game."

The bearded No. 96 felt a little pity for his CP withdrawal, but he could do nothing: "You go to participate in a few more games while it's still early, and see you in the game lobby."

Then No. 95 said goodbye to his "brother" and quit the game, and No. 99 had to leave.In this small game with ten players, only six players and their "assistants" are left.

When the players quit the game, their soil pots will not disappear immediately, but will disappear at night, which means that these two unsightly dead saplings will spend the day with them.

When the sun was near the top, Qi Anqi noticed something was wrong with her little tree.

At this time, the saplings already had the embryonic form of potted plants, and they had grown to a height of three to four meters, and the trunk was much thicker than yesterday.

It’s just that in the soil under this potted plant——

Qi Anqi looked down at the black granular balls that fell on the edge of the soil basin. These things were not there yesterday.

She first dug up some soil under her feet, and observed the whole sapling from a distance as she did yesterday, but found nothing unusual. There were no watermelon worms in the soil, and there were no aphids and galls formed by them destroying tree tissue on the leaves.

"Do you think there are other creatures in the tree?" Lu Qi noticed Qi Anqi's actions.

Qi An nodded. She looked at the players on the left and right. Since the saplings of the players had grown up, many players were sitting on soil pots or standing behind tree trunks, so they couldn't see everything at a glance.However, the players she could see didn't move much, as if they were cleaning up some pests.

"These things didn't exist yesterday, but they don't look like dirt." Qi An pointed at the few small balls on the ground, always feeling that something was wrong.

However, Lu Qi didn't pay much attention to those strange little particles, as if he knew that even if he saw them, he would not know what they were. Instead, he looked at Qi Anqi: "There is a direct way to know."

"In what way?"

As soon as Qi Anqi's words fell, he saw Lu Qi's figure flash past, jumping onto the branch of this small tree that was about to be strong at an extremely fast speed.

She was about to call him to stop, after all, it was uncertain whether this newly grown seedling could bear the weight of a human being, when she saw Lu Qi groping from the top branch to the leaves.

He carefully inspected the corners along the tree trunk, and soon caught the attention of player No. 98.

The middle-aged man at No. 98 looked at it for a while, and then quietly ran over: "Big girl, what is your boyfriend looking for?"

"Give me a prop and I'll tell you?" Qi Anqi added, "He's not my boyfriend."

"...Big sister, why are you just like Shi Yi? Opening your mouth is just a prop." The middle-aged man couldn't think of the answer, so he complained and went back to his soil basin to start searching.

Qi An shrugged, even advanced players like Shi Yi received props as rewards for information, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with a player like her who had no point base to collect some.

At this time, Lu Qi had already started to inspect the second half. He was standing at the junction of the trunk and the branches, looking at a branch.

That part of the branch was a bit strange, one of the joints was separated from the other, but instead of extending out to grow branches and leaves like the other, it was bent in the opposite direction and connected to the trunk.

"Is it this?" Lu Qi pointed to the branch.

Qi Anqi also raised his head and looked at the branch. It was indeed like a branch, but the color seemed a little too dark compared to this young tree, and the connection between it and the trunk was not solid, showing intermittent gaps. .

When she took out the scimitar and was about to try to pick out the branch, Lu Qi went straight to it.He grabbed the "branch" and jumped straight down from the trunk.

And this section of "branches" didn't seem to have expected that they would be raided, and one of them lost its balance and was grabbed from the trunk.

"It's soft." Lu Qi stated flatly.That section of "branch" was more than one meter long, and when Lu Qi pulled it in his hand, it no longer straightened, but curled up in shock.At this time, it can be clearly seen that although it has the color of a tree trunk and a slender body, it curls up like a larva of some kind of insect, with gastropods and tail feet, which were the trunks that were grabbed by them before, and those particles, Probably its poop.

This is a mimetic insect.

Qi An chirped: "..."

"How to deal with it?" Lu Qi looked at her, and wanted to hand the worm to Qi Anqi, which made her quickly draw her hand behind her back.She refused to touch the thing with her bare hands.

This reminded her of the stray cats that were once raised in the community—put them in front of her with a mouse in their mouth as if to claim credit, and then squatted there with their backs straight and watched her wait for her to eat them.

And the slender worm in his hand, with its two legs held up by its side, looked at her with teary eyes.

Qi Anqi remained silent: "..."

The long worm twisted a few more times, trying to secrete a viscous liquid to slip away from Lu Qi's hand, but just as it slipped halfway, it was caught again.

——The cat put the mouse in front of her, and the mouse tried to escape, but the cat grabbed it back with its paws and held it down.

It's over, more like that.

While Qi Anqi was struggling with how to deal with the bug, the bug seemed to find that it was useless to escape, and simply spit out a silk thread from its mouth towards Qi Anqi, but just as it spit out, Lu Qi grabbed it like a rope and threw it twice. Before it touched Qi Anqi, the silk thread fluttered along with the worm's swinging posture, like a translucent ribbon.

"Don't move." Lu Qi warned the bug.

"..." Qi Anqi didn't think the bug could understand.

No, the worm seems to understand.

Qi Anqi found out miraculously that this twig-like bug really calmed down after being warned, its expression became even more innocent, as if someone turned around and dragged it away from the new dining table when it clearly wanted to eat a la carte. down.

"...let it go." Qi Anqi didn't want to splash the insect liquid, "throw it away."

She said so, and Lu Qi followed suit. He walked away from the greenhouse, and then disappeared into the towering woods in the distance.

It doesn't have to be so far...

Soon, other players also noticed something was wrong.It wasn't the droppings of the bugs that they found, but the dead leaves.They start panicking looking for unknown creatures who are eating their plants.

Qi Anqi originally thought that the bugs were harmless to them, until the bugs on the small tree No. 91 almost wrapped the tall man No. 91 into a mummified body. Before he could not breathe completely, he killed the bugs on the tree. insect.

"I know this. This is an inchworm, a butterfly larva." The middle-aged man No. 98 said to his "assistant" after discovering the bug on the tree.He picked the inchworm with a wooden stick and found that it was motionless, as solid as a part of the tree.

Qi Anqi immediately remembered Lu Qi's surprise...

"Is there anything wrong?" Lu Qi had already returned by this time.

"It should be gone." Qi Anqi checked again after he left, but found no other inchworms.

The next second, Lu Qi asked seriously: "Then can I be your CP now?"