Forced to bind with escape game NPC [unlimited]

Until the evening, the temperature didn't cool down much, and the players' plants were a little sluggish due to the sun's exposure.

Girl number 94 and bearded man number 96 took out the drinking water from the portable space and poured it on the soil of their own plants before it was completely dark.And the middle-aged man No. 98, with a mournful face, muttered: "This is unreasonable, this is very unreasonable."

His originally green trees and plants now had withered, yellow and drooping leaves, and the soil was as hard as pebbles. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed hopeless.

On the contrary, No. 91, which was watered under the scorching sun, its plants were not in good condition at first like after being attacked by insects yesterday, but then recovered quickly. The water did not rot the roots of the plants, but saved its life.

"Is it unreasonable, just because my seeds are cheaper than his?" His vacation shirt No. 98 was already wet with his sweat, and he scratched his head hopelessly, squatting in front of the plants he had worked so hard to grow for four days.

"Probably so." Qi Anqi whispered.It seems that this is the advantage of high-scoring seeds. Although they cannot prevent pests, they are easier to survive in the face of severe and extreme weather.

As soon as it got dark, the beetles flew out of the greenhouse again like yesterday.This time it took the initiative to fly in front of the players, looking at the gardeners' plants.Compared with yesterday, the beetle was bigger again, and its hard shell was shiny.

"Oh, your plant is dying." Although it looked at No. 98 and said so, there was no regret in its tone, but it excitedly looked at this withered large potted plant.

No. 98 also knew that his mission had failed, so he had to choose to bid farewell to his "assistant" at this last moment.

And this time, the beetle no longer concealed it, but held the withered potted plant on its shoulder in front of the player.

It's hard to imagine how its slender limbs, which are not as thick as human arms, can lift the heavy wood, but the beetle managed to lift it up, humming happily and flying towards the direction of the woods.

"Where is it going with this thing?" Girl No. 94 asked softly.

Player No. 98 watched for a while, and said: "I advise you to quit the game as soon as I did, and don't waste time."

"What do you mean by that? You're not jealous of our plants surviving, are you?" the tall man on No. 91 said disdainfully.

"When I was young, I also raised a lot of bonsai in the yard. You may not know that beetles have lived in wood since they were larvae. Not to mention dead leaves, many of them will not let go of sawdust. You worked hard for a long time to raise these potted plants, and finally became this guy's food."

After No. 98 finished speaking, he directly exited the game, leaving behind the players who were thinking about his words.After all, No. 98 has already failed, so there is no need for him to lie.

"Even if this beetle has ulterior motives, it will be after we complete the mission." After returning to the greenhouse, No. 91 comforted himself looking at the other players.

Girl No. 94 bit her lip. She held the hand of her "sister" and didn't speak any more.

At this time, the bearded man No. 96 suddenly ran up to Shi Yi: "Shi Yi, I want to make a deal with you. I will give you an item, and you take me through this game." The bearded man No. 96 thought that he had His performance is not bad, and the seed has also been selected for the penultimate tier. As long as he passes the test, the points will not be bad.

Qi An Qi rested on the round table, quietly watching this scene.She had few points in the first place, and most of them were added to the force value by her. The more than ten hours of staged labor on the senses had already made her a little tired as a new gardener.

"Do you need to rest for a while?" Lu Qi looked at her and asked

She shook her head, no one could tell if something unexpected would happen at night.

"No." Shi Yi looked at No. 96 and rejected him.

"Why... aren't you famously willing to take players through the level by trading items?" No. 96 asked.

What he said made the girl opposite Shi Yi couldn't help but curl her lips: "Where did you get this habit, and you're even famous."

"It's not..." Shi Yi wanted to refute, but stopped, he couldn't help frowning and thinking: When did he start doing this?

After being rejected, No. 96 had to give up. After all, the other party was Shi Yi, as long as he didn't want to, no player could force him.

On the second day, the beetle came back a little later than yesterday, and it seemed to be in a good mood. When it pushed the door open, the uppermost limbs and head were raised high.

"Have you encountered any happy things? Mr. Garnard."

"Of course, Ms. Jiaoli finally accepted my invitation. We had a pleasant night last night, on the secret tree trunk..." The beetle stopped here, looking at the question with a strange expression. The "gardener".

At this time, Qi Anqi stared at it without any guilt. In the eyes of others, there was no expression, and even a beetle that made people dare not look directly. In her eyes, when entering the greenhouse, the tentacles on its head swayed from side to side, with black bead eyes. He squinted in enjoyment, and flapped his elytra from time to time.

The beetle coughed softly with a thin limb covering its mouthparts: "It's time for you to go out and take care of the plants, gardeners, go!"

The other players who heard the beetle's remarks all showed some embarrassment at this time, and immediately pushed the door out. They didn't want to know more details.

Only one person is different from them——

"What did it do on the hidden tree trunk? Why didn't it continue?" Lu Qi asked Qi An.

"..." Qi Anqi replied expressionlessly after a brief silence, "Let's have dinner on the hidden tree trunk."

Lu Qi said "oh" thoughtfully.

Today's uninvited guests are no longer bugs.

While the remaining five players were looking after the giant potted plants they had raised since they were young, five giant creatures flew over from the distant woods.

They were five giant birds with black bodies covered with wings dotted with white stripes, white belly, and a touch of red on their foreheads.As if they had been allocated, one side flapped its wings and landed in front of each player.

When the giant bird landed in front of Qi Anqi and Lu Qi, they had to raise their heads to see its slender neck and sharp beak through the belly of the giant bird, and its barbed claws snapped. On the lawn, there was a splash of dust.

"Are you the gardeners of this tree?" the giant bird tilted its head and asked.

"Yes."

By the third season, Qi Anqi's potted plant had grown from a seed to a semi-mature sapling with dense branches and leaves, even bigger than this giant bird.

The giant bird looked at the green plant on the soil pot, its eyes were full of greed: "I heard that your tree is sick, and I need to heal it."

"Sick?" Qi An looked at her potted plant. She was sure that the tree was kept healthy by her, and no pests could take advantage of it. "I don't think it's sick."

The giant bird shook its head: "It's up to me, the bird doctor, to decide whether you get sick or not. You have to ask me to check it."

Qi Anqi looked at this giant bird. If he couldn't recognize it before, then when it called itself "doctor", it had already coincided with the "woodpecker" in the textbook.But her tree is still too small for this giant bird, and this small tree may not be able to withstand its inspection.

With a sullen face, she first looked at the giant bird who didn't seem to intend to wait for her to agree and walked towards the potted plant, and then took out the scimitar.

"How to check?!" On the other side, girl No. 94 asked.

"How to check?" The giant bird repeated, and then replied, "Of course it is to pry open the bark to see the inside."

"No!" Girl No. 94 exclaimed, "Then what if my tree is killed by you?"

Looking at the nervous No. 94 girl, the giant bird made a "cuckoo" sound from its throat as if it was laughing.After it finished laughing, its round eyes slightly curved: "What does that have to do with me?"

"clang"--

On Qi An's side, the silver scimitar collided with the bird's claws and made a loud noise, while Lu Qi rolled over on the bird's back, strangling its neck.The giant bird did not give up easily. It shook its neck, and at the same time pecked fiercely at Qi Anqi with its sharp beak. However, just as it bent halfway down, it was strangled by Lu Qi on its neck with both hands, and paused. After a while, Qi Anqi took the opportunity to dodge under it.

But the fighting power of the giant bird is stronger than those little bugs. It spread its wings and waved, trying to throw Lu Qi off its neck.However, Lu Qi remained motionless. While he was grabbing the giant bird's neck with one hand, a curved knife similar to Qi Anqi's appeared in the other hand at some point. With his swing, the blade slashed across It touched the root of the giant bird's wing and went down several centimeters before stopping.

Qi Anqi couldn't care less about sizing up Lu Qi's combat power, she quickly slashed at the giant bird's claw with a machete.The giant bird's wings were injured, and the kick of its feet made it even more unstable and fell to the ground.

Just as the giant bird was about to issue a sharp warning to call its companions, Qi Anqi pointed his knife at his eyes: "If you dare to call me, I will check it for you."

The giant bird had to show weakness: "We just want to find something to eat, and we don't want to fight with you."

"There are so many trees in the forest, why don't you look for these small saplings to eat?" Qi An asked.

But the giant bird doesn't have a good excuse to prevaricate it, that's what the game is about.

Qi An looked at the giant bird and withdrew his weapon: "I don't want to fight either, why don't we have a chat?"

……

The group that chose to fight the giant bird was also the group that picked up memory. The giant bird did a lot of damage, especially its sensitive beak, which was very fast.And when Shi Yi thought about whether to kill the giant bird directly with the sleeve arrow, the girl next to him suddenly stopped in front of the giant bird: "Don't worry, I know where you like to eat."

***

When the five giant birds flapped their wings again and flew back to the woods, the plants raised by the gardeners did not seem to be very optimistic. Only the potted plants of Qi Anqi and Shi Yi were still intact.

The trunk of Tall Man No. 91 had been stripped of a large layer of bark, and it seemed that nothing was found, and no further penetration was made. Girl No. 94's tree was a bit miserable. The giant bird pecked at her tree with great strength. The trunk was covered with a bunch of small holes, and finally it couldn't support it and broke in the middle. No. 96 had stippling on his body, but he kept his potted plant. At least the tree was fine except for a field of leaves.

When the players returned to the greenhouse, the beetles hadn't gone out yet.

"Why haven't you gone out today?" No. 91 was in a bad mood. He never thought that a small game would have to go through so many difficulties.

"Don't we have to wait until the sky is dark." The beetle looked at the forest in the distance, "It seems that some gardeners didn't protect their plants well today. It's true. After the plants die, it won't be long before they replant them. Why? They all left one by one."

"What? Plant it again?" No. 96 asked in surprise.Only then did he realize that those players had voluntarily quit the game after seeing their plants die.So they can continue to stay in this game with whoever they want to see until the end.

Qi Anqi has already guessed this point. After all, Fantasy Day is a welfare day. If players don’t need rewards but just want to meet some “people”, the game is just a platform.

It's a pity that today's "gardener" couldn't help crying and saying goodbye to his "sister" when he saw the tree languidly breaking and falling to the ground, and quit the game, so she couldn't hear the beetle's words.