Chapter 11: Lady Karin (I)
Stepping through the mud through the leveling area, Ye Zhi finally couldn't help but stop, from the time he left the city to now, there are fewer and fewer players, even if he moves slowly, it stands to reason that he should go to Ms. Karin's residence.
I called up the map and looked at it, the system didn't remind me that the map couldn't be opened, and the coordinates on the lower right were not abnormal, Ye Zhi wondered, what went wrong? He didn't get lost, and he didn't go to some strange places.
Ye Zhi picked up a branch, drew a big X on the ground, inserted the branch into the intersection of two straight lines, and made two stones to clamp the branch to prevent the branch from being blown away by the wind.
Staring at the corpse of a robber in the leveling area, Ye Zhi walked over and tore off a strip of cloth from the robber's clothes and pinched it in his hand.
Tie the strip of cloth to the branch, the mark will probably be a little more obvious, Ye Zhi thought so, took out a pen, and wrote a α on one end of the strip of cloth.
He stood up and continued to look at his mark, and after looking at it for a few minutes to make sure that the branches would not be blown away by the wind, Ye Zhi continued to walk with confidence.
Ye Zhi had only been walking for ten minutes, and his mark was cleaned by the system, leaving only a strip of cloth with a symbol blown away by the wind.
The rain became lighter and lighter, and after a few more circles, Ye Zhi knew that he must have walked into something terrible, although he didn't see the mark he had placed before, but there was no doubt that he must be going around in circles.
There are many illusions in the game, and they can be opened in different ways, some are triggered when they are touched, and some are set off when they enter the corresponding range.
According to the current appearance, Ye Zhi has encountered the most difficult one to deal with, a randomly triggered mobile illusion, the so-called random, that is, I don't know when it will be triggered, the so-called movement, that is, the illusion will change according to the person's position, if there is no special adventure, the general person who falls into it will not be able to get out.
When Ye Zhi was still a player, he also encountered such an illusion, when he chose to die, and now that he has become an NPC, he has to find a way to crack the illusion.
The biggest feature of fantasy is change, and the biggest weakness is immutable.
Ye Zhi drew a rough map on the ground, and the general principle of the randomly triggered mobile illusion is that at a random point in time, whether there are adventurers or aborigines in the illusion realm, it will be triggered, and if there is someone in it when triggered, the illusion will be maintained, and if there is no one in the illusion, the illusion will disappear.
The illusion in the leveling area is the lowest frequency among all random illusions, according to incomplete statistics, only one of every 10,000 random illusions triggered may appear in the leveling area, and Ye Zhi has encountered it twice, which can be regarded as a complete life.
Ye Zhi shook his head and threw out some of the mess in his head, such as "It's really a complete life to encounter two random illusions", and he couldn't give up cracking the illusion because of the influence of this thought.
After drawing a rough map, Ye Zhi called up the system map and compared it with the rough pattern on the ground, pointed out his position on the map, drew a general route, memorized the route in his mind, chose the direction, and prepared to move forward.
Eyes can mislead a person, so in order not to be misled by the trees on the road and take a detour, Ye Zhi had to choose to sneak with his eyes closed.
But Ye Zhi forgot one thing, even if the tree in the illusion can be ignored after closing its eyes, but the human body will never go straight down if it walks in a straight line with its eyes closed under the feeling of self-weight, they will oblique a little, and then a little more oblique, and go to a place that is different from the destination.
Ye Zhi is like this, when he moved forward with his eyes closed, he didn't hit the tree, but he leaned a little bit, and he completely deviated from his original goal when he walked out of the illusion.
But he was on a road that led to a manor, and the road was full of muddy water.
He looked left and right, took out the map and repeatedly confirmed that the manor in front of him was the manor he was looking for, and it was true, but it was not the same as the manor he saw when he was a player.
The manor he had seen before was well kept, with all kinds of flowers and trees growing in the manor, and birds that had flown into the manor, but now the manor was only dead trees and crows that fell from time to time to snatch food.
Turning around and looking behind, it was the hot leveling area where the rain had stopped and the monsters that had been tortured and killed.
A rookie player passed in front of Ye Zhi wearing a piece of equipment given at the time of his inauguration, glanced at Ye Zhi, hurriedly walked into the manor, and stopped at the moment of entering the manor, his face was full of admiration and shocked expressions, this expression Ye Zhi was no stranger, this was the expression that everyone had when they walked into that manor for the first time, and they were shocked by the green in their eyes.
Such a scene in Ye Zhi's eyes made him tremble, it was too weird, could it be that he could only see the real manor through the illusion, or did he see it now and still belong to the illusion.
Taking a deep breath to give himself courage, Ye Zhi decided to go in and break through, only in this way can he know what is positive and what is negative.
There are still many newcomers in the manor who are lining up to give the potion to the housekeeper of the manor and get the reward, or turn away, or enter the house and listen to the story of Lady Karin.
Ye Zhi, who had already handed in the potion once and had heard about Ms. Karin's past, did not care about the housekeeper at the door, and directly pushed open the door behind him and walked in.
This did not attract the attention of the butler, but it caused a lot of commotion among the players, some people speculated whether it was some hidden mission, and the people who believed in this statement desperately wanted to go in and have a look, but they were stopped behind because of the strength of the butler.
This commotion caused this quest to stop for a while, and it was not opened again until the later stage, but the quest that was opened in the later stage was no longer a must-do task for novices, but a task for pharmaceutical life players to complete the advanced skill assessment.
Of course, this is a later story, re-looking at Ye Zhi.
Ye Zhi walked in the corridor that looked the same as before, there were several doors around the corridor, the studio, the dining room, the guest room, at the end of the corridor, that is, behind the door next to the stairs was Ms. Karin's bedroom, and on the opposite door was Ms. Karin's study.
Players who meet the Listen to the Past in the Starter Quest will be taken by the Servant to Ms. Karin's bedroom, where she will be resting, along with her granddaughter.
Standing in the middle of the two doors, the study on the left and the bedroom on the right, pushing open the door on the right, Ye Zhi may be able to see Ms. Karin, and then confirm the authenticity.
Strangely, Ye Zhi put his hand on the doorknob of the study on the left, pressed it down, the door was opened by Ye Zhi, and a very visually striking room appeared in Ye Zhi's line of sight.
Tall bookcases, rotating shelves, ladders leaning against the shelves of bookshelves, there are so many books that you can't see all at once.
Ye Zhi gasped, not because there were too many books, but because this study was too big, too big to imagine, big enough to cover the entire manor.
There is something wrong with this estate.
Closing the door with his backhand, Ye Zhi walked into this study room comparable to a library, and walked up the spiral ladder, what Ye Zhi saw was a collection of all kinds of books, whether it was a release book or ** all, it would be nice if he could stay here for a few days, thinking of this, Ye Zhi couldn't help sighing, if these are true, then Ms. Karin is obviously a bad person, how could he let him, the person who discovered her secret, stay here to read.
The titles of the books printed on the spine of the book kept entering Ye Zhi's eyes, "On the Use of Magic in Elixirs" and "On the Conflict of Attributes between Magic", the two books put together successfully made Ye Zhi stop.
Ye Zhi went to the library in the game before the open beta, and the official claim is that the book can find all the settings, including the hidden settings, as long as the player is patient, there will definitely be something to gain.
Because of this sentence, many players went to the library one after another, including Ye Zhi, in the library, Ye Zhi saw these two books, but both had the upper volume, and the second volume was missing.
Ye Zhi asked the librarian, and the administrator said that the next volume of the two books had been destroyed a long time ago, and there may be copies in the world, but they are definitely not included in the library.
The two books in the study are leaning against other books, and it is obvious that someone has taken the next volume away to read it, which means that the next volume that is not included in the library is included in this study.
The hand brushed over the spine, and the spine gave Ye Zhi the same feeling as the books in the library, which seemed to be printed in a shift.
With all the thoughts in his mind, Ye Zhi continued to go up, the higher the book, the rarer it became, and the deeper the relationship with magic, any book taken out can be regarded as research materials.
The more Ye Zhi looked at it, the more frightened he became, the more advanced the book, indicating that the level of this map that players found to be able to successfully open up the wasteland should be higher, is it really good for him to come to this kind of place alone as a powerless priest?
The footsteps are getting heavier and heavier, the physical strength has been red, it seems that whether in reality or in the game, climbing the stairs is a very tiring thing, leaning on the railing, Ye Zhi looked at the floor, but Ye Zhi, who was not afraid of heights, felt dizzy.
Taking a step back and leaning on the bookcase, Ye Zhi tried to sit and look at the floor, and finally saw the pattern on the ground, although it was only half.
The patterns on the top of the bookcase on the ground are spliced together with the patterns on the ground to form a circle, and there are many small circles in the circle. This circle did not stop running because the lines were highly blocked, it was rotating slowly anyway, and the continuous slow rotation of the lines of the circle was the reason why Ye Zhi was stunned when he looked down from above.
Standing up with the bookcase, Ye Zhi's feet were weak and he almost fell down again.
Slowly moving up step by step, at the end of the stairs is a platform, and the ceiling seen on the floor is the floor of this platform, Ye Zhi took the last step, stepped on the platform, and then stood firm, and heard a sentence.
"This is not the place you should be, young man."
Ye Zhi raised his head, and a person in the middle of the platform closed the book in his hand, put it on the table, and looked at Ye Zhi with piercing eyes.