Chapter 43: A Changed Place
"There must be something in the castle that we don't know, but the lord of the castle knows." Looking at the castle from the wind, the sky above the castle darkened due to the incident, which was depressing and uncomfortable.
"How?"
"When we went up to the third floor, the NPC team was still next to us, but when we went up to the third floor, I didn't see the NPC team after we triggered the trap." Feng Feng saw someone coming, just in case he changed his words, "Similarly, in the suspension bridge on the second floor, I haven't seen the aboriginal team either." ”
"Don't consider the possibility of being out of your field of vision?" Ye Zhi calmly expelled the death DEBUFF for the players who came over and expressed his opinion.
"Don't think about it, I asked in the guild, and no one saw it."
"So? What about the casualties on the NPC's side. ”
"Aren't you a pastor? I still need to ask me about this. ”
"The Resident Priest is primarily for healing players, and those on the party are for healing Aborigines."
"It looks like a big difference."
"It's huge." Ye Zhi said faintly, "If I were with the team, I wouldn't have to sit here and chat with you." ”
"Hehe......" Feng Feng Gan smiled, and it could be seen that Ye Zhi had a lot of grievances because of the station, "So what do you think." ”
"It's impossible that there are no casualties, it's just that we haven't seen them, if there are some casualties, it means that the city lord just went the wrong way or there is gossip that he didn't tell you."
"And what if there are no casualties or if they are small?"
"That means ......" Ye Zhi paused here when he said this, "The city lord went with a special purpose, you are just cannon fodder, but I didn't expect that the adventurers were too weak and died too quickly, but their purpose was exposed." ”
"The word too weak is redundant."
"Well, because you died too quickly and exposed their purpose, or rather the purpose of him, the city lord alone."
"The purpose of the city lord?"
"Yes, I don't know what his purpose is, but he definitely has his own purpose, and it's a very important one."
"Then you didn't want to reveal anything to me as the eyeliner we planted among the natives?"
"No, and the lord of the city is here."
As soon as Ye Zhi's words were finished, the city lord entered the camp and looked at the players in the camp angrily.
"I didn't expect you adventurers to be some shameless villains who escaped from battle!"
"What's the situation?"
"The wicked sue first." Compared with the players' discussions, Ye Zhi is much calmer, anyway, it's not him, just watch the excitement.
"So you've been sure that the city lord is a wicked person, but what does the brief description of this incident say?"
"A brief description of the event?"
"Yes, it was deduced on the game website, and everyone agrees with this synopsis at the moment."
"The reasoning is generally unreliable."
"Probably."
"And this kind of event will not have key clues in the introduction, especially if there is a possibility of a big reversal."
"Looks like you have a lot of experience."
"After all, I'm used to being an aborigine." The two chatted with each other, next to them were players chatting and discussing.
"I'm giving you one last chance, I don't want to see you all disappear again." Ye Zhi didn't hear what the city lord said, he only heard the last sentence, which probably meant that he was going to make one last attempt.
"So soon there's only one chance? Is this the case with all events or just this one? Feng Feng got up and planned to bypass the city lord to go to the player of the Flowing Year, "I'll go gather the guild people first, and I'll talk to you later." ”
"Done." Seeing the wind leave, Ye Zhi touched his nose and got up, the city lord came and he was embarrassed to sit again, as soon as he thought about it, the city lord appeared in front of Ye Zhi.
"It's good to have one person in the station, just now there were casualties in our team, you can replace Pastor Laurie."
"Yes, city lord, Alpha obeys the orchestration." Ye Zhi replied with a serious face, and followed the city lord towards the NPC's team.
After watching for so long, saying that he didn't want to get in was absolutely fake, and now he really wants to get involved, but Ye Zhi began to be nervous, what if he was attacked to death, this idea turned around in Ye Zhi's mind a few times and was buried.
Laurie is a relatively young priest, who was transferred to the team of the city lord during the previous draw, but was injured in the third layer and had to stay in the camp to rest, so the city lord transferred Ye Zhi to replace Laurie's place.
After entering the NPC team, Ye Zhicai felt the strength of the aborigines more directly, as well as the strange atmosphere in it.
This is probably the second time in Ye Zhi's aboriginal career that he has faced the battlefield, but he has not felt the slightest love from his compatriots.
The people in the team did not express curiosity about the replaced priest, it seemed that they had already known that there would be a change, and they stuck to their positions, never talking casually and looking at the new "companions" who entered the team, but it was for this reason that Ye Zhi felt more and more strange.
We've emphasized many times that Parallel is very realistic, and even NPCs have their own personalities, so even the most disciplined guards in the setting can't help but glance at players and NPCs passing by when they stick to their posts, let alone NPCs that aren't guards.
How do they manage to keep their eyes from squinting? In order to make himself look less strange in the crowd of NPCs, Ye Zhi tried to imitate the practices of other NPCs, looking straight ahead and not looking at others casually.
After bringing Ye Zhi to the team, the city lord disappeared, Ye Zhi endured and endured, he really couldn't hold back, and began to secretly look at the people around him, the tutor of the Mage Academy is here, the tutor of the Warrior Academy is here, and the ushers of the Thieves Guild (equivalent to the tutors of the Thieves Academy, but the Thieves Academy is called the Thieves Guild, and the mentors are called the ushers)...... Absence. Not only the Thieves Guild's usher, but also the NPC's team, there is not a single thief.
"Let's go." The city lord didn't know where it came from, so he said lightly and set off, and the NPC team all got up and walked in the direction of the castle.
In Ye Zhi's position, he could only see the back of the city lord, but this was the best place to observe.
Try to see the player team in the NPC team. As Ye Zhi expected, he didn't see anything.
On the first floor of the castle, the NPC team is advancing in a decent manner.
On the second floor of the castle, the NPC's team goes around the drawbridge and moves forward with the player's team.
Up to the second floor, all the situations were the same as Pocky's live broadcast to Ye Zhi.
On the way to the third floor of the castle, players continue to gather next to the NPC team, presumably because they are worried that the NPC team will disappear again and reappear, and the city lord will accuse them of escaping, and the incident will be a complete failure. This is reflected in the reduction in the distance between each NPC.
In the case of crowding, a large number of people went up to the third floor together, Ye Zhi was ready to dodge the mechanism, but the mechanism did not appear, what appeared was the thieves led by the thief guild usher, Ye Zhi did not see them from the beginning, the reason was that they came to the third floor in advance and cracked the mechanism.
Could it be that his guess was wrong from the start? It's not as complicated as he thinks? Ye Zhi began to reflect on himself.
The third floor was empty, except for the trap which was the staircase leading to the top floor, and it was said that the people from the Thieves Guild had gone up to clear the trap. They just have to walk up.
The top floor is silent, with only one NPC sitting on a chair in the middle, and in front of him is a long table with various snacks on it.
"Welcome to the Kasbah. I am the owner of the castle, Vanessa Arabella. Vanessa, who was sitting behind the long table, looked at the heavily armed people, smiled gracefully and brushed her hair.
"Hello Vanessa." The city lord stepped forward, "We are here to ask you to take back the smoke from outside the castle and tell us what you are here for. ”
"Retracted? No problem. Vanessa Arabella's reaction surprised everyone, and she simply waved her hand, they couldn't see the situation outside, but according to those who stayed outside, the black fog suddenly dispersed, and the sun shone through the clouds on the castle, banishing all the previous gloomy feelings.
"What else?" The lord stared at Vanessa, waiting for her to answer the second question.
"Other than that? What else could there be. Vanessa retained the habit of drinking tea, picked up the teacup in front of her and took a sip, a very calm action that made the player angry for no reason.
"The purpose of your coming here."
"Purpose?" As if hearing some joke, Vanessa burst out laughing, "I'm here for no purpose, just passing by and staying, what's the problem?" ”
"Of course, the castle is far from the two main cities, and there is no benefit to your settlement." The city lord stared at Vanessa tightly, as if he knew the inside story, and didn't believe what Vanessa said, "If you continue to talk like this, it will not be good for all of us." ”
"Not good? What do you mean. ”
"I mean, I'll settle with you about you killing the adventurer directly a few days ago."
"I'm in self-defense."
"Do you think I'll believe it?"
"If you don't believe it, forget it."
The city lord and Vanessa communicated back and forth one by one, and the players next to them were a little restless, they thought that they could fight the boss when they came in, and then end the incident and share the loot, who knew that there would be such a complicated and tortuous plot.
"Do it." The city lord finally talked to Vanessa, these two words he said very lightly, but very heavy, so that everyone reacted at the first time, and directly started, and the skill light effect could not be used in a small space.
Players complained that the top floor was too small to make good use of the skills, and no one noticed that something was wrong with Vanessa, the boss who was sitting at the long table and defending the skills again.
Ye Zhi also heard the word "move", and before he could add attributes to anyone when he lifted the cross, he found himself and others in another place, and were moving at high speed.
He was familiar with the passage leading to Vanessa's room under the castle, but the paintings on both sides of the corridor had changed drastically.