Because of the innocent happiness brought by "Super Mario Bros.", Li Weiji calmed down and returned to reason.

Looking at his friend who was still suffering beside him, Li Weiji hugged him.

This sudden hug warmed Li Yi's heart, and his misty eyes regained some brightness.

"Don't be afraid." Li Weiji whispered in Li Yi's ear, "Trust me." ”

Li Yi gritted his teeth vigorously, and the green tendons on both sides of his cheeks appeared.

After a while, Li Yi's teeth relaxed, and he said in a rough voice: "The special copy can't be exited, what should I do next?"

Li Weiji didn't know what kind of psychological changes Li Yi had experienced, but he could see that his friend's mood had calmed down, and immediately responded: "Go back to the mountain."

"Ordered.".

Li Weiji threw Lin Denuo's armor aside and said, "Don't you wear it?"

Li Yi disagreed, picked up the armor and put it on his body, and said, "I've eased up."

Li Weiji smiled and unfolded the map, planning a route in his mind.

The two of them followed the route and walked without saying anything for about thirty minutes, and when Li Yi came back to his senses, he found himself in cold and dark darkness.

The moon was already covered by thick clouds, and the trees were thick with fog and cold air.

"What is this place?" Li Yi asked, "Our mountain?" ”

Li Weiji shook his head and pursed his lips and said, "This is also the first time I have come to this place, and I don't have a name."

Li Yi knew that Li Weiji's move must have a deep meaning, so he didn't ask much, and groped his way to sit under the thick tree.

The grass is dark and the trees are rough, the fog is cold and the sky is dark.

Li Weiji lay directly on the ground, resting his head on his arms, and said, "I have something to tell you."

"Wait."

Li Weiji chuckled and said, "If we don't look for death, we can clear the dungeon in a hundred minutes."

"What do you mean by looking for death?"

Li Weiji said: "It's just coveting the things dropped by the centaur boss and the gold medal reward for basic clearance."

"Kill the boss and get rid of the equipment, I know. What does the Gold Reward mean? ”

"After Cali took the refugees and met me, I heard a lot of miscellaneous remarks from the refugees. After I discovered Lingbao's identity and cracked his code, I gained de facto control of the laboratory, and in the ruins I found a detailed table of Seraph's rewards and punishments. Eventually, I learned from Cali the way the town of Quagmire honors heroes. I synthesized all this messy information, and after I carefully sifted through the comparison and analysis, I roughly guessed the reward and punishment mechanism of this game. Let's start with the reward system. ”

Li Weiji cleared his throat: "During the game, players will encounter many events intentionally or unintentionally, and we can choose to intervene in the event or leave the event. Once the player is involved in the event, the game evaluates the player's contribution. For example, when we first intervened in the Fish Monster Killing event, in this event, I had a high degree of contribution to the advancement event, so the rewards I got were also very rich, while your contribution was relatively small, and the rewards that the game gave you were naturally very small. Can you understand that way? ”

Li Yi hummed and said he understood.

Li Weiji continued: "There are four levels of player contribution, which are, in Cali's words, gold, silver and bronze. ”

"Aren't there three levels?"

"If you say three, there must be four." Li Weiji said with a smile, "Actually, I guess, but I dare to conclude that there is a special level hidden above the gold medal, and I personally define this level as perfect." However, I expect that the conditions for achieving a perfect contribution will be very demanding. Throughout the quest process, perhaps the only one who met the criteria for a perfect contribution was the battle between me and the Whispering Wind of Ashes. ”

Li Yi recalled a little, remembering the fierce battle with that legendary ranger in the cave, Lao Ji's performance was indeed outstanding, and the rewards he received from it were indeed enviable.

"After talking about the reward mechanism, let's talk about the punishment mechanism. The punishment mechanic of this game is very interesting, once the player gets in the way of the normal progress of the event, the event will secretly escalate the difficulty, and the player will die inexplicably and then quit the dungeon if they are not careful. However, if the player handles it properly and still completes the event on a higher difficulty, the rewards will increase accordingly. ”

Li Yizan said: "If you pay, you will be rewarded, which is reasonable." ”

"That's right." Li Weiji paused for a moment, "Do you remember the magical map I got from the Spirit Treasure Secret Room?" This map is not a genius invention of Lingbao, but a battle command map made by centaurs using elemental magic. ”

This information is a bit unexpected.

Li Yi was very interested in this, he squatted a few steps to Li Weiji's side, and asked, "And then?"

"This map has a Centaur battle plan written on it. After a minor setback, I cracked the text of the centaur. Li Weiji pretended to be relaxed and said, "After understanding the centaur battle plan, I will launch the conditions for customs clearance in the dungeon." There are three scenarios. The first is to evacuate to safety with all the NPCs of Quagmire Town and Fishing Village before the Centaur Slaughter Village. This is the optimal solution. ”

"The second scenario is that in the process of slaughtering the village by the centaurs, the Seraphic soldiers are organized to resist and repel the centaur attack. This is the sub-optimal solution. ”

"The third case is to ensure that the ugliest person in the copy survives until reinforcements arrive. This is the fundamental solution. Both optimal and suboptimal solutions should be premised on this. ”

Hearing such strange customs clearance conditions, Li Yi was a little overwhelmed.

Li Weiji added: "In this copy, we met many people, and the ugliest one was Isara."

Li Yi smiled: "When you say that, it's true." I remember this ugly child, she got under the bed and got dusty, and I thought of Chang Cub at that time, and I took care of her clothes. ”

Li Weiji recalled that Li Yi was indeed like a loving father at that time.

"Is the maker of this game also a righteous dog?" Li Yi was puzzled, "Why do you want to kill the ugliest person?" ”

Li Weiji shook his head and said, "This is the knot I can't figure out."

After a moment of silence, Li Shiji said: "By the time I knew all this, we had already missed the optimal and sub-optimal clearances, so I was thinking about how to get the gold medal basic solution. ”

Li Weiji didn't say that he had a perfect foundation to clear the customs, he was very self-aware.

Li Yi asked, "Have you figured it out?" ”

Li Weiji sat up from the ground, "Before I met you, I was at a loss, but now I want to figure it out." There are five conditions for the gold medal basic customs clearance. First, get a map of the distribution of secret river channels. Second, find out the conspiracy of Lingbao. Third, kill the Seraphic Traitor. Fourth, kill the Centaur Boss. Fifth, protect Ishara. ”

Li Yi counted with his fingers: "The map is there." Lindeno is dead. We've got two. ”

Li Weiji said: "It's three. Isara was hidden by me in a very secret place, and no one should be able to find her. ”

"So, as long as we find out about Lingbao's conspiracy and then find a way to defeat the centaur boss, we can get a gold medal?"

Li Yi's tone sounded brisk, as if he wanted to do something.

"It's not as easy as you think. Is it normal that we went to such great lengths to kill the fish monsters, and the secret river map we ended up with has only worked once so far? Lingbao is scheming, one ring after another, this normal code? Is it normal for the centaur army to go into a fight just to kill Isara? Is it normal that the Centaur coach is most likely a GM? Li Weiji sighed, "This copy is completely messed up, and you and my wisdom can't solve these mysteries at all, so I will take you to this mountain to wait quietly, so I will tell you not to covet the drop of the boss and not to think about the gold medal reward." ”

"In 90 minutes, Seraph's reinforcements are about to ...... Holy, how is this possible. ”

Li Weiji jumped on the spot, he couldn't believe what was shown on the magic map.

Li Weiji couldn't help but be surprised, because he sensed the appearance of dense centaurs on the map.

Li Weiji couldn't help but be surprised, because there was also a copy core Ishara among the dense centaurs.

This is absolutely impossible, Li Weiji doubted himself for the first time.

Ever since he knew that Ishara was the central character of the entire dungeon, he took the little girl alone to the secret base of the Ash Whispering Wind, which was supposed to be a completely safe place.

Unless, unless it's the little girl who runs out on her own.

Li Weiji reluctantly found a reason to comfort himself.

In the dark, Li Yi didn't know what Li Weiji saw, but he could guess the seriousness of the incident from Li Weiji's surprise, and there were very few things in this world that could amaze his friends except for life and death.

Li Yi asked out loud, "What happened?" ”

Li Weiji replied: "The Centaur Legion captured Isara and returned victorious. ”

Li Yi sighed and didn't say much.

Li Weijiqi said: "You don't care? ”

Li Yi said: "What do I care about? You're right, this copy is completely messed up, and it's not something you and I can fix at all. It doesn't matter if you clear the customs, you don't have to clear it. They catch whoever they like. I just thought about it, but in fact, we have come to a misunderstanding. ”

"Misunderstanding?" Li Weiji didn't expect Li Yi to say such a thing, "What misunderstanding?" ”

Li Yi said: "The game prompted us that we couldn't quit, but it didn't stop us from committing suicide." As soon as we die, this copy loses its meaning of existence, and we naturally withdraw. ”

That's right.

Lao Yi was right, why didn't he think of it at the time?

This is a game after all, the object of the game service is the player, and the player is gone, so what's the use of asking for a copy?

Li Weiji agreed: "It makes sense. In that case, let's kill ourselves. ”

Li Yi stopped: "I have something to do before committing suicide." You tell me where Leah is, and I'm going to give her the ring back. ”

He has been thinking about the ring for a long time, and since he rescued Leah, he has always wanted to return the ring to Leah, but unfortunately Li Weiji arranged for Kali to take the two sisters Lydelia away, and he has never found a suitable opportunity.

Now that he has decided to give up the clearance dungeon, he naturally wants to fulfill this promise before quitting.

Li Weiji knew that Li Yi was honest, and immediately said, "I'll take you there." ”

In the pitch-black environment, Li Weiji once again spread out the map, and did not use his eyes to look at it, and the information of the map naturally appeared in his mind.

"It's over, it's over, it's over."

Li Weiji sighed one after another that made Li Yi's scalp numb, and asked rhetorically: "What's going on again?" ”

"For some unknown reason, all of our men are rushing to the centaur camp. Judging by the speed at which they are marching, they will be one step ahead of us in the centaur camp. ”

"What are you waiting for, go down the mountain." Li Yi urged.

As soon as Li Yi finished speaking, there was a glimmer of light in the dark mountains.

The sun in the game jumps out of the clouds.

It's dawn.

The two of them immediately gathered up, walked with their legs, and ran in the direction of the centaur camp.

Descending the mountain is always faster than going up, and while the sky is getting brighter and brighter, the two people who originally spent 30 minutes going up the mountain only took 20 minutes to reach the bottom of the mountain.

"73 minutes left." Li Weiji looked up at the sky, "Let's find someone first." ”

With the magical map in hand, it was not difficult to find someone, and it took less than ten minutes for the two of them to find Cali and the others in the northeast corner of the centaur camp.

As soon as Cali saw Li Weiji, he eagerly hugged him and said excitedly, "Dear commander, you are still alive. ”

"What's going on?"

"I took Sister Lydy back to the camp, and it wasn't long before I received information that you had been captured by the centaurs, so I brought the rest of the men to rescue you," Cali said. ”

Li Weiji hurriedly said: "Who gave you the information?" ”

Cali said: "I don't know, it's a pigeon message, it's not signed. ”

Cali handed the letter to Li Weiji, and Li Weiji took it and saw that it was Lingbao's handwriting.

Li Weiji was about to scold the street, but he heard Lingbao's voice behind him: "Commander, don't come unharmed." ”

Li Weiji panicked: "How did you escape?" ”

Lingbao approached with a grin: "You are very smart. The secret password you set is really hard to crack. But you shouldn't keep me in my secret. ”

Li Yiyi pulled Li Weiji's arm and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?"

Li Weiji replied: "I gained control of his secret room, reset the password, and then locked him in, but I didn't expect that he escaped after all." ”

The magnifying glass in Kali's hand pointed at the spirit treasure, and the condensed fireball could fly out at any time.

Lingbao put aside Cali's cane, still smiling: "Don't be nervous. I'm here to talk to you about cooperation. ”

Li Weiji asked vigilantly: "What cooperation?" ”

"It's good for you and me." Lingbao climbed onto Li Weiji's shoulder again, and whispered in his ear: "I have a plan to rescue Isara and kill the centaur commander."

In the past, Lingbao sat on his shoulders like a brother, but today he is like a poisonous snake.

Li Weiji couldn't help but be unhappy and asked, "What plan?" ”

Lingbao deliberately did not answer, and instead asked a question: "How much do you know about the grievances between humans and centaurs?" ”

Everyone present thought it was nonsense, and everyone in the Kryta knew that this grudge had lasted for almost two hundred years.

Li Weiji rolled his eyes, pretended to be angry, and said: "Everyone knows everything, why don't you talk too much." ”

Lingbao's mouth was very wide, and he heard Li Weiji's true intentions, which confirmed his conjecture even more. Asura's characteristic large eyes narrowed into a thin line, and her snake-like pupils exuded cold air in the sun, and Ling Bao said, "You don't want to hear it, I want to say it." ”

Lingbao gave a brief introduction to the history of humans and centaurs in front of everyone.

Centaurs are a four-hoofed species that possess both human and horse characteristics, and they often live together in groups, including five known groups: Mordir, Tamini, and Harahi, as well as Rosaru of the Crystal Desert and Verdona of Ilenna. There are also many small tribes under these groups, and it can be said that they are a huge race in the entire continent of Tyria, no less numerous than humans. Since the continent of Ilena is completely surrounded and isolated, many people are unaware of the centaur tribe there.

It can be said that centaurs used to be one of the most widely divided races in the continent of Tyria, and then they were slowly replaced by humans, and there were only two centaur groups in the past. In the year 1072AE, the two centaur groups attempted to form an alliance, but failed due to human interference, sowing the seeds of war. During those years, humans fought against centaurs in order to expand their territory.

"In recent times, the Modir Centaurs have reached their peak and become the dominant race, urging the other centaurs to join in the attack on the human settlements in Kryta." Lingbao said, "We are facing the king of the modern-day Mordir centaurs, Voguers. ”

The information obtained from Lingbao's mouth does not seem to have much meaning at present, Li Weiji said: "What's the use of you talking about this nonsense, it's just an old thing. ”

Lingbao's snake pupils stretched out and said slowly, "I know his weaknesses. ”

Hearing Lingbao's words, Li Weiji suddenly felt that this copy might not be out of control, and everything was still in the original planning of the game.

Li Weiji looked at Li Yi and asked, "Have you returned the ring?" ”

Li Yi nodded: "When that dwarf talks nonsense, I will return it." ”

Suicide or staying, that's the question.