Chapter 160: The Village in the Mirror (Part I)

"Personnel confirmed, start random matching puzzle dungeon team"

"Team matchmaking completed, random puzzle dungeon scene generation in progress"

"The random puzzle quest scene has been generated, welcome to the quest 'Village in the Mirror'"

"The Nightingale is a five-man adventure team, and each member is passionate about adventure. But today, the Nightingale team has encountered the strangest thing in their lives, they encounter a quiet village in the wild. ”

The captain opened the map, and there were no markings about the village. However, everyone thinks that the adventurer who edited the map made a mistake. After all, who cares about such a small village. ”

It was just nightfall, and it was unanimously decided to spend the night in this small village. However, the Nightingale team rummaged through all the houses in the village, only to find that they were completely empty. ”

Suddenly, one of the team members was surprised to find that the scenery outside the village had suddenly disappeared. In its place, there is another village that is exactly the same! After a team member went out from the entrance of the village, he actually returned to the same place! It's like being in the same mirrored world! ”

"The puzzle quest has been generated, and you are a member of the Nightingale Adventure Squad."

"You've got the main quest 'Escape' (Special Puzzle Quest): Successfully escape from this spooky village. Mission time: 4 hours. ”

"You've been awarded the team side quest 'Discovery' (Special Puzzle Quest Part 1): Find out why everyone is trapped in the village and how to get out."

"You've been awarded the team side quest 'Crack' (Special Puzzle Quest Part 2): Restore this spooky village to normal."

"You've been awarded the personal side quest 'Perseverance' (Special Puzzle Quest Ring 3): Be the last person on your party to escape the village."

"You have chosen to hide your identity information, and your Diamond List identity will not be notified by the system!"

As the narration ends, the improvised team of five appears to be near a well in the middle of the village, which appears to be old and completely dry

Now in addition to Wan Yi and Rou Shui, there are three players, one man and two women. These three people are naturally acquaintances in a team, and the two girls are good-looking beauties. Although the man looks average, he also looks mature and stable.

After everyone took a little time to familiarize themselves with their surroundings, the man among the three suggested that everyone introduce themselves first, so that they could cooperate and communicate in the copy later, and everyone had no objections.

After some exchanges, Wan Yi learned that the ID of this man who seemed to be very reliable was called "Flying Wing", and his profession was a power warrior. The other two women are Feiyi's colleagues in reality, and the more cute woman is called "Yifei", and she and Feiyi are boyfriend and girlfriend.

And another woman who looks very cold is called 'Book Butterfly', and it is said that the two specially invited to help with the "master" of the copy!

The ID that Wan Yi reported when he introduced himself was called "First Brother". attracted everyone's sideways glances, and it seemed that the name was a little bit of a stinky fart

After introducing himself, Feiyi opened his mouth to analyze his dungeon experience: "According to the usual urine nature of puzzle-solving dungeons, the tasks in the first stage are relatively easy, as long as you turn this small village up and down, you can always find some clues." We'll split up later, and we'll be here in an hour. ”

"In order to avoid going to the same house for clues repeatedly, the house that has already been entered is marked with a weapon on the door. Please also be careful, and pay attention to some strange places. ”

"Ask!" Wan Yi said: "What kind of place is strange? ”

Hearing this, Shudi looked at Wan Yi with contempt: "It's just that something that shouldn't appear in a place has appeared." Let me give you an example. Wouldn't it look strange if you put the dining table in the toilet? ”

"Poof!" Rou Shui couldn't help but laugh and said, "Teacher Wan, tell me, you won't do this, right?" ”

"Hehehe, I'll sell a cute. Beauty, please continue" Wan Yi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and said in his heart that if she is really a beauty these years, it is not easy to mess with!

"Yo, I didn't expect you to be a teacher!" Shudi first mocked him, and then ordered: "Then we will go our separate ways now." Meet here an hour later. ”

So, everyone went their separate ways. The village is small, with a dozen or so low-rise houses. The player walks from the head of the village to the end of the village. It won't take more than three minutes.

Wan Yi didn't go directly to find clues, but walked to the edge of the small village alone. As narrated in the narration, the outside of the village appears to be an identical village, and everyone who tries to get out of the village will return to their original place. It's like two sides of a mirror, no matter how you shuttle, it's just constantly spinning

In this regard, Wan Yi couldn't help but try it himself. Soon, he learns how the player is trapped in the village. This village should have been laid down by a master with a rather complicated spatial barrier!

All people who attempt to leave the village will be automatically teleported back to where they left off, giving the illusion of being in a mirror to their senses! Then, as long as this barrier is broken, everyone will be able to leave the village smoothly.

It's a pity that Wan Yi's attainment in space magic is not enough, and with his current ability, he can only perceive the problems that exist here from unstable spatial fluctuations, but the solution to the problem can only be to honestly find clues, and then slowly crack it step by step.

So, Wan Yi casually found a nearby house and pushed the door in.

It was an ordinary dwelling, with a bed, a stove, and a wooden table for eating, and then it was empty. Not even some of the necessities of daily life.

Wan Yi carefully cast a wind-based spell to blow away the dust in the room. Strangely, though, the contents of the room looked very old, but they hadn't been touched in the slightest!

Could it be that no one has ever lived in this house since it was built? With this conjecture in mind, Wan Yi took a closer look near the stove, and the smooth marks on it showed that there had never been a fire here. This further confirmed Wan Yi's conjecture.

So why did the people who originally lived here build houses that no one would live in at all? However, let's put it another way. It is also possible that after the house was built, the residents did not come to live here. It can't be that in the game world, there are also real estate developers who deliberately build houses to sell

With this thought, Wan Yi pressed the surrounding walls hard, and there was really a feeling of looseness! Could it be that when the village was built, it really encountered an infinite number of real estate developers who cut corners?

Shaking his head to put this unrealistic idea behind him, Wan Yi flipped through the entire room again. After making sure that there were no suspicious omissions, Wan Yi left the room, took out a dagger from the package, marked the door, and then went to the next room.

The village is small, with only a dozen huts inside. It didn't even take an hour for five people to go through the houses. Eventually, everyone returned to the coming well to meet.

However, everyone's hands were basically empty, and they didn't seem to find anything valuable, but they were choked by the dust in the room one by one, and only Wan Yi still kept his body fresh by relying on the cleaning ability of the wind spell.

Now that everyone had arrived, the book disc was the first to speak: "Let's all talk about what we have discovered." I rummaged through three rooms, two of which no one had ever lived in, and only one that had ever been occupied, but all found any useful clues. ”

Feiyi and Yifei glanced at each other, and successively said: "The same!" Most of the houses are empty, not like they have been inhabited. And those rooms where people have lived in them are all ordinary things that can't be platformed anymore. ”

On the side, Roushui took out an old drawing, spread it out in front of everyone's eyes, and said, "This is what I found in a room, and my intuition tells me that there is something wrong with it." ”

The things drawn on this drawing are very rough, just a dozen simple boxes, and only a blue dot in the center is very eye-catching.

The book disc recognized its contents at first glance and said, "Isn't this a schematic plan of this village?" The boxes are supposed to represent the thirteen houses in the village, and the blue dot in the center refers to the dry well around us. ”

Flying Wing asked, "So what?" This is just a very ordinary village diagram, a normal village will have it, what can be the mystery? Mr. Wan, what did you find? ”

"Uh~~" Wan Yi hesitated for a while, but still spoke: "I found that the quality of the houses here is very poor!" The original builders must have been some unscrupulous developers! Is this a useful finding? ”

The book disc resisted the urge to scold, and glared at Wan Yi coldly: "Still in the mood to joke when you get nothing?" Let's look for it again. This time, we even took a closer look at a few roads, and remember to be careful! We have already wasted too much time in the first phase! ”

"Wait!" Roushui analyzed: "Don't you think this schematic diagram is strange? The whole village is so big that you can see the end of the village at a glance from the head of the village. Is it necessary to go out of their way to draw such a diagram? ”

"Is this drawing suggesting that there is something wrong with our well?" Yifei said, "Do you want to send someone down to have a look?" ”

With that, the girl turned her inquiring gaze to the book, and it could be seen that the trio was usually a strong bookseller with ideas.

After a moment's thought, the cold-faced beauty of the book disc took a torch from her package and threw it into the well.

The well is not deep, and by the light of the fire, you can clearly see that there is nothing at the bottom of the well.

"I can't find anything up there, I'll go down and take a look."

After saying that, the book disc leaned over and jumped directly to the bottom of the well. (To be continued.) )