Chapter 28: The Showdown
"What do you mean by that?" Bai Gu said strangely, admittedly, he was a wisp of residual thoughts in the possession of Bai Bone, and he couldn't make any expressions, but the change in tone was very obvious, not like a simple code at all: "Or you're crazy, I'm helping you get through, if it weren't for me, I'm afraid you wouldn't even know what to do next." ”
"You're really guiding me through the level to some extent, but without you, I don't necessarily know what to do next." Xiao Lang said slowly, "No need to pretend anymore, why bother, you can't get my trust if you continue to pretend, just say it, it's good for us." ”
Bai Gu didn't speak, Xiao Lang saw this, knew what this Bai Gu was thinking, and said, "Worried that I'm cheating on you?" ”
Just took half a step forward, still four or five meters away from the white bones, and then said: "As long as you see that I have maintained the distance between you and me from beginning to end, you should actually be able to understand." ”
Bai Gu was speechless for a long time before he spoke again, from the original old voice to a slightly sharp voice: "How do you see it?" ”
"That's right." Xiao Lang laughed, "Actually, I really lied to you, do you believe it?" As for the distance, I just don't like getting too close to strangers. ”
Xiao Lang was smiling on his face, but his body was tense, although Xiao Lang understood that this state of waiting for battle might not be meaningful to a wisp of residual thoughts in the bones, after all, he didn't know the other party's possible attack methods, but in the face of the enemy, he would not be relaxed.
And the reason why Xiao Lang did this was naturally not simply to suspect Bai Gu's purpose, nor was it simply to deceive him, in fact, there was a reason.
Time rewinds back to the time when Xiao Lang first approached the white bone, he had actually been using probing on the white bone until it was close enough to detect the result, and then immediately stopped, of course, he stopped at that time, not because he found that the white bone had malicious intentions towards him, but he just felt that there was no need to take those two more steps, plus in the face of this strange thing, Xiao Lang always didn't like to get too close before confirming safety.
And the results of the investigation are actually not much, there is only one name - [Occupied Bone Spirit], and there is also a list, which looks the same as that of the quartermaster in Xin'an City, and there are several entries on it, but they are all gray, indicating that they cannot be opened.
Although it is impossible to open the entries to see what exactly is inside, the names of those entries can be clearly seen:
[Recovery Item], [Flying Sword], [Runic Treasure], [Challenge Mission]
Compared to the quartermaster's, there are more [runes] here, and less [rank] and [entertainment], as for the [flying sword], it should be similar to the meaning of [equipment], at least weapons should be included in it.
Originally, Xiao Lang didn't have any doubts about all this, after all, Bai Gu also said that its body was just a wisp of residual thoughts, trapped in this white bone, so the [Occupied Bone Spirit] that was detected seemed to have no problem with the name itself.
In addition, although these four items are gray, Xiao Lang thinks that it is because he has not reached the trigger conditions, just like at the quartermaster's office, when his rank has not reached a certain height, some options are indeed grayed out, and even the things that the player can redeem under the next rank are not displayed at all.
But when Xiao Lang started to complete the second stage of the challenge, these entries were still gray, which had to make Xiao Lang feel strange.
Especially when you ask for a replacement weapon again, according to common sense, even if you refuse, you should inform the experiencer that you can't redeem it because a certain condition has not been met.
Even if it is too lazy to say it, it should not make up a specious excuse to try to fool the past.
Yes, in Xiao Lang's view, Bai Gu's remarks are completely an excuse, and it is obviously a clumsy excuse made up temporarily because of the suddenness of the incident, just like the famous saying "You are a good person, but we are not suitable", it seems to be okay at first, but after thinking about it carefully, is it appropriate for us to be a bad person?
Isn't there obviously no causal relationship between the front and back?
The real full text could be "You're a good person, but you don't have money, so we're not suitable", or it could be "You're a good person, but you're too ugly and short, so we're not suitable", and that's why.
So the reason is the same, although it may be true that the previous practitioners have their own weapons, and there will be no embarrassing situation where the weapons are worn out, but in this case, what do you do if you still list the [recovery products] on the entry, those who have the ability to wear the fairy sword to enter the life and death box, can they still lack the recovery products?
Moreover, after Xiao Lang completed the first stage of the challenge, he was inexplicably promoted to one level, but there was no hint before, thinking that Xiao Lang should have completed a task in the [Challenge Mission] to gain experience.
From the perspective of normal game design ideas, even if other items cannot be viewed because the player cannot meet the conditions, then the [Challenge Mission] player should always be able to click on the view, especially when Xiao Lang is likely to have completed one of the tasks, and as a result, the entry is still gray.
Thinking of the change in its tone before-when he first saw Xiao Lang, he spoke quite politely, but when he knew that Xiao Lang was just an ordinary man, his tone became quite indifferent, and when he found that his strength exceeded his expectations, it became a little strange, sometimes as if he wanted Xiao Lang to die immediately.
All this had to make Xiao Lang have a bad conjecture - does it mean that the NPC that was originally responsible for guiding the cultivators was named Bone Spirit, and after being occupied by this wisp of residual thought, its name would be displayed as [Occupied Bone Spirit]?
Is it because of the magpie's nest that Xiao Lang can't open any of these four projects?
Originally, not to mention the above, these can only be regarded as Xiao Lang's personal conjectures, there is no conclusive evidence, even if it is a fact, Xiao Lang does not intend to spread it out, after all, in the final analysis, Bai Gu has also been guiding himself to challenge step by step, and more importantly, Xiao Lang really doesn't know how to get rid of this residual thought, and even said that it is not clear whether he can cut this skeleton with the waste sword in his hand.
In the face of an enemy who does not know the depths, the results of rash provocation are usually not very good.
But the contradiction is finally irreconcilable, first of all, because this white bone has absolutely no kindness to Xiao Lang, otherwise he would not speak and always like to hide it; The second is that Xiao Lang understood when he tried [God Speed] that if he couldn't open at least the option of [Flying Sword], just relying on these few random waste swords, even if he could pass the second stage, he could only barely do it, and he didn't need to expect any better performance at all.
What's more, Xiao Lang also found out, although he can't hold the white bone, it seems that this white bone can't do anything to himself, if this white bone can completely control the sword spirit in the martial arts, I'm afraid he would have died a long time ago.
Since this is the case, Xiao Lang has the capital to spread out.
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ps: The second more at 9:30 function, another ticket and collection, thanks to necdia's tip.