"You've been to the bell tower already?" Jun Yao saw Lin Mo, who was showing extreme discomfort, and understood the danger of the bell tower, Ai Yu's right hand slapped Lin Mo's back, and the other hand held the spray and handed it to her mouth, "Take two sips and slow down." ”

Lin Mo raised his hand and pushed the spray away, shook his head, and smiled reluctantly, "It's okay already." ”

Xu Qingran frowned, as if she had noticed Lin Mo's abnormality, she seemed to be hiding the reason for her sudden discomfort, and there was a bit of fear and jealousy in her eyes, but he didn't ask, just nodded and answered Shen Junyao's question, "We have already entered the bell tower, but we haven't been able to explore all the things and come out." What happened to us was a bit peculiar, and we can't re-enter the bell tower now, at least not today. ”

"What does that mean?" Jiang Xian was obviously confused by Xu Qingran's words, and came out when she went in and encountered special circumstances, but there was no way to re-enter, but there was no way to enter and a deadline was given, this is playing a dumb riddle?

"A few words about what happened to us. The three of us smashed the lock on the door of the bell tower, then went to the first floor to find that there was no sign of anyone entering, and then we found five different bloody handprints on the handrail of the stairs, which we deduced were the work of the five missing children. Regarding these five bloody handprints, Xiaoyu has taken photos, you can take a look at them later. After that, Lin Mo and I found a secret door in the corner of the first floor, and Xiaoyu went up to the second floor to look at the things upstairs, and as a result, we entered two worlds separately, and met the ethereal spirits disguised as each other. Fortunately, we reacted in time, and hurriedly ran out of the bell tower, and as soon as we came out, we found that the gate of the bell tower had returned to the way it was when we first came, and we couldn't get in now, the lock was like some invisible shield protected by some invisible shield, and there was no way to get close. ”

Ai Yu rummaged through the backpack bar and looked through the photos he had just taken, but after swiping his finger across the page for a long time, he didn't find the photos he had just taken. Xu Qingran looked at Ai Yu's movements, and inexplicably had an ominous premonition, and then Ai Yu spoke, "A few photos I took...... It's gone. ”

"What do you mean?" Xu Qingran subconsciously asked, and then he seemed to remember something, and began to check his interface, as he expected, the Pangu Axe with a three-hour cooldown that he had just used actually showed a usable state, "It is not only the bell tower itself that has been reset, but even we have been reset, to be precise, our game state has been reset." ”

The five people who had not experienced the bell tower were confused, and the atmosphere was silent for a while.

"We can't enter the bell tower at the moment, but as the starting point of the event, it's impossible to permanently stop opening it to us, so we'll have to come back tomorrow. Okay, what did you hear from the mayor? ”

Jun Yao nodded and replied, "We have already learned the home addresses of the five missing children, and now we can go and learn some things before each child disappeared to summarize the rules, but there is one thing I am puzzled about, the mayor of the town is particularly hesitant when I ask the address of these children, although he said that he reported the address to me, but he specially reminded me not to ask if there are some things that should not be asked, otherwise I will bear the consequences." I always felt that what he meant by this was that it was not easy to obtain information about the disappearance of the child, and it would even be very dangerous. ”

"Don't ask if you shouldn't, or you'll be responsible for the consequences? It's interesting, but what are the things to ask and what not to ask for the townspeople? Xu Qingran smiled, obviously feeling that what the mayor said was too vague, so vague that they couldn't investigate it at all.

"I thought that we could work in groups and ask each family at the same time after we got the children's addresses, which saved us time and avoided a lot of unnecessary trouble. But after talking to the mayor, I'm not sure if it's the right decision. Jun Yao was very hesitant, if the group action went to inquire one by one, it would inevitably be that some situations would occur, if the disappearance of the children was accompanied by a huge conspiracy, and the murderer was among these people, then the sequence of time would provide a wonderful opportunity for collusion and concealment, but if they went to each house at the same time to inquire, there would be no such situation. Although Jun Yao's assumption may not happen, it is much better to prevent problems before they happen than to hindsight.

"At present, we can determine that the type of enemy that will appear in this mission is called Ethereal Spirit, and they are good at camouflage, but it is known that they can only disguise their faces and cannot have the memory of this person, so we can confirm the real team members through some specific codes. Of course, if you do encounter an ethereal spirit, don't look at it for more than three minutes, as it will die directly. Ai Yu reminded, "There is no way to know the relevant information of the main boss now, we have just thought about it, since the matter we are investigating now is ongoing, then the strange singing of the bell tower, the collective sleepwalking of the children, and the successive disappearances that the mayor said will continue to happen in the coming time." I think we can sneak out tonight and maybe there's something unexpected. ”

"So what do we do now? For the survey to ask about this, do we go in groups or together? Jun Yao still thinks that the top priority is some of the situations before the disappearance of the child, if the commonality can be found as soon as possible, then the disappearance of other children can be prevented to the greatest extent.

"We divided into two groups of four people and investigated them separately. As you said, the mayor reminded us to speak in a measured manner, so that too many of us will make the residents feel uncomfortable, but there are too few people to cope with any situation. Although it is said that there are four people, it is enough for two people to inquire about the incident. "Xu Qingran was assigned two groups, Xu Qingran, Shen Junyao, Jiang Xian, and Chen Yang, and Ai Yu, Lin Mo, Yin Weiyu, and Zhao Xiao.

Yin Weiyu wanted to be in a group with Jun Yao all the time, but Jun Yao thought that it would be good for the two of them to act separately in terms of inquiry, so that they could exchange information for more in-depth analysis when they stayed in the same room at night. Although Xu Qingran will also organize everyone to exchange information with each other, Jun Yao always feels a little uneasy, Xu Qingran, Ai Yu and Lin Mo know each other, and may belong to the same organization, although Xu Qingran plays the same role in this task as Qi Ming in the previous mission, but Jun Yao subconsciously feels that Qi Ming and Xu Qingran are two kinds of people. This Xu Qingzhi is very dangerous, although they are teammates, but they inexplicably give people a sense of jealousy, and there is a feeling that it is indescribable. All in all, Jun Yao felt that although this mission was a cooperative PVE, it was still necessary to pay attention to the teammates around her, Qi Ming also specially said before she entered the mission, not everyone would choose to cooperate with teammates, and some people chose to cooperate with the mission.

Xu Qingran naturally had his own intentions in grouping like this, and he had two intentions to divide Ai Yulin Mo, who entered the task with him, into another group instead of acting with him. The first is that he wanted to observe this Shen Junyao in person, Lin Mo showed extreme discomfort, although the real reason for being covered up, but he noticed that Lin Mo had been staring at Shen Junyao before that, she should have noticed that something was wrong with Shen Junyao. Regardless of whether Shen Junyao has any abnormalities, her reasoning ability and adaptability so far are also very good, she is a newcomer who has only completed the novice task, but to a certain extent, she is not a newcomer, because her performance is even better than herself. The second is to separate them to facilitate the integrity of intelligence, although everyone is teammates, there is no need to hide from each other in this kind of PVE mission, but if the people who are too strong are in one group, it is easy to lead to the weakness of the other group to slow down the progress of the mission, and the strength of the two teams is uneven, which will also lead to asymmetry in information acquisition. There is usually only one chance of safety for the same thing in the mission, and if the questioner's mistake leads to a second or more questioning, then the danger will also follow. Xu Qingran thinks that what can be done at one time, there is no need to pay an extra price.

"Then let's go our separate ways, it's not too early to see the time, just choose two nearby children's homes and ask." Let's go to East 2-1 to ask about the situation, Ai Yu, you can go to West 1-1, these two places are very close to our hotel, and it is convenient to gather. Xu Qingran assigned the location of the investigation, so he followed the fastest route indicated on the map that Jun Yao had found, and walked in the direction of East 2-1.

"Shen Junyao, apart from this mission, how many novice tasks have you completed before?" Xu Qingran asked.

Jun Yao obviously didn't expect him to ask this question suddenly, and was silent for a while, she looked at Xu Qingran with a little vigilance, but the other party suddenly smiled apologetically, "Don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else." It's just that you seem to be very experienced, but you didn't have any experience with formal tasks when you introduced them before, so I'm curious, have you completed many rookie missions before......? ”

So Jun Yao smiled, "Indeed, I have already participated in three novice missions before...... The first time was like a little white, nothing was clear, and he died inexplicably. The second time I had a little experience, it was an escape-type mission, we were trapped in the castle, and if we didn't escape within the time limit, we would be killed by the boss. It's a shame that I've already discovered the key and the hidden gate, and as a result, a teammate triggered the death condition in advance, so our team was wiped out. The third time we encountered the task was quite simple, it was the mode of the game game, we misled the boss by doing the game, and then easily escaped. Jun Yao didn't tell her true situation, which was also what Qi Ming had specially instructed before entering the mission, she must hide her true situation. After all, Jun Yao's ability is too strong, and if others know that she has passed the novice task in one go, it is likely to attract the attention of some ill-intentioned people.

"People can do anything in order to survive, some people will maliciously seize other people's props to enhance their strength, and some people will deliberately trigger the death condition to kill their teammates, and even cause a lore game."

"Lore game?"

"To put it simply, the lore game is a mode unique to three-star and above missions, and we have the conditions to win every mission, right? Whether it's the main line or the side line hidden, all in all, there will always be a winning condition. However, if in the mission, due to some wrong decisions of the Dream Traveler, the development of events is deflected, and the butterfly effect affects the winning conditions, then there will be a lore game. ”

"What does the butterfly effect mean that it affects the winning conditions? Is this the same as the BE caused by the wrong option in the game? Because of a wrong decision, the rhythm of the story is completely taken to another path, and that path is a dead end. ”

"You can understand it this way, in simple terms, the conditions for winning can never be achieved because these wrong choices can never be achieved, and at this time, Dream Travelers are faced with two choices: either the mission time is forced to be obliterated by the system, or the boss is powerful and kills indiscriminately without limits. Whatever the two choices are chosen, it is death, and this is called a lore game. ”

"Since the lore will die no matter what, how can anyone deliberately cause it?"

"That's what I'm going to say next, if there is really a lore in the mission, the system will still give the Dream Traveler a chance to survive, but since the system gives the Dream Traveler a curse, it will not be so merciful to give everyone a chance. In the lore game, the Dream Traveler who survived to the end will be protected by the system and become invincible, and this person will leave the mission unharmed. And the Dream Traveler who survives from the Lore Kill Bureau will get the full ending of this mission. ”

"Now you understand? Why would someone deliberately cause a lore game? Because the benefits he can get are far greater than what he has paid. ”

Xu Qingran pondered for a moment, as if judging the truth of Jun Yao's words, and then he smiled, "I see, three novice tasks are a lot...... Novice quests will also get more and more difficult with the number of refreshes, and you should have such abilities. ”

Jun Yao heard a trace of loss in Xu Qingran's words, it seemed that he did want to win himself over, but by saying this, he should have dispelled this idea. Xu Qingran's strength does not seem to be bad, and from the kind of self-confidence he shows, his identity can be deduced to a certain extent, he should be a senior member of an organization registered under the trade union, and he will look for those who have potential to join the organization and work together like Qi Ming. The ability he showed did attract him, but there were too many hard-working players, and if he had such an ability because he had accumulated experience in too many novice tasks, he would naturally not be his first choice.

"We're here." Jiang Xian pointed to a three-story ivory-white villa, which was the destination of their trip, the home of their first missing child, Alice.