The countryside at night is not as beautiful as the story suggests. For those accustomed to city life, the silence is more dead than dead, the darkness here is solid, not to mention the layers of smoke that fill the room at dinner time.

"You'll need to kill thirty more kobolds." Roach said he was crouching behind a dark bush. "There's no other quick way to upgrade."

He looked up at the layers of smoke coming at him under the moonlight, "Okay, okay?" Even if I didn't freeze to death, I would have choked to death from the smoke. ”

No one responded to his words, and Roach poked his head out from behind the bushes, and in the silence of the wilderness even the sound of his own breathing was harsh. He stood in the middle of a northern woods, the withered grass covered with a thick layer of snow, and the woods were empty, and the cold wind of early spring whistled through the mountains and forests, penetrating the bones and marrows. The village was at the end of the hillside at his feet, and the lights were dim. From the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, there is not even a ghost as far as the eye can see.

Damn, I don't know what to say when I'm gone. Rocky muttered in a sullen voice.

Actually, he wasn't genuinely upset, things had advanced to this point, and all he had left was excitement.

A few hours ago, he had analyzed the current situation with Du Zhengyi, and they had to force the believers of the Pure Land Temple to make an urgent wish. Roach breaks down the matter into several key parts, namely the believer, the urgent wishing environment, and the difficulty of completing the task as much as possible. If this is a game, then this sentence can be replaced with - the quest NPC of this map, the conditions for unlocking the quest, and the high XP quest.

"Once this mission is completed, they may be able to be introduced to the High Chief!" That's what he told Du Zhengyi. In order to let Du Zhengyi understand his metaphor, he later instructed Du Zhengyi to play the game. As a result, as he expected, although Du Zhengyi was expressionless, he didn't let go of Guan Xinyue's mouse even after he rose fifteen levels in one go. It wasn't until Roach urged him to hurry out to work that he pulled a face out of the door.

As for the specific analysis process, first of all, the believers are very well positioned, according to Guan Xinyue, there are a large number of believers in the Pure Land Temple in this village, and the Christian church next door with red love cannot compete with the Pure Land Temple at all.

Roach feels that this place is a lot like a novice village in the game. In order to create quests, they should create a certain crisis for the village, which is the urgent wishing environment, in other words, forcing NPCs to post quests. The greater the crisis, the greater the merit attached to the wish made according to the temple's calculation method.

After discussing with Guan Xinyue to revise his ideas again and again, Luo Qi generally had some ideas. He mentally sketched out the outline of the plan. The village's troubles can't be as huge as a landslide, otherwise they won't be able to hold on to it. You can't be too detached from common sense, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the school when you go back. So this trouble must be very mundane, and it can't be separated from the common gadgets of rednecks.

After that, Guan Xinyue went home, to her grandmother and father's house. They don't know how many days they have to delay here, Guan Xinyue doesn't need to wait here all the time, and she can't stay home all the time. Before leaving, she confirmed the phone number with him again, and in the last time they lied to each other, at least the phone number part was true to each other. In the end, they added WeChat, and he also promised that if there was any disturbance here, he would tell her in WeChat in detail.

Eventually, Lodge decided to create a temple release crisis, and runaway wild dogs with rabies symptoms were the best choice.

He had been with Du Zhengyi just now to inspect the terrain in detail around the village and make plans. Mages used to be very good at driving animals, but after the end of the Cold Weapon Age, mages stopped using them. The reason is simple, psychic beast technology has gradually become less useful, and animals no longer have the upper hand in front of firearms. Besides, humans are on the verge of exterminating the animals, so should the mage be in a psychic relationship with the hens and goldfish? As the mages abandoned most of the gathering areas and gradually sank deeper and deeper into human society, even the last bit of existence value of skills such as summoning and spiritism that were not easy to hide disappeared.

Thankfully, the mages have been in a retro trend lately, and the school's history department has restored some ancient magic, including summoning and spiritism. The Faculty of History once held a wonderful academic report for this purpose, and Roach was very impressed by this. He is also very glad that Du Zhengyi is not picky, and he knows at least some in any field, and he knows his school's innovative projects well.

Luo Qi's only worry is that Du Zhengyi's strength can't be retracted freely, after all, they are now in a human village, they can't really make any big things, and they must not let the psychic beast hurt people, otherwise he will never be able to touch his conscience in the future.

Du Zheng didn't talk much when he was doing business, and he didn't say a word when he checked the terrain in front of and behind the village and in the mountains, and Luo Qi was very uneasy. Luo Qi himself chattered and designed a vertical and horizontal route to facilitate Du Zhengyi's mad dog to pass through, and Du Zhengyi ignored him. He told him to pay attention like an old mother, but Du Zhengyi still ignored him. He wanted to say something else in exchange for a little interaction, so he began to talk about Du Zhengyi's game strategy, but it turned out to be good, Du Zhengyi disappeared without saying a word.

Now Luo Qi stood alone in the mountain forest, feeling that the wind was blowing stronger and stronger, and although the temperature was still very low, there were already some shadows of spring winds. He raised his head to look at the top of the tree, and through the sparse branches, he could see the thin clouds circulating in the sky, and the half-moon hanging high on the top of the mountain, the edge becoming clearer and clearer. The haze was gradually dissipating in the wind, and he smelled a trace of real air, from the depths of the mountains and forests, with the richness of the earth.

A gust of wind stopped just then, and silence reigned over the forest, and Roach heard the faint sound of crushing dead branches.

"Brother?" He asked softly, no one answered him, and he asked again tentatively, "Du Zhengyi?" ”

He listened, and another gust of wind blew, and he could hear nothing but the wind. A chill in his spine made him lean against the thick trunk of an old tree.

About that moment, the first howls of wolves and dogs were heard from the bottom of the hill, and several dark shadows ran across the path between the cottages, and Roach could almost hear their heavy footsteps. Then the dogs of the whole village followed suit.

The chicken and dog that had been tossed by Du Zhengyi jumped down. Roach was distracted by the chaos below, and the village lights were lit one after another, and the villagers, who had always saved electricity, finally made a bloody decision.

Luo Qi felt sorry for them, and began to wonder if there was anything less to ask Du Zhengyi. At some point, the wind stopped again, the mountains were quiet, the hustle and bustle of the village sounded like a goldfish bowl through it, and all of Rocky's senses were magnified by the silence.

He shuddered, awoke from his distracting thoughts, looked up blankly, and finally glared at the dark woods a few paces away. The miserable white bark of a few birch trees reflected a faint light in the moonlight.

It was as if the wind was blowing, opposite to the direction of the wind just now. There was a faint static in the wind, faint as if it were hallucinations, but it was the sting of fear. It was as if the deepest fear engraved in his genes, the most primitive instinct swept over his spine. He involuntarily lowered his head, lowered the center of gravity of his body, and craned his neck.

There was a tingling of his left hand, like the excitement of drinking six shots of strong coffee in a row.

It happened in that moment, and the lowered perspective brought him to a pair of eyes that shimmered green in the moonlight, and the thing was certainly not human, but it was as tall as a grown man's chest, and he vaguely knew that it was a behemoth.

Roach's mind went blank, and then instinct took over his body, and he jerked down and rolled to the side of the grass.

The sound of the wind behind his ears almost instantaneously, and the ferocity of the passing made him think that the thing must have crashed into the tree.

But the heavy footsteps behind him fell lightly, and the thing had agility that didn't match its weight. Roach didn't dare to stop at all, and rolled a few times, beware of that thing and immediately launched a second attack.

There was silence in the wind, and Roach rose from the ground in shock, not knowing whether he should be confused or afraid. He lifted a little strength in his hand, looked up at the place where he was standing two meters away, and knew that the focus was wrong at all. He only raised his head, and his whole body was so exhausted that he almost collapsed to the ground. A pair of glowing eyes looked at him closely, and the thing had just followed him silently. His hairs stood on end, and he opened his mouth to make a sound, but only to pour a breath of the cold night wind, mixed with the cold light snow that was lifted by the wind.

the groove.

He finished the swear in his heart.

He remembered the cat that caught the mouse, approached silently, calculated slyly, and struck only the fatal blow at the right time. Now he is a mouse, and the ginger giant cat is majestic, and his blazing eyes seem to have an IQ. Didn't he really see a lion?

He suddenly became indignant, did Du Zhengyi have any scores, and told him that he wanted a dog and a dog! Could it be that he couldn't even tell the difference between a lion and a dog? Or is that how he understands the word "poodle"? A yellow dog with a body length of three meters and a weight of 500 pounds? After he was done, he wanted to popularize what it meant to be a human language to Du Zhengyi.

Luo Qi suddenly felt a chill, could it be that all the things running in the village below are running now? He already thought about the situation where he would never get his diploma.

He restrained the primal timidity in his body, and he knew that it was a lion bred in a laboratory. Their brains are different from those of real lions, and they are not as complete as lions in nature. In other words, it's much more stupid than a lion in nature, which is why conservationists have always opposed the resumption of spiritism and summoning, and it is somewhat inhumane to make such things. Their incomplete brains are waiting for the human mind to merge with them, to make their self patch complete. They are more like the kind of mecha that human beings aspire to achieve, and part of Du Zhengyi's mind must be wandering in its mind at the moment, maybe just some subconscious, some simple instructions, but in the final analysis, what it is now reflecting is Du Zhengyi's will.

That's why Roach was a little furious after he was frightened.

The lion looked at him immovable.

"You're deliberately tricking me, aren't you?" He was even more annoyed, Du Zhengyi must have deliberately scared him.

"Get out of here." He waved his hand in front of the lion golem.

The lion glared at him, and the huge head tilted with his movements, and it was a little ignorant and cute.

Luo Qi smiled, thinking that it was a little funny, and dared to reach out and touch the mane of the man-eating beast, thinking that it was a bit like Du Zhengyi's mentor, the lion-like old mage. "You're still a little cute, but get out of here."

Roach retracted his hand, straightened his face, and lectured like a dog, "Sit down!" ”

A low roar came from the beast's throat, and Rocky instinctively shuddered, then came back to his senses and exploded again, "Why are you still threatening me?" ”

He could barely finish his sentence, and as he was shouting, he saw the lion baring its teeth. A giant claw seemed to swing casually across his chest, but it was too fast to distinguish it, and Roach was knocked to the ground in front of his eyes.

A lion's slap tore his clothes apart, and when he had a sharp pain in his chest, he saw feathers flying in front of his eyes, as if an angel had descended, and he hoped it was an Angel of Victoria's Secret. Then the lion trampled him so much that he almost didn't come up in one breath, but his mind was a lot clearer, and he remembered that his down jacket must have been scratched, and he had to ask Du Zhengyi to compensate for his clothes.

His numb left hand gathered the strength that he could barely gather on a regular basis, this was basically the limit of his mage power exploded, he didn't think that he had the strength to flip over and raise his hand, he raised his hand and threw out a violent flash.

The animal with good night vision roared, its eyes were damaged, and it instinctively ducked to the side. Roach wanted to take the opportunity to get up and escape, but he tried a little hard but didn't move himself, his chest hurt to death, he couldn't breathe, and his right hand, which he could still move, felt a dampness in his chest. I'm afraid his ribs have been broken by this overweight thing, but hopefully the internal organs are okay.

And the lion seemed to be completely enraged, it stepped back a little and pounced for the second time, Rock saw in the bright light its white fangs go straight to his neck, he closed his eyes, death came so fast, he didn't have time to be afraid, only vaguely thought that the way he died was really a little worthless.

The sharp teeth with a huge bite came to rest near his neck, and Roach waited stiffly, his scalp tingling as he sniffed the pungent smell of blood from the lion's body. But this moment was prolonged, and he waited until he was impatient, and opened his eyes suddenly. He was astonished to see a strange sight, as if the lion was struggling with some invisible force, as if two instinctive forces were tearing at it. It glared at Rocky, with a bloodthirsty desire in its eyes, eager to crush Roach's soft, warm neck. But it shook its head restlessly, as if trying to restrain its desire to slaughter, and it looked like a lion with schizophrenia.

At the same time, Rocky himself was struggling to breathe, he could feel the life force flowing out of his body little by little, and he might become one of the few people who was trampled to death by a lion. The wretched of life, the grievance of death. Out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see a figure, and when the shadow was completely transformed into a man, the force that was fighting on the lion triumphed, and the lion retreated violently.

Roach gasped for breath, and the scene before him became dark, but his beating heart finally eased, and the cold air poured into his lungs, and he felt better. He felt Du Zhengyi beside him, his fingers working on his chest gently and neatly, and calling his name, his voice almost gentle. Hospice care?

Luo Qi sighed in his head, wanting to pass on his full-level game account to Du Zhengyi as a legacy, but before he could speak, he fell into darkness.