The Trial Game of Life

Tang Cuo rarely faced such a helpless situation.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and seeing the dawn getting closer and closer, a sense of crisis strangled his mind.He frowned deeply, his mind was like a clockwork machine, thinking non-stop.

His figure also walked from one end of the library to the other, and back from the other end, walked around every corner, picked up every book beside him, and tried every method, magic, reasoning, etc. , but it doesn't work.

Since the avenue is blocked, we can only find another way.

Tang Cuo gave up decisively.After thinking for a while, he took out something from his equipment rack, and the bright moonlight traced its shape—it was a small white flower that resembled a daisy.

【Nightmare Grass】The grass that grows near the lair of the Dragon of Time, with the most ordinary small white flowers on the Sicilian continent.A piece of grass represents a dream, just like a match in a little girl's hand.Eat it, and you can dream all you want.

This is a reward from the previous dungeon. It was originally a material for making equipment, but since it is a new way, it has to be used in a different way.For example, eat it.

Tang Cuo held the puppet parts engraved with Herodo's mark in one hand, and stuffed the nightmare grass into his mouth with the other.This grass is really unpalatable, Tang Cuo chewed it expressionlessly, but he had to hold back not to spit it out.

"Gudu." He swallowed the grass hard, closed his eyes, and kept drawing the scene he wanted to see in his mind.

The puppet part is a trigger item. With this item, Tang Cuo feels that there is a certain chance that the nightmare grass can be used to restore the scenes related to Herodo and Polly.

After waiting for ten seconds, Tang Cuo suddenly heard a faint human voice, and immediately opened his eyes.

An old man with a white beard suddenly appeared in his sight, and the library in front of him became intact, but it was slightly different from what Tang Cuo saw during the day.

The sun came in through the window, Tang Cuo turned his head to look at it, but he didn't find it dazzling.He seems to be wrapped in a transparent film, and time has endowed this film with a unique filter, so that people can see at a glance that this is something that happened in the past.

Herodo was tinkering with his puppet in a corner of the second floor of the library, and several bookshelves formed an angle to isolate this small place so that no one could disturb him.

Look carefully, the puppet in his hand is Polly.Polly was still in an unfinished state, the lid of his chest was wide open, and Herodo was kneeling on the ground and screwing the parts of his heart with a small screwdriver.But when all the parts were in place, Herodo stroked his beard and looked left and right, but he was still not satisfied, so he took another chisel and began to repair the shape of Polly's heart.

Polly's heart is also a gemstone, red, the same color as a human heart.Herodo knelt on the ground and chiseled for a long time, changing every bit of it, with a focused expression.

As soon as the scene changed, Polly stood up and was able to blink.

Herodotus was still on his knees, grinding his ankles.Those were a pair of lovely children's feet, each toe was trimmed round and lovely.If you look carefully, you can also see the pale green blood vessels hidden under the skin.

After a long time, Herodo stood up and let out a long breath.He raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his forehead, but just as he raised his hand, his whole body shook, his face turned pale, and he almost fell to the ground.

Polly blinked and looked at him ignorantly.

Herodo covered his heart and panted for a while before he stabilized a little.Wiping off the sweat, he patted Polly's shoulder lovingly and said, "Good boy, don't be afraid."

Polly tilted his head and said nothing.It looks like a cute child of Yuxue, but after all, he has no wisdom.

There was a trace of regret in Herodo's eyes, but he quickly concealed the regret, took Polly by the hand and led him to the table to sit down.

"Polly, my boy, please forgive me for not being able to give you another pair of eyes like your brother's. The dragon has disappeared from Sicily for a long time, and even if I set out to find it immediately, I don't have enough time to find it again. A pair of eyes. But don't be afraid, your brother will take good care of you, his name is Aesop, the prince of this country."

"Prince?" Polly was puzzled.

"The old king's child is dead, and the queen is overly worried. They need a healthy child who won't get sick." When he said this, Herodo's eyes were full of unresolved sadness, and then he Shaking his head with a wry smile, "I'll tell you what to do."

The screen changed again, and before Polly was sent out, a malfunction occurred.

Herodo opened his chest, knelt on the ground wearing thick glasses and searched for several hours, before finally finding a slight error in the magic circle pattern.Looking closely, his hair is whiter than before, and his back is more bent.

When Polly opened his eyes again and called him "Father" ignorantly, Herodo rubbed his hair with joy in his eyes, "It's okay, it's okay..."

Polly laughed, showing a professional smile similar to the one Tang Cuo saw during the day, "I'm fine."

Herodo was stunned for a long time and sighed.

He didn't make any changes, but tremblingly opened the small box he carried with him, took out a bow tie to put on for him, and said, "Your brother will be here tomorrow. Polly, in this world, perhaps only you can understand Your brother's situation. He is a good boy, and so are you. If your father is gone in the future, you must always be with your brother, and don't let him be alone, you know?"

Polly nodded, and was about to speak when a tear fell on his hand.He looked down, his big eyes full of doubts about the drop of transparent liquid.

He raised his head and met Herodore's expectant gaze, "Polly, you have to protect your brother, do you understand?"

This time Polly didn't answer right away, he hesitated for a second before nodding his head heavily.He was still smiling, but there seemed to be a gleam in his eyes, "Polly knows, Polly will protect brother."

The picture gradually faded, but Tang Cuo hadn't seen the picture he wanted to see, so he swallowed another nightmare weed decisively.

It's just that this thing can't be taken too much. When he swallowed the second nightmare weed, Tang Cuo's brain swelled, and he rubbed his temples for several minutes before the scene in front of him gradually solidified again.

Herodo wanted to surprise Aesop, so he didn't tell him about Polly's existence.But before he could wait for Aesop to come, Polly was taken away.

He looked no different from ordinary people, and his limbs were not as stiff as Tang Cuo had seen, but the person who captured him revealed his identity straight away, and forced him to ask about Aesop.

They want Polly to admit that Aesop is also a puppet.

A puppet is not worthy to be His Royal Highness, even if the prince is just a puppet.

Polly refused to admit it, and he repeated only one sentence: "Polly doesn't know anything, Polly is just Polly."

So the angry kidnappers dismantled him, and the parts were scattered all over the place. Even the heart carefully carved by Herodo was kicked into the dust in the corner.

The delicate gears clicked and seized, never to move again.

Polly's mutilated body fell to the ground, his eyes wide open, and he made no sound.

The kidnapper wiped his fingers with a white handkerchief, then threw it on the ground in distaste, and said, "It's probably a waste product, I can't even speak, it's a waste of effort."

The companion was also full of annoyance, "If we had known that Herodo had a name for nothing, we shouldn't have placed our hopes here. I think that Aesop might really be the prince who has been kept in the manor, after all, no matter how much the doll looks like It is impossible for a human being to be so realistic. Using a puppet as the crown prince is really unimaginable."

During the rambling conversation between the two, the scene turned to Aesop.

Polly has been rescued, but Herodo is also dead.He lay peacefully in the coffin, and he couldn't tell whether he died of illness or was killed by others.

All in all, dead.

Aesop stood beside the coffin, watching deeply.Even though it was a puppet, Tang Cuo still saw a trace of haggardness and anger in him.

Yes, seeing this Tang Cuo can't understand - Aesop is a puppet.

This time the screen jumped so fast that Tang Cuo didn't have time to see Aesop's more reaction. The screen changed again, and it turned into Aesop's head buried in front of the workbench repairing Polly.

When Polly's parts returned one by one and he opened his eyes again, Tang Cuo knew that he had changed.

The slightly stiff walking posture and overly stylized smile are exactly the same as the Polly Tang Cuo saw during the day.

Aesop was dissatisfied, and revised it over and over again. I don't know how much time it took.But maybe because he doesn't have the talent and experience of Herodo, no matter how he changes, Polly is still the same.

And no matter how he asked, Polly would only answer: "Polly doesn't know anything, Polly is just Polly."

From disappointment to despair to anger, Aesop always faces a smiling face.He finally walked away, and Polly was left in the library by him to guard the "soul treasure house" that condensed human wisdom in place of Herodo.

Day after day, Polly is greeted and sent here.Everyone can see that he is a puppet, and everyone knows that he is the posthumous work of the puppet master Herodo, so his life is not bad.

But Polly always stared at the ceiling of the library in a daze, and he felt as if he had forgotten something.

The picture came to an abrupt end, revealing the truth in front of Tang Cuo.

He followed Polly's example and looked up at the ceiling. The mysterious text star map was not damaged by the battle in the library, and it was still bright and full of mystery.

Suddenly, Tang Cuo had a flash of inspiration, he thought he knew where the book was hidden.

At the same time, Aesop conjured up a solid gold armchair with red velvet cushions out of nowhere and sat down.He not only sat down, but also drank milk tea, crossed his legs like a gentleman, looked at Jin Cheng who was hanging on the tower, and said: "The specialty of the Hundred Flowers Kingdom, you are about the same as Theodore in Roger Ridge I drank it at home and it tasted very good.”

Jin Cheng: "The milk tea in Baihua Kingdom is better made by old William."

"I appreciate your calmness of joking with me when you are about to die." Aesop smiled, and glanced at the huge clock hanging on the outer wall of the castle in the Puppet Kingdom from the corner of his eye, and said, "It used to be so For a long time, I don't think Theodore will find you."

Jin Cheng: "That's not necessarily the case, our love is stronger than gold."

"Ding!"

The system that had been silent for a long time finally played an ooc warning to Jin Cheng.

Jin Cheng didn't take it seriously, and he was right.Don't Theodore and Lancelot love gold?Don't look down on brotherhood, it is harder than gold and stronger than iron.

Aesop thought his words were weird, but he liked Lancelot's unconventionalism, so he accepted it well.

"Maybe, maybe he will find you in the end. Even I have to say that Theodore has perfectly inherited the integrity and bravery of the White Knight family. Such a young knight will naturally not abandon his friend. But I rushed Time, kids, I don't have time to continue playing games here with you." Aesop said, put down his teacup and stood up.

Jin Cheng's heart shuddered, but his face remained calm as he dealt with him: "Are you going to Yorkshire?"

Aesop casually picked up the black umbrella that was placed aside, "Yes."

Jin Cheng: "Will you do anything to Edwin?"

Aesop smiled, and pointed the tip of his umbrella at Jin Cheng, "It's useless to delay, the game is over—"

As soon as the words fell, the tip of the umbrella gathered a magical light.

Jin Cheng knew something was going wrong, and he had already prepared for it.The rope behind him had been cut long ago with the dagger taken out of the equipment bar, and now he was simply hanging there by himself holding the rope to cover up people's eyes and ears.

At the critical moment, "knock, knock", a knock on the door suddenly came from the sky.

"Huh?" Aesop couldn't help but look up, and the magic light on the tip of the umbrella suddenly dissipated.

Jin Cheng also temporarily stopped the big move he was preparing, and looked up into the distance.I saw a figure descending from the high blue sky.The strong gust of wind blew up the hem of his clothes, blowing the familiar black windbreaker like a roc with its wings spread.

That's pretty cool.

"I won." Jin Cheng looked at Aesop, and generously changed from being tied up to holding the rope with one hand, kicking on the wall of the tower chicly, and then leaping down from a high place in the wind.

When a boyfriend comes, he naturally can no longer be tied up in a mess, which is not conducive to image building and the long-term development of love.

"Bang, bang!"

Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng landed one after the other, and because the impact of the fall was too strong, they even smashed a big hole in the square.Amidst the smoke and dust, Tang Cuo turned his head to look at Jin Cheng who was five meters away, and said, "You are here."

Jin Cheng spread his hands, "I'm not right here, waiting for you to rescue me."

Tang Cuo: "."

Aesop didn't want to see others flirting in front of him, so he raised the tip of his umbrella again and said, "One game is over, it's time to start another killing game."

Jin Cheng raised his eyebrows: "That's not what you said just now."

"Have you forgotten my name?" Aesop raised the corners of his lips, and the tassel earrings looked extraordinarily shiny in the sun, "Everyone calls me, Aesop the Rebel. If you believe me, you are a complete fool. "

"Wait." Tang Cuo suddenly said.

Aesop turned his head to look over, but he didn't mind hearing what the kid knight could say.Anyway, it is impossible for Roger Reid to be the savior again this time, and he has plenty of time to play games with them.

No, it doesn't have to be very full.He was in a hurry, 3 minutes was enough.

Tang Cuo said, "You have a younger brother."

Aesop: "?"

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