The Invincible Dad of Online Games

Asking the name of the town is just to start the conversation, and getting this reply is purely accidental... Unexpected harvest, maybe the town name itself is a kind of taboo, maybe the town name must be hidden by the NPC because it reveals some kind of information, maybe—— By all means, the NPC's reaction is interesting.

"For your own good, so you don't do so-and-so" This kind of sentence pattern generally appears in the warnings of elders and the persuasion of relatives and friends. Generally speaking, it is a relatively positive vocabulary, and it means that others are sharing life experience with you; but if it is A person who has no friendship and no position to say this has such a slight subtle meaning... Whether it is really for your own good or fake for your own good, first of all, the other party does not think that you have discussed a certain issue with him on an equal footing. The qualifications of the topic, and secondly, the other party is definitely hiding something.

Obviously...Yang Rui does not have the ability to dig out useful information from language details, but he has off-site reinforcements——After the NPC shopkeeper finished speaking, Yang Rui pretended to be in deep thought, but in fact he was staring at the external network. Wechat chat box... The most important thing to be a human being is self-knowledge. Yang Rui didn't feel that he could get useful information from NPCs by himself, so after the grouping was done, he immediately summoned Fifth Lin to support him outside the venue, and used private chat Informed Qian Moyou and Aurelia, otherwise the two goddesses would be worried about letting him, who looks like a muscular guy, take over the negotiation.

The voice came directly from Wu Wulin, Yang Rui listened to the instructions and synchronized his lines: "I'm taking the liberty, if I knew it would cause unpleasant topics, I wouldn't bring it up casually, I'm sorry. "

"Oh, it's okay..." The shopkeeper showed his routine of seeing off customers after a few perfunctory words.

But the conversation sent by Wu Wulin was not limited to this sentence. Since the owner of the shop is willing to speak, it will not be a disadvantage if there are more sets of information: "I want to delay you, we are going to rest in this town for a day before leaving, and a little I don’t want to get into trouble here, so can you please tell me what else is taboo in this town, we want to avoid it as much as possible.”

When facing outsiders, the locals will more or less have a group and xenophobic mentality. The specific manifestation is that they are not very willing to disclose the bad news that is not a secret in the local area... For example, people in a certain place saw that their hometown was heavy on the Internet. When things are light, some people will come out and say that they are very favored, and the opinions on the Internet are all prejudices from point to point; or people who travel and live abroad will be warned by the locals not to go to a certain place at certain times Some roads, but will never tell this foreigner about the discrimination of local white people against people of color-if you directly ask the shopkeeper what negative abscesses exist in the town, he will definitely not be willing to say, but instead, be careful to avoid it. Even if he can't say it directly, he will hint at the wounds of the locals.

Sure enough, the shopkeeper who was about to see off the customers hesitated for a moment after hearing this line, then glanced at the empty street outside the shop again, and then said cryptically: "This town strictly abides by the precepts of the Holy See, and don't violate the ten commandments. .”

After giving this sentence with no information, the shopkeeper stopped talking to Yang Rui and returned to his original seat to take a nap.The three of them saw that there was no hope of cliche, looked at each other and left.

After leaving the store, Qian Moyou asked in the team channel: "What is the commandment of the Holy See?"

Before Yang Rui could answer, Doctor Liu from the other group uttered in the team channel: "Have you also heard the NPC mentioning this commandment of the Holy See?"

Yang Rui hurriedly said: "We heard this at the first mountain goods store here at the end of the town." Repeated the two lines given by the owner in the team channel.

"You asked one? We've left two here. The NPCs who talk about the weather and business are quite talkative. When they ask about things in this town, they immediately keep silent." Dr. Liu said.

"It's the same with us. The owner of the dry goods store is willing to accompany you to chat about topics that have no content. I just mentioned how the business in this town is, and it doesn't involve local people. The owner of the dry goods store is unwilling to say more. "The IQ of Brother Crucian's group said.

"In this way, try not to follow up with the leading NPCs such as shopkeepers and bosses to bring up topics that may involve local town information, and see if you can open a breakthrough from the helpers in the store or other less powerful NPCs. " Xianyun Wild Goose gave a suggestion after pondering for a while.

Two 10 minutes later.

The three groups of people who dispersed to inquire about the news returned to the entrance of the town and met with the four at the hotel directly opposite the tavern.The hotel is divided into two yards, the inner and outer yards. The outer yard was occupied by a group of passing merchants, and the idle clouds and wild geese simply took over the smaller inner yard.

The layout of this kind of family-expanded hotel is a bit similar to the old Beijing courtyard house. The specifications are not as exquisite as the courtyard house, and there is no open space in the courtyard for leisure. The courtyard wall is directly the load-bearing wall when building the house, and the inside and outside are separated. In fact, they are still close together, indescribably cramped.

In the inner courtyard, there are more than a dozen rooms in the three buildings that can accommodate 13 people at the same time, only the living room facing the courtyard door. There were no chairs for everyone to sit on, and at least half of them had to squat and stand when everyone got together.

"The townspeople here look very harmless. We were the first to go to the tavern opposite. It was indeed a bit smoky inside, but the noisy people were all from the caravan, and only the caravan people were physically stronger. Strong, carrying controlled knives. The tavern owner, waiter, and guests who can be judged to be locals from their attire are basically thin, with thin arms and legs, and several local youths have long hair on their foreheads, that is, It looks brave and ruthless, but it's really nothing like a fight." Dr. Liu said.As a public official in reality (although he is engaged in technical work), Dr. Liu has his own uniqueness in seeing people. There are few real combatants with long hair. Those who rely on force to eat or are good at fighting Most of them have a standard cut or super short hair, such as the Japanese underworld, soldiers from various countries, fighters and boxers in various fields, big men with gold chains, etc. Even if they retire or change careers, they are basically cut. go all over the world.The Yagami head in the comics looks cool. If you really have such a hair shape, if someone grabs you when you are fighting...even if the opponent is a fighting girl with a slightly weaker individual ability, you can still blow her face...

Brother Crucian Fish also said: "It's like this. From the perspective of the few families that our group left, even the shops that sell weapons and armor are not very threatening."

"The strongest person I met was the employee of the third-to-last deli at the end of the town. He was five big and three thick, but his palms were so delicate that they would probably break the skin when washing clothes." Yang Rui continued.

"From this point of view, this checkpoint has nothing to do with force." Xianyun Wild Goose concluded, "This hotel and the tavern on the opposite door are the signature properties of this town. I checked, and there are four young and middle-aged men in the store. Security, judging from the special coat of arms on their shoulders, these four people should be part-time local security forces, wearing weapons and possessing a certain force, but judging from the standard, the weapons of these security forces are not sharp... Doctor Liu, you should have seen this security team too, there should be people from them in the tavern."

"It's those young people with unqualified hairstyles." Dr. Liu said.

"If the local violent organization looks like this, it is obvious that no serious criminal cases have occurred in this town. It is estimated that petty theft is relatively rare, otherwise these people would not be able to stay in these two signature industries for a long time without going out to patrol. "Xianyun Yege said, "From the results of the 'visit' of the three groups of people, there are 25 households in this town with a total of about 150 people. The ratio of young and middle-aged men to women is about 60%, and there are relatively few old people and children. With such a small population, it is not difficult to understand the law and order.”

"If it's so harmonious, then what is the so-called crime of revenge?" Yang Rui asked strangely.

"This is the place of conflict." Xianyun Wild Goose nodded and said, "Where you go, including the hotel I came to first, the locals are very taboo to talk about the town's affairs with outsiders. Even if they skillfully To put it bluntly, the other party often uses the so-called commandments of the Holy See to fool them. If this is the case, the crux should be the 'commandments'."

"The fictional religion in the game largely draws on the monism in reality, and in the 'warning' of these NPCs, the phrase 'precepts of the Ten Commandments' is mentioned three times, which is a relatively obvious hint... I I believe that the Ten Commandments should be similar to the Ten Commandments of Catholicism.” When Goose said this, he was modest as usual, “I don’t know much about religion, I just barely remember that the first three of the Ten Commandments seem to be: [-], You can only worship the only God, and you cannot worship other gods. Second, you cannot swear false oaths in the holy name of God. Third, if you want to 'observe Sunday', you must also pray and listen to sermons. As for the following The seven clauses are all religions (not including cults) used to persuade people to be good at the beginning of their promotion, prohibiting murder, adultery, stealing, perjury, greed, etc. Among them, the one that cannot perjure should be the one that we Chinese are most familiar with. Yes, when the Western courts are in court, don’t the jury have to take an oath with the Bible in their hands, it’s very common in movies.”

"The Ten Commandments have two meanings in summary. The first is to love the Lord, and the second is to love everyone. Of course, we have heard the theory that 'rules are to be overturned' for countless years. Whether the commandments can be strictly observed by all the believers is a matter of opinion, but religion has its own set of thinking and logic, which is similar to the left-right struggle that is common in our traditional Confucian culture. There is a section in Colossians Chapter 2 that says "If you have died with Christ and escaped from the elementary school of the world, why do you still live in the secular world and obey the rules such as "do not handle, do not taste, do not touch"?", interpreted by later generations There are various angles, but the one thing that is unified is that all interpreters believe that there is an 'anti-dogmatism' meaning against blindly following dogma." Goose paused for others to understand what he meant, and smiled, " Then, if you think about this town that is peaceful and peaceful on the surface, where the people don’t prefer force, and like to talk about the Ten Commandments, and think about it in a conspiracy theory way, it’s a bit interesting.”

"...Brother Goose, I think it's good for us to bypass these theoretical aspects and directly discuss the essential results." Yang Rui persuaded firmly and sincerely.

"It's okay, Goose explained the process of solving the problem clearly, and we can understand it later." As a qualified literary youth, Xian Ge can understand Goose's expression, and immediately stood up to Goose's platform.

Lei Yunye rubbed his chin: "Well... In short, there is also a saying in Yuanjiao that a standard template is created with the practice of 'religion', and those who rigidly apply this standard template for the congregation are only in the name of wisdom and use selfish intentions Worship, show humility, and treat yourself hard', thinking that this is true piety and dedication, but this kind of practice is just a disguised piety, not real faith. In the words of our people's understanding...well, you can use Ye Gonghaolong to describe it. I understand. But this kind of practice is also worthless in religion. The so-called "self-declaration of humility and harsh treatment of one's body" has no effect on restraining one's own lust and selfish desires. To be truly free to do the right thing. This is a relatively serious accusation in Unitarianism, that is to say, the phrase 'obey the ten commandments' that the townspeople say is very suggestive of the so-called Believers have false names and pretentiousness. The townspeople can’t say these words that humiliate their beliefs, but they also think that there are ungodly forces in the town that are suppressing them, so they use such cryptic words to express their silent resistance.”

"..." The masters who didn't understand either showed a dull expression like Yang Rui, or pretended to be listening carefully like Brother Crucian Fish, but in fact they secretly used the external network to paddle...

"Uh... Speaking of which, in the Western religious movies I've seen before, there is indeed a saying that true believers are extremely noble, and that only absolute devotion can be embraced by some kind of Holy Lord or Holy Son." Dr. Liu swallowed, "I'm not afraid of your jokes, Brother Little Goose. No matter how the plot is structured and organized in this kind of movie, it seems to me that it's a bit...competing who can fool me more. The so-called holiness and holiness, anyway, I am Can't understand."

Xianyun Wild Goose said with a smile: "It's nothing surprising. If you don't wear such an inscrutable and incomprehensible skin, how can you fool so many outstanding people for thousands of years? After Einstein's old age Aren’t you also obsessed with theology? This also depends on how you interpret it. From the perspective of the concentration of theocracy, this means that the understanding of religion and the top pope and archbishop really have the right to interpret. If you say you are pious, you are pious, and if you say you are not pious, you are not pious. Such things as exercising power after holding the highest power of interpretation, didn't those scholars who mastered the "sage classics" in the feudal era of our country do the same thing. Compulsory education is universal Destroying the absolute discourse power of these 'scholars', these people have done a lot of anti-intellectual, promoting so-called quality education and trying to fool the lower class again in the past century. The intention is easy to understand. As far as religion is concerned, it is not difficult to understand what kind of anti-intellectual and stupid devotion behavior the low-level believers have done. People think this is the real supreme "love". Slaves who are more enthusiastic about maintaining slavery than slave owners refer to such a group of people."

"Hey, hey... there seems to be a very dangerous meaning in your words." Dr. Liu stared with dead fish eyes.

"Doctor Liu, don't say that, I don't believe you didn't notice at all... Whether the unity of the people can play a positive role depends on how the leader guides. In this town, outsiders can come into contact with it on the same day If all the townspeople have similar attitudes and are vaguely dissatisfied with the existence of the same 'impious force', you will not believe it if there is no 'big news' in it." Xianyun Yege laughed Said, "These townspeople think they are the right side, look at a certain person or a certain 'ungodly force' with a common and critical eye, even if they themselves are only a loose group that cannot be called an organization. The strength will not be small."

"Both of you, please speak Mandarin." Yang Rui couldn't take it anymore, and spoke out for the majority who couldn't understand.

Doctor Liu and Goose looked at each other, and Doctor Liu said first, "What we are going to face in this town is a 'revenge' event. Judging from the ambiguous attitude of the copy itself towards religion, we cannot confirm this right now. Whether revenge has already happened or is about to happen, and it is impossible to confirm whether this 'revenge' is an individual's behavior against a single target, or it is a group event."

Goose took over: "If it is a single individual's revenge on a single individual, then most of the bystanders have no subjective obligation to help them hide. We can get clues from the clues and get in touch with the center intuitively. But If it is a group revenge, it will be very hidden, at least for us who participated in the plot of this copy as outsiders, it is difficult to get in touch with the depth."

Dr. Liu said again: "If it's the latter, then this plot is completely depressing and didn't run away."

Goose nodded greatly: "When we entered this town, we were not locked in the skill bar or restricted in communication channels, which means that this plot cannot be solved by force. There is no obvious boss for us to push, so the route to solve the problem must be to crack the plot. ...Brother Yangliu, you have played "Ring of Life and Death" a lot, and asked to decipher the copy of the plot, and the plot is generally relatively ruinous."

"..." Yang Rui turned to look at Brother Crucian Fish, "Let's force our way back."

"Hi!" The others shouted in unison, dumbfounded.

Forced retreat is not acceptable...then the only option is to continue the mission.According to the previous grouping, the four of Xianyun and Yege continued to stay in the hotel to find shopkeepers, security guards and caravans living in the outer courtyard.

Yang Rui's group took over the "visiting" area of ​​the previous wave of Dr. Liu and the three of them. They left the hotel and went directly to one of the town's two major photo-run industries...the only tavern.

The style of this tavern is a bit similar to the Western American tavern during the gold rush, with half wooden doors facing each other, a lobby with large wine barrels, tables arranged out of order, waitresses dressed in sexier clothes, and standing behind the bar with a big beard The bartender, except that the guests don't wear cowboy hats and don't have muskets on their waists, at first glance it looks like a sense of space-time confusion.

Yang Rui led the two girls into the door, and the guests who were sitting in the lobby immediately cast their eyes on them. Of course, the vulgar molesting incident did not happen. The locals and caravan members of the merchants all have a certain amount of intelligence, and they are foolish enough to tease women wearing standard adventurer equipment as flower girls.

The three of them calmly found a table near the bar and sat down. After ordering drinks with the waitress who came over, they pretended to chat in low voices while listening carefully to the conversations of the guests around them—the players in the game have all five senses. Enhanced, and this kind of medieval tavern with no music playing is actually not very loud.

The people in the caravan and the locals were clearly separated, and they were all talking about the weather and goods. After listening to a few words, Yang Rui turned his attention to the tables that were obviously locals, and the content gradually spread to his ears.

"Shana's calf is sick again. I really should persuade their family to give up raising cattle. It's better to raise some horses and donkeys. The price of selling them to passers-by is not cheap..."

"Beef is always more expensive than horse meat. If you go to the next town to exchange wheat, you can exchange more beef..."

"How is your vegetable field? Last time I heard it was broken into by wild boars?"

"It's terrible, the vegetable field near the river bank is completely destroyed..."

"I don't know when the tax officer will come this year. Our family has a new kid this year, and the poll tax is still a little short..."

"Maybe it will be one or two months earlier than last year. I heard that the battle with the lord next door is not over yet..."

"I really don't know when we will fight this time, the number of caravans is a little less than last year..."

"We are lucky here, the recruiters don't come to us, I heard that many mud legs in the countryside have been requisitioned..."

In the dungeon generated by the optical brain, the NPCs in the dungeon have independent settings and memory implants like the NPCs in the main world of the game. Judging from the chats full of life of these locals, it seems that these NPCs are indeed in a place near I have lived in the small town of Avenue for many years. Every family has a different environment, and everyone has their own troubles.

These conversations do not sound very nutritious, but they also reflect the life of the residents of this town from the side. For example, the boundary of this town looks peaceful, but in fact there is the threat of war not far away.Yang Rui tried his best to listen to the information he could hear, and turned on the radio function of WeChat to transmit all these conversations to Wu Lin, the off-field aid on the other end. It is not impossible for him to extract useful information from these nonsense, but it is inevitable that there will be At Su Lou, Wu Wulin felt more at ease.

After eavesdropping for a while, the bartender who was chatting with the guests at the bar not far from the table of the three of them suddenly broke out a sentence:

"Is John's family going to build a house? I saw their eldest son picking wood at the lumber yard?"

"Yes, their son is going to marry the girl from the Wilson family, and a new house will be built behind the yard. There is not so much suitable wood in the town, and it just happens to take care of the Washington family's business."

Yang Rui was taken aback, and suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of the bartender—he had lived in a tourist country like Thailand for more than ten years, and he didn't get dizzy when he heard the names of foreigners like ordinary Chinese, and he was used to memorizing some very familiar names. Long names have a certain sensitivity.If he remembered correctly... During the previous meeting, when the three groups reported their results, no one mentioned that there was a family named "Washington" in this town.