weird fairy tale town

Bai Zhe already felt that he was gradually getting used to waking up from a coma.

But... where is this dilapidated, dark and small place in front of me?

However, seeing Qi Lin's concerned gaze, the memories in Bai Zhe's mind surged, and the eyes that looked at Qi Lin softened immediately.

He stretched out his hand to gently caress Qi Lin's face, and said with a slight smile, "I'm sorry."

The sudden warmth made Qi Lin a little strange, but he immediately covered Bai Zhe's hand, leaned forward slightly, and touched his forehead with Bai Zhe's, "What's the matter? You don't have a fever, why did you suddenly get sick?" Waking up and talking nonsense?"

Bai Zhe smiled lightly.

The distance between the two is so close, in fact, he can't see Qi Lin's expression clearly, but he can feel the gentle smile in his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I forgot you before, you must be very sad, right?"

"You remember?" Qi Lin retreated back again, and looked at Bai Zhe at a normal distance, the expression of surprise on his face flashed and then turned into doubt, "But why do I feel that it's more than that? ... What happened last time in that level?"

"That's not a checkpoint." Bai Zhe sighed, "That's a memory bank kept by a fragment..."

"Memory bank?" Qi Lin raised his eyebrows, "Is there such a thing?"

"It's a bit complicated to say, I'll tell you in detail when I find a good opportunity later..." Bai Zhe rubbed his forehead that was still aching, "So how did you get in there to find me, and where is this place?"

Qi Lin pulled out the jade pendants on his chest to show Bai Zhe, "Because of this." He pointed to the pair of identical jade pendants on Bai Zhe's chest, and explained, "Actually, it's because they were taken out from the treasury. of."

Following his words, Bai Zhe pulled up the pendant on his chest and looked at it. The koi was alive, round and cute, "This is?"

"Communicator." Qi Lin said, "Two pairs are rare, they can be used as mobile phones, and they can also sense each other's location."

This is indeed very useful, Bai Zhe nodded in agreement, "However, I thought you would get a title or something."

Qi Lin smiled, "Indeed, many players attach great importance to titles and the superpowers that titles can bring, but in fact, veterans who have completed more levels will know that titles are actually the most empty... Many times You think you have something to rely on, and you can use the ability of the title to deal with difficulties in the level, or to deal with NPCs, or even teammates, but more often than not, when a real crisis occurs, the title is too late to use, and it is better to use it as an item. really."

Bai Zhe nodded. He already knew the original purpose of Fairy Tale Town, so he knew that the direction Qi Lin was considering was correct.

Fairy Tale Town aims to further stimulate the scientific and technological revolution of human beings earlier and realize the iterative development of science and technology, not to train human beings into various strange abilities.

The setting of this title is probably just to help them have a certain self-protection and problem-solving ability in the early stage, rather than to give them any superpowers.

After all, logically speaking, Fairy Tale Town should be a large-scale scientific research and experiment base, and perhaps a military training base, but it should not be a large-scale game copy field.

"So, where is it now?" Bai Zhe stood up from the bed covered with hay and asked.

Qi Lin had already walked to the window one step ahead of him, and said to Qi Lin, "Come and see what's going on outside."

Then Bai Zhe walked to the window, looked around, and was dumbfounded.

He had slandered him before, always thinking that Fairy Tale Town had learned the wrong way, and the checkpoints he experienced were not the settings of ancient China, but the design of Western medieval courts. Could it be that everyone really wanted to be a "master"?

However, at this moment, looking out from the somewhat dilapidated wooden window, one can see that the outside is also a dilapidated scene, with a series of low and small houses in a mess, revealing "" from the eaves to the roots of the walls Poverty" in big characters.

"What's the situation?" Bai Zhe asked.

"I'm not sure yet." Qi Lin said, "When I woke up, the two of us were by the river. I saw a village nearby, so I brought you here. The villagers said that the house we live in is empty. , let us temporarily settle here, and the village chief will explain the situation to us when he returns at noon."

Bai Zhe frowned and thought for a moment, "There is no prompt for the level?"

"No." Qi Lin shook his head, "This is the strangest point. Generally speaking, the system will always say something... By the way, our interface can't be opened either."

Bai Zhe was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and tried to call out his floating window, but after getting no response, he tried to call the system again, he remembered that the electronic voice lady got along well with him.

But this time, Bai Zhe didn't get any response at all.

"That's interesting." Bai Zhe smiled slightly, "It seems that it's still early, let's stay the same and wait until the village chief shows up at noon."

Qi Lin nodded, "However, there is one more strange thing."

"What else?" Bai Zhe asked.

"I didn't see any other players at all, not a single one." Qi Lin said, "As far as I know, there has never been a double copy in Fairy Tale Town, which is too strange."

"Maybe, don't jump to conclusions." Bai Zhe shook his head, "Have you checked this room?"

"It's been checked, so don't worry about potential safety hazards." Qi Lin replied, their awareness in this regard is absolutely top-notch, and they will not let themselves stay in places with potential safety hazards.

"Of course I believe in your ability." Bai Zhe touched his stomach and smiled, "I mean... Is there anything to eat? I'm hungry."

Qi Lin: "..."

Ten minutes later, a bowl of hot potato noodles was brought to the table. Qi Lin sighed, "The conditions here are really bad. The noodles are all freshly kneaded, so don't be picky."

Naturally, Bai Zhe was not picky, picked up the noodle bowl and started to eat, but as soon as the noodles entered his mouth, the taste of the noodles coincided with the noodles that Qi Lin made for him countless times in his memory, Bai Zhe couldn't hold back for a moment, The eye sockets turned slightly red.

"What's wrong?" Keenly aware of Bai Zhe's emotional changes, Qi Lin lowered his head and asked.

"No." Bai Zhe swallowed the noodles in a big gulp, and gulped down the noodle soup, "From now on, from now on, you will have to feed me too."

"That's for sure..." Qi Lin replied naturally, "But what's the matter, it's the first time I'm giving you a job, and on this condition, I feel quite embarrassed..."

Bai Zhe stretched out his hand and scratched Qi Lin's nose, "Silly boy."

Qi Lin was stunned by his sudden action, and looked at Bai Zhe very confused.

But Bai Zhe seemed to be addicted to playing, and hung his hand on Qi Lin's nose again, "Silly old man."

Qi Lin asked with question marks all over his head, "Huh?"

Seeing that he was puzzled, Bai Zhe laughed even more happily, "I will tell you when we go out, idiot."

Qi Lin frowned slightly, and just wanted to ask a few more questions, but suddenly heard a gong sound from outside the house—"Come out, come out, come out! At least one person from every household! The village chief is back, I have something to say." Tell everyone!"

The man was beating the gong, wandering around the village, and seemed to go elsewhere after a while.

And the village that was still dead just now, as if no one existed, suddenly became lively.

Bai Zhe and Qi Lin looked at each other, nodded at each other, and walked out of the house together.

……

Intermittently, many people gathered at the square in the center of the village.

It is said to be a square, but it is actually a slightly flatter open space.

Villagers in twos and threes whispered to each other from time to time, chatting about irrelevant gossip.

Qi Lin and Bai Zhe stood on the outermost edge, no one noticed them, but Qi Lin's eyes gradually became serious, "It's a bit strange," he whispered to Bai Zhe, "These guys don't look like players..." He Frowning, "But there are always a few, I think they look familiar."

Following Qi Lin's words, Bai Zhe's eyes swept across the villagers standing in the square.

There are about fifty people standing here, I don't know if some of them have not come out of the house, but almost all of them have dull expressions and slow movements, even the few people who are talking to each other seem to be programmed In general, he was talking about something with a prescribed tone and questions and answers.

"It's quite strange, neither like an NPC nor like a player." Bai Zhe replied.

If it was in any other game, facing people with such rigid behavior patterns, Bai Zhe would definitely judge them as NPCs directly, but the levels in Fairy Tale Town are obviously different. After intelligent learning of human society, the levels in Fairy Tale Town The NPCs are very intelligent, each one is vivid, and there are really not many with rigid behavior like now.

bang——

The gong sounded again, and the person who yelled at the beginning said loudly, "Everyone is here, let's listen to what the village chief has to say!"

The chattering crowd fell silent, a tall and thin man who looked to be about 30 years old walked up to the crowd, raised his hand and said, "Listen to me, this time I went out, and I have already reached a preliminary agreement with the werewolf. protocol……"

As soon as the village chief uttered his first sentence, Bai Zhe raised an eyebrow.

Make a deal with werewolves?

Werewolf?

He glanced around again, and made sure that although these guys who didn't know whether they were players or NPCs were slow in their behavior, they were all dressed up as Asian farmers, and he couldn't help feeling speechless about the current level of mix and match in this world.

The village chief didn't see the change in Bai Zhe's expression on the outermost edge, and continued: "The werewolf said that he would only come to the village once every three days, and would only arrest one villager. Whoever's house is the most dilapidated, they will go to the village. Someone arrests...but everyone else is safe!"

The village head’s expression was a bit painful, at least it was much more real than this group of villagers who seemed to be at a loss, “This is already the best condition I can get...Everyone should try to keep their houses Cover it better!"

After listening to the village chief's words, both Bai Zhe and Qi Lin realized that this might be the plot or mission of this level.

It's just, why does it sound strange?

At this time, the long-overdue system sound finally came online, as if it had been edited, and abruptly began to use the mechanical sound to set tasks.

This task description is basically a regular translation of what the village chief said just now, not to mention communicating with Bai Zhe, without even a trace of emotion, just like the most ordinary system.

Bai Zhe didn't bother to listen, but instead remembered what the Fragmented Consciousness said to him in the data world at the end.

It said that "the scariest" guy came, and it was still independent, the core part of the fragment.

This level is probably its handwriting... But what does this core fragment that already has self-awareness want?

Thinking of this, Bai Zhe decided not to play cards according to the routine. He glanced at the villagers who were about to disperse and leave, and suddenly asked the village chief loudly: "Village chief? Since the werewolf wants to come in and arrest people anyway, why should we Can't we unite and kill the werewolves who entered the village?"

Everyone was taken aback when they heard Bai Zhe's words, and then countless pairs of eyes fixed on Bai Zhe.

Bai Zhe didn't think there was any problem, but kept looking up at the village chief, his eyes full of inquiry.

Hearing his words, the village head really looked over. He sighed, walked towards Bai Zhe, and said as he walked, "Are you from another village? Why haven't I seen you?"

The young man who was beating the gong held his gong and followed closely beside the village chief and explained, "Village chief, these two people floated over from the river. I kindly took them in, but I didn't expect them to... "

The village chief interrupted the young man with a wave of his hand, and walked up to Bai Zhe and Qi Lin. He took a deep look at them, with some seriousness in his eyes.

"Our village has always been here, and few outsiders come here. Every time outsiders come in, they say they will help us eliminate those hateful werewolves... But they have never fulfilled their promise." The village chief looked at the two The person's eyes were very deep, "You two young people, can you do it?"

"Then who knows?" Bai Zhe shrugged.

This fluffy answer stunned the village chief. Shouldn't the standard answer be "I will definitely save you" or something like that?

"You said it yourself just now. We are newcomers, and few people come to your village. I think it's better to ask the village chief to explain the situation of the whole village in detail first. What do you think?" Bai Zhe Again.

The village head looked at Bai Zhe and Qi Lin carefully, as if he was considering something.

"Let's talk, everyone wants to live, don't they?" Bai Zhe turned his gaze around the village chief and looked at the insensitive faces of the villagers.

However, his words seemed to arouse their survival consciousness, and made their sluggish faces dyed with a little freshness.

The village head narrowed his eyes, and then he sighed slowly, "The matter, we have to start from a year ago..."

a year ago?Bai Zhe keenly captured this moment.

It's just that I don't know if it's a coincidence in the dungeon setting, or if it really represents and symbolizes something...

With doubts, Bai Zhe and Qi Lin listened carefully to the village chief's narrative.

According to the village chief, this village was originally a very remote village in the mountains. Because it is far away from big cities, the overall conditions are very backward and poor.

Of course, there is no need to explain too much, as it can be seen from the environment in the village.

However, the village has a tradition of living here, and the old people are unwilling to relocate, so except for some young people who go out to work, most of the villagers just stay in the village for generations.

Their daily life is farming, and they can basically be self-sufficient in terms of food. Other postnatal supplies can be purchased in the nearest town to the village after a half-day journey, so it is not inconvenient to say that life is inconvenient. .

But a year ago, when a villager went to the mountain to cut firewood, he picked up a seriously injured wolf. Since then, things have become a little different.

At that time, the injured wolf was very docile and not aggressive, so the villagers who retrieved the wolf raised it and treated its injuries.

At first, the other villagers were very opposed to it, but the wolf was not only docile, but also very smart, and even very humane. Not only could he understand what people said, but he would also take the initiative to help the villagers do what they could when the injury was not healed. farm work.

After one or two days, the people in the village were no longer afraid of the wolf, and even raised it as an ordinary dog ​​in the village.

Life in the village is still as peaceful and peaceful as usual.

However, the good times did not last long.

On the night of the first full moon when the wolf was healed, the villagers who raised the wolves were brutally killed. The whole house was bloody and messy, and the villagers' bodies were nowhere to be found...and the wolf disappeared.

The villagers hurriedly tried to call the police, but found that the village seemed to have become an isolated space, let alone escaped from the village, and they couldn't even make a phone call!

All of a sudden, people in the village became panic-stricken, and the situation began to take a turn for the worse from that day on.

First of all, almost every night, someone in the village would die, and the house was extremely horrifying, and the corpses were nowhere to be found.

After the death of three people, the village chief called everyone together, thinking that this could not go on, they had to catch the murderer and prevent the tragedy from happening in the village.

So that night, all the people in the village gathered together, lit torches, held all the tools that could be used as weapons in their hands, and waited for a desperate battle.

Then, the moon rose high into the sky, and when everything was silent, they heard the howling of wolves coming from the forest—the wolf is coming!

A few wolves approached slowly without fear, and then against the backdrop of the moonlight, amidst the swaying flames... they slowly transformed into humans!

All the villagers present were stunned, they couldn't believe what they saw.

However, those wolves not only turned into humans, they could even speak human words.

They said that they brought the blood moon curse on the village, and they had to eat a person every three days in order to survive.

And if the villagers really want to try to die with them, as long as one werewolf is killed, the moon in the whole village will turn into a blood moon, and then all the villagers will become the same werewolves as them, and then bring it to other villages. Blood Moon Curse.

But if the villagers survive 36 full moons without turning into a blood moon, the curse will be lifted and they will leave the village.

But if the 36 full moons have not yet arrived, and the villagers have already wiped out their households...then all the villagers will also become werewolves, and bring the disaster of the blood moon curse to their original family and the village where they were born.

And these 36 full moons are also calculated by curses.

The werewolf said coldly that as long as the villagers don't take the initiative to seek death and live, and work hard to survive, at least ten villagers should survive at least at the end of the last full moon night.

During the period of the blood moon curse, the entire village cannot communicate with the outside world. Because of the curse, everyone will forget about this village, and it is impossible to pass any news from the village.

The villagers were excited, and they didn't want to believe the nonsense of these guys. With weapons in hand, they wanted to fight them to the death.

However, the villagers underestimated the fighting power of the werewolves—not to mention the backlash of the blood moon curse after killing a wolf...they couldn't even kill a werewolf!

And the werewolves didn't seem to kill them. After repelling and wounding the villagers, they only dragged away the most seriously injured villager, and told the other villagers about the blood moon curse again.

The villagers cried, despaired, and collapsed.

Some villagers were even overwhelmed and chose to commit suicide directly.

However, even the corpses of the villagers who were put into the coffin for burial on the same day were found to be no longer in the tomb the next morning... The buried land was dug up in a mess, the coffin was opened wide, and the corpse was nowhere to be found.

Gradually, the villagers became completely numb.

They have already lost count of how many full moon nights they have experienced, and they don't know that the people around them have left again.

Everyone works mechanically and lives mechanically.

Many people thought about it once and for all, but when they thought about what the werewolves had said, they didn't dare.

It is really a very simple thing to die by yourself, but if it will bring disaster to your relatives and friends...

How dare they?How could they be so selfish?

Therefore, everyone is living mechanically, not knowing where their own death will be.

On the contrary, the village chief... seems to be still trying to communicate with the werewolves, looking for a chance of life, and wanting to stimulate the villagers' hope of surviving.

……

After listening to the village chief's narration, Bai Zhe touched his chin thoughtfully, "So, I'm a little curious. You said that there were outsiders who wanted to lead you to fight against werewolves. What happened?"

Hearing his question, the villagers immediately sighed, and the village chief shook his head with heavy eyes, "They tried to intercept the werewolves, but they all died in the end..."

"Understood." Bai Zhe nodded, "So now, the whole village is constantly reducing the number of people. Other villagers are playing werewolf killing, but you are playing werewolf can't kill. Now you are going to learn from the three little pigs. Houses, whoever builds the worst house will be eaten by werewolves, right?"

Hearing him talk about life and death so lightly, the village head frowned in displeasure, "This is not the time for joking."

"I know." Bai Zhe nodded. "Anyway, we will try our best to help you. Now let's look around."

After Bai Zhe finished speaking, he signaled Qi Lin to go with him to check the situation of the whole village.

"Young man." The village head suddenly stopped the two of them, and added with a frown, "Don't blame me for not reminding you... The house you live in now is the former villager's, and it is already lacking in repairs... If You still have to hang out now, if you don’t repair the house well, it’s very likely that one of you will die tonight.”

Bai Zhe stopped and looked at the village chief again.

This sounds like a reminder, but in fact, it can also be said to be a threat.

Bai Zhe nodded, "So, the village head and the werewolf had a three-day agreement, judging by the dilapidated condition of the house, today is the first day when the werewolf came, right?"

There is nothing wrong with these words, the village chief nodded slowly after listening.

"Okay." Bai Zhe turned and left, "We got it. Thank you for reminding the village chief. We're just going to check the situation. We'll be back to fix the house soon."

The village chief looked at the backs of the two with deep eyes.

"What do you think?" Bai Zhe asked Qi Lin after the two of them walked some distance away.

"The village head, he has a question." Qi Lin replied.

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