This NPC really has a problem

Lu Ren sat on the rooftop, looking at the bell tower in the distance.The color of the bell tower is darker than the night, like a black iron sword inserted into the city.

A round of bright moon hangs in the sky and stops quietly behind the bell tower.

The sound of someone turning up to the roof sounded behind him, and the hem of his clothes was blown by the wind, making a hunting sound.

Lu Ren knew who was coming without looking back, and sure enough, Bai Zhu sat down next to him after a while.

The girl's financial resources can be regarded as local tyrants in the slums. This three-story building with a small courtyard belongs to her. Although each floor is barely divided into two rooms, it is the same as Lu Ren's previous two. Personally, I don't know how much better the living conditions are than the living conditions that I can't stand.

What surprised Lu Ren the most was that he could see the bell tower here. Through the gaps in the rooms of the tower, he seemed to have glimpsed a corner of another world.

"I don't know what happened to the bell ringer."

Bai Zhu sat down and leaned against Lu Ren. Except when Lu Ren was reading a book, Lu Ren liked to lean on the back of the chair comfortably, or let himself sink deep in the sofa. Most of the time, his sitting posture was very correct.

Lu Ren took out the piece of paper given to him by the bell ringer from his pocket, unfolded it and handed it to Bai Zhu.

There were some obvious creases on the paper, which had been crumpled once, even though Lu Ren smoothed it several times later, the marks could not be completely erased, and the marks were still clear at this moment when the light was not strong.

Bai Zhu looked down under the moonlight, only to see that there were no words on it, and it was a very abstract picture.

"Map?" Bai Zhu asked uncertainly.

"I guess so too." Lu Ren said, "The circle in the middle is very similar to Mirror Lake."

Bai Zhu looked at it carefully for a long time, but couldn't see what the picture was trying to express.

"What does this mean?" Bai Zhu said puzzledly, "There is no note on it."

Assuming this is a map, the big circle in the middle should represent Mirror Lake in the City of Reflections.Mirror Lake was drawn with a black pen, and many lines were sketched with a black pen on the map, as if to tell them that these were large areas of irrelevant buildings in the City of Reflections.

Among nearly a hundred messy black lines, a few circles drawn with red pens are particularly eye-catching.

But anyone with a brain would know that the place circled by the red pen is the key to this map, but the map is so abstract that they can't even guess where the red circle corresponds to the City of Reflections.

Lu Ren couldn't figure it out by himself, so he thought of asking Bai Zhu.They have all overlooked the City of Reflections from the top of the bell tower, and they may have some impressions of the city's planning.

Then Bai Zhu fell into an eerie silence.

He was a little hesitant to tell the truth, because he only paid attention to Lu Ren and he didn't pay attention to what the City of Reflection looked like.

Bai Zhu didn't answer for a long time, Lu Ren just pretended to be him and couldn't figure it out.

Lu Ren looked down at the map for a long time, and murmured uncertainly, "Will there be a clock tower in these places..."

"Which places?" Bai Zhu leaned his head over.

Lu Ren pointed to the four small red circles beside the mirror lake.

"I've guessed whether these places are the church, the bell tower and the city lord's mansion, because they are all by the mirror lake." Lu Ren said, "but there is an extra circle."

Bai Zhu recalled the landmarks of the City of Reflections, and said, "Could the extra circle be the central square?"

Lu Ren shook his head: "The central square is indeed very close to the City Lord's Mansion, but the central square is not facing the mirror lake."

The central square is indeed very close to the City Lord's Mansion. It can be said that there is a City Lord's Mansion between it and Mirror Lake.

Moreover, three of the four circles are basically adjacent to each other. If one of the circles is the central square, they should be adjacent to each other.

"Could it be that these circles don't correspond to landmarks? That's too hard to guess." Bai Zhu thought for a while, "Should I ask that little girl?"

Lu Ren refused without thinking, "I don't believe her."

Bai Zhu also felt that there were too many secrets hidden in the girl, which made him feel bad, but compared with the people in the Holy See and the City Lord's Mansion, Bai Zhu felt that the girl was more reliable.

Lu Ren didn't think so.

"The Holy See and the City Lord's Mansion are indeed our enemies, but they also have an advantage, that is, they can't lie." Lu Ren said, "But I don't believe a single word that the girl said."

Bai Zhu said: "She is..."

"She is a believer of the evil god." Lu Ren affirmed.

The fact that the girl is a believer of the evil god can be deduced by combining some known information and thinking about it carefully.

At present, the information given to them by the bell ringer is the most important. He told Lu Ren the division of the six locks.The person who rings the bell is obviously in the same camp as the chief maid who is currently somewhere, and they are the ones who really want to end reincarnation.The Holy See and the City Lord's Mansion can also be included in the same camp. Although they may have some differences in small directions, as the managers of the City of Reflections, they must be consistent in the general direction, otherwise the City of Reflections will not maintain a stable situation .

The girl wanted Lu Ren to help her end the reincarnation of the City of Reflections, as if she and the Bell Ringer were the same kind of people.

But the bell ringer made it clear that only he and the head maid wanted to end reincarnation in the City of Reflections.

The bell ringer who has locked evil thoughts cannot lie, so the liar is a girl.

Who in the city can tell a lie?One is people who have never used the key, and the other is the believer of the evil god.

It is impossible for the young girl to be someone who has not used the key before. Lu Ren barely had contact with the person who actually hid the key, that is, the old woman who was executed at the stake. Nothing the old woman said about reincarnation was mentioned before she died. , under the circumstances at that time, it is very likely that she was also deeply trapped in reincarnation, and she didn't even know what happened to her.

In fact, if the old woman knew that she was in reincarnation, it would be impossible for her to be caught by the city guards with her reincarnation memory.

Then there is only one answer left, the girl used a special key to lock up the kind evil believers.

There is another person who can prove this point, and that is Father Lu Ren.

What kind of situation the girl is in can only be speculated now, but Lu Ren can't know more clearly about the priest's situation. Now the personality who has the dominance of this body is a complete believer in evil gods.

There is a high probability that the girl who is with him has the same identity.

"The key is special, but if you think about it seriously, the identity of the person who is the lock is very special. Even without the key, they are still special people in this city."

Lu Ren said: "Bishop Lanna and the city lord are the people in charge of the City of Reflections. Father Lu Ren is regarded as the next bishop. The head maid should be in charge of the internal affairs of the city lord's mansion, and actually has a lot of power. The bell ringer It may seem like an insignificant role, but the two daily bells, the Evening Bell and the Evening Bell, have extraordinary significance to the citizens of the City of Reflections. The bell ringer who has been ringing the bell for decades is not himself ordinary."

"What is the identity of that girl?" Bai Zhu subconsciously asked.

"It may be the leader of the evil god believers in the city." Lu Ren said, "Father Lu Ren went to the base of the evil god believers before defecting to the City of Reflections. I don't have complete memories of that period. I only know what he left behind. Defecting from the City of Reflections. Now that I think about it, it might be a special key."

Given the priest's status in the Holy See at the time and Bishop Lanna's trust in him, it is not surprising that he was able to get a special key.

Basically, Lu Ren believed everything Bai Zhu said, but he still had a lot of questions: "What is the condition to activate the circle of reincarnation in the City of Reflections? I won't talk about the girl staying in the city, assuming no one is needed to cooperate with this." The eyes of the formation can also be used, so in the case of the priest, can the magic circle be opened as usual after everyone leaves?"

Lu Ren didn't know what was going on, so he could only shake his head.

"Maybe we should look for another chance to find the bell ringer again." Lu Ren said.

He didn't say the second half of the sentence, but both of them knew it in their hearts.

— But it must not be easy.

If the first time they saw the bell ringer just made Bishop Lanna suspicious, then now Bishop Lanna can confirm that there is something wrong with the bell ringer.

Lu Ren pressed the center of his eyebrows, feeling a little headache.He couldn't ask the girl or Father Lu Ren, they didn't have any credibility in his heart.

Thanks to meeting Father Lu Ren, Lu Ren is now able to guess the girl's purpose.

If the girl is really a believer of the evil god, then her purpose will not be much different from Bishop Lanna and the others, except that the latter wants the city of reflection to be under the control of the believers of the good god, while the girl hopes that the city Believe in evil gods.

In short, Father Lu Ren's purpose must be the latter.

Lu Ren didn't even tell them about the key. If he did, he might be tricked into something.

It was a bit difficult to meet the bell ringer, Bai Zhu put the matter aside and said thoughtfully: "The girl asked us to help..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a bell.

The girl lived on the outskirts of the slums, and they could barely hear the bell, but this time the bell they heard was clearer than they had imagined, and it seemed to be louder than normal.

The two looked towards the clock tower subconsciously, and they could barely see the huge clock on the top of the clock tower shaking.

"Eight o'clock?" Lu Ren couldn't help asking.

Bai Zhu took out the mobile phone in his pocket and looked at it a bit: "No, it's only five minutes until eight o'clock."

Even if they didn't find that the time of the evening clock was advanced, they were able to discover the anomaly of the evening clock this time.

The once huge bell was struck rhythmically, echoing over the city one by one, bringing people peace of mind, but now the clock is ringing one after another, and one seems to be louder than the other, the bells are messy, and it is hard to imagine the bells It's so densely packed, it's like... like someone's going to crash it.

Hasty footsteps sounded between the bells.

Lu Ren looked back, and saw the girl climbed up the stairs and turned onto the roof. She didn't look at the two people sitting on the edge of the roof, as if she didn't notice them at all, she just tilted her head slightly and stared at the distance bell tower.

There was a light on the clock tower!

It seemed that someone had finally climbed up the clock tower with a lamp, but the moment the light appeared, they all heard a faint cracking sound.

It is conceivable how the surface of the giant clock was knocked out with cracks like cracks, and then fell into pieces in an instant.

They saw the corner of the moon that had been hidden by the great clock.

Lu Ren heard whispers, as if to say "the array is broken".

Looking back, you can see the girl's eyes widened, and her face towards the clock tower is full of disbelief.

The hands clasped in front of her pinched her palms vigorously, but she didn't notice until the flesh was broken.