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Fang Zhou moved forward with the team, and when he was about to enter the teahouse, a big boy stopped in front of him with a grin, his eyes squinted with a smile, a bit malicious.

"Hi! Dude! It's so cold, why are you wearing so little clothes? For the sake of our compatriots, I happen to have a piece of clothing in my package, why don't I borrow it from you first?"

Fang Zhou twitched the corners of his lips, and was about to refuse, when suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder.

He turned his head to meet a handsome face, vaguely familiar.

The visitor had a long-lost reunion smile and called him Ark.

"Long time no see, you also play this game?"

Ark didn't answer.

The visitor's smile froze, "You don't remember me?"

Fang Zhou didn't answer but instead asked, "What can I do for you?"

The visitor scratched his face, automatically skipped the topic, glanced at the boy who was staring at him in surprise, and looked back as if nothing had happened, "Who is this?! Why do you just give away old clothes that you have worn so casually? !"

As he spoke, he took the opportunity to hug Fang Zhou, avoided the boy, and walked towards the teahouse.

He also earnestly instructed: "For an outstanding young man like you, you should usually pay more attention. In this world, not only women with evil intentions will covet your beauty and talent, but also guard against those men with dirty hearts who are plotting against you. .”

The Red Devil looked at the boss who opened his eyes and said nonsense, and said in his heart that MMP didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, Fang Zhou's eyes are discerning.

He pushed people away forcefully, glanced at the passers-by and players who were whispering suddenly, followed their excited gaze, Shi Shi ran across the boy's extremely short shaved red hair roots, and landed on the handsome young man in front of him .

He opened his lips and said:

"...He should be the Red Devils, a member of Nokia, a top e-sports team that is famous overseas, and joined the team's founder, Jiang Xun, in the national server of "Noah's Ark."

Fang Zhou paused, looked at the young man who suddenly stiffened, and slowly added: "Are you suffering from temporary amnesia, classmate Jiang?"

Jiang Xun, who was exposed on the spot, cracked his expression.

The Red Devils, who were almost regarded as stepping stones, and the team members who came to watch the scene expressed their joy and joy.Suddenly, he felt that the ordinary-looking Ark in front of him seemed to have something special that the boss would never forget.

Fang Zhou didn't care about Jiang Xun's complicated and embarrassing inner world. Before he could sort out his emotions, he said again:

"Student Jiang, what can I do for you?"

"No, it's nothing, it's just... since you also play games, what do you need our help with? Although our level is not very high, we have played a lot of games anyway, so we have some experience."

"No, just when he mentioned it, I did feel colder." Fang Zhou wrapped his pajamas tightly, and said goodbye to several people politely, "I'll get off first, goodbye."

Jiang Xun watched Fang Zhou leave, hesitantly said: "Is this... the meaning of seeing you next time?"

"I think so, boss." Hong Mo patted him on the shoulder, speaking earnestly, "People still have to recognize the reality."

"What do you mean?"

"It means, look at that person who turned around without hesitation and left—" He Xifeng raised his head, and He Dongfeng tacitly made up his sword, "——it means that we will never see each other again, classmate Jiang!"

Ms. Weiwei raised her red lips, "So, I'm curious, what kind of role did you play to make people have no impression of you at first, and then suddenly avoid you like a snake?"

"...In the Bible story, when the catastrophe comes, the ark is the only hope to save Noah. So, Noah, it's time to tell the story behind your English name." In the end, Jie Zhizhi said sharply.

……

Fang Zhou climbed out of the game cabin, and the sound of firecrackers outside had stopped.

Due to the remote location of the real estate and few residents, after a while in the early morning, until Fang Zhou woke up in the morning, there was no sound of firecrackers.

On the 13th, the first day of the new year.

People in the country visited relatives and friends early in the morning, and Fang Zhou went to the cemetery to visit his grandfather who had passed away.

The peak of visiting graves is New Year's Eve, and after one day, the cemetery will be much deserted.Fang Zhou stayed quietly all morning reminiscing about the past, had a meal with the tombstone at noon, and in the afternoon talked about how he lived a good life last year. When the sky was getting dark, he went home by car.

On the way, I received a WeChat message from Li Chui, a big red envelope.

And leave a message: [Grandson, how is grandpa treating you? 】

When you take it apart, you can see that it is 99.9 yuan, no more, no less, implying a long time.

Fang Zhou returned a red envelope with a denomination of 88 yuan.

Only one word was left: [Roll], even the punctuation was omitted.

When I log in to the game, it is 06:30 in the evening.

It may be that the New Year's money was distributed, the player flow reached a small peak, and there were many abnormally young faces in the queue. Just looking at the mental outlook, they were children with a good life, which made the landing point extra noisy.

A young man took his cousin and complained: "...you don't know how much I have spent trying to get enough money! The lucky money that I have saved for several years and I am not willing to touch it, I put it all in at once, and put it in front of my sister Being humble and small, and signing all kinds of unequal treaties, that's why that stinking girl is willing to lend me some more money."

The cousin next to him rolled his eyes, "Are you stupid or stupid? It's not one cabin, one number. You go online to grab a free invitation code, and you can play directly in the elder's game cabin?"

"It's not that I don't want to grab it, the key is that I can't grab it!" The cousin said with a distressed face, "I am a hard-working student, and I can't even touch a mobile phone during non-holidays. How can I compare with the speed of an old netizen like you?" Than? Then the invitation code is distributed in a limited amount every day, real-name rush registration, even a scalper account is hard to find! Anyway, buy a game cabin, and it will also give you a free invitation code!"

In the second article of the letter, the invitation code is called a boat ticket, which echoes the name of the game.

But right now, because of the free delivery mechanism of the invitation code, it has not attracted widespread attention.But if the letter is not aimless, then the invitation code must be extremely critical.Fang Zhou thought that even in the instruction manual, the gift invitation code will be prefixed with the word "free". Does the subtext say that it is not free?

There is no way to explore the Ark now.

Sitting in the Hongqi car, today’s announcement is still being repeated on the car TV. It’s still early until the end of the Nian Beast event, but the players complained:

"...Let's not talk about it at night, just when I went offline in the morning, there were not many Nian beasts left."

"That's not true! This time the Nian Beast gave me enough experience. Many people rose to level [-] or [-] in one night, and the master ranking line was raised to level [-]! They are looting everywhere, and the supply is beyond demand! I just went down to have dinner. , Nian beasts have been spawned less and less, it is estimated that at this moment, even if they are exchanged for firecrackers, they will not be able to explode a few."

"It seems that if you want to upgrade again, you still have to start with solving tasks."

There is no shortage of smart people among the players, especially those from superior families who are born with superior educational resources. They have been influenced by their ears and eyes since childhood, and their vision and thinking mode are dominant. Trigger opportunity.

Immediately, some players spoke freely:

"The teahouse in "The Wolf Is Coming" and the fable village, the answer is obvious. Before I went offline yesterday, I counted the total number of shops in the village, and it completely matches the number of animal-related stories in "Aesop's Fables."

"I also found out... Yesterday, I passed a three-fork intersection where Lion Street, Sheep Street, and Pig Street intersected, and the bar at the corner where white and pink meet, not only clicked on the title of "Pig and Sheep", but also confirmed the story The relationship between the three animals in the book."

"The clues are actually very conspicuous. I thought of it when the teahouse opened! As long as you search for the two, three, and four animals that are handed over as a set of keywords at the fork in the road, you can easily find the corresponding story. It's a pity that I had to go back to the ancestral home to accompany the elderly yesterday, and I was busy welcoming relatives and friends this morning to entertain guests, so I had to ask the tutor to help sort out the outline of the story of "Aesop's Fables". , you can try them one by one later.”

But some of their ideas may be going nowhere.

When the red flag car arrived at the station, it was just dawn in the game, and the dawn was shining brightly, and the fable village was very lively.

Not only is the traffic soaring during the Spring Festival, but also because of the opening of teahouses, many shop signboards have been erased with mosaics, revealing their original appearance.

Because of the scarcity of Nian Beasts, players turned their attention to shops one after another. They were not later than the players in the car thought, but had more time to try one by one.

In terms of the surge in the number of players, the strength of the number of people is great, even guessing, opened the doors of half of the shops.

As soon as Fang Zhou got out of the car, there was an endless stream of "beep beep beep" alerts on the channel bar. He was about to open it when six or seven familiar young people rushed in front of him. He took a few steps away and saw them rushing towards a library. .

Facing the square, the library is located at the intersection of several colored roads, and the colorful paint is particularly conspicuous.

Crowds of gangsters who came here stood in front of the closed gate, trying to trigger keywords, and shouted at the beginning: "Open Sesame!"

The bad friend next to him slammed the back of the head and scolded: "That's from "The Arabian Nights"! Idiot!"

Then he took over and tried everything from "Aesop" to "Aesop's Fables" to various fable names, but the door was still coldly closed.

A group of players scratched their heads, "Did the system not hear it?"

However, when they repeated it like a wheel, the windows on the second floor suddenly opened from the inside, and when they looked up, they saw a head sticking out of the window, and they all showed joy.

But before they could be happy, a basin of cold water was poured down on their heads, chilling the hearts of a few people, and accompanied by mocking curses: "Go crazy and get away! Don't yell and harass me down there!" People clear their dreams!"

Looking at the window that was closed again with "Boom!", several people looked at each other in dismay, "Bah bah" in distaste, "This seems to be footwashing water!"

The leader wiped his face and shivered in the cold wind, "Have you noticed that the NPC's attitude towards players has become worse?"

"...It seems to be true. In the past, I always ignored the answers and couldn't distinguish between NPCs and players. Today, anyone who looks at us with cold eyebrows and cold eyes seems to be NPCs. It's so clear at a glance!"

"How is this going?"

"Who knows!"

The cold winter in the game has not yet passed. A group of players stepped back a few steps away from the library, but they still did not see their wet clothes recovering from drying. They immediately realized that this was not included in the scope of damage repair. They seemed to be trembling in the wind, and said one after another:

"No, I have to go offline and adjust."

"Me too!"

"Let's go together, see you later."

When this group of people walked to the stop sign in a group, Fang Zhou had just finished flipping through the village channel.

Click on the voice content, and the stores with various voices start with "from [-] o'clock tomorrow morning", all of which are:

[Fable Village Channel]: "...The "Tortoise and the Hare Race" indoor gymnasium at No. 01, Tugui H Lane will officially open..."

[Fable Village Channel]: "...The "Fox and Crow" Traditional Chinese Medicine Center will officially open at No. 01, Yahu H Lane..."

[Fable Village Channel]: "...The "Fox Eats Grapes" Psychological Counseling Center at No. 1-07 Fox Street..."

[Fable Village Channel]: "...The "White Stork's Revenge" tavern at Fox Crane H Lane-01..."

It took a full five or six pages to get to the end, and there are roughly a hundred shops waiting to open.

Fang Zhou passed them by and headed towards the east of the village.

Scattered players can already be seen crossing the fence outside the Fable Village unimpeded, obviously they have reached level eight.

Exploring aimlessly into the wild...

Fang Zhou, a second-level rookie, walked into the white street with sheep cards without any fluctuations in his heart.

Many players shuttled among them.

Some wandered back and forth, looking straight at the faces of passers-by, looking for the suspected NPC who was particularly cold-eyed today; some stood in twos and threes in front of unopened shops, each discussing or trying to trigger.

Going further inside, you will be the first to see a street lamp that is lit during the day, illuminating the store sign, and the sign of the mug with Milk painted on it reads "Goats and People". In the store, you can see the advertisement posted on the counter: pure natural handmade squeeze.

Going on, I saw two closed shops with street lights on, namely the "Sheared Sheep" barber shop and the "Goat and Grape" milk wine retail shop. A store name that combines sheep with other animals.

When you get to the end of Baijie, you can see the Baihe Street sign hanging on the second section of Baijie through a narrow alley.

Ark didn't cross the road, but walked down the narrow alley that transitioned from white to gray.

The laneway connects Sheep Street and Wolf Street, just like the horizontal bar in the middle of the H, straddling the east and west of the village, thus walking a long distance.

After passing several mosaic cross talk halls, mahjong parlors, etc., and then passing by the "Wolf and Sheep" same-sex couple restaurant accompanied by street lights, and the "Wolf and Ewe" heterosexual couple restaurant, after several mosaic shops, Once again, we ushered in a third-party mediation shop of "wolves, sheep, and rams", and then encountered several shops such as dating agencies and divorce offices starting with the word wolf.

Turn into Wolf Street at the end of Narrow Lane.

The gray street is already brightly lit, and the street lights look like a long queue. The busiest thing is the "Wolf is Coming" teahouse that is open, and players lined up in an M-shaped queue are crowded on the street.

Standing outside the queue, Fang Zhou found that the store sign that erased the mosaic was clearly displayed as "lying". He checked the earliest announcement record again, and the voice content in the channel really said "Wolf is coming" teahouse.

But if you think about it carefully, before the opening of the teahouse, the code that the shop advertised seems to be a two-character color block.