Presenting nesting dolls to the beautiful world

"Let the dead have that immortal name, but let the living have that immortal love."

——Rabindranath Tagore - "Flying Birds"

When Datu and Tieguo found Ah Niao under an umbrella, she was leaning against a half-collapsed eaves, watching the spring rain slantly blowing and watering everything to grow.

Of course, if you go to her live broadcast room, you will find that she is actually painting live.

It was a picture book, and it told a not-so-long story, and everyone knew what it was about: the knight of the seven virtues, the never-ending blue sun, limited to the closed beta, only [-] days old, Shine them through the winter sun.

This is the one hundred and eighth day.

April [-]st, the last day of the closed beta.

The city of Berry, which is being planned for reconstruction, ushered in the first spring rain this year.

The pattering rain slanted across the sky and earth, soaking the huge ruins and washing away everyone who came and went in a hurry.

The reconstruction of Bai Rui will be a big project, but the good thing is that they don't have to try to build a gorgeous palace high in the sky-in fact, after such a experience, everyone is so allergic to the word palace...

Even the third princess, who took over the position of ruler with a dazed face, didn't want to be associated with this word at all, so much so that she even wanted to change the name of the "Emperor Gailin", which is definitely not auspicious. Surrounded by some players and urged to fast-forward directly to the regime reform: it just happens to follow the ideals and part of the reputation of the virtuous sage Garland.

When Garland is alive, countless people will want him to die, and the other half will want him to live.But when he really dies, everyone will miss him...

Because 'a noble soul is like a gem, shining brighter in the eyes of the bad than in the eyes of the good'.

But that doesn't make any sense.

The blue sun goes out?Noble soul gone?Virtue star silenced? ——Oh, the last one did indeed happen. When he died, the Reis Pass cried out, and the Virtue Constellation suddenly went out, and visually it will not light up again for a period of time in the future.

But all these rhetoric are so powerless in the face of the same fact.

【he's gone. 】

"..."

The two sat next to Ah Niao, one on the left and the other on the right. They didn't put away the umbrella, but held the umbrella to cage the three of them in a small space with almost no wind at the same time, and looked up at the sky.

After a while, Iron Pot turned off his writing interface and suddenly said, "I've changed my job, alchemist."

"I switched too, Magic Mechanic." Da Tu turned off his video editing interface and said, "How about you, A Niao?"

"..." Ah Niao looked back from the painting interface, "I might switch to an Arcanist, or a Rogue."

"...Ah?" Big Rabbit was stunned, "You... Aren't you going to transfer to Warrior and then pick up Knight?"

"Yesterday's wave of beatings, people and ghosts were all on show, only knights were being beaten haha..." Ah Niao scratched his head, "I want to be more handsome!!"

"You can tell us the truth," said the cauldron.

"..."

Ah Niao savored his current mixed feelings, and said softly: "You can see for yourself."

She took something out of her backpack, held it in her hand, and handed it to the two of them.

The two subconsciously took it and took a closer look: it was a letter and a dagger.

——[Garland Rosedale's recommendation letter]

——[Token·Sage's Saber]

"The task of 'Great Knight's Appreciation' has been completed, and the job transfer certificate given is these two things." Ah Niao said softly, "The recommendation letter is a 15th-level job transfer certificate, which allows me to have more job transfer certificates than others at the same level. Higher attribute growth. The dagger is a weapon and a token, allowing me to learn more skills at the same level."

"...But if you change jobs," Datu looked at the dagger in his hand that Garland had almost given away, and said, "Will they disappear?"

"Ah." A bird said.

So Chunyu was silent.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and merged into a lake - that was the original site of Bairui Mountain, and now it was directly smashed into a lake with a width of three or four thousand acres. The lake water was clear and sweet, and even mixed with some secret life energy. It tastes very healthy to drink...

Every time they hear this, the players feel very sloppy: Can they not keep healthy? ?The Goddess of Life died there! !

In addition, some new features have finally been opened on the last day of the closed beta, and a series of stories with a rainbow-colored name "The Man in the Stars" has been added to the "Story Mode". Three years and ten years into this Battle of Berry that changed the terrain forever.

And Garland's character card has also changed.A common card with a favorability of 30 is a broken gun inserted obliquely on the ruins, and his back is facing the camera. A favor of 50 is the appearance of him riding a white spear in the sunset, and a favor of 80 is when he first met them. The appearance of 90 is the appearance of him smiling and standing in the sunshine by the sea.

No 100.

No one got his full favorability value, so no one can get the full favorability reward that is only marked now: [Garland's forehead crown].

But the character card change system that is interoperable with the player's appearance system has also been opened...

Of course, the clothing module can only be made by the liver copy and the liver, and the clothing mounted on the character card will have an impact on the vertical drawing of the card, and can also be fed back to the character phantom.

The wonderful thing is: Big Rabbit and Tieguo are both half-time and half-combat occupations. Of the hundreds of costumes and accessories that have been released so far, at least one-third of them can be made when they reach a higher level.

In addition, there are various ways to obtain the same clothing items. Players can even come by themselves or let NPCs try to imitate them, which has the same success rate.

At this moment, the player with the Garland character card is either crying to himself or washing his clothes, and the audience is either crying to himself or crying to watch the player brush his clothes. The nest under the dilapidated house started to be in a daze, regardless of the effect of the program.

But looking at it this way... the effect of the show seems to have become even more wonderful: the audience has added two varieties of 'crying at the same people' and 'crying at the players who are lost in their souls', and the scenes are extremely painful.

"Several players who went online at Billingston said that his lieutenant Eugene was knocked out by him and stayed in Billingston...'Since Mr. Rosedale wants me to live, then I will live... ...'—that's what he said. It just doesn't look like he wants to live..." Iron Pan muttered, "He didn't receive any orders, and he knew that it was Garland's trust in him."

"Speaking of orders, before he ordered Zhuguang to protect us, it came here, and now it has been lying by the lake, ignoring anyone who shouts." Big Rabbit said.

"Did the lake get a name?" Ah Niao asked.

"Take it." A voice said, "It's called 'Xingzhao'."

Not far away, Mopucha came over, put away his umbrella, and sat not far from the three of them.

"It sounds like you don't have any intentions... But to be honest, this is the best result. Some people want to call it Rainbow Lake and other names that have nothing to do with the color... What's more, Captain Skye, he He opened his mouth and said, "Garland Rossdale, you little bastard, you are too inhuman." In the end, he was dragged down by Hayden and the others, tied to the bed and continued to recuperate from his broken bones..."

Three people: "......?? Grass."

So the four of them chatted, and stopped talking about things that everyone knew or couldn't forget, just laughed.

See, a man will one day learn to speak his own way.When they are sad, embarrassed, when they feel that they are about to lose something... It seems that they can grasp the end of time by thinking about other things and talking about things that are not related to the current situation.This is probably a kind of intentional impediment to retain, but the form of expression is so euphemistic that people want to slap him in the face.

But after a while, Shuang Jing came sauntering over with a staff and a shield, bringing Xue Shan, who had obviously changed his profession to a stealth, and Luo Tianyechen, who had turned into a soldier, following them all the way The four greeted each other: "Did you see that! Those with high favorability have special functions!!"

The four of them, who were trying to divert the topic to the skyline, stared suddenly, their eyes suddenly sharpened, and they opened the card box at the same time!

"My favorability score is 93." No Pucha proudly announced, and took a closer look, "Oh... I can... But, can I keep the interactive Garland Phantom forever in the place registered as my home??? "

In the time of three deep breaths, his expression changed from 'Okay, big surprise! ! 'Quietly distorted, and finally fixed on 'cnm planning, I think you want me to die'.

"...My favorability is only 81, so I can only let him be there on weekends..." Iron Pan scratched his head silently.

"80, the same level." The big rabbit covered his face.

"71, let him come here once in a while." Xue Shan raised his hand.

"33..." Luo Tianye looked left and right.

"68..." Shuangjing himself fell silent.

Afterwards, everyone looked at Ah Niao together: "Brother Bird??"

"Wait, I'll finish this painting..." Ah Niao tremblingly cut out the last details, saved the file and released the picture book, pulled the card box from the bottom of the drawing interface, and juxtaposed it with the favorability pop-up window.

"...99." She said softly, "Besides those functions, I can also call him outside at any time."

Unrecognizable tea is beyond recognition.

"It's obviously me... Oh no, you really came first..." He murmured, "Ma'am, you treat me so hard, and you have a higher affection with my wife than me..."

A bird: "..."

She glanced at them silently, then bowed her head.

"But he's dead," she said.

For a while, only Chun Yu was quiet.

The shadow of Wupucha lowered.

"By the way, why do you like him so much?" Ah Niao asked.

"..." Wupucha thought for a while: "Actually, even if he called my wife, I didn't really have a paper wife... I can only say that he is the kind of person I dreamed of becoming... Even if It can’t be, and no one would want to have such a person by his side.”

"Oh..." Ah Niao pursed her lips.

yes.Who would not want to have such a person by their side?

He is strong, beautiful, kind, dependable, and has a code of rock-solid virtue...  

……never mind.

Ah Niao sighed softly: "I don't know, people are gone, what is the purpose of enabling this function for me?"

"Why don't you try it?" The iron pot whispered, "Try it anyway! You'll know if you try it!"

Hearing this, Ah Niao was silent for a while, and clicked the 'call' button.

………………

…………

……

Nothing happened.

"...I just said it's useless!!" Ah Niao lowered her head, as if she couldn't hold it anymore, her eyes turned red quickly, and tears fell out, "The dog plan... the dog official... I'll do it tomorrow Go blow up the small broken building..."

She muttered to herself, until a big hand was pressed on top of her head through a glove.And in the corner of his vision, a blood-red phantom also floated.

She froze.

"Ms. Quiller, why are you crying?" the familiar, gentle voice sounded.

The big blond knight with half body and half body smiled and nodded to the people around him, squatting down under the eyes of everyone covering their mouths and crying, and gently stroking the player's hair.

【Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! ! ! ! ! 】The barrage that has been sluggish completely explodes,【I'm so hot! ! ! 】

【Winner!Birdie winner! ! ! ! ! ! 】

[No, this is the victory of all players with high affection! ! ! ! ohhhhhhhhh! ! ! 】

【Etc., etc! !Both his eyes are blue this time! ! ! 】

[Uh ah ah ah yes! ! ! 】

Ah Niao slowly raised his head, looked at Garland with tears in his eyes, and Garland also smiled - he took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it over...

...But when Ah Niao stretched out his hand to pick it up, it turned into a phantom and fluttered into the void.

Well, Ah Niao and the surrounding players cried louder.

"..." Garland was stunned for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the handkerchief with a helpless hand, and it took him a long time to choke out a sentence: "...Sorry."

howling.

"Ah..." The chosen ones were crying like this. Where has the great knight seen such a battle?The others were all dumbfounded, completely unable to remember the usual mediation and communication skills, so they could only say awkwardly: "Relax, the chosen one... Actually, I have already died. All these years, I have only been here for a little delusion. Just live..."

You can really talk ah ah ah ah ah ah! ! !

The players were crying out of breath.

"But you are still so young!!!" Ah Niao shouted hoarsely, "You are only in your 20s!!"

Garland was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Young? No... age doesn't belong to soldiers, my friend."

He stood up and turned around in front of the crowd, the red cloak was flying in the air, shining brightly-but the rain penetrated it all.His body and armor, his crown and cloak, they sprinkled on the overturned soil of the stone slabs in this ruined path, pouring generously on the grass and wild flowers.

"Look at me, friend," the young knight laughed, as if he had let go of a heavy burden and was no longer so stable: "If it is to protect you and the world, I think I deserve to die."

"and……"

"...Although I'm worried, I'm already, very happy to see you and the world with my original eyes."

He squeezed his left eye and winked: "The Chosen One! If you want to know anything, just ask me!"

As he spoke, he laughed: "... But I'm sorry, I really can't answer anything now."

The spring rain fell on him, the dotted line of light fell on him.That rain of light it splashes April's stars.

"It's spring," he said softly. "Go on in spring, chosen ones. You must learn to cross rivers and hills. Learn to forget me..."

A bird gasped from crying.

"...Learn not to cry. Don't cry when anything is gone." He said softly, "Death is but an illusion for a moment, ma'am, maybe in the distant and unknown future, we will all turn into stars. part of the dust, and meet again in the new world."

He laughed and patted Ah Niao's head again, this time taking out a handkerchief and wiping her tears in his hand.

"Don't disturb the rest of the dead, forget me, and all that," he said. "Death does not belong to you, Chosen One."

As he spoke, he smiled, and took off the forehead crown that matched the heavy armor from his head.

The next moment, the forehead crown solidified into a real item, but the heavy armor on his body quietly disappeared, and he returned to the familiar appearance of a light armored knight.

"Take it well, this is a gift." He put it into Ah Niao's hand, and said softly, "No matter what you want to be, it can help you."

The blond knight stood up and stepped back into the rain.

In the end, he looked around the players, and then at the other players who were approaching from a distance, and laughed.

"You are also the proof that I have lived." He said.

The blond figure quietly dissipated.

On the control interface, the [Call] button turns gray and displays [Conditions not met].

After a while, the distraught players dispersed.

Ah Niao put away her forehead crown, and with a pale face, she found Hayden, who had the same ugly face but was summarizing and reorganizing the tasks within the scope of her responsibility, and silently accepted a job transfer task.

Just when she was about to turn around and leave, she heard the discussion of several players next to her: "Hey, did you see that, the official Weibo posted a message saying that this game [does not guide NPCs]..."

"...I see. Zhuo!!" The players who were asked began to insult the planner with tears in their voices.

"..." Ah Niao lowered her head and was about to walk out, but she almost bumped into someone who entered the door.

She raised her head and was stunned for a moment: "...Diamond diamond?" She looked back—"The strong wind blew? Jiangshang for nothing??"

"...It's Baixue on the river!!" Bai, who was pale, argued violently in a low voice.

"Wait," she whispered, "you three are going to be arcanists?"

"Yes." Diamond Diamond replied with an extremely gloomy expression, "From the very beginning, I have fallen behind in rank, so I must change jobs quickly..."

"Your complexions seem to be very bad," Ah Niao said softly, "Did something happen again?"

"..." Diamond Diamond glanced at her and shook his head.

"It's nothing..." Dafeng Guauo murmured, "It's just that the three of us suddenly discovered that we still have a task to complete, and it will never be completed."

"..." Facing this scene, Ah Niao felt a strong sense of foreboding, "...What mission?"

Diamond Diamond raised his head slowly, stared into her eyes, and sniffled.

"A test quest 'Winds of the Plains,'" he said, adding some words that would be incomprehensible to the 'NPCs', in case the nearby Haydens understood,'' to Hayden Summerfield, Garland De Rosedale is fine, let him not worry'."