The three of them were able to get rid of the Huimeng fish, and Jie Fangcheng even caught it in its original state.
The modified Huimeng fish felt too disgusting to touch, so it was now placed with Qi Chanyang. In order to prevent this thing from accidentally entering his brain again, Qi Chanyang took a prop to put the modified Huimeng fish in, and then opened his mouth to swallow it.
His personal skill is the cow stomach. No matter what he swallows, time will stop in his stomach, and everything will remain the same when he takes it out.
After Qi Chanyang finished swallowing, Jie Fangcheng moved a little further away from him, and even came close to Zhang Daoan and secretly pointed at him.
Qi Chanyang felt depressed.
His choice is what every player would make, okay!
People like Jie Fangcheng and Zhang Daoan are a minority! !
But it was obvious that neither of them was aware that they were the minority. Jie Fangcheng even looked at Wei Yuan and the others, his eyes revealing the expectation that "If Qi Chanyang can do it, you should be able to do it too."
This is indeed unrealistic.
Time passed by minute by minute. At 6:20, the original prayer deadline had ended. Zhang Daoan had already discovered new clues, but Wei Yuan and the others still had their eyes closed.
Zhang Daoan had tried it yesterday. As soon as the prayer time was over, at 6:20, there would be a moment of clarity in his mind. As long as he was willing, this moment was enough to leave the dream.
For someone like Qi Chanyang, although he had never experienced so many prayers, he was mentally strong enough to challenge the most difficult mode of breaking out within 40 minutes of prayer time.
It couldn't be said that Wei Yuan and the others were not mentally strong enough... it was mainly because this copy was too targeted at them.
In the morning, go and do good deeds for the city residents. The people of Ronghua used to do good deeds often, and they maintain the virtue of helping others in the infinite copy.
When you pray at night, your dreams will portray a person that you can’t let go of.
It just so happens that in the hearts of everyone in Ronghua, even if they really have nothing else to worry about, they miss the former president and hope that Zhang Daowu will come back. This is the wish of every Ronghua member.
Just look at Wei Yuan and Nie Shuangshuang and you will know that Zhang Daowu appeared in their dreams. Even if he was not the core figure of the copy, he represented enough longing.
From the perspective of the entire dungeon, helping others will earn you gratitude, and the dungeon environment is always sunny and bright, without a trace of haze... Doesn't this resemble the atmosphere of Ronghua itself
In this case, the more prosperous people are, the easier it is for them to be hooked, and it is normal for them to be more addicted than other players from the beginning.
"What should we do?" Qi Chanyang looked at Wei Yuan and the others worriedly. After seeing this, he couldn't help but look to Jie Fangcheng for help.
Jie Fangcheng didn't know what to do either.
He was able to catch the Huimeng fish because this thing had never been able to enter his body. The souls of ordinary humans like Wei Yuan and even Zhang Daoan could easily enter the transformed Huimeng fish.
There was no way to deal with Fang Cheng once we got in. His situation was special, his soul was incomplete, and he couldn't perform exorcisms or spells, so he had always been using pure physical attacks without any magical damage at all.
It would be a good idea to bring Lang Gu in. After all, that guy is a graduate of a formal school and knows more than his unconventional ways.
but now…
"It's not a big deal." Zhang Daoan just looked at the faces in front of him who were immersed in happiness. "If they can break free from the dream by themselves, there is still hope."
Break free from the dream...
Qi Chanyang was stunned for a moment: "Even you can't do anything?"
The image of Zhang Daoan as a man who could plan everything for himself was too deeply rooted in people's minds. Although Qi Chanyang was a little afraid of him, he firmly believed that with Zhang's brain, any copy would not be a problem for him.
But this time, Zhang Daoan just stated the facts calmly.
"For any dungeon that can be cleared, I have the confidence to find a way to break through and take the people I want out. But this dungeon is different. In this dungeon, everyone can only rely on themselves."
Qi Chanyang was silent.
He knew that Zhang Daoan was right. In the dream, the player's self is the master, and only the players themselves can escape from the dream.
No matter how powerful Brother Jie is, he can't help them. Even if he enters their dreams, he will just be a spectator.
Could it be that Wei Yuan and the others really...
Qi Chanyang frowned, his eyes slightly red, and just as he was about to say something, he heard Zhang Daoan continue: "But... if we just want them to survive this copy, we can still do it."
"Ah? How to do it?" Qi Chanyang was stunned.
Wei Yuan and the others were in this state, what other methods could Zhang Daoan come up with to keep them alive?
Zhang Daoan said calmly: "Knock them out, tie them up, and make sure they can't come to the temple to pray."
No one knows what's going on with the "Dream-Returning Fish" that can parasitize in the player's brain and eventually hatch a soul identical to the player, but this thing doesn't replace the player all at once. Instead, it creates an irresistible dream for the player, attracting the player to the temple to pray. Obviously, their hatching takes time, and requires something in the temple.
Zhang Daoan originally guessed that it was a candle, but the new clues he just discovered gave him another guess.
"The candlelight in the temple is not the catalyst that can actually hatch the dream fish." Zhang Daoan pointed to the dome.
Yesterday, Jie Fangcheng and his companion looked at the dome made of colorful glazed tiles, wondering what the worn-out statue on the dome was holding in its hands.
This time, Zhang Daoan woke up from his dream early and noticed that in the easternmost temple, between 5:40 and 6:20, through the worn hands of the god, a star could be seen gradually appearing in the sky.
This star happened to fall into the hands of the god, and the light of a bright star should not be that strong, but this one is particularly conspicuous in the hands of the god.
And only during the "prayer time" from 5:40 to 6:20, there is only this one star in the entire sky.
Once this period of time has passed and the sky becomes dark, the other stars around it will begin to twinkle together at 6:20, making it difficult to notice it at once.
Six twenty is a dividing line. Before, there is only this one star, but when the time comes, several more stars will instantly appear in the sky. This is why players will suddenly wake up for a moment at six twenty. It is equivalent to that before six twenty there is a strong stimulation, and then the stimulation suddenly decreases. Before people adapt, the stimulation at this moment is not enough, and they will wake up rarely.
As for the candles in the temple...
"The candlelight may actually protect the players."
Qi Chanyang listened in a daze.
He was not slow to react. He understood what Zhang Daoan said after he finished speaking.
In the temple, candles were always lit, and although starlight leaked through the dome, the brighter the candlelight, the dimmer the starlight would appear.
Once the candles burn out, the stars will appear even brighter without the candlelight.
After Zhang Daoan finished speaking, Qi Chanyang felt that this copy was even more dangerous.
"There's something wrong with the candle," Qi Chanyang had also thought of this in his mind, because there were too many unreasonable things about it.
At five forty, the sunset had not completely disappeared, and the surrounding environment could still be seen quite clearly in the temple. It was a time when there was no need to light candles, but people still lit candles.
As time goes by, the number of candles will decrease. This "change" seems so special in the unchanging temple. Players are good at finding clues, and these clues point to the conclusion that "there is something wrong with the candles."
If none of the players woke up between 5:40 and 6:20, and happened to see the only star on the dome fall into the hands of the gods, no one would be able to react, as it was not just the candles that changed in the temple.
but…
Qi Chanyang spoke cautiously: "But... 'The only star shines through the glass in the hand of the statue', how does this lead to the idea that starlight is the key to hatching the 'Dream Returning Fish'?"
When normal players see this scene, they will most likely think that this is another clue, and will not associate the stars with the "Returning Dream Fish" together.
After asking this question, Qi Chanyang quickly added: "Of course! I trust your judgment 100%! I'm just a little curious and want to learn."
"Guess."
Qi Chanyang: “…”
Qi Chanyang was not giving up: "Then how did you guess this?"
Seeing that Jie Fangcheng was also looking at him with curiosity, Zhang Daoan was rarely patient enough.
"What if a perceptive and determined player discovered the danger of the dream and decisively stopped everyone from entering the temple to pray?"
For example, what Zhang Daoan has to do now is to tie up the players who are unable to escape from the dream on their own this time and force them to quit dreaming.
"If there are such people among the players, and the players don't come to pray, then in this dungeon, the strongest group of gods won't have much strength. Where is the danger of the entire dungeon?"
He asked back, confusing Qi Chanyang: "Ah... Looking for the Son of God?"
Zhang Daoan looked at Qi Chanyang and said, "Complete tasks every day, accumulate divine power, and find the Son of God. This process is what the dungeon wants you to do. Generally speaking, what the dungeon wants is equivalent to a dead end. In other words, 'accumulating divine power to find the Son of God', this method is not feasible in the first place. Whether you complete tasks or not, whether you come to pray or not, in the end you will find that it is very difficult to achieve the goal of 'finding one hundred Sons of God'."
"Let's take a step back," Zhang Daoan asked, "We know that the sign of the Son of God is the divine pattern on his forehead. The entire Qiming City is only that big, and the players' 'God's Favored' status is so high, so why don't they just conduct a carpet search after entering the dungeon?"
Qi Chanyang listened blankly.
yes!
The God's followers were so high in status that they could walk around the city freely. If they wanted to find the Son of God, they could just knock on every door. Why would they do any daily tasks? Why would they accumulate divine power
To put it bluntly, it’s just a different way of thinking.
Qi Chanyang could guess why.
Ordinary players are trembling with fear after entering the dungeon. Their only thought is to survive, find clues, and avoid triggering the death rules.
[Don't trigger the death rule] This is engraved in the player's DNA and has become a conditioned reflex.
Why? Because triggering the death rule will lead to being hunted down by NPCs, and the NPCs are always stronger than the players, so triggering the death rule means death.
But this is different in this copy.
If they don't do the mission and trigger the death rule, who will punish them
Among all the NPCs that have appeared so far, which one is stronger than the player
They never thought of looking for the Son of God in a high-profile manner. That's because they are players and are used to keeping a low profile.
"If we can find all the Sons of God by searching them all right after entering the dungeon, then this dungeon should not be as difficult as a level 5 dungeon. So I guess the number of Sons of God must be less than 100. There may be other ways to achieve this goal, but it won't be like now, where we can complete tasks every day, come here to pray, and then rely on some 'divine power' to find all the Sons of God."
"And if someone discovered something was wrong with the dream and stopped the players from coming to the temple," said Zhang Daoan, "the 'Dream Returning Fish' needs starlight to hatch. It starts at 5:40 and lasts until the next day. During such a long period of time, if people didn't know that 'starlight is an incubator', would they deliberately avoid starlight?"
of course not.
There are many beautiful terraces in the Shenju Tower. In the past, everyone would go to the terraces to drink wine after returning home at night, look at the beautiful night sky in the dungeon, and enjoy the relaxed and comfortable life that they had not enjoyed for a long time.
"Praying in the temple will lead to sweet dreams. This is an obvious trap." Zhang Daoan concluded, "And when people with strong wills avoid this trap, when they think they have found the biggest difficulty of the copy, the next murderous intention has just appeared."
"Wei Yuan and his team's idea of clearing the level was wrong from the beginning." Having said this, Zhang Dao calmed down for a moment. After saying this, he added, "This is not their problem."
Zhang Daoan is not a harsh person. As long as it does not cross the bottom line, he will give people a chance to live no matter how cruel his means are.
But anyway... this guy rarely lets others off the hook.
But at this time he said, "This is not Wei Yuan and the others' problem." Jie Fangcheng looked at him with a little surprise, and then felt that this was also what this kid would say.
Professor Zhang is actually quite tolerant and not a bad person!
"Then...are we just going to wait like this?" Qi Chanyang asked worriedly.
Before he finished speaking, a whispered "Goodbye" suddenly came from not far away, and then someone opened his eyes.
The three of them turned their heads at the same time, and Jie Fangcheng was really surprised this time.
"Both?"
At six-thirty, Nie Shuangshuang woke up from her dream.
(End of this chapter)