The moment Mu Ke finished reading the fairy tale, everyone's system panels popped out:
System reminder: Congratulations on unlocking the main mission
This is a country of gold that is paying the price. Please find the key item, the hourglass of time, and turn the pain of the kingdom of gold into tears. Put it in the hourglass. When the hourglass is loaded with pain that satisfies the gods, you can offer it in front of the consecration stand. Sacrifice to the gods, complete the transaction, reverse the time, and change the kingdom of gold back to its original state.
"The hourglass of time?" Mu Sicheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is this again?"
"It should be an item in this dungeon that can reverse time." Liu Jiayi replied, frowning her brows lightly, "... Reverse time, the effect of this item is similar to that of Captain Golden Dawn."
"Does it matter?"
"Skills are derived from the player's desire core, and the props are gods, or system settings." Bai Liu stroked his chin thoughtfully, "This is the first time I have seen time props in the game. And time skills, if there is a certain relationship between the two, it should be that people's desires are affected by the existing settings, and similar items are derived."
"According to this inference, the captain of Golden Dawn, Georgia, maybe this country has some kind of close ties that we don't know yet."
"If this speculation is true, this may be a breakthrough, but it is also their advantage." Bai Liu Tanshou, "They must be more familiar with this map than we are. For example, we don't know where to find this so-called hourglass now. The Georgia captain probably knew about it."
"But we are not completely wireless." Mu Ke raised his head, and he turned the fairy tale book in his hand to the first few pages. "Although this fairy tale does not explicitly mention the hourglass of time, it is a drawing. Fairy tale book, with pictures here"
Mu Ke pointed to some children's drawings in the fairy tale book: "It is about the time when God traded with the ancient Luolun kingdom a thousand years ago, did you see it? When the transaction was established, God handed the king something. "
"This should be the proof of their transaction."
Bai Liu glanced away and stopped at the hand of the god on the screen
God's hand is a delicate gray-black hourglass.
At the same time, the other end.
"The hourglass of time?" Chrissy looked at the silent Georgia, "Captain, since you are familiar with this place, do you know what it is and where it is hidden?"
Georgia stayed quiet for a moment, and then said that Chrissy could not find any traces of emotions, and was so calm that there was no ripple: "I know."
"It's just that there is some danger in that place. Tell the other team members to prepare mental bleach and go with me."
"Mental bleach?" Kris asked quickly, "Is that a place with heavy mental pollution?"
"Well, not only mental pollution, but also serious physical pollution." Georgia raised his eyes, "The hourglass of time is in the gold mining area."
After Georgia finished speaking, he looked down at the difference between the fairy tale book in his hand and the fairy tale book Bai Liu had obtained. The fairy tale book in the Kingdom of Gold, which Georgia is a family member of the gods, did not stop abruptly when he paid the price in a thousand years. , And did not mention the hourglass of time, but described in detail the process of the transaction between King Guloren and the gods at that time.
"Father." Young Georgia raised his head and asked his father puzzledly, "Why do my fairy tale books look different from others on the market."
It can even be said that it is a completely different fairy tale.
The fairy tales read by the children on the market are sweet and innocent. God loves the world, but in the fairy tale book that Georgia got, God does not love the world, and it is even a little scary, because the god smiled and said to the king, by then, I Will come to charge all your people the price of pain, you have to fill their tears with this hourglass, or the pain will never stop.
The king at that time agreed, and he asked God what kind of tears would be needed to fill the hourglass.
God told the king that it takes a moment to feel the tears that can withstand the pain of a thousand years of gold to fill the hourglass. When the tears fall into the hourglass, the hourglass reverses with time, the transaction is completed, and the pain ceases.
Georgia asked puzzledly: "Does this hourglass really exist?"
The king was silent for a while: "It exists, but everyone doesn't know it."
"Why don't you let everyone know?" Georgia shook his head disapprovingly. "The fairy tales you see all say that Gods give gold and blessings because they love the world. They believe that they are people who are favored by God. So fate..."
"Happiness?" The king touched Georgia's head with a sigh. "But tell them the truth, tell them that there really is an hourglass that needs to be filled with pain and tears. In addition to making them less happy, there is What's the use?"
Georgia froze.
"In everyone's mind, Gu Luolun has always been a country of gold isolated from the world." The king stood up on the edge of the bed. He walked out the window, bathed in the moonlight, looking at the lush and peaceful land, feeling sad. Sighed, "This is a fairy tale country. Everyone believes that they live in fairy tales, believe that they are favored by gods, and there will never be a moment when disaster strikes."
"That's why the fairy tale books in this country are so popular."
"Even the fairy tales here." The king turned his head and looked at Georgia. "It will stop at the moment when the price is to be paid for a thousand years."
"It's not that I deliberately let everyone not know. I deleted the second half of the fairy tale to deceive them. At the beginning, the fairy tale book promoted throughout the country was the one in your hand."
The king spread his hands helplessly: "But the people fought fiercely. They felt that fairy tales were not like this, nor would it be like this in the Kingdom of Gold. Everyone should be full of hope and happiness, and live in fairy tales forever carefree, so I After deleting the second half, this fairy tale was able to be carried out."
"But it's just..." Georgia shook his head lightly. The education he had received made him unable to criticize the voices of the people, but he really didn't agree with him, so he frowned, "It's just..."
"It's just self-deception, right?" The king smiled bitterly. "Sometimes I think it's okay to deceive myself like this. I also deceive myself and others when I'm happy, and deceive myself that the thousand years will not come, and the gods will really take care of us forever. s country."
"But those thousand years will really come." Georgia replied confidently, "just like gold will come as promised, so will pain."
The king stared at Georgia for a while, then turned his head to support the fence, lowered his head and muttered to himself: "... Georgia, your refusal to avoid pain makes me feel ashamed."
"When I became a king, when I got the crown, I also got an hourglass."
"Every King of Guloren will get a crown, but few people know that with the inheritance of the king's identity, there will be an hourglass. It is said that this is the hourglass of time passed down from generation to generation by the first kings."
"On the day I became a king, my last term was about to die. He was tortured for a long time by the illness and was in distress. When he was dying, he let me put the hourglass on his face and tried hard to squeeze tears. Finally A drop fell, and he looked forward to seeing the tears dripping into the hourglass with ecstasy."
"He longed for this tear to fill the hourglass and end the millennium's transaction, but unfortunately, the tears fell into the hourglass, just like dripping into the sea, silently."
"The last king died in pain and consternation. Before dying, he firmly held his hand and told me that the millennium was coming. Before the gods came to draw the people’s pain, the king must have the hourglass. Fill it up, this is our duty."
"Never let the people who grew up in the fairy tale do not believe in the fairy tale. This is the king's negligence. He told me so."
The king turned his head, his eyes were a little red, and his lips trembled: "So on the night that I lost your mother, I thought of this hourglass. I tried to fill it, but I shed tears all night and so many tears fell into this. The hourglass doesn’t even fill the gaps."
"I began to fear this hourglass, and even the tears of those who died and the pain of the loss of loved ones shed dissatisfaction. I don't know what pain in this world can fill this hourglass."
"So I escaped, and I cowardly hid this hourglass in the mining area where gold was born."
"After hiding the hourglass in the mining area, I began to often have nightmares." The king's face showed panic visible to the naked eye, "I will dream of that god."
"He smiled and told me that the promise of a thousand years is coming, he will come to this world, remove the protective cover, reduce the production of gold, to collect our pain."
"Then remove the protective shield and reduce the gold production." The young Georgia showed a calmness beyond common sense. "We should not exchange the suffering of the people for the gold that does not belong to us, and wait to survive this. After a while, everything will get better again."
"It won't get better!" The king shed tears, and he became a little hysterical, with unconcealable fear on his face, "When there is no gold, everything will become utterly ruined!"
"We have lived a life of sleeping on gold for a thousand years. Everyone is living in fairy tales. No one can imagine that gold cannot be dug out from the ground. By that time, everyone will starve to death and freeze to death!"
"Before the thousand-year covenant comes, I must find a way to fill the hourglass." His father said with tears.
Unfortunately, at the last moment, the hourglass was still not filled.
Georgia lowered his eyes: "Go to the mining area and find an hourglass."
At the same time, the other end.
The dust inhaled made Mu Sicheng choked several times. He covered his mouth and nose and wiped off the bulletin board of a building.
They are still running maps to collect information, looking for possible locations for the hourglass of time.
The good news is that there is no interference from the enemy, and they scan the pictures very quickly. The bad news is that there is no interference from the enemy, and most of them are going in the wrong direction.
But this dungeon map is really too big, Mu Sicheng is considered to be moving extremely fast, but even if he scans the map at full speed, he can't run to either side of the border for a while. He takes the headset and moves forward. Running to report information to the rear, he collects the information and then processes the information, so that the scanning speed will be much faster.
"I saw a department bulletin board." Mu Sicheng's coughing voice grew louder and louder, "Ahem, take it and send it to Mu Ke, look at it."
Soon, Mu Ke's noisy voice came from Mu Sicheng's headset: "It's the bulletin board of the Gold Issuing Office."
"Gold Distribution Office?" Mu Sicheng asked suspiciously, "What kind of peculiar department is this?"
"I don't know, but judging from the content of the announcement, it should be the official department that manages the issuance and operation of gold." Mu Ke explained smoothly, "A total of three announcements were announced on this bulletin board."
"The first is to regret to announce that there are 57 mines across the country, and 7 major mines have continued to decline in gold mining volume for two consecutive years. The total amount of gold mined in the last six months has even been less than one ton, and it can't even maintain the country's operation. "
"The second announcement is announcing the recent suspension of the welfare policy that each adult citizen can receive 600g of gold per month for free."
"The last announcement is..." Mu Ke's voice became hesitant, "Please wait a moment, this announcement has been smeared, and I can't see it clearly."
Mu Sicheng hugged his chest. He swept away to the last bulletin on the bulletin board that he wiped clean. In fact, it is understandable why Mu Ke could not see this bulletin. This bulletin was smeared so badly and it was red There were a lot of exclamation points with the marker pen, and I was very excited when I looked at it.
"I probably read the last announcement clearly." Mu Ke's voice was still hesitant, "but I'm not sure whether I translated it correctly."
"The specific content of the announcement is that the heir to the royal family of Guluorun is the eldest prince insisting on cooperating with the Heresy Bureau, requiring the Heretic Bureau to enter the country of Guluorun, and sternly claiming that the gold produced in the mining area is heretical and will cause harm to people. For adverse effects, people are forbidden to mine privately, and people are required to stay away from the mining area, and prepare to transfer the mining area to the Heretic Processing Bureau."
"The words smeared above should have been written by the people who were emotional at the time."
"It's the Georgian traitor who got out of the ancient Luolun country! The Heresy Bureau is here to steal our gold, get out of the ancient Luolun country!"
"How can the output of gold fall?! Is the other gold produced in the mining area hidden by the traitor Georgia, and return the hidden gold to us!"
"Georgia to die!!!"
After a while, Bai Liu's calm voice came from the headset: "It seems that we already know where the hourglass is most likely to be hidden."
"Mu Sicheng, prepare mental bleach, pay attention to the time limit of skill use, and go to the mining area."
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