After coming out of the illusion, there were no more ghosts attacking the Forgiveness Hat, and the real environment around it also appeared.
Without hesitation, he rushed into the town, wanting to meet up with Xiaoxiao.
Because his initial inference... was completely wrong.
The entrance to the town is not the dividing line between the safe zone and the dangerous zone, because he was attacked by ghosts even without entering the town.
"and... "
Forgiveness Hat looked up and saw that everything was foggy.
They had already stepped into the gray fog.
"This is a ghost territory... No living person has ever spoken to us since the beginning."
"I misunderstood one point. The area around the lord... is not a safe zone. The ghosts' targets are also the lord!"
Thinking of this, Forgiveness Hat frowned again.
"If the lord is killed, what will happen to us? What will happen to the base? What will happen to the direction of the game... What changes will it make?"
He didn't know, but he intuitively felt that... this was not a good thing.
"If you save the lord in this situation, you will definitely receive a huge reward!"
If it was a copy that tested combat prowess, he would have run away without even thinking about it, but this kind of ghost-type copy... was worth a try.
Forgiveness Hat had just walked less than 50 meters when the red dot of Real Xiaoxiao on the smart watch was approaching.
A voice came from the gray fog:
"Hat brother? Is that you?"
"It's me! Come here!"
Visibility was very low in the small town, and the two only saw each other after they got close.
"Brother Mao! I knew you were still alive! That's great! Those two ghosts just now scared me to death!" Xiaoxiao exclaimed, with a relieved smile on her face.
But Forgive Hat subconsciously kept a distance from Xiaoxiao. In this copy, he found it hard to believe his eyes.
"Don't come over yet... I need to ask you a few questions to confirm that you are the real you."
Xiaoxiao: “Ah?”
Forgiveness Hat: "How many views did the video you posted on Bilibili the day before yesterday have at 12 noon yesterday!"
Xiaoxiao: "How... How do I know this? I'm not going to watch my playback data 24 hours a day. This question is too difficult. Let's change a hat brother."
Forgiveness Hat raised the mace in his hand: "Think about it carefully. I'll give you 3 counts. 3..."
Xiaoxiao: "Stop! Brother Mao! The situation is already bad enough, let's not fight among ourselves!"
"2..."
Xiaoxiao: "Let me think about it... Let me think about it..."
"1..."
Xiaoxiao: "More than 3 million! That's about it. Bilibili's traffic should be pretty good. My video should be able to reach 3 million."
"Be more specific!"
"Uh... 3.2 million?"
The Forgiveness Hat grinned: "I'm sorry, you got the answer wrong..."
Xiaoxiao was shocked: "Don't hit me!"
"So you passed the test, you are yourself."
Forgive Hat put down his mace and officially reunited with Xiaoxiao.
Xiaoxiao's forehead was full of question marks.
"Huh? What happened to your kidney just now?"
The Forgiveness Hat pointed to the second floor building in the center of the town and said, "The Lord is there, let's talk while we walk..."
"Oh... I also found out, and I was planning to work with you to find a solution."
The Forgiveness Hat continued, "You should have discovered that this town... has ghosts. They create illusions to deceive us, and judging from the language they use... their illusion attacks may set up different illusions based on our memories, so everyone sees something different. Of course, the illusions may also contain lethal attacks... We still don't know how ghosts kill people."
"Just now, in order to prevent you from being a ghost in disguise, I asked you this question, because I watched your video yesterday at noon and noticed the number of views below: 2.835 million, which means... I know the answer, but you... It is almost impossible to know the number of views at a fixed time."
"You can't answer this question, which proves that you are the real person."
Xiaoxiao thought about it for a few more times before she understood the logic.
"Oh... You mean, if I answer the question without hesitation or if you force me to give the correct answer, then I'm a ghost, right?"
"That's right."
Xiaoxiao admired and said: "Brother Mao is awesome!"
Forgive Hat raised his lips slightly, and then asked: "Tell me why you stayed in the town for so long, and how you escaped?"
Speaking of staying, Xiaoxiao blushed.
"At first, I was... scared off the line."
Forgive Hat: “?”
Through Xiaoxiao's description, Forgiveness Hat finally understood what had happened.
Xiaoxiao had no intention of coming back after logging off, but she became angrier and angrier as she thought about it while lying on the bed, and finally she got pissed off at herself.
"It's just a game, why should I be afraid? Ghosts can't eat me up through the Internet cable!"
At this moment, she suddenly remembered the experience of being deceived by fans into playing "Outlast 2".
"All fears come from within. As long as I am not afraid and follow the mechanism, no matter how terrifying something is, it cannot hurt me..."
After taking a break, Xiaoxiao decided... to go online again!
She wants to fight like a man!
"I, the weapon master, Li Moxiao, will never be scared!"
To encourage herself, she put on her helmet again.
After entering the game, Xiaoxiao chased the ghost with a mace and started beating it. Although there was no damage, it showed his momentum.
The two ghosts did not scare Xiaoxiao, and Xiaoxiao did not follow them.
After a stalemate, the two ghosts disappeared, and two hands stretched out from the gray mist and grabbed her from behind, trying to drag her somewhere.
But after Xiaoxiao floated in the air for a while, the two ghost hands stopped dragging her and let her down again.
Just a woman appeared in the air and made a "Huh?" sound.
Forgive Hat interrupted: "Huh???"
Xiaoxiao: "Uh... Yeah! The tone was a little higher than yours, and it sounded a little surprised, but after I fell from the sky, no ghosts came to catch me, so I quickly followed the location of the watch to find you."
Forgive Hat pondered for a moment.
"Maybe there is some mechanism that prevents the ghosts from catching you and taking you into the illusion... These ghosts may also be surprised, and judging by the time... When I entered the illusion, it felt like a long time had passed, but in fact only 1 minute had passed, and we escaped almost at the same time."
"By the way! I also gained some experience!" Xiaoxiao raised her watch for Forgiveness Hat to see.
Successfully defended the Void Realm from being invaded, experience +300
Forgiveness Hat was surprised: "You didn't get pulled into the illusion, but you still gained so much experience? 100 more than me! Wow... What kind of mechanism is this? Does the ghost in this game also depend on luck???"
Xiaoxiao spread her hands to indicate that she didn't know.
"Forget it, let's talk about it after we rescue the lord and go back."
The two chatted as they walked to the only two-story building in the town.
The two wooden doors were tightly closed, and black mist seeped out from the gaps... It seemed that some extremely terrifying creature was hiding there.
"Let's go in. The worst that can happen is we'll die!"
"Um!"
The two men pushed open the wooden door.
...
The wooden door in front of Cheng Shaofeng opened...
Nothing showed up.
There seemed to be no one inside, just the ordinary home of the mayor of Yanjing Town, the richest man.
"This is the mayor's house. This is my first time here."
He looked at the empty armchair in the middle of the room.
"So... you did all this? What are you? A ghost? A spirit?"
Scanning his base, he saw the outline of a human figure sunken in there.
The space in that place flickered rapidly like a mosaic, and a red windbreaker gradually appeared in front of Cheng Shaofeng's eyes. There was nothing inside, but it seemed to be wrapped around a graceful figure.
"Hehehe~ Little devil from Duoyu Academy, as expected, nothing can escape your quantum scanner... How come you are in Sishan?"
Duoyu College
What is this place
Cheng Shaofeng did not rush to deny it, but asked: "I am here for a reason. How did you recognize me as someone from Duoyu College?"
"Haha~ Your features are so easy to distinguish. Each of you has a protective shield that cannot be penetrated by any energy substance. This kind of technology... can only be made by your Duoyu Academy."
Cheng Shaofeng nodded and said nothing more.
"Since you know you can't break my shield, why did you ask me to come?"
"Hehe~ I've heard that everyone in Duoyu Academy is well-educated, a master of technology, and has amazing logical ability. Here is a question that I've been thinking about for 10 years. Let's see if you can answer it."
Cheng Shaofeng smiled disdainfully: "Oh? What if you can answer it? What if you can't answer it?"
The red windbreaker floated up and flew in front of him. Then a huge force pulled him up from the ground. It seemed as if countless hands appeared around him, stretching his body.
Warning! Under attack from the Void! Under attack from the Void! The shield is automatically activated and the battery is being consumed... ...
A silver-white nano-shield appeared outside Cheng Shaofeng's body. The power, which had hardly been lost at that time, began to drop rapidly.
A voice came from the red windbreaker: "If you can answer it, I will let you go. No matter what you come to Sishan for, I can provide you with some help. If you can't answer it... you can stay and keep me company."
Cheng Shaofeng's eyelids twitched suddenly.
broken!
Too much pretense!
How would he know about Duoyu Academy
He knows nothing about high-end technology, he is just a forum user!
"Um, now I say there was a misunderstanding... is it too late?"
"Please listen to the question!"