Gao Yan waved his hand: "Let's talk about it, we'll talk about it later."
Wang Xing: "It can be said now, what is the difference between one more day and one less day?"
Gao Yan nodded solemnly: "Yes."
Wang Xing was stunned: "What's the difference?" Couldn't it be leaked
Gao Yan raised his smiling face: "To make you play."
Wang Xing: "..." Helplessly wiped his face: "Okay, see you tomorrow."
Gao Yan: "Goodbye, but Brother Wang, don't talk about it, I have to study this matter."
Wang Xing: "Okay."
He watched Wang Xing and Zhao Huiyin leave Chen Qingshan's mansion, but in the end he didn't say two key points, the real obsession of the townspeople and how to solve the player's predicament.
It really wasn't that he deliberately swayed the appetites of Wang Xing and others, but that little item could really solve the current player's predicament, just wanted to try it.
If the effect of the item is not what he expected, or if the item left by Jizo cannot be cracked, then he needs to find another way.
After sending off Wang Xing and Zhao Huiyin, the three of Gao Yan walked back, and Juli Hualing suddenly asked, "How sure are you that you can solve the player's predicament?"
Gao Yan: "I'm not sure."
Juli Hualing was surprised: "This is not like what you would say."
Gao Yan shrugged: "I'm really not sure, because I haven't used that prop before, the real effect... Not sure."
Chrysanthemum Hualing squinted her eyes: "I always feel that even if that item doesn't work, you should have a second move."
Gao Yan laughed: "You're right, I still have Brother Chu!"
Chu Suibi was still waiting for him outside. If six days passed, the time in reality would continue to pass. If the time passed, Chu Suibi would find that something was wrong.
Chu Suibi came in, and this intermediate field couldn't trap the players.
Chrysanthemum Flower Bell: ... It's really a golden thigh that makes people speechless.
Gao Yan added: "Even without me and Brother Chu, Hua Ling, you can leave." He looked at Juli Hua Ling, his eyes were clear and insightful: "I can guess, you can too. Guess. And you have more props than I do, and you have more access to information than I do."
Hearing this, Yu Xiaojie raised his head in shock and said, "What?! Hualing knows? Am I the only one who is a weak chicken?" He thought that Juli Hualing was a weak chicken just like him.
Chrysanthemum Hualing modestly said, "It's good for you to be beautiful alone." Don't get involved with her.
Gao Yan's eyes were very surprised: "Have you discovered that you have always been alone until now?"
No matter how long it has passed, Yu Xiaojie's self-confidence is still unmatched.
Yu Xiaojie broke down and complained: "How do I know?! Hua Ling hasn't spoken much, and she asked me questions in private. She obviously didn't understand!"
Gao Yan: "That's because people don't know the folklore around Mindu, but without being familiar with folklore, she knows more information than you."
Chrysanthemum Hualing thought for a while and comforted him: "Actually, I'm not as good as the elder sister, Gao Yan, Chu Lao, Chu... Chu Suibi and many players, including Xie Sanqiu from the last game, so I'm not as good in comparison. Not so great."
Yu Xiaojie gave her a sad look, she didn't even know how powerful the example she was.
Gao Yan said softly: "Although you are at a disadvantage in other aspects, your luck seems to have been good."
Hearing this, Hualing in Juli was a little surprised. Compared with Gao Yan and Yu Xiaojie's familiarity, she was not very familiar with Yu Xiaojie, so she didn't know Yu Xiaojie's good luck.
Yu Xiaojie wondered: "How can I have good luck?"
Gao Yan glanced at him: "You didn't find it."
In fact, with Yu Xiaojie's strength, it is really impossible for him to walk through the primary field unharmed. Almost every game field relies on others to lead him over.
Gao Yan and him have been in three game fields together. Later, after making deep friendships in reality, he heard Tang Ze and Yu Xiaojie himself mention their experiences in the back game field.
He unexpectedly discovered that Yu Xiaojie had never encountered danger, and the biggest danger was just confronting ghosts, but he quickly escaped.
Either you happen to meet other players and draw the attention of the ghost, or you bump into the ghost from a distance and go unnoticed.
Sometimes, when a game field came down, he didn't even see the boss's face.
For example, Yu Xiaojie landed in Qingshan Palace on the first day of the tour of the Bodhisattva Intermediate Field, but he happened to hide in the temple under the guidance of the temple Zhu.
At night, he saw a group of ghosts dancing wildly outside, but he hid in the Qingshan Palace, which was blessed by the gods, but he was safe and sound.
In the first intermediate game, Yu Xiaojie and Tang landed in different game fields, and they ran into Gao Yan by coincidence the next day.
Therefore, Yu Xiaojie's luck is really good, but not the kind of bad luck that attracts attention, but it just happens to be able to protect him.
Gao Yan didn't continue talking about this topic, and Yu Xiaojie couldn't understand it after pondering for a long time, so he just put it aside and didn't think about it, anyway, he didn't think he was lucky, because he never won a lottery ticket since he was a child!
Yu Xiaojie turned back to the topic: "Is there a way for Hua Ling to clear customs?"
Chrysanthemum Hualing was silent for a long time, and said firmly: "Yes."
she has.
As a shrine maiden who has been handed down to the family, she has a lot of life-saving props. Those props were given to her by many shrine maidens in the family who could not get out of the playground, but more props came from her eldest sister.
Chrysanthemum Hualing's eldest sister, the most outstanding goddess in the past century, scavenged a lot of props in the game field to give to the juniors in the family, and those juniors may be ten years older than her.
Those props saved the lives of many people, and also saved the chrysanthemum bell many times.
Chrysanthemum Hualing looked directly at Gao Yan: "If you can't pass the customs, I will take out props to save you..."
Yu Xiaojie: Don't think that he can't hear Hualing in Juli hesitated when she said 'you'!
Gao Yan suddenly smiled: "Thank you."
Juli Hualing shook her head: "Gao Yan, I have no intention of harming you. All designs and deceptions have only one purpose, and pulling you into the game field is also out of my selfishness. My eldest sister speculated that she has a relationship with you. Cause and effect, but she never thought of harming you. That Guanyin is like I advocated without authorization and sent it to you."
After a pause, Juli Hualing said, "But if the Guanyin Statue doesn't choose you, my approach is useless. Gao Yan, you are the one who was selected."
Gao Yan: "Without your Avalokitesvara image, at least there is a certain probability that I will not be pulled into the garbage game. It is true that there are other people without you, so even if it is not you, I will be careful with other people who harm me. "
Therefore, Gao Yan would not agree to Chrysanthemum Hualing's request, otherwise he would be sorry for himself who was dragged into the gods' playground in a daze.
"Sorry." Chrysanthemum Hualing apologized sincerely.
Gao Yan: "I accept your apology, but stick to my approach."
Chrysanthemum Hualing was silent. She could understand Gao Yan's insistence. If it was her, she might have tried her best to kill the person who brought her into the game.
The topic is a bit heavy.
Yu Xiaojie looked at the two of them and thought so, so he quickly changed the subject to attract attention: "By the way, do you all know the real obsession of the townspeople?"
Chrysanthemum Hualing frowned, immersed in her own thoughts, so she remained silent.
Gao Yan answered his doubts: "Forgive me."
Yu Xiaojie: "Huh?"
Gao Yan: "The real obsession of the townspeople is to ask for forgiveness."
Yu Xiaojie: "Pray for God's forgiveness? They realize their mistakes in life, so they want to get God's forgiveness after death?"
Gao Yan: "Yes."
Yu Xiaojie scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks, and after a while he said, "I can't see it. It's quite boring."
The group walked forward, but Gao Yan and Juli Hualing didn't speak any more. Yu Xiaojie wanted to wait for them to continue, but seeing that they didn't say anything, he complained angrily: "Since I realize the mistakes in my life, why did I die after death? Do the same thing?"
Yu Xiaojie thought about it, and the more he said, the more angry he said: "This is too strange! I was greedy in my life, and would not save me just to strengthen the power of Yingong Temple. I finally realized my mistake when I died, well, it's a good thing. But They listen to the player who believes in the esoteric Ksitigarbha, even if they convert to Bodhisattva, knowing that the player's human skin can replace the 'paper', they deceive the player, induce the player to go to Yingong Temple and Yizhuang, and let them be killed."
"This approach doesn't seem to be like realizing it's wrong, and there are gods... King Qingshan and the seven tower bones did not interfere with cause and effect for the sake of justice, and they did it right. Samsara, willing to fall, is very touching, but they also ignore the player's life. Since they have lived in the town for so many years, why not open the skylight and talk face-to-face?"
"It's true that the townspeople can't knock on the door and come in and have a cup of tea and chat? Do you think of yourself as a Cowherd and Weaver Girl across the street? It's too awkward!"
Yu Xiaojie frantically complained and was puzzled.
Gao Yan: "So didn't the player die at the beginning?"
Yu Xiaojie realized later that Gao Yan was referring to the first group of players. Wang Xing mentioned that if their group of players hadn't secretly destroyed the Jizo, no player would have died.
Gao Yan: "Low-level ghosts, especially ghosts who are obsessed with delusions, have no concept of good and evil. They are easily induced because they are paranoid. Paranoid people cannot use common sense, let alone use people's concept of good and evil, normality. IQ to think about their words and deeds, there is no need."
"We are not gods who judge their merits and demerits, cause and effect, we are just players."
"Gods, ghosts and players are on the opposite side. King Qingshan is the boss. He just ignores and doesn't kill players. It's good. A middle-level god and seven low-level fallen gods really want to kill players. Eighty-five players are still alive now? Chen Qingshan's words are indifferent, but they are not unreasonable. If players want to get the seat of gods, they must pay the price to ban old gods, and life is the easiest thing to harvest. "
Gao Yan was very calm, and explained very calmly: "In the beginning, Ksitigarbha deliberately left lies to deceive later players. Do you think there is a dog game in it?"
Yu Xiaojie tensed his face: "Even if there is no dog game, it should have contributed to it."
Gao Yan glanced at him admiringly: "You can finally see the essence of the dog game."
Yu Xiaojie happily accepted this compliment.
The townspeople regretted what they had done to the foreigners, and the gods also regretted it, and they all felt remorse.
But their repentance has nothing to do with the player, because of the hostile position, the ghosts and gods will be hostile to the player for no reason.
The higher the game field level, the more obvious the hostility will be.
For example, in the primary field of Wanying Skeleton Pit, the level is not high, coupled with the influence of Asura, so the infant spirits expressed their closeness to Gao Yan and did not intentionally hurt the players.
Another example is the Guanluoyin primary field. Because the landlord is the boss of a high-level game field, he is hostile to the players as soon as they meet him, and even eats them.
However, because of the restrictions of the primary field, the landlord's maliciousness has not yet reached the value of 60. Wait until the advanced field is unfortunate and meet again, then the malicious value will be at least 60 level.
Yu Xiaojie seemed to understand, but it seemed that he planned to go back and think carefully.
After sending away the chrysanthemum bell, Yu Xiaojie dared to return to the heavy topic just now: "I thought she was paranoid and wanted to revive a person who had been dead for ten years. But if something happened to Tang, there was a way to revive him. , I may... No, I will definitely use all means to resurrect him."
"I know."
It's not that Gao Yan doesn't understand that if someone who is more important than life dies unexpectedly, he will definitely do everything possible to resurrect the important person.
But he is not the flower bell in the chrysanthemum, and it happens that the person in the chrysanthemum flower bell is he.
Yu Xiaojie: "Understanding is understanding, but the person she wants to calculate is my friend. I thought about it, and I am familiar with you, so I am on your side. However, she values your life very much, and her attitude is following promotion. It doesn't feel the same when you are on the field. In this game field, she protects you everywhere, and in a more dangerous environment, she will take time to pay attention to your safety. Sometimes she seems a little out of control and wants to save you... She cares very much. you."
The last sentence was a bit ambiguous, but both of the people present knew that this did not involve affection.
Yu Xiaojie frowned and thought for a moment, then closed his palms and said, "Anyway, she will not give up easily because of her paranoia. If there is no such thing, I think she is a really powerful little girl. That's right, her personality is a bit strange. I feel a little arrogant, conceited, and a little mentally abnormal. This intermediate field also thinks that she is very quiet, calm, smart, and has a good temper. Sometimes she is suddenly shy, and the contrast between high and cold is very cute. She silently follows us, no When he speaks, he hits the nail on the head as soon as he speaks.”
"Maybe I thought she was a quiet little girl at the beginning, but the impression when I was promoted was because I didn't understand. But I have been paying attention to her secretly and found that her quietness is actually more calm and indifferent. When I was in Yingong Temple, I actually noticed that the black cat in her cuff devoured the head of the ghast of Yizhuang. At that time, Hualing in Juli's expression was very indifferent."
As if shikigami devoured ghasts is a very common thing.
Gao Yan said softly: "She may be looking for our preferences, what kind of character is easy to get a good impression of, she is testing, and then imitating and learning."
Yu Xiaojie: "Just for you to save her eldest sister?"
Gao Yan shook his head: "Maybe she doesn't have her own character."
There are some people who don't have their own character, or erase their nature, and then act as a character that everyone likes, and then gain a good impression.
Chrysanthemum's performance... It's a bit strange indeed.
Gao Yan: "It doesn't matter, anyway, for now, not only will she not hurt me, but she will try her best to protect me."
When Chrysanthemum Bell showed her fangs, he wouldn't be caught off guard. However, it is not yet known whether they are antagonistic.
"Go to sleep."
Yu Xiaojie didn't think much about it, and snored less than a second after turning over on the bed.
Gao Yan: "..."
To be honest, he was envious of the effort to fall asleep in a second.
Ugh. Gao Yan sighed. Tonight is another night of falling asleep thinking about Chu Shuibi.
The second day, the fifth day of the playground.
Wang Xing and Zhao Huiyin discussed with the other eighty-five players in their old dilapidated house. In this room, Chen Qingshan and the others pulled Gao Yan into the room and did not know what to discuss, but in the end, they sent him out with a complicated expression.
The most important thing is that Chen Qingshan and others agreed to lend the tower bones.
Wang Xing's reaction after learning about the incident: "But during the Wandering Spirit Club, those tower bones will have accidents one after another, and the players who play the tower bones will also die."
According to the memories of the townspeople, those players who put on the tower bone to participate in the wandering gods will indeed experience various accidental deaths.
Gao Yan: "Oh, it's alright. Anyway, players don't need to put on a tower bone to participate in the Wandering God Club."
Wang Xing: "Could it be the townspeople? Did they finally talk openly and honestly?"
"Think too much." Gao Yan said: "The tower bone originally represents the gods. Since there are gods attached to the tower bone, let them participate in the wandering gods meeting."
Gao Yan walked on the deserted street with his hands behind his back, and from the corner of his eyes, he glanced at the closed pavilion in the entire street next door, and continued: "What's wrong between the two of them has nothing to do with the players? You can talk about it when you meet. Clear things, but they had to hold back, and the whole town was trapped by obsessions for dozens or hundreds of years, and finally went astray, working under the stupid game. It’s okay to be trapped to death, but also to trap the players.”
Wang Xing: "...Aren't you afraid that the gods will hold grudges by scolding like this?"
"Whether he remembers it doesn't prevent me from killing him one day."
And he's already on the game blacklist, the kind with a red seal.
Wang Xing thought about it and felt that Gao Yan was right, so whenever he mentioned games and gods in the future, he would add a modifier in front of it.
Gao Yan: "In the beginning, Ksitigarbha was moving hands and feet in Qingshan Palace?"
Wang Xing: "It should be. We already felt that we were about to leave at the time, but we suddenly cut off contact, so he must have moved his hands and feet in Qingshan Palace."
The last link of the Youshen Club is located in Qingshan Palace.
Gao Yan made an 'oh' to indicate that he understood.
He visited the temples in Qingshan Town, recognized all the gods and gods, and successfully used up the incense stick that was given to him by the Qingshan Temple.
Because every time you go to a temple and see an incense burner, you have to put incense sticks in it, and worship it in words, but you don’t see much sincere belief.
Gao Yan's feet are fast and his physical strength is very comparable, but after walking through the temples in different directions in Qingshan Town, the soles of his feet are still a little sore.
So I went back to the mansion, soaked my feet in hot water, and waited for the sixth day while chatting with others.
As night fell, the entire Qingshan Town was as dead as an empty city. The wind blew and the clouds dispersed, revealing a rather bleak moon.
The pale and faint moonlight shone on the land of Qingshan Town, and the black cat jumped over the corner, suddenly arched its body and let out a shrill neigh.
No insects chirping, no murmurs, the town showed her lifeless side.
In the long alleys, on the streets and in the corners, the players waited quietly without saying a word.
After a long time, the sound of gongs and drums came from far to near, and the gongs, drums and suonas sounded long, showing a quiet and lifeless liveliness.
Immediately afterwards, one or two people came into view first, followed by a long line, men and women, adults and children, old people and young people. Some of them at the forefront were carrying idols, some held high avoidance cards, and some held Weird paper with gold and silver.
There are many people, and the gongs, drums and suonas are very penetrating. But there was no laughter or footsteps under the lively sound of musical instruments, it was just empty excitement.
Yu Xiaojie crouched on the wall and commented: "I can still see the shadow of the grand event."
The crowd gradually approached, forming a long dragon whose tails could not be seen. They noticed the figure of the player and stopped abruptly. The sound of gongs, drums and suonas stopped abruptly.
The two sides looked at each other indifferently. There was no hostility, but there was silent gunpowder in the air.
Ghosts and players are like hunters and prey. Sometimes their identities are interchanged, and the only constant is their hostility to each other.
Wang Xing and Zhao Huiyin were a little nervous: "Will there be a war?"
The crowd approached silently, until the player standing on the top of the wall looked down and could see, while the townspeople below could grab the player's ankle just by reaching out.
The player's heart mentioned that they didn't really want to go to war with the townspeople of Qingshan Town.
There are 90 players, but there are more than 30,000 residents in Qingshan Town!
Gao Yan looked back at the courtyard behind him, and Chen Qingshan led the seven tower bones behind him to look at him quietly. After two seconds of silence, Gao Yan said, "Open the door."
Wang Xing was stunned for a moment, and he also looked back to see Chen Qingshan and the others, so he quickly ordered the players guarding the door: "Open the door."
The player opens the door. Outside the door are obsessed townspeople, and inside the door is a remorseful god. They stared at each other silently, and no one moved.
Gao Yan: "I opened the door for you personally, why don't you go out?"
Chen Qingshan returned to his senses, glared at Gao Yan, and led the seven tower bones out of the door of the mansion. The townspeople outside the door all retreated and looked directly at Chen Qingshan and the seven tower bones.
The tower bones merged into the crowd, and Chen Qingshan also walked in.
The next moment, the gongs, drums, and suonas sounded again. It was still weird and infiltrating, but it seemed that there was more joy in getting what one wanted.
Gao Yan shook his head: "I feel like I have set up a couple who miss each other but still care about each other, but they are awkward and refuse to take a step forward." Then, he said to Yu Xiaojie next to him, "Do you think we are in a relationship? Marry your daughter?"
Yu Xiaojie's voice was loud and clear: "Like!!"
I **** - Chen Qingshan almost slipped and fell, turned his head and glared at Gao Yan who slandered him, and before he had time to vent his anger, he was surrounded by the crowd and walked forward.
The crowd was huge and crowded, and after walking for several hours, the long dragon had not yet come to an end.
Wang Xing: "There are about 30,000 people in Qingshan Town."
The population of more than 30,000 was considered to be a large-scale town at that time. It can be seen that the economic development should have been good, and it has natural geographical environmental protection. Although the land route is not convenient enough, there are still water routes to choose from.
Unexpectedly, it was the floating corpse floating from the waterway, and the Yingong Temple, which was offered with kindness for a while, and in the end, the words 'meet your needs' trapped the greedy desire of the townspeople.
Who would have thought that the beginning of benevolence and benevolence would be twisted into evil desires later
Chrysanthemum Flower Bell: "People are unpredictable."
"It's true that people are unpredictable." Gao Yan agreed: "But is it worth losing more than 30,000 lives?"
Yu Xiaojie bluntly replied, "It's not worth it." He jumped straight down and landed on the Qingshi street with Gao Yan's words: "In the beginning, it was a floating corpse after drowning, but later it was the townspeople who were desperate for help. It is cause and effect, and it is cause and effect, and it is cause and effect. Where can the greed go? Just like the greed of the evil spirit of Yizhuang, it is only the secret recipe for making a wish to make paper. After that, the materials, craftsmanship, and sales should be borne, but it is still a family of seven The life of the mouth."
"More than 30,000 lives, how many really went to the Yingong Temple to beg? How many people really did not save? How many people are innocent, but they live in Qingshan Town, so they are entangled by cause and effect. Go up and die in the end of the plague."
Yu Xiaojie said to Gao Yan on the high wall as he walked: "Brother Yan, when you first said this, I didn't understand, does the karma debt have to pay such a heavy price? Thirty thousand lives, one karma, this rule Is it right?"
Gao Yan: "Wrong."
Yu Xiaojie: "That's right—ah? What?"
He stopped immediately, so he was almost knocked down by the townspeople behind him, so he quickly turned his body to give way, and looked at Gao Yan in astonishment: "Brother Yan, do you think the rules are wrong?"
Gao Yan: "The rules are not wrong, but the cause and effect are wrong."
The author has something to say: Note: Line incense is distinguished from Buddha incense.
Qingshan Temple Zhu exchanged a handful of incense sticks with Gao Yan for one of his Buddha incense sticks.
Gao Yan often uses incense sticks rather than Buddhist incense, which is an important prop, in the game field.