Ye Xu was thinking while rushing towards the center of the city. This dungeon is called the City of Eternal Life, so this city must have something to do with "Eternal Life".
Either this city exists forever, or the people in this city can "live forever".
When the word "immortality" was mentioned, it was associated with the copy of comprehension. Obviously, this involved some coquettish operations in the comprehension world. In addition to pursuing greater strength, cultivators also want to increase their lifespan. Immortality is a great temptation for them.
Cultivators can increase their lifespan through cultivation, but mortals cannot. But mortals know that eternal life really exists, because their lives are very close to immortals, unlike modern society, where there are no immortals at all, and everyone agrees that it is a feudal superstition.
Therefore, mortals' pursuit of eternal life will be stronger and more paranoid.
This city, which is independent from the cultivation world, is unknown, but it is bustling and bustling, and all the residents seem to be living well. This kind of existence reminded Ye Xu of an article "Peach Blossom Spring" that he had learned before.
So is this a Taoyuan that can make people live forever? Ye Xu felt that it was not that simple.
If it is really Taoyuan, the main mission will not allow players to find a way to "escape" from here. So this is not only not a paradise, it may be a hell.
While thinking, he has come to the center of the city. There is a majestic building with the three characters of City Lord's Mansion written on the plaque.
Ye Xu sized it up twice, and felt that no matter what, the buildings in their comprehension world were well-made, and they were much taller than those made in costume dramas.
The two guards at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion looked at Ye Xu vigilantly, as if they were trying to tell if he was a thief or not. Ye Xu didn't care, just found a random place to stand under the shade of a tree, waiting for others to come over.
Not long after, five people came one after another. But no one spoke first, but observed each other for a long time, and finally a female player tentatively spoke.
"I'm a disciple of the Linglong sect, surnamed Ling." She smiled slightly, "I don't know, fellow daoists..."
Ye Xu immediately compared her clothes with those introduced in the book, and there was no difference. But what is written in the book may not be true, and this female player may not have told the truth. Maybe she just read the contents of the book and lied that she was a disciple of the Linglong sect.
Judging by her overall temperament, she doesn't look like a player who escaped and killed, and there is a high probability that she is from the comprehension game.
With her beginning, the rest of the people also started to introduce. Ye Xu quickly found the disciple of Fengshuang Pavilion, but he didn't see Zhanyue Jianzong. After he quietly reported his family name, he took a look at the Fengshuang Pavilion disciple.
But that person didn't have any extra emotions, and he didn't seem to know about the alliance. If it wasn't for pretending, then he might not know the characteristics of each school's clothing, and would not lie about his identity.
"Lan Xingmen?" When the female disciple of Linglong Pavilion heard the last person's words, she was overjoyed. "You really belong to the Xingmen? That's good. Our two factions are in an alliance, so we can act together."
The disciple of Lanxingmen didn't show any emotion, but looked at her vigilantly: "I don't know what you are talking about."
The one from Linglong Pavilion didn't mind, he took out a book from his storage bag and passed it on to everyone: "There are six sects in the realm of comprehension forming two alliances, and our Linglong Pavilion and Lanxingmen are excluded. So let’s make an alliance.”
What you said is very suspicious of sowing dissension, first pick out the matter, and tell Lan Xingmen that she and their Linglong Pavilion are isolated, and they feel sorry for each other, so they simply keep each other warm. It doesn't matter whether Lan Xingmen eats it or not, she has no problem speaking beautiful words.
After all, that's how it was recorded in the book, but the words were not so explicit. But in the seemingly peaceful and upright narrative, there are hints that the two sects are being excluded.
At first Ye Xu didn't understand why, but now he seems to understand a little bit. Among the six players present, only those in Lanxingmen and Linglong Pavilion were female players, and the book also said that the relationship between pure male or pure female cultivators in the cultivation world is not harmonious. Presumably these two sects are purely female cultivators, and among the other six sects, at least one of the three sects of an alliance is purely male cultivators.
As if to confirm Ye Xu's statement, the players of Fengshuang Pavilion suddenly said: "In my storage bag, there is a secret book, which records the grievances and grievances of the eight sects. It means that the sects that only recruit male cultivators and the sects that only recruit The sects of female cultivators often clashed, and both sides could not understand each other. Later, the two sects of female cultivators felt that they would be bullied because they were weak, so they formed an alliance to resist the sect of male cultivators. Not to be outdone, the three sects of male cultivators also formed an alliance."
This statement was completely contrary to what was written in the book, and the female disciples of Linglong Pavilion were a little annoyed: "According to what you said, this is the fault of the female cultivators? It is obvious that you male cultivators formed cliques first!"
The Fengshuang Pavilion's expression was indifferent: "But I am not the pure male cultivator disciple you said. I have both male and female disciples in Fengshuang Pavilion, and the female disciples are slightly more than half."
The female disciple of Linglong Pavilion suddenly looked awkward, and shut her mouth in embarrassment.
Ye Xu couldn't help but look sideways. If what his ally said was true, it seems that the three alliance forces in the cultivation world are male cultivators, female cultivators, and mixed cultivators. The former two dislike each other, while the latter is neutral and unbiased, or favors a certain side. They should also have female disciples in Luoweizhai.
Thinking of this, Ye Xu glanced at his storage jade pendant again, and sure enough, he found something for a girl. Those were some hairpin jewelry. When he saw these things, the "memory" in his brain automatically activated, telling him that this was a gift he specially selected for the juniors and seniors in the sect, and he planned to give it to them after returning to the sect.
The atmosphere was a little stiff. Everyone had watched enough excitement, and finally someone from the remaining two spoke. Ye Xu remembered that he belonged to the Dongxuan sect: "Is it important who forms an alliance first? It's just a human design, and we are not real monks. The setting of this alliance is only to provide us with a team formation plan, so it is necessary to make a real quarrel?"
Knowing that what he said was reasonable, but the female disciple of Linglong Pavilion couldn't bear it, so she snorted and stopped talking.
The female disciple of Zhanyue Sword Sect came late, glanced at everyone, and walked directly to Ye Xu: "Zhanyue Sword Sect."
"Luoweizhai." Ye Xu nodded and smiled.
"Luoweizhai, Zhanyue Sword Sect, Fengshuang Pavilion?" The male disciple of Dongxuan School raised his brows, "You are also allied in the book? What is said in my school's classics is that your school can't understand our five schools because of sesame points Small things make trouble, so we simply alienate together."
The female disciple of Zhanyue Sword Sect glanced at her: "That's right, no one is nobler than anyone else. It's quite boring if you insist on trying to compete and step on the other ones. Our three factions are too lazy to intervene in your troubles." , do you have an opinion on this?"
"That's a joy to say." The Fengshuang Pavilion disciple immediately laughed, "Come on, allies, let's stand together."
As he spoke, he walked towards Ye Xu and the two of them.
"Not an ally." Zhan Yue Jianzong shook his head lightly, "It's just a good friend."
Their three factions are the only ones that have not established the Naluoshizi Alliance, but the two opposing alliances spontaneously classified them into one alliance, and the three parties did not like to see each other. It's just that the two alliances are arguing fiercely, and the three factions that were forced to form alliances here have no intention of fighting with them, and they all live their own lives behind closed doors.
"In this case, let's go." The person from Fengshuang Pavilion called himself He Fengshuang, and asked Ye Xu and the others to simply call him He Fengshuang, "Don't stay here, so as not to be affected by their war."
Ye Xu said that Ye Luowei didn't have any objections, anyway, he just came here to look for friendly troops, and now that he has found them, he can leave.
Miss Du Zhanyue was very dissatisfied with her "named" name, but she couldn't hold back the sand sculpture He Fengshuang. In order not to be called Du Yueyue, she had no choice but to compromise.
She glared at He Fengshuang, and said reluctantly: "Let's go." After finishing speaking, she added, "I really don't want to form a team with you."
He Fengshuang was thick-skinned, so he pretended he didn't hear it, and followed Du Zhanyue with a smile, trying to tell cold jokes to amuse the cold girl. Then he found that Ye Xu walked three meters away from him, as if he had an infectious disease.
"... Ye Luowei, you will lose me." He Fengshuang glared at him.
Ye Xu had a vicissitudes of life on his face: "I can't ask for it." Why in his life, he always met bad teammates.
"..."
After leaving the central area, they discussed going street by street to see if there was anything strange.
Judging from the map provided by Ye Xu, there is no problem. There is no such thing as one more building that should not be there and one less shop that should be there, so it is very tricky.
"Did you meet anything on the way here?" Ye Xu asked.
The two shook their heads in unison.
It's because I haven't encountered anything strange that I feel even more strange. There must be something wrong with this city, but no one knows what the problem is.
"I think this city looks like the Peach Blossom Spring in "Tale Blossom Spring" on the surface, but it should be the opposite behind the scenes. It is a 'evil' Peach Blossom Spring." Ye Xu said while thinking, "Also, what do you think about the word eternal life? What do you think? I think this is very important, and it is probably the only reminder. I am not a player in comprehension games, and I don’t know much about comprehension. Have any of you been exposed to similar settings or stories?"
"Eternal life..." Mentioning this, He Fengshuang fell into deep thought.
Du Zhanyue shook his head in a very lonely way, expressing his ignorance: "You said eternal life, I can only think of things that everyone knows. At first, I thought that this city might have an enchantment set up by an immortal to isolate it from the outside world. .Then give the people in the city something that can live forever, so that they can live like this forever."
However, this conjecture is obviously wrong.
After hearing her words, He Fengshuang suddenly seemed to be awakened: "You mean immortals and enchantments?"
Du Zhanyue was taken aback: "Yes, yes, what's wrong?"
"What did you think of?" Ye Xu hurriedly asked.
"I probably know what's going on in this city." He Fengshuang smiled bitterly, "I don't know if you have heard a story, this story is quite famous."
This story has appeared in many literary works of self-cultivation. It is a story about mortals praying for eternal life. It has many variants, but the core remains the same.
Legend has it that there is a village where people want to live forever. One day they were lucky enough to meet a fairy and said that they were willing to pay any price as long as they could fulfill their wishes.
After repeatedly confirming that they are willing no matter what the price, the immortals granted their wishes, but it didn't take long for them to regret it. Because of this price, it is too heavy.
"They have become monsters out of the six realms of samsara, neither human nor ghost, forever repeating what happened on a certain day, and cannot be freed."
The so-called repetition of a certain day is actually very easy to understand.
For example, there is a child in the village. He got up this morning and played marbles with his friends all morning. In the afternoon, guests came to the house, and he entertained the guests with his family. The guests left at night, they washed up and went to sleep. When he woke up the next morning, his memory of the previous day was emptied, and he played marbles, greeted guests, and went to bed according to the track of the previous day.
Day after day, year after year, repeating the experience of that day forever. Only when he and the rest of the village fell asleep at night did they remember in their dreams that they had been repeating the day. While they were indeed immortal, they also lost their freedom.
And this small village is bound in a separate space by the barrier. No one will come in to disturb their fate line, and naturally no one will be able to rescue them from the endless cycle of reincarnation. This is the eternal life they seek.
"Similar variant settings will be more common, just like in a ghost story, the person who committed suicide by jumping off the building will always be trapped in the building every night, jumping repeatedly every night, and the ghosts of the villagers in the small village who were slaughtered will always be because of unwillingness and resentment. Repeat the experience of the day of being massacred. In short, it is a very cruel setting, and it is waiting for someone who is destined to rescue it." He Fengshuang was a little emotional.
After hearing this, Ye Xu said abruptly: "So if we can save the people in this city, can we get a high score?"
"You're a bit biased, brother." He Fengshuang's hair was black, "but what is the score? Do you have a scoring mechanism in your horror games? Why don't you be so crazy, you have to deal with ghosts, and you still have to pursue points. What's the difference between letting you do the test paper while being chased by ghosts and asking you to get a high score?"
"Er..." Ye Xu felt that it was not so exaggerated, "You can understand that this is a hidden task, and you can get more rewards after completing it."
Du Zhanyue said: "So there are hidden missions?"
"I don't know about comprehension games, but we do have escape missions. There are not only hidden missions, but also side missions. You can do them or not, and there is no penalty for not doing them." Ye Xu changed his mind and said, "Otherwise I will Help you ask my friends to see if your game has these things."
He Fengshuang immediately agreed: "Okay, okay, Xiaoye, I knew you were a big shot the first time I saw you, and I'm waiting for your good news!"
Ye Xu: "Bah."
He Fengshuang: "Hey... oh! Du Yueyue why are you beating me?!"
"One punch and one monster." Du Zhanyue slowly withdrew his fist, looking at He Fengshuang's extra dark circles with satisfaction.
Ye Xu remembered that Ji Ling preferred to go to practice games, so he asked Ji Ling directly without bothering others. Ji Ling kept nothing secret, and told Ye Xu all the settings of the comprehension game.
After finishing the chat, Ye Xu looked at the two teammates: "Your game only has hidden missions and no side missions, but there is no penalty for failure. But after the player reaches a certain level, there will be random missions. It's just that when you download a copy, you may suddenly If you receive a mandatory task, you will be rewarded if you complete it, and you will be punished if you fail, and half of the reward amount will be deducted."
For example, 100 points are rewarded for success, and 50 points are deducted for failure.
He Fengshuang felt that this was really not good news.
"What level is it open?" He trembled.
Ye Xu didn't know, he didn't know the player level system of comprehension games at all. Because they are foreign awakened people, as soon as they enter the game, they will directly meet the random mission standard. Then continue to upgrade, and the lower ones are not clear.
Ji Ling said that she was a master-level awakened person when she first went to the comprehension game. But in the comprehension game, she is defined as a junior awakened person, who can be upgraded later by accumulating the number of clearances by doing tasks, up to the "Keqing level" which is as famous as the master level.
After all, you are an outsider, so it is impossible for you to be the master of other people's games. So giving them the same rank and title as Keqing Elder will also avoid causing disputes and make your demigod think that they are playing games to poach corners.
Du Zhanyue glanced at He Fengshuang's hopeless look with disgust: "It must be the junior awakened ones. The awakened ones are powerful and not weak in financial resources. They definitely don't care about these points. The random missions are not too difficult for them. .You're still early, don't worry."
"It's getting late." He Fengshuang said with a bitter face, "I'm already an advanced player, and if I clear the level a few more times, I'll be promoted to a junior awakener."
In this regard, Du Zhanyue showed a hehe smile: "I think too much. To become an awakened person, you must complete the trial task. Do you know how many times you got stuck on this task? Do you think the awakened person is so easy to upgrade? I I’m still a high-level player until now, and I can’t make it up by life or death.”
"Eh?" He Fengshuang's expression suddenly became more sad.
Only then did Ye Xu realize that other games are so divided into awakened people? Players are graded by the number of dungeons cleared. After reaching a certain number and completing the trial tasks, they can become awakened, and then continue to accumulate the number of cleared levels.
However, ordinary players don't have bloodlines, only awakened ones can awaken bloodlines. So for the players of these games, the difference between an awakener and a player is "whether they can awaken their blood and become a child of God". Their awakener is the advanced version of the player, a type of player.
Thinking of this, Ye Xu also reflected: "Miss Du, your dungeon this time should also be a trial dungeon?"
"Yeah." Du Zhanyue sighed, "I have failed to clear the level several times before, and if I fail again this time, I may go to take a few normal tasks to accumulate points, exchange for some good things and then challenge again."
He Fengshuang also realized that something was wrong: "Then your mission must be different from mine. Trial missions will not be as difficult as ordinary missions. I escaped from the city of eternal life, so you shouldn't be."
The corner of Du Zhanyue's mouth twitched: "Yes, my mission is to get rid of the City of Eternal Life. If I hadn't met you, I probably wouldn't even have a clue about what happened in this mission."
"That's not the case. When you find out that the city has been reset tomorrow, you will know what happened." Ye Xu comforted.
"It's not that simple. There are so many people in this city. It's impossible for me to stare at a person's life every day. Even if this city keeps repeating a certain day, I can't tell the difference."
Ordinary people have a very regular life every day. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset. If you don't observe carefully, you can't find the difference. Unless something big happened in town today, and then every day, it would be hard to find the problem.
Ye Xu didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only say: "I also accepted a mission, and the mission must be completed when the customs clearance score reaches a high level. Don't worry, I will try to complete this hidden mission. Let's work hard together."
Du Zhanyue's face softened slightly: "Thank you!"
He Fengshuang scratched his head: "Then I'll help you too. Hidden missions. If you don't do it for nothing, what if you finish it?"
However, Du Zhanyue was not moved this time, but instead said: "Oh, it's fine if you don't hold back."
This is because he still remembers the revenge of this guy for insisting on calling her "Du Yueyue".
He Fengshuang: "..."
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