After solving the problem on Gu Mozhi's side, it's Pei Yuan's turn.
Pei Yuan took the initiative to go back to the hardware store and wait for the NPC to come to his door, and Gu Mozhi followed him to watch the play as usual. But this time, things changed.
After finishing the plot, there is no ghost spirit coming. Relying on his own efforts, the NPC pulled out the fruit knife and charged forward, but was easily subdued by Pei Yuan.
"Why is there no ghost?" Gu Mozhi asked suspiciously.
Pei Yuan didn't know either, and both of them looked at the captured NPC.
The NPC glared at them angrily and ignored them at all.
"Could it be... there are no ghosts anymore?" Pei Yuan thought for a while and said.
If there are only four ghosts in this dungeon, it can be explained clearly. I'm afraid when the dungeon was created, no one would have thought that four ghosts could handle a group of players, so they didn't send so many ghosts. Now all four of them have become Gu Mozhi's dinner, and there are no more ghosts to possess, so they have to let the NPCs rely on themselves.
Thinking about it this way, NPCs are also quite difficult.
Gu Mozhi's mood suddenly faded, and he helped Pei Yuan beat up the NPC before going back to guard the stall. The beaten NPC no longer stubbornly wanted to compete with Pei Yuan, and ran away in despair.
"This dungeon is meaningless." Gu Mozhi said to Pei Yuan, "Just wait for the customs clearance in the next few days."
Without ghosts, other players must be able to pass the level smoothly. Even if you choose the wrong option, it doesn't matter, they can still barely deal with these NPCs.
It is not easy for them to defeat the NPC, but it is not difficult to avoid the deadly attack of the NPC. It is impossible for the NPC to waste time with them all the time, and if they find that they can't be killed, they will probably give up.
Because it was difficult to explain the cause and effect, Pei Yuan did not tell the players the good news, but said during lunch, "I found that those NPCs are not strong, you should be able to handle them yourself." After that, I don't want to go around and help the wrong person deal with NPCs. If I have this time wasted, I might as well spend it with my sweetheart.
The other players felt uneasy when they heard it, but they couldn't force others to help them. On the contrary, Xiao Gao, because he restrained the NPC with his power in the morning, his confidence increased for a while, and he didn't question Pei Yuan's words, but instead helped him with a few words.
"I also feel that I made that NPC unable to move in the morning. As long as you are more courageous, strike first, and see the right time, you won't be attacked by them." Xiao Gao vowed.
However, although he spoke so convincingly, he was actually a little guilty in his heart, suspecting that he was lucky enough to grab the NPC's arm in the morning.
Gu Mozhi glanced at him and said, "If you can't do it, just run. NPCs are not much faster than you. If they run around obstacles, they may not be able to outrun you."
There are so many NPC passers-by on the road, it is really impossible to use them as a shield and hide behind them. With so many ready-made obstacles, are you afraid that you won't be able to avoid several attacks
The players were amazed by his idea of solving the problem. Is this asking them to catch other NPCs to block themselves
But after thinking about it, NPCs are not real people, so why should there be a psychological burden to catch them. Those NPCs can kill with knives if they disagree with each other, and death is not a pity.
Only Haitang was a little hesitant: "I think it's best not to do this. What if you get used to it and encounter other dangers next time, what should you do if you subconsciously push the players around you to block the knife? Those NPCs look too human, very It's easy to get confused."
After she finished speaking, seeing Xiao Gao didn't take it seriously, she became ruthless and said to her sister: "You are not allowed to do such a thing, otherwise I will not talk to you in the future." It is better to use less of this crooked way.
Shaoyao didn't have any ideas at first, but when her sister refused to let her use it, she nodded obediently and promised that she would never do it. At most, after the NPCs attacked, she used those passers-by as pillars to run around.
Sister Qiu didn't quite agree with this approach, but she felt that the NPC was too human-like to do anything. But she didn't dare to offend other players, she just thought in her heart that she wouldn't do it, but she didn't say it.
Pei Yuan and Gu Mozhi didn't care whether they listened or not, they just came up with some random ideas. Demons are not of the same race as humans or NPCs, and there is no psychological burden at all to do many things. However, their strength is high, and they can't actually use this method.
After the meal, everyone did the multiple-choice questions by themselves and dispersed. Pei Yuan excused that he made two mistakes in a row, and refused to give any more advice to the players. The players thought that he had indeed made the wrong choice twice in a row, so they didn't force it, didn't say anything unhappy, and honestly chose their own. .
Because there were no ghosts, Pei Yuan and Gu Mozhi no longer deliberately chose randomly, so they lived in peace all afternoon. On the other hand, the other players chose a few wrong ones, and staged a few life-and-death speeds with NPCs on the street, running from one end of the street to the other, going back and forth, which was very lively. After running to the back, the NPCs all got sidetracked, and before they could catch up with the players, they simply took their knives and left.
Gu Mozhi watched with joy, and asked them, "How can you run so well?"
Shao Yao said shyly: "I focus on stamina and speed for my physical fitness. I thought before that ghosts are so powerful that I can't beat them anyway, so I don't care about strength or anything else, I just give them all. Things to use to escape."
So just looking at running, NPCs are no match for them.
Gu Mozhi was speechless, and he was quite careful. Although blindly running for one's life may not be able to survive, but it is better than increasing strength. At least with the player's current points, it is not enough to beat ghosts. It is indeed a waste to add points to where.
It is worth mentioning that there were indeed no ghosts possessed these few times. Gu Mozhi didn't think it was because the ghosts hid and dared not possess him anymore, he thought that this possession was probably a mandatory requirement in the dungeon. Otherwise, there are already ghosts in the front who have suffered disasters, and there are three ghosts behind who don't believe in evil and come to seek death. They must have to come. So when there are no ghosts, it is probably true that there are no ghosts anymore.
For the next day and a half, Gu Mozhi treated it as a leisure vacation, and spent time with Pei Yuan every day, occasionally watching a few scenes of running wildly in the street.
On the morning of the third day, Sister Qiu chose the wrong option again. She made the wrong choice yesterday afternoon. The third heart was gone. Sister Qiu's heart was pounding, and she looked at everyone with a pale face.
"Is it true that if you run out of love, you will die?" She asked tremblingly.
No one knows about this, and Pei Yuan just had a guess, but it's hard to come up with no evidence. Even if I said it, it seemed like an unreliable comforting word, no one would believe it.
The players racked their brains to appease Sister Qiu, but they didn't know what to say. In the end, the atmosphere completely condensed, and Sister Qiu's face became more and more ugly.
"Forget it." She suddenly felt relieved, "I'll just die, maybe I can be reunited with my daughter after I die."
No one answered, it's not good to say anything at this time.
Sister Qiu pretended to be relaxed and smiled: "It's okay, I have lived for almost fifty years, unlike you young people, there are still a lot of good days waiting for you. There is another round of multiple-choice questions at noon, you choose carefully , don’t make a wrong choice again, you will end up with me. All right, all go back to your own shop, don’t worry about me.”
After finishing speaking, she left on her own initiative, without waiting for anyone to say anything to comfort him. It happened that Gu Mozhi had finished his breakfast, so when he saw this, he simply pulled Pei Yuan up and left. After that, the remaining three people left the breakfast shop one after another, without even having the appetite to finish their breakfast.
This morning seemed like a year to the players. Sister Qiu didn't have the mood to work hard, so she stood in the store with a rag in a daze. The proprietress scolded her twice before she came back to her senses and cleaned the table in a trance, barely meeting the proprietress's request and not letting her go back to work.
More than an hour later, the guests arrived as scheduled. Sister Qiu was shocked when she saw him, and almost threw away the rag.
She watched herself being manipulated by the plot to do things, and the alarm bells rang in her heart. The next second she regained her freedom, she didn't know where the strength came from, and she pushed away the NPC who was trying to attack, her mind was filled with the sudden desire to survive, and she quickly pushed the door and ran out .
Even if the three hearts are used up and people die, she can't sit still and wait for death. Who would be willing to die if she could live? She wouldn't be willing to try, but what if she survived this hunt
Besides, no one stipulated that if the three hearts were used up, it would be hopeless. Maybe after the three hearts are used up, if you choose the wrong option again, you will be obliterated.
Sister Qiu suddenly felt that the world brightened up, and she still had hope of life. She tried her best to shake off the NPC who was chasing and killing her, her heart was beating hard.
She didn't know how long she had been running, whether the NPC gave up or not, and just ran with her head buried. I couldn't run anymore, so I found a corner and hid myself in it, panting heavily and waiting for the judgment of fate.
I don't know how long I waited, but the NPC didn't come, so Pei Yuan found her first.
"Sister Qiu, that NPC has already left." Pei Yuan pulled her up.
Sister Qiu stared at him blankly, and it took her a while to turn her head around again: "Let's go, go?"
"Yes, he has given up."
Sister Qiu let out a long breath, tears fell down, she didn't know what she was crying for, the tears just kept flowing. She erased some and then poured out a lot. She couldn't control herself at all, maybe it was a physiological reaction.
"I, I'm fine." Sister Qiu took a deep breath, "I'll calm down for a while, and I'll be fine."
Pei Yuan nodded thoughtfully, walked back quietly with her, and did not speak again.
When she arrived at the shop, she saw other players who were worriedly guarding the door, and she couldn't help crying and laughing: "Thank you, thank you!"
She herself didn't know why she wanted to thank them, but after escaping from Ascension, she was so grateful to the world that she didn't know what else to say except thank you.
"Sister Qiu." Gu Mozhi smiled at her, "Do you want to see if there is any new news on the system interface?"
He felt that the system had to send a message to explain the fact that the player was still alive after running out of three hearts. Otherwise, what is the purpose of setting up this love heart? Is it just to remind the player that they will encounter danger soon
Sister Qiu suddenly realized that she seemed to have received some system message before, but she was not in the mood to read it, and kept ignoring it. Hearing Gu Mozhi's reminder at this moment, he quickly opened the system interface, and after reading it a few times, his eyes widened in surprise.
"How is it? What did the system say?" Shao Yao was impatient, and asked loudly at the door of the convenience store.
Sister Qiu moved her lips, and after a while she said with a complicated expression: "The system says that I am still alive after using up my three lives, and I can clear the level in advance if I have fulfilled the hidden conditions."
So now as long as she presses the clearance button, she can leave this instance directly and go back to rest first. It's a pity that clearing the level in advance will not make their rest time longer. People who are so stingy as the main god don't want to give more rest time at all.