Chapter 73: The Colorful City 2 Girl, you flirt with him,...

"Papa's apprentice?"

"They are actually Papa's new apprentices?"

"No wonder these people from other cities can appear in our colorful city!"

When they heard that they were Papa's apprentices, the straightforward citizens who had previously shown contempt and disgust towards the fourteen players suddenly made a 180-degree turn in their attitude, and immediately all smiled at them. An old lady even tried to hold Shi Yirou's hand - not minding the blood on her hands at all.

"Papa?" Su Ming frowned and complained in a low voice, "Could it be that they also believe in Christianity?"

The "little priest" obviously didn't understand the meaning of the word "Christ", but after hearing the doubts of this rural barbarian about Papa, he patiently explained out of respect for Papa: "People from other cities don't know that Papa is the supreme being of our Colorful City. Under his protection, all citizens of our Colorful City can live a peaceful and happy life. We worship him, love him, and are willing to put everything we have under his glory. Papa is the Holy Father of our Seven-Colored Holy Light Church!"

It's over. This might be some illegal settlement of some strange fanatics.

"Excuse me, are we going now?" a girl asked, adjusting her glasses. "It's still early before twelve o'clock, and we haven't even visited this great city yet. We really want to appreciate its beautiful scenery first."

An Rao couldn't help but glance at the girl. In the self-introduction just now, the girl said her name was Lan Lingling and she was a student who was still in a gap year. Players who had reached the fourth level were obviously experienced players. They were no longer blindly afraid of NPCs and had even learned to bargain reasonably with them to seek benefits for themselves as much as possible.

"Of course," the young priest bowed, with a proud smile on his face, "You can wander around as you please, just remember to arrive at the Holy Light Castle before twelve o'clock. I will be waiting for you in front of the gate of the Holy Light Castle."

"In fact," the young priest added, "the destination of your city tour is the Holy Light Castle, because it is located in the center of the city. If you don't know where it is, you can ask any citizen of the Colorful City at any time, and they will show you the way."

After saying this, the young priest bowed to everyone and left in the car.

"Wow, what a grand gesture!" said a boy named Jiang Qi, who was dressed simply and had ordinary features. When introducing himself, he said he was a courier. "It feels like Papa has everything under control here!"

"So do you guess he is the boss in this game that we can't afford to offend?" another person asked sarcastically.

"What's wrong? Is he the boss of the game and I envy his overwhelming power? " Jiang Qi rolled his eyes at the man. "The barefoot are not afraid of the ones wearing shoes. Wouldn't it be more satisfying if I knocked him to the ground with my bare hands?"

"Let's go walk around first." An Rao had a headache. When there were too many players, it would be very easy for internal strife to break out from the start. The higher the level of the dungeon, the more obvious it would be. No one trusted anyone and no one was convinced by anyone.

Far away from them, there was a towering black Gothic house spire. That must be the "Castle of Holy Light" mentioned by the priest. It seemed that they were still on the edge of the Colorful City, and it would take a lot of time to reach the center of the city.

The colorful city is very similar to real cities - except for the fancy colors - and everyone paid close attention to every place with text along the way, even the small advertisements on the wires, but they still found nothing. What are the rules of this game? And where are the stamps and exits?

"Boss," Su Ming sneaked up to An Rao, "You said the exit would be at the city gate, like when we leave the city now, we have to go through the highway toll gate, and then we have to stamp it or something."

"I don't think so," Shi Yirou also walked over to the side, "If it's a battle royale, then this game is too easy."

"You never know," Su Ming complained. "Maybe this city is a zombie city. Maybe at some point in time everyone will turn into zombies, and then we have to fight our way out and escape."

"Boy, you really have played too many Biohazard games." Brother Shi smiled rarely.

"Okay, okay, I think what Su Ming said makes sense. We must take every possibility seriously before it is absolutely ruled out." An Rao looked at Su Ming's embarrassed and unconvinced look and tried to smooth things over for him.

"Get out! Damn Dark One, stay away from me!" A woman's scream caught everyone's attention.

Not far away, I saw an old man with dull gray hair that could only vaguely distinguish seven colors kneeling on the ground, begging the woman in front of him. The woman was so scared that she screamed and backed away, and the colorful hair on her head seemed to have changed color out of fear.

“Please, please, give me some money. I can’t find a job in my current condition!” The old man with gray hair cried miserably. “I haven’t eaten for three days! I’m so hungry, so hungry!”

"Go away, I didn't make you like this, you deserve it!" The woman got rid of the old man and ran away in her high heels as if she was avoiding the plague.

"Old man, why can't you find a job?" Shi Yirou squatted down and asked in a gentle tone.

"Because I..." The old man wiped his eyes and raised his head. Before he could finish his words, he saw Shi Yirou's black hair. "Ah! You outsiders! Get out!"

Shi Yirou: ...

Come on, respect other people's fate.

Although the old man refused to talk to these outsiders, he was like a fuse that drew everyone's attention to the many lice that existed beneath this glamorous metropolis.

Homeless and impoverished men, women, young and old can be seen under overpasses, in culverts and even at the entrances and exits of underground passages. They all have one thing in common: their hair is so gray and dull that it has almost lost all color.

It seems that in the colorful city, colored hair is very, very important.

The closer you get to the center of the city, the more prosperous it becomes, and the more intense its colors become. People coming and going all have blinding rainbow-colored hair, which makes Shi Yirou, an art student, want to poke her eyes out.

In the center of the colorful city is a huge rectangular plastic lawn, with a magnificent Gothic church and a huge Gothic castle located at both ends of the lawn. In the center of the lawn stands a pure black sculpture of a man in gorgeous clothes with a solemn expression. He is leaning on a cane and staring into the distance, as if he is thinking deeply about the development of the city. The base of the sculpture is very high, making the sculpture look extremely majestic. The base is decorated with realistic fake flowers of many varieties, which are obviously carefully matched to create a colorful effect.

Behind the sculpture, at the end of the lawn, is the huge black Gothic castle whose roof can be seen from the edge of the city. Its various spires reach the sky, and it looks majestic. This should be the Holy Light Castle that the priest mentioned earlier.

"Fortunately, this castle is not colorful." A player said with relief.

"The taste of this city... is really... unique..." Su Ming sighed.

"They didn't start dyeing their hair when they were born, did they?" Shao Yun stood in front of Bai Chuan, curling the ends of her long chestnut hair in a charming way, and said to Bai Chuan coquettishly, "I don't want to look like this. Brother, do you think my hair will look good if it's dyed this color?"

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"There are words on the base, let's go and take a look." As he said that, Baimutou grabbed An Rao and walked forward without looking around.

There is indeed writing on the base.

A few short lines of words were engraved on the black base:

Colorful City Citizen Code

1.Papa is the supreme Lord.

2. No one may carry, use, buy or sell hats.

3. Hair washing and hair cutting can only be done in licensed barber shops.

4.Everyone must undergo hair color standard assessment on time.

5. Those who dye their hair or wear wigs will have their hair taken away.

Fourteen people stood in front of these six short lines of words in silence. It seemed that apart from Papa, the most important thing in this city was probably the noisy hair on everyone's head.

But what does this have to do with gaming?

"Don't tell me... this is the rules of playing in the Colorful City..." a player muttered to himself.

"That shouldn't be the case..." the other person's tone was not very decisive.

"Then... can I pass the customs without wearing a hat, going to the barber shop on time to receive a hair color assessment, and dyeing my hair?"

"Or how about I defend my hair to the death when I was dragged into an unlicensed barbershop?"

Every line of the inscription revealed a baffling and unreasonable tone, and it seemed as if all the people in the colorful city were crazy.

An Rao didn't think that the people in the Colorful City were all crazy. The rules were just regulations, not laws. Seeing how orderly, safe, and prosperous the city was, the legal system must be very complete. The rules were just a kind of programmatic document, with just a few short articles to explain a few things that everyone thought were the most important.

It's just that this city's focus is weird, they focus too much on hair.

Is hair that important?

So An Rao didn’t think this was the rule of the game. If it was, then the players should start a fierce battle to defend their hair right here, but in fact the first thing they needed to do now was to meet this majestic Papa.

"I think this is just the background of the game. The real game hasn't started yet. We need to meet Papa first." An Rao adjusted his glasses and said to Baichuan.

"Yes," Baichuan nodded and gestured to Anrao, "The priest is already waiting for us in front of the Holy Light Castle."

An Rao looked towards the big black castle at the end of his field of vision, and sure enough, he saw a human-shaped little rainbow standing in front of the castle's big iron gate looking at everyone.

"Let's go, it's almost twelve o'clock," An Rao motioned to Su Ming, who was still looking around, to follow him, "We need to see Papa to know whether it's a rule or not."