The brown bear sat sideways on the ground without looking back.

Wen Qing stared closely at the huge back of the brown bear. The fur on its neck was white, and a hint of red could be vaguely seen among the fur.

Wen Qing blinked and motioned Ye Ye and Li Ran to look at its neck.

There is a red string.

Ye Ye narrowed his eyes and walked straight forward.

He didn't try to lower the sound of his footsteps, but instead broke a few branches.

The brown bear's round ears twitched slightly, as if it heard the sound, but it still sat there, motionless.

Seeing this, Ye Ye pointed a finger and asked Wen Qing and Li Ran to follow.

Although the precautions at the bear house state that black bears and brown bears are docile in nature, it is better to be safe than sorry.

The three did not approach the brown bear, but walked out of the bear house about ten meters away from it.

As soon as he walked out of the bear house, Wen Qing heard the sound of dead leaves breaking. He turned around and found that the brown bear was moving.

It moved its butt and faced the three of them, staring at them with its black eyes, then turned its head to look at the scenery on the roadside.

It just looked like that, as if appreciating, or as if waiting for something.

Li Ran sat down on a stone by the road, stared at the brown bear for a while, and whispered, "Why is it sitting at the exit? I was scared to death. I thought it did it on purpose."

Wen Qing looked at the brown bear and pursed his lips and said, "It seems like it is sitting here on purpose."

"It seemed like it knew this was the exit, so it sat on the border."

Li Ran was stunned for a moment and looked at the brown bear's feet. Its toes were just touching the line on the stone tablet.

"Can't it come out?"

Li Ran was a little puzzled: "I remember saying that the park is open to the public, right?"

Wen Qing looked at the red rope around the brown bear's neck and said slowly, "If the one with the red rope is a human, they may have other rules to follow."

For example, you cannot leave the venue.

Ye Ye added: "The open park is only for animals."

Li Ran thought for a moment and asked again, "But we didn't see those animals coming out. The real monkeys in the monkey house were staying in the park obediently."

Ye Ye glanced at her and reminded her, "Our garden adheres to the natural law of survival of the fittest."

Wen Qing pursed his lips: "Animals should know that it is safest to stay in their own park."

He paused, wondering what those people who turned into animals wanted to do.

Li Ran pondered for a while and tried to analyze: "The little monkey is preparing a birthday cake, as if he is celebrating someone's birthday. The white bear is angry, and this brown bear..."

She glanced at the brown bear and said slowly, "I seem to have figured it out."

“They’re each doing something different.”

Ye Ye shook his head and said slowly: "No."

“They were just doing their thing.”

Wen Qing was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood something, and said slowly: "They are all just staying in the zoo."

Li Ran was confused: "Brother, I don't understand."

"Can you speak some vernacular?"

Wen Qing explained: "What they did is not the point. The point is that they had to stay in the venue, the point is that they were human beings before, and..."

Li Ran understood now and answered quickly: "And why did they change from humans to animals?"

Wen Qing opened his mouth and was about to speak.

Suddenly, a familiar mechanical sound rang in my ears.

【20% of the advanced tasks have been completed.】

Wen Qing's pupils trembled and he turned to look at Ye Ye and Li Ran.

They had the same look of surprise on their faces.

Li Ran stuttered, "Did I just hear something?"

"Why do I hear the system prompt?"

"I heard it too," Wen Qing pursed her lips and said to them, "We analyzed it correctly."

But... why is there a prompt for 20%?

Before he even asked the question, he heard 001 explain: [The difficulty of the advanced tasks is relatively high, so the standards will be relaxed appropriately.]

Wen Qing was surprised: [So casual? ]

001: [Not random.]

Wen Qing: ???

Isn't this casual?

001 continued to explain: [This is the rule of the game. ]

[The task is difficult, so lower the standard appropriately. ]

Hearing this, Wen Qing was a little puzzled and couldn't help asking: [Then why do we need to create unknown advanced tasks? ]

001 was silent for a while, then slowly said: [This is not my area of responsibility.]

Wen Qing was pondering the meaning of Chapter 001 when he suddenly saw other players coming out of the forest.

There were seven players, their faces were pale, some were covered in mud and dust, and one tall man had his clothes covered in blood.

Wen Qing was stunned as she looked at the bloodstains on his body. His clothes were almost entirely red, with only the collar being black and gray.

The next second, the motionless brown bear suddenly moved.

It turned around and looked at the players behind it, its nostrils twitching slightly, as if it smelled something.

Seeing there was a bear at the exit, the players' faces changed drastically. After noticing that the brown bear was staring at the tall man among them, the other players moved away and ran towards the exit.

The tall man stood there trembling, looking like his legs were too weak to move.

The brown bear stood up and strode towards the tall man.

As it walked, it sniffed the air.

Seeing that he hadn't reacted yet, Li Ran quickly waved at him and signaled him to take off his clothes.

The tall man froze for a while, then finally reacted. He quickly took off his shirt and threw it away with force.

Sure enough, the brown bear paused slightly, turned around and walked towards the clothes.

The tall man took a fearful step forward. After confirming that the brown bear was not targeting him, he took a deep breath and stumbled towards the exit.

As he ran closer, Wen Qing saw that there were no wounds on his upper body.

Wen Qing looked at the other players who had run out, and no one was injured.

The blood on the clothes...

Wen Qing frowned and turned to look at the brown bear.

The brown bear picked up the bloody clothes on the ground, lowered its head and sniffed it, as if it smelled something. It howled and its furry face looked a little sad.

"The bus is coming, the bus is coming, hurry up." Someone shouted.

Wen Qing caught a glimpse of the sightseeing bus approaching, and was then dragged onto the bus by Ye Ye.

This time he was not sitting in his original seat. Ye Ye took him to the last row, the seat farthest from Si Kong.

Wen Qing tilted his head to look at Ye Ye.

Ye Ye remained calm, pointed at the stone tablet and said to him, "Look, it's out again."

Wen Qing looked in the direction of his finger and saw the brown bear holding the clothes, walking towards the stone tablet at the exit, and finally stopping in front of the stone tablet.

It sat on the ground, in exactly the same position as at the beginning, looking at the scenery outside, except that this time there was a blood-stained shirt beside it.

The sightseeing bus went farther and farther away, and after turning the corner, the bear house disappeared from everyone's sight.

Wen Qing wanted to know what happened to the other players on the other road, but the car was extremely quiet. No one spoke, let alone talked. Only people would glance at Ye Ye from time to time, as if they were afraid of him.

After arriving at the rest area, the players relaxed a little and whispered, "I'm going back to my room."

"I'll come find you later."

"I want to take a shower first. It stinks."

…

Li Ran scratched his head, then scratched his arm, and said without any hesitation: "My body is itchy, I also want to take a shower first."

"I'll come find you guys later."

Wen Qing glanced at the time. It was 4:30 in the afternoon, so it was still early.

"Okay, see you later."

"See you later."

Wen Qing was not used to the transparent bathroom and came out of the shower quickly.

He changed his clothes and looked towards Ye Ye's room next door.

Instead of seeing Ye Ye, I saw Si Kong standing on the beach.

He stood in front of the transparent wall, looking at the calm sea, with no emotion on his face.

Wen Qing was distracted for a moment, thinking, it seems that Sikong still likes to enjoy the scenery.

When he was in the Guide's villa, he also stared at the white fog outside the window all day long.

Wen Qing hesitated for a while, then went out and walked towards Sikong.

As soon as they walked behind Sikong, the calm sea surface became turbulent, and the waves rose high and pressed towards the two of them.

Wen Qing paused, a little confused.

Sikong's expression changed slightly, and he stared at the sea with calm eyes.

The sky suddenly darkened and was covered with dark clouds.

Wen Qing looked at the sea, then at the sky, and asked slowly, "Is it going to rain soon?"

Sikong was silent for a moment, lowered his eyes, and restrained his emotions: "No."

The next moment, Wen Qing watched the dark clouds gradually dissipate.

He was stunned and thought, this weather is really unpredictable.

Wen Qing asked Sikong curiously: "Are you going to stay here today too?"

"I have something to take care of. I'll wait for you..." Sikong paused and changed his words, "Wait until tonight."

Wen Qing groaned and did not notice the pause in his words. His attention was attracted by the bright light on the sea.

The shimmering waves seemed to be gradually approaching.

The image of a mermaid flashed through Wen Qing's mind. Just as he was about to take a closer look, Si Kong suddenly grabbed his hand, turned around and said, "Go back to the house."

Wen Qing looked at him strangely: "What's wrong?"

Sikong said casually: "I'm tired and want to sit for a while."

Wen Qing said "oh" and went into the house with him.

Anyway, you can see the sea view from inside the house.

After closing the door, Sikong sat on the chair in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and gazed at the sea.

After seeing no movement, he retracted his gaze and said to Wen Qing: "You have grown up."

Wen Qing: “…”

He said slowly: "I am not small at all."

He is already twenty years old.

Sikong tilted his head, looked at Wen Qingli's beautiful eyes and eyebrows, and his expression gradually relaxed.

"No, you are different now than before."

Wen Qing blinked, couldn't help but raised his hand to touch his face, and asked: "Am I getting older?"

Sikong: “…”

"I mean, you're not as tearful as you were at the beginning."

Hearing this, Wen Qing's cheeks became slightly hot, and she whispered, "I don't like to cry."

"I used to cry because I was scared."

Sikong looked into his clear eyes and said, "Didn't this copy scare you?"

Wen nodded, then shook his head and said to Sikong, "A little bit, but I'm not so scared anymore when I see you."

Sikong was stunned. Looking at Wen Qing's sincere expression, an indescribable heat rose in his body.

After a while, he found his voice and said slowly, "Don't be afraid."

Wen Qing didn’t think there was anything wrong with what he said just now. He thought, Si Kong was much better than the face he saw on Ji Yu in the last copy.

And this is the original Sikong.

It's a good god.

"I'm not afraid." Wen Qing finished speaking, and saw a figure outside the door. It was Li Ran.

Li Ran opened his mouth and looked at Si Kong behind Wen Qing in shock.

Wen Qing walked over and opened the door.

Li Ran stood outside the door, not knowing whether he should go in.

She took a step forward, and when she met Sikong's gaze, she couldn't help but take a step back.

Wen Qing looked confused: "What's wrong?"

"You're not coming in?"

Li Ran leaned close to his ear and said hesitantly, "I just found out something. I'll come over after you two finish talking last night... no, I'll come over later."

Wen Qing: "...No, we won't do anything."

Li Ran looked at him without saying anything, but her face seemed to have three words written on it: "Really?"

Wen Qing: “…Really.”

"Come in."

Li Ran glanced at Si Kong and seeing that his expression didn't change, he bravely walked in.

She stood beside Wen Qing stiffly and said in a low voice, "I just asked around and found out what happened in the Bear House."

Wen nodded lightly, looked at Li Ran, and waited for her to speak.

Li Ran opened his mouth and rolled his eyes towards Si Kong, indicating to Wen Qing that there was someone else around.

Wen Qing blinked and said to her, "It's okay."

Li Ran opened his eyes wide, turned his back to Si Kong, and secretly gave a thumbs up.

"Big brother is worthy of being the big brother."

Even the NPCs are taken care of.

"Then I'll go call the other big brother first, so I don't have to say it twice."

She just raised her foot, paused, and asked Wen Qing: "I don't know the name of that big brother yet."

Wen Qing was silent for a while, then said to her: "I don't know either."

Li Ran's eyes widened even further.

She sighed in her heart, he is worthy of being the big brother, he can handle the other person without even knowing his name.

The next second, a gnashing voice sounded behind the two of them, saying word by word: "My name is Ye Ye."

Wen Qing turned around and saw Ye Ye standing at the door with a very unhappy look on his face.

He said, "Oh," to Ye Ye, "Now I know."

Ye Ye had just finished taking a shower when he saw a Sikong in Wen Qing's room. He hurried over and heard that Wen Qing and Li Ran didn't know his name.

Ye Ye clenched his teeth. He was angry that Wen Qing didn't know his name, and he was even more angry that Sikong had sneaked into Wen Qing's room when he wasn't paying attention.

Seeing that he was angry, Li Ran quickly tried to smooth things over: "Brother Ye, you came at the right time. We were just about to talk about business."

"It's getting dark soon, we have to hurry..."

Ye Ye sneered: "I know what is the right thing to do."

After saying that, he strode into the room, pointed at Si Kong, and asked Wen Qing: "Why is this guy here?"

Li Ran: “…”

Wen Qing: “…”