In many alien stories, the Knight of Light is often accompanied by justice, protection, loyalty, etc.
The Knight of Light in the world of order can scrape off at least three pounds of oil from his body.
Su Jing slowly walked into the blinding room. The knight was still sitting astride his horse, showing off his oily muscles in various poses.
At this moment, a certain code finally understood why humans have muscles but still have to wear clothes.
——Forcing others to admire one’s muscles is also a form of visual bullying to some extent.
A walked in front and came straight to the center of the palace-like room.
Suddenly, countless black cards flew from all directions in the originally empty area, surrounding A like ribbons.
The Knight of Light rode his horse to A's side and said with great emotion, "Oh, my lucky one, quickly choose your card."
A didn't make a choice. He glared at the Knight of Light coldly and clenched his fists.
His companions noticed A's actions and were afraid that he would act impulsively and throw the Knight of Light off his horse.
"Brother A, forget it."
Shi Yuntian and Lu Shufan held A on the left and right.
"He's the guardian of the Order Card, so give him some respect."
"I know." A impatiently broke free from them and picked out one of the order cards.
Su Jian came forward curiously and checked the text on the card.
[Players challenge the Order Ladder and gain more steps to pass the test of the Order World. This is the only way to pass.]
"This is the only way to pass." Shi Yuntian read out the words, confused. "Isn't this the rule the system tells us? Why did you choose it specifically?"
A handed the Order Card to the Knight of Light, explaining casually, "Just take it."
"Oh." Shi Yuntian believed it.
The other teammates exchanged glances and immediately understood why A chose this card.
The information revealed before the text on the card is indeed the rules told to them by the system.
But the phrase "this is the only way to pass the level" seems to make things more obvious.
Su Jian has said many times that there are at least three ways to pass the dungeon: completing the main quest, gaining recognition from the NPC, and defeating the circle master (dungeon) NPC.
ERROR, as the father of "IN OFF", has also proved this point.
Based on the above premise, the card deliberately emphasizes the "only way to pass the level", making it seem like the circle leader is guilty.
"Oh huh~ Congratulations, lucky guy! You've successfully chosen the True Order, and it's the fourth-level True Order that holds the highest authority in the Order World. Now, I'll grant you my gift."
The Knight of Light performed a series of exaggerated and shameful dance moves, similar to a beautiful girl's transformation.
A silently looked away and clenched his fist again.
Finally, he completed the transformation, and two white stars representing purity appeared and flew straight to the back of the card, printed just below the number 4.
"I have granted you power. Now, this card possesses power beyond the Supreme True Order. I wish you good luck in the final stage." The Knight of Light bared his teeth. "Quick, put it away with gratitude."
A: …
Can't I really hit him?
With A in the front making a sample, the others selected their cards one after another, leaving only Su Jian and ERROR.
As an NPC, Su Qiong naturally wanted to leave more opportunities for the players. He signaled ERROR to choose first.
"Go ahead." ERROR showed an unfathomable expression, "I'll choose first, and you won't have much choice."
"?" Su Jing slowly typed a question mark. Although he didn't know what ERROR meant, he still walked to the middle obediently.
The cards immediately surrounded him, swaying in front of him, trying hard to make their presence felt.
Su Jing looked at a few of them carefully and suddenly understood why A wanted to hit someone.
Among the many cards, there are obviously a few that contain illicit goods.
[Everyone should like the Bright Knight.]
[The Knight of Light has the most perfect body curves.]
[The Knight of Light is the most handsome man in the world of order.]
[……]
In terms of shamelessness, only "IN OFF is the most fun game in the world" can be compared to it.
Su Jian forced himself to ignore the contraband card and scanned the other cards, trying to find it.
But there was someone next to him who prevented him from concentrating on choosing cards and kept chattering and making random suggestions.
"Choose my curves, or my handsomeness, and I can reward you with more." The Knight of Light pulled the reins in, circling around Su Jian. "I swear on my knightly honor that these are all of the True Order."
"Sweetheart, why are you avoiding my gaze? I allow you to look me straight in the face." Despite being ignored, the Knight of Light remained passionate. "As both of us are NPCs, I'm a higher level than you. According to the system rules, you should obey my orders."
Su Jing listened to him chattering for a long time and finally couldn't stand it anymore.
"So you knew I was an NPC?" Su Qi pointed above his head and asked loudly, "Didn't you realize that I'm Bai Ming?"
"White name?" The Knight of Light stared at Su Jing's pink ID, his face full of confusion.
this……
Isn’t it red?
"I'm against you, why should I obey your orders?" Su Qi said with disdain, "Stay away from me."
The Knight of Light was frightened by Su Jing and actually pushed him back a little.
Su Jian finally got some peace and quiet and chose a card from the card pool.
[The number of Order cards is limited.]
He had no particular reason.
My subconscious mind just thinks I should choose this one.
Finally it was ERROR's turn to make a choice, and everyone's eyes fell on him.
Cards are extremely resistant to ERROR and will spontaneously combust if touched by it.
But ERROR should get a card by passing the carousel copy.
The teammates were in a state of watching the show, curious about what would happen next.
ERROR looked calm as he walked step by step to the middle.
The cards that had just surrounded the player like ribbons sensed the unusual aura and scattered and hid far away.
ERROR turned his gaze to the side and looked at the Knight of Light.
"You don't care?"
The Knight of Light is ordinary and confident. How could he tolerate the card getting out of control in his own territory? He reluctantly recalled the card.
Even after being recalled, the card still keeps a distance from ERROR, for fear that the card will fall into his hands.
Su Jian took a closer look and found that the cards closest to ERROR looked incredibly fake.
For example: [Fish are microorganisms that stand on eight legs, live in the soil, and can grow taller.]
Lu Shufan read out the words on the card and turned to look at Yu Qishou.
"Hmm?" Yu Qimiao raised his eyebrows.
Lu Shufan immediately looked away.
Another example: [If humans leave the Earth, they can live on any planet for a long time.]
Another example: [“IN OFF” is a love game.]
"What the hell is love?"
"There's not even a marriage mechanic in the game."
"ERROR, what a tragedy! He should be punished for choosing the false order, but the system won't give him the chance to choose the true order."
"Wait, ERROR, what are you trying to do?!"
Amid the exclamations of the onlookers, ERROR reached out to the "love game" card.
The card itself does not resist ERROR by self-destructing like the previous ones.
The Knight of Light smiled, his face full of ill intentions.
"What a shame! You chose the false order in front of the guardian of true order." The Knight of Light posed like a fitness trainer, flexing his biceps. "I have a mission to punish these misbehaving believers."
"Slow down." ERROR signaled him to stop and shook the card in his hand. "Who said it was a fake order?"
The Knight of Light argued, "It goes against the facts. Isn't it a false order?"
ERROR didn't answer, opened the operation panel of the player's bracelet, and fiddled with it casually.
"Su Qiong." ERROR called out Su Qiong's name and said something without thinking, "Agree to my request."
Su Jing responded in a daze, fearing that he would be punished for being too slow and getting an ERROR, so he clicked "Agree" without even reading the request clearly.
[System: Congratulations to player ERROR and NPC Su Jian for swearing an oath of blood and becoming bound by fate.]
【System: Please select the binding relationship.】
[System: Player ERROR and NPC Su Jian have been bound to a new relationship: Lover, Intimacy 0.02%.]
"ha?!"
"So it's really possible to bind to an NPC?"
"ERROR, tell me how you did it!"
"What's so strange about that?" ERROR looked at them calmly. "The original system of IF already had a binding function. Although the system was out of my control and arbitrarily deleted this function, the two of us have a strong bond in the game world, and can be forcibly bound together through a special token."
ERROR looked at Su Qiong and continued, "We have the same wound shape, and my blood flows in his heart, which constitutes the conditions for forced binding."
"Ah." Su Jing quickly pulled off the clothes around his heart and lowered his head to check the position of his heart.
His body is as smooth as jade and as delicate and flawless as a baby's.
The only thing left was a crimson scar on his heart, which did not disappear even after entering a new copy.
That was when ERROR was offering sacrifice. He pressed his hand hard on his chest, then pierced the back of his hand and Su Jing's heart with a dagger, allowing the blood to flow from top to bottom, filling Su Jing's heart.
So, he was planning this at that time?
Almost drained his own blood just to activate a binding that might be useless?
ERROR Binding successful, show the control panel to the Knight of Light.
He curled his lips and smiled much more beautifully than the knight.
"Look again, can you fall in love with 'IN OFF'?"
The knight saw the relationship between lovers for the first time. He had never heard of it before and his eyes widened in surprise.
"The main system has determined that we are lovers. Do you want to question this?" ERROR shook the card again. "Let me ask you again, how does this card contradict the facts?"
The Knight of Light was speechless for a long time.
The card in ERROR's hand had a silver back, but no numbers appeared for a long time.
ERROR doesn't care.
It should have been a high-level false order, but it was easily negated by ERROR. I'm afraid the system is unwilling to turn it into a true order.
You know, once this card becomes the True Order, all players in the Order World can fall in love and get married at will.
Maybe "IN OFF" will really become a love game.
"I understand." The Knight of Light said dejectedly, "I obey the decision of the main system."
After saying that, the Knight of Light gave two humiliating stars.
His self-esteem was hurt and his eyes were full of resentment.
"You've used up your trump card here, and there are seven more Guardians of Order. They won't be as easy to deal with as I am." The Knight of Light paused and warned grimly, "Especially the fake Guardians of Order. They are the embodiment of malice and vicious appendages. I believe they have already prepared a burial place for you, and they are waiting for you to die there."
"Thanks for the reminder." ERROR said nonchalantly, his words provoking a beating. "Don't worry, there's no NPC that can kill me."
NPCs are all the sons of the system, and ERROR is the biological father of the system.
Even if the system has all the tricks up its sleeve, it can't get rid of ERROR, let alone a mere red-named NPC.
"Let's go." ERROR turned around quickly, "Don't let the other guardians wait anxiously."
"Okay." Yu Qi Miao opened the amusement park map as he walked. The area where the carousel was located had been lit up, and there were seven colorless amusement areas left.
"Where to go next?" Yu Qimiao asked for everyone's opinions.
Su Qi came over to observe carefully and asked in confusion, "The order of the rides seems to have changed."
"Huh?"
A few other people came over to take a closer look and found that there had indeed been changes.
“What was it like before?”
"I forgot. Anyway, it's different from now."
"Let's write down the current one first, and then change it later so we can compare it."
"Okay, next to the carousel is the Smile Theater, and next to that are the Bumper Karts..."
Su Jian wrote down the current order and analyzed it carefully. "The Order World has eight levels of order, and the amusement park has eight projects. We met the guardian of the second-level true order through the carousel. It is reasonable to infer that each project represents a guardian."
"Um."
"Keep going, little snack."
"The Knight of Light gave us two stars and said he would help us. Assuming he's not deceiving us, we should aim to collect more Guardian rewards. That way, we'll have a better chance of success when challenging the Ladder of Order." Su Jian paused, then added, "The key point now is that we have no idea about the fake Order."
"You mean, we should challenge the false order next?"
A looked at the map and asked, "How do I identify a false order project?"
"Simple. The Knight of Light just reminded him," Su Jing reminded him. "He said the Fake Order is malicious and vicious, and it should be a relatively dangerous project."
"It's a dangerous project." Moi and Qi Yi hugged each other nervously and looked at the map.
Screaming roller coasters, haunted houses, etc., you can tell at first glance that they are dangerous.
After leaving the novice area, there are almost no real copies of the game in the circle, and it might really be haunted.
"Do we have to go?" Lu Shufan, who was afraid of ghosts, turned pale. "There are still three True Order copies. If we pass them all, it won't be too late to enter the False Order copy."
Shi Yuntian said disdainfully: "Look at you, you're so promising."
"Actually, I don't think there's any need to rush and go for the strongest one right away. We don't know the level of the Fake Order. If we choose the highest level right from the start, we might end up in a tough fight."
"Yeah!" Lu Shufan nodded desperately.
"Su Qi, what do you think?" Yu Qimiao looked at Su Qi.
Su Jing, who was not afraid of ghosts, could not understand their fear.
However, Su Jing was not sure about directly challenging the fourth-level false order and simply gave the decision-making power to Lu Shufan, who was most resistant to it.
"You choose."
"Let me choose?" Lu Shufan was quite surprised.
"Well," Su Qiong stared at him, "Your Excellency must be responsible for your own choices. This time when we enter the dungeon, you can no longer complain."
"I wasn't complaining!"
As soon as Lu Shufan finished speaking, he was immediately thwarted.
"Who is this wimp who's crying out to have 'No Merry-Go-Round' carved on his tombstone?"
Lu Shufan: ...
Public punishment for dark history is too much!
Lu Shufan faced the distribution map and, after divine help, finally decided to go to the "Smiling Theater" with the least risky name.
Smile Theater.
Shouldn't we let them enjoy performances by cartoon characters, like in some large amusement parks?
Lu Shufan thought so.
However--
Yu pressed the confirmation button of the Smile Theater in seven seconds, and everyone had an extra theater admission ticket in their hands.
The system teleported them to the theater entrance, where a huge tent-shaped building similar to a yurt appeared before them.
Through the door, I could hear laughter coming from inside.
Although their laughter did not stop, it sounded very forced and did not sound like happy laughter.
Faintly, you can make out shrill screams and howls.
The yurt building is completely sealed, with no gaps on the outside, and it is impossible to see clearly what is inside.
Next to the tent stood a fancy-dressed girl, whose profile card showed her name as white and level 18.
The girl saw them and gave them a friendly smile.
"Welcome to the Smile Theatre. Please choose the play you want to perform."
"We're performing?"
Players caught the keyword and immediately felt a little bad.
——Aren’t we supposed to sit down and watch the show?
"Yes. The Smile Theater is a place where visitors can experience the joy of performance. Ticketed visitors are responsible for the performances, and the staff will grade the performances." The girl displayed a large pile of colorful, untitled scripts and repeated, "Please choose the play you would like to perform."
Even the most brainless person knows that you can't choose a script casually.
Su Qi looked at the girl and asked tentatively, "Don't you have any hints?"
"Yes." The girl smiled at him and gave two tips, "1. The script directly determines the difficulty of this mission. 2. The script cannot be changed."
Two tips that aren't very useful.
Su Jian touched the cover of the script, but no prompts were triggered, which made him feel a little worried.
ERROR raised his hand, placed it on Su Qiong's shoulder, and asked skillfully, "We are newly confirmed lovers. Which script do you suggest we act out?"
As soon as he asked, several pairs of eyes turned to look at ERROR.
——Know that you are bound to Marshmallow.
——Stop showing off, stop showing off!
"For newlyweds, I recommend these three plays." The girl selected three from among the many scripts and explained before they spoke, "You can only ask one question."
As a guiding NPC, the girl will help the player to a certain extent.
But she is not bound to any player, so her help to each group of players is limited.
If you are too partial to the Su Jing group, it will be unfair to other players and cause the game to be unbalanced.
"Choose one from three." ERROR stared at the script cover for a while, then looked up at A. "You should have done similar training, right? How to eliminate the worst option."
A looked at him and said, "It doesn't require such complicated knowledge."
"oh?"
"Pick one first."
ERRORAccording to the instructions, choose one of the scripts.
A lowered his eyelashes and stared at the script. "Combining Murphy's Theorem and the system's targeting of you, this has to be the worst."
ERROR: ...
Why should I humiliate myself?
"Wow! A is so awesome~" Su Qiong happily praised A and selected one from the remaining scripts using the method of counting chickens.
Opening the first page, the first page has the title of the play printed in bold capital letters.
The Tragedy of the Newlyweds
“…”
"Well."
"It's perfect for couples who have just confirmed their relationship."
ERROR looked at Su Jian who had no reaction to this and felt the system's malice again.
After choosing the script, the players handed their tickets to the girl and entered the tent one by one.
The light in the tent was dim, and nothing could be seen clearly. All I could hear was creepy laughter.
They were taken to a small cubicle by a red-named NPC, who reminded them in a muffled voice, "You have two hours to rehearse."
Then, the red-named NPC left the compartment and locked the door tightly.
Su Jing was about to observe the surrounding environment, but as soon as he looked up, many order cards indicating the rules appeared in front of him.
[There's no need to stick to a timetable at Smile Theater, so just relax.]
[Smiling is prohibited in the public areas of the theater, and smiling with all eight teeth exposed is prohibited.]
[Players can freely assign performance roles.]
[It's okay to leave the cubicle and explore the world outside.]
"At a glance..."
"Is there any real order?"
"No."
Several people looked at each other and came to the conclusion almost at the same time.
The Smiling Theater should be a copy of the Fake Order. Listening to the other players outside, they are clearly in a state of extreme fear, yet they have to keep smiling.
It's so miserable that it makes people feel pity.
"Su Jian, what should we do next?"
Su Qiong: "I'm reasoning that if we consider all four as false orders, then we should stay in the cubicle and wait for the system to assign roles. We'll be on stage in two hours, and keep smiling during the performance."
"If it's the four false orders, that's exactly what should be done."
Su Qi looked at them and said, "The system won't give such an obvious prompt."
"Of course." ERROR knew Niezi quite well.
Su Jian: "Even if they look fake, there must be real cards hidden inside. Or maybe four real cards."
Shi Yuntian complained, "How could all four be true?"
"It's certainly possible." A understood Su Jing's meaning. "There's always confusion between true and false. Furthermore, the scope of false order is wide. If even one of the three conditions on the same card is wrong, the system will determine it as a false order."
"I understand. Even if it's a fake order, there might still be some truth to it." Yu Qimiao reacted in seven seconds, his brow furrowed tightly. "The difficulty of judging has increased. The ordered world is more complex than I imagined."
"True and false order both belong to Circle One, so their rules should be largely the same. An order that's both true and false like this can't be very high-level." Su Jian understood the situation and lowered his head to flip open the script in his hand. "Let's study the script first."
"That's right, after all, we still have to finish the performance."
Just by looking at the title of "The Tragedy of the Newlyweds", one can roughly guess that it is a mystery drama with a supernatural touch.
The script mainly tells the story of a newlywed couple who died unexpectedly in their sleep on their wedding night. After their unjust death, their souls are reluctant to leave and linger around several suspects, trying to find clues to avenge themselves.
The main storyline of the story is not complicated, but there is a lot of blood and supernatural elements, and the performance effect is definitely explosive.
The number of actors appearing in the show is eight in total, based on the number of players in the Orphan Alliance.
In addition to the newlyweds who play the protagonists, there are also detectives and detective assistants who are responsible for investigating the case, as well as four suspects.
The suspects are the groom's mother who opposed their marriage, the bride's ex-boyfriend who was abandoned by the bride, the yandere schoolgirl who had always had a crush on the groom, and the neighbor next door who was jealous of other people's happiness because he was a widower.
Once you've identified the main cast, the next step is to assign roles.
Su Jian looked at the card again, 'Players can freely assign performance roles', and made a secret guess.
"Let's decide who will play which role."
"Don't you wait for the system to allocate it? What if a false order is triggered and you're punished?"
Su Qiong: "The system probably won't help us with the assignment, but it definitely has a general plan for the roles we play."
As long as they can infer the system's plan, they will not trigger regardless of whether the card content is true or false.
"Little Dianxin is really smart, let's make a decision quickly~"
The players sat down in tacit understanding and formed a circle.
Su Jing's bracelet flashed twice, revealing many hints about role allocation.
"Sure enough, it's hidden really deep."
Su Jing shared the system prompts with everyone. After some research, he finally decided that Yu Qimiao would play the most important role of the bride.
"Yuyu, I'm sorry to have wronged you. The tip said that the bride would be in more danger, and we can't let two girls do it."
"We are too tall and have never worn women's clothes, so we don't meet the requirements."
"You've already worn the bride's dress anyway. There are only zero and countless times you can wear women's clothes."
"I'm not the only one who meets the requirements, right?" Yu Qimiao looked around in anger, his gaze landing on Su Qiong. "Su Qiong, you should be more suitable than me."
"Yes." Su Qiong didn't mind wearing women's clothes. The reason he didn't play the protagonist was because he had a more important role. "As a guiding NPC, of course I have to choose the role of a guide. Detective is the most suitable for me."
"Alas, Su Jing is so naive."
"The detective profession has been ruined. It has become the embodiment of the Grim Reaper, who dies wherever he goes."
"Ah?" Su Jing heard this and began to think about NPC life.
Maybe he should get a pair of death horns.
Since Yu Qimiao plays the bride, the script requires the bride and groom to have the cutest height difference, so the role of the male protagonist naturally falls to Shi Yuntian, who is over 1.9 meters tall.
Moi and Qi Yi chose the remaining two female characters, the groom's mother and the yandere schoolmate, and Lu Shufan took the position of the ex-boyfriend.
Lu Shufan muttered, "Compared to Yuyu's ex-boyfriend, aren't I and Boss Shi more gay? Can't we change it to the groom's ex-boyfriend?"
"Then we don't have to make any deductions at all. The murderer is definitely you."
The script given by the system contains large blank spaces, and only character introductions appear at the beginning.
Roles must be assigned before the next section becomes active.
Players must deduce the real murderer during the performance to complete the show.
Because ERROR and Su Qiong are bound together, they must have a close connection in the play. Su Qiong chooses to be a detective, and ERROR naturally becomes the detective's assistant.
A has no choice but to play the role of the widowed neighbor.
All the roles have been assigned, and everyone pinned their role cards on their chests without triggering any order.
Turning to the next page of the script, words slowly appeared on the blank paper, writing the first scene they were about to perform.
The names of the characters in the play have all become the IDs of the extras.
It seems that the system recognizes their allocation plan.
The story begins three days after the wedding night.
Yu Qimiao died on the third day after the wedding.
The strange thing is that he has no memory of his wedding and doesn't know what happened after the wedding.
His soul did not go to hell, but remained in the bridal chamber.
Yu Qimiao saw that the red candles with dragons and phoenixes in the bridal chamber were replaced with a pair of white candles, and the wedding photo turned into a faded black and white photo.
She felt sad and looked everywhere for her new husband, thinking that he would definitely attend her wake.
As a result, the people kneeling in front of the mourning hall were her ex-boyfriend Lu Shufan and her yandere schoolmate Moi who had always had a crush on her husband.
Yu Qimiao could barely understand that Lu Shufan was keeping vigil for him.
His desire for control was too strong, and Yu Qimiao couldn't stand it and proposed to break up, but Lu Shufan kept haunting him and wouldn't let him go even after his death.
But why would Moi keep vigil for himself?
Yu Qimiao really couldn't figure it out until she saw clearly that there were two seats for offering sacrifices in the mourning hall.
One is my own ranking that I just posted, and the other is my husband's ranking that I posted three days ago.
Her husband died on their wedding night.
After reading the script of the first act, the system gives prompts.
[System: Complete the performance of "The Tragedy of the Newly-married Couple's Family", get 8 points or more from the judges, and correctly identify the murderer to pass the [Smiling Theater].]
【Tip: The performance must be orderly.】
"I have a question. Does the murderer have to be among the characters played by the eight of us?"
He didn't limit his focus to four suspects, but expanded it to eight people.
Su Qi replied, "Not necessarily, but it's very likely."
A said, "Does the murderer know that he is the murderer?"
Su Jing did not answer, but looked around and observed everyone's expressions.
"There is nothing abnormal in the micro-expression analysis. The murderer currently does not know his identity." Su Jing fiddled with the bracelet but did not trigger any further prompts.
There was a "swish" sound in my ears, and the curtains around the compartment fell, revealing a complete cloakroom and dressing table, everything looked in good shape.
[Players can freely choose costumes.]
Seeing this card, Shi Yuntian cursed, "There are only eight costumes. Freedom is a fart!"
Moreover, each set of clothes has distinct features, and the wedding dress fits Yu Qimiao's size perfectly, so there is no room for choice.
The players accepted their fate and took their own clothes.
Only one NPC was particularly excited, happily hugging the brown plaid detective suit.
"The system finally prepared clothes for me, including a small cape and a hat." Su Qiang, who had never properly worn clothes, fell in love with the well-tailored and exquisitely made clothes and hid in a corner to change into them.
Within two minutes, he encountered a lot of problems.
"Strange, which side of the hat is the front?"
"Why did you give me three pieces of clothing?"
“…I don’t even know how to wear pants.”
"Little idiot." Yu Qimiao couldn't stand it anymore and was about to go in to help him.
Before he could, a figure quickly flashed into the locker room.
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