"I listened to Grandpa Fugui and Grandma Jiazhen's advice to their family (Energy +30)."
"It's getting late. I planned to stay here for one night, but Grandpa Fugui said there will be an event tonight and the village chief will come to pick us up later."
When the explorer left Fugui's house, there were already several cars waiting outside in the four-lane road. The village chief, wearing glasses and a suit, sat in the Bumblebee and motioned for the explorer to get in.
Fugui and Jiazhen also came out and sat in the Batmobile behind Bumblebee. Soon the convoy set off one after another and drove towards the woods behind the village.
Ren Suo remembered that explorers had tried to enter that forest, but only obtained this information:
"There are signs of burning in the clearing in the forest. Maybe the villagers will come here for a BBQ? (Energy +3)"
It seemed that they didn't intend to make the players wait for long, and the convoy soon arrived at their destination, a clearing in the forest.
At this time, a bonfire had been built in the clearing in the forest, and gravel was laid out in a circle outside the firewood pile as a dangerous boundary; the firewood piles were piled in the shape of a pyramid, and the vertical height was almost as tall as a person.
In front of the firewood pile stood a handsome blond man in a white cloak, with three fireballs appearing and spinning around him. When the explorer got off the car, he saw him shouting "Sun Flame Impact", and the three fireballs merged in an instant and flew into the sky. The next second, a red light curtain illuminated the firewood pile, causing it to burn fiercely!
The explorer saw this scene and walked over curiously. The blond handsome man noticed the explorer and asked proudly:
"Are you surprised? My friend, this is just a tiny bit of my power..."
"If you set fire to the mountain, you will be sentenced to life imprisonment. I kindly advised you to do so."
The blond handsome man was silent for a moment, then said, "We have already taken safety measures. Shouldn't you be surprised that I have this great power that is comparable to that of gods and demons and can dominate the world for eternity? Do you envy this power? Don't hide your feelings, just pour out all your praise on me, my friend."
"I don't envy you. I will have this power when I'm thirty anyway," I said.
"My power is not because I have been a virgin since I was born!" The blond handsome man was extremely angry.
"So you just endured this suffering of losing your virginity in vain, and there was no benefit? How pitiful. I consoled her."
"I..." The blond handsome man: "Forget it, how about playing cards?"
"If I don't fight, then what should I call you? Mr. Hunter? Or Mr. Dragonborn? I asked."
"I am now a blood mage." The blond handsome man said: "Of course, I am also the strongest Gwent master in this village..."
At this time, the village chief, his wife, his son and other villagers came over.
"The blood mage was sorry that he couldn't play another game of cards with me, but he still walked among the villagers and followed the village chief. They stood by the campfire, and the light of the flames just dispelled all the shadows on their faces, revealing their faces, some young, some old, some smiling, and some sad."
“The village chief stood in the front and said that now that the whole village had treated me to a meal and entrusted their wishes to me, it was time for me to leave this place.
"I waved my hands and said, 'Village Chief, your family hasn't entrusted me with anything yet, so I'm eating your meal for free, right?"
"'We are different,' the village chief said in a strange tone, 'and I don't have any message for you to pass on. After all, the outside world is no longer the same to me.'"
"Then the village chief told me how to leave. He told me that even if I went back the same way, I would get lost when I walked outside the cave. The sound of the stream outside the cave, the fragrance of the flowers, every blade of grass, every tree, every drop of water, every light all have their own mysteries. When I got lost here, I was doomed to be unable to leave.
The same goes for other villagers. Although they did not get lost but came in on their own, they are also unable to leave here. They can only rely on their family's empty supplies and live here self-sufficiently.
There is only one way to leave."
"As soon as the village chief finished speaking, the villagers took out different things at the same time.
The old man took out a bag of snacks he made himself.
The little girl took out a colored pencil drawing.
The blood mage took out a certificate.
……」
"They threw what they had taken out into the bonfire, and it immediately burst into flames. After a moment, the flames rose into the air and transformed into huge phantoms!
Among these phantoms, there are tanks, magical girls, giant robots, and monsters..."
“The village chief said that if we want to leave here, we need enough energy.
Some of us want to leave here, some don't, but we all have energy without exception. But the energy of one person is far from enough for him to leave here, at most they can let their words spread out here and inform their families in the form of dreams.
The village chief looked at me and said, 'You are different. I found out from the first day that you can get energy from other people, even from animals and the environment. So you are the only one who has a chance to leave here, as long as you get enough energy.'"
Seeing this, Ren Suo didn't know that the explorer's energy value setting was completed here.
"The village chief continued, 'But even if you have energy, it won't work. The energy we give you carries our strong thoughts, just like oil and water, they can't mix.'
'But you also have a lot of treasures formed by energy. If you accept the energy of the villagers, the energy will randomly attach to your treasures. Your treasures will be strengthened, but there may be other side effects.'
"Besides, the energy of the villagers alone may not be enough for you to leave here. If you need more energy, you can throw your treasure into the bonfire. The bonfire will burn the essence of the treasure and restore it to the purest energy, but the effect of the treasure will definitely be greatly reduced."
"I looked at the huge phantoms in the night sky and found that there were nine phantoms in total, corresponding to nine households, so I asked the village chief where his phantom was."
"The village chief laughed and said that none of their family had entrusted me with anything, so their energy would not listen to me obediently.
As if they were afraid that I would not believe them, the village chief and his family also took out things to burn. After a while, a solemn and majestic apparition of a three-headed and six-armed Vajra King appeared above their heads.
The Mingwang phantom was different from other phantoms. As soon as it appeared, it summoned thunder to try to attack me. If the village chief and his family had not stopped it immediately, I would have been struck by lightning.
The village chief said, 'The reason why other people's tolls will not attack you is because they all need something from you; but our family has no request from you, so our energy will attack you directly in order to protect us'.
The village chief also said, "When you go to other people's houses for dinner, you will more or less encounter some pets and dead things attacking you, right? That's because in their daily lives, the energy in their bodies dissipates into the things they come into contact with every day, causing these dead pets to gain energy enhancement, so they will actively attack you in order to protect their owners."
"These dead pets can become stronger by gaining energy, and as the main body of energy, we naturally have more powerful power, at least five or six times more than the guardian."
"I'm confused. What does protecting the master have to do with attacking me?"
"The village chief explained that when we give away all our energy, we won't die, but we will fall into a long sleep until our family outside wakes us up again. The guardians noticed your ability to gain the energy of others, so they naturally attacked you out of vigilance."
"I asked the village chief again if he really had nothing to entrust me with. He shook his head and said, 'We have lived here for decades. Everyone we knew has left. Only our descendants give us gifts every year. We really don't have anything to say to the outside world.'"
"However, the village chief said that if I can defeat their family's phantom, they are willing to give me this energy."
At this point, the plot setting has finally been explained, and the explorer enters the decision time:
① "Accept the villagers' thoughts and energy (nine treasures are randomly selected for 'spiritualization'. The spiritualized treasures are strengthened and can no longer be burned, and will never be damaged for any reason) (Current number of treasures: 10)."
② "Burn treasure: Throw the item into the bonfire to burn, the item effect is reduced by 90%, and 50% of the energy value is returned."
③「Challenge the Village Chief’s Phantom (Very Dangerous)」
④ "Leave the village (not optional): Requires 1000 energy points (current energy point is 148 points)."
After sorting out his thoughts, Ren Suo understood the routine of this game:
If he guessed correctly, as long as he didn't challenge the phantom of the village chief, he would most likely pass the level with the lowest profit.
First, the explorer must throw all the props on his body into the campfire to burn, obtain 50% energy value, and then choose to accept the toll from the villagers, then the total energy value should barely reach 1,000 points.
Ren Suo felt that the total income of the explorer in the village for five days might be only about 500 to 600 energy points. 50% of this income plus the villagers' tolls might be exactly 1,000 points. After all, this was only a 2-star game without in-app purchases, so the conditions for passing the game couldn't be that difficult.
Moreover, Ren Suo still has 148 energy points remaining, so it is very likely that he will pass the level.
But in this way, the effect of the props after burning is reduced by 90%. Even if it is strengthened by the energy of the villagers, it is probably just a small garbage. And this part of small garbage also occupies a large share of Rensuo's lottery pool.
Ren Suo had known for a long time that the game would not allow him to easily obtain merits and treasures, but he did not expect that it would be cut in half at the very moment of passing the game!
There is no doubt that this is the game maliciously reducing Ren Suo's earnings after completing the game, and the only solution is to choose "Challenge the Village Chief's Phantom (Very Dangerous)".
The energy provided by the village chief's phantom may allow explorers to meet the requirements for passing the level without burning props!
But there is no doubt that the current explorers cannot defeat the village chief phantom. Ren Suo even believes that in this game, the explorers will never be able to find a way to defeat the village chief phantom.
According to the village chief, the phantoms, as energy entities, were at least five or six times more powerful than the dead pets that the explorers had just defeated. The explorers had a hard time beating dead pets, so how could they possibly beat the phantoms?
Even if the explorer tries to kill himself and the other party, it is hard to say whether the other party will have a second life.
Of course, since this option exists, it means there must be a way to pass the level.
But this method has nothing to do with "High Energy Ahead".
"Village leader, I choose to challenge the phantom of your house."
"The village chief looked at me in surprise and sighed slightly, as if he was wondering why the young man wanted to die. The village chief's wife held her son and covered his eyes with her hands, as if she didn't want him to see the bloody scene. The other villagers also looked reluctant and turned their heads away."
"'It's already started. I can't stop it. Are you sure?' the village chief asked seriously."
"I am very sure, so the huge phantom of the Mingwang that had been silent above the village chief's head suddenly showed a fierce light in its eyes, and its three heads chanted the sound of thunder at the same time. Its six arms holding swords, spears, axes, whips, bows and claws manifested a bloody golden aura and attacked me at the same time!"
"The earth began to shake, and thunder struck instantly!"
"I didn't panic when a mountain collapsed in front of me or a deer appeared on my left. I didn't panic when faced with numerous crises that came at me in an instant."
"Faced with the villagers' pity, I just find it ridiculous: a frog sitting in a well and looking at the sky thinks the sky is that big when it sees the well mouth; the village chief living in this small village thinks his phantom is the strongest one that can suppress all disobedience?"
"I will let you understand what it means to be truly strong."
"Attention, high energy ahead!"
The explorer opened his right hand, and the ring on his right ring finger suddenly burst into dazzling light!
"Clear Spring Flowing Sound", start!