Chapter 217 Player's Official Female Lead (Two in One)
When Gu Fangchen and the Imperial Master were stranded in the desert sea, they were taken in by a pair of grandparents and grandchildren at the most dangerous moment, which gave them a chance to recuperate.
The two generations of grandparents, one is an old woman named Meng, the other is a little girl named Hongdou. They are descendants of people from the Central Plains who were convicted and exiled. Because they are refugees and unregistered, they can only live in this barren desert for generations.
In the desert, there is a lack of water and food. If you want to survive, you can only work as a laborer for the local cultivator gangs that control the resources.
Most of the work these coolies do is either very heavy physical labor, or testing medicine for others, or serving as scouts and cannon fodder for exploring ruins. These are all jobs that require them to risk their lives to make a living.
There are too many people competing for easy jobs like logistics and making clothes.
Given the age of these two people, it is basically difficult to get it.
A few years ago, Meng Po's son found a way to impersonate someone else's name and go to the government to serve as a soldier, hoping to obtain a household registration through military merit.
Many of the refugees in this desert sea have become regular residents in this way.
Many people know this path, which is that the officials will not investigate unless the people report it, and will turn a blind eye. After all, in order to exchange for a better life, these refugees often fight harder on the battlefield.
Besides, it would cost a lot of money to clear the joints... and that was a constant source of business.
However, it turned out that Meng Po's son had already been promoted to a centurion, and he would be able to take them away soon.
But not long ago, he suddenly lost contact.
The two of them, the grandfather and the grandson, could hardly support their lives, so they took the risk to rescue Gu Fangchen and Xu Fu, hoping that they could find out about their son.
Since Gu Fangchen had promised the other party, he naturally had to keep his promise.
Anyway, it's just a matter of asking Ding Xingfeng or Xiao Ying to find out whether this person is alive or dead.
Of course, no matter what, Gu Fangchen would take both the grandparents and grandchildren to a safe place.
He lay back and sighed, feeling that there was only one clue to the many questions in his mind.
That is the Xuanling that players cannot investigate.
With his current strength, he cannot get close to Tianmen Mountain. Only Xuanling is close at hand.
As long as he reaches the third level, he will not suffer a mental breakdown and become a madman after seeing Xuan Ling. If he can get clues from her, perhaps he will be able to know what "Tianmen" and "Honglu" actually represent.
After all, Xuan Ling should be the first person to come into contact with Tianmen.
Moreover, she should be the "Xuanming" among the nine preachers.
She became a preacher because of her contact with "Tianmen", so she should also be able to understand the meaning of "Honglu".
"No matter what... first, I have to be promoted to the third rank."
Gu Fangchen's eyes flickered.
He has completed the first step of pretending to be the reincarnation of "God". Suler has obviously had some doubts about his identity, but he is still in a stage of half-belief and half-doubt.
And what he had to do next was to make Suler and the Qingman people completely believe this matter.
Therefore, before in the Golden Horde, he proposed a plan of forming alliances to Suler.
Unite the Western Regions and the Sea Kingdom to form an alliance headed by Qingman to encircle and attack the Great Wei. It can also be said that... well, make Qingman great again.
This is actually something Qing Man has done.
A thousand years ago, the Qingman launched a massive attack on the Central Plains. It was under the leadership of Sule that they established an alliance of "Western Regions-Qingman-Haiguo".
However, after the Central Plains counterattack, the alliance collapsed. Due to disputes over interests and internal turmoil, there was no possibility of forming an alliance again.
In that war.
The Sea Kingdom experienced civil unrest and a rebellion by the mermaids. The regime originally controlled by the witch cult was seized by the mermaids. Since then, the country has been closed to the outside world and has had almost no contact with the outside world.
——As mentioned before, spiritual beasts rarely have intelligence, and there has never been such a race as demons in this world. The mermaids are actually humans who were hybridized by the witch cult using slaves and some fish-shaped spiritual beasts. They are similar to the Green Barbarians, but they are more beastly.
When the witch cult was in power, these mermaids were purely playthings and commodities, specifically used to produce rare pearls such as "Mermaid Tears".
This thing is only produced by tears when the mermaid is extremely sad, and it contains extremely high spirituality.
Therefore, after the mermaids come to power, they will definitely no longer use this kind of thing for transactions.
As for the "mermaid tears" originally squeezed from the mermaids, apart from those that were already in circulation, such as those supplied to the Wei Dynasty from the former Sea Kingdom, there is very little new production.
Only an extremely small portion was secretly smuggled out from the sea country by some fearless merchants.
That is why the "mermaid's tears" that Gu Fangchen has always used as arrows are so precious, and each one used is one less.
Only Gu Fangchen dared to use it so lavishly.
Therefore, the power of "Rising Tide of the Blue Sea" combined with "Tears of the Mermaid" comes at a price... This skill really burns money!
In the original game plot, the Sea Kingdom would not appear on the stage again until Lu Fuyi's [Nine Netherworlds Coming to the World] branch.
If Lord Jiezhu wants "Jiuyou" to descend, the first thing he has to do is to open up the passage between the two worlds.
The way is to widen the rift between the two worlds that exist in the present world.
The largest crack among them exists under the "Dragon Soul Sea" of the Sea Country. There is a huge sea abyss crack on the seabed at the deepest part of that sea area.
And underneath that crack actually leads to the "Yellow Spring".
This rift is the largest and most stable rift between the two worlds in existence. It is sealed by the flesh of a real dragon in ancient times, so it cannot expand and exists under the abyss for a long time.
The fish-shaped spirit beasts that gave birth to the mermaid clan relied on the corpse of the ancient dragon, gnawing on its flesh and blood, and slowly developed their spirituality.
It can also be said that the ancestor of the mermaids is actually that ancient dragon.
The plan of the Lord of Robbery is to let the "Destroy" Taoist followers and the evil spirits under the Nine Netherworlds work together to completely destroy the corpse of the ancient dragon and make the sea abyss rift the largest passage between the two worlds.
And then, she can sit back and watch the world destroyed, completing her "Tao".
However, the Sea Country is a closed-door country, and the mermaids regard the "Dragon Soul Sea" as a holy place, so it is naturally impossible for outsiders to set foot there.
Therefore, several years ago, the "Mie" Dao had secretly found the leader of the Wu clan who had fled to the Central Plains and lived in hiding, and planned with him the revival plan of the Wu clan.
Now, the Wu Clan has been secretly accumulating strength, waiting for the cooperation of the "Mie" Dao, so that they can regain control of the Sea Kingdom in one fell swoop.
Gu Fangchen touched his chin and murmured:
"The original plot has developed to this point...it's time to choose who to help."
The characters played by players in the original game also had several official female protagonists.
However, at the current point in time, most of the heroines are still less than ten years old, and are all companion types. Their appeal is far less than that of the several female characters that cannot be conquered... Therefore, Gu Fangchen has no interest in provoking them.
Moreover, given his situation, it is still unknown whether he can live to see these heroines grow up.
Besides... maybe a few of them have already died indirectly at his hands.
For example, among the aristocratic families, there was a noble and legitimate daughter from the Dugu family.
Now that the Dugu family assisted Gu Yuye in the rebellion, and their cooperation with the Demon Cult to switch the real prince with the fake one has been dug up, coupled with several old cases, the Dugu family is likely to suffer heavy losses if not extinction.
If Emperor Yong'an were still alive, Empress Dugu would still be a supporter.
But unfortunately... now Lao Deng has also escaped death.
The Dugu family's situation was even worse... there was no hope.
In the major branch quest [Nine Netherworlds], players will also meet one of the heroines, the saint of the mermaid tribe - Sunaga.
In the sixth ending [Six Dusts Return to the True Self], the heroine who finally waited for the player's reincarnation in "Yellow Spring" was her.
If the player chooses to help the mermaids, the abyss rift under the "Dragon Soul Sea" will eventually return to calm.
It makes sense for them to wait for players to reincarnate in the "Yellow Springs" as mermaids.
Naturally, most players will emotionally choose to stand on the side of the mermaids. The witch cult is cruel, and if they revive their rule, it will be a catastrophe that will lead to the extinction of the mermaids.
However, in this case, players will have to face the Four-phase Robber Lord, one of the most difficult bosses in the entire game.
Therefore, although I support the mermaids emotionally, the reality is that the mission often fails...
He was also pinned down and beaten by the [Four-phase Robbery Lord].
It is really not easy to get a perfect ending.
As for a high-level player like Gu Fangchen, he has naturally tried all kinds of routes.
Now, for the sake of his plan, he can only let the mermaids suffer.
Well... the defeated and captured saint is actually more... no, it's a pity, he deeply regrets it!
The process of assisting the mermaids is too long, not to mention that they have no grudge against the Wei Dynasty. It was the witch tribe that was defeated back then.
The only one who would agree to form alliances would be the Wu clan regime.
The Lord of Robbery had already paved the way. Gu Fangchen only needed to find the people of the "Mie" Dao and the Wu Clan, bring Yier with him, and let her pretend to be the Lord of Robbery.
By then, when the Witch Cult regains power, it will naturally agree to unite with the Qingman.
"As for the Western Regions... with Prajna Lianyue here, it will be even easier."
Gu Fangchen raised his hand and narrowed his eyes.
Now, that "kind of heart poison" has spread to every part of his body. The demon flower pattern that was originally concentrated on the palm of his hand has now fully bloomed, and the strands of blood are winding on his skin like poisonous snakes.
After surviving the "disaster of swords and weapons", his body was already able to withstand the fourth level of "magic refining".
Then you can refine the "heart poison"!
But before that, he had to find the person who poisoned him.
And this person is in the largest country in the Western Regions today - Fatuma.
In the original plot, this person's identity was not revealed, but after Gu Yuye's death, Gu Fangchen got clues from some of his confidants in the Xuanhuang Army who had become ghost soldiers.
However, all we know is that this person is a wandering merchant. No one knows where he got the rare poison "Zhongxin Poison" from. Gu Yuye happened to be looking for poison, so he presented it to him.
Afterwards, Gu Yuye sent people to hunt him down, but he escaped back to Fatuma and disappeared...
"Although the 'heart poison' originated from Vatuma, it was actually planted in the ancient country of Garuda."
"This means that this person knows the location of the Garuda ruins."
This country, famous for its poison, was built on the ruins of the ancient country of Garuda buried under the yellow sand, and has also received a lot of blessings from Garuda.
The reason why the Gu Masters of Fatuma are so powerful is, to a certain extent, related to the abundant resources here.
In the original plot, due to the lack of information, players did not know the existence of such a wandering merchant, and had no way of knowing where the ruins of the ancient country of Garuda were and how to enter.
Even Prajna Lianyue herself didn't know.
For some unknown reason, the ancient Huangsha Kingdom hid itself when it was destroyed, and no one could find its location.
Prajna Lianyue tried her best to resurrect someone.
To do this, she needs three things.
First, the sacred object of Tara Buddhism, the “Lotus in the Womb”.
Second, the "Infinite Spring" under Garuda.
Third, the "Wangyin Dial" enshrined by Qingman on the snow mountain.
The "Lotus in the Fetus" is now on Gu Fangchen's body, and the remaining two things are the key.
In the original plot, because she could not enter the real Garuda, Prajna Lianyue could only find a few bottles of "Infinite Spring Water" that had been preserved in the past, and could not use the real "Infinite Spring".
The "Boundless Spring" is said to be a manifestation of part of the "Long River of Time". People can find everything that has flowed through it in the past. As long as they salvage what they want, they can "recover what they lost".
The "Wangyin Dial" is a sacred artifact used by the Great Tiansa of Qingman to learn prophecies from the starry sky.
Only this magical artifact can locate a specific thing in the "long river of time", otherwise it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
If these three things are gathered together, a person can be brought back to life.
Even if the soul has been completely shattered in reincarnation, it can be put back together again.
This is Prajna Lianyue’s obsession.
The small countries in the Western Regions are not powerful nowadays, and only Fatuma is the dominant one. However, many of their people are fanatical followers of Garuda.
They can also be called "Jingluo" in a sense - spiritual Garudas.
They worship everything about Garuda, regard it as a miracle, and hope to restore that glorious kingdom.
But for Prajna Lianyue, their reputations are at two extremes.
Because Vatuma is the kingdom of sorcerers who are good at creating pain, but the teachings of Tara are to save all suffering in the world.
In fact, it is contrary to Vatuma's beliefs.
However, in the traditional beliefs of Vatuma, Tara is a sect that is completely opposite to Garuda and almost contrary to the legend.
Therefore, a large number of people have doubts about Prajna Lianyue's identity.
Those who believe in her think she is a saint.
But those who didn't believe her said she was a thief.
However, this is not a problem now.
With Prajna Lianyue here, as long as we can open the ruins of Garuda, taking down Vatuma will not be a problem.
"Now... as long as we find that wandering merchant, we will naturally know how to enter the Garuda Ruins."
Gu Fangchen put down his hand, sighed, and his expression was very complicated and strange.
but……
He now knows that the person Prajna Lianyue wants to resurrect is probably himself.
I wonder if Prajna Lianyue will be able to accept this fact by then?
Prajna Lianyue should have thought that he was a villain who stole the "Lotus Treasure in the Womb" and threatened her repeatedly.
If she knew that this despicable man was the father she wanted to resurrect...
"Ahem."
Gu Fangchen imagined the scene of Prajna Lianyue calling him like that, and couldn't help but cough twice, his eyes became even weirder.
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