They returned safely to the shepherd's hut, where the sheep lay quietly resting on the grassland at night, surrounding the hut. The sheepcat had once again vanished.
Jiang Ran and Lin Zhi returned to the cabin. According to the characteristics of the ghost story world, if you don't enter the plot for a long time, the time will flow very fast. This setting is used to help ghost story tellers quickly pass the useless night.
Of course, this is on the premise that nighttime is truly useless.
[Rule 1: During the day, be aware of certain red flowers on the grassland; at night, beware of large patches of white flowers appearing.]
[Rule Six: During the day you can lead your flock to roam freely on the grassland, but at night you'd better stay in the shepherd's hut. However, if you want to find something to do, you can go outside to look at the stars.]
Both rules mention nighttime, which suggests that nighttime is not safe. As for whether the rules are true or false, that's another matter.
Jiang Ran boiled a kettle of water in the cabin and brewed two cups of coffee using the leftover coffee powder. There might be something to do tonight, but it probably wouldn't be much.
After finishing his coffee, Jiang Ran looked out the window, but he didn't see a single sheep on the grassland. Instead, he saw large swathes of pure white flowers surrounding the shepherd's hut, like a white ocean!
Beware of swarms of white flowers appearing everywhere? Well, here they come.
The dwarf turns into a red flower after he dies, and that flower is still stuck in the sheepcat's head. These white flowers are undoubtedly the sheep that turned into him!
Jiang Ran didn't think this was a symptom of the sheep dying; perhaps the sheep would turn into flowers at night.
He summoned the magic mirror with a flick of his wrist and then placed it on the table.
"Please help me analyze whether this rule is correct or not."
A long passage of text appeared on the magic mirror.
If you leave the cabin and enter the white flower patch, you may be affected by some kind of hallucination.
The white flowers dissolve at night, allowing the people in the cabin to enter a deeper dream. With multiple layers of dreams overlapping, if one's will is not strong, one may never be able to wake up from the dream.
If you come into contact with these white flowers, you will be affected by hallucinations; but if you ignore them, you will be pulled into a deeper dream.
In addition, there was another rule that the shepherd had to stay with the flock, which effectively blocked any means of escape.
Between the two, the lesser of two options is of course more acceptable: being pulled into a deep dream, where one careless move could lead to eternal sleep!
After all, they are already in a dream!
Rather than being pulled into a dream and then resisting, Jiang Ran naturally prefers to take precautions in advance!
It's impossible to create a magic mirror that can answer an infinite number of questions; our mental energy isn't enough to handle it. Therefore, the magic mirror's special characteristic is that it only consumes mental energy each time a question is answered.
Therefore, Jiang Ran did not want to expend too much mental energy on it. It would be best to solve the problem on his own without asking.
Based on the intuition of a ghost story enthusiast, Jiang Ran was already able to roughly determine the solution to the problem.
"To prevent any accidents, you should stay in the shepherd's hut for now," Jiang Ran said to Lin Zhi. "If you notice anything wrong with me, immediately use your ability to pull me into a separate space."
"Uh-huh!"
After getting ready, Jiang Ran pushed open the door of the shepherd's hut and stepped into the white flower bushes. A gentle breeze blew, the flowers and leaves swayed, and a faint fragrance seemed to waft through the air.
Is it an illusion created through the sense of smell?
Jiang Ran saw a white shadow drifting in the distance. When the shadow got closer, he realized that it was a huge sheep, as big as a truck!
The sheep floated eerily in the air, its hooves appearing incredibly ethereal, like a wisp of mist.
Jiang Ran focused on the sheep's pupils and found that they were not vertical pupils, but normal sheep pupils. This made him a little puzzled. What did the vertical pupil sheep represent in the rules?
After killing the goat-headed man in Paradise City, it seemed like nothing had happened.
The sheep floated in the air, getting closer and closer to Jiang Ran. When the distance between the two was less than 5 meters, its hooves suddenly burst into white flames!
White flames gradually spread from the sheep's leg to its entire body, causing the sheep to let out a shrill scream. The white flowers under its feet seemed to resonate with the screams, which echoed across the entire grassland, making Jiang Ran cover his ears!
When he came to his senses, the sheep floating in the air was nothing but a skeleton, with white flames still burning in the eye sockets of its skull, and the flames never went out!
The bones below the skull instantly turned to ashes and disappeared. Then, a phantom dressed in a suit walked up, took the sheep's head in his hand, and then placed it on his own neck.
A man with a sheep's head and a skull.
This reminded Jiang Ran of a creature—a demon!
Goats were once considered the embodiment of evil, and the reason was... well...
What do you think is the difference between heaven and hell?
The demon suddenly spoke.
Jiang Ran smiled and said, "I can give you a textbook answer, but I don't think that's the answer you're looking for."
The demon mentioned "heaven" in front of him. Could it be that he has some connection with the city of heaven?
"What do you think you're herding?"
“Some ugly things—though I don’t know what they’re called.”
The flames in the demon's eyes changed from white to pale blue: "They are all children of angels, but unfortunately they have been cursed and have been dressed as sheep."
“You are herding evil, but that is not their inherent evil. They were originally a blank sheet of paper, and it was the curse that stained them with black ink.”
"Shepherd, if you don't want to lead your flock across the grasslands every day, then go and liberate these children."
"The first step is to take the position of the city lord of Paradise City. You will discover many secrets from ancient times, which may allow you to understand more things."
The demon's figure gradually faded into the air. Jiang Ran looked at the swaying white flowers at his feet, remembering that he had come out to solve a problem.
Perhaps the solution was already written into the rules.
Jiang Ran looked up at the stars in the night sky.
The stars are scattered in a regular pattern. If you connect the brighter ones with a line, you will get a pattern of a ram's head and skull! And this pattern is right above Jiang Ran!
Jiang Ran felt his vision flicker, and the stars in the sky returned to normal, scattered irregularly. At his feet were one white sheep lying down.
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