Chapter 10, Level 8 (10) The boat will sink naturally when it reaches the bridge
Outside the copy, the second game video of the Blind Man is being played in full swing, the update prompt sound sounds, and a trailer is added to the homepage!
Generally speaking, the speed of game video updates in the same instance will not change. For example, on level 8, a new video will be released every hour.
However, if the player's performance is too outstanding and there is a long time before the next update, the system will cut the highlights into a "pilot" in advance to let the audience enjoy it.
The trailer is very short, only a few dozen seconds, and it is the part after the Hundred-Eyed Wizard is resurrected.
: This is the first time I see a player following a butcher.
: Free facial masks, what's going on? I was stunned.
: Wait! How can the Hundred-Eyed Wizard be saved?
The beta testers know how difficult it is to achieve salvation. First, they need to raise their piety value (commonly known as favorability value) to 60.
This requires constant conversation, gift giving, and sometimes completing tasks. However, these monsters or butchers are simply heartless. No matter how much sugar-coated bullets the players throw at them, or how strong the wind and waves blow, their piety value remains unchanged.
When facing monsters, the player's spirit value will drop rapidly. The result is that the piety value is +5, but the spirit value is reset to zero.
: Just one mask can raise your favorability to 60? ? ? A novice copy shouldn't be this easy!
: The difficulty of the strategy varies from person to person. Some people gain favor quickly. For example, 213 teachers, 233 animal trainers, 885 chefs, etc.
: These identities come with built-in buffs that increase favorability, but the blind person has no buffs at all.
: Look at the face of the blind man. If you don't understand, look again.
: His appearance is the strongest buff.
The player was rarely silent.
: If you give a bunch of roses to a goddess, she will throw them into the trash. But if a handsome man gives a cherry blossom he picked on the road, the goddess will praise him for being romantic and unrestrained, and good at discovering beauty. Do you understand?
: What’s important is not the gift, but the person who gives it.
I wonder how many players thought of sad things and wiped away tears silently behind the screen.
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8th level of copy.
A new symbol appeared in Gao Mengtang's system: overlapping crosses.
The two overlapping crosses are one large and one small. The large one is in the center and the small one is at the lower left. The upper arm and right arm of the cross overlap with the left arm and lower arm of the large cross respectively, leaving a gap in the middle.
In the gap, the fog was swirling, and there was a faint eye that opened and closed.
When using [Exorcism], the only target that can be affected is the Hundred-Eyed Wizard. The system's actual possibility of successful exorcism is "extremely slim" and gives a prompt: Do you want to add [Exorcism of the Hundred-Eyed Wizard] to the side quest?
Gao Mengtang chose "yes".
The taskbar lights up.
Dungeon [8th floor]
Main quest: Enter Room 808 (unfinished)
Side Quest: Salvation of the Hundred-Eyed Wizard (1/3)
1. Listen to the Hundred-Eyed Wizard's grievances (completed)
2. Enter room 4 on any floor to search for clues (unfinished)
Note: This mission may involve a battle!
3. Mission content is not unlocked
Gao Mengtang closed the system panel and went downstairs with his teammates. On the way, he touched the knife in his arms. The pharmacist had given it to him not long ago for self-defense.
He objectively assessed his own fighting capabilities. Although he had limited vision, only a small broken knife, a physical strength limit of only 50, and had to rely on his brother to fight, and the most intense exercise he had done since he was born was the race walking and snatching event in Disneyland, it did not mean that he would be 100% defeated by monsters, right!
Go to a fight where you might get killed!
In less than 10 seconds, Gao Mengtang made up his mind to break into Room 4 and take a look.
People always say that Gao Mengtang is very optimistic, and seems to always hold the idea that "everything will work out when the time comes." Gao Mengtang responds with a smile, not bothering to explain.
His attitude has always been that things will sink when they reach the bridge.
It doesn't matter whether he sank sooner or later. What difference does it make if he sank today or ten or fifty years from now? Anyway, his whole family has ascended to heaven. He has nothing to worry about and nothing to linger on. It doesn't matter how many days he lives.
To put it nicely, it means being free and unrestrained, not caring about life and death. To put it bluntly, it means giving up! Live casually! Die casually!
Gao Mengtang's extremely pessimistic mentality often manifests itself as extreme optimism.
Gao Mengtang went downstairs happily, and the smile on her face brightened the mood of everyone who saw her.
"Brother, you are still very happy." He Lun drooped his chest and looked like he was having trouble breathing. "I feel dizzy. It may be because my energy level dropped too quickly."
After He Lun finished speaking, he tripped over his left foot and fell directly down the stairs. He fell on his back on the platform with his eyes closed and his face pale.
"What's wrong?" The pharmacist rushed over and helped him up. "Are you okay?"
Without needing an answer, I knew Helun was not in good condition. His spirit value dropped below 40.
The spirit value of 40 is a checkpoint. If it is lower than 40, you will feel obvious physical discomfort and it will be difficult to maintain normal exploration activities. If it drops below 20, your life will be in danger.
"I don't have any more stamina potions," the pharmacist said, looking pale, pushing up his glasses, "Why is his stamina dropping so fast? Oh, right. His identity is Knight 099."
The knight’s original identity attribute: spiritual pillar.
He needs to have faith in order to gain stronger fighting power.
If the knight lacks faith for a long time, his spirit value will be quickly depleted.
He Lun lay on the ground for a while, and gradually began to cry. Due to his low mental state, he spoke unclearly, and kept saying things like "I'm sorry", "I'm a waste", "I have accomplished nothing", "My life is over" and so on.
"What should we do?" Gao Mengtang asked, "What can he believe in?"
The pharmacist sighed, "That depends on him. Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, a person, an ideal can all be his beliefs. But if he lacks a sense of value in life, nothing can be his belief. Listen to what he says. In reality, he should be a person devoured by a sense of nothingness."
While the pharmacist was talking, He Lun kept crying and saying things like "It's all over", "It's all ruined", and "I want to start over again".
099 In the Knight's status bar, a dark purple icon [Confused] appeared, indicating that he was entangled by a negative buff. In this state, no matter how much mental recovery potion he took, it would be useless.
Gao Mengtang: "Are we going to watch him die?"
"There's nothing we can do about it," the drunkard woman shrugged, "unless someone can give him a political lesson or ideological education class."
"You don't have to worry. His spirit value is 38 now. He can last at least 20 minutes. The drunk girl and I will try to pass the level as soon as possible so that he can survive." After the pharmacist said this, he and the drunk girl stood up and entered the corridor on the 6th floor.
Gao Mengtang didn't believe the pharmacist. But he had no other choice, he still wanted to go to Gate 4 to face a battle.
After thinking about it, he could only drag He Lun up, let him sit against the wall, and put the enemy rabbit in his arms.
"The little rabbit is very cute, I hope it can make you feel better. If I can't come out from Gate 4, my dear rabbit, you go out with the pharmacist, remember?" Gao Mengtang patted He Lun's head, then patted the rabbit's head.
The caramel-colored ball of fur trembled, and its two rabbit ears stood up. Its small black bean-like eyes stared at Gao Mengtang.
Gao Mengtang couldn't see them clearly, and waved at a blurry shadow: "Goodbye."
A hand suddenly grabbed Gao Mengtang's sleeve: "Don't go."
He Lun cried and said, "Brother, I want to follow you."
The hand was pulled apart by Gao Mengtang and fell down weakly.
Door No. 4 was not locked, and it opened with a slight turn of the doorknob. Before entering the room, Gao Mengtang looked back, but he could not see anything clearly.
So, when the door closed and the system prompted that they had entered the special closed area [Room 4] of the 8th floor copy, a voice of "Brother" sounded next to their head again, and Gao Mengtang was frightened.
He reached out to the side and saw a person standing there.
He Lun said aggrievedly: "Brother, I told you not to leave."
Gao Mengtang: "…What are you doing here?"
He Lun stopped talking again. He held Gao Mengtang's shoulders tightly and cried loudly. After crying, he said, "My life is over," and then began to recall the past.
He is a bad boy who has been addicted to the Internet since junior high school. He skipped classes to play games and barely got into high school. He skipped classes again to play games and was admitted to an ordinary university.
After entering university, He Lun still did not restrain himself and was addicted to the Internet. He failed too many courses and was held back for two years, but he still did not have enough credits to get a diploma.
His classmates went their separate ways, and he saw no future with only a high school diploma in exchange for six years of college.
"Brother, I can't even get my diploma, I'm a waste!" He Lun cried heartbreakingly. He didn't know why he had to pester a stranger to tell these things. But he just wanted to tell Gao Mengtang about his worries. That feeling was like looking at the moon alone in the middle of the night and giving all his worries to the moon.
The apartment building was not quiet late at night. The family upstairs was beating and scolding their children, the family next door was playing the piano with a squeaking sound, and a young couple was arguing.
Room 4 was very quiet, abnormally quiet. Gao Mengtang sighed and gently broke the silence: "The only one who thinks you are useless is you."
He Lun raised his tear-swollen eyes and sniffed his nose.
Gao Mengtang: "I don't know your past. In my eyes, you are an honest, kind, and righteous person. Many people in this world don't know your past. Like me, they only see your present."
Room 4 was in disarray, with a mess all over the floor. A stale smell made the air sticky. There was only one floor lamp on in the living room, illuminating half of Gao Mengtang's body. Dust was dancing in the dim light.
Gao Mengtang stood in the ruined room, his posture upright and expressionless, like a statue of a god.
The crying gradually stopped, but the tears were still on He Lun's face, illuminated by the yellow light. He Lun looked at Gao Mengtang and was stunned: "Brother..."
Gao Mengtang smiled, his expression was unfathomable. But in his heart he was shouting: Stop calling me brother, is this a good place for sentimentality?! There might be monsters here! There’s a battle!
But He Lun finally stopped crying and tried to coax the child to the end. Gao Mengtang thought he should give him some more advice.
Gao Mengtang is not a psychological counselor, as he himself has serious psychological problems. But Gao Mengtang has tried to save himself.
The method of self-help is very cliché: read inspirational stories.
I read it every day for a period of time and memorized a lot of it.
For him, leaving Chicken Soup for the Soul is like a fish leaving a bicycle.
But maybe chicken soup works for Heron?
Gao Mengtang recalled urgently, remembered a passage, and cleared his throat: "If you give up now, today's failure will always be a failure. But when you blow the horn of success, failure will become the bass of your struggle melody."
"Everyone is born to walk on his own life track. On this road, other people are just scenery. The only one who can trap you is yourself!"
…
After listening to this, He Lun's eyes filled with tears: "Brother! I understand!"
Gao Mengtang: "...what have you figured out?"
A golden light exploded from behind him, followed by the passionate drumbeats and trumpets. He Lun stood up, wiped away his tears, and said with full energy: "You don't know my past, and you haven't seen me in such a miserable state. Then I can be reborn in front of you! I will use my life to prove it. I will use my faith as a shield and my honor as a spear to fight for you!"
The previous person, a weird scholar, said something similar: Die for you.
Then he really died.
Gao Mengtang thought that it would be better for He Lun not to set a flag. He wanted to remind him tactfully, but a stronger golden light flashed before his eyes, interrupting his words.
A shield and a spear really appeared in Helun's hands, and a fluttering red cloak appeared out of thin air behind him!
On the system panel, the dark purple [Confused] icon disappeared, replaced by the golden [Firm Faith].
"I have found my faith. I will dedicate myself to the blind, to protect his honor and to prove my piety!" He Lun held his head high, raised his arms to the sky at a forty-five-degree angle and swore passionately.
Although he couldn't see clearly, Gao Mengtang could clearly feel a passionate atmosphere and great changes were taking place in He Lun.
System: Player 099 Knight has become your [Follower] and he is loyal to you.
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