Chapter 643 She Knows All the Main Plots

Chapter 643 She Knows All the Main Plots

"You can understand it this way..."

"I think it's because there are some bugs in the Divine Road."

After saying this, the dean's tone sounded a little more helpless and lonely.

Although she is still alive in her current state and has become an NPC that will not be refreshed, this is actually the most torturous thing for a living person's consciousness.

Because everything around us is repeating itself over and over again.

With each opening of a copy, it will be [refreshed]. No one knows her, and no one will truly remember her.

Her time was moving forward, but everything around her stayed on the background board of the copy of the Divine Road for a while.

She is like a canary trapped in a cage, able to feel the changes around her and see the blue sky, white clouds and sunshine.

But I can't break the cage that restrains me and leave here, and the world repeats itself over and over again.

Living like this is actually more painful than death.

Moreover, Qin Shang guessed that it was very likely that she had tried to die.

But I'm sorry, this is a dungeon, the world of God's Road, and NPCs in the world of God's Road will also be [refreshed]!

Even if she committed suicide this time, the next time the dungeon was opened, she would most likely be [resurrected] as the dean of the dungeon, and then be trapped in this unbreakable cycle, receiving the Divine Path players from outside the dungeon over and over again...

As far as Qin Shang knows, there seems to be only one type of NPC that will not be refreshed at present.

That is the God Slayer who failed to defeat the Trickster professional player but did not die within the current dungeon range.

In this case, it seems that the God Slayer will never die.

For example, the god-killer Li Haowen whom I had met before and the bearded man in "Changteng Ghost School".

When he thought of this, Qin Shang's thoughts came to a halt.

and many more……

The God Slayer will not be refreshed, so by the same token, the developers and observers, who have 50-50 authority, will not be refreshed along with the [Refresh] of the God Road copy, right?

Thinking of this, Qin Shang was stunned.

But what is the bug she is talking about?

The next moment, the woman not far away in front of him raised her hand and waved at him;

"Now that we've talked about it, why don't you go sit in my room for a while? The interview for your solo side quest is over. Don't worry about me doing anything bad to you now!"

"After all, I still need you to help me investigate how this long-necked weirdo in the background came into being in the 1990s."

"When I was the abbot of the monastery, I had no idea about this. I just noticed that both the believers and the students in the monastery were a little anxious at this stage. I heard some rumors that people saw ghosts in the monastery."

"But I didn't think much about it at the time. I simply chose to increase the security of the monastery and set up a few more security posts. Now that I have returned to the worldview of this timeline, I finally understand that it seems that during the time when I was the abbot of the monastery, some supernatural phenomena really happened here, which led to this place being selected by the Divine Road and becoming a copy..."

Hearing this, Qin Shang raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Sure enough, the strange long neck was indeed a product of the 90s, not the 70s. These words once again confirmed Qin Shang’s previous guess.

"So, since you have lived in the context of this worldview, do you know Wu Shiqi?"

"As the abbot of the monastery, do you know how Wu Shiqi died?"

When he said this, Qin Shang's eyes suddenly became deeper, and he asked this question very suddenly, as if he was trying to catch the other party off guard.

Wu Shiqi must be involved in the strange things that happened in the monastery later in this copy.

The first is Dong Zhen’s painting.

The woman in the painting I saw in the Xiang'an District Art Museum was most likely Wu Shiqi.

And that painting became the entrance to the contaminated copy of [No. 1 Monastic Grudge].

Qin Shang didn't believe that there was no connection between the two.

After all, the Xiang'an District Art Museum began to be haunted, and the strange supernatural stories about the long neck seemed to have appeared in reality only after Dong Zhen donated the painting to the Xiang'an District Art Museum.

During this period, from the fire in the monastery to the reconstruction of the Xiang'an District Art Museum on the original site of the monastery, according to the girl Fang Changpei, there were no new urban legends about nuns, monasteries, long-necked monsters, etc.

These supernatural events started to reappear after the painting "Nun" was donated to the Xiang'an District Art Museum...

"Wu Shiqi?"

The next moment, upon hearing this, the dean paused and tilted his head slightly to give Qin Shang a hazy profile. There was suddenly a hint of a smile in his tone.

"Are you talking about Wu Shiqi, the only survivor among the children taken in by old Dean Zhu Lina?"

Wow!

After these words were spoken, Qin Shang's eyes widened again.

The only survivor?

The survivor taken in by Dean Zhu Lina?

She really knew Wu Shiqi, so why did she suddenly get stuck...

For a moment, Qin Shang's heart rose to his throat.

Could it be that the truth is the secret that Wu Shiqi discovered, that the monastery has actually been occupied by reactionaries and spies since the 70s, so she tried to make this matter public, which is why she went to the monastery to pray regularly?

He lied to his current lover in the dungeon and said he came here to have a child.

Is it actually to collect evidence?

But this is not right. It has been twenty years since we started to encircle and suppress the reactionaries.

Could it be that Wu Shiqi has remained indifferent during these twenty years?

Assuming that she was the only survivor in the monastery, she would have known more than ten years ago that the monastery was now occupied by reactionaries and spies!

Why did it take so long to start collecting evidence?

Another point……

Qin Shang took a deep breath and looked at the dean who was standing at the end of the corridor not far in front of him.

The other party seemed to be waiting for me to follow him to the end of the corridor. He crossed his arms across his chest as if waiting, and did not speak again. It seemed that he did not intend to continue talking or discussing in detail in the corridor.

Although Qin Shang was 80% sure that he had indeed passed the so-called interview session of this single-player side quest, he still couldn't help but ask subconsciously out of caution.

"Why should I trust you?"

What she said just now was mostly true and relatively candid.

But Qin Shang did not forget the settings in this copy.

If that woman was the abbess of the monastery in the background of the 90s, then Wu Shiqi’s death in the real world... Wu Shiqi’s death was most likely related to her and the monastery.

Since she is the abbess of the monastery in the background of the 90s and has retained her memory from the 90s to 17, according to her, it is understandable that she did not know that the monastery was frequently haunted or that strange things happened.

After all, the second largest area had not yet been tested internally at that time. I think that even if the players of the first largest area came to China at that time and encountered some supernatural events, they would not think in the direction of the players of the first area.

Because there were no God Road players in China at that time.

According to her, the first district had been open for some time at that time, and she even returned to the United States to conduct research on supernatural groups such as folk Shenlu players, so this point can be explained.

It was reasonable that when she was in China, she never thought that there would be players on the God Road in China.

The first batch of Chinese players who can be traced back to God Road and the opening of the second largest area for internal testing were in 05.

But she was the one living under this background back then.

Around the 90s, she was the de facto abbess of the monastery in this copy. How could she not know the cause of Wu Shiqi's death?

As the abbess of the monastery, Wu Shiqi died within a week before and after this background board.

Qin Shang really couldn't believe it was such a coincidence. In reality, the dean was transferred back to the United States this week.

If not, would she not know that a believer had died in the monastery?

What does Wu Shiqi’s death a week later have to do with her?

"Because, I didn't know what happened here and the reactionaries back then. Similarly, I need you to help me find out the reason why the long-necked monster appeared in the monastery."

"I don't know about this matter, whether in reality or in the copy."

"Every time I experience [Refresh], the day it appears is today, which is also the day when players enter this dungeon."

"If you are good at observation, you should have discovered that the long-necked monster is a native monster in the monastery of this instance. Even I don't know where it came from. I need you to help me figure it out."

"So far, you are the only one who has received a single-player side quest and passed my interview test."

"I need to make sure that the player who participates in the single-player side quest is not an idiot. Otherwise, it will be meaningless for me to waste my breath for no reason and finally die in the later stages of the dungeon."

“That’s why I set up the interview process.”

After the woman finished speaking, Qin Shang's eyes froze.

Wait a moment……

"What do you mean I'm the only one who got the single-player side quest and passed the interview test? You mean someone from other batches who entered [No. 1 Cultivator's Grudge] also got this side quest? And participated in your interview... No, you came up with this quest?"

Hearing this, the abbot who was hiding in the darkness over there chuckled twice. The sound was as clear as a silver bell, but to Qin Shang's ears it sounded like the whisper of a devil.

He felt relieved in an instant.

I'm just wondering how there are so many death-type elements hidden in a non-death-type copy.

Although, the non-death type means that you will definitely not die if you pass the level, but you may not die if you fail to pass the level.

However, there are too many death traps hidden in this non-death copy.

There were so many that Qin Shang had the illusion that he was in a multiplayer death dungeon.

One after another, they could send you into an irretrievable pit, waiting for you to jump in and die without a burial. It would be too far-fetched to say that it was bad luck or coincidence.

"You can understand this, but I didn't interfere too much. I just asked the players to come and see me before they go on night patrol."

"Isn't this unreasonable? A security guard who has just become a member of the monastery's security staff comes to meet the abbot of the monastery."

"Only through an interview can we determine whether you can serve as a security guard in the monastery. Besides, I did give you the opportunity to refuse. If you don't want to do the single-player side quest, you can just give up and ignore this newly added side quest. In the end, most players come here when they are tempted by the possibility of getting clues, don't they?"

"This shows that this single-player side quest is quite popular in the dungeon. If you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will."

"But I'm not a garbage collector. If you want to do this, the prerequisite is that you have to satisfy me. So my time is precious. In order not to waste each other's time, isn't it reasonable to have a small interview screening?!"

Hearing this, Qin Shang couldn't help but twitch his lips. This is really the thinking of free America...

If you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will. As soon as these words came out, Qin Shang felt a strong smell of capitalists coming towards him.

"meaning is……"

"The illusion I saw just now was also your masterpiece?"

The next moment, Qin Shang suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and with the idea of ​​making the best of it, he finally chose to take a step forward and follow.

Hearing this, the dean chuckled;

"It's not my masterpiece. I don't know what you saw, just like I don't know what this person saw. I have been relying on countless [reincarnations] and [refreshes] over the years to slowly judge what she experienced based on her statements when interacting with players!"

The next moment, she raised her hand and pointed at the old woman who was squatting in the corner and shivering.

Seeing this, Qin Shang also turned his head to look at the old woman, with a barely perceptible trace of sympathy across his face.

The old woman did nothing wrong. According to the dean, she was sent to the monastery just after the reactionaries had taken over the monastery. Before entering the monastery, this compatriot had no idea that she was going to a monastery that had been occupied by reactionaries and spies.

Finally, Mingming was the first to notice the abnormalities of other people in the monastery.

She was originally the one who had the greatest chance of leaving here alive, but she was discovered by the Japanese who mistook her for her roommate.

After killing someone to silence him, his mind was disturbed by some sonic weapon in the corridor, and he completely turned into a madman with split personality.

"The person I want to be qualified to carry out this single-player side quest is a player who has the ability to distinguish between weird and human. This person must be calm and composed. Similarly, it is best if his mind is not too complicated and he does not have too many psychological traumas. Otherwise, there will be too many things that are easy to be disturbed in this dungeon."

Hearing this, Qin Shang was stunned. There were too many places in this copy that were easily disturbed.

He immediately frowned;

"Are you giving me a spoiler?"

"You can understand that."

The woman leading the way in front chuckled.

"In this confrontational dungeon, I have experienced countless [refreshes], and I am basically familiar with the content of your main storyline. This is why I am sure you will be willing to cooperate with me. Whether you are a player from the Monastery camp or a player from Wu Shiqi's camp, if you want to take a shortcut to pass the dungeon, I will show you a way. That is to help me figure out the reason for the birth of this weirdness. At that time, I will naturally tell you the conclusion of the main quest of your camp."

Wow!

This time, Qin Shang didn't react much.

This dean has already brought him enough surprises. Fortunately, Qin Shang is not a pedantic person and his ability to process external information is relatively quick. Of course, he can also understand that for an NPC who will not be [refreshed] and can always retain his memory, it is not difficult to know the main storyline of the copy.

But I guess this woman won't tell me right away.

No wonder she was confident that if the players could pass her so-called interview, they would most likely agree to her conditions...

Qin Shang was concerned about another thing now, so a hint of solemnity flashed across his face, and then he blurted out.

"You think that strange long neck has something to do with you becoming an NPC in this instance?"