Chapter 701 Time flies
"Have you cleared [No. 1 Cultivator's Complaint]?"
Although only less than a week had passed, Qin Shang had an inexplicable illusion that he was in another world. Hearing the leader's charming and lazy voice mixed with a bit of anxiety again, it actually felt a little strange...
Pei Ziqi probably has a lot of questions to ask.
The same goes for Qin Shang.
Thinking of this, Qin Shang's eyes became a little deeper.
Last time, he left in a hurry. After confirming that the leader knew Jiang Qiqi, Qin Shang didn't have time to talk to the leader for long, and he rushed to Jiangcheng without stopping. Now he has time to chat more.
"Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission..."
He responded in a coquettish tone, but just as he finished speaking, Pei Ziqi's scolding rang out over there;
"Huh, you've cleared the level, so why don't you come back? Is it because the night view of Jiangcheng is so charming that you don't want to go back to Yanjing?"
Hearing the anxious voice of the woman on the other end of the phone, Qin Shang was slightly stunned and didn't react for a while.
Why is this different from the script I imagined?
Shouldn't you ask me hypocritically if I was injured and what dangers I encountered in the dungeon, and then simply compliment me and say some nice polite words, and finally get to the point and bring the topic to the Clear Spring Road.
Are you trying to ask me indirectly whether I have restored the attribute item of that copy, and are you concerned about whether your Treasure House has been freed from the polluted state?
The next moment, Qin Shang coughed, cleared his throat, and said a brief yes;
"Young Master Yin has also come to Jiangcheng. It seems that something has happened and we need Young Master Yin to assist in the investigation. The boss didn't let me leave, so I thought about staying here for two more days. After all, it's not convenient for Young Master Yin to be alone. We can take care of each other, and I can provide him with help if he needs anything..."
...And maybe what just happened has something to do with me.
If someone is really deliberately hunting down the Shenlu players who have obtained the developer's card sets, then this matter is really related to him. According to Qin Shang's guess, the opening of the "Black Tower" copy may require the assistance of a player like himself who is using the internal beta Fraudster character card.
Let me ask you, since every "developer" controls a dungeon and has an item to open the dungeon, then as a player using this internal test character card, in a sense, that item actually belongs to him...
Otherwise, the main body of the "Black Tower" should have been recovered by the Shenlu server eight generations ago.
Besides, I am indeed quite interested in the experience dungeon. It may be my intuition or sixth sense.
Qin Shang always felt that the black tower about four or five meters high that he saw in the hall of the Xiang'an District Museum belonged to him.
This intuition was very strange, and it was most likely because he was now the user of the beta test fraudster role card, and the black tower was the prop controlled by the previous owner of the beta test fraudster role card, so he had an innate sense of familiarity...
As for why he felt that he needed to open the training copy himself... emm, without the rooster's insemination, the hen might be able to lay eggs normally, but no chicks would be hatched from the eggshells.
This metaphor is just right to describe the "training copy".
Perhaps the Black Tower item can still produce the Trainer Card Set normally, but as for the opening of the Trainer Copy later, Qin Shang guessed that it would not be that simple. When this thing is still an ownerless object, the copy in it will be displayed without the consent of its owner. In other words, if the owner of this item does not take the initiative to open it, the training copy may not be opened normally.
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Shang heard Pei Ziqi's voice on the other end of the phone suddenly rise again.
You can't even hear the usual coquettishness and laziness.
"Offer help!?"
"What kind of help can you provide him? Since you have already cleared [No. 1 Xiudao Grudge], come back quickly."
After saying this, the leader seemed to feel that his tone was still a little too gentle, and suddenly spoke in a serious tone;
"I told you to come back, so you came back right away. Why are you wasting your time? Did you know that not long after you left Yanjing, Qiqi's observation log showed that your trip to Jiangcheng would lead to a bloody disaster and a dead end? This is a future trend that cannot be changed!"
As soon as these words came out, the corners of Qin Shang's mouth twitched.
You didn't tell me, how would I know?
"Something must have gone wrong. Stop talking nonsense. Yin Shisan is only one step away from the Rule Realm. He will be fine in Jiangcheng alone. You, a level 3 fraudster, can't provide him with much help. You should pack up and get ready to come back. I'll go and notify Yin Shisan!"
Then, a woman's commanding voice came from the receiver.
Qin Shang immediately put the phone away, as if he was afraid that Pei Ziqi would spit in his face through the screen, and then his eyes showed confusion.
……no.
A bloody disaster, an inevitable death?
Or is it a future direction that cannot be changed?
Do you dare to say it in a more metaphysical way?
In a trance, Qin Shang had an illusion that the leader's words were almost exactly the same as the words of the fortune-telling swindlers who set up stalls on the roadside in the early years. If it were put in the old society where life was short, transportation was slow, and people could only have time to love one person, the leader's words would be applicable to any young person whose parents had passed away, who went out to work, and left their hometown...
After all, if both parents have passed away, young people who work away from home in the countryside will have basically nothing to worry about.
My hometown is a place where once I leave, I will probably never come back for the rest of my life.
No matter whether you do well or not after you go out, at least there are more jobs and opportunities in big cities outside.
If it were a hundred years ago when industry was underdeveloped and there were no trains or planes or other means of transportation, this trip might have taken me a lifetime. After all, I might have taken root in the new city and become a resident here.
If I were not a native of Jiangcheng, your prophecy would surely come true for anyone!
Could it be that the leader means that after I leave Yanjing, I will settle down directly in Jiangcheng and live out my life there?
Of course, this was his optimistic idea. Qin Shang soon shook his head again and threw this self-mocking idea out of his mind.
After all, the leader also mentioned the bloody disaster.
Thinking of this, Qin Shang was stunned for a moment, then he looked thoughtful.
"Blood disaster..."
What kind of prop is Kiki's observation log?
In fact, this is what Qin Shang is most curious about... Come to think of it, it should have the same [predictive] function as the small mirror that Lord Lai took out?
In that case, if the leader used Qiqi's observation log to make a [prophecy] before I left Yanjing, would the general direction of the prophecy be related to my entry into [No. 1 Cultivator's Grudge]?
Indeed, many unexpected things happened during this trip to Jiangcheng.
For example, because he was courting death and entered the world of copy attribute props in the airport bathroom, he took the initiative to come into contact with the core authority - the computer, and ended up creating a shadow of the rule realm.
If the two sides had not happened to meet in the world within [No. 1 Cultivator's Grudge], they would have been restricted by the balance mechanism of the Divine Road server, and the fact that the "shadow" was just a mimicry after all, and still would not have been able to copy away too many memory fragments belonging to Qin Shang. This was also a disadvantage.
The factors that shape a person's character are closely related to past experiences. The incomplete memories copied by the "shadow" may result in the shadow gaining some of Qin Shang's strengths and weaknesses at the same time.
His incomplete memory made it easy for him to ignore the fact that he did not get all of Qin Shang's memories, and he was even affected by Qin Shang's inherent arrogance and conceited character.
He actually planned to play tricks with Qin Shang's brain, which gave the latter a chance to use the rules of the copy to solve it.
If he delays any longer until he completes the dungeon and has to face the shadow, he will basically be dead.
But on the other hand, when I think about it carefully, I actually didn't even use [Fake Death] during this trip...
As a professional fraudster, shouldn't a dead end for him be one that forces him to lose his life unexpectedly, and then leaves him unable to fight against the crisis?
Thinking of this, Qin Shang frowned and looked down at the small charred hole on his chest that looked like it was burned by a cigarette butt.
He then raised his eyebrows. Could it be that the so-called dead end of the prop... is this?
What about the fact that Chen Boxu shot him and almost had his heart exploded?
"The so-called prophecy should have the same underlying logic as prediction, which should rely on existing information to infer and evaluate future risks, right? If this is the logic, then when I left Yanjing, the observation log that predicted such an event would indeed determine the outcome of my trip to Jiangcheng to be a dead end."
"After all, I hadn't obtained the 'Little Girl's Matchbox' at that time, so I didn't have the ability to [make a wish]. If Chen Boxu's shot today hadn't relied on [making a wish], I would have been in great danger!"
"Of course, maybe the prophecy didn't know at the time that Chen Boxu would shoot me, but the conditions were enough for him to judge that I would be in danger of bloodshed."
"First, when the leader made the prediction, it is very likely that Chen Boxu had already left for Jiangcheng or Jincheng, and had even established preliminary cooperation with the Zheng family. At the same time, the observation log also learned that I was going to Jiangcheng. Based on the fate of our undying struggle, and the fact that we have the same goal, it can be inferred that we will definitely bump into each other in Jiangcheng."
"By then, given our irreconcilable positions, one of the two tigers will have to die in the fight."
As for why the observation log knows Chen Boxu’s information, isn’t this a prop?
As a supernatural force that transcends time, it is reasonable for the Divine Road to give an item the ability to observe the direction of time.
So we don’t know some information, but we can understand that the props rely on the divine path to obtain some information we don’t know in order to infer the conclusion...
Thinking of this, Qin Shang pursed his lips;
"Master, I may have actually experienced the bloody disaster you mentioned!"
"What!?"
As soon as these words came out, Pei Ziqi on the other end of the phone raised his voice again.
"Could it be that a senior figure wants to attack you? Or have you offended the three major families in Jincheng? This shouldn't be the case... The three major families in Jincheng have no conflict of interest with you. Could it be the Zheng family in Jincheng?"
As soon as these words came out, Qin Shang narrowed his eyes and keenly captured a key piece of information.
Leader, it seems you also know about the Zheng family?
But it seems that he doesn't know much...
Otherwise, before I set off, I would have been given a task called "Chain of Cause and Effect".
If the leader knew that the Zheng family was also determined to obtain this item, then he would definitely remind me, right?
The next moment, Qin Shang was about to say something to comfort her, but he was suddenly stunned again.
That’s not right either…
Leader, you should know that the Zheng family will send people into [No. 1 Cultivator's Cultivator]!
Before Yin Shisan angrily beheaded Elder Chen, the leader's "Bank of All Worlds" was already in a "contaminated state".