Liu Wei looked at Wu Chang in confusion and asked, "Hero Wu, have you seen me?" Wu Chang smiled and said, "No, I didn't. I just saw you yesterday and I thought you looked kind, but I couldn't remember who you were. I just heard you talking and remembered which old friend of mine you looked like." Liu Wei muttered that all the capable guys were abnormal, and suddenly said, "So that's it." In order to avoid Liu Wei's continued entanglement, Wu Chang asked first: "I heard from the village chief that you all came here to discuss the matter of advancing the New Year's Eve sacrifice?" Liu Wei nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle Shan said that hero Wu also agrees to advance the New Year's Eve sacrifice." "At this moment, the seal of the evil spirit is still there. If it is delayed for another month, the evil spirit will be completely free, and it will be difficult to subdue it again." Wu Chang said. "Hero Wu has extraordinary knowledge and is worthy of being a young hero." Liu Wei said with a bow. "Thank you." Wu Chang responded with a smile. Liu Wei changed the subject and said very naturally: "I have something else to trouble you, but I don't know if I should tell you."
"Uh..." The corners of Wu Chang's fake smile twitched slightly, and he knew that Liu Wei was holding back something. "You can say it anyway." Liu Wei and Liu Shan exchanged glances. After confirming each other's meaning, Liu Wei said: "Uncle Shan should have told the hero that a scholar passed by a year ago and improved the New Year's Eve Festival." "Indeed." "When the scholar left, he left a palace lantern. The palace lantern is the core of the improved New Year's Eve Festival. Without the palace lantern, the festival cannot begin." Wu Chang heard what Liu Wei meant, "The palace lantern is not in the village?" Liu Wei's face showed worry, and he said: "We lent it to the neighboring Chenjia Village. According to the agreement, the people of Chenjia Village should have returned the palace lantern the day before yesterday, but there is no news until now." "We would like to ask the hero Wu to go to Chenjia Village to see if they are in danger. If everything is normal, please bring the palace lantern back." Wu Chang asked: "Is it possible that the people of Chenjia Village escaped with the palace lantern?" "Absolutely impossible." Liu Wei denied. "The four-sided palace lantern is integrated with the Chusui formation in the village. The Chusui formation can replenish the lamp oil for the palace lantern. Without the formation, the palace lantern will become ineffective after half a month." If it was Liu Shan who requested it, he might not think too much, but it was Liu Wei who issued the task to him, so he had to ask clearly, lest Liu Wei had evil thoughts and wanted to attack him in advance. "Since they don't have the Chusui formation, why do they need to borrow the lantern?" "The four-sided palace lantern can control the flames and has the ability to drive away monsters. Chenjia Village uses it to escort women and children in the village to a safe place for refuge. Like us, only the young and strong are left to guard the village." Wu Chang was silent for a moment, and after several considerations in his mind, he finally decided to agree to Liu Wei's request. At this moment, he suddenly understood the protagonists in various RPG games.
In the past, when he played games, he always couldn't figure out why he was a great hero in the game, but he was driven by various NPCs like a grandson, going up the mountain to fetch water, chopping wood, and running errands. He wanted to ask before, don't those NPCs have hands? Now he understood that when the protagonist must rely on NPCs to achieve a certain goal, he would not dare to let these NPCs do the chores themselves, even if they wanted to do it themselves. For example, at the moment, even if Liu Wei wanted to bring the young and strong people in the village with him, he was still worried that these ordinary people would attract monsters for him halfway. In order to have fewer variables when passing the level, even if it was running errands, the hero had to do it himself. After asking Liu Wei for the map, Wu Chang said, "In this case, there is no time to lose, I will set off now." Wu Chang took back his horse and just came down from the mountain. Before he started to hurry, he heard a noise coming from the woods at the foot of the mountain. Following the sound, he found a group of teenagers from Huaigu Village. Most of the teenagers were eleven or twelve years old. They formed a circle and threw a rabbit back and forth. The one surrounded in the circle was the village guard boy I saw last night. The boy had a silly smile on his face and kept running in the circle as the rabbit was thrown. Every time the village guard was about to grab the rabbit, the tallest and strongest boy would kick him back to the center of the circle and continue playing. "Bang!" A huge gunshot exploded in the forest, and the cotton hat on the boy's head exploded on the spot. The bullet grazed the boy's scalp, leaving a burnt bald mark on his head. "What game is so fun? Add me." Wu Chang took a step and caught the rabbit thrown by the frightened boy, saying with a smile. "It's bad, it's the hero, run!" Someone said, and the boys in the village instantly turned into birds and beasts, leaving only the boy with a "middle-parted" head and a kicking posture. Wu Chang glanced at him, "Still not leaving, are you going to continue playing?" The boy shook his head hurriedly, crying and running towards the village, leaving a yellow water stain on the road he stepped on. Wu Chang shook his head, learning something else but bullying, thinking that there is also a minor protection law in the copy plane, right? The village guard boy didn't realize that he was being bullied. He smiled foolishly and shouted to the leader of the children: "Why don't you play anymore? Don't leave." Wu Chang handed the rabbit in his hand to the village guard and said: "They have something urgent to do. Let's play another day." "Oh." The village guard responded in a low voice and stroked the rabbit in his arms. While stroking, the boy whispered: "Don't be afraid, they are just playing with you." The rabbit shrank into a ball in fear, but recovered in a blink of an eye with the comfort of the village guard. Wu Chang's eyes flashed with surprise. Is this boy a druid? Looking at the boy with ragged clothes, frostbite on his hands and feet, who could only rely on straw to keep warm, Wu Chang untied the package on the horse's back and put the thick cotton coat prepared by Liu Shan on the boy. "It's not safe recently, find a place to hide." The village guard stared at Wu Chang, "Can you play with me?"
"Not today, I have to go out for business." Wu Chang said perfunctorily. The village guard pointed to the mountain at the edge of Huaigu Village, "I live there, you can go there to play with me." "Next time for sure." After a brief episode, Wu Chang left Huaigu Village and went straight to Chenjia Village on the map. Huaigu Village is 20 miles away from Chenjia Village, but this 20 miles is a mountain road, and there are several dangerous mountainous areas in between, so you have to take a detour. According to the normal walking speed of the villagers in Huaigu Village, it takes three days to reach Chenjia Village, and it takes nearly a week to go back and forth. The roads in Baili Huaishan are complicated, and it is easy for outsiders to get lost in the mountains. If there is no detailed route map, it is easy to get lost in the mountains. Once you get lost, you don’t know where you will go. The resentment of players almost evenly scattered at various dangerous points in Baili Huaishan shows the cost of getting lost in Baili Huaishan. However, it is precisely because of these resentments that Wu Chang has resentment to guide him wherever he goes. Through resentment, he can see that the predecessors have obtained information through trial and error with their bodies. With this information, he can understand the rules of monsters in advance and don’t have to waste time to avoid dangerous areas. After running all the way, at 5 ., when the sun just set in the west, he came to the area where Chenjia Village is located. Chenjia Village is built on the mountain, near the intersection of two mountain roads in the mountain. Although it is not like Huaigu Village, which has a valley and a large area of arable land in the valley, it is a trade hub of Baili Huaishan with convenient transportation, and the conditions in the village are no less than Huaigu Village. The two villages have complementary advantages in terrain and are of similar size, so they have always had a close relationship, so close that they can lend the magic lantern. Despite such a close relationship, Chenjia Village has been slow to return the lantern, which makes everyone in Huaigu Village worried that something has happened to Chenjia Village. Wu Chang stood on a high place and checked the route map Liu Wei gave him. The area where Chenjia Village was supposed to be located was now covered by gray-white smoke, and even the outline of the village could not be seen clearly. Liu Wei and others guessed correctly that Chenjia Village was indeed in trouble, big trouble.
