The name of the visitor is Belleca, a girl with brown braids and small freckles on her face, about 16 or 17 years old.
The moment Xing Ye opened the door and saw Belleca, this introduction appeared in his mind. He glanced at the black and white bracelet from the corner of his eye, and found that the bracelet had become transparent, thinking that the NPC should be invisible.
There is a line on the bracelet that only Xing Ye can see: The story background has been automatically updated.
Fortunately, it wasn't so bad that he didn't even tell him the name. It should be that when someone Claire should know appears in front of him, the system will give the most basic introduction.
It's really just the most basic name.
Xing Ye looked down at Belleca, who was much shorter than herself, and saw that she was holding a big tub filled with clothes. She was short and she seemed to be struggling, so Xing Ye took the tub naturally and held it with one hand easily. .
A trace of rosy appeared on Belleca's freckles. She grabbed Xing Ye's free arm, rubbed his face against his arm, and said softly, "Claire, you are the best!"
Xing Ye only had contact with women at the work level. Such intimacy made him a little uncomfortable. Still considering the human setting, he barely held back Belleca without pushing away.
But this kind of intimacy is also good. Xing Ye, who doesn't recognize the way, can easily walk to the river by following Belleca.
The climate in this world seems to be early spring, and the river is cold. Belleca soaked her hands in the water. After a while, her hands became red from the cold. While washing, she held her belly in pain.
Xing Ye: "..."
The main customers of their company are female groups. Even if he has never had close contact with women, he also knows from market research that Belleca has encountered a special situation. She is a girl who hasn't been open for a long time, and she is exposed to cold river water during special times. The future is not well developed.
"Don't wash it." Xing Ye said, only when he opened his mouth he realized that his voice had become clear and cheerful, and it was a female voice.
"No," Belleca said with a pale face and shook her head. "The brown bread at home is almost done. I have to wash these clothes as soon as possible to get the money for food."
It turned out to be a poor girl who made a living from laundry in the Middle Ages. Although she was not a serf, she lived very hard.
"I wash, you rest here." Xing Ye lifted Belleca with one hand, dragged it to the sunlit position, took the tub by himself, and started to wash.
Xing Ye was from a wealthy family, but his parents paid great attention to cultivating his ability to take care of himself. He was sent to a private boarding school in high school to experience fully militarized management. Laundry and housekeeping were trivial to him.
Belleca looked at Xing Ye gratefully: "Thank you, Claire, I will help when you feel unwell!"
You probably don't have this chance... Xing Ye thought secretly while rubbing his clothes.
Belleca found some hay mats under her, leaning against the trees by the river, and soon fell asleep under the warm sunlight.
When Xing Ye wrung out all the clothes and threw them into the tub, a reminder of the story background popped up on the transparent bracelet: "The kind-hearted Claire just washed the clothes and saw the light flashing not far from the river. She walked over and took a look. It turned out to be a silver mirror.
Claire has always wanted to own a legendary mirror. She walked over and picked up the handle of the mirror and saw her face. "
Xing Ye followed the prompt and saw a silver mirror with a handle and a mirror about the size of a woman's palm, lying downside down in the mud by the river.
The background prompt in her mind continued: "Claire looked back at Belleca carefully and saw that she was dozing off, so she put the mirror into her arms, pressed it against her chest, and the heart was like a deer,'puffing, puffing' bounce."
Xing Ye turned around as the voice said, and Belleca was already asleep. He looked down at the dirty mirror in the mud, raised his leg slightly, kicked the mirror back into the river with his toes, and the mirror sank silently into the river bottom.
The background sound like a narration suddenly made a "heap babble" noise like a bad signal, and the transparent bracelet flashed an "error to be corrected" prompt.
The corners of Xing Ye's mouth curled up slightly, revealing the first shallow smile after entering the black and white world.
His experiment was successful.
Kicking the important props of the story back into the river is to verify three things:
First, what is the point of fighting against fate? It is a small scale struggle in the existing story background and game framework, planning a medieval peasant uprising, a feminist consciousness awakening, or raising one's own status by increasing productivity as a civilian girl, and fighting against the current social background. The change of identity is to simply break the dimensional wall, ignore the content prompts, and ignore all rules without revealing the identity.
However, his act of ignoring the prompt caused the system to be disordered, but he was not punished, which means that the system is very tolerant of behaviors such as "rejection" and "resistance".
Sacrificing luck in exchange for freedom from rules.
Second, in traditional RPG games, his behavior of obviously ignoring important items will most likely lead to unfinished endings, such as "Claire did not pick up the mirror because of fear of the law. Like other civilian girls, marry a lover. A man's husband worked all day and spent a life of poverty and suffering."
Regardless of the ending set by the opposing faction's trio, the premise must be that the story must unfold, and Xing Ye has not even entered the plot line, so how to talk about the ending. If the system determines that this ending is true, then he can directly win.
Third, when the second point fails to hold and the plot continues, Xing Ye wants to see how the system can correct the storyline so that Claire can get a mirror.
After waiting for a while, couldn't wait for the ending sound, and the mirror would not float up from the bottom of the river against the laws of physics. Xing Ye picked up the tub filled with clean clothes and woke Belleca.
"After washing, let's go." Xing Ye said.
"Huh? So fast?" Belleca looked at the clothes in Xing Ye's tub, "I usually wash it for a long time."
"I am strong."
Belleca turned over the clothes and washed everything very clean. She went home happily to dry the clothes. In the evening, after receiving the money, she bought six brown breads and stuffed them with Xing Ye five, leaving only one.
Xing Ye knows that Belleca has a mother and a younger brother, and one piece of brown bread is not enough.
He only took one and returned the remaining four to Belleca. The girl with freckles and braids shook her head quickly: "No, no, you washed today's clothes. I have been taking a rest, as long as one is shared between mother and brother. Okay, I don't need it."
"I don't like eating." Xing Ye forced the brown bread back, ignored Belleca, walked back to the wooden house indifferently, and closed the door tightly.
Belleca wiped her tears and shouted outside the door holding brown bread, "I will definitely pay you back."
After saying "Deng Deng Deng", he ran home, leaving Xing Ye alone in front of the moonlight while biting on the black bread while thinking.
Xing Ye is not a person who pays much attention to food. His busy work makes him often forget to eat. Food is just a tool to fill his stomach. But now he found out that he was wrong. The brown bread was really terrible!
Reluctantly swallowing the black bread with cold water, Xing Ye sat on the bed of hay, flipping through the information in his hand ring.
I haven't seen the main storyline update for a whole day. When the night is quiet, there should be changes.
Sure enough, when the full moon climbed onto the branch, a knock on the door came from outside the door.
The sparsely populated poor villages, the simple wooden houses, the girls living alone, and the sound of knocking on the door late at night, the combination of these conditions is enough to make people frighten, but Xing Ye was prepared, he passed through the very airy gap of the wooden wall, and quietly went out. Look.
Under the moonlight, he saw a silver mirror full of mud, with the handle supported on the ground, and knocked on the door with difficulty with the silver frame on the edge of the mirror.
Xing Ye: "..."
Inexplicably, this mirror felt desolate.
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", knocking on the door heavier, the mirror seems to have exhausted his own power.
At the same time, the background of the story was updated again. Xing Ye heard the narrator say: "Claire was afraid of the Queen's punishment, did not pick up the mirror, but threw it back into the river timidly.
Who knows that this is a spiritual mirror. Through brief contact, it believes that Claire is a kind-hearted and helpful girl, and that it is willing to be Claire's mirror. So when night fell, it used the power of the moon to come to Claire's door, exhausted its last strength, and knocked on her door. "
Seeing that the plot could not continue without a mirror, Xing Ye opened the door of the room, bent over and picked up the mirror.
Narrator: "Claire opened the door, picked up the mirror happily, and saw her face."
Do have to look at face?
Under the moonlight, Xing Ye saw his face in this world in the mirror.
Hmm... a black face that hasn't been washed for a long time, unkempt, shocking Xing Ye, who was always clean and tidy.
There was some water in the bucket, and he immediately carried the bucket to the yard to wash his face and comb his hair. He didn't know how Belleca mustered the courage to hold his arms while looking at this face during the day.
Narrator: "Claire is an orphan. Unlike other people, her family can help each other to wash each other's face. She has always thought of herself as a beautiful girl. She never knew that she was actually a sloppy and dirty person in the eyes of others.
Fortunately, the mirror saw Claire's pure heart and came to her at the risk of being shattered to help her see herself clearly. "
After taking care of himself, Xing Ye picked up the mirror again, and saw that the girl in the mirror had a similar but softer face. If he had a younger sister, it would be like this.
Xing Ye didn't have handsome or general knowledge of his appearance, but he knew that his younger brother Xing Shuo was handsome, and he was the focus of the crowd wherever he went. Then the girl in the mirror who is similar to her younger brother should be beautiful too.
When I was thinking this way, a huge word "ugly" suddenly appeared on the mirror, still in Chinese.
Xing Ye: "..."
Does this mirror really see "Claire" "pure heart", "willingly" become his mirror?
Can't tell at all!