While the puppets were all blocked at the gate of the city waiting to leave the city, the two disabled puppets Cao Qian and Xing Ye quickly found an unmanned corner to hide, and the mirror blocked the two small ones with his huge two-meter-high body. The puppet, with his two copper arms akimbo, was able to protect Xing Ye for the first time, and he felt like he was so awesome.
"What's the matter?" Cao Qian looked in the mirror, approached Xing Ye, and whispered in a voice that only two of them could hear, "Who is he? The obedient player I just met?"
Otherwise, Cao Qian's teammate was self-aware, and when he saw a tall body like a mirror, he would never guess that he was a rebellious player.
"No," Xing Ye also whispered, "My physical brother, he seems to be a stupid man, he's quite a lie, don't avoid him, click."
Xing Ye helped his chin: "Kap, sorry, I should change the oil, click."
"Stupid? Isn't it the only puppet we're looking for that tells the truth?" Cao Qian asked.
"Kap, do you think our luck will be so good? Kap." Xing Ye held his chin while looking at Cao Qian's broken arm, "Can you use the initial skills like this?"
"I have used it, but my body is too fragile to use force. I can lift heavy objects, but my arms will be crushed." Cao Qian said depressedly. She looked at Xing Ye's broken arm, "You can use it. Initial skills?"
Xing Ye: "Crack it, the pen on the left hand is not a problem, but the knuckles of the fingers are rusted, and the speed is very slow. It may take half an hour to draw a QR code."
Cao Qian's small red phosphorous eyes formed by two match heads seemed to be filled with despair: "I may have been fighting three laps in half an hour, and I was burned as firewood!"
Xing Ye was silent for a moment and decided to change the subject: "Exchanging information."
He told Cao Qian what he heard and saw in the morning.
Cao Qian also said: "Your intelligence is lagging behind me. I have a mother in this world who is a tin man."
"Huh? Stickman's mother is Tin Man?" Xing Ye felt that this world really couldn't be inferred by common sense.
"Who knows what that Benedict thinks," Cao Qian gritted her teeth. "I am a single-parent family. My mother raises three children. The eldest brother is a new type of tin man like the mother; the second sister is an ordinary puppet. , But it is said that she is the most beautiful girl in the city and has many suitors. Of course, I can't see how she looks good, but the aesthetics are different; I'm the third stickman, I can't carry on my shoulders, and have broken arms all day long. Legs, my mother said that all the money she earned from squeezing her feet was used to repair my body, saying that I was losing money, and forced me to go outside the city to mine raw mines this morning to support myself."
Xing Ye: "...It seems that Benedict really wants to build a paradise, a puppet city full of beauty and love. It stands to reason that you are the weakest child in the family, and you should be your mother, brothers and sisters who take extra care of their loved ones. , But when he endowed the puppets with humanity, everything developed in the opposite direction, the puppets were full of deception, and the family relationship became utilitarian."
Cao Qian: "..."
Well, at least Xing Ye's mind was not rusted due to insufficient engine oil, and his reaction speed and analytical ability were still top-notch. In this case, he can still guess the story line from the status quo, which is the only good news.
"I think the most important thing the system should seal is not your initial skills, but the brain's thinking ability." Cao Qian said.
Xing Ye heard it terribly: "You can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing. If it is really restricted by it, what should we do in the next world? Should we lie down and lose?"
Cao Qian knew that she had said something wrong, and stuck out her tongue. Her tongue was a matchbox.
Xing Ye: "You don't have any rubbing surfaces on your body? You are covered with match heads, and it ignites as soon as it heats up!"
Cao Qian's body is the main torso made up of a thick match. Various parts of the body are made up of small matches. The head is a big match head with a few woolen threads on it, like hair.
She was wearing a shabby skirt, which is why Xing Ye guessed that she might be a girl when he saw her.
In fact, Cao Qian's situation is better than Xing Ye's. She at least has a family and someone spends money on her. Although her mother always scolded her, she was at least raised, and she could be repaired if her arm was broken.
Xing Ye handed the broken arm to the big mirror to hold, and he held his chin with his left hand. He could not only hold the chin that was constantly "clicking" and "clicking", but also appear to be deep and majestic. This kind of majesty and deepness only exists in his imagination.
"Who is the one who repaired your arm?" Xing Ye asked.
"There is only one repair shop in the city, it is the old Nick's house. I heard that Master Benedict has given the puppet the ability to repair himself. He wants the puppet city to never die or suffer, so he gave half of his name to the old Nick. "Cao Qian replied, she who has family members can inquire more news than Xing Ye.
"You go home and ask your mother for money, saying that your arms were discounted and need repairs. You found the location of the repair shop and told us that you can start there." Xing Ye suggested.
Seeing Cao Qian's puzzled look, Xing Ye explained: "The narrator said, Master Benedict put his heart into a puppet body, even if it becomes a puppet, he must make Puppet City in his mind. Ideal country.
Although the mission did not require us to find Benedict, he must be an important character and we need to talk to him.
Even if Benedict is of no use in the story, you and I need him to help us change a body. This will not work. If we keep using these two bodies, it would be better to burn you to death and find another player to kill. It would be better for me to leave this world. We are the bodies that must lose now. "
Cao Qian felt that Xing Ye made sense, but she didn't understand his final logic: "You kill me and get 1000 points. If my game fails, 2050 points will be subtracted. If you are killed by someone else, your points will also be halved. , But can you make up for the 500 points you got from me?"
Xing Ye's expression remained unchanged, and he praised: "Very well, you can already see the pitfalls in my words. You no longer follow other people's orders mechanically, and make progress."
Cao Qian was not angry. The last world Xing Ye said it was possible to stabb her in the end, but in fact, when she was beaten all over by Bai Xu, Xing Ye did not give up on her, but forced Guanling to heal her.
"I understand, you are talking about the worst-case scenario." Cao Qian said, "In the last world, when the true ending was not solved, you still had the confidence to defeat the Di Kuang team, but because of insufficient points, you could not perform the initial stage. Skills. It happened that I killed Teacher Li to get 1000 points, so the worst outcome is that Di Kuang wants to kill you and me. If you face that situation, instead of letting them kill, it is better to break the boat and let you kill me to get points. Then use the redrawing pen to kill them."
Xing Ye really thought so at the time, he didn't expect Cao Qian to understand it.
Cao Qian continued: "In addition to finding Master Benedict, you should have other purposes?"
"Well, I suspect there are submissive players in Old Nick's shop."
Cao Qian blinked the matchbox eyelids, waiting for Xing Ye to explain.
"There are five obedient players in this round. The rich, powerful, skilled, and well-connected puppets in the city are likely to have obedient players," Xing Ye said.
Seeing the pitiful and tattered appearance of herself and Xing Ye, Cao Qian felt that this was too reasonable.
"Maybe your second sister is a submissive player." Xing Ye said, "The most popular female puppeteer in the city, countless puppets pursue her, and there is a hapless rebellious player by her side. specialty."
Cao Qian recalled the appearance of her second sister and felt that Xing Ye's analysis was quite correct.
"Kang Dang"! The man with the bronze mirror standing in front of them slammed his chest hard.
"What's wrong with him?" Cao Qian asked nervously, thinking someone was coming.
"It's okay, but I'm a little impatient in waiting," Xing Ye said.
He knows the mirror too well, and fully understands the current mood of the mirror. The best-looking puppet in the city can only be a bronze mirror man, definitely not a female puppet! The mirror is protesting.
Xing Ye asked: "You haven't shown your feet in this period of time, have you?"
Cao Qian: "It should be okay. The stickman usually has a low status at home and is not very talkative. We don't have many expressions. Look at my face, a big red matchstick head is close to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. The face can't move at all, what expression can it make?"
"Then watch your second sister more," Xing Ye began teaching, "your mother and brother may also be players, so you must look at the problem dialectically, and you can't just focus on your second sister. If you must allocate the attention ratio. , That is, 70% of the second sister, 17% of the mother, 13% of the elder brother, single parent with three children, difficult mothers, may be rebellious; the newest type of Tin Man itself has an advantage and may be obedient.
Observe the way each person speaks, their evaluation of other people, the attitudes of different people towards you, the impressions of other people on them, the traces of life in the home, the placement of commonly used items and the current way of using them, etc.
Life is bound to have contact with people and things. Even the twins who grew up together will have small differences, as long as they change their bodies, no matter how perfect they are, there will be signs.
Of course, you don't forget to protect yourself when observing others, such as sleeping. If you have a bed, you must determine your sleeping posture through the folds of the sheets and the degree of depression of the mattress, and disguise yourself from every detail, understand? "
Cao Qian: "...I try my best."
No wonder Xing Ye was able to quickly identify all players in the last world.
This course is a bit esoteric, she thinks it may take a long time to graduate.
After carefully teaching Cao Qian, the little stickman went home with his arms folded. Xing Ye looked at her back and said, "I hope she can find clues."
The big mirror said, "What do I need to do? I am in good health. The city gate over there seems to be about to open. Or I can go to the mine to mine and raise you. Look at my body, although I can't bend over, it's still It's very strong, but the limbs are a little rusty, but I am not afraid of fire."
Xing Ye: "The mine will definitely go, but not now. Don't worry about it for the time being. Let's take a look at it first. It's good to be able to meet Cao Qian in front of the city gate."
Although the mirror was willing to support him, Xing Ye was really worried about him.
The mirror always said that he was pro-gamer, but he looked stupid and Xing Ye was afraid that he would be bullied when he went to the mine.
Because there may be players in Cao Qian's family, they need to avoid Cao Qian's family and find a reasonable way to contact Cao Qian.
After acknowledging Cao Qian, Xing Ye once again felt how desperate the situation the system gave to rebellious players.
In the previous world, he and Cao Qian were novices, with few points, and the system did not restrict them too much, which gave Xing Ye a chance to play. In this world, the system suppressed their initial skills to death, and gave them an extremely fragile life.
The match head on Cao Qian's body is real. It is indeed made of chemicals such as potassium chlorate and manganese dioxide. The body is also a flammable matchstick. No matter how strong her abilities, a fire can kill her. The opponent thinks It is quite easy to deal with her.
And she is even more miserable. At any rate, Cao Qian still has her family to take care of, and she has not been rusted yet. Xing Ye was obviously a poor and pitiful puppet, with no money, no family, and no money for oil.
Xing Ye sat on the ground, thinking about what to do.
He told Cao Qian that murder and suicide was a joke, but he was also planning for the worst.
But surrendering is not Xing Ye's style, so let's give up without effort.
According to his understanding of the system, the system will actually give a little help to rebellious players, such as Claire's status as the most beautiful girl and the ability to make money in the previous world, but this kind of help will not be as obvious as a submissive player who needs rebelling. The person searches for and discovers by himself.
Seeing Xing Ye thinking in the mirror, he sat next to him and accompany him with a gesture of lifting his cheeks.
His body is flat, so this movement looks more like the mirror head above him with mirror legs.
Although ridiculous, the mirror finally has a body...wait!
Xing Ye looked in the mirror and found that he had overlooked one thing.
Mirrors are currently defined as props by the system. They can only change their bodies in different types of mirrors. Unlike other people, they have a body endowed by the system. It stands to reason that he can only be attached to a mirror without a soul.
Xing Ye had fallen into a misunderstanding before. He had never thought that the bronze mirror man would be alive, and only misunderstood it. But this world is different. Master Benedict has given life to the puppets. Every puppet in Puppet City is alive.
But in his home, in the pile of debris like a warehouse, there is a bronze mirror doll without a soul.
If this is analogized to the real world, it is equivalent to a corpse in the house of a poor ghost, isn't it surprising? If you change to a normal person, you will probably jump up in shock when crossing this body.
However, this is the Puppet City, and Xing Ye ignored this matter for granted.
Another important point is that Master Benedict's ideal puppet city is not dead. As long as the puppets are properly repaired, they can live forever. The body of the bronze mirror man is even stronger, why did he die at home?
If death is not true, then the Bronze Mirror has never lived, he is an unfinished body, and Master Benedict will have time to give him life in the future.
In other words, the Bronze Mirror Man is most likely a doll made by Master Benedict before his death, or a failed product that does not want to give life.
This kind of doll is in a poor ghost's house. How could this poor ghost have no secrets, or that the Bronze Mirror Man himself hides some clues.
Sure enough, all clues are hidden in the details, only to see if the player can break through the traditional thinking and find the problem.
Xing Ye hugged the mirror with his left hand, "Thank you for helping me, we will go home now!"
Mirror: "Huh? When did I help you?"