Guan Ling didn't understand why Xing Ye asked him why he chose his faction. He continued happily, "Boss, besides finding the QR code, I also discovered two players who followed my fate, and a big secret!"
The other two players who followed the destiny were found? Guan Ling was really efficient. Xing Ye didn't quite trust him, but having a destiny in the team was indeed very convenient. No wonder Di Kuang wanted to collect so many destiny teammates.
Xing Ye wrote down the QR code and handed it to Guan Ling, saying, "Distribute it yourself."
"Huh?" Guan Ling said, "Boss, you know my initial skills. Leaving a QR code is just a waste."
Xing Ye: "As the name suggests, 'Bankruptcy' is a skill you should only use when absolutely necessary. You can't treat it as a regular skill. If you think of it that way, then your role will only be a defensive tool, and you will never be able to cooperate with your teammates in battle."
Ever since Guan Ling learned his initial skills, he'd happily considered himself a nurse, a position of high status and security. Even before teaming up with Di Kuang, in the makeshift squad, he rarely used QR codes, mostly preserving his own life. Xing Ye's words completely overturned Guan Ling's previous understanding, and he couldn't help but wonder, could I, too, fight on the front lines?
Cao Qian understood his feelings and patted his shoulder: "Xing Ye is right, don't limit yourself to a box."
Cao Qian once thought that she was just a thug and a pawn, and did not actively think about problems. It was Xing Ye who slowly guided her thinking ability.
Cao Qian offered, "You keep all the QR codes. I can't take them. These are all found by you. Practice using QR codes more, and maybe you'll discover different fighting styles."
Guan Ling obediently scanned the QR code, pounded his chest, and said loudly, "Boss, I will work hard!"
"Well, work hard to become stronger." Xing Ye said calmly, "Tell me what you discovered."
Guan Ling said excitedly: "These two players who follow the fate are extraordinary. Their backgrounds are better than mine. One of them is the son of the mine owner, who is also the richest man in Puppet City, and the other is the son of the sheriff's captain. Moreover, these two wealthy and powerful players who follow the fate have been teammates for a long time and have no intention of cooperating with us. They may even fight for points.
But they didn't mind exchanging information before the final mission. Cao Qian and I discussed it and decided to exchange the intelligence from Old Nick and Master Benedict for a secret.
The sheriff's son discovered that his father secretly gave part of his monthly salary to a puppet named Cork. This puppet had no job and did not go out to the mines to mine. He hid at home all day and was completely supported by the sheriff's captain.
While listening to Guan Ling, Xing Ye drew two QR codes on paper with charcoal based on his instant memory. While Guan Ling was speaking, Xing Ye had already memorized the QR codes completely.
"Did you tell me about Benedict's son?" Xing Ye asked.
"Of course not," Guan Ling said, "We won't tell them such crucial information, but I told them the information about the mine outside the city, and they plan to go check it out tomorrow."
Xing Ye praised: "Well done."
If he did the same, he would hide the most crucial clues in exchange for the information he needed.
Xing Ye thought for a moment and said, "You players who followed your fate were very cleverly distributed, and almost everyone has grasped the key clues.
The City Lord, Old Nick, the Mine Owner, and the Sheriff are the most influential people in Puppet City. If you put all the intelligence you possess together, you can basically figure out the mission of this world."
"Really?" Guan Ling thought for a long time, but couldn't connect these messy clues together. "I only know that the city lord is a bad guy and wants to kill Benedict; Old Nick is a good man, and we need to help him."
Xing Ye recounted his experiences in Puppet City today to the two of them, concluding, "Good and evil aren't absolute, and Old Nick's words can't be completely trusted. Benedict was only concerned with making puppets, irresponsibly giving them humanity without teaching them how to behave. Even newborn babies need patient instruction from their parents, but Benedict only cared about the work, not the discipline. Finally, after realizing Puppet City wasn't as good as he'd imagined, he walked away. Do you think he was right?"
Guan Ling shook his head.
Xing Ye: "After Benedict left, the city lord stubbornly worked with the security captain to stir up this mess and turned Puppet City into the relatively orderly city you and I see now. He hates Benedict and doesn't want this irresponsible master to continue to oppress the puppets. Is he wrong?
Outside the city, we saw that Benedict controls a mine with more energy than the official mine in Puppet City. He built a laboratory in the mine and is constantly producing new puppets with extremely strong attack power. If you were the city lord, could you tolerate the existence of such an armed force with resources outside your city?
Old Nick keeps saying he respects and loves Benedict, yet he claims he's never even seen a robot. So how could he possibly have a remote control to stop it? He claims he supports whatever Benedict does, but why didn't Old Nick show any interest in following us on our two trips to the mines?
The mines are supposed to be the official property of Puppet City. Why should someone other than the city lord control the lives of the residents of Puppet City?
Xing Ye's series of questions left Guan Ling completely confused. He originally thought that he was great for coming up with the idea of exchanging information, but after listening to Xing Ye's analysis, his brain became rusty again.
Cao Qian had been drawing a relationship diagram with a pen and paper. After Xing Ye asked, she pointed at the diagram and asked, "Why doesn't the security captain have any questions?"
Xing Ye said, "There's too little information. In fact, I think the most crucial information lies with him. Tomorrow we won't go to the mines for now, but go visit Cork."
"The two players who obeyed their fate had already visited Cork, an ordinary female puppet, like a housewife, honest and well-behaved. In the end, the sheriff's son could only suspect that his father was having an affair." Guan Ling said.
"Is that so?" Xing Ye's jaw dropped, and he finally revealed a satisfied smile. "I think I understand."
"What do you understand?" Guan Ling involuntarily squeezed himself into the corner. What's the use of having a brain!
Xing Ye said, "On the surface, Benedict is a puppet who tells the truth. Many years ago, he was persecuted by the city lord and left Puppet City, but the puppet body he made for his son still remains in Puppet City. His wish should be to find his son's body and ask the player to take the puppet to the mine."
The two players who followed their fate should soon discover that Cork had been protecting Benedict's son. She was too ordinary, so ordinary that it was difficult for the city lord to find her, so she hid her son for so many years.
After helping Benedict install the heart, the players' mission will be completed, and after leaving this world, everyone will probably get... 100 or 200 points."
In the past, Guan Ling would have said, Hey, isn't this a win?
But after experiencing the true ending of the campus world and becoming rich after obtaining 2000 points, he has come to understand that 100 or 200 points are only the victory in the superficial ending, and after the victory in the superficial ending, the true ending is actually extremely terrifying.