Um...why is my son's puppet in Cork's hands?" Guan Ling thought about it for a long time but still couldn't understand it.
"It's just a guess, but I don't think it's a big deal," Xing Ye said. "I'm also speculating based on the information you each have. The game world is still simpler than reality."
If it were the real world, looking for the puppet of Benedict's son would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, but the game world has already placed such obvious clues in front of the players who follow their fate, so it is of course easy to guess.
Cao Qian asked, "We can guess that Cork has the puppet of Master Benedict's son. Shouldn't the Shunming players be able to guess it too?"
Xing Ye: "They don't know that Benedict has a son, right? But they can't possibly tell you all the information. I suspect they have received something from Cork, so they are exchanging the discarded information with you."
"Could they have already taken my son's puppet and are planning to hand it over to Master Benedict?" Guan Ling said worriedly. "I'm not afraid of failure. It's only a few hundred points, so I don't mind. But if I can't get the true ending, the points I'll lose will be too much."
"Don't worry about that," Xing Ye said leisurely. "Don't we still have Randy? He's a reincarnation player. His goal isn't points at all, but the true ending. He's already contacted the two players who followed his fate, and they might even exchange information. He'll prevent this simple ending from happening."
Guan Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Cao Qian was still taking notes. After reviewing the relationship diagram and Xing Ye's analysis, she asked, "So, does the ending of the table have Master Benedict obtaining his son's puppet? The city lord loses the puppet power that held him hostage, leading Benedict to destroy Puppet City and use the resources from the mine to rebuild his ideal city? And what we have to do is help the city lord kill Master Benedict and protect the residents of Puppet City?"
Xing Ye didn't confirm or deny it, but said, "If only it were that simple. We're still lacking information, so don't worry. We'll go find Cork tomorrow, maybe we can get the answer."
He glanced at Guan Ling again and suddenly asked, "How many players who defy fate can reach the advanced world? When faced with a choice, most people tend to follow their fate, as it's easier that way."
"That's not necessarily true," Guan Ling said. "There are many people in this world who have a rebellious mentality, and we didn't know before the selection that the luck values of those who obey fate and those who go against fate would be so different. So when we first chose, the number of people on both sides shouldn't be that different."
Cao Qian also said: "The most difficult part of Ni Fate is the Novice World. Once you pass the Novice World, the Melee World is a PVE mode. Even if you can't team up long-term, you can still get points by temporarily teaming up with players who follow your fate in a single world.
If you experience more worlds and reach 50,000 points, you can become a high-level player. The number may be less than that of high-level players who follow fate, but there will still be no such thing."
"I see." Xing Ye nodded and didn't continue.
He didn't tell Guan Ling about the fate of the player who followed his fate, not because he was worried he wouldn't want to team up with him; Xing Ye didn't need one or two teammates. He just didn't want to despair before the matter was completely settled; there might still be a chance.
The next morning, after watching Randy and two players leave the city from afar, Xing Ye and the other two quickly went to look for Cork.
As the security captain's son said, Kirk is an ordinary puppet who wears a maid's outfit and sweeps the floor quietly.
Xing Ye lives in a commercial area, while this place is a residential area. It is very close to Cao Qian's home, only two houses away.
"My second sister Linda is being pursued by the city lord, Old Nick, the sheriff, and the richest man's son at the same time. This setting makes it very convenient for her to team up with other players who follow her fate. Even if they don't team up, Kirk lives near my house. As long as Linda concentrates on looking, she can find key clues." Cao Qian said.
Unfortunately, Linda was not interested in passing the test and just wanted to be a nobody.
"Hello, is this Cork?" Xing Ye and others knocked on the door.
Kirk looked up, looked at them and said, "I don't know you."
After that, he lowered his head to sweep the floor again. Xing Ye kicked Guan Ling, and Guan Ling said, "I am Old Nick's son, Little Nick."
Coker put the broom against the wall and asked, "What do you want from me?"
As expected, mentioning Old Nick proved effective. Guan Ling excitedly followed Xing Ye's instructions and said, "Dad has always wanted to help Master Benedict, but he didn't know how. Now that he's finally found the Master, he's overjoyed and wants to help him realize his wish."
"A wish granted?" Kirk laughed. "Oh, does he know what Master Benedict's wish is?"
"this..."
"Come in first." Cork opened the door and carefully looked to see if they were being followed. He let them in only after confirming that no one was there, and locked the door tightly.
When they entered Cork's house, Xing Ye and others saw a puppet about ten years old in the living room. There was a vacuum cleaner installed under his feet, which was sucking up the dust on the ground.
Guan Ling was very excited when he saw him and wanted to rush up to grab the puppet, but Xing Ye pulled him back.
"Isn't that who Old Nick is looking for?" Kirk asked. "This is the body Master Benedict made for his son. If Master Benedict has a wish, it must be to take back this puppet without a heart."
Xing Ye stopped Guan Ling from nodding and asked, "Master Benedict can create countless puppets, so why is he so restricted to this one body?"
"Because of the core," Cork replied. "If the core isn't made of human flesh and blood, it can't be fused with the heart. A puppet without a heart can never be the true Young Master. After Master Benedict built Puppet City, he used the Young Master's body to create a puppet, but before he could fuse the core with the heart, he was forced to leave Puppet City."
"So that's how it is. No wonder they can achieve a balance between each other." Guan Ling winked at Xing Ye frantically, wanting to take the puppet away.
Xing Ye nodded.
Guan Ling said, "We have found Master Benedict's whereabouts and also know where the heart is. However, because the city lord is hunting Master Benedict, he cannot enter the city and can only take the puppet out. Can you give us this puppet? We will pass it on to the master."
"Okay, as long as you can help him. I also hope that the young master can be happy sooner." Kirk said obediently.
She called the puppet over, hugged him, and said softly, "Young Master, follow your brothers to find your father. This is your destiny."
The little wooden puppet had no brains and could only follow orders from others. He walked obediently to Guan Ling.
Guan Ling was about to accept it when Xing Ye suddenly said, "If I take him to see Master Benedict, I won't even know how I died."
Kirk was stuck for a moment, and she stammered, "How, how could that be? The master will definitely thank you. He loves his son so much."
"Yeah?"
Xing Ye had been observing since he entered the room. He tapped the north wall with his fingers, stretched out his hand, and drew a QR code.
The QR code turned into a boxing glove, which was a replica of the "Fist of Light" that Cao Qian had drawn. Cao Qian put on the glove and punched hard, breaking the wall.
Behind the wall was a dark room filled with countless puppets that looked exactly like Pinocchio. They were thrown into a corner like discarded dolls, gathering dust.
"You're quite clever," Xing Ye said to Cork. "Whenever someone comes looking for Benedict's son, you give him a puppet. This person bringing a fake puppet to Master Benedict will only anger him and is essentially courting death."
Cork said expressionlessly, "I don't know what you are talking about. My mission is to deliver the body that the master made for his son to someone who wants to help the master."
Guan Ling was dumbfounded when he saw the piles of puppets. If it were him, he would have foolishly taken the little puppet outside away. He never expected that this seemingly docile puppet was also full of lies!
"You can't completely trust what every puppet in Puppet City says. They can lie." Xing Ye reminded Guan Ling.
There is no free lunch in the world. How could Benny's son's body, an important prop in the Puppet City world, be found so easily?
"Those two obedient players yesterday were able to tell us the information so easily. Could it be that they thought that since they had found Pinocchio, the information from Kirk was no longer important?" Cao Qian asked.
"It should be."
Guan Ling: "That Cork is actually a cover. Her mission is to wholesale Pinocchio puppets. Are the real Pinocchio puppets somewhere else?"
"That's not necessarily true," Xing Ye said, looking at the dusty pile of puppets. "The most dangerous place is often the safest place."