Among the teammates on the bracelet, Lu Mingze didn't recognize anyone except Xing Ye. In fact, he didn't need to choose b. Five times the difficulty sounded scary.
But Lu Mingze thought about how he felt like there was a void in his heart for the past half month. If his teammates on the bracelet were feeling the same way as him, they would definitely feel uncomfortable, so he naturally chose to restore their memories together.
After he made his choice, the White Cube flapped its wings rapidly, and said happily, "Because the player has chosen a more difficult path to the level, this has triggered the conditions for returning the initial skills and achievement titles. Please check your phone and familiarize yourself with your skills."
There is such a good thing. Lu Mingze has also played online games. He was a little excited when he thought about trying out those cool skills himself. He quickly opened his phone and saw the skill interface on the app light up.
Player ID: x8888 (Number adds 99% luck value)
Initial skills: Magic Mirror of Truth (Eye of Truth + Eye of Impression), Alluring Beauty (upgraded ability of the Beauty Era, can trigger "Playing Tricks with Princes with Fire")
Achievement Title: Turn Misfortune into Fortune
Player Points: 15,000,000
Special ability: Teammate linkage skills
"Wait," Lu Mingze pointed at the points and said, "I counted 0 several times, but no matter how I counted, this total is 15 million. The initial skill only costs 100 points, and the achievement title doesn't consume any points. Considering the consumption level and the total number of points, this is a bit too much, right? I don't need so many points at all."
White Cube said, "There's a reason for the number of points. Players will understand once their memories are restored."
"Really?" Lu Mingze stared at the points for a moment, muttering, "I suddenly feel so rich."
After reviewing all the interfaces of the app, Lu Mingze asked, "Typically, during exams, supplementary questions are at the end and don't count towards the test paper. Not doing them won't affect your overall score, but doing them will increase your score. This level is called the Supplementary Level. Does that mean there were a lot of questions before it, and I've already completed them, so now I need to take the Supplementary Level for extra points?"
White Cube said: "The player is right."
Lu Mingze said, "So the names on the bracelets are all my former teammates. We went through a level together and lost our memories together... an exam that requires extra points... Could it be that we are the victors? After the victory, our memories are erased, but because we won, we have a chance to recover our memories?"
White Cube was silent for a moment before saying, "Player, you are smarter than I thought."
Lu Mingze thought for a moment and said, "You're smarter than I thought... I thought the NPC who challenged me before was you too. But the fact that you used the word 'imagination' means you haven't had direct contact with me before. Your understanding of me is based on what others have said about me... It's the impression formed in your mind... probably in your Rubik's Cube."
White Rubik's Cube: "..."
"So, I participated in the game and won, but the impression I left on the previous NPC was that I was not very smart. Since I am the winner, why don't I get very good reviews? Is it because I was not the one who made the main effort when we played the game?" Lu Mingze asked with a frown.
White Cube: "...Player, your words have changed my opinion of you."
"I find it strange, too," Lu Mingze shook his head. "Normally, I don't think about things so... logically. I've been able to guess a lot of things in the past, but most of them were without reason, mostly based on intuition. But this time, my thinking is so logical, like a science student, even though I'm a liberal arts student."
White Cube's voice softened slightly: "Maybe it's because the memories will disappear, but the changes that have occurred will not disappear."
"Did I learn this analytical ability from previous games?"
Lu Mingze tried hard to recall, and it seemed as if someone was constantly saying something to him deep in his memory. He could not remember what the person said, but he seemed to still remember that very warm feeling.
"The world is now generated based on the player's choice." said the White Cube. It flapped its little wings and turned in the air. Lu Mingze looked up and waited.
The White Cube tapped Lu Mingze's phone with its wings, and the phone interface began to flash continuously, finally freezing on a QR code. Lu Mingze took a screenshot and imported it into the app for recognition, and obtained the generated world.
Game Name: The Enthusiastic Little Prince
Game type: Business
Player Character: The Little Prince
Winning method: Achieve the goal
Winning Rewards: After winning, the player and his teammates will be rewarded with memories. There is no penalty for failure.
It's a management game. It sounds fun. It doesn't feel like it has five times the difficulty. Are the tasks to be completed very difficult?
Lu Mingze thought as he clicked to enter the game. After decomposing and reorganizing again, he came to a city that looked very desolate.
This world seems to be unsuitable for using mobile phones. Lu Mingze's mobile phone disappeared, replaced by a pure white bracelet on his other hand, and a voice appeared in his mind.
Next to it: "This is a deserted city. Everyone in the city seems to have their own troubles. There has been no output here for years, which has seriously affected the country's tax revenue. The king sent the prince who is about to inherit the throne to deal with the city's problems as a test for him."
"Hmm... According to the narrator's suggestion, we should let him revitalize the city and restore tax revenue." Lu Mingze thought.
The city is so desolate that it is unimaginable, with ruins everywhere. I don't know where the people here live. Do they live in the ruins?
Lu Mingze was standing in the middle of the city, which was a huge square. The area of the square showed that there must have been a lot of people in this city in the past.
In the center of the square was a tattered statue with no visible face at all. There was a huge hole in the chest of the statue, and it was unknown who had hollowed it out.
Behind the square seems to be the office building of the city's highest administrative chief. It should have four floors, but it is now dilapidated.
Lu Mingze looked around but didn't see anyone. He couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Narrator, I'm a prince who is about to inherit the throne. Why don't I have subordinates? This world is set in the West, right? Why doesn't it have an all-powerful butler?
"And I don't even have a carriage. How did I get to this city? Airdrop?"
Lu Mingze thinks in a more intuitive way and is a curious baby. He will directly ask questions when he has them. A series of questions caused the bracelet to completely freeze, the narration was completely muted, and the bracelet could only show that the task progress was 06.
"Progress means that I have to complete the construction of six key areas? Then you should at least give me a map? Do I have to find the NPC who issues the task myself?" Lu Mingze raised his left wrist and said to the bracelet.
The bracelet pretended to be dead, so Lu Mingze slapped it hard and said, "Don't you have any logic or rationality at all?"
After filming for a long time, the narrator finally uttered a sentence: "Every unreasonable factor in the story has a reason, which the player needs to find on his own. The difficulty of this world is five times that of restoring only the player's memory, so it is impossible to provide the player with too much information. The world is dangerous, players should be cautious. Farewell."
Lu Mingze: "…"
Goodbye, that's quite polite, isn't it?
The system could no longer be relied upon. Lu Mingze touched his chin and made his first decision - he wanted to see how he looked in this world!
It can be seen that his clothes are very gorgeous. The small hat is inlaid with gems, and there is a jewel-inlaid sword at his waist. In this city that looks very poor at first glance, his attire is equivalent to saying "Come and rob me" all over his body.
He should have changed into ordinary clothes, but the prince didn't even have any luggage. It was as if he was teleported into the city out of thin air. It was so strange.
Lu Mingze drew out his only weapon and tried to see his face through the reflection of the sword, but he failed. This was a Western fencing sword, which was too thin and could not reflect the human face at all.
The prince didn't have a mirror with him and was unhappy because he couldn't see his face.
Lu Mingze placed a handkerchief on the base of the statue, sat down next to it, patted it, and said, "Hey, can someone give me a mirror?"
Then something fell from the statue, which turned out to be an ordinary bronze mirror.
Lu Mingze: "???"
Why did the mirror fall off the statue? He stood up and looked up at the statue. He found that if he stood on the statue's base, he and the statue were about the same height and had a similar body shape. Although the statue was so worn that its appearance could not be seen, its facial shape was very similar to Lu Mingze's.
Lu Mingze looked in the mirror and saw that the face in the mirror was exactly the same as his own, perfect. He smiled happily and patted the statue and said, "Thank you."
You're welcome. A voice echoed in... Lu Mingze's mind?
It's not a sound that comes from reality, it's a sound that appears directly in the mind.
Lu Mingze was inexplicably excited when he heard the sound. He saw that the statue was extremely dirty. Looking at the chin that was shaped exactly like his own, Lu Mingze could not bear it any longer. He said to the statue, "I want to help you clean it. Do you know where I can get some clean water?"
He held up his handkerchief and said, "It can't be wiped clean without water."
"There is a well behind the City Lord's Mansion. The water in the well is clean and can be drunk." The voice in my mind said again.
"The well...is it the kind that's hand-cranked and needs a bucket to carry water?" Lu Mingze asked. "Is there a bucket next to the well?"
"There is no bucket, but you can take off my legs and fill them with water. My legs are empty inside," said the statue.
Lu Mingze: "...How can that be? You're still relatively intact now. If you take off your legs, you'll be completely mutilated. I'm cleaning the statue to make you feel more comfortable. Taking off the legs would be putting the cart before the horse."
He touched his small, golden and heavy crown, took it off and looked at it, and said happily: "This crown can actually hold water. You don't need to put too much in it. If it's too heavy, I can't lift it."
The statue asked somewhat melancholy, "That is your crown, the symbol of your glory."
"But crowns, glory, power—these things only have meaning when there are subordinates and people around them, right?" Lu Mingze said. "There's no one here. I'm a bald prince without even a butler. Facing a city in ruins, does a crown still have any meaning?"
The statue was silent.
Lu Mingze continued holding the crown and said, "But you gave me the mirror, talked to me, and told me where I could find clean water to drink. So, if I use the crown to hold water and wipe your body, isn't that returning the favor? I'll go get some water."
"Wait a moment," the statue said, "throw away the mirror. It is cursed. I will give it to you. After you look into it three times, we will exchange bodies. You will become the statue and I will become the prince."
Lu Mingze: "…"
It turns out that this world is really dangerous!