On the way to the gold shop, the wordless book in Lu Mingze's arms trembled slightly. He took out the book and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Wordless Book: It's nothing, I have a guess, but it needs to be verified, I'll tell you when the time comes.
Lu Mingze: "…"
He stared at the line of words, feeling that the sentence was strangely familiar, as if he had heard it countless times.
Cao Qian, Guan Ling, and Qian Jinlai also came over and saw this sentence. The three of them looked at each other and said in unison: "Isn't this sentence too familiar?"
Four people: "..."
"My bracelets correspond to my former teammates," Lu Mingze said, holding up his own bracelet. "This wordless book is the bracelet that corresponds to Xing Ye, so I think it's normal for everyone to be familiar with him."
"But the fact that the four of them are so familiar with each other is a problem, and Xing Ye seems to know a lot of things. Could he be the only one among us who has memories? It is precisely because he has memories that the game turned him into a prop to prevent him from telling us what happened?" Cao Qian guessed.
"If that's the case, he must feel very uncomfortable when he remembers everyone and no one remembers him." Lu Mingze touched his chest and recalled Xing Ye's eyes, feeling a little distressed.
Oh no, could he really be moved?
As Lu Mingze thought about this, his intimacy with the props quietly rose to 60.
A few people walked to the door of the gold shop with a faint sense of familiarity in their hearts. The gold shop originally had three floors, but now it was destroyed and only one floor remained. Lu Mingze and others walked in and saw that the gold shop was in a mess, as if it had been robbed once.
The statue once said that the owner of the gold shop hid the gold underground, and the shadows also said that the town residents hid underground during the day and only dared to emerge at night to look for food...
It sounds like the gold shop owner is also an ordinary resident... Lu Mingze thought.
The four of them began to look for the entrance to the basement. Lu Mingze, Guan Ling and Qian Jinlai were all good at finding things. After a while, they found the mechanism under the smashed counter floor. They discovered the entrance and stairs, but they were dark and a bit scary.
As usual, Lu Mingze, holding an oil lamp, went down first, Cao Qian followed at the rear, and Guan Ling and Qian Jinlai were in the middle. After going down the stairs, everyone found that although this place was underground, it was not damp, and the walls were warm, as if someone had been keeping warm.
Qian Jinlai moved his nose and said, "It smells so good here. The owner must be a woman."
"Why is fragrance associated with women?" Cao Qian asked puzzledly, "Don't men wear perfume too?"
Qian Jinlai kicked Cao Qian and said contemptuously, "You can't even tell the difference between male and female scents. You'll be a straight man your whole life!"
Cao Qian glanced at Guan Ling and saw that he also looked puzzled. She felt a little relieved because she was not alone.
The underground space was large, and there was even a workshop. Lu Mingze felt a little embarrassed that he was trespassing. He walked in and whispered, "Hello, Mr. or Ms. Owner. I am the prince sent by the king to govern this town. I have something I need your help with. Are you there?"
No one answered in the empty basement, but Qian Jinlai found a door and whispered, "The fragrance is the strongest here. It must be the bedroom."
Lu Mingze knocked gently on the door and whispered, "Hello, I'm Prince. Is anyone here?"
There was no response from inside the door. We came here to ask for help, but it was not convenient to kick the door directly, as that would be too impolite. We could only stand stiffly in front of the door.
Lu Mingze tried to look for it, but there was no mirror inside the door. A person who always keeps the room clean and tidy by spraying nice perfume must be someone who pays attention to his appearance. How could there be no mirror?
Just when Lu Mingze was wondering, the last bracelet became hot.
It was a bracelet with the name "Yan Hebi" written on it. Judging from the name, he should be a male. Could he have a way to solve this dilemma?
Lu Mingze clapped his wristband, and a man who was 185cm tall appeared in the basement. The basement was only 1.8 meters high. Lu Mingze and Guan Ling both felt a little depressed, and Yan Hebi's head hit the ceiling directly.
"Oh, what is this place?" Yan Hebi lowered his head, covering the top of his head that was hurt from the collision and said, "It's too low, not even as tall as me."
"Who are you?" He looked at Lu Mingze and the others. "I just scanned a QR code on my computer while working overtime. How did I get here?"
Before Lu Mingze could answer this last teammate, the door that could not be opened no matter how hard he knocked opened. A woman in a long skirt opened the door. She was wearing a hat that covered half of her face, revealing her slender chin.
She was only slightly taller than Cao Qian, about 155cm. After opening the door, she ignored Lu Mingze and the others, and said to Yan Hebi, "Hello, please come in."
Four people: "..."
"Why did she open the door as soon as Yan Hebi appeared?" Qian Jinlai asked Cao Qian in a low voice.
"How should I know?" Cao Qian felt a little depressed because everyone was taller than her.
Yan Hebi was still confused, but a beautiful woman invited him to sit in her room. She lived in such a dark place and looked like she had encountered some difficulties. How could she refuse the central air conditioning? Yan Hebi looked at her face, which was slightly pale from not seeing the sun for a long time, and nodded unconsciously. "Okay, thank you."
"The door is a bit low. You are tall, so lower your head a little." said the woman. She even reached out and naturally put her arm around Yan Hebi's arm.
Lu Mingze and others: "..."
Why does the entire game's visual style change when Yan and Bi appear? It's a dark basement, but the background seems to turn pink.
"We are Yan Hebi's teammates, so can we go in?" Lu Mingze asked quickly when he saw the woman walking in with Yan Hebi's arm in arm and seemed to be ignoring them.
"If you are a friend, then come in." The woman said in a very pleasant voice.
Lu Mingze touched his nose. This was the first time he lost to another man in front of the opposite sex. How was this possible?
The women's bedroom was very large, and several people didn't feel crowded after entering. The only difference was that the wall was a bit high. However, he sat on a chair, so as long as he didn't stand up, it was fine.
"Hello, my name is Yan Hebi. What is your name? Where is this place?" Yan Hebi asked.
Lu Mingze grabbed Yan Hebi and said to the woman, "I am the prince sent by the king to build the city. The statue of the Son of God told me that you have his golden armor here."
He briefly recounted his experiences after coming here. Meanwhile, on the other side, Cao Qian and Qian Jinlai grabbed Yan Hebi, showed him the bracelet, and briefly explained the game, one day, completing the task, and restoring memory.
When Yan Hebi heard Cao Qian and the others talking about amnesia, he nodded and said, "Come to think of it, I've been having dreams a lot lately. I dreamed of a woman whose face I couldn't see clearly. She was very cool and handsome in the dream. I..."
"Is this woman your sweetheart?" After hearing Lu Mingze's words, the woman ignored the beloved little prince, but handed Yan Hebi a cup of black tea and asked gently.
Lu Mingze: "…"
He had already been thwarted twice in a row. What was going on with Yan Hebi? What were his abilities?
"I don't know either," Yan Hebi took the tea, thanked him softly, and then said naturally, "It's just that in my dream, she was very far away from me, and I couldn't touch her."
He lowered his eyes and said sadly, "I always feel that she and I have an unforgettable past, but I can't remember it. The reason I scanned that QR code that looked suspicious was because my intuition told me that this was the only way for me to find her."
"You love her very much." The woman whose face could not be seen showed a complicated smile.
"I don't know," Yan Hebi shook his head. "I can't tell whether it's love or respect, but I don't want to forget her. I hope to regain my memory. This..."
"Call me Yuna," the woman said, "I understand how you feel, loving someone who is completely unattainable."
Yuna smiled bitterly as she spoke. She raised her slender fingertips, took off her hat, and revealed the upper half of her face in the dim light of the oil lamp.
When everyone saw this face, they gasped in fear. Yuna smiled wryly and asked, "It's scary, isn't it?"
"A little..." Yan Hebi said honestly, "Your eyes..."
Yuna's eyes are two huge holes. She was not born blind, but someone dug out her eyes.
No wonder she didn't have a mirror in her room, because she didn't need one. No wonder she had no interest in Lu Mingze's face, because she couldn't see it at all.
"This is my sin," Yuna said calmly. "I saw things I shouldn't have seen. My eyes were invaded by demonic energy. In order to survive, in order not to lose my mind like those bandits, I dug out my eyes."
She spoke of such a horrific thing so calmly.
Lu Mingze sighed, "You are so brave."
"That's very pleasant," Yuna found a piece of white cloth and covered her eyes to prevent her appearance from frightening everyone. "But I don't like short men. Your name is Yan Hebi? Repeat what he just said."
Lu Mingze: "…"
He remembered that no matter how much they knocked on the door before, Yuna hadn't shown any interest. But when Yan Hebi had just arrived in this world and his head hit the ceiling, causing him to scream in pain, Yuna immediately opened the door. Did she know Yan Hebi's height from his voice?
"I'm not short!" Lu Mingze said angrily.
Yuna pinched Lu Mingze's face and said with a smile, "You sound about the same height as the Son of God statue, and you're still a boy."
Lu Mingze, who is 175cm tall, was furious.
At this moment, the wordless book moved. Lu Mingze opened it and, after reading the words in the light of the oil lamp, he suddenly realized, "You...could you have fallen in love with that wicked city lord?"
Yuna paused slightly, her voice becoming serious: "How did you know?"
Lu Mingze didn't know that this was Xing Ye's reminder to him.
However, after Xing Ye reminded him, he thought of some details and said, "I've seen the portrait on the wall of the City Lord's Mansion. I know that the previous City Lord was a young and handsome nobleman. He was tall and had long legs. He looked very charming, but he was not a good lord."
Yuna said, "I know, but women in love are foolish. I was deceived by him. He doesn't love me at all. He just knew that I made the golden armor of the Son of God with my own hands, and he thought I knew how to become a god, so he pretended to love me."
Lu Mingze asked, "Did your eyes... become tainted by demonic energy after you saw them sharing the diamond heart?"