Elf Archer of Life in Another World

The bright moon was in the sky, and when Nian Nian arrived at the location of the original temple, he saw Qi Youfeng standing alone by the lake, lost in thought.

The diameter of the hole formed by the collapse of this temple was larger than what they had seen before. Nian Nian stopped directly on top of it in mid-air, staring at the caves with some water remaining below, speechless for a long time.

The water was gone, but the pit was still there, and the pit seemed to be expanding. Qi Youfeng stood a few meters away and did not approach the edge of the pit where soil debris was constantly sliding down.

"Brother Feng?" Niannian came down to his side, raised his hand and waved it in front of him.

"Why are you here?" Qi Youfeng looked at her and twitched the corner of his mouth.

He circled around him every year, which made Qi Youfeng smile helplessly and said: "Stop spinning, think about what to do next."

"What suggestions do you have?" Nian Nian stopped in front of him and raised his head and asked.

Qi Youfeng hesitated for a few seconds and asked tentatively: "How about we leave directly?"

Nian Nian turned around and looked at the mudflat-like Mulit Lake, and then went to the edge of the pit and listened carefully.

Silence.

You can't hear the clear waves of the lake when the breeze blows by, nor can you hear the roar of the underground river. The silence is like a sharp cone, reminding every year that this place is just a desert that has lost all life.

"I want to go down and have a look. There should be some people staying here. I don't know how they are doing."

Nian Nian remembered that those old men left a lot of guards. She also knew that these people had little hope of survival. She just wanted to go down and see the current situation of the underground river with her own eyes, and then verify the location and cause of the big hole at the bottom of the lake.

"I saw it, what next?" Qi Youfeng walked up to her and asked.

"I have seen that the water source of Lake Mulit is several small underground rivers. After repairing the big hole at the bottom of the lake, it should be possible to re-grow a small lake..." The more he talks, the less confident he is.

, and finally let out a sigh.

Even if the big hole can be repaired, even if a small lake can be successfully built, such a small amount of water cannot support the consumption of the entire city. This Hawarizhe city is destined to decline.

"You have no way to solve this situation. It's better for us to leave directly. I'm worried that people in the city will do some irrational things because of this." Qi Youfeng advised.

He is not worried about Nian Nian's safety, he is worried that Nian Nian will see some not-so-pleasant scenes, making it more difficult for her to leave behind this title that does not belong to her and the responsibilities that come with it.

The anxiety and thoughts on Nian Nian's face were too clear. Not to mention letting her see any cruel scenes, Qi Youfeng estimated that as long as Nian Nian returned to the city, there was a high probability that she would not leave.

"At least we have to figure out how this happened. We can't blame God Hu for everything, right?"

Sighing every year. Once the locals associate the disappearance of Lake Mulit with the Hu God, there will inevitably be a guilty person identified. No matter whether this person is really a bad person or not, she or he will probably die without a complete body.

Like that innocent old man.

She had no way to clear her old man's name, so her last effort was just to make some compensation, and she hoped that such a small amount of hatred could turn into doubts and eventually shake the foundation of this city.

However, at this moment, this city is about to be uprooted, but it is not happy at all every year.

Is it really because she elected an unsuitable person as king that this big lake suddenly disappeared?

Is it really because she successfully impersonated God Hu's prophet that the city suffered disaster?

Qi Youfeng looked at Nian Nian who blamed himself, smiled bitterly to himself, took Nian Nian's hand and rubbed her hair.

"It's not your fault, it's my fault. It was me who destroyed the mechanism in the temple and the lake drained away."

.....

Although he was mentally prepared, when Simil told Qi Youfeng exactly this, he was still a little unbelievable.

When he noticed someone approaching at the lakeside, the one who stepped under his blade was Simil who finally caught up with the caravan.

After seeing the face of the visitor clearly, Qi Youfeng did not retract his sword. Instead, he pushed it forward. After hitting a layer of transparent light shield, he slipped and walked sideways behind Simil. The scimitar slashed on the golden shield.

Two ripples appeared.

"Don't waste your efforts. If we're one on one, you can't defeat me." Simil turned around and faced Qi Youfeng who was sheathing his sword, and smiled politely.

"What do you want to do again?" Qi Youfeng took two steps back, alert while opening the unfinished message.

"You'd better not tell her I'm here." Simil saw through his intentions at a glance and reminded calmly, "You don't want to see her cowering and nervous, right?"

Qi Youfeng clenched his fists and raised his eyes to look at her: "Do you still know how to take care of her mood?"

Simil spread his hands: "Friend, I am taking care of your mood."

Qi Youfeng turned around and walked away, setting an example by showing his disdain for the word "friend".

"A good city was destroyed like this. This responsibility is not small. Sure enough, we cannot let these data personalities run wild in the game. We need to regulate it." Simil seemed to be talking to himself, but the volume was just controlled.

The range received by Qi Youfeng.

Qi Youfeng stopped and looked back: "What happened here has nothing to do with her."

"Really?" Simil smiled.

"Really." Qi Youfeng turned around and also smiled.

He knew that Simil was a living person in the skin of an NPC, but he was not sure what kind of power this person had. A data personality like Niannian with extremely high intelligence and autonomy must be special, and Qi Youfeng did not

I don’t think an ordinary employee of a game company can decide “life or death” every year.

"Then why don't you explain it." Simil looked sideways at the hole formed after the temple collapsed, "How did this temple and this bell fall, how was this underground river discovered, and how did the underground temple

How was it discovered?"

The underground temple is a forbidden area and is temporarily inaccessible to players. Just in case, a certain defense mechanism is also designed in the temple. After receiving the consciousness data scan of a specific location, NPCs and players trigger triggers that match the location.

Different attack effects set in the background. After all, NPCs are crazy if they are crazy, and driving players crazy is too much. Plot scenes like this that were designed relatively late in the game try to be considerate of the player's mental state to avoid something else happening again.

Stress disorder.

But there is an alien like Nian Nian in the game, and there is also Albert who has been tracking Nian Nian's movement data. After realizing that her coordinates in the game have moved to an interesting place, he decides not to let anything go.

In the spirit of opportunity, I slightly modified the parameters of the temple building and exposed the underground caves.

Of course, he knew that doing so would trigger a series of linkage reactions, but fortunately, Khawarizhe City was relatively independent. At worst, he could just "refresh" the place afterwards.

Albert has always maintained a "it depends on the situation" mentality when it comes to external interference, so he didn't object when Simil asked him to modify NPC data, and later he was very active when he asked the staff to leak the information. In his opinion,

, the existence of players is the largest external interference, and it is also the most uncontrollable interference, so people like Albert also need some tough corrections in addition to necessary guidance.

Originally, Simil had the same idea, otherwise he would not have been soft-hearted at that time and modified Yu Tao's data in order to take care of Nian Nian's mood. But after that, Simil gradually developed some strange feelings in Albert's eyes.

"Territorial awareness", the definition of the words "external interference"

It is also becoming more and more broad. For example, regarding world tasks, whether they want to open trade routes smoothly or hinder caravans from traveling, they only need to modify the difficulty of tasks along the sea and land trade routes, but Simir insists on using it himself.

The solutions in the game simply increase the chaos in the game world.

They would rather mobilize uncontrollable players to adapt to the data than simply modify the data to cater to the players. This actually deviates from their original intention of building this virtual world to a certain extent.

Human consciousness and data reality should influence each other, adjust each other and complete each other. This is the concept of people outside Albert's "world".

This was originally Simil's idea.

Albert vaguely felt that Simil was actually thinking about the problem from the opposite side of the players, but what made him feel even more uneasy was that Simil seemed to be thinking from the opposite side of the NPC. They were still friends, but Albert

Occasionally, I would also speculate whether Simil's refusal to allow him to modify relevant data externally was actually rejecting him, an "outsider", from invading his world, even though he was the only one who existed in this world.

These two comrades who once worked hard for the same goal seemed to have walked on two parallel lines that would never intersect.

Therefore, Albert hoped more than anyone in the world that the mind uploading project would have a second successful case. To this end, he did not hesitate to deceive his best friends and also betrayed some of the ethics of being a scientific researcher. However,

He still failed to succeed for the time being, and for those experiments that took time to verify the results, he could not make them public before the success was completely confirmed, and he did not want to disappoint Simir.

Therefore, Albert paid unprecedented attention to the existence of Nian Nian. This extremely real data personality may not be what Simil wanted, but Albert could transform it into what he wanted, or in other words, make Simil

Mir thought it was what he wanted.

Unfortunately, Nian Nian's data is well protected. The activity data he can mobilize can only restore its action trajectory and interpersonal interactions in the game over the past few years, but cannot directly read its content (thoughts). Nian Nian

The permission to modify the underlying data in 2017 also prevented him from acting forcefully. He could only monitor closely while looking for suitable opportunities to try to capture some useful information.

In the end, he really caught some clues.

In the underground temple, Nian Nian's consciousness data was briefly read out. Although Firewall Frankenstein immediately intervened and cleared all traces, some data fragments were still intercepted by Albert.

If the memories of that time are holographic images, then what Albert intercepted are some fragmented texts. Some fragments can be restored to color data, some fragments can be restored to material information, and some relatively complete texts can be restored to

Sentences of meaning. Overall, these are just a few unrelated pieces of a puzzle, and the complete puzzle is actually composed of ten thousand pieces.

But there are always some extremely important among these ten thousand fragments, such as the two fragments intercepted by Albert: "Pascal" and "The World".

This data personality is indeed related to Pascal who committed suicide, and "that world" refers to this game world? Or another real world? No matter which one it is, the appearance of the pronoun "that" indicates that this part of consciousness is related to the two worlds.

Related, and among the various fields around the world, the only virtual reality that can be called a "world" and related to Pascal is the game world they are operating.

Inspired by these two pieces of the puzzle, Albert immediately devoted himself to digging into Pascal's interpersonal relationships during his lifetime, especially the interpersonal relationships two years before his suicide, because this was the time when the game world began to officially allow external access.

As for what happened next in Khawarizhe City, Albert didn't care at all. The scanned data will be marked and summarized at the same time, and no more information can be read here.

Albert will not tell Simil what he has done. After all, his interference in the game world this time is really too much. In addition to causing the temple to collapse into a big hole, he also has to ensure that the NPC named Hu Shen does not

It will cause trouble in the middle, although the appearance of this NPC is random.

After arriving in Khawarizhe City, Simil, who was kept in the dark, first learned about what happened in the past two days from the people in the city, and then directly identified the suspect after seeing the pothole.

Except for Nian Nian, no one else has this kind of destructive power, right?

What he didn't expect was that Qi Youfeng actually explained the whole incident in detail, and also confessed that he had dug the bottom of the small pool in the underground temple, and every year

"Nian Nian has not done any illegal or unreasonable actions, and nothing that happened here has anything to do with her." Qi Youfeng concluded with this, and the lakeside became quiet again.

Simil had to admit that if Qi Youfeng hadn't lied, things here really had nothing to do with Nian Nian.

Her goal was simple: to rehabilitate sinners. In the process of achieving this goal, she did two major things: wounding King Hassan VI, and running to the temple to ring the bell in an attempt to make the god Hu appear.

The former was used by Song Qing, and the latter... It was expected that the bell was broken by her. And she happened to be bumped into by the team that was selecting the new king, and was mistaken for a prophet. At this time, she happened to be the king of the city.

Kong Xuan, the influence of her prophet was amplified... And if it weren't for the NPC guards to compare, Qi Youfeng would not have discovered the differential treatment of this defense mechanism, and would not have thought of sabotaging it...

..After sorting it out, it seems that the reason is that the player named Song Qing killed the king?

"Songqing's destructive power seems to be much greater than every year. Do you want to regulate it?" Qi Youfeng suggested sarcastically.

"If she hadn't rung the bell, Songqing wouldn't have had the chance to kill the king; if she hadn't collapsed the temple, the subsequent series of things wouldn't have happened." Simil replied calmly.

"She didn't ask Song Qing to kill the king, nor did she intend to destroy the temple. Later, she didn't take the initiative to declare herself a prophet." Qi Youfeng calmly confronted.

"Even if it is unintentional, she is the cause of everything."

Before Qi Youfeng could refute, Simil smiled softly and asked:

"I just want to ask you, was she the one who handed the package of gold leaves to the innocent old man in the first place and then deceived him that they were tobacco leaves?"

"Give her the paper bag. The person who taught her to say this was Song Qing, and no one at the scene had any intention of harming others." Qi Youfeng remained unmoved.

"Then she is always the one who breaks into the palace and makes trouble in the temple, right?"

"This is because she has different ideas from the people here, and because she is kind."

"Kindness?" Simil suddenly laughed out loud, "Do you really think she will have this quality?"

"Of course." Qi Youfeng answered calmly.

"Then why did you still chip away at the word on the bottom of the pool?" Simil asked with interest.

"I know what you want to say." Qi Youfeng paused, as if he thought he should explain more, and then said, "Her actions conform to my definition of kindness, then she is kind to me."

"You..." Simil was stunned, looked at Qi Youfeng's expression carefully, and shook his head, "You are deceiving yourself."

Qi Youfeng was noncommittal and raised the knife in his hand again, pointing at Simil:

"Why do you have to put the responsibility on Nian Nian?"

"Because I have a solution to this lake's problem."