Chapter 35 The Candy House in the Fairy Tale

After killing Bing Fist, the only thing left is to find the magic pastry chef. However, although Bing Fist already roughly knew that the magic pastry chef is nearby, there is no specific location, so it may take some effort to find it. ()

The best way to know the specific location of the Magic Pastry Chef is of course not to find it yourself, but to ask someone. Although the hiding place of the magic pastry chef is a secret matter, and it is impossible for others to know the specific location of the magic pastry chef, since this place is a gathering area for players, there are naturally many people. It is difficult to hide a secret when there are many people. Maybe no one knows the specific hiding place of the magic pastry chef, but there must be many people who know some clues, but because they don't know what the information represents, no one cares. However, as long as I can collect this messy information and sift through it, I will soon be able to find some clues to the magic pastry chef.

First of all, the magic pastry chef will never be in a densely populated area, so there is no need to look for it in the main area of ​​​​the leveling area. That kind of place has been dug up for a long time. If there is a secret, it will definitely be discovered, so I I directly found a few players who were leveling here and planned to ask if there were any inaccessible or hidden places nearby. Anyway, as long as it was an unknown area, it might be a target.

"Unknown area?" Several players I asked looked at each other, and then shook their heads in unison. One of the guys said aloud: "The Fairy Tale Forest is also a world-famous scenic spot and a leveling place. Of course there are unknown areas, but they are all deep in the Fairy Tale Forest."

"Fairytale forest?"

"You haven't heard of it?" The other party was obviously surprised.

I shook my head and said: "I heard it before, but I didn't expect to be in this position. Um. May I ask where we are now?"

"scope?"

"That's the approximate location."

"In terms of location, we should be on the border between France and Belgium. After all, the Fairy Tale Forest and the Black Forest are connected, but most of the candy houses in the fairy tale in the Black Forest Chapter 35 are in Germany. The Fairy Tale Forest Most of the forest is in France. However, our current location is deeper into the Fairy Tale Forest. Because there is a medium-sized town nearby with a teleportation array inside, so everyone enters the Fairy Tale Forest through here to level up."

I nodded and said, "Then, can you tell me what the depths of the Fairy Tale Forest, those unknown areas, specifically include?"

"If you ask us to tell you this, we can't explain it clearly."

I handed over a map directly, and the other person was obviously surprised when he saw it. Then he quickly reacted and started marking several areas on the map. These places are not connected together, but are divided into pieces, most of which are in France and a small amount in Belgium. Some of them are distributed in Germany, Switzerland and even Italy. From this, we can see that the Fairy Tale Forest is actually very large, spanning several countries. Of course, it is still slightly smaller compared to the Black Forest. It's just that the Black Forest has a distribution range close to an oval, which doesn't look big, but is actually quite large, while the Fairy Tale Forest is long and strip-shaped. At first glance, the coverage area seems large, but in fact the total area is not exaggerated.

Originally, I had the rough coordinates and planned to go take a look. But after thinking about it, I asked casually. "Um... I wonder if you have ever heard of anyone around here who can make candies with properties?"

"Candy with properties?" Several people were stunned for a moment, and then started to think. After most of them shook their heads and said they didn't know, a player suddenly stood up and said: "There is indeed such a dessert with special effects, but that thing is not something that players can collect, right?"

"Really?" I just asked casually, but I didn't expect that someone actually knew.

The other party seemed unsure and said: "I don't know if the place you are looking for is the place I know, but there is really a kind of dessert with special properties over there. I have seen it before. A player accidentally got it."

"Trapped?" I always thought that the magic pastry chef was an NPC in the wild. After all, it is very difficult to restrict the player's personal freedom. But according to this player's introduction, it seems that the other party also attacks other players. In this way, the other party Isn't it a wild NPC, but... a monster?

Sure enough, the player said aloud: "I wonder if you have ever heard of a fairy tale called "Candy House"?"

"Candy house?" I read along for a while, and then suddenly it dawned on me. "You're not talking about the little house that the old witch made out of candy, are you? I seem to remember that two children ate part of the building materials of the candy house, and then they were bewitched and locked up by the old witch. The witch feeds the two children chicken drumsticks every day and plans to eat them when they get fat, right?"

The player nodded and said: "This is a world-famous fairy tale. It has been adapted into many versions. What you said is slightly different from the original work, but it is basically like this. However, you know why the forest we are in now is called the Fairy Tale Forest. ?"

"Could it be...?"

"Yes, this forest contains the plot content of almost all the famous fairy tales in the world, and each fairy tale comes with a small map-like dungeon area. The story of the Candy House also has a corresponding dungeon area here."

After hearing this player's explanation, I seemed to have thought of something. Since the old witch in the candy house made a house out of candy, can she be considered a pastry chef? Moreover, the candy house in the fairy tale itself is magical, that is to say, it is actually a magic dessert. So, if you put it this way...could it be that the magic dessert chef I'm looking for is actually a boss-level monster here? I'm dizzy. How on earth did that bastard Bing Fist get the boss to provide him with magical desserts? Among the bosses that have appeared around the world so far, apart from showing some preferential treatment to players who are perfectly coordinated with their own attributes, such as not taking the initiative to attack, I have never heard of any boss that will cooperate with players. certainly. I have indeed done similar things, but that was due to the two-way effect of my coercion and charm attributes. Besides, the bosses I worked with were all of the dark type, and their attributes fit well with mine. Therefore, the initial value of favorability is very high. But the Ice Fist guy doesn’t seem to have similar abilities, right?

Although I couldn't figure it out, I decided to go and see the old witch who could make candy first. Anyway, this boss setting is very close to the characteristics of a magical pastry chef, so there is a high possibility that the old witch is the so-called Magic pastry chef. Of course, if the old witch is really a magic dessert chef, then how to get her to provide me with magic desserts will probably be a very difficult task, because no matter how I look at it, the old witch who can make candy doesn't look like that. The existence of darkness, in this case. My affinity and coercion attributes alone may not be enough to convince them. Of course, I don’t need to worry about this for the time being. Whether I can finally control this boss will have to wait until I confirm whether the other party is the magic pastry chef.

"Thank you for your help. This is a small thank you gift." I casually pulled out a bow from the wind dragon space and handed it over, and then asked: "Finally, please tell me how to find the candy house."

After the other party generously took the longbow, he helped me mark a circle on the previous map. Obviously, this candy house is next to one of the unexplored areas. However, luckily this place is not too far from here. Of course, this just proves my previous guess. The Ice Fist guy doesn't need to teleport the formation but has to work hard to drill into the tunnel. The purpose is to find the magic pastry chef. At that time, I guessed that this place must be close to the residence of the magic pastry chef, otherwise Bingquan would never come all the way to a place like this. Now that I see that the candy house is so close to here, it further confirms my previous guess.

After bidding farewell to those players, I immediately started heading towards the candy house marked on the map. Along the way, I could see many player teams leveling up. But the larger number is the tourist group.

"Zero" is not a simple fighting game. Such a high number of players is not because everyone likes to fight and kill. The reason why "Zero" has so many players. The biggest reason is its compatibility, rather than the perfection of the combat system. No matter how good the combat system is, it can only attract players who like combat. But there are some things that can attract anyone, such as travel systems and sleep assistance systems.

The world in "Zero" is very beautiful. Not only does it have natural wonders in reality, but it also adds many dream scenes from mythology. Moreover, the mythology system itself is based on mythological stories from various places in reality, so the cultural heritage is very Rich, even those who like to delve deeper can be satisfied here. It is precisely because there are so many mythological scenes rich in the culture of various places that the huge tourism market in "Zero" was created. However, for combat players, it is okay to just spend some money to cross the border to reach the destination and then go into the mountains for adventure travel. But the problem is that there are many non-combat players in "Zero". These people will receive additional protection from the system in the city. As long as there is no siege, they are almost impossible to be harmed. However, that won't work in the wild. In the system settings, public areas and combat areas are set up for the wild environment. There are only ornamental creatures in those public areas, so non-combat players can move around freely, but the problem is that the attractions that are truly worth seeing are all in the combat area, so non-combat players must be protected if they want to go there. Contributed to the rise of tourist groups.

A group of people with the same travel goals form a group tour, and then hire some combat players to act as escorts and part-time tour guides, thus forming a tour group.

Since the Fairy Tale Forest is a forest based on real-life fairy tales, it will naturally attract countless players to come for sightseeing. Among these people are not only a large number of combat players, but also more non-combat players, especially There are especially many children.

The game "Zero" does not restrict children from entering the game. It just requires the permission of the guardian. After all, there are many things in "Zero" that are very beneficial to children, such as children's classes, where you can receive some natural science online. Education can not only supplement classroom education, but more importantly, enrich children's careers and cultivate their character that likes to explore. These are things that schools cannot provide. Of course, the main reason is that children like the various magical settings in "Zero". After all, children obviously have richer imaginations than adults. The fantasy game world is naturally more attractive to them, and they can learn a lot along the way, so parents naturally don't object.

Places like Fairy Tale Forest, because of various fairy tales. Naturally, it is a place that children yearn for. Children from various countries often come here for sightseeing and play accompanied by their parents. Imagine spending the night in a dwarf's dwarf house, going to the forest to pick mushrooms with small animals, how attractive would these things be to children? Even stories like Little Red Riding Hood can be participated in. Anyway, the game has a scroll to return to the city and a calling system within the city. Parents don’t have to worry about their children getting lost. Many brave children will even help Little Red Riding Hood fight wolves together. Of course, this is a combat zone. The wolves here are not something that children can beat to death, but there is no need to worry too much. After all, the fairy tale forest has a special status and is not suitable for tourists. Especially children will have special protection, such as the existence ignore setting. Here, even if the children take the initiative to attack the bad guys in the fairy tales, the other party will not attack the children first. Instead, they will attack the combat players and the good camp NPCs set in the fairy tales first. Only when all the above people are dead will it be the children's turn. Moreover, even if they attack children, these monsters will have special attack methods that will make children feel the impact. But there will be no subsequent pain, and even fatal injuries will only cause slight pain. The kids won't be frightened by this anyway.

These humanized settings allow a large number of players with different strengths to have fun in this forest at the same time, and the monsters are still very powerful for combat players. It has not been weakened, and for the children and the non-combatant parents who are just accompanying them, the monsters are not particularly scary. Anyway, everyone can have fun and don't have to worry about anything. Of course, this is only limited to some children's fairy tales, and some exaggerated stories are still more dangerous. For example, the story about the dragon and the princess, the content is that the princess was kidnapped by the evil dragon, and then the brave man killed the dragon and took the princess back and lived an exciting and happy life from then on. Although this fairy tale-type story can barely be regarded as a fairy tale, not everyone can participate. After all, there are dragons here, and none of the dragons in "Zero" are easy to deal with. It is a level 200 monster as soon as it emerges from the shell. It can be upgraded from level 200 to level 2,000 during the growth period. All adult bodies are above level 2,000, and all attributes surpass monsters of the same level. It is a combat monster among monsters and is the most annoying. What's more, it's easy to get together, and you can accidentally provoke a large group. Their main characteristic is to trick people to death without consulting. Therefore, any mission involving dragons is a high-risk mission, including fairy tales in which dragons appear.

Although some fairy tales are not suitable for tourism, the story of the Candy House does not seem to be among them. At least I think it should be so, because there are a lot of tourist groups seen along the way, and many of them bring many children. If it was really violent, there wouldn't be so many parents bringing their children here.

As we walked along the relatively wide road, the number of combat players began to decrease, but the number of tourist groups did not decrease at all. After all, the system has given them special treatment, so the threat to tourist groups in this place is not as great as that of combat players. Besides, it’s not that combat players can’t come here. The main reason why they don’t come is because the monsters here are too high-level for them. Although they can beat them, speed is needed when leveling up. Only in this way can both sides be injured every time. Killing a monster is okay when pushing for a boss, but it is obviously not cost-effective to deal with ordinary monsters, so when leveling up, everyone will only look for the monster with the fastest average experience gain, not the monster with the highest level.

After walking for a while, there was a fork in the road ahead, and it was a five-way fork. In addition to the way I came here, there were four other roads ahead. This place seems to be a small gathering point. There is a large open space nearby. Many players take a final rest here, and some people set up stalls on the ground nearby to sell some supplies.

Ye Ying stopped at the fork in the road and turned around to ask me which way to go. I didn't remember the specific route, so I had to turn over the map to compare. Although I have a map of this place, it was automatically updated by our guild's library and was not discovered by myself. So although there is a map, I don't know the road and can only look at the map to find it myself.

"Let me see the next road. The forked road... the forked road... Oh, I found it, the second road on the right."

Yeying started to turn when he heard my words, but as soon as we turned around, we were surrounded by a large group of people.

"Excuse me, are you going to the candy house?" A player said to me first: "Would you like to play in a group with us? The treatment will be favorable."

It is very common to join a group near tourist attractions because many players come by themselves. They may have not found a tour group in advance for various reasons, so they organized the group after arriving here. The advantage of this grouping method is that it is cheap, but the disadvantage is that it may take some time to wait for someone.

"Sorry, I have something to do. It's not convenient for me to lead a group."

"Oh, forget it." The person leading the team didn't bother, and quickly left my side and ran to find other passing players who looked very good to join the group. However, although he left, he also took away a lot of people. There were few people, but some people still didn’t leave.

"Um, can you help me find my child?" A man stood next to Ye Ying and looked up at me and asked. I just wanted to refuse. He immediately continued: "Please, he has been missing for almost six hours. There is really nothing we can do!"

Although he had been missing for six hours, the man didn't act very anxious. After all, even if you die in the game, you will come back and be resurrected, which does not mean that you are really lost. Besides, children who need to be accompanied by adults when traveling are definitely not in the combat profession, so the death of such personnel is not a problem at all. Anyway, they have no combat level, and there is no penalty for dying. certainly. Even if the child in the game is lost, it will be fine, but after all, the character account is still associated with many things, so it is inconvenient to delete the account frequently, and if the account is not deleted, the body in the game cannot be found. That would affect many things, such as traveling to other places. After all, if the character corresponding to the account doesn't come back, he can't go anywhere else. Therefore, although this man is not very anxious. But he looked depressed, after all, this was considered a trouble.

After hearing what this man said, I thought for a moment and said, "I have my own business and I don't have time to help you find your child, but if you meet him on the way, I will bring him back. Send me a photo of your child." .”

"Really? Thank you so much." After hearing this, the man immediately handed over a small piece of crystal. This is a carrier specially used to record images and videos in the game. It is a storage unit of memory crystal, just like the storage unit of a digital camera. A card is a thing.

I took the crystal and inserted it directly into my wrist, and immediately saw a large photo pop up. "Which one is your son?" The photo that suddenly opened was not of a single person, but a group photo of more than twenty children and six adults.

Upon hearing my inquiry, the man said sheepishly: "Well, since you are willing to help, can you take a look at the other children?"

"Other children?"

The man quickly reached out and clicked on a few of the children, and then said, "These are all the children who are with us."

"All are lost?" I asked in surprise, because there were already eight people among the children he ordered.

The other party nodded and said: "The eight of them got lost together. We guessed that they wanted to go somewhere we didn't plan to take them to. However, there are only three combat players among the guardians of our eight children, and they have already gone to find them. None of us can get in or find them, so we can only wait here. Please send them back if you see them."

I nodded and said: "I will bring them back if I see them, but I won't go out to look for them, so don't put too much hope in it. If it doesn't work, use the helmet call bell to call them offline and ask them about the situation." It will be easier to send someone to look for him."

"Okay, if we can't find it we'll use the call bell."

I nodded and remembered the appearance of those children, then said goodbye to the father and drove Yeying into the forest.

Starting from the fork in the road, the route becomes narrower and narrower, and the traces of the road become sparse as you go forward. In the end, it is almost impossible to see the road, and you have to pick your footing among the trees and rocks. To move forward, even I had to put away my night shadow and move forward on foot. It's not that the roads here will affect Ye Ying's movements. After all, Ye Ying can fly, and the ground conditions have no impact on him at all. The key is that the trees here are too dense, and the branches are blocking the air. Riding this night shadow always bumps into these branches, so I have no choice but to get down and walk.

"This is a hell of a place." I couldn't help but complain after pulling out a leg that was stuck in the mud.

Since the road disappeared, the ground in this place has become increasingly difficult to walk on. The swamps are relatively good. The most troublesome thing is that this place is rich in man-eating vines. These vines are distributed under the rotten leaves on the ground. You can't see them at all, but as soon as you step on them, the branches will immediately lift up and roll you over, and then pull you towards those huge man-eating huas or trees. Anyway, What’s waiting for you is definitely not a beauty.

After walking hard among the trees for a while, I really couldn't stand the damn road conditions anymore, so I called Shuangxue out of my heart, and then everything became much easier.

A white road instantly appeared under our feet, and as we moved forward, the road automatically extended forward. All the dead branches, swamps and deep pools were covered by thick ice, except for being slightly slippery. Nothing will hinder my progress. As for the branches blocking the road... they had long been frozen under the extreme cold and crumbled like crispy biscuits at the touch of a touch, and they had no interception effect at all.

Through this method, I finally passed this extremely difficult journey quickly, and then the forest ahead suddenly changed. Starting from a certain position, the surrounding tree species seemed to be mixed. A taller and straighter tree that looked much fresher gradually replaced those weird and ugly tree species, while the swamps and swamps on the ground The layer of rotten leaves begins to diminish, and the ground gradually becomes solid and safe.

Since there is no annoying mud pit, I took back the frost and snow. After all, the magic of Ice and Snow Path is quite mana-consuming.

As I continued to move forward, the surrounding trees finally completely transitioned to a more normal state. I could no longer see a strange tree, and the light in the surrounding forest began to gradually return to normal. In some places, I could still see some comparisons. The cute little animal suddenly popped its head out from a distance, and then quickly retracted.

Looking at the changes around me, I roughly guessed that I had entered the so-called fairy tale dungeon area, because the things around me were obviously becoming more and more beautiful. Soon, my guess was confirmed, because just after I rounded a small slope, a winding stream appeared in front of me, and behind the stream was a grassland. A colorful little house is located in the center of the grassland, and behind the little house is a large colorful tree shining with seven colors of light.

In fact, when I first saw this house, I guessed that it was probably a candy house, because the bright colors were obviously candy colors. Although there are bright colors in nature, they are usually not so bright.

Now that the candy house appeared, it meant that the magic pastry chef might be nearby. I glanced around to confirm that no one was nearby, and then I stepped directly across the creek and walked over to the super candy house.

Originally, I planned to go inside the house to see the situation first, but what I didn't expect was that just as I walked to the door, grabbed the handle on the door and pulled it out gently, the door opened to me. The slightly short door fell down directly outward. Looking at the doorknob in my hand and the group of children looking at me with puzzled expressions on their faces, their faces covered with colored syrup like clowns, I just stood there dumbfounded. (To be continued...)! ! !