Chapter 1789 The Excitement Is Theirs

Xia Ruofei showed a strange look. He just saw this mini town from a distance, but it was dead silent and lifeless. As a result, when he stepped on the road of the town, it was as if he pressed the play button. The whole town suddenly came alive.

This is naturally very abrupt.

In addition, Xia Ruofei walked and observed, and soon felt that although the town seemed full of people, it was a noisy scene, and whether it was pedestrians on the street or stalls on both sides, it seemed a bit messy, which was absolutely true. Most of the small towns are what they are, but despite this, Xia Ruofei can still faintly feel that there is an invisible order acting on this small town all the time.

These small town residents and street vendors, whether they are gray-haired old men or yellow-haired young children, seem to be pre-programmed in their every move, and there is an incomparably precise order in the chaos.

In this way, Xia Ruofei felt that he appeared in this mini town very abruptly, as if a bomb had been dropped in a pool of stagnant water, and the balance of the mini town seemed to be destroyed.

Of course, this is entirely Xia Ruofei's own personal feeling, but his feeling has always been very accurate.

Xia Ruofei didn't easily communicate with these small town residents, he just followed Xiaodaotong across the street while silently observing.

The street is not very long, and it took a while to go from one end to the other, out of the scope of the mini town.

After observing for a while, Xia Ruofei has already come to a conclusion—all the residents in this small town are not real people, but artificial puppets just like the little boy in front of him. Not only that, even the horses they lead, the dogs at home, and even the crickets played by a few children are not real living things.

Although everything was done very realistically, under Xia Ruofei's spiritual investigation, everything was invisible.

Although these puppets can be isolated from the detection of mental power, Xia Ruofei cannot directly inspect their internal structure, but under the monitoring of mental power, any subtle behavior of them cannot escape Xia Ruofei's eyes, including those small animals mentioned above the same.

Xia Ruofei's mental strength is already stronger than that of ordinary Jindan late-stage monks, so the degree of brain development is far beyond that of ordinary people. Even if he processes so many detailed information at the same time, he can still make accurate analysis in the shortest time.

In a word, the words and deeds of these small town residents and those lifelike little animals have strict logical constraints, and their seemingly random actions are actually choreographed, just like a machine. It has been rehearsed countless times, and the actors can easily perform it with their eyes closed.

Xia Ruofei's curiosity is getting heavier and heavier,

However, he also knew that it was difficult for him to get any useful information from Daotong, so he refrained from asking any questions, thinking that he should follow him to the Zhenyang Temple to have a look.

This Xiaodao boy is equivalent to an "NPC" in the game. If he communicates with him as a real person, I am afraid that no matter how good-tempered he is, he will be so angry that Xia Ruofei doesn't want to make himself uncomfortable.

After leaving the town, they embarked on a winding mountain road.

Of course, this section of the road is not long, because this small hill is not steep at all, at most it is a slight undulation in the terrain.

Even so, this is already the commanding height of the first floor of the tower, and Zhenyang Temple occupies this commanding height.

After a while, Xia Ruofei followed the little boy to the door of Zhenyang Temple.

Xia Ruofei walked closer, and finally saw the true face of Lushan Mountain in Zhenyang Temple. This Zhenyang Temple is indeed a dilapidated small Taoist temple. The courtyard walls are already crooked, as if they will collapse at any time; the gate may have been painted with red paint, But I don't know how many years have passed, basically I can't see the original color; in addition, the area of ​​this Taoist temple is also very small, Xia Ruofei's mental power is slightly swept away, except for some places that cannot be penetrated, he can basically figure out Considering the situation of the Taoist temple, the Taoist temple is divided into the front hall and the back hall. , there are not many rooms in total.

Xiao Daotong came to Guanmen, pushed open the two dilapidated gates, then turned to Xia Ruofei and said, "This layman, we are here, please come in!"

Xia Ruofei nodded, and asked casually: "Xiao Daoist, how many people in your view are practicing?"

Originally, Xia Ruofei thought that this question would lead to confusion again, but unexpectedly, Xiaodaotong actually answered him: "Only Xiaodao and Shizun live together here. Layman, Shizun has been waiting for a long time, please hurry up." get inside!"

Xia Ruofei couldn't help being speechless for a while. At first, he thought this magnificent thousand-meter-high tower was the so-called Zhenyang Temple! Unexpectedly, when I came in, I saw that Zhenyang Temple was just a very small Taoist temple on the first floor, and there were only two Taoist priests, one old and one young. I don’t know what happened to the old one, but the young one was already confirmed to be a puppet. up.

This gap is too big!

But Xia Ruofei couldn't care less about feeling, now this is the only place where he can find clues, and they have all come here, even if there is any danger inside, he can't retreat at this time.

Therefore, Xia Ruofei nodded with a smile, followed Xiaodaotong, and walked into the Zhenyang Temple.

Walking into the gate, there is a small, dilapidated courtyard with overgrown weeds, and it has been seen that no one has taken care of it for a long time.

Xia Ruofei couldn't help saying in his heart: It seems that Xiaodao boy is also a lazy puppet! He didn't even bother to maintain his own yard...

After passing through this dilapidated courtyard and walking up a few steps, it is the front hall of the Taoist temple.

Xia Ruofei stopped, took a stick of incense from the side and lit it, and respectfully incensed Sanqing Taoist.

Although Xia Ruofei is not a member of Taoism, but when he came to Guibao Land and saw the statue of his ancestor, he should express his due respect.

Xiao Daotong naturally wouldn't urge him, so he just waited with his hands down.

Originally, Xia Ruofei wanted to rejoice with some incense money, but he only had Huaxia coins or US dollars. If you want to come to these currencies in the secular society of the earth, they must be of no use here.

So, he looked at the dusty merit box, and finally gave up the idea of ​​rejoicing.

After finishing the incense, Xia Ruofei followed Xiao Daotong from the side of the main hall to the back, and after going down a few steps, he came to the range of the apse.

The building of the back hall is much lower than the front hall. It is actually a relatively small courtyard. The building of the front hall is one side of the small courtyard in the back hall. The other three sides are one-story bungalows with about seven or eight rooms.

As soon as Xia Ruofei came to the apse, he heard footsteps, and he couldn't help being refreshed, and at the same time raised his alert, ready to release the flying sword to fight at any time.

Xia Ruofei looked up, and an old Taoist came out of a room with a smile on his face.

I saw this old Taoist with white beard and hair, wearing an old Taoist robe that was washed a little white, and carrying a sword on his back. Although the old man looked very old, his complexion was very ruddy, and his skin was actually very smooth, with almost no wrinkles to be seen. In addition, his calves were tied with leggings, and he walked vigorously, which seemed to be of some cultivation.

The white-haired old man walked up to Xia Ruofei, and said after a chief judge: "Buddha of Infinite Life! I don't know the name of this layman Gao?"

Xia Ruofei bowed slightly, and said: "Xia Ruofei, dare to ask the name of the long dharma..."

"It turned out to be Jushi Xia. It's a pleasure to meet you!" The white-haired old man said with a smile, "Poverty Daoist Zhenyang, I brought my disciple Qingfeng to practice here."

It turned out that the puppet Taoist also had a name, but the name Qingfeng was so common that it was hard to impress people!

Of course, the name of the white-haired old Taoist is not very high-level, and I don’t know if he occupied the Zhenyang Temple, so he simply called his Taoist name Zhenyang, or because his Taoist name was originally called Zhenyang, and then he gave it to him. This Taoist temple has a name like Zhenyang Temple.

Anyway, no matter what the situation is, it must be lazy behavior.

Of course, it's not that the old Taoist Zhenyang is being lazy, and it's not that the little Taoist boy Qingfeng is being lazy, but that the one who made them is lazy.

Yes, although it was only a brief contact, Xia Ruofei can basically judge that this white-haired old Daoist Zhenyang, although much more realistic than Daotong Qingfeng, and has a much higher level of intelligence, but he is still just a puppet That's all.

When I saw Dao Tong Qingfeng outside the tower before, Xia Ruofei couldn't judge it quickly, but he had so much contact with Qingfeng, and when he passed the mini town just now, he also observed so many things. It can be said that the residents of the small town have greatly improved their experience in judgment.

At first glance, this white-haired veteran Zhenyang basically has no flaws, but Xia Ruofei has already gained a lot of experience, and after a little trial, he can further confirm his judgment.

For example, when Xia Ruofei was talking just now, he seemed to have moved his position a few times inadvertently. Under normal circumstances, in order to show politeness, the other party's gaze would definitely move with Xia Ruofei's movement. In fact, the white-haired old Taoist Zhenyang did this, but he was a little slower than normal human reactions, so the final effect was that Xia Ruofei moved his feet, and Zhenyang still looked at it with a smile on his face. Seeing the position where Xia Ruofei was standing just now, he quickly adjusted.

This lag is probably within one second, but it is enough for Xia Ruofei to make a judgment.

Of course, he also used a few other tricks to try the white-haired old Daoist Zhenyang without any trace, and concluded that there was a 90% possibility that this old daoist was not a real human being at all, but just a puppet.

To be honest, Xia Ruofei was a little disappointed to come to such a conclusion.

Now he really wants to meet a real human being, because he knows that communicating with these "NPCs" will not yield results, unless the other party is about to tell him the information, otherwise the words will not come out at all.

In addition, so far in this secret realm, only Xia Ruofei himself is a living person, and to be honest, he is still very lonely.

Especially when Xia Ruofei passed by the bustling streets of that mini town just now, this feeling of loneliness became even stronger.

Just like the description in Zhu Ziqing's prose "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond"-the excitement belongs to them, and I have nothing.