Let the scourge go to the right path, and you make games to reward them?.

Chapter 343 Who is it (55)

The narrow guard room was packed with people.

Players and non-player characters who had not gone crazy mixed together, looking curiously at the four people who had rushed here from the inn.

The guard who was holding a gun before was now wearing armor, revealing only his beautiful face, and he looked at the group of people coming over with a smile on his face.

She was none other than the foundation-building cultivator with whom Lin Yuan had been chatting animatedly when Lin Yuan was on guard duty.

After serving tea to Lin Yuan and the other three, the female guard took a sip and said, "It's you guys. I haven't seen you for a few days and you've made great progress. Especially that idiot. His strength has improved a lot and he's almost at the foundation building stage. And his foundation is so solid. Could it be that you're a genius that only appears once in a thousand years?"

The praised Dang Jin scratched his head in embarrassment: "Nothing special, it just tastes better."

"You have to eat more. How is the situation over there? Is the inn okay now?"

"Originally, there were Jindan monks guarding it, but after the change, the Jindan monk disappeared, and many other employees went crazy. The few who are not crazy are with us, so there is no need to worry for the time being."

"That's it, that's good."

The nun drank her tea and began to think about the problem.

Lin Yuan looked at the remaining people here, compared their images one by one, and then nodded.

We all know each other.

Among the people here, there are foundation-building guards he has met and teachers he has hired for Dang Jin. He has come into contact with all of them, which also verified his guess.

There is something wrong with one of him, Dangjin and Sha Lao.

But then, he had one more question to confirm.

Putting down the teacup, Lin Yuan stared at the female cultivator and asked seriously, "Senior, I've always wanted to ask you, have you ever felt that being a guard is a bit of a waste of your talent? You are already a foundation-building cultivator, why do you still want to be a guard? Is it because you like it?"

"This job is so annoying, how can I like it?" The female monk laughed.

Then, she stopped smiling, pondered carefully, and said, "I have been thinking about this question since you left. We are obviously foundation-building monks, why do we have to do this job? Wouldn't it be better to find a lecturer somewhere else? It's easy and the money comes quickly. If it doesn't work out, you can go somewhere else, there are better places than here."

"Have you figured out the reason?"

"No, I just can't figure out why. Ever since I started thinking about this, I've become more and more confused. I can't remember my name, I just know I'm a guard. I can't remember my past, and it feels like my memories have no weight at all. This matter is almost becoming a demon in my heart."

"Me too!" The muscular cultivator came over and said, "I've been wondering recently what else I do besides being a lecturer every day, but I just can't remember it no matter how hard I try. It seems like I have nothing else to do except being a lecturer, which is really strange."

"It's the same with the old Taoist." Dang Jin's magic instructor nodded and said, "I can't remember when I learned this magic knowledge. It feels like it was forcefully instilled into me. Everything should have its own development process, but I don't seem to have it. It seems that I was set up to be like this from the beginning, instead of growing into this."

"Me too!"

"What a coincidence, so am I."

Listening to the discussion of the non-player characters here, Lin Yuan nodded and confirmed his guess.

The non-player characters here have all awakened.

They have awakened from the huge dream system of "Jiuzhou", have their own confusions, and have started their own quest based on their confusions.

It was this detachment that prevented them from being contaminated by the anomaly and allowed them to maintain their sanity after the mutation.

"The virus invaded, but because there was physical isolation, the invasion failed?" Lin Yuan murmured to himself.

"What are you talking about?" Beidou asked curiously.

"It's nothing. I just converted an unfamiliar problem into one that I am familiar with." Pinching his chin, Lin Yuan felt that he had grasped some clues.

The Paradise City was created by Dao Jue, and there is a mastermind behind it.

If Dao Jue is regarded as the source of the virus, then the mastermind behind it is the hacker, who invaded the dreamland of "Jiuzhou" through the virus.

And if it is Paradise City, then the other party’s purpose should be to harvest negative emotions and then use it to strengthen Dao Jue.

If we make an analogy, we can find that the madness of non-players in "Jiuzhou" is very similar to the final harvest in Paradise City.

It's all path dependence.

If you think this way, then most of your suspicion can be ruled out. After all, only a small part of your soul came here, and it should not have such a strong influence to prompt the people here to awaken.

Then the problem should lie with Dang Jin or Sha Lao.

After thinking about it, Lin Yuan felt that he should do a comparative experiment, so he said to Ye Zixiu beside him: "Please find two crazy non-player characters to come over. Don't let them be at a too high level, just Qi Refining will be enough."

"Okay, Dad! Just wait!"

Ye Zixiu went out excitedly, and the way he addressed Lin Yuan made the female cultivator in front of him stunned for a moment.

After taking a sip of tea to calm her nerves, she couldn't help but ask, "What did he call you?"

"Nothing, I just hired him."

"Hiring someone to call you dad? This hobby of yours is really weird." The female monk said in confusion.

However, after seeing a player named "Father" behind her, she didn't feel so strange anymore.

While Ye Zixiu was catching people, Lin Yuan asked Dang Jin and Sha Lao to go into a room respectively and wait for Ye Zixiu to return.

After Ye Zixiu returned, Lin Yuan threw the two crazy non-player characters into their rooms separately, and then Dang Jin's scream was heard.

"Oh my god! Shuangmu, what do you mean! Why did you let this lunatic in? What do you want to do?!"

"Just bear with it for half an hour. Don't worry, it's okay."

"I believe you ghost!"

A quarter of an hour later, the door of the room was opened, and Dang Jin came out, running to Lin Yuan and yelling, "Shuang Mu!"

"Don't worry, everything is fine. How is that person?"

"He was extremely crazy and terribly insane. When he realized he couldn't hurt me, he twisted his neck half a circle while laughing wildly. Now he's lying on the ground looking at the ceiling."

Lin Yuan took a look over and found that the situation inside was a bit tragic.

There were signs of destruction everywhere, the walls were covered with scratches, and the crazy non-player characters had destroyed this place very thoroughly, making it look extremely tragic.

Just as Dangjin said, the non-player character broke his own neck, turned his head half a circle, stared at the ceiling with his red eyes, but still made a broken laugh.

Not long after, the door on Sha Lao's side opened. The silent Sha Lao walked out and shook his head silently.

"Both sides have failed... who could it be?"

Looking at the two rooms, Lin Yuan fell into deep thought again.

(End of this chapter)