The visitor’s name was Bereka, a girl with brown braids and freckles on her face, about sixteen or seventeen years old.
The moment Xing Ye opened the door and saw Bereka, this introduction appeared in his mind. He glanced at the black and white bracelet from the corner of his eye, and found that the bracelet had become transparent, presumably the NPC should be invisible.
There is a line on the bracelet that only Xing Ye can see: The background of the story has been automatically updated.
Fortunately, it’s not so bad that he didn’t even tell him the name of the person. It should be that when someone Claire should know appears in front of him, the system will give the most basic introduction.
It’s really just a basic name.
Xing Ye looked down at Bereka, who was much shorter than him, and saw that she was holding a big wooden basin full of clothes. She seemed to be struggling because of her short stature, so Xing Ye naturally took the wooden basin and relaxed. Grab it with one hand.
There was a hint of rosiness on Bereka’s freckles. She hugged Xing Ye’s free arm, rubbed her face against his arm, and said softly, “Claire, you are the best!”
Xing Ye only had contact with women at the working level, and such an intimate act made him feel a little uncomfortable, but considering the personality problem, he reluctantly held back and did not push Bereka away.
However, this kind of intimacy is also beneficial. Xing Ye, who doesn’t know his way, can easily walk to the riverside as long as he follows Bereka.
The climate in this world seems to be early spring, and the river is icy cold. Bereka soaked her hands in the water, and after a while, her hands turned red from the cold. While washing, she clutched her stomach in pain.
Xing Ye: “…”
The main customers of their company are women. Even though he has never had close contact with women, he also knows from the market research that Bereka has encountered a special situation. She is a girl who has not grown up. Exposure to cold river water is not good for future development.
“Don’t wash it up.” Xing Ye said, only when he opened his mouth did he realize that his voice became clear and cheerful, and it was a female voice.
“No,” Bereka said with a pale face, shaking her head, “The black bread at home is almost gone, I have to wash these clothes as soon as possible before I can get the money to buy food.”
It turned out that she was a poor girl who made a living by washing clothes in the Middle Ages. Although she was not a serf, she lived a very hard life.
“I’ll wash, you rest here.” Xing Ye picked up Bereka with one hand, dragged her to the position where the sun shines, took the tub by herself, and started to wash.
Xing Ye’s family is wealthy, but his parents pay great attention to cultivating his self-care ability. He was sent to a private boarding school in high school to experience full military management. Laundry and housekeeping are trivial matters for him.
Bereka looked at Xing Ye gratefully: “Thank you, Claire, I will help you when you are not feeling well!”
You probably don’t have this chance… Xing Ye thought to himself while rubbing his clothes.
Bereka found some hay under her body, leaned against the trees by the river, and quickly fell asleep under the warm sunlight.
When Xing Ye wrung out all the clothes and threw them into the wooden basin, a story background update prompt popped up on the transparent bracelet: “The kind-hearted Claire just finished washing the clothes, and saw a bright light not far from the river. Looking over, it turned out to be a silver mirror.
Claire has always wanted to own a legendary mirror. She went to pick up the handle of the mirror and saw her own face. “
Xing Ye walked over following the prompts, and saw a silver mirror with a handle about the size of a woman’s palm lying upside down in the mud by the river.
The background prompt in my mind continued: “Claire carefully looked back at Bereka, and saw that she was dozing off, so she put the mirror into her arms and pressed it against her chest, her heart like a deer’ Putong”Putong’ jumping wildly.”
Xing Ye turned around as the voice said, and sure enough, Bereka had fallen asleep. He looked down at the dirty mirror in the mud, raised his leg slightly, and kicked the mirror back into the river with his toes, and the mirror sank silently to the bottom of the river.
The background sound like a narration suddenly made a “beep, beep” noise like a bad signal, and the prompt “error to be corrected” flashed on the transparent bracelet.
The corners of Xing Ye’s mouth curled up slightly, revealing his first shallow smile after entering the world of black and white.
His experiment was successful.
Kicking the important story prop mirror back into the river is to verify three things:
First, what is the so-called confrontation with fate? It is to carry out a small resistance in the existing story background and game framework, plan the peasant uprising in the middle ages as a commoner girl, awaken feminist consciousness, or raise one’s own status by increasing productivity, etc. without violating the current social background. The change of identity is to simply break the dimensional wall, ignore the content prompts, and ignore all rules without revealing the identity.
And his behavior of ignoring the prompt caused the system to become disordered, but he did not get any punishment, which means that the system is very tolerant of behaviors such as “rejection” and “resistance”.
Sacrificing luck is the freedom from rules.
Second, in traditional RPG games, his behavior of obviously ignoring important props will lead to a high probability of unfinished endings, such as “Claire didn’t pick up the mirror because she was afraid of the law, like other civilian girls, married A beating husband, working all day, and a poor, sick doctor” kind of ending.
No matter what ending the three members of the opposing camp set, the premise must be that the story must unfold, and Xing Ye didn’t even enter the plot line, so how can he talk about the ending. If the system judges that this ending is true, then he can win directly.
Third, when the second point fails and the plot continues, Xing Ye wants to see how the system will correct the story line so that Claire can get the mirror.
After waiting for a while, I couldn’t wait for the ending sound, and the mirror would not violate the laws of physics to float up from the bottom of the river. Xing Ye picked up the tub full of clean clothes and woke up Bereka.
“After washing, let’s go.” Xing Ye said.
“Huh? So fast?” Bereka looked at the clothes in Xing Ye’s tub, “I usually have to wash for a long time.”
“I am strong.”
Bereka looked through the clothes, and everything was washed very clean. She went home happily and dried the clothes. After receiving the money at night, she bought six black breads and stuffed five for Xing Ye. Only one is left.
Xing Ye knew that there was a mother and a younger brother in Bereka’s family, and a piece of black bread was not enough.
He only took one, and returned the remaining four to Bereka. The freckled braided girl shook her head quickly: “No, no, you did the laundry today. I have been resting all the time, so I only need one for my mother and you.” It’s good for my younger brother to share the food, and I don’t need it.”
“I don’t like to eat.” Xing Ye insisted on stuffing the black bread back, ignored Bereka, walked back to the wooden house indifferently, and closed the door tightly.
Bereka wiped her tears, hugged the black bread and shouted outside the door: “I will definitely return it to you.”
After saying “dengdengdeng”, he ran home, leaving Xing Ye to meditate while biting the black bread facing the moonlight.
Xing Ye is not a person who pays much attention to food. He often forgets to eat because of his busy work. For him, food is just a tool to fill his stomach. But now he realized that he was wrong, the black bread was really unpalatable!
Barely swallowing the black bread with cold water, Xing Ye sat on the hay bed and flipped through the information in the bracelet.
I haven’t seen an update on the main story line all day, and it should have changed in the dead of night.
Sure enough, when the full moon climbed up the branch, there was a “dong dong dong” knock on the door.
Sparsely populated poor villages, simple wooden houses, girls living alone, and knocking on the door late at night, the combination of these conditions is enough to make people shudder, but Xing Ye has long been prepared. Look out quietly.
By the moonlight, he saw a silver mirror full of dirt, with the handle propped on the ground, and he knocked on the door with difficulty with the silver frame on the edge of the mirror.
Xing Ye: “…”
Inexplicably feel desolate for this mirror.
“Boom”, “Boom”, “Boom”, the knock on the door became heavier and heavier, and the mirror seemed to have exhausted its own strength.
At the same time, the background of the story was updated again, and Xing Ye heard the narration say: “Claire was afraid of the Queen’s punishment, so instead of picking up the mirror, she timidly threw it back into the river.
Unexpectedly, this is a mirror with spirituality. Through brief contact, it recognizes that Claire is a kind-hearted and helpful girl, and it is willing to be Claire’s mirror. So when the night fell, it used the power of the moon to come to Clare’s door, and knocked on her door with the last of its strength. “
Since the plot cannot continue without the mirror, Xing Ye opened the door and bent down to pick up the mirror.
Narrator: “Claire opened the door, happily picked up the mirror, and saw her own face.”
Is it necessary to look at the face?
Under the moonlight, Xing Ye saw his appearance in this world in the mirror.
Hmm…a black face that hadn’t been washed for some time, unkempt, shocked Xing Ye who was always clean and tidy.
There was some water in the bucket, and he immediately took the bucket to the yard to wash his face and comb his hair. He didn’t know how Bereka got the courage to cross her arms when she looked at this face during the day.
Narrator: “Claire is an orphan. Unlike other people, her family can help each other wash their faces. She always thinks that she is a beautiful girl. She never knows that in the eyes of others, she is actually a dirty and dirty person.
Fortunately, the mirror saw Claire’s pure heart and came to her side at the risk of being broken to help her see herself clearly. “
After taking care of himself, Xing Ye picked up the mirror again and saw that the girl in the mirror had a face similar to his but softer. If he had a younger sister, it would probably look like this.
Xing Ye doesn’t have a handsome or general perception of his appearance, but he knows that his younger brother Xing Shuo is handsome, and he is the focus of the crowd wherever he goes. Then the girl in the mirror who is similar to her younger brother should also be beautiful.
Just as he was thinking this way, a huge “ugly” character suddenly appeared on the mirror, which was still in Chinese.
Xing Ye: “…”
Does this mirror really see “Claire” “pure heart” and “willing emotion” become his mirror?
I can’t see it at all!