Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 167
Option two is 68.25%, and option three is 31.25%.

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【Option [-]】

【Taking a short break, learning the light smoke step to rough pass, jumping out from the mountain wall and returning】

……

Zheng Zhuo was afraid that something might happen to Xiang Renjie, so he didn't dare to stay for a long time.He closed his eyes and rested his mind, meditated and circulated [Taiqing Stellar Qi].The internal strength slowly circulated, and after a few weeks, the fatigue was relieved.

The places on the body where the thorns punctured were even more painful.

He wanted to sleep for a while, but he couldn't lie down, and couldn't fall asleep, so he just got up, and looked at the "Return to One Classic" found in the strange beggar's ragged coat by the moonlight.

"(Why does the torment increase after becoming stronger and stronger?)"

Zheng Zhuo couldn't help sighing in his heart: I think this is probably because people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves.

While lamenting the impermanence of fate and the tricks of good fortune, he read the contents of [Return to One Classic].

That [Gui Yi Jing] is obscure and difficult to understand, and it is not good-looking.Fortunately, Zheng Zhuo had previously learned from Xiang Renjie the methods related to internal skills, moves, and weapons, and had a rough understanding of them. After getting this [External Skills] fragment, by comparison, he immediately noticed many mutual accommodations. .

So, he was only half guessing, and after reading it once, he also got a general idea.

But after he saw it, he was not in a hurry to learn [Liuyun Kungfu].

"(It will be more beneficial to learn [Light Smoke Step] after trekking to find someone.)"

Xiang Renjie has never heard from him.

Hurry up.

Zheng Zhuo immediately read the small characters carefully, and understood the magic of [Smoky Walk].

It takes him an hour to read.During this period, he kept trying to exert force in the way mentioned in the notes, pointing his toes to the wall and jumping upwards.

After falling down countless times, he understood the secret of [Smoke Walk] a little bit.The writing finally appeared on the panel.

……

【Zheng Zhuo】

[Inner Strength: Taiqing Stellar Qi (Small Success)]

[External power: none]

[Skills: Wild Ball Fist (Small Success), Small Grabbing Hands (Small Success), Acupuncture Hands, Light Smoke Step (Rough Skill)]

[Weapon: Double Hook: Horse-Tripper Hook, Double Hook: Fisherman's Hook (Small Accomplishment)]

[Qimen: None]

……

"Yes!"

Zheng Zhuo was overjoyed.He raised his head and saw the sky getting brighter in the distance.

It turned out that he practiced all night.

A lot of time has been lost.Every hour that Xiang Renjie was not present, the possibility of danger increased.He is leaving.

He looked aside.The beggar who fell asleep on his own that night also woke up at this moment.He scratched his face indiscriminately, got up from the ground,

"Can you talk?" Zheng Zhuo asked the strange beggar.

And blame the beggar who just made a "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h'''''ing and""hmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sounds.

He can't speak at the moment without exercise.It seems that it is indeed dumb.

But he can understand the torn pages of [Gui Yi Jing], so he can read and write.

How strange.Zheng Zhuo said heartily.

"I'm leaving." Zheng Zhuo said to him.

"Ah."

The dumb beggar didn't seem to understand.

Zheng Zhuo realized that expressing intentions through actions might be more effective.He started to use [Light Smoke Step], and climbed up to the top of the mountain along the straight up and down cliffs.

Slide down a few times in the middle.But after mastering the trick of using internal energy to stimulate lightness energy, he jumped and climbed, and finally climbed up.

As soon as Zheng Zhuo's front foot landed, he heard the rustling of the wind behind him.

Looking back, it was the dumb beggar who also jumped up.

Do you want to act together with yourself?

also good.Although you can't expect to be helpful, at least there is no hostility.

Zheng Zhuo nodded at him immediately, and walked towards Naluo Ridge with [light smoke steps].

Strange to say, the dumb beggar did not follow Zheng Zhuo closely.

Zheng Zhuo looked back several times after running some distance.The mountains and forests are so dense that no one can be seen anymore.

……

Zheng Zhuo guessed that he could not control the dumb beggar's whereabouts, so he stopped paying attention.

He landed in Luoling, opened [Appraisal] again, and quickly passed through it.While running, while searching.

The wind howled.Zheng Zhuo carefully looked at every plant and tree here, inside and out.

Same as yesterday.It's just that the things I'm looking for this time have changed from [Gui Yi Jing] to [Gui Yi Jing] and Xiang Renjie.

Just walking along the bottom of the valley like this, Zheng Zhuo ran a long way.

Yet neither has been found.

Two hours later, he noticed that Luoling was getting lower.

When the exit was almost reached, he still found nothing.

"(Couldn't it have left no clues?)"

If so, Zheng Zhuo would have nothing to do.

Just when he started to worry, his vision faltered.

[Appraisal] text appeared.

……

[Item: Grass]

[Item: Tree]

[Item: Cloth]

[Item: Grass]

【thing:……】

……

Cloth.

……Cloth?
Zheng Zhuo had already run past, but turned back.

He went in that direction and saw a strip of white or gray cloth tied to a low bush.

At first glance, it looked like strips of cloth torn from the robe.

As for whose robe...

Zheng Zhuo thought, there is only one answer.

It belongs to Xiang Renjie.His tunic was of that color.

It turned out that he also left a message.

So……

Zheng Zhuo had a rough guess in his mind.He continued to move forward, and after a while, he saw another piece of cloth swaying in the wind.

He speeded up and ran all the way in the direction indicated by the cloth strips.

And the next one, and the next one.

until……

"Leaving Luoling."

Zheng Zhuo stood on the border of Luoling, looking at the mountains in front of him.

Xiang Renjie actually left Luoling and went into the deep mountains ahead!
Like Zheng Zhuo before, he left a mark, expecting that the other party would come to him.

As a result, no one went to find the other party, so they dispersed.

"(I left after chasing the dumb beggar...Where is that outstanding man?)"

Why did Xiang Renjie leave Luoling? Did he find something?
What can attract his attention must only be related to [Gui Yi Jing].

Zheng Zhuo followed all the way and entered the mountains.

After that, it was another hour.

The cloth strips used as markers gradually became shorter, and in the end, they were simply torn up and thrown in the grass.The road became more and more difficult, and Zheng Zhuo's double hooks were used again to chop grass.

Since he learned how to use a hook, he has spent more time chopping grass than people.

It continued like this for another half an hour.Zheng Zhuo noticed something strange.

Ahead is the sod that has been cut.

After Xiang Renjie arrived in the deep mountain, he started to spin around in place.

“(Are you looking for something? Or…)”

Zheng Zhuo continued to walk along the traces of Xiang Renjie's circle, observing carefully.

After a while, he saw a strip of cloth obliquely ahead.

After Xiang Renjie turned around here a few times, he began to enter the circle.

Zheng Zhuo also tried to go deeper.

at this time.

rustle!

There was a sound from behind, and Zheng Zhuo turned his head abruptly.I saw the long grass parting, and the dumb beggar appeared there.

He actually followed all the way here.

However, he had a strange expression at the moment, as if he was very scared and did not dare to approach.

"what happened?"

Zheng Zhuo asked aloud.However, the voice seemed to disturb the dumb beggar instead.

"No! No!"

He yelled twice, turned around, and ran away.

"Hey!"

The dumb beggar ran extremely fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

And at this moment, Zheng Zhuo seemed to hear Zheng Zhuo's words in the depths of the jungle, and there was also a voice.

"Zheng Zhuo? Are you there?"

It's Xiang Renjie's voice!
"Come on! Help me!"

Hearing the sound, he was already very close.

but……

At the same time, Zheng Zhuo also heard the rustling sound of things pushing away the long grass from another direction.

……

【problem】

[Next, how to act? 】

【Option [-]】

[Go to rescue Xiang Renjie immediately]

【Option [-]】

[Hide in place and wait and see what happens]

【Option [-]】

[Escape in the direction the dumb beggar ran away]

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