My main world refreshes weekly.

Chen Ci was encountering the world line reward for the first time and didn't understand anything, so he just followed Jiang Wanxin through the crowd.

After visiting several shops, Chen Ci learned a thing or two and began to understand the logic behind the risk-reward system.

The game will directly send items to the real world. Although the location is said to be random, it is actually traceable. It depends on what story happened in the world line that the player chooses to merge with, and which NPCs are involved.

For example, the Aphrodite Veil they're looking for tonight.

According to the employer, the background of this instance is a parallel world set in the Republican era, a time of supernatural chaos, demons, ghosts, and foxes. His main mission is to protect the safety of an important figure, passing through three alleys: Xingren, Taiping, and Mingde. One of the key items, the veil, appears during this process.

The important figure's surname was Yang. Rumor had it that he was the descendant of a legendary general who had experienced several wars, distinguished himself in protecting the country, and also had a notorious reputation. Like the high-ranking officials and nobles of the late Qing Dynasty, his ancestors had settled in Santiao Hutong and built an ancestral home. The veil was an heirloom, which he eventually managed to find and acquire.

The story in the instance ends here, but the story in the real world is not yet over.

By substituting some similar elements from the dungeon into reality and extrapolating based on existing historical events, it can be found that in 1948, the three alleys gradually became idle for certain reasons.

During a city survey, a staff member measured the three alleys and casually labeled the widest one as "Kuanxiangzi" (Wide Alley), the narrowest one as "Zhaixiangzi" (Narrow Alley), and the one with a well as "Jingxiangzi" (Well Alley). This is the origin of the name Kuanzhai Alley.

Therefore, the employer believed that the veil was placed in this ancient street.

Lin Moyan's detection equipment proved that his guess was correct.

After learning the reasons behind it, Chen Ci couldn't help but sigh, "This world is getting harder and harder to navigate."

You need to be cultured and knowledgeable about history to play a game, otherwise you won't know where to get the rewards.

In fact, the complete reasoning process is much more complex than this.

Because the Sequence 8 timeline has a very limited impact on the real world, it will not bring back those monsters and ghosts, nor will it "add new items". Instead, it will "enchant" existing things, turning an ordinary object into a tool.

If ordinary people obtain the item without any hints, in a modern society that believes in science, the Yang family would likely find it difficult to regard the ancestral veil as a true treasure, let alone others.

During the Cultural Revolution, the state redistributed the houses in Kuanzhai Alley. The Yang family may have moved away or been buried by the dust of history, but the seemingly ordinary veil still remains in Kuanzhai Alley and has not been disposed of as garbage... To satisfy this logic, the veil must have appeared in an inconspicuous place.

Of course, it's also possible that the Yang family line has continued to this day and still lives here. In that case, we need to consider what the Yang family, who have been passed down from the Republic of China era or even the Qing Dynasty, would be doing in Kuanzhai Alley, which is now filled with commercial elements.

"Singing opera?" Chen Ci tilted his head and guessed.

Jiang Wanxin's eyes lit up: "That's possible!"

Luo Bai went to the well alley to look for the well, thinking that the item was in the well.

Zhou Yifeng entered a teahouse and saw a person wearing a mask.

If the road was uneven, he would walk even further and run to a sugar-coated fruit shop at the entrance of the alley, because there was a flag hanging there with two words written on it: Yang's.

Chen Ci and Jiang Wanxin arrived at a famous opera house in Kuanzhai Alley – Xilai Shuyun Garden.

The entrance is antique and elegant; stepping inside feels like stepping back in time.

The theater has two floors, with carved wooden railings and lanterns hanging high. The first-floor hall is full of guests, mostly foreign tourists, watching the classic Sichuan opera face-changing performance and sipping jasmine-scented covered bowl tea.

Inside the park, there were many men and women dressed in Hanfu and cheongsam taking photos. The ancient-style scenes were full of atmosphere, and you could take a good picture with just a click of the shutter. Jiang Wanxin was annoyed and thought to herself that she should have worn a cheongsam when she came. She could have asked the little brother to take some beautiful photos for her afterward.

Despite her thoughts, Jiang Wanxin acted decisively, following Chen Ci directly into the theater on the first floor.

Yes, this time it was Chen Ci who led her.

"How come you're so skilled?" Jiang Wanxin asked curiously.

"I've been here a few times before," Chen said. "When I had nothing to do, I would listen to music in the brothel."

This is not a brothel, but you can go up to the second floor and lean on the railing to admire the beautiful women taking photos below. The only downside is that the ticket price is relatively expensive, at 70 yuan per person.

Thanks to his good memory from being in high spirits, Chen Ci quickly found a display wall inside the opera house covered with various old masks. His eyes quickly swept over the mask wall, the first row, the second row...

found it!

Third row, center.

Chen Ci saw a black mask. Unlike other masks, it only had a lower half, like a face mask, with several fox tail-like lines drawn in red ink. The label above read: "Investiture of the Gods: Fox Demon".

Upon closer inspection, the words appeared.

Aphrodite Veil

Because these are all old items passed down from the Republic of China era or even earlier, the owner specially added a thick double-layered laminated explosion-proof glass panel to this wall to prevent the masks from being damaged by touching them, and also to prevent the glass from breaking and injuring tourists.

However, this means you can't touch the actual object, and you can't see its effect.

Jiang Wanxin also noticed the "fox demon mask," her beautiful eyes widening slightly. "So that's it?"

She looked at Chen Ci in surprise. Could it be that this guy was not only talented in games, but also in treasure hunting?

"You really are... a pleasant surprise." Jiang Wanxin's beautiful eyes sparkled.

"It was just luck." Chen Ci was never a humble person, but he was indeed lucky this time. His home was near Kuanzhai Alley, and he used to come here often, so he knew the opera house quite well. If it were somewhere else, he would just be following Jiang Wanxin around.

"Sister Jiang, you stay here and watch over things. I'll go find the manager... oh no, I mean the shopkeeper," Chen Ci said, adapting to local customs. He hadn't forgotten that Lin Moyan had reminded him that there were other players nearby.

Since he's only at Sequence 10, he doesn't have much fighting power. It's better to let Jiang Wanxin stay here and guard the veil.

"Okay, go quickly." Jiang Wanxin nodded, and at the same time passed on the message to Luo Bai and the others: "The item has been found. It's at Xilai Shuyun Garden. Come quickly."

Luo Bai was taken aback: "So fast?"

Lu Buping: "Sister Jiang is awesome!"

Jiang Wanxin: "It's not that I'm awesome, it's that Chen Ci is awesome."

The two of them: "?"

"What do you mean?"

"He found it??"

"Yes." Jiang Wanxin was in a good mood.

Chen Ci is her person; finding Chen Ci is the same as finding her.

Jiang Wanxin knew perfectly well that no one was happy about her suddenly bringing a new person into the team. No one wanted to be dragged down, but they were just too embarrassed to tell her.

Now that Chen Ci was the first to find the veil, she made a great contribution to this mission, proving not only herself but also her foresight. Jiang Wanxin was naturally happy.

Zhou Yifeng didn't say anything, but just kept rushing towards the theater.

It's not enough to just find it; you also have to be able to protect it.

Lin Moyan's voice came through the earpiece at that moment: "Sister Jiang, someone is heading towards you and Chen Ci."

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