Next, Ink Plum True Immortal listened to Jiu Cai Rong, the new-player village chief, explain his background.
What Chosen of Destiny? Retracing Jiao Wuyu's journey to the West.
She pretended to agree, nodding constantly as she thought:
"So this is the setting for the first act of The Flood Dragon and the Scholar. The textures of the murals here do look quite similar to those in the story."
"That Mountain Villa in the distance—could it be the legendary Mountain Villa where Jiao Wuyu was imprisoned? A group of ungrateful, vicious villagers?"
"Pity I can't enter it yet. It really is an unfinished backdrop."
Her logic was crystal clear, and she quickly sorted everything out.
The murals. The Mountain Villa.
This was clearly the setting of the Mountain Villa where Jiao Wuyu was beheaded, beginning the story of the Flood Dragon Night Banquet.
"The Main Quest Plot. I don't care about it. Whether it's true or false, it's someone else's history. Other people's joys and sorrows don't move me. What I care about instead are the interesting things here."
After that.
She and the new-player village chief, Jiu Cai Rong, began a battle of wits and courage, starting a conversation.
Jiu Cai Rong kept reciting his lines.
"Chosen of Destiny, you have arrived."
"The villagers back then broke Jiao Wuyu's heart. A great fire burned down the entire Jiao Family Mountain Villa. It has finally been rebuilt, but if the people's hearts have been burned away, what use is rebuilding a Mountain Villa?"
"Back then, Jiao Wuyu was an innocent person."
"Ah, a daughter? The son and daughter of that couple were pitiful too. The son died young, while the daughter was born with a bloodline illness and didn't have long to live."
Thirty lines of dialogue, back and forth.
Yet