Bai He Cheng Causes Trouble

The castle stood atop a small hill. Aside from the side with the main gate, its other three sides bordered cliffs. In front of the main gate lay a dried-up moat, crossed by a stone bridge leading to the castle entrance.

Sure enough, when Liu Xing and the others arrived before the castle gates, they found a massive Elder Sign painted on them. With his fairly good eyesight, Liu Xing also noticed that the castle's not particularly tall walls were densely covered in Elder Signs. He even suspected that every single brick in the castle had one carved into it. In the eyes of Mythical Creatures, this castle was probably a septic tank...

What exactly had the Castle Lord gone through?

Liu Xing could not help falling into thought.

The castle gates were tall, sturdy wooden doors, and they did not look like something that could be pushed open by human strength alone. Liu Xing felt that these wooden gates might become their first obstacle to leaving Ains Town. The castle walls were estimated to be seven or eight meters high, while the cliffs on the other three sides were over twenty meters tall. Their chances of getting down from those sides were practically nonexistent. Even on the side with the main gate, trying to climb down without a rope would probably require preparing to fall to one's death first...

Therefore, if they wanted to leave Ains Castle after twelve hours, Liu Xing felt their only option was to find a way through the main gate.

At the lower left corner of the castle gates was a small iron door with a little red button on it. It was probably the doorbell.

Walking at the front, Wang Si Yi made the first roll of this tabletop session—Navigation, 49/70, success.

Wang Si Yi had chosen an Open Roll, so KP004 announced the result to every Player.

Liu Xing looked at Wang Si Yi in surprise. He had not expected a journalist to have put so many Skill Points into Navigation. It was genuinely unexpected.

"The road we just took is the closest and safest route from this castle to the town." This was the first thing Wang Si Yi had said in this tabletop session.

Liu Xing nodded and prepared to press the doorbell. After all, the Main Quest required them to remain in the castle for more than twelve consecutive hours. The earlier they entered, the earlier they could leave.

Just as Liu Xing was about to press the doorbell, Bai He Cheng suddenly darted over from the side and shoved him aside.

Liu Xing asked in confusion, "Bai He Cheng, what are you doing? Why did you push me aside?"

Bai He Cheng chuckled, took out a piece of wire from his pocket, found the keyhole, inserted it, and began fiddling with it.

Liu Xing stared at Bai He Cheng in stunned silence. He had not expected this college student to know Lockpicking. Maybe it would prove surprisingly useful later.

However, that thought had barely lasted when he heard the result of Bai He Cheng's roll—

Lockpicking, 45/1, failure.

When a Player used an unlearned skill for a roll, they would have a base value. For example, the Jump skill Liu Xing had chosen had a base value of 20, since anyone who was not disabled could run and jump. Wang Si Yi's Navigation also had a base value of 10. But a highly specialized skill like Lockpicking had a base value of only 1...

So Bai He Cheng had not put any points into Lockpicking at all, yet he had gone ahead and attempted a Lockpicking roll. Liu Xing did not even know what to say about him...

"Bai He Cheng, what the hell are you doing?" Liu Xing had not said anything, but Wang Qi beside him could no longer restrain his temper and rushed over to shove Bai He Cheng away.

However, because Bai He Cheng's Lockpicking roll had failed, he triggered the castle's Alarm Mechanism. A piercing alarm suddenly rang out.

As the culprit, Bai He Cheng wore an innocent expression and said, "I just wanted to see if I could open the door and get in directly. Why are you all so worked up?"

Try it? He had dared to try with even a one-percent chance. Liu Xing now saw Bai He Cheng as a Total Party Kill engine.

As for Wang Qi, he could no longer resist the urge to hit Bai He Cheng. To prevent any further accidents, Chen Ling stepped forward and stood between Wang Qi and Bai He Cheng. He first separated them, then persuaded Wang Qi to calm down.

Meanwhile, Wang Si Yi continued to stand by and watch.

Watching the chaotic scene, Liu Xing could not help shaking his head and sighing. This session probably could not go on...

Just then, the castle's small iron door suddenly opened, and an elderly man who looked like a butler stepped out.

"I am the Butler of this castle. You may call me Old Wayne. May I ask who you are?" Old Wayne turned off the alarm and asked with a frown.

Since Liu Xing was standing directly in front of Wayne, he naturally had no choice but to step forward and say, "I'm sorry, Mr. Wayne. We're foreign tourists introduced by the Tavern Owner. This friend of mine is rather curious. When he watched movies and television dramas before, he saw castle locks being easily opened with a piece of wire, so he wanted to try it himself. As a result, he triggered the alarm. We're truly very sorry."

As Liu Xing spoke, he took the castle pass the Tavern Owner had given him from his pocket. Wang Qi and the others did the same.

Old Wayne took the castle passes from everyone and inspected them briefly. His expression finally eased somewhat. "I see. Since you are tourists introduced by that old drunkard, Ains Castle naturally welcomes your arrival. However, please refrain from doing anything so inexplicable again."

As he said this, Old Wayne deliberately glared at Bai He Cheng. Bai He Cheng, meanwhile, smiled at Old Wayne without the slightest remorse.

Anthropology, 22/50, success.

KP004's prompt suddenly sounded in Liu Xing's ears. He had not expected someone present to have chosen a skill as useless as Anthropology.

Anthropology's greatest use was determining whether an NPC or a corpse was human, or studying the customs of a particular region—though that required a great deal of time. Under normal circumstances, there were almost no situations where Anthropology could be used, making it a rather useless skill. Aside from Players whose profession was university professor, almost no one in other professions would choose it. At least, in the tabletop videos Liu Xing had watched, fewer than one percent of Players had chosen Anthropology. So he had not expected to encounter a teammate with Anthropology in this session.

"Please follow me. Let us go to the castle's main building first." Old Wayne gave Liu Xing and the others a very gentlemanly bow, then Liu Xing and the others followed him to the castle's main building.

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