Aside from the rudintary Wish System installed by the Evil God, the leaf brooch was the only thing Gu Mian brought out from the ancient cavern.
Gu Mian always felt this brooch should have a proper function, but unfortunately, unlike its counterpart, it doesn’t have a panel to check the manual.
Gu Mian placed the two leaf brooches in front of himself; they’re identical, except one is a special item that can hide nas, while the other seems useless.
"Doctor, you’ve been examining these two brooches for days now, and still haven’t found any clues?" Fatty plopped a stack of books onto the table in front of Gu Mian.
These were all "treasures" he found in the supermarket.
After discovering Gu Mian was researching the leaf brooches, Fatty went to the supermarket’s book section and bought nurous books related to plants, hoping they would assist Gu Mian.
"Maybe figuring out what kind of plant leaves these are will help us," Fatty said back when he was buying the books.
Gu Mian didn’t quite agree.
But Fatty was quite enthusiastic; not only did he read through the books himself, but he also rallied others in the apartnt to find plants resembling the leaf brooches.
These past days, everyone in the apartnt would open their eyes and start flipping through books, nearly becoming botanists.
Even Xiao Qiao, who isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, has been holding a book these days. Gu Mian was studying the two leaf brooches in his hand when he saw Xiao Qiao walk by, clutching a book.
The book’s cover was a riot of colors—reds, greens, florals covered nearly 60% of the cover, with a couple snuggling affectionately among the blooms.
The couple’s heads were topped with a pink book title—"Princess Love Manual: The Handso Knight Loves "
The book looked brand new, clearly just purchased.
Gu Mian silently looked at Fatty, gesturing at the book in Xiao Qiao’s hand: "Did you buy this great work on botany too?"
Fatty scratched his head awkwardly: "I didn’t pay attention to the title when buying them. I saw plants on the cover and just tossed them all into the shopping cart."
Xiao Qiao was evidently corrupted by the book, now she pulled her head out and looked resolutely at Gu Mian: "I want to be a knight!"
Gu Mian wordlessly looked up at the sky outside the window, not wanting to engage with the eager knight-wannabe before him.
Fatty quickly tried to divert her: "Miss Xiao Qiao, have you forgotten? We’ve already been knights in the instance, the one at the junkyard where we had to save the princess. We entered using the Dungeon Entry Ticket."
Xiao Qiao thought for a mont, recalling the instance, but she seed unsatisfied, as if she wanted to enter it again.
She tossed the book aside and stord out with determination.
Watching Xiao Qiao leave, Fatty sighed with relief, but he barely had ti to exhale before Xiao Qiao whipped back inside like a tornado, clutching sothing in her hand—a phone-like object.
But Gu Mian knew she held the special item [Big Data Search].
This special item was quite useful, having helped them find many useful things before. At this mont, Xiao Qiao was gripping the Big Data Search tightly, eyes glued to its screen.
She stared at the screen for a while, then looked up at Gu Mian, then back down at the screen, repeating the process several tis before concluding: "You are the Dungeon Entry Ticket."
She directed this statent at Gu Mian.
What the heck? I am what? Gu Mian also looked at the Big Data Search in her hand.
Xiao Qiao had already input what she wanted to search for in the machine, which was "Dungeon Entry Ticket."
And on the screen appeared arrows guiding towards the Dungeon Entry Ticket, pointing right at him.
Gu Mian rotated the Big Data Search away from himself, but the screen’s arrow continued pointing directly at him.
Oh no, he might really have beco the Dungeon Entry Ticket.
"I know, Doctor!" Fatty suddenly exclaid beside him, "The Dungeon Entry Ticket isn’t you; it’s the leaf brooch the Evil God left you."
Hearing this, Gu Mian moved the seemingly useless leaf brooch away, and the arrow on the Big Data Search actually started moving along with it, pointing toward the brooch.
That’s how it is.
The Evil God gave him this new brooch as a Dungeon Entry Ticket.
However, this isn’t the classic style; it must be a Dungeon Entry Ticket for a specific instance.
Like ’doctor’s resentnt’ for the Slaughter Ga instance, the clown mask for the Circus instance, and the gaming console for the Match Three instance.
So condition must be t to enter the instance.
The clown mask’s activation condition is wearing the mask on one’s face, and the gaming console’s condition is playing Match Three with it.
So what’s the activation condition for this leaf brooch?
If only Gu Mian knew what instance the ticket was for, the trigger condition might be easier to guess, but unfortunately, Gu Mian was entirely in the dark about what instance and conditions it would trigger.
"But how do we use it to enter the instance?" Fatty pondered about the leaf brooch’s activation condition too, "I think maybe we need to find out what kind of plant’s leaves they are."
Fatty seed quite fixated on researching plant leaves.
Gu Mian felt since this thing was designed by the Evil God, its trigger thod must be imbued with the Evil God’s unique style.
Like the trigger condition for [Key No. 108 from the Otherworld] requiring the recitation of a mortifying spell.
Perhaps the leaf brooch’s triggering thod involves a spell too?
Thinking of this, Gu Mian spoke to the leaf brooch in his hand, "Oh key that emanates green power, grant your true power."
Fatty scratched his head: "Why do those words sound so familiar to ?"
Under Gu Mian’s hopeful gaze, the leaf brooch remained motionless, showing no response.
Gu Mian hadn’t really expected the leaf brooch to trigger, given the enormous scope of "reciting a spell," guessing the correct one was exceedingly difficult.
So, over the next few days, the residents’ research topic shifted from "research the plant species for the leaf brooches" to "guess the leaf brooches’ trigger condition."
Gu Mian had an eventful few days; Fatty was convinced that the leaf brooches’ activation condition involved presenting the sa plant in front of them, and in just a few days, Fatty bought countless potted plants from the supermarket and dug up quite a few from the green belt outside.
But nothing happened.
007, while searching for traces of Renle Mountain, also took ti to strategize with Gu Mian: "Your new leaf brooch clearly forms a pair with the previous one. According to the introduction of the previous leaf brooch, the saying ’one leaf obstructs vision of the true mountain’ suggests you should cover your eyes with the two leaf brooches."
Thus, Gu Mian placed the two leaf brooches over his eyes before bed, covering them the entire night, but still, nothing happened.
The Fortune-teller was more straightforward; she directly took out her divination tools, intending to perform a divination for Gu Mian to ascertain the leaf brooch’s activation thod.
Unfortunately, the Fortune-teller didn’t divine what she intended but instead predicted Gu Mian’s death date.
"You’re going to die!" The Fortune-teller shouted upon seeing her divination result, "Rest in peace, it shows you’ll soon be resting in peace!"
Just great, Gu Mian closed his eyes serenely amid the Fortune-teller’s cries, finally able to leave this noisy world.
This whimsical disorder continued for several days in the apartnt, until one day Gu Mian was shaken awake from sleep by Fatty.
"Doctor, Doctor, wake up!"
Gu Mian despondently opened his eyes. Last night, Keke had a terrible idea, suggesting Gu Mian climb a tree wearing the leaf brooch and stay all night, pretending to be a leaf.
Although the idea was abstract, Gu Mian tried it.
The result was clear; he didn’t trigger the instance.
Not only did he fail to trigger the instance, but birds on the tree also left droppings on his head.
This morning, after cleaning the ss from his hair, he fell asleep on the bed and now it was almost noon.
"What’s up? Are you going to show Cretaceous Cannibal Tyrant Flower leaves again?"
Earlier, Fatty had similarly awoken him in the middle of the night to show him a potted plant saying it was Jurassic Despair Human-eating Grass, looking very similar to the leaf brooches, urging Gu Mian to take out the brooches for comparison.
Gu Mian took a deep breath; if Fatty had called him up for this, he’d definitely plant a solid kick on Fatty’s behind.
"No, no," Fatty quickly waved his hands in denial, "Doctor, while cooking just now I suddenly saw the rabbit you conjured, and then rembered you inherited the Wish System at the Evil God’s statue;
"Maybe the leaf brooches don’t have a trigger thod; perhaps if you wish for a trigger thod for them to have, they’ll have it."
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