CH 49

Chapter 49: Witchcraft Sacrifice (XVIII)

A deafening crash sounded outside the iron coffin, screaming to high heaven, and gradually died.

Qi Leren felt relaxed for the first time in the darkness, and the narrow space gave him an indescribable sense of security. Compared with the endless dangers outside, this darkness felt peaceful.

Only when there was a lack of oxygen, Qi Leren carefully pushed open the door of the iron coffin with a dagger in hand.

When the first ray of sunshine passed through the closed iron coffin gap and came to Qi Leren’s eyes, the feeling of seeing the light again made him unable to calm down for a long time. In the sunlight, the originally horrible and desperate courtyard had returned to normal, and only the pools of solidified molten iron on the ground and the glittering treasure chest floating in midair made him realize that he had experienced a narrow escape test.

With his current fighting capacity, it was impossible to defeat the witch head-on, but only by this opportunistic way could he win. However, it seemed that this game does not refuse to give ordinary players a way to live. So long as you can find the chance, surviving is not hopeless.

He had fought his ass off. He hoped this treasure chest could produce something good.

Qi Leren stepped forward and opened the treasure chest.

[card slot +1]

Qi Leren was stunned, unable to say whether he should be surprised or disappointed. However, at present, his card slots were really not enough, so he could add a card slot, and finally put the skill of Rain-Day Laundry into the card slot so that it could continue to resume cooling time.

After the resurrected witch died again, the courtyard had been restored to calmness, and Qi Leren could finally see this previously shrouded place clearly. It should be a corner on the edge of the courtyard, full of vegetation, and the molten iron that solidified after the witch died was like a twisted and ridiculous statue standing there lifeless.

Hmm? It seemed that something was shining.

Seen from a certain angle, there seemed to be something on the solidified molten iron that reflected the rays of the sun, which looked particularly bright.

Qi Leren stepped forward and touched the crystal with his fingers. It rolled out of the solidified molten iron, fell to the ground and was picked up by Qi Leren.

The crystal was only as big as the fingernail. It was strange that there were two holes in this glass-like crystal. It seemed that someone once used it as a pendant after threading it.

Can this crystal not melt even at high temperature? Qi Leren looked at the crystal curiously for a while, but he couldn’t figure out what substance it was. He simply put it in his pack, since it might come in handy in the future.

It was time to leave this place, and he didn’t know what happened to Ning Zhou…

Worried about the goddess, Qi Leren walked in the direction he had come from.

Through the path between the trees, he returned to the place full of sculptures from before. These sculptures had already returned to normal under the sun, and there was no ferocious and horrible appearance in the moonlit night. Qi Leren even stood in front of the sculpture with the same face as him for a while. At this time, it was no longer his appearance, but a male sculpture quietly reading books with a cold face.

There was a familiar strange cry from overhead. Qi Leren looked up immediately. Ning Zhou’s big blackbird found him and immediately landed on the sculpture, skipping to his arm.

“What about your master? Is she all right? ” Qi Leren asked in a hurry.

Just asking, Ning Zhou was already walking towards him from far away, and there seemed to be a trace of worry in her cold expression.

Qi Leren quickly reported his safety: “I’m fine, the witch is dead. Like the tip, she was probably locked in an iron coffin, filled with molten iron and vaporized, and can control the surrounding vines to attack, but I’m lucky …”

Said, Qi Leren smiled brightly at Ning Zhou, and wanted to show his confidence in front of his favorite goddess. Unfortunately, the scrapes and bruises all over his body seemed unconvincing.

Ning Zhou frowned slightly, blue eyes flashing some kind of emotion that Qi Leren couldn’t understand, and as Qi Leren was talking with her cheerfully, and he was caught off guard when she patted his head. He stopped talking, stunned. The goddess seems to particularly like touching his head? Is this her way of comforting him?

There seems to be a different air between them. Qi Leren opened his mouth and wondered if he should continue boasting, so he simply asked about Ning Zhou’s situation: “What about you? After climbing the tree, I found you’d disappeared. What happened to you later? Did you encounter any danger?”

Ning Zhou line of sight slipped to one side, her mouth pursed in silence.

Qi Leren was in a hurry. Before he asked, the big blackbird coolly spat out a few words: “She got lost.”

“……..” Qi Leren stared at Ning Zhou dumbfounded. What? The Goddess was actually bad with directions? The Goddess also blushed, she turned away, the goddess must be shy! My goddess can’t be this cute!

Qi Leren, who was hit so hard by the cuteness, watched Ning Zhou go out more than ten meters away, only to catch up. As he walked along, he seemed to inadvertently complain about the complicated terrain here, and how it made him dizzy and couldn’t find the right way at all, trying to excuse the lost goddess. However, the goddess didn’t seem to appreciate it, and looked down at the road all the way until they were outside the courtyard and had returned to the underground palace.

"What’s the matter?” Qi Leren asked curiously.

Ning Zhou took out a box of ointment from her pack and handed it to him. Qi Leren quickly declined: “You gave it to me last time. It’s okay. I don’t hurt now.”

Seeing Ning Zhou still looked at him with a face of disapproval, Qi Leren had to take out ointment to apply a little to his scrapes and bruises. When he took off his coat to show his arms and collarbone, Ning Zhou simply turned away, but her bird bobbed at him and watched him with great care.

Qi Leren had become accustomed to the shyness of the goddess. It was so lovely to wonder what kind of environment the goddess used to live in while applying medicine to herself.

When the medicine was fully coating him, the two walked to the hall in the center of the underground palace, which was more silent than when they came. Qi Leren secretly looked at Ning Zhou’s face from the side, and somehow felt that she seemed to be in a bad mood. His intuition was that it had something to do with him, but he didn’t know what was going on.

Is the goddess unhappy because she got lost all the way and didn’t meet the BOSS?

Strangely enough, after entering the courtyard in the moonlight from the courtyard in the sun, he hadn’t seen Ning Zhou around the courtyard for a long time. Were they separated in different dimensions at that time? Was it that until one of them had found the witch and destroyed her, both of them couldn’t return to the courtyard under the sun?

Just like that time in the goldfish bowl in the hospital, when he was separated from Dr. Lu, and finally even separated from Su He. This kind of power that unconsciously divided people into different parallel worlds was really horrible.

There was a light footstep in front. Ning Zhou stopped and stopped Qi Leren. A figure flashed out at the corner in front. When they saw the two, stunned, they asked in a panic: “Have you met that witch?”

It was the NPC who came in with Xie Wanwan. She kept quiet in the temple, only had some contact with Ellie-Aisha sisters, and seemed to be on full alert to others. Qi Leren didn’t even know her name. However, he heard Aisha talk about a girl from the same village named Isabel, who was also sent to participate in the sacrifice this time. She also had a sister, who was sent to participate in the sacrifice three years ago and has never returned since then. He doesn’t know if she is the NPC in front of him.

“Hmm.” Qi Leren nodded. If this NPC is the Isabel Aisha mentioned, he should be able to guess her purpose.

She seemed more nervous and asked with a little anxiety, “Did you see what she looked like? Does she look a bit like me? ”

Sure enough …

Qi Leren sighed, “You are Isabel, right? I heard Aisha talk about you. I couldn’t see how the witch I met looked anymore, so I don’t know if she is the one you are looking for. ”

“She … what has she become?” the girl asked, looking at him with a pleading expression.

Qi Leren hesitated. He hesitated whether to tell her everything he saw. If the witch was really her sister, the truth was too cruel. Oh yes, there is that crystal.

Qi Leren found the crystal from the pack and put it in the palm of his hand: “I found this, is it your sister’s?”

Isabel grabbed the crystal and shivered and shed tears: “It’s really her… really… no… it can’t be…”

She burst into tears in an emotional breakdown.

Qi Leren looked at Ning Zhou at a loss, only to find that she was more upset than he was, and she was stiff in both her posture to her expression, with a face at a loss. It seems that the introverted goddess can’t be expected to comfort a girl who lost her loved one. Qi Leren could only do it himself and comforted her for a while. While comforting, he was still a little flustered. After all, he killed somebody else’s sister again… Although she was not actually alive after the resurrection.

“I knew… I had a dream three years ago that she was locked up in a dark place, and then burned to death… When I woke up, I found that I had lost some of my memory…” After crying, Isabel’s mood seemed to stabilize a little, but she still looked dull and talked to Qi Leren about three years ago.

“Lost memory?” Qi Leren keenly felt as if he had triggered some special plot, so he quickly repeated the question.

“Yes, because I have the habit of keeping a diary, but when I woke up that day, I found that I couldn’t remember the things in my diary.” Isabel gawked at the crystal pendant in her hand and said, “The diary said that on the day my sister was sent away, I was worried about her and determined to secretly follow her, but when I woke up, I only remembered that I had that nightmare .. Did I secretly follow her that day or did I see her one last time… I don’t remember anything…”

With Isabel’s statement, the system suddenly jumped out:

[Player, Qi Leren triggered the hidden quest: Dusty Past. Help Isabel recover her lost memory before the Witchcraft Sacrifice mission is completed. If the mission is successful, the rewards will be given after the completion of the Witchcraft Sacrifice mission.  There will be no penalty for failure.]

Qi Leren immediately looked at Ning Zhou just as she looked at him. Qi Leren immediately understood that both of them had received this task.

A hidden task that was not the main quest.

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