CH 52

Chapter 52: Witchcraft Sacrifice (XXI)

It was over. He couldn’t escape this time. Right now he had nothing, and he couldn’t compete with three armed people… If he died…

“Ah, ah, ah-!” There was a terrible scream outside the door, and the woman beside the bed shouted the name of her companion and ran out, then another scream after the blade entered flesh.

Qi Leren under the bed only saw her legs shaking violently, then with a thud, a ferocious-looking head fell by the door, and her unsatisfied eyes were facing Qi Leren under the bed.

The rest of the people cried out, “Don’t kill her,” but the sound of begging for mercy only lasted for a few seconds, and then it was silent.

Qi Leren was too scared to go out. Suddenly, the mysterious person had killed three NPCs after him. She didn’t leave. Qi Leren saw her legs enter the room and step on the head.

The person’s head let out a strange scream: “Do you think you can leave here like this? Stop dreaming! I’m not going to die like this! You also don’t want to escape! Stay here forever, stay here with us!” Just as the words had fallen, the head and body dissipated into a spot of light in the air.

Go quickly! Qi Leren’s heart cried and prayed for the mysterious visitor to leave quickly, but it backfired. After the body on the ground dissipated, instead of leaving, she came to the bedside.

What was she going to do? Had she found him? Qi Leren could only see her feet, he couldn’t see her movements, but the more he couldn’t see them, the more horrible his imagination was.

With a sharp sound, a long knife went straight through the bed board and was inserted in front of Qi Leren. The blade shining with cold light was less than a finger’s distance from his nose tip!

Qi Leren’s cold sweat flowed down, and his heart stopped suddenly at that moment, and his brain commanded his soft limbs to press further to the floor. At this time, he has forgotten to think, even dared not to think about whether he had been discovered by this mysterious murderer, but to instinctively escape this deadly terror, just like a worm falling in a spider’s web struggles uselessly.

“Still not coming out yet?” The long knife was slowly pulled out, and the strange and cold female voice asked, “Next time your head won’t be so lucky. If I cut it, it’ll burst like a watermelon.”

She knew he was hiding here!

No, it was wrong.

Qi Leren’s eyes lit up, and he rolled out from under the bed. He squatted on the ground and raised his hands: “Wait a minute, I’m Qi Leren.”

The woman with the knife looked strange, but Qi Leren had guessed her identity vaguely. She must be a player.

Because the fruits in the Nightmare World were completely different from the real world, even if there are similar shapes and tastes, the name was definitely not the name on Earth. In those days in the Village of Dusk, Qi Leren had seen many strange fruits and vegetables. You can’t be an NPC if you say something like watermelon.

Sure enough, the woman opposite was dazed and murmured, “Qi Leren? You also…”

Qi Leren gave a wry smile: “I don’t know what happened. I was dragged into the wall suddenly, and then I found myself in a different body. Are you… Ye Xia?”

After running through all the players in his mind, Qi Leren said the most likely one. He remembered that Ye Xia had used a knife and her technique was extremely neat.

“It’s me.” Ye Xia smiled at him and stretched out her hand to pull him up. “Sorry, I didn’t know it was you, but I thought you were one of the witch candidates from three years ago.”

“Witch candidate from three years ago? Have we come to a dream world of three years ago?” Qi Leren suddenly said.

“I’m afraid so. After arriving here, all my items and skill cards disappeared. It should be that our consciousness is attached to others. They’ll disappear when they kill other NPCs. After a while, they’ll appear again and can’t be completely killed.” Ye Xia frowned and told her story.

Qi Leren suddenly realized: “No wonder, I still think I’ve never seen these people at all.”

Ye Xia frowned and said, “Now I don’t know what to do. Do you have any ideas?”

“Don’t worry, I have a clue. Every time a witch is killed, there will be a clue to solve the puzzle and a hint of the next witch on the stone wall of the temple where we first gathered.” Qi Leren estimated that Ye Xia had never returned since she left the temple, so she knew nothing about it.

“I knew I should’ve gone back… If it hadn’t been for that time…” Ye Xia subconsciously touched her arm and sighed again. “I forgot that I’m not using my own body now. My original body was hurt a little, but it won’t hurt now.”

Qi Leren suddenly remembered what Lu Youxin said: “Did you fight Xie Wanwan?”

Ye Xia nodded coldly. “Let’s not talk about this. Let’s continue to talk about the tips on the wall. I’m not very good at solving puzzles. Is there any hint in that tip?”

Qi Leren was actually not good at it either. He was a little worried about the location here: “Shall we talk about it somewhere else?”

“It’s okay, they’ll disappear for at least half an hour.” Ye Xia said.

Qi Leren finally calmed his heart, dusted off his clothes, sat down by the bed, and vaguely described his previous killing of a witch, focusing on the clues and tips on the wall: “Now the witch’s prompt is ‘Are you willing to sacrifice, have you ever been betrayed, have you ever seen the distortion and beauty of love when it has sprouted into despair? The fire of love, which I can’t get, burns until the end of my life.’ She is a little different from the first two witches. The first two tips emphasize the places where witches may appear and even the means of attack, but there’s no special explanation on how to destroy those witches. But this witch is a bit different.”

Ye Xia seemed to be a little distracted, mumbling: “The fire of love that I can’t get… is really full of feelings of despair and helplessness.”

Qi Leren was speechless for a moment. Wait, sister Ye Xia, shouldn’t we seriously think about how to fix this witch now? Why did you suddenly switch to the channel for literary young women? I really didn’t see that you had such a style before! Didn’t you kill very well just now?!

“Have you ever liked anyone?” Ye Xia suddenly asked with a serious face.

“Er… yes.” Qi Leren was a little ashamed, but he answered honestly. Although they had only known each other for a short time, he had already liked her very much. Although he still couldn’t show this feeling to Ning Zhou, the more he suppressed it, the more intense this yearning love was. Before meeting Ning Zhou, he never thought that love at first sight would really happen to him.

“Great, does she like you?” Ye Xia asked again.

Qi Leren couldn’t help scratching his hot cheek: “It should be… the friendship kind of like. But it doesn’t matter, it’s enough if she treats me as a friend now. I hope she can like the real me.”

Qi Leren himself felt embarrassed to say such a thing to an unfamiliar person, but Ye Xia had an air that let people want to talk, and he said it before he knew it.

Ye Xia smiled and whispered, “Whether you are really loved or falsely loved, you’re happy as long as you’re loved. Sometimes love can’t help, and occurs in spite of yourself. Even if you know it’s impossible, you will not give up easily. ”

Looking at Qi Leren’s stunned eyes, Ye Xia smiled suddenly: “Sorry, I accidentally said a lot of inexplicable words. I hope that the person you love will make you better. ”

“Well, let’s not talk about this and continue to get down to business. The witch’s prompt doesn’t explain where or how she’ll appear. I guess it may be because we meet certain conditions, so we’ll be pulled into this dreamland…” Qi Leren said, and suddenly stopped.

Was it because he strongly liked Ning Zhou that he was chosen? That Ning Zhou… Will she show up?

He didn’t think so. She probably just takes care of him as a friend now. Qi Leren suddenly thought a little narcissistically. Now it’s really scary to see Ning Zhou. Doesn’t that mean Ning Zhou likes girls, like Lu Youxin? But when you think about it, the goddess, a high-cold cool girl, liking a girl doesn’t seem… to look strange at all!

No, no, goddess, don’t let me see you here! I’ll see you when I’m out of this dreamland.

“Then what?” After waiting for a while, she found that Qi Leren had been silent, and Ye Xia, whose expression was ever-changing, could not help but ask.

“Oh, yes, and then the specific conditions of being selected, I think probably have something to do with the three keywords of ‘sacrifice’, ‘betrayal’, and ‘love’. No matter how we got here, we must destroy the witch who controls this dreamworld if we want to leave. But as you said just now, you can’t completely destroy her by ordinary means.” Qi Leren interrupted his own thoughts and talked about his ideas intently.

Ye Xia nodded and listened very carefully.

“In fact, there’s a sentence in the prompt that I’m very concerned about…” Qi Leren rubbed his hand cut by broken porcelain pieces and said, “It’s the phrase ‘burning until the end of my life.’”

“Burning? Is it necessary to use fire?” Ye Xia suddenly understood.

“I’m not sure, but this is a clue. I suspect that the witch was finally burned to death, so there’s such a hint. To completely destroy her, you need to kill her again in the same way she died before.” Qi Leren said.

“It makes sense, just give it a try.” Ye Xia picked up the knife at hand and pointed to the door. “Let’s go. I’ve been to the warehouse before. There’s a lot of oil stored in it, which may come in handy.”

This one is also very straight to the point. The same type as his goddess, “just do it, don’t be timid” type? Although it is similarly simple and crude, the goddess is cuter after all, Qi Leren thought.

The two people walked side by side in the empty corridor. Qi Leren had no weapon to protect himself. Ye Xia snatched her weapon from an NPC. There was no second one for Qi Leren, so he had to be on tenterhooks for fear that a monster would suddenly rush out.

“There’s someone in front.” Ye Xia suddenly stopped.

Not far ahead, a strange girl looked at them coldly with a long metal rod in one hand. The sharp and lonely eyes were like beasts cruising in the jungle, giving a cold warning to unexpected visitors.

It clearly was a very different appearance, but at the moment he saw her, Qi Leren recognized her for some reason. Maybe it was her expression, maybe it was her posture, maybe it was just instinct, but he was convinced that it was Ning Zhou.

“Ning Zhou! I’m Qi Leren!” Qi Leren waved at her, and Ning Zhou in the distance stood still and strode towards him.

Looking at Ning Zhou coming towards him, Qi Leren suddenly swore inwardly. The goddess really came! And so on, if the selected condition is really what he guessed, is it true that the goddess really likes girls?!

A bolt from the blue!