CH 93

Chapter 93: Castle Cry (XX)

Until the phantom disappeared, Qi Leren felt a pain in his lungs. When he saw the scene where the crazy lady induced Nina to commit suicide as a sacrifice, he held his breath. Although it was just a phantom, her gloom and coldness settled in everyone’s mind like a fog. Her calm madness and inhuman cruelty were far more horrible than a real madman.

Qi Leren breathed a long sigh and looked back at the two men: “It turned out that Nina was sacrificed by the crazy lady. It seems that this scene should have happened after she released the crazy lady from the cellar.”

“What a story of a farmer and a snake.” Dr. Lu shook his head and said sympathetically, “But this system prompt is a bit strange. It turned out to be ‘discover the devil’s sacrifice’ instead of 'get the devil’s sacrifice.’”

“Because we really haven’t gotten the sacrifice yet,” Su He said, pointing to the skeleton hanging under the mounted goat head.

“…Do we still have to get the skeleton down?” Qi Leren asked heavily.

“I think so.” Su He looked at him with encouragement.

Qi Leren unsheathed his dagger to cut the rose, and the skeleton fell into a pile of broken bones on the ground. Nina’s skull rolled to Qi Leren’s feet and knocked into his shoes.

Qi Leren stared at the skull solemnly. He really didn’t want to pick it up with his hand. He was a good young man who had lived in the 21st century little more than ten days ago. He’d never touched the bones of the dead when he grew up. Only a little more than ten days in the Nightmare World, and he had done everything he had never done before.

“Put them on.” Su He took off his gloves and handed them to him. Qi Leren thanked him, put on gloves, and picked up the skull.

The system prompt immediately appeared: [Obtained the Devil’s Sacrifice 5/6]

Sure enough, his sensing of the devil power was accurate, and the devil power in this room was mainly centered in this skull.

“Take good care of it.” Qi Leren picked up the skull and gave it to Dr. Lu. Dr. Lu gave him an oblique look. He took the skull and stuffed it into his inventory without any complaining.

Su He tapped the ground with his cane, making a rhythmic sound. “Nina should be the last sacrifice in terms of the time sequence of the sacrifices. She wasn’t a part of the crazy lady, but was a living creature that activated the whole ceremony. Usually, this kind of living sacrifice will be put at the end. I just don’t know what the sacrifice that we haven’t found yet is.”

Qi Leren counted on his fingers: “At present, the offerings we have found include hair, teeth, the eyeball… something suspected of being the fetus, and Nina. Except for Nina, the living sacrifice, everything else is dead, and the rest should be something on the crazy lady.”

The three people couldn’t figure out what the rest of the sacrifices was for the time being, and the time was already close to five o'clock in the morning. Su He proposed that they should leave the room for their own safety, so as not to face a changed Nina after switching between the exterior and the interior. So the three people stood outside Nina’s room, waiting for the bell to chime.

“Bong-bong-bong-bong-bong-” Five bells sounded, the world before them changed again, and they returned to the glamorous inner world. With the electricity and lighting, the surroundings suddenly became friendly, and Qi Leren looked at the lights overhead and suddenly had a flash of realization - Wasn’t there a ready-made power supply here? After coming out of the cellar, he had met Su He, who had come to check for bugs. He’d completely put the laptop behind him, and thought of going back to the Village of Dusk to find someone to make a transformer, because it was said that the standard voltage in the Village of Dusk was much higher than that in the real world, and his mobile phone and computer couldn’t handle it.

The standard voltage of this replica world should not be much different from that of the 21st century, right? If it was in the range of 110V-220V, the transformer of his laptop should be compatible.

But… Su He and Dr. Lu were still here.

Qi Leren was caught in a web. Su He was talking with Dr. Lu about Miao Bo’s body on the floor. He had been killed by the armor of this world. The posture of the body was very distorted. The sounds of the two people’s discussion were not loud, and Qi Leren, who was full of worries, didn’t listen.

Did he want to find a way to separate from the two for a while? He couldn’t. The time for this task was running out. Why not go back to the Village of Dusk and think of some way?

Qi Leren opened the item bar, ready to look at the computer and Easter Egg again.

Laptop… Laptop… Laptop… No? How was that possible?!

Qi Leren froze. He once again checked his items from beginning to end. He saw the Easter Egg, but didn’t see the laptop!

This inexplicable laptop computer… has disappeared inexplicably.

A chill spread from the soles of his feet, and Qi Leren didn’t dare to move and stood stiffly.

When exactly did it disappear? Had it really appeared? Why did it disappear?

“…The posture of this body when it died is very strange. Normally, he should not have such a death on his knees and then fall back,” Su He’s voice sounded like it was far away.

“Oh, it makes sense. At that time, I suspected that he was in front of her to protect Luo Xueyi, so he was stabbed in front and died.” Dr. Lu’s voice was far away, as if he’d heard a whisper in his dream.

Qi Leren was spaced out.

He thought of a possibility.

Qi Leren secretly looked at Su He who was talking with Dr. Lu.

Su He must have some ability to view and take away his belongings. As a half GM, it was normal for him to have such skills, and this kind of behavior was not to help them. He could use his skills completely.

When was it… When Qi Leren recalled Su He’s appearance and his words and deeds, he couldn’t help feeling unsettled.

If Su He never stood on his side…

Qi Leren’s heart went cold. He’d been in and out of Su He’s mysterious field. He’d revealed too many things that shouldn’t be revealed to Su He. Su He absolutely knew that he had secrets. As long as he kept pursuing them… The system may directly wipe out this unstable factor.

“Qi Leren, what do you think?”

Dr. Lu’s voice awakened Qi Leren, who was overwhelmed by fear. He looked at Dr. Lu absently and asked calmly, “What did you say?”

“Miao Bo’s body, Su He thinks that he may have been pushed, and then he would form this posture of rushing forward and then landing on his knees, and then he would be pierced by a sword, so his body leans back. This posture is too strange. Very unnatural,” Dr. Lu repeated again.

Qi Leren looked at Miao Bo on the ground, but his mind was full of disappearing laptops, so he couldn’t think hard.

“What’s wrong with you? You look like you’re in a cold sweat.” Su He stepped forward, with his hand to Qi Leren forehead. “Has some wound become infected and given you a fever? I can see you’ve suffered a lot of injuries.”

Qi Leren suddenly took a step back, avoiding Su He’s touch. Under Su He’s gaze, which was slightly confused and worried, he woke up again.

Never show it!

“The wound hurts,” Qi Leren hissed and took a chill, clutching his injured left arm. When he was fighting with the crazy lady in the basement, he’d slashed his arm with the dagger to bleed. Although it was simply bandaged later, it still hurt.

“I told you to let me give you a treatment. You have to have it, whether you want to or not.” Dr. Lu rubbed his hands and prepared to treat him.

“Don’t, you have two hours to cool down your skills, so you can save it for the final battle, so that you won’t be too injured to return to the Twilight Township,” Qi Leren quickly refused.

“Then you’re in pain,” Dr. Lu said and shrugged his shoulders.

“I have a little pain-relieving spray. Give me your hand and I’ll help you bandage it again. This item is still allowed to be used. You can rest assured,” Su He said and took out a can of spray.

Qi Leren hesitated for a moment and held out his hand.

Su He skillfully cut off the bandage, sprayed the spray on his wound, and then wrapped it again. Sure enough, the feeling of pain became very slight, and he could hardly feel the injury without deliberately feeling it.

“Do you want to spray a little on your forehead?” Su He looked at his forehead and said, asking with concern.

Qi Leren opened his eyes and shook his head: “It doesn’t hurt too much, so don’t waste the medicine.”

Su He smiled gently: “That’s good. Protect yourself.”

Qi Leren’s soul screamed, and he once again doubted his own judgment. If Su He really stood on the opposite side of his position, and he did know his secret and had gotten the laptop, he didn’t need to be so good to him at all, as Qi Leren had no use value…

Was it true that the laptop’s disappearance had nothing to do with Su He?

Qi Leren’s tight heart relaxed slowly. Now thinking back carefully, the appearance of the laptop was very strange in itself, and the Nightmare Game he’d downloaded was even more strange. This game must have been made by someone who was very familiar with the Nightmare World, and sent this game out of the Nightmare World. So what was the purpose?

In order to let newcomers who had played the game quickly find the main task and complete it after entering the Nightmare World? But since the person who made the game already knew so much about the Nightmare World, why find new people to do it? Unless they couldn’t finish the task by themselves, and could only ask for help in this roundabout way.

But if you needed help, weren’t there ready-made players in the Nightmare World? There were so many people, and their qualifications were far better than those of new people. Why not find someone to do the main task in the Nightmare World? Before this castle mission, he had also gone to find out the NPC for the main task, which had not been triggered yet. That is to say, it seemed that only he really knew where the main task started.

Why would they publish Nightmare Game in the real world instead of finding someone to do it in the Nightmare World? What was the biggest difference between the real world and the Nightmare World?

There must be a reason… There must be…

An idea flashed through Qi Leren’s mind.

It was the system.

It was watching out for the system.

This made sense. The appearance of the laptop touched the system, so it attracted Su He. When Su He appeared, they sent the laptop back to avoid being discovered by the system.

As to when it was taken back… When Su He entered this copy, or when he entered the Su He’s field?

“What you said is reasonable. At that time, we heard Luo Xueyi’s screams, and then came here to find Miao Bo murdered. Luo Xueyi was missing. Because no witnesses saw the whole process of the incident, we don’t know what happened. It’s also very likely that Luo Xueyi would push her boyfriend onto the armor to escape in order to save herself,” Dr. Lu said, squatting beside Miao Bo’s body.

Qi Leren has already slowed down. He glanced at Su He quietly. For now, he couldn’t do anything. If Su He wanted to expose his abnormality to the system, he could only kill him by triggering his neck, but before that…

He was willing to trust him more.

Anyway, he had no better choice.

He had to keep it a secret.