After seeing the lord, the four stayed in the lord's castle, waiting for the night of the new moon to come.
From the lord's mouth, they learned some information about the new moon: starting from a certain year, every new moon night, the residents of the holy city must fall asleep before midnight, whether it is natural sleep or relying on sleeping medicine, in short, must sleep. If someone doesn't fall asleep after midnight, or wakes up before dawn, that person disappears, forever.
The inhabitants of the holy city called it the "calamity of the new moon".
The cause of the new moon disaster is still unclear, and many people have explored this strange monthly phenomenon out of curiosity, and some even deliberately stayed awake after midnight and left some creepy notes...
In the library room of the castle, the attendants gathered together the information about the night of the new moon according to the request of Qi Leren and others. Several people sat at the table to find the information separately. Even Ning Zhou's big black bird was honest. Stop by and brush your feathers without making a fuss.
After reading a note, Su He said, "This diary is interesting, you can take a look."
Qi Leren took the notebook Su He handed over. Fortunately, the lingua franca of Nightmare World was Chinese (although I don't know if it was an automatic translation from the system), so he wouldn't be able to understand the words of Nightmare World. Over time, he has become accustomed to the Western-looking NPCs who speak Chinese proficiently.
"… I have prepared everything I need, paper, pens, oil lamps, sticks and cloaks, and told my parents that I have drank the sleeping potion and will be able to sleep until dawn. It is twenty-three o'clock at night, and There's an hour left at midnight. I'm excited and disturbed because I don't know what I'm going to see in an hour. If everything is ok after midnight, I'll put on my cape and go out the door and go for a night tour, if there is What's wrong... Anyway, I've locked the doors and windows, there's no danger."
After reading this, Qi Le people have seen the ending of this unfortunate person.
Dr. Lu also came over, tsk tsk: "Die to death."
Qi Leren turned the notebook to the next page, and the handwriting on the parchment became hurried and messy:
"It's zero o'clock! My God, I actually stayed up after zero o'clock on the night of the new moon. Now I'm a little nervous. But everything is normal. I just stood by the window and looked down. The holy city was dark, even the main road. The kerosene street lights in my house also went out, which is normal, after all, no one needs the lighting of the street lights this night. It is so quiet, there is no sound around, only the rustling of quills when writing on paper, I can already hear myself more and more The heartbeat is getting faster and faster, is this the New Moon Calamity? It's not the same as I imagined."
"I seem to hear footsteps outside the door... Delusion? (a cloud of ink) I just walked to the door and listened carefully, there are really footsteps!!! Is there something on the stairs?! Footsteps There was a creaking sound from the planks, and there was a particularly loud sound, it must be the sound of stepping on the loose plank at the entrance of the stairs! My God, has something sneaked into my house?! Mom and Dad are in the master bedroom Asleep, they can't hear, God what am I going to do! What am I going to do!! It won't come in? God what am I going to do? What should I do?"
The owner of the note was completely panicked, and he became more and more scribbled and messed up.
"Will it see the light in my room through the crack of the door? I'd better blow out the oil lamp, yes, blow it out, and drink the sleeping potion, I must go to sleep."
The image of a terrified young man appeared in Qi Leren's mind. He imagined how he was terrified and suspicious of the strange footsteps and the unknown monster wandering outside the door. He was already terrified. He lost his innocent curiosity, but fear itself did not let him go.
Qi Leren turned another page, a line of words full of fear and despair took up most of the parchment, and the last half of the word was even written outside the paper. It was scribbled, twisted, and collapsed, fearing the unknown. This young man who wrote his last words in the dark has completely defeated him.
"It's knocking on the door."
This notebook is only a few hundred words, but it is creepy. From curiosity to panic to despair, he was like a bird in the dark, and the sudden knock on the door completely defeated him...
Su He patiently waited for them to read the note, and then said: "From the content of the text, after midnight on the night of the new moon, some incredible changes will occur."
Qi Leren closed the notebook and handed it back to Su He: "Maybe it's the devil?"
He knows a little more than they do, because he's been through the night of the new moon in The Nightmare Game. In the game, he got the quest ignorantly and walked into the holy city, but the NPCs did not show curiosity about him, and he was not taken to see the lord, but stayed in a tavern in the holy city. The story of the New Moon Calamity is known through the guests in the tavern. Of course, he chose to stay up late on the night when the new moon came, and walked into the streets of the Holy City after midnight.
Then he died in a mundane and unremarkable manner from a demon's attack.
"It is very likely to be a demon. Maybe the demon will appear on the night of the new moon, and then attack the humans who are not sleeping. But why does this only happen in the new moon? Where are these demons usually lurking? Why attack no one? The one who fell asleep?" Su He asked a few questions in one breath.
Qi Leren was speechless when asked, and peeked at Ning Zhou who was reading the documents: "Let this question be answered by a professional exorcist of the Holy See."
Ning Zhou raised his head and met Su He's slightly smiling eyes. The two looked at each other for three seconds, then looked away.
"Wait until the night of the new moon to find out." Ning Zhou said, and continued to read the stacked materials.
Su He smiled silently and said lightly, "Alright."
Is this the end? Do not continue to analyze it? Qi Leren stared blankly at Ning Zhou and Su He, who were busy, and was suddenly pulled aside by Dr. Lu. Qi Leren thought he had found some clues, but Dr. Lu just dragged him to the corner. He asked mysteriously, "Do you think that Su He and your good friend, who is still a pure boyfriend even though they live together, are a little at odds with each other?"
Why use such a long adjective? Qi Leren immediately felt the malice from his little friend: "It's okay, but Ning Zhou doesn't like talking very much, and he doesn't talk much to you either."
Dr. Lu said sternly: "No, it's not the same at all, aura, there is a subtle aura between them."
"What aura?" Qi Leren asked shamelessly.
Dr. Lu said seriously, "Asura Field."
"What?" Qi Leren remembered that this seemed to describe a tragic battlefield, but it was obviously inappropriate to use it here.
"Forget it, I'll go to the toilet." Dr. Lu rolled his eyes and walked out of the library with his pockets in his pockets.
Qi Leren, who didn't get the answer, was still thinking about what "Shura Field" meant when he suddenly heard Ning Zhou and Su He calling his name at the same time: "Leren, come and see this." "Qileren ,here."
The two people who each occupied one side of the table looked at each other, and then looked at Qi Leren by the door together.
In a flash of lightning and flint, Qi Le people understood something without a teacher.
It turns out that this is what the Shura Field means? Two good friends made the same request at the same time, and it was not clear which side should agree first. What was the meaning of this subtle, weird, and even slightly awkward atmosphere
It was really inexplicable and a little panic, but he didn't know what he was panicking about
"I... I'll go to the toilet first, so you can share your new discoveries with each other first." Qi Leren also learned a little about how to deal with such a scene without a teacher, and walked out of the library pretending to be calm.
Anyway, go to the toilet first.