After returning home, Qi Leren was already very tired. He didn't rest well during the mission. The accumulated fatigue finally broke out after returning home. He simply washed himself and plunged into the bed, and fell asleep in the dark. 12 hours.
When he woke up, the sky was still full of sunset, and Qi Leren had a messy head of hair, and there was a sense of time and space disorder.
After waking up, Qi Leren finally had the strength to think about what happened in the dungeon. Ning Zhou aside, this dungeon still has a lot to think about. For example, Isabel's hidden quest, their final completion rate was only 50%.
The name of this task is "The Dusty Past". Qi Le people always thought it was referring to the lost memory of Isabel, but when the task was completed, Isabel's memory had been found, but the degree of completion was still only half, which meant that they missed After a lot of clues, to put it another way, they did not reach TRUE END.
So where is the problem
Qi Leren leaned on the bedside and thought for a while, and felt that the problem was still with Isabel.
The most doubtful point is that no one can prove Isabel's memory, and it all comes from her own account. The person involved in her memory, Ye Xia (that's not even the "Ye Xia" who has the ability to transfer souls, It's the poor player who was destined to have her body taken away and occupy the magpie's nest), the Demon King of Deception, her sister, these people are either dead without proof or cannot be reached, and no one can confirm her memory.
Her speech is an orphan.
After finishing this mission, Qi Leren can look at this mission more comprehensively. The task of sacrificing witches should have existed more than 20 years ago, and it has continued to this day. In the past, witches served the old demon king, but three years ago, for some unknown reason, the deceived demon king accepted the sacrifice. and participated with great enthusiasm.
This is also the key reason that led to the massacre of the sacrifice of witches three years ago.
Love to see the betrayal, depravity and despair of the deceitful demon king of mankind playing with this group of poor witch candidates with her demagogic powers, even Ye Xia, who wins in the end, is just a chess piece crazy for her, like The same erotic witch. Ye Xia said that she followed the Demon King's will and returned to the underground palace, and continued the mission of sacrificing witches... Wait a minute.
Qi Leren caught the flash of thought in his mind.
This deceitful devil undoubtedly has the power to deceive people, so will Isabel...
Was she really willing to go to the altar because she couldn't go back, because she wanted to see her sister again? Maybe it was just a lie she used to convince them.
"My heart has never changed."
Recalling Isabel's last sentence before parting, the usual answer seemed to be endowed with countless deep meanings and became meaningful.
At that time, the Demon King of Deception appeared in the beam of light on the altar, but because the distance was too far, Qi Leren didn't know if she said anything. He only remembered that Isabel walked towards the beam of light and never looked back.
Maybe she was bewitched like those poor witches three years ago, and only forgot because she lost her memory, and when the memory came back, the irresistible longing from the devil also returned, and finally tempted her to become the devil witch.
The clues given on the stone walls of the underground palace are actually quite ambiguous. Now that I think about it, maybe some of them may have been wrong at all, such as "one of you has betrayed" and "one of us has gone and returned". Are there two sentences? Are you referring to Ye Xia? So these two clues are not duplicates? What's the point of that? What's more, Ye Xia, who hadn't stood by them from the beginning, could really be considered a "betrayal" by her actions? From the beginning to the end, she was only loyal to herself and to the Demon King of Deception.
If "one of you has betrayed" doesn't refer to Ye Xia, then... who are you talking about
This "betrayal" must be a factor that can be grasped by the "system" or "Demon King". It must have taken root among them early on, just waiting for... the moment of betrayal to come.
Betrayal doesn't have to be blood-drenched swords. Maybe it happened silently and silently. The person who betrayed won the victory with a humble attitude, but they didn't even know that they were used.
Could it be what he thought? But whether it is or not, there is no point, it is all over. Qi Leren leaned against the head of the bed, silently watching the sunset outside the window, and fell into contemplation.
The underground palace... the witch... the deceiver...
The Qi Le people's thinking jumped back and forth until they got stuck at the Iron Witch.
He rolled up the quilt and sat up straight, and a question emerged in his mind: According to the prompt given by the system, every time he killed a witch candidate in the underground palace, he could get an ability increase, why did he not get the ability when he killed himself in the molten iron witch increase
First of all, it can be confirmed that the death of SL skills is also counted in killing witch candidates, and Ning Zhou has proved this. Killing a witch candidate before the system prompt appears can increase the ability, and Ye Xia proves this. The increase in ability is not counted in the body. Ye Xia has changed his body several times, but the increase in ability is still there.
In other words, the power obtained by killing a witch candidate is bound to something ethereal like a "soul".
Then why wouldn't he get a power boost when he kills himself
Qi Leren buried his face in his hands, and suddenly thought of a possibility.
Maybe at the moment of suicide, he had already gained the ability to increase, but in that brief moment, he had already killed the one who got the ability.
This thought made Qi Leren chill for a while, and it took a long time to calm down.
It is also possible that he just thinks too much, and he can't get the ability increase because the "he" in the archive covers the "he" who died within 30 seconds and got the ability increase at the moment of reading the file. There will be no additional strength bonuses.
He originally thought that the SL skill was just a perfect recovery technique plus teleportation technique to ensure that he teleported back to the save point with full blood at the moment of death. It does not involve reversing time, nor does it involve some power that makes people dare not think deeply, but Now it seems that it is not as simple as he thought.
I am afraid this skill has already involved things at the soul level, otherwise it cannot explain that he cannot obtain the ability increase bound in the "soul" by killing himself.
There was a knock on the door.
Qi Leren quickly got off the bed, put on his coat and opened the door. Chen Baiqi's sister stood outside the door and handed over a piece of paper with a smile: "Come and sign it, my sister gave it to you."
Qi Leren glanced at it, and the number of days to live for the contract transfer was 8 hours, he sighed: "When your sister asked me to charge, it was only three days, and now I only gave her eight hours of information. It's just rubbish."
"Who is Zhou Papi?" the little girl asked, tilting her head.
"... Uh, a black-hearted landlord, don't you know?" Qi Leren asked strangely.
The little girl shook her head: "This is someone from the outside world. I have been here since I was born, and I have never been to the outside world."
Qi Leren looked at her in astonishment. Chen Baiqi's younger sister looked like an Oriental, so he never thought she would be an NPC: "Didn't you come in with Chen Baiqi?"
"No, my parents are just like you. They gave birth to me and then died. It is said that my mother gave birth to me during a monthly compulsory mission, or was born prematurely. My sister said that she must love me very much. I would be willing to give birth to me, but I can't remember what she looked like." The little girl said, sticking out her tongue.
It turns out that players can still have children in the game? What exactly is the child born? An NPC in the game
"Do you have days to live?" Qi Leren asked again.
The little girl shook her head: "I don't have it, and I don't need to do tasks like you, but my sister said that I will be like you when I turn eighteen."
Does this game have a minor protection law? Qi Leren was even more surprised.
"Don't just ask about me, is that Su He still in the Land of Dusk? My sister said he went back to the Land of Dawn, so I won't be able to see him in the future?" the little girl asked.
It turned out to be a small fan of Su He, but they only met once on the spaceship. She was Yan Control at a young age. Qi Leren looked at her with emotion and said, "He has already gone back, I don't know if he will come or not. , probably not."
The little girl kicked the ground unhappily: "Yes, people from the Land of Dawn rarely come here, forget it, I'm going home, goodbye."
Seeing that she ran away, Qi Leren glanced at his survival time of 55 days and 14 hours and decided to have a good meal.
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Qi Leren, who was full of his stomach in the lively commercial district, also took him to the quest office. The types of quests in Nightmare World are really diverse, with difficulty ratings ranging from D to S. The more difficult tasks are will not appear in the mission.
Some quests even deprive the player of all skills and props - just like in Witchcraft - but the difficulty of such quests will be relatively low, which is actually beneficial for beginners. There are also some missions that will temporarily seal part of the player's memory, making them forget their identity, and only retain the memory before entering the nightmare world, which will not be restored until the mission is completed and returned to the nightmare world.
Some players can earn enough days to survive in the Land of Twilight, such as Chen Baiqi, but they also need to do tasks. The monthly mandatory task is a nightmare that no player can get rid of. Its difficulty will gradually increase, and by about the third year or so, each mission is a brutal death adventure.
Therefore, if you blindly want to rely on the survival days earned outside the task to make a living, and ignore your own training, it is basically equivalent to chronic suicide.
After walking out of the mission station, Qi Leren looked up at the sky.
Bathed in the sunset of the twilight town all day long, the beautiful scenery will become depressing after a long time. If you look closely, a pale moon hangs in the west. Although it is not as bright as the night, it still hangs in the sky.
This picture is a bit familiar.
Qi Leren recalled the pictures in the game, and suddenly thought that it was time to trigger the pre-plot of the main quest.
Leaving the mission station and walking towards the spaceship airport, Qi Leren once again came to the vicinity of the steel bridge.
It is still lively here, some people come and go in groups, some alone, just like him. The setting sun stained this ordinary scene with unspeakable loneliness.
Even more than ten hours ago, he still walked here with such enthusiasm and longing, but now when he walks on this mechanically-filled arch bridge again, he can't help but feel a bit of a sense of loss.
Standing on the highest point of the arch bridge, Qi Le person looked back with happiness and spirituality. In the vast crowd, Ning Zhou was walking in the crowd with his back to him. Among so many strangers, Qi Le people saw it at a glance. he.
Even if he had only met the male Ning Zhou once, he could still find him easily, just like he could see at a glance the "she" possessed by a strange witch in an illusion.
There is always one person who is special in his heart.
Ning Zhou's figure had long since disappeared from the crowd. Qi Leren took a deep breath, shook off everything about Ning Zhou, and continued on his own path.
PS: Do you understand Leren's thinking about SL skills? I wrote it a bit around, probably because Qi Le people thought that their SL skills = full blood recovery + teleportation, skills do not affect things at the soul level, nor do they involve reversing time, only about the physical body. But if he commits suicide in the underground palace, he should be able to get power augmentation, because Ye Xia has proven that power augmentation does not follow the body, but follows the soul (or something similar to the player's game UID). Qi Leren did not gain strength by committing suicide at the Iron Witch. This shows that his previous judgment on the SL skill was wrong. The SL skill may be: save him in this state when saving, and he will die within 30 seconds, read directly The one who took the archive and the one who died were deleted or overwritten, just like a piece of computer data. Of course, the radio waves of the memory will still be preserved. So the "he" who got the power boost is already dead.
This has created a lot of thought and fear, everyone think about it XD
Of course, the biggest possibility: Leren, you think too much. This quest just doesn't allow you to gain strength by committing suicide.
In addition: Isabelle who recovered and later betrayed her. She also loves the Devil King of Deception. She used Le and Ning Zhou to kill Ye Xia, her biggest rival and rival. Although she is the most disheartened, she is the one in this round. The ultimate winner of the witch sacrifice.