Chapter 451: The Evil God Festival - The Boathouse

Beiyuan Xiaokui replied in a trance: "Sister Apricot, I'll go with you."

Apricot cried tears of joy as she clasped Xiaokui's hand tightly before glancing rather warily at the half-open door of the evil shrine, "Who were you talking to?"

Xiaokui turned around and Xie Ta, who had been standing in the same place, was gone.

"Shh-!" Sister Apricot cautiously put her index finger to her lips, she looked quickly from side to side, "Someone's coming, move."

Xiaokui turned back in a daze as she saw the doors of the shrine slowly being blown by the night breeze, the gods dangling from the centre of the shrine by a myriad of silk threads.

The moonlight pours down, the god's long neck is bloodied by the threads, and he is hoisted up by the threads, his silvery-blue eyes glistening like a pond, meeting Xiaokui, who has turned his head back during his departure.

Xie Ta just watched her go, her eyes filled with the moonlight.

The moment she saw those eyes, Xiaokui felt her mind buzzing, everything around her slowed down as if in slow motion, and strange noises emerged.

[System prompt: npc spirit value zero detected.]

[......npc is alienating ......npc alienation aborted ......]

[System Alert: Incarnation (Tavel) generation (pain) detected, walk out of the shrine, this act triggers a special node ...... copy into reset ......]

The designers of this game have hidden the data from World Line 657 (player Bai six) from the Evil God Festival - Funhouse in this node, so that once the body of the evil god Tavel becomes distressed and voluntarily walks out of the shrine, a special game mode will be triggered the moment he walks out of the shrine.

[The egg game path is unfolding ......]

[The copy of "Evil God Festival - Boathouse" in World Line 657 will soon overlap with "Evil God Festival - Boathouse" in World Line 658, so please get ready for your encounter in each world line.

[Total number of players in this copy is being detected in both world lines ......]

[World Line 658: Player Spades, Player Bai Liu]

[where player Spades is in the five years later timeline and has no game progress at this time].

[Player Bai Liu has triggered the Wicked Spirits storyline and entered the five year old timeline, and is currently halfway through the game].

[WorldCat 657: Player Bai six.

[Player Bai six has triggered the "Evil Spirit" storyline and entered the timeline five years ago. 97% of the game is currently in progress, in the process of sacrificing the Evil Spirit, and will soon pass.

[Total three players for the overlapping copies of "Evil Ritual - Boathouse"].

[Calculating the time flow and space curvature in both replicas ...... is adjusting the replica progress ...... is adjusting the npc memory ...... adjustment is complete, replica time and space and world line 658 current progress is the same, npc memory is the same as world line 657 game progress ......]

[NPC memory reset begins.]

[Loading the memories of "Evil God Ritual - Funhouse" into the npc's brain in World Thread 657 ......]

Beiyuan Xiaokui's eyes went blank and she felt everything around her recede rapidly, a memory so real that it was terrifying, but one she had never experienced before, was created out of thin air in her mind.

Everything ahead was the same as before, she escaped and then was captured and returned two months later, and on the boat back she met [Bai six].

But since then, nothing has been the same.

When Aota's voice trembled as she asked this [Bai six] if he had killed many small animals and people at the orphanage, this Bai six admitted with a soft smile.

[Yeah.] This [Bai six] smiled pleasantly, [What, I'm not allowed to kill?

[It's not like anyone will remember if these things are killed, so why shouldn't I kill them?

[No one has lost anything as a result, I'm just clearing out the worthless stuff].

[It's the same with you guys too, no one will remember or care if you're killed, even if it's lower and cheaper than the ones I cleared out before].

Amidst the cries of fear that Aoi-tae was trying her best to contain, she, cowering on the bed below, clearly heard this [Bai six] say lazily, [Because you are just npc's in a game I am playing].

By the time he arrived at the boathouse, [Bai six] had, not surprisingly, become a sacrifice, and he coerced Aota into becoming his squire, and then later, like her, was chosen by the Bei Yuan family to become [Bei Yuan Bai six].

This [Bai six] also stole the key on the first night of his arrival at Bei Yuan's house and went to the shrine, where he was also seen by her, who lived in the attic.

But Xiaokui also clearly sees that [Bai six] does not awaken the evil god.

One day, two days, day after day.

[Bai six] In all the days that he went to the back of the shrine, not once did he awaken the evil god.

During the day, this [Bai six] lazes around in class while torturing himself in a thoughtful and aggressive manner, to such an extent that he even shocks the teachers at Bei Yuan's house who take pleasure in torturing him, and sometimes these teachers, who have done all kinds of cruel things, can't help but shudder in fear when [Bai six] torments himself.

Sometimes it would stop, sometimes it wouldn't, and these teachers would flee outside in an unbearable manner, sometimes crouching in the corridor with dry heaving faces, and then fleeing in panic.

--It was as if the chamber held not a sacrifice that could be manipulated at will by pushing the door, but a monster that struck fear into their hearts.

Xiaokui vividly remembers these teachers losing their minds and commenting on [Bai six] - a complete lunatic.

At night, this madman-like [Bai six] would climb up to the shrine over and over again and stay there all night, but would come down the next day quite a bit lighter than the day before, as if he had encountered something extremely unpleasant.

Xiaokui, as she remembers it, never understood why [Bai six] did what she did, but she didn't dare to ask directly.

-until the summer festival comes and the painful test that all the sacrifices face arrives.

Xiaokui finally understood why [Bai six] could not awaken the evil god and why he was torturing himself with such madness.

[Bai six] On this painful test, there is actually not a single frame of pain.

When Aota said [Bai six] put his hand on the right-hand plate of the scales, the hands of the scales did not even wobble, as if the man's heart had not produced any pain at all.

How is it possible? Xiaokui asked Aota this.

Aota also found it unbelievable and said he thought he was mistaken, how could there be no pain at all with that level of [Bai six] self-torture.

But no means no.

Bai six] was relegated to the rank of squire, but he seems not to have cared about his reduced status and continued to carry his lantern to the shrine every night.

Xiaokui gradually realised what this man was trying to do -

[Bai six] wants to torture himself to produce pain and awaken the evil gods.

But then what?

Why did he do it?

Xiaokui is inwardly curious about the answer to this question, but she has to admit that she may never get an answer to it.

She was so terrified [Bai six] that there was no way she could have asked him for an answer to that question.

This man's cruelty and indifference to others has reached a level that would terrify even the Bei Yuan family.

Despite the drop in status to [squire], none dared to give orders to [Bai six] to do what a squire should do, for no one was afraid of [Bai six], and his lazy and smiling face as he tormented himself cast a shadow of terror over everyone's heart.

What is even more outrageous is that after only a month of being a squire, he was recognized by the master of the Bei Yuan family for his skill in torturing sacrifices and causing pain, and became their teacher from a squire to a teacher.

Xiaokui is a key offering and works one-on-one with [Bai six] about twice a week.

In the silent, dimly lit peace room, two people sit quietly.

Xiaokui sat on her knees on the cushion, looking at her hands, which were trembling slightly from the fear she could not contain, not daring to look up at the [Bai six] sitting opposite her.

She could feel [Bai six]'s scattered eyes glancing slowly and lazily over her body.

Xiaokui has feared the adults who arrested her and the teachers at Bei Yuan's house, but fearing someone her own age, even more so than the first two, is a completely new experience for her.

Why could a sixteen or seventeen year old male, who could somehow still be described as a child, terrify her so much that her breath began to fail her.

"You must be wondering why I go to the shrine every night." Bai six, sitting cross-legged across the table, suddenly spoke up, his jaw propped casually in his posture, a very light smile on his face, "I know you've been watching me every night."

Xiaokui's heart nearly jumped out of her throat and she was about to deny it when Bai six lazily interrupted, "I can tell you why."

"Because I also have a wish that I want God Xiang to make."

Xiaokui was quiet for a long time before she gritted her teeth and answered, " Bai six teacher, what is your wish ......?"

Bai six lifted her eyes, "I wasn't liked at the orphanage, they threw a lot of dirt on me, I was falsely accused of abusing small animals, falsely accused of doing a lot of bad things, and finally even went so far as to be falsely accused of murder."

Xiaokui was shocked and she subconsciously looked up: "Are these all false accusations?! Then why did you admit it on the boat?"

"Because there's no point in denying it, is there?" Bai six lowered his slender eyelashes, casting a rather forlorn shadow over his face, "Don't you all already believe that rumour? Might as well just sit on it."

"It's not like anyone would like a monster like me who can't feel any pain anyway."

"Can't even make a sacrifice."

Xiaokui clutched his shirt in front of him, looking slightly dazed for a moment.

[Sister, I know pain, not suffering.]

[Sister, is it my fault that I can't feel pain? Why does everyone hate me?

[Can't I be a sacrifice instead of my sister?

...... Jiro, her brother, her poor brother, was also such a person, and if he were still alive, he would be about the same height as [Bai six], right?

There was no trace of despondency in the dark eyes that hung beneath the long lashes, a kind of uninterested playfulness, but the tone continued to fall, "That's all for today's lesson, Xiaokui-sama, go back to your rest."

"Don't wait for me to go to the shrine tonight, I know I can't produce pain and have given up on fulfilling my own desires."

With that, Bai six got up to leave. Xiaokui gritted her teeth, and the moment Bai six was about to step out of the door, she called out hoarsely: "Bai six, please wait!"

Bai six, whose fingers had just touched the paper door, turned his back on Xiaokui, the corners of his mouth imperceptibly curled up, but his voice was subdued: " Is there anything else, Lord Xiaokui?"

"Can you tell me exactly what your wish is?" Xiaokui tilted her head, her eyes red and her voice trembling with prayer, "I, my brother, am one of those who, like you, could not produce pain at first."

"His wishes were all for me, and I wondered what kind of wishes a man like him would make for himself if he wanted to wish for himself."

Bai six stopped in his tracks and he turned around nonchalantly, looking down at Xiaokui with tears in the corners of his eyes, "Do you really want to know?"

"You promise not to tell anyone?"

Xiaokui nodded vigorously, "I promise not to tell anyone."

"Then ......" Bai six crouched down and stretched out his right hand, expending his pinky finger, raising his eyes to look directly at Xiaokui with a slightly childish expression on his face, "then pull the hook and hang yourself for a hundred years. "

Xiaokui was flabbergasted for a moment, her eyes slowly filling with tears.

...... pulling the hook on this habit also seems like Jiro ah.

"Of course it stays the same." Xiaokui took a deep breath and also reached out and hooked her pinky on Bai six's pinky twice, "I promise not to say anything to anyone."

Bai six smiled obscurely, "A liar swallows a thousand needles, Sister Xiaokui."