Chapter 517: The Witch Trials

In three days' time, the next challenge will begin.

Bai Liu sent Spades back to the killer sequence just two days ago and returned to the Roving Circus to start preparing for the next challenge.

Stray Circus meeting room.

Wang Shun was at the front of the room, and he could see that he was nervous, explaining things less naturally than before, and speaking quickly: "Tomorrow is our second challenge."

"This will be our last meeting before the tournament." He paused and added with a bitter smile, "As much as I don't want to put pressure on you, it has to be said that this is our last chance for the league this year."

"If we analyse the guilds again, we can rule out the killer sequence first, the team that has already won one challenge will be the first to go, the killer sequence is already in the playoffs, and we only have seven teams in the card pool."

"There are three teams that we should be aware of, and they are the top three remaining teams, the King's Guild in second, the Deer Hunters in third and Golden Dawn in fourth, all of which are very strong, and all of which have a popular team with a set of exemptions, so that means they don't have the need to be popular anymore, and when they play us When they play us, it's likely they'll just forfeit the first two games and go straight to the third game -"

Wang Shun looked around the room, he took a deep breath, "- and our weakness, the team competition."

"All three of these teams have brought in new players this year." Tang Erda frowned at the question, "And judging from the replays, they don't work well with the team, is it possible to use the newcomers as a breakthrough in the team competition?"

It's conventional thinking that newcomers usually don't work well with the team and are prone to being the one to be broken in team games, but Wang Shun laughed bitterly when he heard, "That's all I'm saying."

"All three of these teams have very strong newcomers who do work poorly with their teams at times, but that poor coordination is completely overshadowed by the tactics their tacticians have designed for them and their own toughness."

"First up, the Sisters of the King's Crown." Wang Shun tapped on the system panel and a video was projected on it.

The video shows Phoebe with blonde hair and green eyes, her hands folded in front of her chest, three pairs of pure white wings spread out behind her, her expression as holy as the undefiled first snow, her long curled yellowish eyelashes slightly lowered as she prays reverently for a player kneeling in front of her, his eyes completely disillusioned.

"May the Lord bless you to hell."

"Come here and let me give you the gospel."

After she had finished chanting lightly, the feathers behind her quickly closed, enveloping both her and the player in front of her, the shiny white feathers quickly turning into a layer of black membranous bats wings, and when they opened again, the player had just been turned into a pile of bones, and Phoebe had blood still fading from her mouth, which she licked away with an innocent expression, with an insatiable smile as if she had eaten her fill, the pupils of her eyes turning from green to blood red, and the corners of her forehead The pupils of her eyes turned from green to blood red, and two curly goat horns sprouted from the corners of her forehead.

The scene is set at the moment when Phoebe licks the blood from the corner of her mouth.

Mu Sicheng's scalp tingled a little: "Isn't this man's title a nun? Why does it look like a vampire."

"Through my prying to some people within the King's Guild." Wang Shun looked at Phoebe on the screen and sighed with complicated eyes, " Phoebe's skill is the same as the witch, a very rare two-stage skill with a replaceable monster book identity."

"Phoebe has two identities, one as a nun and one as a witch, the nun can enchant her Team Fang friends through prayer, reducing the level of damage her Team Fang friends take, which simply means weakening the opponent's attacks, and she also has a skill called [Gospel], which makes the enemy uncontrollably feel good about her and Lower your defences and pour out your heart to her."

"At this point, Phoebe usually switches her identity, transforming herself from nun status to witch status and sucking the blood and flesh of her opponent, she does quite a lot of damage, basically after about ten seconds of being sucked, a Mu Sicheng level player will be emptied of blood."

Wang Shun tapped the pile of white bones on the system panel, "-and then it became this."

Mu Sicheng gets goose bumps: "Don't use me as an example!"

"But she also has a clear weakness." Bai Liu looked up at the screen, "She can't be attacked in close quarters, can she?"

Wang Shun nodded: "That's my guess too, Phoebe's defence doesn't seem to be high, she's a control position, Hearts usually put her behind [Shield], the Titan, to protect her, but she's not usually that honest and will run out, so a lot of players will aim for her."

"But because she also does a lot of damage, aiming at her players are dying horribly, so nothing has happened so far, and they've basically played the whole group game without quitting early."

Bai Liu was thoughtful: "So she's also a decoy, acting as part of a roaming mission."

"What bait?" Mu Sicheng asked, confused.

"She was deliberately put out there by Hearts to run around the field." Liu Jiayi explained coldly. Liu Jiayi explained coldly, "She was then told to attract the enemy's main attack or roam to attack, like a spider, spreading its web and then sticking to its prey to suck it up and kill it, which is the responsibility of the [roaming] player, but since Liu Ji and Qi Yifang are not good at roaming, Hearts gave Phoebe the The roaming position."

Liu Jiayi looks at Phoebe on the screen and pauses for a moment: "She's done a beautiful job."

" Phoebe doesn't work well with the others, but she works quite well with Hearts." Bai Liu propped up his jaw as he looked at the screen with light eyes, "As a player, she was good enough to work well with the tactician."

"She can't be used as a breakthrough."

Bai Liu made a simple judgement and quickly turned the tables: " What about Liu Ji and Qi Yifang?"

"What can I say about these two ......" Wang Shun's expression also became helpless, "It's true that they're not strong, but they're the ones Hearts has been bringing under their wing and they're very obedient to Hearts. And the skills are all very distinctive too, I haven't found a breakthrough at the moment."

" Qi Yifang, who you've already met in The Rose Factory, is a roaming position with the skill identity of weather announcer, very unpredictable, even he himself is very lacking in control, but used well he can be surprisingly effective, but his normal attack skill is solid and doesn't break much."

" Liu Ji, this person is not high intelligence value, obedience is first class, basically the moment Hearts gives an order, he can execute it, there is no time lag, so it is equivalent to Hearts is his brain, the skill is [Flaming Bone Hammer]."

Wang Shun pointed seriously at Liu Ji, whose entire body was on fire and you could see his bones: "This is his berserk state after his spirit level falls below 40, his body is covered in fire. A hit is the equivalent of being hit by Tang Erda's gun."

......

After the meeting broke up, Bai Liu stayed behind to discuss the details of the match with Wang Shun.

Wang Shun looked worried: "This time it's still you who will go up and draw the team, and with your luck you'll probably draw the team currently ranked the strongest in the card pool, which is the King's Crown."

"Playing against your old boss soon?" Bai Liu was still in the mood for a joke, he smiled, "What's the mood?"

Wang Shun didn't know whether to cry or laugh: "As soon as you come on, Hearts will know that I've used the last of my contacts in the guild to dig out Phoebe's specific skills, and she'll be hunting me down before I can talk about being the boss."

"It's Jiayi, instead." Wang Shun paused for a moment, "And I don't know what the boy thinks."

" Hearts treated her, really well."

" Why does Hearts treat Jiayi so well?" Bai Liu inquired in a flat tone, "Do you know why, after being around Hearts for so long?"

Wang Shun hesitated, but said, "It seems that the Queen treats Jiayi well because Jiayi, like her, has a particular aversion to men."

With that, Wang Shun glanced at Bai Liu and, after a moment of deliberation, said politely, "Especially the kind of bad men who have a lust for profit and like to abduct little girls, the Queen has met such men on the field and basically made them all end up in a bad way."

Bai Liu: "......"

Bai Liu changed the subject without a word: "I've lost two games in a row, has Charles approached me?"

"No." Wang Shun looked puzzled, "I was surprised to say the least, I even went to him before and he said for you not to worry about the investment, just than, there would be no shortage of investment."

"Because apart from him, there is another gambler who has his eye on you."

Bai Liu's eyes narrowed: "Who?"

Wang Shun's expression became a little subtle: "I don't know, Charles only left you a gift box, which I only saw when I came here today, saying that no one else could open it but you, and that it was given to you by another investor gentleman, saying that you would naturally know who the other investor gentleman was when you opened it."

Bai Liu paused for a moment, "Give me the gift box."

When he saw the box, Bai Liu finally knew why Wang Shun's expression was so subtle when he talked about it - it was a pink and black lace box with a few rings of crystal wrapping around the edge, looking luxurious and ......

Pornography.

Bai Liu opened the box calmly, Wang Shun's expression froze instantly as soon as he scanned the contents of the box, he jerked his head up to look at Bai Liu and said Buming: "This, what is this?

Inside the box was a very smart set of lace corsets and panties, and a belt leg ring - all women's - with a small card beside it.

Bai Liu indifferently took out the card and looked down at the fluttering and frivolous words on it -

--Match the outfit you were given last time, it fits you well, show me in the game.

Gamblers' Union Guild.

"Do you really have a thing for Bai Liu?" Charles sat behind his desk with a meaningful, probing look on his face, "He's a dark horse I've got my eye on, and I don't want you to interrupt him by swooping in."

"Men who are taken in by you usually don't end up well."

Zhao Muchi sits across the table, his eyes lazily drooping, not looking at Charles across the table: "Not really, didn't Spades come off well? "

"That's because he didn't get laid by you." Charles spreads his hands and he smiles amusedly, "It's not you he likes, it's Bai Liu."

"All I can say is that I have no animosity towards him." Zhao Muchi's tone was light, not at all the outwardly flirtatious look he had in front of Bai Liu and Spades, his face devoid of emotion, sitting upright with a kind of aristocratic elegance, "I'm reminding Bai Liu."

Charles' eyes twitched, "Remind him of what?"

Zhao Muchi's face was a mischievous, pleasant, lazy smile: "Remind him that he will soon be wearing women's clothes for me, whether he wants to or not."

Charles paused for a moment, no longer in that cynical manner, but composed himself, tapping his fingers twice on the table, "What do you know? That one went to the island to see you again?"

"Who are you talking about?" Zhao Muchi lifted his eyes and looked at Charles: " Bai six or Bai Liu ?"

"Maybe both, or neither, and you're just learning about it, aren't you? You've only just found out about it, haven't you? And you're asking me the same question so soon?" Charles laughed a little and played along, "We both know that you are a pawn he has placed in this world for Bai Liu.

"What did you think of all those years of dwelling on that island of love and lust, waiting for that man, on the City in the Sky, just on the side of ten years ago?"

"Do you still want to be his pawn?"

"No, not one side." Zhao Muchi folded his hands under his chin and he smiled, a very misty smile, like the smile of a man immersed in a beautiful dream he won't wake up from, "It was two sides, he came to see me on my eighteenth birthday, on Bai Liu's eighteenth, on the island as well."

After saying this, Zhao Muchi got up and prepared to leave. Charles looked at the departing Zhao Muchi with obscure Buming eyes and suddenly asked, "This time, will you press Bai Liu?"

Zhao Muchi's back lurched as he left, then laughed lightly, "Do you really think I like Bai Liu? I don't like him."

"I pressed his opponent."

The following day, the ornamental pool.

The deafening cheers haven't stopped since Bai Liu entered the arena - after his win over Spades in the last challenge and breaking Spades' undefeated myth, Bai Liu's popularity has been on the rise and although he lost a little to the Reverse God, he is now firmly in ninth place, among the top 10 players. He is now a top 10 star player.

Everything was so familiar that the host didn't even bother with an introduction, a direct joke: "This is the first time you've seen a team play the challenge twice, right? Is that new? A second challenge by acquiring the other guild?"

-- This is an explicitly derogatory statement, which explicitly and implicitly accuses Bai Liu of being shameless, breaking the rules and playing the challenge twice.

But no matter how unappealing to the host, Bai Liu did not break the rules and he did get to challenge a second time.

As soon as the presenter started to taunt, there was a hush from the audience - it was a hush for the presenter, and there were shouts of get off my commentary if you're not good enough, so the presenter shut up in a cold sweat.

He forgot that Bai Liu is a newcomer and also a top 10 player, so it's not uncommon to mock a newcomer.

Bai Liu went forward to draw the lot with an unusual look and handed it to the staff member next to him, who opened it and held it up for display -

-- [King's Crown].

The host saw the draw and was instantly strung out again, holding up his microphone and shouting, "It's the guild of our second most popular Queen of Hearts! The King's Crown!"

"Will the Wandering Circus succeed in their challenge! We'll see!"

"Of course I personally don't think it's very likely, comparing the Queen so beautiful, not, so strong!"

Wang Shun looked at his system panel, the support rate which continued to go low as soon as he opened the signatures, he clenched his fist and a cold sweat seeped from the corner of his forehead.

Although he had known that his support would drop after the opening of the signatures, this rate still scared him a little.

"Will both tacticians please come forward and shake hands?" The host joked again, "Shaking hands with the Queen is the dream of every male player in our entire game except Spades, Bai Liu is so lucky."

Hearts looked very mobile today in a very sharp dress trousers, tied in a ponytail and a beret.

"I've been looking forward to this match with you for a long time." Hearts curled her red lips as she held out her hand, "Finally this day has come, Bai Liu ."

Bai Liu looked up at her and smiled, "I hope it's a good game."

"Yes!" The moderator waved his hand and yelled, "The match, officially begin!"

[System Alert: The King's Crown side forfeits the single and double races.]

[System Alert: Loading directly into the regatta program.]

[...... is loading the game ......]

[System Alert: Both players logged into the game "City in the Sky"]

[(King's Crown) vs (Wandering Circus), a five-player team game, officially begins].

Bai Liu opened his eyes, he was inside a shaking container, the container was dark, Bai Liu quickly clicked on the system panel, using the light on the panel to check his surroundings while verifying the mission.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu gains status (Prepared Witch)]

[Player Bai Liu activates the main quest]

[Player Bai Liu gets game background tips

...... is a small, remote country near the sea that has been invaded by a strange eel creature. The country is plagued by these pervasive, fast breeding eels, and the whole country has become so flooded that when you turn on the water pipes, instead of water, eels come out of the pipes and burrow everywhere... ...]

The scientists in the country have been trying to solve this invasive species for a long time, either by physical slashing and burning, or by chemically using strong acids and alkalis, but they have not been able to destroy a single scale of this strange eel. --The saliva of a female human body can dissolve the eel].

[So a new biological approach is proposed, and if we keep eating eels alive, this biological disaster will be solved sooner or later.

But something strange happened again. Scientists found that when a woman swallowed a certain number of eels, her body would change in some other way, they would become ugly, grow scales on their bodies, and even evolve a series of superpowers such as flying, teleportation, and even evil cannibalism - exactly like the ancient legends. The witches of old.

[Everyone began to fear the witch-ified people, and at this moment, the Supreme Holy Inquisition came forward, and they have the faith of the entire nation's people, and the Inquisition people said that as long as one has a strong faith, no matter how many eels one swallows, one will not be witch-ified, and those who are witch-ified are originally evil-minded people who want to have evil power and want to eat them!

[These people have only revealed their true colours under the catalyst of the eels, so don't be afraid, everyone, kill them!

[If only all witches were thoroughly judged, everyone would return to safety; witches are not infinite, they are only a shadowy minority!

This led to the country not having enough women to digest the eels and they began to secretly smuggle and traffick women from other countries over.

[And you are a "woman" who has been trafficked from another country].

[Main Quest: Get the Witch's Heart and place it on the tower in the Sky City to end the Witch Trials].

[Side quest: Now inside the container, be careful that the others don't find out you are a male, if there are witches among them, they will surely kill you].

[System friendly note: Witches kill all men they encounter.]

Bai Liu held up the panel for a moment as he read through the list of tasks before slowly moving his eyes down to the clothes he was wearing -

Although dirty, this is indeed a women's outfit yes.