Chapter 451: Evil God Festival - Boathouse

Xiao Kui Kitahara replied in a trance, "Sister Apricot, I'll go with you."

Apricot wept with joy as she clutched Xiao Kui's hand tightly, then glanced rather warily at the half-open door of the Evil Shrine, "Who were you just talking to?"

Xiao Kui turns around and Sheta, who was standing in the same spot, is gone. Her heart skips a beat and she wants to walk in to see what's going on, but her sister pulls her back.

"Shhh-!" Sister Apricot discreetly put her index finger to her lips, she quickly looked around, "Someone's coming, go."

After saying this, Apricot dragged Xiao Kui and ran quickly down the hill. Xiao Kui turned back in a bewildered state, she saw the door of the shrine slowly being blown by the night wind, and the god was suspended by countless silk threads in the center of the shrine.

The moonlight poured down, the deity's slender neck was strangled by the silk threads, He was suspended by the silk threads and raised his head, his silver-blue eyes that were as brimming as the light of a pond met Xiao Kui, who had turned his head to come back in the course of his departure.

Sheta just watched her go, her eyes filled with the color of the moon.

The moment she saw those eyes, Xiao Kui felt her brain buzzing, everything around her slowed down as if in slow motion, and strange noises appeared.

[System alert: npc spirit value zeroed out detected.]

[......npc being alienated ......npc alienation aborted ......]

[System alert: detected incarnation (Taville) produced (pain), out of the shrine, this behavior triggered a special node ...... copy into the reset ......]

The designer of this game hides the data of World Line 657 (player Bai Liu) who passes the Evil God Sacrifice Boat House in this node. Once the body of the Evil God Taville generates pain and voluntarily walks out of the Shrine, the moment he walks out of the Shrine, a special game mode will be triggered.]

[Egg game path is unfolding ......]

[A copy of World Line 657's "Evil God Sacrifice Boathouse" will soon overlap with World Line 658's "Evil God Sacrifice Boathouse," so please prepare yourselves for your upcoming encounter, players of all World Lines.]

[The total number of players in this copy of both worldlines is being detected ......]

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

[In which the player Spades is in the five-year timeline and has no game progress at the moment]

[Player Bai Liu has triggered the plot of "Spirit of Evil" and entered the timeline five years ago, and is currently halfway through the game].

[World line 657: Player Bai Liu.]

[Player Bai Liu has triggered the plot of "Evil Spirit" and entered the timeline of five years ago. Currently, the game is at ninety-seven percent progress, and is in the process of sacrificing the Evil Spirit, and is about to pass.]

[Overlapping copies of The Evil Sacrifice Boathouse total three players.]

[is calculating the flow of time and space curvature in the two copies ...... is adjusting the progress of the copies ...... is adjusting the npc memory ...... adjustment is complete, the copies of the time and space and the world line 658 current progress is consistent, npc memory and world line 657 game progress is consistent ......]

[npc memory reset begins.]

[Memories of "Evil God Sacrifice Boat House" in World Line 657 are being loaded into the npc's brain ......]

Kitahara Xiao Kui's eyes went blank as she felt everything around her recede rapidly, and a memory that was so real that it was frightening, but which she had never experienced before, was generated out of thin air in her mind.

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

But nothing has been the same since then.

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

Right. This [Bai Liu] smiles pleasantly, [What, I can't kill?]

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

[No one is losing money from this, I'm just clearing out what has no value.]

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

Amidst Cangta's fearful cries that she was trying her best to contain, she who was cowering on the bed below clearly heard this 【Bai Liu】 lazily say, 【Because you're just npc's in a game that I play】.

Upon arriving at the boathouse, [Bai Liu], not surprisingly, becomes a sacrifice, and he coerces Cangta to become his retainer, and then later, like her, she is chosen by the Kitahara family to become [Kitahara Bai Liu].

This [Bai Liu] also stole the key on the first night of her arrival at the Kitahara house and went to the shrine, and was likewise seen by her who lived in the attic.

But Xiao Kui also clearly saw that [Bai Liu] had not awakened the evil god.

One day, two days, every day.

Bai Liu] Not one of the many days I went to the Houyama Shrine awakened the evil spirits.

During the day, this [Bai Liu] lazily attends class while thoughtfully and intensely tormenting himself, the extent of his tormenting himself even shocks those teachers of the Kitahara family who take pleasure in tormenting people, sometimes these teachers who have done all kinds of cruelty can't help but be afraid when [Bai Liu] is tormenting himself and shouts out to stop with trembling.

Sometimes it stops, sometimes it doesn't, and these teachers can't stand it any longer and escape outside, sometimes crouching in the hallways and dry-heaving with pale faces, before 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.

Xiao Kui vividly remembers these teachers commenting on [Bai Liu] in a state of dismay - a complete and utter madman.

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

Xiao Kui from memory never understood why [Bai Liu] did what he did, but she didn't dare to ask directly.

--until the summer festival came, and the painful test that all the sacrifices had to face came.

Xiao Kui finally understands why [Bai Liu] was unable to awaken the Evil God, and why he was torturing himself like that.

Bai Liu] actually has not a single frame of pain on this pain test.

Cangta said that when [Bai Liu] put his hand on the right hand side of the balance, the needle of the balance didn't even move a bit, as if no pain had ever arisen in his heart.

How can that be? Xiao Kui asked Cangta this.

Cangta also found it unbelievable, saying that he thought he was mistaken, and that with the level of self-torture that [Bai Liu] had been through, how could there be no pain at all?

But no means no.

Bai Liu] was relegated to the position of a retainer, but he didn't seem to care about his lowered status and continued to carry a lantern to the shrine every night.

Xiao Kui is slowly realizing what this man is trying to do--

Bai Liu] wanted to torture himself to produce pain and awaken the evil gods.

But then what?

Why would he do that?

Xiao Kui was inwardly curious about the answer to this question, but she had to admit that she might never get it.

She was so afraid of [Bai Liu] that it was absolutely impossible for her to open her mouth to him and ask him for the answer to this question.

This man's level of cruelty and indifference to others had reached a point where even the Kitahara family would be afraid.

Despite his status dropping to [Servant], not a single person dared to give orders to [Bai Liu] to do what a Servant should do because no one was not afraid of [Bai Liu], whose lazy and smiling face as he tormented himself left a layer of horror on everyone's heart.

And what's even more outrageous is that just one month after [Bai Liu] became a retainer, he was actually rewarded by the head of the Kitahara family for his expertise in torturing sacrifices and causing pain, and he jumped from being a retainer to becoming their teacher.

Xiao Kui, as a key offering, has one-on-one lessons with [Bai Liu] about twice a week.

Two people sat quietly in the silent, dimly lit Japanese room.

Xiao Kui knelt down on the cushion with his head bowed, looking at his hands that were slightly trembling due to his uncontainable fear, not daring to look up at [Bai Liu] who was sitting on the opposite side of the table.

She could feel [Bai Liu]'s diffuse eyes slowly and leisurely glancing over her body.

Xiao Kui had feared the adults who had captured her, and those teachers of the Kitahara family, but to fear a person of her own age, even more so than the first two, was a completely foreign experience for her.

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

"You must be wondering why I go to the shrine every night." Bai Liu, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly spoke up, his posture casual as he propped his jaw up, a very light smile on his face, "I know you watch me every night."

Xiao Kui was shocked, her heart nearly jumping out of her throat, and just as she was about to deny it, she was interrupted by Bai Liu lazily interrupting, "I can just tell you why."

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

Xiao Kui was quiet for a long time before she gritted her teeth and took over, "Bai Liu Teacher, what ...... is your wish?"

Bai Liu lifted her eyelids, "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."

Xiao Kui was startled as she subconsciously looked up, "Are these false accusations? Then why did you admit it on the ship?"

"Because there's no point in not admitting it, right?" Bai Liu dropped her slender eyelashes, casting a rather forlorn shadow over his face, "Didn't you all already believe that rumor? 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."

Xiao Kui clutched the shirt in front of her, 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, is also such a person, if he is still alive, he should be about the same height as 【 Bai Liu 】, right?

[Bai Liu] hanging in the long eyelashes under the dark eyes of a trace of despair is not, is a kind of uninterested playful, but the tone of voice continued to fall down: "Today's class is here, Xiao Kui adults go back to rest."

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

With that, Bai Liu got up to leave, Xiao Kui clenched her teeth, and at the moment when Bai Liu was about to step out of the door, she hoarsely shouted out, "Mr. Bai Liu, please wait!"

Bai Liu, whose fingers had just touched the paper door, had his back to Xiao Kui, the corners of his mouth imperceptibly hooked up, but his voice was subdued, "Xiao Kui-sama, is there anything else?"

"Can you tell me exactly what your wish is?" Xiao Kui tilted her head, her eyes reddened and her voice trembling with supplication, "I, my brother, am one who, like you, was unable to produce pain in the first place."

"His wishes are all for me, and I wonder what kind of wishes someone like him would make if he wanted to wish for himself."

Bai Liu stopped in his tracks, he turned around nonchalantly and looked down at Xiao Kui with tears in the corners of his eyes: "Do you really want to know?"

"You promise not to tell anyone?"

Xiao Kui nodded vigorously, "I promise not to tell anyone."

"Then ...... " Bai Liu squatted down and stretched out his right hand, expending his pinky finger, raising his eyes to look directly at Xiao Kui, a slightly childish expression on his face, "Then pull the hook and hang yourself, no change for a hundred years. "

Xiao Kui flinched as her eyes slowly filled with tears.

...... The habit of pulling the hook also seems like Jiro ah.

"Of course it won't change." Xiao Kui took a deep breath and also reached out and hooked her pinky over Bai Liu's and wiggled it twice, "I promise not to tell anyone."

Bai Liu smiles with a dark-eyed smile, "Liars have to swallow a thousand needles, Sister Xiao Kui."