Chapter 313: Monster Nest Island

In the dim underground altar, the originally cold air inexplicably became much warmer.

The smell of ashes means more.

Xu Zhiyan held his breath and placed his palm on the body covered with gentle feathers.

He wanted to see the slice clearly, but it was extremely dark here and he could not see anything except the other person's bright scarlet eyes.

When he looked at the back, he could vaguely imagine the appearance of the devil, but the touch from his fingertips made it impossible for him to guess what the other party looked like.

But anyway, I suddenly felt excited after hearing that I was going to be stabbed. Is there something wrong with this slice?!

Taking a deep breath, Xu Zhiyan calmed himself down and spoke.

"Do you mind? Maybe you won't be who you are now."

He is not a cold-blooded person.

The priest never hurt him from beginning to end, and even gave him a lot of supplies. His straightforwardness was kind of... cute.

The priest in demon form did not let Xu Zhiyan wait too long and quickly gave an answer.

"No problem."

“Before this, I didn’t know what my purpose was.”

There was confusion in its voice.

When the demon closed his eyes, the last light source of the underground altar disappeared completely.

Xu Zhiyan felt himself being carefully embraced in a soft embrace. His face felt a little hot, but he immediately took out a silent button and threw it around.

The priest's low murmur came to my ears.

"I have no memory."

“I just remember being waiting for something.”

It bent down and buried its huge head in the young man's neck. The hard demon horns made Xu Zhiyan feel a little painful.

"I fell here and was picked up by the devil. It couldn't resist the temptation of power. Greed made its soul disappear, and then I appeared..."

Listening to the priest's words, Xu Zhiyan vaguely remembered that the ghosts and gods seemed to have given some weak hints before. For example, Party A never doubted whether, as a weak human being, he could really do the thing of "stabbing" the priest.

After all, if it is a slice like a blood vessel or strength, it would be difficult to just get close to it, let alone do it himself.

But after just a few words, Xu Zhiyan understood why the priest was here.

As a part of the split of ghosts and gods, it was particularly incomplete. I don’t know if it was because its power was not strong enough, so it did not receive any special treatment after it merged with the demon’s body.

For example, it could be sealed somewhere like a blood vessel, or used as a source of power for a copy like a snake's tail.

Xu Zhiyan reached out and touched the priest's horn.

Its words are very interesting.

What kind of being would say that they 'landed' here?

“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.”

The priest spoke slowly.

After becoming a demon, it was very confused and didn't know what to do next.

"I tried a lot... but this place doesn't seem to be suitable for me to exist. But I can't disappear. I seem to have a reason to exist."

Listening to the slightly messy words of the slicer, Xu Zhiyan reached out and patted its hair as if to soothe it.

"I'm listening, you can speak slowly."

A very surprising slice, which is obviously much weaker than the other slices, but surprisingly has richer experience.

His action calmed the priest down.

It gently rubbed the young man's shoulder, and its two hands hugged him tighter, almost pressing Xu Zhiyan down on the stone altar.

For a moment, the only sound around was Xu Zhiyan's breathing.

It was a long while before the priest continued speaking.

"After seeing you, those memories loosened up."

It's not that it has no memories. On the contrary, the priest is suspected to have more memories than the other slices.

Xu Zhiyan didn't care about the cold stone slab behind him and couldn't help asking.

"What do you remember?"

"Why do your memories become loose after you see me?"

When returning to the safe house from the ghost-hunting live broadcast room, the ghost said that slicing would never hurt him, because He saw fragmentary memories, and when he gained power, all he thought about was him.

Although Xu Zhiyan felt confused at that time, because there were too few clues, he ended up not being able to deduce anything.

This was too unbelievable. He swore that before entering the Yunshan old house, he had no impression of the existence of ghosts and gods. No, it should be said that before that, he was a staunch materialist.

This question is too complicated.

After Xu Zhiyan asked, the priest did not speak for a long time.

Just when he thought the priest would not speak, he answered the question hesitantly.

"you."

"I saw you in my memory."

There was an almost imperceptible tremor in its voice.

How could...

The completely unexpected answer made Xu Zhiyan stand there at a loss. He even began to wonder whether he was a human being.

He then denied this outrageous speculation.

Impossible! He was sure that he was a 100% pure human being. If he really was a person with special abilities, how could he have been weak and hospitalized all the time since he was a child?

But no matter what he thought, he was more curious about the memory of the slice.

"What did you see? Can you tell me?"

What kind of person would he be?

Could it be his past life? Could it be that he was some supreme being in his past life, saved a ghost or god, and the ghost came to repay his kindness...

People with quick minds tend to overthink.

The more Xu Zhiyan thought about it, the more excited he became. He felt that this guess was reliable.

Unfortunately, the priest's next words choked him.

"I saw you when you were sixteen, lying in a white room, your face pale...something was talking to me, but I can't tell you what it was next."

It concealed a lot of content, but Xu Zhiyan remembered it immediately.

When he was in high school, he was hospitalized due to an asymptomatic coma and was even given a critical illness notice. He was deeply impressed by the fact that he often missed a week's worth of classes in the midst of intense struggles in his life.

"How could it be... this?"

He was infected by the priest's confusion and was also confused himself.

"Why can't you tell me the follow-up content?" Xu Zhiyan was anxious. He vaguely realized that he might not be born with poor health.

However, the priest just shook his head and refused to say anything more.

But under Xu Zhiyan's questioning, it honestly revealed all its inner thoughts without hiding anything.

"At that time, 'I' decided to seal this memory."

After saying that, it seemed to have thought of something and whispered, "I'm waiting for 'me', but someone has pretended to be 'me' before."

It spoke in a confusing manner, but Xu Zhiyan understood it.

The priest is waiting to return to his true form.

Unexpected, but reasonable.

After the slices gain self-awareness, they make different choices.

The name and eyes are bewitched by the main system, the internal organs are constantly searching for the lost parts, the blood is wandering on the edge of the game... The priest's wish is to return to his original body.

"Your wish can come true today."

Xu Zhiyan couldn't wait to speak, he really wanted to know what the ghost's memory contained about him.

It was obvious that the memories he glimpsed from the world of ruins had nothing to do with him!

But in the end he left the choice to the priest.

Groping to hold the demon's feather-covered palm tightly, Xu Zhiyan stuffed the horn prop hanging around his neck into the other's hand.

"If you want to keep yourself, throw this thing away. If you want to see 'you', put it in your chest."

After saying this, Xu Zhiyan realized that he had become somewhat indecisive when facing the slices of ghosts and gods.

It's something that can be done by just reaching in and poking it in...

He turned his face away, waiting for the priest's choice.

Without hesitation, the priest clenched his horns and stepped back.

A few candles around lit up and then went out, but it was only a few seconds, which was enough for Xu Zhiyan to see the appearance of the devil priest clearly.

Perhaps it should be said that demons don't have 'appearances'.

Part of its body was covered in black feathers, with only its eyes showing. Its eyes were flashing with horizontal pupils, making it look like a demon in mythology.

Xu Zhiyan's thoughts raced, and he immediately guessed the reason why the priest looked like that.

It 'fell' in the dungeon and was picked up by the demon. The powerful demon was tempted by the power, but because he could not control the power, he was eventually torn apart and devoured, which resulted in the priest's demon form being incomplete. He even doubted whether the feather was empty.

Then, several more candles lit up.

The feather-covered demon froze for a moment, apparently worried about its appearance. After all, compared with the other handsome slices, it was indeed not in human form.

But as the candle flickered on and off, the priest came to his senses from his stiffness.

It took a deep look at Xu Zhiyan who was leaning on the stone altar, carefully held the horn prop, and slowly poked it into its heart.

Xu Zhiyan was also very nervous.

His fingertips rested on the stone slab so hard that his joints turned slightly white. He pursed his lips and waited for the arrival of ghosts.

“Boom—”

The underground altar began to tremble.

From time to time, gravel fell from the edge, but more and more candles were lit around.

When the entire horn was completely stuffed into the priest's chest, the black feathers covering the demon's body exploded instantly, and the half of the wing, which was almost three meters long, also stretched out completely.

The storm that came out of nowhere threw the entire underground altar into chaos, with flying feathers running rampant around the altar.

Xu Zhiyan narrowed his eyes subconsciously and raised his hand to cover his forehead.

In a trance, he saw the figure of a ghost appear before him after the black feather withered.

Before Xu Zhiyan could ask, he suddenly heard the sound of chains colliding. It sounded familiar, but he was surprised because he heard it in the copy.

In the blink of an eye, his game panel popped up.

[Warning! Warning! NPC abnormality detected! All players in the dungeon please pay attention to safety! ]

[In one minute, BUG troubleshooting will begin. ]

[If you see any abnormal scene, please do not panic! ]

[Some players' live broadcast rooms are abnormal, such as black screen, etc., which are normal. Please wait for maintenance. 】

It’s a collective announcement.

And it seems that even the audience in the live broadcast room received this information.

When Xu Zhiyan raised his head, the flying feathers disappeared, and were replaced by a ghost standing in front of him.

He was still wearing the black robe of a priest, but just by looking into those eyes, Xu Zhiyan knew that his Party A had arrived successfully.

The difference between ghosts and slices is still very obvious.

The guy in the priest's robe now has symmetrical wings.

Xu Zhiyan wanted to say something, but before he could open his mouth, the man's bony fingers pressed against his lips, silencing him.

"Hush, there was a little accident." He said.

"It was not a complete slice, and the doctor found that it had lost most of its strength."

That's why the priest was unable to condense a strong enough body like the other slices, and instead turned into a monster covered in black feathers when he transformed into a demon.

The ghosts and gods received the memories and knew the situation clearly.

"Bang——"

Iron chains similar to those in the safe house appeared from the void around them and pierced through the priest's wings the next second.

The ghost sighed and retracted his hand to block Xu Zhiyan's sight.

"It cannot descend in its original body, so it can only reshape a new one. It will require some tricks to avoid being discovered."

He had to seal his own power.

In an instant, blood splattered everywhere.

But after splashing out for a certain distance, it turned into black feathers and slowly fell to the ground.

Xu Zhiyan's eyes went dark.

He didn't move, just nodded blankly.

Time is running out. According to the notification from the main system, they will start undergoing testing in less than a minute.

If it were discovered... the consequences would be disastrous.

The hand covering his eyes moved away, but Xu Zhiyan was still nervous when he suddenly felt a sinking sensation in his hand, and something cold was stuffed into it.

He looked down blankly and found that it was the spike at the top of the chain.

"This...I..."

Xu Zhiyan spoke with a confused look on his face, not knowing why this thing was placed in his hand.

What answered him was the hot body of a ghost pressing down on him.

"This is the final seal, and I hope you can complete it." He leaned close to Xu Zhiyan's ear, and his voice was filled with heavy breathing and... excitement?

"There may be something wrong with the horns. This body loves pain. It doesn't matter where you poke it."

He lowered his head and licked the tip of the young man's ear. He was a little annoyed. "When the system's inspection is finished, you can put a few more seals on me. This body is harder to control than I thought."

The low and hoarse voice carried an inexplicable ambiguity.

“…”

Xu Zhiyan’s eyes widened. The two of them were too close to each other. He felt like he was going to be cooked by ghosts and gods!

By the time he realized something was wrong, the other person's hands were on his waist and he kept rubbing it, and his excited breathing became heavier.

Xu Zhiyan could hardly hold the spike.

What the hell? Why are you still causing trouble at this critical moment?

But then again, he had thought that Horn would be a pervert, but he didn't expect him to be so perverted.