Chapter 17 She swung the axe and turned around, facing half a head...

"I just wanted to try it out... I didn't expect this magic to be so useful."

Weighing the axe in her hand, Cecilia was reluctant to let it go.

In order not to alarm others, she deliberately borrowed the broken axe from Chen Ye's backpack and modified it using the branch given by the fairy godmother.

[Item Name: Hidden Axe]

[This was originally a worn-out axe. Under the influence of the Fairy Godmother's magic, it was forcibly transformed according to someone's wishes and became what it is now.]

[To a certain extent, it can increase the physical damage caused by the user. If the target is an inanimate object, the damage caused will be twice the normal amount.]

[In order to satisfy someone's sneaky idea, it will not make any sound when destroying any object. Moreover, if you touch the damaged object with the axe handle, you can cast an illusion on the destroyed object, making it look intact. ]

[Note: Illusions can only work on inanimate objects. Apart from deceiving vision, illusions have no real effect. If someone touches the damaged object with their hands, they will be able to detect the damage.]

For her, this is a handy weapon.

It would be better if she wasn't being sarcastic in the item description.

"Stand further away."

Instructing the girl in the display case, she took a deep breath, grasped the axe handle with both hands, and chopped down at the hard outer wall.

The sharp axe blade flashed a cold light in the air, and the moment it came into contact with the display cabinet, several tiny cracks quickly spread on the outer wall, and then exploded quietly.

The transparent residue fell all over the floor without making any sound.

After cutting off all the vines that were entangled with the girl, she helped her out of the display cabinet, and touched the broken window with the axe handle in her backhand.

In an instant, everything returned to its original state.

The display cabinet was intact, even the debris on the ground had disappeared, but the collections inside were missing.

"Sister, this is just like covering one's ears and stealing a bell. If someone comes here, they will see at a glance that the things inside are missing."

After recovering, Chen Ye approached the display cabinet, stretched out his right hand, passed through the illusion unhindered, and pulled out a small piece of vine from the inside.

"It's okay... I won't cause any trouble for you..."

Taking the vine from Chen Ye, the girl bit her finger, and a few drops of blood dripped, spreading on the vine and finally being completely absorbed.

In an instant, the green vines began to swell at an alarming speed, reaching the ceiling in a few seconds.

Under the girl's suppression, the huge monster began to shrink gradually.

Cold sweat oozed from her forehead and her fingertips trembled slightly. She shrunk the vine to the size that could be held in one palm, and pinched it into a heart-shaped shape.

"Use this as a substitute... You can hardly see the difference with the naked eye..."

Everything was arranged, and Cecia sat down to conserve her strength.

But Chen Ye was a man who could not sit still. Sometimes he begged Cecilia to rescue all the collections, and sometimes he took a map and studied his sister's handwriting.

Squeak——

The heavy wooden door scraped across the floor with a sharp sound.

Cecia reacted immediately. She held Chen Ye in one hand and the girl in the other, and took the two of them into the shadows.

A young man dressed in a servant's uniform walked in from outside. He looked about seventeen or eighteen years old.

He held a bucket and a rag in his hands, closed the door, and began to clean the display cabinets one by one.

After seeing the appearance of the person coming clearly, the wailing sound that had been silent for a moment started again, and some of the collections were even greeting the boy.

"I know he..."

The girl's voice was mixed with the continuous crying and screaming. Cecilia almost had to stick close to her to barely hear what she said.

"He would come to the collection room one evening every week. In addition to cleaning the display cases, he would also talk to us collections... Even if he spotted us, he wouldn't do anything."

“Don’t trust human nature too much.”

Cecia said coldly.

"There are no collections in this place, and it is also a blind spot. Wait until he leaves before leaving."

"Sister is right! But——"

Chen Ye's voice was filled with a hint of guilt, and he whispered, "It happened so suddenly just now, I left the map behind..."

At the same time, the boy caught a glimpse of the lonely map on the ground and picked it up in confusion.

Just as he unfolded the map, a cold axe was pressed against his neck.

"Don't move."

An angry voice sounded behind him. Cecia had planned everything, but she had never expected that something would go wrong on Chen Ye's side.

"Give me what you have in your hand."

The boy seemed to be surprised that there was someone else in the collection room. He didn't dare to look back, and tremblingly handed the map behind him.

Just as Cecia was about to take it, the boy suddenly withdrew his hand as quickly as if he had been electrocuted.

The young man tightly grasped the map, and taking advantage of the moment when the axe deviated, he squatted down and crawled out, putting some distance between him and her.

...very good and courageous.

The lines of her arms instantly tensed, like a bowstring ready to be released. She raised the axe and chopped at his legs.

But the other party not only did not run away, but stood there without dodging or hiding, and even began to look at the map.

The boy looked directly into her eyes and said softly—

"This is my sister's map. How is she now?"

Sensitively capturing the key word "sister", she immediately changed the direction of the axe.

The sharp axe blade grazed the boy's trouser leg and made a hole in the ground.

"If you were a step slower in saying this, you would have lost your legs. However, it seems that you are not qualified to ask questions."

She held the axe in her right hand, grabbed the other's collar with her left hand, and lifted the boy up.

"From now on, I ask questions and you answer them."

…

From the boy’s answer, we can know that he is the brother of the “sister” in the copy introduction, and also the “you” mentioned there.

It was he who brought his sister into paradise, and used his heart to restore her eyesight.

The so-called amusement park is nothing more than a cover for some shady transactions.

The original condition was that his heart would be taken away only when his sister turned eighteen.

But those people broke the contract.

They took him away by force, and he only had time to leave a note telling his sister that he was working in the Octagon House and asked her not to look for him.

He was afraid that the eyes his sister got here would be taken away by those bastards again.

“That’s my experience.”

The boy's tone was extremely calm. "I have paid the price for my stupidity, but my sister did nothing wrong."

"Can you tell me now, what happened to her?"

"Unfortunately, I haven't met her."

She said casually, tied the boy's hands and feet, and threw him into a corner.

"The map was given to me by the staff. It was said that your sister accidentally lost it."

"Really... She ended up back in this hell. How ridiculous! I thought I was saving her, but I ended up ruining both of our futures."

The young man raised his head, the calmness in his eyes was gradually swallowed up by hatred, and he said firmly: "Make a deal with me."

"I will do my best to help you, even if it costs me my life."

"On the other hand, if you see my sister, give her the necklace around my neck - I can't leave now, but she has to come home."

"Ha, why would I want your life?"

Cecia glanced at him, completely extinguishing the boy's passion.

"You just need to answer the questions honestly."

She pulled off the necklace from the man's neck and continued to ask, "Do you know what bliss is?"

Seeing Cecia take the necklace, the wilted boy regained his vitality again. He tried his best to straighten his body, even though it made him look like a wriggling insect.

"My sister once mentioned bliss, but I don't know what it refers to specifically... maybe I can find the answer in the candy house."

Candy house?

Cecia thought of the candy-patterned key.

"Where is the candy house?" she demanded. "There's no such place on the map."

“The candy house on the map is hidden by “it”.”

The boy said this, trying to straighten his chest.

"I have a glass bottle in my jacket pocket. I just need to smear the red liquid inside on the map and the location of the candy house will be revealed."

Seeing that Cecia wanted to pour the whole bottle onto the map, he quickly shouted, "Be economical! I only have a small bottle of this stuff."

"Once you find the candy house, you have to drip it into your eyes so you can see the real world."

A few drops of liquid spread out on the map, and the candy house logo appeared in the southeast corner of the map, with the sister's childish handwriting next to it - "friend".

The clear ringing sound rang out again from a distance, and the collections in the collection room turned back into objects. The surroundings instantly became quiet.

Is it time...?

Cecia squatted down and looked into the boy's eyes: "Do you have anything else to say?"

"No more." He shook his head, "Remember to give the necklace to my sister..."

Before he could finish his words, the boy was knocked unconscious by a palm strike and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Sister, what he said should be true."

Holding the heart-shaped stem that the girl had turned into in his hand, Chen Ye walked out from the shadows.

"Green Heart said he did have a sister, and he mentioned many of the collections. And after hearing what he said, I seem to have some impression of this paradise."

"The real park was involved in illegal transactions and has been completely closed down. This replica should have been designed based on it..."

"It doesn't matter."

She took the green stem and dragged the boy to a corner.

"He can't leave here, and he'll just be in the way if he's awake."

The ringing had died down for a while now, and she used the axe handle to restore the collection room to its original state, then wrapped the tubers and stuffed them into her pocket.

"Get ready to go, the next target is candy--"

Click. Click.

The footsteps outside the door came closer and closer, like a foreshadowing of death, echoing in the silent air.

Cecia reacted quickly, grabbed Chen Ye with her backhand, and dragged him into the shadow behind the door. The two of them even tried to suppress their breathing as lightly as possible.

Click.

The footsteps stopped abruptly at the door.

Her own heartbeat mixed with the unknown breathing sounds, and she could even feel a creepy gaze.

Two minutes of silence seemed as long as two centuries.

She held the axe handle tightly the whole time, her spirits tense.

Finally, the footsteps sounded again. As if they felt there was nothing unusual in the collection room, the sound was getting farther and farther away from them.

He held on tightly to Chen Ye who was trying to go out, and only planned to leave behind the door after the footsteps completely disappeared.

She turned around and was face to face with half a head.

His body was blocked by the door, with only the upper half of his face visible. His dark eyes stared at her without blinking, and it was unknown how long he had been staring at her.

Their eyes met, the other person's eyes narrowed slightly, his entire head squeezed in, the lower half of his face was distorted, and the corners of his mouth were raised in an arc that was beyond common sense——

"My dear, what are you doing here?"