Chapter 208: A Sign of the End

"No?"

Avis frowned and looked at the thin bartender in front of him.

"Mr. Bartender, this joke is not funny."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and placed the black copper key with the number plate on the solid wood bar surface. Joem beside him did the same thing.

"How about this, as long as you are willing to tell us the specific itinerary of the black paddle boat that brought me and other travelers here, then we don't have to refund the remaining room fee--"

On one side of the bar, the fish oil candles on the wooden support pillars were lit with flickering flames. The candlelight slanted and shone on the two keys on the table, casting dark shadows that were somewhat eerie.

"Black galley?"

The bartender looked down at the two keys, his eyes dead silent, his strangely pale face expressionless.

"I'm sorry, my friends, but there were no black galleys, and no travelers from the continent."

"Perhaps, you just had a dream, and everything you saw in the dream may be different."

Dream? Avis suddenly understood the source of the vague sense of disharmony he had felt before.

The surrounding environment seems to be vaguely similar to the dream world.

Moreover, listening to the bartender's words, he suddenly felt a chill all over and remembered a detail that he had never paid much attention to before.

A few days after landing on the island, he never saw the other people who came here with him on the boat, except the bishop.

Gazing at the deserted and deep tavern hall under the dim candlelight, and the hateful bartender with a strange shadowy outline on his face, which made him inexplicably disgusted, Avis suddenly didn't want to wait here any longer.

Quickly leaving the sleeping siren, the three of them immersed themselves back into the stormy night.

Just now, at Avis's suggestion, Joem extended his mental power to explore the guests in the entire tavern.

All of them were native inhabitants of the island, not a single outsider! At the same time, as time went on, Joem also sensed something else was wrong.

A dull and oppressive atmosphere was gradually rising from the surface of the island. . ..... Boom boom boom——

Accompanied by the incessant loud thunder, the fierce wind and rain kept hitting the transparent crystal panel of the window, making loud popping sounds.

In the luxurious building in the center of the abnormal area, Summer Firefly, wearing old leather armor and a rusty iron sword hanging around his waist, curled up beside a stone fireplace emitting orange-red flames, like an alert hamster.

On the way here, she discovered that strange changes had taken place in the town tonight.

It wasn't that she saw anything, but there was a negative status on the panel: [Depressed Breath]

Since her level was less than ten, the negative effect was a 5% reduction in all attributes, and the description was also strangely limited to just a short paragraph: The end is near.

By the window, the little girl with black hair and black eyes, Rona, was still sitting on the wide chair, her profile facing the fireflies in the summer night, like an exquisite doll whose posture would never change.

After several days of communication, Xia Ye Yinghuo learned that unlike her who could run around freely outside during the day, Rona could not leave the confines of the house.

After learning this, Xia Ye Ying Huo felt great sympathy for the seemingly small Rona. Out of sympathy, she would tell Rona what she had seen and heard during the day every night when she returned home.

"…So, today I found two more cats, killed five, six, seven giant crabs! Learned a new skill, and found this protective armor! I'm awesome, right?"

Although he sat in a very timid posture, Xia Ye Yinghuo kept chattering unyieldingly.

Snap—

At this moment, a loud thunderclap sounded. The girl instinctively shuddered, and her body curled up on the sofa couldn't help but shrink again.

"……sharp."

Rona nodded silently, looking at the half-elf girl who was about to curl herself into a ball, and nodded in praise somewhat against her will.

As the two of them became more familiar with each other, Rona was no longer as cold as she was at the beginning, but would occasionally respond.

"By the way, it's so dark in here, even though there's such a big crystal chandelier! Since we're all tied up in this damn house, there's no need to save electricity for it... what are we saving?"

As if she felt that her behavior was a bit embarrassing, Xia Ye Yinghuo couldn't help but blame it on the darkness of the room. At the end, she even made a face.

"...No, magic crystal."

Looking at the half-elf girl with a calm expression, Rona spoke concisely.

"Well……"

Xia Ye Yinghuo was choked for a moment and didn't know how to respond.

For a moment, the room was quiet again, with only the faint crackling of the fire, the roar of thunder outside the window, and the sound of heavy rain hitting the crystal window.

In this strange atmosphere of silence, Rona looked at the painting on the wall again.

At some point, the location of the two people in the painting has quietly changed, from a flat beach to a dangerous sea cliff.

The orange-red color of the sunset is replaced by the dark blue of dusk, and the purple moon is faintly visible in the sky, making the colors of the picture slightly colder.

The outlines of the two people's bodies became slightly blurred, while the obscure shadow in the dark blue deep sea became clearer and clearer, as if it was about to break out of the seal at any time.

“…”

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Looking back into the light green eyes reflecting the fireflies on the summer night, Rona's lips slightly opened, a little hesitant.

After a moment's silence, the little girl finally spoke softly.

"Vivian, you are going to die."

Although she still looked calm, there was a barely detectable sadness in the girl's gentle tone.

"You've persisted for a long time, but tonight, you've truly reached your limit..."

"……yes."

Looking at [Dream Eclipse III] in the negative list of the panel, Xia Ye Yinghuo nodded dejectedly.

She has just reached level 4, but after tonight, the amount of health to be deducted will exceed her maximum life.

Fortunately, she only has a little extra experience bar at the moment, so the loss of experience from death is not great.

In a game like this with limited resurrection times, you can run into a death-bound copy just by wandering around the novice area?

She has decided that after she goes offline, she will definitely give a proper greeting to those unscrupulous planners who designed the game's plot in order to sell the resurrection stones!

Seeing that the girl seemed to remain calm as usual after hearing the news, Rona tilted her head in confusion.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"There's nothing I can do about it. I'll just die once."

Hearing Rona's question, Xia Ye Yinghuo didn't think much about it and started to explain casually.

"…You are so brave."

Hearing Xia Ye Yinghuo's stress-free speech, Rona's dull dark eyes widened slightly. Although she was depressed, she still couldn't help but admire the half-elf girl's open-mindedness.

"Rona, you know what."

"Actually, my biggest dream since I came to this world is to be able to fly freely in the sky—"

After a moment of silence, Xia Ye Yinghuo suddenly spoke on his own.

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