Chapter 127 Another Special Memory Illusion at Xiawei Temple

The speculations in the comments section were completely confirmed the moment the main hall's doors were opened.

This house, which looks quite magnificent on the surface, has no intact parts except for the front walls, doors and windows. All the tables, chairs, furniture and beams are severely damaged.

Just like the situation Yu Naixin had seen in the last simulation, the altar inside the hall looked like it had been looted, broken and dilapidated. Only from the remaining half of the base could one barely make out that there were originally three statues of gods and Buddhas, one main and two secondary.

Holy crap...this looks so tragic!

[Now I understand why the monk who made butter sculptures said that the temple must have been destroyed by vicious thieves. Not only did a group of robbers come and loot everything of value, damaging what they couldn't take, but it must have also been gnawed by rats and insects for many years to become what it is today!]

[I'm speechless. When I saw the west wing, I thought it was dilapidated enough, but the main hall is even more outrageous.]

While many viewers in the live stream marveled at the environment of the main hall, some observant viewers noticed something unusual about the offering table.

[My goodness, look closely at that main Buddha statue, isn't its size... about the same as the sculpture in the middle of the lotus pond outside?]

【! It really is true!】

[Oh dear, I was just saying that the butter sculpture monk would probably be rather perfunctory with the Buddha statues in this main hall, but now it seems he might have simply moved the main Buddha statue out and placed it over at the lotus pond.]

[Damn, that makes sense. The Butter Flower Monk has never really taken care of this place. But a temple can't be completely devoid of Buddha statues, so moving them out is a convenient solution. Anyway, the Butter Flower Monk doesn't have much reverence for these deities and Buddha statues; he's just like any other office worker—good enough.]

This view was shared by most of the comments.

[Now I understand why so many long-time viewers only watch the live streams in the title section. Excellent program guests attract excellent viewers, and the quality of the comments is truly different!]

Wait a minute, wait a minute! Something feels off. So far, there are only two places in the entire Xiawei Temple where the butter sculpture monks haven't rebuilt them. The west wing was previously sealed off by a special memory illusion, preventing access. There must be some other special reason for this place too, right?

Of course, there are special reasons.

The audience is not yet aware that behind this main hall is the northernmost wall of Xiawei Temple. The butter flower monks would never leave such a crucial area unattended in order to defend against the attacks of the headless stone ghosts and protect the nine NPC monks in the temple.

Under these circumstances, the monks who made butter sculptures did not make any modifications to the main hall, not because they did not want to, but because they were unable to.

The moment the headless stone ghost stepped into the palace gate, Yu Naixin could clearly sense that the spiritual energy fluctuations on the headless stone ghost suddenly changed.

A wide range of enhancements appeared on the headless stone goblin's body.

—This is the home ground of the headless stone demon.

After seeing the fragments of the headless stone goblin's memories, Yu Naixin had pretty much guessed this.

As soon as the time for free movement arrived, the butter flower monk would rush to find Yu Naixin with his lantern. In order to reach the destination faster, the butter flower monk came out from the back door.

At that time, Yu Naixin learned that the headless stone ghost's mental impairment was far more serious than she had previously estimated. He was completely unaware that another guest from another instance had taken over his own territory, and still regarded the cave at the foot of the snow mountain as his residence.

Even now, the headless stone ghost has clearly arrived at his home turf and fulfilled Yu Naixin's request to "go to your home turf together," yet he remains completely unaware.

In the headless stone golem's mind, this place was not his home turf at all.

The viewers in the live stream couldn't directly see the changes in the headless stone ghost, but the butter flower monk, who was not far behind the headless stone ghost and had a very good sense of perception, noticed something was wrong just a step slower than Yu Naixin.

Concerned for Yu Naixin's safety, the butter-flower monk immediately followed the headless stone ghost after it led her north. He kept a distance of three steps behind the headless stone ghost to avoid getting too close and angering it, and also to make it easier for him to help Yu Naixin if anything happened.

At this moment, the headless stone ghost and Yu Naixin had just entered the temple gate, and the butter flower monk was still standing outside the temple gate, but he was all too familiar with the change of the guest in the dungeon to his own home ground.

The butter-flower monk instantly went on alert, his face showing both astonishment and tension.

— Prior to this, the butter flower monk did not know that this was the home ground of the headless stone ghost.

Even though the two had been "neighbors" for many years, the butter flower monk had never seen the headless stone ghost appear in this Buddhist temple. The places where they met were concentrated in the two courtyards in front of and behind Xiawei Temple. Even the side rooms on both sides were blocked from the headless stone ghost's entry because the butter flower monk had laid wooden floors.

The headless stone ghost is always elusive. As long as there is a blue stone as a medium, it can appear from anywhere in the temple, but it has never entered or left this northernmost house.

The monk with the butter flower knew long ago that he could not modify this Buddhist temple at will. However, there were many places within Xiawei Temple that he could not modify, especially the snow mountain outside. His spiritual power could not reach that place at all, which was much more of an obstacle than this Buddhist temple.

Since the headless stone ghost had been resting on the snow mountain, the butter flower monks gradually came to believe that the headless stone ghost's main place was somewhere on the snow mountain.

The importance of the home field to the dungeon guests is unparalleled. Who would have thought that some dungeon guests would completely ignore their home field and instead go to other places to stay?

Subconsciously, the butter-flower monk wanted to step forward and take Yu Naixin away.

The headless stone golem is already terrifying enough when it goes berserk, but with the added advantage of home field, who knows what it will become!

[What's wrong with the butter monk? Why is he suddenly so agitated?]

[The female guest and the headless stone ghost didn't do anything, did they? There didn't seem to be anything dangerous in the room. If there were any danger, shouldn't the butter monk have taken action before the female guest and the headless stone ghost opened the door?]

I've carefully examined the room from the perspectives of all three guests, and there's nothing unusual about it.

However, the butter-flower monk quickly managed to calm down.

Because he saw that the headless stone ghost did not linger there; it walked towards the small door in the northwest corner of the main hall without even pausing.

Yu Naixin's goal this time has nothing to do with this place.

This small door is the back door of Xiawei Temple. It is narrow and low, and like the other facilities inside the temple, it is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse. But it is indeed the only passage to leave from the north side of Xiawei Temple.

The butter-flower monks occasionally need to use this door, but they have to bend over to squeeze through. The headless stone ghost is at least half a person taller than the butter-flower monks, and its width is far greater. If they were to go out from here, the door would definitely collapse along with the surrounding walls.

Yu Naixin had walked through this door before while in the simulator, but now sitting on the headless stone goblin's shoulder is a completely different perspective.

She looked down at the highest point of the door frame and couldn't help but wonder if one reason the headless stone ghost was reluctant to come to this main hall was that the door was too small and difficult to walk through.

Yu Naixin reached out and patted the headless stone ghost, calming him down with practiced ease, before gracefully jumping down and walking out of the door.

The headless stone ghost paused for a moment, then its entire body began to sink into the ground, its broken neck sinking into the earth, before rising again from the snow outside the door.

There were no bluestone slabs under the snow, but the headless stone ghost moved around much more freely outside Xiawei Temple.

The snow was too thick, making it difficult for Yu Naixin to walk, so she asked the headless stone ghost to carry her for a while.

The headless stone ghost was more than happy to help, and it didn't take much effort to bring Yu Naixin smoothly to the foot of the snow mountain.

My goodness, what a beautiful snow-capped mountain!

[This makes me really want to play in the snow...]

The weather inside and outside the temple is so different! There must be a reason.

[I almost suspected that the dilapidated Buddhist temple was the home of the headless stone demon, but it didn't stop walking at all, and only stopped now. Its home ground must be right here!]

The headless stone ghost stopped at the same cave where he had brought Yu Naixin in the simulator.

"Home...field..." he stammered as he spoke to Yu Naixin, "...we're here..."

really.

Yu Naixin lowered her eyelids.

This is the true home ground in the mind of the headless stone golem.

She smiled and thanked the headless stone ghost, then jumped down from its shoulder. As if it were her first time there, she carefully explored the cave, constantly offering her thoughts and praise to the headless stone ghost.

[Holy crap, how can the female guest praise something so blatantly? She's describing a bare, rock-bottomed cave as if it were a fairyland!]

[I tried several times, but I couldn't detect even the slightest hint of fakery on her face... Is her acting just incredibly good, or does she genuinely think this scene is exceptionally good?!]

[I'm dying of laughter! Look at the expression on the monk's face outside the cave—he's both questioning life and deep in thought. Is he thinking, "Oh, so this is the style the female guest likes? I can imitate it too!" Hahahaha!]

Yu Naixin, with the help of the headless stone ghost, once again picked the rehmannia flowers above the cave entrance and handed them to the headless stone ghost.

After doing all this, Yu Naixin told the headless stone ghost with a smile that she would come to visit him again in a couple of days and bring him even more beautiful flowers.

The headless stone ghost, without suspicion, obediently acquiesced.

However, the monk who made butter flowers shrank his pupils upon hearing these words.

The entire Xiawei Temple is only so big. Yu Naixin won't be here for "a couple of days," so where else can she go?!

He himself has a special memory illusion. The headless stone ghost was in the same program instance as him, and was also affected by the evil energy and went mad, just like him before. It is very likely that he also has a special memory illusion!

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Author's Note: Just a little sweetness to cool things down, time to head to the next memory illusion (。)