Chapter 98: The Way Back to the Real World: Truth and Falsehood, Death...
There was a mess in front of Old Leif's house. Elliot and Levi stared with wide eyes as they watched Livifia kill the new monster easily.
There was a flash of deep thought in Kaihakan's eyes. When he and Osa wanted to ask her how she did it, she did an incredible move and looked up at the sky.
They were stunned and speechless for a moment.
After an unknown amount of time, Vifiya's eyes fell on Osa: "How's the situation over there?"
Osha quickly replied, "Three monsters, five dead, including four villagers from Yoko Village and one knight. No one was injured. These monsters are indestructible no matter what we do; they quickly reassemble." She paused, "Strangely, the hundredth time I killed a monster, all three mysteriously vanished.
That’s right, Vifiya thought.
Without answering the question they wanted to know most, she looked at Isidore. As their eyes met, she asked, "Will you make a promise with me?"
Isidore would never refuse her, no matter what.
Levi's face was filled with visible astonishment. How could they still be in the mood to make an appointment under such circumstances? He wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but seeing Vifiya's extremely serious expression, he swallowed all his words.
"When you wake up and find yourself alone, don't come looking for me, and don't worry about me. You just need to kill what you see, and then survive."
Isidore was rarely stunned. He didn't care how inexplicable her words were. He subconsciously asked, "What about you?"
Vifiya didn't answer. She looked at Isidore deeply, then glanced at Osha and the others: "You too."
Osa opened her mouth slightly, hesitated to speak, and then quickly closed it. Vifiya's eyes were different. Although the way she looked at them was no different from before, Osa felt that it was different.
Arnold didn't ask, just nodded: "I understand." He just had to follow her orders.
Kaharun also hesitated to speak. Seeing Vifiya looking up at the sky again, he couldn't help but look in the direction she was looking. The sky was just ordinary, without even a few white clouds.
"Time is running out."
Vifiya's voice was a little low.
"I'll keep it short."
She looked at Kaihakan and the other two, but her gaze fell directly on Kaihakan. "I am Vifia Kesli, the cousin of your Knights' leader. We are trapped in the fake Yoko Village."
The amount of information contained in these three short sentences was too huge. Kaihakan and the other two couldn't help but widen their eyes. Similarly, Osa and the others were also attracted by her words.
The three people in front of her looked surprised and confused. No matter what they were reacting to, Vifia knew what they were confused about. Without waiting for them to say it out loud, Vifia took out the badge from her waist and placed it in front of Kaihakan.
Levi and Elliot looked at each other, and Kaihakan's eyes suddenly darkened the moment she took out the badge.
The sword and shield emblem, the symbol of the Heihef family.
Blonde hair, red eyes, a genuine badge, and the name, everything matched.
Kaihakan retracted his sword and saluted Vifiya in a very standard manner: "Greetings, Your Excellency the Marquis."
Levi and Elliot were about to salute in disbelief when Kaihakan, standing beside them, suddenly asked, "Even if you prove your identity, how can I trust you? With your power, it wouldn't be difficult to find out that I'm a member of the Knights of the Heihev Family."
Kaihakan didn't care about his almost rude behavior. Letisha sent him here and he had to be responsible for everyone in Yoko Village.
He only believed in Leticia and everyone in the Knights of Heihef.
Levi and Elliot looked at each other, both with surprise in their eyes. They only knew that Kaihakan, the Knights of the Haihefu Family, was from a big city-state, but they had never connected the two names together.
"Where's the thing Jevanlin gave you?"
Kaihakan's face changed at Vifiya's light words. Without waiting for his reaction, she continued, "You often put it between your belts."
Her gaze shifted to his waist: "There's no need to look for it now. It's already been used as a letter asking for help."
She looked him in the eye and read the contents of the letter word for word: "All the Quedilies, here."
Kaihakan was startled and touched the gap in his belt, but it was empty. There was no magic product given to him by Lord Jewanlin.
Only the captain, the deputy captain, him and Lord Jewanlin knew about this matter.
"Quecilly is the monster's name."
"You yourself gave me that tiny white feather."
"My cousin asked you to come here because you discovered a strange monster when you were clearing the border. After investigation, she asked you to come to Yoko Village to investigate. The black slime is exactly the same as the monster we have now, isn't it? This is all what you told me."
Shock appeared on Kaihakan's face. The two things she said did not allow him to find a breakthrough to refute. Regardless of Lord Jewanlin's identity as a magician, or the secrecy of the task assigned to him by the captain, the Marquis of Kesli should not know, unless there was a traitor among them, which was impossible.
"I'm sorry, time is running out, this is all I can do." Vifiya looked at Isidore and the others. They would believe what she said, but Kaihakan and the others would not. That's why she tried to gain their trust in a short time, but with so many words coming back, time would pass quickly.
"This isn't the first day we arrived at Yoko Village. We've been here for at least ten days."
The house they were staying in was not Flynn's, but Grandma Nabonong's.
Upon hearing this, Isidore quickly asked, "Is it a monster's ability?"
Vifiya shook her head, no longer caring how much Kaihakan and the others believed her. She continued, "Two weeks ago, a new monster appeared across the Duchy of Haihefu. In just three days, it caused heavy casualties. His Majesty the Emperor personally named it Quishili."
"About six days later, the quagiri everywhere vanished one after another." Her eyes met Kaihaka's with a firm gaze. "All the quagiri appeared in Joko Village, killing each other and merging with each other."
There was no need for Vifia to explain the rest. Kaihakan and the others also understood what would happen to the village of Yoko if all the Quezhili appeared in the village.
But what she said was really too bizarre.
Vifiya lowered her eyes and thought it was too challenging to explain the whole story in such a short time and gain their trust.
People's trust cannot be gained in a short time, and they do not have the experience of getting along with them before.
"I won't go into detail about what happened in between." Vifiya raised her head and looked directly at Kaihakan. There was already a hint of trust in her in his eyes, but also a hint of doubt. "I don't know how we got trapped here. The only thing I know for sure is that if we don't go back, everyone will die."
Without waiting for anyone to react, her expression was more serious than ever before: "Everyone who is still alive, their bodies are still in Joko Village, and the monster is also in Joko Village."
The existence in her mind reminded her that a more powerful Quishili was being born step by step with Yoko Village as its cradle.
The moment it is successfully born, everyone will be devoured.
She knew that she had told them too much information in one breath and they might not be very receptive to it, but there was nothing she could do.
There really isn't much time left.
"Why are you the only one who remembered it, Your Excellency the Marquis?" It was not Kaihakan who asked the question, but Levi, the hot-tempered nobleman. After listening to all of Vifiya's words, his expression became solemn and he suppressed his other emotions.
Vifiya's deep eyes subconsciously looked at the pile of red flesh not far away: "Because of Grandma Nabonong and Hannah."
The fragments of memory were extremely clear. After they arrived in Yoko Village, they lived in the house lent to them by Grandma Nabonong. Hannah was not missing, but she had indeed died in order to protect Grandma Nabonong and the villagers of Yoko Village.
"Why does Grandma Nabonong have memories?" Vifiya's puzzled voice reached everyone's ears.
"Thinking of Hannah." The voice in her mind answered her doubts.
So that's it. Vifiya suppressed the surprise in her heart, and through the mouth of the existence in her mind, she also remembered the reason why she could remember when her memory recovered.
Grandma Nabonong's death stimulated her deepest nerves.
Death is always lonely, death is always sad, and death always approaches the unconscious people.
"How do we get back?" Arnold's voice remained calm, but more resolute than ever before.
Vifia turned her head and saw Isidore, Osa, Kaharun, and Arnold. Their expressions were slightly different, but they all firmly conveyed a message to her: they believed in her and they supported her.
The absolute trust in the moment of crisis almost burned Vifiya's eyes. She hadn't experienced this feeling for a long time, ever since Vifiya left.
It was precisely because of their trust that Vifiya didn't know how to start.
With the help of her own memories and the existence in her mind, she knew very well that the conditions for returning were too harsh for the fake Yoko Village.
The living people in the fake Yoko Village and the real Yoko Village must be made equal.
In the real world, some people in Yoko Village have already died.
And she couldn't be sure who was still alive and who had died in the subsequent confrontation with Quirrel.
A face emerged in her mind, an indifferent face, a face that made her angry. Did she really not know why they were trapped here? No, she knew.
Everything including the method of returning and the restrictions were set by that person.
There is only one way to go back.
He wanted all the living people in the fake Yoko village to kill him with their own hands.
Correspondingly, the survivors of the real Yoko Village will wake up again after the fake Yoko Village dies.
When everyone has experienced death, only those who survive can return to the real world.
Having to kill yourself with your own hands is a restriction set by that person.
How can I make everyone who thinks they are in the real world kill themselves?
So cruel.
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