Chapter 74 Bai Ye: None of the four leaders can escape.
The terrifying snake-like vines carried a terrifying momentum, and did not slow down much even within the range of the water-colored [Sonata]. The two people here happened to be one a purification type and the other a support type, neither of them were good at fighting, so they could only escape in a somewhat embarrassing manner.
“What the hell are these vines? Are they demon followers transformed from alienated plants influenced by demonic power?!”
Shuise is essentially a person who likes to complain. He has lost the demeanor of a nobleman from the Muse Music Band after being chased by Tengman.
Bai Ye shifted his gaze away from the ripples and looked at Shuise, which made Shuise feel a little confused. It was not until question marks began to appear in the latter's head that Bai Ye spoke.
"You have so many functions of water ripples entering the Dionysus space, can't you really perform the trump card of cutting lily of the valley?"
Shuise widened his eyes and looked at Bai Ye in disbelief, as if he was meeting him for the first time.
"Wow, Bai Ye."
Shuise revealed the pain of being betrayed. He wanted to go forward and pat Bai Ye's head to see if there was some liquid inside, but a vine stabbing from behind did not give him any chance and almost knocked Shuise out.
Shuise used the bow to cut off the vine that was about to rush over, turned his body in mid-air, and grabbed the hand of Bai Ye who had rushed over earlier. The latter pulled hard, and before the large group of vines rushed over, accompanied by a wave of dust, the two of them rolled steadily into the huge stone pillar temple.
"At that moment just now, I felt like I was meeting you for the first time today. Although I can usually feel that you are not a serious person, this is the first time I saw you put your true self out in the open."
Bai Ye was stunned.
Shuise stood up straight. Just as they had guessed, those endless vines all stopped outside the temple, as if they were afraid of some existence inside. However, Shuise's attention was no longer there. He just looked at Bai Ye with a serious expression.
"I still prefer the real you, my friend."
Shuise straightened the corner of his expensive windbreaker and gave a sincere smile.
It's a companion, not any other name.
Although Bai Ye has been entangled in the entanglement caused by the superposition of multiple identities, in the eyes of other people in the Squid Detective Agency, they have been companions since they entered the devil game dominated by the DM system together.
Regardless of whether Bai Ye is a criminal or not, personal experience can answer everything. The people in the Squid Detective Agency are not fools. After following You Yu to handle so many cases, everyone can see that Bai Ye is not the kind of villain who could do the Wheatfield Town incident.
Since they are not criminals who need to be supervised, the Squid Detective Agency never welcomes new members.
"I..." Bai Ye paused, and his voice was hoarse and trembling. He himself didn't want to admit that it was his voice. He didn't expect that a joke he blurted out would be exchanged for the other party's sincere evaluation. What's the difference between this and the Demon Game where a basic attack would exchange for the opponent's ultimate move and then your own weakness would be broken?
"You don't have to be so vigilant in the future. You can show your true self without worrying about it."
Shuise sighed, put away the bow in his hand, walked up and patted the shoulder of Bai Ye who was standing there in a daze. The latter looked at him blankly, his cobalt blue eyes slightly widened, like a blind person who suddenly discovered that he could see colors.
Shuise didn't say anything else. He very considerately picked up his oil lamp from the ground and walked to the depths of the temple hall to check out the situation first, leaving Bai Ye space to think alone. After a short period of silence, he finally heard a response.
"Thanks."
Bai Ye's pronunciation was very serious.
God knows how many negative emotions an ordinary high school student has after experiencing the Rye Town incident and being controlled by t173 to become a phantom thief. Those emotions are piled up in his heart, but in order not to affect others and prevent others from being involved in the troublesome struggle between t173 and the DM system, he has no one to talk to. The worries about the future, the sighs for the doomed tragic fate, and the fear of his own out-of-control behavior are added together, making him feel like he is falling into an ice cellar every moment.
The people at Squid Detective Agency are all very nice and it's very easy to get along with them.
But I am Wonder, Wonder who is destined to be the enemy of Youyu. Neither Wonder nor Bai Ye, a juvenile delinquent who needs to be supervised, can they really stand by them?
...In the future revealed in t173...will he really kill Suzuran and Mizuiro with his own hands?
Bai Ye could not guarantee or confirm, so he could not accept the kindness of everyone around him with peace of mind. Even though You Yu and the others were running towards him desperately, he still stepped back, in the name of their own good.
But...but, why?
Just like Faust at that time, he had to bear the consequences for what he did. Why?
Why should he start to bear the consequences of the killings committed by Wonder in the future plot described in t173? Is that really unchangeable?
The DM system is obviously in opposition to t173. Even if t173 one day orders him to kill the members of the Squid Detective Agency, can't he drive it out of the depths of his soul before t173 gives the order?
Bai Ye clenched his hands, then slowly loosened them, his voice light but solemn.
"Thanks."
Shuise's words made him realize the reason why he chose to come to Solomon College and join the Squid Detective Agency in the first place, which was that he was unwilling to accept the so-called destiny of t173.
He needs to build enough bonds with the protagonists to change the ending where he is killed by You Yu.
If that is the case, then what can’t be changed? He only knew that everything he did next was of his own will and had nothing to do with the so-called plot options of t173.
"You're welcome."
Thinking that he had finally persuaded Bai Ye to stop being so stern, Shuise waved his hands proudly, but in fact, the corners of his mouth were already pulled up to the sky: "Then from now on, don't be so polite and call me Shuise classmate or Youyu classmate--"
Bai Ye looked at Shuise getting farther and farther away from him, and smiled when he heard it: "Okay, but I will never allow you to run around without following my orders."
Shuise was about to walk into the dark area deep inside the temple, but he retracted his foot: "I regret it... You should just turn back into the polite Bai Ye."
Bai Ye's smile became even brighter, and Shuise seemed to see Youyu in a trance. He opened his mouth softly and ruthlessly spat out two words: "It's too late."
Influenced by Bai Ye, Shuise had to suppress his desire to run, and slowly and seriously began to explore the temple. The temple they were in was one of many temple buildings in the temple complex outside, but its scale was also quite spectacular. They just took a step into the darkness, and those burning fire stands began to ignite in pairs along the fire line like wind chimes without wind, making muffled sounds that could not be ignored in the empty space.
After peeling away the darkness, what appeared before the two demon players was a huge temple hall. The several-meter-long stone steps were covered with moss and various feathered serpent statues were erected around it, full of the traditional folk style of the Ink City.
The walls of the huge hall are covered with murals of various colors. Deep in the grooves that were sunken to hold the pigments, there are still faint traces of colors from thousands of years ago.
"Combined with the scene reminder at the beginning, it seems that it is clear what this place is. This escape game is different from the last one. It is not a cat-and-mouse game, but a puzzle game."
Bai Ye's fingertips gently brushed across the clear grooves of the murals. The stacked stones were carved to reveal faint green particles inside the stones, which carried the aura of demonic power that even the Dionysus space could not hide.
"Mictlantkutli, the underworld in the mythology of the City of Ink. According to the scene prompts, we should find the Nine-Layer Crystal Road in this temple complex called the underworld. We can only leave here after passing the test of the Nine-Layer Crystal Underworld and reaching the end of the Land of Death."
"You remembered such a long message, that's impressive."
Shuise's eyes widened. Although he was in charge of information search at the Squid Detective Agency during most of the time when Youyu and Linglan were crazy, even he, who was sensitive to information, could not remember the scene hint that flashed before his eyes at the beginning.
After all, the name in the style of Ink City... is really hard to remember.
Bai Ye successfully refreshed Shuise's memory, but Shuise didn't notice it at all and was still thinking: "But why were we placed in such a temple complex? Could it be that these temple complexes symbolize the nine layers of the underworld? And we have to find the token fragments in this temple complex, and we have to find the building where the 'safety door' is located, which symbolizes the ninth layer of the underworld, before we can leave?"
Shuise nodded in agreement. "That should be the truth. The people of Ink City have a tradition of bringing mythical miracles to life. This temple complex should be based on the same principle. It is a replica of the 'Underworld' Miteklan built by the ancient priests of Ink City during the millennia when humans and demons were in direct conflict. It is really quite spectacular."
“And…” Shuise took a deep breath, as if he was afraid of what he was going to say next. His voice trembled under the dim light of the fire table and the oil lamp: “The feathered serpent Tekutli, the god of death in the underworld, is considered by the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau authorities to be the deified product of the Demon King of Meteorite, just like the Yamata no Orochi, the mythologized Demon King of Muhuo, by Yedao.”
"His true name should be——【Demon King of Meteorites and Undead: Crystal Mitrann】."
"That's it, isn't it?"
Bai Ye's voice sounded, but its content was even more frightening. The young man with cobalt blue eyes raised the oil lamp and pointed to the huge feathered serpent statue in the hall under the shadow. The statue almost filled the entire height of the hall. Unlike other feathered serpents, this one had an intricate feather crown on its head, which made people afraid.
"Yes... One of its characteristics is the crest of feathers on its head..."
Shuise's voice began to tremble again.
"By the way, was this statue just there?"
"Well……"
Bai Ye paused, and in the dim firelight, the huge stone feathered serpent seemed to blink.
"Once we leave the Dionysus Space, we must find the four leaders to explore the Ink City together."
He threw down these words calmly, with a faint sense of death.
"None of them will be able to escape."
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