Chapter 123 Shadow World: Dinner Party for the Temple Villains

In a kind of disordered darkness, they seemed to be immersed in the sedimentation of a long time, but in fact it was only more than ten minutes.

Finally, just like the first ray of sunlight at dawn breaking through layers of darkness, their vision gradually regained brightness, indicating that they had successfully matched and stepped into the shadow world.

Lanqi looked around. On his left and right stood Hyperion and Frey. Their faces were as familiar as ever, without any change.

His eyes passed over his companions' faces and turned to the floor-to-ceiling glass window not far away.

The clear reflection proved that his own face still retained its original outline.

The view outside the window was difficult to discern because the thick fog made everything look hazy.

If it weren't for the few faint fireflies flickering in the garden outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, they would have found it difficult to tell whether it was early morning or late at night.

Under the thick fog, the dawn outside seemed to be placed in a hazy world full of mysterious beauty.

Inside, Lanci and Frey were already dressed in formal attire.

Although the styles are different, they complement their temperament.

Lanqi's beige classic suit was paired with a brown vest, and his hair was combed neatly. After a slightly formal look, he looked even more gentle than usual.

Frey wore a dark blue double-breasted windbreaker over his slightly lazy and casual black suit, with a pair of black hard leather gloves on his hands. His sunglasses were still half-closed, covering half of his eyes.

Hyperion, on the other hand, was wearing a red dress that resembled a great poet. Her exquisite makeup made her temperament completely different. She looked elegant, gorgeous and lovable. She had a thin coat on her shoulders, as if to resist the cold.

This attire made them sure that this was not the demon world, and this time it didn't seem like the examination room of the Demon Academy. They were not forced to join a room with a compulsory mechanism at the beginning, and it seemed that everyone could move freely.

There was a subtle coolness in the air.

It wasn’t the biting cold of winter, but rather the fresh, cool feeling of breathing at the top of a mountain.

The three did not talk right away, but instead absorbed their surroundings, quietly observing each other.

What is in front of me is a huge banquet hall with a dome more than ten meters high, which also looks like an ancient temple.

Looking up, the majestic organ nearly five stories high occupies the entire back wall. Some of the pipes are upright, some are curved, some are golden, and some are plain and simple. They are arranged in different shapes and levels, exuding an indescribable sense of sacredness and solemnity.

On the dome made of stained glass, intricate golden carvings are decorated on the crystal chandelier. In the soft light reflection, it seems like a galaxy hanging from the ceiling, illuminating the magnificent dark stone walls and the smooth marble floor.

A grand and spacious Baroque-style long table occupies the most conspicuous position in the center of the hall. The silver candlesticks shine brightly under the firelight. On both sides of the long table, twelve dining chairs carefully carved from brown oak are arranged in order, showing the luxurious fragrance of decadence and extravagance.

In this magnificent and majestic banquet hall, several figures were standing scattered around.

They gathered in groups of two or three, staying where they were, as still as stone sculptures.

Neither the luxurious temple, the coming of dawn, nor the biting cold wind could shake their indifference.

Because this hall is not so harmonious.

In this scene, the bloody smell mixed with the smell of death and pig iron permeated the entire hall. The strong smell was so pungent that it completely covered the fragrance in the hall.

At the end of the hall, on the main seat of the long table, a corpse dressed in luxurious clothes was leaning on a high-back chair with its head tilted, despair and unwillingness on its face, and the extreme pain was frozen in its empty eyes.

His chest and abdomen were brutally torn open, like a horrifying texture painting. A gurgling scarlet fountain poured out of his body, creating a tragic art on the ground.

The seeping blood blended with the patterns on the marble floor, flowing in the banquet hall and leaving bloody marks along the lines of the table legs.

This blood color was like an invisible knife, cutting through the banquet hall that originally shone with gold and silver, turning it into a strange and terrifying cage of murderous intent.

Soon, the prompt appeared in front of me.

[Shadow World: Dinner Party for the Villains in the Temple]

[Level: Fifth Stage]

[In this late autumn, you twelve guests have been invited by Sir Caligula to gather in this ancient castle on the cliff.]

[You all seem to have different social identities, but in fact you are all members of a secret church, aiming to overthrow the bloody rule of the vampires over humans.]

[However, the archbishop Caligula died tragically that night. ]

[Among the twelve of you, there is a traitor who has defected to the side of the vampires. ]

【Total number of challengers: 12】

[Special identity challenger: 3]

[Special Identity - Detective (Non-traitor): Automatically selected as the non-traitor with the best chance of solving the mystery among all challengers, characterized by wearing the Holy Cross Brooch given by Sir Caligula.]

[Special Identity - Blood Family Member (Traitor): You can borrow the power of Blood Lord Count Palocas and Blood Lord Count Seberna once a day when they are awake.]

[Note: If a vampire family member dies, the Earl-level blood master will arrive at the castle within one day.]

【Mission Objective 1: Find the betrayer 0/2.】

[Mission Objective 2: Explore the secrets and crises hidden in the castle.]

[Mission Objective 3: At least one person survives until the 120-hour time limit is over.]

[The betrayer has a completely different mission objective, which is only visible to the betrayer; non-betrayers will gain a professional identity, which is only visible to non-betrayers. ]

[If the challenger fails in his mission, a natural disaster will occur. ]

【Time remaining: 119 hours and 59 minutes. 】

[The starting point for all challengers is the base lobby. 】

On the high wall inside the hall, a large clock hangs quietly.

The pointer had just passed half past five and was in the early morning at dawn.

As the prompt message from the shadow world flashed by, the atmosphere in the banquet hall suddenly became tense.

Everyone is in danger in this castle!

People's eyes began to become sharp, as if they were a group of beasts in a cage, wary of each other, because everyone knew that next, they would face a five-day challenge full of trust crisis and risking their lives.

This is no ordinary shadow world.

The enemies are not historical figures projected in the film world.

Rather, it is a death game between challengers playing the roles of historical figures, of deception and uncovering deception, killing and preventing killing!

Challengers in the temple.

No matter what you are thinking.

Finally, everyone gradually turned their attention to the man chosen by the Shadow World, who wore the Holy Cross Brooch.

His gray hair was slightly messy, his body was tall and strong, full of the explosive power of a wolf, his face was angular and half covered with a pair of small sunglasses, his aggressive eyes were deep and cold.

He exudes an air of arrogance and arrogance, and at first glance he looks like a killer.

“…”

etc.

That's it.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Detective...? ...

Late at night in Ikerita College, the Jera Memorial Square was glowing with white light.

The time on the clock tower also pointed to half past five in the morning.

However, at this point in time, the square was already bustling with activity.

Many students who had guessed the time of Lanci and Hyperion's second shadow world had already taken their camping blankets and food boxes and sat down on the steps of the square in a position with an excellent view.

As the images of the film world belonging to Lanqi and the other two appeared on the giant open-air screen.

At Ikerit College, at the Jera Memorial Square, there was finally noise again.

"Frey is a detective?"

"Isn't he a power player?!"

Many students in the Knight Academy knew that Frey possessed monstrous strength and physical growth. Even though he was only at the fourth level, the fifth-level senior students in the Knight Academy did not dare to say that they could beat him in a head-on fight.

In the third round of practical test for the Knight Academy entrance examination, he did not try any fancy tricks and just rushed up to the examiner and threw the first punch that shocked the Knight Academy.

Apart from the fact that this guy's train of thought is very weird, he is indeed the strongest chief freshman in the history of the Knight Academy.

But he doesn't look like a detective at all!

This fifth-order shadow world itself is extremely dangerous for the challengers in the open. They may face unknown and overly powerful vampire powers at any time. Even a sixth-order challenger may die unexpectedly if he is not careful.

For ordinary third- and fourth-level challengers, the difficulty is seriously beyond their level.

The level of the detective directly determines the challengers' chances of winning.

A detective with an absolutely trustworthy identity will be the key to finding the betrayer!

If the detective drags his feet and fails to find the traitor, everyone will be in dire straits as the traitor's secret mission progresses in secret and accelerates.

Moreover, the challenger cannot push the two traitors who are vampire relatives too hard. He must grasp the huge information gap to stabilize the traitors and find a way to catch them.

Otherwise, once the traitors are desperate and choose to die together, the seventh-level vampire count will be attracted and will directly enter a rampage mode to destroy all the challengers.

Even a seventh-level warrior cannot withstand the immortality of the vampire count, and has almost no hope of winning in a one-on-one fight.

Even if all the challengers in this fifth-order shadow world were added together, they would not be able to defeat the Count of the Night. Even if they could escape during the day, they would be brutally slaughtered by the vampire Count when the sun goes down!

"This is not good. It would be fine if Lanqi was the detective... Why did it have to be Frey..."

"Detectives can only be selected from non-traitors, so could Lanqi be a vampire?"

Although the students began to doubt the identities of the two extraterrestrial creatures, Lanci and Hyperion, from the very beginning, they all activated the [Shadow World Recording Program] and could clearly see the information from their perspectives.

Lanci and Hyperion are respectively a lawyer and an actress.

[Lawyer] Familiar with the laws and regulations of the current country, you can check them in your own shadow world panel.

[Actresses] are more likely to attract attacks.

The mission objectives are also the regular version.

Obviously, Frey, Ranch, and Hyperion are not traitors.

The traitor must be hiding among the other nine challengers whose strength is unknown.

At the Jera Memorial Square, the dim light and shadow of the open-air giant screen were reflected on the students' faces, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, making them swallow their saliva.

Many students felt a chill down their spines and their hair stood on end just thinking about how they would be the ones in this shadow world where they could die at any moment.

Whenever night falls.

Waiting for its own.

They could all have the same miserable end as Sir Caligula, who was sitting on the main seat and had his chest and abdomen peeled open.

"This kind of mind game, a shadow world that requires challengers and villains to play tricks and kill each other, often tests one's mental quality. Sometimes, before the final moment, one's mental defenses may collapse, and one may even commit suicide to seek relief."

A senior student couldn't help but sigh with a serious look.

However.

He stared at the screen, at the detective, the lawyer, and the actress, and thought of the recent "Promote Civility, Set a New Trend" campaign on campus. He choked up in the middle of his words.

"But when these three student union bullies enter, it feels like something is wrong!"

Let me make it clear in advance that the three protagonists are not traitors, and there is no such heaven-defying operation as Teacher Datong 　　 　 . (End of this chapter)