Chapter 273 A Desperate Game
"Xiao'er, come and stand here." Zheng Xiuli waved as she stepped back, her legs gradually retreating to the middle of a pile of cardboard boxes.
"Okay, is there anything I can do for you?" Chen Xiao'er followed her and ran forward, getting closer and closer to the box.
Wait a moment!
A flash of light flashed through her scattered memories, and she instantly felt goosebumps all over her body. She kicked the basket with one foot and threw her body towards Xiao'er's back.
Crash.
A gust of wind blew on the rooftop, but it was not wind, but surging energy that had been distorted by zero!
Zero's body lost balance in an instant, and she was blown backwards by the strong wind and fell heavily back into the hanging basket.
The turbulent air currents swirled around her, blowing her further away. Only the balloon and the basket still surrounded her in the strong wind, providing her with the last refuge.
The point symbolizing number 0 was expelled several meters away by the energy spiral.
No one noticed this small change, because everyone's eyes were focused on Chen Xiao'er, watching her walk towards the core of despair.
Under the suppression of zeroing, the core of the ritual array took on a stable form, solidifying into the rooftop of the tower.
And in the special observation field, the super-giant energy creature composed of countless particles is gradually condensing, gaining entity from the densely packed connecting lines, and lying on the mountain-like energy bit by bit.
In Chen Xiao'e's eyes, the pure energy transformed from those strange objects was just a cardboard box filled with fireworks. But the terrifying thing about the box was... before it was opened, it could contain anything.
It is not only the Newborn Snake and Chen Xiao'er who have the ability to transform between reality and illusion, but also the Devouring Snake itself.
Rustle, rustle.
The moment the giant appeared, many observers felt their hair stand on end and immediately understood its purpose.
It must be Chen Xiao'er. It must be to defeat Chen Xiao'er in a quick battle.
He has already entered the influence range of Zero, and he is waiting for the decisive moment to come.
Despair relies on Chen Xiao'er's cognitive filter. She doesn't know much about Him, so she is easily misled by other information.
The expert group finally understood the intention of those "stupid moves" of despair.
Inciting the Chaos Cultists and mercenaries to infiltrate the ritual formation, only to be sniped from front and back by the church's elite troops? No matter, the goal was to "create chaos before Chen Xiao'er's eyes."
The harassing calls didn't work? No, they totally worked.
He passed the message "You are in danger, I will aim for your life" across the filter and deeply engraved it into Chen Xiao'er's heart.
Click, click, click.
At this moment, cracking sounds rang out from all directions. As the ritual entered its final stage, the snake at the bottom core let out a terrifying howl: "Ah——"
The fragile human skin was completely shattered, and a long black snake broke out of the body.
The apostles thrust their spears of light one after another, their tips piercing through the flames as they touched its surface. It was a shift between reality and illusion; this creature had entered a different ritual layer!
The Devouring Snake rushed towards Chen Xiao'er with a pure black storm. It could transform into some people, a car, a gust of wind - and hit Chen Xiao'er from a hidden corner.
"Haha, I've been waiting for you!" Chen Xiaotong appeared out of thin air, her whole body shining with hazy light, and her gray mist-like color was tinged with a layer of light moonlight white.
"Meow--" An even more bizarre sound burst out of her mouth, completely covering up the howling of Xu Snake and the Alien Devouring Snake.
The Newborn Serpent slithered over to catch up with the Devouring Serpent and opened its hungry mouth of the abyss towards Him.
"Ouch." The flames and light flickered continuously. Chen Xiaotong closed her mouth tightly. Arcs of electricity jumped on her cheeks and belly. That was the last struggle of the Devouring Snake.
I'm really too strong~
Chen Xiaotong's face showed a humane complacency: "So what if she's younger? In the elder sister's domain, only the younger sister should exist!"
Gurgle, gurgle gurgle.
There was a boiling bubbling sound in the abdomen, and a large amount of energy was steaming in the body.
Chen Xiaotong's smile continued to widen, and her lips stretched out like a snake and a cat.
But the next second after she chuckled, a powerful gravity was born from her body, as if someone had moved a super heavy iron block horizontally into her stomach, causing her whole body to sink downwards.
"Guwu?!" What happened?
Chen Xiaotong clutched her stomach in panic, her snake tail twitching behind her. The suction came from the abyss at the bottom, pulling her legs deeper.
Although its power was increasing rapidly, the newly born snake opened its eyes sharply: It’s been tricked!
If she was swallowed by the Devouring Snake, there would be nothing to say. However, even the outcome of her swallowing the Devouring Snake was within her desperate calculations.
Despair fed the Devouring Snake's body in advance, stuffing too much heavy debris into its body.
No matter how complicated the debris is, it is still part of the energy. The instinct of the newly born snake is simply not able to refuse the process of absorption and leap - she will be dragged into the abyss by her own weight!
"No, no... My sister is still in danger..." Chen Xiaotong gritted her teeth and crawled on the ground. The heavy gravity pressed in from all directions, almost crushing all the internal organs of her human body into the ground.
"Don't fight your instincts." The desperate, emotionless voice made her skull buzz. "Go, go to the bottom of the abyss and digest the gift I gave you."
A gift from a deceitful ghost... Chen Xiaotong's fingers flattened one by one under the pressure.
The words in her ears and the reason in her heart were all persuading her: As long as you consciously transform back into an energy body and follow gravity to sink to the bottom, you won't have to endure this pain.
Fall, fall.
As long as you are willing to give up your sister and let her fight me "fairly", in decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years, you will also have the day to ignite the divine fire.
No, no, no, I don't want to——
The image of her sister grew increasingly blurred, closing in on the gaping mouth of despair. Chen Xiaotong's ten fingers clasped in the surging waves, their thin streaks of blood drawn by the spray.
I can’t…I absolutely cannot fall at this moment, I must, I must help my sister!!!
She stretched out her hand towards the endless void, but Chen Xiao'er's full attention was on the cardboard box, and she couldn't see her sister on the "back" at all.
Is Xiaotong downstairs? Upstairs? Inside the building? She has no idea.
The ritual formation was clearly operating in the same space, but it seemed as if there were thousands of mountains and seas between her and it.
Sand.
She did not let go of her hand, but the "earth" cracked open first, completely wrapping up the heavy life form and then overturning it.
No, I can’t hold on any longer. I don’t have any coordinates.
Chen Xiaotong fell to the sky, with a deep reflection of despair in her eyes.
Generally, abyssal creatures above the level of Behemoths would have many believers on the surface to provide coordinates to complete the descent ceremony, but she... had nothing.
She looked at her empty hands stretched towards the sky. Her sister's back was no longer visible and she could not catch anything... The blood-red snake eyes gradually closed and blurry tears flickered in the void.
jingle.
Ding-a-ling. Ding-a-ling.
The continuous ringing sound was accompanied by invisible silk threads that rustled down and entangled in her fingertips.
What is this?
Chen Xiaotong suddenly opened her eyes and saw a long-haired girl dancing on tiptoe in the "sky". She held a bell in her left hand and a dagger for sacrifice in her right hand.
[“Why, you are obviously my sister’s believer?”] How could you possibly withstand my coming?
The expressionless girl did not stop dancing, she smiled peacefully in the smoke.
"Great Newborn Snake, there is no such rule in the human world." The believer said to the god: "I voluntarily dedicate myself to my Lord, and that is enough."
She reached out to her in the light, and invisible threads embroidered tracks that reached to the sky.
The tears in Chen Xiaotong's eyes vanished into thin air. She grabbed the thread tightly and flew towards Zheng Lu. Amid the sound of bells, she embraced the transparent body and returned to reality with her.
......
"Is it here?" Chen Xiao'er stood at the edge of the cardboard box.
Zheng Xiuli nodded: "Yes, just stand here, I'll take a picture for you, after all~ we'll be leaving soon. By the way!"
A bright idea suddenly struck her, and she happily glanced at the pile of boxes nearby. "Let's light some fireworks as a backdrop, shall we? It's almost time anyway."
Chen Xiao'er looked up at the sky. There were some red halos in the clouds, and pieces of sunset glow gathered into beautiful orange-red cotton wool in the evening.
Yes...it's so late now. We should be able to see the Millennium Meteor Shower soon.
She looked away, smiled and said, "Okay, I'll do some, I'll do some~" Then she ran over with her skirt lifted up.
Click, click.
The girl's steps slowed down in front of the screen and everyone's sight, and the huge monster unfolded its floating figure under the cover of the ritual formation.
If you use the vision of an abyssal creature, you can see an overwhelming flexible creature spreading its body like a sea hare and extending its bottom surface like a starfish.
Kadong.
Even Chen Xiao'er felt the wind stagnate as she breathed, her hair standing on end. She looked up and saw a figure in a gorgeous dress slowly rising from the middle of the cardboard boxes.
She overlaps with it on different planes, yet determines near and far in the same position.
The figure standing behind Zheng Xiuli was unusually tall, perhaps over two meters. Its gender and age were impossible to discern from its appearance. Its face wore a glossy, eerie mask, the underside of which was constantly dripping with gray and black ink.
It...she...who is he?
Chen Xiao'er's subconscious mind was making quick judgments, "helping" despair to condense into a fixed body.
He wore the crown prepared for him by the church, but Chen Xiao'e did not recognize the overly gorgeous crown. She only cared about his attire that imitated the "God of Love."
"You got your clothes from the Student Union!" Chen Xiao'er scolded with certainty, her cheeks flushed with anger.
Despair did not answer immediately. He was still trying to stabilize his body, which was constantly changing, and was waiting for the help of the chess piece.
"It's time, my chess piece, the Zheng Xiu Li I created."
He called out the name "Jung Xiu Li" in his heart. The girl squatting in front of the box suddenly opened the cardboard box and cried out in surprise: "Oh my, what's inside?!"
Hearing her classmates' screams, Chen Xiao'er couldn't help but turn her head to look.
At this moment, Despair also took out from his sleeve the explosives that best fit Chen Xiao'er's concept, the detonator and fuse.
He didn't need to say anything, because when Zheng Xiuli kicked open the second box, a large amount of linked explosives poured out from the cardboard box!
......
Oh no!
The students struggled to climb out of the narrow passage and saw Chen Xiao'er's pale face and a pile of things around her.
"Are we writing to her now to tell her that these are all fake?"
"There's no time!" The translucent Zheng Xiuli yelled to the back of the team: "Chen Xiaotong! Can you hear me? Send me over right now, right now!!!"
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