At Boss Mi’s house.
On the square table against the wall, a girl with black hair covering her cheeks sat on the table like a sculpture, her pair of empty eyes staring straight ahead.
In front of her, on the sofa, a man in a suit was sitting there, one hand placed horizontally on the backrest, the other hand unconsciously clenched, as if trying to hold some equipment, then remembering that the other person was not around at the moment, he loosened his fingers awkwardly, took out a lighter from his pocket, and clicked, opening and closing the lid casually to kill time.
Yin Zhien finally walked out of the small room, walked slowly to the sofa, and whispered, "President."
"Are you ready?" asked Carl Milak.
“Well,” Yoon Ji-eun glanced at the time in the system, “I should be…going in soon.”
"Okay," Carl Milak raised his hand and patted the other person's arm. "Go in with peace of mind. As long as you can come out safely, don't worry about anything else."
Yin Zhien was puzzled, and finally took advantage of the last moment to ask the question that was weighing on her mind: "President, they have more people, more fragments, and higher ranks. If I go in like this, I will definitely not win. What if the opponent wins and chooses to bind permanently, then... what should I do?"
Yoon Ji-eun was not afraid that the opponent would permanently bind the Scepter's Sheath to him. What he was afraid of was that President Carl would blame him for losing the binding rights to the Scepter's Sheath.
Carl Milak chuckled and shook his head, "He wants to kill me in there. If I don't show up, he will definitely not choose to bind me permanently."
Once he finds out that it is Yoon Ji-eun who enters the sheath of the divine staff, and not the opponent he is waiting for, Ye Jiu will definitely choose to bind him temporarily and wait for another 72 hours for the big fish he wants to catch to take the bait.
Carl Milak was certain of this.
Therefore, Carl Mirak will participate in the next Scepter Scabbard qualification test to let that ignorant young man know who the weakling is.
Yoon Ji-eun didn't understand. "You're going to do it yourself anyway, why do you have to wait until next time? Isn't it better to do it yourself this time?"
Carl Mirak raised his eyes and glanced at Yin Zhien. After a moment, he shook his head and said, "Now, the time is not right."
Yoon Ji-eun then asked, "When?"
Carl Milak stopped playing with the lighter, clenched the metal shell of the lighter with his fingertips, raised his head, narrowed his eyes, and stared at Yoon Ji-eun's innocent little round face with scrutiny.
“Jie’en, are you…trying to trick me?”
Yoon Ji-eun's heart trembled, and the hairs on her neck stood up in fear, but she still pretended to be calm and tried to maintain an innocent smile, "President, don't joke with me. How dare I ask you questions? I'm just about to go in, and I'm a little nervous, so..."
"Ji'en," Carl Mirak interrupted him, "In the last instance, I risked violating the instance system rules and assigned you and Wei Zhe to the opposing camp. Wei Zhe lost, and the Matthew fragment fell into Ye Jiu's hands. Why did you come back intact?"
Yoon Ji-eun was asked so many questions that her clothes were soaked with sweat, but she still kept smiling, "President, haven't I already explained it to you--"
"——That's just your excuse," Carl Milak had already decided on an answer and was no longer easily convinced by the other party's rebuttal.
“If you follow my instructions and try to seize the fragments, then with Ye Jiu’s caution and Jun Wuming’s ability, your identity will definitely be exposed, and you will not be able to return safely.
"If you want to preserve your identity, you can only protect yourself and give up trying to snatch the fragments after Wei Zhe is defeated.
"If it's the latter, you are openly disobeying my instructions. If it's the former, you... most likely made a deal with them."
When he said the last word "deal", Carl Milak stared at Yoon Ji-eun's face, his eyes became sinister, as if he wanted to dig out Yoon Ji-eun's heart and have a look.
Yoon Ji-eun tried hard to suppress the urge to run away. She smiled on her face, but she secretly said "it's over" in her heart.
Seeing Carl Mirak raising his hand and wanting to attack him, Yoon Ji-eun's body froze. The next moment, everything in front of her eyes went dark and her body began to fall rapidly.
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…
Wen Nan landed smoothly in the darkness.
A moment later, a huge light screen appeared above his head.
The light screen is surrounded by 12 special runes. The runes seem to be breathing, emitting flickering light.
The next moment, a message appeared on the screen:
[Welcome to the Scabbard of the Scepter - Scabbard Candidate Qualification Test - Exclusive Space]
Unsurprisingly, there were still three people entering the test space this time.
What was different from before was that this time one of the candidates was standing right in front of Wen Nan.
Although her face couldn't be seen clearly in the dark, this was definitely Yu Shujun who had just stood in the nanny's room with Wen Nan.
When he looked up again, he saw another candidate standing in the distance, looking around. It was obvious that he was curious because it was his first time entering this space.
Soon, the light screen above my head jumped -
[There are 3 candidates for this sheath bearer, and the candidates are listed as follows:
Candidate No. 1: holds 2.5 fragments (pending confirmation); Candidate No. 2: holds 1 fragment (pending confirmation); Candidate No. 3: holds 0.5 fragments (pending confirmation). 】
【Please all candidates confirm whether to participate in this qualification test. 】
【Note: If you give up the test, you will be removed from the space immediately. If you confirm your participation, you will not be allowed to leave the test in the middle of the test. 】
The candidate standing in the distance looked at the light screen above his head, then looked at the other two people in the distance, then raised his hand and waved, as if he wanted to say hello to Wen Nan and the others.
But then, the confirmation countdown above his head sounded and the other party withdrew his hand.
The three of them selected confirm one after another, and the light screen above their heads quickly jumped to -
[All three candidates have confirmed their participation in this sheath holder qualification test. The question bank will be drawn below. ]
[The Scepter of the Gods will try to extract the test content that best matches all the test takers based on the comprehensive situation of the existing candidates. ]
[There are 3 candidates in total this time, so 3 candidate test questions are drawn for selection...]
[Candidates are being matched and the question bank is being drawn. Please wait...]
[The question bank has been drawn. The Scepter of God now prepares the following three test questions for all the qualification test takers:
[Topic 1. Run for the pure land in your dreams! (Keywords for the topic: Break through the shackles)]
[Topic 2. Mask after mask makes people lose themselves. Only by finding the real self can we find the meaning of life again! (Keywords for solving the topic: remove the disguise)]
[Topic 3. There is nothing that cannot be solved with one shot. If it cannot be solved, then do it twice! (Keywords for the topic: extreme charm)]
Looking at these three topics, Wen Nan was speechless.
When a new candidate comes in, only the second topic is changed, and the remaining two are presented intact, right? Then what is the meaning of this so-called question bank? There can't be only one topic for each candidate, right? Qiaozi, you are a bit unprogressive.
If the same topics are used all the time, the audience will get tired of it and may stop following the show.
But then again, what happened inside the scabbard of the divine staff seemed not to be shown in his live broadcast room? Forget it, just pretend he didn't say it.
Then let’s continue with the old topic selection method.
This topic is quite good. Apart from being a little too simple, which causes him to complete it too quickly each time, it has no drawbacks.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw that the priority to choose the topic fell on candidate No. 1 again, and as expected, the other party chose Wen Nan's topic again.
A system prompt soon came from my mind.
Then came the familiar headache, followed by the familiar prompt that the test space construction failed, and then, Wen Nan became a supermodel again.
Standing in the darkness, Wen Nan glanced at Test Space No. 1 which was closer to him, and finally bypassed it and walked towards Test Space No. 2.
It was no longer the men's restroom in the high school, but a suite that looked familiar.
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The room was surrounded by rusty metal walls, and next to it was a toilet that was emitting a foul odor. On the sink and a broken mirror in the toilet, blood was constantly oozing out, flowing into the pool, filling it up, and then overflowing, flowing along the yellowed tiles on the wall and winding to the ground.
In the living room next door, on the wall, a line of words was written in scarlet blood:
[You'll never escape from my grasp, sweetheart Ji-eun~] There was a camp bed against the wall opposite. On the bare bed board, a round-faced boy was huddled in the corner, with a shackle wrapped around his ankle. The shackle was connected to a hole in the wall with a metal chain.
The round-faced boy hugged his knees like a hedgehog, curled up against the wall, trembling all over, his face pale, and his eyes stared in the direction of the toilet.
The toilet door was not closed. From his angle, he could clearly see the washbasin filled with blood opposite the door, and the blood oozing out of the broken mirror above the washbasin.
Crash.
The mirror suddenly shattered and the fragments scattered all over the ground.
A pale hand covered with purple veins stretched out from the mirror.
Then the arms, shoulders, head...
Soon, a woman with blood coming out of all her orifices crawled out of the mirror in a twisted zombie-like posture.
The woman's eyes were wide open, without pupils, like two white pebbles embedded in the eye sockets. At the corner of her eye, there was a teardrop mole that was hard to ignore.
Wen Nan stood outside the No. 2 test space, watching coldly like a spectator. When he saw the teardrop mole at the corner of the woman's eye, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Yoon Ji-eun, in the scene that he feared the most, actually also incorporated the appearance of his president.
How did this Mr. Mi do it to make every one of his members remember him so deeply? Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Ms. Sadako, who had a bit of Mr. Mi's shadow, slowly crawling out of the mirror, and then, like a strange creature, she rushed to the camp bed at an incredibly fast speed.
The camp bed creaked under the weight.
“Aaaaaaaa——”
Yoon Ji-eun screamed in fright. She was trapped in a corner by the woman and had nowhere to retreat. She raised her hands and waved them at herself.
Just like the face-changing in Sichuan Opera, the original small round face immediately turned into another face of Sadako, who was as pale as paper. Even the teardrop mole at the corner of the eye was exactly the same.
Seeing this, the woman crawling in front of Yoon Ji-eun turned her head 90 degrees, seeming to be very confused.
But after a moment, she came to her senses, let out a hoarse growl from her throat, and then she jumped up in anger, grabbed the neck of the person in front of her with both hands, and shouted:
"It's so ugly! It's so ugly! This face is so ugly! Change it back! Change it back! You ugly freak! Die! Die!"
Yoon Ji-eun was soon strangled to death, her tongue stuck out, and her feet kicked wildly. Before she fell into a coma, she used the last bit of her strength to raise her hands and change her appearance again.
The pale woman's face with blood coming out of all her orifices was instantly transformed into the face of a man who was so handsome that it was unreal.
Hmm? Wen Nan raised his hand and couldn't help but touch his face.
In a panic, Yoon Ji-eun turned into a low-profile version of Wen Nan's face.
Ms. Sadako sitting opposite her really enjoyed seeing this face.
In an instant, the other party's hands loosened.
Yoon Ji-eun took the opportunity to turn over, slipped away from the other person, and fled from the camp bed at full speed.
However, after walking around the room, she found herself like a goldfish forgotten in a fish tank with nowhere to escape. Yoon Ji-eun stood in the opposite corner in despair, turned around, and looked at the woman on the bed with horror on her face.
The woman climbed down from the bed, holding the chain in her hand, and approached Yoon Ji-eun step by step, her mouth wide open to her ears.
"Sweetheart, how come you become so handsome, hehehe~"
Wen Nan stopped looking and turned around, walking towards Test Space No. 1.
Although Yin Zhien is now half Wen Nan's person - and Wen Nan is very suspicious that the other party used a little trick to get the qualification to enter the sheath of the divine staff because of the effect of the Heart-Drilling Gu that he wanted to use as an undercover agent - however, Wen Nan does not have the Golden Light of Root Breaking that can break through the test space. Even if he wants to help the other party, he can't do it for the time being.
I can only let Yoon Ji-eun and Sadako enjoy the "hehehe" for a while longer.
Thinking of this, Wen Nan quickly arrived next to test space No. 1.
It was that familiar warmly decorated room again, that familiar faceless woman humming while cooking, and the ground covered in blood again...
However, this time, the amulet's body was not seen.
There is no one next to the sofa in the living room, nor on the money tree at the stairs.
What's going on?
Is the accidental death of the amulet no longer the scene that Yu Shujun fears the most in his heart?
Just as he was thinking about it, a beautiful young woman appeared in front of Wen Nan.
She stood in front of the door of the storage room where Yu Shujun was, only one meter away from Wen Nan, staring at him with a sinister smile on her lips. (End of this chapter)
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