Kitahara Xiaokui replied in a daze: "Sister Xingzi, I'll go with you."

Xingzi cried with joy. She held Xiaokui's hand tightly, and then looked at the half-open door of the evil god shrine with caution: "Who were you talking to just now?"

Xiao Kui turned around and found that Xie Ta, who had just been standing there, was gone. Her heart skipped a beat and she was about to go in to see what was going on when she was stopped by her sister.

"Hmph!" Sister Xingzi carefully placed her index finger on her lips. She quickly looked around and said, "Someone is coming. Let's go."

After saying that, Xingzi dragged Xiaokui down the mountain quickly. Xiaokui turned around in a daze and saw the door of the shrine being slowly blown in by the night wind. The god was hanging by countless silk threads in the center of the shrine.

The moonlight poured down, leaving bloody marks on the god's slender neck from the silk thread. He was hung by the silk thread and raised his head. His silver-blue eyes, as sparkling as the water in a pond, met Xiaokui's eyes when she turned back while leaving.

Shetta just watched her leave, his eyes filled with moonlight.

The moment she saw those eyes, Xiao Kui felt her head buzzing, and everything around her slowed down as if in slow motion, and there were strange noises.

[System prompt: NPC's mental value has been detected to be zero.]

[…NPC is transforming…NPC transformation is stopped…]

[System prompt: The incarnation (Tawil) has been detected to be in pain. Walking out of the shrine will trigger a special node... The instance will be reset...]

[The game designer hid the data of the player Bai Liu's clearing of "Evil God Festival·Boathouse" in world line 657 in this node. Once the evil god Tavier's body feels pain and voluntarily walks out of the shrine, the moment he walks out of the shrine, a special game mode will be triggered.]

[The Easter Egg Game Path is unfolding...]

[The "Evil God Festival·Boathouse" dungeon of World Line 657 will soon overlap with the "Evil God Festival·Boathouse" dungeon of World Line 658. Players from all world lines please be prepared, as you will soon meet.]

[Detecting the total number of players in this instance on both world lines...]

[World Line 658: Player Spade, Player White Willow]

[Player Spade is in the timeline five years later, with no progress in the game]

[Player Bai Liu triggered the plot of "Evil Spirit" and entered the timeline five years ago. The game is currently more than halfway through. 】

[World line 657: Player Bai Liu.]

[Player Bai Liu triggered the plot of "Evil Spirit" and entered the timeline five years ago. The game is currently 97% complete and is currently offering sacrifices to the evil spirit. It will soon be completed.]

【There are three players in the overlapping copy of "Evil God Festival·Boathouse".】

[Calculating the time flow and space curvature in the two copies... Adjusting the copy progress... Adjusting the NPC memory... Adjustment completed, the copy time and space are consistent with the current progress of World Line 658, and the NPC memory is consistent with the game progress of World Line 657...]

【NPC memory reset begins.】

[Loading the memory of "Evil God Festival·Boathouse" in world line 657 into the NPC's brain...]

Kitahara Xiaokui's eyes went blank, and she felt everything around her was rapidly receding. A terrifyingly real memory, one that she had never experienced before, suddenly appeared in her mind.

Everything that happened before was the same as before. She escaped and was then captured again two months later. On the ship back, she met [Bai Liu].

But from then on, everything was different.

When Sota asked this [Bai Liu] in a trembling voice whether he had killed many small animals and people in the welfare home, this Bai Liu admitted it with a chuckle.

[Yes.] This [Bai Liu] smiled happily, [Why, I can’t kill?]

[No one will remember these things if they are killed, why can't I kill them? ]

[No one suffered any loss from this, I was just clearing out things that were of no value.]

[It's the same with you guys. No one will remember or care if you're killed. You're even cheaper than the things I cleared out before.]

As Sou Tai tried to suppress her cries of fear, she curled up on the bed below and clearly heard this [Bai Liu] lazily say: [Because you are just NPCs in a game I play.]

When they arrived at the houseboat, [Hakuroku] became a sacrifice as expected. He forced Sota to become his servant, and later, like her, he was chosen by the Kitahara family and became [Kitahara Byakuroku].

This [Hakuroku] also stole the key on the first night he arrived at the Kitahara family's house and went to the shrine, where he was also seen by her who lived in the attic.

But Xiao Kui also clearly saw that [Bai Liu] did not awaken the evil god.

One day, two days, and every day like this.

[Bai Liu] During all the days I went to the Houshan Shrine, I never awakened the evil spirit once.

During the day, this [Bai Liu] would attend classes lazily while torturing himself more and more severely, as if he was thinking about something. The extent of his self-torture would even shock those teachers in the Kitahara family who enjoyed torturing people. Sometimes, these teachers who had done all kinds of cruel things would not be able to help but get scared when [Bai Liu] tortured himself, and then tremble and shout to stop.

[Bai Liu] Sometimes it would stop, and sometimes it wouldn't. These teachers would become unable to bear it any longer and run outside. Sometimes they would squat in the corridor, vomiting with a pale face, and then flee in panic.

——It was as if the person imprisoned in the room was not a sacrifice that could be manipulated at will by pushing the door, but a monster that made them feel terrified.

[Madman]——Xiao Kui clearly remembered these teachers’ distraught comments. [Bai Liu]——A complete madman.

At night, this crazy [Shiroku] would climb up to the shrine again and again and stay there all night, but when he came down the next day, his face would be much more indifferent than the day before, as if he had encountered something that made him extremely unpleasant.

In her memory, Xiao Kui never understood why Bai Liu did this, but she didn't dare to ask directly.

——Until the summer festival comes, and the painful test that all sacrifices have to face comes.

Xiao Kui finally understood why [Bai Liu] could not awaken the evil god and why he tortured himself so madly.

【Bai Liu】In this painful test, there was not even a single bit of pain.

Sota said that when [Bai Liu] put his hand on the right plate of the scale, the needle of the scale did not shake at all, as if this person had never felt any pain in his heart.

How is that possible? Xiao Kui asked Sota.

Sota also found it unbelievable. He said he thought he was seeing things. With the level of self-torture that [Bai Liu] inflicted, how could he not feel any pain at all?

But no means no.

[Hakuroku] was demoted to a servant, but he didn't seem to care about the decline in his status and still went to the shrine every night with a lantern.

Xiao Kui gradually realized what this person wanted to do——

[Bai Liu] wants to torture himself to create pain and awaken the evil god.

But then what?

Why did he do this?

Xiao Kui was curious about the answer to this question, but she had to admit that she might never get the answer to this question.

She was very afraid of [Bai Liu] and there was absolutely no way she would ask him the answer to this question.

This person's cruelty and indifference towards others has reached a level that even the people of the Kitahara family are afraid of.

Although his status was reduced to that of a servant, no one dared to give orders to Bai Liu and ask him to do what a servant should do, because no one was not afraid of Bai Liu. His lazy and smiling face when he was torturing himself left a terrifying shadow in everyone's heart.

What's even more outrageous is that just one month after [Hakuroku] became a servant, he was appreciated by the head of the Kitahara family because of his expertise in torturing sacrifices and causing pain, and he jumped from a servant to their teacher.

As a key sacrifice, Xiao Kui will have one-on-one lessons with Bai Liu about twice a week.

In the silent and dim Japanese-style room, two people were sitting quietly.

Xiao Kui lowered her head and knelt on the cushion, looking at her hands that were trembling slightly due to the uncontrollable fear. She did not dare to look up at [Bai Liu] who was sitting opposite her.

She could feel [Bai Liu]'s casual gaze slowly looking over her.

Xiao Kui was afraid of the adults who arrested her, and she was afraid of the teachers in the Kitahara family, but being afraid of a peer who was about the same age as her, or even more afraid of the former two, was a completely unfamiliar experience for her.

How could a sixteen or seventeen-year-old man, who could even be described as a child to some extent, make her so frightened, so frightened that she had trouble breathing.

"You must be curious about why I go to the shrine every night." Bai Liu, who was sitting cross-legged opposite, suddenly spoke up, his chin resting casually with a faint smile on his face, "I know you see me every night."

Xiao Kui was shocked, her heart almost jumped out of her throat. Just as she was about to deny it, Bai Liu interrupted her lazily: "I can tell you directly why."

"Because I also have wishes that I would like to make to God."

Xiao Kui was silent for a long time before she gritted her teeth and answered, "Teacher Bai Liu, what is your wish?"

Bai Liu opened his eyelids and said, "I was not liked by people in the welfare home. They splashed a lot of dirty water on me. I was accused of killing small animals and doing a lot of bad things. In the end, I was even accused of murder."

Xiao Kui was shocked and raised her head subconsciously: "Are these all framed?! Then why did you admit it on the boat?"

"Because it's meaningless not to admit it." Bai Liu lowered his long eyelashes, casting a rather lonely shadow on his face, "Haven't you all already believed the rumor? Why not just confirm it?"

"Anyway, no one would like a monster like me who can't feel any pain."

"I can't even make a sacrifice."

Xiao Kui suddenly clutched the clothes in front of her, and her expression was a little dazed for a moment.

[Sister, I know pain, but not suffering. ]

[Sister, is it my fault that I can't feel pain? Why does everyone hate me? ]

[Can't I be sacrificed in place of my sister? ]

...Jiro, her younger brother, her poor younger brother, is also such a person. If he were still alive, he should be about the same height as [Hakuroku], right?

[Bai Liu]'s dark eyes, under his long eyelashes, showed no trace of loneliness, but a kind of boring playfulness, but his tone continued to drop: "Let's end the class here today, Master Xiao Kui, go back and rest."

"Don't wait for me to go to the shrine tonight. I know I can't produce pain and have given up on fulfilling my own wishes."

Bai Liu stood up and was about to leave. Xiao Kui clenched her teeth, and when Bai Liu was about to step out the door, she called out hoarsely, "Teacher Bai Liu, please wait a moment!"

Bai Liu, whose fingers had just touched the paper door, turned his back to Xiao Kui, and raised the corners of his mouth imperceptibly, but his voice was very depressed: "Master Xiao Kui, is there anything else?"

"Can you tell me what your wish is?" Xiao Kui raised her head, her eyes red, and begged in a trembling voice, "My brother is also like you, who was unable to feel pain at first."

"His wishes are all for me. I want to know what kind of wishes someone like him would make if he wanted to make a wish for himself."

Bai Liu stopped walking, turned around slowly, and looked down at Xiao Kui who was crying: "Do you really want to know?"

"You promised not to tell anyone?"

Xiao Kui nodded vigorously: "I promise not to tell anyone."

"Then..." Bai Liu squatted down and stretched out his right hand, extended his little finger, raised his eyes and looked directly at Xiao Kui, his expression was slightly childish, "Then hang yourself on the hook, and don't change it for a hundred years."

Xiao Kui was stunned for a moment, and her eyes slowly filled with tears.

...This habit of pulling the hook is also similar to Jiro.

"Of course not." Xiao Kui took a deep breath and hooked her pinky finger around Bai Liu's pinky finger and shook it twice, "I promise not to tell anyone."

Bai Liu smiled darkly: "A liar will have to swallow a thousand needles, Sister Xiaokui."