"What the heck? What's going on? One-click reset?" Xiao Cheng muttered incredulously. "Wait a minute, that can't just reset the coffin to nothing, can it?"
"Looking on the bright side, the blanket that spared human skin might also be gone," Fang He said calmly.
Xiao Cheng: "..." Thank you, I feel comforted.
The courtyard had been reset, but the shrine maiden's habits remained unchanged. She watched them return to their room and then casually locked the door from the outside.
"Don't we look like prisoners just getting out of their exercise period?" Xiao Cheng sat down on the edge of the bed, speechless. "Are we here to conquer a dungeon or to sit in jail?"
Fang He was inspecting the quilt, unpacking the cover and pulling out the quilt insert, but didn't find anything strange. Hearing Xiao Cheng's complaint, he said quietly, "Give up, going through a dungeon is worse than going to jail."
Nothing more happened. The two listened as the witch dug in the courtyard all afternoon. There were no windows on the side facing the courtyard, so they could only guess that the witch was burying the two wooden plaques that were called miracles.
The sky quickly darkened, and the sounds in the courtyard grew fainter and fainter until they finally fell completely silent.
The priestess knocked on the door, reminding them not to make a sound at night.
“The true God will come out for a procession tonight. To disturb His procession is a great disrespect, and no one can protect you,” she warned sternly.
Xiao Cheng has a good habit: she never rebels when she should be obedient. Even though she knows something bad is going to happen tonight, she decisively chooses to go to bed early.
Late at night, in a half-dream, half-awake state, she suddenly felt a tingling sensation on the side of her neck, as if someone was breathing on her.
She opened her eyes groggily. It was very dark around her, and she could barely make out a shadow lying very close to her.
...Is it Fang He?
Before she could even process what was happening, the room lights snapped on.
A Nuo mask with a blue face and fangs suddenly came flying at you.
"ah--!!!!"
The person behind the mask let out a deafening scream.
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