Chapter 260: White Orchid Rain Festival (Forty-three)
The situation in the yard was not good at all. Including President Barbie, Lingyue and Nineteen, all of them had wounds of varying sizes.
It looked like it had been touched by those dragon-shaped beings and had to be cut off, so it looked scarred.
There were even a few players who were clearly unable to hold on any longer, but were still gritting their teeth to hold on. The moment Nan Huan spoke, he had already cut a wound on his palm and threw the blood towards the dragon-shaped creatures.
Regardless of whether these dragon creatures were created by the evil god using black energy, or whether they needed to absorb the power of black energy to grow, Nan Huan knew that if the black energy was afraid of his blood, then they should be afraid of it as well.
As expected, when those dragon-shaped creatures smelled Nanhuan's blood, they scattered away without waiting for the butler to say anything, just like birds encountering wild beasts.
An expression of resentment flashed across the housekeeper's face, and his pair of dark eyes gradually faded away for some reason. He stood at the door of the room at a loss, and it took him a long time to react to what had happened.
"I'm sorry, I was just checking the room, I didn't expect to cause such a big commotion."
He seemed to have finally returned to his original state from a person who had lost his mind. However, although he said so, there was not much apology on his face. "Fortunately, no one is busy. I am really sorry to have delayed you for so long. However, I still hope that everyone can abide by the rules of the High Priest's Mansion..."
As he spoke, his gaze had shifted from Nan Huan to Bei Xi, as if he was hinting at something and was only warning the two of them.
But Bei Xi seemed to have not heard what he said at all. He just took out the medicine from the control panel and treated the wound on Nan Huan's palm. As for Nan Huan, he didn't even wait for the butler to finish his words and interrupted him directly.
"Mr. Butler, I guess you've been too busy at night and haven't heard the latest news yet?"
Nan Huan smiled. She had just seen the presence of black energy on the housekeeper. In addition, there had been a constant supply of black energy in the entire High Priest's Mansion since the first day. Even the mark of the evil god - the blue flame - was hidden here. The housekeeper had chosen the time when they were not at home to come and check the room, as if he had heard the news and had come to arrest them. He even violated the rules of NPCs and could not attack players. Nan Huan could never treat him as an ordinary NPC again.
"The Dragon God Temple has been unearthed. After all, haven't the residents of Bailan City always been looking forward to the arrival of the Dragon God? I think the day is not far away."
Nan Huan was observing the butler's reaction while talking. As expected, he saw a little shock under the butler's stiff expression. Then he held his forehead in confusion and said, "What's wrong? Mr. Butler is not happy? But didn't you always tell us to properly select the saints, complete the rain sacrifice, and pray for the Dragon God to descend?"
The wound on her palm had been healed by Bei Xi. Since the wound was not big, it was easily restored to its original state. Nan Huan hugged his arms and moved closer to the housekeeper. Without waiting for the other party to speak, he spoke tentatively.
"Or should the high priest be happy? Do I need to tell her the good news in person?"
Although the butler reacted quickly, some subtle expressions still betrayed him. He seemed to be worried that Nan Huan wanted to meet the high priest, or seemed to be afraid that Nan Huan would meet the high priest. He had to wave his hand and said, "No need for that. I will help convey it. I believe the high priest will be very happy to hear this news."
He emphasized the word "definitely", which sounded more like a kind of anger and gnashing of teeth. He wished he could tear Nan Huan in front of him into pieces, but the other party rushed back before he could confirm it. The housekeeper felt very aggrieved that there was no reason for him to punish the other party according to the rules.
After saying these words, he wanted to turn around and leave. He had gone to such great lengths tonight but had not gained anything. The butler realized that he needed to go back and explain the situation. However, as soon as he turned around, Nan Huan followed him like a marshmallow that could not be shaken off.
"We have been here for so long and have not visited the high priestess yet. I wonder when the high priestess will be free. We want to see her? After all, we still need to confirm the instructions for the Rain Festival with the high priestess, right?"
They entered Bailan City and lived in the high priest's mansion for a day and a night, but the so-called high priest never showed up. The housekeeper only existed to convey orders, so Nan Huan decided to test it this way. After all, this copy has not completely abandoned the general logic.
That is to say, as candidates for the Saint, they live in the High Priest's Mansion and ask to meet with the High Priest to discuss matters related to the Rain Festival. According to the copy outline, this is very reasonable. Nan Huan is betting that the housekeeper is just a middleman, not the most critical NPC.
As expected, the butler did not deny her request outright, but put on an official, emotionless smile, "Please rest assured, when everyone's sacrificial words are written and the rain sacrifice can be carried out, the high priest will definitely appear."
"After all, when the sacrificial words are written, the saint will definitely be selected from among you. Please continue to work hard."
After the butler explained the time when the high priest would appear, he added something meaningful with a malicious smile on his face, as if he was very eager to witness the results of the selection of the saint.
This time, after he finished speaking, without waiting for anyone to react, the butler left first.
Long Xing's presence in the yard had disappeared without a trace because of Nan Huan's blood. Both the yard and the room were in a mess. It was obvious that there had just been a big battle here, and it was a very bad one.
With a clang, the sound of a bench falling in the room attracted everyone's attention.
President Alice, who was completely relaxed, originally wanted to find a chair to rest her feet, but she didn't expect that the bench used in the fight could not withstand the secondary damage and went on strike. She sat down on the ground all of a sudden, not caring about the pain, but just letting out a long sigh.
"I was scared to death."
She touched her forehead without caring about her image, it was covered with cold sweat. She said that she was almost scared to death. What she wanted to express was not that she was afraid of that dragon-shaped existence, but that she was afraid that the real bodies of the president and the eldest lady would be destroyed in her hands, and she would be committing a great sin.
President Alice didn't care about her own image and enjoyed her luck of surviving the disaster.
It was the president who couldn't stand it anymore and winked at Nineteen and Lingyue. Players came in immediately, helped the frightened president and players up, treated them, and tidied up the messy room.
Five minutes later, everyone sat in the eldest lady's spotless room and began to review tonight.
Nan Huan synchronized with others the tasks triggered in the Dragon God Temple, the situations they encountered in the evil god's enchantment, and finally the real sacrificial scene that happened a hundred years ago that they saw with the help of the strange bell.
The amount of information was quite overwhelming, and while everyone was digesting it, the room became a little quiet.
Nanhuan had experienced an intense day and was a little drowsy at first, but because too many things were spinning in his mind, his eyelids drooped and he was not in a very good condition.
Suddenly, President Alice knocked on the table, which scared her. Bei Xi quickly hugged her and patted Nan Huan on the back, while giving President Alice an unhappy look.
The latter scratched his cheek awkwardly, smiled apologetically at the young lady, and then started talking about serious matters. "According to what you said, whether it is the real past or the evil god's enchantment, the Dragon God and the so-called evil god and the black energy are not in the same group. But you just saw that the dragons have been following the orders of the housekeeper. If the young lady hadn't come back in time, the consequences would be disastrous."
Nan Huan was stunned for a moment, and it took her a long time to react. What did the other person mean by dragon? She exchanged glances with Bei Xi, and quickly explained to President Alice, "What you just saw was not a dragon, it just looked like one. Today we only saw one dragon at Old Man Zhang's stall, the one that didn't transform. The rest were not dragons. And so far in this instance, the only living dragon we've seen was a flower."
"Not a dragon? Then what did we just see?" President Alice rubbed her eyes, not sure if she was sleepy or the eldest lady was talking nonsense.
"Is there any difference? They all look the same to me." She stretched her neck as she spoke, intending to check on Yizhihua. However, Alice thought Yizhihua was still at the back of Nanhuan's neck.
However, her action was finally stopped by Bei Xi's eyes. Nan Huan certainly did not call out Yizhihua and let everyone observe her as an object of observation, besides, the other party's current condition had not yet fully recovered.
Nan Huan did not answer President Alice's question immediately, but turned his gaze to the Workers' President, who had been frowning since hearing these words, "I think the Workers' President should have noticed it."
"It's the number of claws that's wrong." As soon as Nan Huan finished speaking, the head of the workers' union spoke up, "Whether it was the drugstore owner who attacked me this morning or Old Man Zhang's dragon-shaped wooden sculptures, they all had four claws, but Yizhihua has five claws. Five claws is a dragon, and four claws is a python, so the things that attacked us were not dragons at all, but pythons."
"Forehead……"
President Alice was speechless, she didn't notice anything unusual about the number of claws at all. Besides, a dragon is such an illusory creature, who knows how many claws it should normally have. But now Yizhihua is definitely a dragon. If she uses it as a reference, then the others are definitely not dragons. She was almost misled by them.
"There is another question. Why do I feel that the direction of this copy is not right?" After solving this problem, President Alice realized another problem. "I don't know if it is my illusion, but I feel that the position of humans in this copy is completely untenable. Do we still need to help them pray for the arrival of the Dragon God? This is a bit inconsistent..."
President Alice hesitated for a long time, and seemed to have not found a suitable way to express herself. In the end, it was President Barbie who took over the conversation. "It doesn't conform to the basic morality of punishing evil and promoting good in general dungeons. We seem to have become accomplices. In fact, I don't know this. From the fact that the butler slightly violated the logic of the NPC just now, and the fact that the evil god could even arrange for President Gambler and President Miaojiang to leave the High Priest's Mansion and enter the mission without triggering the system, but did not follow the unified requirements of the system and lose your memory with you, I have reason to suspect that the subsequent tasks may not be carried out according to the general rules of the system."
"But we are already in this dungeon, what should we do next?" Although the president of the working people's guild realized from the beginning that this guild league would not be easy, he did not expect this situation. Moreover, from what the eldest lady and the first president said before, there might be NPCs in this dungeon who can freely enter different dungeons. Their situation is really not good.
"Tomorrow we will try to get the dragon scale paper. Didn't the housekeeper just say that we can see the high priest after the sacrificial words are written? I have something to confirm." Nan Huan's mind was still clear. "Although the evil god has shown a certain degree of intrusion into the mission and system, from the mission of the evil god's charmed realm we just came out of, as long as the mission is completed, the system will not make any mistakes for the time being. In other words, the evil god also needs to accept certain constraints, so don't worry for the time being. As long as someone completes the main mission, they can leave this copy."
If someone else said this, they might not feel so safe, but when it comes from the mouth of the eldest lady and the president, it makes people feel inexplicably at ease.
Some players who were already confused finally realized what they were doing. After all, the main quest was triggered not long after they entered the dungeon. Every side quest thereafter revolved around the selection of the Saint. Now they were collecting dragon scale paper in order to complete the writing of the sacrificial words. And according to what the housekeeper had just said, as long as the writing of the sacrificial words was completed, it seemed that the Saint would be born.
Tomorrow, they will go to the last store to look for clues about dragon scale paper. And since Old Man Zhang is indeed one of the few humans who stands on the side of the dragon clan, and the owner of the pawn shop has changed, the third store has obviously become the most powerful candidate.
The next day, Nan Huan slept until the sun rose, then slowly opened his eyes.
I don’t know if yesterday’s words finally had some effect on the butler, or if the butler finally realized that Nan Huan was different from other players, so the butler did not show up in the morning.
In addition to their respective offerings, the white jasmine flowers grew to varying degrees. Among the mess of colors, the one that clearly belonged to Nanhuan was the closest to the color of the white jasmine flower.
Early in the morning, the sun was already very hot. Nan Huan was wrapped in insulation equipment and taken out of the door, where he ran into the Gambler's Guild President and the Miaojiang Guild President.
The two seemed to be a little scared of the president's nearly killing last night. They just took a quick glance and turned away. Nan Huan, on the other hand, looked at the direction where the two were walking away and touched his chin with a playful look, "When did they become so close?"
Bei Xi put on a sunshade hat for her, and without even looking at the other party, he casually replied, "The stability of a self-alliance is definitely not as good as this kind of alliance with a common leader, whether it is voluntary or forced."
Nan Huan was somewhat amused by her blunt comments and held her chin, "You are describing their beliefs as if they were some bad organization. Aren't you worried that they will come and cause trouble for you?"
"I'm hoping she'll come soon and stop doing anything mysterious." The two men made some sarcastic remarks. Although the others wanted to do so, they didn't have the courage. They had to pretend that they didn't understand and dragged the team forward towards today's goal.
The lantern shop was closer to the outskirts of Bailan City than the wood carving shop and the pawn shop. After walking for a while, they finally arrived at an area that looked a bit remote. In this area, there were few shops doing business, and even the human forms transformed from pythons were scarce.
"This store looks abnormal at first glance." Alice folded her arms, stood side by side with the Red Pink Club President at the door of the only shop, and gave her evaluation.
The Pink Club President looked around and didn't understand what she meant. "Besides the fact that it's a bit desolate and there aren't many people around, how do you know that it's abnormal?"
Although she knew that this was the third store and the only candidate, and that there might be something fishy going on inside, President Hongfen was still very confused when she heard what President Alice said.
President Alice didn't say anything. She held the other person's head and asked President Hongfen to turn around and look at the direction they came from. "We walked all the way from the center of the city to here. It took almost 20 minutes. During this time, we passed by countless shops and houses. Did you see any with lanterns hanging?"
President Hongfen was stunned. She really didn't notice this. She turned to look at the president of the Workers' Association standing behind her. The latter gave a very kind and affirmative answer, "No, there is no place to hang lanterns in the entire Bailan City at the moment, so why is there a lantern shop?"
President Hongfen suddenly felt a chill radiating from the back of her spine upwards.
The players from the Anti-One Guild Alliance did not have any taboos. Instead, because the side quests in the two stores were won by the One Guild Alliance yesterday, they wanted to take the initiative. Except for the guild where the Corpse Driven Master's guild belonged, the rest of the players had already entered the stores directly.
"What's her situation? Is she no longer anxious or has she severed ties with the Gambler's Guild President?"
President Alice noticed the leisurely pace of the Corpse Driver President and realized that he did not seem to be in a hurry to go in.
Nan Huan took a look and seemed to remember something. "Oh, when the Corpse Chaser was in the pawn shop yesterday, she wished to know which shop the real trader was. So now that she knows the answer, she naturally feels that there is no need to go in."
"Ah? Can it be like this?" President Alice and the Workers' President missed the opportunity to make a wish yesterday because the eldest lady had become the owner of the pawnshop. When they heard what the eldest lady said, they suddenly realized it, but President Alice quickly discovered the bug.
"Even if it was Yizhihua who told her the answer before, and now Yizhihua has become yours... no, your dragon, does that mean we don't have to go in?"
"Whether you can go in or not is not up to me, and of course her words don't count either. You'll know once you go in."
Nan Huan did not give a direct answer, but instead kept it a secret, allowing President Alice to realize that knowing the transaction partner in advance might not be a good thing.
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