123 A Feast of a Hundred Devious Tales (17)
You can't leave before dawn.
Xi Ya immediately looked at Qin Fu'an.
After he nodded silently, he took a breath, his clear eyes fixed intently on Lambeth, and with a smile, said crisply, "Mr. Lambeth, my wish is—please return Rose Castle to its original owner."
Visibly, Lambeau's facial features twitched and contorted.
His sinister gaze lingered between Qin Fu'an, Xie Yunhuai, and Xi Ya, as if trying to etch their images and memories deep into their souls.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone and bound by the rules, he had to suppress a twisted, ferocious smile and ask Xi Ya, half-seductive and half-threatening, "Esteemed guest, are you sure you want to make this wish that will do you no good? Don't you want to inherit my immense wealth? Or do you wish for the night to last forever, to be imprisoned in this castle for the rest of your life?"
He was practically playing his cards right in front of Xi Ya, almost saying he could give her a fortune and help her escape this dungeon.
Xi Ya was naturally tempted, and all the players gathered here were also incredibly tempted. Some even had an irresistible urge to kill Xi Ya and take her place.
But compared to believing in a ghost, Xiya felt she might be more willing to believe in a demon.
Moreover, he was her teammate, a member of the Zombie Squad, and the companion who helped her break through the fog of the dungeon and see the truth.
Without being betrayed, Xiya never betrays her teammates.
Even if it really is a life-or-death decision.
“Mr. Lamb, please return Rose Castle to its original owner,” Xi Ya reiterated her wish, word by word.
Lambeth had no room for maneuver or evasion.
The mask could no longer conceal the venomous gaze directed at him, but bound by the rules, he could only glare hatefully at Xie Yunhuai. After leaving Xi Ya with a deep "As you wish," his constantly throbbing and tearing body gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.
Only the broken and rotten crow remained.
As the thick fog dissipated, bright, twinkling stars hung in the sky, and a bright, full moon coldly illuminated the desolate ancient castle covered with rose vines.
It was still dark.
"It's not dawn yet?" Xi Ya reached out and caught a handful of pale moonlight in her palm.
Why would you make such a useless wish?
"If you don't want it, why not give it to us players who want to live more?"
"Are you crazy?! How can you be so selfish? Why should you have a wish, and then ruin it in front of us?!"
"Damn it, I'll kill you, you lunatic, today!!!"
"Since you don't want to make things right, then nothing should ever be made right!!"
Before dawn, the wish had already been fulfilled, yet no one was eliminated.
The players, who were originally envious and jealous, went completely mad. They hated Xi Ya and Qin Fu'an even more than Lan Bai did. They were so angry that they wanted to rush up and tear her apart alive.
But the next second, everyone was forced to stop their attack.
The boy standing behind Xi Ya and Qin Fu'an blossomed silently in the moonlight.
One by one, cluster by cluster, pink and delicate, pure white and crystal clear, like a grand, silent art exhibition. The flower buds replaced his flesh and blood, trembling and blooming one by one from his hollow bones.
No one dared to disturb them, no one dared to step forward.
But Qin Fu'an was still holding his hand.
What I held in my warm palms were soft, fragrant petals and twining, climbing branches—a touch that was not what a human should have.
“…Little Pretty?” Xi Ya stared blankly at the scene. She had seen it in a hallucination when the fragrance of flowers was overwhelming her senses.
But when this scene actually happened, everything was far more bizarre and stunning than what she had seen in her hallucinations.
It is not a beautiful flower fairy, but a demon that devours flesh and blood and grows and blooms on bones.
She subconsciously looked at Qin Fu'an's reaction.
Qin Fu'an seemed unsurprised. Under the quiet moonlight, she gazed tenderly at the boy who was gradually turning into a rose. Her clear green eyes were full of smiles, making her seem more alluring and captivating than Xie Yunhuai.
The process of the boy transforming into a rose was not long. When his hair turned into branches full of roses, Xi Ya saw that the strange creatures nearby, who had been looking dazed, gradually disappeared from their original positions, just like Lan Bai.
This scene looks as if the owner of an ancient castle is silently cleaning up intruders in his home.
Finally, in this vast ancient castle, apart from the strange creature that had taken the form of a rose, only the players trapped in the instance remained.
“I can make them leave here.” The boy, now covered in roses, still retained Xie Yunhuai’s features. His beautiful eyes stared straight at Qin Fu’an as he said softly, “I can send your companions, as well as those humans with similar auras, back to where they belong.”
"In exchange, you have to stay."
The players who rushed over happened to hear this promise.
Players who had been yearning for the moon and repeatedly reaching into the water to retrieve it suddenly saw the moon fall from the sky. They were just a hair's breadth away from turning the shattered moon in the water into reality.
The obsession with surviving and leaving the instance alive, and the fear and despair of being left behind time and time again, about to be completely transformed into a monster...
Like sponges soaked in warm water, their remaining rationality swelled and accumulated, only to be soothed away by Xie Yunhuai's casual remark at the moment when their desire reached its peak.
Then, what follows is the imminent fulfillment of wishes, the moon within reach, and an even more extreme madness as all obsessions and desires are about to be filled in one day.
Qin Fu'an smelled the fragrance of flowers and heard increasingly rapid and frantic breathing.
He saw the unyielding possessiveness in the boy's eyes and heard the anxious plea from the soul tentacles to stay.
[Stay here~]
[Stay with me~]
[Together forever, I'll fill my bones with your flesh and blood, never to be separated...]
[Don't refuse, don't refuse, don't refuse...]
[If you reject me, I will kill you, cut off your flesh and blood to nourish you, let your bones grow into flowers like mine, and fill my eye sockets with your green eyes, so we can be together forever.]
[Qin Fu'an, with beautiful green eyes...]
[It's not dawn yet; you can't leave.]
[The sky will never brighten; I will imprison you in my dreams forever. Don't go, don't wake up.]
The chaotic babbling overlapped indistinctly, and countless pitch-black soul tentacles waved, obscuring the sky. Their eyes turned into twinkling stars, and the only green spot became the bright moon. Yet, all the moonlight fell upon Qin Fu'an, wanting only to illuminate him and to fall into his arms.
Threats, pleas, declarations of love… every word, to Qin Fu'an's ears, sounded like Xiaoyunduo's pitiful reluctance to let go.
The pretty girl turned into a pitiful little thing.
He can't say nice things, and he doesn't learn his lesson even after being deceived. Even when you try to keep him, he turns it into a deal and a threat.
But Qin Fu'an could hear every word he felt in his heart—his reluctance, his plea to stay, his sadness, and his love, just like words written on white paper, each stroke clear and distinct, leaving no room for concealment.
Under the gaze of countless bloodshot eyes, Qin Fu'an, who was bound and threatened, suddenly leaned down and gently embraced the cold, white skeleton covered in roses.
"No transaction required."
"I don't care whether they can get out or not."
"I've said it before, a little cloud can always be more greedy than you can imagine."
[Author's Note]
Players: ? ? ? Say that again?
Two hopelessly in love souls embarking on a two-way journey together! Hooray!
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