Although Weisser reacted immediately and attacked the viewer's vital points with her hands like poisonous snakes and wolves, the latter was much faster than her -
Bang!
The tip of the sword pressed against Weisser's throat until she was stabbed against the wall.
There were no fancy techniques. She could clearly sense that the viewer was just drawing, striking, and stabbing the sword. His physical fitness was not at an inhuman level, but his series of movements were incredibly fast. It was simply...
It's just as unreasonable as killing all the crows.
The viewer sheathed his sword and walked along the passage without saying a word.
Weisser touched her throat and found no wounds. She realized something, and just then a new message popped up on her watch:
"Cicada Pupa: Before the trial begins again, all trial participants have a quasi-sanctuary barrier, the 'Cicada Pupa', that protects against all damage. After the trial begins, the Cicada Pupa disappears."
"Metamorphosis: In the passage trial leading to the Cicada Pupa Hall, there is a certain probability that a Sanctuary force will appear."
The trial information is still very stingy, but these key pieces of information are enough for Weisser to understand the focus of the third level trial - cooperation and betrayal.
The existence of the 'Cicada Pupa' meant that they didn't have to worry about being assassinated by other trialists before the trial. But the enemy's power level had risen to the Holy Domain level, which meant that they had to cooperate sincerely in order to survive the trial.
However, her current teammates are no longer the fateful twins who know each other well, but the competitors who were still fighting and killing each other just two days ago, Ash's half-body, the spectator!
Although he didn't have much communication with the viewer, Ash had already revealed most of the viewer's personality traits in the virtual world. Excluding the subjective impression of "tsundere", Weisser had a very clear understanding of the viewer: calm, cold-blooded, not shaken by external things, and not worried about emotions.
It sounds like the viewer is the 'real Ash' she needs. However, the viewer not only protects Ash, but also has a good relationship with him, which shows that he is still immersed in the illusion created by Ash.
As a manufactured half of destiny, the viewer is at best a poor imitation of the 'real Ash', and ultimately a younger brother.
Although the viewer is not perfect, as an enemy, he is extremely difficult to deal with. Weisser understands the way this kind of people think very well. All alliances are false. They only trust their own judgment.
He can choose to cooperate with Weisser in one second and betray her in the next, as long as he sees a high enough stakes!
If the 'Cicada Pupa' can always exist, then they may still have a basis for cooperation, after all, they cannot hurt each other. However, after the trial begins, the 'Cicada Pupa' will disappear, and the teammates will start to hurt each other.
At that time, the viewer could nail her to the wall with just one sword!
Of course, Weisser's hands could also crush his larynx at any time!
Would she dare to trust the viewer with her back in battle, instead of paying 30% attention to the enemy and 70% to the viewer? Would the viewer dare to fight forward without always keeping an eye on her?
In this situation, how much strength can they exert?
The most interesting thing is that the "Sanctuary Magician" has a probability of appearing, but it is not certain to appear.
With their current combat power, they still have a chance of winning even if they fight the two-wing magician alone. In other words, the spectator can bet that the Holy Land magician will not appear in the trial, and directly assassinate her in the battle, and then fight through the trial by themselves - it may be safer not to worry about teammates backstabbing.
Weisser had the same thought.
Of course she herself would not gamble, but she hoped that Youlan would bet on this probability and find an opportunity to backstab Ash in the battle.
At this moment, Weisser suddenly understood the hidden malice and mockery of this trial mechanism:
First, they will meet and fight in the Chanfu Hall, where they will become enemies.
Then, in the 'Cicada Hall', all the twins were separated and forced to fight alone.
Then, on the way to the 'Cicada Pupa Hall', they actually had to swap teammates with the enemy they had made enemies with two days ago. Not only did they have to face the threat of the Sanctuary Magician, but they also had to beware of backstabs from their teammates.
Fortunately, there were only two groups of people taking part in this trial. In the heyday of the Grey Fox God Era, sixteen groups would have competed for the divine fire. The intrigues and fears among them were so intense that it makes one's scalp tingle just thinking about it.
At this time, Weisser also had a little doubt in her heart - the mechanism of cicada burrowing and cicada insect was fine, and it could be said that it was a "death test" that had to be carried out in order to screen out the best candidates for the divine fire. But the mechanism of cicada pupa was almost naked malice, as if it was designed to expose the trial participants' ugly side.
The followers of Dafa in the Gray Fox God Era actually have such dark hearts...?
At this point, Weisser followed the viewer to a door, which opened automatically, and their watches sounded a reminder to enter the lounge.
However, unlike the previous lounge, this one was divided into a living room and two separate bedrooms. Weisser immediately breathed a sigh of relief - at least the Gray Fox magician had some conscience, and at least everyone could separate during rest without having to be wary of others.
If he stayed in the same room with the enemy, let alone entering the virtual world, Weisser would have to open one eye and close the other even when sleeping, and he didn't even dare to take off his fox mask. How could he rest his mind? After all, he was not Ash...
Pop.
The viewer quietly entered her room and closed the door. Weisser exhaled a breath of foul air and went into another bedroom to find a bandage to bandage her wound. Although she hurt Ash, Ash left her with a mark.
Weisser took off her fox mask and the clothes that were torn by Ash, revealing bruises all over her body. She looked at herself in the mirror and suddenly had a strange thought: Maybe this is the meaning of the "cicada pupa", which allows the trial-taker to be sealed in a separate room, sealed in a quasi-sanctuary barrier, so as to obtain rare tranquility and complete self-transformation in the lonely pupa.
Suddenly, Weisser's mouth curled up as she thought of something happy.
She realized that just as she had lost Youlan, Ash had also lost the viewer.
Ash, you finally lost the only half of your body you could rely on.
So are you also trapped in a chrysalis like me?
…
"It hurts, be gentle, it hurts."
"Who is so cruel? It's so inhumane. It hurts me just watching..."
In the lounge, Ash turned around and stared at Youlan's fox mask sadly.
Youlan tilted her head. "Ah, it seems to be done by another me. Hmm, if you look closely, it's quite artistic. Look, does this bruise look like a violet..."
"Don't poke!" Ash gasped.
After a while, the wound was finally bandaged. Ash gently turned his left hand: "It still hurts a little. It will have some impact on the first trial tomorrow. Then..."
“Leave it to me!”
Youlan raised her arms and pulled up her sleeves, showing off her baby-like biceps: "As long as he's not a Sanctuary magician, I can handle it alone!"
"I do believe in your strength." Ash glanced at her and said, "After fighting with the Viewer, you not only escaped unscathed, but you were also unscathed... Fortunately, I didn't meet you just now, otherwise I would have been beaten to death by you."
"No, it's actually because the viewer was kind to me that he didn't hit me. Don't look at him as cold, he actually loves girls very much." Youlan waved her hand, "I'm very weak."
Ash: "Except for your last sentence, I basically agree with everything."
"It seems that you are still very wary of me," Youlan pretended to be depressed, "Alas, I understand. After all, I am the other half of that Silver Lamp. It is natural for you to be wary of me."
"If I were you, and I met the half of an enemy who was despicable, cruel, cold-blooded, and full of evil, I would definitely be extremely careful and would never believe a single punctuation mark or period that came out of his mouth."
Ash blinked his eyes, "You scolded Yin Deng so harshly..."
Youlan shook her head and said with a giggle, "I'm not scolding Yindeng... But I understand. I'm going back to my bedroom and won't appear in your sight until tomorrow morning. As for the third level of the trial, you just stand behind me. If I stand behind you, you will definitely suspect that I have bad intentions and want to stab you in the back..."
Seeing her about to leave, Ash quickly held her down, "If I had been wary of you, I wouldn't have asked you to bandage my wound."
"You only let me touch you because you were protected by the 'cicada pupa'." Youlan suddenly said venomously: "If there were no cicada pupa, would you still dare to put your neck in my hands?"
"Of course I don't dare."
"I knew it." Youlan hummed sweetly, but the second hum suddenly became low, "I knew it."
"So, isn't this our best chance?"
"Um?"
"With the protection of the cicada pupa, we finally don't have to worry about hurting each other." Ash said: "This may be the reason why the 'companion exchange' suddenly appeared in the trial."
Youlan shook her head: "I don't understand what you mean. Isn't the mechanism of 'companion exchange' intended to increase the difficulty of our trial?"
Ash shook his head. "The so-called pupa is a necessary step before transformation. When the trial begins in six hours, our cicada pupa will disappear... When you think about it this way, isn't the meaning of the cicada pupa obvious?"
"Cicada pupa, the trial gives us a chance to understand each other, a chance to transform each other." Ash said, "Let's have a good chat, Mirror Master."