Chapter 138 Moon
"Is Sangsang okay?"
Seeing me lowering my head and covering my face, two people rushed over to check, and then I was almost pushed out by Rose's head.
——It feels like real flower petals!!!
There's even a rose scent.
It's so weird.
"I'm fine."
My face just hurts a little.
Our mom didn’t hold back at all – so is this prop really a replica of Liu Yuan’s slap?
"Yes, but it's very easy to hit the host. Think about it, other people can be easily slapped away."
I:……
you're right.
There were only three of us left in the aquarium. Probably because the director wanted to talk to us, the place was sealed off very well, and no other contestants even came in through other passages.
——So now that the curator doesn’t have those points and tasks, is there anyone who can redeem them?
"Let's go - the result is better than I expected." Shi Qing looked around, his eyes swept over the bone spur I was still holding in my hand, and frowned.
"Is it okay without a director here? There won't be any rule that whoever kills the director will take his place, right?"
I remembered what happened on the farm.
"Director is just a title. There will be a new director soon. Don't worry."
Rose Head patted my back.
"And killing the curator gives you 100 points. This space is also very special—it's impossible for a contestant to become the curator."
Shi Qing looked at my face carefully again and found that it was just a little red. Rosehead had already taken out an ice pack from somewhere and used it to cool me down.
Then I held the ice pack on my face with one hand and moved it back and forth, while Shi Qing pulled me forward with the other hand.
I thought about the color of the light on the pager, which meant there were four more slices that I hadn't seen before.
Leaving aside the unknown blue-purple figure, I suspect that he is the real body, after all, he is the "God" of the entire overlapping space.
Rose heads are blood.
Shi Qing is just skin and flesh.
Rajesh is the eyes.
Arinea is the heart.
Jero the Joker has both hands.
Wells is skeleton.
Fishtail...it's a fishtail.
I racked my brains and started to think about what was left after being cut.
What's left are probably the ears, mouth, nose... brain?
It’s hard to imagine what weird slices we’ll see next.
"Who are we going to see next?"
It was already late at night when I walked out of the aquarium, but there were still many people on the street. I looked at the people coming and going and asked the two people next to me.
"Let's go to a more gentle place..." Rose-head thought for a moment, "Let's go to the Astrology Hall."
Astrology Hall...
It's not like I haven't come across numerology and astrology before, but it's hard to think positively about an astrology center in a place like this.
But Rosehead said he was gentle, so let's just believe him for now.
Then I followed the two people to a pitch-black tent. The top of the tent was decorated with various stars and moons. When I lifted the curtain of the cloak and walked in, I saw the starry sky - or rather, a decoration that looked like a starry sky, with various colored light points suspended in it, and various astronomical instruments and astrolabes decorated inside.
It really looks like an astrology hall.
"Welcome...but there are five guests ahead of us, so you may have to wait..."
An elegant female voice sounded, then paused when she saw me.
I paused too.
Why is it a female voice?
——He clearly looks and feels like a man!
[It's over, local specialty, you can't even keep your status as the only sister.]
[Shut up, I'm the older brother, and I'm the first older brother in terms of seniority.]
Don’t talk for now, my gender identity is a bit disordered now.
"…Give me two minutes."
The man sitting in the middle (emphasis added) finished his unfinished words and turned to look at the contestant next to him.
"Everyone, please go back. My distinguished guest has arrived."
When he stood up, I realized that he was about three meters tall. He was wearing a black cloak and I couldn't see clearly whether there was a body inside the cloak.
But it looks empty - if he wasn't so thin, I would tend to think he only had a head.
After all, if the fish tail can move, nothing is impossible.
Each slice has its own idea and is reasonable.
The contestant sitting on the side didn't dare to say anything and immediately stood up and walked out of the cloak. No one even looked at our group of three. In this place where monsters are everywhere and it is easy to lose your life, knowing the situation is the key to survival.
——Even if he behaves very kindly, it cannot change the fact that he is a monster.
"Okay, my lovely brother, please sit down."
He sat back in his previous seat, and I realized that he had an upper body, but his lower body was just a ball of black mist... or rather, it had merged with the starry sky in the cloak, as if it had no entity.
"As for you two...don't come and disturb the brotherly time between Sangsang and me."
The voice changed back to male, and it was full of annoyance.
His hand slid across the deck on the table, pulled out an upright demon from it, and then threw the tarot card from his fingertips at Rose Head at a high speed. Rose Head jumped back, and the card still scratched part of his petals.
"I know why you're here, and I know what 'he' wants. Just hold on to that card and wait patiently."
Then he smiled kindly at me again.
"Sangsang, is there anything you want to calculate?"
"Brother is very good at both astrology and divination."
Another female voice.
So happy voices are female and angry voices are male, right?
"Sangsang, don't be fooled by him. He knows nothing about divination—it's just that his mouth can deceive people."
Shi Qing said rudely from behind.
Then an upright Death card flew towards Shi Qing. Shi Qing blocked it with his knife, and the two cards were in a stalemate behind him.
I:……
Well, they seem to have a bad relationship.
"Don't listen to these two people slandering me, brother. My accuracy rate with Sangsang is 100%."
He snapped his fingers, and the table in front of us widened slightly, revealing three decks of cards.
"Sangsang, choose this one."
His finger rested on the middle suit, which, if I remembered correctly, was the suit from which he had just thrown two cards.
…
So I have nothing to calculate at all!
"I know Sangsang doesn't have anything to ask, so let's take a look—" He began to shuffle the cards, and the remaining seventy-six cards flew in his hands. Then he drew three cards from them and placed them in front of me.
"Will I agree to your request?"
This sentence turned into a male voice again.
But he didn't look angry - it was a little confusing for a moment.
"Sangsang, open it."
I reached out and flipped over the three tarot cards in front of me.
"Moon, One of Cups, Three of Wands," his smile widened, "all upright."
His face was hidden under the cloak. "I understand—"
“Hahahahahaha——”
After a burst of laughter, he looked up at me, his golden eyes staring at me intently with light.
"I won't help you."
"So you guys should come and kill me. If you don't kill me, I will take away my beloved brother."
He floated up from his seat and stretched out his hand towards me - but for some reason I couldn't sense any murderous intent from him.
he--
“Sangsang——”
The moment he hugged me, vines and knives pierced his head.
I subconsciously hugged him back.
——He didn't want to kill me at all, he deliberately wanted us to kill him.
"...Then the conditions are met, brother. My name is Yue, and I'm the first card you just turned over."
His voice turned back into a melodious female voice, and I could feel his blood slowly flowing down, soaking my clothes.
"Blood flowed into the cup."
"Then……"
His voice trailed off, and I felt the hold I had on him visibly begin to dissipate.
"Go forward and don't look back, my dear brother."
Then only the cloak was left, slowly falling into my arms.
System, what do these three tarot cards mean?
[…The Moon, the eighteenth card of the Tarot, represents false illusions and lies.]
[Holy Grail 1, according to legend, this Holy Grail is filled with the blood of Jesus, and also represents satisfaction and love.]
The Three of Wands, the traveler looking out into the distance, represents a new journey and the future.
So that's how it is.
So everything that follows is a lie.
…Honestly, I don’t feel sad for someone I just met, but I am somewhat shocked.
Didn't he make up his mind too quickly?!
So fast that I didn't even have time to stop him.
There is a feeling of being unable to wait to die.
Did you know it a long time ago, or why?
The whole process didn't even take more than five minutes.
[…Everyone thinks this is also a form of doting.]
…
You guys are so ridiculous.
"...You don't have to overthink it. He's been a straightforward person from the beginning, and he's completely confident in his divination results."
"His lower body was chopped off because of a divination."
Shi Qing and Rosehead patted my shoulders one on each side.
...No, it's still too outrageous. He looked reluctant to agree at first, but he acted decisively after seeing the cards.
"When he tells fortunes for others, he's always lying and cheating, but when it comes to things that concern him, he believes them without a doubt."
Shi Qing thought for a moment, "My former teammates had their souls deceived by him."
"He's just pretending to be a decent person in front of you. In reality, he's just a professional fraudster."
I:……
No, you are not qualified to say that. You all behave like decent people in front of me, but you are all cold-blooded killers in front of others.
He is very dedicated in playing the villain, the kind that cannot be completely washed away.
Is this kind of dragging really okay?!
"But now we're in trouble... He just ran away. What should we do with his astrology studio now?" Rose-head rubbed her cut petals, turning the devil card in her hand.
"Can't it be like an aquarium?"
Rose Head shook her head. "This is Yue's 'private' tent, which means it belongs to his private space. No one else can come in or out without his permission."
Me: “…So we can’t go out now?”
Shi Qing pushed the door curtain and nodded.
Okay, okay, we're locked up, but it doesn't feel like—
I don't feel like Yue is deliberately trying to trick us, so what is the reason?
Or...did he leave the key behind?
I looked at the three cards turned over on the table.
Although I asked the system about the meaning, Rosehead and Shi Qing didn't know the meaning of these three cards, especially the first one.
The eighteenth card in the Tarot deck is the Moon.
This card - the compatibility with Yue is extremely high, it's like it was tailor-made for him.
And what is the meaning of the two cards he drew at the beginning?
Demon, Grim Reaper.
I can probably figure it out without asking the system.
The devil must be referring to the real body... Just like he said he was sure of our purpose from the beginning.
As for the God of Death, did he want to warn Shi Qing or did he foresee what would happen next?
Then he let me choose this deck.
Is it because this deck is special enough?
[I think there is another possibility, Xiaoyu.]
[As your brother—we don't want you to die, so he drew the Death card in advance. Then, if you use that deck, you will never draw this Death card, which represents death.]
…
What a wonderful blessing.
So if he cherishes me so much.
Then this deck must be the key.
I walked forward and picked up the Moon Card. The Moon Card emitted a bright light, and the surrounding furnishings moved without wind, and then they were all sucked into the card in my hand.
Finally, the entire tent was sucked into the card from the middle point.
The three of us stood in the open space, surrounded by a crowd of shocked onlookers.
Me: ...ah this.
Then the moon card turned into a moon bracelet and hung on my hand, together with the bracelet that Wells had woven with her hair.
I always feel that after going through this circle, I have more and more tokens of love on me.
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