I Fell for You at First Sight!
The muddy ground was soft and damp. Yu Xing consciousness, she felt the cool raindrops constantly pattering on her face.
The sound of rain pattering in her ears made Yu Xing open her eyes, her eyelashes glistening with tiny droplets of water condensed from the mist.
It's raining.
Judging from the situation, the rain is still quite heavy, just like that day in my implanted memory, when the rain came down suddenly.
He raised his hand to shield his face from the rain, realizing he was lying on his back on the ground. Fortunately, the ground was covered with grass and wasn't too muddy.
"Awake?" A rough male voice sounded beside her. Yu Xing sat up abruptly, stood up nimbly, and looked at the speaker.
It is a nightmare resembling Long Zhou.
"You're awake." Yu Xing opened his mouth, raindrops drifted into his mouth, tasting bitter, and his hair was wet and stuck to his forehead. "What's your ability called?"
"Nightmare Realm," Nightmare readily admitted, leaning against a tree trunk, gun in hand. "And you, is the cooperation you mentioned true?"
Before Yu Xing could answer Yan's question, she felt dizzy from getting up too quickly and swayed twice in place.
"What's wrong with you?" Yan looked at Xing, puzzled. Had her Nightmare Realm gained the ability to damage enemies?
Then she heard Xing cover her head, calmly say after a moment, "Anemia."
Nightmare: Okay then.
The darkness Yu Xing's eyes faded, and he casually picked a broad black leaf to shield his head from the rain, taking a good look around.
They were still under those trees. Prophet Song Quan and the Doctor- like Carlos were lying on their backs on the ground, still unconscious. The other members of the Group Two were nowhere to be found; they were not hanging directly from the trees as shown in the Nightmare's false world.
Ultimately, the NPCs' actions in the Nightmare Realm were all imagined by Nightmare, which is why she didn't try to save them.
Just now, Yu Xing asked Nightmare in the Nightmare Realm, "Cooperate? While your nightmarish ability is still in effect, release me, and I'll kill the Prophet."
Nightmare replied, "What benefit would I gain from doing this? The Magician is my target, and you're in cahoots with him. You'll use me to kill the Magician, and then kill me?"
"Your abilities definitely have limitations. For example, when you pull others into this fake world, you can't harm them in the real world yourself." Yu Xing was confident about this. "So when your abilities expire, you won't have that opportunity anymore. Don't worry, if you choose to cooperate, I guarantee you won't die."
He's right.
The Nightmare's Dream Realm can only guarantee that the target will be brought into a dream state the first time it is used on them.
Moreover, this ability is actually more inclined towards self-preservation, simulating a scenario in advance to see what the person pulled into the nightmare will do as things unfold.
However, to maintain balance, those within the Nightmare Realm will not suffer any real harm. She can leave the Nightmare Realm early, but she cannot attack those who are in a coma, otherwise she will suffer a backlash from the rules and her fate will be dire.
So Yan agreed and brought Yu Xing out of the Nightmare Realm.
"Aren't you going to release the Magician?" Yu Xing pointed at the unconscious Carlos.
"No, we have to keep him as a hostage. If you kill the prophet and then break your promise and try to kill me, I'd rather take someone with me." Nightmare raised her chin, this time unable to utter the word "I."
"Okay, as long as you're at ease, anything is fine." Yu Xing smiled slightly, showing no concern for Carlos getting soaked in the rain.
Nightmare is a player who is somewhat on the Righteous Path.
Although her name sounded vaguely frightening, surprisingly, she was quite upright in her thinking.
Yu Xing deliberately mentioned that the prophet needed human blood and flesh as sacrifices to raise his demon children, which was a subtle way of making the Nightmare hate the prophet.
If Nightmare chooses to cooperate, then let her live for five days. In the final settlement, she will only have 50% of her points deducted.
It's better than dying.
Nightmare had no objection to this. She had originally planned that if the target of her hunt was not someone who Fallen Path and whose values were acceptable, she would rather lose 50% of her points than kill someone.
The murder was just Fallen Path orchestrated by viewers who were clearly corrupt!
She coldly watched as Xing approached the unconscious prophet, and said, "You can't harm him while he's unconscious, or I'll suffer the backlash. I'll put his consciousness back in later, then you can make your move."
"Good."
The moment Song Quan opened his eyes, he felt the air in his chest suddenly become trapped, and then a tremendous force came from his neck.
He stared wide-eyed at a young-looking curly-haired man who smiled gently at him.
"Goodbye, Prophet. If you weren't killing people to raise ghosts, I actually had many ways to avoid your attacks and let you leave alive. Too bad..." Yu Xing tightened his grip; just a moment ago he was the one being choked by the Prophet, but now the roles were reversed.
"Little prophet, did you foretell that you would die here today?"
Tear.
But it wasn't the sound of Yu Xing snapping the prophet's neck.
Instead, a small paper figure that had somehow crawled into the prophet's shirt pocket popped out of the pocket and tore up its own voice.
The prophet stopped struggling instantly, and a crack appeared on his face, extending all the way into his clothes.
Yu Xing let go.
Hunting requires personally killing the target; otherwise, the hunt isn't considered a success. Therefore, he couldn't kill the prophet. Instead, he allowed Carlos to use the paper doll he had secretly placed on the road, taking advantage of A Bai's cheerful personality and his fraternal relationship with the prophet Song Quan, to kill the prophet through self-destruction.
Yu Xing didn't know what conditions the paper figure needed to meet to do this, but from what he could see, the paper figure had three abilities: "Disaster prevention," "reconnaissance," and "curse."
This is Carlos's secret. To be honest Yu Xing is quite envious of Carlos for having such a practical offering.
Nightmare observed his expression, unable to discern his thoughts for a moment.
She sensed that Sachi and the Magician weren't very close... What if Sachi killed her now, regardless of the Magician's life or death? There was nothing she could do!
Yu Xing walked towards her.
Yan felt inexplicably that the other person's aura was strange, and involuntarily took a step back.
"That..."
Yu Xing smiled, looking very friendly.
But Yan witnessed Yu Xing kill the prophet with that expression...
"Wait a minute!" she said.
"Hmm?" Yu Xing looked at the suddenly flustered Yan with some surprise. He didn't seem to have said that he was going to abandon Yan after using him... He just wanted Yan to wake up Carlos.
Nightmare took another step back. "Wait, wait, you don't have to kill me. I'm willing to lose fifty percent of my points. I won't hunt."
Immediately, Yu Xing became somewhat interested.
He didn't say anything, he just smiled at her.
He wanted to see what Nightmare's will to survive would make her say.
"Don't come any closer, Xing. I'll wake Carlos up now, go check on him." Nightmare reached out, almost raising his gun.
Yu Xing said, "What if I turn around and you shoot me?"
"No way!"
He tossed aside the Nightmare Spear, put his hands on his hips, and declared confidently, "I'm not that kind of person, and do you know why I agreed to cooperate without much hesitation?"
"Oh? Why?" Yu Xing asked.
Nightmare was extremely serious. She recalled the pair of eyes from her illusion, and the feeling deep within her soul surged into her heart again. "I like you! I've fallen for you at first sight."
"That's right, you heard me correctly, I fell in love with you at first sight!"
Yu Xing: Huh?
He was momentarily stunned, after all, in this kind of simulation competition, everyone was in a competitive relationship, and there was a certain wariness between them, so it was hard to develop feelings of liking.
So this must have been something Yan said on purpose to save her life, without thinking.
But such lies are useless.
Hmm... girls really do have a unique way of thinking.
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