Su Shan kept talking about the Divine Tree and gods, Si Yan didn't understand, so she looked at the tree again.
The tree roots were black and gnarled, the branches were huge, and they were covered with human heads and hearts, deeply embedded in the muddy ground.
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Divine Tree at all.
" The Divine Tree... looks like this?"
Su Shan followed his gaze, bit his finger, sucked out a few mouthfuls of blood, smeared it on his eyelids, and smiled somewhat guiltily.
" The Divine Tree needs nourishment, and these heads and hearts all come from humans who have been completely domesticated, such as the Reaper and Nightwalker, not ordinary people."
"They sided with demons, committing countless evils. The Divine Tree drank their blood, transforming it into the power to protect the town."
Su Shan explained very clearly, a complete change from his previous stammering attitude, which sounded like he was talking nonsense, making it impossible to tell which parts were true and which were false.
Jiang Nuo and Si Yan didn't intend to believe it and dealt with it casually.
Si Yan continued to examine the strange tree. It looked frightening, but the hanging head and heart had been dried by the wind, so it didn't have such a strong visual impact.
Although Jiang Nuo couldn't see the so-called Divine Tree, he heard the cawing of crows that shouldn't have come from underground.
"I heard that your town used to have a large cemetery. What area did it cover?"
Jiang Nuo asked the boss, his fingers twitching slightly as he cast the spell again.
Despite his desperate attempts to clear his throat, the boss was forced to speak.
"Starting from the square... spanning the entire square, to the church and gardens."
Jiang Nuo exclaimed in surprise, "Most of the town is a cemetery!"
With this division, only a tiny portion of the residential area remains of the original town.
Jiang Nuo sighed, "You guys are pretty shameless."
Si Yan asked, "The cemetery was ransacked, what happened to the bones and coffins?"
The boss's expression grew increasingly strange; he genuinely didn't want to talk, practically smothering himself with his mouth shut. "It's... it's under the hotel, buried there."
The three contestants present. "..."
Sano Kurotsuki let out a deep, passionate "fuck!"
"So all these days, we've been lying on a pile of dead bones??"
"You bastards! You're all bastards!"
The boss was yelled at so hard he had to back away, his face pale, and blood was flowing from his bitten lip.
Jiang Nuo suddenly realized, "No wonder Tang Mu said the hotel doesn't need a haunted house."
He guessed that the boss's incantation was nearing its limit, so he asked a few more questions.
Are the Nightwalker actually human?
"Guardians! They are the guardians who tame demons!"
For some reason, Sano Kurotsuki asked a bombshell question.
"Who is the demon, and what is his name?"
This statement is like a kind of prohibition.
Not only did it frighten the little elf into trembling Nuonuo, but it also caused the boss to choke back his anger, spitting out mouthfuls of blood and completely fainting.
A golden light flashed back into Jiang Nuo's body, and the spell lost its effect.
Jiang Nuo exclaimed, pointing at Sano Kurotsuki, "You've really angered the boss!"
They were completely justified.
Sano Kurotsuki: "..."
"Don't you need any evidence for your false accusations?!"
Jiang Nuo, with his hands behind his back, glanced at Su Shan, who had purple eyes, which frightened him so much that he turned and ran away, but Jiang Nuo grabbed him by the back of his collar and pulled him up.
"Hehe." Jiang Nuo smiled brightly.
"Look!" Su Shan, not wanting to be cursed, pointed towards the Divine Tree in the critical moment.
Jiang Nuo looked over in response, her smile faltering.
No, I can't even laugh a little bit.
From within the hazy black mist, layers upon layers of coffins appeared.
Eight contestants stood on the coffin, suspended high, as if they had been tortured. Each of them had a patch of unscathed skin, and their eyes stared straight at them.
Jiang Nuo met "himself's" gaze and let out a soft exclamation.
"So weak, it definitely can't be me."
But this scene was so bizarre that it made people uncomfortable.
What does this mean? Is it the devil's way of intimidating them?
[Ahhh, that's terrifying! I've never seen God Nuo so injured before!]
"That definitely won't happen! God Nuo is that good."
Su Shan swayed a few times, broke free from Jiang Nuo's grasp, cried out in pain, and fell to the ground, then offered a wry explanation.
"This is a demonic illusion, a vision of the future. Everyone in town has seen this before, and they all lost hope, leading us step by step to where we are today."
Jiang Nuo: "Hehe, I don't believe it."
He waved his hand and threw out the red rope; in an instant, the phantom vanished, along with all the coffins, disappearing without a trace.
First of all, there are no more than eight players left.
"Secondly... I couldn't possibly be so weak as to get beaten up like this."
Jiang Nuo's smile faded, and she lowered her body slightly, approaching Su Shan. "Was this illusion created by a demon, or by you little elves?"
Su Shan trembled with fear, his lips shaking, "It's not a fairy!! It's a demon!"
" Nuonuo..."
Si Yan grasped his hand and whispered, "I can sense the Dragon Vein."
"Very close."
Jiang Nuo asked in confusion, "Wasn't it said that the Dragon Vein is beneath the garden?"
He tilted his head, his mind racing. "Oh~ this place is connected to the underground of the garden."
"Then what are we waiting for! Let's go!" Sano Kurotsuki urged, seemingly more anxious than the others. "Isn't your mission the Dragon Vein?"
Jiang Nuo and Si Yan both fell silent, looking over with ambiguous smiles.
Jiang Nuo: "How come I remember the mission was to rescue the townspeople?"
Si Yan's voice suddenly turned cold as she asked him in a low voice, "Who told you the mission was to repair the Dragon Vein?"
Sano Kurotsuki's expression changed drastically. He regretted that he had said too much and made a mistake, and he was also surprised to find that he still had the problem of occasionally speaking the truth over the past few days.
"... I... I guessed!"
"You're so good at guessing," Jiang Nuo toyed with the red string, her smile not reaching her eyes, "Why don't you guess when you'll die?"
Sano Kurotsuki remained silent, making sure to keep quiet.
"Holy crap... another Dragon Vein?! We've had quite a few Dragon Vein severed."
[A bold guess! Could it be that the show is only able to continue because there's a problem with the Dragon Vein?]
" The Hua Country can't even protect their own Dragon Vein; they're truly useless!"
We can laugh at ourselves; what are the Wa Country watching this for? Your place is certainly a "feng shui treasure land," huh?