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Chapter 144 143. Night of the Full Moon (Two in One)

You Qi followed the little witch through the muddy street, made two turns and walked to the original altar. Beyond that, at the head of the village farther away, a house that was more complicated than other buildings stood.

The wood was dyed black, and then made into a house, which was also a little dwarf, with some weird patterns carved on it.

Although it looks cleaner than other houses, it is really weird and gives people an ominous premonition.

This house also has a small yard, which is full of withered and yellow grass.

"Here we are." The witch said in a hoarse voice, and then opened the small gate of the yard.

She walked in, then turned to look at You Qi: "You come in with me."

[Congratulations to the player for triggering a personal hidden branch!Personal hidden branch: You can choose to receive it, and it can only be completed by an individual, and it will not affect the game results of others.The current personal hidden branch of the game: [Witch’s Punishment], current rating: S rank, the completion reward randomly drops witch’s scepter x1, witch’s collection x1, witch’s secret x1, any one of them, will the player accept it? 】

"..."

As soon as You Qi stepped close to the courtyard door, the voice of the system rang in his mind.

It's another brand-new task type that I haven't seen before, and I even mentioned the rewards in advance.

You Qi was suddenly curious, if he refused, how would the witch punish him?

He stepped in directly and told the system his choice with actions.

【Yes. 】

Seeing You Qi stepping in directly, the witch's eyes fluctuated a little, even a little weird, and finally she just opened the door slowly, revealing the dark inside.

"Come on then."

You Qi entered the house first, followed by the witch, and closed the door.

The moment the door was closed, her cloudy eyes lifted up, and her eyes fell on the corner not far away, and then she slammed the door shut.

"That You Zhengyi went in with the witch." Gu Yunlong, Gu Yi and Zhang Leng followed along. Fortunately, they hid quickly, otherwise they would be seen by the witch.

Although it should be nothing to be seen, Gu Yunlong always felt a bad premonition.

"This time the S-level game is not easy." Without the presence of outsiders, Gu Yi's smiling face gradually turned cold.

"There is no main mission, only the missions of the two camps, leading players to kill each other; NPCs hate players extremely, and after angering them, they will go berserk and try to kill players, which is probably a dead end restriction."

Gu Yi thought for a while about Zhang Yingzi's painful expression, but regretted it, he looked at the tightly closed black house.

"It's very likely that You Zhengyi won't come out alive. He may have triggered the restriction, but it's not yet certain that the witch is the master ghost."

Originally, that Liu Yi suddenly went crazy to save Zhang Yingzi, and even aroused the hatred of all the NPCs, which was already very outrageous. In the end, a madman who was even more outrageous than her appeared, and replaced all her crazy behavior.

What's even more outrageous is that these npcs even recognized them.

"Anyway, don't move around. This game is under my command. We'll talk about exercise and other things in the next game." Gu Yi narrowed his eyes, "Now there are a few things to confirm."

"The first thing is that You Zhengyi will probably die. You can use this time to try to sneak into the witch's house. I guess this game will need something to trigger the main storyline."

"The second thing is that the npc that popped up suddenly and stopped all the villagers is very strange." Gu Yi was referring to Akato who popped up at the end, "He may be a special character, I need to go to his side Check, check, check."

"The last thing..." Gu Yi paused, carefully thinking about the possibility of this matter.

"The woman named Liu Yi, and that Zhang Yingzi, there must be one of them. It's just that I don't know now, whether it is the puppet master who controls the puppets, or is it just a very selfless help."

"It looks a bit like the former now."

In this kind of game, how can there be such a simple help, or to help with one's life, it is all a conspiracy.

Gu Yi already knew in his heart that even their organization used demands and rewards to rein in members with clearly marked prices, but lowered the lower limit a little.

As for now...

He made a decision.

"I'm going to investigate the witch, you two, one will go to see that npc, and the other will follow Zhang Yingzi or Liu Yi."

"It's too dangerous!" Gu Yunlong was dissatisfied, "If something happens to you, my brother must kill me?"

"If something happens to you, I will be chopped off first." Gu Yi shook his head, "Don't worry, I was sent to take you after all, how could I be so weak?"

In the end, the three of them discussed the course of action, and Gu Yi managed to get to the side of the house. Although the witch's house was short, it was longer. There should be many rooms inside, enough for him to fight.

Since he has been in the game for so long, he has gradually realized one point, that is, good things are all made by fighting with one's life.

If you live, you will stand; if you lose, you will die.

Gu Yi rolled over into the yard and planned to walk towards the house, but the moment his feet hit the ground, a huge pressure surged into his heart directly from the soles of his feet.

Gu Yi only felt that his body was pierced from head to toe as if struck by lightning, and then he flew out viciously, bounced directly to the wall of the next room, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Gu Yi's consciousness of the pain was almost blurred for a moment, but he subconsciously used the healing item card immediately to stop the damage.

"What is this..." He raised his head in horror, and it took him a long time to get up from the ground, but he never dared to take a step closer to the yellow yard in the black room.

...It's careless, this witch should have set up restrictions in the yard, maybe all his actions at this moment have been discovered by the witch.

At the same time, like Ying Zheng's thoughts in his heart, a strong sense of being spied on rose from his back, making him unable to hide in an instant.

Gu Yi gritted his teeth, clutched his chest and ran straight down, wishing he could be a little farther away from this house, a little bit farther away, and he didn't feel better until he was approaching the player's pigsty.

"Damn...cough..." Gu Yi frowned, feeling that the injury on his body still hadn't completely stopped, he simply took out a bottle of white medicine, and drank half of the bottle in one gulp.

This game...was even more outrageous than he had imagined.

But this witch... must be the main ghost boss!

Gu Yi's experience told him so.

[It is detected that the player has entered the personal hidden branch.The dynamic difficulty has been turned on, and the difficulty is being re-rated according to the player's situation... Current personal hidden branch: [Witch's Punishment], rating: S+ level. 】

"..."

As soon as You Qi stepped into the house, he heard this system prompt.

Indeed, at the beginning of the notification, it also said "current rating", which was a small text trap, which meant that the rating could be raised again.

So... even if it is now at the S+ level, it is possible to raise the rating again.

Due to the degree of cheating in this game world, You Qi feels that this situation is very likely to happen.

The whole room was pitch black, you couldn't see your fingers, you couldn't see anything, but when the witch slammed the door behind you, the fire in front of you lit up.

From left to right, in a ring shape, the torches hanging on the wall are lit up one by one, and directly opposite is a European-style stove, which is also lit up, which is often seen in the steam age A heating system of the kind you have come across, up the chimney.

There is a table in front of the stove, and a stool is placed in front of it, as if preparing for You Qi's arrival.

The torches on both sides slightly illuminated the dark rooms on both sides, and he saw what seemed to be bedrooms and studies.

"It's not a good habit to peek indiscriminately."

The witch suddenly made a sound, and there was a sound outside the house at the same time, but she obviously didn't care much.

The sound of the cane hitting the ground was heard one after another, the witch walked from behind to the front of Youqi, and then stood opposite the table.

She faced the fire with her back, her wrinkled face and crooked black body seemed to be framed with a golden red edge by the fire.

You Qi saw the witch's cloudy eyes reflecting the fire, as if revealing some firm emotion.

"Come here."

You Qi followed her instructions and walked over, and then sat on the stool under the witch's signal.

The witch drew out a stack of cards from nowhere, which looked a lot like Tarot. The back of the cards was various superimpositions of hexagrams and circles; then she put down her cane, and used her withered hands to draw it out. with.

"Do you know what we do to outsiders like you who act recklessly in Yuecun?"

The witch's eyes were fixed on the cards in her hand, and she didn't look any further.

"How do you do it?" You Qi was happy to talk to her.

The feeling here is no different from the outside, but the aura of the single witch is very strong, and the pressure on people is not ordinary.

And no matter how you look at it, it is exactly the same as an ordinary house.

The flames in the stove scorched the branches and dead leaves, burning black and red charcoal, and tiny sparks popped out.

You Qi noticed that there was a soft carpet on the ground, but the color was too dark and he didn't notice it at first.

"There are three situations." The witch was still shuffling her cards. "The first one is a heinous crime, killing the people of Yuecun. This one is death."

She drew a card and placed it face down on the table.

"The second type is evil people who offend the people of Yuecun. This type is punished."

She draws a card again.

"The third type is you, the people of chaos, in every sense, they are not good people." The witch's hoarse voice was matched with the quiet air, mixed with the sound of sparks, clear and scary .

"Your kind is a trial."

She put three cards on the table, then stacked up the other extra cards and put them aside, then looked at You Qi.

"The evil one draws one of these three and chooses his fate. Make your choice."

You Qi listened to everything she said quietly, then fell silent for a while, stretched out his right hand, and touched the first card on the table.

The witch stared at him with cloudy eyes, and her expression was cold and serious.

"Do you want to choose this one?"

"No, I'm just touching it, and I'm curious what your card is made of." You raised an eyebrow, "It feels good."

"..." The witch didn't know how to answer the words for a moment, "make your choice quickly."

"Can you tell me what's in these cards? Let me understand." You Qi smiled at the witch's serious and wrinkled face, "Even if you touch something strange and something strange happens , I also hope that I can have a mental preparation in advance."

"You have no right to know." The witch stared at Youqi, her voice hoarse, as if she was suppressing something, "This is your fate. Whose fate can be known in advance? Choose quickly."

Something was very wrong about the wrinkled old woman.

You Qi closed his eyes, his emotions were in full view.

She was calm and serious at first, but now her forehead was sweating, shining in the firelight, and her eyes were fixed on Swimming, as if she was watching some prey.

The feeling of being looked at from head to toe from the inside out made him very uncomfortable.

You Qi had a vague feeling that this witch might be the main ghost boss of this game, or the sub ghost boss, or even the boss of some hidden mission, anyway, she is a boss.

And this guy was staring at him, as if he was going to swallow him alive if he didn't make a quick choice.

"May I ask, if I don't choose, what will happen?" You Qi said.

"Then you will lose your final choice." The witch stared at Youqi.

Seeing that You Qi fumbled for all three cards, but did not make a choice for a long time, the witch's eyes suddenly softened, she looked at him with a vision that seemed to see through, and then moved closer.

"You don't choose, do you? If you don't choose, then I will—"

"No, of course I have to choose, why not choose." You Qi smiled lightly, "I just wanted to see how you would react if I didn't choose. So, witches also gloat? .”

"What?" The witch froze for a moment, then swam up and stretched out her hand, but she didn't reach out to the three cards in front of him, but to the stack of cards on the side.

He picked up the top card and turned it over.

A pure black card appeared in front of his eyes.

"Evil people would choose these three cards on the table, but I'm not an evil person. You probably define me as a person of darkness."

You Qi looked at the pure black card that he had lifted.

"I choose this."

The witch seemed to be taken aback by his actions, and then she opened the corners of her mouth weirdly, even the wrinkles on her face, and laughed.

The laughter was unusually eerie.

In the next second, the witch waved her sleeves, and all the cards on the table disappeared, leaving only the card selected by You Qi.

"Congratulations, you have chosen the hardest and most difficult fate."

Corresponding to her hoarse and joyful words, was the darkness that suddenly gushed out of the card, and the system's notification sound.

[Personal hidden branch: [Witch's Punishment] rating update, current difficulty rating: SS level. 】

(End of this chapter)