Day of Imprisonment

This strange, absurd, and unbelievable scene unfolded right before their eyes, but unfortunately, the other Reminiscents were afraid of the Insect Buddha and kept their distance, leaving only Lin Qiqi nearby.

So, she was the only audience to this scene.

Her first feeling was one of absurdity, of impossibility.

But this unbelievable scene was truly happening before her, vividly and palpably.

"How did he do it?" Lin Qiqi suddenly recalled that the last time was the same; during the first chime, Luo Xi was extremely unlucky and caught by the Manjusri Bodhisattva statue, who asked the unanswerable question, 'Who am I?'

But Luo Xi had actually passed safely.

Only, she was too far away at the time to hear exactly what Luo Xi had said.

This time, she was close enough to hear clearly.

Immediately afterward, Lin Qiqi's hair stood on end.

"No, it's because of something else. Luo Xi used a card earlier. It's the power of the card. What kind of card could have this effect?"

She also remembered the last time, when someone asked Luo Xi what he had said to the Manjusri Bodhisattva statue, and Luo Xi had said, 'How would I know?'

Maybe that's exactly what he said at the time.

A power that makes the other party believe whatever is said?

Too amazing!

Lin Qiqi's eyes shone, her admiration impossible to conceal.

The Insect Buddha hadn't completely left when the Wooden Dragon arrived.

However, because all the Reminiscents here were keeping their distance, the Wooden Dragon had no choice.

In the next moment, the Wooden Dragon arrived in front of Lin Qiqi, begging for water.

She was naturally overjoyed; this was a functional card delivered right to her door. She knew that [Dragon's Roar]'s effect on exorcism was top-tier among similar cards, and it would fetch a starting bid of ten [Memories] if sold.

Reminiscents in the distance saw this scene, both surprised and envious.

Surprised that Luo Xi hadn't been eaten by the Insect Buddha, and envious of the Wooden Dragon, which was practically giving away a card.

At this time, the second chime was also at its end, about to disappear.

Occasionally, unfortunate Reminiscents would be killed, effectively eliminated.

When the chime disappeared, Luo Xi looked around. Originally, there were seven or eight Reminiscents here, but now, including him and Lin Qiqi, there were only four left.

Old Jin was gone too.

It was too chaotic just now, and he didn't know how he disappeared.

Presumably, he passed peacefully.

Challenging the Youzuo Temple early in the morning of the Cycle Day truly required courage and luck, because once you failed, you lost not only the cards you had put in the donation box earlier, but also the time cost.

Even for veterans, the time cost was more important.

Because dying early in the morning meant wasting that Cycle Day.

The two surviving Reminiscents also dared not approach; perhaps sensing that Luo Xi was too strange, they didn't want to come over, even for safety's sake.

After the scene progressed to the second chime, the Reminiscents still present in the Youzuo Temple were probably not even half of what they started with, perhaps only a third.

However, most of this third should have obtained six sign interpretations, and even the fewest had five.

They were probably only one step away from seven sign interpretations.

Some might have even obtained seven sign interpretations and gone to the old monk to exchange them for rewards.

For example, Luo Xi and Lin Qiqi, they had actually collected seven sign interpretations, but Luo Xi had changed his goal.

He wanted to get all nine sign interpretations.

Moreover, he wanted to enter the Buddhist Courtyard Beneath the Well to find the clues left by 'his former self'.

According to Lin Qiqi, the only place in the entire Youzuo Temple that might contain a Land of No Light was this Buddhist Courtyard Beneath the Well.

Lin Qiqi was very happy.

She had just obtained a [Dragon's Roar].

She had wanted this card for a long time, but she had never gotten the favor of that Wooden Dragon. She didn't expect to get her wish this time.

At the entrance to the Buddhist Courtyard Beneath the Well, looking at the well opening like a black hole, Lin Qiqi glanced at Luo Xi.

"Going down?"

Luo Xi nodded: "Yes, and without a light source."

"Without a light source, groping in the dark? That's a bit dangerous."

"Not using a light source is also a last resort, because I suspect..." Luo Xi hadn't finished speaking when he saw Lin Qiqi suddenly look to the side, her expression cold, with a hint of killing intent.

He also looked over.

Two people were walking over there.

A man and a woman.

The man's nickname seemed to be 'Mystic', and the woman was that Poison Scorpion.

Enemies always meet on a narrow road.

The other party also saw them, stopping a dozen meters away, their gazes equally unfriendly, and with a hint of surprise.

Presumably wondering why Lin Qiqi was still alive.

"I want to kill them!" Lin Qiqi said, her tone firm.

"How many times?" Luo Xi asked.

Lin Qiqi raised an eyebrow, her killing intent soaring: "Kill them until they delete their accounts!"

The 'delete account' she spoke of meant killing the other party into amnesiacs.

"However, I'm no match for that Mystic!" Lin Qiqi changed her tone, somewhat helplessly: "That guy has saved the memories of hundreds of Cycle Days. He has too many cards in his hand, and I don't know how many trump cards he has. Moreover, the other party seems to belong to a powerful organization, with a backer and a support."

"Success depends on human effort. There is nothing in this world that cannot be done," Luo Xi said at this time.

The scene rules prevented them from directly attacking, so there was no other meaning to facing these two people besides arguing.

"By the way, what were you going to say just now? What do you suspect?" Lin Qiqi saw that the Mystic and Poison Scorpion over there hadn't come over, and were spying from a distance, knowing that it wasn't a good time to attack at this stage, so they could only plan for the long term.

"No light, light, are two scenes," Luo Xi directly gave the answer.

"What?" Lin Qiqi was stunned.

She understood, but felt it was a bit exaggerated.

"Darkness can produce fear. This is something engraved in human genes. In ancient times, darkness represented danger, so light was needed. For this reason, everyone who enters a dark space will look for a light source, but some things can only be hidden in the darkness," Luo Xi said, and Lin Qiqi immediately said: "Luo Xi, I know what you mean. I remember a long, long time ago, I watched a horror movie that had a similar setting. Light and darkness belonged to different dimensions, but that was just an unconfirmed guess, even just a fantasy. A completely dark environment does not mean that it is connected to another dimension..."

Luo Xi looked at Lin Qiqi, who was serious, and smiled: "You're right. If it were in the real world, it would indeed be a scientific guess without any basis, even with a kind of religious hysteria of metaphysics, but you forgot, this is not the real world, this is the Day of Imprisonment!"

"..."

She couldn't refute this sentence.

"Lin Qiqi!"

"Yes, what?"

"To peep into the soul, must you open your eyes?" Luo Xi asked.

Lin Qiqi nodded: "Yes."

"What a pity," Luo Xi sighed: "But in a while, you can try peeping into souls with your eyes closed. Logically speaking, the soul is also a kind of mental power. Besides seeing, it can also be sensed."

"Uh, okay, okay, I'll try," Lin Qiqi glanced at the dark well opening. To be honest, she had been down there a few times, but always with light, and even with other Reminiscents nearby.

Listening to Luo Xi's meaning, not only was it going to be without light, but also blindfolded.

This guy was crazy.

But she found that she didn't refute it, and even willingly went crazy with him.

"Perhaps, I'm also crazy, and it was a long time ago."

The two of them went down into the well one after the other.

In the distance, Poison Scorpion and Mystic saw this scene.

"The two of them went down," Mystic said expressionlessly.

The Reminiscents who had saved hundreds of Cycle Days had undergone earth-shattering changes in their state compared to their original selves because they had experienced too many terrible things.

Mystic was just an ordinary person in the past, cautious and polite to everyone, even a little restrained.

But the experience brought by endless reincarnation was like a raging fire, tempering him into another person that even he himself felt strange to him.

Cold-blooded, ruthless, even with some morbid strength.

Kindness, compassion, and even humanity were treated by him as worn-out shoes, long discarded in some terrifying Cycle Day.

"Are you afraid?" Mystic glanced at Poison Scorpion, his eyes with a hint of contempt.

This woman was strong on the outside but weak on the inside, seemingly ruthless, but not smart enough, and her state of mind was not good either.

As a tool and pawn, she could be used, but as a partner, forget it.

She would be a drag.

"No, I'm not afraid. I just want to tell you one thing, we have to find a way to kill her. No, not just kill her once, we have to take everything from her, otherwise Seventh Brother's madness will cause us huge trouble," Poison Scorpion gritted her teeth and roared.

"There is a Hundred Ghost Wall in the Buddhist Courtyard Beneath the Well, with hundreds of jars of ashes on it. If you accidentally break them, fierce ghosts sealed by Buddhism will run out..." Mystic said.

Poison Scorpion was stunned: "You mean break the ashes and release the fierce ghosts, but even if it succeeds, it will only kill her once, and the next Cycle Day will be her endless revenge."

"No, what I mean is that I know that the fierce ghost in one of the jars of ashes will not directly kill people. It's very special, it's a gambler. Once it comes out, it must gamble three times with it, forcibly. Moreover, the stakes are unlimited..."

"I, I don't understand, can you control that gambling ghost?" Poison Scorpion asked.

Mystic looked bewildered, correcting: "No, I can't control the gambling ghost, but I can use my ability to imitate that woman, bet her card ring, and when she loses, she will lose everything... This is the best performance, the perfect curtain call!"