"What did you say?"
"No...nothing..." Mu Chen avoided his head in embarrassment.
"That..." Looking at Yun Chuan's suspicious eyes, his brain was running rapidly trying to change the topic.
"I feel that these dark creatures are not very powerful. I broke the energy fragments without much effort."
"...Because they mainly focus on spiritual attacks." Yun Chuan stretched out his hand and used the golden thread to explore the cluster of flames floating in the air.
"Their attacks don't work against you, so you think they're easy to deal with. After all, a loose mist doesn't do much physical damage."
"It doesn't work for me?" Mu Chen recalled that he seemed to have heard a voice saying some inexplicable words to him during the battle.
"Uh-huh. Ah...here." The golden thread dispersed the thin mist that filled the air and lifted a girl from the ground.
"Then do you want to see how dark creatures attack players? Hmm... you stabbed it hard enough. I'll find someone to deal with this body later." The black-haired young man moved Ning Ning to a slightly cleaner place and put him down.
"Ning Ning's soul is with you." Mu Chen did not answer his question.
"Oh, are you sure?" Yun Chuan summoned the system page and was tapping on it. Hearing this, he stopped and showed a mysterious smile.
"You have said that dark creatures can only possess emotional souls. But in the same copy, An Xu is dead. His soul definitely does not meet the conditions for possession by dark creatures, but it is still possessed by Possessed." At this point, Mu Chen paused.
"Keep talking." Yun Chuan raised his eyebrows to show that he was listening.
"Ying... I think he is quite crazy." Mu Chen carefully glanced at Yunchuan's face.
"He is indeed crazy." Yun Chuan nodded in agreement.
"...I think Shadow and the Dark Creature should now have a symbiotic relationship. He sleeps in the Dark Creature's body and the Dark Creature achieves a certain degree of freedom of movement by possessing his soul fragment.
I looked at Ning Ning's body, and her soul was not in her body. So you were so sure that Ying Ning was in Ning Ning's body because you took away Ning Ning's soul, but the dark creatures were still able to control that body. Its host is not Ning Ning but Ying, but because of Ying's deep sleep, it naturally seizes the entire control of the body. "Mu Chen said his answer.
"Okay." Yunchuan snapped his fingers, and a golden cocoon appeared out of thin air.
Poof…
A slight sound was heard, and several cracks appeared on the surface of the cocoon.
"Woo..." A small whimper came from the cocoon, and a palm-sized transparent little man crawled out from the crack in the cocoon with difficulty.
It is a smaller version of Transparent Ning Ning.
The little pure white soul sat on the cocoon, looking confused.
Suddenly, she floated up and flew straight to the ground.
An An was lying under the stairs, still unconscious.
"Is this Ning Ning's soul?" Mu Chen watched her float to An An's side, anxiously hovering over the girl's head.
"Hmm. I purified her. But her body is considered useless. Do you want to eat her? This is a great supplement."
"I won't eat!" Mu Chen replied instantly.
"You're not allowed to eat either!" he added quickly.
"Our boss will not eat other people's souls." A slightly familiar male voice came into the barrier through the golden silk thread.
"Hello, boss." Thistle appeared in front of the two of them in a gorgeous dress, and he saluted Gentleman Yunchuan.
"Bring them both back to the main constellation. Body and soul. I have contacted the relevant departments. They will enter here as soon as the copy is finished." Yun Chuan clicked on the girl and soul lying on the ground.
"Condemn them both to be dead."
"Copy that." Thistle agreed immediately. "Then what should I report to the Lord God? Yesterday, the Lord God gave an order to reorganize that one, and the group chat was about to explode."
"Except for the shadow incident, report everything else truthfully."
"Okay. By the way, boss, it's half past five in the afternoon, and it's going to be dinner time soon~ According to the plot, if you are late, you will be killed." Thistle's seriousness only lasted a few minutes.
"As long as you don't arrive, we won't be late." Yun Chuan rolled his eyes at Thistle.
"Okay, it's time for us to leave." He patted Mu Chen on the shoulder and motioned for him to go with him.
Turning the corner, Yun Chuan seemed to suddenly remember something. "Have I told you about the movie?"
"No. You didn't even say what the dark creatures are. I know now what crack in time and space they come from. I don't even know the relationship between the two of you." Mu Chen's voice unconsciously added A hint of displeasure.
"Ah... I'll let you know when the dungeon is over." Yun Chuan didn't care at all about the increasingly resentful gaze of the man behind him.
The two of them walked back to the guest room despite the vicious looks of the passing maid.
"Are you awake?" As soon as he opened the door, Yunchuan saw several fluffy bird dumplings squatting on the branches huddled together with big round eyes.
Seeing him coming back, the nightingales flew up happily, and they had a little fight in the air to compete for the shoulder position. "Okay, let's go to dinner. I can't take you with me tonight." Yun Chuan took off the big-eyed cute bird hanging above his head and held it in his hand, waving away the other nightingales that had lost their owners.
*
The two arrived at the restaurant at six o'clock sharp.
As soon as he took his seat, he saw Liu Ruoyu and her glasses running in with their glasses stuck.
"He's not back, is he? What's going on with you? I can't contact any of you." Liu Ruoyu pulled out her chair tiredly.
"Not yet. Reese isn't here either. He should be waiting for the Duke outside." Yunchuan glanced at the empty door.
It will be some time before Thistle can deal with the girls.
"Great. Glasses and I haven't stopped walking this afternoon." Liu Ruoyu breathed a sigh of relief.
"We discovered a big secret." She raised the corners of her lips and smiled mysteriously.
"About the Duke's life experience... No, it should be Nightingale's life experience. By the way, where are the sisters? Why haven't they come yet?" Liu Ruoyu suddenly realized that there were only four of them present.
"I don't know, we haven't contacted them yet. You tell me first, maybe they are still on the way." Yunchuan shook his head.
"Okay. Thanks to this gadget." Liu Ruoyu opened her collar, and Nightingale curled up into a small ball and was sleeping soundly on her collarbone.
"We didn't notice anything strange at first, but then the nightingale woke up, and started flying after it woke up. Anyway, in the end we ran around with the nightingale, and accidentally discovered that the secret passage at night did not disappear, but was blocked by the roots of the tree. Lived.”
"The root system of a tree?"
"Yes, it's incredible. We dug out the floor, and the diameter of those tree roots is at least one meter wide. And probably because of the root system, the direction of the secret passage will not change. Fortunately, I have fire powers. After burning out a root system, we followed the tunnel to find the Duke’s real bedroom.”
"In short, the process is very arduous and the result is very magical. It cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences, so we will just come to the conclusion." Glasses continued Liu Ruoyu's words.
"The enemy we face is not the Duke at all, but the entire forest."
"How do you say it?" Mu Chen also came over.
"The diamond bird in the box imprisons the Duke's soul, and the Duke's body is the cage that traps the nightingale, and this manor traps the entire forest. Ha... I don't know how to explain it to you now, anyway. It won't work even if the box is opened, and if the soul inside escapes, we will all become sacrifices to the nightingale. If we don't open it, we will be deemed to have failed the assessment, and no one will survive..." Liu Ruoyu rubbed her lips irritably. Pointed hair.
"The guests have been waiting for a long time." A warm voice suddenly came from the door, and the Duke walked slowly with Reese.
"Aha...it's over." He sat on the chair with his glasses upright and closed his eyes silently.
"Reese, why are there two guests who haven't arrived? Did you oversleep?" The Duke sat down with a smile and asked the butler with doubts.
"We've sent someone to look for him, sir." Reese stood aside and bowed respectfully.
"Okay. Dear guests, I believe that my butler has told you the test questions today, so now it is time for acceptance. But please don't be impatient. After all, we can enjoy a fresh dinner first." The Duke led The smiling voice deliberately emphasized the word 'fresh'.
Suddenly, his voice changed, adding a hint of embarrassment.
"Oh, by the way, it's a pity that our dancer left today, so in order to make the dinner more interesting, would you like to allow me to tell you a story?"
"..." Who dares to say no?
"It is our honor to be able to enjoy the fun with the Duke." Glasses gritted his teeth and said polite words to the Duke.
"You're too kind." The Duke nodded with satisfaction.
"This is a story so long ago that the Gothic style has just begun to become popular."
"Once upon a time, there was a Duke who loved beautiful things the most. One day, he heard that there was a bird with a very beautiful song in his property, and he was fascinated by it. So the Duke, who was burdened with official duties, simply slipped out of the castle in anger. He came to the territory and told people about his yearning for the nightingale
Later, enthusiastic people took him to find Nightingale, who was moved by his sincerity and returned to the manor with him.
…………
...Finally, just as the Duke was dying and waiting for death to come, he heard the song of the nightingale coming from the window again. After all, the bird could not let go of the Duke and returned to the Duke's side. After that, the Duke recovered his health and lived a happy life again. ”
"Ha... the story ends here. My guests, do you also think this is a happy and happy story?" The Duke looked at the four players with a smile.
"...In my opinion, this is a very happy story." Mu Chen answered cautiously.
The story of the nightingale again...
"It is indeed very happy. This story has been passed down in the picture books of later generations and has been told by thousands of fathers and mothers to their children before their beds.
But guest, this is a story written by humans, a story sung among humans.
So are you willing to listen to stories from the forest? "There was a trace of sadness in the Duke's blue eyes.
"Of course."
"So, where does this story start? Let me think about it...ah...yes. Let's start with our little nightingale singing the first funeral song."
(End of chapter)
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