ebookland Chapter 63 Undercurrents
Chapter 63 Undercurrents
"I feel like crying, sob sob sob. If only the prince were braver and stayed with Green Xia Li, that would be so wonderful." Zhao Ruoxi's eyes were red, and her voice began to rise involuntarily.
"That's not right." Chen Jiangqiao frowned. "According to you, the witch is a being without desires or wants, so why is she trying to kill us now?"
Although everyone died from the illusion, the witch did not directly take action, but her power played an indispensable catalytic role in the process!
Especially as the opening of the evacuation point approaches, the witch's influence has become all-pervasive!
"If there is no desire, there should be no murderous urge. Why?" Chen Jiangqiao hoped that Xu Enxi could answer this last question.
Unexpectedly, Xu Enxi suddenly began to gasp for breath, as if she couldn't catch her breath, and then large mouthfuls of black blood gushed from her mouth.
Zhao Ruoxi quickly grabbed Xu Enxi's hand and called her name, but as black blood slid down Xu Enxi's cheeks, the light in the woman's eyes dimmed at a visible speed.
"Wake up! Hold on!" Zhao Ruoxi grabbed Xu Enxi and shook her frantically. Chen Jiangqiao couldn't bear to watch any longer, so he forcefully pried the girl's hands apart and gently placed the already dead Xu Enxi on the ground.
"She was just talking to us fine a moment ago, how could she... how could she... die?" Zhao Ruoxi's face was streaked with tears, ruining her delicate makeup.
Chen Jiangqiao reached out and closed Xu Enxi's eyes: "Perhaps, her existence is just to tell us this story."
The NPC's mission is complete, and it's time for them to move on to the predetermined ending.
Chen Jiangqiao was an old man, but under the influence of the witch's power, listening to Zhao Ruoxi's heart-wrenching cries, he too felt a lump in his throat and his eyes sting. Indeed, of all types of dungeons, story-driven ones were the ones he disliked the most.
"Let's go." Chen Jiangqiao stood up and patted Zhao Ruoxi on the shoulder.
Zhao Ruoxi: "Where to?"
As Chen Jiangqiao watched the corpses in the restaurant gradually disappear, he said in a deep voice, "The Other World."
As the surroundings changed, panic clouded Zhao Ruoxi's face: "Will we see a witch?"
She felt sorry for Green Xia Li in the story, but the fear of the unknown is a human instinct.
Chen Jiangqiao shook his head. Xu Enxi's story overturned Chen Jiangqiao's original understanding of witches. His image of witches was not only not clear, but even more blurred.
After entering the inner world, Zhao Ruoxi was terrified. She never let go of Chen Jiangqiao's arm. As soon as she stepped out of the restaurant, she screamed like a boiling kettle and pointed hard at the corpse on the ground.
"Zheng Lu?" Chen Jiangqiao's eyes showed surprise. Zheng Lu helped the witch kill people in the surface world, but she died in the inner world in the blink of an eye. Who did it? The next second, he heard Zhao Ruoxi's scream of "the water boiled again."
Is that a person?
Chen Jiangqiao followed Zhao Ruoxi's finger and saw a figure clearly reflected on the wall at the corner. It looked like someone was sitting on the ground leaning against the wall, motionless.
"Ji Xingyi!" Chen Jiangqiao recognized the man from his silhouette at a glance, and his heart jumped into his throat. He immediately strode over.
"Are you injured?" Chen Jiangqiao asked anxiously. Ji Xingyi was covered in blood and looked quite frightening.
Upon hearing Chen Jiangqiao's voice, the man, whose head was bowed, slightly raised his chin, glanced at the two with a gloomy, lifeless gaze, and coldly uttered a single word: "Get lost!"
Zhao Ruoxi was frightened by Ji Xingyi's gaze and hid behind Chen Jiangqiao.
Chen Jiangqiao breathed a sigh of relief; as long as he could speak, he was alright. He then noticed the bandaged wound on Ji Xingyi's left hand and asked softly, "Are you alone? Where's Jiang Lin?"
Normally, the two of them are inseparable when they're together, so why is Ji Xingyi all alone this time?
Jiang Lin's name was like a pebble thrown into a pond. Ji Xingyi's eyes finally showed a flicker of emotion, but he still didn't give the two of them a friendly look.
Did they have a fight? If something happened to Jiang Lin, Ji Xingyi would definitely go crazy. The fact that Ji Xingyi has this kind of expression clearly means they had a fight.
This discovery was a wonderful surprise for Chen Jiangqiao, who was overjoyed.
"Chen Jiangqiao?" Zhao Ruoxi tugged at Chen Jiangqiao's clothes softly. She noticed that he had been staring intently at Ji Xingyi ever since he entered the inner world. "Aren't we supposed to be looking for the witch?"
Chen Jiangqiao yanked Zhao Ruoxi's hand away, his eyes not even blinking: "What are you looking for, witch? Let her come to us!"
36 hours until the evacuation point opens.
At 20 p.m., the night in the Otherworld becomes even darker, and a surging undercurrent silently seeps into the depths of everyone's soul.
They had obtained enough information about the witch from Xu Enxi, and all they needed next was a clue to the quest item "The Sleeping Girl." Logically speaking, they should hurry up now.
Keji Xingyi had lost her mind; her negative emotions had piled up to the extreme, and she was in a precarious situation!
He didn't want to go out, afraid of seeing Jiang Lin again, and even more afraid that he might be influenced by the witch's power and do something uncontrollable that would hurt Jiang Lin. So he locked himself in room 206 of the other world and buried his head deep in the blankets.
Chen Jiangqiao climbed over the balcony next door into room 206 and saw the man curled up pitifully like a big dog abandoned by its owner.
He was only worried about Ji Xingyi's condition and wanted to sneak a peek, but once he did, he couldn't look away. Chen Jiangqiao's hands and feet seemed to be drawn to Ji Xingyi uncontrollably, as if by a magnet.
The current rift in Jiang Lin and Ji Xingyi's relationship presents the perfect opportunity to exploit the situation. Chen Jiangqiao hadn't originally intended anything, but the moment the thought crossed his mind, the witch amplified it infinitely.
The desire in Chen Jiangqiao's eyes grew wildly like weeds in spring, and at that moment, his thoughts resonated with Fabian's.
If you love someone, you should possess them completely.