Volume 13: The Lights in the Sky Are All Enemies Chapter 46: The Source of Fear (Part 1)
"...Hey, don't tell me you're going to die now."
Hearing the familiar tearing sound, Leng Feng turned his head in surprise and looked at Alice whose chest was pierced.
However, as if time was going backwards, under the light of magic, the huge wound on the chest slowly healed, and finally even the equipment was restored to its original appearance. Looking at the figure who seemed not surprised in the black mist, Alice blinked and found her previous memories.
The wounds on her body healed quietly, and the blood in the air was pulled by an invisible force, and then gradually returned to her body in the air. Although Alice's chest had a hole the size of a basketball, she was strangely not dead. Instead, some strange causal magic was entangled around her, reshaping her in an unimaginable way. The skin and internal organs kept crawling and covering her, as if she had been pulled back to a certain time period.
During this revival, the mysterious shadow did not make any move, but hid in the shadows, lurking like a ghost.
The red eyes stared at Alice in the hall. The gaze without any emotion even made people feel chilled to the bone.
But it was this dangerous, goose-bump-inducing feeling that made her feel a little nostalgic.
Ah, yes, it's right here.
This is the place where I couldn't escape from the nightmare.
“Hahahahahaha…”
Hoarse laughter came from the shadows on all sides.
"You guys are really unlucky. You just happened to run into this situation. I'm really sorry that I have to kill you... Don't bother to revive or anything. Just let me kill you honestly, okay?"
“What the fuck is this????”
Leng Feng was shocked when he saw the humanoid monster gradually disappearing from the interlaced light and shadow.
After all, he was a professional player and would not act rashly. However, watching the monster appear behind Alice like a ghost and instantly pierce through her chest, Leng Feng still felt a little terrified by the pure, clean, and simple act of killing for the sake of killing.
Neither players nor NPCs in Les Miserables would have such actions. Even if they were to sneak attack, they would choose to do it in a relatively aboveboard manner. After all, this world is full of magic and related things, and life and status are closely related to one's own spirit. This kind of pure evil is not the first time I have seen it, but when it really happens in front of me, I really feel a strange sense of shock.
The monster seemed a little confused as well, staring at Alice who was gradually recovering in the shadows. A hoarse voice with a respirator came from under the hood.
"How strange..."
The voice was a strange gurgling sound, and it was impossible to tell what the original sound was like.
This strange monster blended into the intertwined light and shadows around it - the surrounding space had turned into a cramped and dark corridor at some point, with the dark red emergency lights above emitting an unsettling glow, and together with the piercing alarms and broken glass fragments around it, it formed a weird scene.
"If it's a player, it should be evaporated into a spot of light and then resurrected at the resurrection point. If it's an NPC, it should be dead immediately. The feel is wrong, and the state is wrong. It's a bit strange. You seem to have some unexpected abilities. The ability to revive? Or the ability to go back in time? And you have two people over there... two people... Yeah, not bad, your feel is much better than I thought."
"Magic ... Hmm, it's really strange. It was a little girl that I could easily kill just now, but now she has awakened her magic power, and that male player also came out of nowhere. How come there are so many people in this game? And two of them actually have magic power, it's really strange."
"Killing people like you should make me more excited, right? In this hardcore game."
“…Ah, maybe.”
Alice, who had fully recovered, looked at her chest and subconsciously reached out to touch it.
There was no hollow feeling of the wound, but only the cold texture and fullness of flesh and equipment. In other words, unlike the helpless female anchor at the beginning, Alice now had magic and ability, and had the opportunity to fight back, instead of being at a loss and helpless like before.
The Illusion Court, perhaps just as its literal meaning, extracts the most horrifying scene from memory and then materializes it. If there are multiple people, it is probably constructed based on the strongest person. And for Alice, the most terrifying thing is undoubtedly the nightmare brought by the underground city-state. That black shadow tore all her self-esteem and normal game view into pieces, but now it is obviously time for revenge.
It’s okay. The information has been recorded very clearly. He is just a pure mortal now.
There was no magic awakening, no special supernatural means, and no helpers around. The castle he created had not yet been built, and his almost invincible magic had not awakened. There was only pure physical strength and skills. Apart from these, he had nothing left.
Is there any better time to take revenge than this ? It was just a simulation of the situation at that time by AI manipulation. It was just a group of phantoms, phantoms created according to his own cognition at that time. So now there is a question, does beating up the phantom boss in your mind count as beating up the boss? Of course not, because that is not the real boss, it can be said to be a fake.
But this doesn’t make me feel good!
If the bastard who killed her in Sodom could give up his hatred, he would definitely not be a woman! At least Alice felt that she should take revenge on the bastard who once had blood on his hands and didn't care. She would use this illusion to start the operation!
"Don't move, let me do it."
Alice stopped Leng Feng who was eager to try, and stood up, looking at the empty hall around her and said loudly:
"You must be feeling very bored now, right? You should be the one who hates streamers like me the most, right? Now that I've stood up, what are you waiting for?"
"Ah, I am very patient. It is very interesting to kill one's companion in front of him, don't you think?"
A man's laughter rang out from the empty hall. His body was still hidden in the shadows, and no trace could be seen.
However, this is no longer a problem for Alice, who has already awakened her magic power to the second level.
The girl closed her eyes slightly and sensed it, then looked towards a corner and tilted her head.
“…Is that all?”
'Um?'
"Then how about saying goodbye now, Li Lin?"
“——????”
It's now! It's over!
Now is the time for my revenge! Thank you, Les Misérables! It is nothing but this moment of pause!
At the moment when Leng Feng and the black shadow stiffened at the same time, Alice suddenly showed joy. With a smile on her face, she condensed a shining long sword from her palm, turned her head instantly, and threw it at the black shadow she sensed.
But the next moment, the girl's smile froze on her face.
