For the next few days, everything went according to plan.
Zong Jiu did not participate in the teams formed by other trainees within the group, but Anthony, as his surveillance, was always there to collect and pass information to him.
Surviving in this instance that was like a paradise was still very attractive, not to mention that after passing Judgment Day, the City of Evil would definitely fall into hell. So there were also many trainees in the team who had experienced strong psychological suffering, yet still chose to kill those NPCs who escaped from the City of Evil.
And the NPCs in the City of Good accepted their own death without complaint, just as they said.
Faced with this scene, these trainees kept hypnotizing themselves that it was false to build up a thick psychological armor for themselves to pull the trigger.
Of course, there were also very few people like Xu Su, who either would never attack their relatives or had a very firm goal of returning to the real world. Unfortunately, there were not many.
There were not many choices left for them, because the second main task destroyed the instance, and the obvious path was no different from the first one.
It was only five days before Judgment Day, and soon, three days passed.
Zong Jiu didn’t do anything these days, but strictly abided by his promise to play with the little Devil, occasionally prying out some new information from the other party.
Who knew if it was because he had all the memories of the adult body, but the precocious little Devil was completely different from ordinary children.
He was very busy every day. He had to get up before dawn to prepare for morning prayer, preside over lunch at noon, listen to the townspeople’s confession and prayer in the afternoon, and go to the library behind the cathedral to read in the evening. Only in the morning can he have a little free time.
Little boys this age were either playing with blocks or playing with toys. The little Devil was very unworriesome. Although Zong Jiu agreed to play with him, in fact, the only necessary thing every day was to read a bedtime story at night, and he only needed to be with him during the day.
Most importantly, he was quiet, not like a rambunctious six-year-old.
“Since the nun said that the good and evil personalities of the residents of the City of Good are separated, what about you?”
“Me?” The little Devil was stunned for a long time before he realized, “Brother, don’t worry, I may have been suppressed by this instance, but it is impossible to separate my personality. Rather than saying that I am the performer, it is better to say that I am the anchor of good and evil.
“Besides… I was always going to be judged.”
In the afternoon, they basked in the sun on the green grass behind the cathedral.
The warm sun shined down from the sky, warming people.
The white-haired young man resting his head closed his eyes, “Is the purification ability that the townspeople said about separating good from evil your ability?”
The little Devil nodded, dots of white fluorescent light floated on his immature hands, and his expression was calm.
“Just like not being afraid of flames, these two are my innate abilities.”
Zong Jiu keenly noticed the word “innate” in his words.
As if realizing his doubts, the little Devil put his arms around his knees and said in a low voice, “It’s just my ability. To be precise, it was my ability before I was six years old. It won’t be after six years old.”
This sentence could explain why the big Devil had no purification ability, but why it became puppet threads and shadow travel was still an unsolved mystery. Moreover, Zong Jiu didn’t know about the ability of not being afraid of flames.
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Noticing that the little Devil was not in a good mood, Zong Jiu thoughtfully didn’t ask any further questions out of a caring mentality.
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Confessing to any cardinal in the church would not achieve such a result. Ultimately, it was too exhausting to maintain the ability for a long time. When the little Devil walked out of the confession room again, his face was already as pale as paper.
“Don’t worry, I’m fine, just need a good night’s sleep.”
The little boy put down the bishop’s scepter in his hand and showed a comforting smile, “Speaking of which, thank you brother for the plushie. After having it, I sleep a lot more peacefully every day.”
Zong Jiu didn’t speak.
Wasn’t that right, the little Devil was practically holding that rabbit plush every day like holding the bishop’s scepter.
It was easy enough to see his love for it.
Judgment Day was only two days away, and everyone was busy.
There were fewer and fewer NPCs in the town.
Many trainees had eliminated five to six sinful black lines and they were only one step away from success.
Among them, more and more trainees were accidentally possessed by residents of the City of Evil, and unfortunately, they were told that they could no longer complete the first main task.
The bullet chat was also worried.
[It seems that in this instance, the system is determined to split the team]
[The trainees who cannot complete the first main task must find another way out, but the second main task touches the practical interests of the first main task trainees]
[Sigh… I hope there’s no infighting, I just went to the live stream area and many low-rank trainee teams have been wiped out, and their live streams are completely black. There are also many teams in the live streams who have started to engage in internal strife, which is very hard to watch]
[Yeah, they were all friends who once fought side by side. It’s funny to say, but in fact, everyone may have misunderstood something. In the end, in the horror trainee competition, everyone is an enemy competing for the final one hundred places. The system is probably planning for the day ahead, destroying the alliance early on.]
Sure enough, the expected disagreement emerged.
Anthony, Xu Su, and Zhong Yiyuan and his group planned to take on the second main task, while the other trainees tried their best to hinder them.
The former contacted the NPCs and family members they were familiar with and took advantage of these few days to plant traps and such around the town. But the first squad trainees quietly followed them, dismantling all the ambushes they had set up.
Another night meeting.
Zong Jiu rubbed his temples wearily and sent away Anthony who came to look for him.
The white-haired young man walked to the window and stared at the night outside.
It was nearly midnight, Judgment Day was getting closer, and there was only one day left.
According to the prophecy sent down by the angel, on the last day of the end of the world, when the first ray of sunlight fell in the morning, the trial would begin.
Zong Jiu had asked about the way to get the adult Devil back.
But the answer that the little Devil gave him was to wait until Judgment Day, and the big Devil would come back by himself.
What the little Devil said was new to him, but Zong Jiu didn’t understand the connection.
They were both “naturally holy” people according to the NPC townspeople. As everyone knew, those who were holy by nature could go straight through Judgment Day without being punished.
But why did the little Devil say that he was always going to be judged?
After Judgment Day was over, the execution would begin. Was it possible that the little Devil was the same person as the six-year-old Devil, so heaven would not accept him, and Jesus Christ still wanted him to pay for the sins that the Devil would commit in the future?
The Magician stood by the window for a long time, only to realize that it seemed to be raining again outside.
The violent wind rolled and rumbled, beating endlessly on the small town.
The black clouds were like the surging Dead Sea, bit by bit occupying the already deep night sky.
The bright thunder and lightning rolled behind the dark clouds, rumbling and resounding through the sky and the earth. Even though Zong Jiu was standing here, he could still feel the cold drizzle blown by the wind, slowly sliding down his cheeks.
With his eyesight, he could see a group of trainees hunting down the NPCs of the City of Evil behind the rain curtain.
A light bullet pierced the dark night, roaring and shattering the chest of a black shadow, and the scream was muffled through the rain curtain.
It was only then that Zong Jiu remembered that after entering this instance, he hadn’t taken the initiative to meet the old nun.
The old nun’s old church was on the edge of the town. She was usually devout enough that she didn’t need to come to the cathedral to pray like other townspeople.
Because to be honest, even if this instance was exactly the same as the real world he once lived in, Zong Jiu wouldn’t stop by. What was more, the old nun passed away a long time ago. Instead of keeping such a beautiful illusion, it was better to let her be buried in memory forever. It was impossible for him to be immersed in the illusion.
Zap.
A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, tore through the night, and fell to the field not far away.
Zong Jiu looked away.
He raised the candlestick at the side and was about to go to the little Devil’s room next door when there was a knock on the door.
Knock, knock, knock.
The person who knocked on the door seemed to be hesitating, and after knocking three times, it immediately died down, and there was no more movement.
The Magician went to the door and pulled it open.
Outside the door, the little boy hugging the pillow seemed to be startled and took a step back subconsciously.
Compared with the neatly combed hair during the day, the little Devil’s head was now messed up like a chicken coop, with the cowlick on the top of his head raised high. He was wearing long linen pajamas, and the velvet pillow against his chest is almost as big as his own body.
Of course, in addition to the pillow, he also hugged the rabbit plush that had hardly left his hand these days, as if to draw strength from it to face the night.
Facing the white-haired Magician’s look, the little Devil swallowed and showed a pitiful expression.
“Gege… there’s so much thunder outside, I’m a little scared.”
The difference between the six-year-old little Devil and the adult Devil’s stature was huge, at least Zong Jiu could see through the kid’s plan at a glance.
The young man paused. In the end, he turned his body sideways to make a gap, “Come in.”
The little Devil endured it for a long time before he could maintain a terrified and worried expression, so as not to let his brows rise in joy.
But for a child, it was perfectly normal to be happy. His steps subconsciously bounced up and down, and one could tell at a glance whether he was in a good mood or not.
Zong Jiu shook his head in his heart.
When he put down the candlestick and turned his head again, the little Devil had already laid down on his bed obediently and neatly. He also neatly folded the quilt on the bed and looked at him expectantly.
Zong Jiu: “…”
What was this guy looking forward to.
The white-haired young man wore a smile that wasn’t a smile, “It’s so late, go to bed quickly. If you dare to disturb me in the middle of the night, I’ll kick you down, do you hear me?”
The little Devil nodded quickly, closed his eyes immediately, and expressed his determination with actions.
It was strange to say that even though he was so afraid of thunderstorm nights, sleeping next to this person was surprisingly sweet.
After closing his eyes, the little Devil vaguely thought.
Soon, the little boy’s breathing became even and he fell into a sweet sleep. Not even the usual subconscious furrowing of his brows was there when he fell asleep.
Zong Jiu looked at him for a while, and after confirming that the little Devil was really asleep, he lifted the quilt and laid down.
Not knowing if it was because of the cold wind blowing into the quilt, the little Devil turned over in a daze holding the rabbit plush.
Just as the blown-out candle flickered.
Before the room was plunged into darkness, the Magician glanced at the other, and his eyes suddenly became sharp.
He remained silent for two seconds in the dark before relighting the candlestick and throwing off the quilt.
The boy’s back faced him, and perhaps because of his sleeping position, a large piece of skin with a little baby fat on his back became exposed.
On it, crisscrossing scars and black lines of sin intertwined together, densely entangled under the dim candlelight, creating a shocking scene.
That’s not good… Thanks for the update ❤️
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Oh, entonces los pecados que el purifica en los ciudadanos quedan en el por eso sera juzgado 🙁
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wait is he getting the sin from removing it from the townspeople.. 😟 instead of cleansing sin, is it being transferred to him?
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+1 I also have the same thought
oh no sobs
I’m in the process of catching up so the answer has probably already been revealed in posted chapters, but I’m gonna post the theory I came up with this chapter anyway, lol. It just hit me that a hidden layer of cruelty in this level might be that the players possessed by NPCs are actually doomed: everyone is thinking they automatically need to switch to the second task to path, except the second path requires killing all NPCs so unless someone’s been sleeping on revealing exorcism skills they’ll need to die to bet those ones.