Chapter 106: Slaughter Secret Society (VIII)

“I really didn’t know before.. I just heard about the field and half-field recently,” Qi Leren said with difficulty. “I thought that the Barrier of the Holy Spirit was an enchantment attached to his mother’s memento. I didn’t expect..”

“That is indeed a memento of his mother; mementos do also have magic that can be used to help one condense a field as soon as possible. Ning Zhou’s half-field was condensed by his mother’s memento, but the growth of this kind of field is very fragile until it’s been fully formed. If it’s forcibly used, it will inevitably lead to the collapse of the half-field. It will be much more difficult to condense the half-field again than it was the first time. Frankly speaking, Ning Zhou’s divine talent is far less than that of his mother Maria, who was already a field-level master at his age,” Chen Baiqi said.

“Ning Zhou is already very powerful. I was still in college when I was as old as him. I couldn’t even kill a chicken.” Qi Leren couldn’t help defending Ning Zhou.

Chen Baiqi gave him a complicated look: “Compared to you, of course. When I first entered the Nightmare World, Ning Zhou was only thirteen years old. He couldn’t even learn the most basic healing of holy light. Even after Maria died and he was taken to the Holy See, he didn’t learn magic well. I always disapproved of his use of the secret methods of the Holy See to condense his half-field, because he wasn’t suited for this road. Even if he reaches the field level, he may not be able to go further. So this time, the collapse of the half-field may be a good thing for him.”

Qi Leren opened his mouth, but he didn’t know what to say. His understanding of Ning Zhou was too little. Every time he listened to Chen Baiqi, he missed seeing the tip of the iceberg of Ning Zhou’s life. He wanted to ask a lot, but he didn’t know what position he should use to ask. In the end, he had to be silent.

He thought of a lot of things. The Holy Nun of the Holy See, the young field-master, appeared in the inferno invasion more than 20 years ago.. The combination of such clues reminded him of an NPC.... in the Nightmare Game.. A lady known more by her legend than her name.

It turned out that her final ending was not to be buried in the Holy City, but instead she spent the rest of her life in the Village of Dusk.

It turned out that she was Ning Zhou’s mother.

“You’ve been in the Nightmare World for eight years,” Qi Leren said after a long pause.

“Yes, for eight years.. I once condensed more than half of a field, but it was broken on the edge of life and death. So far, I’ve not taken this step again. Unfortunately, I won’t have a second eight years.” Chen Baiqi’s slender eyebrows revealed a fleeting loneliness. In the past eight years, life and death had been honed and precipitated by her, and finally left only the fine lines in the corner of her eyes. “Everyone has limits, mediocre people can’t live for three years, and those with outstanding qualifications can only live for ten years. One day, sooner or later, the difficulty of the task will exceed your limit.

"We will all have that day, and most people won’t even be able to survive until then, because luck will not always be on your side,” Chen Baiqi said.

Qi Leren also wanted to know more about fields, at least know how to condense a field, and what the use of a field was. Unfortunately, Chen Baiqi refused to disclose it, saying that knowing too much was not necessarily a good thing for him, and he might even doubt life. On the way back, Qi Leren was still thinking about fields. The memento ring of the Slaughter Secret Society was a half-field item, but it could be used repeatedly. What was the difference between it and the half-field condensed by others? He remembered that Miao Li said that there was no hope of becoming a field master by killing the secret societies half-field pledge..

Back at Red’s home, Qi Leren lied down on the sofa tiredly. He fidgeted and lit a cigarette. Puffing away, he seemed to have returned to that embarrassing night. What kind of mood was Ning Zhou in at that time? No matter how much he did for others and how much he paid the price, he would never say it, and he would even stay away from it for fear that others would know. This kind of character, this kind of go-to person, was the most lovely and the most hateful.

Sluggishly, Qi Leren snuffed his cigarette and threw it aside. There was no way but to learn to smoke for this task, but it wouldn’t be good for him to really become addicted to smoking. Considering that today’s training task was not finished, Qi Leren stood up at his appointed position, changed into his sportswear, and walked into the basement.

He had to prepare for the selection ceremony in a week’s time. He was sure it would be a test of life and death.

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“It’s going to rain again. The weather has been changing quickly lately,” Mrs Kathleen said as she sipped hot coffee. Ashley, who stood beside her, looked at the ground with eyes narrowed, and secretly took a look at the person opposite from time to time.

Red reclined and put his slender legs on the coffee table next to him. He looked out the window with his head in his hand and seemed to be absent-minded. The silver chains tied to his boots reflected the light of the sunset: “What time is it?”

“It’s still five minutes away from midnight. When the time comes, we’ll be taken into the half-field. If you don’t belong to the Village of Dusk’s Slaughter Secret Society, you need me as a reference, but next time you’ll be able to enter the half-field by yourself.” Mrs Kathleen spoke with a smile, talking about the party again, and expressed regret that Sid couldn’t be of use.

Red became a bit more energetic, licking his lips and revealing a tacit smile: “Although I really wanted to accept him, it’s a pity.. This little wild cat is jealous, and his enthusiasm is unexpected these days.”

Mrs. Kathleen glanced at the hickey on his neck and smiled, “I can see that.”

Qi Leren had a cold and noble face on the surface, but a heart full of enthusiasm. In order to go for the full effect, he’d taken the syringe with the needle removed and used it to suck and scratch around his neck for a long time. Fortunately, it was not in vain.

“Speaking of it, Sid has been very lost since you returned him that day. I heard that he found a man to try it out and has become addicted.. My female subordinate has already complained to me that he’s absent-minded in bed.” Mrs Kathleen covered the lower half of her face with a feather fan, and her tone was rather bitter.

Ha ha, my “straight man” bent with one look at my gravure video, yet I’m blamed for bending him??As a virgin, Qi Leren was speechless in the face of this group of men and women who thought about the lower body all day.

“It’s better to be my Ashley. I like such a sweet boy, like a little apple that’s not yet mature,” Mrs Kathleen said, smiling and touching Ashley’s red face.

However, she didn’t see it. Ashley blushed at the Qi Leren all the time and bumped into him like a fawn.

Qi Leren felt tired for a while:?Madam, as the leader of a hedonistic organization, why are all the men in your organization SO GAY? It’s only newly discovered. If you break them of it immediately they can still mend their ways..

“Time is up.” Mrs Kathleen closed her feather fan, got up, and held out her hand to Qi Leren.

The two held hands together, and a white light appeared on Lady Kathleen and Ashley, then on Qi Leren.

A huge force pulled the three people out of the Village of Dusk and into the half-field.

The feeling of entering this half-field was completely different from entering Su He’s field. Su He’s field hardly made one feel that this was not a real world, and there was not much discomfort when entering. However, here, Qi Leren had a feeling of unreality from the moment he entered the field.

At present, the half-field was a huge underground cave. The churning viscous red magma rolled underneath, and dozens of people in cloaks walked along the only stone path in the magma, heading for the open space in the middle of the cave.

There was a beam of light rising from the altar in the center of the magma, leading to the roof of the cave.

This scene felt familiar to Qi Leren. He remembered that there was also an altar in the underground palace in the Witchcraft Sacrifice task. At the end, Isabel walked into the altar’s beam. Perhaps this was a way for the Devil to contact his followers? Although the Trial indicated that the relationship between the Devil of Slaughter and his believers was rather distant, and Qi Leren’s identity would not be exposed under normal circumstances, he was still a little nervous for fear that his identity would suddenly be exposed and he would be trapped in the field to die.

Some thermophilic fungi grew at the top of the cave, sending out strange blue light, which made the dome of the cave seem as bright as the milky way. The hot air and churning magma at their feet added a bit of hellish atmosphere to this half-field.

A large group of people walked slowly towards the rocky ground in the middle of the magma, where there was already a person waiting for their arrival.

Lie Yang, the agent of the Slaughter Secret Society’s Twilight Township branch.

At the moment he saw him, Qi Leren’s stomach seemed to sink into a cold stone.

Qi Leren had seen this man, and that man had seen him. He knew that he was a newcomer and that he was related to the Holy See. On the ship where he was parasitized by the seed of slaughter, they had fought together against a player who was overcome by a seed of slaughter.

His name was Luo Yishan.