Chapter 225
Chapter 225
Qin Weiyi had turned into The Little Mermaid, while the others had now seen their own formal outfits as well.
Qin Nan stared at the outfit before him–black from head to toe, complete with a black feathered hair ornament bearing a miniature mirror and a red apple–and also wanted to black out on the spot.
The card beneath the accessories cruelly drove the reality home once more.
Evil Queen.
Wonderful.
A red apple and a Magic Mirror together made the answer painfully obvious. Wasn’t this the wicked, stupid stepmother who envied Snow White, spent all day asking the Magic Mirror who was the fairest of them all, and finally gave Snow White a Poisoned Apple?
He understood now.
This world was not for him.
Qin Nan desperately wanted to turn around and leave, but the outfit had already put itself on him.
There was a full-length mirror in the room. Qin Nan watched himself become an old witch dressed entirely in black–no, an old warlock. His sex had not changed.
What could he do? He could only accept it through his tears.
Under the circumstances, however, Qin Nan’s thoughts took a rare detour. He wondered what Jian Fan would draw. Lifting the heavy folds of his Palace Dress, Qin Nan pondered whether Jian Fan’s role would be male or female.
Everyone was forcibly dressed in their outfits with decidedly mixed emotions. What they truly felt was known only to them, but at least none of them was in mortal danger at the moment. Except–
Qin Weiyi lay on the floor, the sensation of dehydration growing ever more acute. He could clearly feel the life draining rapidly from his body.
He needed water.
Qin Weiyi swept his gaze around the room. It was dreamlike and lavish, but there was no water anywhere. No, there was–the bathroom. A bathroom would surely have water, and this guest room had one of its own.
What Qin Weiyi needed to do, then, was get into the bathroom.
He looked down at his tail.
He had no idea how a fish was supposed to stand or walk, and he did not have nearly enough strength to get to his feet anyway. His only option was to crawl laboriously toward the bathroom.
Yet Qin Weiyi soon discovered that he could not even manage that.
His life force was draining far too quickly. In his present condition, he would never last long enough to crawl all the way there.
The game had only just begun, and it already wanted him dead? Qin Weiyi was seething, but there was nothing he could do. If someone else had been there, they could have helped him, but he was completely alone.
Besides, he had no idea what was happening to the others.
Silently cursing the Realm of Death to hell and back, Qin Weiyi opened the Points Mall.
Without Jian Fan’s earlier warning, Qin Weiyi might have assumed this was simply how the world worked. But after what Jian Fan had told them, even though Qin Weiyi knew nothing about the others’ situations, he instinctively believed Jian Fan’s theory.
This damned Realm of Death was targeting him!
It was only seven thousand Points. He was still far from ten thousand. Did it really have to go this far?
Aggrieved and furious, Qin Weiyi began browsing the items in the Points Mall.
The Mall contained a vast and bizarre assortment of items this time, but none were what he needed. He skimmed over them until his gaze finally locked onto a bottle of potion.
Sea Witch’s Potion. Exchange cost: 500 Points.
An exclusive concoction devised by the Sea Witch. Permanently transforms a fishtail into two legs. Side effect: the body feels as though split apart by a blade, and every step feels like knives slicing into the feet.
Qin Weiyi: “???”
Wasn’t this just The Little Mermaid, damn it?
When the mermaid Sea Princess surfaced, he rescued a Prince and fell in love with him at first sight. To seek out the Prince, the Sea Princess went to the Sea Witch and obtained a potion that turned his fishtail into legs, allowing him to go ashore in search of the Prince.
Qin Weiyi looked at his own fishtail again. So he had to retrace the Sea Princess’s path?
The Points Mall might contain plenty of items, but after looking through them all, the Sea Witch’s Potion appeared to be the only one that could help him.
A fish naturally had to remain in water and would die after too long on land. But once he grew human legs, surely he would at least count as human? Besides, the Sea Princess had gone ashore to find the Prince and could even dance and fall in love, so he probably would not need water every waking moment.
He could not be entirely certain, but if even this potion was useless, none of the other items would save him either.
Still, five hundred Points… Clearing an entire world only awarded five hundred Points. The Realm of Death was committing highway robbery!
The expense made Qin Weiyi’s heart ache, but when he felt his life force rapidly fading, he gritted his teeth and pressed exchange.
A bottle of potion soon appeared in his hand. Qin Weiyi dared not delay and hurriedly drank it.
The instant the potion reached his stomach, the loss of life force abruptly stopped. Qin Weiyi then clearly felt what had drained away swiftly returning to his body. Before he could rejoice, however, an uncontrollable agony suddenly tore through both legs.
!!!!!!
Only then did Qin Weiyi remember that the Sea Witch’s medicine came with a very serious side effect.
The pain drained the color from his face. He could not stop himself from rolling across the floor, yet even that brought no relief. Cursing inwardly, Qin Weiyi opened the Points Mall again.
He had no idea how the Sea Princess endured such agony, but he could not. Not even for one second!
Fortunately, Qin Weiyi quickly found what he needed.
Painkiller (24 Hours), exchange cost: 100 Points. Permanent Painkiller, exchange cost: 200 Points.
Both items served the same purpose–relieving pain–and differed only in duration. Qin Weiyi had no idea how long this world’s timeline might last, so he chose the latter without hesitation.
Once he had exchanged for the painkiller and swallowed it, the agony quickly vanished.
Only then did Qin Weiyi finally relax. He lay sprawled on the floor like a dead fish.
This was sheer torment.
Even in the Realm of Death, he had never suffered such an outrageous grievance.
Qin Weiyi sighed.
At last, he gathered himself and climbed to his feet. Looking up at his bedraggled reflection in the full-length mirror, he wiped away a tear of bitter self-pity. Belatedly, he also began mourning his Points.
Ten minutes into the game, he had already lost seven hundred Points.
Unless he led a whole group of people through this world, he would end up with a net loss!
All that painstaking work, undone overnight.
Trash Realm of Death.
Qin Weiyi raised his middle finger at the mirror.
Trash. That’s right, Realm of Death–I’m talking about you!
After venting, Qin Weiyi began to worry about Lu Jing. The others could probably find a way to cope with whatever happened to them, but Lu Jing… He had quite a few Points too. Qin Weiyi wondered how he was doing now.
He began considering whether he should tell Lu Jing to spend some Points first. Staying alive mattered most.