Chapter 147
Chapter 147
Wei Sen did not answer right away. Instead, she went into the kitchen and came back with two glasses of juice.
“Have something to drink first.”
Xu You looked at the bright red juice. After a moment’s hesitation, she took it and drank in large gulps.
Wei Sen watched her without batting an eye. Only when the glass was empty did she say, “I poisoned it.”
Xu You licked her lips. “Hahaha. Your job is slaughtering pigs, not people.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Xu You froze. Something suddenly occurred to her, and she stared at Wei Sen in disbelief. “Wait, when we first met and you introduced yourself as a butcher… that was what you meant?”
Wei Sen sat down and took a sip of juice as well, her gaze resting on Xu You.
This Daoist looked careless and easygoing on the surface, but she was actually extremely meticulous. She had been playing dumb to catch others off guard all along.
However…
After spending several Instances together, this person could be trusted for the time being.
Otherwise, Wei Sen really would have used the Poison she had just obtained on her.
With that thought, Wei Sen said, “You guessed right. I killed a man and obtained the heart inside his body.”
Xu You was stunned. “So you knew there was something different about men and women long before CC revealed the truth?!”
“Mm. I noticed something was wrong a year ago, so I verified it.”
Xu You sighed with feeling. “Among all living beings, everyone lives in this world for decades, yet very few people ever notice that something is wrong with it. And you’re one of them.
“Besides, even if some people did sense something, they would never use a method like that to verify it…”
As she spoke, she tentatively asked, “So… who did you kill?”
“My husband,” Wei Sen answered calmly. Her gaze shifted toward the living room, where Li Chang’s body was still hidden inside the Secret Space.
Xu You was dumbfounded. Wei Sen had said she killed her own husband so lightly, as if she had merely slaughtered a chicken or butchered a sheep.
Still, considering the truth CC had revealed, it was not hard to understand why Wei Sen had done it.
With that in mind, Xu You said, “He found out you knew the truth. If you hadn’t killed him, you would’ve been in enormous danger too.”
Wei Sen did not explain.
At the time, she had known nothing about that. She had simply wanted to understand the truth.
And that incident… to a large extent, Li Chang had committed suicide.
She remembered what had happened that night. Li Chang had been the one to resolutely bury his head in the scalding boiling water.
Thinking back on it now, she finally understood why he had done that-to destroy the tracking device in his eyes.
Li Chang had not known Taoyuan existed. He had thought that once she learned the truth, either she would die, or he would die for resisting Nüwa.
So he had chosen to sacrifice himself and give her the chance to learn the truth.
He had deliberately destroyed the tracking device so Nüwa would not know what she learned afterward.
If she had not insisted on pursuing the truth back then, if she had learned about Taoyuan a little earlier, perhaps Li Chang would not have died.
With his death, he had taught her what regret meant.
Wei Sen thought this silently, a strange emotion flickering deep in her eyes.
“What about you?” Wei Sen suddenly looked at Xu You, scrutiny in her gaze. “You seem very interested in my affairs. What are you after?”
Xu You’s pupils contracted slightly. She scratched her head and laughed. “What could I possibly be after? I just thought of it and got curious, that’s all. Speaking of which, are you still going to the Eerie World tonight?”
Wei Sen knew Xu You was deliberately changing the subject, but she had no intention of pressing further.
This Daoist was definitely hiding secrets, but as long as she posed no threat to Wei Sen, Wei Sen had no intention of interfering.
“Mm.”
“Then I’m going too!”
“This time, I want to enter an Instance alone.”
Xu You asked in confusion, “Why?”
“To look into something.”
“Isn’t going alone too dangerous? You really don’t want me with you?”
“No need.”
Xu You looked a little disappointed. “All right. Then I’ll ask the others if they want to go together tonight.”
“Mm.”
The group chatted through the Watch for a while and finally confirmed their plans for the night.
Wei Sen would act alone tonight.
Huang Xinze, Lao Wang, Xu You, and Chen Lin would go together.
Lin Xiaoxue was preparing for a mock exam during this period, so she would be unable to enter an Instance for a week.
Guo Lan had been badly injured in the Eerie World last time, which had also caused problems with her body in the Real World. She would not be entering an Instance again anytime soon either.
Night fell.
Wei Sen lay on her bed, opened her Watch, and sent Lin Ze a message.
[Wei Sen: Are you there?]
[Lin Ze: Mm.]
[Wei Sen: Meet me in Origin Land.]
[Lin Ze: All right.]
After sending the message, Wei Sen began trying to coax herself to sleep.
The conversation she had with the Taoyuan Elder today suddenly surfaced in her mind.
There was one thing he had said that she cared about deeply: “What you lost can only be found by you.”
He had not said “the memories you lost” or “the identity you lost.” He had said “what you lost.”
So could it be that what she had lost was not merely her memories and identity, but something else-something even more important?
Wei Sen thought about it for a long time before finally falling asleep.
At four in the morning, Wei Sen arrived in Origin Land.
Origin Land had no day or night. It was always daytime there, and people with the title Order Keeper were always wandering around the plaza.
Following the location Lin Ze had sent, Wei Sen arrived before a Gate of Xuanpin and saw him there.
“There isn’t even a sun here. What’s the point of wearing sunglasses?” Lin Ze asked, looking at Wei Sen as she approached.
Through the sunglasses, Wei Sen did not see anything unusual about Lin Ze. Everyone within sight in Origin Land was an ordinary human, and Lin Ze was no exception.
She took off the sunglasses and put them away. “They look good.”
Lin Ze looked doubtful.
Wei Sen turned to the gate. “Why here?”
Lin Ze did not press her further. Instead, he walked up to the gate and reached out, intending to open it.
“What are you doing? Didn’t we agree I was going in alone?” Wei Sen said quickly.
However, no matter how hard Lin Ze tried, the gate would not open.
“What’s going on?” Wei Sen stepped forward and examined the gate.
Lin Ze said, “Inside this gate is an A-Rank Instance. To this day, no one has achieved Perfect Clearance, so it has always remained here. But I can’t get in.”
“You can’t get in, but other people who are Order Keeper can?”
“Mm.”
Wei Sen stepped forward tentatively and placed her hand on the gate. Red words appeared on the pitch-black surface.
[Instance: Alice in Wonderland
Difficulty: A-Rank (60% mortality rate)
Participants: 1]
“A solo fairy-tale Instance?” Wei Sen’s eyes darkened slightly.
Before she had obtained the System, she had once entered the Little Red Riding Hood Instance. That, too, had been a solo fairy-tale Instance.
Could this Instance before her be connected in some way to that special Little Red Riding Hood Instance?
“You want me to enter this Instance?” Wei Sen looked at Lin Ze, a trace of curiosity rising in her heart as well.
“Of course, you can choose for yourself.” Lin Ze looked at the Gate of Xuanpin. “But… I’m very curious about what truth lies behind this gate. Perhaps that truth can explain why I can’t open it.”