Chapter 65
Chapter 65
In the cabin, the captain quickly arrived at row 14.
“Hello, ma’am. I’m the captain of this flight. Please don’t panic. We’ll find medical personnel for you immediately!” The captain came to Xu You’s side, trying to soothe her as she groaned in pain.
Clutching her stomach, Xu You lifted her eyes to look at him. “You’re the captain?”
“Yes, ma’am. Don’t worry, the crew will definitely-”
“Oh, hey, I suddenly don’t feel any pain anymore!” Xu You blinked, looking at the captain and the several flight attendants gathered around her with a perfectly sincere expression.
The captain and the flight attendants looked at one another.
At that moment, Huang Xinze and Xia Susu also hurried over.
“What’s wrong?” Huang Xinze stepped forward in concern, reaching out to feel Xu You’s forehead.
“Are you insane?” Xu You slapped his pig trotter of a hand away. “My stomach hurts, not my head!”
“I just panicked because I was worried!”
Xia Susu rolled her eyes at Huang Xinze, her tone carrying a hint of mockery. “More like you panicked because you were hungry.”
Before Huang Xinze could explain, Xu You shot to her feet. “What the hell is that supposed to mean?!”
She might be a Daoist, but she was still at least somewhat pretty-and all natural, too. Now someone completely artificial had the nerve to look down on her?
The captain and the flight attendants were stunned by the scene.
The person who had been wailing in agony for ages was now full of energy and trading insults?
How did she look sick at all?
“Um, ma’am, it’s good that you’re all right now.” Candy tried to ease the tension between them.
Xia Susu immediately sensed something was off. She lifted her chin and looked at Xu You. “You weren’t faking it, were you?”
The moment she said that, the captain seemed to realize something. He quickly turned and headed for the cockpit.
Seeing this, Xu You glared at Xia Susu. “You’re never usually this smart!”
“So I was right! Wei Sen told you to fake it?!” Xia Susu had noticed Xu You’s gaze fixed on the cockpit.
Xu You said nothing.
By then, the captain had already reached the cockpit door, only to find it locked from the inside. No matter how he shouted, the person inside refused to open it for him.
Huang Xinze scratched his head in confusion. “Youyou, what exactly is going on?”
“Just wait. We’re about to clear this.” Xu You sat down and slowly fastened her seat belt.
“What do you mean?! She found the real Doom Beast?!” Xia Susu demanded at once.
Xu You did not answer.
“Hey, say something! Who exactly is the Doom Beast?! Is she trying to hog all 500 Merit Points for herself?! Does she even have an Anomalous Artifact? Don’t tell me she’s going to end up like Zhu Zhaoyang!”
“Do you have an Anomalous Artifact?” Xu You looked up at Xia Susu.
Xia Susu scoffed. “Of course! Hurry up and tell me who the Doom Beast is. I’ll deal with it, and the rest of you can just ride my coattails!”
“Show me your Anomalous Artifact.” Xu You raised an eyebrow.
Xia Susu instantly grew wary. “What are you trying to do?!”
“Show me. Maybe you’ll get those 500 Merit Points.” Amusement colored Xu You’s eyes.
“Come on, Susu, I want to see what an Anomalous Artifact looks like too. We’re teammates anyway. It’s not like we’d steal your stuff,” Huang Xinze said.
Xu You glanced at the time. “It’s 02:37. Better hurry.”
Xia Susu hesitated, glancing toward the cockpit. She had no idea what Wei Sen was doing in there, but right now, only she and Xu You knew where the real Doom Beast was. For 500 Merit Points, she could only take the gamble!
Xia Susu carefully took out a white bundle from inside her clothes.
“Whoa, so this is the legendary…” Huang Xinze leaned in for a closer look. “Wait, fishing line???”
Xia Susu cradled the spool of fishing line like a treasure. “What do you know? This is a genuine Anomalous Artifact!”
Xu You nodded thoughtfully. “Oh…”
An Attack-Type Anomalous Artifact. Then it was useless here.
“Now talk. Where is the Doom Beast hiding? I’ll go strangle it right now!” Xia Susu curled her lips into a cold smile.
Xu You looked at her regretfully and said, “I suggest you go back to your seat. In this Instance, you have no chance of getting those 500 Merit Points.”
“Ah! You’re going back on your word!” Xia Susu shrieked in anger.
Xu You covered her ears and looked at her watch. Sister Sen should be making her move soon.
Inside the cockpit, Wei Sen took off her headset and stood before the captain’s control yoke, completely ignoring the voice in the headset and the urgent knocking outside the cockpit door.
///Ding~ The Host has used Rule Erasure. Host, which rule would you like to erase?///
“Co-pilot Identity Rules, Rule One: Under no circumstances may you harm normal passengers!”
///Ding~ This rule has been successfully erased for the Host!///
“Xiao Sen! Xiao Sen! Answer me!” Outside the door, the captain’s voice grew increasingly anxious.
Wei Sen took a deep breath and looked out the pitch-black window.
She did not know whether the people on this plane were natives of the Eerie World or humans from another parallel universe.
But the truth of this Instance was just that cruel.
She had thought of many ways, but only this one would allow everyone to clear it.
And it was also the way that would earn her the most Merit Points.
She needed more Merit Points. She needed to meet that “God” again. She wanted to know the truth.
The truth about herself, and the truth about this world!
Doom Beast hint one: hates red.
There was no red on any of the Order Keepers. Anything related to the color red had to be destroyed. If they drank red wine, they would violate the rules.
Doom Beast hint two: brings misfortune.
Their group of Order Keepers had appeared on this flight, so the flight was trapped in an endless loop. Unless all of them cleared the Instance or died, the plane would never escape the cycle caused by that eerie power!
Doom Beast hint three: disguised as humans.
From the moment they boarded the plane, none of them had possessed a fixed identity. After each crash, they would all be given brand-new identities. That was the best proof.
Doom Beast hint four: cannot distinguish day from night.
The ones who truly could not tell the time were their group of Order Keepers.
From the moment they entered this place, the time shown by their watches had been wrong. Rather than the actual time, it was more like a hint their watches had given them.
In the eyes of the Order Keepers, outside the window was endless darkness. It was 2:00 a.m.
But in the eyes of the passengers on this flight, outside the window was a clear blue sky. The real time should have been 2:00 in the afternoon, not the early hours of the morning!
There was also the painting Lin Xiaoxue had once shown her, the one painted by the Young Painter. It had the airline’s logo on it, and thinking back now, there had been exactly thirteen black shadows in the painting, corresponding to the thirteen of them!
Once she figured all of this out, the real way to clear the Instance was actually very simple: suicide!
No matter who it was, once they learned that they were the Doom Beast, regardless of whether there was an Eerie Entity involved or what method they used, as long as they killed themselves, they would receive 500 Merit Points and clear the Instance!
Only after the final Order Keeper cleared the Instance would this Instance truly end.
Conversely, anyone who failed to clear it would remain trapped in the cycle of the plane crash forever.
What Wei Sen had asked Xu You to tell the Blonde Woman was actually only another way to clear the Instance.
Because she had to make sure the others would not all kill themselves after learning the real method, or the number of Merit Points she could gain would decrease!
The situations with Lin Xiaoxue and the person who drank the red wine corresponded exactly to the other method Wei Sen had asked Xu You to tell the Blonde Woman, one limited to those who possessed a Life-Saving Anomalous Artifact.
Because they had a Life-Saving Anomalous Artifact, they did not die immediately after violating the rules. Instead, they became awakened Doom Beasts.
After a Doom Beast awakened, it would very quickly realize its true identity.
At that point, if someone else killed it, that person could clear the Instance. If it chose to kill itself, then it could clear the Instance.
If it did not kill itself then, and no one else killed it either, there was a high chance it would die completely when the plane crash ended the current loop.
However, Wei Sen no longer had any chance to verify that.
Under those circumstances, knowing full well that they had already become Doom Beasts while suffering extreme physical torment, suicide was the only choice.
But for Order Keepers who had not awakened, even if they knew they were Doom Beasts, it was still very difficult to simply kill themselves on command.
Wei Sen had told Xu You the true method of clearing the Instance in full.
Xu You’s exact words to her had been: “We cultivators uphold the vital energy of heaven and earth, and should emulate the endurance of the sun and moon. To take one’s own life on a single thought would scatter the three souls and send the seven spirits drifting. Not only would one fail to ascend to the Purple Mansion, one would instead fall into Fengdu’s sea of suffering.”
In short, Xu You refused to commit suicide and would rather lie flat and take 50 Merit Points.
So in the end, Wei Sen came up with this method…
There were currently seven people still alive. Each one was worth 500 Merit Points. She was going to pocket all 3,500 Merit Points in one go!
And the method she had chosen to wipe out all the Doom Beasts at once was… total destruction of the plane and everyone on it!
The final fate of this flight was to crash after birds were sucked into the engines, so even if she did nothing, the original passengers on this flight would not survive.
Since none of them were going to live anyway, she might as well be the one to do it!
Wei Sen glanced at the time. 2:38 a.m.
She took a deep breath, turned off autopilot, then shoved the control stick all the way forward.
The plane lost balance and abruptly dove, plunging straight toward the ground at a ninety-degree angle…