When the Holy Maiden transplanted sacred flowers into the new group of flower attendants, Ning Su secretly sneaked away to prepare for the worship ceremony.
Today, he arrived early, but the Holy Maiden was not there. The believers outside the temple knelt in silence.
Ning Su climbed up onto the palm of the hand of the statue and placed a four-petal blood flower on His fingertips, saying, “This grew from my body last night, and I secretly plucked it.”
Last night, the four-petal blood flower bloomed on his fingertips.
The other flowers that bloomed all had three petals. When no one was looking, he plucked this four-petal one and held it in his palm. “This is for you,” he said to the statue, looking at His face with clear, bright eyes.
There was a reaction.
In response, Ning Su stared at Him, trying to see His face through the blur and haze.
The arrival of the Holy Maiden interrupted his gaze.
Just like yesterday, he lay on the palm of the statue’s hand, looking at His face and singing praises to Him.
He sang with a burning heart, his heart pulsating heavily with a mysterious power.
And so, while other players became increasingly anxious, Ning Su discussed and conspired with them during the day and secretly joined the worship ceremony on the statue’s palm in the afternoon.
If they didn’t let him participate, he would secretly worship on the statue’s palm.
He lay in His palm and sang praises to Him repeatedly, finally leaving behind the four-petal blood flower that had grown in his body the night before. While everyone was praying, he jumped off the palm and disappeared into the dark corridor.
The night he offered the fourth blood flower to Him, the players had unusually low mood, concealing their impending anxiety.
Four days had passed, and they had made no progress.
Apart from the players who died in the Flower God’s temple, they currently had 15 players in the temple.
As the Flower Festival approached, there should be more players on Boss Qi’s side.
A hundred players came in, but now there were only about twenty left for the Flower Festival.
And tomorrow at noon, some of them would undergo the sacred flower transplantation, including Ning Changfeng and Zhu Shuangshuang.
Some players sat silently on their beds, while others stood anxiously by the bedside.
After Ning Su covered himself with a thin blanket, he noticed that Zhu Shuangshuang was nervously picking at her fingers, causing them to bleed through the layers of skin.
Ning Su opened his mouth and said something.
“Hmm,” Ning Su said, and he thought before saying to Zhu Shuangshuang, “Land of the God’s Birth.”
“What?” Zhu Shuangshuang raised her head in a daze, trying to hear what he had just said clearly.
Ning Su repeated, “Land of the God’s Birth.”
Following the principle of saying important things three times, he repeated, “Land of the God’s Birth.”
Zhu Shuangshuang was stunned.
Su Wangsheng, understanding what was happening, said to her, “This guy is quite lazy. Repeating something three times meant that it’s important. Think carefully.”
“I no longer need care, and tomorrow you will face a 50% chance of death. If you can come up with something, I won’t need to transplant a sacred flower to you.”
“Hmm,” Ning Su agreed.
Zhu Shuangshuang also said “Hmm” and furrowed her brows in thought.
She was not foolish; she knew Ning Su was reminding her of something. She also knew that Ning Su was only allowed to provide her with keywords because the system restricted this kind of cheating behavior.
That day in the dark room of the Flower God’s temple, they discussed it.
Why did they call the Dark Swamp ‘The Land of the God’s Birth’?
The Dark Swamp was the one that nurtured the flower god.
What did this have to do with anything?
Was he saying that the Dark Swamp was the way to meet the flower god?
No, this instance wouldn’t let them see the flower god so easily.
Someone came out, and that night, Zhu Shuangshuang and Su Wangsheng were still thinking about this issue.
The next day, when Ning Su woke up and saw that Zhu Shuangshuang was still there, he said ‘Hmm’ and pinched his ear.
This time, they didn’t need the Holy Maiden to explain to them. They had already received an explanation last time. After the sun had risen high, a robed person took them upstairs.
Ning Su said to Zhu Shuangshuang, “Our identities.”
Zhu Shuangshuang replied, “We start as Flower Servants and later become Flower Attendants.”
Ning Su said something else, but it was blocked.
He paused and looked up at Zhu Shuangshuang.
This person was the person who said to him, “Don’t forget, I’m the sister who gave you candy.”
Her physical condition was also subpar, and recently, she had been living in constant fear and couldn’t get a good night’s sleep. For most people, a 50% survival rate might be possible, but for her, it was probably even lower.
Ning Su opened his mouth and said two words.
The system blocked even these two words.
The system had already detected him as a potential cheater and blocked everything he said to Zhu Shuangshuang at this moment.
Zhu Shuangshuang smiled bitterly and said, “Okay, Su Su, I’ll think again. Maybe it’s not that I’m stupid, but life and death depend on fate.”
Zhu Shuangshuang was brought into the room by the robed person.
This time, it was Ning Changfeng and Zhu Shuangshuang lying on the waterbed.
Ning Su and Su Wangsheng stood outside the door, waiting for the Holy Maiden to go in for an examination.
They had all thought that there would be a way to be found within these five days, but in reality, they had oversimplified the world of this instance.
These five days were just a repetition of the same day, with torment every night, and two flower attendants dispatched every morning. Apart from this, nothing else meaningful happened to help them figure out what was going on.
Su Wangsheng held his forehead and said with a hint of pain, “It’s really difficult.”
The people standing weren’t any more relaxed than those lying on the waterbed.
Ning Su murmured, “Mmm.”
Su Wangsheng turned his head to look at him, saw his slender back leaning against the wall, long lashes half-lowered, and his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.
Before entering this instance, he had probably only met Ning Changfeng a few times, and he had gotten along well with Zhu Shuangshuang in the previous two instances. So why did the Holy Maiden say that Zhu Shuangshuang wasn’t his partner, but Ning Changfeng was?
Su Wangsheng pondered. He felt that this guy, who seemed lazy and nonchalant, might not be any more relaxed at this moment.
When the Holy Maiden came up and looked into Ning Su’s eyes, she went to check Zhu Shuangshuang’s room, then went to check Ning Changfeng’s room. She came out of Ning Changfeng’s room in less than two minutes.
She said, “Go in, and remember, it will get better.”
Su Wangsheng immediately entered, and when Ning Su was about to enter, the Holy Maiden said to him, “Even if you have to dissect your own father, don’t feel guilty or unwilling, after all, when you start cutting him, your hands might tremble.”
Ning Su replied, “Oh.”
Thanks for the update
ReplyDeleteThat saint is not pure at least her intentions do not seem so 🤔
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update!!