Chapter 167 Completed Achievement: Undead Believer

【The seventh cycle ends, all players return to the player world, and the eighth cycle begins.

Following the system prompt, Li Feng's eyes instantly changed to a different scene.

With dim lights, soft beds, and long blackout curtains, he returned to the familiar bedroom.

He picked up the phone on the bedside and looked at the time. August 15, midnight.

As before, time went back to half a month ago.

The sound of raindrops rang in his ears. Li Feng got up from the bed, walked to the window, and lifted one side of the curtain.

The sky outside the window was polluted by neon, and it was drizzling at the moment.

Looking at the ordinary night view outside the window, Li Feng took a deep breath, temporarily away from the world full of extraordinary things, which made him feel like he was on vacation.

"Pop."

Suddenly, a drop of rain hit the glass in front of Li Feng.

Looking at the water droplets mixed with neon lights, Li Feng suddenly remembered:

'It didn't seem to rain before the last time I crossed over. ’

Recalling the weather half a month ago, Li Feng picked up his phone and casually glanced at the weather forecast.

The forecast said it was only cloudy, but it didn't say it would rain.

But this was also a common thing, and Li Feng didn't care.

He opened the chat channel, which was relatively lively because the players had just returned.

Li Feng roughly browsed it and saw that most of the players were chatting, and nothing important happened.

Feeling like a holiday again, Li Feng turned off the lights and went to sleep.

…

“If you like corpses, you should be interested in my stepdaughter.”

“There are always some people with special fetishes among us. Is there anything in the forest that will please him?”

“I really regret it. I should have cut off her head, arms and legs. I should have ordered my men to throw all her limbs into the fire.

I should have ordered archers to guard the fire and shoot all animals that flew out of the fire, including bats, crows and birds.

But I didn’t do it, so I paid a huge price.”

“There are no residents in the forest anymore. For the sake of my border, I can only do this.”

“There are no residents in the forest anymore. There is no food. I think my stepdaughter will eat this apple.”

“Throw away the apple. I was wrong. I shouldn’t use an apple. I should use a dagger.

I was too cowardly. I didn’t dare to face her directly, so I paid the price.”

In the early morning of August 15, Li Feng, who had a good sleep, sat at his desk.

On the table in front of him, there were six exquisite colorful ribbons with words written on them.

And a cinnabar cup, a moonlight in a glass bottle, a rusty short knife, a bottle of python blood, and a winter snowflake also in a bottle.

And an apple.

These are the performance props that Li Feng got on the first six floors of the Sad Theater.

As for the ribbons, he got them after fishing for the props.

Recalling the Sad Theater that had seven lights on but no other movement.

And what the troll said before returning -

"When all the seven lights of the Sad Theater are on, the real story will begin."

In addition, there is:

"The monster in the Sad Theater is coming out."

Obviously, these clues are all foreshadowing that the Sad Theater is not over yet.

But Li Feng is still glad that he returned to the player world at this time point.

In other words, facing the strange performances and the inexplicable sentences on the ribbons, he has a full half a month to solve those mysteries.

Thinking so, Li Feng took out the props he got after passing the seventh floor of the theater from the system backpack.

That piece of dirty rag with words written all over it.

It looks like a piece of used rag, but judging from the cutting of the corners and the position of the stitching, this piece of rag seems to be a piece of clothing.

Li Feng once tried to fish it, but it seemed to be just a piece of rag, and Li Feng only got a fragile hemp rope.

It was completely different from the previous six props, which allowed him to fish for exquisite ribbons.

This made Li Feng doubt whether this piece of clothing was really a prop?

Recalling the performance of the last layer, the stepdaughter returned to the palace under the protection of the prince of the neighboring country, and the vicious stepmother abdicated and returned the throne to the stepdaughter.

Afterwards, the stepdaughter was crowned in the cheers and love of the people.

In such a gorgeous happy ending, there was indeed no dirty rags.

Looking back at the other six clean and decent props on the table.

The cinnabar cup was produced by the first layer of parturients.

A grain of moonlight appeared when the prince of the neighboring country in the second layer made the stepmother queen stand in front of the window to freeze.

The rusty short knife was used by the hunter in the third layer to dig out the stepdaughter's heart.

The blood of the python, the snowflakes in winter, and the apples were used by the stepmother queen to make poison in the fourth, fifth, and sixth layers.

Li Feng recalled the performance again and confirmed the story of the first six layers and the props that appeared in the story.

They are all clear, regular, and traceable.

Thinking about this clearly, Li Feng returned his eyes to the rag with a sudden change in style.

On it, there are a few lines of dry red small words, which are the language of the ancestors.

Li Feng once asked Xia to translate it. She said that what was written on it was:

"They said a lot of bad things about me to my subjects, and only a little bit of truth supported the whole lie.

In the endless river of time, they put the story on the stage again and again, even if there were no audiences in the audience.

The curse attached to me can never be dispelled. In the incinerator, the goose oil rubbed on my skin melted again and again, crackling.

They took away my body and my soul, but my story belongs only to me. "

The drizzle outside the window continued, and the fine water droplets stained the glass, making everything outside the window distorted and hazy.

Li Feng took out a pen and paper and began to write down the two versions of the story he read.

For convenience, Li Feng first determined four roles:

The king, the queen as stepmother, the princess as stepdaughter, and the prince of the neighboring country.

In the first version, ignore the text on the ribbon and rags for the time being, and only restore the content on the stage.

First, the king died, and the vicious queen could not tolerate her stepdaughter princess.

Afterwards, the queen ordered the hunter to dig out the princess's heart, but even so, she was still worried and made a poisonous apple.

In addition, the story also shows the queen's infidelity. She once seduced the neighboring country in a wanton way. .

But the prince turned back and rejected her.

Later, the prince met the princess who was poisoned by the queen in the forest.

He revived her with a method that was not detailed, and then helped the princess return to the palace.

At the end of the story, the vicious queen was driven off the throne, and the innocent princess finally returned home and took back everything that belonged to her.

The kind princess forgave the queen and invited her to her coronation ceremony.

As for the prince, he is the embodiment of kindness and justice, a completely brilliant image.

After writing this story, Li Feng put a question mark after "the hunter dug out the princess's heart".

Based on his many years of experience as a plagiarist, there is a loophole here.

The storyteller should have filled in the blanks here. for a moment.

How could the princess still be alive after losing her heart? Why did the queen need to poison her again?

It was obviously unreasonable.

After putting a question mark here, Li Feng moved the pen down and drew another question mark at "The prince has come to his senses".

Based on his understanding of various perverted fetishes, the necrophiliac prince was not at that time, but the queen was just pretending not to be.

Thinking of these inaccurate places, Li Feng took out the second sheet of paper.

He took the rags and ribbons to the edge of the paper and began to write the second version of the story.

The story begins with a young woman marrying the king, and the king's previous queen left a girl.

Soon, the young queen discovered that her stepdaughter, the princess, Unlike humans, her whole body was cold like a corpse.

For unknown reasons, the king died.

The young queen may have thought that the king's death was related to the princess, and she should have told her subjects the same thing.

That's why she could hunt the princess openly and ordered the hunter to dig out her heart.

But the princess who lost her heart did not die, but escaped into the forest.

Having written this, Li Feng looked at the ribbons again.

One of them said "I really regret it, I should have cut off her head, arms and legs..."

It seems that the young queen later realized that it was useless to just dig out the heart.

Looking at the two ribbons behind:

"There are no residents in the forest anymore. For my border, I can only do this."

"There are no residents in the forest anymore. There is no food. I think my stepdaughter will eat this apple. "

'Hmm--'

Li Feng paused for a moment before continuing to write.

The princess seemed to live on cannibalism. After escaping into the forest, she ate up all the residents living in the forest.

The young queen had no choice but to make a poisonous apple to poison her stepdaughter.

After writing this sentence, Li Feng immediately drew an asterisk.

'The queen knows alchemy and skills such as making poison.'

Thinking carefully about those performances, Li Feng remembered that when she was on the fourth floor of the theater, the queen saw through the water that the princess was not dead.

‘So, the queen is not a mortal, but a supernatural being. ’

The story continues.

The poisoned apple made by the queen choked the princess’ throat, and the princess died.

However, it might just be a fake death, but in terms of performance, it should be similar to the state of death.

Then the prince of the neighboring country appeared.

The queen wanted to win over the prince, but the prince had necrophilia, and the queen didn’t pretend to be like one.

The prince left disappointed, and later met the princess in a dead state in the forest.

Let’s imagine that he should have done something.

In a dead state The princess, of course, would not move, make a sound, or respond.

And her cold skin was exactly what the prince wanted.

An irresponsible guess is that the poisoned apple stuck in her throat was knocked out during the violent collision, so the princess was resurrected.

‘Well... although it is very perverted, it fits the foreshadowing of the prince’s personality. ’

Li Feng thought so from a writing perspective, and...

He looked back at the previous sheet of paper.

In the first version of the story, the process of the prince resurrecting the princess was very vague, as if he was completely castrated under the gaze of the god of harmony.

But think about it from another perspective. If the interpretation here is very clear, then the image of the prince Gao Guangwei as a righteous person will collapse.

Moreover, it will also clearly show the princess’s strange corpse physique.

‘Well... events that damage the image must be handled vaguely and deleted. ’

Suddenly, Li Feng understood who the author of the seven-act play was, and who the Sad Theater belonged to.

It was obviously the princess and the prince.

The second version of the story continued.

In the forest, inexplicably, the prince fell in love with the princess and decided to help her regain the throne.

Relying on the strength of the country, he did it, and they were kind enough to pardon the queen.

Just like a fairy tale, all the characters ended up in a happy ending.

But.

Li Feng took the rag he got from the seventh floor.

The words on it sounded like the queen's tone.

Try to interpret it.

"They said a lot of bad things about me to my subjects, and only a little bit of truth supported the whole lie."

This sentence means that after the princess and the prince took back the throne, they said a lot of bad things about the queen to their subjects and distorted the truth.

"In the endless river of time, they put the story on the stage again and again, even if there are no audiences in the audience."

The princess built a theater so that the story she wrote could be performed over and over again.

"The curse attached to me will never be eliminated. In the incinerator, the goose oil on my skin melted and crackled over and over again."

The story that was performed over and over again was not an ordinary performance, but a curse from the princess to the queen.

Li Feng reread this sentence and felt that after the happy ending, the queen seemed to be dealt with according to the tradition of roasting pigs.

Li Feng had read in a book that when winter came, the human ancestors would wash the pigs, smear goose fat on the pig skin, and then put them in the incinerator to bake.

Combined with the text on the rag, the queen seemed to have been smeared with goose fat on her skin and then put in the incinerator to bake.

And not only that, this should be a curse. As long as the performances in the theater continue, the curse will never stop.

Thinking of this, Li Feng suddenly felt a little creepy.

It has been at least thousands of years since the human ancestors of the Endless Sea.

In this way, the queen has been baked in the incinerator over and over again for thousands of years.

Suddenly remembered the name of the Sad Theater.

‘It’s really sad. ’

Continue to read down.

“They took my body and my soul, but my story belongs only to me.”

This should be the queen’s last insistence and accusation.

After finishing the second version of the story, Li Feng placed the two pieces of paper on the table side by side.

These are two completely different stories from two different perspectives.

I remembered what the troll said last night -

"The story played in the theater should not be completely credible, and there is another version of it.

Just like history, every historian will write a different history."

'Rashomon...'

The sky outside the window was gloomy, and the drizzle continued. Li Feng was a little emotional.

However, as an audience, Li Feng let reason prevail. He took out the third piece of paper and wrote down his own judgment.

First, he wrote next to the word "princess":

"The whole body is cold, very similar to a corpse, can use curses, and will not die even if the heart is lost."

Secondly, he wrote next to the entry of "queen":

"An extraordinary person who can do alchemy, make poisons, and can divine through the water."

It seems that no matter what, they are not ordinary people.

I roughly sorted out the plot of the drama I have been chasing for half a month.

Putting down the pen, Li Feng felt relaxed and looked at the rain outside the window.

'The troll said last night that the way to kill monsters is hidden in the story. ’

Although he is still unsure of this method, at least he has sorted out the story.

Moreover, there are still 14 and a half days before the next time he travels through time, so he still has enough time to study slowly.

So, there is no rush.

Li Feng looked at the time and prepared to get up to eat.

But the moment he got up, he suddenly noticed that the number of unread messages in the system chat channel was soaring at an abnormal rate.

He immediately opened it to check and turned to the source of the message.

*: "Everyone, something has happened! Go online and watch. After the pig is slaughtered, the pig's heart is separated from the chest and beats alone for an hour!

!"

*: "??? The above, that's an unscrupulous self-media."

*: "Really not, I'm watching it, there's a video, just search for pig heart."

*: "No way, is it true? I want to see it too... Shit!"

*: "Everyone, if you want to see it, please watch it quickly. I think it will be deleted soon."

*: "Wait, this won't be affected by the extraordinary in the game world again?"

*: "Oh my God, there will be no peace again?"

Looking at the chat channel, Li Feng quickly picked up his phone and searched for "pig heart" on the short video software.

Soon, a video with the highest number of views popped up.

The video shows a farmyard, an open space with drizzling rain.

An ordinary pig heart, with all blood vessels cut off, without any other organs, just lying on the ground alone.

But the strange thing is that the pig heart, as if it was placed intact in the pig's chest, still beats strongly and abruptly.

Li Feng downloaded the video first, and then opened the comment area.

Netizens who don’t know about the existence of the supernatural obviously still have not lost their faith in science.

Most of them questioned that the blogger used special effects and other things to cheat the number of views, but the blogger who was questioned was also replying to the comments.

Among the rapidly increasing comments, Li Feng found one, someone asked:

“The pig’s heart has been dug out, is the pig still alive?”

This is obviously a sarcastic comment, but the blogger answered seriously below:

“It’s still alive, I was scared to death, just called the police.”

But obviously, his reply became the object of ridicule by more netizens.

Replies such as "I'm scared to death too" and "Don't call the police, be careful the police will arrest you" are endless.

But Li Feng, who was watching all this, was suddenly frightened.

He looked at the paper on the table where he wrote his guess about the seven acts of the Theater of Sorrow.

On that piece of paper, next to the entry for "Princess" was written:

"An unknown monster that will not die even if it loses its heart."

'this! ’

On his mobile phone, a video that could not be explained by science was playing in a loop, and an idea suddenly came to Li Feng's mind.

Could it be that the monster that is about to appear in the Theater of Sadness has spread its weirdness and extraordinaryness to this world through some method?

Its immortal spell has begun to affect the creatures in the player world?

Having too many bad premonitions, Li Feng opened the chat channel to see news from other players or official players.

But at the same time, he saw an eye-catching announcement in red letters in the chat channel window:

[Announcement of achievement completion:]

[Player No. 2121-0776 has completed the "Immortal Believer" achievement, and the event "Blood Sacrifice" has begun.

Current advent progress: 1%]