Chapter 169

Will shook his head.

Then, he noticed that the book in Shuona's hand was dark red in appearance and a bit old. It seemed to have the word "witch" written on it.

Shuona had just come out and was already looking for information and starting research?

"I just found out. Our witch teammate...she used a little prop to adjust the flow rate of internal and external time - although it seems to only work on a certain layer of the dungeon. This is quite expensive. At least the price on this manual from five or six years ago is almost the price of four or five commissions of mine."

"Adjust...time?! Are witch's tools so versatile?! She can actually afford it?!"

Shuona skillfully turned a page of the book she had closed and showed Will the hourglass in it.

"In fact, it is not jumping time, but making the time perceived by a certain layer inside different. For example, one hour outside can be like four or five hours when it is stretched inside. The opposite is also true."

After listening to Shuona's description, Will thought of it quickly.

No wonder he was tied to a chair, and went from conscious to blurred, and from blurred to conscious so many times, but he didn't wait for Shuona!

In his memory, he was squeezed over and over again. If he hadn't been unable to control his body, he would have shouted surrender long ago.

It took so long because...

I felt that the time in that dungeon was too long?

For example, four or five hours passed inside, but only one hour passed outside.

It's just...

"...Then I think Leah should have slowed down the time in the dungeon? How come time outside went faster after we came out?"

"Unfortunately, we knocked it over when we were fighting."

Shuona turned the book in her hand upside down.

"Of course, this is not the main reason why we were in there for two weeks."

"If time outside was faster, we should be rescued faster. How could the rescue team not need two weeks to find us?"

Will immediately took over.

"That's right. After I came out, I asked around..."

Shuona snapped her fingers.

"——After I forced Chlodai to send me to your door, she hid the entrance to Leah's room. Maybe they had discussed it."

I see.

Leah is amazing!

Not only did she set up this trap to catch me, but she also cut off the rescue route afterwards.

It seems that she was going to eat me up and turn me into a little slave of the witch, and then take me away without anyone noticing.

But...

This raises a new question...

"Since you only found out that it was two weeks later after you came out, then...what exactly did you want to tell me about the 'bad situation' in the dungeon?"

Hearing Will ask this question, Xiona actually smiled with relief.

"Oh? It seems that you were quite conscious at that time. You still remember what I said. Oh, I thought you were really exhausted."

"...You were too anxious at that time. I rarely see Shuuna so anxious."

"You have only met me for a few days, but you seem to know me very well."

After making a joke, Shuuna paused and then said:

"Yuexia Bingji has been conquered."

"It's not a big deal... huh?"

How could it be? A 60-story dungeon was conquered like this? !

"It was about ten days after we entered, when we were still in the dungeon. Coincidentally, I found out after I came out that the strategy for Moon Ice Pole was put on track when the temperature of Entak dropped. Oh, and the team for the strategy was the Radiant Knights we met before. How about that? Isn't it ironic?"

"..."

"No talk? What? Do you need some time to digest this news?"

"Yes... yes."

In fact, considering that it is early autumn with a lower temperature, Will can probably guess what happened.

It's just that this is information from the future and the original work, so he avoided saying it.

In the next year, under the push and transformation of the Systrom family, the dungeon will gradually become a symbol of entertainment and business, just like the ice sculpture exhibition on the first ten floors of Moon Ice Pole.

With this, the Systrom family has slowly raised a group of adventure team thugs who are strong and disciplined like an "army" - the adventure team of the Radiant Knights is one of them.

At that time, it was common for the "Systrom family" to treat dungeons that had lost their commercial value as "fired employees" and ask their strongest "army" to conquer them.

Not only did they control the dungeons they wanted to control, but they also gradually cultivated a group of loyal adventure teams.

It turned out that there were already such clues a year before the time node.

Summer passed, and the heat subsided.

Will looked out the window at the bleak streets that had already taken on a bit of early autumn.

Therefore, there was no need for a dungeon like "Moon Ice Pole" that was so cold to cool off to exist.

It was like a speech by the president - "Winter is coming, it's time to bankrupt Moon Ice Pole."

Now that the current situation is understood, the next step is to think...

"Hey, hey, hey?"

Xuna waved her hand in front of her.

"You, do you have to rationally grasp the development of various things and analyze them so objectively just after waking up?"

"...Isn't this very 'Will' behavior? I understand, Shona means that she wants me to rest first?"

"No. I want to say..."

Shouna's expression was suddenly very subtle, looking forward to it but also seeming to have some reluctance.

"What are you going to do?"

Xiuna's mouth smiled, and she said the last sentence after a slight pause:

"——In treating Leah."

Chapter 192: We won’t let them become losers again

Sure enough, I will be asked...

Will looked at Shona who asked this question naturally.

To be honest, he didn't expect... that the person who would make him face this problem would be Shona.

Even looking at Shona's expression, Will felt that she was "tortured".

but……

I think so probably because...

He himself may also want to "torture" himself about this issue.

"I……"

Leah is no longer forcing herself to think over and over again.

There are no breathless rooms.

There is no blood-colored peppermint essential oil that controls his brain, as if he is pressed into a water tank, switching back and forth between confusion and wakefulness.

Now I use a very clear brain.

There is no hallucination, no dream, no false world to think about a problem that has to be concluded.

But he still hesitated to speak.

"Well...it seems like you just said that, and you don't seem to know how to answer it. How about we preset some questions and scenarios? You don't need to speak without any background, but in this preset situation, To imagine what you should do.”

Shona knocked her legs and put her arms on her knees.

"For example..." She slowed down her tone and spoke more carefully, "If Leah appeared here in five minutes, in front of you, what would you say? What would you do?"

Will looked at Shona with wide eyes.

Did she mean to imply something by saying this?

"Is she...is she here? Did you bring her out too? No, no...it seems a little strange to say that. If Yuexia Bingji is conquered, I definitely hope that she can come out too..."

"She is our teammate. If she can be rescued...do you think I, as the 'logistics' of Qiming Star, will give up?"

Shona interrupted him and said something that made him think Shona would definitely do it.

"Then I..."

Will wanted to say something, but stopped.

He looked at the door to the house.

Their location now should still be in a certain hotel. The bed in the standard room is next to the door of the cramped hotel.

That is to say...

Will Leah show up in five minutes?

How should he face it?

Being captured and controlled by Leah, and seeing how "yandere" Leah was, the four or five hours he spent in the ice pole under the moon were not just being slaughtered without any information.

He knew why Leah did this - through Leah's "yandere" confession presented in this way.

I also know why Leah fell in love with him - even through personal experience.

at last……

I also knew why I felt sorry for her.

Therefore, only by answering the three questions together can this crisis be completely resolved.

"..."

Will lowered his head and looked at the palm of his hand. Although there are still some wounds on the palm of the hand, the bloody peppermint essential oil and blood stains have been cleaned up.

What would Leah say if she walked in?

She should have come in with the staff she gave her. After all, it was Leia who cared about her very much. Even the notebook she left behind when they studied together, she would put it in a drawer and treasure it.

"Leah, that is indeed the staff given to you. Although it sounds like a coincidence, when I walked into that dungeon, the first thing I thought of was that the things there could probably be used by you."

Will raised his head, but looked across Shona, looking at the door behind her.

If Leah no longer looked like a yandere after this severe beating, after she came, even if she opened the door, she would stand at the door and watch silently, right?

If she was still in a yandere state, she would probably be standing at the door holding the staff tightly, always ready to carry out a magic attack based on the answer he gave, right?

"This is not a sentimental card."

"Perhaps I am indeed a little slow for some reason."

"But I have already received your feelings, and they are already so intense. How could I still not receive them?"

"So, what I say next is indeed what I want to say."

"You have become a straight ball and no longer avoid it. Maybe I shouldn't avoid it anymore..."

He looked at his palm again.

At that time, he hugged Leah again with these hands.

but……

In the end, he chose to embrace and kiss Leah with his own consciousness. At that time, it seemed that he might be the way to break the situation.

But now, what I recall is the original illustration where Leah became the defeated dog.

In front of the unbreakable ice wall of sighs, she slowly slid down, and tears fell in large drops as she slid down.