Text Game: It All Began when a Cat-eared Girl Took Me In-Chapter 195 - 165: The Real Liya! Extraordinary Divine Tree_1
When Luo Xi was enveloped by that cold light, an irresistible chill penetrated his soul.
The fist Luo Xi had thrown at the Rat King Nos’s elderly face suddenly froze in place.
On the jet-black rune armor, countless white rune circles appeared as if trying to resist the invasion of the cold light.
However, in the next moment, a massive force arrived from nowhere, striking Luo Xi on the back and instantly wiping out the remaining action time of Spark. The armor cracked, causing him to fall out of Spark and along with the similarly frozen Rat King Nos, he plummeted into the trunk of the Winter Divine Tree.
Both of them disappeared just like that.
The Book of Snowice flickered and flew back into the Divine Tree.
After Luo Xi’s disappearance, the parts of Spark’s armor fell off like liquid, eventually rejoining to form a black metallic sphere.
A gentleman’s hat with a white base and black brim slowly drifted down onto the sphere.
This was the scene that Wei’er witnessed upon her arrival.
...
[Ding! Traveler, you have been affected by the [True Canon: Winter].]
[Your Intelligence is 19, conducting check... Check failed... Ding! Check succeeded! Traveler, you are immune to the erasure punishment of the Winter Divine Tree.]
[Ding! Talent: Immersion (Killing Intent) has ended.]
[Ding! Traveler, you have entered a special space, you have triggered a temporary dream synchronization (???), would you like to use it?]
[Ding! Due to the Traveler’s prolonged lack of response, the temporarily triggered dream synchronization is about to be canceled...]
[Note: Yes. Additionally: High-definition perspective.]
[...]
Luo Xi struggled to open his eyes.
A wisp of rainbow light dimmed in his eyes.
For some reason, he felt like he couldn’t breathe, yet there was no sensation of suffocation in his chest.
Where is this?
Luo Xi sat up from the cold ground.
In the bright light that seemed to infiltrate from nowhere, snowflakes fell, and tunnels filled with bizarre humanoid ice sculptures extended forward endlessly in front of his vision.
Luo Xi: "?"
Am I still dreaming?
[Note: From a certain perspective, worthless Traveler, you are indeed dreaming right now, of course, you could also slap yourself to see if it hurts~]
Damn text, who are you trying to fool!
I’m not an idiot, even if I slap myself in a synchronized state, it would still hurt, right?
For some reason, Luo Xi felt somewhat relieved after reading the Damn Text’s commentary.
Wait a minute.
What happened to Rat King Nos?
Luo Xi remembered he was clearly pounding on that stinking rat, his mind set on hammering that thing to death, and then he suddenly lost consciousness. When he woke up again, he found himself here.
If that’s the case, I must have exited the dream synchronization by now, right?
Why am I still in the Dream World?
Luo Xi looked at the remaining synchronization time in the bottom right corner of the text [???].
Fxxk, isn’t something a bit off here?
[Note: There was a temporary synchronization that just occurred; since you, lazy dog Traveler, kept on being unconscious, we went ahead and confirmed it for you (✧◡✧).]
Luo Xi: "..."
Don’t think acting cute can make me overlook what you did!
What the hell is really behind Damn Text?!
Come out and let me have a look!
Of course, Luo Xi only thought this in his mind. He glanced behind and his pupils suddenly constricted.
The elderly version of Rat King Nos was lying motionless on the ground.
He walked over and gave it a light kick.
Nos’s body was as cold as stone.
He should be dead, right?
Suddenly, an opening appeared on the old man’s head, and a green snake wriggled out, lunging fiercely at Luo Xi.
[Ding! Your Fright Value +10]
Luo Xi stepped back two paces.
Just as the snake neared Luo Xi, its body froze, and it dropped down powerlessly, soon solidifying into ice on the ground. Its body kept transforming, and within a mere ten seconds, it turned completely into a pure ice sculpture.
Tch.
Luo Xi stepped on the ice snake and shattered it.
This stinking rat still wanted to ambush him?
He looked at the other ice sculptures.
Could it be that all these ice sculptures formed in the same way?
Luo Xi raised his hand to catch a snowflake drifting down from the cave wall and gently rubbed it.
The snowflake on his hand transformed into a strange symbol, which then turned into tiny specks of light and completely dissipated between his fingers.
[Ding! Your Shock Value +20]
This... this is a rune, isn’t it?
Luo Xi suddenly looked up, touching the snowflakes everywhere, which all dissolved into fine runes when he touched them.
This place was like a dream woven from runes, like snow and ice.
Damn Text, where exactly is this?
[Note: Worthless Traveler, guess?]
Luo Xi pondered, "Could it be inside the Winter Divine Tree? But wasn’t it said that there is no space inside the Divine Tree for living people to survive?"
[Note: Foolish scrap of a Traveler, all I can say is that your bargain of a mother-in-law is truly a heaven-sent genius. Relying on her mastery of Rune Skills, she used the power of the Winter Divine Tree itself to carve out this place deep within it.]
"So that’s how it is... Damn it."
Luo Xi said with a look of astonishment, "Do you mean to say that Cat Cat’s mother, Liya, she didn’t really die?"
To be honest, Luo Xi had already given up all hope of finding the real Liya on the battlefield before and having her turn the tables. Even Liya’s Projection didn’t believe she was still alive, so how was he to find her?
Luo Xi looked towards the depths of the ice cave.
If he kept walking from here, could he really meet Liya after getting out?
[Ding! Your Fear Value +30]
[Note: Scrap Traveler, what are you afraid of? It couldn’t be that you did unspeakable things to her two daughters and are now scared to meet her, could it?]
That’s not it!
Anyway, the Liya here doesn’t know what he did.
Let me hide that hat first... Where’s my hat?
Luo Xi touched his head, only to realize that not just his hat, but Spark too had vanished.
Forget it... what’s there for him to be afraid of?
Luo Xi took a deep breath and stepped forward.
Wait, it seems like there’s no air here.
Then, what was he breathing?
...
In a narrow valley nearly entirely made of snow and ice.
Snowflakes were still quietly falling, and the valley was filled with beautiful white petals and a sweet scent of flowers.
At this moment, three people are idly sitting outside of a building carved from snow and ice, listening to the occasional noises from inside and playing with cards made of ice.
A chubby man complained, "What on earth is Liya up to? I want to sleep."
"I don’t know," said a red-haired woman.
The chubby man threw down a card: "She’s been tinkering with stuff no one understands every day; I wonder if it’s any use. If this keeps up, Hiss will soon actually advance to the next tier."
"And your card game is useful?" the red-haired woman scoffed.
"It’s not like I have a choice... Fine, I’m useless," the chubby man conceded without looking up to argue.
"Liya is probably getting desperate."
A middle-aged man with blond hair sighed, "Even though we clear those mutations caused by the Omen every day, we still can’t suppress Hiss anymore. According to my calculations, he is only a little bit away from advancing to the next tier. The power leakage a few days ago might have already caused changes on the outside."
"That bastard Hiss..."
The chubby man sneered, "Who would’ve thought, that guy being attacked and thrust into the Divine Tree, I thought he was in trouble, but he ended up turning it to his advantage. It was lucky Liya reacted quickly, or he would’ve completed the ritual of the Omen, and he would become a walking disaster. Then everyone would have to die."
"How did the Shining Country vet this? How could they let someone from the Disaster Church control the Divine Tree? And to think it got passed down for at least five generations?"
"Maybe Hiss became the bishop of the Disaster Church after he became the City Owner," the red-haired woman suggested.
"That’s possible... But I find that even harder to understand. Why would you abandon being the controller of a Divine Tree to worship the Origin Disaster?"
A cold female voice interjected, "The Origin Disaster and the Eternal World Tree have inherently deep ties. Worshipping the Eternal World Tree and worshipping the Origin Disaster doesn’t have much of a fundamental difference, only in human desire and decadence."
"Liya."
The middle-aged man turned to look at the woman who had come out, dressed in a light blue coat, and asked, "How did it go?"
The woman shook her head slowly, "He’s been preparing for too long, even though he can’t act now, we can’t find and unravel all his arrangements, and we also can’t act recklessly."
"Yeah, I’m about to go numb. I’ve been trapped here for so long,"
The chubby man couldn’t help but cry, "My kids and wives are waiting for me to return. What if I go home one day and find one of my wives has remarried? What would I do then?"
The middle-aged man said speechlessly, "Those hundred or so brothers who died didn’t make a peep, and here you are blubbering. Shut up."
Initially, Liya pulled nearly a hundred people in at once, and now there were just a few of them left. Besides some members of the Church of Truth who were hidden and personally slaughtered by them, it could be said that everyone else here was sacrificed and died.
The middle-aged man looked at Liya and asked, "How much longer do you estimate we have?"
Liya shook her head, "It could happen at any time."
She looked to the sky with a touch of worry.
It was a ’sky’ that was spreading with countless black fissures, with dark colors occasionally appearing, only to be purified away by white light.
If she hadn’t miscalculated the time, this day should be the Festival Day of the Winter Divine Tree.
She could only hope that the two children, Wei’er and Aina, received the runic information of the Mansion of the City Lord she had remote-edited at the last moment, and that they would stay far from Winter City.
Of course, she also knew that Noss definitely wouldn’t give up; he would continue to scheme for the True Canon, pushing things to a point of no return.
But she was really out of options.
In fact, in addition to the runic messages she left for Wei’er and Aina, she also hid some messages within the runes of her staff.
If someone from the Church of Noah saw it, they would understand the situation here and know about Hiss’s attempt to use the Winter Divine Tree as part of his advancement to Tier Five—the Snowice Disaster.
But all this time had passed, and the Shining Country still hadn’t sent anyone... Was it because the staffs were too poor in quality, so the information never spread?
It had been three years.
Or did someone from the Church of Noah deliberately pretend not to see?
Slap!—
Suddenly, a heavy thumping sound caught everyone’s attention.
They looked towards the source.
A humanoid figure fell from the cliffside hole, lying o(x﹏x)o on the hard ice surface, seemingly knocked unconscious.
The chubby man looked baffled, "That’s a person, right? It is, right? That’s a human, isn’t it?"
"Seems like a person."
Dressed in a light blue cotton coat, Liya floated like a breeze to the side of the figure, puzzled, "Strange, how did he get in here? I sealed the True Canon, and even if Noss removed the seal, we should have all gotten out together instead of someone being shoved in... And a mutant patient, with Dragon Species factors? How did he get in..."
