Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 262 Stranger

Ethan discovered that the individual differences among travelers were enormous. Some would immediately unleash the Dragon Slash on him without saying a word upon meeting him, while this one simply rolled his eyes back and fainted like a small animal.

Thus, another brilliant chapter was added to his brief career in this world—frightening a time traveler to the point of unconsciousness with his gaze. If this news were in the Gallog Dynasty, he would surely be immediately appointed as a general by the royal family.

"It wasn't an act; I really fainted."

Winter quickly completed the inspection.

The plan was progressing too smoothly. Before they could even announce the reconstruction of the magic network, the traveler revealed her true colors. Her behavior in the auditorium made it seem as if she was afraid no one would notice her.

I learned from my roommates that this girl is a third-year student from a noble family in the capital. The strange thing happened tonight. They mentioned that Su's behavior was very strange before they decided to go to the auditorium. While everyone else was changing into their dresses and carefully doing their makeup, Su was holding a notebook and sitting at the table, fiddling with something.

She claimed that she was too tired from reading last night, but her behavior in the auditorium was completely different.

—He's possessed.

Anyone who saw Su's performance would have the same thought in their mind.

"Your deduction is correct; this is more like some kind of possession technique."

As for why this time traveler didn't act recklessly like her two previous companions, Winter probably thought it was because she had only recently completed the possession and hadn't yet become familiar with the body and her environment. Those behaviors that were no different from being possessed could be completely explained by the body's rejection reaction.

She wasn't worried that the time travelers would be scared to death; their vitality was strong, and even if someone pierced their heart or cut off their head, they could recover.

Winter suggested, "Let's lock her up first."

……

When Sue awoke from her pain and terror, she was met with a blinding white light.

Her gaze became strange, as if it were following some object that kept turning. Through that layer of white light, she could vaguely see the figures outside.

There were two people looking up in her direction.

She recognized it; this was the guild.

The unknown monster triggered her consciousness's defense mechanism, causing her to fall into a coma and bringing her consciousness here.

Each time she leaves the plane to "deliver a mission," her consciousness will be briefly hazy, and her memory will be fragmented. When they regain consciousness, they usually find themselves in the guild's lounge, and then they will receive guild points according to the guild's procedures.

Guild points are the most important thing.

With enough points, you can exchange them for "specialties" from different dimensions, such as potions, armor, weapons, and even lost advancement manuals.

I want to get out!

Su struggled inside the sphere of light, trying her best to convey this message to the figures outside the sphere. She recognized one of them as the guild leader, and beside him was a tall man she had never seen before, carrying a long spear on his back.

Those must be the guild's most elite combat personnel. As a member of the guild's lower ranks, she had only heard of their existence. They were elusive and the guild would only issue missions to these combat personnel when absolutely necessary, which usually meant that the situation had gradually spiraled out of the guild's control.

Typically, their mission is to investigate and understand the ecology and habitability of different planes, and to establish contact points at some "transportation hubs".

However, Sue's distress call failed.

The two seemed unaware that she was currently inside a sphere of light.

“It is no coincidence that three of our investigators have gone missing during the investigation.”

That was the guild leader's voice, which sounded quite solemn. "That plane is far more dangerous than we imagined. There seems to be some kind of power there that can affect the goddess's blessing."

Yes!

She encountered a bizarre creature with seven eyes that had never been recorded before at the academy, as well as a strange person whose face displayed the number 404. These were scenes she could never have imagined in her wildest dreams!

Su desperately wanted to tell the two people outside the sphere the results of her investigation, but no matter what she did, she couldn't utter a single sound.

"Stop sending personnel."

The man carrying a spear on his back said, "I'll gather the others."

"Do you think this might..."

“I know what you want to ask,” the man carrying the spear interrupted the guild master. “There will never be another Merlin.”

"I'm relieved to hear that... What about the search and rescue mission?"

"There's no need to release this information; they've already perished."

Wait a minute, I'm not in trouble yet!

There was definitely still a chance to save them!

Su felt there was no more despairing scene than this. She watched helplessly as the guild leader and another person abandoned the search and rescue operation for her. As a member of the guild, she knew what this meant.

Without the guild's commission, no more investigators will be sent to this plane. In addition, due to the special nature of this plane, even if she manages to survive, she will never be able to return to the guild.

She could only watch helplessly as the two decided her fate, but on the other hand, she could understand the chairman's feelings.

In this completely unknown dimension, three investigators have already apparently perished. If she were the decision-maker, she wouldn't send any more investigators to their deaths before the source of the danger is thoroughly investigated.

It was a rational decision; the only problem was that she became the last unlucky victim to be sacrificed.

Neither the seven-eyed woman nor the man with the number 404 on his face were high-pollution creatures that these low-level investigators could handle. Let alone fighting them, just a glance was enough to drive them to the brink of madness.

Su watched helplessly as the two left the room, leaving her alone in the sphere of light.

The blinding white light overwhelmed her vision, and once again her consciousness was pulled into chaos.

She absolutely did not want to wake up again.

However, this process did not last long, and she heard the sound of bells coming from outside the window.

It's already eleven o'clock.

According to the school rules recently implemented by the Discipline Department, students are prohibited from loitering on campus after 11:00 AM. If caught, they will face a 3-credit penalty and a day of labor in the pumpkin patch. These thoughts made Su feel desperate, as it meant that she had been sent back to that dangerous place. She was also becoming closer and closer to this noble young lady named Su.

She was lying flat on the bed, half of her body covered by the blanket.

It was obvious that she hadn't gone to bed on her own; the moment she made eye contact with the man with the digital face, she fell into a coma.

"If you're awake, then answer the questions."

That familiar voice came from beside the bed once again.

Su wanted to close her eyes and pretend to be dead, but the man with the digital face wasn't going to let her off so easily. "I know you're awake. Don't be nervous. It's just a few simple questions."

Su frowned and resignedly opened her eyes a crack.

"ah--!"

She then let out a scream, nearly jumping off the bed, but the terrifying sight around her prevented her from moving her body too much.

This is a torture chamber, where blue arcs of electricity illuminate the face with the number "404" floating on it.

Blue electricity was everywhere, unlike the electric element magic that Su was good at. She had no doubt that if her answer failed to satisfy the digital-faced man, she would be electrocuted to a crisp along with her body. She could hardly imagine what happened to Zack and Zul'ga. Did they suffer similar torture before they died?

A terrifying message flashed through her mind.

Students were talking about how the alchemy professor had died. The search party found his mangled body somewhere on the island, with signs of cutting and electrocution.

That's Zulga.

Sue had to consider the worst-case scenario—the reason this digital face could find her and see the contents of the spellbook was likely because Zak and Zul'ga, unable to withstand the torture, revealed their identities and guild matters to the digital face. "Now it's time for my question and your answer."

Ethan patiently waited for the mentally unstable time traveler to calm down. His heart-wrenching screams echoed for a long time in the quiet medical building. If someone who didn't know the situation heard them, they would probably think he was about to conduct some kind of cruel human experiment.

He took out a drawing board he had prepared beforehand, on which he had drawn the topics he had prepared for the time travelers.

"what is this?"

The screams subsided a bit, and Su stared at the drawing board for a long time, "Square, square box."

"what about this?"

"Yes, there is a stool with two wheels."

"next."

"...a small square box."

Ethan didn't flip through the animation board anymore. The above was the Time Traveler's interpretation of the computer, motorcycle, and cell phone. The reason he showed them to her was to confirm one thing.

Are these people, who seem to have appeared out of nowhere and are attached to the "locals," actually players?

Or more accurately, people from the same place as him.

No modern person would find the items he displays unfamiliar; in fact, they might even feel a sense of familiarity.

Ethan looked at the senior with slicked-back hair sitting in front of the bed. The senior stroked his chin and said, "I'm not lying."

Unexpected answer.

Ethan had almost certain that these time travelers were player-controlled characters, and that "resurrection" was an essential ability for every player.

However, after this series of questions, he was somewhat confused about where the time traveler had come from.

Could they really be the legendary red octopus-faced creatures, a subspecies of the deep-sea race?

"...Could you please stop shocking me?"

Seeing that Ethan remained silent, Sue tentatively made a request.

Although her head was still throbbing, she was gradually able to look directly at the number face. His face was still too blurry to recognize, leaving only those three extremely conspicuous red numbers.

But at least, this digital face can communicate.

She secretly assessed her situation and immediately realized that if she attacked the other party, she would die instantly.

With no rescue in sight and in an extremely dangerous dimension, she still wanted to survive.

"who are you?"

"I am a B-rank investigator from the guild, from the plane: Golden Land, timeline: 402 years, plane number: 006, race: human... pure-blooded human."

This was a term only used by guild members when greeting each other, and she knew very well that what Digital Face wanted to know was probably not information about that noble lady.

Golden Land...

The location seemed somewhat familiar to Ethan. After a moment's thought, he remembered that it was a place from the time of the Galog Dynasty, famous for its gold production. The year 402 also matched the timeline of the Galog Dynasty's existence. However, he couldn't immediately understand the meaning of the plane number.

He then asked, "How did you join the guild?"

Upon hearing this, Su Qing cleared his throat.

This is a very old story, and she deliberately slowed down the narrative pace so that she could live longer, and if she was lucky enough, perhaps the digital face would change its mind about killing her.

At the same time, she was well aware that she was doing something extremely dangerous.

Revealing guild-related secrets to an unknown and extremely dangerous entity.

If Digital Face were to acquire the guild's interdimensional teleportation technology and travel to other dimensions, or even the guild headquarters, it would undoubtedly bring annihilation to their colleagues.

In principle, she should have responded firmly to the digital face with "Just kill me, I won't say anything," but...

She'll really be killed by digital faces.

Before this conversation even began, Zac and Zul'ga had likely already died at each other's hands.

Clearly, this digital face possesses some kind of power that can break the blessing of the goddess.

Su admitted that she chickened out; the omnipresent electric arcs made it impossible for her to be tough.

Ethan listened patiently to this rather legendary story.

An ordinary girl born in the Golden Lands encounters a guild investigator by chance, receives an invitation to join the guild, and becomes an investigator who travels to different planes. The story is interspersed with many of her travel experiences, such as the dangerous plane "Insect Nest" full of insect eggs that could hatch into giant insects at any time, or the "Drought" with only one huge volcano and a crater filled with a large number of living fire elementals.

Her ability to survive on these planets, which the guild rated as extremely dangerous, is a testament to her skill, which is why she was sent here to explore and investigate.

Neither fighting nor knowledge were her strengths; her only "talent" was to survive by any means necessary.

Finally, Sue also mentioned that most investigators join the guild in this way, which is full of randomness.

"What about Zak and Zulga? Are they also residents of the Golden Country?"

“No, Zak and Zul’ga are cave dwellers from the ancient world. They are very knowledgeable about ancient technology and magic, and they always work together on missions.”

"Will you attack locals during your investigation?"

……

Faced with Ethan's probing questions about numbers, Sue was unable to answer for a moment.

The guild's investigators did not pay much attention to the "local residents" during their missions. After all, they would leave this plane after the mission was over and would never deal with the residents of this plane again. Even if they left a bad impression, it would not have a substantial impact on their future lives.

and……

She genuinely felt that the two people's actions regarding the digital face were understandable.

When faced with an indescribable, terrifying presence, some people will faint like her, while others will launch an attack under extreme psychological pressure.

Zac and Zul'ga should have chosen the latter.

"I won't."

Su Shenming said, "I accepted an investigation mission, the goal of which is to investigate the reason for the disappearance of Zack and Zulga."

Theoretically speaking, the task is complete.

Zak and Zul'ga encountered the Digital Face and were killed in the battle.

As for the other task concerning the goddess...

"last question."

However, the digital face seemed to see right through her.

Sue also noticed that the ubiquitous electric arcs flickered a few times.

"Who is this goddess you're talking about? Why are you looking for her?"

(End of this chapter)