Day of Imprisonment

Node 1.

An Zhiyan stood at the dock and handed the boatman her ticket number 7.

Behind her, a Memory Gatherer hesitated.

"What's wrong?" An Zhiyan asked.

The Memory Gatherer was also a woman, appearing somewhat petite, with a slight resemblance to Yu Xiaoru.

Perhaps it was because of this reason that An Zhiyan chose to lend a hand after meeting her. Although they hadn't spent much time together, this female Memory Gatherer was clearly quite dependent on her.

"Sister An, I want to go with you too," the Memory Gatherer said, summoning her courage.

Few Memory Gatherers could enter Node 1. Fortunately, Node 1 wasn't too dangerous, but similarly, obtaining tickets to other nodes would become more difficult.

An Zhiyan, with the help of the [Werewolf's Curse] and the [Absolute Rationality] bestowed upon her by Luo Xi, clearly possessed strength surpassing ordinary Memory Gatherers, frighteningly so.

She quickly figured out the fairytale plot of Node 1.

《The Candy House》.

This story wasn't a well-known, popular fairytale, but fortunately, An Zhiyan had heard of it.

So, after discovering some clues, she began searching for and contacting the characters in this storyline.

The process wasn't smooth. Like 《Little Red Riding Hood》, the Candy House plot had also been twisted, turning from a heartwarming fairytale into a frightening horror story.

Although she encountered some trouble, An Zhiyan still managed to find the location of the Candy House in the fairytale. Naturally, she also came into contact with the house's owner.

A witch.

Realizing the other party was dangerous, An Zhiyan chose to strike first.

Strengthened and blessed by the Werewolf's Curse, An Zhiyan successfully killed the witch, and then obtained ticket number 7 from her body.

"Sorry, I can't take you with me. Firstly, there's only one ticket, and secondly, if you go, you'll most likely die there. It's better to stay here."

In the past, with An Zhiyan's personality, it would have been difficult to refuse the other party's pleas.

But under the influence of [Absolute Rationality], those messy emotions were completely suppressed by reason.

Reason told her not to bring a burden, so she would resolutely not bring one.

Even if the other party knelt on the ground and begged, it would be useless.

"But Sister An, what should I do when you leave?" the female Memory Gatherer asked again, tears streaming down her face.

"Do whatever you have to do. If you really can't stand it, then go commit suicide!" An Zhiyan said expressionlessly, then followed the boatman into the cabin.

By the time she opened the cabin door again, she had already entered Node 7.

"This place isn't bad," An Zhiyan said, stepping off the dock and looking around.

"When I killed that witch before, I asked her. She mentioned Node 7, saying it was the witch's headquarters. Perhaps, there's a key to clearing Fairytale Town here. I wonder if Luo Xi has come here?" An Zhiyan could feel something in the forest 'peering' at her.

But she still calmly observed the port for a while.

"I didn't find any markings left by Luo Xi, nor did I find anyone else's. In other words, this time, I'm faster than him. I can finally get ahead of him."

The corners of An Zhiyan's mouth couldn't help but curl up.

An Zhiyan wasn't wearing any clothes, one could say she was stark naked. Some of the wounds on her body were very deep, but they had stopped bleeding and were recovering at an unimaginable speed.

Based on the werewolf's powerful physique, these non-fatal wounds didn't affect her at all.

She took out a card, materialized it into a strange candy, and as she swallowed it, she looked at a corpse on the ground over there.

It seemed to be a witch with strange wings.

An Zhiyan had seen witches before, so she could be sure what the other party was.

The existence that had been spying on her before was this dead witch.

Strictly speaking, the other party was very powerful.

But An Zhiyan had her own way of dealing with witches.

"The witch's most powerful weapon is their spells, but casting spells requires speaking. Giving them [Silence] can 'disarm' them in a few short seconds. A beast without claws and fangs, can it still be called a beast?"

An Zhiyan washed the blood off her body by a nearby stream.

The candy she had eaten before was obtained from Node 1, called [Delayed Candy].

The effect was very simple, which was to extend the duration of her various buffs, including spells, curses, abnormal states, and diseases.

An Zhiyan was well aware that she was affected by the [Werewolf's Curse], which contained extremely terrifying negative effects, which was not a good state. In essence, it would completely turn a person into a crazy, bloodthirsty monster, ultimately leading to self-destruction.

But Luo Xi had bestowed upon her [Absolute Rationality].

Luo Xi had also said this.

Moreover, when introducing [Absolute Rationality], he described it as a serious mental illness.

Thus, the theory of fighting poison with poison came into play once again. The mad bloodlust and reason rebalanced on the scales, like constantly adding cold water to a scorching pot, keeping the water inside hot but not boiling over and drying up.

In short, An Zhiyan was extremely fascinated by this special state. The "Werewolf Curse" was permanent, but "Absolute Rationality" had a time limit. Therefore, after finding the "Delay Candy," An Zhiyan immediately understood that it was a good medicine to prolong the state that made her so infatuated.

However, she was well aware that the "Delay Candy" was only a temporary solution. If she wanted to obtain this exhilarating state forever, she could only forcefully bind Luo Xi.

As long as Luo Xi could continuously transfer "Absolute Rationality" to her, she could maintain this feeling forever.

Even for this reason, she had already planned to hand over the entire Awakened Association to Luo Xi.

Anyway, the current Awakened Association was already in name only due to Lin Yixuan's 'disappearance'.

She stripped the long dress from the witch and put it on herself.

As for whether she was going commando under the dress, she didn't care at all.

In the rational perspective, 'shame' was also a meaningless emotion that should be discarded and thrown into the trash can.

The dead witch had many feathers growing on the inside of her arms, so it looked like a pair of wings.

Moreover, she could really 'transform' into a bird, but in order to use spells, she had to return to human form. An Zhiyan also seized this opportunity to quickly kill her while using [Silence].

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The only pity was that there was no opportunity to extract valuable information through interrogation.

But there were other gains.

For example, she took a ring from the witch's finger. It was not a card ring, but a tool called [Magic Ring], which could trigger and strengthen the witch's bloodline and enhance magic power.

It was like a magic amplifier.

In addition, there was also a magic wand.

The name was very elegant, called [Feather Wand], which came with a special spell that could turn the holder into a bird.

An Zhiyan thought this was a very powerful tool, but unfortunately, to use this thing, one had to be a witch.

She was not.

She was a werewolf.

"Strictly speaking, the upper limit of a witch is high, but the lower limit is also very low. They can be very strong, but also very fragile. Relatively speaking, werewolves are more powerful. The strength and speed brought by the super physique, as well as the resulting destructive power, coupled with the terrifying self-healing ability, this is more suitable for me."

After digging a pit and burying the dead witch, An Zhiyan began to wander around the dock and the surrounding forest.

She encountered a pack of wolves with about twenty wolves.

And, using the characteristics of werewolves, she conquered the alpha wolf and gained leadership of the pack.

In her opinion, the execution and combat power of this group of wolves was much stronger than those wastes in the Awakened Association.

Relying on the wolf pack, she soon made new discoveries.

A carriage full of scarecrows was parked about two kilometers away from the dock in a straight line. Then, a witch on the carriage seemed to be controlling a scarecrow with a spell, and it was walking towards the dock.

An Zhiyan was very curious about this.

She ordered a wolf to follow from a distance, because the witches' noses were also very sensitive. If they got close to a certain distance, they would definitely be discovered.

After that, she found that a group of new 'guests' had arrived at the dock.

"Luo Xi!"

In another direction, An Zhiyan saw the person she had been thinking about.

However, based on her understanding of Luo Xi, something seemed wrong with the Luo Xi who appeared at the dock.

In addition to Luo Xi, the strangers around him were also a bit strange. The only familiar person was Mad Lion.

An Zhiyan did not choose to actively approach.

Because when she further investigated, she found that the 'Luo Xi' was not the real Luo Xi at all. There was some mental induction between [Absolute Rationality], but she did not detect that kind of induction from the 'Luo Xi' on the dock.

So she chose to wait and see.

After that, scarecrows kept coming to the dock and contacting Luo Xi.

They were also constantly shot and burned by those archers with arrows dipped in flames.

'Luo Xi' did not choose to leave, but waited at the dock with that group of strangers.

After about two hours, An Zhiyan saw some clues.

"The fake Luo Xi is deliberately delaying time. Heh, so the real him must be doing something important... This is like something he would do, so I should cooperate, but how should I cooperate?" An Zhiyan tried to understand Luo Xi's intentions.

Time passed.

After dark, the 'Luo Xi' over there seemed to have changed his strategy and chose to leave with a scarecrow, and the others followed along.

"Perhaps, the opportunity has come!"

An Zhiyan decided to take a two-pronged approach.

The first was to control the witch in the scarecrow carriage; the other was to put some pressure on 'Luo Xi' and his group with the wolf pack, and then try to contact them while controlling the situation.

However, the plan did not go very smoothly.

The good news was that she successfully captured the carriage witch; the bad news was that under the threat of the wolf pack, 'Luo Xi' and the others actually escaped into an underground passage. How could she contact them now?