Day of Imprisonment

The people living in this small town were all in a hurry, but the order was relatively well-maintained. According to the information Luo Xi had gathered, the witches did not interfere with the lives of ordinary people.

In addition, the Witch Alliance was actually called the 'Sisterhood'. They focused on the study of magic, spells, and occultism, and would not oppress civilians. On the contrary, they would provide shelter, and what the civilians had to do was to regularly offer some crops and livestock, and provide paid labor.

And the people here obviously didn't know that they were living in a false, man-made scene.

The most terrifying thing was that all the 'people' in the scene were not created out of thin air. Perhaps plants and animals could be, but not people.

Zhang Zhe said that all the people were either 'amnesiacs' or 'withered ones'.

The withered ones were known to be people who had been judged as truly 'dead'.

But death conflicted with the rules of rebirth in the Day of Confinement.

Luo Xi hadn't found the answer to this question yet.

And the 'withered ones' here were different from those in other places. The biggest difference was in cognition and memory.

"They believed that they were living in a medieval-like world, but how were these chaotic memories constructed?"

Luo Xi originally thought that he could find the answer in the Creator's room, but obviously, the software on that computer had been tampered with, limiting its functions and permissions. Apart from some basic settings for the scene, he couldn't view anything else.

Of course, he couldn't find the answers to these questions either.

An Zhiyan was imprisoned in that castle, but it was quite difficult to enter the castle. The witches possessed powerful spells and hundreds of henchmen. For his side, it was a completely unshakable behemoth.

It was completely impossible to rescue people by force.

Even if he adopted tactics such as luring the tiger away from the mountain, it was almost impossible. The witches' large number determined that any conspiracy or trick would be difficult to succeed.

If this was the real world, then it might take more time to find a solution.

But this wasn't the real world.

Ultimately, this was a level scene.

And the level scene must have clues buried.

Even if the plot hadn't been distorted, other players who came into contact with the witches, or if they wanted to obtain something from the witches, must have had special channels.

Perhaps the clues were hidden in this human town closest to the castle.

However, during the process of continuing to investigate, Luo Xi made a new discovery.

He found the mark left by Lin Qiqi on the wooden bulletin board in the town.

A dozen minutes later, Luo Xi had already followed the traces of the mark and found a house.

It looked like an ordinary civilian's residence here.

He knocked on the door.

He also used a special code.

Soon the door opened, and Lin Qiqi poked her head out and glanced. When she found out it was Luo Xi, her eyes lit up.

"Come in first."

She pulled Luo Xi into the house.

It wasn't big, and it was very simple. Crazy Lion and Cinderella were talking inside. When they saw Luo Xi come in, they quickly stood up.

"What if you didn't wait for me?" Luo Xi asked.

"Cinderella and I were planning to try our luck at the castle. After all, Cinderella and I are already considered witches." This was Lin Qiqi's plan.

The plan was good, although it was also very risky.

Luo Xi called Lin Qiqi aside and explained the current situation.

"So that's how it is. In other words, An Zhiyan killed that Zhang Zhe by chance, which was a great help to you."

"Yes, and An Zhiyan has a very special physique. The [Curse of the Werewolf] plus my [Absolute Rationality], her value is very high. In a balanced state, she has almost no weaknesses." Luo Xi's implication was that An Zhiyan must be brought out.

"I understand, but speaking of which, I can also withstand the [Curse of the Werewolf]." Lin Qiqi seemed a little jealous.

Luo Xi shook his head and explained the characteristics of the curse and the job card purely: "You and she are different. An Zhiyan's job card is [Pharmacist]. This kind of job must have special abilities that can neutralize the toxins brought by the curse. This way, it can take effect with [Absolute Rationality]. It's like using two highly toxic poisons and mixing them together to form a new drug. She can use it, but you can't, and no one else can. Not even a tiny bit off."

"I understand. Everyone has their own path. I can't walk her path, and she can't enter my path either."

"That's what I mean."

Lin Qiqi smiled: "So, you agree with Cinderella and me joining the castle and becoming witches?"

"This was originally a way to play this level scene, but only you will join the castle. Cinderella has to stay, I have other uses for her." Luo Xi had also obtained a lot of clues about Fairy Tale Town from the Creator's room before.

Although he could hardly make other settings and changes in that room except for unlocking the scene.

However, the drawings on the table and the notebooks recording the scene design ideas could all become sources of key information.

And this information can obviously come in handy when clearing the scene.

This time the plan was finalized.

But time was still tight.

Because according to the setting of Fairy Tale Town, the entire scene would be reset tonight.

But the reset here was different from the reset in other places. Here, what was reset was not the plot and characters in the scene, but the Memory Seekers.

And it was only for Memory Seekers.

The 'residents' living in the scene could not feel the reset, but the Memory Seekers could.

At this time, the Memory Seekers must follow a rule, the 'Confidentiality Rule', that is, there must be no scene characters other than fellow Memory Seekers present during the reset.

If there were characters from the scene around during the reset, or if they were seen, the Memory Seekers must be punished and have all their memories erased, becoming a fixed plot character in the scene, and may never be able to escape this scene.

If the 'Confidentiality Rule' was followed, no cards would be consumed during the reset, while memories would be preserved, and they could still exist at the current node.

Unless they died, they would lose a part of their memory and be reborn in the graveyard at Node 0.

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And this was just a relatively obvious rule in the scene. There were still many hidden rules that were not known to everyone.

For example, in Fairy Tale Town, it was possible to 'change identities', that is, to obtain the official resident status of a certain node in Fairy Tale Town. The benefit was that they no longer had to abide by the 'Confidentiality Rule'. Even during a scene reset, they would not have their memories as a Memory Seeker erased, nor would they be forcibly turned into a local resident.

But there were also disadvantages.

One of them was that unless they completed a special 'hidden mission', they would not be able to leave Fairy Tale Town using normal clearance methods.

It was equivalent to being trapped here.

Luo Xi had carefully read those complex drawings and the notebooks filled with writing. They were all in his own handwriting. Luo Xi could even imagine himself sitting in that small workshop a long time ago, thinking about the construction of the entire Fairy Tale Town and how to connect the level scene with the fairy tales that everyone was familiar with.

Among them, some games, challenges, mechanisms, and riddles were involved, which were written on hundreds of pages, including drafts and abandoned texts.

It was just that the current Fairy Tale Town had been changed by some external force, distorting the plot and turning a place that should have been like a paradise into a land of terror.

Naturally, most of the texts and design drafts could no longer be used for reference.

There were some ways to play and rules that Luo Xi was not sure were still in effect. For example, in the gameplay about witches, there was a challenge called 'Circe Duel'.

This was a special gamble.

They could request a 'Circe Duel' from a certain witch.

And the other party had to accept.

And other witches could not interfere or stop it, but must maintain and ensure the fairness and justice of the 'Circe Duel'.

Before the duel, the stakes and requirements would be stated. If they won, the other party had to abide by the contents of the stakes.

This was a method Luo Xi had thought of to rescue An Zhiyan.

Find the witch leader, initiate a 'Circe Duel' against her and win, and then demand that she release An Zhiyan.

As for the content of the 'Circe Duel', it was to compete in chanting spells.

From a black magic forbidden spell book passed down from a certain lineage.

It was said that there would be great risks in chanting the spells on it, and the difficulty of the spells on the forbidden spell book was quite high.

Of course, Luo Xi wouldn't chant spells, he wasn't a witch.

But Cinderella was.

More importantly, her talent could be described as extraordinary and unique!

Luo Xi got some clothes worn by the locals, and the few people changed their clothes, and then took Lin Qiqi to the castle.

Before they got close, they were stopped by the witch henchmen entrenched outside the castle.

After telling them their intentions, the other party said that if they were young girls with talent, they could participate in the witch's introductory test.

"But men must leave, otherwise they will die miserably. The castle does not allow men to step into it."

The other party said the rules with a grin.

Luo Xi and Lin Qiqi had expected this result.

Taking Crazy Lion back to the town, Luo Xi continued to inquire about the news. Although Cinderella also wanted to go to the castle, she listened to Luo Xi more.

"What Godfather says must be correct."

There was also an introduction about Cinderella in the Creator's room.

Obviously, she was very special. Through some relatively messy introductions about Cinderella in the notebook, it was summarized that she was set as a character with the strongest witch bloodline.

Or to put it more bluntly, she was created for the 'Circe Duel'.