HLnovel Chapter 170 Heresy
Chapter 170 Heresy
Sun Yue treated the wound with a prop bandage, and then distributed it to Yan Xun and Li Wu.
She looked at the cardboard box in front of her that was sucking their blood, and finally hesitated before speaking, "Isn't this... a bit inappropriate?"
"It's hard to say," Sun Zhao said.
But it's clear that the selection of humans and cats was purposeful.
Yan Xun didn't voice his guess. There are seven people in the team now. If he's not mistaken, the thing in the box is just a prototype of some kind of power, and it needs something else as a carrier.
The man with the mustache kept emphasizing that one must fulfill the wishes of the human and the cat, and love them, so that their wishes would be fulfilled on the last day of their lives.
—However, Yan Xun believes that even if you abuse the human-cat now, it doesn't matter. On the seventh day, the human-cat will still grant your wish.
This is something that must be done after the birth of a human-cat, even if the human-cat itself is extremely unwilling.
And this human-cat that was born will most likely be one of the seven of them.
The dungeon design and the human-cat affinity system intentionally allow players to make choices.
It's a more efficient way to gain favor with the cat and have one of the team members feed the cat.
Even after everyone mixed their bloodlines, they found it difficult to increase the affection between humans and cats.
If they are players entering the instance for the first time, they will most likely choose the second option.
The character with the mustache repeatedly emphasizes that humans and cats need love, and the game consciously strengthens the concept of "affinity." As long as you treat humans and cats well, the affinity will increase.
In order to gain favor more quickly, players will choose to feed one person as designed in the dungeon... Yan Xun guessed that this person would probably disappear after 3 or 4 days, but in the status bar, he should still be alive.
Until the teammates gave up looking for the player.
Then on the last day, he found that the human-cat was his teammate in the box, and made a wish to his teammate who had become the human-cat, hoping to leave the dungeon.
Vicious, but very effective.
Yan Xun looked at the cardboard box, wondering why the members of the Retrospective Guild hadn't left the instance... Perhaps the reason they hadn't left wasn't because they weren't cautious, but because they were too cautious.
They are all experienced players and should have quickly discovered the trap.
After a teammate goes missing, someone might open the box because they have the items, but there might be nothing inside.
However, the teammate's status bar went dark the moment the box was opened, and the teammate who had half-transformed into a human-cat also died while they were opening the box.
The box can't be empty, so other teammates will enter the box next... The captain may have realized this and wanted to stop it, or there may be other dangers in the dungeon, or someone may have been too eager to live and abandoned their teammates.
Yan Xun had no way of seeing what actually happened in the previous instance. These were just his speculations based on the words of the mandarin mustache and the subtle clues in the instance, and they might not be accurate.
"Let's continue with mixed feeding," Li Wu suggested at this moment.
He used Sun Yue's prop to stop the bleeding... He looked at his other teammates, "I have a feeling something's fishy."
"Let's try not to be separated during this time," Yan Xun also said.
“The room here is large, and the bathroom is here too.” He looked around the room they were in, “Trying to make the cat feel…” He looked at the cardboard box, “the love of all of us.”
Lou Yanchuan looked at Yan Xun, and Yan Xun looked back at him.
“Okay,” Lou Yanchuan said.
"I also think we should try our best not to separate."
Su Yumin seemed a little displeased, but still nodded, as did the others.
"Did anything strange happen after you left the room?" Sun Zhao asked Yan Xun and Lou Yanchuan.
After all, there is another rule in the precautions: please do not leave the room late at night.
"No, everything is calm," Yan Xun said. "Nothing strange has happened."
“There were no monsters in the corridor, and we didn’t see anything unusual.”
Sun Zhao was puzzled upon hearing this. Logically speaking, if a player violates a rule, the instance should not be so peaceful.
"They might be settling scores later," Gu Jia said.
He was never a talkative person, and his teammates were used to his silence.
"Maybe?" Sun Zhao nodded uncertainly.
"It's getting late," Li Wu said at this moment. "Everyone should take turns resting. There might be other things that happen today."
"After all, we're not the only team here."
……
On the Angel Guild side.
They also saw the updated fifth item.
Their boxes were also placed in the room, and the seven members of the Angel Guild stood around them.
However, unlike the careful protection shown to Yan Xun, the box in front of the Angel Guild had been smashed and deformed—like a cardboard box that had been kicked flat—and White stood there with four wings behind him.
His blond hair shone brightly under the lights, making him look like an angel in a religious painting.
He suddenly reached out, and everyone else stopped what they were doing.
In the Angel Guild's live stream, there were also some new viewers. Looking at White in the live stream, anyone who saw him would think that he was reaching out because he couldn't stand his companion's behavior of abusing the cat.
“You’re too mild,” White said.
The remaining six members of the Angel Guild trembled upon hearing this, as if he had said something extremely terrifying.
Finally, it was the angel with the missing wings who stepped forward.
He pulled out his giant hammer and smashed the cardboard box in front of him as if he wanted to smash it into pieces.
Of course, no sound would come from inside the cardboard box.
However, the system is constantly updating the feelings of both humans and cats.
[Human-cat satisfaction -1, Human-cat favorability -10.]
The cat and the person were very hungry.
Anyone with a modicum of sense here would probably ask, "Isn't the mustache supposed to teach us to love and care for cats?"
But the room was filled with loyal members of the Angel Guild.
"White, it seems the cat doesn't like our love." Finally, someone spoke up.
He looked at White. "Is it because we haven't expressed enough love?"
White looked at the cardboard box in front of him. "Are you questioning our faith?"
The Angels Guild believes in the power of suffering, believing that physical pain can strengthen their spirit and that their Father God will bless them for it.
This statement not only questioned White's decision but also fundamentally rejected the Angel Guild's beliefs.
"……heresy."
Suddenly someone in the crowd said that.
Soon, everyone else turned to look at the Angel Guild member who had spoken.
"They are heretics."
"This is heresy!"
Everyone started shouting, and the member who had spoken never expected his faith to be questioned like this. He immediately knelt down and even cut off his own hand with a knife in front of White.
Even so, White still opened the book in his hand.
The angel in the book flapped its wings a few times.
The "angel" who questioned White's decision had instantly turned into a mixture of feathers and minced meat.
And then they just scattered all over the ground.