After being spotted by the NPC boss, I blew up the system

"..." The queen turned her face away.

"I advise you to go back quickly, staying with a witch is not a good thing."

"You know that, don't you? My mother too—"

"I'll let you go!" The woman was ruthless, interrupting Qi Yan's words.

No, not enough.

It's not enough to confirm whether the queen first is a witch or not.

But as if stimulated, the queen's shoulders trembled slightly in the dim tower cell.

It was time for the guards outside the prison to change shifts. Qi Yan was holding every minute and every second, but only heard the last sentence.

"But I'm more cruel to you...Elizabeth..."

As a last resort, Qi Yan left the prison.

As he passed the last threshold, he turned and glanced.I saw a dark crow hovering above the top of the tower that was about to usher in the dawn.

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Elizabeth, queen first.

Speaking of which, the name is indeed written in the lower left corner of the portrait.

"Elizabeth." He seemed to have heard the name before.

Except in portraits...

Where else could he be...

"The earliest cat-related witch case occurred in 1556."

"A woman named Elizabeth Francis had a black cat."

"And the cat's name is Satan. According to the interrogation records at the time, Elizabeth got this cat with magical powers from her grandmother. In exchange, Elizabeth needs to curse and reject God."

"It is said that the cat would often speak to her in a low, hoarse language, and would grant her wishes at the cost of giving the cat a glass of its own blood."

"Little champion? Are you listening?"

"Watch me doing? Do you like it so much?"

It was Qin Mo. On that rainy afternoon, the two of them walked out of the black forest.

Now...he should have returned to the service area.

In front of the window lattice of the castle at dawn, a man in a large cloak bit his lip indiscriminately.

It seems a little sleepy.

So even when I lie in bed, I still think about these two stories.

It can't be a coincidence.

"It is said that a witch is a person who signed a contract with the devil..." He frowned, thinking of the girl who died in the dungeon again.

"Devil, Satan, the contract..." He opened his eyes and murmured, "Cat, fulfill your wish..."

He touched his clothes with overworked hands, and then took out the diary.

According to memory, he stopped after turning a few pages.

"It has funny spots."

"Morgana dyed it black and said it looked better."

If this cat really exists, it is a symbol of signing a contract.Where is it now?

Qi Yan thought of the queen's roar in the tower prison again, she said that Elizabeth was responsible for her appearance like this.

"Because of Elizabeth, Morgana signed a contract with the devil and became a witch that everyone shouted and beat."

Is it really the same as he thought?

It's daylight, and there are 32 hours left.

"I can only take a shortcut."

Climbing up with two arms supporting his body, Qi Yan closed the curtains on both sides.

The faint blood-colored sunlight was blocked, and the room darkened.

Lightly tapped on the blade of the dagger, and the fingertips slid across the pale pink wall.He whispered: "I offer my soul as a gift, and I swear to abandon it from now on—oh!"

But before he finished speaking, his mouth was blocked by a hand without warning! The blood on the wallpaper stopped suddenly, and his fingers hurt from being held.

"Are you crazy?!" There was a depressing male voice in my ear.

"..." Qi Yan forgot to struggle for a moment.

"Do you still feel that your life is worthless as before?!" The palm on the lips loosened.

"..." Qi Yan was a little dazed, and was a little dazed by his sudden appearance. After a while, he replied: "No."

"No?" The other party's response was to lift his hand and deliberately raised it in front of his eyes: "Is that the result of not knowing the consequences of selling souls?"

"I know." He looked up, met those eyes, and quickly lowered his head: "The system is deliberately increasing the difficulty, I can feel it. For the sake of grades, I can't take risks, and I can no longer rely on my own deduction..."

Qin Mo didn't speak, and Qi Yan couldn't see his expression clearly in the dim room.

After a while, I heard a sentence: "Who said you only have one person."

"..." He was suddenly thankful that he had drawn the curtains, otherwise he would be able to see his blushing at this level, unless he was blind, even if he was weak in color.

"Actually, you already have an answer, don't you?" Qin Mo let go of his wrist, his voice soft.

Indeed there is.

It's just that he knew in his heart how absurd that answer was.

"Don't deny yourself. Tell me, what would you do other than feed yourself to the devil?" This sentence definitely had a strong guiding force for Qi Yan at this time.

"Snatching mirrors, catching crows, and..." He paused for a few seconds, "Elizabeth's cat."

The person in front of him pursed his lips and said solemnly: "I thought you were going to directly question the king with a knife."

"..." The corner of Qi Yan's mouth twitched, and he almost couldn't help filling in the picture.Unprepared, the hand was pulled up by the opponent again.I heard him say: "Let's go, I will accompany you."

Palms touch, fingertips tingle.

Qi Yan awkwardly followed the person in front, thinking that this guy might have forgotten what he... did to him yesterday.

It's fine if you don't avoid suspicion, the expression now seems to be exactly the same as when he was pressed in the flowers yesterday.

Tsk, Qi Yan met his eyes, but quickly moved away like an electric shock.

This feeling……

It wasn't until he rushed into the church in a hurry and pressed the old bishop on the table that he stopped struggling.

The old man yelled twice, and after trying to struggle to no avail, he asked, "My Royal Highness, are you here..."

"Give me something." The male voice was cold.

"Something? What, what?" The old man wrinkled his face into a newspaper, looking at the always gentle and beautiful princess in surprise.

"Mirror." The two words fell to the ground.

"Mirror? Your Highness... have you lost your mirror?" The old man curled his lips, looking bitter and bitter. "Your Highness, if you lose something, it won't be..."

"Don't move." Qi Yan interrupted him, and opened the two hands that were clasped behind the back.

"..." Qin Mo stared at the two hands that were close to each other, and said with a cold face, "Let go, it's not him."

"...Mmm." Qi Yan's fingers stiffened, and he lost all thought of checking.

There is no imprint of the magic mirror in his hand.

He held it for a while last night, and the black air lingered around his hand for several hours.

"Okay Bishop, I have another question for you."

"..." Qin Mo was extremely upset, and undid two buttons of his shirt.

"You ask." The old bishop flexed his wrists.

"Why do witches keep crows?"

"The crow is the messenger of the devil, and the evil things naturally gather together." Unexpectedly, the old man was filled with righteous indignation, and immediately entered the speech state. "They like to lie, so they have suffered from God's wrath! They can never get close to the water source, they can only whine all the time!"

"A messenger who can't get close to the water source." Although he couldn't believe it, the answer was matching his guess step by step.

"Let's go after asking."

"Huh?" Turning around, there was a gloomy face, Qi Yan was a little puzzled, but still nodded.

Outside the church is a lush lawn, and the fresh air makes people feel comfortable physically and mentally.

"Speaking of which, I've always thought there was something strange." His eyes were dry from not resting for a long time, he rubbed the corners of his eyes, and said.

"Say." The person on the shoulder replied.

"There is a song, it's very strange. The lyrics are..." Qi Yan stroked his chin and looked at Qin Mo as if recalling.

"On the bank of the river stands a stone statue looking into the distance. The girl's singing hides the flowers floating in the sky. The hem of the boy's clothes is like a flying bird, and the song disturbs the boy's heart. The bird took the girl's rose. Birds Asuka, when will you come back? Girl, girl, my singing has become hoarse."

"On the bank of the river I've been to, there are black crosses, crows, roses—" Rose Field...... Qi Yan paused unconsciously, recalling the deep suffocation.

Realizing his unnaturalness, he immediately continued, "There are roses." Then he bit his lip in embarrassment.

"Yeah." Qin Mo's mood improved, and his gaze shifted to his reddish pinnae. "There are roses here." It's still very fragrant.

"...I mean, I asked people in the small town. The river was dug by hand, just a year after the first queen married the king." Qi Yan stretched out his hand and rubbed the corners of his eyes again, "What I said was so confusing , can you understand me?"

"Well, you go on."

"...Actually, I have a question for you. The bishop just said that crows cannot play with water sources."

"Tsk, that old man knows more than I do, you might as well go back and ask him."

Qi Yan seemed to know why this guy was upset just now.So he casually said, "How can he be as powerful as Mr. Supervisor?"

"..." Qin Mo pouted, and had to admit that he was very useful.

So he said, "You should know the legend of the great flood, right? It says in it, the Lord said: Flesh and blood stained with sin cannot receive God's grace. Therefore, in order to give people grace, God summoned the flood and ordered promise into the ark."

"After the flood receded, Noah first sent out a crow. The crow didn't come back, so he sent out a dove. The dove came back with an olive branch in its mouth."

"Water, wood, and doves mean that the pollution of flesh and blood sins will be immersed in water and washed away, and all major sins will be buried in water."

So there is also waterboarding to identify witches.

"Just like Jesus was nailed to the wood of the cross, suffering for all beings."

There is also a method of identification nailed to a wooden cross.

"According to the records of the Bible, the Holy Spirit of God descends in the form of a dove, and grants you peace of soul and peace of mind. If you persevere in obeying God's commandments and following the example of the righteous, then let the The crow that does not return is a symbol of your sin."

"So for it, God's punishment means that it can't get close to the water source." Qi Yan stopped.

Qin Mo nodded.

"No." He looked up at Qin Mo, smiled wryly, "I was wrong."

Mirrors, crows and cats, no need to look for them.

"The only ones I'm looking for are Elizabeth and Morgana."

Find them and it will end.

"Just write the answer directly." Qin Mo felt a little palpitated, after all his little number one scholar loves making trouble the most.

"What do you think—" Qi Yan raised his voice and looked at him, asking, "What's the best ending to the story?"

The white shirt of the person in front of him was fluttered by the breeze, and his facial features looked like the prince of this world.

He pursed his lips and said one word: "Forever."

Qi Yan was startled, looking at him with a deep smile.

The best ending I can think of, one is to live for you forever, and the other is to die for you forever.