Welcome to Nightmare Game III

The people of Qi Le are in trouble, big trouble.

After that successful physiology class, Ning Zhou suddenly avoided him and left, not even returning to the dormitory!

When Qi Leren saw Ning Zhou's letter on the bedside of the dormitory, he was dumbfounded.

[From now on, I will suspend my courses at the church school and go to the monastery for an apprenticeship, in order to pass the test of winter baptism.If you are still in Neverland on the day of the Lord’s birthday, I sincerely invite you to come and watch the ceremony——Ning Zhou】

Qi Leren's blood pressure rose, he crumpled the letter paper into a ball in anger, took a deep breath, inhaled, exhaled, and after doing this three times, he silently flattened the letter paper again.

So angry, watch it again!

More angry!

Priory, Christmas Day, winter baptism.If they had just entered the nightmare world, the people of Qi Le would not have understood these things at all.But after three years of "brilliant" in this world, he has already studied the things of the Holy See.

The Priory is a school within the Holy See, known for having produced several popes and an astonishing number of cardinals.They seem to have a unique way of practice, and they believe in penance and tempering. Although Twilight Town and Neverland are strategic partners, the Qi Le people don't know the inside story of the Priory.

As for the date of the Lord's Birthday, the people of Qi Le were very impressed - because the Lord's Birthday and the establishment day of Twilight Township were on the same day.In other words, it was Ning Zhou's birthday.This coincidence seems to have a kind of providence in the dark.

Regarding winter baptism, people from Qi Le once read books that recorded the folk customs of the Holy See, which mentioned that on the day of the Lord's birthday, the people would dig into the glacier and dip into ice water to be baptized to show their devout faith.But that was the time of the Holy City. The Holy City has a superior geographical location and a relatively warm climate, but this is the Neverland, the Pole Neverland!

In this kind of polar winter, people jump into the glacier to be baptized, which might kill them.

Trash Priory, this is teen abuse!

The more people in Qi Le thought about it, the more angry they became, and the more angry they became, the more they stomped in the room, wishing they could drag Ning Zhou back by his ears.

But recalling Ning Zhou who shed tears and repented in front of the Holy Spirit of Mary, his reason told him that this was the way Ning Zhou had to go.

In the past without him, Ning Zhou was like this, no, even more miserable than now.After losing his teacher and classmates, he started his journey of penance in the monastery full of guilt and self-blame.

This experience shaped Ning Zhou into who he was when they met.

"Hey..." Qi Leren sighed, and patted his face to wake himself up.

It was an indispensable experience for Ning Zhou to enter the hermitage, and he accepted it.But Ning Zhou didn't even say hello, leaving a letter to "run away from home" is absolutely not advisable!

After thinking about it for many years, Ning Zhou has not changed at all. He was imprisoned in the enchantment right after he got married, and he ran away from home and went to the devil world.

The new hatred added to the old hatred, and Qi Leren's blood pressure went up again.

He is about to come to the door to kick the gym, and take out this brat and teach him a lesson, starting from a baby, and correcting it now!

An hour later, Lance was blocked at home by the Qi Le people with a dazed expression on his face.

"The teacher gave us a holiday these days, so I didn't miss class." Lance thought he was arrested for skipping class, and asked Qi Leren what was going on tremblingly.

"I don't care about your absenteeism. You are well-informed. Let me ask you something. Do you know the situation of the Priory?" Qi Leren asked.

Lance scratched his head and said ashamedly: "The Priory? Ah, this... none of my relatives passed the assessment of the Priory. I'm sorry, our whole family is rather useless. No, we can't blame us. The Priory is in the Holy See It is the strictest among the various schools of thought, and we would not be able to pass just being baptized in that winter!"

People from Qi Le asked, "What's wrong with being baptized in winter? I remember jumping into a glacier for baptism on the day of the Lord's birthday?"

Lance's eyes were dead: "If it's just baptism, am I going to be like this?"

Qi Leren was in a hurry: "Be clear, what's going on?"

Lance then introduced the winter baptism process of the Priory to the people of Qi Le: "The night before the baptism, the participants will be sent to a secret place created by the Priory. Shan, as long as you have the slightest doubt and fear in your heart, you will fail."

"After passing through the secret realm, everyone was exhausted, but the real test began at that moment. The disciples of the monastery dug a glacier hundreds of meters long, and the baptized people need to survive the extremely cold temperature of this polar night." During the process, you swam to the finish line with your own physique. The moment you landed, you have truly completed your winter baptism."

"Anyway, I don't have the courage to jump off the glacier this season, and I certainly don't have the physical strength to swim all the way up again—I will definitely not be able to climb up! I don't have that kind of willpower and belief, and I can't become that kind of brave man. That's why I never consider going to the Priory. What's the matter, you want to go to the Priory?"

Qi Leren's face became darker the more he heard it, and he said through gritted teeth: "It's not me, it's Ning Zhou who is going."

Lance opened his mouth, hesitant to speak, and finally he patted Qi Leren on the shoulder: "This is destined."

Qi Leren frowned and looked at him.

"Growing up, I have often heard a sentence that is 'the Lord has other plans for you'. I didn't believe it before, and the Lord obviously has no special plans for me. The only time I felt the arrangement of fate was in Rose When I was in the church——At that time, I really felt that the Lord’s arrangement for me was to let me die there. But you came to save us, and I thought, maybe being saved is the Lord’s real arrangement.” Lance said with emotion "However, the Lord must have other arrangements for Ning Zhou. You see, Ning Zhou was born on the birthday of the Lord. He is the son of a holy nun. He has no talent for magical arts, but he is very talented in swordsmanship and other aspects. The Lord must I love him, so I test him, and all the tests are to make him complete, without any deficiency. The Lord must have arranged everything for him.”

Qi Leren looked solemn: "I hate this arrangement."

Lance laughed: "But this is the Lord's will. The Lord has arranged everything for him. As long as he obeys the Lord's will, he will be saved."

Yeah?Qile people don't think so.He is not a follower of fate, he is a rebel, and he has lived to this day because of his rebellion.

The 15-year-old Ning Zhou may be, but in the not-too-distant future, he has also become a rebel.

Because of a rebellious love affair, he chose to follow his own will between the will of the Holy See and his own will-I may be guilty, but I cannot repent, because love is natural, and I cannot deceive my heart.

At that moment, he changed from the Ning Zhou in everyone's mind to being himself, a brand new self.

He took everything the Holy See had taught him and set out on his own path.He is still fighting for the world, and he still believes in his faith and obeys the canon, even though he no longer belongs to the Holy See.

"I'll probably never learn to be a docile lamb." Before leaving, Qi Le said to Lance.

Lance smiled: "I found out. You guys are not religious at all."

Qi Le also laughed.

"But I will keep this secret for you, because we are friends. I believe that you can restrain the devil's side, uphold the righteous heart of the verse, and stand on the side of the light." Lance said.

………………

Qi Le was standing at the gate of the monastery, where Teacher Teresa had told him.

Different from the shape of the monastery that Qi Le people imagined, the Priory turned out to be a snow-white valley, cold and sharp, and the cliff seemed to be split from the middle, revealing a gap of "a ray of sky".

In the gap is a long and narrow road leading to the hermitage deep in the valley.

The people of Qi Le walked into the valley. At the end of the valley was a cave with candles lit. In this karst-like cave, the stone steps were carved out of natural stones. The further down they went, the rougher the steps became.

After reaching the depths of the cave, Qi Leren saw a long and narrow passageway. On both sides of the passageway were trickling underground undercurrents. Countless candles floated on the flowing water, like stars floating in the sea, lighting up the endless darkness.

Qi Leren's heartbeat suddenly accelerated: he had seen this familiar scene before!

He walked quickly to the end of the corridor. It was an iron gate more than ten meters high, and there seemed to be some huge monster sealed inside.The intricate reliefs and indecipherable magical inscriptions were all like anything he had ever seen before.

Dark passages, flowing water and candles, iron gates and inscriptions... This is the scene where he saw Ning Zhou in his dream in the copy of "Silent Campus".

That's where Ning Zhou's body is!

In order to prevent the cursed source of destruction from devouring his sanity, he invoked the secret ritual of "Blood Priest", and exiled his body into the rift of time and space to delay erosion... the rift of time and space?But isn't this the Priory?

Is this exactly the same environment, a coincidence, or...

Qi Leren didn't dare to think about it anymore, he stepped forward quickly and pushed open the huge iron door.

The iron door opened slowly, and there was a light in the crack of the door. Inside was the interior of a huge building, like the bottom floor of a tower.Qi Leren looked up, and sure enough, the upper layer is surrounded by stairs on the inside, leading all the way to the top.

Qi Leren's mood was complicated because the picture he imagined didn't appear, and he couldn't tell whether it was regret or happiness.For a moment, he thought he would see Ning Zhou when he opened the door.

So, what is going on with this Priory?Qi Leren walked into the tower full of doubts, wanting to find someone to ask about the situation.

There was a dead silence in the monastery, as if there was no one here.But everything around him was neat and clean. The ground under his feet was made of white marble. It could be seen that someone cleaned it carefully every day, and he couldn't even see a hair.

The more he went up, the more Qi Leren breathed lightly, as if a god was sleeping on the top of the tower, and he didn't dare to wake him up.

Qi Leren's footsteps also eased, and when he reached the last few floors, he even deliberately lowered his sense of existence and entered a state of stealth.

His strong intuition and sense of crisis made him tense.

At the top of the tower, the eyes suddenly opened up.

The people of Qi Le looked forward in astonishment—the clouds in the blue sky were like mountains and seas. Among the clouds and mist, there was a goldfish so huge that it was impossible to see the whole picture. He was sleeping in the sky. Scarred, but seems to be integrated with the rules of the world.He is the embodiment of the will of the world!

As His breathing fluctuated, colorful bubbles appeared in the sky one by one, flying towards higher sky, bubbles bursting constantly, and new bubbles were born.

In the dreamy sea of ​​bubbles, countless colorful worlds are reflected, and each small world is an endless test of life and death.

At this moment, Qi Leren suddenly understood something in his mind: every dungeon mission is just a bubble blown by this "world will" based on countless worldviews and rules.He is like a computer with no upper limit of computing power, constantly generating data and creating new bubbles.

The world is expanding, expanding endlessly.

Isn't he now trapped in a goldfish's bubble?

Although this bubble is a bit special, the Prophet has mixed in here...

What is the prophet's plan?People in Qi Le feel that there is a lot of meaning here.

"Qi Leren, why are you here?" Ning Zhou's surprised voice came from behind.

Qi Leren turned his head suddenly, trembling all over his body because of witnessing that horrible miracle.

15-year-old Ning Zhou looked at his pale face in surprise, and asked softly, "Your face is not very good, what's wrong?"

"It's okay." Qi Leren turned his head again, and the dreamy but terrifying scene had long since disappeared.

In front of me, there is only the view of the Neverland, the vast and endless ice field in the cold polar night.

What is this implying him?

A bubble floated from nowhere, as if someone had blown soap bubbles here. The bubble passed Ning Zhou's eyes lightly, causing Ning Zhou to frown in confusion.

Qi Leren raised his hand and spread his five fingers to crush the bubbles, but his fingers pierced through the outer membrane.

He watched his fingers dig into the bubble without breaking it.The colorful scenes flashed by and turned into a messy picture.

Another gust of wind blew, and the bubble was squeezed into a distorted shape by the wind, as if it was overwhelmed by the interference of external forces.

Eventually, it shattered in the cold wind.

Qi Leren looked at his fingers thoughtfully.