Chapter 86: Approaching Clearance
Mist rose in the room.
Bai Cha felt as if she had entered another space.
It was an endless wilderness.
Countless “people” were kneeling on the ground, praying.
Calling them people, most of them were not human-shaped, only barely discernible outlines.
In the very front, stood a huge three-faced Buddha statue.
So large that looking up, she could barely see the top.
But she was currently very far away, outside all the crowds, so she could barely see it clearly.
One face of the three-faced Buddha statue had already been attacked by something and was shattered, leaving only the legs sitting on the lotus pedestal.
The other two faces held the Karana Mudra and the Vitarka Mudra respectively.
The guess from the first instance was completely confirmed here.
The two hand seals were not divided into two camps at all; from beginning to end, there was only one.
Perhaps if the other face hadn’t been destroyed, the third rule should have been found in the instance.
At this moment, the Buddha statue in front, holding the Karana Mudra, was watching her. The Buddha’s face was faintly visible in the clouds. Only the feeling of being actually watched was so strong.
“Bai Cha…”
A voice like a great bell rolled down from above.
But it didn’t feel magnificent at all.
Instead, it was malice.
It instilled fear, a desire to escape, yet made one unable to move.
“Become my believer!”
An overwhelming pressure instantly poured down.
The moment Bai Cha felt it, she collapsed to the ground. Even so, she felt as if the pressure would crush her into minced meat.
She spoke with difficulty. “What are the benefits?”
“Become my believer, and I will grant you supreme power and honor. Don’t you also hate how your body always holds you back?”
The voice softened a lot, as if amused by her attitude. But the pressure didn’t lessen by even a fraction.
“No… that’s not enough to move me.”
Bai Cha actually knew she didn’t have many conditions to negotiate. But since the other party was willing to talk, it meant there was indeed something on her that they coveted, although she herself didn’t know what it was.
“If you can promise me to let me live the life I had before entering the game, then I might consider believing in you.”
“It is possible.”
The Buddha statue agreed extremely readily.
“Not only can I restore your previous life, but I can also give you wealth, status, fame, and fortune in the real world, everything you desire. I will give it all to you.”
“As long as you become my believer, fight for me, and I will teach you how to destroy the game.”
The pressure on Bai Cha disappeared.
At the same time, she looked up with some surprise. But her neck hurt too much, so she simply rolled over and lay on her back to look. “If you have this ability, why don’t you do it yourself?”
It was strange, this attitude…
With such power, it could have directly crushed her to death.
Negotiation should be based on roughly equal strength between the two parties.
“These things you don’t need to know. I ask you again, are you willing to become my believer?”
Countless thoughts about dealing with the current situation flashed through Bai Cha’s mind.
First, she had no ability to resist. Second, she had no ability to resist. Finally, she had no ability to resist.
She could feel that in this special space, her skills were completely unusable.
Originally, she had wanted to try to deceive it with the Flower of Lies, even if it was only for 0.1 seconds.
If there was a chance to leave this space, it wouldn’t be impossible, but unfortunately, even the Flower of Lies couldn’t be used. And she didn’t know how to leave here.
Very good.
There was only one path left.
“If you guarantee that you won’t turn me into those monsters, that I will remain a person, and that you won’t require me to sacrifice anything or do anything strange, I can destroy the game for you.”
Bai Cha spoke cautiously.
Becoming the believer of the other party would inevitably come with a price. So she framed this price as destroying the game for the other party.
This was difficult, but it wasn’t harmful to her.
And the other party should know about this little calculation of hers.
So if the other party agreed…
“Okay”
It agreed.
Bai Cha’s heart sank completely.
This almost one-sided negotiation, with the stronger party making concessions…
The price she would pay must be enormous.
Of course, she never had a choice.
It had been like this from the moment she entered the game.
And as the other party agreed, Bai Cha felt a stinging pain in her left wrist.
That pain was piercing and bone-deep, as if directly attacking her soul.
She couldn’t help but cry out in pain, clutching her wrist.
A three-faced Buddha statue gradually appeared on her wrist.
“I will guide you in battle until you achieve victory. If you die, everything you have will belong to me.”
The voice left this last sentence and sent her back to the original room.
The pain in Bai Cha’s wrist still existed, making her gasp.
Turning her head to look at the offering table again, the Buddha statue had disappeared without a trace.
Her wrist felt like it was being burned by fire, the pain becoming more and more intense.
Bai Cha clutched her wrist and fell to the ground, curled up, her consciousness gradually blurring.
Before she completely lost consciousness, she heard a noise outside the door.
Bang—
The security door was violently forced open.
Bai Cha looked with difficulty.
It was Father Gu.
Bai Cha completely fainted.
This sleep didn’t pull her into any strange dreams again, but she struggled constantly within her own dreams.
Sometimes she felt like she was trapped on a staircase that could never be fully ascended or descended, going up and down until she was on the verge of collapse.
Other times, she seemed to see her childhood.
She didn’t know if it was because she had spent a long time with Father Gu in this instance, but she actually dreamed of her own father.
That man, after her mother left, had become decadent and irritable, doing nothing all day at home.
Or occasionally, he would suddenly go crazy and run out to look for her mother everywhere.
Until one day, when he went crazy again, he didn’t run out but instead grabbed Bai Cha’s neck, wanting to strangle her to death.
Bai Cha struggled instinctively, touched a knife nearby, stabbed his arm, and ran out.
Young and panicked, she rushed across the road, looking for a place to hide.
But in the bustling street, where could she hide?
She couldn’t help but look back and saw her father chasing after her.
His expression was manic, filled with murderous intent and malice.
Then, his body was violently hit by a car, and immediately after, a truck ran over him.
The surrounding people immediately let out screams.
She hadn’t had this dream for a very, very long time.
The face of the man crushed and deformed by the vehicles also seemed so blurry.
She didn’t even remember what her father looked like very well anymore.
When Bai Cha woke up, it was dark outside. She couldn’t easily tell what time it was and didn’t know how long she had been unconscious.
The pain in her wrist was gone. She raised her hand to look, and there was no so-called mark. It was as if everything had been an illusion.
Father Gu stood beside her.
And beside her pillow, Frosty Mountain lay.
Bai Cha realized something was wrong.
