The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 102: There is only one truth!

...What is going on?

The wandering child was startled.

He reached out and touched it again, only to find that everything was normal in his left eye. Even a little warm.

...Strange, getting weirder and weirder.

It is as if the two states switch back and forth from time to time...

Is this an illusion, or something from another world?

Did Airei’s face just now turn into a skull face similar to that of the painter Amos?

"——Ai Lei, can you hear me?"

At this moment, the wandering child heard Amos' call.

He turned back subconsciously.

I saw... a skeleton sitting on the chair next to me, looking at me with concern.

It has almost no flesh on its body.

Only the left eye and the back of the neck.

Its left eye is inlaid with a green eyeball. There is a piece of skin the size of two palms attached to the back of the neck... there is even some light golden hair on it.

The homeless child remembers it clearly.

Amos has brown hair and blue eyes, while Elle has blonde hair and blue eyes.

——In other words, these are Ai Lei’s eyes and skin!

"How is your body...?"

The skeleton asked slowly in a heavy voice with echo: "Can you see...?"

Can you see it?

Why are you asking me if I can see it?

Didn’t I tell you at first that I had a headache?

The wandering children are keenly aware of the problems involved.

"I..."

——Visible.

He was about to answer this way.

But at the moment when he was about to speak, he suddenly felt in a trance.

When he woke up again, he found that the skeleton had turned back into Amos.

His eyes are still blue.

Wait, isn’t it?

The wandering child suddenly realized something.

“I can see it very clearly...and my body feels very comfortable.”

As he answered slowly, he used the clever technique he had practiced in the examination room to touch his eyes and the back of his head without leaving any trace.

As expected.

He felt a strange, cold touch again this time.

Both the eyeballs and the neck are cold. He could even clearly feel his protruding cervical vertebrae, which felt a little sharp to the touch...

"——I understand, one of the anchor and his father must be dead."

"——Is he going to tear Ailei apart and stick it to himself?"

"——Child God, how do you feel! How do you feel!?"

"I feel good, Dad."

Ailei's expression changed, and she asked softly: "I just felt very light and... powerful. What's wrong with me?"

"This is a gift from Lord Skeleton, Ai Lei."

It was only then that Amos finally showed his cards to Ai Lei: "My strange god-given pigment was given by Duke Skeleton.

"And your current healthy and strong body was also given by Lord Skeleton. His divine power resides in your body... Not only will you live in good health, but you will also never get sick or age again."

He chuckled and said: "Isn't this a good thing? This is a benefit that the righteous gods cannot give."

"...then, father."

"Ai Lei" was silent for a while and asked seriously: "What is the price?"

"No price."

Amos replied without hesitation: "This is just a one-way ceremony to pray for blessings. The transaction between me and Lord Skeleton has not officially begun. You don't need to pay anything... He may promise me that what will happen next Give me dozens of times more paint than the first time, enough for me to use."

Looking at...

Ailei's face looked a little strange.

If you don’t have to pay anything, then where are Ai Lei’s left eye and the back of her neck?

No, I should say...

Such an obvious thing.

——Why would Amos think that I didn’t notice this?

"...wrong."

Annan looked at this scene and was suddenly startled.

He recalled one thing again——

If he guessed correctly.

There is a possibility that Amos was not the one who killed Ailei.

In other words, he didn't realize at all... that he had killed Ai Lei.

In that newspaper from forty-five years ago, "Ai Lei"'s body fragments were scattered in the frame of each painting in the form of minced meat. As for the gallery, as far as the "gallery" in the nightmare is concerned, the guarantee is more than a hundred paintings.

If we really had to dismantle Ai Lei’s body and put it into each painting... how much work would it be?

Is there such great hatred between them?

The time of Ailei's death... was later than the time when the gallery was built.

Does he want to go to the gallery at night when no one is around and stuff the minced meat into the frame piece by piece?

Impossible.

It's not that Annan believed in the relationship between their father and daughter... but with Amos's clumsy skills, it was impossible for him to do these things quietly without being noticed.

Then there is only one possibility.

That is the time when the fragments of Ailei's body entered the painting, earlier than the time of her death.

——Her body was broken before she died.

This is not impossible.

To be more precise...

"The pigments given by Duke Skeleton...are probably ground with Ai Lei's body?!"

Annan's pupils shrank.

He suddenly felt a chill running down his spine.

A somewhat bold guess.

It just explains everything.

The Skeleton Lord’s ceremony, even if it is the first time, is not costless at all...

But the price has been paid in advance!

In the third sacrifice, if you choose "half life span", you will sacrifice the previous part... which means you will become an old man in an instant.

Then the "half of conscience" and "friendship from now on" sacrificed in the second sacrifice will not have any impact on oneself? What are the commonalities, if any?

It is contempt for other people's lives.

In other words, the second sacrifice cannot be stopped. Those who perform the second sacrifice will definitely perform the third sacrifice... because no matter which ritual they choose, "eating a certain part of another person" will no longer cause them psychological burden.

According to this logic, the content of the third sacrifice will definitely require the sacrificer to perform a fourth sacrifice.

This is not surprising.

The ritual that most pleases the Skeleton Lord is "the creator is killed by his own work." The "sacrifice replacement ceremony" that can avoid paying the price requires severing ties with one's parents, wife, children, and friends.

Think about it.

Would a protector who loves artists like such a ceremony?

Many images suddenly appeared in Annan’s mind:

——Ele's flesh is in every painting in the gallery.

——The basement discovered by Yiyi contained Ai Lei’s skeleton that had lost all its flesh and blood, as well as a container with a dead baby.

——Amos swallowed Elle's umbilical cord.

——Amos’s missing eyes and skin appeared on Amos’s body.

"...I totally understand."

Annan murmured: "Amos simply did it backwards..."

He finally came to his senses.

The King of Bones is not a patron of artists and creators at all.

The reason why he is hostile to Yaweng is not because they are robbing artists of their resources.

He hates all creators.

That's why... I became an enemy of the artist's protector, Ya Weng.

He laughed at their greed, satirized their willingness to do anything for their works, and asked them to pay the price for it...to become demons.

From the beginning, Mr. Bones believed that the person who called him would definitely hold the ceremony to the end. ~IndoMTL.com~ So He has taken the final price in advance... which is the life of their "loved one". He simply allowed these people to continue their normal activities before they realized they were dead.

To be precise, it should be the lives of these artists' "loved ones" before the ceremony.

Rather than the life of that person after they became famous, lost half of their conscience, ate the body of the person they loved, or severed ties with them...

Although by that time, they no longer valued this person.

So ironic.

The fourth sacrifice, the most painful one, was completed at the very beginning.

They can no longer look back. And at this point, there is no need to look back.

At that time, they were already dead in the beginning.

Completely cut off all ties with the past self, losing all the glory of the original body, just like the original body died. Wearing the skin of the person you loved and harmed...watching yourself die in society.

[Creators are killed by their own works. 】

The ceremony itself.

It retells this theme in a dramatic way.

"...strange."

Annan frowned slightly.

According to this logic, Amos's ritual should not have been completely completed.

Otherwise, he would have become Ai Lei... But in the end, he even coughed out Ai Lei's eyes.

...Or rather, it was because he coughed out Airei's eyes.

That's why he entered this nightmare of "taking away Ai Lei's eyes"! ?

Annan's eyes suddenly lit up.

He finally knows all the rules of this nightmare!