For a while, Qiu Xuan didn't know what to say.

She straightened the skewed hourglass on the ground, looked at the quicksand for a moment, and then scratched her hair a little irritably, "I know, I don't have the position or the right to persuade you to do something. I'm not worthy to talk to you about time. She paused, "But what I want to say is, how do you know the result without trying?" ”

"You should know, right? Just last night, your/fart owner kept saying that the game was doomed from the start, and to be honest, I was really hot. But just now, I'm just an ordinary human being, what can I do? Qiu Xuan pursed her lips, "And just now, one of my ...... Friend, she asked me, do you really believe this set of rhetoric? ”

"Now I can tell you, tell her, my answer."

"I don't believe it, I never believed it." Qiu Xuan stared earnestly at the fine sand that began to flow slowly down the delicate lines, saying that she was answering the nightmare, but rather talking to herself. "Even if the ending is predestined, do I have to die according to the ending set by others? If there is no way to clear the customs itself, then make a way out yourself. Even if I die in the end, I will die beautifully according to my own ideas. ”

Nightmare was silent for a moment, "...... So it's naïve to say you're still a little kid. He sighed in a calm voice, "The last player who said that has already eaten seven or eight people by now. (Referring to the corpses of dead players in the game will be recycled into Wendigo)

"Perhaps." Qiu Xuan shrugged her shoulders and didn't insist on arguing with him anymore, "Speaking of which, you simulated my mother quite similarly, just like that." ”

"That's not my simulation, kid."

“…… What did you say? ”

"That's not something I simulated." Nightmare repeated good-naturedly, "Speaking so ambitiously, you don't know where you are now. ”

"Qiu Xuan." Nightmare suddenly called out her name once in earnest and complete, "Because of 'time', I can always see something a little more than normal. Aren't you curious, why were you dragged to this other world? ”

Qiu Xuan stopped and looked at him expressionlessly: "It's all said here, if you dare to sell Guanzi now or stop abruptly and make a fool of yourself, I will smash this broken hourglass." ”

She heard Nightmare seem to mumble something like "dog temper", but luckily she reopened, "Because of the darkness." ”

Qiu Xuan: ?

"You are the chosen one by the darkness, destined to live forever in the infinite world until the day when the darkness truly comes."

"No," Qiu Xuan said absurdly, "You are also pretending to be Qin Jiuyuan, right?" This is even more unreliable than the previous Lord of Destruction, I was really willing to believe that you and I were fools. ”

"Arrogant and impertinent little ghost, time never lies!" Nightmare was angry, "You don't believe me, just wait, it won't be long before you'll cry bitterly with regret!" Oh I forgot, now the biggest possibility is that you can't even get out of this villa game, huh! I'm waiting to recycle your corpse to make a Wendigo now! ”

Qiu Xuan rolled her eyes directly at the hourglass.

"I shouldn't have counted on you." Despite saying that, Qiu Xuan still copied the hourglass into the pocket of his trench coat. "It's time for us to go. Let's say okay first, I'll just try to get you out of the villa, and it won't work out, so don't get your hopes up. As for what to do after you go out, you can follow your fate. ”

"Hmph, you think I'm rare?" Saying this, the hourglass remained obediently in her pocket and did not move.

"How are we going to get out?" Qiu Xuan asked.

"I'll just lift the time that was stopped."

“……”

"What's wrong again, little ghost?" Nightmare wondered.

"Nothing." Qiu Xuan sighed secretly, but this felt like she was forcing Nightmare to gamble with her on a desperate gamble.

I'm not in a position to force someone to make a choice. She said to herself in her heart, so, you must win, you must take the nightmare out so that you don't owe him anything.

Even if it is for herself, for Gu Qingyue, who has to bind her, for the sake of ...... Qin Jiuyuan. Lu Xingzhou's words had never been so deeply ingrained in her mind as at this moment - she must win, no matter what the cost.

Qiu Xuan stood on the endless grass with an hourglass in her arms, and between them, it was as if a huge transparent barrier had split the world in two. At the other end of the transparent barrier is the fragrance of birds and flowers in the exterior of the tea party, and even the molecules contained in the air seem to exude a sweet smell.

"Just walk over there." In the eternal time of confinement, Nightmare said.

Qiu Xuan lifted her foot over the barrier, and a small warm air swirled on her face again, and for a moment she could even hear the sound of grass spirals breaking through the earth, all of which brought her back to her familiar dreamland.

"That, Nightmare ......"

"If you have something to say, say it."

"Can that barrier be opened again? I didn't bring my shoes. ”

“…… Do you think I'm Dumbledore?! No!! ”

"Oh."

So the barefoot brave man continued to walk in the endless wilderness with a bad temper.

"I always felt like I was overlooking something." Qiu Xuan pondered, "If Yang Luoluo had changed skins with Qin Jiuyuan as a 'leather walker', with Qin Jiuyuan's physical fitness, she could have killed everyone except Li Siyao at the beginning, but what was she waiting for?" Also, if you say so, even Li Siyao, as the 'owner of the villa', has no authority to cancel the activity of guessing the betrayer. Does that mean that as long as you find the betrayer before Li Siyao, you can win the game? ”

"Little brat, let's talk about it first." Nightmare said, "There's no way I'm going to be of any substantial help to you, it's not allowed by the 'rules.'" But, for your sake, I can make an exception to tell you a piece of information—"

"Eliminate all impossible options, and the remaining one, even if it is incredible, is the truth."

"Wow, what kind of Sherlock Fore nightmare are you, next time you copy someone else's lines, don't say it in such a sassy tone, okay?" Qiu Xuan touched her chin, "Oh yes, Nightmare." ”

"Tsk, what's wrong again?"

"If, I mean what if," she whispered as if she couldn't stand it, "if what you said was true, and I understood it correctly. I work for the darkness, and then eventually the darkness will come to me, and what will happen after it comes? ”

"After that, you will be directly cannon fodder as a wage earner, or get the redemption you want, who knows?" The nightmare replied lazily,

"After all, being redeemed by darkness or something sounds like an unreliable thing."