Chapter 773: The Will of Seven

"A demon that eats sheep?"

Looking at this line of text written by Audrey, Dorothy tilted her head slightly. She wasn't particularly surprised by this.

After all, she had long been mentally prepared for the fact that there was something wrong with this orphanage. Now, the Junior Sister's words actually gave her a feeling of "as I expected," and a heavy stone in her heart actually fell.

Moreover, she had watched quite a few horror movies in her past life. Whether it was various supernatural horror films or bloody violent films, she was well-versed in the tropes. As for the current setting of a demon wanting to eat sheep in this orphanage, she could only give a two-word evaluation.

Is that it?

To be honest, it's a bit cliché.

After all this, isn't it still just a game of fighting monsters and leveling up? Come on, where is the demon? I've already prepared to subdue the demon.

If someone mentioned a demon in her past life, Dorothy might have been a bit cowardly; after all, that was a transcendental existence that humans could hardly resist. But in this life, she herself was a witch, so how could she still have much fear of a demon, which was also a natural disaster just like a witch?

Fear stems from the unknown, and a demon was no longer unknown to her now. As a top student, she also knew a thing or two about demonology.

"What kind of demon is it specifically? Which original sin faction does it belong to? Since it likes blood sacrifices and eating sheep so much, is it from the Gluttony lineage? Does it have any characteristics? If I know its specific appearance, I can roughly distinguish its lineage. As long as you know a demon inside and out, there's a way to banish it."

Dorothy asked.

With their current mortal bodies that had lost their mana, it would be very difficult to face a demon head-on, even if it were just a low-level demon. However, as apostles of original sin and incarnations of desire, while demons were evil, they were also famous for another trait.

That is, although they are cunning, they will abide by contracts.

Hmm, although demons usually use countless ways to tamper with the content of contracts, tricking you into signing various unfair demonic contracts, that's just the struggle before the contract is signed. Once a demonic contract is signed, not only does the human who signed it have to abide by it, but the demon who formulated the contract must also do so.

Therefore, if you have enough wisdom to detect the tricks in a demonic contract and are not blinded by the various immediate benefits promised by the demon, then you can be considered to be standing at the same starting point as the demon.

As long as you can win against the demon in this struggle of cunning and trickery, then no matter how powerful that demon is, it will instead be bound by the contract it established itself.

You can take the opportunity to banish this terrifying demon back to the abyss, or even go a step further and reverse-enslave this demon, becoming a demon warlock from then on.

Based on this trait, among the old-school Three Great Natural Disasters, demons are considered the most difficult yet also the easiest to deal with.

They are difficult because they are not only powerful but also cunning.

And they are easy because although they are powerful, they are also cunning.

If Audrey had told Dorothy that what was hidden in this orphanage wasn't a demon, but an angel or a dragon, the Home Witch would definitely have run away without a word.

After all, these two were almost impossible to communicate with. They wouldn't give you a chance to talk, and you'd easily be gone the moment you met them.

But demons, this group of evil existences that like to torture their prey severely before enjoying their main meal, just like cats, had more room for operation.

It was just a pity that, facing her Senior Sister's expectations, Audrey Sheep lowered her head, becoming somewhat ashamed. She picked up the paper and pen again and started writing.

"I'm sorry, Senior Sister, I don't have more information. After all, I only just arrived last night, and I was ostracized and have social anxiety, so I didn't dare to take the initiative to collect news. This information is just something I inferred myself from the idle chatter of other lambs. I'm not sure if it's accurate."

Dorothy: "..."

The Home Witch, who had asked for nothing, calmed down.

Fine, she was a bit too anxious. Not everyone could be like her, breaking through two levels without stopping the moment they entered the game. Normally, the first night was still the stage for collecting information.

However, she still trusted her Junior Sister's judgment. After all, Audrey originally had half-demon witch blood, so she could actually be considered a demon herself. Therefore, even if she majored in the School of Spirit rather than being a demon warlock of the School of Summoning, her own attainments in demonology were still quite good.

After all, no one knows demons better than demons.

"Then from what place did you infer that there is a demon in this orphanage?"

Dorothy asked, needing more information to infer how to clear this Lamb Yard level.

And to this, Audrey Sheep immediately continued writing furiously.

"It's like this, Senior Sister. In this Lamb Yard, there is a strange rule: every month, a lamb will be adopted by someone."

"Isn't that a very normal thing?"

Looking at the content on the paper held up by her Junior Sister, the Home Witch said so.

Hmm, the function of an orphanage is mainly to take in homeless children and then find new families for them. Every month, children are adopted; this is truly as normal as it gets.

"It is indeed normal, but it's a bit abnormal that exactly one is adopted every month, no more, no less. I even specifically asked someone, and only then discovered that the adoption days every month are even fixed, precise to the hour. Senior Sister, this is too abnormal."

Mei Yangyang held up the paper in her hand, her cute, beautiful sheep face revealing an expression of "there must be a ghost in this."

Of course, Dorothy also deeply agreed with this.

She couldn't help but sigh that this Junior Sister was worthy of coming from an intelligence family; this observation and attention to detail were truly amazing.

If she were to investigate it herself, with her somewhat careless personality, she might not have felt that it was strange for someone to be adopted every month in an orphanage, and naturally, she wouldn't have specifically investigated the adoption times or anything.

Unless she lived here for two months and experienced the adoption process twice, only then would she realize something was wrong.

Hmm, this is the gap between being attentive and not being attentive. Her personality wasn't very suitable for tasks related to intelligence collection and organization.

It was lucky that the first level she was born into last night wasn't this Lamb Yard, otherwise, she might have spent a long time just on this process of intelligence collection and organization.

Fortunately, her Junior Sister had come a step earlier, so she only needed to sit back and enjoy the fruits of her labor this time. It's really great.

"Hmm, this is indeed problematic, but just because of this, it can't be linked to demons or anything, right?"

Dorothy nodded, acknowledging that the date was indeed abnormal, and then continued to ask.

If it was just this abnormality, at most you could only suspect that this Lamb Yard might have some special rules or was just doing some unspeakable business. But this still belonged to the category that mortals could understand and couldn't be linked to demons or anything.

"Hmm, that's indeed the case. However, in this orphanage, except for the Director's Office which is not open to us lambs, other places are open to us, and we are relatively needed to help maintain and clean them."

"And today, before you came, Senior Sister, we had just finished cleaning the library. It stores the files and information of all the lambs, so I took a look while I was at it."

Audrey continued writing like this.

"After noticing the abnormality in the adoptions, I specifically went to look at the files of those adopted lambs. Logically speaking, the orphanage should also have records of the adopters of these adopted children."

"But there aren't any here. All the files of the adopted children have no records related to who adopted them; they are just coldly stamped with a red seal."

It can only be said that she is worthy of being from an art background; the little fox's handwriting is very beautiful, elegantly pleasing to the eye, a world of difference from the ugly handwriting that looked like a dung beetle crawling, which was in that mission prop letter earlier, and no one knew who wrote it.

Moreover, Audrey was also very good at drawing, so she perfectly replicated the appearance of the seal on the paper.

"Out of the pen?"

Looking at the two characters on the seal, the Home Witch was stunned.

Good fellow, you call adoption "out of the pen"?

But then again, she remembered that Grandma Sheep seemed to have said something similar to her earlier, saying that she was already so big and it was almost time to be "out of the pen."

At that time, Dorothy already felt that this sounded very wrong. And combined with the information Audrey gave now, this was more than just wrong; it was almost horrifying.

What kind of business is this ghost orphanage doing? Is this treating people like livestock, "out of the pen," and then slaughtering them?

Although it seemed that in this world, except for her having a human appearance, everyone else had an Animal World art style, so they truly counted as livestock.

"Senior Sister, no matter how you look at it, the term 'out of the pen' is wrong. It always makes people think of slaughterhouses or something. And normally, even if they were adopted, those adopted children would still maintain a certain connection with the orphanage. This is emotion, and also basic etiquette. But in this Lamb Yard, all the lambs that went 'out of the pen' have had no news come back since the day they left, as if they had evaporated from the human world."

Audrey continued to write lines of text quickly and elegantly, showing them one by one to the Senior Sister in front of her.

And Dorothy, looking at these, also had a not-so-good complexion.

Although she herself didn't like those bratty children very much and had just bullied them severely, no matter what, as a human, an adult, when she saw this kind of thing, she still couldn't help but feel her anger rising.

Alright, at this point, it can almost be confirmed that there is indeed a demon, even if it might not be a demon species, there is 100% a situation of demon-people in the human world.

"Sigh, it's lucky this is playing a game. Who wrote this script? It's really uncomfortable."

Dorothy suppressed the anger in her heart, comforting herself like this.

However, what she is facing now might be a fictional game script, but in reality, is it all this kind of script?

The Home Witch thought of this point, and then her mood became even less beautiful.

Sigh, the most terrifying thing in this world is not some haunted house, but the human heart.

But forget it, it's better to prioritize clearing the level first and not think about those unhappy things.

Dorothy shook her head, no longer letting herself suffer from internal friction because of things that couldn't be changed by individual power.

After all, even as strong as the Three Kings, it was difficult to manipulate the hearts of the people of the world, let alone a little witch like her.

That is something only an omniscient and omnipotent god can do.

However, although she couldn't change the human heart, the Home Witch could beat up the owner of the human heart. If I can't change your heart, can't I change you, this person?

The Home Witch was already thinking about how to carry out a demolition plan for this demon orphanage later.

But Audrey's words hadn't ended yet; the Junior Sister Sheep was still writing furiously.

"Of course, if it were just this, it might still be an activity among mortals. What really made me determine that there is a demon in this orphanage is because of the strange adoption rules here."

"I checked the information in the library and heard some information from the mouths of other lambs. I discovered that the adoption rules of this orphanage are not for outsiders to choose which child to adopt, but for the children to choose themselves."

"Every month, there will be an election activity in the Lamb Yard. All lambs must participate. The director will let everyone vote to decide who is the most outstanding lamb, and the lamb with the most votes will be adopted."

"This method is not common in human trading activities, but in the demon's game contract, this is one of the most classic methods of playing with the human heart."

"Therefore, I judge that the unknown existence that receives the lambs 'out of the pen' is probably not a mortal, but a sheep-eating demon."

The little fox wrote such a long paragraph in one breath, then looked up at her Senior Sister, waiting for her answer.

Actually, it was a bit arbitrary to judge it as a demon just from this special rule; the evidence was clearly insufficient. But this was the subconscious inspiration of Audrey, who had been a half-demon witch for many years.

Although she had lost her mana and witch body at this moment, this inexplicable inspiration was still there. Audrey felt that what she thought should be correct.

It was just that she had never had much confidence. If it were just her alone, she might have prepared the next step of action based on this speculation. But since Senior Sister had come, the little fox directly gave up thinking for herself; she chose to follow Senior Sister.

"This is indeed a bit far-fetched, but I have an idea in my heart. Let's not rush to act; let's observe more and then talk."

Dorothy thought for a while and said so.

She generally agreed with the Junior Sister's speculation, even if the speculation that the murderer was a demon in the end had obvious loopholes and was too arbitrary, the Home Witch still chose to believe Audrey.

This was also a kind of intuition.

It was just that there was still a distance from complete clues and sufficient evidence, so it was better to investigate more before acting. She always felt that some key information seemed to be missing.

"Oh, by the way, when is the adoption day this month? Is it far?"

Dorothy remembered this point and asked.

"It's not far, it's the day after tomorrow."

Audrey thought for a while and wrote so.

Home Witch: "..."

Screwed.

Little witch is going "out of the pen." ===== CHAPTER 774 =====