Chapter 3591: The Truth of the Mission

Hearing the sound outside the window, Xia De instinctively felt "I should be woken up," so he took 【Dawn of Daybreak】 and turned over to get out of bed. When he pushed the door out, he found that the entire village, including the house he was in, had been ignited by raging flames.

The night was illuminated by the flames, but when he was in the room just now, he neither felt that the house was on fire, nor did he see the village outside on fire from the window, as if the fact that "the village was burning" appeared the moment he pushed the door.

However, in the ten minutes he entered the village, Xia De had encountered enough problems, so he didn't care, and walked out of the courtyard with his sword.

Ordinary flames could not hurt him, but there were corpses everywhere in the village. The villagers looked like they had just died, and there were cold weapon wounds on their bodies. Of course, the retired soldier's family was nowhere to be found.

There were clear footprints and hoof prints on the muddy road of the village, so Xia De followed these traces all the way to the east end of the village.

The mounted robbers with red headscarves wrapped around their heads were burning more corpses at the end of the village. Livestock such as mules, cattle, chickens, and sheep were uniformly fenced up, and various wealth robbed from the village were piled up on the side waiting to be distributed.

The retired soldier was talking to someone who looked like the robber leader beside the burning corpse pile. They noticed Xia De walking out of the village with a sword, so they turned to look at him.

The robber leader, who was shirtless, wrapped in a red headscarf, muscular, and had a scar on his face, said to Xia De:

"Knight, we are willing to offer a quarter of the harvest. Please don't mind what happened here."

Xia De didn't speak. He saw the number "1958" above the robber leader's head. He looked at the retired soldier who had invited him to stay overnight, and the latter explained:

"Respected Knight, I didn't want to harm you. Otherwise, I would have ordered my wife to poison the food. I am a member of the robber group. I led my family to live in the village, and after my family was accepted, I made an excuse to leave for service. After my family became familiar with the village situation, I returned and led my companions to loot the village."

He said it in great detail:

"There are many families like mine in the robber group. As long as we use the kindness of these villagers, we can easily obtain the wealth of an entire village."

Only then did Xia De speak:

"You said it so clearly, aren't you afraid that I will kill you all?"

The robber leader laughed loudly:

"Knight, I believe you can kill all of us, but this kind of thing is very common in this kingdom. Even if you kill us, others will come. There will always be people who use kindness, and there will always be people who use innocence. This is all the stories that happen here, and the story should have been like this.

The Queen sits in the palace and watches everything here through her mirror. These are all allowed."

Xia De held his sword and was about to swing forward, but the world spun again in the next second.

When he opened his eyes while holding his head, he was standing in an unnamed room in the hotel in Whispering Hill.

This room was the cleanest and tidiest room Xia De had seen in this hotel, and it could even be said that it had some artistic taste. Unknown oil paintings hung on the walls, the fragrance of black tea permeated the entire room, the fire in the fireplace was burning fiercely in the iron fence, and the god was standing in front of the window without any wooden boards, looking out at the dark world.

And in front of the fireplace, a white wooden round table was placed on the carpet. On the comfortable soft-cushioned back chair on the right side of the round table, a strange middle-aged woman closed the big book in her hand and curiously asked Xia De for his thoughts:

"How about this story?"

Xia De's gaze swept past the god's back and looked at the woman. She looked very much like the woman on the coin in the strange world just now:

"Was the one just now your Wonder?"

After a slight pause, he looked at the big book in the woman's hand again:

"Relic... very familiar power... Puppeteer's Script?"

The woman showed a brilliant smile:

"I knew you would definitely be able to see it. Yes, I integrated 【Puppeteer's Script】 into my own storybook, and then used it to release my Wonder. After the Wonder was integrated with the script, it formed a world that was more real and stable than an ordinary Wonder, and could even exist semi-permanently. That is—Wonder: My Kingdom."

"Genius approach!"

Xia De exclaimed in his heart, but his expression remained unchanged. He had dealt with 【Puppeteer's Script】 many times, but he had never thought that this relic could be used in this way. Perhaps this was the most correct way to use this angel-level relic. The woman in front of him was an enemy, but she was definitely a genius:

"Are you Miss Ge Er De's mother?"

"Yes, the god just introduced you to me, Mr. Hamilton."

"The chaos on the 40th floor... You caught the monsters on the 40th floor and adjacent floors into your Wonder? You wouldn't be trying to do a social experiment, would you?"

"Social experiment?"

A reserved smile appeared on the woman's face:

"Interesting vocabulary, but I can guess what you mean. Very good, I knew someone would guess my approach.

Using only artificial humans to act as residents of the kingdom, the quantity is sufficient but lacks change and also lacks unexpectedness. So, I put most of the monsters I could deal with into my kingdom.

The strong ones are treated as monsters in the wild, but they can only be active in specific areas; the interesting ones are arranged with unique identities to participate in the stories I compiled; the weak ones are washed of their memories and turned into mortals to experience the life of the kingdom. I am looking forward to them creating accidents."

The thick book was placed on the table by her. She seemed to be unable to wait to share her thoughts with Xia De:

"I have been thinking about how to make those artificial humans I filled with soul fragments closer to real humans, and how to make them have their own thoughts and their own destiny. I found the answer here—they need to experience stories, and they need repeated lives and thinking.

And I even had unexpected gains. You see, I recorded all the interesting stories that happened in the kingdom. Perhaps when I adopt a second daughter, I can read these to her as bedtime stories."

"What about my companions?"

Xia De asked again. The woman in the seat pointed at the book with her finger:

"Of course they are still in the story, just like you just now."

She did not give Xia De a chance to ask questions again:

"When I first came to this hotel, I boldly asked the god to let me use the evil objects locked here for experiments, and this generous god pointed out that the kingdom I built and the stories I wrote would only lead to tragic endings.

So I made an interesting bet with this god. If one day, someone could tell a story in my kingdom in my way, and write a story with an ending beyond my expectation, I would be willing to dedicate my kingdom to the god—obviously, compared to this hotel now, my way can better manage the guests here."

Xia De felt that he seemed to understand everything. He turned his head to look at the Old God-Lord of the Walls who had already turned around to look here from the window:

"You... from the beginning, planned all this?"

He felt that all the actions of himself and the witches were in a planned plan, and everything was for this moment:

"The arrival of all of us is to be able to let this hotel become a kingdom, to be able to better seal the evil objects here?"

The god looked at him calmly:

"It is to choose a keeper to replace me and guard the prison here. That will be a special guest living on the first floor. Blood-kin, huntress, and her daughter are all candidates. Those who pass the test and are willing to stay will become my angels.

I just invited them to come, and did not arrange any encounters between you and them here. I just watched them until someone met my conditions. At the end of this adventure, if no one is willing to stay, I will not force anyone to stay."

Saying this, Xia De didn't feel so frustrated in his heart. If everything in the adventure was a predetermined drama arranged by the god, he would lose interest in the story of the time key.

【You hate the feeling of being arranged.】

"She" said at this moment, "She" really understood Xia De.

【Please don't worry, the Tree Father will not allow any Old God to arrange your actions in the Fifth Era.】

And the god's next words by the window used the Delarian language to further explain:

"Foreign guest, you should understand, I will leave sooner or later, and losing my power, before Whispering Hill completely disappears, everything here will escape back to the material world. So, here needs to choose a suitable keeper, which is the truth of these stories happening here."

"Choosing a guest for the first floor..."

Xia De finally fully understood this mission given by the Tree Father. It was not to choose one from the companions to be locked in the hotel, but to choose someone to guard the hotel.

Although he didn't know what the god specifically valued in the test of the three witches, this test indeed had great significance, finding a keeper for this place after the Old God left, and also for the entire material world.

"Go and tell a story, prove that you can overcome the story and destiny compiled by the witch. If you think I used you, before you leave, I can give you a special gift."

The god continued to speak in Delarian, if this was heard by the woman in front of the fireplace, she would probably immediately realize the risk of telling a story with Xia De.

But Xia De shook his head:

"If it is for this world, I don't need your reward. Except for such a great existence as you, mortals also have the willingness to protect the world. I will tell this story, just hoping that when the problem on the 40th floor ends, you can explain everything to my companions before asking for their wishes."

The god nodded in agreement. Xia De reached out and touched the cat squirming on his chest, then sat on the back chair opposite the woman in front of the fireplace.

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The picture of this chapter "Mother". ===== CHAPTER 3592 =====