Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 27 Part 2

He forcibly emptied his mind, skimming over the little girl’s long, meaningless praises and compliments for “it”. Finally, after a few pages, he found some more valuable content:

【Father still didn’t appear today. But I heard its voice. It said it really likes everything I’ve done… I’m so honored…】

【Today I heard my little brother’s voice, not far away. I really want to go out and see him, but it’s too cold outside, I can’t get out… It got angry, it saw my door that I didn’t close… I couldn’t help it, I can’t close it, I just can’t close it no matter what… I need to do more and more things to please it…】

【Mom ate little brother. Father was extremely angry. It commanded me again, but even if it didn’t say so, I would have done it anyway. I’m not like my little brother, I’m obedient, I won’t run around.】

【I heard Mom’s voice. She was calling out that she’s hungry. Why is she always so hungry? Our great father has given us eternity, what more could she be unsatisfied with?】

【Mom has been locked up. Because she didn’t listen, so she was locked up forever.】

【Believers can be food. Food can become believers. Every person’s death adds color to it, every believer’s feeding makes it stronger.】

【It’s such a pity that I’m not allowed to eat. Here, my eating is a waste.】

【Received satisfactory essays again today… This batch should still have 3… Father will surely be pleased…】

【Another one. A silly bespectacled uncle.】

【Another one. A cute big sister. I really like her. It’s a pity she’s too weak… Transformation takes time. Seeds need to grow slowly… I don’t know if she can live until she truly understands all this.】

【The last one. When will the next batch come? There’s no more food left for transformation.】

【Useless fellows. Fragile rotten flesh. Boring moths. Died as soon as they came in. What to do, Father won’t feel any pleasure this way.】

【Another one. She said she does [live streaming]. What is live streaming?】

…

【The last two.】

【None left, not a single one. No new food sources. What to do? So boring.】

【Great, I can feel it, a new batch has come again!】

Finally, there were three entries lined up together, each with【Another one】, accompanied by brief descriptions — one was【A pretty bad woman】, one was【An illiterate bad man】, and one was【A knowledgeable impressive big sister】.

Judging from the timing and… the descriptions, these should correspond to the three of them.

In other words, before the three of them entered that room, it had been a long time since anyone had gone in; and the batch of people who entered this “domain” before Su Sui’er and the others had either become food or slowly turned into monsters, consumed completely.

“…This is really…” Su Sui’er looked at the content of the last few pages, remained silent for a while, then closed her eyes and sighed, “Although I had guessed there weren’t many living people here, I didn’t think…”

She didn’t think that now, their batch of ability users, plus Yang Buqi and Xu Turan, had become the only living souls in this domain.

“No wonder. Since we came in, we’ve seen more monsters than living people,” Xu Turan said thoughtfully. “From the looks of these records, brainwashed believers slowly turn into monsters, and moreover, monsters that can devour each other.”

“Believers eat food, or other believers, and then it eats the believers. This corresponds to that line in the diary, ‘every believer’s feeding makes it stronger’,” Yang Buqi said with a contemplative look. “But why isn’t the girl, as an attendant, allowed to eat?”

“Perhaps because… it can’t eat attendants?” Xu Turan’s eyes flickered slightly, and she clapped her hands. “No matter how the believers eat, they themselves are its food, and everything ultimately goes into its stomach. But for some reason, it can’t eat attendants, so an attendant’s eating is a waste to it, it’s meaningless!”

Then the question arises — why can’t it eat attendants?

The existence of attendants needs to be maintained by the abomination’s power, so there’s no possibility that it can’t devour attendants. Then the only possibility is…

Xu Turan and Su Sui’er exchanged glances, both simultaneously recalling their previous speculation:

“To maintain the ‘domain’!”

“Yes, yes, yes, it must be like that!” Su Sui’er almost jumped up from the ground, “Just as we guessed before, the attendants are the ‘nails’ that maintain the existence of this domain! So it can’t eat them no matter what!”

“Let’s highlight a point—Mom even ate her little brother,” Xu Turan raised an eyebrow slightly, “This at least indicates two things.”

Yang Buqi thoughtfully continued: “First, although attendants can’t be killed, they can devour each other.”

“Second—when attendants are devoured by each other, it must affect the domain,” Su Sui’er unconsciously held her breath, “That’s why it was so angry.”

Xu Turan clapped her hands again: “Good, now we’re getting somewhere, aren’t we?”

According to the information revealed in the diary, there are now only two attendants left in the “domain”—her and her mother. And her mother is currently locked in some room—if they could find this attendant and somehow lure her to the room where the girl is, then the existence of this domain might collapse along with it.

“But there are still two problems,” Yang Buqi pondered for a moment, shaking his head, “First, how can we be sure that when the attendants kill each other until only one is left, the domain will definitely collapse? Second, there’s the risk factor of the attendants themselves…”

Although the little girl didn’t directly attack them, judging from the intensity with which she chased Xu Turan, if they were to confront her head-on, they would probably only have the choice between dying sooner or later; and her mother, who had not only already devoured another attendant, but was also very “disobedient”…

Based on Yang Buqi’s experience, an attendant who dares to disobey even the abomination is either quite stupid or quite strong.

He leaned towards the latter.

On the other side, Xu Turan lowered her eyes in thought for a moment, then slowly spoke: “I can’t give a definite answer to your first question. But from the information we have so far, that ‘abomination’ is clearly trying its best to avoid the situation where ‘attendants kill each other until only one is left’. Conversely, if this happens, it must be unfavorable for it.”

“From this perspective alone, we need to try.”

Making the enemy uncomfortable is making oneself comfortable, Xu Turan’s thinking was that simple and direct.

“As for how to reduce the risk…”

Xu Turan fell into silence.

Yang Buqi: …

He had reason to suspect that if he hadn’t brought this up, she might not have considered such issues at all.

…No, given Xu Turan’s usual style. If it really came to the moment when they needed to lure two attendants to kill each other, she might just directly wave a small flag in front of “Mom”, dancing and calling out, “Those who need to eat, come this way—”

Yang Buqi was both amused and exasperated by his own imagination when he suddenly heard Xu Turan make an “eh” sound.

“By the way, what’s the deal with that Plum Blossom Apartment corridor marker?” she asked the other two, the topic suddenly flying far away, “Is that thing difficult?”

…?

Yang Buqi was stunned for a moment, instantly understanding Xu Turan’s idea, his eyes suddenly brightening. Beside him, Su Sui’er also widened her eyes slightly:

“You mean?”

“I remember in the Plum Blossom Apartment, once that marker thing was triggered, the entire corridor was sealed off, right?” Xu Turan gestured as she described to them, “There were also many branches inside… Can those branches be removed? Just keep an enclosed space, trap the attendants inside, let them roam around in there themselves…”

“…I’m not sure about that,” Su Sui’er’s mouth opened slightly, “That marker is actually a product of one of my companion’s abilities. He’s also in this domain now, if we want to make one it shouldn’t be difficult…”