Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 40 Part 2

It seems what she just saw was the ritual scene from back then. Those people tried to summon “it” while also preparing candles as a precaution—based on her recent experience, that thing should be quite averse to candles, so the area illuminated by candlelight was relatively safe.

The candles outside the door were also used to block it. Unfortunately, they didn’t have much effect. The people performing the ritual were still killed by “it”.

It’s just unclear whether this ritual was considered successful or failed. And how this past event would affect their current situation…

As Xu Turan pondered, she turned around, her gaze inadvertently sweeping forward, and then she let out a “Huh.”

The room she was in should have had two doors. One was the secret door leading to the ritual room, and the other was the exit leading to the corridor.

However, now the exit to the corridor was gone.

Behind her was only the secret door leading to the ritual room. But she had just scanned the ritual room and there were no other entrances or exits…

In other words, she was trapped in a sealed room.

…This situation was quite embarrassing.

Xu Turan scratched her head, picked up a candle from the ground, went back to the ritual room to look around again, confirmed there were no other exits, and could only return.

Then she looked at the rules paper pasted on the secret door, planning to first share the information she had obtained with the others, and also report that she was safe.

At this moment, that pen suddenly showed movement.

It was like a turtle just waking from hibernation, floundering about everywhere. Seeing that Xu Turan had no intention of paying attention to it, it simply stood up and danced back and forth in front of Xu Turan.

Xu Turan looked at it with disdain, and after a moment of silence said, “What are you doing?”

The pen, seeing that she had finally addressed it, was overjoyed and immediately turned to write a response. It originally wanted to write on the wall, but as soon as the tip approached, it seemed to sense something uncomfortable and quietly retreated. It quickly changed writing materials and began to write in the spaces of the rules paper.

【I’m trying to attract your attention to convey that I’m willing to help you.】

Xu Turan: …

She had been quite alert in her heart. But the moment she saw the pen voluntarily writing on the rules paper, for some reason, her heart suddenly relaxed a bit.

This pen… it seemed unaware of the function of this rules paper?

Then she heard herself say, “Help me? Why should I trust you?”

The pen wrote even faster: 【Although our previous interactions weren’t pleasant, trust me, I really can help you.】

The handwriting was crooked, with several misspellings mixed in.

This further confirmed Xu Turan’s guess. This pen was most likely also in a state of confusion. Although she didn’t know what specific effect it had, from what she could see now…

It didn’t seem very clearheaded.

Xu Turan immediately became energized.

“How do I know you’re not trying to harm me?” she deliberately asked.

Planchette Pen: 【If I wanted to harm you, I would have been confused by now, wouldn’t I?】

“That seems to make some sense,” Xu Turan nodded. “So what exactly should I do?”

【Release the suppression on me, I’ll help you escape.】 The Planchette Pen promised solemnly, 【This is a very fair deal.】

So that’s what you’ve been waiting for.

Xu Turan thought for a moment, and finally asked the question she was most concerned about: “But you’re only Pyre level. The master of this domain is Radiance level, what use could you be?”

The Planchette Pen replied without hesitation: 【Yes, I’m only Pyre level, but I’m more useful than you imagine. You think I’m weak because you haven’t seen my true power.】

…Hiss.

Xu Turan looked at its response, her brow slightly furrowed.

Pyre level? To hell with Pyre level.

Xu Turan pursed her lips, her expression becoming a bit more solemn.

She recalled what Pu Han had told her not long ago.

—First, even if confused, an omniscient being won’t mix up content they’ve previously read.

—Second, people only ask others about things they don’t know. Or things that have been concealed from them.

The reason she suspected Pu Han had been confused at that time was because he asked her about the origin of this pen—actually, on the second day after she got this pen, Pu Han had mentioned the batch of goods she purchased. If he could “see” that batch of goods, it would be impossible for him not to know about the existence of the Planchette Pen.

However, Yang Buqi had already proven that Pu Han wasn’t confused. So based on the current understanding and the hints given by Pu Han, only one conclusion could be drawn:

Pu Han hadn’t “seen” this pen, not because of his problem, but because someone had concealed the existence of this pen.

To be able to do such a thing, one would need to be at least a Radiance level person or abomination. In the current situation, the only Radiance level entity associated with this pen was Haunted House No. 71. But even Haunted House No. 71 itself, when confused, couldn’t continue to hide itself. How could it possibly hide another abomination?

Combining this with the pen’s omniscient tendency, Xu Turan could only guess that it was performing self-concealment. And this also meant that it wasn’t the Pyre level as stated by the Taobao store—it must be at least Radiance level or above.

However, it now claimed to be a Pyre level. What was going on? Was it lying? Had it already found a way to break through the suppression on it? Or was she guessing wrong, and there was actually someone else interfering…

Xu Turan pursed her lips slightly, and that pen just obediently hung in front of her, seeming to wait for her decision.

At this moment, the rules paper in front of her suddenly had a new change.

Some small dots appeared on it.

These dots were small and sparse, seemingly random. But upon closer inspection, one would find that certain parts had more concentrated dots.

【I really can help you】

【If I wanted to harm you, I would have been confused by now, wouldn’t I?】

【I’ll help you escape, this is a very fair deal.】

【Yes, I’m only Pyre level】

…

Xu Turan quickly scanned these parts surrounded by dots, her eyes flickered, and she suddenly reached out and tore down that rules paper.

As the rules paper left the door panel, the newly added content began to disappear rapidly. Xu Turan confirmed that the Planchette Pen’s answers and subsequent small dots had mostly disappeared before casually putting the paper aside and saying softly, “Don’t speak now, I need to think about it some more.”

Yes, she needed to think about it more… the current situation seemed a bit complicated.

First, those dots should be a remote confirmation from Yang Buqi. This also proved her guess that this pen must be at least Radiance level. It was lying to her.

So this raised two questions. First, why could it lie. Second, what was the purpose of its lie.

The second point seemed easy to explain. It had suppression applied by an ability user, and it wanted to take advantage of the situation to persuade others to release it.

But why her, why now?

This was a question. But not important, it could be left for later.

As for the first point… it was indeed hard to confirm.

However, after some thought, Xu Turan found that there seemed to be no need to confirm it for now.

To make an inappropriate analogy. Why should she investigate the reason why a goose pecks people?

—She only needed to know that goose tastes good, and then find a way to eat it, right?