activa-t Chapter 4167 The Sensation of Peeping
Chapter 4167 The Sensation of Peeping
Chapter 4167 The Sensation of Peeping
"It's her."
As soon as the live stream screen lit up, the voice of the priest from the Fellowship of God immediately rang out.
—The water clone opened its mouth and whispered, "This is not the original voice, but the dubbing of the original body reading lips."
Since it's a dubbing, it means the wine glass is still in a state of mental addiction and hasn't woken up yet.
Indeed, after the wine glass was "released" from the pocket watch by the priest of the Fellowship of God, it was placed in the center of a dimly lit, small room.
Meanwhile, the chief priest of the religious sect stood aside and spoke to a mysterious woman opposite him, who was dressed in a dark robe and holding a crystal ball.
"That's it?" Most of the mysterious woman's face was hidden in the shadows of her cloak, making it difficult to see clearly. Only her lips were illuminated by the light, so Laplace's main body was able to read her lips and record the audio.
His voice was more mechanical compared to that of a religious priest.
After all, they had heard the voice of the priest of the Fellowship of God before, so they knew what kind of voice it was, and the subsequent dubbing continued that. But this mysterious woman was making her first appearance, and they didn't know what kind of voice to use, so they simply used a rather flat, mechanical voice instead.
However, the voice acting isn't important; what matters is the content.
“Yes.” The high priest of the Divine Faction nodded: “What we received from the Underground Black Street is not only a rare race, but also seems to be a Heavenly Fiend. What I need you to do is determine her origin, trace the cause of the Heavenly Fiend, and observe the abnormality of her soul.”
The mysterious woman stood still for a moment, then nodded gently: "Okay."
She walked gracefully to the wine glass and stood still.
She slowly raised her hand, holding the transparent crystal ball in her palm. The next second, the ball emitted a faint blue light and slowly floated into the air, hovering directly above the wine glass.
From the perspective of the live stream, it looks like a cold, radiant moon standing in a desolate sky.
At this moment, the "glowing moon" began to emit light, illuminating the entire wine glass.
At the same time, the mysterious woman lowered her eyes to look at the unconscious wine glass, her lips moved, and she uttered a string of obscure syllables.
Even with voice-over, it's impossible to understand what she's saying; it's like an unknown language or some kind of onomatopoeia.
Shui Shen speculated that this might be a "ritual prayer".
As she chanted, the light on the suspended crystal ball began to flicker, as if countless dark shadows suddenly flashed by inside.
These shadowy figures in the live stream looked somewhat like the outlines of a "person".
"There are images of people in the crystal ball. It feels like some kind of divination." It was Luigi who spoke. He was originally preparing to create entrance music for each character, but the restart of the Wine Glass live stream naturally interrupted his creation.
Angel nodded in agreement. When Gleipnir performed astrological divination before, he used a crystal ball, and various shadowy outlines also floated out from inside the ball.
Such shadows can generally only be interpreted by the diviner himself.
So, from this perspective, this mysterious woman really does seem like a fortune teller.
A moment later, the mysterious woman abruptly fell silent, the last syllable fading into the air. The crystal ball, suspended in mid-air, seemed to be drawn back to her palm by invisible threads.
She stood still, her gaze fixed on the crystal ball, as if observing the dark shadows surging within.
The priest of the Fellowship of God did not disturb her, and even took a step back, leaving her a quiet space.
About three minutes later.
The mysterious woman suddenly covered her mouth, and a violent cough erupted. Crimson blood seeped from between her fingers, dripping onto her black robe and spreading into dark, somber patterns.
This scene caused the high priest's expression to change slightly. His gaze swept back and forth between her and the unconscious wine glass, and a hint of vigilance crept into his eyes.
The coughing gradually subsided, and the woman swayed, staggering as she grabbed the edge of the bed where she was lying, holding onto the wine glass to avoid falling. It took her a while to catch her breath.
Upon seeing this, the high priest quickly stepped forward to inquire about her condition.
The mysterious woman shook her head, took out a handkerchief, and wiped the remaining blood from her mouth and between her fingers. In a slightly hoarse voice, she replied, "I'm fine. I just suffered a backlash during the tracing process. But it's not serious. I just need to rest."
"Backlash?" The high priest frowned. "Could she really be hiding some kind of conspiracy?"
The mysterious woman shook her head: "I don't know if there was a conspiracy, but my backlash wasn't because Yi Gui set me up. It was because I investigated the source of her misfortune and discovered that she was a... illegal immigrant."
"Smugglers?"
The mysterious woman nodded: "Moreover, she only smuggled herself into the Yi World in the last two days, which is why the misfortune surrounding her is extremely strong. I easily traced its source and sensed the aggregation of the world's will, and then I was attacked by it..."
To put it bluntly, she observed the aggregation of the "high-level" World Will, but her mental strength was unable to bear such observation, and she was thus attacked.
However, the world's will itself is a subjective aggregate concept. It did not react to the mysterious woman's spying, nor did it launch a counterattack. It was purely because she herself was not strong enough.
Therefore, she was unaware of any conspiracy. The backlash was entirely her own doing.
The high priest nodded, indicating that he understood.
“It’s normal for stowaways to be plagued by misfortune because they are not favored by the world’s will,” he said slowly. “She was attacked by a homeless man and sold to a black market merchant, which is also likely due to bad luck.”
Mysterious woman: "Being bought by you must be a misfortune that brought her down."
The high priest didn't reply, but merely glanced at the mysterious woman and said calmly, "What other information? Is your soul abnormal? What is your purpose in smuggling yourself into the Ritual World?"
The mysterious woman glanced at the high priest with annoyance: "I'm not a prophet, and matters from beyond the realm cannot be addressed through rituals, nor are they hindered by misfortune. You ask me about her purpose for smuggling herself in? Where am I supposed to ask?"
"However, what purpose could an ordinary person without supernatural abilities have in smuggling herself in? Either she accidentally fell into the rift and entered the Yi World in an irregular way; or she was a 'locator' put in by some extraterrestrial organization."
“Since you’re going to sacrifice her anyway, you don’t need to care about her purpose. Even if she’s a ‘locator’ from an outside organization, sacrificing her will solve everything.”
The high priest was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "I just have a vague feeling that her situation is strange. When I'm with her, I feel like I'm being watched."
"Being watched?" the mysterious woman asked suspiciously.
The high priest nodded: "No one is really watching her, but when you look at her, you feel like you're being spied on. But when you put her away, that feeling disappears."
"It was precisely because of this strange feeling that I came to find you, to see if there was anything wrong with her, or if there was anything unusual about her soul."
The mysterious woman shook her head: "Nothing's wrong. I can confirm that he's just an ordinary person. However, I can roughly guess what you mean by the feeling of being watched."
High Priest: "?"
"A locator," the mysterious woman said bluntly. "There's a high probability that behind this cup-shaped object is a group of people who want to locate the world. They put the cup-shaped object in here to use it for location tracking."
Because the cup head is a "locator," she may have hidden devices left by that group of people, which can autonomously collect information from the outside world.
Because she independently gathers information from the outside world, the high priest feels spied on.
The high priest thought about it and felt that this answer must be the truth...
……
Heart space.
The entire live stream area fell into a deathly silence as the priest of the Fengshen sect and the mysterious woman conversed.
Angell: "The feeling of being spied on..."
Luigi: "It only appears when you're facing the wine glass; it disappears when you put the glass away..."
They turned to look at each other, and both saw surprise and doubt in each other's eyes.
"Could the spying that the priest of the Deity sect sensed be... a live broadcast?" Luigi said somewhat hoarsely.
After a moment of silence, the water clone broke the silence first.
"The entity believes that what it sensed was the live broadcast room."
"When a person becomes powerful enough, their spiritual senses will also become incredibly sharp."
Angel nodded in agreement: "Like the Abyss God, even if you are separated by infinite worlds, as long as you talk about Him, He might be able to sense it."
"so……"
Angel said softly, "This priest of the Divine Faction is probably very powerful."
It is so powerful that its spiritual sense can even vaguely perceive the "live broadcast room".
Although it wasn't a conscious perception, it still demonstrated his terror.
Luigi frowned. "Speaking of which, he captured Ice Maiden and Coleman before. Ice Maiden was streaming at the time, so why didn't he mention 'being spied on' then?"
Angel recalled the situation of the Ice Maiden and the others at that time, and compared it with the situation of the wine glass, and slowly replied: "Is it possible that he also sensed being spied on at that time, but just thought that the sense of being spied on was more reasonable?"
"Reasonable?"
Angel nodded: "Have you forgotten why he captured Ice Maiden and Coleman back then? It wasn't just because of their rare race, but also because of Satan's loose tongue, and most importantly... the tickets."
The tickets originated from the Temple of the Corpse God, which means that the Blood Faction is behind them.
"Even if the high priest of the Divine Worship Sect felt spied on, he would most likely have assumed that some high-ranking members of the Bloodstained Sect were watching Ice Maiden and the others."
The fact that Ice Maiden and others are constantly under the watchful eyes of the Blood Faction's higher-ups shows that they are valuable.
It is very likely that he is an important pawn of the Bloodlust faction.
Angel: "The Bloodlust faction and the Divine Worship faction are enemies. His sacrifice of important pieces such as the Ice Maiden is, to put it bluntly, a counterattack against the Bloodlust faction."
Therefore, from this perspective, it is reasonable.
Luigi's eyes were somewhat dazed. He thought about it carefully, and Angor's explanation did indeed make sense. After all, compared to the Ice Maiden's live stream, the only thing missing was the "certification" from the Bloodstained Faction.
"What should we do with the wine glass now?" Luigi asked with some concern. He was worried about the wine glass's condition; she hadn't even woken up and couldn't even trigger the alarm mechanism on her own.
The water clone remained calm: "Don't worry too much. The worst outcome is that we'll be sacrificed to the Chaos God, but... would they dare to sacrifice someone with a 'locator' on their body to the Chaos God? I guess they wouldn't."
"As for other outcomes, they don't matter to the wine glass; the worst that can happen is death."
Even if you can't trigger the alert mechanism on your own, you can still be brought back by the power of the fairy realm if you die, only your mental strength will be damaged.
However, it will eventually recover.
Therefore, at present, although the chief priest of the Fellowship of God has vaguely sensed that he is being spied on, it has not yet reached the point where there is any need to worry.
Luigi: "Should we continue watching the live stream? If we do, will the priests of the Divine Faction still be able to sense it?"
The water clone said irritably, "Do you think the other party will feel at ease if we suddenly stop looking? Think about it carefully. If you were the high priest of the Fellowship of God, and you sensed that someone was watching you on the wine glass, and that sense disappeared as soon as you noticed and spoke up, how would you feel?"
Luigi: "...I would assume the person behind the glass is watching me."
Water Avatar: "That solves it. It's safer to make the other person think the wine glass is a tracking device than a surveillance camera."
"Besides, perhaps it's not that we 'watch' the live stream and make the other party feel spied on. Rather, it's the wine glass itself that triggers the live stream and makes the other party's senses alert."
So whether you look at it or not is not important; what matters is the glass itself.
……
The live broadcast continues.
The high priest of the Fellowship of God stared at the wine glass and remained silent for a long time.
Meanwhile, the mysterious woman beside her drank several bottles of blood-replenishing potion, which gradually restored the rosy color to her pale face.
After recovering, the mysterious woman propped herself up and prepared to leave.
As she opened the door to leave, the high priest suddenly asked, "Since she's most likely a 'locator,' do you think I should do this?"
The mysterious woman stopped in her tracks and turned to look at the high priest: "You have to ask me about this? I have a lot of work to do in the department. You can make up your own mind about such a small matter."
High Priest: "I'd like to hear your opinion."
The mysterious woman paused, seemingly pondering something, before finally letting out a soft breath, closing the door, and turning back to her wine glass.
"What do you want to do? There are only three choices: let her go, kill her, or sacrifice her."
The high priest stared at the mysterious woman: "Which one do you think is more suitable?"
Instead of answering immediately, she listed out the three possible options one by one.
"Letting her go is a poor choice. Although it won't cause trouble, she's being placed in Yungang City. If we let a wolf into our house in the future, it could potentially bring disaster upon us."
"Killing her is a middle to upper-middle strategy, depending on how you do it. Whether you do it yourself or let someone else do it. If you do it yourself, it's a neutral strategy, without any harm or disaster."
"If you hand it over to my company to kill, I will gain some merit. Although I won't get promoted, it's still a kind of accumulation, which is a moderately good strategy."
At this point, the mysterious woman looked at the high priest: "So, you're going to leave the killing to me?"
The high priest calmly said, "Do you lack these achievements?"
The mysterious woman shrugged: "I don't need it, but if you want me to kill someone, I can help you kill them."
The high priest did not answer, but said, "Continue, there is still a sacrifice."
The mysterious woman said, "As for sacrifices, it depends on how they are performed. I personally think it's somewhere between a poor and a moderately good option."
"Oh?"
"If you're offering sacrifices to the chaotic gods, I think that's a poor choice. Throwing someone with a 'locator' at the chaotic gods—aren't you just making trouble for your deities?"
"But if you sacrifice yourself to... the secret realm, then it doesn't matter. After all, this is a rare race with ice elemental abilities, which happens to fit the rules for secret realm employees. We can make the most of them, so this is a better-than-average strategy."