Under the Players' "slightly rough" actions, an extremely bizarre scene appeared in the inn at night:
Several men with terrible expressions were chasing a woman.
And this woman kept moving along the inn corridor, flashing into each room she passed, and then flashing out again with a look of annoyance.
The duration was not long, and no sound came from the quiet rooms, but when someone else entered, they would find: the traveler on the bed had disappeared.
Things in the room were scattered all over the floor, but not a single item was taken.
Such behavior did not seem to be for wealth.
So the question is:
So, what exactly did this female thief "steal"?
Answer: Cheng Shi's Time.
After following Yun Ni through more than a dozen rooms, Cheng Shi was completely disappointed.
Found nothing.
Aside from the luggage and a large amount of survival necessities brought by the travelers, the biggest gain was seeing a few pieces of new-style QQ underwear in a lady's wardrobe...
Don't mention it, this lady's taste... never mind, let's talk about serious matters.
The rooms just checked obviously housed proper travelers, not the people they were looking for.
Moreover, there were too many travelers in the inn.
If they continued searching like this, they wouldn't be able to finish searching the third floor even by dawn.
Not to mention there were two more floors below.
If this continued, by the time dawn was approaching, Yun Ni would have to send the travelers who were sent to "other planes" back together.
At that time, the fear might spread even more severely in the inn.
Midway, Cheng Shi reminded the others more than once: "Shall we continue?"
The others' responses were interesting:
Fang Jue frowned, Du Xiguang smiled slightly, Ascetic Monk did not speak.
Clearly, the Da Laos also wanted to try their luck.
They were betting that if they could find useful clues, it might save some Time.
Since the Da Laos were unwilling to stop, Cheng Shi, as a hanger-on, naturally had no say.
Let's continue.
However, life is like this; the more anxious you are, the worse things turn out.
This unconventional method was ultimately difficult to sustain.
At a certain moment before dawn, Assassin Miss's actions were discovered.
To be precise, she exposed herself.
When Yun Ni skillfully snuck into a certain room again, four men in black robes sitting neatly in the room simultaneously opened their eyes and looked at her.
As soon as the four pairs of bright eyes opened, a surge of the power of Order began to stir!
That viscous texture was as if He had descended here before!
Yun Ni's expression changed drastically, and she turned and ran.
However, the moment she entered the room, the outcome was already decided.
Grand and majestic chants sounded one after another, like a great bell.
"Here, fleeing is forbidden!"
"Here, shouting is forbidden!"
"Here, resisting is forbidden!"
"Here, sophistry is forbidden!"
Terrifying sacred lights surged up, instantly covering the entire room in dazzling golden light.
Chains composed of decrees, like living creatures, tightly bound Yun Ni's hands and feet.
She was powerless to resist, and unable to call for help, she could only watch helplessly as she was restrained, and then pulled by chains, lifted high into the air.
Like being torn apart by five horses.
Various pressures and negative statuses from Order violently ravaged her body, until the Judge wearing a judicial robe on the bed opened his eyes, and this terrifying "punishment" paused for a moment.
But what followed was the beginning of the nightmare.
The Judge took out his staff of judgment from Nothingness, his eyes surging with purple Thunder light looked at Yun Ni, lightly pointed at her bound location, and slowly spoke:
"Do you plead guilty?"
Plead guilty?
What crime?
Is sending sleeping travelers on a free trip to a strange plane also a crime?
Isn't this doing charity?
Of course, if Cheng Shi had been caught, he might have had such thoughts.
But for Yun Ni, at this moment, she was neither happy nor sad.
She realized the identity of this group of people; these were clearly people from the Grand Tribunal.
The people from the Grand Tribunal had already arrived!
They arrived at Eternal Bloom Town without a sound, disguised themselves as ordinary travelers, and infiltrated the inn to investigate!
That's right, if even the Players could locate the culprit, how could these Judges who specialize in judgment not have methods!
They had already locked onto the approximate location of the suspect, and possibly even had several suspects.
And she was just a "silly roe deer" who accidentally stumbled into the trap while they were waiting for their prey!
What was even more terrifying was that she felt a Divine fluctuation on the staff taken out by this Judge, similar to bloom awaits wither!
Another semi-artifact!
This was the third semi-artifact encountered within a day.
What did this mean?
It meant she might die!
Yun Ni had long thought that something unexpected might happen to her, but from beginning to end, she was contemplating how to deal with the bizarre attacks brought by When Fear Arrives.
But she didn't expect that she would indeed fall in the end, but she fell into the hands of another semi-artifact of the Grand Tribunal.
The outcome she faced after much deliberation was still so absurd.
Simply ridiculous.
Yun Ni seemed to give up defending herself, even though she felt she was innocent to begin with.
But when a Judge only wants to find you guilty, refuting is not as good as Silence.
At least she could preserve her last bit of dignity and not be a Clown.
This Judge's rhetoric clearly meant to kill her.
Yun Ni smiled fearlessly, then turned her head away.
However, the power of Order ultimately forced her to speak.
An invisible pressure turned into a transparent hand, pinching her throat and squeezing a response out of her windpipe.
"...Yes!"
Immediately after...
With a "boom", Thunder fell!
The sinner...
Turned into ash!
From pleading guilty to annihilation, not even a blink of an eye was wasted in between.
Although in Eternal Bloom Town, bloom awaits wither equally protected everyone.
However, there are always other Gods whose will can bring Death.
Just like the judgment of Order, it is irreversible!
The Judge finished the execution, but seemed unsatisfied.
He looked at the place where Yun Ni disappeared, his brows tightly furrowed.
He did indeed feel Death, but based on his understanding of his Thunder Punishment, the dead sinner should have turned into a charred corpse, not directly disintegrated and dissolved into Nothingness.
This kind of Death was like the long-unseen...
The Judges on the side also noticed the anomaly.
They frowned in confusion and asked:
"Lord, what is this?"
The Judge pondered for a moment, then said coldly:
"It's likely a special method from the Faith of annihilation underground.
It doesn't matter, the sinner has been executed."
If the Judge said the sinner was dead, then the sinner had no possibility of survival.
The four Judges nodded simultaneously, then closed their eyes one after another, returning to Silence.
The Judge put away his staff, and instead of closing his eyes, turned his cold gaze towards the door.
Outside the door, Fang Jue was covered in cold sweat, and Du Xiguang tightly clenched his fists.
The two were just one step away from following Yun Ni in, but luckily, Yun Ni quickly signaled a warning outwards the moment she entered the door, causing them to be cautious for a moment.
It was precisely this moment of hesitation that saved their lives.
The two retreated with solemn faces, all the way to the stairwell, where they met Cheng Shi and the Ascetic Monk in the shadows, before finally stopping and wiping the cold sweat from their foreheads.
Cheng Shi did not see everything that happened inside and outside the room.
Seeing the two's solemn expressions, his heart sank.
"Where's Yun Ni?"
Fang Jue's eyes darkened, and he didn't speak.
Du Xiguang slowly shook his head, his meaning clear.
"Dead?"
Is Eternal Bloom Town really a Town where one can die of old age normally?
Cheng Shi was extremely startled.
He widened his eyes and looked at that room, seemingly recalling who lived there.
If he remembered correctly, before they went out, that room should have been empty.
In other words, the people in this room moved in during the short period when the Players went out to look for Wei Guan.
The two sides just perfectly missed each other!
"Who is inside?"
This time, Fang Jue spoke.
"Order, I felt the fluctuation of the power of Order."
Grand Tribunal!
Without a doubt, it could only be the Grand Tribunal!
They had actually arrived!
He had just been thinking casually, but he didn't expect it to actually come true.
Cheng Shi felt the jest from Fate, and his expression was extremely grim.
The 7-day Trial lost another person at the dawn of the second day.
Six, remaining four.
At the same time, the travelers sent to other planes by Yun Ni were "bang"ed back by the plane, falling onto their beds and waking up with a start, only feeling they had had a horrifying nightmare.
However, they had no impression of the real culprit behind this nightmare.
Because the culprit has been executed.
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