Chapter 211: Black Swan: I've been stripped to the bone! It's too dangerous here, I have to go!
Black Swan's heart suddenly skipped a beat!
If it were earlier, she would have certainly asked with concern if Acheron needed any help inside the restroom.
But now, a sense of gloom crept into her heart.
Acheron hadn't come out yet.
Separated by only a door, yet it brought her an overwhelming sense of pressure!
"What is going on…"
Black Swan bought herself some time by continuing to watch the video.
At this moment, the white-haired Acheron in the footage had completely changed from her previous posture.
Her once dull eyes had become incredibly sharp!
While Black Swan herself was still completely bewildered, the figure in the video directly took over as the lead.
Forcibly pulling her into a dance!
A simple motion of stroking her head now looked more like a noose being tightened around her own neck.
With a forward push, her own expression had turned to one of terror.
The movement was incredibly tense!
Every time her arms were pulled apart, a large number of black feathers fluttered down.
Acheron's face was full of focus and coldness.
She no longer seemed like a dancer, but a butcher!
Expressionlessly plucking the feathers from her prey, tearing the body apart.
Black Swan couldn't help but shudder!
However, it didn't end there.
In the black silhouette, she transformed into a flock of birds, trying to escape.
But Acheron slowly and methodically tore the birds apart one by one. The very last one was dragged back, revealing her true form.
In the white pattern behind her, images of a python and a swan appeared!
Black Swan's focus was highly concentrated now.
She heard the background audio—beyond the calls of geese and snakes, there was the sound of bones shattering!
What this meant was self-evident!
Black Swan had never expected that the latter half of this video would be so bloody and ominous!
She saw herself being tossed left and right by Acheron like a marionette.
Every time she was stretched to the limit, a huge shadow would splash from her head!
Was it blood?
Or feathers?
Regardless, it was certainly not a good omen!
Finally, Acheron threw her onto the ground.
Her figure shattered into countless fragments, turning back into a flock of birds, desperately wanting to flee this place!
Yet the python's gaze seemed to be everywhere.
After the blood-red eyes stared, in the black and white frame, only a swan's skeleton remained.
Arms spread wide, the head let out a silent scream!
Black blood flowed down from the screen, completely drowning the scene.
Black Swan herself felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar!
Her whole body went cold!
A dozen seconds of footage—to her, it was a horror film with incredible expressive power!
And the protagonist in the film was none other than herself!
That bare skeleton revealed a rich, dark humor, as if hinting at her own ending!
Black Swan's pupils constricted.
She looked toward the restroom with some difficulty.
Acheron's figure had already appeared at the doorway.
Ready to come out at any moment!
Half a minute ago, Black Swan thought this was her home turf.
She thought Acheron had chosen to go to the restroom to tidy up because she was a little nervous.
And now…
All that composure, all that ease, had been thrown to the winds!
Since becoming a Memokeeper, this was the first time she had encountered such a sinister omen!
The image of that skeleton was already indelible in Black Swan's mind!
Not only eaten clean, but even the feathers had been plucked!
It was too dangerous here!
"I have to get out of here…"
In the video, the style was now approaching collapse!
It was all dynamic imagery composed of light, shadow, and lines.
Flashes of leopards chasing antelopes, bears chasing rabbits, sharks chasing schools of fish, spiders trapping moths—all appeared and vanished.
All were hunters and prey.
The latter were devoured by the former, without exception!
Finally, there were even images of single-celled organisms consuming smaller organic matter, and black holes swallowing stars!
By now, Black Swan no longer thought of herself as being on the side of the "hunter"!
And at the very end of the video, a hand reached upward weakly, trying to grasp something.
The owner of the hand was Black Swan herself.
At this moment, she was terrified beyond words!
She let out a silent cry, only to be torn to pieces in the red-and-black black hole scene!
Clang!
The bathroom door was pushed open.
Black Swan was shocked.
She hurriedly put away her phone!
Watching Acheron walk over step by step, Black Swan even subconsciously took several steps back.
There were still some water droplets dripping from Acheron's hands.
Only now did Black Swan understand.
The other party had prepared in advance not for anything else—she was preparing to kill!
Just like how ordinary people wash their hands before slaughtering chickens or cattle!
Black Swan was now extremely regretful.
Why had she been so impatient!
Whatever the mood, whatever the sense of ritual—it could all go to hell!
She really should have finished watching this video before deciding to invite Acheron.
This was a warning from Feathered Spirits for her!
But due to her own mysterious confidence, she had missed this last chance for survival.
"What's wrong?"
Acheron looked at her expressionlessly.
Her whole body was shrouded in shadow.
"Memokeeper, you weren't like this just a moment ago."
Facing Acheron's approach, Black Swan subconsciously dodged.
The cruel imagery from that video kept echoing in her mind.
She was a Memokeeper.
There were still many precious memories waiting for her to discover.
She didn't want to die here so vainly!
To be made into a skeleton ornament by this psychopath.
Duke Inferno had already met a miserable enough end.
Black Swan did not want to follow in his footsteps.
Black Swan suddenly circled around to the room's entrance.
Trying her best to suppress the fear in her heart, she said: "That… I need to prepare a little bit today as well."
"Let's call off the dance for now. Let's do it another day."
Having said this, Black Swan couldn't wait to turn into a meme and escape this room.
Just like in the video, turning into a flock of birds and scattering to escape.
However, Acheron appeared beside her in an instant.
She pressed a hand against the door.
"No."
"You can't leave today."
Black Swan almost burst into tears.
Because she had personally set a restriction on this room to avoid being discovered by the Family's hounds.
And Acheron's press just now was equivalent to adding another lock to the restriction she had set.
Now, even if someone wanted to come and rescue her, it would be impossible!
This was truly: there is a path to heaven she didn't take, but she insisted on breaking into the gates of hell.
Black Swan felt as if she could already foresee it.
Once the news of her death reached the cosmos, she would likely be whipped by countless players inside and outside the game.
Becoming a pair of tragic characters alongside Duke Inferno.
She was really going to be remembered by the whole universe this time…
But it would be in the form she least wanted to see.
"Big sister, you can't just force people like this…"
Black Swan was past the point of tears.
She had even steeled herself.
Even if Acheron suddenly transformed into that white-haired image in the next second and slashed over with a blade, she wouldn't be surprised.
But Acheron shook her head.
"Memokeeper, have you forgotten?"
"I am still being hunted by the Family."
"If you go out, you will implicate me and expose us both."
"Just stay here quietly with me for a while longer."
Black Swan nodded helplessly.
There were no other options now.
Before, it was she who insisted on coming in.
Now it had turned into the other party not letting her out.
Black Swan could only sit as far away from Acheron as possible.
Dancing or whatever—she was completely out of the mood for that.
Watching Acheron sit there, lost in thought, Black Swan guessed:
Was she contemplating which method to use to process her?
Right now, it felt like the pot had already been set up.
Just waiting for the water to boil.
The other party didn't move, and Black Swan didn't dare to move either.
She didn't even dare to take out her phone to look at it again.
Meanwhile, outside, the release of this video had already caused an uproar!