Lady, you don’t want to be corrupted by the devil, do you?

"I'm sorry, Mr. Jiuyu...no." Akizuki Rina lowered her head.

"It's okay, it's already noon time, let's go eat first."

"it is good…"

Following behind Zhou Jiuyu, Akizuki Rina couldn't help but sigh.

How could this be alright? She couldn't even pass the first level, which almost meant that she would have a hard time passing the first level of the Tower of Time...

Why is the first level of trial a love level? If it was a mindless monster-killing level, it would be much simpler and easier.

But the love test... this is a test that has stumped many heroes, unless you are truly heartless or have an extremely strong will.

-

It was still the private room in the teahouse. Originally, this was the place where Zuo Zi and Meng Xiaomeng secretly discussed improper things, but now it became the place where Zhou Jiuyu and Akizuki Rina had dinner.

Even the owner of the teahouse treated Zhou Jiuyu as Zuo Zi's guest, and whatever he ordered was free of charge without requiring any payment.

"The boss just said that we are the guests of Miss Meng and Zuo Zi... If that's the case, where are they? They came here to eat to discuss something, right?"

Akizuki Rina looked at the sumptuous meal on the table and swallowed hard.

Steamed king crab, garlic-fried baby green crab, abalone and pork ribs soup, braised pig's trotters, grilled beef, etc...

These dishes only exist in Akizuki Rina's false memories, but in reality she has never eaten them. Being imprisoned in prison, it is good enough to have a meal.

The only chance she had to eat something delicious was probably at her coming-of-age dance a few days ago. Unfortunately, she didn't have the chance to sneak in some delicious food... and then various conflicts occurred, leading to where she is now.

"Don't worry about them. The bill has been paid for us anyway, so just eat." Zhou Jiuyu was already eating without any courtesy.

When Akizuki Rina heard this, she no longer cared about anything else. She grabbed a piece of lobster meat and started to eat it, her eyes narrowed as she looked at the delicious food.

But just at this moment of enjoyment, an uninvited guest broke into the box room.

Ran Qizheng directly broke open the door of the box, looking very anxious:

"Zuozi, I'm warning you, don't touch the newcomer I brought back!"

"Ok?"

But after seeing the scene inside the door, Ran Qi was stunned where he was, with an expression of bewilderment.

It seemed that he didn't see the scene he expected.

In his imagination, Zuo Zi and Meng Xiaomeng were attacking Akizuki Rina and her group at this time. Even when he came over, it was too late and he could only see three corpses.

But...what's going on with these three people eating and drinking so well?

"Mr. Ran?" Akizuki Rina frowned.

"Hmm... have you seen Meng Xiaomeng? I just got the news that Meng Xiaomeng is actually in cahoots with Zuo Zi. You may not know who Zuo Zi is, but he is a member of a gang called Hunting, and Hunting is an organization that specializes in hunting down time travelers! They don't leave any evidence when they do things, so we can't judge them."

Ran Qi was explaining to several people.

"I do not know…"

Akizuki Rina frowned and looked around, but then in her sight, a dark and bloody color slightly spread in the corner.

She was a little surprised and stared at the cabinet for a while.

Ran Qizheng also noticed her gaze, frowned and walked towards the cabinet: "Ms. Li Na, what are you looking at? Is there anything here?"

Akizuki Rina looked confused: "I don't know, how about you open it and see what's inside?"

Ran Qizheng hesitated for a moment, but still opened the cabinet, and then his expression changed drastically.

After the cabinet was opened, a fishy smell came to his face, and the smell of blood hit his nose. There were two corpses hanging in the cabinet. They were the people he was looking for, Zuo Zi and Meng Xiaomeng.

At this moment, Ran Qi couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat...

This Akizuki Rina...

Who is he?

Zuo Zike is a time traveler of the same class as him, an eighth-level illusionist.

And Meng Xiaomeng is also a sixth-level illusionist.

The illusionist's methods are different from ordinary ones. If he sets up a trap and casts illusions in advance, it is enough to easily kill a ninth-level strongman and make others unaware!

Even though Akizuki Rina showed great strength that day, her performance was very immature, as if she was not very worldly-wise. But now it seems... he was wrong.

"Mr. Ran?" Akizuki Rina just felt that these things were too strange.

"Ms. Rina is truly unfathomable. I am the one who worries too much. This is the pass to the Tower of Time. It contains a half-month time reward. It is my small gift."

At this moment, Ran Qizhen no longer dared to look down on Akizuki Rina. He took out a special pure black magnetic card from his pocket, placed it on the table, and then politely said goodbye.

He originally intended to recruit Akizuki Rina, and wanted to use the information gap to deceive Akizuki Rina and gain profit from it.

But Akizuki Rina had seen through it all, and also saw through the conspiracy of Meng Xiaomeng and Zuo Zi. She even expected him to come and asked him to open the cabinet himself and see the bodies of Zuo Zi and Meng Xiaomeng... Isn't this a warning to him, I know everything, you'd better put away your little thoughts.

"You've already achieved this level just after arriving here. You even easily broke the trap set by Zuo Zi. I just hope I won't make her angry."

Ran Qizheng shook his head and left the teahouse.

But in the teahouse box, Akizuki Rina picked up the reward pass for the Tower of Time with a silly expression: "He's a pretty good guy, not like what Meng Xiaomeng said he was a bad guy, and...what's going on?"

"Miss, this is what happened..."

Qiu Yuehui explained the matter about Meng Xiaomeng. Of course, she omitted some contents and did not say anything about the secret.

"I see…"

Akizuki Rina finally understood what was going on with the two corpses. At this moment, she couldn't help but look at Zhou Jiuyu in surprise:

"Mr. Jiuyu, how did you know that? I can't tell at all that she's a liar."

"It's very simple." Zhou Jiuyu chuckled: "Because you are stupid."

Akizuki Rina: “?”

"Am I really that stupid?" Akizuki Rina couldn't help but say, "I think I'm pretty smart!"

Zhou Jiuyu just smiled and said nothing.

This made Akizuki Rina feel very depressed, but since things had come to this point, she might as well continue eating crabs. She had never tasted what king crab tasted like.

"By the way, Rina, what kind of test did you encounter on the first floor of the Tower of Time? With your ability, how come you can't even pass the first floor?"

But before Akizuki Rinai could enjoy the delicious food any longer, the words that were like questions to her heart made her whole body tense.

Author's words: 2k/6k

303 The first level of the trial, Jiang Yibai? ?

Into the dark alley, a man in a black robe stepped into it. He bumped directly into a wall, but the strange thing was that he actually passed through the wall, and it was as if no one had been in the alley.

After passing through the wall, there was a meeting room with candles lit.

Five men in black robes were already seated there, and with his entry, six of the seven chairs were already occupied.

They all took off their hat brims, revealing their true faces, both men and women, but the man in black robe sitting in the front seat did not take off his hat brim for a long time. His face was hidden in the shadows and no one could see it clearly.

"What about the greedy people?" someone asked.

"He's dead." The man who just walked in said calmly.

"That cunning fellow would actually die? Didn't he always have a capable assistant to help him set up the scheme? He had never failed in more than a dozen hunting operations, so why did he have to die this time..."

"The one who killed him was a girl named Akizuki Rina, but according to our intelligence, her name is not Akizuki Rina. Her real name should be Akizuki Marina, and she is the eldest daughter of Tokyo Island." The person who spoke was a woman of extraordinary beauty.

Upon hearing this name, the person who had been silent at the main seat actually spoke up. He reached out and knocked on the table, signaling others to stop talking:

"This is the first time we have been hunted by others."

The person in the main seat had a very hoarse voice, which was deliberately hoarse. It was a false voice. It was obvious that he wanted to hide his identity, but no one dared to ask about his identity.

"Arrogant Bishop, what do you mean?" The woman hesitated.

"Kill him. The five of you should work together to kill him, even if it means taking advantage of loopholes in the rules of the Tower of Time, or even exposing your own identities to the Judge."

For a moment, the five people looked at each other. They had never seen the bishop care so much about someone.

But they also quickly agreed: "Yes."

-

After lunch, Zhou Jiuyu and Akizuki Rina came to the door of the Tower of Time again.

He took Akizuki Rina's hand and said, "Since you are so afraid to face it, let's do it together."

But Akizuki Rina was very resistant. She was extremely panicked at the moment and was very afraid that her secret would be exposed. That was a secret that absolutely could not be told, something that absolutely could not be said.

The love and affection that she finally got, even if it was "sincerity" with ulterior motives, she couldn't lose it... This was the first sincerity she had experienced since she was born. No one had ever been so white, so fragrant... so clean and beautiful.

Even Qiu Yuehui is not as good as him!

She knew, she knew that Qiu Yuehui was only working so hard by her side because of the nightmare, the demon in her.

Only this boy who suddenly appeared was very handsome and clean. She felt her heart palpitating for him at first sight, but the most important thing was that he was actually interested in her... He actually said that he liked her and was willing to be with her.

They even formed a beautiful relationship like a couple, but she originally thought that she could only be a friend, or even a lower-class maid...

But now, the relationship is in jeopardy if the secret is exposed.

No one can accept it, no one's...

"No, no! That's too scary, Mr. Jiuyu, you don't know how scary that illusion is. Let's start from the second level. The trials on each level are different. I really can't face the illusion on the first level... Everyone has things they can't face. It's not shameful to escape, right, Mr. Jiuyu?"

Akizuki Rina kept talking about these things with Zhou Jiuyu along the way. She tried her best to describe how terrifying the first level of illusion was to her.

She even made up many childhood nightmares to cover up what she actually encountered on the first level.

"There is no shame in running away, so I didn't say that I would ask you to face it. I respect your choice."

Zhou Jiuyu looked at her strangely instead.

"Then, then we are..."

"You forgot that if we enter the Tower of Time together, we will be working as a team. If we work as a team, I will be the first one to go in. I can't run into your illusion again, right?"

Qiuyue Li Na was stunned, but then quickly said: "But in this case, Mr. Jiuyu, wouldn't you..."

"Me? I'm not important. I don't have any inner demons." Zhou Jiuyu's voice was firm.

"Really, really?"

"Would I lie to you? Although I... have a pretty bad past, it's not important. I don't take it seriously."

Zhou Jiuyu smiled and shook his head.

Perhaps in the illusion, he would have to face again the devastating life that he had as an orphan in his previous life. But whether it was cheating or the collapse of the world, he felt that he could face it calmly now...right?

"So, what about Xiao Hui? We can't leave her outside, right?"

"Don't we have this?"

Zhou Jiuyu squeezed the time reward pass in his hand.

"Ah?" Qiu Yuehui looked a little confused.

"This pass is for you. When we break into the tower, you stay at the door of the Tower of Time. If someone wants to harm you, just hide in the dark place." Zhou Jiuyu said.

"But, in this dark place, doesn't time in the outside world stop flowing?" Qiu Yuehui couldn't help but say.

"Do you still believe what Ran Qizhen said? Why do you think he gave us this time reward pass out of guilt?"

"It's because a lot of the information he told us was false. In the dark land of time rewards, you can adjust the time ratio between the tower and the outside world yourself. Many people think this is a convenient setting."

Zhou Jiuyu explained.

"But we have checked this information on our mobile phones, but it won't be circulated..."

“Who gave you this phone?”

"Ran Qizheng."

"Yep."

Qiu Yuehui was completely speechless and had to accept the pass.

She also understood that she was now a burden to Zhou Jiuyu and Akizuki Rina.

Not only does he have no fighting ability, he's also just a light bulb.