Doomsday Wonderland - Chapter 342

Chapter 342: Murderous Intents Fully Exposed

Lin Sanjiu waved her hand and converted her platform into a card . After storing the card in her body, Lin Sanjiu hugged the pillar tightly with both her arms . The muscles from her fingertips to her chest starting hurting as she tried her best to withstand the suction force . As the artist added brushstroke to his painting every now and then, the suction force from the painting grew stronger and stronger . It had only been five or six seconds but Lin Sanjiu could feel her body trembling as exhaustion set in .

If this continues, Lin Sanjiu knew she would be dragged into the painting .

She forced her pounding heart to calm down . At that very moment, she couldn't think of any way out of this predicament . She ran through all the Special Items and abilities she had in her mind and realized that she couldn't think of anything that could help her right now . While she gradually grew more and more anxious about the situation, she turned to look behind her once more and realized that the artist was standing beside another pillar .

The guests and other artists had already moved aside to avoid getting in the way of the two people . Though they were visibly startled, their reactions were still very unusual . It was as though they were just watching two people squabbling . Lin Sanjiu wondered how this situation actually played out in the story . Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes and took another glance at her target through the strong gale that the suction force created . Clenching her teeth, she pulled her wings out from the pillar she was holding and released her grip .

A fraction of a second later, her body along with her skeletal wings flew toward the painting without any resistance, as if a piece of dried leaf in the wind . Lin Sanjiu's body was almost reaching the canvas . A glint of delight finally flashed across the artist's eyes .

The next second, however, his elation was cut short . Lin Sanjiu's body stopped moving .

When Lin Sanjiu was just a few millimeters away from the painting, her wings created a sharp grating sound as they scratched the pillar . Sparks flew due to the friction . Lin Sanjiu barely managed, but she got a grip on the pillar with her wings . After that, she quickly thrust her skeletal wings deep into the pillar . Even though her body was still floating weightlessly in the air, Lin Sanjiu felt that a sense of relief washed over her as her pair of strong wings held her in place . Her body was covered in cold sweat and she felt as though her heart was almost bursting out from her chest .

"It's my turn now," she said softly as she aimed a kick at the easel .

She avoided the canvas . Just as the tip of her feet was about to touch the easel, she pulled her feet upward such that it tipped the easel forward . Before the canvas could touch her legs, she quickly withdrew them . She curled her body and reached forward, stretching her arms . She tapped the easel with her hand .

However, nothing happened .

Her [Planar World] was not activated . Nothing was changed into a card . Just as the easel was about to touch the ground, the artist quickly grabbed the easel with his hand . The suction force suddenly started again .

Lin Sanjiu was flabbergasted .

The item weight limit that her [Planar World] had already reached one and a half ton after the last level up . Lin Sanjiu also knew that she could not convert any living thing into a card . However, that easel should not be affected by both limitations . She didn't know why her ability failed .

When Lin Sanjiu noticed that the artist was about to pull his easel backward, she became hasty . She disregarded her uncertainty and launched a kick toward the artist . With her current height, she could easily reach the artist with her leg and kick him to the ground . However, when the tip of her feet nearly touched the artist's head, the muscles on her leg contracted . As if she had a sudden cramp, her leg tensed up and she drew her leg back sliding past the artist without touching him .

Lin Sanjiu exhaled and narrowed her eyes . She even pulled her wings out of the pillar . She shot her body toward the artist . A mere second before she nearly got suck into the painting, Lin Sanjiu raised her hand and struck the artist's chest with a slap .

With a quick rush of air, the artist and the painting disappeared . Lin Sanjiu fell from mid-air hitting the ground with a thud . By then, she had a new card in her hand: [An Unfinished Oil Painting] .

If she didn't sense that the artist was not emitting any heat through her hypersensory state, she would really have mistaken the artist for a real human . From the beginning, that Special Item wasn't that painting but it was the artist .

She finally understood why Hei Zeji said she was blind .

After she stood up from the ground, the narrator's voice rang out again:

"Gabrielle and Joseph's quarrel drew many of the guests' attention . As one of Queen Margaret's lovers, Joseph was always willing to stick up for the queen…"

With the clue from the narration, Lin Sanjiu found the baron called Joseph . "He seemed to the person who had brought the artists to the ball . He is one of the queen's lackeys . "

Sitting far from Lin Sanjiu, separated by groups of guests, Queen Margaret's face became icy cold once more . However, that did not diminish the woman's beauty . Lin Sanjiu stared directly at the woman's cold azure eyes for a few seconds and made a decision .

The only requirement to complete "Time Travel" was that the player had to survive until the end of the round . There weren't any rules stating that she couldn't kill others .

Even though Lin Sanjiu had avoided being killed by that attack, there was no telling what would happen next . Lin Sanjiu did not know when she would be attacked again and whether she would be able to overcome it next time . Rather than waiting passively for other people to attack her, she preferred taking a proactive role to strike first .

Lin Sanjiu took out her platform again and placed it back on the track . She stood on it once more before that one minute limit .

Her action seemed to signal to the others that she had her guard down . Queen Margaret looked at her once and turned her head away . This wasn't strange because the track she was on was quite a distance from the throne . If "Gabrielle" remained on her platform, there was no way she could get close to Queen Margaret .

But, of course, Lin Sanjiu didn't plan to play by the rules .

While she was still in the set of an ongoing scene, she could not leave the place but she could move around with her board within a limited area . As she observed Queen Margaret's every move, Lin Sanjiu pretended as if she had slid her platform accidentally to the part of the track that was closest to the throne .

Even though that was the closest spot, she was still a few hundred meters from the throne .

When Lin Sanjiu took a closer look at Queen Margaret, she realized that the woman, as elegant as a swan, looked even more graceful and dainty than she expected . The woman had a svelte figure and her golden hair was in an intricate updo . When Lin Sanjiu stopped, the queen was saying something to her servant . As she did that, the pearls on her neck shimmered in the light . It was as though that woman had been beautifully carved from diamonds .

Even though her opponent was very beautiful, Lin Sanjiu didn't have even a hint of sympathy for that woman .

In fact, for Lin Sanjiu, it was best if the queen was just fragile and weak . Considering that the woman probably had more Special Items and so-called "secret dark arts", Lin Sanjiu decided to just end that woman's life with a direct physical attack .

Before Queen Margaret finished giving instructions to her servant, Lin Sanjiu took action .

She had been hiding in the crowd and waiting for some time so she was fully prepared to launch this attack .

She wrapped her upper body with her [Defence Forcefield], then extended her skeletal wings menacingly, displaying her full intention to kill . With successive quick steps, she accelerated toward Queen Margaret at full speed . She moved so quickly that she was leaving afterimages behind her .

If this was a reconstruction of the past, logically speaking, the NPCs should not have any combat skills . Yet, just to be on the safe side, Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth to speak when she nearly reached Queen Margaret's dress .

Before she could ask "have you heard of route 300", Queen Margaret turned her head slightly . Lin Sanjiu was suddenly hit by a force which threw her backward . She didn't even know what had happened .

The moment Lin Sanjiu hit the ceiling, she finally noticed that there was a small vortex in front of Queen Margaret's body .

Even though she was in her hypersensory state, she didn't detect even the slightest sign that it was there . The air current surrounding the queen was still the same as before . However, it changed when Queen Margaret raised her hand . She grabbed the air current like soft clay and created a fast-moving air vortex .

The vortex was not large but it swallowed and dissipated the force from Lin Sanjiu's forward thrust . When the vortex unraveled, Lin Sanjiu felt the reflected force of her own strength combined with the added attack from the queen . That huge force hit her chest directly .

Even with her [Defence Forcefield], Lin Sanjiu could hear crisp cracking sounds in her ears as she felt her rib bones being shattered . In a split second, all her organs that had been damaged by that impact felt as though they were going to explode . Blood rushed to Lin Sanjiu's brain . Her face suddenly became blood red .

Lin Sanjiu lost all control of her body and fell heavily to the ground . She just couldn't imagine that she wasn't even able to endure a single blow from Queen Margaret as that woman raised her hand .

When Queen Margaret stood up from her seat and walked toward her, Lin Sanjiu could only struggle to prop herself up .

"Enough!"

King Henry roared angrily and stopped Queen Margaret in her tracks .

"Whatever the grudges you have against each other, is it necessary to create such an embarrassing scene?" King Henry's tone was filled with wrath . However, his anger was naturally directed to his own wife . He strode toward "Gabrielle" and suppressed his fury, "Come with me . "

Apparently, in the story, the Queen and Gabrielle had only quarreled verbally .

Lin Sanjiu couldn't even stand up right now . When Lin Sanjiu heard the narrator's reminder that she had been away from her platform for 27 seconds, she held her abdomen and moved toward her metal board, almost crawling .

Once she sat on her platform, the metal board immediately moved along the tracks, trailing behind King Henry .

The blood from the corner of the mouth dripped through the holes in the metal board . It trickled down on the track leaving a long trail of blood behind her . Queen Margaret chased after them as if she was reluctant to back off . Finally, for some reason, the woman stopped and returned to the main ballroom .

"I think I'm safe now . " Lin Sanjiu thought to herself as she was struck by bouts of dizziness . While her heart palpitated, she couldn't help letting out a sigh of relief .

"Thankfully, King Henry was willing to stand up for his lover… Queen Margaret is just too strong . " Lin Sanjiu thought .

The man walked very quickly so Lin Sanjiu only saw his back . He seemed very unhappy . The two people walked along a corridor of the side palace for quite a few minutes . Neither of them said a word .

Leaving the brightly lit ballroom, the side palace was unusually quiet . It was so quiet that the sound of chafing fabrics as the king moved was ever so prominent .

As Lin Sanjiu listened to the pulsing sound of her blood flowing through her body, she overheard two female maids speaking softly:

"Yes, I heard that on the day they got married, the king and the queen didn't even look once at each other . They simply looked straight ahead and completed the ceremony…"

"Yes . I even heard that King Charles had to press down her head for her to agree . . "

Lin Sanjiu looked up, feeling confused .

"Huh?"

"If that was the case, Queen Margaret had no feelings for King Henry?"

Lin Sanjiu couldn't help remembering the baron called Joseph . "That's right . He is one of Queen Margaret's lovers…"

Initially, Lin Sanjiu thought that Queen Margaret was jealous of Gabrielle even though she had her own lovers . However, based on what the two maids said, Margaret definitely didn't have a reason to be against Gabrielle…

"Why would she—"

"I can't believe you subdued that artist," King Henry said softly as he turned around in the darkness, revealing half his face . A foreboding smile appeared on his face .