Although he hesitated, Wan Lei still made a move.
After all, Mengmeng was their teammate now, and from the looks of it, she was happily eating, perhaps completely unsuspecting.
While Wan Lei didn't believe the powerful Mengmeng could be killed by a baguette, what if, just in case? Memes were illogical; who could say for sure?
If she were truly killed, then so be it. But what if she wasn't, and blamed him for not warning her…
Forget it.
A bolt of lightning shot directly towards the witch, who immediately screamed. The baguette in her hand dropped to the ground.
Mengmeng, however, remained oblivious, continuing to eat the little bat.
The witch twitched a few times on the ground before suddenly standing up straight. Then, she picked up her broom, mounted it, and actually flew.
“Wahaha, I can fly, I can really fly…”
The witch, in her ecstasy, flew around the hall. Perhaps because she had just learned to fly and was still a bit clumsy, she crashed into walls several times and shattered a window.
Although Wan Lei speculated that his lightning might have accidentally awakened her abilities, he didn't show any surprise. Ever since arriving in the Ghost Immortal Secret Realm, his already compromised worldview had shattered into pieces. Now, encountering anything strange was no longer surprising.
Perhaps it would be strange to encounter something that wasn't strange at some point.
After flying a few laps, the witch produced a pointed hat with a round brim from somewhere, placed it on her head, and revealed her hideous face.
“Hahahaha, lightning has awakened my witchcraft! From now on, I am the number one witch in the ancient castle.
Mortals, tremble beneath my feet! Offer me all your souls, become my servants.
Hahahaha, Baron Midnight will bow down to me.
Dream demon, pah! You little brat, now, kneel before me, immediately!”
Seeing this, Mengmeng spat out the centipede leg in her mouth with impatience, then picked up the baguette that had fallen to the ground and casually hurled it at the witch.
“Ah!!!”
The baguette hit the witch squarely on the forehead. She screamed and fell to the ground.
She was dead.
This… this was too abrupt.
Wan Lei was… still not shocked.
Keep a calm mind, a calm mind, nothing surprising.
After all, Mengmeng had said before that they could all revive.
“So noisy, so annoying, can’t a person eat in peace?”
Mengmeng muttered discontentedly and, ignoring everyone else, prepared to cut the unfortunate poisonous toad to eat.
“Goddess, don’t eat me, don’t eat me. I’ll treat you to roast suckling pig.”
This toad could actually beg for its life.
Although the toad was ugly, it was clearly an intelligent creature. If Wan Lei had to kill it, he wouldn’t hesitate.
But to eat it? He couldn’t bring himself to do it.
It wasn't about its ugliness. The main point was that as an intelligent life form, eating another intelligent and begging life form felt like eating a human.
Actually, he didn't know that in any world, there were intelligent demonic beasts that ate humans, and similarly, humans ate demonic beasts.
Demonic beasts could also be used for alchemy…
It was just that Wan Lei had seen too few intelligent demonic beasts. So far, he had only seen the Fire Phoenix, but she usually appeared in human form, so it was impossible to associate her with food.
As for Gouzi, he wasn't a demonic beast at all.
The little pig housekeeper jumped onto the table and said earnestly,
“Goddess, roast suckling pig isn’t very tasty. Why don’t you eat the delicacies I’ve meticulously prepared for you? I’ll cut it up for you, please feel free to enjoy.”
Now Mengmeng was in a dilemma, unable to decide between the poisonous toad and the roast suckling pig.
The little pig housekeeper felt wronged. It wasn’t supposed to be an ingredient, and it had enthusiastically offered food to Mengmeng, inviting her to eat. How did it end up becoming an ingredient itself?
“Goddess, Goddess, don’t eat me. I’m poisonous, but roast suckling pig isn’t.”
The toad, seeing the little pig housekeeper pick up the knife and fork, immediately panicked.
“Hmph, how could Goddess Mengmeng care about such a little bit of poison? To her, it’s just a side dish.”
“No! Goddess Mengmeng, don’t eat me. I’ll tell you a little secret.”
As soon as Mengmeng heard the word “secret,” she perked up. After all, what mischievous little girl could refuse a little secret?
“What little secret are you going to tell me?”
“Goddess Mengmeng, don’t listen to him. I’ll tell you a big secret.”
“Oh, little pig, what big secret do you have?”
“Goddess Mengmeng, Little Frog knows how to find Baron Midnight.”
“Goddess Mengmeng, Little Pig also knows that Baron Midnight is in the room on the ninth floor.”
“Goddess, you have to go through all the rooms on the first eight floors to find the Baron.”
“Goddess, Baron Midnight knows you’re coming to kill him today, so he’s set up monsters and traps in the first eight rooms.”
“Goddess, the food you just ate is poisoned, and even I, Little Frog, have been poisoned. The Baron wants to poison you, and Little Pig is an accomplice!”
“Goddess, you must believe me. I can tell you how to break through the first level.”
“Goddess, the witch was the monster the Baron left on the first level, and she could awaken abilities.”
“Goddess, being as intelligent as you are, you must have already seen that the witch had a problem, which is why you killed her in advance, right?”
Hearing this, Mengmeng’s big eyes rolled, and she immediately said with a beaming smile,
“Of course. Mengmeng is very smart. That little Baron, trying to harm me? Pah!
Mengmeng’s divine calculations make it easy to break through his traps.”
“Well done, Goddess Mengmeng, Goddess Mengmeng is so amazing! Then, Goddess Mengmeng must also know that the key to opening the door to the second level is on the witch.”
“Of course, I must know. Hurry up and tell me, what else do I know?”
Mengmeng tapped Little Pig’s head.
“Goddess Mengmeng must also know that the Baron is afraid of you, which is why he set up so many traps in an attempt to resist your divine might.”
“Goddess Mengmeng must also know that the Baron can’t defeat you, which is why he’s hiding.”
“Goddess Mengmeng, keep going.”
“Goddess Mengmeng will surely eradicate this scoundrel of a Baron.”
The two little animals flattered Mengmeng to her delight, so Mengmeng finally decided not to eat them.
This level of advanced flattery was beyond the reach of Wan Lei and the others.
Wan Lei and the others watched in stunned silence as Mengmeng bounced over to the witch's corpse and, with a casual rummage, found a bronze key.
“Here, the first level is complete. Let’s go.”
It ended just like that?
The first level of the horror castle quest was completed?
We stood here and did nothing at all.
We became background props?