“Xiezhi… You can't escape…”

In a shadowy corner of the orphanage.

A slightly petite woman, cloaked and eerie, spoke.

In her hand, she clutched an exquisite gear.

Countless patterns and traces were etched upon it, like layers of watermarks covering its surface.

It was precisely the missing piece of the music box that Wu Wang and the others were searching for.

She was the mastermind behind it all.

The events of today had all been foreseen by her days in advance.

She had naturally anticipated that Xiezhi would seek trusted companions to help him here.

But that couldn't change the outcome.

She knew very well that, given Xiezhi's character, he would surely have made many trustworthy friends.

However, his dismissal had been sudden, and he had been secretly seeking an opportunity to investigate.

Even if he called for help, it wouldn't be from more than four people at most.

In the end, even fewer people came than she had imagined.

Only three helpers arrived.

Among them, Yingluo was renowned, the leader of the Fist Hall of the Hongmen.

She had also heard a little about Shutong, rumored to be a guy who had secretly conquered a Nightmare-level instance.

She had heard of his existence from some people who had experienced Nightmare-level instances and survived.

Therefore, she had relatively detailed information about his abilities displayed in the instance.

The one who was slightly troublesome was that guy who had been squatting at the entrance of the orphanage, munching on watermelon, named Yan Shuangying.

Information about this guy was almost non-existent.

The only thing known was that he had once conquered a Nightmare-level instance called [Haunted Village Chronicle].

However, the specific content of this instance had not yet been synchronized in the files of the Special Affairs Bureau.

Even that guy in the Jingcheng headquarters couldn't help her find relevant content.

It seemed that Xiezhi had deliberately not synchronized it into the system.

What was somewhat troublesome was that this guy's intuition seemed to be too sharp.

When Yan Shuangying arrived at the orphanage in advance, he almost noticed her hiding outside the door.

He checked the surrounding environment at an extremely fast speed, with strange steps.

She had to transfer and hide just before he checked the situation in many places.

As a result, after he entered the orphanage, she didn't dare to monitor his actions the entire time.

Lest he discover her in advance.

Unexpectedly, he still found clues in the end.

It's a pity… when you have been trapped here for more than half an hour.

It's already too late.

If you want to quickly break through the restrictions of the [Calamity Hole], it must be used by someone who is recognized by the music box.

Among these people, apart from Xiezhi.

The woman didn't think anyone else was qualified to use the music box.

This was a conspiracy.

A conspiracy that he had to use the music box, even though he knew it had problems.

Buzz—

Sure enough.

Only two or three minutes after the clone she created was caught and ran away.

The fragment in her hand began to react.

It seemed that Xiezhi also planned to go all out.

Then let it be as he wishes!

“Xiezhi, I'll take over your body.”

“Don't worry, I will make good use of your identity to do things!”

The woman smiled sinisterly and projected her consciousness into the fragment.

The patterns carved on it were curses, but also enhancements and reinforcements.

She knew that Xiezhi's strengths lay in mental power and dealing with spirits or curses.

That's why he had the courage to use the music box.

Unfortunately, this curse was special.

Because in a sense, it was not a curse aimed at someone.

But a gambling-like effect of the item.

[Soul Weight Contract]!

When the mental power of both sides collided, it would completely immunize any special mental effects.

Conducting a pure mental power competition.

That is, a pure numerical comparison.

It was equivalent to directly placing the mental power of the two on a scale for weighing.

The winner would gain control of the other's body.

This control was not permanent.

It could probably only control the other's body for ten minutes.

But that was already enough.

In a situation of mutual hostility, ten minutes was enough for someone to use your body to commit suicide countless times.

Although committing suicide after seizing the other's body would also cause severe damage to one's own soul.

But it was completely worth it.

After all, it was exchanging for the other's life.

And the effect carved on the fragment was to allow one's own mental power to be calculated at ten times the weight when placed on the scale!

No matter how good Xiezhi was at mental power, it was impossible for him to exceed her by ten times, right?

After all, she was not weak either!

Even if the side effect of this effect was that she would be mentally weak for the next month.

As long as this plan could succeed.

This little side effect was nothing!

After all, she would not directly control Xiezhi to commit suicide.

But would lift the restrictions on the orphanage within these ten minutes.

Let Xiezhi and the people from the Special Affairs Bureau collide.

After completely confirming the collusion with the [Calamity Sect], she would commit suicide in front of everyone.

To stage a death without proof.

Even the cause of Xiezhi's death in the end, she could guess what it would be manipulated into and released—

[Failed to escape, committed suicide out of fear of crime]

Under the woman's low laughter, her eyes gradually lost their light.

Her consciousness appeared in a world of bright red.

Looking around, it seemed like an boundless red sea, but there were no waves or undulations.

The stillness was somewhat eerie.

“The sea of consciousness representing mental power, calm and unruffled, what a state of detachment many people dream of?” The woman couldn't help but sigh.

Then, a blurry figure of a man appeared in front of her.

Presumably, this was Xiezhi's mental power.

The woman confidently took a step forward.

In an instant, a scale constructed of white bone corpses appeared out of thin air between the two.

The pointer in the middle was even a thick finger bone like a giant's, swaying left and right.

She was on the left, and “Xiezhi” was on the right.

When the [Soul Weight Contract] officially began.

Watching the scale gradually press down towards her side in a slow and uniform state.

The woman's heart became more and more excited.

At the same time, she did not forget to praise.

“As expected of you, roughly calculated, your mental power attribute is estimated to be nearly 130 points.”

“If it weren't for this tenfold pressure, I'm afraid very few people could really beat you.”

“Unfortunately, you met me!”

With a tenfold increase.

Her mental power attribute was a full 700 points!

What could he rely on to win!

At this moment, the figure of “Xiezhi” moved.

He twisted his neck and lay sideways on the scale in a completely unseemly manner.

It had the lazy visual sense of a fat宅 at home with a bottle of happy water in front of him, grabbing potato chips with one hand and reaching into his clothes to scratch an itch with the other.

“Yes, yes, yes, you are amazing, you are aloof, you are 1080P, I only have 360P, okay?”

However, when the other party's voice came from the blurry human form.

The woman was stunned.

This voice… didn't seem like Xiezhi.

Moreover, the teasing feeling was completely different from the feeling Xiezhi gave people.

She seemed to have heard this voice somewhere, seen this cheap feeling.

Could it be…

“It's you! Yan Shuangying! How could it be you!”

“How can you use the music box!”

This scene was somewhat beyond the woman's understanding.

She had clearly deliberately carved a seal on the music box that could only be activated by Xiezhi's aura.

Other than that, if others wanted to use the music box.

Then they really needed to pass the test of each animal, even including the dead eldest brother!

How was this possible!

In such a short time!

When she first noticed Yan Shuangying's existence in the [Spider] room.

The woman thought that this guy had broken the [Spider]'s spatial ability through some special method.

She never thought that he had really passed every test.

“It doesn't matter… it's okay if it's you…”

Her brain filtered the plan in an instant.

Even if she couldn't control Xiezhi himself, she could control his friend to become a [Calamity Sect member]!

Anyway, as long as it was confirmed that Xiezhi had problems.

Even if he was not dead now, that guy in the Jingcheng headquarters would find a way to take care of it!

“Yan Shuangying! Then surrender your body to me!”

She viciously manipulated her mental power to press down on the scales.

It was only a little bit away from reaching the criteria for judgment.

At most, in another three seconds, the scales would stabilize.

700 to 130.

An overwhelming victory!

Just then, Wu Wang spoke again.

Unable to hold back his laughter, he said, “Alright, alright, it's yours. I don't have any problem with it, just don't kick my feet for me. But you have to ask Him first if He has any objections.”

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“Him?” Hearing this title.

The woman was stunned for a moment.

The next second, the red sea, as smooth as a mirror,

began to surge as if containing sentience, the deep ink color and bright red intertwined and swam together.

Even the giant bone scales seemed to wail under this pressure.

They almost collapsed on the spot.

“That… that is what…”

Her voice became somewhat trembling, her mental power and even her soul seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

Because she saw—the Red Sea blinked.

This was not an boundless sea of mental energy at all!

But a giant eye, so enormous that its end could not be detected in the spiritual world!

They were standing on this eye, conducting a ridiculous gamble!

And now, this eye wanted to participate as well.

That sense of despair deeply enveloped the woman's soul.

An unprecedented sense of powerlessness made her also lie down on the left side of the scales.

Unlike Wu Wang's comfortable laziness,

she was completely paralyzed.

It was like participating in a boxing match, as a boxer who secretly brought a pistol to cheat, you would be more than capable even if you knew the opponent was that fighter surnamed Tai.

As a result, when the match really started, you discovered that the guy who came up was indeed surnamed Tai.

But it wasn't Tyson.

But Ultraman Taro.

What the hell are we even comparing!

The woman even had a vague feeling—

that her [Soul Contract] simply couldn't take effect on this eye.

Don't even mention using the scales to compete with this eye in mental power, she didn't even have the qualifications to weigh Him.

“You see, this is what it's like to stand on the left side.” Wu Wang's cheap voice continued to sound.

“You watch too few tokusatsu dramas, the left side always loses in a beam struggle.”

Having said that, the woman's soul, which exceeded ordinary players by an unknown amount, with a full 700 points of mental power, was like a speck of plankton in front of the Abyss God.

Began to shatter.

Originally, under normal circumstances, even if she lost the contract,

her soul would at most be stopped for ten minutes and unable to do anything, during which the other party could freely control her body.

But now this kind of shattering was obviously beyond normal.

And it wasn't just simple shattering.

Looking down, she was shocked to find that every strand of hair and every inch of skin that her soul presented had mutated into bare, fanged mouths.

They were not foreign objects.

Even at this moment, the woman could feel that these countless strange, fanged mouths were her own soul.

It was just that some kind of change she couldn't understand had occurred.

Because the fanged mouths on her body actually began to tear and devour her own soul.

Such a bizarre scene couldn't help but make her think of the so-called Taotie.

It eats whatever it sees, but when there is nothing to eat, the Taotie eats its own body as well.

In the end, only the image of a beast's head remains and is passed down through the world.

The current situation was so similar.

Her own soul was eating herself!?

What was even more despairing was the slowness of the gnawing.

On the contrary, it allowed her to feel bit by bit the pain from every bite deep in her soul.

Coupled with the fear in her heart.

In this instant, the woman, who was violent by nature,

suddenly had a sense of déjà vu of being treated as a vegetable.

Just like the Seventh Sister who was chosen by the noblewoman in the beginning, she had no power to resist.

She could only watch helplessly as she was gnawed away bit by bit.

“No… don't… let me go…”

“I was wrong… I will tell you everything you want to know…”

The woman's soul howled and begged for mercy in pain.

Wu Wang remained indifferent.

He even complained helplessly: "Abyss God, aren't you being too deliberate? You won't even let people die peacefully?"

Obviously, with the Abyss God's mass,

it was simply easy to burst the woman in an instant.

But He just wouldn't!

He just wanted the other party to feel the arrival of death bit by bit in the most desperate and fearful state.

Every second was like a lifetime of torment for the woman.

Faced with Wu Wang's complaint.

The red vertical pupil only blinked, revealing a contemptuous expression.

The provocation of the bug made Him feel quite unhappy.

Naturally, the other party had to carefully taste the consequences.

— — — —

At the same time, in reality, the corner where the woman was hiding.

A thin piece of paper silently appeared behind her.

Immediately afterwards, a pair of slightly thin arms stretched out from it.

Suddenly grabbing the woman's shoulder.

Dragging her whole person into the paper, even the music box fragments in her hand were not spared.

Becoming a seemingly exquisite portrait.

And next to the portrait, there was also a man and a woman looking her up and down.

Among them, the man was feminine and thin, and the woman raised her fist, eager to try.

It was the Book Boy and Yingluo!

“Your kid's brain is still the best!”

“How did you know this person was hiding in the gap between the houses?”

Yingluo asked the Book Boy in surprise.

The other party just smiled slightly.

His eyes became a little sharp.

The [Disaster Cult] guys have really started researching their paper doll avatars?

He took out a paper crane from behind the woman.

It was exactly what he used to imitate the Book Boy's ability before.

“This is a secret, you just need to know that no one can replace me.” The coldness in the Book Boy's eyes slowly softened.

If Wu Wang was here.

[Sudden Realization] could tell—

that he wasn't lying.

Because this involves [Qin Shusheng] when making paper doll avatars.

One of the rule-type prop effects attached to it.

[Honest and Reliable: When anyone tries to imitate the target of this effect at any level, the location, real appearance, and even what they did within one hour before and after the disguise will be known by the effect target]

[Note: Someone is imitating my face? Someone is imitating my noodles? But you can't imitate my taste!]

Yes, ignoring spatial distance and time limit.

Even if [Qin Shusheng] is in reality, but when someone tries to do something in the copy by borrowing the identity of [Book Boy].

He will also instantly know and get the identity of the impersonator.

This is a rule-based prop!

It doesn't make any sense at all! It even seems to break the game balance!

So, the current [Book Boy] already knows what the woman is doing.

Even the hiding places of her companions who were preparing to block the Different Affairs Bureau were all read by him.

“Then where are we going now?” Yingluo hammered her fists together a little irritably.

She really hates this kind of winding around conspiracies and schemes.

Now she just wants someone to let her beat them up hard.

The Book Boy also knew her character.

He said with a smile: "Now, it's our turn to become the mantis behind the cicada."

“Go find Xie Zhi to join up, and then stab those [Disaster Cult members] outside the welfare home in the back.”

“There is no evidence that can clear Xie Zhi's suspicion more than killing and capturing [Disaster Cult members].”

This long-planned trap.

From this moment on, the situation will be reversed!

In fact, there is one point that the Book Boy is still a little confused about.

That is—

This woman's actions are missing a part.

After I read that she planned to seize Xie Zhi's body with the help of fragments.

There is no content after that.

And now, what has been captured in the sneak attack is only the other party's body.

Where did her soul go?

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