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After the initial bewilderment, Yuan Benshan gradually turned to ecstasy and turned to embrace his lover tightly, his voice breaking with excitement, not a single word falling into its normal key: "We're out! It's finally over!"

At this moment, he could see before his eyes Song Chunyang's defense and infatuation with him in the mission world.

In the sixth world, he was almost dragged into the wall to defend himself and became a ghost within the wall;

In the eighth world, he willingly gave an eye for himself;

In the ninth world, he reminded himself of how he had to deal with children who were joyful and angry;''

And just now, he even informed himself of the results of the first connection, just to hope that he could survive ......

Yuan Benshan had never felt so strongly that Song Chunyang was the only person who could accompany him to the end of his life.

He buried his face in Song Chunyang's soft hair and took a deep breath, "Chunyang, you are my end."

Chi Xiaochi stares at the display in front of her.

Yuan Benshan's favorability rating for Song Chunyang is 98, which is close to full.

...... is enough for Chi Xiaochi.

Chi Xiaochi stands on her tiptoes and reaches out to wrap her arms around his neck, resting her chin on his shoulder.

Soon he had a glistening, watery syringe between his fingers.

Chi Xiaochi said, "Yeah, it's all over."

With that, he delivered the tip of the needle into Yuan Benshan's jugular vein with precision.

Syringes and potions, both of which Chi Xiaochi exchanged for his goodwill from the warehouse.

Chi Xiaochi pressed against his ear and said softly in the tone of a love story, "You're right. After all, everyone's end point is a crematorium."

Yuan Benshan's eyes widened slightly.

At first he thought that the slight tingling in the nape of his neck was an illusion, and his lover's tone of voice, too warm, had succeeded in paralyzing him, so that for a moment he did not realize his position.

By the time he realized something was wrong, Chi Xiaochi was locking him tightly in her arms with force, pressing against his ear and exhaling a tantalizing stream of heat: "...... Shh, shh, don't make a fuss, it'll be over soon."

Yuan Benshan The faint odor of anesthetics wafted from his nose.

The muscles in his neck began to tremble, and the paralysis traveled rapidly from his veins throughout his body, his shoulders, his belly, his limbs, gradually tending to weakness.

Chi Xiaochi held him in her arms and rocked him in small steps around the gift room in circles, like a loving couple dancing the tango.

It wasn't until the drug had taken full effect that he led Yuan Benshan to a couch in a corner of the room and placed the limp man on it.

He's using succinylcholine. Succinylcholine, an anesthetic drug, injected through the jugular vein, can paralyze a person but keep them conscious.

The drug takes effect in one minute, the effect peaks in two minutes, and the effect lasts for about seven to eight minutes.

...... All in all, a drug that is definitely not fatal as long as the dosage is controlled.

An intense sense of suffocation came, partly from the drug, partly from Yuan Benshan's heart.

He slumped on the couch, full of questions, and panic grew.

Yuan Benshan forced a smile, "...... What are you doing? Stop it ......"

Chi Xiaochi set him down and then took two steps back, watching him with a smile.

Gan Tang was still unconscious, and Gan Yu sat against the wall, holding his sister's shoulders and letting her lie on his own, looking calm as if he had anticipated this back-and-forth.

But strangely enough, Xu Jiayi, who should have been outside the situation, didn't move at the sudden change, didn't even question why, just sat on the ground and watched them from afar, her brows knitting lightly.

Chi Xiaochi asked Xi Lou, "How long until the end of this mission?"

Xi Lou, who had been silent since the beginning of the mission, gave an accurate figure, "Six minutes and twenty seconds."

Chi Xiaochi nods.

...... was enough for him.

Yuan Benshan saw that Song Chunyang looked cold and felt bad, but he did not notice any deeper discomfort in his body, so he guessed that the dosage of the drug was not too large and was well within the normal range.

So what's Song Chunyang up to?

Seeing his young lover watching him as if he were an insignificant plaything, and the drugs messing with Yuan Benshan's mind and body, making it difficult for him to breathe, he grew irritable and simply called him by his real name: "Song Chunyang! Say something."

The man finally spoke.

But his words were even more confusing to Yuan Benshan.

He asked, "Old Yuan, do you believe in karma."

Yuan Benshan tongue is already numb, so the words are also vague: "You ...... want to say, what?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "My grandmother told me on her deathbed that to be a human being, you have to believe in karma. Everything has a cause and an effect, and karma is a cycle of retribution."

Yuan Benshan, when he suddenly thought of something, a cold sweat rolled down his face, and his bones shivered, and even his voice began to tremble.

"Chunyang, you ......"

"I thought you were going to gouge my eyes out." Chi Xiaochi sat down on the couch and lightly teetered, "Why are you suddenly so polite now?"

...... Sure enough this is the thing!

Yuan Benshan was angry, annoyed and regretful, but could not figure out where he had made the mistake.

Obviously Chunyang was very nice to himself even after Guan Qiaoqiao's death, too nice to be true ......

......

That's right! Guan Qiaoqiao!

He forgot that Chunyang has eyes of yin and yang.

Is it possible that Guan Qiaoqiao's spirit has told him the whole story after his death?

He warbled, "...... is Guan Qiaoqiao, told you?"

Who would have thought that the other party's exit words were even more horrifying: "If you want to know so much, why don't you just ask her yourself?"

What does this ...... mean?

Yuan Benshan couldn't stop himself from twitching, his joints tightening, his elbows and knees unconsciously curling inward, trying desperately to assume a defensive posture.

But it was a completely futile move.

"...... Xu Jiayi."

Chi Xiaochi ignored his struggles and turned his head, unexpectedly naming the young man who hadn't said a word since a moment ago, "I believe that you should know what's going on."

Xu Jiayi lifted his head and looked back at Chi Xiaochi with a slightly complicated expression.

Chi Xiaochi gets right to the point, pointing one hand to his eyes, "You can see 'that' too, right?"

Even though she knew that the other party might have been able to detect her own abilities, Xu Jiayi was stunned for a moment before she nodded slightly, "Uh-huh."

Yuan Benshan was horrified beyond words.

What does it mean? ...... What can he see?

Xu Jiayi remained silent for a moment and pointed to the back of his neck.

"There's something on your back." Xu Jiayi said, "...... There's a woman lying on her back."

Like Song Chunyang, Xu Jiayi also has yin and yang eyes.

From the moment he entered the mission world and met the Joker, Xu Jiayi noticed that Yuan Benshan had a female spirit lying on his back, wrapped around him like an octopus.

He was a bit taken aback and wanted to remind Yuan Benshan, but after some thought, he gave in.

It's not like Xu Jiayi hasn't seen this before.

Looking at the female ghost's appearance, it is clearly the spirit behind Yuan Benshan. To haunt a person like this must be due to some deep-rooted grudge.

He is a yin and yang eye, so he grew up believing in karma most of all.

If this woman was Yuan Benshan's sin, he didn't have to go out of his way to remind him of it.

So Xu Jiayi didn't move and started the mission straight away.

The task was too tight for him to pay attention to Yuan Benshan, and it was only in the second level that Xu Jiayi got a moment's respite.

At that time, Meng Qian, who wanted to see how Yuan Benshan was breaking through the barrier, was rebuked and went back to Xu Jiayi with a mutter.

He only heard the words "heavy aura" and looked sideways at the female ghost and Yuan Benshan.

The female ghost is on Yuan Benshan's neck, hungrily sucking on something.

He thought of the incident in the first level where Yuan Benshan, after Qiao Yun's reminder, had grabbed Jia Siyuan with his strength, and secretly smiled coldly.

Isn ...... this kind of person not a fury.

Only after noticing Chi Xiaochi's observant gaze with his afterglow did he withdraw his gaze as if nothing had happened, pretending to close his eyes and rest, but with a vague feeling that something was wrong.

What he could see, this young man named Lou seemed to be able to see as well.

Xu Jiayi associated with stepping through the life door of the first room as it opened, filled with grief and anger, and turned back to urge the other alliance to leave quickly, just in time to run into Chi Xiaochi comforting Yuan Benshan.

However, Chi Xiaochi's gaze fell on what should have been a void.

And there, the female ghost is lying on Yuan Benshan's back like a sap-sucking robin.

Hearing Xu Jiayi's words, how could Yuan Benshan not understand what was happening?

He was completely fuming, but the anesthetic drugs prevented him from doing anything; he struggled as hard as he could, but he couldn't even lift his fingers, and his head could only bob in small, futile motions, as saliva dripped down his unclosed mouth.

He doesn't have yin and yang eyes, he can't see anything, and this "invisibility" is the real horror.

Didn't Guan Qiaoqiao die in the eighth world? How could she have found her way here? What is she going to do to herself?

Chi Xiaochi just sits on the couch and admires his dying breath.

Chi Xiaochi has been running his long streak since he first entered the eighth world.

Rewind to Chi Xiaochi's first day in the castle.

He joined the Gan siblings in the hallway and balked, observing each picture on the wall.

The walls are mostly pictures of people, with occasional pictures of landscapes, and the view is so chilling that the missionaries usually have a cursory glance and then stay away.

Chi Xiaochi, on the other hand, looked at every photo and even went around every room.

One thing he noticed was that the photos encompassed so many styles and eras, ranging from modern, such as Balloon Holding Her, to medieval, such as The Maiden's Prayer, the Madonna, the choirboys, and even the old-fashioned, The Return of the Snowy Night.

And the original fort had none of these photos in it at all, it was just plain old a fort.

They also briefly explored the old fortress before entering.

According to Song Chunyang's memory, the walls of the fortress are covered with cobwebs and decaying stains, but there is no trace of photographs having been inlaid or pinned.

At that time, Chi Xiaochi had a suspicion that the female ghost had taken the photos herself, which also explained why she was able to move freely through the photos, borrowing the bodies of the people in them.

So here's the question again.

Where did she get these pictures?

Combining all the traces, Chi Xiaochi came up with an extremely bold idea:

All the otherworlds, seemingly independent of each other, are actually interconnected.

The Knights live in the same otherworld, barricaded and forcibly separated from reality by the Lord God and the system.

Centralized management is also less laborious than decentralized management, management-wise.

Accordingly, there are subtle differences between ghosts.

Some ghosts have a limited range of movement and are earth-bound spirits that can't move around at will, such as the Bottle Woman in the first quest world, but some ghosts are able to move around freely, such as the ghost of the Old Castle Woman, who can go around taking pictures.

Later, he questioned Xi Lou in detail about the system's operating mechanism, and the signs revealed echoed his reasoning. But this was an afterthought, so let's leave it aside for now.

Further on, he arrives at Guan Qiaoqiao's room and accidentally discovers that the female ghost in the old castle has set her sights on Guan Qiaoqiao.

That was the beginning of his long scheme.

He found Yuan Benshan and said mysteriously, "Old Yuan, let's exchange eyes. I know a way to exchange yin and yang eyes.

He added, Old Yuan, there seems to be something wrong with the photos in Qiaoqiao's room.

As he expected, Guan Qiaoqiao became Yuan Benshan's outcast and died, and then "Guan Qiaoqiao" was born.

Chi Xiaochi actively cooperated with "Guan Qiaoqiao" and acted with her because he wanted to fulfill her wishes and because he was asking for her help.

As they were about to leave the eighth world, "Guan Qiaoqiao" finally confided in him, thanking him for his companionship all these days.

After listening to the story of "Guan Qiaoqiao", he said to "Guan Qiaoqiao", "I have a story too. Do you want to hear it?"

"Guan Qiaoqiao" naturally nodded.

Chi Xiaochi then told her everything Song Chunyang had been through, honestly telling her that she was the reborn Song Chunyang, that her former self, whose eyes had been gouged out by her best friend and lover, had struggled to die in this place, and that her soul had festered and died without a body.

He said, "I want revenge. Can you do me this favor?"

"Guan Qiaoqiao" understood too well the pain of hatred and agreed.

Chi Xiaochi doesn't tell her directly how she intends to take revenge yet, but only asks, "You can recognize all kinds of negative emotions and energies emanating from people, can't you?"

"Guan Qiaoqiao" did not realize that he had already penetrated himself to such an extent, so he answered truthfully, "That's right."

"Do you absorb them?"

"I would. But I won't try." "Guan Qiaoqiao" said, "That's too dirty."

Chi Xiaochi said, "That 'friend' of mine, the original owner of this body of yours, her spirit should remain in the room where she died, just as I had experienced in my last life."

When Song Chunyang died in his last life, his soul cruised around the room where he died, gradually festering, passing away, losing his memories, and the kind of pain that words can't even begin to describe.

Now the real Guan Qiaoqiao is in this purgatory of despair.

But she shouldn't have forgotten who got her killed.

Chi Xiaochi says, "Please teach her how to absorb negative energies and tell her that I, Song Chunyang, will help her take revenge. I have two more quests to do, on the ninth quest, can I trouble you to bring her to me?"

"Guan Qiaoqiao" wondered, "Why not the tenth time?"

Chi Xiaochi's answer was even more confusing: "The tenth time will be too late."

"Guan Qiaoqiao": "If I understand you correctly, you're taking her out of the ninth mission and into the tenth?"

Chi Xiaochi: "Yes."

"Guan Qiaoqiao" laughs, "That's impossible."

She had also tried to escape the jurisdiction of this system, yet no matter how hard she tried, it was all in vain.

Chi Xiaochi didn't have any more time to explain to her, and simply said, "Don't worry, I can do it."

"Guan Qiaoqiao" then asked, "When will your ninth mission begin? How do I find you?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Please come to me with this."

He put his hand on "Guan Qiaoqiao".

"Guan Qiaoqiao" was stunned, nodded with a complicated expression, and spread out her white jade-like palm.

Song Chunyang had followed his grandmother since he was a child, and knew a lot of secret spiritual talismans. Chi Xiaochi had already drawn two guiding talismans according to his memory, and hid them in his sleeve.

These were the talismans that the ancients used to prepare for soldiers going out to war, with one pointing charm sewn tightly into their clothing and the other held by a family member.

As long as this guiding talisman is there, even if one is unfortunate enough to die, the ghost will not become a ghost of a foreign land.

Even if the mountains are closed, the souls of the dead can return to their homeland.

He handed one of the yellow talismans folded into a triangle to "Guan Qiaoqiao" and nodded sincerely to her.

After walking out of the eighth quest world, Chi Xiaochi utilized Yuan Benshan's few Remorse Values to exchange for a Primary Spirit Locking Vase from the warehouse.

This is the bargaining chip that he did not have time to tell "Guan Qiaoqiao".

On the second night of the ninth mission, Qin Ling was seriously injured. Chi Xiaochi offered to stay in the infirmary on the first floor to accompany him, and Gan Tang also stayed behind.

And in the middle of the night, he sensed the movement of the spirit talisman and slipped out of the infirmary on the pretext of going to the toilet.

Guan Qiaoqiao, dressed as a medieval maiden, arrives as promised, followed by a spirit with lowered arms and a black face, the real Guan Qiaoqiao.

"Guan Qiaoqiao" tossed the talisman in her hand and smiled sweetly with a crooked smile, "It really works."

Chi Xiaochi collected Guan Qiaoqiao with the Spirit Locking Bottle and talked to her, inviting her to come to the orphanage when she had time, as the children here might like to have their pictures taken.

"Guan Qiaoqiao said she would consider it, and then she left, her figure disappearing into the night.

However, her back was seen by Liu Chengyin, so she left this world, but still remembered the mysterious "woman in black".

In response, Chi Xiaochi shrugged and said in a brisk tone, "Probably one of the passing ghosts."

Chi Xiaochi starts talking to Guan Qiaoqiao in the bottle, and is nearly run over by Yuan Benshan.

In front of Guan Qiaoqiao, he is still the same gentle and lovely Song Chunyang.

In her grief, she tells him in the bottle what Yuan Benshan has done to her, and what he had wanted to do to Song Chunyang.

Chi Xiaochi, in her "grief" and "agony," asked her, "Do you want to take revenge."

Of course she wanted to, dreamed of it.

So Chi Xiaochi gave her pointers on what to do.

At the moment of entering the 10th world, Chi Xiaochi seized the right moment to break the spirit locking bottle.

From this point on, Chi Xiaochi's overall plan took shape.

Throughout, Yuan Benshan has not been able to jump out of his palm.

He didn't mind Yuan Benshan's closeness to him, nor did he mind brushing up on Yuan Benshan's favorability, because the more favor he had for Song Chunyang, the bigger the shock of learning the truth would be.

Chi Xiaochi even took some risks and gave Yuan Benshan a hand at the last hurdle.

He wanted him to live, hopefully, and at the end, see what true despair was.

Chi Xiaochi watched as Yuan Benshan's Remorse Value surged all the way past fifty, and with a flat expression, he opened his warehouse and exchanged it for a high-level Spirit Locking Bottle.

Yuan Benshan realized that struggling was useless and only went limp on the sofa, his teeth slamming against each other uncontrollably, "...... You, what the hell do you want? Song Chunyang? What are you trying to do to me?"

As he spoke, Chi Xiaochi exchanged three more Spirit-related high-level cards.

As he redeemed it, he replied, "Yuan Benshan, let me ask you, when you play a game, do you read the game manual."

Yuan Benshan no longer had the strength to play dumb games with him, stomping his feet like a rabbit to be slaughtered, hoping to get up, pounce on him, and choke Chi Xiaochi.

Chi Xiaochi didn't expect any answer from him, and went on talking to himself.

"I'll read it. And from the first to the last; after all, figuring out the rules is helpful in playing the game."

He cashed in another firearm capable of inflicting damage on inanimate objects.

"I once researched that there are ghosts that can clearly disguise themselves as solid, breathing people. Like that ' Guan Qiaoqiao ' we met in the eighth world. So why wouldn't the system rule her out as a player and free her from the otherworld."

"Then I asked the system and realized that ghosts, possessing only pure psychic energy, do not emit fear energy."

"So the system's rule is that as long as the object in the field being detected does not emit fear energy, then either the player is dead or a ghost. In both cases, the system shuts down teleportation to that individual."

"And fear energy, too, is one of the countless negative energies."

"So guess what Guan Qiaoqiao did to you while he was on your back?"

Yuan Benshan still doesn't know.

Or rather, he was doing his best to avoid thinking about that worst possible scenario.

His hands curled neurotically into chicken claws, fear sticking to his throat like sticky glue, only permitting him to let out meaningless growls and moans.

The Guan Qiaoqiao on his back was much more silent, crouching on his back, mindlessly devouring the fearful energy emanating from his body, a face that turned blue and black and purple, tendons and veins popping out, never stopping talking.

At that exact moment, the Joker's rampant, strange laugh came through a teddy bear, startling everyone in the room.

Chi Xiaochi's hands also shook.

Luckily, he regained his composure in a short while, and tapped on all the items that required Regret Value to ensure that Yuan Benshan's Regret Value would not overflow.

He asked, "Did you have fun at the theater?"

"Happy! Too much fun!" The Joker laughed maniacally, "Setting up a new game in my game, using my game to set up your game, you're just too much fun! How about staying with me? How about ......?"

Chi Xiaochi smiled faintly and looked over at the teddy bear.

"It's fun to watch." He said, "But, in case you didn't know, I'm an actor. I'm a very expensive performer."

The teddy bear cocked his head as if he couldn't understand what he meant.

"You have your rules, and I have mine." Chi Xiaochi twisted his head to look at the pale Gan Yu and the unconscious Gan Tang, and his tone turned cold, "I'm sorry, but you've violated my rules while playing your game."

Before the words left his mouth, he waved his hand violently.

The Advanced Spirit Locking Bottle that had just been exchanged came out of his hand and directly disappeared into the teddy bear's body.

The Joker was stunned for a moment, and by the time he realized something was wrong, it was too late.

He steepled over the radio with a long, miserable whine.

Immediately, all the lights in the room went out, all the gifts disappeared, the balloons turned into withered skeletons that fell to the ground and turned into pieces, and the sofa became mottled and malodorous, and when you sat on it, you could clearly feel the greasy stench and choking springs.

The high-level spirit locking bottle was different from the low-level ones, capable of recovering ghosts of high strength, with a strong aura inside that would inflict damage on the ghosts from time to time, and without anyone being able to free it except for the sealer himself.

...... No one will ever patronize such a bad escape room again.

Chi Xiaochi gets up from the dirty couch.

The last twenty seconds until they leave this world.

Chi Xiaochi walks in the dark to Gan Tang's side, holding her hand as she remembers it before the lights went out, and at the last moment opens her mouth again to Yuan Benshan.

"Old Yuan." He said, "You haven't answered me what karma is."

He added, "Forget it. You've had plenty of time to take your time and think about it."

Yuan Benshan will always understand.

He killed Guan Qiaoqiao, and Guan Qiaoqiao retaliated. This is their karma.

From start to finish, Song Chunyang's hands are clean.

The time has come for Chi Xiaochi and the others to disappear into this last safe house.

Yuan Benshan waited for a long time with a glimmer of hope, but he was still in the dark.

Everyone was gone, leaving him alone in the otherworld.

He wasn't transported, he didn't die, and he didn't wait for his light.

He was left in the last room of the tenth mission, excluded by the system, and became a real "redundant person" among the ghosts.

And in the real world, his identity would have been erased there and then, like a pencil mark erased by an eraser, dissolved and never to exist in anyone's mind again.

The anesthetic had worn off and he struggled to climb off the couch, falling to his knees and bawling at the top of his lungs.

He cried and begged Song Chunyang, who had already left, to spare him.

But no one could hear him anymore.

Only Guan Qiaoqiao stretched out his icy fingers and caressed his face, smiling sinisterly, "Yuan Benshan, don't be afraid, you still have me."