01:23.

"I don't think blowing up someone else's house is a fun thing to do."

Pandora told him about how to blow up Lilith's castle; her plan was perfect and her execution was top-notch.

He Yu was puzzled as to what was going on in her mind, or whether it was the train of thought that had been triggered by his killing earlier.

She was just a little disappointed—Lilith wasn't inside. But ordinary explosives wouldn't kill the girl, so Pandora's next step was to turn the entire theater and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre into ruins, making it disappear directly from Jerusalem. It would be able to be cleaned up without any mutated creatures. Just imagining the scene was enough to make her think it would be spectacular.

She's a real troublemaker, full of jealousy, and can come up with all sorts of crazy ideas.

And that was the end of it.

346 did not vomit them out by noon the next day. He Yu felt that his luck was ridiculously bad. He encountered a persistent phenomenon. Now no one knew when they could get out of this taboo object unless all the residents of Jerusalem were killed, but obviously doing so would be a thankless task.

After that, He Yu encountered Pandora several more times on different occasions.

Since attending his last birthday party, this person hasn't been to any other large banquets, but he would very occasionally appear at small gatherings of certain powerful and wealthy people—such as prayer meetings hosted by Andrew Lie, dressed as a pretty and well-behaved child.

She seems to have a unique little circle of friends. When she's chatting happily with others, she'll gesticulate wildly like any young girl, which seems perfectly normal at the time.

Once, Pandora sneakily handed him a storage box. When He Yu opened it, he found two eyeballs inside, still bloodshot, looking like they had just been dug out.

“With this, you should be able to beat Andrei and Beelzebub,” she said with a proud expression.

"Really? I don't believe it."

“I’ve tried.” Pandora paused, her tone becoming anxious, and gave him an excited yet slightly manic smile. “These are Father Andrei’s eyes. He dies hundreds of times every day. I secretly took them from his corpse.”

As she spoke, she fiddled with the eyeballs in the box, her gaze passing over the prosperity beneath the castle and looking towards a more distant, colder horizon.

The city continues to operate on its own, and its residents revel without a care in the world.

Jerusalem soon welcomed another big event: a new play.

Nowadays, the actors who play roles are all pretty good. Those who survive have their own unique methods. As long as you don't encounter actors with peculiar viewpoints who want to fight to the death on stage, they are all considered quite good.

Beelzebub generously gave them time to choose their teammates, saying it was so that Lilith could see how much her writing skills had improved, and also to do various entertainment programs, such as filming the sparks and clashes between different contestants.

So these poor souls, who had been brought in to play roles, sat awkwardly on the sofas in the castle or the banquet hall, trying to get to know each other. The scene was so funny, just like a modern dating show.

Of course, some people were in great pain—like Quillin, who didn't know how this fool had been chosen by Beelzebub, but he had no right to refuse. He sat on the far left of the sofa, looking blank and silent, and the atmosphere in the whole area was helpless and oppressive.

The other unlucky guys who were drawn into the same team as him were also in a very awkward situation. They were just smarter and kept trying to find topics to talk about, but it was just a bunch of people chatting and making small talk. They looked so pitiful.

Therefore, the audience found it very boring.

But this isn't an ordinary variety show; it's a new talent show, and stage plays absolutely involve deaths.

During the performance, they were assigned to the mutated creature area in the new city. According to the normal plot, they should have been able to escape smoothly. However, another group, in order to increase the entertainment value of their escape, tricked them into a gathering area and sealed off the exit from the outside.

So all of Quillin's teammates died there. He Yu watched for a long time and felt that this guy's life was too dramatic. He was finally pulled out of the nightmare by Fujimoto Ayara, but before he could enjoy a few good days, he was kicked back into hell.

What happened next was extremely tragic, practically a one-sided massacre. If Lilith hadn't said it was too boring, he probably would have died inside.

For the sake of the so-called winner's settlement screen, Beelzebub also showed a scene at the end of the play where Quillin's entire team was almost wiped out.

It was a huge electronic screen that looked ridiculously expensive. The group walked nervously toward the house that would kill them all. Some of them were still trying to joke, but they were clearly very nervous.

He Yu watched listlessly, thinking to himself, "I wonder where those two idiots, Fujimoto Ayara and Bamke, went. I hope they didn't die together somewhere I don't know. I don't even understand their characteristics. If I had the chance, I'd really like to absorb them."

At this point, there's nothing else you can do except distance yourself from the situation and prevent others from finding any loopholes.

Pandora glanced at the screen, silently turned around, opened a small terminal, and calmly brought up the control interface.

He Yu stared at it for a while, then went over to join in the fun.

When he saw that string of code, he realized that this brat was up to something again, like hacking into the theater's backstage. She was incredibly skilled at it, so it was obviously not the first time she had done it.

A few seconds later, the electronic screen displaying the bloody content flickered a few times and then suddenly went completely black.

The surroundings fell silent instantly; one could imagine someone cursing in the street at that moment.

After that, the screen flickered on four or five more times, but was quickly turned off each time.

The last scene was unusually persistent, probably because Quillin, who survived the ordeal, took over. As Eoubs' clerk, he's quite skilled at data processing. Of course, it could also be Weeks, since last time that bastard only lost a clone.

He Yu watched with schadenfreude as Pandora calmly abandoned the theater monitor, then whistled and changed his mind—she absolutely couldn't get along with Lilith, and no one needed to emphasize it, that was just the truth.

Ten minutes later, she cut off all the electricity in the entire theater.

The light inside the castle dimmed instantly, and the afterglow of the setting sun cast a large expanse of pure dark red, making everyone's face, splattered with blood, stand out starkly.

Pandora sat there at the boundary between darkness and light, a look of ecstasy on her face.

That's what she wanted to do, and she's already done most of it: destroy anything she doesn't like.

The host in charge of the live broadcast of the play clearly understood that all of this was done by the girl below. He seemed to be a celebrity, but at the moment he could only say to her, "Can you please shut up and at least finish the show?" Pandora immediately put on a "I'm going to fight you" expression. From the beginning to this point, she looked like she had a lot of anger to vent.

He Yu enthusiastically told them that he could act as a fighter, since no one in this house was going to have a good life anyway.

The proposal was, of course, rejected.