Xiao Tangqiu stared intently at the abyss demon in front of him who was tempting them to kill each other. This guy was clearly inciting them to kill each other - just like the two sea monsters who killed each other and eventually died together!

His intentions are so sinister that he is indeed the devil among devils!

He didn't move, so Shen Yuan naturally didn't move either.

The Abyss Demon paid no mind to the silence. Instead, he continued with a smile, "Why don't you start? Whoever strikes first might survive... Don't you want to live?"

Xiao Tangqiu suppressed his anger, "Do you really enjoy watching others slaughter each other?" They were fine, after all, they were enemies, but weren't those two sea monsters directly created by the Abyss Demon? For the sake of owning a body, he would let them slaughter each other, even his own creations, and sacrifice them to their own destruction? Demons are indeed selfish, heartless, and cold-blooded creatures!

"Of course, I like it very much. I like it very much..." The Abyss Demon tapped his mask with a gloved hand, his voice full of bewitching and incitement. "Especially when you struggle so hard for a glimmer of hope, and kill each other with your companions just to survive, that selfish and depraved look is really interesting..."

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly remembered what Su Manluo had said -

"Those so-called dungeons and quests are more like a large, endless killing game. NPCs attack at will, players die one after another, and the survivors struggle to escape... This is a survival game, but even more so, a killing game."

To the Abyss Demon, aren't all dungeons and quests just a series of horror game livestreams? He can witness the players' futile struggles for survival, the ugly and sinful actions they reveal as they fight for their lives. He's like the cat in the hunting game, wantonly toying with all the players.

Just like now, he could have killed Shen Yuan and Xiao Tangqiu at the same time without any effort, but he chose to persuade the two to kill each other for the chance to survive.

"Well? Go ahead! Don't you want to survive?" The Abyss Demon's voice became increasingly incendiary and bewitching—Who wants to die? Who doesn't want to live? Do whatever it takes to survive!

Xiao Tangqiu looked at the Abyss Demon coldly and flatly refused: "No!"

The Abyss Demon laughed: "Oh? Why? Do you want to die?"

"If you don't want to let us go, we'll die anyway. It's better to just die in front of you, making a fool of ourselves. At least this way..." Xiao Tangqiu paused, "...we can die with more dignity."

"Dignity?" The Abyss Demon paused. "This is the first time I've heard someone say that... but this is boring."

He tilted his head and looked at Shen Yuan beside him: "What about you?"

Shen Yuan didn't move, but his eyes were very determined.

The Abyss Demon chuckled: "Although I can control you like before, it's meaningless..."

Xiao Tangqiu was unfazed by the boiling water: "If you want to kill me, just kill me. Stop talking nonsense!"

"Since you're unwilling to kill each other, why don't you choose poison?" The Abyss Demon raised the two glass bottles in his hand. "The lucky ones live, and the unlucky ones die. Isn't that fair?"

Xiao Tangqiu didn't know why the abyss demon insisted that one of them live and the other die, but if he could really save one person's life, no matter who survived, it would be a good thing for him. Anyway, he had already died once, and he was used to it after dying for a while.

——After all, with his African luck, the glass bottle he chose was likely to contain poison.