He knelt on the ground, ignoring the pebbles hurting his knees, and asked Shekh, "Are you still feeling unwell?"

Shekh shook his head, still not daring to open his eyes.

She could feel Shi Jinzhe's thumb slowly stroking her eyes, tracing them back and forth little by little.

"Your eyelashes are so long and beautiful."

Shekh didn't speak, his hand lingering on her eyes, reluctant to leave, and he hesitated to tie the ribbon.

She lowered her head even further, and then heard Shi Jinzhe say, "Don't hide."

"Let's tie it on."

Shi Jin turned back and answered irrelevantly: "This is the first time I've seen a scene beneath the earth. It's amazing. There are no planets, and it doesn't look like the universe. Where are we?"

The two floated in the void, against a backdrop of endless blackness and shimmering golden lights. There were no stars, no sun; the only light came from this small patch of sky.

Shi Jinzhe ignored the few people he had left on the ice, where the scepter he had infused with life force maintained the formation, so it was fine even without him.

The ground beneath their feet floated slowly, with occasional pebbles falling down. In the whistling wind, Shi Jinzhe cupped Shekh's face in his hands.

"Doesn't this look like the last day of the apocalypse? The sky has fallen, and only you and I are left in the world."

Shekh's eyes twitched beneath his eyelids.

Shi Jinzhe wanted to look into her eyes. She knew that she dared to open her eyes after removing the ribbon this time because of the distance, but she didn't expect that some problems would still arise.

"Do you know what we should do in this situation?"

"What."

"Hold each other tight and do what you want to do most in the last moments."

After Shi Jinzhe finished speaking, he hugged her tightly, pulling Shehe's body into his embrace.

Sheh's thoughts were in turmoil as he realized that something seemed off about Shi Jinzhe's state.

His breathing was indeed getting weaker.

"When will it all end?"

She raised her arm, put it around Shi Jin's bent shoulder, and touched his wet clothes.

She touched it; it was warm liquid—blood.

Sheh then remembered that she had asked Shi Jinzhe to replace her sense of smell, and now she could only smell flowers.

When were you injured?

He shouldn't have been injured inside the defensive formation. Besides, Shi Jinzhe could heal himself even without the formation. He's not such a careless person, so how could he have been injured?

After thinking it over, Sher followed his arm down and grabbed the ribbon that Shi Jin was tightly clutching.

This injury could only have been sustained while retrieving the ribbon for her.

Shi Jinzhe patted her on the back and said, "It's okay, I'm recovering. It's just that I've used up too much energy, so it's a little slow."

He handed the ribbon to Shekh, saying, "Hold on tight this time."

There was something strange about what he said, and Shekh silently accepted the ribbon.

In the last second before putting it on, she inexplicably asked, "Do you want to see my eyes?"

“But there’s a risk of injury,” she added.

Shi Jinzhe lifted her face, answering Shekh with his actions, "Let me see you."

So Shekh's lowered eyelids tentatively lifted little by little, his thick eyelashes trembling slightly, like lifting the most mysterious veil to reveal more and more purple.

When those eyes were fully open, she saw the head of white hair and was filled with astonishment.

Shi Jinzhe smiled when he saw his reflection in her eyes; he had finally seen those eyes as he had wished.

Two clear, jewel-like purple pupils reside in captivating eyes, the purple hues deepening in the middle, so profound they seem to penetrate the very soul, making it impossible not to be drawn in.

Shekh's eyes were more beautiful than Shi Jinzhe had imagined, but her temperament was completely different from what he had expected.

I had assumed she would have cold, indifferent eyes, but in reality, her upper eyelids formed an elegant, slightly drooping curve, as if a small part of them were closed, giving her a dreamlike, half-awake appearance.

Her eye shape makes her look pitiful, and when she looks at you, her gaze is filled with sorrow.

Shi Jin blinked his stinging eyes, seemingly holding a thousand words in his silent gaze at Shehe, unwilling to look away first.

But he wanted to keep watching, and Shekh couldn't let him, so he tied the ribbon himself.

She wiped away the blood flowing from the corner of Shi Jinzhe's eye, looked at his whitening hair, and didn't know what to say.

That satisfied face seemed to sprout countless tiny thorns that pierced her heart; when she reached out to hug it tightly, they snapped, as if she were wrapping her body around a bundle of thorns.

"Hold on a little longer, I'll take you away."

Shekh rarely spoke so softly. She opened her palm and withdrew all the black-gold corrosive liquid she had released.

The world gradually turned pure white, and under the extreme color contrast, a wisp of hidden black mist had nowhere to hide.

Seeing that it couldn't dodge, it abandoned attacking the two people and instead launched an attack on the six people on the ice in the distance.

But to everyone's surprise, the wooden scepter frozen in the middle suddenly changed its array pattern, from defense to purification.

On this side, due to the excessive consumption of his life force, Shi Jinzhe coughed up a mouthful of blood.

His body reached a critical point, unable to maintain the formation at both ends, and the purification was forced to stop.

Just then, a strange power flowed from Shekh into his body through [Order Reconstruction].

Unlike the power of life, that feeling was icy cold but not lifeless, which was very strange.

Shi Jinzhe, who was drowsy, was awakened by this power and realized that something inside his body was being broken.

With a whoosh, the restrictions within the body were broken by this force, and the hidden life force began to rapidly replenish the injured body.

The purification array, which hadn't kept up with the previous pressure, started spinning again, and the array, with even greater pressure than before, instantly cleared away the wisp of black mist.

At the same time, the calamity was also completely recovered by Shekh.

In the pure white world, a black and gold crystal suddenly fell in front of the two of them.

[The world has collapsed, the instance anchor point has disappeared, and players will be teleported shortly.]

[The world has collapsed, the instance anchor point has disappeared, and players will be teleported shortly.]

[The world has collapsed, the instance anchor point has disappeared, and players will be teleported shortly.]

The system, which had been disconnected for a while, finally came back online. After broadcasting the system message three times, it teleported everyone back to the transit space.

Jiang sat down with a thud: "Damn, I passed this one. I almost thought I was going to die in it."

Fu Guan asked: "If the dungeon anchor point disappears, how will the dungeon rewards be calculated?"

Jiang was taken aback, looked up and asked in surprise, "Wait a minute, what are you doing here?"

Fu Guanzai: "Everyone's here, could you please stand up and look at the world, okay?"

Shi Jin leaned against Shekh: "Destroying the anchor point will count as a failure to complete the game."

"Wait, wait a minute, isn't she...isn't she a prop?" Jiang was shocked. Why could Shekh appear here too!

[A world boss-level humanoid artifact is qualified to appear here.]

The system intervened in time, silencing the person who was about to spout nonsense.

Remembering the important matter, Fu Guan asked the system, "What exactly happened in this round of the game? Is it considered a failure or something?"

[Failure to achieve the expected results constitutes a failure to clear the level. Due to a major incident in this instance, this round of the game will not be counted as a playthrough.]

Shekh coldly asked, "So what can Shi Jinzhe gain by fighting to the death to get through this dungeon?"

The system snapped to attention and announced: "[However! To thank the six players who survived this round for their contributions, we are granting you second skill privileges. Everyone can equip two skill cards.]"

Shekh was dissatisfied: "No, it's not enough."