The reason it's described as a clump of hair is because there's an unusually large amount of hair that suddenly appeared on the door; it could probably be used as an eyebrow on a door.

But in Chen Zhou's eyes, it was a clump of hair, and a very thick clump of hair at that.

"What are you? Why does a door have a mouth, eyes, and nose?" Chen Zhou asked curiously. He had never seen such a creature before, and was immediately puzzled when he suddenly saw it.

"You're the first person to be frank with me about this." The cold voice from the doorway continued. For some reason, after entering the palace, Chen Zhou didn't feel much warmer, even though he could no longer sense the eerie wind, even though it still lingered there.

Therefore, Chen Zhou secretly deduced that the eerie wind had not disappeared once inside the palace.

"What would happen if I asked?" Chen Zhou continued, puzzled.

"Nothing will happen, I just won't answer you, it's that simple." The voice from the door continued, making Chen Zhou feel resistant.

This gate certainly won't answer its own questions.

"Then can you tell me what this place is? Why did I come here?" Chen Zhou said slowly. This was the question Chen Zhou most wanted to know. Chen Zhou had finally made it here, but he still didn't know where he was or even why he had come here. This made Chen Zhou feel inexplicably uneasy.

So Chen Zhou directly asked the intelligent door. This was the first intelligent thing Chen Zhou had encountered since arriving in this place, and this thing was indeed a door. This door had always been here, and probably no one else knew more about this place than this door.

However, the door stubbornly insisted, "I won't say anything, just give up..."

Upon hearing the words about the gate, Chen Zhou paused, then froze on the spot, unsure of what to say. He was completely unfamiliar with the place, and upon looking around, he realized that Wo Wan was not around either, clearly having already left.

Chen Zhou had promised Wo Wan that she would wait for him, but Wo Wan still didn't wait for him, and Chen Zhou didn't know what had happened.

"Then can you tell me where the woman who came in before me went?" Chen Zhou could only ask a question that was unrelated to the situation.

Chen Zhou asked a few questions and roughly understood that what the gate couldn't tell him was about this place. Now Chen Zhou was asking about Wo Wan, which was naturally unrelated to this place, so there was no reason for the gate not to tell him, right?

To Chen Zhou's further astonishment, the door still didn't answer him, but instead bluntly stated, "I won't tell you anything. You'll find out for yourself when you go in..."

Upon hearing the voice, Chen Zhou hummed in response and then turned to look in front of him.

At this moment, Chen Zhou was standing at the end of a dark corridor. There were no decorations on either side, only layers of black things hanging on the walls, which made the corridor look completely black and the first thing that came to mind when you walked in was darkness.

There are no vibrant colors here, only endless darkness.

Chen Zhou was looking towards the other end of the corridor. Only that side was emitting light. The corridor was very far away, so Chen Zhou couldn't see what was at the end of the corridor. Only by walking towards that side could Chen Zhou find out what was happening there.

Faintly, Chen Zhou seemed to hear many roaring sounds. These sounds sounded very weak to Chen Zhou now, but after taking a few steps, Chen Zhou found that the source of the sounds was the place emitting light in front of him. That place seemed to be attracting Chen Zhou to walk in that direction. Chen Zhou had no other way to go, so he could only look at the light in front of him and walk towards the end of the corridor.

"Sigh... What a pity... another clueless kid... Why does Shanghai always recruit such dim-witted young men? It's been so long since a Demon Lord has emerged... I think... it's entirely because Shanghai's recruitment system is flawed..."

No sooner had Chen Zhou left than the large door behind him emitted a faint, eerie sound. It turned out the door wasn't silent about this place; it just only spoke ill of it when no one was around...

Chen Zhou was still walking along the corridor. The corridor was very long, and Chen Zhou found it very boring, so towards the end, he switched from walking to running and started running through the corridor.

"Tap tap tap tap tap..."

The sound of footsteps hitting the ground reached Chen Zhou's ears. It had been quiet all along, so quiet that Chen Zhou could only hear the sound of his own running footsteps and his own breathing.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

The corridor was much longer than Chen Zhou had imagined. In fact, Chen Zhou had secretly started timing himself when he began walking down the corridor, and now he had been walking for about half an hour.

However, the place emitting light ahead still seemed very far away, and Chen Zhou could not yet see what that place was.

It could be said that Chen Zhou felt as if he wasn't moving at all, yet he was clearly walking and running in this corridor. Why did he still feel so far away from that distant light? Chen Zhou had been walking for half an hour, which shouldn't be the case!

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