The oppressive atmosphere in the room was like a heavy, dark cloud, making it hard to breathe. Liu Yue cried out hoarsely, "You're lying! Sister Anran won't die!"

Xiao Feng held her tightly, while Luo Xi, sitting on the sofa, looked as if her soul had been taken away, her head hanging low.

She found Xiao Feng's message in the lobby and contacted Uncle Li and the others. Uncle Li brought Luo Xi and Yi Yi to the house and notified the others, so they all gathered there.

Upon meeting, Xiao Feng only saw Luo Xi and a strange little boy. Curious, he asked Luo Xi, "Sister Xi Xi, where's Sister An An?"

Luo Xi remained silent, and at that moment, Uncle Li and Liu Yue felt a sense of foreboding.

However, when everyone gathered in Uncle Li's living room, after Luo Xi finished recounting their experiences in the previous world, Liu Yue still couldn't accept this cruel reality. She cried hysterically, accusing Luo Xi of lying. Xiao Feng, who was standing to the side, also refused to believe it. He held Liu Yue tightly and cried out, "Sister Xi Xi, this is fake, right? You're joking, aren't you?"

Luo Xi kept her head down, like a silent statue, refusing to utter another word. She knew that saying anything now would be futile. This news was like a bolt from the blue, and even she herself would find it hard to bear, let alone these people.

Uncle Li slowly walked to the window, asked Xu Liang, who was smoking, for a cigarette, and silently lit it.

He hadn't touched a cigarette in a long time since he fell ill, but at this moment his heart was like a turbulent sea, unable to calm down, and he desperately needed this cigarette to calm himself down.

Fan Yunfei also joined Xu Liang and the others. He glared at Luo Xi, his face so dark it seemed like it could drip water: "Why? Why didn't you save her?"

Lan interrupted his questioning, "How could she save her? Anran's heart had already stopped developing by then!"

Fan Yunfei's eyes were bloodshot, like an angry lion, as he argued with Sister Lan, "As long as you still have a breath left, you can be saved once you get back to the waiting room!"

“But Anran gave her the ticket! At that time, Anran was already unable to get away, so she chose to stay…” Xu Liang, standing by the window, spoke in a hoarse voice as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper, and the hand holding the cigarette trembled incessantly.

Fan Yunfei turned to look at Xu Liang: "Even so, we absolutely cannot, we cannot just give up like this! We can't... we can't..." Before he could finish speaking, he could no longer continue and slumped down on the sofa, like a deflated balloon.

Cake and the Taoist priest, who had joined the others, remained silent. Hu Shuhan sat beside Sister Lan, while Qi Ziqi kept a gloomy face and remained silent. At this moment, he was at a loss, not knowing who to blame!

He wanted nothing more than to tear Luo Xi to pieces, but this woman, like himself, had been saved by Xu Anran. What would be the point of killing her?

Everyone in the room fell silent, with only the sound of crying echoing in the air...

On the other side, Xu Anran, lying in the room, was surrounded by a group of little devils like hungry wolves. They bared their teeth and claws, seemingly wanting to devour her corpse alive.

However, at that moment, a dazzling blue light suddenly burst forth from the corpse's forehead. The blue light spread like surging waves, eventually enveloping Xu Anran's entire body, as if draping her in a mysterious blue veil. The group of little ghosts that approached her were violently repelled by this powerful force, as if swept away by a gust of wind.

Immediately afterwards, a thin blue thread extended from her forehead. Like a nimble snake, the thread quickly moved into her spatial ring, took out the stone that had lost its luster that Xu Anran had previously put away, and then carefully placed it into the hole in Xu Anran's chest.

At first, there was no reaction, but as the blue light outside swept the surrounding imps into a huge vortex, forming a blue sphere and absorbing them into the stone, the stone began to undergo a strange change.

Black light gradually emerged from within, like twinkling stars in the dark night, shimmering with a mysterious glow. As the black light flowed, black threads, like blood vessels, sprouted from the stone and began to intertwine with Xu Anran's flesh and blood.

The black light flowing within the stone was like a beating black heart, full of mysterious vitality.

However, the black light was too scarce, and before long, the growth of flesh and blood came to an abrupt halt, barely maintaining the black light of the stone. It was like a crying infant, desperately needing more energy.

A week later, everyone gradually emerged from the grief of Xu Anran's passing, and they gathered together once again.

Uncle Li, being the oldest person here and the one who gathered everyone together, spoke first: "I've gathered everyone here today to hear your thoughts and ask what your plans are for the future."

"I plan to train in different worlds. I want to become stronger, then fight my way back, fulfill Sister Anran's wish, and find a new world where I can settle down," Luo Xi said first.

Xu Liang also said, "I want to find my brother's daughter, and I also want to find An Ran's body. Even if I can't find her, I still want to go and see her!"

"Me too! I want revenge for Sister Anran!"

Sister Lan and Hu Shuhan expressed their desire to find a new world to settle down in, while Fan Yunfei, Qi Ziqi, the Taoist priest, and the cake remained silent.

Finally, Uncle Li said, "Because of An Ran's departure, we can't contact Old K at the moment. So, the establishment of a guild within the Mutual Aid Association will have to be put on hold for now. There are three options: First, stay and team up with Luo Xi to become stronger together; second, remain in the Mutual Aid Association guild, but form your own team and act according to your own ideas; third, leave the Mutual Aid Association, and we'll meet again in the future!"

After saying that, he looked at everyone and said: "Those who choose the first option should come to meet me here at this time tomorrow; those who choose the second option should form their own teams and don't need to come over, just let me know; those who choose the third option can leave now."

Half an hour later, seeing that no one had left, Uncle Li told everyone to go back and think it over slowly, and to give him an answer tomorrow.

The next day, Fan Yunfei and Xu Liang arrived at Uncle Li's place first, followed by Luo Xi and Yi Yi, and then Qi Ziqi arrived. Unexpectedly, Daoist Zhao Chang'an also came!

After that, no one came over. And so, the nine of them—Uncle Li, Xiao Feng, Liu Yue, Luo Xi, Yi Yi, Xu Liang, Fan Yunfei, Qi Ziqi, and Zhao Chang'an—formed a new team.

Lan Jie teamed up with Hu Shuhan and Song Mingzhu (the cake vendor) and informed Uncle Li.