Yu Fuling hesitated to speak: "Lulu..."
"Have you forgotten? Didn't we agree to wear skirts together to go to the comic convention?" Celluloid winked at Yu Fuling, her delicate face brimming with confidence. "Don't worry, I won't die here so easily!"
Shen Yuan said calmly, "Don't force it."
"I won't force it. Although this is my first time using this skill, I know what I'm doing. If my life is truly in danger, I'll stop immediately." Celluloid quickly regained her serious expression and looked at everyone with great seriousness. "Let me try, okay?"
Shen Yuan was silent for a few seconds, then nodded: "...Don't force it. Even if it really doesn't work, we can still find other ways."
Celluloid nodded.
Soon, everyone formed a circle, with their backs to Celluloid who was standing in the middle. They resisted the surging monsters while buying time and space for Celluloid to do divination.
Celluloid stood in the middle of the crowd, closed her eyes and began to tell fortunes, but this time the divination was obviously completely different from the last time. After closing her eyes and silently chanting a spell for a while, she suddenly took out a dagger and cut a deep wound on her wrist.
Blood flowed from the wound and dripped onto the Book of Prophecy on the ground.
As more and more blood dripped, the Book of Prophecy gradually floated up and slowly floated above the crowd. Originally, it was only celluloid's blood dripping on the Book of Prophecy, but after the Book of Prophecy floated up, it seemed to begin to actively absorb and devour celluloid's blood.
Celluloid's face gradually turned pale, but no words appeared on the Book of Prophecy. Xiao Tangqiu fended off the monster's attacks while observing Celluloid's divination with his peripheral vision. Seeing that Celluloid's face was getting paler and paler, he hurriedly shouted, "Are you okay?"
Celluloid gritted her teeth and yelled, "I'm fine! You guys continue!"
As Celluloid lost more and more blood, her appearance began to change. Her originally black hair began to turn white, and her skin gradually became less smooth and white.
Xiao Tangqiu was horrified: "Stop it! It's starting to absorb your lifespan!"
"You can't stop! I want to keep going! Don't interrupt me!" Celluloid yelled.
Yu Fuling turned around and saw Celluloid's white hair, and immediately shouted, "We can't go on! Stop now!"
But Celluloid was very persistent: "Don't stop! We'll be successful soon! Just a little bit more..."
As soon as she opened her mouth, everyone noticed that her voice was beginning to sound old.
In just a few seconds, Celluloid had turned into an old woman with gray hair and rough skin, while the Book of Prophecy was still a wordless book.
"Lulu! Stop it!"
"Don't come over! It will...success...soon..."
Yu Fuling no longer cared about Xilulu's desperate attempts to stop her and turned to run towards her. However, it was too late. By the time she reached her, she was utterly decrepit. Yu Fuling caught her with trembling hands.
Celluloid's body had turned into a shriveled skeleton, her life force had obviously dried up completely, and the Book of Prophecy suddenly fell to the ground and turned into an ordinary book.
"Lulu! Lulu! Celluloid!" Yu Fuling called Celluloid's name, but Celluloid could no longer hear her. She closed her eyes, and only her lips moved slightly.
Yu Fuling trembled all over and put her ear to Celluloid's lips, but heard nothing. The next second, something rolled out from Celluloid's dry hand.
At this moment, Celluloid's body turned into powder and disappeared into ashes.
Yu Fuling stretched out her hand weakly, but instantly grabbed nothing.
She could only pick up the thing with trembling hands.
——It was an ancient brass key.
Everyone fell into a long silence. After a moment, Yu Fuling bent down and picked up the Book of Prophecy, which had become an ordinary book. She slowly said, "...This should be the key to the entrance to the maze. Let's go in."
No one spoke. Celluloid's death was too sudden and too peaceful.
They could only remain silent and intensify the killing of monsters as a mourning and tribute to celluloid.
The members of the Samsara team stepped on the corpses of the monsters and rushed towards the Tower of Babel in silence.
This time they successfully broke into the Tower of Babel. Just as they approached the Tower of Babel, a door suddenly appeared on the metal wall, and there was darkness behind the door.
Although no one knew what was behind the darkness, everyone rushed into it without hesitation.
Xiao Tangqiu stepped into the darkness. He gritted his teeth and ran for a long time, but the surroundings were still dark. The metal pillars he saw outside were definitely not that wide, but he also knew that this kind of non-man-made space could not be explained by common sense.
"Is this... the Labyrinth of the God of Light?" After walking in the darkness for an unknown amount of time, Tang Mianmian finally couldn't help but ask, "Where is the labyrinth? Isn't this a labyrinth?"
Xiao Tangqiu pondered and said, "Perhaps this maze is different from the maze we usually understand."
Tang Mianmian murmured, "No matter what... there must be at least an exit, right?"
Xiao Tangqiu paused: "Maybe we should do something to find a way out."
As Xiao Tangqiu finished speaking, a long spiral stone staircase suddenly appeared in front of them. It spiraled straight up, with no end in sight. Despite this, he was still excited: "This is it!"
"If we go up these stairs, can we find the exit of the maze?" Tang Mianmian murmured.
Xiao Tangqiu: "I don't know, but I have to give it a try."
Since Celluloid's death, although the members of the Samsara Squad did not seem to be too sad on the surface, after all, they had long been "numb" to the death of their teammates, but Xiao Tangqiu could still keenly feel that everyone's mood was a little low. Even he himself, although he did not spend much time with Celluloid, could not help but feel a little sad for her - in this world of life and death, death will befall his companions, and sooner or later it will befall him too, and maybe he will be the next person.
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