"But are you alright now?"
Shi Jinzhe was still a little worried. It was unknown how much of Shehe's ability would return. So many guards had been petrified today. What if they got tired?
He asked a pointless question, "Aren't you tired?"
“It’s easier to take action than to think,” Shekh replied, stretching out his arm and pointing a finger at Zhou Qiyu’s accelerating sprint.
A thick, purplish-red fog suddenly surged forward, encircling and attacking Zhou Qiyu and his companion like a ferocious beast with its jaws wide open.
Li Huaizhen pressed down on the back of Zhou Qiyu's neck, and the two of them scrambled away from the thick fog.
Zhou Qiyu dodged as fast as he could, shouting at Li Huaizhen, "Where are you going to hide?"
Keep moving forward.
Li Huaizhen wasn't as fast as him; half of his face was corroded and mangled, and his damaged gums were visible when he spoke, making him look quite horrifying.
The dense fog was too dispersed, allowing them to be attacked from all directions. Zhou Qiyu had to escape faster than the fog itself, otherwise he would be doomed if he were completely surrounded.
Zhou Qiyu held his breath, unable to reach top speed as he led his men to escape.
This situation is a bit troublesome. He glanced back and heard Li Huaizhen say, "Even if you run away alone, they will still come after you. Shehe is the god of this world. I heard her thoughts. No one can surpass her control over this world. She can follow you wherever you go."
Zhou Qiyu remained calm even after his thoughts were exposed: "You'd better say less."
His face was covered in blood, blood was everywhere, and the air smelled foul.
The thick fog expanded further, and Shekh's sleeves moved without wind. She stood still, unleashing an unrestrained, catastrophic power that corroded everything.
As time was running out, there was a constant fear of unforeseen circumstances, so the formation that supplied life force was always ready.
After watching for a few seconds, he realized that Zhou Qiyu and the other person seemed to be standing still. No matter how fast they ran, their figures never left Shekh's sight.
"You...you know this move?"
"I just remembered."
Shekh was completely focused, his attention on Zhou Qiyu and Li Huaizhen.
She noticed that the two of them could always predict the direction of the smoke attack. Although Zhou Qiyu was faster at escaping, Li Huaizhen always spoke first before he turned around.
She stared intently at Li Huaizhen, her gaze sweeping from head to toe.
Ahead, Li Huaizhen's sixth sense suddenly kicked in. Despite running forward, he felt two vertical pupils staring intently at him from behind, as if he couldn't escape the thick fog.
What a terrible dungeon! Even if you get thousands of points, you can't revive if you die. Since Shekh is the key to this dungeon, the only way to destroy it and leave early is to attack her.
Zhou Qiyu was still asking questions ahead, but Li Huaizhen felt that they couldn't keep running away. He suddenly pulled Zhou Qiyu to a stop, saying, "You can't escape."
Running away means certain death, not running away means you can at least struggle.
"Use that thing!"
Before Zhou Qiyu could make a move, he covered one eye and turned around to face Shekh directly.
Their eyes met unexpectedly, instantly connecting their minds. In a flash, Li Huaizhen read all her thoughts and emotions, but what followed was his body rapidly turning to stone from his feet upwards.
"I told you not to mess with them..."
Zhou Qiyu turned around and let go of the petrified body just before the point where he and Li Huaizhen had made physical contact. Immediately, he received large fragments of memories from Li Huaizhen in his mind.
The overwhelming impact caused blood to flow from Zhou Qiyu's nose and eyes. Time stretched out as he leaped forward, and before he could even blink, he was back in front of Shehe and Shi Jinzhe.
The speed was astonishing; a spindle-shaped, pure black crystal appeared in Zhou Qiyu's falling palm.
An eerie, ghostly light flashed from the tip of the crystal. As he gripped the crystal and pierced Shekh's heart, his clear black and white eyes turned black as well.
The situation changed in an instant. Before Shekh's hair could even form an arc in the air, the cold, sharp tip of the crystal stone was already close to his heart.
Just a hair's breadth away, her body suddenly turned into mist, causing the blood-covered Zhou Qiyu to miss his target.
The whistling wind returned to his ears, and Zhou Qiyu touched the ground with his palm. The moment his fingertips touched the ground, he realized something was wrong.
He looked down in a daze, and a golden ring appeared beneath him without his noticing. The powerful suction force locked him in place, making him unable to move. His body felt like an asteroid being pulled and torn apart by a black hole, unable to escape.
"I have a lead on the Queen!"
Zhou Qiyu made the decision to surrender in an instant, but he immediately heard Shekh's voice.
"unnecessary."
Her voice sounded slightly different from before, with a cooler tone.
She heard that she was quite far away from Li Huaizhen.
It’s over…
Shekh stood face to face with Li Huaizhen.
The petrification solidified in his eyes; she deliberately left behind the eye that Li Huaizhen used to spy on her mind.
Shekh pulled down the ribbon diagonally, revealing his amethyst-like eyes to Li Huaizhen's astonished gaze.
The scorching power that pierced through everything broke through the barrier, and he seemed to see a bottomless vortex. The intense, scorching darkness rushed out of the abyss and spread, engulfing his body.
His nerves were stretched and twisted, all rushing towards the only place that wasn't petrified. Millions of neurons, carrying countless memories, flowed back to that eye, where they were read and filtered one by one by Sher in the pupil that had been enlarged several times over.
Until he could no longer feel the last tremor of thought, his mind went completely blank.
Then a small, crimson flame rose from Li Huaizhen's empty left eye, its tiny size transforming into sparks that expanded inch by inch.
It's as if a cigarette butt has burned a hole in a piece of white paper. The thin, ethereal black ash around the edge suggests that it's just a small hole, but in reality, the entire piece of white paper has been ignited by the inconspicuous hole and is about to cease to exist.
Flames surged from inside the white stone statue, engulfing the flesh. Zhou Qiyu, who resembled a skeleton, lay on the ground. Shehe gently pushed the statue with his finger, and Li Huaizhen's stone statue turned into a pile of ashes, which scattered into the world in the cold wind.
"Your turn."
Shi Jinzhe lowered his eyes, his words revealing an extremely cold and indifferent emotion.
The simple gold rings and winding gold threads created intricate and exquisite patterns, extracting Zhou Qiyu's life force without sparing even his bones.
He had no strength to call for help, yet he could clearly feel his life slipping away, as if Shi Jinzhe had deliberately left him with this sense of life.
His bones collapsed, his body melted, and in the end, only half of Zhou Qiyu's head remained on the ground.
Shi Jinzhe picked up his heart and the black crystal on the ground, clenched his fist, and made the formation completely absorb the remaining half of his head.
In an instant, his heart transformed into a skill card. Shi Jinzhe looked at Shehe, who had already put on the ribbon and was walking this way, with a two-character card between her fingers.
[The entire faction in area code cA2614 has been wiped out. Remaining players, please expedite the Capital City exploration mission.]
Shekh returned to his side, placed the card in Shi Jinzhe's hand, and then leaned against him, saying, "Hurry up and catch it. This body is too fragile right now; it can't bear my soul."
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