"My telekinesis can't get through!" Bi shouted anxiously.
Yang Qinglan waved her hand and flung out the Emerald Bee Sword. In the night, the Emerald Bee Sword was like a green line, piercing straight through Edison's head.
Three seconds.
There's no response, no message, why?
The centaur tore off its own burning right hand and stood still, stamping its hooves.
The Shadowraven cut off its two burning foot blades and remained motionless.
The ghosts of penguins, Pegasus, and walruses are slowly emerging with life.
Li Qianxia and Yang Qinglan each swallowed a pill.
Four seconds, five seconds, six seconds...
Pegasus shook his head, walked to the edge of the barrier, and stared at Yang Qinglan with his completely black eyes.
Seven seconds.
The walrus wriggled its body and looked at Yang Qinglan.
Yang Qinglan glanced at the "eyes," while Li Changzhou coldly surveyed the ghosts beside them.
The Black Death can't get past it.
The king cobra was summoned but there was no response.
Eight seconds.
The penguin waddled to the edge of the barrier.
Centaurs, Shadowstalkers, penguins, Pegasus, and walruses surrounded the barrier.
“But you—my Lord,” Yang Qinglan chanted with difficulty, each word seemingly a knife, “are my glory, my shield, and make me lift up my head.”
A thin, pale layer of golden yellow barely appeared on the golden armor.
Li Qianxia took a deep breath, recalling her parents' abandonment, the fear of entering the value game for the first time, and reliving the deaths of Yin Simei and the others.
"Hmm..."
Numbness set in; no hatred, no fear, no terror; a thin membrane covers my mind.
Li Qianxia inevitably drifted off into thought, recalling the night she stayed up all night playing games after the college entrance exam.
My mind was numb; my eyes were open, but I couldn't see anything. My hands were controlling the game character, but I didn't know what "she" (myself) was doing or what she wanted to do.
There is absolutely no focus.
Nine seconds.
"Qianxia!" I heard my older brother and Qinglan's voices.
She raised her left hand and bit down hard, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.
A jolt ran through my body, as if I had been pulled from the bottom of the water, and I suddenly came to my senses.
Whoosh! Heavenly fire descended, and flames once again overflowed from his right arm, clinging to the blood-red steel spear.
Ten seconds.
Centaur, Hidden Blade Spider's foot blades, penguins, Pegasus, and walrus simultaneously charged into the Sanctuary Barrier.
As if rushing into a sea of fire, the five ghosts were engulfed in wisps of golden flames, as thin as knives.
Even so, with ferocious and pained expressions, they continued to pounce on Yang Qinglan and Li Qianxia.
Li Qianxia took another bite of her left hand, which was still in her mouth, and then took a step forward.
boom!
Like the power source of a mecha, her body trembled, and immense power was created out of nowhere, pouring into the blood-red steel gun.
With a flick of his spear, it flowed like water, pulling a sea of fire that swept in all directions.
The centaur was sent flying!
The foot knife was burned through!
The penguin got photographed!
Pegasus... The flaming steel spear collided with Pegasus and bounced off each other.
Li Qianxia retreated repeatedly, almost leaving the barrier with a diameter of three meters.
The walrus, ignited by the sacred domain, hurtled towards her like a meteorite.
Eleven seconds.
She struggled to raise her right arm; the blood-red steel spear now felt as heavy as a thousand pounds.
He bit his left arm again!
Heavenly fire descends...
My vision went black, my head was buzzing, and I staggered and fell, unable to see anything clearly.
Yang Qinglan's eyes turned blue, her tears dried up as if she were going blind, and Li Qianxia flew away.
But after less than two meters, the repulsion disappeared.
Yang Qinglan felt completely weak.
Her 'ability' was already less than that of Li Qianxia, who had reached level four. Even though she used fewer attacks and had pills to slowly restore her strength, she was already overdrawing her abilities.
Twelve seconds.
Relying on the physique provided by the Holy Domain, Yang Qinglan walked to the side of the Walrus Ghost, and her arm, covered in golden armor, slashed down like a sharp sword.
The thin, faint layer of holy light, which served as a protective shield, instantly dissipated.
The walrus ghost's body, set ablaze, burned completely, its sparks drifting through the night sky.
Thirteen seconds.
The golden armor disappeared.
Li Qianxia fainted on the ground.
Fourteen seconds.
Centaur, Shadowraven, Penguin, and Pegasus, wreathed in golden flames, launched another charge.
Li Changzhou's eyes blazed red as he shot towards the face-stealing ghost in the black dress.
The face-stealing ghost held its arms in front of it, its heat vision piercing through her body without causing any harm, only burning two tiny, child-sized holes at the edge of its vision.
Centaur, Shadowraven, penguin, Pegasus—like out-of-control puppets, they remained frozen in place.
Fifteen seconds.
The face-stealing ghost slowly lowered its arm, and a hint of fear could be seen on its featureless face.
Yang Qinglan looked at Li Qianxia, tears welling up in her eyes, as Li Qianxia's body fell towards her.
As soon as it flew into the barrier, the attraction and repulsion failed again, and the little 'ability' it had just recovered was completely exhausted.
Sixteen seconds.
The barrier suddenly disappeared.
Yang Qinglan smiled at Li Changzhou, a smile that was self-deprecating, helpless, and composed, like a snow lotus whose petals were about to be scattered by the wind.
From the first day she joined the value game, she was prepared to die.
But why is there this inexplicable longing in my heart?
Li Changzhou...Changzhou...
Seventeen seconds.
Once the Faceless Ghost confirmed that it was alright, the Centaur, Shadowraven, Penguin, and Pegasus started moving again.
This time, they went straight for Yang Qinglan, who was not protected by any barrier!
Bi's hands clenched tightly.
"Get out of the way!" Li Changzhou shouted.
Yang Qinglan felt dizzy and her body rolled uncontrollably. At the critical moment, she dodged all the attacks at a tricky angle.
Eighteen seconds.
"Look into my eyes and don't look away."
Li Changzhou and Yang Qinglan stared intently at each other, as if they were grasping the fingers of someone falling off a cliff.
Centaur, Shadowraven, Penguin, Pegasus – adjust their positions, like a fishing net leaving no blind spots.
Yang Qinglan seemed to be asleep when she suddenly closed her eyes and lost all strength in her body—her fingers slipped from Li Changzhou's hand.
"Qinglan!" Li Changzhou's roar passed through the teleportation portal, shaking the gravel on the railway tracks.
The ghosts launched an attack.
"Ugh—" A bloodthirsty wolf howl.
A figure as fast as lightning leaped out from the opposite side of the train tracks and bit Edison, who lay on the ground, lifeless and unconscious.
With a phonograph-like grinding sound, Edison suddenly disappeared.
The werewolf missed its target and jumped in another direction, where Edison was running frantically with his somewhat clumsy body.
Nineteen seconds.
The face-stealing ghost glanced at the two chasing and fleeing figures, then looked away without interest.
The Centaur, Shadowraven, Penguin, and Pegasus, engulfed in golden flames, charged once more.
Twenty seconds.
A flash of white light appeared, and the Black Reaper slowly sheathed his scythe, splitting the Centaur, the Hidden Blade Spider, the Penguin, and the Pegasus in two.
Li Changzhou walked over from the other side of the teleportation portal.
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