The female corpse gave chase after Du Lai!

“I don’t want you to save me! Don’t save me!” Fu Miaoxue was sobbing hysterically. “Do you think I enjoy living like this?! Not human, not ghost! I’d rather die right now! Don’t use a puzzle piece to save me!!!”

She turned her face up to Bai Youwei. “Meow! Meow! Meow meow meow meow meow!!! Are you satisfied now?! Satisfied!!!”

Bai Youwei lay against the top of the wall, chin resting on her hands, and answered in a leisurely drawl: “Not satisfied~”

Fu Miaoxue froze.

She was even a little stunned.

She had not expected that even after such a great sacrifice — her face and dignity both stripped away — Bai Youwei still refused to open the door.

“Bai Youwei! You’ve gone too far!”

Fu Miaoxue shook with fury, her mind racing. How could she turn this situation around?!

Du Lai, agile as ever, scrambled to the top of the enormous natural rock formation in front of the gate. The female corpse couldn’t climb it for now, and could only circle its base. The crisis seemed temporarily resolved, but in truth they had reached a stalemate.

They had originally been the ones holding the advantage!

How had it come to this?!

Was she truly going to let Du Lai use his last puzzle piece?

No! She would not give up!

In the midst of her desperate tension, Bai Youwei spoke. “How about this — I’ll give you one more chance. And it’s the last one~

Right now, swear that after I open the door, you will submit completely to me. I say jump, you jump. I say kneel, you kneel. Otherwise… hmm, otherwise you’re a fool, an idiot, you won’t clear the game, you won’t upgrade in the labyrinth, your boyfriend cheats on you every day, you’re plagued with bad luck in life and tormented in death.”

Fu Miaoxue trembled from head to toe.

She felt humiliated to her very core.

Bai Youwei asked her, “Well? Do you agree?”

Fu Miaoxue shot back furiously, “Just now you said you’d open the door if I meowed!”

Bai Youwei: “The problem is your meowing was terrible — wrenching and hideous, like a wailing spirit. Mine is much nicer~ meow~”

Fu Miaoxue: “…”

Du Lai: “…”

And Shen Mo, standing below the wall: “…”

On the other side, the female corpse was relentlessly pursuing the spirit tablet in Du Lai’s hands, scrabbling desperately to climb the rock formation.

The rotting corpse clawed and kicked without technique or coordination, stumbling and lurching. The shrill laughter from its mouth gradually weakened, and wisps of smoky vapor began drifting from within its body —

Fu Miaoxue’s heart seized with horror. Could it be — was the ghost version of the Corpse-Hauling Woman about to emerge?!

If it was that — truly nothing in the entire game, save for a solid door, could stop it!

“I agree!” Fu Miaoxue looked urgently at Bai Youwei. “I agree — I agree to everything! Open the door, quickly!”

Bai Youwei, unhurried: “Then swear it.”

Fu Miaoxue: “I swear!”

Bai Youwei: “You have to say it in full — otherwise how will the oath take hold if it’s incomplete?”

Good grief! Even saying it in full didn’t guarantee it would take hold! Those words, once spoken, served no purpose other than to humiliate her — that was their sole and utterly pure purpose: humiliation!!!

Fu Miaoxue wanted to sprout wings and fly up there and strangle Bai Youwei!

But she couldn’t.

Even if she had wings, she’d be electrocuted by Bai Youwei’s rabbit before she could get close.

She swallowed her rage and gritted out: “I swear — once I enter the door, I will submit completely to you. You say it, I do it. Otherwise, I am a fool and an idiot! From this day on, I won’t clear any game! I won’t upgrade in the labyrinth! — Is that enough?!”

Bai Youwei reminded her, “There’s still the last line.”

“Don’t push me too far!” Fu Miaoxue roared. “I’d rather die out here than say my boyfriend cheats on me! Even just saying it — absolutely not!”

Bai Youwei smiled.

Then she grabbed the fuzzy rabbit from the top of the wall and flung it down —

The rabbit hit the ground, rolled, and then ran to a position two meters from the female corpse, unleashing crackling bolts of electricity!

The female corpse was instantly driven back by the lightning! She fell off the rock formation!

At the same time, the gate opened!

From the top of the wall, Bai Youwei said: “Quick — both of you, come inside~”

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