Heavenly-Snake scrambled up from the ground in a panic as if he had seen a ghost, jogging to the black hole beside the wall. He leaned on the wall and peered outside, his expression extremely desperate.

“Damn it…” Heavenly-Snake said with a trembling voice. “Do you know what you’ve done?”

“Of course…” White Snake answered with his head lowered. “My life has entered a countdown anyway. If I can drag down one person, that’s one person. Haha…”

Heavenly-Snake’s brain spun rapidly. He knew that killing White Snake now would have no effect, but he had never imagined anyone would use this kind of attack method.

So was he dead now… or not?

Never being able to return to the “Train” meant never appearing before others again. Even if he survived, what difference would it make?

“Damn…” Heavenly-Snake grabbed his hair. “Stay calm… stay calm… quickly think of a solution…”

“Hahahaha!” White Snake seemed to have already fallen into delirium from excessive blood loss, but still laughed as he said, “Heavenly-Snake… I understand you too well… you can’t create ‘doors,’ you can’t go back…”

Heavenly-Snake turned his head to look at White Snake with a face full of anger, knowing the problem had indeed become thorny. Even if someone opened his room’s door on the “Train,” they would only see the door opened to complete void. Even attempting to rescue him would be impossible.

The “Train” was still the “Train,” except they had derailed.

“You…!!” Heavenly-Snake walked to White Snake’s side, grabbed his neck and pulled him up, saying with a face full of anger, “I said I could negotiate with you! You could have whatever you wanted!! Why did things have to reach this point? What are we supposed to do now?”

“What’s next…” White Snake forcefully squeezed out a voice from his throat. “I’ll slowly die, and you’ll spend eternity here with that woman. What do you think?”

White Snake’s words made all the blood in Heavenly-Snake’s body run cold.

Spend eternity here… with that woman?

He knew he wouldn’t die of old age or starvation. He truly might spend countless amounts of time here, struggling to survive with that woman, companions for life.

An extremely sorrowful emotion rippled through Heavenly-Snake’s heart, making his entire body shake uncontrollably.

“You look so sorrowful, hahahahaha…” White Snake’s neck was being strangled, yet his expression showed an indescribable relaxation.

He knew he had won.

This time he had not only won this battle but had even won over his own life.

Heavenly-Snake grabbed his neck and stepped forward, just about to throw White Snake into that void when Xiao Ran spoke up.

“Don’t!” She called out. “Don’t kill him yet! Wait!”

Upon hearing this, Heavenly-Snake paused, maintaining his last shred of rationality as he turned to look at her: “…Wait for what?”

“That door wasn’t destroyed, it just fell outside!” Xiao Ran said. “We can have him go bring the door back!”

After hearing this, Heavenly-Snake laughed bitterly.

It seemed the sins he had committed in this lifetime were truly too many—in his final days, he actually had to share a room with such a woman.

Have White Snake go bring the door back?

Not to mention the immense difficulty of finding a door in this infinitely vast space outside, even if White Snake really found the door, why would he bring it back? He could not only destroy the door but could even leave himself.

Why did this woman feel she could control everything?

Did she think that just by saying “I’ll report to Qinglong,” she could control someone who didn’t want to live in the first place?

Heavenly-Snake lowered his head with a sorrowful expression, relaxed his hands, and White Snake fell to the ground.

He felt that no matter how hard he tried, it would be useless. This room would forever only contain White Snake’s corpse, some “furniture” without any rationality, and that crazed woman with the “gigantified” palm.

He could only hope that this room floating in midair might one day drift toward a door through which he could escape. Anywhere would be fine—in any case, he didn’t want to stay here alone with “Qiongqi.”

“At least I have my books…” Heavenly-Snake laughed bitterly. “I have my most beloved books to accompany me… As long as I read them over and over again, one day I can surpass Baiyang and find a way to escape from here…”

Before he finished speaking, Heavenly-Snake’s gaze was drawn to a strange book on the ground.

The patterns and text layout on the book were familiar to him, but for some reason, the page that was turned open had been damaged. Someone had carved a long gash across it with something.

Heavenly-Snake walked over somewhat heartbroken and gently picked up the book. Looking at the cover, it was remarkably his extremely treasured “Game Theory.”

“Damn… damn!!” Heavenly-Snake’s lips trembled. “How could this happen? Who damaged my book?!”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran opened her mouth but ultimately didn’t dare speak.

But how could Heavenly-Snake not figure it out?

All this time, only Xiao Ran had stayed alone in his room.

“Who damaged my book?” Heavenly-Snake raised his head to stare at Xiao Ran and asked again.

“What’s the big deal if the book got damaged?” Xiao Ran said dismissively. “It’s just a book. Rather than caring about that book, you should think about how to turn my hand back. Qinglong will definitely be scared when he sees me like this.”

“You idiot…” Heavenly-Snake gritted his teeth, the resentment in his heart no longer able to be suppressed.

The reason things had reached this point was all because of this stupid and arrogant “Qiongqi.”

Ever since she appeared, everything had become strange, yet she had never felt even half a bit of remorse.

Taking ten thousand steps back, if this woman hadn’t been in this room, would White Snake still have chosen to remove that door?

At this moment, Heavenly-Dog’s warning slowly echoed in Heavenly-Snake’s ears:

“Don’t bother with any ‘new Xuanwu,’ and don’t listen to her honeyed words. After returning to your room, kill her immediately—there might still be hope, or perhaps…”

“Ha… haha…” Heavenly-Snake laughed bitterly. “How ridiculous… At the final moment, I didn’t trust Heavenly-Dog, who had the best relationship with me, but instead chose to trust Qinglong and you… hahaha!”

Heavenly-Snake laughed so hard he swayed back and forth, yet tears appeared at the corners of his eyes. White Snake raised his head to look at him, not knowing what he was thinking.

“Qinglong… hahahaha… damn it…”

Heavenly-Snake, while wearing a strange smile, surveyed his “furniture.” The “furniture” responsible for “grafting” had already had a wooden fragment pierce its throat and lost its vitality, meaning all retreat routes had been completely cut off.

He walked to the side of a standing piece of “furniture” in the corner of the room. That “furniture” had always worn an eyeshade. He moved the “furniture’s” eyeshade aside, pointed at Xiao Ran, then took paper and pen and handed them to it.

The “furniture” paused, stared at Xiao Ran, and began silently writing text on the paper:

“Gigantification,” “Flash,” “Leap,” “Hardening.”

After writing these four “Echoes,” the “furniture” paused for a while, then swiftly wrote down two more characters—

“Disaster.”

“Haha…” Heavenly-Snake looked at these lines of text with a bitter smile, his entire person seemingly having gone completely mad.

He collected the paper, crumpled it up, then turned around and said to Xiao Ran:

“‘Qiongqi’… I’ve changed my mind. I’m preparing to help you master ‘Leap’ so you can return to Qinglong to report.”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran smiled: “Ha… at least you’re being sensible. This is how it should have been from the start.”

The scene gradually became eerie. Xiao Ran was smiling, Heavenly-Snake was smiling, and even White Snake on the side was smiling.