Hearing this highly solemn voice, Xu Mo found it a bit hard to keep a straight face. Here we go again, she only calls me Lord Evil God when she needs something.
He replied testily:
“What is it? Why are you calling me? Don't tell me you want me to save them.”
“An Evil God isn't usually in the business of saving lives, you know.”
Up until now, Xu Mo's only way of saving NPCs was simply not actively killing them...
As for using his precious rewind opportunities to save these people, that was practically out of the question.
Bai Feifei narrowed her eyes. She didn't respond directly, only staring up at the dark red sky as she murmured:
“Did we still... fail to change the history you spoke of?”
Hearing this, Xu Mo fell silent for a moment. After a brief pause, he offered a rare word of comfort:
“This time... you actually did a really good job.”
Bai Feifei paused, then looked back at the scene before her and took a deep breath.
“If these blood vessels are absorbing everyone's life force...”
“...then if I secure the blood vessels, would I be able to return their lives to them?”
Inside her mind, Xu Mo was instantly startled.
No wonder Bai Feifei seemed so unusually calm this time.
It turned out she had just completely lost her mind!
Was she really just guessing this?
Moreover, she was actually so decisive that she planned to go mess with that blood vessel right now. Talk about a newborn calf not fearing the tiger!
This thing wasn't the Real World; it shouldn't grow on its own or edge closer to awakening.
In Xu Mo's view, no one else could steal the Mother of All Souls' blood vessels anyway. They could just seal this place off and return to claim them once they were stronger.
He hadn't expected that compared to Bai Feifei, he would be the conservative one.
“You've certainly got a wild imagination...”
“No one even knows the specific method to contain an Evil God, yet you make it sound like you can just reach out and grab it!”
Bai Feifei stood in place and smiled.
“It works out perfectly,” she said. “This is also what you need, isn't it?”
Xu Mo fell silent again for a few seconds.
With a single sentence, she had successfully tickled his greedy heart.
Then, he chuckled teasingly:
“Oh? So you're saying you want to use this thing to make a deal with me?”
Bai Feifei shook her head.
“This doesn't count as a deal. We agreed on this kind of thing beforehand.”
She paused. “But if I lose consciousness...”
“...I hope you can look after the people here, and Wan Qianhong. I'll have to trouble you with that.”
She spoke calmly and frankly. She didn't ask the Old-Timer to save these people, because she knew she had no right to demand anything.
She was simply doing everything within her power, and then leaving the rest to “heaven's will!”
Xu Mo was taken aback, then suddenly burst into laughter. This time, his laugh even carried a hint of the “derision” typical of an Evil God.
“Hahaha... You really are incredibly arrogant.”
“Just because you got lucky last time, you really think you can pull it off again?”
“Every single Evil God of the Old Days has a different temperament, and their powers are completely distinct.”
“You're highly likely to charge in full of hope, only to end up throwing your life away!”
He spoke those words, but his tone wasn't heavy at all; instead, it carried an indescribable sense of anticipation.
Then, his tone shifted.
“Don't worry, I naturally won't waste a rewind on them... but you're different!”
“You're under my protection! What is the Mother of All Souls anyway?!”
“If you die because of her, I will step in. Rewinding a bit further back to save these people won't be out of the question then.”
Hearing this, Bai Feifei smiled gratefully, as if all her worries had been swept away.
Then she stood up. Without the slightest hesitation, she charged straight toward the thickest cluster of red meridians situated at the very center of all the blood vessels.
That was the central blood vessel that had erupted after Zhulong's death.
He Jinfan: ?
Before he could even react, Bai Feifei was already charging ahead.
He Jinfan was utterly dumbfounded in that instant.
“Hey!!”
He shouted reflexively and took a step forward, but he was too late to stop her.
Without pausing for even a second, that slender figure charged straight into the wildly dancing crimson forest.
In that instant, the red blood vessels lunged, pouncing from all directions simultaneously.
Her slender figure was swallowed up in an instant.
He Jinfan stood frozen in place, completely stunned.
His brain worked furiously, but he couldn't come up with a single conclusion that made sense to him.
Was... was this also part of the plan?
Or were the members of this society simply too idealistic, throwing their lives away one after another just to contain a limb of an Evil God?
But even Sinking Black died...
Suddenly, the ground beneath his feet began to shake violently, and all the wildly dancing blood vessels ground to a halt.
Those ten-meter-high crimson tentacles and the death forest that was still expanding outward froze at the exact same moment.
Then, they began to droop.
They drooped slowly and heavily, like giant pythons stripped of their strength, crashing to the ground from midair with dull, heavy thuds.
The thick blood vessels crisscrossed and piled on top of each other, coiling across the red soil for several kilometers to form a massive, nest-like structure.
Like a colossal bird's nest, it trapped everyone inside.
Watching this sudden change, He Jinfan's heart beat so fast it felt like it would leap out of his throat.
What... what was the deal now?
Was that woman just looking for death, or did she actually know what she was doing?!
...
Bai Feifei's consciousness was falling.
The familiar dizziness and sensation of her soul being detached gave her a feeling of weightlessness, as if her spirit was being forcibly yanked out.
She could feel a grander, more irresistible consciousness watching her, like observing an experimental subject thrown into a container.
Her consciousness plunged into a crimson space.
It felt familiar, just like when she had encountered the Real World last time.
There were no boundaries to this place, and beneath her feet lay thick, flowing blood—it was quite literally a boundless sea of blood!
The temperature was extremely high, and the air was thick with an indescribable, sweet yet metallic stench of blood.
Before she had any time to react, the blood-colored liquid surged.
The sea of blood churned into a massive wave, crashing down from above and completely submerging Bai Feifei!
There was no sound, no warning, and none of the psychological sparring that had occurred during her previous test with the Real World.
There was absolutely nothing.
The moment the sea of blood submerged her, she felt every single pore on her body being forcibly pried open!
Frenzied, bloody energy squeezed into her body from all directions, worming its way inward inch by inch along her blood vessels, meridians, and the crevices of her bones.
Then, agonizing pain descended.
That pain exploded simultaneously from every single bone, every muscle fiber, and every drop of blood in her body.
It felt as though a thousand tiny knives were scraping against the inner walls of her blood vessels, stroke by stroke.
Bai Feifei's resolve nearly shattered in that instant.
And this was only fifty percent of the pain!
She could feel that this power was completely unlike the Real World; there was no room for negotiation here.
The Mother of All Souls had no intention of testing her.
She only wanted to consume her.
The blood-colored liquid bored into her blood vessels, frantically assimilating everything about her—flesh, bones, mind, and soul—sparing absolutely nothing.
The process was irresistible, leaving her with no chance to even adapt.
Just like last time, Xu Mo's mind failed to enter with her. He waited quietly for the result as if he had been disconnected.
But this time, after waiting for about a second, the agonizing pain descended!
It was so incredibly painful that it made him scream out loud.
“Aaargh!!”
Xu Mo shrieked from the depths of Bai Feifei's consciousness, his voice completely distorted.
In an instant, the sheer agony made Xu Mo lose his mind!
“Mother of All Souls! Fuck you!!!”
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