Free Web NovelChapter 65: Chapter 65: Gave Everything to Defense Out of Fear of His Death
"In the future, I want to decorate this whole place to look just like human society. It’ll be beautiful," Ding Ning grew more excited as she spoke.
"Aren’t you being foolish? You think it looks good, but the other evil spirits might not like it. Just decorate your own castle, that’s enough."
"True, but anyway, I have something urgent to take care of." Ding Ning really wanted to chat more with her friend, but time waits for no one, and she still needed to arrange some extra skills for Jiang Che.
"Oh right, you should prepare a Skill Book too. That enchantment skill of yours, make a copy for him."
"And the anti-peeping device, get one for me as well. I want to block these humans’ vision."
"Okay, got it. Go do your thing, I’ll come find you later," Hua nodded, staying put, her giant flower branches waving in the wind.
Ding Ning felt her friend’s demeanor was odd; the more she watched, the more she sensed a sadness in every gesture and move.
Is she reluctant to let me go?
She couldn’t help but laugh—it’s not like she’s abandoning her!
Watching Ding Ning’s distant silhouette, Hua let out a sigh.
She didn’t dare to imagine what would happen after that human enchanted Ding Ning and gained so many skills, how invincible he’d become.
But she didn’t stop it. If her friend vanished forever, then no matter how strong that human became, it would have nothing to do with her—or with their Dungeon.
If, in the end, she destroyed that human, it wouldn’t matter how many skills she gifted.
Ding Ning had no idea that her friend, in the invisible space between them, was thinking of so much—even imagining she would be controlled by Jiang Che, that human.
She didn’t know Hua was already preparing to sacrifice herself to save her.
"Mother, these skills are way too strong, way more powerful than mine,"
Ding Ning had only visited two households with Tuantuan, but she was already utterly shocked; any skill she’d prepared for Jiang Che could make a human’s blood boil with excitement.
"It’s different. Yours is very useful too." Ding Ning stroked Tuantuan’s head.
She sought out survival skills, but none compared to Tuantuan’s offering—[Rebirth].
For Tuantuan’s current power level, giving out such a skill—even one chance—was almost injuring her core.
But at the time, Tuantuan had been fully prepared to die, so she parted with it.
"Next you’ll definitely arrange two attack skills for Dad, right?" Tuantuan’s eyes shone, her fists clenched and swung into the air.
"No, we’re sticking with survival skills." Ding Ning couldn’t help but sigh.
"Just two more, for attack—one is enough." Ding Ning had previously meant to give Jiang Che several offensive skills, but later thought better of it.
Jiang Che wasn’t the type to hurt others for no reason.
Besides, he couldn’t avoid being schemed against by other humans; for him now, defense was more important.
She thought, afterward, she’d need to teach Jiang Che how to grow.
She could only guarantee his safety within Dungeon 9.
If in human society, he was unlucky and chosen by another Dungeon, summoned elsewhere, she could only worry from afar.
They could freely visit other Dungeons normally, but when a human was summoned inside, they couldn’t enter.
Some Dungeons housed her old enemies.
She had to teach Jiang Che that not all humans were good, and not all evil spirits were like her and her friends.
As night passed, Ding Ning contacted two more evil spirits, asking them to create Skill Books, all survival skills. One was [Mirror Image: Absorbs the damage of skills used against you, stores energy, can record enemy moves, and unleash the stored energy using the same moves.]
The other was [Recon: Observe the target’s power level and highlight anyone with hostility toward you.]
And Jiang Che’s attack skill was the one she prepared herself.
It’s called [Descent: An evil spirit can possess and descend into a human, releasing power proportionate to the human’s own strength.]
She didn’t trust any other skill, only herself, only her own help to see Jiang Che through hardship.
By the time everything was ready, the horizon was already tinged with pale light.
Viewers in the livestream watched as Jiang Che and Xiong Jie slept through the night, both flipping over a few times.
Completely forgot their situation!
You two! One in a basement, one in prison, for god’s sake!
And as for the humans tortured inside the hamster wheel, trapped in Illusions, in their consciousness the exit kept shifting through the Dungeon again and again, falling deeper into the Illusion. Their eyes grew more vacant. They were not dead yet.
But their legs were so heavy they could only drag themselves forward, their hands reached helplessly ahead, yet could grasp nothing.
The giant rat evil spirit sat beside them, mockingly watching the humans run on that enormous wheel all night long.
The livestream audience saw exactly this scene.
Sixteen people, running endlessly.
[What do you think they’re seeing, that lets them keep going all night long?]
[In this situation... the exit is all there is...]
[Think back, Jiang Che and Xiong Jie sleeping actually seems blessed—they at least can die peacefully, without worries.]
[Fools are lucky, I guess.]
[If this happened to me next time... I...]
[I’d still choose to be one of those sixteen.]
...
One person’s words crashed through the chat like a wild beast, clearing the whole screen as if it had been wiped slate clean.
Yeah, if given the chance to choose, would you be one of the sixteen, or one of the two waiting to die?
Through the night, thanks to Ding Ning’s arrangements, the Dungeon’s location kept shifting at random.
Every place had stops, some longer than others.
She was preparing for Jiang Che’s escape.
After all, it’s an SSS-level Dungeon—if the random exit happened to show up before Jiang Che, and he left, outsiders wouldn’t believe he made it out on his own skill.
After all, Jiang Che had already hit the exit once.
To hit it again...
Her lips curled unintentionally; if humans outside saw that, who knows how shocked they’d be.
The pale dawn began to turn red, blazing sunlight pierced the darkness.
As the first rays stabbed into the eyes of the sixteen Survivors, they blinked in confusion.
Those confused eyes blinked, then quickly cleared.
The endless escape route in their minds disappeared.
Sister Xia rubbed her eyes; she remembered that she’d nearly touched the exit just now.
All night, she’d been running toward the escape route in her mind, but every time she came close, it switched location.
Happened again just now.
She rubbed her eyes and looked around, trying to see where the exit had moved.
That glance left her stunned!
Because all around were naked corpses, flesh drained white through the night.
The sixteen of them were standing atop a giant hamster wheel.
All night, they’d never left, never chased the so-called exit, just sprinted endlessly on the wheel in their Illusions.
Despair!
This was the first time Sister Xia had truly, deeply felt despair!
