Level Nine Fixed-Install Soul Guidance Shells: The Cicada, the Mantis, and the Oriole (Continued)

"Do you have a lover?"

Hearing this question, Bei Bei was briefly confused before immediately asking, "Who are you? Why did you bring us here?"

"Punishment!" An invisible lash instantly struck Bei Bei.

"Ah!" Bei Bei cried out miserably.

"Answer the question, or die."

"Yes." Bei Bei gritted his teeth.

"Who is your lover?"

"Shrek Academy!"

The voice fell silent, seemingly not expecting Bei Bei to give such an answer.

"Answering something else. Punishment!"

Another lash came down.

"Zhuge, help me!" Bei Bei roared inwardly.

"Help you? How am I supposed to help? I'm not from the Holy Spirit Cult, and I don't know where this is either," Zhuge replied.

"Damn it!" Bei Bei was frantic inside.

Were they going to be trapped here until they died?

"Who is your lover?" the voice asked again.

"I don't have a lover!" Bei Bei said with reddened eyes.

"..." The voice was forcibly stunned by Bei Bei again before finally saying, "Concealing the truth. Punishment!"

Another lash struck.

Bei Bei roared, "Tang Ya doesn't deserve to be my lover at all! She actually betrayed Shrek Academy..."

Before he could finish shouting, a bubble appeared. His voice was sealed within it as the bubble shrank back onto the platform.

"This is truly strange. Why are they all so outrageous?" A completely different voice from the one asking questions sounded out. Then the golden light rotated again, the bubble vanished, and Xu Shishi appeared instead.

Seeing that it was neither Xuan Zi nor Bei Bei, the voice seemed to breathe a sigh of relief before asking the original question again in an icy tone.

Upon hearing the question, Xu Shishi did not think of Jiang Nannan. Instead, an image he was incredibly familiar with surfaced in his mind.

Yet Xu Shishi said in a