Who Is Still Investigating Your Existence?

Diana awoke with a start from the darkness to a ceiling covered in runes.

At the same time, a series of "plop" sounds rang in my ears.

"Master, you're finally awake!"

Diana turned her head and saw rows of servants in white robes kneeling beside her bed.

"... What happened?" Diana asked.

"You suddenly fainted," one of the servants quickly explained. "It was like you were under some kind of curse; no matter how we called you, it was no use. We thought you were..."

The servant didn't dare finish his sentence.

Diana had already recalled everything from her Peach Blossom Paradise.

That guy...

That guy with fingers and eyes...

Diana lowered her head and looked at the Ring Finger of her right hand.

Her Ring Finger was still perfectly intact on her hand, as if it were her own, slender and beautiful.

She gently hooked her finger.

Suddenly, countless intangible threads appeared.

These threads scattered like a spider web on the ground and then spread in all directions.

"Is there something wrong with my Contractor?" Diana asked.

"No, Master, there's nothing wrong with your Contractor," the servant replied. "Not a single one...that's why we don't understand what's wrong with you."

Diana fell silent.

The fact that the Contractor did not encounter any problems indicates that being pulled into the Peach Blossom Paradise did not cause her any harm.

Otherwise, it should be her Contractor suffers the harm, even if it means death, the Contractor should bear the consequences.

But this did not reassure Diana, because it likely meant that she could not use the "contract" to change what the other party wanted to do to her.

What bothers her even more is...

The other party actually knew that she came from the Contract Land, otherwise they wouldn't have asked that question.

But how could that be?

"Master?" Seeing Diana's perpetually somber expression, the servant asked worriedly, "What's wrong...?"

Diana didn't say anything, but instead got out of bed and quickly left the room.

Then she stood in the moonlight, looking at the scene before her.

This is a massive, vortex-like structure, extending deep underground, layer upon layer, with hundreds of levels.

Each floor contains hundreds of rooms, and in front of each room stands a two-meter-high Magic Pillar covered with sealed runes. These runes extend downwards along specially made iron chains, one by one, into the abyss.

Diana narrowed her eyes slightly and spoke softly.

"Visas..."

"Now that things have come to this, who would still be trying to find out about your existence?"

Luo Qi suddenly opened his eyes.

The enormous ancient tree and the three illusory figures beneath it are gone, replaced by a familiar desk and documents.

This is his office... which means he has already left Peach Blossom Paradise.

Luo Qi tried hard to recall the last scene in Peach Blossom Paradise.

He saw Ulu talking to the Ring Finger body trembled slightly, clearly startled by Ulu's question.

So what exactly did that guy ask?

Damn it, he's the only one who knows nothing. He went in and out of Peach Blossom Paradise twice, lost his fingers twice, and still didn't get any information.

Just thinking about it made Luo Qi feel an erection.

The fist hardened.

No, Luo Qi, stay calm.

Think carefully about what the current situation is.

Luo Qi narrowed his eyes slightly.

The most direct question is whether Ulu is actually in Wildfire, and if so, what is his relationship with the Seven Sound Player is being chased by the Holy Sound?

Are they accomplices, or... competitors?

Logically speaking, the two of them had already gotten together, and the things they did in turn roughly matched up, plus Ulu knew information about that guy.

Therefore, they are very likely accomplices.

But it's unlikely they're accomplices.

After all, Ulu directly used the other party's information for a transaction. If they were accomplices, wouldn't that be betrayal?

But from another perspective, they could very well be working together to lure people in and kill them.

Take, for example, the Front Tooth who beat Ulu. If Front Tooth gone directly to find the Seven Sound Player based on the information, he would have fallen into their ambush. It would have been a total loss, with four pieces of the body going to one.

But even he could think of that, that guy called Front Tooth... wait, what do you mean he could think of that?

Luo Qi slapped the back of his head and cursed under his breath, "I'm really out of my mind, I'm even cursing myself."

But that guy should have been able to think of that.

So, will that guy go looking for them?

If we go, whether we win or lose, there will be a troublesome guy who has Three Corpse Pieces.

Luo Qi frowned deeply.

And who exactly is that Ring Finger? What information did she reveal to Ulu? Will it affect Rhine's pursuit of Ulu?

This was also something that Luo Qi cared about.

On another note, where exactly is Fei Ge's Devourer? Why haven't they found Ulu yet? And how can Ulu be allowed to enter Peach Blossom Paradise so openly?

What a piece of trash!

If he had dealt with Ulu sooner, I wouldn't have had to use my fingers again.

But then again, if Ulu is killed, who will get his two pieces of body parts?

... It's probably His Lord Lan Ge.

Will His Lord Lan Ge open up Peach Blossom Paradise?

It seems likely, since no one would refuse the opportunity to obtain information about another person's body parts. But wouldn't that expose the fact that he lost to Ulu twice?

Thinking of this, Luo Qi's face turned grim.

He almost forgot about that.

Damn it... I should have just gone and confessed to His Majesty last time.

Now that he's lost twice in a row, if Ulu manages to escape the pursuit using [Disruption], will His Majesty spare him?

This problem was too terrifying for Luo Qi to even think about.

Damn it, how did he suddenly become so dangerous?

Most importantly, he went in and out of Peach Blossom Paradise twice. If he had actually gained something, that would be one thing, but after losing his finger twice, he didn't get a single piece of information. This was truly...

Luo Qi was conflicted.

He didn't know whether he should hope that Fei Ge would quickly get rid of Ulu, or that Ulu would be able to escape Fei Ge's pursuit.

Just as Luo Qi was feeling frustrated, there was a knock on the office door.

"Your Bishop, are you awake?"

Luo Qi recognized the voice as belonging to the young Father he had raised, and then recalled that he seemed to be attending a church service when he was brought to Peach Blossom Paradise. He was even more startled and immediately let the other person in.

The door opened, and the young Father's handsome face peeked in.

"Your Bishop, are you alright?"

"I'm fine now," Luo Qi asked in a deep voice. "What happened before?"

"You suddenly fainted during prayer, which really frightened everyone," the Neat Little Father said. "But fortunately, not many people saw it, and I remembered your previous instructions, so we didn't disturb too many people to bring you back."

Hearing this, Luo Qi breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Fortunately, after his first unexpected entry into Peach Blossom Paradise, Luo Qi instructed the young Father around him to take him back to the office immediately if they saw him suddenly faint, and not to make a fuss.

Fortunately, these guys were fairly obedient, and Ulu didn't bring them into Peach Blossom Paradise in broad daylight, otherwise it would have been difficult to explain if something had happened.

Especially when he was being pulled off such a stunt during a communications meeting, it was truly impossible to explain.

... From this perspective, Ulu's ability to pull everyone into Peach Blossom Paradise at any time is quite troublesome.

Damn it, how come that old fart gets all the good stuff?

Luo Qi was getting angrier and angrier.

The Neat Little Father noticed Luo Qi's change in expression and cautiously asked, "Father, what's wrong...?"

"I'm angry," Luo Qi said irritably. "Can't you tell?"

"I see," the Neat Little Father said ingratiatingly. "Then would you like me to help you vent?"

Luo Qi glanced sideways at the young Father, about to yell at him to leave, when he suddenly remembered something.

If that guy Ulu really did escape the Devourer's pursuit and then started the Peach Blossom Paradise for the third time...

Luo Qi looked up at the young Father and said, "Call two more people."

The young Father was slightly taken aback. "Call two more people?"

"Yes, call two more people to my office," Luo Qi said. "Don't alert anyone else, just call them over quietly."

"But Father, I can manage on my own..."

Luo Qi slammed his fist on the table. "Get the hell out of here right now!"

The young Father was startled and immediately went outside.

Luo Qi searched frantically for something, but couldn't find anything suitable, so he simply slammed his hand on the desk.

The desk was shattered into pieces.

When the three young Father arrived at Luo Qi's office, panting, they were stunned to see that Luo Qi's desk had collapsed.

"What is this...?"

"Enough with the nonsense."

Luo Qi used Magic Power to cut the wood of his desk into more than fifty cards and labeled them with numbers.

Nobody is allowed to sleep tonight!

He shouted.

"You all need to thoroughly understand this deck of cards before you talk!"

Damn Ulu.

Luo Qi thought bitterly to himself.

Next time, I won't lose!

Bai Wei also opened his eyes, his consciousness returning to his body.

He looked at his right thumb with great interest, and could feel the rule called "Disturbance" flowing quietly through his finger.

I never expected this.

Luo Qi is truly a talent; he actually managed to lose to him using this rule again. This is a real lifesaver for him right now.

Because his other rules are still under the cost of "Visas Phantom" and are therefore unusable.

This is also why Bai Wei dared to fight three opponents alone.

The worst outcome is simply losing all three at the same time, but since [Watch] and [Terminate] cannot be used, losing is just losing.

That information was something he had intended to release from the beginning.

In other words, the worst outcome for him in tonight's game is that he doesn't win, but he won't lose either.

The others are small wins, medium wins, or big wins.

So, never play cards with a dealer who knows the rules.

If he were still alive in his previous life, Bai Wei would really like to put this case on the NoFap forum.

Tsk tsk, what a pity.

For Bai Wei, tonight was at least a moderate win.

It's not just the [Disturbance] that he's regained that's so helpful to Bai Wei, who can't use the rules right now, but also the information Ring Finger lost to him—information about the Contract Land, which is independent of the Eight Great Churches.

The Contract Land is a background character in the game, much like Visas himself. It has no formal storyline or map, only fragmentary records that let players know that such a place exists, like a ghostly narrative.

Players only know that this place is extremely special, so special that major churches send money and military power to this place every ten years, including the Esoteric Sect.

Think about it: the orthodox and Esoteric Sect, which are openly hostile to each other on this land, are working together to protect such a place, and no one is objecting. That in itself is quite intriguing.

Therefore, players have naturally made countless guesses about this place, and most of these guesses point to Visas.

After all, apart from Visas, no one else could get the Eight Great Churches to work together to accomplish something.

So most likely, something from Visas is also sealed away in this Contract Land.

It might be some kind of extremely powerful body part.

For example, the brain, and the heart.

Or, for example, it could simply be the soul of Visas.

People say that Visas's soul has been annihilated, but that is just a claim made by various churches.

What if it doesn't?

What if His soul is in that Contract Land, watched over by the Contractor for all eternity?

Before his transmigration, Bai Wei was also a proponent of the latter hypothesis, but now that he is Visas, the idea of a soul can naturally be disregarded.

So Bai Wei also thought that the place was probably the heart or brain or something like that.

But to his surprise, Ring Finger's answer was Visas's... corpse.

A corpse, not body parts.

That makes a lot of sense.

It seems that the Gods did not have the ability to actually divide Visas's body into thousands of pieces, leaving behind the largest piece, which was so large that it could only be called a "corpse" rather than a "body part," which is why the Contract Land made by the Eight Great Churches was needed to guard it.

Unfortunately... Bai Wei already knows about it.

Bai Wei slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

To be honest, he didn't expect to gain so much at first. If it weren't for that finger, he would have had no way of knowing that the other party came from the Contract Land.

This is top secret, and generally only bishops and above in major churches are qualified to know it.

But Bai Wei, as a player, knew about that finger, knew that the finger carrying the rules of the [Contract] had landed in the Contract Land.

That's why he acted on a whim and caught Ring Finger off guard.

Although he still doesn't know who Ring Finger is.

But it doesn't matter, as long as we know what his fingers are.

Thinking this, Bai Wei couldn't help but stretch, feeling refreshed.

So, being the banker once is great, and being the banker all the time is even better.

To be continued next time.

As long as Luo Qi is your opponent, you'll win no matter how many times you fight.

That Ring Finger looks a bit troublesome; I'll have to think about it carefully next time.

"... Huff... Huff"

Just as Bai Wei was feeling incredibly pleased with his huge win, he heard soft snoring beside him.

He looked in the direction of the sound and found that the person snoring was Wei Ke.

Wei Ke, who was guarding the gate, had fallen asleep at some point, looking like a puppy lying in bed.

Fortunately, he locked the door before going to bed.

It was now completely dark, and the Corpse Ghoul had started wandering outside again. There was a constant "thump, thump, thump" sound coming from the door, which was the noise they were making.

However, they were never able to break through the door that Wei Ke had kicked open during the day.

But they could still sense the "life" inside the house, so they tried again and again.

"Senro God," Bai Wei murmured, leaning leisurely against the wall, gazing at the moonlight outside, "Is this your final struggle?"

No one responded to Bai Wei.

So Bai Wei closed his eyes, preparing to rest a little longer.

However, he soon heard an extremely faint sound, completely different from that of the Corpse Ghoul.

He then opened his eyes.

"Tsk, they arrived so quickly?"

He slowly sat up, looked at Wei Ke who was still fast asleep, and gave him a meaningful smile.

"Time to get up, you little brat."

"Found it."

Lauren narrowed her eyes slightly, looking at the small house in front of her.

The Corpse Ghoul were wandering around nearby, completely unaware of Lauren and his men's presence.

They have become part of the darkness.

Lauren's nose twitched slightly, and she caught a whiff of more details.

There were two people in the house, which matched what the townspeople had said: a Rhine Father with a boy.

That boy was none other than Wei Ke.

But that Rhine Father...

Lauren frowned slightly.

He didn't know who the other party was, nor whether it was related to Rhine's attempt to infiltrate this land.

But whatever Rhine's plans, capturing Wei Ke is always the right thing for them.

As long as we control Wei Ke and send him to the boss, he can complete the final ritual.

So whatever Rhine wants to do will be of no use.

They will become the true masters of this land.

Lauren gave a hand gesture to her subordinates.

The subordinates once again vanished into the darkness, spreading out as they approached the house, like a pack of wolves hunting together.

The Corpse Ghoul still hadn't found them.

They arrived at the door without any problems.

At this distance, they could both clearly sense Wei Ke's presence.

They were right behind the door, still asleep, unaware of their approach.

In this way, a surprise attack could solve everything.

They were ready, and once everyone was in position, they exerted their strength simultaneously, launching a sprint towards the final stretch of distance.

At the same time, their hands quickly began to transform into wolf heads.

Just as the person at the front was about to touch the wooden door with their fully transformed wolf-like hand.

With a loud "bang!"

The wooden door was torn to pieces.

An even larger wolf head rushed out from the inner room and instantly bit off half of the believer's body.

Everyone was stunned.

"Roar!"

Wei Ke roared to the sky.

The sound waves instantly shattered the disguises of all the believers hidden in the darkness.

The Corpse Ghoul present all raised their heads.

Those cloudy eyes were filled with a longing for life!