Despicable Outsider!!

Whether it was a misperception or not, when Bai Zhi placed his hand on the door, a piece of information suddenly flooded into his mind.

[Odd changes, even remains unchanged?]

"What?"

After a slight pause, Bai Zhi released his grip.

As he released his grip, the message vanished instantly.

"A message made using some kind of Equipment or prop... Night Evolution Breath?"

Bai Zhi's eyes flickered slightly as he quickly identified the person most likely to have left this message in his mind.

Bai Zhi placed his hand back on the door, mentally answering the familiar question. Then, a short message appeared in his mind.

[Anna must not be killed; killing her will cause an early riot in the castle!!]

There seemed to be a word limit to the message, and only a few sentences came to mind.

"So you really did break into their room and kill them... No, the key point is that you survived the entire castle riot and still had the mind to come here and leave a message... So, is this Investigator alive or dead? If he's not dead, where is he now? I wonder how much intelligence he has..."

As he pondered this in his mind, Bai Zhi reached out and pushed open the door in front of him.

Although the message left by the other party was only a few sentences, it contained a great deal of hidden information.

For example, the most important point revealed here is that this scene will keep repeating itself. Otherwise, the Investigator wouldn't have the ability to come here and leave this kind of information. After all, Anna has already been killed by him. Would it be necessary for him to remind others not to kill Anna? It would be meaningless.

This point is actually quite easy to deduce.

However, if the situation is indeed as he suspects, then the Core Area here might be like a Mobius Ring that never ends, endlessly repeating itself throughout the day...

Inside the room, at a table near the window, sat a little girl with long blonde hair and an extra white crown on her forehead, resting her chin on her hand.

Hearing the noise at the door, she turned her head in slight confusion and then paused for a moment.

"Who are you?"

"Me? I'm a magician who can grant people's wishes."

With a slight smile, Bai Zhi magically produced several balloons in his hand and handed them all to the other person.

"Today is your birthday. Do you have any wishes that you want to come true? I can help you make them come true."

Can you really grant my wish?

Anna took the balloons in a daze, but her eyes lit up immediately after hearing Bai Zhi's words.

"Everyone in the castle has been acting strange lately, and Catherine has been saying a lot of things I don't understand. I hope..."

"Anna, have you forgotten what I told you before?"

Before Anna could finish her sentence, a chilling voice suddenly came from the doorway.

"Sure enough, a few Little Mouse have indeed gotten into the castle. Those subtle peeks earlier, were they you and the old book mouse hiding nearby?"

"... You already knew?"

Turning his head, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the middle-aged man who appeared at the doorway.

"Although the feeling of being watched was quite subtle, considering the rats that had appeared in the castle before, I still became a little more Mind's Eye."

The middle-aged man glanced past Bai Zhi and looked at Anna in the room. He snorted coldly and spoke in a reprimanding tone.

"Anna, throw away that balloon! What's the point of keeping such a cheap Item?!"

"..."

Anna bit her lip, then let go of the balloon she was holding, letting it fall to the ground.

"Let's go outside and talk... To be honest, I'm more interested in you than her."

Bai Zhi glanced back at Anna, rubbed his forehead, and sighed softly.

"Okay, I'll wait for you outside."

A strange light flashed in his eyes, and without the slightest hesitation, the middle-aged man turned and left the room.

(... Is he not worried at all that I would harm Anna? Or is this his intention...?)

Several thoughts flashed through his mind. After turning back to Anna with a smile and a wave, Bai Zhi followed her out the door, closing it behind him.

Not far from the doorway in the corridor, the middle-aged man was standing there waiting for him.

"... Outsider?"

The middle-aged man's gaze swept over the clothes Bai Zhi was wearing, and he frowned slightly.

"Despicable Outsider, tell me, what is the purpose of your sneaking into my castle with your companions?"

"I don't even know where the end of the universe is, how could I possibly know this?"

Shrugging, Bai Zhi looked at the other person.

"May I ask, what do you plan to do with Anna? To be honest, your castle seems to be teeming with Monster..."

"Monster? Ha... It seems you're not planning to talk about it, but that's fine, I'm not interested in your affairs."

A sinister smile appeared on his face, and the middle-aged man spoke coldly.

"A rat is just a rat, after all. You despicable outsiders..."

His head suddenly tilted slightly to one side.

A silver-white Bullet entered his temple and passed straight through his head, but there was no blood splattering where it passed. Instead, countless tiny tentacles emerged from the wound.

The tentacles swiftly seized the Bullet, wisps of blue smoke swirling around them.

"Tsk, so you yourself have mutated into Monster?"

Holding the Radiance in his hand, Bai Zhi pouted unhappily.

Against this Monster that was clearly the final boss, Radiance's firepower was still a bit lacking; the damage from that shot was almost negligible. He needed to consider getting a new weapon.

"He attacked without warning; what Despicable Outsider..."

He straightened up again, and a deep voice came from the middle-aged man's mouth.

"You were able to come and go freely in my castle before because of that strange ability to hide in the Shadow, weren't you? So how long can you hide now that that ability is temporarily gone... Guards, seize him. We need a fine sacrifice, and this Despicable Outsider looks quite suitable."

As he finished speaking, a dozen guards appeared at the turn of the stairs.

"... Invalid? Uh..."

Subconsciously, Bai Zhi wanted to activate the Shadow’s Trace Special Effect, but a feedback from the system made his expression freeze involuntarily.

[Due to Unknown Curse, the Player's Skill"Shadow’s Trace" has been temporarily sealed for one hour.]

"Damn, is this guy really that cunning? I think I know how the Colorful Black ended up here..."

Rolling his eyes, Bai Zhi casually shot down a few guards who rushed up, then flipped over and jumped down the stairs.

[Buff: Gravity Master: Freely control the gravity acting on you. -- 10 minutes.]

[Buff▪ Despicable Outsider: Reduces the duration of all Negative Status on the user by 50% (https://m. hetushu. com. com), increases the duration of buffs by 50% -- 30 minutes.]

Thanks to the balloons he had given Anna earlier, he did gain a few decent buffs. However, as he slowly fell from mid-air, all the Maid in the castle spontaneously gathered together, and a large group of guards assembled at the point where he landed.

--At the command of that man, everyone in the entire castle seemed to come alive.

"It feels like falling down is certain death..."

Looking at the scene below, Bai Zhi, who was slowly floating in mid-air, had a slightly subtle expression.

"Hundreds of mutated Monster roam inside the castle... how are we supposed to fight them?"

Just as he was pondering this, a voice suddenly rang out inside the castle.

"Knives, forks, bowls, and chopsticks, submit to me!!"