Creak—!
The auditorium doors opened once more, and Lin Qiye slowly emerged, carrying the Black Box.
Hong Ying, who was sitting on the stairs nearby, smiled and waved when she saw Lin Qiye come out. "All done?"
"Mm."
"That's good." Hong Ying nodded, hesitated for a moment, then could not help asking, "By the way... why didn't you let me make a move?"
"He was my classmate. Killing him with my own hands could be considered giving him closure," Lin Qiye said calmly.
Hong Ying froze. "Killing him with your own hands... counts as closure? What kind of logic is that?"
Si Xiaonan glanced at him and quietly said, "Pervert..."
Of course, Lin Qiye had been talking nonsense. He had been afraid that if Hong Ying made a move, she would kill the snake demon with a single shot. Then he would not have been able to finish it off, and Li Yifei would have had no way to revive in the Psychiatric Hospital of Gods.
"But we still have you to thank this time. Otherwise, we really would have been fooled by that thing. When we get back, I'll record a first-class merit for you!" Hong Ying said with a smile, raising a thumbs-up.
"What about the students inside?" Lin Qiye pointed toward the auditorium behind him.
"Let them stay in there for now. Someone will come soon to use Dream Whisper and selectively erase all memories concerning the snake demon and you, then create a dream for them."
"How are we supposed to explain the students who died?" Lin Qiye could not help asking. "And you blasted through an entire building."
"That's not something we need to worry about. There are specialized departments to handle it and make every explanation sound reasonable. A laboratory explosion, a massive fire,