Ji Yan's eyes flickered.
"What exactly is the main storyline of the [Time Dungeon]...?"
"You clearly failed once, yet instead of being crushed, your obsession seems to have only deepened?"
At Tianma's words, he recalled something and said meaningfully, "It isn't that the obsession grew deeper."
"It was because there was no other choice."
At this point, Tianma hesitated before adding, "Actually, back then, that 'Ji Yan' was only one step away from completing that main storyline."
"You could even say he had one foot through the door, reaching out and touching something beyond the Eerie Game."
"But at that final moment, he failed."
"Causing everything to be lost."
Ji Yan said, "Beyond the Eerie Game?"
Tianma said, "According to the rule settings of a 10th-tier Dungeon, clearing the [Time Dungeon] is equivalent to clearing the entire Eerie Game. Naturally, what comes afterward lies beyond the game."
"But whether that truly means a perfect ending, or whether we return to our Blue Star, I don't know."
After saying that, Tianma nudged the tip of his shoe and gestured. "Let's go."
"We've talked here for too long."
"We can't stay in the [Door] for too long either. We have to leave eventually."
"The longer we drag this out, the less we know what surprises that [Time Eerie] has prepared for us outside."
Ji Yan said, "I want to see Xu Xin first."
Tianma snapped his fingers, then turned and opened a cage.
Inside, Xu Xin lay motionless as an ugly Eerie, its entire body flowing like melted cheese, slowly wrapped itself around her.
Tianma said, "Don't worry. Miss Xu's mind is badly scattered right now. That Eerie is helping her repair it bit by bit."
"For now, she's in something like a vegetative state."
"Her consciousness is awake, but she can't