"If you really wanted to know, you should've captured that woman alive."
"Didn't she say it? Does she know what that 'bewitching soup' is?"
Tianma touched his lips with a finger. "Her teeth were severely necrotic. According to the contract, that should mean the woman was on the verge of death."
"Yet she was full of life. Looks like contracts can't be trusted either..."
Ji Yan said, "Catherine has other secrets."
"We really do need to capture her alive."
Tianma said, "Speaking of which, you met her first. [Omniscient Understanding] must've analyzed that there was something wrong with her. Why didn't you make a move sooner?"
Ji Yan said, "I did extract hidden information from her."
"But it was extremely chaotic."
"Her information database was like a library that had been completely scrambled."
"The only explanation for that... was that her mind had also developed severe problems."
"I originally wanted to stabilize her, but I didn't expect her to expose herself first..."
As they spoke, the surrounding scene underwent another bizarre change—
The sinister classroom was replaced by a laboratory.
Chilly, eerie light filled the room. Large numbers of grotesque Eerie creatures soaked inside containers, and as red alarm lights began flashing one after another, the creatures within those containers started growing restless.
Clearly, they had been forcibly dragged into another themed scenario—
Ji Yan glanced around and said, "Let's directly clash [Authority]."
Only Order could restrain Order. Otherwise, trapped in this haunted house, they would be endlessly shifted between themed escape rooms and forced to play games, forever led around by Catherine...
But Tianma said, "There's a problem with clashing [Authority] too."
"Such as?"
Tianma explained, "After we got separated, I was dragged into that classroom and forced to play a rules game."
"I wanted to use the Authority