"You can't understand it, no matter how hard you try."
"Why she chose annihilation rather than obey you."
"Why she chose to trust a player she'd never met instead of you, and entrusted her daughter to her."
"Am I right?"
Although Fang Yao kept her expression composed, Ji Yan had read every thought in her mind.
Fang Yao's exquisite face betrayed a flicker of discomposure. Instinctively, she still believed Ji Yan could see her inner monologue too.
With an expressionless face, she played along. "Heh. Why don't you tell me, then?"
Ji Yan raised his eyes. "I told you. She was a dying woman."
"You possess the [Demon Card] and control the dungeon's authority."
"But you have no control over the authority governing birth, aging, illness, and death in the real world."
"For someone dying of late-stage liver cancer, at the very end of her life, would she choose to trust a player on her own side, or an enemy Boss who treated human lives like dirt?"
"Was there even a choice to make?"
Fang Yao's face stiffened slightly. "Liver cancer..."
That day, Ji Yan had gone to [Eternal Night Cemetery] to find out whether Bai Ling was alive or dead.
In the end, he had returned empty-handed.
But the truth was that Ji Yan had pinpointed Bai Ling's grave from the very beginning—
Players who failed to clear [Eternal Night Cemetery] would eventually be buried in underground coffins, becoming nourishment for the evil eerie corpses inside.
But in fact, Bai Ling had cleared it that night.
Only, just as she was leaving, the environmentalist woman had stopped her and struck a deal with her—
With what little time she had left, the environmentalist woman entrusted her daughter to Bai Ling.
In return, she would "gift" her the authority