A new Demon Contract was quickly drawn up.
Meteor read through it expressionlessly and selected "Accept."
The contract vanished into the air, turning into translucent demonic head sigils branded over both their hearts—
If either party violated the agreement, they would die of cardiac pain.
"You'll definitely come back for me, right?" Less than a minute after signing the contract, Huangfu Miaomiao's resolve had already wavered, and she began to fret over every possibility.
"I'll do everything I can. As long as nothing unexpected happens, five days will be enough." Meteor looked at her. "Now it's your turn to fulfill your promise."
Huangfu Miaomiao hesitated, pushed herself up from the ground, and slowly walked toward Meteor.
The moment she stepped past the Third Gate, her vision was stripped away again. Unable to see anything, she could only rely on memory to walk toward the cage one step at a time.
She reached out to feel her way forward. Guessing that she was nearly at the cage, terrified and tense, she asked Meteor again, "You'll come back and return my body to me, right?"
A pair of bony hands suddenly seized her!
"Ah!!!" Huangfu Miaomiao struggled instinctively.
"Don't move!" Meteor snapped, gripping Huangfu Miaomiao's hands even tighter. "When we exchange identities, we'll lose consciousness for about two minutes. So stop screaming and stay calm. Only then can we recover sooner, understand?"
Huangfu Miaomiao took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.
Something resembling an informed consent form appeared before her eyes—more precisely, not before her eyes, but within her neural consciousness.
It seemed Meteor needed her consent in order to complete the identity exchange.
That made sense. A skill like this had to have restrictions, or else Meteor could change identities whenever she wanted.
*Five days. Once Meteor gets