All I Had to Do Was Keep Her Alive for Three Days

Douluo Continent, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Main Hall.

Ning Fengzhi abruptly crushed the jade teacup in his hand. Sharp shards pierced his palm, and blood dripped down, but he did not even notice.

"No! Rongrong!"

He stared fixedly at the Sky Screen, gasping like a drowning man.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin's sword hand trembled slightly as he spoke.

"Fengzhi, the Sheepskin Paper's predictions have never been wrong so far."

"But that doesn't mean there's no way to survive!"

Shrek Academy.

On the training grounds, Oscar dropped to both knees, his hands clasped tightly together.

"Rongrong, you have to be safe! Gods of any world, please, I beg you, protect Rongrong and let her survive!"

Spirit City, Papal Hall.

Bibi Dong sat high on her throne, her breathtakingly beautiful face as pale as paper.

"The Puzzle Piece of mental power... it's because of that Head Soul Bone!"

Bibi Dong abruptly tightened her grip on her scepter, her knuckles turning white.

To give Hu Liena a better chance of protecting herself in another plane, she had given her the Head Soul Bone she had intended to bestow on her ahead of schedule!

She had thought it would be a lifesaving trump card.

Yet she had never imagined that, in this absurd, despair-inducing world of Mysterious Revival...

That Soul Bone would become a beacon attracting supernatural horrors in the darkness!

At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Yuanzhen was equally frantic.

If Yang Jian died, no one in the entire mall would survive, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's hopes would be extinguished forever!

On the screen, Rich Benevolence Mall, Third Floor.

In the deathly silent darkness, the faint glow of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was the only light in the space.

Ning Rongrong and Hu Liena huddled together, staring fixedly at the yellowed Sheepskin Paper.

The words traced in blood on its surface gave off a sickeningly strong, bloody stench.

Every word was like an icy knife plunging deep into their hearts.

Everyone would die!

Hu Liena's body shook violently beyond her control.

Her eyes were now filled with utter terror.

She felt as though a pair of eyes in the thick darkness surrounding them was staring straight at the back of her neck.

Hu Liena seized Ning Rongrong's wrist.

"We can't stay here! That thing has its sights on me! That strange domain is gone! Let's get out of here, out of this mall! As long as we make it outside, we might survive!"

Ning Rongrong's wrist hurt, but she did not shake Hu Liena off.

Perhaps Yang Jian's earlier cold, merciless rebuke had finally snapped her out of it.

At this moment, Ning Rongrong was calmer than she had ever been.

She looked around. The oppressive darkness was suffocating.

Escaping the mall really did seem to be their only viable option.

"All right, we'll take the stairs and run down!" Ning Rongrong agreed through gritted teeth.

However, just as the two were about to turn around...

A sudden, icy sting came from the Sheepskin Paper in Ning Rongrong's hand.

The bloody writing, which had stopped appearing, began writhing frantically again.

[My name is Ning Rongrong. By the time you read this letter, I will already be dead...]

[I tried to escape the mall with Hu Liena, but I failed.]

[When we reached the First-Floor Lobby, Hu Liena and I both died.]

[To my despair, I discovered that we couldn't run.]

The blood-drenched words had directly sentenced their escape plan to death!

Reading the words on the Sheepskin Paper, Hu Liena staggered back two steps in terror, slamming her back into a cold support pillar.

The sensation against her back sent a jolt through her entire body.

The warning Bibi Dong had delivered through the Sky Screen suddenly flashed through her mind!

"Don't leave your back exposed!"

As though clutching at a lifeline, Hu Liena hurriedly pulled Ning Rongrong over.

"Against the wall! Hurry, get against the wall! My teacher said that thing's killing rule is to attack people from behind!"

Ning Rongrong's heart raced at those words. They immediately pressed their backs against the cold wall and huddled close together, not daring to breathe too loudly, their bodies as stiff as stone.

The wall's chill seeped through their clothes, yet it was now their only source of reassurance.

Although Ning Rongrong was so frightened that her legs felt weak, the pressure of standing on the brink of death allowed her to spot something she normally would have missed.

She stared fixedly at the Sheepskin Paper, furiously questioning it in her mind.

"Didn't you say I would only die three days from now?! Why would I die on the first floor now?!"

The blood on the Sheepskin Paper paused briefly, then a line of writing slowly appeared.

[You weren't beside Yang Jian.]

Hu Liena's eyes lit up instantly at those words.

Yang Jian!

Right, Yang Jian was still on the fourth floor!

As long as they found him, they might survive. In any case, it would certainly be better than staying here and waiting to die!

"Rongrong! Let's go to the fourth floor! Let's find Yang Jian!"

Hu Liena turned toward her, her voice trembling with tears and something close to pleading.

"Ask the Sheepskin Paper how we can get upstairs safely. I don't want to die here!"

Ning Rongrong looked at the Spirit Hall Holy Maiden, who had once been so lofty and untouchable, now begging her like a helpless little girl.

Her heart softened.

After all, both of them had been forcibly dragged from Douluo Continent into this hell.

On Douluo Continent, they were sworn enemies.

But in this world, they were merely two insignificant insects that a supernatural horror could crush at any moment. Now, they had only each other to rely on.

"All right." Ning Rongrong nodded firmly.

She lowered her head to glance at the Sheepskin Paper. "Then how can I find Yang Jian safely?"

The bloody words on the Sheepskin Paper writhed again:

[After Hu Liena told me this thing's rule, I knew I couldn't let it get behind me.]

[With my back against the wall, I moved upstairs little by little.]

[But when I reached the escalator and left the wall's protection, my head was still torn off.]

"Are we going to die no matter what?!" Reading that hopeless prediction, Hu Liena was beginning to fall apart.

Every choice led to death!

However, the bloody writing on the Sheepskin Paper did not stop.

[At the moment of my death, I discovered a secret.]

[As long as I stayed against the wall without leaving any space behind me, that thing could do nothing to me.]

At that final sentence, hope of survival flared in both Hu Liena's and Ning Rongrong's eyes!

"The wall! As long as we stay against the wall, avoid the suspended escalator, and take the mall's Stairwell, we can survive!"

Ning Rongrong took a deep breath, carefully folded the Sheepskin Paper, and put it into the Storage Bag at her waist.

And after the Sheepskin Paper was placed inside the dark Storage Bag...

Another eerie line of bloody writing appeared on its yellowed surface.

[She has already begun to question me. As long as I keep her alive for three days, I can...]

Douluo Continent.

Seeing the final answer provided by the Sheepskin Paper on the Sky Screen, most people were relieved that they had guessed the rule correctly.

On Shrek Academy's training grounds, however, the atmosphere was strangely awkward.

Yu Xiaogang stood there, his face alternating between livid and pale.

Just a few minutes earlier, he had confidently told Yu Tianheng through the Sky Screen that the rule was false, and that all he had to do was run fast enough.

Now the Sheepskin Paper had provided the definitive answer, delivering a resounding slap to his face!

If Yu Tianheng had actually listened to him and sprinted through the darkness, exposing his back to that thing, he would have been doomed!

Yet Yu Xiaogang kept his hands behind his back, stubbornly held his chin up, and refused to back down.

"Hmph! See? I told you this thing could think!"

"It knows how to get behind people and use its surroundings! My overall reasoning wasn't wrong at all. Only the details need further consideration. None of you saw how cunning this thing was!"

The teachers and students around him watched him with an indescribably complicated look in their eyes.

Standing nearby, Flender felt embarrassed on his old friend's behalf.

He stepped forward, gave Yu Xiaogang's shoulder a heavy pat, and spoke earnestly.

"Gangzi, I think your reasoning is fine. You're just too hasty. Next time, let's think things through a little more before drawing conclusions, all right?"

Completely missing the helplessness in Flender's words, Yu Xiaogang nodded confidently.

"Don't worry, I understand. All my analyses have rigorous foundations!"

Tang Hao sneered, no longer even interested in berating him.