Su Bai felt the power Shen Guanlan had left inside him rapidly receding, like a failed invasion beating a panicked retreat.
She had completely given up on using her ability on him.
Yet Shen Guanlan's half-transformed body showed no sign of returning to normal. Beneath her long skirt, her legs made teeth-grating sounds of cracking bone as they mutated uncontrollably. The smell of blood spread through the silent space. Judging by the rapidly expanding pool of blood on the floor and Shen Guanlan's broken, tearful wails, her legs must have been in a horrific state.
This was something Su Bai hadn't expected.
At first, Su Bai had genuinely only been curious about the ability, "Seizing." He had planned to intervene once Shen Guanlan's face was halfway through its transformation, cutting off the power she had sent into his body. Seeing her face split between two appearances would have been much more entertaining than simply finishing her off.
So Su Bai really hadn't expected Shen Guanlan to be unable to seize his appearance from the very beginning. Was it because of the Vengeful Ghost Puzzle?
But however special the Vengeful Ghost Puzzle was, it was only an ability he possessed. It couldn't be considered part of his body.
Was there something wrong with his body? Or was something else still lingering within him-something her ability couldn't copy, and the true cause of this backlash?
"Save me... Little Su... please save me..." Shen Guanlan pleaded with Su Bai in mortal terror, her voice filled with utter breakdown and despair. "Don't leave me here... please, take me back... take me back to the 44th Floor..."
Her voice trembled. Even her former gentle, dignified facade was gone, leaving only the feeble wails of someone near death.
"..." Looking at Shen Guanlan's wretched state, Su