After an earth-shattering slash, Madame Ping was ultimately no match for Lumine and fell beneath her sword...
According to Lumine, it was a strike imbued with an overwhelmingly powerful and dense abyssal force—a slash strong enough to cleave the world itself!
Wherever that strike passed, even space itself had been torn and broken, unable to return to its original state for a long time...
Su Yuan stared in shock at the scene.
So this... this is the result of Lumine's centuries of growth? This is her true strength?
Just one strike—only one—and she had completely annihilated the Eerie Madame Ping head-on.
But such a powerful attack didn't come without a price...
At this moment, beads of sweat rolled down Lumine's forehead, her breathing was ragged, and her face had grown slightly pale...
"Your Highness... That attack puts immense strain on your body. Unless it's absolutely necessary, you shouldn't use it frequently..." Yuanzhong said with concern, glancing at Lumine.
"Yuanzhong, that's not something you need to worry about. I know my limits," Lumine replied, then slowly walked over to Su Yuan, locking eyes with him.
"So that's how it is..."
She looked at Su Yuan and slowly said:
"I finally understand now... why you had that look on your face back then..."
"Back then? Have we really met before?" Su Yuan asked, confused.
Could I really have met Lumine in the past?
"Su Yuan, if you truly believe what you're doing is right... then go ahead and do it."
"Because I... have no right to persuade or stop you..."
The next moment, Su Yuan felt a sharp pain in his chest...
Su Yuan looked down and realized that Lumine had stabbed the small knife—taken from him earlier—straight into his heart...
"The next time you see me, if you want me to listen to you..."
"Then please say this to me..."
"Spaghetti... should be mixed with Type 42 concrete..."
In the final moments of his life, Su Yuan couldn't understand.
He was completely baffled...
Why would Lumine—who had just been desperately trying to stop him from killing himself—now choose to kill him herself?
"Spaghetti mixed with Type 42 concrete"... wasn't that a meme from Earth, his original home?
Why... why would Lumine know that?
Su Yuan suddenly opened his eyes wide—there it was again, that familiar and heart-pounding sensation...
Feeling the stinging pain in the palm of his left hand, Su Yuan knew he had died once more...
Which also meant that today's plan—to make it through without using even a single rewind—had failed.
At this moment, Su Yuan was once again walking alongside Aether and Paimon, on their way to Wanmin Restaurant to check on Xiangling.
He raised his left hand and looked at his palm:
[Unfortunately, this is your first death today...]
[Xiangling and Guoba have already been corrupted and taken over by the Eerie.]
[That incredibly delicious ingredient is very likely human flesh, specially prepared through some twisted method...]
[Also, Lumine wields Abyssal power and is incredibly strong...]
[Moreover, her attitude toward those corrupted by the Eerie isn't to save them—it's to eliminate them.]
[Once Xiangling and Guoba die, Madame Ping will also fall into eerie corruption...]
[Even the eerified Guoba, Xiangling, and even Madame Ping were no match for her...]
[Also, Eerie power and Abyssal power are both forces from beyond this world, and they seem to repel each other...]
[Finally, if you want to get Lumine to listen to you...]
[You can say to her: "Spaghetti should be mixed with Type 42 concrete."]
Su Yuan stared seriously at the intel message on his left palm.
Xiangling and Guoba... have already been corrupted by the Eerie?
And as expected, Lumine's strength was terrifying.
As the wielder of Abyssal power, she could directly face off against the Eerie... impressive.
But the last part—the spaghetti with Type 42 concrete—Su Yuan just couldn't wrap his head around it.
If he remembered correctly, that was a meme from back home on Earth, wasn't it?
Why would saying something like that make Lumine listen to him?
Could she even get the reference?
Or could it be that Aether and Lumine, as travelers who roam across different worlds... had been to Earth too?
"Su Yuan, what are you staring at?"
Aether looked over at Su Yuan, noticing how he was fixated on his left palm—where, to him, there was absolutely nothing written.
"It's nothing. I was just thinking... maybe we shouldn't rush to Wanmin Restaurant just yet," Su Yuan replied.
"Hm? Why not? Weren't we going to check on Xiangling?" Aether asked.
"Xiangling and Guoba... have already been corrupted by the Eerie."
"Well, doesn't that mean we should go?" Aether smiled and said,
"Let's go help Xiangling and Guoba, bring them back from the Eerie's control!"
But staring at Aether's smile, Su Yuan didn't buy it.
The prompt in his palm had already told him—
Aether's attitude toward those controlled by the Eerie... was not salvation, but extermination.
"Lumine, it's just us here right now. You don't need to pretend anymore..."
Su Yuan looked straight at "Aether" and spoke slowly:
"I know the truth—your stance has never been to save them... only to kill them."
"Oh? Su Yuan, you sure have some sharp intel..."
"Aether" smiled, squinting at Su Yuan and letting out a sigh of admiration:
"You even know that, huh..."
"But even if you don't go, if I choose to head to Wanmin alone—what exactly are you gonna do about it?"
Su Yuan had a feeling—like everything that was happening right now was all within Lumine's control.
It was as if she could see right through everything about him...
She seemed to be waiting, anticipating... waiting for that phrase to come out of his mouth.
Then a terrifying thought struck Su Yuan—
Could it be that everything that happened in my last loop... was also part of Lumine's plan?
Even if she suspected that he had the ability to rewind time upon death, there was no way she could prove it.
No way to confirm it definitively...
But—Lumine had told him that strange phrase during the last loop.
And now, if he were to say it to her in this one, it would be the same as directly telling her:
I have the power to return after dying.
Su Yuan realized—he absolutely could not say that phrase to Lumine.
"If you really insist on going," he said, shrugging and waving his hand,
"Then I guess I've got no choice but to go with you."
Aether gave him a puzzled look, turning to Su Yuan and asking:
"You don't have anything... special you want to say to me?"
Su Yuan mirrored the puzzled look deliberately, then replied with a calm smile:
"Nope. Absolutely nothing at all."
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