"Boom—!"

A spatial vibration exploded, and Xi Ge stepped back several paces.

In the next instant, the dragon claw descended, but struck empty air.

Xi Ge moved like lightning, one hand pressing against Su Ming'an's neck, the other gripping his waist, and swiftly dashed into the hospital.

Upon entering the Central Hospital, it felt as though they had entered a different space; the thunder was instantly isolated, and the aura of death and elven foliage disappeared as well.

"This is a special space in the Disciple Game, those old things have locked on to us, but it'll take some time." Xi Ge stared at him coldly: "Olivius, are you running? Keep running! If you really want to run, don't come to the Disciple Game; we might not catch you even in another ten thousand years."

Su Ming'an was silent for a moment, then unexpectedly broke into a smile.

Seeing him smile, Xi Ge's expression faltered for a moment, but she quickly resumed her cold demeanor, squeezing her fingers tighter.

Blood dripped down her nails, and Xi Ge's blood-red eyes flickered for a moment.

Su Ming'an displayed an expression of helplessness, spreading his hands: "Alright, I admit I'm Olivius. But I really didn't expect you all to be so angry. Are the things I did so unacceptable to you?"

Though he knew nothing, it didn't affect his ability to pretend and probe for information.

"What do you think?" Xi Ge glared at Su Ming'an, spreading her crimson lips in a chilling grin: "If it weren't for you, would our Blood Clan have turned against each other?"

"Not really, I didn't do anything," Su Ming'an retorted.

"Didn't do anything?" Xi Ge was indeed incensed, blurting out: "You leapt around, inciting disputes, promised everyone the path to a perfect New World… You deceitful liar, this time I won't give you a chance."

Her smile grew colder, as if contemplating something terrifying: "Alright, come back with me to Crescent Island, the Dukes of the Blood Clan all 'miss' you."

... Sique, you're really not human.

From Xi Ge's context, it seemed Sique had deceived them into doing something massive, causing great misfortune, and then Sique made a Death Escape.

Su Ming'an knew that if he continued pretending, things would go awry, so he immediately said: "Actually, I've lost my memory..."

"Lost your memory? It's normal for you to have amnesia! If those memories weren't sealed, you'd probably lose your mind too. This time, you can forget about a Death Escape..." Xi Ge sneered, instinctively licking the blood from her finger.

In an instant, her venomous gaze changed, it was like the look of someone who had long eaten gruel and greens, now savouring exquisite delicacies.

"...Hmm?" She stared blankly at Su Ming'an, licking the blood from her hand again, even her eyes growing dazed: "...What have you reincarnated into this time?"

Su Ming'an sighed.

He knew that instead of exposing his Lighthouse Jellyfish identity, he might as well masquerade as Olivius. But in the end, his Lighthouse Jellyfish identity was still exposed.

"Alright, alright..." Xi Ge said coldly:

"Truly killing two birds with one stone, the famed Lighthouse Jellyfish across the continent turns out to be you; you really know how to pick a body, even choosing to become a Lighthouse Jellyfish. Seems you're aware you should compensate us…"

"I know you wrote the Reincarnation Method. So I won't kill you, I will take you back now and let you feel the pain we suffered in the last book..."

"Wait..." Su Ming'an raised his hand: "'The last book', what does that mean?"

Xi Ge's meaning was clear, except for this term which he didn't understand.

He knew that Sique was the most spiritually rich and wise Creator over the millennia, having written hundreds of epic stories, what did Xi Ge mean?

Yet Xi Ge had no intention to patiently explain, she lifted his neck to take him away.

"—What are you doing?"

At this moment, a voice came from the second floor of the hospital.

Xi Ge looked coldly in that direction.

A blue-haired youth leaned on the second-floor railing, his single earring swaying. Seeing Xi Ge's ferocious expression, he quickly covered his mouth: "Oops, I'm just watching the show. I'll leave, I'll leave, okay..."

Xi Ge couldn't care less about a spectator, since the youth heard their conversation, he had to die.

In an instant, vermilion threads flashed through the air. The blue-haired youth paused momentarily, then immediately spread his fingers, summoning an undead warrior to stand before him.

But before he could order the undead warrior to raise a shield, the vermilion thread pierced his heart.

"Drip, drip..."

Blood hung on the thread, the blue-haired youth slowly lowered his head, glanced at his pierced heart, blood trickling from his mouth.

"...Should have known." His face retained a smile, knowing upon seeing Xi Ge that escape was impossible: "I should have known, and never gotten close to here…"

But even as he spoke words of regret, his demeanor remained calm, as though death meant nothing to him.

"Bang."

The sound of a body hitting the ground, he fell from the second floor, landing heavily in front of Su Ming'an, blood pooling on the ground, lifeless.

Su Ming'an was stunned by the scene, feeling disbelief—one of the six Key Figures, appearing so deeply mysterious, the blue-haired youth… just died like that?

Xi Ge killed just like stomping an ant. She didn't even spare a glance at the corpse on the ground, once again grabbing Su Ming'an.

... If he didn't escape now, reaching Crescent Island would mean being completely trapped.

Su Ming'an knew it was a critical moment, even calling Su Rin wouldn't help now, in this special space, Su Rin likely couldn't hear. So...

He took a deep breath, opened his mouth, and shouted:

"—Sique Olivius, as eternal as the heavens, immortal for a thousand ages, the lighthouse of living beings, the brilliance of the world and the shepherd of time!"

"Sique Olivius, as eternal as the heavens, immortal for a thousand ages, the lighthouse of living beings, the brilliance of the world and the shepherd of time!!!"

The sound resounded impressively, echoing repeatedly in the empty space.

Xi Ge froze, staring at Su Ming'an in confusion, suspecting his brain had malfunctioned post-reincarnation. Who on earth would praise themselves like this?

"Even if you play the fool, I won't sympathize with you." Xi Ge reached out her hand.

In the next moment.

The atmosphere stalled for an instant.

Xi Ge's hand stiffened in place, she raised her head in disbelief, her scarlet eyes showing a fear unseen for a century.

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

The sound like flowing water echoed. Gradually, a rainbow glow emerged in the air, and a colorful semi-fluid figure quietly appeared behind Su Ming'an. Moments later, it condensed into a mask with a bright smile.

Eyebrows arched, the corners of the mouth lifted high, the colorful rainbow light floated silently, the seven-colored liquid seemed like a hand, resting on the hand Xi Ge used to touch Su Ming'an.

"..." Xi Ge's whole body was trembling.

Even though Kasadia hadn't said anything, Xi Ge seemed about to shatter. This is the intimidation of a deity... Even though she is a blood clan prince, in the eyes of a second-level god, she is like an ant.

"This is the first time you use the Poison Wine Dress to summon me." Kasadia tilted its head, its form indefinable, like a mass of flowing colored liquid: "…What is your wish?"

Its voice rose:

"And the price to pay... are you ready for it?"

Su Ming'an pursed his lips and said, "I want you to drive her away."

Kasadia seemed to have heard something entertaining, and after a moment of pause, it laughed out loud: "Just drive her away? Haha, hahahaha… She wants to consume you, yet you just want to drive her away and not kill her? So interesting, so interesting..."

Colored torrents swelled and shrank, like a dense cloud, it laughed with great investment, even though Su Ming'an didn't know what it found amusing, this demon's sense of humor was unbearably low.

Xi Ge hung her head, surprised yet not daring to look up.

"If you decisively kill her, the price would be lower. But to just drive her away... is not satisfying for me, I will demand a very high price." Kasadia said with a laugh, its voice sharp and spirited.

"What do you want?" Su Ming'an had a calm expression. Even if it's the highest price, it's nothing more than death, and death has never terrified him.

"Before that, let me fulfill your wish first..." Kasadia's form flickered slightly.

It seemed to do nothing, yet Xi Ge was repelled. Before she disappeared, she gave Su Ming'an one last look, her eyes filled with complexity. Perhaps... her feelings towards Olivius weren't entirely hatred.

The hospital interior fell silent, Su Ming'an lowered his gaze and suddenly said, "Kasadia, I have one more wish. Can you resurrect someone who just died not long ago?"

The blue-haired youth died unjustly and was one of the six key NPCs, Su Ming'an didn't want the blue-haired youth to die just like that.

"Resurrection huh... you've given me quite the task, though I happen to be skilled in this regard. The ones I've wanted to resurrect mostly succeeded." Kasadia still laughed: "…Except for one."

Laughter echoed in the empty hospital hall. It approached the blue-haired youth, colorful light concentrated on the youth's forehead, and moments later, the youth's breathing gradually returned, and the pierced wounds slowly healed.

Su Ming'an stared at the scene in shock—life and death were once unobtainable boundaries, yet now Kasadia has crossed it.

"Only under certain conditions can it be done. Like in the Disciple Game." Kasadia floated back to Su Ming'an's side, the colorful light flashing: "If at the moment of death the life stream was taken, then I can't turn the tide… Alright, you've added another high-difficulty wish, you should pay a high price."

Su Ming'an calmly looked at it. Even if it asked for something like severing limbs, he wouldn't mind.

"My request is…" Kasadia's voice trailed long.

The air was extremely quiet, Su Ming'an's eyes focused.

"—Tell me a joke." Kasadia said.

"…?" Su Ming'an was baffled.

"Yes, tell me a joke." Kasadia said with a laugh: "The condition is you mustn't make me laugh."

At that moment, Su Ming'an deeply realized what a Fun Demon truly meant… this "high price" really caught him off guard, it was too amusing.

Kasadia must've realized that Su Ming'an feared no price, even things like taking souls or life are hardly amusing. It's better to make Su Ming'an do something harder, which is more entertaining.

"Not make you laugh?" Su Ming'an reconfirmed the request. Since when did jokes require not making people laugh?

"Yes, just like that, not make me laugh." Kasadia said with a chuckle.

Su Ming'an breathed a sigh of relief. He believed he lacked humor sensitivity, couldn't tell any funny jokes. If he were to make Kasadia who lived for millennia laugh, he lacked confidence, but if he had to say an unfunny joke, that was too easy.

Rack his brain, he thought of a joke that was not funny at all. Facing Kasadia's laughing mask, he struggled to start:

"Once upon a time, there was a jellyfish in the sea."

"It swam around the sea..."

"—Hahahaha, hahahahahaha—!!!"

Piercing shrill laughter rang out, Su Ming'an was dumbstruck… What did I say? How are you laughing already?

Kasadia laughed uproariously, its masked colorful humanoid form quickly swelled and shrank, as if intense joy played out inside it.

"No, you…" Su Ming'an was dumbfounded.

…Was it mocking him? Whether or not it's funny, Kasadia laughed anyway, rendering the payment failure.

"Hahaha—hahahahaha—!" The laughter rang endlessly, it was clear Kasadia was truly happy, swinging its colored limbs, starlight swirling at high frequency: "Really, really funny… your joke, hehe ah ah ah—"

Su Ming'an stared at it, expressionless.

…Was it really that funny.

Whenever he told jokes in class, the surroundings always turned cold. This was the first time in his life he encountered someone giving face like this …a god.

Though it would be better if it didn't give this face.

After laughing for a full five minutes, until Su Ming'an's ears started to ring, Kasadia finally stopped laughing. It blissfully floated around Su Ming'an, voice rising:

"Well then, it's unfortunate your joke made me laugh. But it's okay, I'll keep it in mind, next time you summon me, you should prepare an even less funny joke."

"…" Su Ming'an was speechless.

But he vaguely recognized Kasadia was inducing him to summon it indefinitely. Although each summon only required a joke, in reality, each time a price was layered, until it far exceeded the level of "telling a joke"… when Su Ming'an gave everything and still couldn't afford the price, it would be the most terrifying moment.

Watching the deranged Kasadia, Su Ming'an knew unless absolutely necessary… he should never summon Kasadia again.

The thought processes between humans and gods ultimately differ; Kasadia, though seemingly affable, might be the most dangerous existence. Its danger far surpassing the scrap king, at least the scrap king still considered past relations.

"Alright, the person you wanted resurrected should wake up." Kasadia hinted: "He's not necessarily a good person, advise you to be cautious. That's that... off I go."

The colorful rainbow light gradually dispersed, the joyful emotion in the air also slowly faded.

Su Ming'an noticed, in the Equipment slot, the Poison Wine Dress… seemed even more crimson, as if infused with more blood.

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