111: Chapter 111 Sister Mei Goes Crazy

Lin Qing grabbed the limp and boneless Wang Hu by the collar, walking straight toward the distorted spatial gate connecting to District 128.

"Lead the way." There was not a trace of warmth in his voice.

"Y-Yes... Yes..."

Wang Hu scrambled forward in a panic.

At an angle where Lin Qing couldn't see, a flash of resentment and a glimmer of opportunistic hope flickered across his swollen eyes.

He knew that cross-district challenges were subject to the absolute restrictions of the system's rules!

No matter how strong the opponent was, he was merely an outsider and couldn't truly step into areas outside the battlefield.

As long as he rushed up to the third floor...

and used the terrain to stall until the challenge time ended, he would be completely safe!

By then, he would make that pair of old things wish they were dead and unable to die!

Seeing that the stairwell of the third floor was right before his eyes, the wild joy in Wang Hu's heart was about to burst out.

However, the very moment Lin Qing's foot was about to step out of the spatial gate...

a layer of visible light curtain flowing with data streams appeared out of thin air, blocking his path firmly.

[Warning: During the challenge, entering floors other than the challenge area is prohibited.]

"Hahaha! Hahahaha!"

Seeing the light curtain, the wild joy of escaping death made Wang Hu burst into loud laughter, pulling at his wounds all over his body. The pain twisted his face, yet his laughter grew increasingly frantic.

"You can't come over! System rules! These are the rules of the world! Kill me if you have the guts! If you have the ability, kill me right now!

Otherwise, once the challenge time passes, this lord will go and skin that pair of old things to make lanterns!"

Lin Qing ignored his clamoring, simply looking calmly at that layer of system light curtain.

"Rule barrier, huh..."

He muttered softly to himself, and immediately, the golden halo of [Protecting the Crowd] unfolded.

The next moment, Lin Qing initiated spatial teleportation.

His figure flashed and faded away in place.

Hum——

Wang Hu's wild laughter abruptly stopped, and the expression on his face froze into a comical sculpture.

The barrier representing the rules of the world was still there, but Lin Qing's figure had already appeared right before his eyes.

Lin Qing stepped into the third floor of Building 4 in District 128 where he was, as if strolling leisurely in a courtyard.

An overwhelming pressure, ten times more terrifying than the one on the Divine Realm Square, descended with a boom!

Thud!

Wang Hu's knees went soft.

Once again, he uncontrollably knelt down. His kneecaps collided with the dirty ground, and the shattering sound was louder than any previous time.

Lin Qing looked down at him condescendingly, kicking his blood-stained face with the tip of his shoe.

"Now, continue leading the way."

...

Ten minutes later, deep within the third floor of Building 4.

Lin Qing kicked open a wooden door with one kick.

Behind the door, a stench and bloody smell strong enough to choke someone alive slammed fiercely into his face.

In the cramped room, dozens of cages welded from iron bars were jammed together.

Inside the cages, emaciated and numb-eyed people curled up one by one.

They didn't look like living people; they were more like corpses waiting to be processed, curled up on the dirty straw with no reaction to anything outside.

This was the "blood bank" in Wang Hu's words.

Lin Qing's gaze swept across each despairing face, and finally stopped in front of an empty cage.

At the corner of the cage, half a bowl of untouched, spoiled thin porridge still remained.

"Where are the people?"

Lin Qing's voice was very soft, yet it scared Wang Hu out of his wits.

He grabbed a lackey responsible for guarding nearby by the collar and roared, "Where are those two old things from the Liu family! Didn't I tell you to watch them well!"

That lackey was scared so badly by the aura emitting from Lin Qing that he suffered incontinence, pointing downstairs while trembling.

"J-Just... just taken away by Brother Qiang..."

"Where were they taken?!"

"The... the altar... Brother Qiang took a fancy to that old woman and wanted her to... the old woman refused... Brother Qiang said he would throw that old man into the altar as a sacrifice to force her to submit..."

The moment his voice fell,

Boom——

the entire Building No. 4 trembled violently!

Outside the window, the dim sky was completely swallowed by a thick, blood-like red fog.

Piercing shrieks came from all directions, as if hundreds of millions of grievance souls were crying and howling at the same time.

In the hallway, whether it was Wang Hu's subordinates or those survivors locked in the "blood bank,"

the moment their bodies came into contact with the red fog, they were peeled and decomposed from the molecular level by an invisible force!

Skin, flesh, bones... all matter silently turned into the most primitive particles, not even leaving a single drop of blood.

The entire process took less than three seconds.

The originally noisy and dirty Building 4 plunged into a dead silence.

A blood-colored figure appeared out of thin air at the end of the hallway.

Liu Meini was barefoot, her jet-black hair dancing wildly without wind. On that all-subverting face, there was not a trace of dignity or gentleness left, replaced only by world-destroying madness and ferocity.

She forcefully tore apart the system's imprisonment on her, descending in her true form!

"Sister Mei!"

Lin Qing stepped forward, blocking between her and Wang Hu.

Liu Meini's vision was completely blood-red with no focus at all, instinctively wanting to erase all living creatures here.

"He cannot die yet!"

Lin Qing's voice exploded like a thunderclap in her chaotic consciousness.

He rushed forward, disregarding the red fog strong enough to melt steel, and pulled her body, which was cold and trembling with fury, tightly into his arms.

"Listen to me! If we hurry over now, it's still not too late!"

The warmth of the embrace and that familiar aura caused a slight stagnation in the wildly churning rule power within Liu Meini.

Her blood-red pupils finally reflected Lin Qing's figure again, her eye sockets turned red, and two streams of blood tears slid down.

"Since I promised you, I will definitely do it."

He steadied her shoulders, turned around, and looked at Wang Hu, who had turned limp like mud.

Liu Meini's gaze shifted along with him, and that monstrous killing intent condensed once again.

She raised her hand, and a wisp of red fog drilled into Wang Hu's glabella like a spiritual snake.

"Ah——"

Wang Hu let out a non-human scream, his eyeballs protruding and bleeding from his seven orifices.

Scene after scene was forcibly pulled out from the depths of his soul, flashing rapidly in mid-air.

Gloomy forests, enchanting blood-colored altars.

"Found it." Liu Meini's voice was hoarse.

As the playback of the images finished, Wang Hu's body turned into flying ash inch by inch beneath her fingertips.

Lin Qing glanced at the reporting lackey who was also scared out of his wits, pointed a finger, and a wisp of chaotic black light completely annihilated him.

"Sister Mei, go back to the Divine Realm and wait for me first."

"Lin Qing... Hurry, my power is restricted, I can't get out of this building!"

Words falling, her face turned slightly pale, and her figure suddenly vanished.

Watching Liu Meini's figure disappear in place, he then closed his eyes.

The Heart Realm Divine Kingdom slammed into reality!

He raised his foot and stepped forward.

The space beneath his feet rippled like water surface, and his figure instantly blurred.

[Warning! All members of Dormitory 101 have fallen in battle, "Dormitory Hegemony" has ended, Divine Realm No. 9001 has won!]

[Detected that the Divine Realm Master is in a hostile area, forced return will be initiated for you...]

[Warning! Unknown rule interference detected! Forced return failed!]

[You have become an illegal intruder of District 128!]

The system's prompt tone exploded wildly in Lin Qing's ears, but he no longer had time to care.

Space distorted to the extreme.

The next second, his figure appeared above a forest filled with a rich bloody stench.