VIP Chapter 577: “You Alone Cannot Open That Door” (3k)
“I’ve disliked you for a long time.”
Shuna pulled out the black shadow that had transformed into a sword from her hand. She emerged from the “Black Abyss” in the lake, still damp with water.
“Well… that’s mutual. I’ve… disliked you for a long time too.”
Li Wei’qi caught Shuna’s blade, which was lunging at her, between her fingers and dodged aside.
But…
Li Wei’qi caressed the hole in her waist.
Shuna’s blade, deeply inserted and then withdrawn, had indeed inflicted real damage.
She could “bleed,” but the bloodstains, shimmering with a purple glow like stardust, were not normal red blood.
Shuna was skilled at stabbing.
Although perhaps due to the timing of her attack, she hadn’t directly pierced the heart, she had impaled the core area where “human” organs were located.
Was it that Shuna understood “humans” well, or did she understand the convergence of “humanoid monsters” from dungeons in simulating humans?
At the same time…
Because it was an attack from that weapon, a weapon that could penetrate “regardless of distance in darkness,” Li Wei’qi found she couldn’t avoid it at all.
“If it weren’t for the fact that it’s impossible in the Death Hall, I might have killed you long ago. Even… the moment I first discovered you…”
“That’s a bold statement. Has anyone ever told you that I’m incredibly vengeful? You betrayed me in the Death Hall, and I’ll have to think about how to settle the score.”
Looking at the blood flowing from Li Wei’qi, Shuna merely showed a hint of surprise, then spun the dagger in her hand, just three times in total.
The next second, she was beside Li Wei’qi again.
“Speaking of which, I thought… Daisianwei would keep you trapped there forever.”
Li Wei’qi smiled at the corner of her mouth. Instead of dodging her attack, she allowed Shuna to flip her onto the surface of the lake.
Splash—
The lake rippled and spread out.
Li Wei’qi’s long golden hair fanned out on the water’s surface, as if scattering the light of the galaxy upon it.
Shuna, however, did not hesitate. As her opponent lay down, she plunged her sword deeper into the lake water—
The second blow, from top to bottom, pierced Li Wei’qi’s abdomen.
“Why… could you return from there?”
“Thanks to the ‘passage’ opened for me by Little Will—or rather, the passage opened by that witch. But, heh… I feel a bit embarrassed, I only met her today and don’t even know her name.”
“Will, how… did he know that I lied to you? Regardless of the timing… or the letter you sent.”
“Ah ha, I knew it… Back then, I used magic to hide the real information when sending our agreed-upon questions, and sent out the first letter—it was this letter that you reported me with.”
Shuna hesitated no longer. She had to seize this opportunity to pin Li Wei’qi down on the lake surface. She pulled out the black dagger using “shapeshifting,” and then…
She aimed at Li Wei’qi’s heart again and pierced it with the form of a long sword.
“But… indeed, to let Will know the method to clear the Death Hall, I sent out the second letter without hiding anything, directly writing the clear method. Because there was no trace of magic, it wouldn’t be found by that stubborn Daisianwei…”
Shuna spoke through gritted teeth, her movements never stopping.
She didn’t know where Li Wei’qi’s weakness lay.
Therefore, she had to kill every part of her body that could possibly be a weakness. The next blow would be to sever her head.
“But that letter, aside from this information… clearly… *cough*… didn’t write anything else.”
Li Wei’qi’s mouth also oozed blood like stardust, but she continued to speak.
“Oh, you knew? Biljiulinwu [3] Ba⒎ Yishan! Lingmeng Jing… That letter was what you wanted me to send, right?”
The heart wasn’t her fatal wound either, but it didn’t matter. Her primary goal was to stall Li Wei’qi here.
She couldn’t let her open the door to the deepest part.
She still had time to find a way to kill her completely.
“?!”
“That’s right. I discovered it long ago. Since you want to reach the deepest part so badly, the best way is for Will to clear the Death Hall, and then… you wait here to ambush. As someone from the ‘dungeon side,’ opening that door will lead directly to the deepest part…”
“But… if… if that’s the case… how do you communicate…”
“Want to know?”
Shuna withdrew her knife. From Li Wei’qi’s heart, stardust gushed out like blood, filling the lake and then sinking down along its surface.
“I’m truly sorry, but people like you might only understand this when you die—”
“Quite the boast, isn’t it… junior.”
While feigning calmness in conversation with Shuna, Li Wei’qi plunged her right palm into the lake water as Shuna withdrew her sword from her heart for the second time.
Behind Shuna’s head, a connected void opened up, revealing her gun aimed at Shuna’s head.
Just as she was about to pull the trigger—
“Heh…”
Shuna let out a light laugh.
The versatile weapon in her hand instantly transformed into a “slingshot,” piercing through Shuna’s ear. She didn’t even look, flicking Li Wei’qi’s hand behind her away.
Bang.
The ejected bullet grazed Shuna’s ear.
“Huh?!”
Li Wei’qi’s face was filled with surprise.
“Every time I haven’t been able to figure out how you get to me…”
Shuna’s blade rested on her neck.
“Now I’ve finally caught a chance.”
In Shuna’s black eyes, she subdued Li Wei’qi on the lake surface, allowing her to clearly see the scene behind her through the lake’s reflection—and Li Wei’qi’s specialty was to “open a door” so stealthily.
“I don’t know when you went ‘blind,’ nor why you can see everything so easily despite wearing an eyepatch, but…”
Li Wei’qi’s other hand blocked Shuna’s knife, but her palm was already cut by the dagger.
“But I guessed that you’ve lost the ability to see the world like a normal person. Therefore, you would definitely forget, how a calm lake surface is just like a mirror, reflecting the dangers behind.”
“How detestable… You look just like him, and on top of that, you’re so similar in your ability to grasp these details… That’s precisely why I loathe you…”
Li Wei’qi’s hand was starting to give out.
“Listen. You don’t actually need to chop off my head; my body’s ‘blood’ is also draining. I won’t live much longer. But I think you and your lover will be curious about my secrets. Do you really have to kill me?”
“I) Liu”O Er e(r Shan Si Ba⒏ Shi Qun Liao…”
Shuna hesitated.
Because she did know that Will cared deeply about information regarding Li Wei’qi, if…
While Shuna hesitated, Li Wei’qi planned another attack with her other hand.
This time…
She chose to attack from Shuna’s “side.” From the side, not the back, Shuna wouldn’t be able to see her gun barrel.
This was supposed to be the case—
In an instant, she felt the scorching heat of a hand passing through the spatial tunnel, being burned.
“Ah…”
“Hm?”
“Oh, did I arrive just in time? There’s no need to use me as a bargaining chip; the things I want to know about you don’t require you to tell me with your ‘mouth’.”
Shuna looked up. In that very instant, Will had saved Shuna from Li Wei’qi’s attack and stood before the fallen Li Wei’qi.
He seemed slightly more tired than when they last parted, but his mood appeared exceptionally good, with the lightness of victory after a great battle.
“You’ve arrived, so… how did you disgusting people transmit…”
“Adventurer.”
Will said, crouching down and placing his hand on the dagger Shuna held.
“Hm?”
“Shuna left a ‘marker’ scar on the adventurer’s corpse. You, from the inner side of the dungeon, might not know, but there are always such tidbits of news in the Adventurer’s Guild’s tabloids…”
Will began to explain slowly.
“That day, the adventurer who had cleared her once, and then lost to her a second time, was left with a ‘marker’ by her. The decoding method used was the letter she sent me—unbelievable, Shuna… could actually memorize the letter she wrote to me.”
“Heh…”
Li Wei’qi’s long-term scheme.
From betraying Daisianwei, to allowing Shuna’s method of killing Daisianwei, which only she knew, to fall into Will’s hands. At the same time, killing Shuna, so that Will wouldn’t know that the one who had been helping him was actually the one coveting the deepest part of the dungeon.
“My disgust was revealed too early, causing Shuna to not trust me?”
“It’s not like that.”
“Little Will told me from the beginning not to trust you. Hmm… When you were talking to him, didn’t you notice? As expected, you really are blind in that regard.”
Blood from Li Wei’qi’s pierced palm dripped, drop by drop, below her lips.
“From… the beginning?”
“I know your identity; Apex of the Galaxy hadn’t appeared, and the God-Attuned who was originally the predecessor of the ‘Li Wei’qi’ identity… hadn’t even died. You also claim to be an awakened one, so… you’re definitely not this world’s Li Wei’qi.”
Will smiled faintly.
“Of course, perhaps it’s because I knew long ago. Shuna isn’t ‘Xiu’; she’s an original character related to me from the beginning…”
“Eh? Eh eh eh? Wait, Little Will, what are you saying…”
“I see, well then… I admit I’ve lost.”
Li Wei’qi sighed.
But Liu Ba Jiu _ Qia Ba Lin Si ~ 〇 Wu Ling Meng was, she continued with a tone of disgust and stubbornness—
“However, do you think you should open that door? Let me tell you… the problem we couldn’t solve, you won’t be able to solve it either.”
Li Wei’qi’s smile widened.
“Even, everyone here should go there, but you alone cannot…”
“Eh~ Why?”
Will, as if he had already known Li Wei’qi would say this, asked playfully.
He drove the knife directly into Li Wei’qi’s throat, preventing her from finishing her sentence.
“The reason is the same as why I want to go in.”
“I want to go through there, to the real ‘world’.”
“So, you must also be…”
Crack.
Will coldly plunged Shuna’s knife into Li Wei’qi’s throat with enough force to almost sever her neck.
“I will definitely not come back, just like you, right? Then you’re mistaken. I won’t.”
“Cough… cough cough…”
Li Wei’qi’s throat was hoarse, unable to speak clearly. She wanted to say something, but her voice was raspy.
“Will?”
Shuna was surprised by Will’s sudden “anger.”
What made him angriest…
Seemed to be the possibility, from Li Wei’qi’s words, that he would “abandon everyone.”
“Then, there’s one last question I want to know. I should be able to find out even if you die…”
Will released his hand, moving it from Li Wei’qi’s throat to her lips, and then to her eyepatch.
She trembled, wanting to resist, but unable to.
Will reached out and removed her eyepatch.
