Lilith gasped for air, her heart pounding uncontrollably.
She felt a splitting headache as Tao Bai Bai continuously increased his grip, making her feel like her head would be crushed at any moment.
No, I must struggle! I can't just die like this!
Like most Reincarnators, Lilith didn't choose to become a Reincarnator; she was unintentionally selected by the space and inexplicably arrived in this purgatory-like place.
She had a happy family and loving parents; she simply couldn't accept dying like this.
"I, I have casting abilities, my Mental attribute is almost touching its peak, and I still have dimensional points..."
Even at this moment, she still didn't choose to fight to the death; instead, she kept stating her value.
This made Bai Cangshu look down on her even more; it was hard to imagine such a person living long.
Rather, being able to survive until now was already extremely lucky.
The earring on Bai Cangshu's earlobe swayed twice.
He raised his index finger, preparing to tap her skull.
"I can use the staff-finding method; I'm very good at finding people..."
At this point, the woman had finished listing her various elemental spellcasting abilities and began to talk about some special abilities akin to tricks.
Bai Cangshu lifted the woman; her weight, around a hundred pounds, was now truly too light for him.
He raised her face to eye level with his own, their eyes meeting.
"How good are you at finding people? Can you find plot characters?"
Lilith was still chanting her specializations like a prayer, but the next moment, a bone-chilling killing intent permeated her body.
She shivered and quieted down.
She kept nodding.
"Yes, I can! As long as I have information about the person, there's a high probability I can find them!"
Crack!
Bai Cangshu released his hand, and the woman fell to the ground, disregarding the pain, an incredible joy rising in her heart.
She was about to thank Tao Bai Bai for sparing her life, but her face turned pale as she saw the white-clothed, black-haired female ghost reappear from the stairwell.
It seemed to flicker, instantly appearing behind Tao Bai Bai, as if clinging to his back.
She knew that if Tao Bai Bai turned around and met its gaze, he would most likely freeze instantly and then have his neck snapped.
Their team had encountered such an attack before and lost one person.
"Be careful, you..."
Before she could finish her sentence, she saw Tao Bai Bai had already turned his head and met the gaze of that filthy thing.
Bai Cangshu looked at those dead eyes and scoffed; the chill on his body had no effect on him whatsoever.
He had already realized that the origins of these spirits in this world were most likely vengeful spirits from Mob Psycho 100 or ghosts and Yokai from Dandadan.
Although these things possessed various special abilities and rules, they were not entirely 'rule-based' existences.
They were completely different from the terrifying 'mechanism-kill' dungeons in traditional infinite flow works.
In other words, he wouldn't be instantly killed by triggering some 'instant death' plot.
These monsters' attacks on Reincarnators seemed to have similar effects, but fundamentally, they were still a type of special ability and numerical value.
It could also be understood that the priority of the mechanism was not high enough.
For example, this curse called [Vengeance of the Dead] has a gaze-triggered mechanism, and after triggering, it can completely freeze the Reincarnator's ability to act.
However, the priority is not high enough to completely ignore the Reincarnator's various abilities.
In Bai Cangshu's view, this became a 'numerical' contest.
And he had always been a 'numerical monster'.
Under Lilith's terrified gaze, Bai Cangshu directly reached out and grabbed the ghost's neck.
The ghost tried to escape, but Bai Cangshu held it down and forcefully pressed it into his body.
The ghost began to struggle violently but to no avail, and soon disappeared into Bai Cangshu's body.
[You have assimilated the Spirit · Cursed Captive Sub-body]
Bai Cangshu then kicked open the elevator door.
The elevator shaft below was already ablaze, likely due to some high-explosive, high-combustion weapon used by those Reincarnators in the elevator.
There was no trace of living people in the elevator.
Bai Cangshu 'listened' carefully for a moment but heard nothing at all.
It seemed that after he heard the voice claiming to be Ayase Hoshiko, those Reincarnators encountered something unexpected and were no longer within this space.
At least, they were no longer in the same physical space as him.
After acquiring the electromagnetic power of the [thunder emperor's heart], Bai Cangshu also learned the [Mind Net] that Enel dropped from his card.
This special Kenbunshoku Haki utilized electromagnetic force as an extension, greatly enhancing the effect of Kenbunshoku Haki.
Whether it was range or the additional mind-reading ability, it far surpassed ordinary Kenbunshoku Haki users.
Although when Kenbunshoku Haki is cultivated to a high level, users can achieve short-term future prediction and see things tens, hundreds of kilometers, or even further away.
However, Mind Net could achieve these things in the early stages.
Bai Cangshu now re-examined his surroundings.
He had previously thought this side quest was nothing special due to the level of the curses and the strength of the spirits.
However, at this moment, with the disappearance of those Reincarnators, he noticed something unusual.
The spirit he assimilated was named [Cursed Captive Sub-body] by the space, which meant there must be a main body, and this side quest had no penalty, implying that failure would most likely lead to death.
Bai Cangshu turned and came to the wall, kicking it violently.
Bang!
The wall shattered, an entire outer wall completely collapsing, but when Bai Cangshu saw the collapsed outer wall, it revealed another hallway, which also had another elevator, just like a mirror image.
What terrified Lilith even more was that in the hallway behind that wall, there was also a Tao Bai Bai and herself, both now smiling sinisterly at her.
Whiz~
A golden aura instantly shot through the air like a laser, slicing through the bodies of the two spirits.
The two spirits, who moments ago were like the terrifying ghosts in classic horror movie scenes, instantly turned into corpses and fell to the ground.
"Tao Bai Bai, what should we do? These walls can't be broken through to escape; we've tried many times before."
Lilith had been terrified of Tao Bai Bai moments ago, but upon realizing that Tao Bai Bai wasn't going to kill her immediately, he instantly became her source of security.
Bai Cangshu suddenly realized why those Reincarnators hadn't noticed the spirits standing in their team earlier.
Perhaps those people had already been secretly infiltrated by spirits into their team during their repeated wall-smashing and traversing.
They had already been cursed, but they were unaware of it.
The difficulty of this side quest was higher than imagined.
This also showed that the difficulty of this world was definitely not just about Saitama, Tatsumaki, and Kageyama Shigeo, these unimaginable individuals.
Something must have changed in this world to make it so dangerous.
Bai Cangshu no longer had the mind to solve this kind of spatial supernatural mystery.
According to the duration of the side quest, there must be a hidden space in this place.
If the main body of the spirit realized that he could cause it harm and focused on hiding, it could waste a considerable amount of time.
Bai Cangshu thought for a moment, lifted Lilith by the neck, turned, and jumped down from the stairwell.
Even carrying a person, jumping from the third floor, Bai Cangshu landed lightly and silently.
"Tao Bai Bai... what do we do now?"
Lilith tried to actively communicate with Tao Bai Bai, this 'beast,' to try and ensure he wouldn't kill her later.
Bai Cangshu didn't explain, simply carried her and jumped into the underground area where he had started earlier.
After seeing the new space that appeared when he broke through the wall, Bai Cangshu realized that his previous act of breaking through the ground to enter here was an unusual behavior.
This meant that the sewer filled with corpses, spirits, and long snakes was indeed out of the ordinary.
Bai Cangshu landed in the pitch-black sewer, completely ignoring the bites of the long snakes.
In the blue-white light emitted by Lilith's terrified barrier, he walked all the way to the end of the sewer, where murky, foul water slowly flowed out.
Bai Cangshu tapped twice with his hand.
Through the transmission of force, he realized it was a wall about ten meters thick, and more importantly, outside was flat ground.
Bai Cangshu retracted his left arm, his muscles bulging inch by inch, and then, with creaking sounds, he suddenly punched out.
Boom!
Amidst terrifying vibrations, the wall shattered little by little, and then began to collapse.
Accompanied by a sharp roar, sunlight appeared from outside the shattered wall.
Lilith instinctively felt joy at the sight of the light, but the next moment, she was lifted by Tao Bai Bai and quickly disappeared into the cold, damp waterway.
[You have completed the side quest · Cursed Captive Institute]
[You have obtained material · Corpse Ghost Mask * 1]