Final Moment

Bai Youyou remained silent.

"Don't you feel anything strange?" Xu Xiaoyou asked.

"Is it possible that the people of the Order Court are using you?"

"Since the last time you left, how long has the Order Court kept you grounded?"

Bai Youyou opened her mouth, but suddenly noticed the vortex in the golden-haired girl's eyes. Only then did she realize she had fallen under the other party's mental suggestion.

"I'm sorry. Although it's a bit untimely, I still need to know some of the truth. Perhaps it will be beneficial for both of us."

Bai Youyou pulled Xu Xiaoyou into her arms to dodge a giant boulder thrown by the female general in the distance, her voice remaining cold.

"What grounding?"

Xu Xiaoyou was slightly stunned.

Looking at the girl's expression, she didn't seem to be lying; she genuinely felt confused.

"The Order Court assigned me a mission to serve as a harmonizer in Oasis. I've been in Oasis this entire time."

"Then Red Heaven..."

At that moment, a cold wind seemed to blow between the two of them. A massive influx of information surged into Xu Xiaoyou's mind. She wanted to ask more, but Bai Youyou seemed to sense something and clutched her forehead in pain.

Then, the female general charged straight at them, forcibly separating the two.

The reach of the hands could extend infinitely, controlled by Bai Youyou's will. Currently, the ends were connected by transparent silk threads. Xu Xiaoyou suddenly felt a chill down her back, as if hundreds or thousands of gazes had fixed upon her the moment she asked those questions.

She calmly scanned her surroundings and found that the members of the Order Court were looking at her, whether intentionally or not. Countless pairs of eyes wove together a vision cage, trapping them in the center.

Something was wrong...

Very wrong...

If the girl said she had been in Oasis this whole time, then who exactly was the 'Bai Youyou' in Red Heaven?

In an instant, countless possibilities flooded Xu Xiaoyou's mind.

How could she confirm that the Bai Youyou connected to her by the threads was the truly 'Bai Youyou'?

Countless memories of her time spent with the black-haired girl in Corrupt Hive City replayed before her eyes.

And how could she confirm that the Bai Youyou she was familiar with was the real 'Bai Youyou'?

For a moment, this thought was like a sharp knife stabbing into her nerves.

Xu Xiaoyou shook her head; now was not the time for this. The health of the Incurable Crown was dropping slowly every second.

She had to maintain her focus.

Bai Youyou was still entangled in a fight with the female general and had no time to worry about her.

Xu Xiaoyou glanced at the threads on her hands and chuckled. She snapped her fingers, and when she opened her eyes again, she was in a room outside the palace. Everything was pitch black.

Her Substitute was also sublime, allowing her to swap positions with her main body.

She was always in the habit of making full preparations before acting, so she had hidden her Substitute in this small room outside the palace long ago to make a clean break at any time.

At this moment, Xu Xiaoyou noticed the sound of flapping wings in the darkness. As she turned her head, she found a familiar figure sitting at a table, calmly drinking coffee while looking back at her.

The head of this figure was replaced by a massive white butterfly with black patterns. Seeing her look over, it silently reached out and waved.

The Butterfly Burial Celebrant?

Xu Xiaoyou didn't expect him to appear here, especially acting as a neutral void merchant.

A few monsters caught her scent and ran in through the door, only to be easily killed by Xu Xiaoyou.

It seemed this place could still be found by monsters. Seeing that the Substitute's durability was still at one hundred percent and there were no signs of a struggle in the room...

Did that mean this guy had been guarding her Substitute the whole time, helping her deal with any monsters that ran in?

Aside from a secret crush, Xu Xiaoyou couldn't think of a second reason.

Was it her damn, uncontainable charm?

As if sensing her thoughts, the black-patterned butterfly on the Celebrant's head froze. He stood up speechlessly, waved his hand, and mysteriously vanished into the wall as usual.

On the other side of the battlefield, Akabane Tsubaki felt a chill down her back as she walked, as if someone was silently following her.

She turned around, only to see a glimpse of a black cloak disappearing around a corner.

The other party didn't seem to have any ill intent.

It was just that, for some reason, they seemed a bit... resentful.

'I'm not being targeted by some female ghost, am I?'

Akabane Tsubaki's scalp crawled as she replayed her entire life in her mind. She hadn't done anything particularly wrong to anyone, right?

Did accidentally breaking Crimson Cloud count?

Su Sui came to her side. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I'm fine!" Akabane Tsubaki waved her hand.

Just as the golden-haired girl had anticipated, the vast majority of the guilds had chosen to mobilize their entire forces. Only the old, weak, and disabled were left behind to guard their bases. They had easily captured over twenty outposts, raiding the homes of all those guilds large and small!

Looking at the occupation markers for Light-Chaser Garden scattered all over the map, Akabane Tsubaki looked smug. She was already imagining how Yuzu would praise her after the dungeon ended. At that time, those people who thought she was just a mascot would surely stare in admiration.

Just thinking about it sparked a fighting spirit in the girl's heart. She led the remaining members of the Red Glow squad to continue their operation.

A figure emerged from the shadows and let out a soft, gentle laugh. A lock of deep blue hair hung from the shadow of the hood, slowly becoming transparent...

Palace battlefield.

"Press forward! Push them back, damn it!" Nanjiamu stood on a high point, shouting until his voice was almost hoarse.

"Ignore that female titan! Priests, push forward! Give the mages and hunters room to deal damage! Only 130,000 health left! Take down the King for me!"

The next moment, he felt someone kick him from behind. His body was sent flying, falling downward.

As he fell, he saw that the person had brilliant long golden hair.

"Dark Gold Rose?" Nanjiamu looked into the distance in confusion. That stone-faced golden-haired girl was clearly standing there perfectly fine. So who was the one in front of him?

Before he could think too much, Nanjiamu, who had fallen into the crowd, scrambled to his feet only to find a group of burly men from the Heterogeneous Front looking at him with cruel smiles. The youth's stomach did a flip as he immediately pointed to the woman with the thick mechanical arm in the crowd:

"President Clotho-Lan! What a coincidence, it's me, little Nanjiamu! Do you remember our 'Anti-Lu-Shuhang Alliance'?"

"I remember. If you hadn't tucked tail and run during the last siege, I wouldn't have this!" The woman sneered, pointing to her mechanical arm.

"It wasn't like that, little Lan-lan! Listen to me, I—"

Before he could finish, Nanjiamu was submerged by the surging crowd of men. His miserable screams made the members of the Golden Navigator on the scene feel a wave of sympathy, silently praying for their vice president.

"Dark Gold Rose, I'm not done with you!"

The youth's hopeless howl echoed in her ears. Xu Xiaoyou picked her ear as if it were none of her business, silently observing the situation from above.

The monsters she had led into the palace had mostly been cleared out. All the guilds were pressing toward the throne. Even the berserk female general couldn't stop the pace of thousands of players, especially with Bai Youyou keeping her in check from the side.

Her gaze focused on Smiling Jazz. Right then, the man, who had been suppressing his aura for a long time, moved.