In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

"So, Ron, is there anything special about this campfire?"

Lu Mingfei found a spot to sit by the campfire, watching the flames roar. Lais, however, didn't immediately sit down; she turned to study the stone wall beside her.

Since it is already night, the stone wall appears blurry and unremarkable from a distance. However, upon closer inspection, one can see that the entire wall is covered with carvings.

The engravings lack the smoothness of an artwork; instead, they possess a ruggedness full of the raw, primal texture of being carved.

However, it perfectly complements the theme of these sculptures:

The story of an ancient life form covered in armor and possessing a pair of powerful limbs, which hatched in fire, grew in the wilderness, and eventually established a civilization.

The most important aspect is that these lives triumph over various other equally ancient life forms.

After searching for a while, Lace found the beginning of a series of stone wall reliefs and called Lu Mingfei over to study it as well, leaving Rong En alone sitting by the campfire—he wasn't angry, but just stared blankly at the flickering flames.

Lu Mingfei looked at them in order:

The ancestor of these crustaceans can be traced back to a large crustacean that crawled out of the ground and fought with two octopus-like monsters—this part is drawn extremely large, almost taking up an entire stone wall—and after winning, it returned underground.

Then these little beetles came into being, multiplying and thriving on the land, constantly encountering new adversaries:

Arthropods covered in clusters of mushrooms, extremely plump flying creatures with four wings, and creatures that resemble trees but can move freely...

Wait, it looks like a tree?

Lu Mingfei immediately stepped forward, wiping away the dust with his fingers as he ran them across the relief—it was clear that these shelled monsters were quite difficult to defeat; the relief had devoted considerable space to their depiction, allowing Lu Mingfei to grasp more details about these creatures.

Aren't these the children of those trees that tried to parasitize Jing Shu?

Seeing the seedlings taking root on the shell, Lu Mingfei suddenly felt a toothache.

—Does this mean that the network can project the cards into the past of this world? Or is it that Jing Shu was able to see them for some more hidden reason?

If Jing Shu returns to that place and even manages to leave behind the "Dragon Blood," will these shelled monsters still be attacking the tree's inhabitants?

Even if they are still children of the tree, what changes will these remaining reliefs undergo?

A jumble of chaotic thoughts churned in Lu Mingfei's mind, and one hypothesis after another was put forward, but due to a lack of research resources, none of them could be solved.

So Lu Mingfei simply put it down and continued reading the following:

These crustaceans defeated all the ancient life forms, proclaiming their dominance over the land.

However, the hegemony on land is limited to land. In the ocean, there are creatures with fish heads and human bodies, which similarly proclaim their hegemony over the sea.

These marine creatures worship an ancient evil god defeated by a giant crustacean in ancient times—that is, the two octopuses, or perhaps only one, since only one octopus appears later in the story.

With the protection of the ancient evil god, the newly born shell monsters were not as powerful as the larger shell monsters, so they fought and retreated, leaving only this area behind.

The last tribal elder went to pray for the help of the giant armored monsters, and it followed them here, where it defeated an octopus in the ensuing battle.

The fish-headed men, who worshipped an evil god, launched their final charge...

"...And then? Nothing more?"

Lu Mingfei scratched his head, uttering the helpless cry of a reader after a chapter has been abruptly cut short, "There's more to the story, how did it end like that?"

"The fish-headed man was just about to start fighting, how did it end so quickly? They only fought one of the two octopuses, what happened to the other one?"

Lace decisively punched Lu Mingfei in the ribs.

Is this the time to talk about this kind of thing? We need to investigate, but we also need to figure out what happened to Rong En first; that's the core of the matter.

Lu Mingfei, having been punched, reacted quickly and reached out to pull Rong En, who was sitting by the fire. Rong En, a strange smile on his face, offered no resistance and followed Lu Mingfei's lead to the mural…

"Rong En, what do these murals mean?"

"Hmm? What, you want to know?" Rong En glanced at him twice, then smiled and turned to face Lu Mingfei. Half of his face was illuminated by the firelight, while the other half remained hidden in darkness, only his eyes shone brightly.

"Then let me tell you about it..."

"Brother, don't listen."

Lu Mingfei had intended to study the mural, but a clear, childlike voice that seemed to belong to a world made the hairs on the back of his head stand on end.

That was the voice of a demon, the voice of Lu Mingze, who had clashed with him twice on Earth.

He had thought he would never hear that child's voice in this place, but now, the voice was definitely ringing in his ears:

"You're my biggest customer, how could you just throw yourself into the arms of another demon?"

During the pause, a pair of hands reached out from behind and gently pressed against Lu Mingfei's eyes. The subtle scent of fougère benzoin lingered around his nose, making Lu Mingfei want to sneeze.

"What do you mean by 'cozying up to other demons'?"

Even with his eyes blindfolded by Lu Mingze's hand and no sound from behind except for his own breathing due to the silence of the world, Lu Mingfei showed no sign of panic.

He had already suspected that since Lu Mingze hadn't used the time-space freeze to kill him during their second meeting, there must be some other method he had left on him.

But when his guess actually came true, Lu Mingfei had only one thought in his mind:

"Also, do you really have to keep covering my eyes like this? Men shouldn't be so close, right?"

"Um... Brother, you don't like me..."

Lu Mingze released his hands from Lu Mingfei's eyes, turned halfway around, and came to stand in front of Lu Mingfei. He had also changed into St. Mary's school uniform—a gold and red outfit that resembled a suit—and twirled in front of Lu Mingfei:

"How is it? Does it fit?"

"Hmm, it fits perfectly." Lu Mingfei clapped his hands. "So what did I do to deserve this, throwing myself into the arms of other demons?"

"You want to listen to other demons' missionaries preach?" Lu Mingze pointed at Rong En. "Brother, you should have noticed this already, right? From the moment we first met tonight, he's been trying to bring you here."

"If you see the miracles of other demons and hear their scriptures, and you also receive His incantation, you will be His believer."