Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

the other side.

Jiang Luo wandered aimlessly through the alleys of the old town.

It had gotten completely dark.

The few streetlights by the roadside with poor contact were making a buzzing sound.

The dim light cast a long shadow over her.

Her stomach was growling with hunger, but she didn't even have enough money in her pocket to buy a loaf of bread.

"Being a person is so hard. When has Lolo ever suffered such injustice..."

Jiang Luo rubbed his sunken belly, muttering to himself.

Using the fragments of memories forcibly inserted into her mind, she found the body's dwelling place in this illusion.

It was a dilapidated tenement building, with moldy garbage and old bicycles piled up in the stairwell.

Jiang Luo took out the rusty key from his pocket and turned the switch on the broken wooden door at the end of the third floor.

The room was filled with a musty smell, as if it had never seen sunlight for years.

The room was pitifully small; besides a single bed and a desk, there wasn't even room to turn around.

Jiang Luo locked the door behind her and tried to summon the system space in her mind.

The storage compartment, which she could normally open with a single thought, was now completely unresponsive, as if it had been doused with molten iron.

Even the Blood Moon Scythe, which was bound to her soul, could not be sensed in the slightest.

"The rules in this crappy place are really strict."

Jiang Luo pursed her lips, walked to the desk, and opened the drawer.

Inside was a diary with a yellowed cover.

She picked up the diary and opened it; it was filled with neat, beautiful handwriting.

Jiang Luo flipped through the pages one by one, a knowing glint in her large, ruby-like eyes.

The owner of this diary is the girl with the ponytail, whose name is Lin Xiao.

Her diary detailed everything she encountered in this desolate place.

The father who was an alcoholic and abusive every day, the teachers and classmates at school who only stood by and watched, and the thugs who ambushed her in the alley after school.

All the despair and pain were condensed into this small diary.

Surprisingly, the name that appeared most frequently was Jiang Luo himself.

Jiang Luo was bullied by those thugs again today. She's so timid, she didn't even dare to cry out.

I must protect her; she's my only friend in this world.

[If I can just get through the college entrance exam, I can take Jiang Luo and leave this hell, to a place where nobody knows us.]

Jiang Luo looked at the words, stained with tears.

Her two white tufts of hair drooped down silently.

"What the hell? Lolo has actually fallen so low that he needs a human little girl to protect him?"

"Is the person who created this illusion out of their mind?!"

Jiang Luo threw the diary back on the table, turned around and collapsed onto the musty-smelling single bed.

She buried her face in the hard pillow, her mind racing as she connected the two clues.

That stupid woman named Lin Xiao suffered endless torment in the illusion, making her, this good-for-nothing character, her only source of emotional support, and even risking her life against those thugs for her sake.

Jiang Luo turned over and stared at the swaying incandescent light bulb on the ceiling.

Only if she can change Lin Xiao's predetermined fate in the illusion and break this cycle of despair in the three days before the college entrance examination can she possibly escape the illusion and leave this damned place.

Thinking of this, Jiang Luo's greedy little scheme started working frantically again.

Just as she was planning how to cause trouble at school tomorrow, the dilapidated wooden door was suddenly knocked on from the outside.

The knocking sounded particularly jarring in the quiet tenement building.

Jiang Luo immediately sprang up from the musty-smelling single bed, stuffed her right hand into the pocket of her pleated skirt, and pressed her thumb firmly against the plastic push button of the red utility knife.

If that reckless guy outside dares to ram the door, she will absolutely not hesitate to stab him in the throat with a utility knife.

"Jiang Luo, it's me."

A faint, almost inaudible sound drifted in through the crack in the door.

Jiang Luo's two white tufts of hair on her head twitched twice, and she recognized the voice as that of the stupid woman named Lin Xiao.

Jiang Luo walked behind the door and carefully turned the rusty lock.

The moment the broken wooden door was opened a crack, a blood-covered figure came crashing straight down on Jiang Luo.

Jiang Luo quickly reached out her fair little hand to help, but her weak human body couldn't support the weight of an adult at all. Lin Xiao pressed her down so hard that she landed on the hard cement floor.

"Hey, you stupid woman, are you trying to crush Lolo?"

Jiang Luo complained angrily, and just as she was about to push Lin Xiao away, she felt a warm and sticky sensation in her palm.

Jiang Luo raised her hand, and in the dim light of the hallway, she could clearly see that her fair palm was covered with glaring blood.

Lin Xiao's once clean school uniform was now torn to shreds, with deep, bone-revealing leather strap marks all over the bottom of the clothes. Even her left cheek was swollen, and blood was still seeping from the corner of her mouth.

Jiang Luo's large, ruby-like eyes widened instantly.

An unnamed rage surged up to the top of her head.

That damned old drunkard really went to such lengths!

If Lolo still had the Blood Moon Scythe, he would rush over right now and cut off all four of that old man's limbs, then pull out his intestines and hang them on the ceiling fan to spin them nine hundred and ninety-nine times!

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Jiang Luo mentally tortured his alcoholic father a thousand times over with all sorts of cruel methods.

She struggled to drag Lin Xiao into the room, then kicked the broken wooden door shut and locked it again.

Lin Xiao curled up on the musty-smelling single bed, biting her pale lips tightly, tears streaming down her swollen cheeks like broken beads.

"Jiang Luo, I'm sorry."

"I might not be able to be with you for the college entrance exam in three days."

Lin Xiao's voice was trembling as she reached out her scarred hand and gently pulled at the hem of Jiang Luo's pleated skirt.

Jiang Luo looked at this stupid woman who had been beaten to a pulp and still came to apologize. Her two sharp, white shark teeth had left a shallow mark on her lips.

"Did you get your brain damaged?"

"Luo Luo has no interest in taking that incredibly boring college entrance exam."

"Whether it was that drunkard who hit you, or something else, tell Luo Luo clearly!"

Jiang Luo put her hands on her hips, striking a fierce pose.

Lin Xiao buried her face in the pillow, her suppressed sobs echoing in the small room.

"I was hiding outside the door when I heard him making a phone call inside the room."

"He accepted 50,000 yuan as a bride price from that lame old man on the next street."

"They're going to kidnap me tomorrow and make me that old man's wife."

Lin Xiao cried harder as she spoke, clutching Jiang Luo's skirt tightly.

He said that since he was a money-loser anyway, going to university would just be a waste of his money.

"Why not take advantage of the fact that you still have some looks and sell them to buy more wine?"