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

After Jiang Juechen finished speaking, the absolute indifference on his body receded as quickly as the tide.

He closed his eyes and fell straight backward.

Naya stepped forward and used her bone cane to steady Jiang Luo's body.

A few seconds later.

Jiang Luo opened her eyes, panting heavily, and clutched her head with both hands.

"It hurts so much, Lolo!"

"What the hell did that damn system do to Lolo? Why does Lolo feel like her body has been hollowed out?!"

Jiang Luo jumped up and down in a fit of rage, her two white tufts of hair swaying wildly.

She looked up and met Nyarlathotep's skull-patterned face.

Jiang Luo was stunned for a moment, then put his hands on his hips and yelled at Naya.

"You old bones, you're still alive!"

"Lolo went to great lengths to get you out of there, you have to work for Lolo to pay that debt back!"

Naya looked at the white-haired loli in front of her who had become lively and irritable again.

His fingers tightened around his cane, and a meaningful smile appeared on his skull-like face.

He stepped aside, revealing the resentful monster that Jiang Juechen had pulled out with him.

"My lord, before we discuss repaying the debt..."

"Perhaps you should take a look at this trophy I brought back for you."

Jiang Luo followed Naya's gaze.

The once incredibly ferocious ponytail monster was now quietly curled up in the mud.

The horrific wounds on her body were slowly healing, and her misaligned face was gradually regaining its original shape.

Jiang Luo stared at that face, her ruby-like eyes widening instantly.

"Lin Xiao?"

"You stupid woman, what happened to you, looking like this, and running here?!"

Lying in the mud, Lin Xiao slowly opened her pale, pupil-less eyes.

She looked at Jiang Luo in front of her, her resentful eyes flashing with a hint of confusion.

"Jiang...Jiang Luo?"

"What...is wrong with me?"

Jiang Luo looked down at the clumsy woman covered in stitches, her large, ruby-like eyes flashing with understanding.

With a quick turn of her brilliant little brain, she completely figured out the underlying logic of that absurd illusion.

There was no human student named Jiang Luo in that bizarre college entrance exam illusion, nor was there that bookworm Lin Meng who claimed to be from the future.

Everything that happened there was nothing more than a fabricated script forcibly pieced together by the vortex of death in order to trap intruders, using Lin Xiaosheng's deepest despair and obsession.

In the real world, Lin Xiao never received any salvation from anyone.

This poor, foolish woman was forcibly sold to a lame old man on the next street by her heartless, alcoholic father on the eve of her college entrance exam.

She suffered unimaginable cruel torment in that dark and hopeless hell, and finally died tragically in the old town, filled with resentment and bitterness.

[Congratulations, host, on successfully breaking the logical loop of the ancient illusionary vortex of death.]

[You forcibly reversed Lin Xiao's inevitable fate in the illusion, and this fabricated memory of redemption has completely suppressed the core of her rampaging resentment.]

[The target has broken free from its killing machine state and has officially awakened human self-awareness. Its current energy level is classified as SS-rank Abyss Spectrum.]

As Jiang Luo listened to the obnoxious electronic announcement in his mind, he bit a shallow mark on his lips with his two sharp, white shark teeth.

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After all that, it turns out Lolo ended up being a free therapist in that awful illusion.

Lin Xiao struggled to sit up from the mud, the blood-stained stitches crisscrossing her mangled skin.

She looked down at her hands, which were covered in bluish tumors, and let out a painful whimper.

"How did I become this monster?"

"Jiang Luo, didn't we just escape from the construction site? Didn't you say you were going to take me home to take the college entrance exam?"

Lin Xiao's memory was clearly still stuck on the second before the illusion collapsed.

Her newly awakened human consciousness was simply unable to withstand the visual impact of this terrifying and bizarre body.

Jiang Luo took two steps forward, her small feet in black leather shoes kicking Lin Xiao's knee without any politeness.

"What are you crying for? You may look ugly, but you're still a high-level weirdo who can tear an old man apart with your bare hands."

"Do you really want to go back to being that pathetic little human being, someone to be slaughtered, and continue being used as a bargaining chip for that drunkard father's alcohol money?"

Lin Xiao was stunned by Jiang Luo's merciless and venomous scolding.

She stared blankly at the white-haired girl in front of her, dressed in a Gothic Lolita dress.

Although Jiang Luo's current appearance is completely different from the human student in the illusion wearing a school uniform, his fierce yet protective tone is exactly the same.

"But I no longer have a home."

"I can't even tell if I'm a human or a ghost right now."

Lin Xiao buried her face in her knees, her shoulders trembling uncontrollably.

Jiang Luo stood with his hands on his hips, the two white tufts of hair on his head swaying triumphantly in the cold wind.

"What's there to be afraid of if you don't have a home? Lolo's Red Moon Castle is so big that even Lolo herself gets lost."

"Since you, you silly woman, insist on dragging Lolo along to study in the illusion, then Lolo will reluctantly take you under her wing."

"From now on, you'll be under Luo Luo's protection. As long as you behave and act as Luo Luo's henchman, Luo Luo will make sure you have an endless supply of top-quality soul crystals every day."

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This is an incredibly profitable deal – getting an SS-level high-level fighter for free!

Jiang Luo frantically calculated his greedy little scheme in his mind.

Lin Xiao raised her head, her pupil-less eyes gleaming with disbelief.

She looked at Jiang Luo's outstretched, fair hand, hesitated for a long time, and then carefully placed her stitched hand on it.

"I'm willing to do anything as long as I can be by your side."

"Actually, becoming weird is pretty good. At least I don't have to be afraid of being bullied anymore."

With Jiang Luo's help, Lin Xiao stood up from the mud, and a layer of substantial dark red rule power began to swirl around his broken body.

Lin Xiao raised her stitched hand, and the surrounding swamp of flesh and blood began to churn according to her will, forming dark red barriers of resentment.

Jiang Luo's eyes lit up as she watched this scene.

Although this silly woman isn't very bright, her ability to control resentment is absolutely divine.

Jiang Luo patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder with satisfaction and then pushed her towards Stella and Vivian.

"Stella, take this stupid new woman aside and clean her up. The sewer smell on her is so strong that Lolo can't even eat his strawberry lollipop."

Stella, her body still recovering, knelt on one knee in the mud, her tattered black and white maid outfit covered in filth.

"Stella obeys. Thank you for your great grace, my lord. If you hadn't broken the illusion in time, we would probably have become nourishment for these ruins."

Jiang Luo rolled her eyes, took a strawberry-flavored lollipop out of her skirt pocket, and popped it into her mouth.

"Alright, alright, stop flattering Luo Luo."

"This damn death vortex is ridiculously abnormal. Even Lolo almost crashed in that lousy school."

"If it weren't for Lolo's exceptional intelligence, our Red Moon Castle would have been completely wiped out in this garbage dump today."