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

"Lord Jiang, the restricted area is just ahead."

The skeleton of an old man stood in front of Jiang Luo, the two eerie lights in his empty eye sockets gleaming fiercely.

Jiang Luo stopped and looked up.

Before them stood a towering, massive gate.

The door was covered with dense, restrictive patterns, and a dark red light seemed to move across its surface like a living thing.

"Apart from the few SSS-rank adults in the Senate, no one else is allowed to enter."

The old man with the skeletal frame spoke a little faster, his bony fingers cracking as he clenched them.

Jiang Luo chewed on a lollipop, her red eyes scanning the door twice.

The mark of calamity on my chest was burning hot, even more so than when I first entered the city.

There must be something good in here.

Moreover, it's a good thing that comes from the same source as her.

"Lolo is just looking, she's not going in."

Jiang Luo took two steps forward and lightly tapped the door with her finger.

The calamity patterns traced their way up the barrier from the fingertips, but were blocked by a layer of gray barrier rules as soon as they touched the surface.

The skeleton of the old man moved forward, blocking Jiang Luo and the gate.

"Lord Jiang, this door was personally set up by Lord Shura as a defense; you must not touch it."

"What will happen if I touch it?"

"It will trigger an alarm and alert Lord Shura."

Jiang Luo stared at the withered old man for three seconds.

The old man's jawbone kept trembling.

Was he afraid she would force her way in, or afraid she would see what was hidden inside?

Since there was something interesting hidden inside, Lolo naturally wouldn't let it go...

Jiang Luo twirled the lollipop stick halfway between her fingers, revealing two small, sharp teeth.

"Alright, alright, Lolo isn't that hard to talk to."

She turned around, took two steps back, and waved her hand.

"Since we can't go in, Lolo won't go in."

The skeleton of the old man had visibly loosened.

"Thank you for your understanding, Lord Jiang."

Jiang Luo nodded, turned around with the candy in her mouth, and walked out of the covered bridge.

She had only taken three steps when the calamity mark on her chest burned intensely, pulling her steps toward the other side of the covered bridge.

She didn't turn around, twirling the candy stick in her fingertips as she walked several dozen steps, then looked up and saw the skeletal old man blocking her way.

"Dry Bones, you just said this door is Shurabu's defense?"

"Yes."

"Then tell me," Jiang Luo tilted her head, "is this door for keeping out outsiders or for keeping out our own people?"

The old man's jawbone clicked.

"Naturally... to protect against outsiders."

"oh."

Jiang Luo feigned agreement and retreated to the corner of the covered bridge. The patterns of calamity spread out along the floor tiles, instantly covering the entire body of the withered old man and freezing him in place.

The skeletal frame of the old man swayed, and cold air emanated from between the bones.

Jiang Luo took the candy out of his mouth and tapped it on the old man's head.

"You just said that the ground beneath is an abandoned old foundation, right?"

The old man with withered bones remained silent.

"But you placed such an important restricted area on the ground, without demolishing the abandoned foundation."

Jiang Luo slowly walked back, her black leather shoes stepping on the patterns of calamity.

"This doesn't make sense."

The old man's bony fingers clenched together with a cracking sound.

"Lord Jiang... what do you want to say?"

"Lolo wants to say that you just lied to Lolo."

The skeleton of the old man with withered bones shrank back half an inch.

Jiang Luo raised his hand, and the calamity lines burst forth from his palm, pressing it onto the old man's skull.

"Old codger, you're out of date."

The old man with withered bones remained completely rooted to the spot.

The old man with withered bones: Σ┗(＠ロ＠;)┛

"Lord Jiang... Lord Jiang, what's wrong...?"

Before the old man with withered bones could finish speaking, Jiang Luo delivered an elbow strike that sent him into a deep, infant-like sleep.

Jiang Luo stared at the withered old man lying on the ground with a peaceful expression, and spoke with emotion.

"It's good to be old; you can fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow."

Han Ya, standing to the side, twitched his lips. "Lord Jiang Luo, your SSS-level attack would have killed anyone else just by hitting their head..."

"It's alright, Lolo's hiding her hand, she won't die."

Jiang Luo ignored him and turned to call out to An Ying.

"Shadow, come out."

Half a pale face peeked out from the shadows.

"Mother."

"You are responsible for guarding the entrance to the covered bridge. Whenever someone from the Senate comes, knock them out. If you can't knock them out, call Little White back to eat."

"Yes."

The shadows receded, leaving only the withered old man, his eyes darting about, unable to move, in the covered bridge.

Jiang Luo turned around and returned to the giant gate.

The moment the palm touched the door, the calamity lines automatically seeped into the gaps in the restriction.

The defense set up by Shura recognized the source, not the person, and the dark red light flashed for thirty seconds before completely extinguishing.

Jiang Luo pushed open the door.

"Xiaobai, you stay here with Shadow. The rest of you go in with Lolo."

Lin Xiao, holding the resentful fountain pen, followed behind Jiang Luo.

The crow paused for a moment, glanced at the unconscious, skeletal old man, then looked inside the door, swallowed hard, and followed.

The door closed behind him, and three bone spears wrapped in the power of rules pierced towards him.

Jiang Luo raised his hand and used the back of his sickle to smash the bone spear, the fragments scattering against the metal wall with a crisp sound.

Behind the wall are rows of transparent displays, each showing a different copy of the live feed.

The eeriness of a knife-wielding figure in a dark corridor, the doctor with a saw by the operating table, and the trembling players sitting in the classroom.

Jiang Luo blinked.

"This is……"

Lin Xiao walked to her side, her pale eyes staring at the screen.

"This is real-time monitoring of the bizarre copy."

Jiang Luo turned her head.

How did you know?

"I read about the history of the Senate in the library. It mentioned that the Senate controls half of the core control of the strange world and can monitor the operation of each instance."

Lin Xiao's voice was flat, and he twirled the pen in his hand, which was filled with resentment.

"But the book doesn't say where this central control unit is."

Jiang Luo stared at the screens for two seconds, then his eyes lit up.

"So that's where it was hidden."

The crow stood at the back, its head almost touching the screen.

"That's amazing! They can see so many instances?"

Jiang Luo ignored her.

She took a few steps forward and came to the largest screen.

The screen shows a classroom.

A dozen or so players huddled in the back row of the classroom, shivering.

A strange woman dressed in red stood on the platform, holding a rusty pair of scissors in her hand.

Jiang Luo glanced at it twice.

The mark of misfortune on my chest is throbbing violently.

It's not because of any restrictions.

It's the screen.

To be precise, it was the sense of terror emanating from the players on the screen.

Jiang Luo raised her hand and touched the screen with her fingertips.

A tiny, almost imperceptible stream of energy flowed into her body through her fingertips.

It's very light.

But it does exist.

Jiang Luo blinked.

"What's going on?"

Just then, the system's cold voice rang out again.

[The host possesses a portion of the will of the bizarre world. A portion of the fear points generated by the player in the dungeon will be absorbed by the bizarre world.]

The host can naturally absorb some of the fear points as nourishment.

The system's tone was very flat.

Jiang Luo initially thought it was the broken metal shell that had returned.

After waiting for a long time without hearing the smug tone from the broken iron shell, Jiang Luo acted as if nothing had happened and completely ignored the system.

Her eyes shone brightly as she tapped the screen with her fingertips, calculating her earnings.

The entire bizarre world has tens of thousands of dungeons. Even if you only collect one-tenth of the terror points from each dungeon a day, those terror points alone are enough to wake up the broken metal shell.

"If Lolo can collect all the terror points from all the dungeons in the world, then the entire supernatural world... no, even the entire real world will be under Lolo's control!"