After being poisoned by mushrooms, all the strange creatures became fascinated by me.

My head is splitting with pain.

It felt like I had suddenly fallen into summer.

My forehead and cheeks were burning hot, my heart was pounding like a drum, and all I could hear was the incessant chirping of cicadas.

One moment you see the bustling scene on the ground, the next you see the bizarre private hospital that has disappeared halfway up in the sky.

We can hold on a little longer.

"We can hold on a little longer," the little pears whispered in her ear. "You should hold on too; we haven't finished our mission yet."

So Tang Li drank another bottle of power-boosting potion, but this brief drizzle did nothing to quench her thirst.

Just then, in the almost deserted hospital, Tang Li suddenly heard heavy, hurried footsteps.

Who was it? She was startled, but her heavy body could no longer nimbly roll over and sit up as before.

At this moment, Tang Li is a fish that can be slaughtered at will.

Jiang Hui's shout suddenly echoed in my mind.

"—Tang Li! Lei Hong is looking for you!"

"--careful!"

"Is that Lei Hong?" With Jiang Hui's warning, the newcomer roughly scooped Tang Li up from the ground. His fingertips extended like daggers, pressing against Tang Li's throat.

Familiar wolf-like claws.

It wasn't Lei Hong, but Sun Ping.

It turned out to be the case.

Tang Li's mind, like a rusty gear, struggled to turn, but her face remained bright and composed. She smiled and asked, "Dean Lei, why did you change into this new look?"

"Tsk, what terrible taste."

She was trying to entice Lei Hong to speak, buy time, and test his mental state.

Lei Hong used Sun Ping's throat to let out a hoarse, low growl, almost like that of a wild beast. It took him two or three tries to find a human vocal register.

"I'm going to kill you," he said, repeating it over and over, "I'm going to kill you all."

A resolute voice rang in Tang Li's mind, accompanied by rapid breathing, Jiang Hui said, "Continue talking to him."

Tang Li then knew that her companions were on their way.

"Don't be so naive," she said calmly. "If you wanted to kill me, you would have done it a second ago."

Lei Hong paused, then his voice filled with even more frenzied rage: "I'll gouge your tongue out alive, I'll rip your eyes out and stuff them into your mouth..."

Tang Li was distracted for a tenth of a second.

As expected of Jiang Hui, she thought to herself. Clearly, her skilled comrade had pushed Lei Hong to his limit.

"You know perfectly well that if you really kill me, you will face utter destruction." Tang Li smiled. Amidst the overlapping layers of vision, the familiar figure that should have appeared had not yet materialized at the end of the corridor, but she remained confident. "My friends will avenge me."

"Besides," Tang Li scoffed, cruelly reminding him, "do you remember, Lei Hong? We've already cleared the dungeon."

"—Players who have cleared the dungeon can leave the game at any time. Didn't you hear the system's urging when you were possessing Sun Ping?"

"I've arrived." Jiang Hui's voice echoed in my mind again.

Tang Li felt a sudden sense of certainty, but her expression remained unchanged.

While Lei Hong was kidnapping Tang Li, Jiang Hui, like an agile cheetah, quietly approached the two in just a few leaps.

— Approaching from behind the two.

In a scene resembling a large, mottled, and decaying old painting, Tang Li, who had been kidnapped, came into her view. As a result, the resentment that had not yet been fully released surged even more fiercely in her heart.

Lei Hong finally saw through Tang Li's usual bluffing nature. His tone was cold and unmoved: "Since that's the case, why don't you leave? Go ahead, Lady Tang Li. Leaving the instance now will only leave your current dream of a career forever unfinished here."

The wolf-like claws moved closer to Tang Li. Perhaps it was because Lei Hong had poor control over Sun Ping's body, or perhaps it was purely for threat. In a flash, a thin line of blood had already grazed Tang Li's neck. The most vulnerable skin was cut open, and the blood trickled down, stinging Jiang Hui's eyes.

Tang Li also felt pain, and a sense of crisis made the hairs on her body stand on end. Tang Li frowned unhappily: "Why don't we just be straightforward and tell me directly, what are you planning to do by kidnapping me?"

"Give it to me! Give it to me!" he growled menacingly behind her head, his tone urgent and almost shrill. "Give me God's approval!"

Tang Li's gaze froze slightly.

God's approval?

The cyan-gold concentric circles in her hand?

Lei Hong's rapid, forceful breath hit Sun Ping's head, the stench of blood once again stirring the body's desire. Lei Hong swallowed hard and emphasized again, "Divine Seal! Give me the Divine Seal!"

This is his path to escaping death and achieving great success.

Lei Hong had always been resolute in guarding the checkpoints of any strange beings who managed to escape the instance, but just now, he felt his authority as light as a piece of paper that could be punctured with a single poke. One by one, the swollen bodies that should have been under his control leaped down without his permission. In the moment of his unwilling struggle, he witnessed divine light descend.

It was only then that he realized that Tang Li, whom he had always regarded as a fraud, actually possessed such extraordinary abilities.

Lei Hong was almost indignant: Since you are so favored by God, why didn't you put God's mark on our faces from the beginning?

But now it's too late; it's a fight to the death.

So what if God favors you? Since God hasn't given me the same gift, I'll seize it for myself!

Everything he forcibly takes is what matters. The mark of God is the most powerful pass in the midst of the bizarre.

"Don't show your hands," Jiang Hui told her in her mind. Tang Li clenched her fingers, the mark of God hidden in her palms.

As expected of a god who reigns supreme over the uncanny. His mark is both a gift and a curse.

Jiang Hui whispered to Tang Li, "Make things chaotic."

She will strike with a single blow.

Tang Li blinked: "Do you know what the mark of God looks like?"

She said, "It's so obvious... you idiot, can't you see it yourself?"

"--Eye?!"

Lei Hong suddenly perked up, "The mark of God is etched in your eyes! So that's it! So that's it!"

They actually mistook Tang Li's supernatural abilities for a divine miracle.

However, all of this suited her perfectly.

Lei Hong roughly pushed Tang Li, forcing her to turn around. Tang Li showed utter fear; she struggled, disregarding the fact that the person beside her could take her life at any moment.

In the midst of the shoving, their feet moved back and forth, and Lei Hong's sharp claws left Tang Li's neck. Chaos ensued, just as Jiang Hui had predicted.

The spear transformed into a dagger in her hand. She circled behind him, lurking in ambush. Jiang Hui suddenly swooped down like an eagle, the tip of the dagger already embedded in Lei Hong's back. She was about to deliver a fatal blow to him.

The scene was extremely chaotic.

Therefore, no one noticed that a portal of light had suddenly opened beneath their feet.

The third door of light opens at the feet of both hope and despair.

If you wish to return home and have your sins settled, you must enter this gate.