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

Now, Tang Li has lost her two teammates and is completely all alone.

Lian Shi was fighting to the death with a group of people underground, while Lian Sheng was inexplicably entangled with the incomprehensible Zhao Jiuzhi. The two of them were also fighting each other with real swords and spears.

Originally, Tang Li had no intention of leaving Lian Sheng's protection. Although the latter had suffered a lot of damage to his health recently, his martial arts skills were still not to be underestimated. He fought back and forth with Zhao Jiuzhi and steadily gained the upper hand.

Tang Li watched with rapt attention, completely mesmerized. However, the sight of swords flashing and shadows also brought her considerable pressure, so she retreated further and further until her body... leaned against the wall.

My heel involuntarily bumped against the base of the wall.

Do you remember Zhao Jiuzhi constantly banging and knocking along the corridor?

Tang Li felt the solid wall behind her suddenly disappear, and with a sound of a mechanism being triggered and hinges flipping, the world in front of Tang Li was suddenly swallowed by darkness.

She fell backward through the trapdoor.

Tang Li fell heavily to the ground with a loud thud, the pain bringing tears to her eyes. She felt that she had sustained injuries of varying degrees from her waist to her knees.

But now is not the time to pity yourself.

Tang Li gritted her teeth, rolled over, and got up. She looked around blankly, but all she could see was darkness. With her vision taken away, her other senses seemed to be magnified infinitely.

But she couldn't hear the sounds of Lian Sheng and Zhao Jiuzhi fighting.

The soundproofing here is excellent. Tang Li thought to herself, sniffing the air. She could only smell the dampness, but not any blood or putrid odor. That was a good thing.

Tang Li ripped off the veil that was in her way and quickly pulled out a safe, non-scalding fire starter she had bought from the live-streaming store. She involuntarily held her breath as sparks flew everywhere.

For most people, the moment of transition from darkness to light in an unknown environment is more terrifying than being immersed in darkness all along.

Because you don't know what you will face when the firelight is lit.

An old woman in blue is grinning at you, her face close to yours.

! ! ! ! !

Tang Li was so terrified that she completely lost the ability to scream, and she suddenly stepped back.

A large, enlarged comment struck like a thunderbolt!

[Jiang Hui: Don't run away! Fight!]

The internal energy flowed into her palm like boiling water, and Tang Li clenched her fingers and suddenly threw a punch!

With a loud "bang," the fist struck the horribly wrinkled face squarely.

Tang Li's heart was pounding so hard she couldn't even catch her breath. The old woman in blue was knocked to the side by the punch, to an angle no human could tilt their head to. The firelight illuminated the broken cross-section of her neck, and Tang Li could almost see the neatly severed trachea and muscles.

Ah, no wonder this place is so quiet.

The old woman in blue had her neck cut, so of course she couldn't make a sound.

For a moment, Tang Li almost thought that the old woman in blue's head was about to roll to the ground.

However, in the next moment, with just a turn of his head, the white-haired head was completely upright.

Scattered drops of yellowish-white liquid fell from mid-air. Tang Li saw the large hole in her head and realized that it might be her brain matter that had been shaken out.

[Jiang Hui: Keep going! Don't get distracted!]

At this moment, the old woman in blue was still smiling, her toothless mouth splitting into a crescent-shaped black hole. She opened her arms, her hands curved like eagle claws, and reached out to grab Tang Li!

Tang Li disregarded all rules and regulations, focusing solely on Jiang Hui's instructions. Without hesitation, she threw another punch, a lightning-fast strike that was even faster than the blue-clad old woman's eagle claw.

[Jiang Hui: Dodge to the lower left! Then throw a left punch! To the right!]

She had thrown the tinder she was holding to the ground, but perhaps because the dungeon items from the livestream store were of such high quality, the flame never went out. Using this flame, Tang Li exchanged a few blows with the blue-clad old woman, and surprisingly, she gradually found her rhythm.

The old woman in the blue shirt opposite him matched Lian Shi's previous description perfectly. She was the murderer who knocked on the door in the middle of the night, choosing between taking away a child or tearing out a heart.

And Tang Li? At this time, Tang Li was only five years old.

It meets the first condition exactly.

[Jiang Hui: She wants to capture you alive. Seize this opportunity and be bolder!]

Boldness... What is the boldness of a martial artist?

They're risking their lives.

Tang Li, relying on the fact that the old woman in blue wanted to capture her alive but dared not use any harsh moves against her, was like a small, wild bull, charging recklessly with the internal energy that Han Zhou had given her before.

Until the old woman in blue was finally forced to reveal a ferocious smile, her gestures changed! A dangerous intuition swept across Tang Li's back like a fuse.

Unable to dodge in time, the blue-clad old woman's fingertips were like daggers, her sharp nails slicing across Tang Li's arm, tearing her sleeve and scraping away a strip of flesh from Tang Li's skin, leaving it bleeding!

In the nights before, she had used her bare hands to cut open people's chests and abdomens.

[Jiang Hui: Take the pill!]

Within a few breaths, blood completely soaked her clothes. Tang Li trembled with pain, but without hesitation, she took the opportunity of crouching down to slip a pale red pill into her mouth—

It was as if she had suddenly swallowed a mouthful of strong liquor; a spicy sensation burst forth in her mouth, rushing upwards into her nasal cavity and burning down her throat into her stomach.

Then an invisible force surged through her body, instantly sweeping over her limbs and bones.

The unbearable pain receded like a receding tide, and even the blood oozing from the wound seemed to congeal.

Tang Li raised her head, her gaze burning like fire, and met the horrified gaze of the old woman in blue.

—A few hours ago.

Tang Li sat facing Han Zhou, smiling as she looked at him and extended her hand.

"Look," she said, "you even offered those three annoying people a hefty reward for helping you investigate Manager Li's case. So what if I manage to handle everything on my own tomorrow..."

"Coach Han," Tang Li waved her empty hands at him, "is there any reward?"

King Zhou of Han ultimately paid her the reward ahead of schedule.

"You have already taken a pill to adjust your physical constitution and improve your talent," Han Zhou said. "But now, you have not yet fully converted my internal energy into your own, so it is not the time to use pills to force your growth."

"However," he hesitated for a moment, then slowly pushed a small red porcelain bottle towards her, "you can take this for now."

"Unless it is an extremely urgent matter, it should not be used without authorization."