Sir! Don't close the net!

"Speaking of which, aren't you an executive officer candidate? Didn't you claim your strength was on par with the former executives? Why are you being chased like this in such a trivial matter?! Even though you're starting from scratch, you still have your basic stats, right?!"

Abel's lips twitched violently.

"Sir, the One and Only Ruler, don't you think you could perfectly resolve this matter simply by putting Princess Thorn's body down?"

Li Yili glanced at the Thorn Princess's increasingly approaching, spider-like creature and instinctively took a step back, her expression conflicted. Just when Abel thought Li Yili was about to put the Thorn Princess down, Li Yili forcefully hugged the Thorn Princess's legs, which were hanging in front of her chest, and roared.

"What?! You've already got the golden spindle, why am I going back empty-handed! I'm taking this! No! It's already mine! Holy crap—it's so tender and smooth! I've already planned how to use it every night! Even Jesus couldn't use it!"

Abel froze on the spot, and the approaching Thorn Residents also stopped in their tracks, but only for a moment before advancing towards Li Yili at an even more terrifying speed.

This time, Abel hesitated for a moment. Faced with the terrifying swarm of human spiders, Abel stood still, holding the golden spindle, and simply turned his head to look at Li Yili.

Sure enough, all the thorn inhabitants crawled past him on either side of his body, heading straight for Li Yili.

Chapter Ninety: Don't force me to pierce her with this big gun.

"Sir, the One and Only Ruler! I think you should put Princess Thorn down right away!"

Li Yili ran ahead, the residents of Thorn City chased after her, while Abel pulled a megaphone from Li Yili's suitcase and mingled among the Thorn City residents, continuously broadcasting...

Li Yili was advised.

Li Yili's forehead veins bulged.

"The future is already decided, sir! You have betrayed us! The Lord you believe in is weeping!"

As soon as Li Yili finished speaking, she heard the sound of digging from underground. Instinctively, she jumped up, and the next second, several thorns as thick as a wrist burst out of the ground, whistling past Li Yili's face with incredible force.

Li Yili's slowly widening dark eyes reflected the white veil of the Thorn Princess, fluttering in the gale and dancing amidst the thorns, shattering into pieces.

If he gets hit by that... his head will probably fly off along with his spine.

“Sir, the One and Only Ruler, I think you should be well aware of the current situation,” Abel ran up to Li Yili’s side, raised the megaphone and earnestly persuaded her, “It’s impossible to take away Princess Thorn, and you’re probably too tired to run anymore.”

Li Yili's lips twitched as she looked at Abel with a forced smile.

"I can run all day long."

Of course, this was purely a show of bravado. Li Yili knew very well that once he stopped, he wouldn't be able to run anymore, at least not today.

“Mr. Sole Dominator, I advise you to see reality more clearly,” Abel, who could see through Li Yili’s bravado at a glance, shook his head helplessly. “I’m not sure if you can run all day, but they really can chase you all day.”

"Hmph—the future is already set, sir. Don't you find this place strangely familiar?"

Abel was taken aback, then his eyes widened, and he immediately turned to look around. "Could it be that you've already reached the city gate?! Is this your escape route?!"

"Ah, no, the city gate is probably on the other side. I glanced at it when we were running, and the place we came in from is blocked," Li Yili waved her hand.

Abel narrowed his eyes. “Sir, the One and Only Ruler, your chances are running out. Put down Princess Thorn’s body now, and if you promise not to tell anyone about what happened today, I can guarantee your safety.”

“The future is already set, sir. You don’t think I’m just an ordinary person who can’t even kill a chicken, do you?” Li Yili suddenly smiled confidently.

Abel blinked, tilted his head to look at the two fishing rods behind Li Yili, and his expression changed. "You want to use Gungnir here?!"

Speaking of which, this seems to be the square of Thorn City. There are no houses surrounding it, so there aren't many thorns. It's very open and suitable for throwing Gungnir.

“This may be a good idea, but not a good attempt,” Li Yili said, her right hand supporting the Thorn Princess’s leg, her left hand raised, the black ring on her thumb gleaming eerily under the starlight. “When did you get the illusion that I only have Gungnir as an inheritance?”

Under Abel's utterly astonished gaze, Li Yili leaped into the center of the square, turned to face the pursuing residents of Thorn City, pulled out the fishing rod from her back and poked it into the Thorn Princess's buttocks, and shouted sternly, "If you move again, I will use this big spear to pierce through this body's buttocks!"

In order to show the residents of Thorn City, or rather the Thorn Princess who was controlling them, that he was not joking, Li Yili placed the fishing rod between the Thorn Princess's thighs and slid it in front of all the Thorn City residents.

And so, a dry, hard rod appeared in the buttocks that were covered by white gauze, like a piece of budding art, and it seemed that this budding art would be completely destroyed in the next second.

Abel stared wide-eyed at Li Yili, who had done such an absurd thing, his face filled with disbelief.

He never imagined Li Yili would do something like shoving his head down a sewer.

But when it actually happened in front of him, he felt a sense of dejection, like he was just sitting down and doing the bare minimum.

Under Li Yili's reprimand and the warning of the big gun, all the Thorn residents who were running wildly stopped in their tracks, and more Thorn residents rushed to the square and squeezed behind the first group.

“If you take another step forward, I’ll use this big spear to pierce this body’s buttocks,” Li Yili sneered. “If you dare to try to flank, I’ll also use this big spear to pierce this body’s buttocks. I ran this long way just to make sure you were all together as a team. No one will have a chance to flank.”

"And another thing! Don't even think about using thorns to burrow underground to attack me! I'm a coward! I'll panic and wave my hands wildly at the slightest noise! ​​You don't want to take back Princess Thorn either, do you?"

As she spoke, Li Yili deliberately twirled the fishing rod in her hand. The soft white gauze was hooked and rolled up by the rough fishing rod, and Princess Thorn's fair legs also seemed to be stimulated and trembled slightly.

"But, the only ruler, she is still a child."

Abel swallowed hard, and with trembling hands, he pressed his hand down towards Li Yili.

“The future is already decided, sir. This Thorn Princess is older than both of us, at least thirty. Don’t be fooled by her!” Li Yili glanced at the withered Thorn King at the front of the group and chuckled softly. “Since she knows to block me, it means she still has the ability to communicate. I’ll count to three! If nothing comes out to speak, I’ll skewer your body.”

"one!"

"Alright! Today, Princess Thorn will be renamed Princess City Skewer!"

"Wait a minute! What about numbers two and three!" He was pondering how to rescue the princess, who was at least thirty years old, from Li Yili's clutches.

Abel was horrified.

"A real man keeps his word! Just remember one thing! Hahaha—"

Amidst Li Yili's incredibly evil laughter, Vera, dressed in a long robe, staggered to her feet among the thorny inhabitants who were crawling on the ground. Her face, rubbed raw and bloody, slowly rose, her mud-covered lips parted slightly, and an extremely hoarse voice came from her throat.

"——————"

Perhaps because she hadn't spoken in a long time, Vera's voice was intermittent, unable to form even a complete word, just a series of indistinct syllables. Abel frowned slightly; his intuition told him that someone was speaking to Li Yili through Vera—it was the language of Thorn City.

"No, no—negotiations are completely unsuccessful—there's no other way but to perish together."

Li Yili shrugged.

"I'll skewer your body right now, then you can kill us all."

Abel was taken aback at first, then his eyes widened.

They killed all of us?!

"Otherwise..." Li Yili narrowed her eyes slightly while revealing a sunny smile.

"You can go back to this body first. No matter what, I would never use a big gun to stab a pitiful thirty-year-old princess."

"After all... people wouldn't be so cruel to someone who can have a conversation."

Chapter Ninety-One: My spear can pierce the sky!

This was undoubtedly a complete breakdown of pretense, leaving Li Yili with only one choice: to pursue a resounding victory.

A bead of cold sweat trickled down his forehead, but Li Yili's right hand, gripping the fishing rod poised against the Thorn Princess's buttocks, remained motionless. At the slightest disturbance, he would deliver a full-force piercing blow to the Thorn Princess's rear.

"Let me make this clear first! This is Gungnir in my hand! You know Gungnir?! No matter what you are, I can pierce a hole through it!" Li Yili roared.

As a cautious person, Li Yili did not like to solve problems by laying everything out in the open, because many of his methods were only effective in secret, and became ridiculous once they were brought into the open.

If possible, Li Yili would love to showcase his eloquence and have a conversation with the Thorn Princess. After all, he wasn't there to collect anything; he just wanted to see what the so-called exiles were like, and ultimately, he hoped the Thorn Princess would annoy Abel and make it harder for him to complete his mission.

He had already thought of all the lines.

The future is set, sir! I know their symptoms! It's sleepwalking! I've heard that if you try to wake a sleepwalker, they'll be scared to death on the spot; you can only wait for them to wake up on their own!

Honest as Abel would likely be hesitant to act rashly, and would be chased around without being able to fight back.

Unfortunately, the reality was that he was being chased all over the place by himself, and Abel even joined the group that was telling him to surrender.

Moreover, he instinctively resisted engaging in equal dialogue with Princess Thorn, a chill running down his spine that compelled him to lay things out in this way and coerce her to this extent.

Now he finally understood why he had acted so unusually.

He feared the Thorn Princess, not her power or her control over Thorn City. In fact, the power she displayed wasn't as exaggerated as it seemed; it was just that the scene was more frightening. What he feared was the mindset that had emerged from the Thorn Princess amidst the Thorn King's awe and hatred for them.

The Thorn King believed that all emotions that influenced their thinking, including jealousy, greed, and anger, were corrupted by them, while the Thorn Princess was perfect, perfectly free from all emotions, and possessed a way of thinking unaffected by them.

What exactly is that thing?

Li Yili couldn't imagine it. The thought of being watched and observed by such a being made him extremely uneasy, especially since he was certain that the other party was not limited to their own world and could interfere with his own. He became even more agitated and uneasy.

From this perspective, he could understand the Thorn King quite well.

This is indeed a reality that makes it hard to close one's eyes.

Therefore, although it was somewhat unethical, Li Yili decided to first bring the other party to her level, and then use the rich experience at that level to defeat the other party, so as to achieve a situation where reading is a discussion and writing is whatever she says.

The ideal scenario is to trick the other party back into this body. Even if it's a perfect body nurtured by the Thorn King, it will still have a human appearance and can be considered human.

Of course, most importantly...

Princess Thorn could even unleash a spider-like rampage on all the inhabitants of Thorn City, yet she couldn't even control her own hand to remove the gun stuck in her buttocks.

Princess Thorn's body is the key!

We absolutely cannot let go!

Li Yili gritted her teeth and shouted in Abel's direction, "The future is decided, sir! Tell her how powerful my big gun is!"

Abel's lips twitched violently.

He seems to have become the arbitrator.

“Mr. Sole Ruler, I think you’d better not make things too tense.”

"Which side are you on?!"

“The One and Only Ruler, regardless of your identity,” Abel took a deep breath and gestured between himself and Li Yili, “we are not allies. In a sense, I should send the One and Only Ruler away.”

"To the gallows."

“Alright—then let’s add another crime: delivering a piercing blow to the Thorn Princess,” Li Yili said, her eyes narrowing as she gripped Gungnir’s fingers, veins bulging on her arm. “This blow will do—”

Before Li Yili could finish speaking, a tearing sound of flesh being separated came from Vera's body. Abel and Li Yili looked over at the same time and saw Vera's limbs twitching in an extremely strange posture, her bloodied head drooping, and something strange seemed to be growing inside the coat on her back, while her exposed skin was withering away at an extremely fast speed.

Li Yili felt a spasm in her stomach, as if something was being born through Vera's body, or perhaps Vera was transforming into something else.

Looking at Vera's gradually withering body, Li Yili thought of how spiders hunt, wrapping their prey in silk and injecting toxins to melt the prey's inside. The current situation seemed to match the spider's hunting method, but it was not as simple as just hunting.

Bind the inhabitants of Thorn City with the spider silk of dreams, then infuse them with something to transform them.

"Clap-"

The shriveled husk slammed to the ground, and its limbs, still dripping with mucus, extended and embedded themselves in the earth. It was a black spider with crisscrossing thorn-like scars on its back.

Li Yili's eyes twitched. "That... the future has been determined, sir. It seems that this is the true face of the residents of Thorn City. Of course, whether this is their true face or not, it is obviously already the case."

But to Li Yili's surprise, Abel did not answer him. He just stared blankly at the spider stretching its body, his golden-red eyes flashing with a complex light that Li Yili did not understand.

"Hey! Abel Z. Morningstar! What are you spacing out for!"