There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game

"You don't have to worry, I won't do anything to you."

Seeming to notice Xu Shuo's wariness, Shi suddenly said, "In fact, at the Giant Fortress, I had already realized that the artifact you were using wasn't something that could be obtained by normal means. However, in the script space, essentially all items can be transformed into artifacts, so having an abnormal artifact isn't considered very special."

Xu Shuo's expression remained unchanged, "Is the Character Card very special?"

"Of course, after all, if it's not a character set by the Script Space, a player can't even enter," Shi said, tilting her head, her eyes brimming with golden light, hollow and void, her gaze seemed to penetrate his entire body.

"Then this should be a problem with the Script Space," Xu Shuo said calmly.

"Indeed."

To his surprise, Shi nodded in agreement, "No idea where the problem lies, but Judgement has been quite busy lately. If you run into this kind of issue again, you can tell me."

Xu Shuo: "..." Do I look like I would tell you?

It seemed he had been overthinking; even if this person had changed in disposition, at her core, she was still simple-minded.

"Let's focus on resolving the current issue first."

At that moment, Shi suddenly took out a headband woven from green branches and handed it to him, saying, "Wear this, it can help spread and sustain your spiritual power."

As Xu Shuo took it, a system explanation appeared in his line of sight.

[Special Artifact 'Blessing of the Elves': Every elf born from the Tree of Life is a jewel of the world. The crown woven by their own hands carries their blessings and the world's good wishes to you.]

Upon wearing it on his head, Xu Shuo was suddenly enveloped by a rich life force.

The spiritual power he released, enhanced and magnified by the artifact, covered the entire underground parking garage and the shopping mall above in an instant!

The images fed back by the Mind Network were incredibly clear. Xu Shuo even felt that he could extend his reach even further!

As long as his mind could keep up with the processing speed, it seemed feasible to encompass the entire city of Yangcheng within the range of his spiritual power!

Xu Shuo couldn't help but be tempted, "Are you selling this thing?"

"Hmm?" Shi paused, "It was given to me by someone else."

"So, are you selling it?"

"I don't think so; it was given to me by someone else."

"Alright then."

Xu Shuo felt a bit disappointed, but he didn't insist, realizing that with his current resources, he probably couldn't afford this artifact.

After lending him the accessory artifact, Shi walked back to the side of the Abyss Rift and pressed her palm against the rift.

The next moment, within the silent Judgment Domain, a harsh screeching sound suddenly erupted!

It was like the collision of some sharp metal, like the desolate screams of someone exerting their last energy. Accompanied by the stirring once again of the dark matter, indistinguishable shrill screeches rose from all around.

The halfway torn wall fissure once again emitted a golden light, the ground slowly vibrated, and the dark matter flowing out twisted and struggled in the golden light.

Shi's expression was solemn and dignified, her golden eyes cold and empty. She emotionlessly stared at the darkness before her and lifted her palm that was pressed against the rift as if pulling and lifting something.

"Crack, crack, crack..."

The space around her started to fracture like glass, spreading countless cracks.

It looked as if the space itself was being torn apart.

From within those fissures, shining golden light seeped through, wisps of black mist twisted madly in the light, and faintly the images of numerous evil ghosts wailing and screeching tore through.

The Abyss Rift might have appeared only in this corner of the wall, but from the cracks opened in the void, darkness was being forced out everywhere by the golden light.

But this process was very slow, and as the darkness was driven out, the entire space was vibrating and tearing apart.

No wonder Shi had simply blown up the entire Yuhua Dam back then.

Compared to slowly cleaning up this darkness, it was certainly simpler and more brutal to just smash a holy light onto it.

However, that approach only worked for ordinary places.

Xu Shuo's spiritual power then spread out, using the director's vast knowledge and ability to control space, adeptly stabilizing the oscillating spatial waves and repairing them.

As his spiritual power interwove with the force released by Shi, Xu Shuo's thoughts suddenly became dizzy. In that instant, it felt as if he had touched the magical sensation he had experienced not long before.

The world's image twisted before him.

Space, the world—it seemed to be space, yet it also seemed like an endless, multidimensional platform.

The surrounding buildings and people and things all underwent a transformation; they spun into delicate star trails, then dispersed into countless colored dots. They had no fixed shape, like free, grand and mysterious scrolls of paintings.

His senses were magnified infinitely, with every detail sharp and clear, his nerves involuntarily buzzing with activity.

This sensation was undoubtedly addictively perplexing. Even though you didn't know what exactly you were seeing, the relaxed consciousness was like entering a warm ocean, peaceful and serene.

As if it were the pure moment when consciousness was first born.

Suddenly, Xu Shuo glanced towards the electric bike in the corner.

In that beautiful colored world, only this spot was a mass of chaotic, stirring lines.

Countless black lines entwined and wriggled. Initially resembling the shape of an electric bike, they morphed in an instant into indescribable forms—twisted, beyond normal reasoning, chaotic, disordered, revolting...

Yes, revolting!

These twisted, chaotic black lines devoured the surrounding dots; they consumed each other, transforming into an incomprehensible paradox, triggering an unprovoked surge of nausea and extreme aversion.

At this moment, the kaleidoscope of colors in consciousness was suddenly twisted into dark vortexes, with monsters seemingly howling within them.

An uncontrollable revulsion surged in his stomach; countless black lines scrambled within his body, squeezing up his throat, choking his breath, and finally rushing straight to his brain!

Unbearable!

Without any hesitation, Xu Shuo reached out in that direction!

"Wait!"

A panicked voice suddenly came from beside him.

But the spiritual power collided faster!

The shimmering golden-red light, like a churning and roaring sea, thunderously rushed towards the black, indescribable entity, clashing violently, with the kaleidoscopic colored world flickering on and off.

Eventually, from a distant place, it seemed that a roar was heard, ethereal and shocking, suddenly resounding through the entire ocean of consciousness!

The next moment, whether it was black or colored, everything turned into a pure and extreme blankness.

...

"Boom!"

Within a radius of one kilometer, the ground in this area suddenly shook violently.

The furniture in the houses swayed, and from afar, a loud boom suddenly sounded in everyone's ears. Everyone, whether early sleepers or night owls, was suddenly stunned!

Their thoughts were as if struck by some shock; their brains went blank, standing there without consciousness, in a stupor.

In the living room.

Xu Xi was sitting on the couch playing with her phone when the sudden explosion made her body instinctively flinch, then she quickly turned her head to look in a certain direction.

In her vision, the distant night sky suddenly turned white, shrouding the entire district in an unclear whiteness.

But it seemed as if a twisted arc flashed across the sky, so in a split second, the night's blue-gray hue returned, and the city's buildings below were visible once again.

And the whole process seemed to last less than half a breath.

Xu Xi was dazed for a moment.

But her hand had already unconsciously closed the Candy Crush interface on her phone, swiping to the list of contacts.

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