Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 2664: Chapter 2659: Eight Wicked Women (35)

Always so reliable.

No wonder Su Zhiyan is so good at killing games—one offhand sentence, and she casually drops a bomb in the Hall of Pleasure.

He could have left all along, even right now?

For everyone who’d spent so long calculating as prisoners, this was nothing short of a worldview-level shock.

More importantly, given his style, you didn’t even know how to start doubting that he was lying.

"You’re not poisoned?"

Professor Lisa, who always speaks her mind, couldn’t help suspecting her own handiwork.

"I am."

Su Gao didn’t push anyone away, but it was obvious she had no intention of giving extra explanations.

Poisoned, yet still able to leave... that answer was even more terrifying.

If it were just like he’d shown earlier—noticed it earlier than everyone else, so he’d been prepared and never got hit—that would at least be a relatively reasonable plot.

And now you’re telling me he got hit, but can detox himself anytime?

That’s a bit too unreasonable, isn’t it.

Each impact hit harder than the last; normally, the Sanctuary should’ve been dead silent at this moment.

Heh... hehe...

But given that right now everything is pleasure, someone was clearly enjoying the thrill of their cognition being torn apart.

Lady No.7, whose strength was relatively low, suddenly grabbed the mask she’d just put on and tore it off, then pulled off the decoration on her head... exposing the face she’d always wanted to hide.

At a glance, the overly strange lines of her features actually gave rise to a twisted kind of beauty.

"So you just can’t bear to leave?"

Clearly able to leave yet choosing not to, the bare-faced Lady No.7 was obviously trying to understand Su Gao’s behavior, a teasing note in her voice.

"Yeah, I still have things to do."

But Su Zhiyan is this straightforward—he answered casually, his gaze openly falling on Fu Qian.

...

So it was that close? Just a little more and I’d do nothing, lie flat and get carried out?

Su Gao’s stance was already very clear, and it faintly confirmed the previous guess again—that the ladies were very likely here to rescue someone.

Locked in a gaze with those amber eyes, Fu Qian couldn’t help sighing over fate’s twisted sense of humor.

Su Gao not being too afraid of poison wasn’t strange to him at all.

Because with her Echo constitution, you could say that no matter how sneaky the trick, it was hard to make Su Gao completely lose the ability to resist.

Her performance in the Nightmare Corridor earlier was a vivid example.

And given that she could clearly leave but didn’t, the reason wasn’t hard to guess—she only had enough strength to take one person out.

And she’d noticed the poisoning at the point when Professor Fu had already been hit along with everyone else.

"You’re going to the Sanctuary, then I’m going to the Sanctuary too"—her words when she hitchhiked on the ride still echoed in his ears, openly admitting she had ulterior motives.

It was even why she’d followed them here in the first place, exposing herself to these risks.

In a situation where she realized something was wrong, someone like Su Gao would never just walk away.

From this, you could also tell how impressive the Dark Holy Hall’s digestive effect was.

Even someone as vigilant as Su Gao hadn’t been able, in that first instant of realization, to use Echo Power to take herself away.

"Thanks."

But no matter what, he still had to accept this favor.

Before anyone else could comment, Fu Qian blinked and directly expressed his gratitude.

"But I can’t answer the third question."

Su Gao responded without the slightest attempt to hide, not at all bothered that others knew her intentions.

At the same time, she emphasized that she truly couldn’t answer the third question.

...

Even Su Gao can’t judge it? So it really is the worst-case scenario?

He’d been prepared mentally, but her confirmation still drew a quiet sigh from Fu Qian’s heart.

Not being able to answer the third question was basically admitting that Professor Fu’s words contained internal contradictions.

That there really had been some conversation, or some twisted form of entrustment, and yet he—the supposed party involved—had no idea.

Just like the contradiction inside Miss Wen’s heart, Su Gao trusted Professor Fu far too much, which had dragged her cognition into a dilemma.

"You’ve already done well."

Fu Qian wanted to shake his head just then, only to realize he couldn’t move at all, so he gave up and settled for a verbal, high-level acknowledgement of Su Gao’s effort.

If things were really as he suspected, then this mission was simply too vicious—practically forcing everyone into a nervous breakdown.

The more you trusted, the less you could believe.

The more you were on Professor Fu’s side, the more you would help push things toward mission failure...

For a moment, he could almost feel a kind of Zen in it.

In short, because they trusted Professor Fu, Su Gao and the others were instead negating everything he said, and according to the "original plan", doing everything they could to keep him out of the Sanctuary.

At their current level, this was already a step-by-step, nerve-wracking probe—tailored guidance... plus the sliver of survival the players had fought tooth and nail to win.

Everyone was linked together through pleasure, allowing for better lie detection, which had ultimately led to Su Gao’s current contradiction.

From this angle, coming to the Dark Holy Hall was practically a necessary condition to complete the mission.

Otherwise, outside anywhere, lacking this Mind Penetration Device, the final outcome would most likely be Su Gao taking him and escaping, carefully avoiding the Sanctuary, and then the mission failing.

And now the problem to solve was much clearer—how to make good use of this Mind Penetration Device, so everyone would believe in the current Professor Fu.

"How much time do you have left? To keep your ability to get out?"

Fu Qian thought for a second and asked Su Gao first.

"No more than three minutes."

Su Gao seemed to have calculated this long ago and answered without hesitation.

"So you’d better hurry, or I’ll have no choice but to try and send you out right before the last moment hits."

As expected, Echo Power wasn’t absolute immunity to poison.

Fu Qian wasn’t surprised by the "three minutes" at all.

Back in the Night Holy City, Su Gao had already had her colors Misaligned by Lord Rainbow of Radiance’s methods.

Echo couldn’t grant her immunity; it only bought her an extra self-purification window compared to ordinary people.

And from what she added afterward, it was clear that Su Gao’s "Antitoxic Serum" could also be used on others.

A certain clear thought had obviously already formed in her mind by the time she spoke—

Whether Professor Fu wants to go to the Sanctuary or not, whether what he said before was true or what he’s saying now is true, at least helping him get out of here so he can move freely shouldn’t be a problem, right?

I can’t tell, but you can tell yourself.

The only downside is that she wouldn’t be able to escort him all the way.

Professor Fu would have to rely on his frail flesh and blood to find his own way through the gates.

This was the last safety net Su Gao had left him.