Chapter 197: Love and Desire Rise with the Wind

This scene made the viewers from the Valoran Empire break out in a cold sweat!

[Are you kidding me!!]

[Damned Spider Leader! Don’t you dare harm our Valoran S-Class female!!]

[If you dare violate Beast Star’s "Female Protection Law," watch out for the Beast God’s divine punishment!!]

Yu Zhizhi gripped the knife’s hilt with both hands, her body trembling uncontrollably.

The blood-stained, rusty blade was pressed against the front of her neck. It felt as if a single unsteady movement of her hand would mean her death on the spot.

"I’ll give you one minute to say your final words."

The Lord of Paradise watched the little female with indifference. Her eyes brimmed with tears, her face was deathly pale, and she looked absolutely terrified.

"You can... ask this Mr. Wolf for help."

"Or—"

"Beg me for mercy."

He was very curious to see what the little rabbit would choose in this moment of life and death.

Yu Zhizhi said nothing at all.

She neither cried out to Tang Luo Ke for help nor begged the Lord of Paradise for mercy.

The young woman’s tears streamed down her cheeks and dripped onto the blade’s edge.

They also dripped onto the hearts of the audience.

[SOB SOB SOB, this is too cruel! Lord Leader, don’t hurt the little female! AHHH!]

[You can’t bully Tutu!]

[Can’t they just let the little female from the Rabbit Clan leave Paradise? She’s S-Class!]

Tang Luo Ke let out a faint sigh.

"If you plan on using her as a hostage, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed."

A sneer touched his scarlet eyes. "Drop my weapons and place myself at your mercy, all to save her? Do you really think that’s going to happen?"

"I swear on the name of the Wolf Clan—"

"If the female from the Rabbit Clan dies here today, I will slaughter everyone in your Paradise. And I’ll add Divine City to the list."

"The day our treaty expires will be the day I march on your Imperial City."

A naked threat.

After speaking, Tang Luo Ke turned to look at the little rabbit, who was ensnared in spider silk.

Yu Zhizhi squeezed her eyes shut and cried even harder.

’She was probably... really going to die here.’

’Although she had no idea why the Lord of Paradise’s killing intent towards her was so strong...’

The Lord of Paradise acted as if he hadn’t heard a word Tang Luo Ke said. He simply watched the little female quietly, her rabbit ears trembling as she cried, her expression growing more and more aggrieved.

’Was it with this pitiful appearance that she hooked Lou and Louis, making them fall for her one after the other?’

Heh...

A faint sneer flashed across the Lord of Paradise’s face, but a deep ache surged in his heart. The thought that his emotions could still be affected by her caused his expression to darken.

Yu Zhizhi sobbed, her breath catching in her throat. She opened her eyes, her lashes clumped together with tears, her rabbit-like pupils bright red. "Why do you want to kill me?"

’When did he decide he wanted her dead?’

She recalled their first meeting. The man had been sitting atop a massive, towering skeleton, watching her with cold condescension.

Though he was disgusted, he had tacitly allowed her to exist.

But in this hunt, his killing intent was completely undisguised. No matter how slow she was, Yu Zhizhi knew that the Lord of Paradise, the one who had suppressed Lou, was now dead set on killing her.

"...At least let me die knowing why," she said, her voice choked with sobs.

The Lord of Paradise watched her in silence.

’The reason...?’

He lowered his eyelids, as if in thought.

The wind in the Void Domain was a bit cold. In the sky, a faint flicker of lightning appeared within the deep vortex.

Everyone was watching them.

The Lord of Paradise, the War Weapon, and the S-Class female from the Rabbit Clan caught between them.

He thought for a long time.

A smile touched his pale face. "If you have the time, you can look through some books related to the Spider Clan. The answer is in there."

"As for when I decided to get rid of you..."

"Side hall. Coffee table."

The Lord of Paradise gave her two keywords.

Yu Zhizhi was confused at first, but when she recalled the scene connected to those two words, she looked at him in astonishment.

That day, that day...

They had been doing something incredibly intimate.

’How could that be?’

The more Yu Zhizhi thought about it, the more wronged she felt, and a slight waver entered her tone. "Can you even read books on the Yellow Springs Road?"

The little rabbit’s nose turned red, and fresh tears began to fall.

It would have been so simple to kill her.

Why did he have to send her to the hunt? He only needed to lift a finger, to use a single strand of spider silk, to slit her throat.

’It seemed that when he made his decision, he had still been influenced after all.’

He’d had countless opportunities to kill her, but he had never taken action.

Including this time.

The corner of the Lord of Paradise’s mouth twitched. His voice seemed to drift from a distant horizon. "The wind is rising. Good luck."

A wind began to blow through the Void Domain, bringing with it a thick mist.

Yu Zhizhi felt the restraints on her body disappear.

She took a few steps back. When she looked up again, the entire scene was obscured.

’What is this?’

The electronic voice of Paradise rang in her ears: "Final Match Mist. Duration varies by individual. All players, please actively seek a solution."

The live comments exploded with activity.

[Yes! The mist is here! Let’s see who solves the puzzle first this time!]

[What’s going on? Is my internet lagging? Why can’t I see #13 Tutu’s personal stream?]

[I can’t see it either!]

[Me neither!]

The Final Match Mist was an instance that only appeared in the final competition of the hunt. Each person was thrown into a scenario that combined survival and puzzle-solving.

The order in which players solved the puzzle would determine the number of points they received.

The player with the fewest points would be directly eliminated.

However, among the six players, only the personal stream for the female from the Rabbit Clan was completely blank.

The other five, including the Lord of Paradise and the War Weapon, were all streaming normally.

Only the female from the Rabbit Clan—no one knew where she had gone.

Yu Zhizhi felt herself trapped in a mist, unable to find her way. When the mist finally dispersed, the previous scene had vanished entirely, and she found herself in a strange land.

She looked up at a tower-like structure that soared into the sky, winding its way upward as if to pierce the very clouds.

It was the dead of night, and the windows of the tower’s floors glowed with light, as if illuminating the path forward for a night traveler.

Something Lou had once said suddenly surfaced in Yu Zhizhi’s mind—

The lighthouse!

’Could this be the lighthouse?’

Yu Zhizhi didn’t know how she had suddenly arrived at this place, nor what she was supposed to do next. Even the electronic voice from the mist had disappeared.

’Where is this?’ she asked in her mind.

The system did not appear.

Goosebumps suddenly broke out across Yu Zhizhi’s skin—

’Even my bound system is gone! Am I still alive?’

’Satan!!’

The system still did not appear.

Yu Zhizhi bit her lip. Her blood ran cold, feeling as if it were freezing in her veins. Her mind was a complete blank; she could barely think.

Just then, a set of hurried footsteps sounded from behind her.

Someone bumped into her shoulder, nearly knocking her to the ground.

When she looked up, she saw an old man in a long purple robe hurrying past, carrying a glass bottle in his hand.

Yu Zhizhi steadied herself by grabbing a stone pillar beside the steps. When she saw what was inside the glass bottle, her eyes widened in shock.