I lost the bet!

Is it fate? Is it luck? It's both and neither.

It's just a choice, a choice between dying sooner or later.

If I hadn't bet on believing Shi Yu, I wouldn't have had the chance to leave the first floor. Choosing to believe offered a sliver of hope.

But I lost the bet!

Lost! Then I have to accept it!

At that moment, all that remained in my heart was peace.

I'll save the regrets for the underworld!

Perhaps, I won't even have time to regret it. The people holding down my limbs have already begun to exert their strength, and the giant axe behind me is whistling through the air as it crazily chops down towards my waist.

At the critical moment, I heard the sound of sword energy cutting through the air, arriving from afar. Three streaks of sword energy exploded simultaneously behind me. As the scattered phosphorescent flames rained down, a fourth streak of sword energy followed closely. I clearly heard the giant axe, about to touch my waist, being blasted away into the distance by the sword energy, clattering to the ground.

Ye Yang's toes also appeared before my eyes.

That bastard Ye Yang didn't immediately release my acupoints, but instead said, "Nice pose!"

Ye Yang pulled me up: "The two Grandmasters told us to leave the library quickly; we don't need to worry about what's happening here anymore!"

"No way!" My face was ashen. "After suffering such a big loss, I won't be able to sleep at night if I don't get it back!"

Ye Yang nodded expressionlessly: "Your decision!"

I slightly raised my right hand – Shi Yu hadn't torn off all the white threads on my hand; the two loops of thread ends wrapped around my hand were still there, enough for me to guide the direction of Lin Sihan's corpse.

Ye Yang saw me unwinding the blood threads on my hand: "Someone else has already made a move; you need to be quick!"

"No need!" When I turned around again, the killing intent in my eyes almost solidified: "When I want to flip the table, no one can play nicely!"

I pinched the thread ends with both hands and spun them outwards twice in succession: "Blood guides the corpse, return!"

Just now, I was using blood to find the corpse.

This time, I changed my mind and let the corpse return on its own!

A moment later, the sound of high heels hitting the ground echoed in the corridor. From that sound, I could hear that the other person's footsteps were not only slow but also somewhat stiff, clearly a zombie slowly moving forward.

When I turned around, Lin Sihan's corpse had already walked to a place less than ten meters away, but her footsteps slowed down at this moment.

I said in a deep voice, "Do you know why I have to find this corpse?"

"This has to start from when Lin Sihan herself entered the archives: no one in this world would enter a place of death for no reason. Even warlocks have their purpose, either for a mission or to get rich."

"Zhang Qiang wanted to enter the archives to find the secret of his ancestor's undying executioner. What about Lin Sihan? What was Lin Sihan looking for? Adventure? Curiosity? Neither. She was also looking for someone."

"Lin Sihan showed me a few pages of a diary. The person who wrote the diary used traditional characters and had a profound writing style. The Zhang family is a family of executioners. No one would be willing to teach executioners to read, even if they wanted to study. They shouldn't be able to write such characters. That means the person who left the notes was someone else."

"I remember that the records showed that a group of scholars disappeared in the archives. After these people disappeared, even their relatives forgot their existence, and the fact that the library existed was covered up."

"This also fits perfectly with the first few sentences recorded in that diary. The person who wrote the diary said that he had hidden several diaries, indicating that he already knew that his existence would be erased."

"So, I made a judgment. That is, Lin Sihan is related to the scholars who disappeared in the archives. She should be a descendant of one of the scholars."

I paused slightly here: "Zhang Qiang's post aroused Lin Sihan's interest, and also aroused the interest of others. That person is the warlock who controlled Lin Sihan."

"That warlock stubbornly believes that the 'four people' hint in the archives is because he knows who he should be looking for."

"The other party originally wanted to delay me and Shi Yu, and then use Lin Sihan's corpse to find someone. But he didn't expect that I and Shi Yu would join forces."

"So, she thought of a way to trick me and Shi Yu into killing people. As long as Lin Sihan's corpse is there, she can re-control the corpse at any time and find the scholars who disappeared in the archives."

I looked coldly at the corpse walking in from the corridor: "Shi Yu also thought of this. Unfortunately, he was too impatient. Is my secret technique something that anyone can use?"

"If Shi Yu can't find the corpse, he has to find the warlock who controls Lin Sihan. When they fight, the corpse will obediently come back to me."

As soon as I finished speaking, Shi Yu's voice came from a distance: "Li Po, we can talk. I mean..."

Before Shi Yu could finish, Lin Sihan's voice interrupted our conversation: "Why would he talk to you? I have the biggest resources in my hands. It's more appropriate for me to talk to him. What do you think?"

A sneer appeared on my face: "I said, I'm flipping the table, so no one gets to play nicely!"