The cave was dimly lit.

The girl's voice was as sweet as honey.

But at this moment, to Gu Shen, this voice sounded like the whisper of a demon!

Who would have thought that a sixteen-year-old girl, who wandered the riverbank late at night and killed nearly ten men in a row, would be a serial killer?

She was a rogue, a high-risk transcendent!

In an instant, cold sweat broke out on Gu Shen's forehead.

And in the few seconds of his silence, the voice of the person behind him rang out again, and it became more resentful.

"Little Gu, don't you... like me?"

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

If he refused.

It was very likely that the next second, she would take out a pair of scissors and precisely cut her own throat--

After exiting the side-writing state, Gu Shen's thinking remained extremely calm. He lowered his head slightly and tried to observe the surrounding environment.

The world inside the cave was almost completely dark, but through the subtle changes in the light that grazed his eyes, he could roughly infer Qu Shui's current position.

She was about twenty centimeters behind his back, which was a bit too close... she could attack him at any moment, just like in his side-writing memory.

What was important was, if she was a transcendent in Hu Danian's file, what was her transcendent ability?

Everything was unknown.

Suppressing the urge to turn around, Gu Shen slowly said, "Qu Shui... you are a good girl..."

The conclusion drawn from his recent thoughts was--

He couldn't refuse.

If he refused, she would go berserk.

The girl's voice clearly carried joy, "So, you mean..."

"Mm."

Gu Shen nodded slightly, "Just as you think... I like you."

Feeling the girl's emotions behind him gradually stabilizing, Gu Shen did not relax. On the contrary, when he arrived at the cave and saw the truth of the riverbank case through side-writing, his spirit became highly tense.

His fingers had already gripped the silver ruler inside his sleeve, and the fiery spirit was swaying, inputting mental power into the ruler.

His brain felt a sharp pain.

He had already used the Ruler of Truth intensely during the day, and after resting for the whole afternoon, he barely recovered to his current state. He was even feeling a bit light-headed when walking. Gu Shen didn't know if he could use the ruler twice in a row.

Even if he could use it again successfully... the effect would likely be reduced.

Gu Shen prepared for the worst in his heart. This time, he should not be able to manifest too strong of a power with the Ruler of Truth, and the duration would also be greatly reduced. To counterattack, he must perfectly seize the opportunity.

He only had one chance. Once he made a mistake, the next one hanging on the cave wall might be him.

He needed... to understand the opponent's transcendent ability.

"Did Dr. Little Gu just say... that he likes me?"

Qu Shui's voice was clearly filled with joy. In the shadow, the girl's hands covered her face, smiling shyly, "Is it true?"

Has her spirit stabilized... Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, preparing to slowly turn around.

He took a deep breath and forced a smile, "Of course it's true... did you bring me here just to say these words?"

"...Little Gu, don't move."

The girl changed her address and got even closer to the ground.

Did she notice his movement... this sentence made Gu Shen stiff all over, and his posture of preparing to turn around froze.

He silently held the ruler.

"I knew it... it was right to bring you here." Qu Shui's voice was light and cheerful. She nodded towards the inside of the cave wall, "Look... my dad is here, he's watching us."

Dad?

Gu Shen was shocked.

In the side-writing world... the person this girl killed was her biological father?

["I live alone now... my parents are no longer here."]

His thoughts quickly pieced together the timeline... this girl killed her own father, and then she searched for targets on the riverbank one by one, all of whom were adult men, most likely modeled after her father.

But why did she find him?

He clearly didn't belong to this kind of person...

Looking at the dry bones on the cave wall.

Qu Shui's voice murmured softly, "After my mom left, he drank every day, called me a freak, a disaster, and after drinking, he beat me with a belt, wanting to drown me in the bathtub... I don't blame him for all this..."

"Because... he's all I have left."

The girl's hands wrapped around Gu Shen.

A chilling sensation surged through his body, and Gu Shen's expression suddenly changed. He was firmly fixed in place.

The strength of these hands was astonishing, and it was slowly increasing. It felt like his waist was about to be snapped.

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Breathing became extremely difficult.

The girl looked at the corpse, her voice was no longer resentful, and she regained her cheerful smile.

"I realized later... lovers are destined to separate, but I selfishly wanted him to be with me forever... there is only one way."

Qu Shui tiptoed and whispered in Gu Shen's ear, "We will be together forever, never apart... how about it?"

"...Heh..."

The silence in the cave lasted for three seconds before it was broken.Gu Shen smiled, struggling to breathe as he uttered a few words.

"Wake up."

The girl looked bewildered.

The next moment.

A brilliant silver light exploded in the dark, gloomy kiln!

The ruler ring emitted a furious tremor.

Two strands of silver light surged out, hitting the stone wall, and at the moment of rebounding, they solidified into two slender arrowheads, carrying a chilling wind, directly piercing through the skull of the girl next to Gu Shen.

The arrowheads entered through the eyes and exited through the skull.

The massive force that had been tightly wrapped around his waist was instantly dispersed by the tremendous impact of the arrowheads. Due to inertia, Gu Shen stumbled forward, barely managing to brace himself against the stone wall, finally able to take a deep breath as he wished.

"Ah ah ah——"

The painful scream echoed between the stone walls.

Gu Shen had never looked back at Qu Shui's true face, all to keep her steady and not to startle her.

The Truth Ruler Ring, once activated, was bound to kill.

The silver arrow pierced through the face, presumably even a Transcendent who had tempered their body would not be able to resist such damage.

Leaning against the stone wall of the kiln, Gu Shen was panting heavily... But the moment he saw the scene, his pupils contracted, and his expression instantly darkened.

The girl covered her face with both hands, two small silver arrows piercing through her entire face, but on that face, there were no features, only a twisted black silhouette.

"Qu Shui" knelt on the ground, her body writhing in pain, like a small snake, gradually, gradually, the sound of her painful howling became smaller and smaller... Her figure lay down, blending into the ground, truly becoming a small snake. The two condensed silver arrows also immediately fell to the ground with a clatter, turning into silver fragments with a "buzz".

The one he had shot was not Qu Shui herself.

But a shadow.

With a "whoosh".

The small snake drilled towards the outside of the kiln, disappearing in an instant.

But then, a voice filled with sadness, pain, and anger rang out from outside the kiln.

"Gu... Shen..."

The girl held a pair of scissors, blocking the only exit, her face covered in blood and tears streaming down, she trembled as she said word by word: "You... have been lying to me?"