Chapter 441: Those who master the rules
Constantin realized he had encountered a tough opponent.
He prepared to make a move, but Bai Ling's voice quickly emerged in his mind:
"Have you figured out the extent of my power? If you act now, how certain are you that you can save your companions?"
"As a rock, you are restrained by me. Did you not consider that three members of our team are cloth?"
"I'm beyond reach even to those whose identities suppress mine, so how do you plan to do it?"
"If you believe that friendship is worth dying for here, I'm not opposed to the idea, consider finding a new teammate."
Bai Ling watched Constantin with absolute indifference.
As the White Witch, her path of growth was exceptionally arduous.
Just as Zhou Baiyu once said to her in the Tower of Magic Gu, don't harm humans, but also don't trust them easily.
The price Bai Ling paid to verify and understand that sentence was enormous.
Even so, she eventually decided to organize humans as her allies. She took in Yun Duo and those from the Land of No Light.
Before this, Bai Ling had also sheltered many other people.
But deep down, Bai Ling merely saw these people as tools for mutually beneficial use.
No matter how close she became to humans, and no matter how deeply she buried the traits of corruption as she grew...
People would always harbor thoughts of "if they are not of our kind, their hearts must be different."
Yet, Bai Ling and the Seamer had their similarities in some respects.
"There's no need to fit in; if you can't integrate with them, then rule over them."
Reason, emotion, love—these things have little significance for survival in the post-apocalypse, for managing a group of people.
Bai Ling knew very well that the reason she could keep the Seamer at bay for so long relied on her decisiveness, her supreme strength, and her absolute coolness.
Constantin suddenly found that in the face of absolute power, he seemed to have no way to proceed against the girl before him.
He was far from Bai Ling, so he wasn't affected by the Telekinesis Maze, but as he watched Jia Zhi and Kalu endlessly circling in place, he knew all too well that his teammates were done for.
The world they saw was not the same world he saw.
Right now, they were in an old, low-rise building, trapped in an endless loop.
That was a place known as the Tower of Magic Gu, where the walls were already covered with corruptive growths.
In the building, only a few stories high, no matter how Jia Zhi and Kalu climbed, they could never reach the top floor.
Although the numbers of the floors changed, and the numbers of each room on every floor changed, when they reached the top floor and continued upward, they were back at the first floor again.
"Could it be that we need to explore the rooms here?"
Yet, Jia Zhi and Kalu both felt that the rooms were very dangerous.
Bai Ling's Telekinesis Maze was just a microcosm of the Tower of Magic Gu, but for those with lesser mental strength than her, it was even more terrifying than the actual tower.
Only one person, brandishing an Undying Body, had ever cleared the tower. Before this, the Tower of Magic Gu was one of the very few places deemed absolutely impassable by the pioneers who were summoned.
Now that the Tower of Magic Gu had returned, Kalu and Jia Zhi were trapped with no escape.
While Bai Ling intimidated Constantin with her words, the heartbeats of Kalu and Jia Zhi... grew fainter and fainter.
They hadn't suffered any physical harm.
But within the Telekinesis Maze, they were being gradually smothered by the madly proliferating flesh of the residents, losing their breath.
All they had experienced had tricked their brains into thinking they were truly about to suffocate to death.
Thus, at that moment, their bodies really reacted as if they were suffocating.
As the consciousness of the two dissipated and they fell unconscious to the ground, the "bandages" on Bai Ling's body instantly spread out, entwining Jia Zhi and Kalu, completing the final strangulation.
Without any physical contact, Bai Ling achieved the feat of "cloth" killing "scissors."
This scene left Constantin utterly astonished.
"Don't move, Constantin."
"I am cloth, you are rock. Although there is no scissor, if we work well together, it doesn't matter whether it's cloth, rock, or scissor; we will have the strength to fight anything we encounter."
"But if you choose to go it alone, the next 'cloth' you encounter might not have the same big picture approach as I do."
In fact, Bai Ling was somewhat wary of Constantin.
For some reason, when Constantin's scythe swept across his two teammates, she found herself seemingly unable to capture Constantin.
The god of wine and revelry possessed an extraordinary carefreeness and fluidity.
This trait resonated with her own untouchability in a way.
Of course, the tragic deaths of the two cleansers had shocked Constantin to the core.
This also caused Constantin to overlook this detail.
But Bai Ling noticed it.
"What will it be? Will you cooperate with me, a corrupted being? Or do you seek revenge? But logically speaking, I am the one who should seek revenge," Bai Ling slowly approached Constantin:
"My ability is called Untouchability. When I open my field, you will not be able to approach me. The closer you get to me, the more powerful the Telekinesis Maze you enter will be."
"Even if I am unconscious, it's the same. Because there are other self-aware beings within me."
Bai Ling had already come face to face with Constantin.
Her gaze met Constantin's:
"Now, I'm right before you, you can try to kill me."
A feeling of oppression.
Constantin, even being a leading figure among the cleansers, both intelligent and powerful,
was never truly able to stand up to Bai Ling in terms of momentum, thoroughly dominated by her.
A rakish rich boy faced a high-IQ corrupted being who had grown up in the post-apocalyptic world. In the matter of manipulating hearts, they were not on the same level.
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