Coming Back from the Dead

Behind them, the heavy stone door was slowly closing.

Rumble...

The sound of the stone door closing echoed through the long, narrow stairway.

Click.

After a muffled sound, the last trace of light from the wooden cabin behind them was completely cut off.

However, the corridor did not plunge into complete darkness.

Liguang's eyes had purposefully brightened.

Crimson and deep blue intertwined, illuminating the few meters ahead with perfect clarity.

It coated the surrounding stone walls in a sheer, dual-toned veil of light.

Under the glow of the two colors, the stone steps extended downward, one by one.

Fang Qi held Liguang's small hand tightly as they walked down.

Tap, tap...

Their footsteps echoed in the narrow and quiet space.

Looking at the endless darkness before him, Fang Qi felt slightly dazed.

They had walked this path in the previous loop, too.

At that time, Lin Xiaoyou and Xiaoqing were also there.

Back then, Lin Xiaoyou walked in front, holding a blindingly bright little flashlight and deliberately shining it in his face!

Xiaoqing followed beside Lin Xiaoyou, keeping a straight face the entire time.

And Liguang...

She had been completely off back then.

She was drawn to whatever was in the underground research facility and acted very impatient.

In the end, she even dragged him rushing downward, flying down the steps and nearly causing him to miss his footing and fall several times!

But now...

Fang Qi slightly turned his head to look at the silver-haired girl beside him.

Her eyes were emitting a soft, dual-colored light, illuminating the stairs ahead.

He held Liguang's slightly cool little hand tightly, walking down step by step.

Liguang's footsteps were in perfect sync with his.

When he walked faster, she did too. When he slowed down, she followed suit.

It was as if she was deliberately following and mimicking him.

Her white skirt was dyed deep blue and crimson by the light, swaying with her steps.

Tap, tap...

In the extremely quiet corridor, there were still only the sounds of their footsteps.

But Fang Qi's mind was too chaotic right now.

Having speculated too much just now, he felt his brain couldn't quite handle it anymore...

He needed to calm down.

He needed to organize his thoughts; he needed to reach a safe place first and think things through properly!

Beside him, Liguang didn't speak either.

She just quietly followed him, holding his hand.

That slightly cool little hand maintained a grip that was neither too tight nor too loose, holding on with just the right amount of force.

The two of them continued downward in silence, step by step.

This stairway passage was indeed very long; in the previous loop, it took them a long time to reach the bottom.

But when they were about halfway down, Liguang's hand suddenly tightened!

She even stopped in her tracks!

Which jerked Fang Qi to a halt as well!

...Huh?

Fang Qi slightly turned his head and looked at her.

The silver-haired girl's body suddenly tensed up!

In her amber left eye, the originally steady flowing deep blue light suddenly surged!

...Master.

She said in a low voice.

Someone... is upstairs.

...Oh?

Fang Qi narrowed his eyes.

Someone came to the wooden cabin?

...Expected.

He turned to look upward.

Behind them was the long staircase they had just descended.

The stone steps extended upward one by one in the light of Liguang's eyes.

Gradually disappearing into... the impenetrable darkness above.

He could no longer see the entrance.

But he still narrowed his eyes, staring into the darkness!

...Are there many of them?

His voice unconsciously dropped to a whisper.

Many.

Liguang also narrowed her phoenix eyes, looking upward, the deep blue in her amber pupil surging steadily.

Her voice was also very soft:

They have already entered the cabin. Right now, they are... looking around.

Then, her crimson eye also began to flash rapidly!

The scarlet light flickered unsteadily across half of her face!

And then... it gradually dimmed again.

...Liguang's crimson eye really cannot detect them at all...

She murmured.

Cannot detect them even a bit. Just like...

Like Miss Gu.

Her tone carried a hint of confusion and unwillingness.

Fang Qi tightened his grip on her hand slightly.

...Just like Gu Xi.

Those people.

Those informants.

Those that existed above the perception dimension of the crimson eye...

Ghosts!

Fang Qi's heartbeat accelerated slightly.

He looked at the darkness behind him.

Tsk...!

He was really curious!

These ghosts were really so close to him now!

He really wanted to immediately...

Go back and take a look!

Anyway, he had already decided to reload his save in this loop, so he could indeed do whatever he wanted!

He really wanted to take the opportunity to figure out...

Just what exactly were these people!

These people who might have been secretly monitoring him and pushing him forward...

Who exactly were they?

The police?

Or some other organization?

They were like Gu Xi...

Were they helpers of the world's rules?

Or perhaps...

Were they natives trying to kick him out of this world?

Fang Qi stared intently at the darkness above!

Turn back?

No, no, no...

The secrets below were more important!

The documents in the archive room, his parents' private notes, that genetic door that kept awakening Liguang's original core...

These things were all waiting for him down there!

He came here exactly for these!

Sigh...!

A bit annoying!

Just then, the deep blue light beside him suddenly flashed violently, illuminating the entire stairway passage in deep blue!

...?!

Fang Qi immediately turned his head!

Only to see the silver-haired girl's pretty face, her phoenix eyes suddenly widening in shock!

Wait, Master...!

Something's wrong!

Liguang's voice was clearly shocked, even...

Shocked to the point of trembling!

Master... Officer Gu, Gu Xi, she...!

?!

Fang Qi's pupils shrank abruptly!

Gu Xi?!

Wasn't Gu Xi dead? What happened now?!

Did her corpse come back to life?!

And the silver-haired girl's heterochromatic eyes stared intently at the path they had come from!

The crimson in her red eye had completely stagnated by now.

But the deep blue in her amber eye was flashing so fast it almost blurred into a solid beam!

Master...

She stared blankly at that patch of darkness:

Her heart...

Her heart suddenly beat!

...?

Huh?

Fang Qi also instantly widened his eyes, whipping his head around to look at the darkness!

No way...

Did she really come back from the dead?!

...Ah?!

She...

Fang Qi stuttered slightly:

She didn't die?! She came back to life?!

She came back to life!

Liguang continued to stare at the darkness, her eyes slightly unfocused, the deep blue light flashing madly!

She really came back to life!

Her heartbeat has returned!

And her breathing, her breathing... has also returned!

Fang Qi's already incredibly chaotic mind slightly crashed at that moment.

That Gu Xi, whose pulse had stopped, whose pupils had dilated, who was as dead as one could be...

Came back to life?!

...Are you sure?!

He stared at Liguang, his tone resembling a low growl:

Are you sure it's Gu Xi who came back to life?!

I'm sure!

Liguang's gaze remained unfocused, her crimson eye completely silenced, leaving only the wildly surging deep blue in her amber eye:

She... she still can't stand up, she still can't move, her muscles are still in a state of weakness, but...

Her heart is indeed beating!

The silver-haired girl's lips moved slightly, muttering continuously, her speech growing faster and faster:

"Her breathing has indeed recovered!"

"Her physiological signs... have all recovered too!"

Fang Qi: "...?!"

Wait...?

Gu Xi came back to life?

No...

Not back to life...!

Damn it!

She was faking her death just now, wasn't she?!

Pretending?!

Fang Qi stared straight into the darkness behind him, clenching his jaw tightly!

Damn it!

Even Liguang didn't detect that she was faking it?!

He was played?!

"Rumble..."

Immediately after, a low, familiar rumbling sound echoed again!

In the darkness behind him, a ray of light suddenly pierced through!

A thin, narrow beam of light seeped through a crack in the stone door above, which had previously been completely closed!

It was strikingly conspicuous at the end of the darkness!

Fang Qi's pupils contracted sharply!

The mechanism... was discovered just like that?!

Ah...!

...Gu Xi!

It must be her!

It's her...!

Fuck...!

He was just wondering if he should go up and check their identities!

Now he didn't need to; they were coming down themselves!

...Damn it!

Fang Qi didn't have time to overthink it!

The other party definitely had weapons!

Running into them in this narrow passage...

They wouldn't have any advantage at all!

He grabbed Liguang's hand!

"Let's go down first!"

He turned and was about to dash down the stairs!

But the next second, a strong force came from his wrist!

Fang Qi was pulled off balance...

One hand wrapped around his waist, and the other slipped under his knees!

He was scooped up entirely into Liguang's arms in a princess carry!

"Master, this section is still very long!"

The silver-haired girl's voice was urgent and tense!

"Liguang will carry you down!"

"Whoosh—!"

Fang Qi only felt the wind howling past his ears!

The surrounding stone walls turned into blurry afterimages under the illumination of the two-colored light!

He subconsciously wrapped his arms around Liguang's neck, holding her tightly!

The familiar sweet scent of strawberries was reassuring.

...Fine!

He was used to it!

Being princess-carried by his wife was also an expression of his wife's love!

He hugged Liguang's neck tighter, rested his chin on her shoulder, and tried hard to look behind her!

Next to his face, the small plastic stars were dangling.

Above, the light-leaking crack was gradually moving further away...

And gradually expanding!

Fortunately, the stone door was opening very slowly!

The low rumble continued!

More of the outside light gradually seeped in through the crack.

It illuminated the receding stair passage above, making it brighter and brighter!

Then, suddenly, something poked in, casting clear shadows.

Hmm, what's that...?

Fang Qi hugged Liguang's neck tightly and fixed his eyes on it...

And then his vision instantly went completely white!

An incredibly blinding, focused beam of light shone straight at him!

The brightness was absurdly high!

"What the...!!"

Fang Qi instantly couldn't see anything at all!

The light was too strong!

So strong that his retinas were directly swallowed by the white light!

Blinded on the spot!

He also immediately realized...

Someone was shining a light through the crack of the opening door, into the passage...

A high-powered flashlight!

Not an ordinary high-powered flashlight, but the kind...

A tactical-grade high-powered flashlight!

That light directly blinded his eyes!

Motherfucker...!

My eyes!

Why are these guys just like Lin Xiaoyou, liking to blind people!

I'm really going blind!