In the mysterious city of mist, a dense fog drowned everything, swirling and drifting with chaotic gusts of wind.
"Hah, hah, hah..."
Heavy breaths escaped the girl's lips and nose. Her chest heaved uncontrollably as a drop of sweat trembled its way to the collar of her shirt, finally dripping to the ground and scattering into smaller particles of water.
Strands of hair stuck to her temples, and one even poked into the girl's eye.
But she clearly had no time to care about that now.
Reflected in her clear, dark-blue pupils was that pitch-black sphere.
The white code flashing on its surface drifted around it, forming a circle.
In that instant, Cool Mita hastily dodged, glancing down at her feet at the same time.
Sure enough, the ground where she had just been standing was stained with a touch of black. The next second, the darkness engulfed the patch of ground...
and it vanished completely, leaving behind a gap.
Within the hole was a bottomless white fog.
Cool Mita thought of the giant bug that had fallen into a hole due to Alain's strategy earlier. Even now, there had been no sound of it landing...
If she fell, she probably wouldn't even leave a complete corpse behind.
"What in the world is this black sphere?" Cool Mita couldn't help but grit her teeth.
Just a moment ago, not long after Alain had entered the foggy area—what Cute Mita called the illusion—two particularly outrageous viruses had appeared.
They were absolutely incomparable to the little bugs from before. If she had to describe them, "elite monster" or "BOSS" felt very fitting to Cool Mita.
And the black sphere was even stranger. No matter how she attacked it, it would always heal, making it completely impossible to defeat...
Was this a mechanism-type monster?
What was worse, the black sphere alone was difficult enough for her to handle, leaving her struggling to hold on. And on top of that, there was a grotesquely shaped "large spider"—
Her gaze shifted to the side, where there was an indescribable monster with the lower body of a spider with eight legs and the upper body of a female.
At first, caught in a pincer attack from these two, Cool Mita thought she would die here. Fortunately...
The girl's gaze drifted back again, to her side—where four Man-Headed Spider-Wasps should have been standing on the same battle line as her.
They had the lower bodies of spiders and pale white human heads for upper bodies.
Although their forms were obviously much smaller compared to the monster, they had somehow managed to fight it to a 40-60 split.
Even though her side was the four...
Cool Mita had been wondering why the Man-Headed Spider-Wasps, which at a glance seemed like minions of the mother monster, would come to help her.
At the same time, it was also very strange that such minions could fight a large monster to a standstill...
She could only console herself with the thought that it was a backup plan from Alain.
"Sigh!"
As she was thinking, a clear change occurred on the monster's side:
One Man-Headed Spider-Wasp finally couldn't withstand the pressure of the 40-60 split. Like a kite with a broken string, it was caught by the mother monster and thrown into the dense fog.
In the mist where the spider-wasp vanished, Cool Mita faintly saw an icon that looked like a broken link...
She didn't understand... but she knew the scales had already begun to tip in the enemy's favor.
"Cool Mita, fighting! Cool Mita, fighting! Cool Mita, fighting!!!"
From the distance came the cheering of Cute Mita and Tiny Mita, who were shrouded in the mist. They couldn't see the state of the battle here; they just kept cheering...
Listening to their voices, Cool Mita knew she had a reason not to back down.
The moment of respite passed in a flash, and another black spot appeared under her feet.
"Alain... please come back quickly."
She swiftly dodged the blackness beneath her feet, soaring into the air and rushing towards the black sphere.
She had a premonition that with Alain here... she could definitely defeat this black sphere, and even the spider monster.
With him... she could do anything.
This thought was baseless, just Cool Mita's intuition.
And she still believed in it.
—
"It's useless, completely useless." Alain put away his greatsword, collapsed onto the bed, and stared silently at the ceiling, and at the surveillance camera.
During this time, he had tried every method he could think of.
Such as using the greatsword from Cleaning Acceleration to break the door directly, trying to punch a hole in the wall, or using a chair to smash the glass.
But all of it... was completely ineffective.
Under his tired gaze, the door was covered in mottled marks and cracks, faintly revealing a thick steel plate.
He had chiseled a large hole in the wooden floor, but beneath the hole was cold, silvery-gray metal.
As for the walls... the tightly packed, dense steel bars inside alone were enough to overwhelm him.
Not to mention that glass window.
He got up and leaned against the headboard for a brief rest.
At the same time, his mind couldn't help but grow anxious.
He only knew that the flow of time in the illusion was much slower than in the outside world, but he didn't know the specific ratio.
The current Alain was completely in the dark, unable to know the situation outside.
How was Cool Mita doing? Had the battle with the two viruses reached a conclusion?
And what about 2D Mita? Why was there no sign of her returning after she left?
Alain glanced at the glass window. The sky outside had already darkened; Wanhua would be back soon.
At that time, the bracelet would activate.
Now, he was truly at the end of his rope.
He opened the Safety Assistant panel, looking at his trump card—the skill called "Intranet Firewall."
What he knew so far was: Cleaning Acceleration was not applicable in this illusion, but the Intranet Firewall had been confirmed by 2D Mita as a means that could indeed break through the illusion.
But once he used this skill, it would be equivalent to flipping the table... and the game would be over for everyone.
The illusion would cease to exist, and they could forget about going to Version 1.0F.
The Corrosive Entity would continue to wreak havoc in the game world.
Thinking of this, Alain's finger, poised over the Intranet Firewall, froze.
He closed the Safety Assistant panel and stared quietly at the glass window.
It was just fragile glass, yet at this moment, it had become the chains of a cage, trapping him and preventing him from moving forward.
"..."
He lowered his head, his gaze sinking into vast shadows.
After a long moment, Alain seemed to have figured something out and let out a helpless sigh.
Right now, he had no options—he admitted this fact.
Yes... he admitted it, accepted the current situation.
He took out his phone, entered the password to unlock the screen, opened his contacts, and randomly picked a phone number.
Dialed.
"Hello? You haven't given up yet? Should I say you're stubborn or commend your courage?"
She was still fiddling with her computer, the flash from the screen reflecting on her beautiful face.
But her eyes were ice-cold.
The words from the other end of the call, however, almost made her drop her phone,
"I've thought it through."
What did he mean?
While she was stunned and confused, he continued,
"I've decided I want to be with you forever."
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