Corpse Recovery Diver-Chapter 1115 - 202:

From the moment he stepped over the threshold, the pressure exerted by the high tower appeared.

Unlike the "urging" he experienced last time when he walked through the customary process holding an invitation card, this time, it was a dual torment aimed at both the body and the soul.

Li Zhiyuan felt the pain, but thinking that he still had to climb the tower and that this rejection would continue for a long time, the feeling of pain suddenly subsided significantly.

After all, since adaptation is necessary, it's better to shorten this adaptation process.

For Li Zhiyuan, what he found hardest to accept was the tearing off of human skin, as for the rest, it was difficult to reach this threshold.

The first floor was still the same, the stories on the murals continued to unfold, from the dissolution of the Divine Woman Army, the establishment of the academy, to the collective ascension; Li Zhiyuan gave them another glance before moving upstairs.

His gaze lingered for a moment longer on one particular mural depicting a "Chosen One" and a figure within the tower overlapping, striking the ascension bell.

Li Zhiyuan ascended to the second floor.

The dead, who had been quietly sitting at their desks, now all swayed their bodies left and right.

As he walked among them, Li Zhiyuan noticed the resentment brewing between their eyebrows.

Even in the tower, which was most strongly suppressed by rules, resentment began to grow; the numerous shadows within the jade in the previous two stages would only be more severe.

Although Li Zhiyuan had predicted this beforehand and re-examined this secret realm and the tower from a new perspective, the close personal experience was still hard to dismiss.

The true purpose of this wave gradually emerged in the teenager's heart, along with the truth about this tower.

...

Tan Wenbin pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, clamping it in his mouth.

Zhao Yi reached out, took the cigarette from him, and clamped it in his own mouth.

Tan Wenbin didn't mind, pulled out another cigarette from the pack, held it in his mouth, and casually lit Zhao Yi's cigarette with a waterproof lighter, teasing with a smile:

"You sure you still have the strength to blow smoke rings now?"

"Don't underestimate me, who said you have to blow the smoke from your mouth?"

Zhao Yi took a deep drag of the cigarette, then swallowed it down, with smoke rings trickling out in wisps from the small broken heart at his chest.

"Hahaha!"

Tan Wenbin burst into laughter.

He had been smoking since high school, back when students thought smoking was cool, coming up with various unique ways to exhale smoke rings, but Zhao Yi's method was surely unique, impossible to imitate.

Zhao Yi pointed with the hand holding the cigarette to the tower's door on the ground floor, exactly where Li Zhiyuan had disappeared earlier:

"He told me he had no relatives here, but look, these relatives are blatantly opening the back door for him!"

Tan Wenbin: "Brother Xiao Yuan just shook the book in his hand..."

Zhao Yi shook his head: "It's nothing more than the procedure justice commonly used by those relations, so perfunctory they're sending out blank documents, not even bothering to print a word."

Of course, Mr. Zhao knew Li Zhiyuan could enter based on the relationship through the wordless book, but now he needed not the truth but the venting of jealousy.

Tan Wenbin smoked silently, no longer trying to explain because those who slander you know that you are being slandered better than you do.

Despite feeling sour inside, Zhao Yi did not forget to observe the battle ahead.

The fact that the man named Li entered the tower would inevitably lead to a chain reaction in the front battle.

If all goes well, at least his wish to command this team in a fight might be realized, providing a little comfort.

If the man named Li had agreed to cooperate with the other two earlier, then his command over this team from start to finish would be condensed to just one sentence: "Everyone, pay attention. Follow my command!"

Zhen Sha'an and Xu Zhenrong exchanged glances, each calculating with tacit understanding.

They were realistic people, knowing when to engage in internal conflict and when to stand united against external foes.

Initially, the two had teamed up against Yu Miaomiao without splitting forces because neither wanted the other to take all the benefits alone.

Now that the one taking everything had entered, a continued tug-of-war between them would be meaningless.

Zhen Sha'an set up an Array in front, while Xu Zhenrong placed puppets on either side of his body.

After completing these arrangements, the two turned to retreat like in a race.

Even though they had grasped part of the rule authorities, melting the jade barrier requires time, and Yu Miaomiao will not allow it; but the hole opened by Yu Cangsheng earlier remains, leading to the upper layer, with a door into the tower.

Previously, the two attempted to circle up but were intercepted by Yu Miaomiao at a faster pace; this time, they decided to split up.

Xu Zhenrong thought he could be faster than Zhen Sha'an, but in reality, the mysteries of the Array Master's body were always beyond anticipation.

Zhen Sha'an was the first to reach the hole, moving upwards.

Seeing this, Xu Zhenrong did not follow along as he did last time, but stayed below.

Next, it's up to Yu Miaomiao to choose one of the two, and this time, the chosen one will not deliberately concede, but will delay and cover.

This way, each would have a 50% probability of entering the tower; if they continue to stalemate and delay, it might let the first entrant take everything, leaving both with nothing.

Yu Miaomiao chose to go upwards, chasing Zhen Sha'an.

Zhen Sha'an sighed, feeling bitter inside, yet he could only set up Array to intercept Yu Miaomiao.

It wasn't that he was resigned to defeat, but if he broke the agreement now, there would be no longer any tacit understanding; on the other hand, if he could delay until Xu Zhenrong entered the tower, Yu Miaomiao might turn to chase inside, offering him a chance to enter too.