[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-facing-an-ancient-god-for-a-year":3,"chapter-facing-an-ancient-god-for-a-year-facing-an-ancient-god-for-a-year-chapter-507":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Facing an Ancient God for a Year",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},967883,1268,"Chapter 507 - 507 507 Furnace (12)_1","facing-an-ancient-god-for-a-year-chapter-507",507,"\u003Cp>Chapter 507: Chapter 507: Furnace (12)_1 Chapter 507: Chapter 507: Furnace (12)_1 “I think you should be familiar with this face?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Fu Qian examined, the voice behind him resounded once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just like I said earlier, you could’ve left directly, thereby avoiding these troubles.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Unfortunately, the moment you saw certain things, their nature changed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you referring to that thing above?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qian reached up and pointed at the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had noticed it immediately, right above the bed on the ceiling, was a metal net that seemed hauntingly familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similar to the one that had welcomed him when he fell down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difference was that the spikes on this net were more than twice as long, resembling a collection of sharp little daggers. It was exceptionally ferocious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the net seemed to hang from above, clearly covering the entire bed beneath it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should it fall, even if the spikes weren’t poisoned, the person on the bed would probably be dead in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, her life and death are now entirely in your hands.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Additionally, you might be curious about what would cause the net to fall.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Vertical Saw on the TV affirmed Fu Qian’s question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before his words could even finish, a corner of the bedroom’s ceiling suddenly opened, and a soft ladder dropped down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s simple, just climb up and take a look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So well-prepared, huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qian didn’t hesitate to tug at the ladder while silently admiring the thoroughness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, without looking, he could roughly guess what was up there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His satisfaction at the moment was because he could almost confirm from the previous Q&A that the person on TV wasn’t a recording but a real person engaging in real-time dialogue with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he didn’t believe this would be enough to find and defeat the adversary, seizing every opportunity to gain more information was always a good habit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly, Fu Qian climbed up the ladder with ease and discovered that the space between the two levels of building had already been breached.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right there in the upper room’s wall, he could indeed see the small window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, not far from that window, he could see markings sprayed with eye-catching paint, pointing towards a metal box in the middle of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the metal box, there was a glass vial no bigger than a thumb, filled with a pale blue liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if fearing Fu Qian might not know what it was, there was even a special painted annotation next to it—[Antidote].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So in normal circumstances, if he crawled out from that window, he would undoubtedly see this first thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And based on normal thinking, this vial of medicine would undoubtedly be for countering the poison in his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qian didn’t rush to get the antidote but talked to himself while carefully searching around, finding no cassette or similar item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that whatever choice was made, after the second test, the communication would shift from recordings to live connections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With no further information, he, with at least one hand incapacitated and poisoned, would undoubtedly take the antidote on seeing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the room’s door didn’t seem to be locked, as if he had already escaped to safety,usually, there wouldn’t be enough time left for him to get to a hospital for help, so whether the antidote was real or not, he would definitely have to drink it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need to doubt, this is indeed the real antidote.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just then, the TV in the room suddenly lit up, Brother Vertical Saw’s puppet mask appeared, once again emitting a string of eerie laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And the dosage is exactly enough to eliminate the poison in you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“However, at the same time, there’s a pressure-sensitive device beneath the vial.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you take the antidote, a certain trap set up will be immediately triggered.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And the final result is that the person downstairs will be killed by a blade falling from the sky.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is that really the case?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qian let out an unsurprised sigh. He had almost guessed some of it when he saw the manner in which the antidote was placed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own antidote was indeed linked to the life of the person below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So now you have to face a choice.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That is whether you want to move the person below to a safe area before you take the antidote.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Originally, you wouldn’t have had to worry about this at all, and this clandestine slaughter would never have come to your notice.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So now, do you want to save the person below or not?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know this may cause you some trouble, such as questioning what your real motives are for saving someone? How much influence does that person’s gender and identity have in this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To make it a bit more entertaining, I can tell you something else.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This person is also one of your secret admirers who, due to a lack of experience, easily misunderstood your reptilian ways and became wildly infatuated with you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even to the extent of convincing her parents to let her rent a place to live here on her own.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“However, nobody knows she lives not far below you, not her parents, not you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And after observing for a while, she even decorated her place to look just like your room.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, she has been so careful, so you never knew about her feelings, until this very moment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After hearing all this, is it even harder to make a decision now? Haha—he—”“Sorry, can I ask a question?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qian rudely interrupted the atmosphere-setting laughter and pointed at the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With all that said, who is she?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Brother Vertical Saw on the television fell silent for a few seconds, which was rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your classmate Telika. Don’t you remember?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There seemed to be a change in his tone, no longer wildly excited, and even carrying a hint of helplessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not familiar.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qian casually said, then shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, isn’t this test a bit too simple? I might not be a saint, but lending a hand to save a life is no big deal, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lending a hand is nothing, but there’s one more thing. Telika has also been poisoned.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right, the same poison as the one in your body, except she was poisoned earlier and without the antidote, her life will come to an end at sunset.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunset, that’s not even ten minutes away!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qian subconsciously looked out the window and noticed the sky was growing increasingly dim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So is this why the mission required him to return before sunset?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he naturally thought of another point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t apparent at first, but the essence of this mission turns out to be about saving someone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So merely rescuing her from under the blade has no meaning, as her life is hanging by a thread.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Considering that there’s only enough antidote for one person here, if you want to save Telika, you will have to give her the sole antidote.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So tell me, what will you choose?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1181,"2026-06-03T07:50:40.943Z","2026-06-03T07:50:46.669Z",1,"novelbin.me","1b378a505d0884de36996c79e78a3ae2732447ddce2274bbb39507f1bc1b3a20","facing-an-ancient-god-for-a-year-chapter-508","facing-an-ancient-god-for-a-year-chapter-506",2389,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffacing-an-ancient-god-for-a-year-cover.jpg"]