Chapter 575: Proficiency

She pushes open the door, and at that instant her body instinctively reacts—tilting left, an arrow whistles past her ear.

Simultaneously she flicks her right hand, Ice Arrow shoots out, a wail echoes in the darkness.

San Yue Qi doesn't stop, pulling Lin forward in a rush.

In the second room, the floor suddenly collapses.

She had anticipated it, pushes off the ground to leap, grabs the overhead beam midair, then swings and lands steadily on the opposite platform.

Lin hasn't yet processed what happened, when San Yue Qi drags them into the third room.

The third room contains a dozen or so Monkeys, lunging from all directions.

San Yue Qi raises a hand and unleashes a Zawa Rudo, then leisurely weaves through them in frozen time, kicking aside a few that block the way.

At the instant Time Resume, those Monkeys still lunge forward, but miss, colliding and rolling into a heap.

Fourth room, fifth room, sixth room…

Every move of San Yue Qi flows like clouds and water, as if rehearsed thousands of times—indeed she has rehearsed thousands of times.

She knows the location of every trap, each Monkey's attack pattern, when to accelerate, when to pause, when to detour, when to charge straight through.

Lin follows behind San Yue Qi, still completely bewildered.

They don't know what happened, only that they were just leaping off a building and now stand in a strange corridor.

And San Yue Qi—normally a goofy, perpetually bewildered Fen Mao girl—now radiates an eerie aura from head to toe.

That feeling is like…

Like she has been here countless times.

Every step San Yue Qi takes is terrifyingly precise.

She doesn't hesitate, doesn't look around, not even think, like a machine preset with a program.

The corridor grows complex, forks multiply, each junction looks identical.

Lin's eyes whirl, completely unable to discern direction.

Yet San Yue Qi shows no hesitation at all.

She moves as if walking in her own home, left, right, straight, left again, each step landing on a rhythm Lin can't comprehend.

Another junction.

San Yue Qi suddenly stops, tilts her head, as if listening to something.

Then she raises her hand and snaps her fingers.

"MadeinHeaven."

Time Acceleration!

Lin feels a flash before their eyes, the surrounding scenery begins to rush backward!

They can't discern what happens, only feel San Yue Qi pulling them sprinting through the corridor, those forks, those doors, and Black Shadows hidden in the gloom all blur into streaks of light flashing past them!

"Bang!"

San Yue Qi kicks open a door with one foot, revealing a new room behind it.

"San Yue Jie—!"

They can't help shouting, "How—!"

San Yue Qi gives no reply, just pulls them onward.

While passing the seventeenth room, a Giant Monkey suddenly crashes in from the side, its massive body capable of crushing the two into meat patties.

San Yue Qi doesn't even glance, raises a hand and unleashes a Cafeteria Spicy Sauce, then drags Lin to slip beneath the Giant Monkey's hips, and at the instant Time Resume the Giant Monkey slams into the wall, shaking the whole building.

While passing the thirty‑fourth room, the entire floor suddenly flips, revealing an endless abyss below.

San Yue Qi had prepared; at the moment of the flip she already jumps, pushes off the turning wall and leaps, bringing Lin down into the opposite opened passage.

While passing the fifty‑second room, a massive stone pillar drops from above.

San Yue Qi raises a hand, activates Time Acceleration, and their speed spikes to the limit, bursting out of the room a second before the stone pillar lands.

Lin can no longer utter a word.

They can only follow passively, watching San Yue Qi dart through the perilous rooms, like a butterfly dancing among blossoms—no, faster than a butterfly.

After an unknown amount of time, San Yue Qi finally stops.

Lin gasps, leaning against the wall, feeling their lungs about to explode.

Yet San Yue Qi doesn't pant.

In front of them is a door.

Unlike the previous doors, this one is heavier, etched with intricate patterns that glow dark‑red in the darkness.

San Yue Qi stares at the door, silent for a few seconds.

This is the place she reached before the last Rewind.

The previous time, she pushed the door open and was instantly killed by a single strike from something, with no time to react.

So this time—

She takes a deep breath, grips the Ice Bow, and pushes the door open.

Behind the door lies an office.

The interior is luxuriously decorated, floor‑to‑ceiling windows reveal a night‑city, the desk holds various instruments and documents, and boxes of bananas are stacked in a corner.

A faint banana scent drifts in the air.

Behind the desk, a monkey wearing a white coat and Vortex Glasses sits, holding a banana and eating it heartily.

"Jiaoshou."

It sees the door being pushed open, and the whole being—no, the entire monkey—freezes.

Behind those vortex lenses, round black eyes are filled with disbelief.

"You—! How did you get in?!"

It recognized this Fen Mao— the guy who snatched Sakura from its hand!

But it had clearly laid so many traps, had clearly set so many stages, how could she possibly—

San Yue Qi gave it no time to think.

"Zawa Rudo."

Time Stop.

The world solidified.

Jiaoshou kept that stunned expression, the banana in their hand suspended in midair, the banana juice that was about to drip also solidified into amber‑like droplets.

San Yue Qi instantly drew the bowstring to full, and a dozen Ice Arrows coalesced at once!

She didn't aim, didn't hesitate, didn't hold back—those Ice Arrows poured out like a downpour, completely covering the spot where Jiaoshou stood!

The arrows traced countless icy‑blue paths in midair, each precisely Lock‑targeted Jiaoshou's vital points!

Time Resume!

Puff puff puff puff—!!!

Those Ice Arrows all hit at the same instant!

Jiaoshou didn't even have time to react, and was pierced by those dozen Ice Arrows into a sieve!

Blood surged from the wound, staining the white coat red.

It opened its mouth to say something, but only emitted some vague breath sounds.

Then, its body began to glow.

The light grew brighter and brighter, brighter and brighter, until—

Snap.

The Monkeys vanished.

Only a banana remained on the spot.

A yellow‑golden banana.

San Yue Qi stared at the banana, silent for three seconds.

She let out a long breath.

Lin stuck her head out from behind her, looked at the banana on the floor, then glanced at the empty office, and was stunned for a while.

"End... Ended, Jiaoshou?"

San Yue Qi nodded.

She walked to the window and looked out.

Outside was the familiar sight—mirror world, gray‑hazy sky, reversed signs, empty streets.

Lin stood behind her, still bewildered.

"San, San Yue Jie..."

Her voice trembled, "What was that just now... what's going on, Jiaoshou?"

San Yue Qi took a deep breath and turned to look at Lin.

"Nothing, just... cleared a stage."

"And we got out."

Lin was stunned for a moment, then said blankly.

"Really, Jiaoshou?"

San Yue Qi smiled.

That smile held fatigue, relief, and something Lin couldn't understand.

877 times.

She finally, with Lin, lived and walked out of that door.

Heimu leaned on the sofa, watching the pink figure on the screen, the corner of his mouth slightly upturned.

The data on the screen showed: Views—877 (Aha RuiPing: Little Craving Cat), Completion time—record‑breaking.

She lifted the Coke beside her, took a sip, and murmured:

"Not bad, finally enlightened."

She looked at San Yue Qi's smiling face on the screen, and in those pink‑blue eyes seemed to be something that hadn't been there before.

"You've grown, huh."

Heimu set the Coke down and stretched lazily.

"Then, next..."

She tapped the keyboard, and the screen switched to another scene.

It was the eighteenth floor of the hotel, room 1812.

In the dark room, Robin sat quietly on the sofa, motionless.

In the corner, a purple‑haired girl was adjusting her collar in front of the mirror, a hint of a meaningful smile at the corner of her mouth.

Heimu looked at that scene and let out a soft laugh.

"The game is still ongoing."