[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-ring-of-fate":3,"chapter-the-ring-of-fate-the-ring-of-fate-chapter-919":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Ring of Fate",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2298888,4496,"Chapter 919: Plague Bomb","the-ring-of-fate-chapter-919",919,"\u003Cp>Blood and flesh oozing yellow-green pus exploded suddenly, raining like a sudden downpour onto everyone in the control room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Franca had no time to activate the “Ice Talisman,” nor time to grab Jiana and the others and pull them into the compact mirror in her hand—she could only face the explosion, whose force was modest, and the clearly dangerous flesh and slime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack. Crack. Crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these conditions, the three of them could only activate their “Mirror Doppelgängers” themselves—first shattered by the shockwave, then coated in sticky flesh and still-wriggling yellow-green pus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ludwig, who had also been given a “Mirror Doppelgänger” by each of the three “Witches,” did not activate his own; instead, he crouched down, hugging his body to minimize his exposed surface area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this, he opened his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His lips split without restraint, stretching all the way to the back of his skull—the upper lip pushed his eyes, nose, and forehead upward to face the ceiling, while the lower lip nearly touched his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Papatapa, the yellow-green flesh and blood from the explosion rushed greedily into Ludwig’s enormous mouth, racing straight for his stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Ludwig, who had been enjoying a buffet, lasted only two seconds before his “Mirror Doppelgänger” triggered passively, shattering him across the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His grotesquely enormous mouth seemed to be all appearance, lacking sufficient strength—merely at Sequence 7 level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blast wave faded instantly; Franca and Jiana’s figures reappeared within the control room, now smeared everywhere with viscous flesh and yellow-green pus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the “Witch of Pain,” both Franca and Jiana instinctively believed the place was saturated with dangerous diseases, rapidly infecting them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, Franca raised her right hand, revealing the “Ice Talisman” clenched in her palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This crystalline talisman had been remade by Lu Mi, and now could be used four times for “Mirror Transit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing Franca reveal the “Ice Talisman,” Jiana and Anthony immediately moved closer, grabbing her arm and sleeve; Ludwig hesitated, then joined the cruel “Witch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, their four figures blurred and entered the compact mirror in Franca’s other hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Franca made no pause—she transported her companions to another metallic decoration in the control room with mirror-like properties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The compact mirror, now unheld, fell to the ground and shattered into pieces; the mirror-realm behind it collapsed accordingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For these fragments to regain their mystical significance as mirrors required varying amounts of time—ignoring other factors, the larger the fragment, the better its reflective quality, and the shorter the time needed to re-derive the mirror-realm; conversely, the smaller the fragment, the longer it took, and below a certain size, some might never become mystical mirrors again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After transferring inside the metallic decoration, Franca, while guarding against a possible attack from the revived corpse, spoke at breakneck speed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The ‘Witch of Despair’ lacks the ability to render people half-dead and turn them into plague bombs…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could it be the ‘Eternal Witch’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Or perhaps she received aid from the ‘End of All Things’ or possesses a similar artifact,” Jiana proposed another possibility based on her own sensations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is Mushi Hospital not just home to the ‘Mother of Desire’?” Franca suddenly had an insight: “As a whole, the hospital should simultaneously possess healing abilities tied to the ‘Great Mother’ path, the influence of the ‘Mother of Desire’ path on spirit, desire, corpses, and hospital legends, and the control over disease and pathogens granted by the faith of the ‘End of All Things’ or the ‘Witch’ path!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Franca spoke without embellishment, she observed the control room’s condition and attempted to use the “Ice Talisman’s” mirror-communication ability to send a brief message to a mirror on Lu Mi’s person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as Lu Mi hadn’t left the Huafeng District, he would definitely receive it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiana guarded against the spiderweb-like illusory tunnels; Anthony mused aloud:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That revived corpse is nearly unaffected by ‘Intimidation’—it feels more like a corpse than a living being.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Franca’s thoughts spun rapidly; two hypotheses formed instantly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is she an awakened corpse, and the ‘Mother of Desire’ believer controlling her hiding nearby?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Or, didn’t we previously suspect she might have an accomplice—possibly ‘Loki’? Could she actually be a puppet, and the ‘Puppet Master’ controlling her is hiding somewhere nearby?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Franca had fought “Loki” before and encountered secret agents from Intis’s Eighth Bureau; she was thoroughly familiar with the style of “Puppet Masters.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But according to the information from the Major Arcana, even a normal ‘Puppet Master’ can only control puppets within a hundred meters—and now their power is suppressed to Sequence 7. I believe their maximum range with a puppet won’t exceed forty meters. Before we came to this control room, we confirmed the surroundings—there was no one…” Jiana objected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke, she suddenly fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not no one—there were two people!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Franca and Anthony also realized the truth, turning their gazes simultaneously toward the surveillance screens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within fifty meters, there indeed were two people—the two security guards!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One guard had been turned into a plague bomb and disintegrated into disease-spreading flesh, but the other sat motionless in his chair, his eyes filled with gray-white stillness, staring fixedly at the large screen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Franca and Anthony’s gazes settled on the guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard seemed to sense them—he suddenly turned his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His clothing was torn, his body pitted and scarred; patches of his face had lost skin, suffered abrasions, or split open, oozing pus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the “aftereffects” of being directly hit by the other guard’s explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half his face was nearly unrecognizable; illuminated by the flickering screen, he curled his lips into an exaggerated, terrifying, dark smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his smile spread, his body swelled violently, becoming a humanoid balloon like his colleague.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The balloon burst—countless viscous flesh and yellow-green pus splattered onto the metallic decoration where Franca and the others hid, coating it in filth, obscuring their view of the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We need to relocate,” Franca said, gripping the last moments of the “Mirror Transit” effect, turning to Jiana and Ludwig.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Moonlight Square formed by surveillance footage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi bent low, drew the “Sword of Courage,” and sprinted from outside the men’s and women’s restrooms toward the entrance corridor where the revived corpse stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him, on the washbasin mirror positioned between the two restrooms, a female figure suddenly materialized—wearing a white dress, her hair loosely tied in a bun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the “Witch of Despair’s” projection, created through the mirror!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it possessed only a fraction of the original’s power, it was still sufficient for assassination—it aimed to strike Lu Mi from behind with a fatal blow!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost simultaneously, another figure emerged behind this female form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That figure bore long black hair, striking features, and a cold expression—it was Lu Mi’s feminine form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This projection, achieved through “Precision,” instantly transformed into a quiet, seething black flame that completely engulfed the revived corpse’s mirror projection, igniting her in agonized screams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud-thud-thud, Lu Mi, still gripping the “Sword of Courage,” did not pause—he charged forward without looking back toward the revived corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, before the revived corpse, dozens of crystalline yet razor-sharp ice lances materialized instantly, like a beautiful, clean hedgehog baring its spines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such an ice-lance forest could not be created by a Sequence 7 “Witch”—only a practitioner who had once reached the “Witch of Despair” level and gained deeper control over ice, but was now restricted to Sequence 7, could achieve it. It was equivalent to the “Ice Lance” ability evolving from Sequence 4 into “Ice Lance Forest,” though now the “Ice Lance Forest” could only manifest at Sequence 7 strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Lu Mi did not stop in time, he would crash into this forest of ice lances and be pierced through, leaving multiple bloody holes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that instant, Lu Mi’s figure blurred and twisted, like a video signal disrupted by intense electromagnetic interference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From blur to complete disappearance took only a blink—he reappeared behind the revived corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung the “Sword of Courage” diagonally, striking at its shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—the surface of the “Sword of Courage” erupted in crimson flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom! Lu Mi cleaved the revived corpse into two pieces, shattering it into fragments of mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The revived corpse, having used its doppelgänger, did not immediately reappear—it seemed to have vanished into the dark, empty fourth floor of the mall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi showed no expression change; he Shunshi  pressed the “Sword of Courage” downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom-boom-boom—dozens of crimson fireballs shot from the blade, indiscriminately covering the area, collapsing walls and igniting merchandise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crimson hell of fire rapidly engulfed a quarter of the floor, raising temperatures to unbearable levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under this indiscriminate area attack, the revived corpse was caught in the blast, forced out of its “Invisibility” state, and appeared beside and behind Lu Mi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the control room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The revived corpse that had fought Franca and the others left its hiding place among the mirror objects and appeared in the room, now smeared everywhere with viscous flesh and yellow-green pus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seizing the opportunity—the air thick with multiple pathogens and decay forces, ensuring that anyone entering would be quickly infected and affected—she condensed a frost-covered ice spear in her hand and thrust it toward the surveillance screen, already dented and coated with flesh and pus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two “plague bombs” had not been powerful enough to directly damage the large screen, which was at a distance from them; their primary effect had been spreading pathogens and decay forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the revived corpse intended to destroy the screen herself—to collapse the corresponding extradimensional space and drag the enemies fighting there, along with the other “herself,” into chaotic currents, tearing them into fragments!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1604,"2026-06-20T06:22:37.987Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1e6102e53d8dacffa0aa7496bf08fed93dfb19b24c39980f481d35a2e5a384b5","the-ring-of-fate-chapter-920","the-ring-of-fate-chapter-918",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-ring-of-fate-cover.jpg"]