Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 586 – Side Story: The Endless Building

Yun Hai collapsed onto the glazed tiles.

The Qi-Blood in his body was like a punctured ball, leaking out completely.

His once-full muscles rapidly shriveled, and clumps of hair fell out in droves.

Within seconds, he regressed from an invincible eighth-rank martial artist to the frail, crippled Knife Brother he once was.

He didn’t even have the strength to stand up.

“Don’t…” His voice was hoarse as he desperately pushed himself backward with his elbows across the tiles.

A rough, oversized hand suddenly grabbed his collar and hoisted him into the air.

It was Liu Cheng.

The blood on Liu Cheng’s face hadn’t even dried yet. He stared at the lump of mud in his grip, his eyes filled with savagery.

“Eighth-rank?”

Liu Cheng sneered, then delivered a resounding slap in reverse.

Smack!

Half of Yun Hai’s teeth flew out, and his cheek swelled up instantly.

“Weren’t you just acting all high and mighty? Weren’t you going to slaughter the city?”

Liu Cheng grabbed Yun Hai’s thinning hair and forced him to look outside the city walls.

Outside, the three thousand Blood-Slaying Guards had already fled out of sight.

All that remained were scattered chunks of flesh and masterless Mutated Scale-Horses.

“I was wrong!”

Yun Hai wept profusely, begging through his mangled speech, “Spare me, great hero! I’ll give you all the cultivation techniques of Cloud Mountain Sect! I have plenty of silver!”

“Silver? Go spend it in the underworld!”

Li Siniang also leaped onto the rooftop, still carrying the black iron wok that had crushed a cavalryman to death.

“You were the one cursing the goddess earlier?”

Without another word, she swung the iron wok and slammed it heavily into Yun Hai’s shin.

Crack!

The sound of bone breaking was crisp and satisfying.

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Yun Hai let out an inhuman scream, his eyes rolling back as he nearly passed out from the pain.

“Don’t beat him to death.”

Liu Cheng shoved Yun Hai aside and shouted down below, “Someone get up here! Chain him up with iron shackles!”

Immediately, several burly men rushed up and bound Yun Hai tightly with chains as thick as an arm.

“Hang him from the city gate tower!”

Liu Cheng waved his hand.

“Let everyone in the surrounding villages see—this is what happens to the Cloud Mountain Sect Master!”

Thunderous cheers erupted from the crowd.

From this day forward, Hope City would shake the world.

Cloud Mountain Sect?

Nothing but a joke.

Lin Li stood at a distance, watching Yun Hai being dragged away like a dead dog.

She had no interest in such mortal revenge theatrics.

Her wavy black hair rapidly faded in color, and her tight-fitting suit dissolved into specks of light.

In an instant, she transformed back into the tenth-rank deity with silver hair and starry eyes.

She raised her right hand and opened her palm.

Earlier, she had indeed crushed that blood-draining system.

But under her absolute rule-based control, she had preserved the most core piece within it.

Resting quietly in her palm was a fingernail-sized piece of semi-transparent code.

It writhed restlessly in the air like a living creature.

“There’s definitely something fishy here.”

Lin Li examined the object closely.

Its operational logic was over ninety percent similar to the Skin System she had once possessed.

It was practically produced on the same assembly line.

“Is this a pirated version, or a different product from the same company?”

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Lin Li raised an eyebrow.

After ascending to godhood on the Dragon Spirit Continent, she had returned the Skin System to the Lin Fan of the past.

Thinking back now, the origin of that thing had always been a mystery.

Since she’d stumbled upon a lead, she might as well trace it to the source.

Lin Li closed her fingers, clasping the code fragment in her palm.

“Lead the way.”

Word-to-Law.

Space tore apart instantly, and a pitch-black passage appeared before her.

She stepped into it.

The scenery around her receded at breakneck speed, the boundaries between time and space blurring into obscurity.

After what felt like an eternity.

Lin Li stopped.

She found herself in a blank void.

No sky, no earth, no direction.

As far as the eye could see, there was only pure white.

And within this sea of whiteness, countless orbs of light floated, large and small.

Dense and numerous, like fireflies on a summer night.

Lin Li walked to the nearest orb and gently tapped it with her finger.

Ripples spread across its surface like water, and then it transformed into a floating holographic screen.

The footage began to play, the images crystal clear. Lin Li felt as though she had been transported into the scene itself.

It was a building so colossal it defied description, piercing straight into the void with no visible summit.

Around the building floated countless miniature worlds of every conceivable form.

There were wastelands, ancient eras, and high-tech cyberpunk cities.

Every second, countless people inside the building stepped into the floor elevators.

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The elevators stopped at certain floors, randomly depositing their occupants into those miniature worlds.

Lin Li fast-forwarded through the footage.

She understood the pattern now.

This was a brutal survival game.

The floors within the building were safe zones.

Players were thrown into the miniature worlds, and if they completed their tasks or simply survived, they could return to the building.

Once only a handful of players remained in the building, they were all sent into a single grand world to fight until one victor emerged, who would then be allowed to leave the building.

Then, the next batch of players entered the building.

The cycle repeated endlessly, with no end in sight.

“Brutal. They’re running experiments with people’s lives,” Lin Li shook her head.

She casually tapped open a few more orbs.

They all showed similar scenes of survival.

Until she tapped the highest and brightest orb of them all.

The image zoomed in, locking directly onto a single room inside the building.

This was a player from the newest batch.

The room was tiny, walls on all sides.

A man sat in a wheelchair.

In his hand, he clutched an iron rod tightly.

The door opened.

A beautiful woman in a fitted pencil skirt walked in.

The woman said something, her expression tinged with smugness.

But the man in the wheelchair wasn’t listening at all.

He suddenly lunged up, the iron rod striking the woman’s head with pinpoint accuracy.

She crumpled to the ground.

What happened next made Lin Li’s pupils dilate slightly.

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A translucent screen popped up in front of the man.

He tapped it a few times.

A flash of white light passed over the fallen woman’s body.

Her flesh vanished.

All that remained was a perfectly intact human skin.

The man picked up the skin with trembling hands and slipped it over himself.

A few seconds later, he stood up.

That beautiful face, that alluring figure.

He had completely transformed into the woman who had fallen.

And that woman’s name was Liu Ruyan.

Lin Li stared hard at the screen.

“Impossible,” she whispered.

This was no coincidence!

The method, the process, even the name of the victim being skinned—all identical.

This was unmistakably the Skin System!

Countless thoughts raced through Lin Li’s mind.

Who was this man in the wheelchair?

Why did he also have the Skin System?

Could it be that the system I once bound originated from this building?

If so, what kind of being could have built this place?

Lin Li narrowed her eyes, watching the man in the wheelchair who had now fully become Liu Ruyan.

“Interesting.”

She pressed her hand against the orb of light, using her Spatial Ability to analyze the spatial coordinates of the image.

“Let me see which world you’re hiding in now.”