The outer door was sealed, leaving only Luo Di in the secret room.

He inhaled the ancient atmosphere in the air, feeling as if he were back in Hell, connecting with his ancestors.

"The time since the Corner emerged is less than a century. Whether it's the block-like Shallow Area or the relatively open Middle Layer, all of it uses the past hundred years of the Human World as a template, directly replicating the random environment of the past.

The various forms of fear are also expressed in modern literature.

It's hard to imagine that the Corner actually contains such an ancient area, and moreover, the 'area' actively sought out humans... I better not think too much now, once I lie in the stone coffin, I'll probably understand the situation."

He jumped into the coffin,

laying within,

there was neither any strange odor nor any associated fear of the Corner.

He waited quietly for three minutes, and nothing happened.

"Do I really need to cover it myself?"

Luo Di reluctantly sat up again and moved the heavy coffin lid over. When it fit perfectly, the inside of the coffin became extremely dark.

But aside from this darkness, nothing else changed.

An hour passed, and nothing happened.

Luo Di curled up in this confined pitch-black space, feeling a bit physically uncomfortable and instinctively wanted to push the coffin lid open but withdrew his hand.

"Might as well take a nap~ I haven't rested since finishing the movie."

At the thought of this, he felt drowsy,

closed his eyes, and fell asleep just like that.

It was his first time sleeping in a stone coffin, always feeling as if he had slept for a long, long time, catching up on all the sleep he had been lacking.

As he was about to wake up, a special sensation was transmitted, as if something soft and cold adhered to his body.

When Luo Di opened his eyes, the inside of the stone coffin was already filled with mist.

A ghostly white face was in front of him, it was above, Luo Di below, their eyes met.

As for the anomaly of the attaching sensation, it came from a white-paint-coated belly touching Luo Di's abdomen through the mist.

It was Joker, covered entirely in white paint. Not a real entity, only the face and part of the belly sac were visible.

For a moment, Luo Di found it hard to comprehend why the opponent who had clearly been thoroughly killed and had the pituitary extracted could present in this form.

There was only one possibility, it was related to the secret room and the so-called relic creation.

If that was the case, he could only temporarily ignore it.

However, Joker's disgusting voice transmitted over: "You've finally woken up~ What kind of place is this? So dark, so narrow, so terrifying! Luckily, you're here! Otherwise, I'd be scared to death.

I didn't expect, even after dying, I could appear in this form.

If my guess is correct, Luo Di, you should be engaged in the so-called relic creation on the human side, right?

What do you plan on making me into? I personally suggest making a balloon sounds good, tied to you, or floating behind you at all times.

It can witness your various chopping and also follow you to see scenes beyond the Corner, it's exciting just to think about it."

Listening to this familiar teasing, Luo Di neither had an emotional change nor any response, he was just sensing the changes in the coffin.

"Flowing?"

The coffin previously lying flat at the bottom of the pit seemed now to be flowing with water.

"Hey! Talk with me, it's really boring."

The paint-coated belly sac rubbed back and forth on Luo Di, who didn't care at all and did not stop it.

Luo Di speculated this should be part of the pituitary adaptation process, if any rejection occurred, it might affect the relic creation.

No matter what Joker said or did, he pretended nothing happened.

He waited quietly.

Suddenly, a sensation of collision came. The stone coffin seemed to float to the end, no longer moving.

Simultaneously, the sealed coffin lid came loose on its own, and Joker's actions became even more excessive.

Seeing this, Luo Di gave a strong kick!

Not only did he burst Joker's bloated belly sac directly, turning it into mist, but he also kicked the coffin lid completely open.

Standing up from the stone coffin, he indeed arrived at a brand new area, an ancient cave a hundred or even a thousand times larger than the secret room.

The creek babbled,

guiding the coffin to this unknown ancient stone cave, where nearly a hundred stone coffins had already piled up at the creek's end.

Inside the spacious stone cave, there was a unique structure.

The architecture did not match any period of human civilization, its shape resembled a "broken hand."

Its overall form differed from a human hand, besides the usual "five fingers," the top also had numerous secondary fingers growing chaotically.

The broken wrist corresponded to the entrance of the structure.

Huge in scale, the arched entrance was nearly a hundred meters tall.

It seemed not designed for the short stature of humans, but more for some great presence.

Joker's phantom made an exaggerated look of awe, feeling as if his jaw was about to hit the ground, "Wow! The Corner even has such a primal area, I've never encountered this... Seems, being killed by Luo Di wasn't entirely a sad affair."

Luo Di had already tuned out the other's voice, fully focused on the spectacle before him.

"Another hand? If it's related to the essence of the Corner, I wonder if this thing reacts?"

Luo Di took out the Divine Ring, and it did have a faint reaction, but not strong.

With curiosity about the relic, Luo Di leaped out of the coffin in one swift motion, quickly sprinting towards the wondrous cave and entering through the arched gate.

Joke's form, barely discernible, floated behind him in a mist-like gathering, its tail connected to the pituitary.

[Hall]

"Ceiling": The ceiling was full of densely packed grooves, corresponding to the hundreds of sub-points above.

"Five-finger Passages": The building's five fingers correspond to five extending passages, all currently sealed by stone doors and marked with special seals.

"Central Stone Platform": At the hall's center stood a stone platform of regular size, shaped like an arm, seemingly needing something to be placed upon it.

The closer Luo Di got to the hand-shaped stone platform, the more resistant Joke became as he floated behind.

However, Joke had long since died, and presented as a phantom, he could change nothing.

From Joke's extremely resistant demeanor, Luo Di roughly surmised the true purpose of the stone platform, finally able to escape this sickening proximity once more.

Grasping the balloon-like pituitary, he placed it atop the hand-shaped stone platform.

Click!

It was as if some mechanism had been triggered.

The five-fingered structure on the stone platform suddenly began to clench, gripping the pituitary tightly until it was completely crushed, the hiss of the balloon bursting echoing like Joke's final lament.

If Luo Di witnessed Joke's physical execution during the film shoot,

then what happened here was veritable obliteration in the truest sense.

Between the crushed pituitary, some white liquid seeped out, completely absorbed by the stone platform itself.

Rumble!

The architectural wonder emitted a tremor, the dense fingers on the ceiling starting to move wildly, as if nourished and beginning to grow.

Following suit,

the five stone doors (five-finger passages) in the hall began to change.

The surface of the stone doors revealed varying patterns and symbols, seemingly requiring Luo Di to make a choice here.

Thumb, [Circus Tent]

Index Finger, [Cluster of Balloons]

Middle Finger, [Sinister Mist with Ghost Faces]

Ring Finger, [Comic Book]

Pinky Finger, [No Pattern]

"Do the five doors correspond to different features of Joke's pituitary? Could the prepared 'relic' be behind these doors?

Once I make a choice, the corresponding relic feature will be fixed.

From these images, the mist is clearly the best choice... Joke's trick, balloons, and the abilities obtained from the Outer Realm don't suit me and don't fit the style of a murderer.

But what's with the door corresponding to the pinky finger? Can it be chosen? Why is there no related image?"

Although Luo Di wanted to choose the Mist Door corresponding to the middle finger,

his gaze always strayed toward the mysterious stone door corresponding to the pinky finger,

for some reason, despite no patterns for reference or judgment, his intuition compelled Luo Di to approach it.

"What I currently possess, whether it's Megin's Black Spine or the surrounding tools obtained from the dungeon, are very practical and sufficient for me to venture deeper.

The relic creation is just icing on the cake.

Since my intuition has made the choice, let's try it; otherwise, I might regret it forever.

Of course, it's also possible that this door cannot be opened, and only the preceding four doors can be chosen, so let's take a look."

Luo Di made his decision and stepped toward the pinky finger door.

As he pondered how to open it and reached out to touch the door... hum! The Divine Ring on his hand sensed something.

The stone door loosened, sinking down!

A pitch-black path, the pinky passage was revealed before his eyes.

Simultaneously, the stone doors of the remaining passages returned to their original state, with no more patterns emerging and remaining closed.

A choice had been made, and Luo Di could only proceed deeper.

He exhaled a long breath and stepped into the sole pinky path.

At the end of the darkness,

a stone coffin emerged once more.

He reached out to the edge of the coffin lid and gave it a push!

Simultaneously, a beam of white light suddenly descended, precisely illuminating the interior of the coffin.

A quick glance revealed,

Joke's pituitary, intact and undamaged, lay within.

Upon closer inspection,

though it retained the pituitary shape, its essence was no longer a balloon, instead, it was an ellipsoid fleshy pituitary, smooth and bright red.

Its top embedded with a hand-shaped metal interface, resembling a grip on the pituitary, suggesting it could be fashioned into some necklace with a metal chain.

As Luo Di grasped this peculiar pituitary, a voice transmitted:

≮Unknown relic acquired≯

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