She Was Sentenced to Life Imprisonment [Unlimited] - Chapter 57

Chapter 57: Communication Area 1

◎The Main God Doesn’t Need a Reason◎

【Congratulations on successfully clearing the second layer】

【Calculating your points】

【Clearance reward: 10,000 points. Since you successfully killed 2 people, you will receive an additional 1,000 points. Your current points are 12,560, total rank 3120. Please continue to work hard.】

Jiang Nan opened her eyes, and an unreadable emotion swirled within them. An itching sensation on her wrist made her look at it. On her pale arm, the wound had already healed, with only a trace of dried bl00d to show that it had been injured.

She closed her eyes, trying to remember why she had cut her own wrist. What did she say at that moment?

Suddenly, a blurred fragment of a sentence appeared in her mind. The voice sounded like hers, but the tone was extremely arrogant.

She couldn’t piece together the complete sentence from the vague words.

“Luo Ning,” she called out.

In the vast, pure white space, her echo returned, and as expected, she got no response. But a strange flow in the air made Jiang Nan sure that Luo Ning was probably watching her all along.

With this thought, Jiang Nan’s gaze swept around the space, finally resting on one spot. This made the person secretly watching her even more excited, their soul trembling, as if they were desperate to pull her into their embrace.

Jiang Nan shivered and had to retract her gaze. She then looked at the transparent panel in front of her. Just as she was about to click to return to the “Communication Area,” the pure white space suddenly flashed with a red light. A piercing error sound echoed through the space, like a data corruption warning.

Jiang Nan was momentarily stunned by the sudden turn of events, then her eyes suddenly grew cold.

【Warning! Instance anomaly! An enforcer has been dispatched to investigate!】

The system’s cold voice became shrill and intermittent, like a television with a bad signal.

Upon hearing this, before Jiang Nan could figure out what the system’s so-called enforcer was, she was kicked out of her rest area by a powerful force.

The dazzling red light disappeared, and objects twisted and changed. Human voices gradually appeared around her.

Jiang Nan opened her eyes again, now forced into the communication area. Behind her was a pyramid-like flow of data, mixed with a few red errors.

The players’ discussions entered her ears. The blatant, greedy stares made her feel sick.

In her current state, her hair was not messy, and her face, though sickly, was very clean. Her dress was only stained with a few spots of bl00d. Compared to the other players who had nearly died in the instance, she was not in a pathetic state.

It was precisely because of her appearance that she attracted the attention of other players.

“I see this sickly person has gone through two layers. Every time she comes out, she either has no injuries or just has bl00d on her. I suspect she has self-healing abilities.”

“There are very few ability users in City of Desire. What if she’s not one?”

“What are you afraid of?! Even if she isn’t, it’s her honor to be killed by us so we can get her points!”

“…”

“She’s coming over…” The crowd gradually grew excited. Jiang Nan could no longer hear their quiet discussions clearly.

“My apologies.”

Jiang Nan’s light-colored lips parted. She spoke words of apology, but there was no remorse in her tone. Instead, a deep, endless coldness filled her eyes.

Her wrist moved slightly. The long blade that suddenly appeared didn’t give anyone time to react to its cold flash before a hand holding a weapon was mercilessly severed.

With a “clang,” splattered bl00d stained her formerly clean dress. The bloodstains on her cheek contrasted sharply with her pale skin, making her look like a withered, broken jasmine flower.

A shrill scream made the crowd retreat in fear. The unlucky person, however, was kicked to the ground. A sharp heel stomped on their chest with enough force to pierce it, making the person writhe in agony.

Jiang Nan’s figure was slender, her face sickly, and her expression gloomy. Even with the long blade in her hand and a person under her foot, she seemed to have no destructive power.

However, only the person lying under her foot knew the pain she was inflicting. The sharp heel pierced flesh and bone, just an inch away from puncturing the heart. The gushing bl00d thoroughly stained her skirt.

Jiang Nan’s eyes lifted slightly. The indifference in them was like an unmelting glacier, chilling people to the bone. She spoke.

“I think I heard you were talking about me just now.”

She was in a bad mood, even a bit irritable. Her face fell, and the killing intent in her eyes was frightening.

Until the system’s so-called enforcer arrived, she couldn’t enter her rest area. If she didn’t act, she would definitely be killed by these lunatics.

She had heard them; they wanted to eat her, because of her self-healing ability.

Facing Jiang Nan’s question and the oppressive feeling emanating from her, the people who were still hoping to watch the show involuntarily shivered. An invisible force filled them with fear.

No one answered Jiang Nan. The noisy communication area seemed to have come to a standstill, falling into a terrifying silence.

Jiang Nan glanced at them, snorted coldly, and then stomped down. The sharp heel pierced the heart. The twitching, trembling body stopped moving the next second. A nauseating smell of rust and bl00d permeated the air.

【Points gained: 3594. Current points: 16,154. Rank: 3009.】

Seeing the person die at Jiang Nan’s feet, no one felt any pity. They nonchalantly scattered.

The commotion attracted Bai Lai, who had just come out of an instance. After pushing through the crowd, she saw a thin, frail-looking woman standing in front of a corpse. Her conspicuous white hair told Bai Lai who she was.

“Jiang Nan,” Bai Lai said, pulling Jiang Nan out of her thoughts.

Jiang Nan’s back was to her. When she heard the voice, she was still using a handkerchief to wipe the bl00d from her face.

After wiping her face clean, Jiang Nan turned to look at Bai Lai and saw that she was frowning at her.

“Are you okay? People here are better to be careful of,” Bai Lai warned. Her gaze, however, fell on Jiang Nan’s hands after seeing the bl00d on her body, and she was momentarily stunned.

Jiang Nan noticed her gaze and calmly put away the mirror in her hand, as if it were just an ordinary mirror.

She shook her head, knowing that the other person thought she was the one who had been bullied. After thinking for a moment, she explained.

“I killed him.”

The calm tone and the sharpness that hadn’t completely dissipated from her eyes made Bai Lai pause again. She once more sized up Jiang Nan, noticing that she was indeed holding a blade and that her body was covered in a lot of bl00d, but she had no wounds. This showed that most of the bl00d on her body was her own.

But Bai Lai only hesitated for a few seconds this time. She quickly recovered and still pulled out a gentle smile.

“That’s good.”

She had almost forgotten that the people who entered this world were not good people, especially someone she wasn’t familiar with, even if this person resembled her…

Bai Lai looked at Jiang Nan’s face, as if seeing another person through her. Her gaze softened slightly.

Jiang Nan noticed the strangeness in her gaze and also looked at the current Bai Lai.

The other person was still wearing a doctor’s uniform, but unlike when they first met, it was no longer clean and tidy. It was now stained with bl00d, either her own or someone else’s. Her eyes were weary, but when she looked at Jiang Nan’s face, she smiled for some reason.

Jiang Nan frowned, remembering how the other person had helped her the first time they met.

“Who are you thinking of?” Jiang Nan asked, but she knew for certain that she wasn’t thinking of her.

Bai Lai, who hadn’t expected Jiang Nan to see through her, was stunned. The similar look on the other person’s face made her feel extremely disoriented again.

“My lover. She was gravely ill and left me,” Bai Lai said. When she spoke, a trace of sorrow and nostalgia flashed in her eyes.

Bai Lai’s only obsession here was one person. In order to see her again, she was willing to do whatever it took, even if it meant using her healing hands to kill monsters.

“You’re a bit like her. Maybe I miss her too much. When I saw you, I thought she had come back to my side.” Bai Lai’s voice held an unspeakable sadness that was moving.

Jiang Nan understood her. She herself had countless times mistaken Luo Ning for that person.

“My condolences,” Jiang Nan said after a long silence. Finally, she spoke.

“She will come back.”

Bai Lai looked at the similar face in front of her and suddenly felt unusually tired. She wanted to leave this place, but after having been stained with so much bl00d, she could no longer go back.

There was no turning back for her. From the moment she chose to enter here, she had no right to regret. All she could do was reach the final layer and wish for her lover’s return.

Bai Lai smiled and said,

“She will. Your illness will get better too.”

She didn’t know that Jiang Nan’s body had already become like that of a normal person because of the rose Henrietta gave her, otherwise she wouldn’t have been able to kill the malicious person so easily.

At this moment, a commotion appeared in the crowd. The people in front of Jiang Nan suddenly scattered, as if they had seen a flood or a ferocious beast.

As the crowd dispersed, Jiang Nan saw a person in black walking toward her. Under the dark hood were flowing data codes. The tall figure’s aura was heart-pounding and terrifying.

Seeing this, Bai Lai frowned and asked in confusion.

“Why would an enforcer appear at this time?”

“They’re here to arrest me,” Jiang Nan said calmly. Facing the tall figure who had stopped in front of her, there was no fear in her eyes.

Hearing her words, Bai Lai’s frown deepened.

For people who had just arrived here, the enforcers were a terrifying legend that was out of reach, but Bai Lai had the good fortune to have seen one before, and it was just like the one today.

Bai Lai linked her instance’s sudden ejection to this event, and it seemed as if she had figured something out. She suddenly reached out to grab Jiang Nan’s hand. She frowned and said,

“What did you do? Did you defy the main god?”

“I don’t know,” Jiang Nan said, her heart contemplating Bai Lai’s words.

Jiang Nan dodged Bai Lai’s hand and said.

“You don’t need to worry about that.”

The black-clad enforcer looked down at the person in front of him. A cold, mechanical voice came from under the hood.

“Miss Jiang, according to our scan, the instance you were in was abnormal. To ensure safety, we will take you in for questioning.”

In front of them, Jiang Nan looked so small. Even though Bai Lai had been warned by Jiang Nan just now, she still couldn’t leave her alone. She stood in front of Jiang Nan. Facing the powerful oppression, she could only force herself to stay calm and said.

“Do you have a reason to arrest her?”

Jiang Nan pulled Bai Lai behind her. At this moment, the enforcer spoke coldly and mercilessly, with a sense of reverence for the being in its next words.

“The main god doesn’t need a reason.”