Chapter 272: Genius Kills Genius

Chapter 272 A Genius Killing a Genius

Guided by the Venom King, the group broke through a wall and entered a hidden passage leading to an underground swimming pool. The blood-red pool was empty, save for splatters of still-fresh blood from when Wu Yue had pushed Mrs. Leah into the water.

Jiang Huaizhi said, "Judging by the traces at the scene, it's highly likely that Wu Yue and Mrs. Leah fell into the water together."

Without hesitation, Shen Que took off his coat and plunged straight into the pool.

Charles was stunned, "Shen Que, have you lost your mind? Blaze, you guys can't seriously—"

Turning around, he saw the three main members of Blaze edging away conspicuously to avoid getting splashed.

Charles, "...Though none of us are exactly good people, your cold-bloodedness is downright impressive."

Fu Yanqi, "Trying to stop him would just earn you an extra punch. He’d jump in anyway."

Wu Chong nodded, "Yeah, yeah. We’re a wizard, a Taoist, and a strategist—three glass cannons put together still can’t beat our captain."

Jian Suiyu smoothed out the crumpled note Shen Que had shoved into his hands. It contained Wu Yue’s deductions from the previous day:

"But I don’t think so."

"..."

Skipping Wu Yue’s speculations about Leah and Ambika’s identities, he continued reading:

"During my encounter with the black witch, I detected her pulse and felt her warm breath.

If the black witch is still alive, it means the life-exchange ritual didn't fully succeed.

Leah may have appropriated some of the witch’s abilities, but she couldn’t kill the witch and fully replace her."

"Think—what is the single most terrifying, irreplaceable ability of a witch?

It’s the hereditary transmission of black magic power and the witch’s curse."

"To kill Mrs. Leah, consider using the witch’s power. The witch has a grudge against Leah and might lend her power when it counts." (This line was circled in pen.)

"After Leah’s death? How to eliminate the black witch?"

"The window in the black witch’s room is peculiar. If her room was prepared by Leah as a coffin for the life-exchange sacrifice, there shouldn’t be a window.

The hazy glow of the dim light takes the shape of watching eyes from the darkness.

Eyes spawned from dark intentions, a momentary lapse—eyes the black witch could never escape."

"Think about how to use these eyes."

"..."

Before Jian Suiyu could read further, Fu Yanqi abruptly cut him off.

He looked up sharply at Fu Yanqi, and to everyone’s shock, his pupils swirled violently.

Wu Chong tensed, "What’s happening to Sui Yu?"

Jiang Yuhua, "His mental pollution levels are spiking dangerously. What are you reading that’s causing such a severe mental impact?"

Jian Suiyu lowered his head, gasping for breath, "It’s the core scenario analysis Wu Yue wrote in the last hour before dawn yesterday, after meeting the fake Mrs. Leah."

Jiang Yuhua took it with confusion, "An inference about the main storyline? Is it really that shocking? You’re part of Blaze, after all—"

Before she could finish, Jiang Yuhua suddenly stopped. Her gaze was uncontrollably drawn to the words on the thin sheet of paper.

It was a more visceral mental assault than any terrifying ghost could deliver.

While everyone else still struggled to make sense of the dungeon, Wu Yue had deduced the entire solution after just one encounter with the boss and through misleading information.

It was downright cruel—a crushing intellectual humiliation for anyone who prided themselves on wisdom.

Genius destroys genius.

The stronger one’s mind, the more likely their psyche could collapse in an instant if shaken.

Jiang Huaizhi noticed the tremor in Jiang Yuhua's pupils and swiftly chopped her unconscious. A mere sheet of paper with a few scribbled words had made two top intellects present question their very existence.

For a moment, Jiang Huaizhi couldn't decide whether the dungeon's Mental Pollution was stronger or Wu Yue's Mental Pollution was more terrifying.

......

Ambika was skeletal, completely different from before.

Her skin sagged with wrinkles, like a corpse barely clinging to life, but her eyes shone with an unusually spirited light.

"Miss Wu Yue, frankly, you're even more outstanding than I imagined."

Wu Yue accepted the praise gracefully, "Naturally. I always am."

Ambika, "You know, even now, I can't forget how I was sealed alive in this coffin of a room.

Leah stood there, watching me through this tiny window, gloating over the absolute power of her noble status."

Wu Yue tilted her head toward Ambika, "A window? I don’t see one."

Ambika looked at Wu Yue in confusion, "Right there. Can't you see it?"

Ambika pointed at the window—a small opening that let in dim light.

Wu Yue studied it carefully, then shook her head, "I'm sorry, Miss Ambika, but I don't see anything."

Suddenly, a rotted corpse slammed from behind the window. Its face gradually restored from decay to wholeness, finally turning into Mrs. Leah's face.

Ambika widened her eyes in disbelief, "Impossible! The curse has taken effect. Leah Norfolk is already dead!!"

Wu Yue was startled, "Miss Ambika, what's wrong with you?"

Mrs. Leah pounded on the window like a wild beast. The already fragile-looking window rattled loudly under the blows, and Ambika instinctively stepped back.

The window didn't shatter, and the noise gradually faded. Ambika let out a sigh of relief.

But then—a slender hand pierced straight through the wall beside the window.

First a hand, then an arm, a shoulder, and finally half a face emerged.

Leah's face stretched like rubber under the pull of the wall, growing longer and longer. Reeking sludge drooled from her indistinct mouth, and her split pupils radiated malice as she leered with venom,

"You’re coming to hell with me!!"

When consciousness and reason are swallowed, only raw, unfathomable malice remains.

Ambika stared at Wu Yue in disbelief, "What is this?! If you made it here, you had to have killed Leah!!"

Wu Yue looked puzzled, "Miss Ambika, I don't understand what you're saying."

Ambika pointed at the window and snarled, "Can't you see it?! Right there, right in front of you!!"

Wu Yue turned her head, flashing an eerie smile,

"What exactly should I be seeing, Miss Ambika?"

Ambika watched helplessly as Leah's body merged and intertwined with Wu Yue, then passed through each other, yet Wu Yue showed no awareness whatsoever.

Even when she was face to face with Leah, eye to eye, nose to nose, her expression remained utterly unchanged.

Ambika's eyes widened in horror as she saw Leah suddenly lunge forward, opening her foul-smelling mouth to sink her teeth into Ambika's gaunt face.

"No, stop!!!"