# 1309
Chapter 1310: Test Subject
Si Xiaonan's ten fingers dug hard into the pristine floor, blood overflowing from between her knuckles. Her entire body twisted like a suffering insect, her agonized cries echoing across the ground.
"Loki…" She gritted her teeth, forcing words through clenched teeth, but before she could finish, a mouthful of black blood surged from her throat and splattered across the spotless floor.
Loki narrowed his eyes as he gazed down at the writhing, suffering Si Xiaonan. His expression remained impassive, showing no intention of rising from his seat.
"Lu…Ji…!!" Si Xiaonan lay on the ground, growling indistinctly.
The low voice echoed through the empty church.
Seated on the divine throne, Loki sighed slowly and spoke in measured tones:
"From the very beginning, you shouldn't have betrayed me… Xiaonan."
"I didn't… betray… you… This is… Great Xia…"
"This is Great Xia god's conspiracy? They switched the Elixir of Immortality?" Loki sneered. "My dear Xiaonan, do you really think I would believe such nonsense?"
Si Xiaonan lay in the black pool of blood, her blood-red eyes fixed死死 on Loki seated on the divine throne.
"Great Xia had no way of knowing I would infiltrate Kunlun Ruins. Even having you steal the Elixir of Immortality was my spur-of-the-moment idea… How could they possibly have swapped it in advance?
And besides, if they really had switched it…
Then what is it that you've hidden inside the wound on your back?"
As Loki's words fell, his figure vanished from the divine throne in an instant, reappearing behind Si Xiaonan.
His long, pale hand pierced sharply into Si Xiaonan's back. Blood splattered. His fingertip pressed hard, and the next moment he was pulling out two pills wrapped in thin gauze from the gory flesh!
Si Xiaonan's agonized scream instantly filled the entire church!
Loki held the two blood-stained gauze bundles between his fingers, glanced at Si Xiaonan in the blood pool, and spoke calmly:
"Did you think that using 【Yiyu Gauze】 could deceive my perception? Did you think that hiding them inside your wound would prevent me from discovering them?
This trick is just as naive as when you tried to deceive me with the fake 【Shiva's Resentment】 back then."
Si Xiaonan's gaze hardened. She turned her head with difficulty to look at Loki standing beside her, and gritting her teeth, she spoke: "You… already… knew?"
A slight smile curved at the corner of Loki's lips. He reached out and grabbed Si Xiaonan's blood-soaked hair, lifting her head from the pool of blood. He stared into her eyes and spoke word by word:
"Xiaonan, do you even know why I, Loki… am the God of Mischief?"
"Do you know what it means to be the God of Mischief?!"
"Your schemes are decent, but compared to mine, they're still too crude. So you'll always be just an agent… you'll never become the God of Mischief."
Loki released his grip. Si Xiaonan's head struck the ground heavily, instantly creating another bloody wound.
"Then why…"
"Why did I keep you by my side?" Loki chuckled softly. "Even the God of Mischief needs someone to amuse him, doesn't he?
Xiaonan, you have talent.
Long ago, many years back, I knew you were the ideal candidate for my agent.
But I was curious—if I combined your talent with your patience, ruthlessness, and hatred toward me… what kind of scheme could your future allow you to weave to try to kill me?
These past two years, I've kept you by my side, had you do my bidding, had you steal the Elixir of Immortality—I just wanted to see what kind of answer you could ultimately present to me."
Loki paused for a moment, glancing at the two Elixirs of Immortality in his hand.
"But unfortunately, the answer you gave me… was very disappointing."
Loki turned and walked up the steps, uncovering the 【Yiyu Gauze】 covering the two pills. Pinching them between his fingers, he slowly brought them toward his lips…
At that moment, his footsteps faltered.
He turned his head back. In the pool of blood, Si Xiaonan, still suffering, was staring directly at him, as if she wished to tear him to pieces.
The two pills in Loki's hand, raised to his lips, slowly lowered.
A smile curved at the corner of his mouth:
"You wouldn't happen to think that by using your own suffering as the price, you could trick me into directly swallowing these two pills?
If that were the case, then your answer… is actually somewhat interesting."
Si Xiaonan nearly bit through her teeth. As her face visibly paled, she spoke in a low voice: "You're… overthinking…"
"Is that so?"
Loki raised his hand and snapped his fingers lightly. The "mischief" threads he had long since arranged flashed through the church. Si Xiaonan, who had been struggling desperately in the blood pool, suddenly stood back in the center of the main hall.
The black blood flowing from her seven apertures vanished. The woman who had been on the verge of death returned to the state she had been in when she first stood at the foot of the steps. Her back, which had been torn open, also healed completely.
In the end, Loki had waited until the very last second before his "mischief" took effect, rewriting everything that had happened.
In Si Xiaonan's hand, she still held the two poison pills—she had not swallowed them, so naturally she had not suffered the poison's effects.
Even though the toxicity had vanished, Si Xiaonan's face remained deathly pale. Her fingers gripping the two pills trembled slightly, as if she hadn't yet recovered from the刚才的剧烈疼痛.
Bang—!
Loki's figure flashed to behind Si Xiaonan. A burst of crimson bloomed. His fingertip once again sliced open Si Xiaonan's skin, extracting the two pills wrapped in 【Yiyu Gauze】.
Si Xiaonan's mouth opened involuntarily from the intense pain. Loki uncovered the 【Yiyu Gauze】 in his hand, flicked his finger, and two dark masses flew into her throat, sliding down her esophagus into her stomach.
"Cough cough cough…" Si Xiaonan clutched her throat, coughing violently.
Loki had taken the two pills extracted from Si Xiaonan's back wound and forced her to swallow them. He would not take the risk himself until he had confirmed whether these two were real.
The reason he had saved Si Xiaonan from near-death was precisely to make her serve as a test subject for the second time.
Forced to swallow these two pills, Si Xiaonan's expression turned grim. She clenched her teeth tightly, a fierce glint flashing in her eyes. A Short Sword slipped from her sleeve into her palm, and she thrust it violently toward Loki's heart!
Seeing this, a dismissive flash crossed Loki's eyes.
"You're far too naive, Xiaonan."
Loki's form blurred, and he directly appeared behind Si Xiaonan. He seized her wrist with one hand, immobilizing her entirely. "Until I've tested whether these pills are real or fake, just stay put here."
As Loki's words fell, countless black serpents coiled forth from the base of the tall, sacred throne. They wound continuously around Si Xiaonan's motionless body, forming a black serpent cross that lifted her from the ground and hung her before Loki.
Si Xiaonan's form was sealed by the black serpents—she couldn't move an inch. Her eyes locked死死 on Loki before her, not concealing her killing intent in the slightest.
Loki was not angered. He simply stood quietly in place, waiting for the final answer.
After roughly forty seconds, Si Xiaonan's pupils contracted sharply. After a stifled groan, her entire aura began to climb at an alarming rate!