The settlement appeared in the Face Registry Hall.

The walls had changed. Instead of endless contracts, they now held mirrors where people saw their own faces. Some smiled. Some wept. Some could not look at themselves yet.

The panel appeared.

[Floor 104: The City of Borrowed Faces]

[Main Mission: Expose stolen-face network before Identity Bell tolls — Completed.]

[Sub-Mission: Identify 10 borrowed faces — Completed.]

[Borrowed faces identified: 37]

[Sub-Mission: Rescue 5 original face owners — Completed.]

[Original owners rescued: 12]

[Sub-Mission: Prevent team identity erosion above 25% — Completed.]

[Final Identity Erosion: 8%]

[Sub-Mission: Break face-rent contract system — Completed.]

[Floor Boss: Face Broker defeated.]

[Identity Bell restored.]

[Calculating final evaluation...]

The result appeared.

[Final Evaluation: SSS]

Qin Mo touched his face again.

"I appreciate my face more now."

Qin Lian said quietly, "Faces can be traps."

Qin Yuchen nodded. "Reputation too."

Qin Yuheng looked at the restored mirrors.

The floor was not merely about disguise.

It was about trust systems.

If people trusted only appearance, faces became currency. If reputation could be rented, authority could be counterfeited. If identity could be borrowed, responsibility could be evaded.

The rewards appeared.

[SSS Evaluation Rewards]

EXP +52,000

Tower Coins x780,000

SS Grade Borrowed Faces City Chest x1

SS Grade True Face Restoration Mirror x1

SS Grade Reputation Theft Severing Seal x1

SS Grade False Signature Burning Ink x1

SS Grade Identity Rent Nullification Contract x1

S Grade Face Memory Pearl x3

Special Mark: True Face Restorer]

Additional hidden reward:

[Refused Face-for-Information Bargain]

SS Grade Trust Cannot Be Rented Insight Crystal x1

Qin Yuheng stored the insight crystal carefully.

The return to Heavenly Gate Academy caused immediate strategic discussion.

Yu Qingmei saw the relevance at once.

"Mo Cangyan uses intermediaries, masks, dead identities, legal fronts, and false reputation channels. This floor gives direct counters."

Qin Mo nodded.

"The False Signature Burning Ink can expose forged approvals. Reputation Theft Severing Seal can break borrowed social trust formations."

Lin Xian’er became extremely interested.

"Identity fraud is the foundation of half the black market."

Qin Mo looked at her.

"Only half?"

She smiled. "The other half is debt."

At the Qin Estate, the rewards were evolved.

[SS Grade True Face Restoration Mirror]

↓

[SSS Grade Sovereign True Identity Reflection Mirror]

[Effect:

Reveals stolen faces, borrowed identities, false public personas, reputation overlays, and identity-contract distortions.]

[SS Grade False Signature Burning Ink]

↓

[SSS Grade False Authority Signature Burning Ink]

[Effect:

Burns through forged signatures, false approvals, borrowed authority marks, contract identity substitutions, and proxy-command seals.]

[SS Grade Reputation Theft Severing Seal]

↓

[SSS Grade True Reputation Return Seal]

[Effect:

Restores reputation stolen through identity theft, false public blame, borrowed-face crimes, and social trust manipulation.]

Qin Wanshan immediately ordered the True Identity Reflection Mirror installed in the estate’s guest-verification process.

Gu Tianhe requested portable diluted versions for Hidden Night Web.

Lin Xian’er requested a study exchange for black-market counterintelligence.

Qin Yuheng agreed under clean terms.

The Trust Cannot Be Rented Insight Crystal was used partially by Qin Yuheng. It deepened his understanding of trust as something that could be extended, built, damaged, and restored—but not legitimately rented.

This had political meaning.

For the Qin family.

For academy allies.

For Jiang Yuexuan.

For Zhao Tianyu.

For Lin Xian’er.

Trust was not a commodity, but clear agreements could protect it.

Blood Sun’s next discovered attempt confirmed the floor’s usefulness.

A forged message supposedly from Yu Qingmei ordered Qin Yuheng to attend a private sealed briefing.

The False Authority Signature Burning Ink exposed it instantly.

The paper burned black-red.

Qin Mo shouted in triumph.

"Forgery floor immediately useful!"

Yu Qingmei was less amused.

"They are testing identity channels now."

Mo Cangyan’s tactics were becoming more complex, but each new floor gave Qin Yuheng counters.

Was the Tower responding to enemy methods?

Or was Qin Yuheng’s path attracting floors that matched unresolved dangers?

Either way, preparation deepened.

Floor 105’s file arrived with a silver-gray border.

[Floor 105: The Library of Unfinished Endings]

Type:

Archive world / incomplete stories / fate pressure / ending selection.

Estimated Duration:

5 Tower days.

Warning:

An ending chosen too early may become a cage.]

Qin Mo looked at Qin Yuheng.

"Endings now."

Qin Yuheng nodded.

Leaffall Valley had taught endings.

Winter Seed Village had taught waiting.

Greenwake had taught borrowed futures.

Borrowface City had taught identity.

Now unfinished endings.

The Tower was moving from seasons and identity into fate structure.

That would be important.

Because Blood Sun wanted to write Qin Yuheng’s ending as key.

He would need to refuse that too.