Capricorn took another step back.
Looking at Liu Yun's punch, a flash of surprise crossed his eyes.
Although he was only a single step away from the Prophet Rank himself, Liu Yun's strength made him feel that he was still far outmatched.
Fortunately, Aries, that meat shield, was here...
He raised both hands, making a gesture to call a truce.
“No offense intended, Prophet,” Capricorn Xiao Xinghan said quickly.
“It is just that a real man must know when to act and when to hold back.”
His eyes darted around, and he looked back at Liu Yun.
“No matter how difficult a decision is, it still has to be made.”
Just as he finished speaking, the ground suddenly exploded.
Aries Hong Jiu leaped out of the earth, covered in dirt, and immediately threw a punch at Xiao Xinghan behind him.
“Shut your damn mouth,” Hong Jiu glared at Xiao Xinghan in annoyance. “Do you have any idea how close you came to getting me killed?”
Xiao Xinghan ignored him.
Standing in midair, Liu Yun remained silent for a few seconds.
“I am no 'real man,' so there is no need to use such descriptions on me,” she suddenly spoke.
She raised her hand and pointed toward the wall of wind that connected heaven and earth.
“However, fine. You may enter!”
With a slight flick of her finger, the golden heavenly soldiers standing at the very front suddenly moved, stepping aside to tear an opening in their airtight formation.
“As a trade—if you see the students of my Dawn City, lend them a helping hand.”
“The Rangers should still have some credibility, I assume.”
Aries was stunned for a moment, followed by sheer ecstasy.
She actually agreed so easily?
After tanking that blow earlier, he had thought they were in for trouble.
With Liu Yun here, trying to force their way in would have likely caused a major clash, yet she actually agreed now.
So he clasped his fists and grinned. “Thanks, sister! I knew the Prophet wasn't a petty person!”
“Don't worry, once we're inside, the Rangers won't hesitate to save any kids we can!”
He turned around, slapped the back of Xiao Xinghan's head, and waved at the Rangers behind him.
“Let's go!”
Flames erupted, and Aries transformed into streaks of fire, charging straight into the crack.
Capricorn glanced at Liu Yun, nodded in gratitude, and his earthy-yellow figure also vanished behind the wall of wind.
Watching them disappear, Liu Yun sighed inwardly. She could only treat this as a last-ditch effort.
She didn't know what attitude the Masked Hermit Society would have, but letting the Rangers interfere would at least introduce a variable.
Just then, a man suddenly stepped out from beside Xie Xuan.
The man looked similar to Xie Xuan, but was younger and more heavily built. With his hands in his pockets, he looked up at Liu Yun.
“Xie Jin?” Xie Xuan frowned. “What are you doing?”
“Let me go in too.” Xie Jin's voice was steady, carrying the calm demeanor of a Turing City engineer, yet there was no lack of madness in his eyes.
“What are you doing?” Xie Xuan's face changed. “Why are you joining the chaos at a time like this? We don't even know what the situation is like inside.”
“What is there to not know?” Xie Jin said calmly, looking up at the red wall of wind.
“The ones causing trouble are in all likelihood the traitors of Turing City. We both know their methods and their madness.”
“The thing that caused this level of disturbance might very well be the Containment Object that was taken from us.”
“I can't just stand by and watch at a time like this.”
Hearing this, Liu Yun looked down from the sky.
“Mr. Xie, what effect does the Containment Object you mentioned have, and what rank is it?”
Xie Jin looked up, making no attempt to hide the truth as he spoke:
“We don't know what that thing is either. Even the remnant pages of the Book of Answers couldn't identify it.”
“But its anomalous fluctuation level is at least that of an S-rank Containment Object. It even has the ability to devour surrounding life, causing any guards who get close to age rapidly.”
“Those traitors supposedly found out what it is, and they've gone completely fanatical.”
Liu Yun frowned.
Something that even the Book of Answers couldn't identify?
That shouldn't be possible. Even S-rank Containment Objects don't possess that level of secrecy.
“Let me go in. I will also rescue the people of Dawn City. Consider it a favor for the sake of Turing City's reputation.”
After speaking, he nodded to Liu Yun and strode toward the gap that was slowly closing.
Liu Yun glanced at him without a word. With another flick of her finger, she had the heavenly soldiers widen the gap once more.
From Dawn City's side, several people stepped forward as well.
“Let us go in too.”
“After all, our own children are inside. If something really happens, we won't be able to account for it.”
The speaker was the Dean of Tiandou Academy, a white-haired elder.
Behind him stood several Rank 5 Scavengers, all with grave expressions. Although Dawn City was rotten to its core, there were still some people who held onto a sense of righteousness.
However, among those who planned to enter, Tian Guannan was surprisingly one of them.
Liu Yun swept her gaze over them, her eyes lingering on Tian Guannan for a brief moment.
She said nothing.
She let them all in.
Standing in place, Xie Xuan looked at Xie Jin's retreating back with some worry and let out a sigh.
His cousin had always been like this, carrying a touch of madness and paranoia. He could only hope he would be fine this time.
He looked back at the live stream screen. The signal was intermittent, but occasionally, some footage of Bai Feifei would flicker through.
He saw her figure weaving back and forth, charging through the aberration horde.
Tirelessly.
...
Inside the red soil region.
The students of Yaoguang Academy were no longer in a panic.
Because they were completely dumbfounded.
They all sat blankly on the ground, staring at the mountain of corpses and sea of blood before them.
What had just happened?
Their memories were a bit of a blur.
It seemed the aberration horde had suddenly rushed over, and then that woman had charged straight into them.
And then, she killed faster and more ferociously, as if the slaughter actually made her happy, letting out an incredibly twisted laugh!
Did slaughtering bring her so much pleasure?
“Bai Feifei” was like a precision meat grinder. These aberrations below Tier 4 were as fragile as paper before her.
He didn't even give them a chance to Assemble-a-Monster, simply slaughtering them relentlessly.
Wherever her sword light passed, foul blood splattered.
She now stood right in the center of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood. Uncountable numbers of aberrant remains were piled beneath her feet, and her clothes were thoroughly soaked in foul blood, clinging to her body.
Yet she didn't care in the slightest, merely standing there quietly like a god of slaughter.
Those twisted aberrant limbs, those still-twitching pieces of flesh, and those alien faces that died with their eyes wide open blanketed the entire red soil.
The people of Yaoguang Academy were utterly speechless. They suddenly realized that during the previous 'cultural exchange' at Qingping Academy, this woman had actually gone easy on them.
She had wiped out every single aberration.
“Bai Feifei” closed her eyes.
Xu Mo took a deep breath.
It's been too long...
It's been far too long since I've had such an exhilarating, large-scale slaughter.
This bunch of creatures had practically delivered themselves to his doorstep, and the accumulated experience points once again updated his panel data.
【Current Level: 47 → 48】
Perfect.
He opened his eyes, his gaze sweeping across the mountain of corpses beneath him.
One of the advantages of a strong early-game start was the ability to handle this kind of situation with ease.
If he had started with his previous garbage game setup, he probably would have had no choice but to run away in the face of such an onslaught, with absolutely no opportunity to harvest them.
Excellent. The snowball was rolling.
Reaching Rank 5 Scavenger would happen today!
At this thought, he slowly raised his hand, placing it over his heart.
The throbbing of the Heart of the World was becoming increasingly frantic.
He turned around, looking deep into the red wasteland.
“Interesting...”
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