Danger Warning

"Stay away from him. The Evil Ghost Mask amplifies the violent emotions in a person's heart. He might lose control."

Tao Yuan stared at Qin Rang with a grave expression, afraid he would lose his senses and attack them. But as soon as she finished speaking, she turned around to find that An Ying and Bai Yang had already retreated to Sheng Qingqiao's side, leaving her standing alone.

Bai Yang and the others blinked their wide eyes and smiled innocently. "Don't worry, Sister Tao. We value our lives too much for that."

Tao Yuan: "..."

The pink-haired girl rolled her eyes in annoyance and hurried over to them. "Do you still remember that I'm a support who needs protecting?"

"Who can beat you in a fight? Even Qin Rang can't hold you back," Sheng Qingqiao retorted.

Bai Yang pointed at the enormous chainsaw at her waist. "You can carry that chainsaw around with ease, however much it weighs. Is that how strong a support is in combat?"

Tao Yuan sneered. "Look who's talking."

While they were talking, Qin Rang, wearing the Evil Ghost Face Mask, had approached the Toddler Weirds step by step. The Toddler Weirds remained rooted to the spot, completely unable to trigger their rule.

The Evil Ghost Face Mask's rule nullified the other side's rules. It was an extremely powerful Weird Object that forcibly leveled the combat strength of both sides.

Once a Toddler Weird's "follow" rule was nullified, it was a living target for Qin Rang.

He didn't even need a weapon. With the Evil Ghost Face Mask covering his face, his strength and speed were already far beyond those of an ordinary person. In an instant, he flashed in front of the Weirds and tore the nearest Toddler Weirds in half with his bare hands.

The Weirds fell one after another, without even letting out a scream.

In the dim light, only the eyes of the Evil Ghost Mask stood out, their dark blue glow radiating a chilling sense of danger that tested the group's nerves from time to time.

In fact, whenever their captain used this mask, they couldn't tell whether their boss or the hostile Weirds were more dangerous.

Qin Rang didn't pause for a moment. Only one thought remained in his mind: Kill them all!

In his eyes, the Weirds before him were all obstacles, aberrations that needed to be eliminated!

"Brother Qin's Weird Object is pretty normal most of the time. It only goes out of control occasionally, which is a bit troublesome."

Seeing Bai Yang staring at Qin Rang without blinking, looking tense, Sheng Qingqiao said, "Don't worry. As long as we stay far away from him, we won't be in danger."

Bai Yang returned a smile, but there was little amusement in his eyes.

With the Evil Ghost Mask on, Qin Rang soon tore the Weirds to pieces. Although they re-formed every time they were torn apart, after being ripped apart so many times without enough light, the shadows grew fainter and fainter, gradually turning pale gray.

After they were torn apart for the tenth time, the shadows did not re-form. Instead, a black playing card appeared where the last Weird had vanished.

"It dropped something!" Sheng Qingqiao craned his neck to look. "That card looks like the seven of spades!"

Qin Rang swept up the card and, within a few breaths, suppressed the urge to kill in his heart. He pressed his other hand against the mask, preparing to remove the Weird Object.

Just then, An Ying and Bai Yang both felt the hairs on their backs stand on end.

Danger!

An Ying whipped around to look behind them, his bamboo umbrella rising in an instant. Tao Yuan and Sheng Qingqiao immediately followed suit, taking out their Weird Objects.

At the entrance to the stairs, the long-limbed Weird holding a spiked hammer, which he had seen on one of the floors before, suddenly appeared, darting through the darkness at tremendous speed!

An Ying immediately opened his umbrella and turned sideways to shield the others.

Thud!

A muffled impact sounded against the umbrella. The barbs on the spiked hammer stuck fast to its surface, and an unnatural, sticky sensation spread all around, pulling them deeper and deeper as if into a vortex.

That was the power of a rule.

An Ying let go at once. The instant the bamboo umbrella left his hand, he curled his fingers into a claw, and a glint of cold light at his fingertips raked across the Weird's face.

"Hiss—"

The Weird dodged quickly, but he still tore a wisp of energy from it. Enraged, the Weird let out a series of roars, piercing as air escaping from a leaky jar.

Crushing the energy, An Ying stepped back and to the left, dodging the Weird's attack while making room for Qin Rang, who was attacking from the left, to smash a fist into the Weird's pitch-black face.

"Sizzle—" The Weird's energy evaporated rapidly under Qin Rang's hand, but it made no attempt to dodge. Instead, it swung its spiked hammer down at the group.

Qin Rang neither dodged nor retreated. Behind him, Tao Yuan raised her pink chainsaw with one hand in perfect coordination, and amid a fierce roar, it collided with the spiked hammer.

Clang! The sharp impact rang out. Tao Yuan gripped the chainsaw tightly as the chaotic energy whipped up her pink hair, and the energy cut against her body with a bone-deep pain.

Bai Yang looked at Sheng Qingqiao, who was shielding him. "Aren't you going to help?"

Sheng Qingqiao smiled. "It's fine. The boss and the others can handle it. I'll protect you."

Bai Yang gave him a touched smile, but he understood perfectly well that this looked less like protection and more like Sheng Qingqiao was guarding against him.

Over there, An Ying and Qin Rang attacked the Weird again. When their fists and blades struck its limbs, they left only faint, inconspicuous white marks.

After several exchanges, the Weird remained completely unaffected, though the energy around it had weakened slightly.

"Physical attack immunity again!" Tao Yuan promptly retreated, kicking the umbrella she had snatched from the Weird's hand to An Ying, who raised a hand to catch it.

"And slowing. There's a suction force behind this Weird's attacks, so be careful not to get pulled in." An Ying did not use the umbrella again. Together with Tao Yuan, he dodged another attack from the spiked hammer.

Boom!

With nothing to stop it, the spiked hammer slammed heavily into the ground, blasting a jagged crack through the wooden floor.

A smile curled across the Evil Ghost Mask, and dark blue flames flared up again. An Ying sensed that the mire-like restraint around him had greatly weakened. One of the Weird's rules had been nullified.

Although the battle was clearly going well, none of them lowered their guard. That feeling of extreme danger had never left their hearts.

In less than a minute, the group had already finished probing and restraining the Weird. Lin Nieran, who was controlling Bai Yang, sighed inwardly. The protagonists chosen by this world were indeed reliable.

If things developed normally, they would grow stronger and have no trouble solving the world's problems.

Had 007 not told him that they would later end up dead or injured, he would never have had the chance to come here.

Lin Nieran closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, Bai Yang's expression suddenly changed, and he murmured involuntarily, "It's him?"

"What? Who is it?" Sheng Qingqiao was taken aback. Before he could react, a flash of snow-bright blade light suddenly slashed down from above in the darkness.

The blade light gradually lengthened in the air, forming a massive crescent of energy that encompassed the entire corridor!

The Weird holding the spiked hammer sensed the threat and, without thinking, changed its target. Its enormous spiked hammer, wreathed in a thick layer of energy, shot toward the blade light.

The two collided, and the spiked hammer passed through the blade light as though it were insubstantial. The snow-bright light, however, was completely unaffected and continued descending at a strangely slow pace.

As the blade light drew closer, a pain like being scorched by the sun came with it.