Next, a ceaseless barrage of banging erupted from the space Little Black Man called the storeroom.
Looking at the several familiar human skins before him, Guste's eyes reddened as he gathered every one of them away.
Although the system's antivirus program had greatly weakened Little Black Man's control over this place, the smashing and fighting by Guste and the others had ultimately alerted him.
When he saw his collectibles had escaped and the collection room had been turned into utter chaos by Guste and the others, Little Black Man showed no anger. Instead, before the screen, he burst into uncontrollable laughter.
"Success at last. As expected, the things left behind by those ants are anything but simple."
After that, Little Black Man no longer paid attention to Chen Cheng and the others cutting their way through the stages on the screen. The system's antivirus self-check had already begun; those collectibles were all ruined.
Little Black Man vanished from the heart of that mechanical jungle, appearing in the collection room where Guste and the others were the next instant.
The moment Little Black Man appeared, Guste's body swelled enormously, and his fan-sized palm slammed straight toward him.
"Devil, I want you dead."
The air trembled and exploded beneath the pressure of his palm. Before he even struck Little Black Man, the palm wind had already pressed his pitch-black body somewhat flat.
Yet his palm failed to hit Little Black Man. Before it could land, the Dogman King and the others—who had just been calling him brother and swearing vengeance alongside him—launched an attack on him first.
The sudden chain of sneak attacks from behind was something Guste had never expected. Caught completely off guard, he was sent flying.
Crashing into the wall of the collection room, Guste endured the agony of