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Anna sprinted up the stairs at top speed, ready to grab a 'Yang-attuned item' for dealing with jiangshi from her room.

"It's actually a [jiangshi] from Wenwen's country. In Russian, the original term for this was the same as 'zombie,' but they're actually not the same kind of thing.

We stopped the ritual in time and prevented the final evolution of this jiangshi, yet its body is still this tough... My axe can split small trees in half with one swing, but I couldn't even cut through the shoulder bone of that thing.

And this is just a simulated practice with greatly reduced difficulty and under the research institute's control.

The real 'anomalies' will be even more terrifying~ My strength and skills are still far from enough. No wonder the teacher cut me from the sports meet. I must train twice as hard after returning to school this time."

After tidying up her slightly messy thoughts, Anna stood before the master bedroom door.

Just as she was about to push the door open, Click~ (clicking tongue sound)

This brief, crisp sound alone

instantly brought a fear that surpassed the jiangshi downstairs.

The sound drew Anna's gaze towards the entranceway next to her.

She clearly remembered the master bedroom being the room furthest inside the entranceway, with the passage ending right by the door.

But the passage before her continued to stretch on, becoming pitch black in the depths, with no light strips at all, making the end impossible to see.

And the sound had just come from within the darkness.

The fearful thoughts grew with the duration of her stare.

Suddenly, Anna vaguely saw something in the deep darkness, slowly emerging, its partial body outline gradually becoming visible.

It was a terrifying existence with its tongue as its head.

It moved its feet like a living person, about to emerge from the darkness, about to reveal some unknown and horrifying ultimate form.

Slam!

A hand quickly patted Anna's shoulder.

The sudden touch pulled Anna's attention away from the darkness. In the blink of an eye, the passage before her had returned to normal. The end was about three meters away, with a vase standing there.

"Anna, what are you spacing out at the door for?"

Anna turned her head and saw Gao Yuxuan, wearing his usual refined glasses.

"Did you hear a strange sound just now?"

"No... Hurry up~ The class monitor and Luo Di can't hold on much longer."

This was a critical moment in the current practice. Gao Yuxuan didn't have time to think about anything else; wasting even a second more was gambling with his companions' lives.

The reason he had also run back to the residence was simple: his physical education scores were the lowest among the four of them. Since even Anna couldn't damage the jiangshi, there was no way he could harm it with his field knife.

Gao Yuxuan had also prepared in advance. His backpack contained a special item, originally intended to provide medical assistance to his teammates, but perhaps it could be used against the jiangshi now.

Seeing Gao Yuxuan rush into the master bedroom to search for something, Anna followed him in.

However, the lingering fear from the clicking tongue sound remained at the back of her throat.

Even though she kept reminding herself to trust the research institute and believe that this practice would only trigger one anomaly event, the scene she had just witnessed couldn't possibly be fake.

As Anna searched through her backpack, she said, "Classmate Gao, I just heard a clicking tongue sound in the passage and saw something like a demon. I feel like it's very dangerous."

Strangely, Gao Yuxuan didn't respond. He just looked highly focused as he took something out of his backpack. Upon closer inspection, it was a strange wooden box.

He seemed to have zombies on his mind and wanted to return to provide support as soon as possible, completely ignoring what Anna had said.

Gao Yuxuan opened the wooden box to inspect it. Inside were rows of neatly arranged silver needles.

"Is this... Traditional Chinese Medicine?"

Although Anna wasn't from Huaxia, she knew about the famous Traditional Chinese Medicine.

With a certain large company almost monopolizing biomedical technology, these Traditional Chinese Medicine clinics, spread across every city in the country, were an indispensable part of the medical system, especially allowing ordinary people to afford medical treatment.

She had the good fortune to experience acupuncture once, which improved her physical condition and led to good results in her subsequent sports exams.

However, the silver needles in the wooden box before her were much longer than those used in acupuncture, with the longest one capable of piercing an arm.

The item Anna found in her backpack was the vodka she had drunk during dinner, three bottles in total.

The first two bottles were her favorite 60° proof liquor. As for the last bottle, it was the highest proof Spirytus (Spirit of Life) on the market, a special vodka at 96°, usually used for mixing various cocktails. Anna hadn't expected this item to be useful.

There were also torn strips of cloth and a windproof lighter.

"Let's go!"

"Okay!"

When the two pushed open the master bedroom door again, they could hear the clanging of metal from outside, even from a distance.

"Wenwen!"

Anna, having personally hacked at jiangshi, knew very well how difficult they were to deal with. Her worry for her best friend further suppressed the fear in her mind. The current situation made it impossible to consider that ethereal clicking tongue sound.

They could only wait until the jiangshi situation was resolved before discussing how to handle it with everyone.

The two of them rushed out of the mansion at top speed. The moment they stepped outside the gate, the scene before them made them freeze.

The sounds of fighting they could still hear moments ago had stopped.

The newly developed, silver-plated chainsaw lay right beside the mansion's main gate, but its crucial saw blade had snapped, rendering it unusable.

Luo Di lay on the ground more than ten meters away, tightly clutching his left upper arm with his right hand. Three finger-thick holes remained on it, piercing through the muscle. The wound was blackened and oozing blood and pus.

However, in the open space of the front yard, an arm wrapped in a cloth sleeve had also fallen. Foul-smelling black blood flowed across the ground. Judging by the crude cut on the arm, it had been severed by the chainsaw.

At the cost of destroying the chainsaw and injuring his arm, Luo Di had actually managed to saw off one of the jiangshi's arms.

The two who hadn't witnessed the event were incredibly shocked by Luo Di's personal strength.

In reality, only Luo Di himself knew that the entire process relied on the class monitor's ability to keep the jiangshi occupied, giving him the chance to swing the cumbersome chainsaw for an effective cut.

Moreover, the class monitor's combat prowess was unlike that of a high school student.

Ah~~

Waves of black mist spewed from the jiangshi's mouth. Having lost an arm made it even more enraged, and it regarded Luo Di, the chainsaw wielder, as its primary target.

Its cloth shoe lifted and it attacked rapidly.

Luo Di, who had just pushed himself up from the ground, seemed unable to dodge in time.

At the critical moment, something glowing flew from the main gate, tracing a parabolic arc through the air before perfectly impacting the jiangshi's side.

With a loud crash of shattering glass and a terrifying roar, flames sucked in oxygen and spread across the jiangshi's body. The strong smell of alcohol quickly dissipated.

The makeshift firebomb made of alcohol wasn't very effective; the flames didn't engulf the jiangshi completely, only burning parts of its body.

The Yang-attuned flames had a natural restraining effect on the yin corpse.

Even though the pus flowing from the jiangshi's skin could effectively suppress the flames, the burning before it extinguished was still quite effective.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, another item was thrown over.

This time, it wasn't thrown at the jiangshi but at Luo Di, who had just gotten back on his feet.

Smack!

He caught it steadily.

It was a bottle of 60% vodka, with no burning cloth stuffed into the opening.

Although it didn't reach the 70-75% standard of medical alcohol, it still possessed some disinfecting effect. Luo Di immediately poured the liquor onto the wound on his arm.

Intense pain.

And the erosion caused by the corpse poison wasn't something that could be easily cleaned up.

At this moment, a gentle, almost unfeeling palm landed on Luo Di's shoulder. The touch made Luo Di recall the last moment before the holiday, back when the class monitor had found him and invited him for simulated practice.

A gentle voice came from beneath the mask, "Leave the rest to us~ A crippled jiangshi missing an arm is more than enough for us to handle. Don't underestimate your teammates."

Thanks to the new alliance leaders [dzzzzzzz] and [Lonely Ghost God], the offerings have been received.