Everything happened within three seconds.
Without slowing down, Lü Siya dragged an afterimage wreathed in arcs of electricity as she charged up the mountain of discarded monster materials.
Neither the whistling Crystal Bullets, the blades shot forth by the Phantom Assassins, nor the three to five Skinning Monsters that leaped high into the air, opened their blood basins of mouths, and struck ferocious poses—
seemed capable of stopping her from carving a bloody path out.
Yet, at the most critical moment, new obstacles suddenly appeared before Lü Siya.
Not Phantom Assassins.
But two harvesters.
They appeared to be employees of this warehouse.
They were specifically responsible for scanning and collecting anything among the discarded monster materials that contained faint Spiritual Energy and still held value for extraction.
The two harvesters were both ordinary people, clad in sealed protective suits capable of resisting toxins, corrosion, and radiation. They had originally been working with utter concentration.
Because the sealed protective suits were too heavy and stifling, and because they were already too exhausted and sluggish, the two harvesters had not realized what had happened the instant the wall collapsed.
Even after realizing it, with the physical abilities of ordinary people, they could not possibly have reacted correctly in the instant Lü Siya swept before them like wind and lightning.
The only reaction the two harvesters could manage was to panic and freeze like wooden chickens.
Through the transparent visors of their sealed protective suits, their faces could be seen draining of all color in an instant.
The two harvesters looked very much alike. One had graying temples, while the other still retained childish features. They looked like a mother and daughter from the lowest rungs of society, forced by life into this kind of filthy, exhausting work.
Naturally, such a mother-daughter pair