Shen Bingyue's Late-Night Call, S-Class Mission Begins

"You see, disobedient children don't just get no candy."

"They might even have their homes torn down."

This final blow, delivered with a smile as bright as sunshine, ignited Annie's last vestiges of malice.

She stopped screaming. All expression vanished from her porcelain doll-like face, leaving only a dead, pure malevolence.

She slowly floated down from the second floor, the air around her distorting with extreme resentment. Several inky black spikes materialized out of thin air, whistling with a sharp sound that threatened to tear everything apart, and shot towards Qin Feng from all directions!

This was her dying counterattack, having abandoned all domain buffs and concentrating all her power into one point.

"Annie, the game isn't fun anymore, let's go home."

The moment Qin Feng finished speaking, he swung the Scissors of Truth in his hand again.

This time, there was no sharp killing intent, no overbearing power to sever rules.

The silver scissors traced a graceful, gentle arc in front of him, as if performing an elegant ribbon-cutting ceremony rather than a battle.

The whistling resentment spikes, the instant they touched this silver arc, didn't explode or get repelled. Instead, like puppets with their strings cut, the resentful threads forming the spikes were cleanly severed. They dissolved and disintegrated silently, completely "cut" to pieces in the void.

"Annie..."

This name, along with the phrase "let's go home," acted like two keys with supreme authority, forcibly unlocking the deepest chains of her memory, which had been sealed by resentment.

What broke her was not the severed domain, nor the cleared companions, but this name she had long forgotten yet was etched into her very soul.

The malice in her eyes cracked like a frozen surface, shattering inch by inch.

Bewilderment, confusion, grievance, longing... countless human emotions flickered across her pale little face.

Finally, everything subsided into an ineffable sadness.

Two streams of viscous blood tears slowly slid from her hollow eye sockets.

Her body began to turn transparent.

The instant her resentment and obsession completely collapsed, this lonely soul, trapped in the amusement park for over a decade, finally found release from the endless "game."

She looked at Qin Feng, and a barely perceptible flicker of childlike timidity and... gratitude flashed in her empty eyes.

Ultimately, her figure, caught between unwillingness and relief, dissolved into specks of black light, vanishing completely in the dilapidated castle hall.

With Annie's dissipation, the last trace of chilling aura in the entire amusement park vanished, leaving only the moonlight to quietly bathe the ruins.

[Sin Cleansing Successful!]

[Target: Orphan Girl in Red (D-Class)]

[Cleansing Rating: S (Perfectly discerned weakness, innovatively used rule armament, zero damage crush)]

[Cleansing Points Obtained: 400 points.]

[Extracting target's core concept... Extraction successful!]

[Legendary Armament Obtained: Lonely Game Box (D-Class)]

The cold system notification chimed.

Qin Feng felt a warm, stinging sensation on the back of his heart. With a thought, a virtual screen unfolded before his eyes, reflecting his back.

A tattoo of an ancient, exquisitely crafted music box slowly emerged on the skin of his lower back, taking shape.

[Legendary Armament: Lonely Game Box]

[Type: Domain/Mental]

[Ability: Can consume internal energy to designate a target and forcibly initiate a "game." Game content is randomly generated. If the target "fails" the game, their spirit will be dragged into the game box and permanently imprisoned.]

[Note: Be careful not to get yourself trapped in there too.]

"A mental prison?" Qin Feng raised an eyebrow. So this was the root of her suffering, a game that trapped even herself.

This thing was more insidious than a Death Notice and more bizarre than the Scissors of Truth.

It didn't harm the body, only the mind.

Once caught, it was eternal mental confinement from which there was no escape.

"Another unreasonable good item," he closed the description with satisfaction and unhesitatingly opened his system panel.

[Current Cleansing Points: 60 (Initial) + 50 (Little Ghost) + 400 (Annie) = 510 points]

Looking at this substantial sum, Qin Feng had only one thought.

"System, Origin Enhancement!"

[Confirm consuming 460 Cleansing Points to upgrade Form Observation Realm (Early Stage) to Form Observation Realm (Mid Stage)?]

"Confirm!"

[Exchange successful! Remaining Cleansing Points: 50 points.]

Boom!

A pure energy, several times more potent than before, surged like a warm, sweet rain, instantly washing through his limbs and bones, finally converging in his eyes.

Qin Feng felt an indescribable coolness in his eyeballs, as if they were immersed in the purest spiritual spring.

[The next second, he suddenly opened his eyes!]

The entire world changed completely in his eyes!

[No longer blurry outlines and blocks of color, but... a torrent of data!]

He clearly "saw" the colorful particles floating like dust in the air as thin Spiritual Energy particles.

He could even see inside himself, clearly "seeing" the miniature vortex within his dantian, formed by the [Gluttony Stomach], efficiently crushing, devouring, and converting the Spiritual Energy particles inhaled into his body into the most fundamental energy.

His Spiritual Sense perception range and precision had increased more than tenfold!

If "Form Observation Realm early stage" was like having a "night vision device" that could see ghosts.

"Nice." Qin Feng exhaled a long breath, feeling the sense of control brought by the leap in strength, his mood was excellent.

He casually spat out the lollipop he had chewed down to just the plastic stick. The stick drew an accurate parabola in the air, landing precisely in a broken trash can in the distance. Then, humming an out-of-tune little song, he turned and left the now silent ruins.

Back in his clean and bright new home, Qin Feng organized the information about Doll Island Paradise and uploaded it to the Merit Recorder of the Yellow Springs APP.

They were specifically responsible for recording and organizing the mission reports and achievements of field personnel, evaluating missions, and finally sending Contribution Points to the field personnel.

After finishing everything, Qin Feng took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and then threw himself heavily onto the soft bed.

From evening until now, the high-intensity hunting and consecutive promotions had left his mind feeling a trace of fatigue.

He slept for an entire day like this.

7 PM.

"Buzz... Buzz..."

The phone on the bedside table vibrated abruptly.

Qin Feng fumbled for his phone impatiently and glanced at the caller ID – Shen Bingyue.

He swiped to answer, weakly saying, "Hello."

"Qin Feng."

On the other end of the line, Shen Bingyue's voice was no longer its usual cool tone, but carried an unprecedented seriousness and urgency.

"Come to the Special Cases Department East Sea Branch building immediately for assembly."

"The eradication operation targeting 'The Vanishing Bus' has been moved up to begin tonight!"