To be honest, Bai Zhi had not expected to find Dead Zero so quickly.
However, there was obviously something wrong with her current appearance.
Her eyes seemed to have gone blind and were covered with white cloth. She had also changed into a black dress and was holding a Monster by the leash...
...Was she under control, or what was going on?
Hiding in the shadows and observing Dead Zero's current state, Bai Zhi could not help but ponder inwardly.
As an Inheritor, Dead Zero was definitely no weakling. Bai Zhi did not believe she would fall for something so easily. Moreover, judging from the message she had sent earlier, she seemed to have anticipated what would happen to her.
But what was her purpose in deliberately doing this?
From what Dead Zero had said earlier, she did not seem to be a purely String Puppet.
Besides, this dog did not look like it could bite anyone. Its entire body was made of legs—where was its mouth...
Just as Bai Zhi was complaining inwardly, the "dog" called Calf, which had been walking toward the shelves, suddenly turned back at lightning speed. Several sharp tentacle-legs pierced through the shadows in an instant and stabbed straight into the floor.
"Damn it, you walk your dog without a leash? Do you people have any public decency!?"
Escaping from the shadows at the critical moment, Bai Zhi appeared atop the counter. As he swiftly created a fivefold Time Zone before himself, he angrily cursed at Calf.
This Monster was absurdly fast. Even though he had escaped in time, his left arm had still been grazed. His sleeve was torn apart, while the flesh around the wound cracked open inch by inch, the exposed blood and meat rapidly congealing into black, dry, hardened clumps of