Hospital Mission

A blade of grass was pierced through.

With a curl of her finger, the Spirit Threads returned, as though nothing had happened.

Ye Xin looked at her palm and nodded to herself.

"Judging from how that felt, dealing with something as fragile as leaves is effortless. If that's the case, flesh shouldn't be much harder."

This meant the Spirit Threads could serve as Ye Qian's trump card.

The strength of this second body could not be underestimated.

"I should go buy something to eat and celebrate."

With the testing complete, Ye Xin was in high spirits. She picked up her main body's phone and left the house.

Now that she had become an extraordinarily beautiful young girl, the number of people looking back at her on the street was honestly a little outrageous.

She forced herself to ignore the stares, silently bought a huge pile of food, scanned the code to pay the cashier, and calmly walked out the door.

Having just stepped out of the supermarket and taken only a few steps, she passed a nearby alleyway.

Ye Xin suddenly felt something strange.

With a curl of her finger, two Spirit Threads pierced through the wall beside her and reached twenty meters away.

That was already the limit of her current detection range.

A sweep of her senses quickly revealed two unfamiliar men.

Their conversation immediately reached her.

"Sure enough, she's a newcomer. She doesn't even know how to hide her aura. She's excellent prey."

"Let's give it a try. I saw her already—she's a very pretty little girl, harmless-looking. If we handle this well, we might even gain another puppet." As the young man spoke, he took out a Silver Mask and put it on.

She could not see clearly due to the angle, but judging from their direction and words, did it sound like they were targeting her?

The threads swept to either side. She found no one else, nor were there any cameras.

Ye Xin immediately stepped into the alley.

At that moment, the two men began walking southwest—toward her home.

"Were they really watching me?"

Her main body inside the house jumped in fright, immediately shut the windows, and drew the curtains.

Her clone cautiously followed behind them. Once she was certain they were targeting her, she gritted her teeth, raised her hand, and released several Spirit Threads that viciously wrapped around their bodies.

At that moment, she used nearly all her strength, making the threads as tough as if they had physical form.

Two of them completely bound the man on the left. With a twitch of her fingertips, immense force burst forth, yanking him away and smashing him viciously into a tree seven or eight meters away.

The other two Spirit Threads tangled chaotically around the second man's flesh. They suddenly tightened, instantly cutting into his skin and strangling his neck.

Blood from his carotid artery sprayed like a fountain, dyeing the entire patch of grass red.

"One's dead." Ye Xin's heart lurched.

Honestly, she had not been mentally prepared to kill someone.

Even if it was in self-defense, such an act would undoubtedly bring her a great deal of trouble later.

There was no doubt that the man with the broken neck had stopped breathing. On the other hand, the Black-Robed Man who had crashed into the tree was completely unharmed. Black flames ignited over his body, melting Ye Xin's threads on the spot.

"Who are you?"

He staggered to his feet and asked in a chilling tone.

Ye Xin did not answer at all. She immediately moved, circling around to the Black-Robed Man's left side.

But almost instantly, an unprecedented sense of danger surged within her. She hurriedly rolled sideways, controlling the Spirit Threads with all her strength and flinging her body several meters away.

A bizarre aura swept past her. Her left calf was grazed by it, and an indescribable pain shot through her.

She staggered two steps. With no time to inspect her left leg, Ye Xin immediately rolled down the slope beside her and hid behind a concrete stairway.

The man staggered as he looked over, and his gaze met hers.

"Eek~"

Ye Xin's scalp went numb, especially when she saw the pockmarked face exposed beneath his fallen mask. Countless disgusting maggots crawled in and out of densely packed holes, sending chills down her spine.

Hospital Mission

"What the hell is that?"

Ye Xin was startled by his face, but she also knew she had no room to think. She immediately raised her finger and released several more Spirit Threads.

The invisible threads were like venomous snakes, viciously biting into his heart and throat.

She did not stop moving either. While he prepared to retaliate, she swiftly circled behind a house and tightened the fine threads in her hand.

The man immediately clutched his throat and let out a somewhat low-pitched scream.

He tried to struggle, but his entire body was dragged to the edge of the wall. Then, under the threads' control, his body was forcibly pinned against it. With a crack, he was sliced into a pile of flesh. Severed limbs and organs rained onto the ground with wet splats.

"Whew... cough, cough."

After confirming that the target was dead, Ye Xin collapsed onto the ground and began breathing heavily.

She looked at her injured left leg. Her stockings had torn, revealing a patch of completely charred skin.

"Luckily, it's just a minor injury."

Still shaken, she patted her chest and slowly climbed to her feet while enduring the nausea.

After seeing the Black-Robed Man's appearance with her own eyes, she seriously doubted whether those two could even be considered human.

The battle had taken place barely ten meters from her home.

"I can't believe I killed two people in a row."

She had never even killed a chicken, yet she had managed something like this. Ye Xin almost admired herself a little.

If there was anything that made her uncomfortable... it was mainly how disgusting it had been. It was far more intense than anything she had seen in movies, especially the worms covering that man's entire body. It had practically cost her a huge chunk of her sanity.

Why were there such bizarre people?

Had Chen Ning been right? Were people really watching her?

She turned and glanced at the corpses, then felt nauseated again.

The ground was covered in chunks of flesh and worms. The sight was truly beyond disturbing.

"If I don't deal with this, it'll be a huge problem."

Not only that, there was another headless corpse ten meters away.

Just as she began thinking about what to do, she noticed black smoke rising from the chunks.

Then, at a speed visible to the naked eye, the flesh within began shrinking.

She stepped back a few paces and looked at the other corpse. It was shrinking as well.

"..."

Killed an LV7 player.

Extracting energy...

Extraction complete. You obtained 45 points of Life Energy.

...

Killed an LV9 player.

Extracting energy...

Extraction complete. You obtained 58 points of Life Energy.

A notification appeared, but perhaps because this was reality, nothing had dropped.

"Was it because the Life Energy was absorbed? No, maybe the corpses are automatically destroyed."

She released several threads and hooked out a small bag from one of the men. With a gentle tug, she pulled out its contents.

Three black metal rings and a piece of parchment imprinted with a special pattern fell into her hand.

"Explosion Ring Crafting Method?"

The contents were quite detailed.

It was a method for crafting a magical item. By engraving symbols and infusing it with spiritual power, the ring could gain a powerful explosive effect.

Ye Xin looked at the three rings in her hand but still put them away.

They were spoils of war.

These guys had come to deal with her and talked about turning her into a puppet. Taking a few of their rings was no problem, right?

As she thought that, the corpses and their clothes completely vanished.

"Whew."

She relaxed a little.

After all, the targets had died right beside her house. The thought of it was still somewhat dangerous.

"I should go back, before something else happens."

With no one around, she feigned calm and returned home. She poured herself a glass of water, then had her main body stick a finger into it to purify it for several seconds before letting her clone drink it.

Before long, the injury on her leg disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Just as I thought, the Water of Purification has this kind of effect too."

Of course, Ye Qian was not perverted enough to soak it using her own little feet in white stockings.

Well, she did kind of want to. Crossed out. 8

At this point, perhaps thanks to having two bodies, she discovered that Life Energy could be freely stored and used.

So she raised her main body's level to LV5.

Then she raised her clone to LV4.

23 points of Life Energy remaining.

"Looks like I can Proliferate again."

Considering that she needed to preserve her strength to handle danger now, she decided to wait until her main body was in better condition before trying.

She took out her phone and hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided not to tell the other two team members about what had happened to her.

"Forget it. I'll keep it to myself for now."

Ye Xin walked to the full-length mirror, looked at herself within it, and sighed helplessly.

"I have to change clothes again."

After opening the closet and looking at the clothes filling it, she chose an outfit similar in style to the previous one and put it on.

She tossed the old clothes into the washing machine and threw away the torn stockings.

At that moment, she casually extended several Spirit Threads outside the house to keep watch at all times.

Unexpectedly, half an hour later, two unfamiliar people arrived.

"They're dead!"

"Let's see who killed them."

For some unknown reason, a blurry image appeared before the two of them, reconstructing the earlier scene of death.

The Black-Robed Man was strangled by invisible threads, blood pouring from his wounds. Then, utterly unable to resist, he was dragged against the wall and ultimately miserably sliced into countless pieces.

After the image finished playing, both of their expressions darkened.

"What kind of method was that?"

"That death was too bizarre. Let's go. We can't stay here long."

The two seemed frightened and promptly left the scene.