Worthy of the [Dawn]

Tear Gas rolled to Chu Yunyi's feet.

Chu Yunyi showed no fear. Instead, he smiled.

He casually picked it up.

He brought the tear gas canister to his mouth, paying it little mind even as the gas reached his eyes.

Then—

Chu Yunyi did something that none of the Special Police present would have dared attempt in their entire lives.

They watched as—

Chu Yunyi took a fierce breath and inhaled a huge mouthful of gas.

"Huff!"

In an instant—

All the gas released by the tear gas canister was sucked into Chu Yunyi's lungs. The stream of gas actually broke off, as though the canister had malfunctioned.

"Phew!"

A breath later, massive amounts of tear gas poured from Chu Yunyi's nose and mouth, as if he were exhaling clouds and mist.

At that sight, every Special Police officer was left speechless.

After all—

This kind of tear gas was extremely potent. Even inhaling a trace of it could cause suffocation.

Yet this guy treated it like a cigarette and smoked it directly!

Even cigarettes damaged the lungs when inhaled, didn't they? He really didn't take tear gas seriously at all?!

The person who had thrown the tear gas was stunned as well.

Had I thrown an expired one?

No, that can't be right. Shouldn't expired ones be even stronger? How is he completely fine?

Everyone was utterly baffled.

But Captain Xu, the Female Captain, was the first to react. In an instant, she filled in countless details in her mind.

She understood. She understood everything!

At a time like this, there was only one possible explanation.

The person before them was like them, yet even more special.

He was... sent by the higher-ups!

"Which department are you from?" Captain Xu asked directly, though she was not entirely certain.

Hearing the question—

Chu Yunyi did not even think before answering, "Dawn."

After hearing that—

Captain Xu wore a thoughtful expression. She knew it—Dragon Country had special departments.

Still, she was somewhat disappointed that it was not called the "Dragon Group," as she had expected.

However—

The name Dawn sounded quite impressive. It carried the sense of supporting a collapsing building and standing in the apocalypse as an undefeated hope.

As she continued imagining things, Captain Xu nodded to herself.

But something was off on Chu Yunyi's end.

He had not really heard Captain Xu's question clearly just now. Even if he had, he had not given it much thought and had simply reported the name of his residential complex.

It was all that delivery courier's fault.

The guy always asked where the address was, and it had given him a conditioned reflex. Still, seeing the Special Police officers across from him nod without asking further questions—

Chu Yunyi found it awkward to say anything else.

"Uh, I'm heading to the west side of the city. Are you coming with me?" Chu Yunyi tried to break the awkwardness. Staring wide-eyed at a group of Special Police officers was not exactly an easy situation to escape.

Almost at the same time—

Captain Xu seemed to receive instructions from higher up and checked the results of the cleanup operation.

"Zone A complete. Three casualties."

"..."

"Zone E complete. One casualty."

Only after every zone had reported in did Captain Xu let out a sigh of relief. The Envy patients in this area had finally all been eliminated.

The new mission assigned by the higher-ups was to join the reinforcements in wiping out the Gluttony patients.

Gluttony patients were not particularly strong, but their infectiousness was truly disgusting.

If even one Gluttony patient entered a crowd and began feeding, the Gluttony Virus would spread at terrifying speed. It was revolting.

Therefore—

Their primary target was not the Wrath patients with the strongest destructive power, but the Gluttony patients with the greatest infectiousness.

Captain Xu wanted to reply, but Chu Yunyi was nowhere to be seen.

He had already left.

"Worthy of Dawn, worthy of a special person. Even disappearing, he does it so quickly," Captain Xu remarked.

On the other side—

Chu Yunyi cursed under his breath. Some partition layer had clearly not been built properly. He had taken one wrong step and fallen straight from the partition level at floor 12.5 to the normal twelfth floor.

That was even scarier than the Backrooms.

Fortunately, his physical abilities had been enhanced. Otherwise, a sprained ankle would have been the least of his problems.

"Fuck, don't let me find out who cut corners."

"I'll smash that bastard's head in!"

Still cursing, Chu Yunyi found the entrance to an apartment with a door.

With a twist of the handle, he entered the special space known as the Void Gate.

Then—

After catching his breath, Chu Yunyi was about to head directly for the Wrath patients.

But after reconsidering—

He decided to visit the Round Table first and pick up a few abilities. It was always good to be prepared.

As the saying went, one should sustain war through war.

Since Chu Yunyi could Become Stronger by killing enemies, why not become stronger first, then kill even more patients? Why save up his Control Power without using it?

The next moment—

Chu Yunyi closed his eyes. As time passed, he slowly fell asleep and entered the Round Table Dreamscape.

Round Table Dreamscape.

Looking at this familiar dreamscape, Chu Yunyi felt himself growing more adept at it. One day, he would be able to enter as soon as he closed his eyes.

Chu Yunyi looked at those movable yellow balls.

He discovered—

As long as he expended some Control Power, he could learn the information on the yellow balls just as he could see the information on the white balls.

But there was no real need for that.

After all—

Chu Yunyi had confidence in his Control Power. The amount needed to inspect the information on the remaining six yellow balls would probably be enough for him to knock down one yellow ball.

It was not worth the cost.

Besides—

This feeling of mystery was not bad either. He could just open a blind box!

"Here we go!"

Chu Yunyi directly turned his Control Power into a cue and struck.

"Whoosh!"

One shot, one pocket!

The yellow ball instantly appeared and fell into the pocket, immediately becoming Chu Yunyi's new ability.

Chu Yunyi checked it at once:

[NO.12: [Fighting Saint Body]]

[Quality: Yellow]

[Description: Each time you are severely injured in battle and then recover, you will become far stronger than you were before the battle.]

Seeing this ability, Chu Yunyi felt an indescribable emotion.

It was strong, sure, but he really did not want to be severely injured.

Yet it was not useless either. It still had some value.

"Just..."

"Why is it another passive skill? Don't tell me that after I clear this entire table, more than half of them will be passive skills?"

"What will I be then? A walking passive monster?"

Chu Yunyi sighed and used his Control Power again.

With his remaining Control Power, he could take another four shots before it ran out.

One shot missed, then the next went in, costing him two attempts.

Chu Yunyi checked it:

[NO.13: [Wall-Piercing Spell]]

[Quality: Yellow]

[Description: You can pass through walls, and your clothes will pass through them with you.]

[Note: A wall is defined as having a thickness of no more than 240 cm and a density of no more than 19.5 g/cm3.]

The moment he saw the skill, Chu Yunyi immediately got the idea.

"Pass through walls?!"

But upon seeing the restrictions, he was suddenly disappointed. Then, after thinking it over, he was pleasantly surprised instead.

Weren't these restrictions basically no restrictions at all?

After all—

What normal person built walls over two meters thick?!

And at that density, according to Chu Yunyi's memory, even titanium alloy met the requirement!

In other words—

The restrictions existed only to prevent bizarre uses like treating Blue Star's surface as a wall and passing through it from Dragon Country to America.

Other than that—

Couldn't he pass through whatever he wanted?!