Physical Exorcism

"Bang!" With a dull thud, the baseball bat struck the Skeleton Soldier's cervical vertebrae with pinpoint accuracy.

A devastating hit!

Even undead creatures had to obey the laws of nature once their physical connections were severed.

The skull traced a graceful arc through the air, bounced and rolled more than ten meters away, then its Soul Fire slowly went out.

Su Li didn't pause. She used her momentum to turn and swept the bat backhanded!

"Crack!"

The second Skeleton Soldier hadn't even had time to raise its iron sword before its neck was snapped clean through.

After the fight, Su Li realized that although her body had become a girl's, her strength hadn't weakened at all. In fact, she was stronger than before.

However, to the two police officers watching nearby, the scene was no less terrifying than a horror movie.

What had they just seen?

A delicate little girl had beaten those two monsters to death with two swings of a baseball bat! What kind of super-strong girl was she?!

Su Li glanced around. After confirming there were no other Skeleton Soldiers within sight, she casually rested the bat on her shoulder.

"The weak point of these skeleton monsters is where the spine connects to the head. In other words, the neck." Her clear, sweet voice rang out.

"They're actually very weak. There's no need to be afraid." Su Li continued her explanation in that same sweet voice.

"If more of these monsters show up, just get over your fear and swing at their necks. Be sure to pass that on to your colleagues."

Officer Xiao Zhang swallowed. Her mind had completely short-circuited. "Ah... okay..."

With that settled, Su Li didn't bother checking whether the other woman had understood. She turned and grabbed the wrist of Su Lin Yue, who was still standing there in a daze.

"Yueyue, let's go!"

"Big bro... Ah, no, but Xiao Xue..." Su Lin Yue glanced back at her best friend.

"Don't worry about her for now. She's safer with the police than with us. Time to get out of here!"

Su Li grabbed her sister and turned without hesitation, rushing toward the Emergency Exit.

Three minutes later, Su Li and her sister came sprinting out of Jinzhan Shopping Mall.

"We can't take the car for now." Su Li's mind raced.

They'd sped all the way here, and now the car was sitting right at the crime scene. There was no way it hadn't drawn the police's full attention.

If they sauntered back and drove away, the police would impound the car before the day was out.

Perhaps because she'd taken on the burden of supporting her family at such a young age, Su Li had an innate aversion to trouble.

"This way!" Su Li decisively abandoned the SUV and pulled Su Lin Yue toward the roadside.

"Beep!" "Beep!" She deftly unlocked two Shared Electric Bikes.

"Come on, Yueyue!"

However, Su Li had oversimplified things.

Just as the two of them rode off on the Shared Electric Bikes, the main body of the police force finally arrived. Fully armed SWAT officers cautiously stormed the second floor.

But the fierce battle they'd expected never took place.

The Director in charge saw only two mall-assigned police officers standing breathlessly in the corridor, with the scattered bones of several skeletons around them.

Naturally, Xiao Zhang and Xiao Liu were hailed as heroes who'd protected the public and killed the monsters.

The Director hurried over and clasped their hands excitedly. "Xiao Zhang, Xiao Liu! Well done! Did you two take care of all these skeleton monsters?"

They exchanged a glance, looking somewhat awkward. The three later ones, sure—but they hadn't dealt with the first ones.

Officer Xiao Zhang was an honest person, and the mall was covered in surveillance cameras. There was no point lying and taking credit.

"Director, actually, we have a girl to thank."

Xiao Zhang reported everything that had happened in detail.

"A young girl? With a baseball bat?" The Director's eyebrows twitched as he listened.

Were there really such extraordinary people among the public?

As a senior government official, he knew more than ordinary police officers.

Rumor had it that the government had recently and secretly established the National General Bureau for Security and Anomalous Phenomena Research, publicly known as the Seventh Four Nine Institute—or, as it was commonly called, Bureau 749.

Although he didn't know exactly what it did, the authorities had repeatedly stressed that any inexplicable anomaly or extraordinary individual had to be reported immediately.

The Director nodded and immediately called over a technical specialist. "Xiao Song, check the surveillance footage. Find out who that girl is and report back to me right away."

Xiao Song hurried off.

The efficiency of a professional team was terrifying. The results were in less than ten minutes.

"Director!" Xiao Song hurried over with a tablet. "We found her. She arrived in a black SUV."

"But the registered owner of the vehicle is an adult man named Su Li. As for the girl who was taken away by the mysterious woman, facial recognition shows she's this man's younger sister, Su Lin Yue."

Xiao Song paused and brought up a screenshot of Su Li from the surveillance footage.

"As for the mysterious woman carrying the baseball bat, we searched the national database for a facial match. We found someone with a high degree of similarity, but no exact match."

"For now, she appears to be unregistered. We'll need to find the girl named Su Lin Yue to identify her."

The Director stared at the screenshot of the long-haired girl and pondered for a moment.

"Keep investigating."

The Director gave them a stern warning. "But remember, absolutely do not disturb her ordinary life without good reason! Extraordinary people like her may have very eccentric temperaments. I'll report this to my superiors immediately."

Just then, the phone at the Director's waist suddenly rang.

He answered. A deep, authoritative voice came through the receiver.

"This is Bureau 749. From this moment on, we're taking full control of the anomalous incident at Jinzhan Shopping Mall."

The Director's expression tightened. "Yes! We will follow orders without question!"

By noon, the siblings had finally made it home on their Shared Electric Bikes.

"Yueyue, are you hurt? Does anything ache?"

"Big bro, I'm fine." Su Lin Yue caught her breath.

Looking at her sister, Su Lin Yue's wide eyes brimmed with admiration. "Big bro, you were amazing! You took care of those monsters in no time at all. How did you do it...?"

Faced with her sister's sparkling gaze, Su Li thought for a moment and decided to tell her the truth.

"Because those Skeleton Soldiers are monsters from the game I play."

Su Li told her everything about Eternal Realm without holding anything back.

"Huh?" Su Lin Yue's jaw dropped so low she could've fit an egg in her mouth.

"The monsters from the game came into the real world?!"

"Yeah." Su Li's expression grew more solemn than ever.

"So it looks like I have no choice but to keep playing this game."

If she'd previously treated it as just a game, the situation had now completely changed.

Skeleton Soldiers from the game had actually appeared in the real world!

If it was Skeleton Soldiers today, would Flame Dragon Lizards appear tomorrow? Would Ulcerated Tree Spirits? What about that endless army of undead?

Low-level monsters that could be killed with firearms were one thing. But what about high-level monsters with Magic Shields that were immune to physical attacks? And then there was that so-called Abyss...

The entire world could be plunged into a crisis of destruction at any moment!

"The game will finish updating and reopen tomorrow morning."

"I have to speed up my progress. Even if I really turn into a skeleton, I'll keep going to protect my sister..." Su Li silently made up her mind.

At the same time, a white SUV with no identifying marks quietly pulled up outside the Su Family Compound.

"Have you finished checking the records?"