Dead Meant Truly Dead

Luo Ping and Huang Bei turned their gazes toward him.

The energy around Xu Bin was in extreme disarray.

It was clear that he had been doing everything he could to suppress the Weird inside his body, but he had obviously reached his limit.

His entire body was now like a taut bowstring—either the bow would break, or the string would snap.

They could both see that Xu Bin's physical condition had become extremely dire.

If he had been a Contract Anomalist, his teammates, companions, or captain would have dragged him straight back to the Medical Department for proper treatment, then made him take a few days off to relax and settle his emotions.

Luo Ping's brow lifted slightly. It was his first time seeing such a situation, but he could understand it clearly enough. Perhaps this was a sign that an Anomaly Tamer was about to lose control?

After giving it some thought, he realized that Contract Anomalists could lose control as well.

However, a Contract Anomalist's loss of control usually stemmed from the effects that prolonged exposure to Weird energy had on their psyche and consciousness.

It would trigger certain mad transformations—making them more obsessive, more frenzied, more extreme, and more irritable.

Then, at some point, they would lose control and destroy everything around them.

At that moment, the Contract Anomalist might have lost consciousness, or they might still be awake.

As long as someone interrupted that state and stopped them from losing control, they could be taken back and confined for a while until they recovered.

So long as they had not caused any major disaster, at most, a psychological counselor would be assigned to help regulate their emotions every day.

But Anomaly Tamers... once they lost control, they would apparently face a backlash from the Weird