Sever It with a Sword

Zhu Cenhuai beside Chen Qingcheng looked utterly sick.

He, too, felt uneasy inside.

"Could there have been something wrong with what we said?"

Chen Qingcheng said, "What could have been wrong? I think it made perfect sense. We shouldn't have to suppress our emotions in the first place. Anomaly Tamers don't have much time left to live. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone or delay the mission, does something like this even matter?"

The Bureau of Special Affairs was not that inhumane.

Of course, what they did not know was that their circumstances differed from Xie Yu's.

Compared to them, Contract Anomalists had one less risk: being devoured by Weird backlash.

As a result, Contract Anomalists actually had longer lifespans than they did.

Unless they died fighting Weird entities.

Otherwise, the only thing that could affect Contract Anomalists was their own emotions.

Their emotions—or rather, emotions altered by the Weird entities they had contracted and by Weird energy, gradually turning them toward something nonhuman.

Weird energy altered the bodies of Contract Anomalists, with the purpose of changing them in the direction of Weird entities and nonhumans.

Contract Anomalists had to hold fast to their humanity under this influence.

Even when thoughts of cruelty, slaughter, and violence constantly lingered in their minds, they had to remember the beautiful side of humanity.

Friendship, kindness, gentleness, and so on...

These emotions would constantly pull at them, until one day, the Contract Anomalist standing at the center of the scales completely tipped toward the other end.

Otherwise, the tug-of-war would never stop.

Most Contract Anomalists who lost control did so because they could no longer endure it.

Although Anomaly Tamers were in a worse situation than Contract Anomalists.

After all, they also used Weird energy, so naturally their emotions would be affected. On