North America.
A city street at night.
A white-haired boy walked down the street, looking at the unfamiliar roads and unfamiliar people. He hummed a tune as he smiled and waved at passersby.
"My mother killed me, my father ate me. Oh, my sister, she gathered up my bones, buried them beneath a tree, and I became a bird, flying into the sky∽"
"La la la~"
Seeing the white-haired boy talking to himself, everyone on the street found him strange.
"Chinese?"
"Hey, stop!"
A Black man suddenly stepped in front of the boy. "Do you know where you are, kid?"
Sequence 008 raised his head. He could not understand what the Black man was saying.
"Earlier, when I got off the plane, they were stopping me too. I clearly told them I couldn't understand, so why, why couldn't they understand?"
"Obviously, you don't understand either."
"Since no one understands each other, I'll have to explain it in a way everyone can understand."
The boy raised a hand. His wrist instantly split open, and countless streams of blood burst forth from it, transforming into a longsword!
Squelch!
In an instant, the blood-forged sword pierced the Black man's chest!
His blood was as sharp as a blade. Sequence 008 yanked his hand back, and the Black man dropped to his knees as countless pedestrians screamed and scattered!
Watching the fleeing pedestrians, Sequence 008 turned around.
"Now you understand, right?"
"I came here to rule you."
"Doggies, it's hunting time!"
As soon as the boy finished speaking, the Black man from before suddenly twisted as he crawled back to his feet!
His spine bent, his limbs hit the ground, and his eyes turned blood-red. Like a hunting dog, he pounced forward in an instant!
Seeing this, the boy twisted his neck. His body stretched and shifted, and in the blink of an eye, he became an adult man.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please pick up the pace. Run faster. The nighttime death game has begun!"
With that, a pair of massive black flesh wings like a bat's spread from Sequence 008's back, and he flew straight into the sky!
The lives transformed by Sequence 008 could generally be divided into two types: Blood Clan with self-awareness.
And blood-seeking hounds without self-awareness.
The hounds would instinctively attack every living thing with blood. They could sense nearby life through blood.
Furthermore, after biting someone to death, a hound would turn the target into another blood-seeking hound like itself.
It did not take much. One bite was enough.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves. The appearance of a single blood-seeking hound directly triggered a biohazard crisis throughout the area.
In only half an hour, the number of blood-seeking hounds had grown to a terrifying several hundred!
By the time the police arrived, the hounds had already swept through the entire police force like an unstoppable army of zombies!
Eventually, even the military appeared. It was not until daybreak the next morning that the unrest gradually subsided.
The moment every blood-seeking hound saw sunlight, they lost the ability to move. Some even burst into flames and turned to ash.
They publicly claimed it had been a large-scale rabies outbreak and advised the public to be careful, but they did not forbid people from going outside.
The reason was simple: they could not ban it, because their people were free.
Over the following days, similar incidents occurred throughout North America.
But only at night. Once daylight came, every anomaly would mysteriously vanish like ashes after a great fire.
Inside a gun store, Sequence 008, in the form of a woman, spun a shotgun in her hand.
An M1887 Shotgun.
Some players familiar with FPS games might not find this gun unfamiliar, because it had a resounding nickname.
"Demon-Slaying Holy Flame."
Sequence 008 aimed the muzzle at a red-eyed woman on the floor and pulled the trigger. The gunshot rang out, and the bullet struck the woman in the chest!
Yet the woman acted as if nothing had happened and dug the bullet out with her own hand.
"Ah~ It's not enough, I need more~ Give me more~"
Sequence 008 smiled and stroked the woman's head. "As a doggy, you can't be too greedy. Who's next?"
As soon as Sequence 008 finished speaking, countless pairs of blood-red eyes flashed within the shadows.
As for why Sequence 008 had gone to North America, it involved a complicated dispute.
Sequence 008 and Number 002, Li Yuan, had gotten into an inexplicable conflict. Once it erupted, it rapidly developed into a life-or-death struggle.
Chen Ye could no longer stand the two of them chasing each other around North Ridge City every day, so he booked Sequence 008 a plane ticket and sent him abroad.
As for why the two had clashed, Chen Ye neither knew nor cared.
In Li Yuan's view, he had brought Sequence 008 before Chen Ye, allowing him to undergo this evolution. Sequence 008 should have been grateful to him.
But Sequence 008 clearly did not see it that way. Among Sequence 008's three personalities, all of them hated Number 002 with extreme intensity.
Because it was Number 002 who had pursued and killed their family of three.
To the mother, Number 002 had killed her husband and son.
To the father, Number 002 had killed his wife and son.
To the son, Number 002 had killed his parents, as well as himself.
This was an irreconcilable hatred, but Sequence 008 was far from the only one who wanted to kill Number 002.
Chen Ye's creations could only coexist peacefully in his presence. Behind his back, they fought fiercely and hated one another like fire and water.
Sequence 001 Raven was hunting Sequence 005 Wall Breaker.
Sequence 004 Queen Bee was hostile toward Number 002 Li Yuan, as well as Sequence 007 Siren, who was also a fish like him.
Sequence 008 was single-mindedly determined to kill Number 002 and cared about nothing else.
The only one uninvolved in this dispute was Sequence 003 Invisible Man.
"Right... I almost forgot about Sequence 003."
Chen Ye slapped his palm and suddenly remembered that he still had an Invisible Man on his side.
Because he usually had so little presence, Chen Ye had once overlooked his existence entirely.
But comparatively speaking, if even Chen Ye overlooked him, then surely no one else would notice him either.
Safe. Extremely safe.
Of course, in the end, it was still thanks to Sequence 003's honest and dependable nature.
"Worry-free. Extremely worry-free."
"Decided. I'll let Sequence 003 fend for himself from now on."
Just as Chen Ye thought this, a raven suddenly flew into the room!
"Lord Aus, this is bad, Sequence 003..."
Smack!
Chen Ye grabbed the raven by its beak and hurled it outside.
"Shut up. As long as you don't say it, the readers won't know what happened!"
What a crow's mouth. It had only just returned, and it was already bringing bad news.
They had only been peaceful for a few days, hadn't they?
Sequence 001 transformed into a young girl and crawled back into the room, but Chen Ye had already vanished.
The room was empty, with only a note left behind.
Sequence 001 picked up the note and saw five simple words written on it.
"Handle it yourself."
Seeing the note, Sequence 001's gaze instantly sharpened. It seemed Lord Aus was unable to act personally.
"I understand."
Raven immediately contacted everyone except Sequence 006, Sequence 007, Sequence 008, and Sequence 009.
"By Lord Aus's order, everyone is to immediately put down their current tasks and surround and kill Sequence 009!"
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