An underground containment facility, somewhere unknown.
The Chaos Splitter was bound inside a room, all his movements restricted.
Even moving his mouth was difficult. His jaws were pried open with clamps, and his tongue was pinned in place by a steel nail.
At the same time, a steel nail had been driven through every one of his fingers and toes.
"He really is immortal."
The man in the trench coat watched him through the glass. "He's the so-called leader of the Chaos Splitters? I didn't expect him to be this easy to take down."
A researcher beside him pushed up his glasses. "009 is extremely special. His immortality is only secondary."
"What matters is that he can split off all sorts of strange things."
"Like the Candy Box we discovered before. Those things come with unusual effects."
The Candy Box looked like nothing more than an empty plastic box, but every so often, it produced a piece of candy.
These candies possessed special abilities, and anyone who ate one would gain those abilities.
However, a person could eat at most one.
If someone ate two, their body would begin to rot. Then their limbs would break apart, their teeth and eyeballs would fall out, and before long, they would turn into a puddle of blood.
The man in the trench coat kept his hands in his pockets. "What do you think of the things I brought back this time, Doctor?"
The doctor looked at the twelve stones before him. "Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. The Twelve Zodiac Animals."
"You said you turned 009 into a monkey using one of these stones?"
"The monkey stone."
The doctor frowned. "This thing... why does it look so familiar?"
Another researcher walked over and abruptly pulled out a file. "Take a look. Isn't it this?"
"This is?"
"The Twelve Talismans?"
"Something from a cartoon?"
"This... is fake, right?"
"No, it's real. These talismans truly possess the abilities they had in the cartoon."
"The Rat brings the inanimate to life, the Ox grants immense strength, the Tiger balances yin and yang, the Rabbit grants incredible speed, the Dragon unleashes blazing fire, the Snake turns one invisible, the Horse heals all things, the Goat sends the soul from the body, the Monkey transforms endlessly, the Rooster defies gravity, and the Dog grants immortality."
"What about the Pig?"
"Eye beams."
"..."
"..."
"I think I need to find some time to catch up on cartoons."
"Any progress on the other A-Class Personnel?"
"Not sure. We deployed six A-Class Personnel in total this time. They all ate anomalous candies, gaining corresponding abilities as well as corresponding weaknesses."
"If we can send them into battle with these talismans, I think we can compensate for their weaknesses to some extent."
Inside the conference room.
Several high-ranking Nine-Tailed Fox officials had gathered together. "The targets of this capture operation are Sequence 001 Raven Mimic, Number 002 Weeping Fishman, 003 Invisible Man, 004 Queen Bee, Sequence 005 Rat in the Wall, and 009 Chaos Splitter."
"Excluding Sequence 006 Weaver of Fate, who is already dead, Sequence 007 Sea Siren, who vanished after fleeing, and Sequence 008 True Ancestor, who is outside the country."
"This operation is the riskiest in history."
"Can those six people really be trusted?"
"Don't underestimate them. They're elites among elites, monsters among monsters."
"The Candy Box has produced a total of eight candies so far. This is our current highest combat power. If we fail and the enemy discovers our location instead, we'll be in danger."
"Have faith in them."
"After all, believing is the only thing we can do..."
Just then, a C-Class Personnel member suddenly rushed into the conference room!
"A coded message has come from the front lines!"
Someone frowned. "What coded message? Who sent it?"
The C-Class Personnel member took a deep breath. "A coded message from the A-Class Personnel on the front lines. Great Amnesty!"
"I repeat, Great Amnesty!"
Upon hearing this, one person slammed a hand onto the table and sprang to his feet!
"Containment successful!"
South Bay Port District.
A man in a white Zhongshan suit stood there with a cane in hand.
Before him stood countless Soldier Bees and one Guardian Bee, Yang Yan.
The man slammed his cane against the ground, and a massive spiderweb suddenly appeared across the floor!
Yang Yan was just about to attack when he discovered he could not move. His feet were firmly stuck to the ground.
The man with the cane passed through the Soldier Bees and came directly before the Queen Bee, raising his cane.
"Spider's Feast. Wasps caught in a web. Though wasps are spiders' natural enemies in the animal kingdom, that is only because a spider's web isn't sticky enough."
"King Bee, the game is over."
Queen Bee instinctively retreated, only for the white web to instantly stick to her feet.
"Who are you?"
The man with the cane lowered it. "Nine-Tailed Fox A-Class containment personnel. Spider."
Queen Bee gritted her teeth. "Yang Yan."
As soon as she spoke, Yang Yan grabbed his own legs and snapped them off!
His wings vibrated as he dragged his mangled lower body straight at Spider!
Spider sighed and snapped his fingers. The white spiderweb on the ground suddenly shot upward, coiling around Yang Yan like ropes before violently dragging him to the ground!
Bang!
Seeing this, Queen Bee directly gave up resisting and shrugged.
"Fine, you win, darling."
Spider took out a communicator.
"N District. Spider. Great Amnesty."
Yangshan District, North Ridge City.
Li Yuan was pinned against a wall by a muscular man's palm!
Several Fishmen rushed out from behind him, only for the man's shadow to move on its own!
His shadow reached out and grabbed two Fishmen by the throat. The two Fishmen instantly froze in place, clutching their necks!
"Urgh!"
"Urgh, ah!"
Crack!
The shadow twisted the necks of the two Fishmen. The man rolled his head. "If you want to beat me, try boxing with my shadow first!"
More than a dozen Fishman corpses were piled behind the man.
Li Yuan frowned. He had a very strange feeling, as though something on that man resonated with him.
It was strange. Li Yuan suppressed the urge to summon every Fishman in North Ridge City and directly gave up resisting. He had a guess.
Seeing Li Yuan surrender, the man freed one hand and answered his communicator.
"Y District. Shadow. Great Amnesty."
Overnight, undercurrents surged through North Ridge City. Meanwhile, inside Chen Ye's former coffee shop.
Sequence 001 Mimic lay on the floor, while a fat man sat in a chair beside it.
The fat man brewed himself a cup of coffee in the shop and leisurely enjoyed it. During that time, Sequence 001 opened its eyes and secretly glanced at him, then closed them again and stuck out its tongue, looking as though it had died.
The fat man noticed nothing unusual and simply took out his communicator.
"B District. Future's Eye. Great Amnesty."
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