Mirror Demon!

Nanchang.

Clubhouse.

A group of armed soldiers stood guard outside the clubhouse, their expressions extremely tense.

"Captain, what do you think they're holding in there?"

"I don't know, but if you value your life, take my advice and don't get curious."

"Not even a little?"

"...I don't know either."

"I heard we're escorting some rare animal this time. The organization seems to be using it for some kind of experiment."

As one of them spoke, a human face suddenly reflected off his gun barrel.

Seeing this, the man abruptly spun around with his gun raised, but there was nothing behind him.

"Captain, what's wrong?"

The man turned in a circle with his gun. "Strange, there was clearly some—"

Crack.

Before he could finish, something suddenly twisted his neck around!

Blood and bone twisted into a mangled mess. The other man stumbled back in shock, only for the moonlight to reflect off something as the man's head swiftly exploded.

Bang!

Blood erupted as a figure brazenly pushed open the clubhouse doors and entered an underground facility.

The underground facility was brightly lit. Wang Haonan's figure was continuously reflected across the gleaming walls and floor.

Several armed soldiers passed by, their figures reflected in the mirrors.

A streak of blood flashed past, and several heads instantly hit the floor.

Wang Haonan continued moving through the reflective walls, soon arriving at the deepest part of the underground structure.

At the very depths of the building, a giant snake was being held captive.

Wang Haonan came before the giant snake. "Looks like it's not here either."

Just then, a man with Serpent Eyes suddenly appeared behind Wang Haonan.

"Look who this is."

"003. There's a road to heaven, but you wouldn't take it; hell has no gate, yet you walked right in."

Wang Haonan turned around. Behind him stood an A-rank containment specialist from Nine-Tailed Fox.

The man had snake-like eyes, fish-like scales on both arms, and a long, bizarre tongue.

Wang Haonan took out the documents he had found while searching another building earlier.

"You're Cobra, right?"

Cobra smiled. "Ah, that's me. Not containing you last time was such a waste of all these abilities I specifically gained to deal with you."

"Did you know? All our abilities come from a piece of candy."

"When our hearts yearn for something, the candy answers that desire."

"For example, I wanted to deal with an invisible person, so I gained a pair of snake-like eyes with thermal vision."

Wang Haonan stroked his chin. "So your abilities all come from this so-called candy."

"And the abilities you receive depend on what each of you wishes for."

"Then why not wish for invincible power?"

Cobra shrugged. "There are many kinds of invincibility. One guy wanted invincible power, and in the end, he only gained the ability to phase his body."

"In a sense, he really did become invincible. While phased, he couldn't be killed or attacked. No one could defeat him."

"But that kind of invincibility clearly differs fundamentally from the invincibility we imagined. At its core, it might also be because the Candy Box itself has limited power, so the abilities it can grant are limited too."

Wang Haonan smiled. "Then why not try eating a few more candies?"

"Eating more would of course be great, but one guy already turned into pus and blood after eating two candies." As Cobra spoke, a little snake emerged on his arm.

"Alright, alright. If you want to talk, we can go back and take our time."

"Aren't you going to turn invisible?"

Wang Haonan gave a faint smile, and his figure instantly vanished from where he stood!

Cobra grinned and widened his eyes, instantly sensing the nearby heat sources!

But strangely, there were no heat sources anywhere nearby.

"Where is he?"

Cobra froze for a moment. The next second, something violently sliced off his head, sending it straight to the ground!

Pfft!

Blood sprayed as Wang Haonan appeared behind Cobra.

"Your information is a little outdated."

"Who still turns invisible these days?"

With that, Wang Haonan swaggered out of the clubhouse.

After Wang Haonan left, a rift suddenly tore open in the space before them.

Chen Ye stepped out of the rift, dragged away Cobra's corpse, then looked toward the giant snake inside the cage.

"Hmm... I feel like I can make something pretty good."

Upon seeing Chen Ye, the giant snake suddenly shrank back. Its entire body trembled instinctively, as if it had seen some loathsome thing that brought it face-to-face with death.

Looking at the trembling giant snake, Chen Ye passed his hand through the cage and gently stroked its head.

"Don't be afraid. He's the material."

"And you will evolve, achieving unparalleled beauty."

With that, Chen Ye grabbed the cage and tore open a rift, vanishing into the void together with the giant snake.

On the other side of the rift.

There was a bizarre black hall.

It existed at the boundary between reality and the mind, nowhere within any corner of the material world.

Chen Ye's flowers, along with the test subjects and the Double-eared Pot, were all piled up here.

Now, a giant snake and the corpse of a snake-man had been added to the collection.

"Don't be nervous. Relax. This won't hurt at all."

Chen Ye cut open the snake-man's corpse and threw it into the pot, tossing every inch of it inside from upper body to lower body.

But remarkably, no matter how much he threw in, the potion always remained at only 100 milliliters.

Nine-Tailed Fox Headquarters.

"Cobra is dead."

"What?"

"Who did it?!"

"According to the surviving surveillance footage, it should have been 003."

"Impossible. Cobra's ability perfectly counters 003. Even if that idiot was careless, he couldn't possibly have gone down so easily..."

"Unless 003 evolved."

"Sequence 006 is already dead. According to our hypothesis, no new monsters should appear, and naturally, no monsters should evolve anymore."

"Have you forgotten the other hypothesis we proposed before?"

"It wasn't Sequence 006 that created the monsters, but something else."

"Although Sequence 006 is dead, that thing hasn't disappeared. Someone has taken over Sequence 006's work."

"Do you remember what Chu Yang asked before he died?"

"Chu Yang asked Sequence 006 whether killing it would mean no new monsters could appear."

"Sequence 006's answer at the time was, are you really sure?"

"This is... troublesome."

One man walked directly to a containment chamber.

This containment chamber was numbered 002.

He looked through the glass into the room and saw Li Yuan restrained inside.

Sensing someone watching him, Li Yuan raised his head.

"What, you still haven't executed me? A friendly reminder: you're running out of time."

The man asked through the glass, "What do you mean?"

Li Yuan grinned. "Exactly what it sounds like. Death has arrived."

As his words fell, a figure suddenly appeared in the mirror's reflection.

Before the two men could react, their reflected selves lost their heads!

Wang Haonan stepped out from the glass. "Looks like I found the right place this time."

"Li Yuan, long time no see."