The Overlooked Problem

Jiang Fei had followed "Chen Yun's" trail here;

At a glance, he could tell that the mother and daughter had been afflicted by some kind of strange mental contamination... Fortunately, it was only contamination, not a direct mental attack.

The mention of the Martial Suppression Bureau seemed to reassure Han Cui, and her expression relaxed a little;

Then she seemed to remember something and tensed up. "Sir, can you save my son? He ran into... ran into something strange outside Dafeng Mall."

Jiang Fei froze for a moment, thinking that the boy had probably already been eaten;

Then he completed the hand seal, and two balls of energy separated from his fingers and entered Han Cui and Chu Ying's bodies.

"I understand. Stay hidden." He thought for a moment, then took a copper plate from around his neck. "Keep this. It comes with its own disguise. As long as you don't wander off, no one will find you."

He probably wasn't going to make it out alive anyway. He might as well save whoever he could;

He was no match for the strange creature possessing Chen Yun, but he couldn't just leave them to their fate...

Han Cui knew how precious such a treasure must be and was about to refuse, but Jiang Fei simply pressed the copper plate into her hand;

Then he turned and vanished in a single leap...

Chu Yuan found himself growing more and more restless;

It was as though some kind of field was affecting his thoughts.

At first, it hadn't been obvious, but the longer he stayed here, the more wrong everything felt;

Fortunately, once he circulated the Evergreen Foundation Establishment Method, he could suppress those strange emotions.

But he couldn't keep wasting time here with this strange creature...

A young man came into view in the distance, drawing closer;

Chu Yuan casually swung his blade at him...

"..." Jiang Fei raised his sword to block and hurriedly said, "Chu Yuan! I'm Jiang Fei from the Martial Suppression Bureau! I'm not an illusion created by that thing!"

He was in charge of Chu Yuan's case, so naturally he knew who Chu Yuan was. He also knew Chu Yuan was probably at the Internal Breath Realm;

But what was Chu Yuan doing here?

"...Sorry." Chu Yuan spoke. He wasn't surprised that this stranger knew his name;

After all, the man was from the Martial Suppression Bureau. Maybe they'd already been investigating him in secret...

"It's fine... Where is she?"

Chu Yuan looked around, but there was no sign of the woman;

Then, with practiced ease, he turned and brought his blade down!

The air rippled. A pale hand caught the blade, but not firmly enough to stop it, and thin streams of black blood dripped down;

A pained whimper rang out again...

The woman vanished once more. Chu Yuan looked at Jiang Fei with a complicated expression;

So this was the caliber of a Martial Suppression Bureau warrior...?

He'd had such a perfect chance just now, and he hadn't followed up with another strike!? He'd just stood there watching?

Jiang Fei finally seemed to react. His eyes widened, and even his injured left eye, which had been squeezed shut, cracked open. "You can hurt her directly!?"

Hearing him ask that, Chu Yuan understood;

He made up an answer on the spot. "I've mastered a special martial technique that works exceptionally well against strange creatures..."

Jiang Fei searched his memory for a long time, but couldn't think of any martial technique that would let a low-level warrior directly harm a strange creature possessing someone;

Once a strange creature possessed someone, the human body was merely a vessel.

What difference did a few small cracks in the vessel make to the creature hiding inside?

"Um... Can you deal with it?" Chu Yuan asked, though he already knew the answer;

"What?"

"I need to protect my family... You came from that direction. Did you see a mother and daughter?" A barely perceptible trace of apology crept into Chu Yuan's voice;

The Martial Suppression Bureau's warriors weren't supposed to throw their lives away, but he was genuinely worried about Han Cui and Chu Ying.

Jiang Fei immediately remembered them. "Was the girl about thirteen or fourteen? Was she wearing a Second Experimental Middle School uniform?"

"Yes! Where are they?"

"They're fine..." Jiang Fei seemed to remember something and shook his head. "Go on. They're on this street, about six hundred meters away, at Integrity Store."

"Thanks."

Chu Yuan turned and dashed outside using the Smoke-Drifting Steps;

As expected, the strange creature attacked him again. Strands of black hair appeared out of thin air and shot toward his vital points!

But this time, Jiang Fei didn't just stand there. Before Chu Yuan could even move, a sword gust swept past him and shredded the black strands!

Chu Yuan glanced back at him, then vanished from sight.

Jiang Fei watched the strange creature appear before him, a trace of aching sorrow in his eyes;

He murmured, "Xiao Yun, you're going to end up bald..."

In response, a black-nailed hand stabbed toward his chest...

"Bro! We're in here!"

Inside the store, Chu Yuan asked in surprise, "How come I didn't notice you just now?"

"It was this thing." Han Cui showed him the copper plate. "A warrior from the Martial Suppression Bureau passed by earlier and gave it to us. He said it could disguise us."

"And there's more! I was freezing just now, but that big brother sent a ball of light into my body, and I warmed right up..."

"That's right. Yingying kept crying before..." Han Cui handed him the copper plate and asked, "Yuanyuan, did he save you too?"

"I guess so..."

Chu Yuan hadn't expected Jiang Fei to have done so much. What Yingying had said meant they'd probably already been affected by the strange creature, but he hadn't noticed at all!

If Jiang Fei hadn't happened to pass by...

But Jiang Fei hadn't mentioned any of it just now, much less asked Chu Yuan to stay and help him deal with the strange creature...

As soon as Chu Yuan took the copper plate, a prompt appeared from the system;

...Small Light-Mimicry Array;

Can be converted: Invisibility Array.

Conversions remaining today: 1.

The name was straightforward enough; anyone hearing it would know what it did;

The Invisibility Array was far more powerful than the Light-Mimicry Array, but Chu Yuan had no intention of converting it.

After all, it belonged to someone else...

Wait!

Chu Yuan's heart skipped a beat. He'd suddenly realized there was a question he'd overlooked!

He'd long suspected the system could convert arrays. He'd even thought earlier about getting his hands on an Energy Gathering Array and converting it into a Spirit Gathering Array;

Then wasn't the Blood-Sucking Array also an array?

Why hadn't he thought of converting it sooner?

Chu Yuan considered it. Maybe it was because the system hadn't given him a prompt when he came into contact with the Blood Veins;

So he'd subconsciously assumed it couldn't be converted...

But those Blood Veins weren't the array's core at all!

Or perhaps the Blood-Sucking Array was so powerful that he'd instinctively assumed it was beyond his current level.

But;

He was the one who was weak, not the system!

As long as he could get close to the array's core... Chu Yuan looked up at the six pillars of light in the sky, and a plan began to take shape in his mind;

But he needed more information before he could figure out exactly how to do it.

For example, were the six pillars of light part of one array, or were they six separate arrays?

If they were separate, would they form a single large array once the six pillars connected?

"Mom, keep the copper plate with you and stay hidden here a little longer."

"Bro, where are you going?"

"I'm going to save that person from the Martial Suppression Bureau!"

"Yuanyuan... Be careful!"