An eerie silence descended over the Life Bank headquarters as it rose into the air.
Zhou Zhi looked at Bai Yao, whose body had shattered into flesh and blood, and felt a faint sense of melancholy.
Back at the Selection Tournament, the captain of the Medical Department's Withdrawal Corps had seemed incomparably powerful, his blade capable of severing the sea itself. Yet now, before Zhou Zhi, he had possessed no power to resist.
"Still... this Bai Yao doesn't seem to be the real body. Is this Rebirth as well?"
Zhou Zhi's calm gaze remained fixed ahead.
No...
If Rebirth were that easy to use, the Medical Department would have ruled the world long ago. This had to be some more advanced secret art.
Zhou Zhi raised his head slightly and looked toward the figure in the dust and smoke of the Great Abyss.
"Vice Captain Bai Li."
If Bai Yao was renowned far and wide, Zhou Zhi had never once heard of this Bai Li.
She was also a Dragon Among Men, but the spiritual energy around her was strange, seemingly unlike that of any Plague Exterminator path Zhou Zhi had ever encountered.
"And... this person isn't from the Bai Family."
Having mastered hereditary power, Zhou Zhi found such perceptions effortless.
"Should we go after her?"
Twenty-Three asked.
Zhou Zhi considered it. "Yes."
Spiritual energy rippled like fish swimming through water.
Double Helix chromosomes surged forward.
The woman in the fox mask was frantically fleeing the center of Life Bank.
She did not even care about her own captain anymore.
"The second-generation chairman is actually this strong?"
"We are both Dragons Among Men, so why can't we win?"
Disbelief flashed through the woman's eyes. Her former calm, assured expression had vanished completely.
She remembered what Bai Yao had said