Victims exposed to this effect reported being intensely watched by an invisible entity and exhibited elevated heart rate and blood pressure.
This entity was named Entity-513-1. It was said to be a slender mass of black smoke with a pair of abnormal hands.
Simply put.
Shake this bell, and a peeping Tom would stare at you without blinking.
Of course, Xiao Huasheng had none of those irregular-heartbeat symptoms.
After smashing the camera.
She had originally planned to teleport away and leave in style.
But she felt as though an invisible gaze was watching her.
The gaze came from behind her.
"Hm??"
What was going on?
Someone behind her?
In her panic, she whipped around!
But there was only soundproofing foam behind her. Nothing else.
And the gaze was still coming from behind her.
"Hiss."
In this empty room, there was something watching her.
Good lord!
Her blood pressure shot up!
She turned around again, only to find that there was still nothing in front of the containment room door.
But for some reason, the gaze had shifted above her head.
She abruptly looked up.
At the edge of the soundproof ceiling, a black shadow slipped out of sight.
It was terrifying.
"This!"
It seemed she had screwed herself over.
And thoroughly, at that!
After ringing that bell, some creepy thing had started following her and staring at her relentlessly.
Under that gaze, she could no longer move quickly.
Considering the situation, this was practically crippling herself...
Left with no choice, she could only endure that gaze and charge out of the containment room.
The whole scene had turned into a horror movie.
"Are you kidding me?!"
She was practically on the verge of tears. If she had known, she would have listened to the Foundation and not rung that bell.
And now look at her.
She was being watched intently by a supernatural phenomenon.
No one knew how to deal with something like this!
Helplessly, Xiao Huasheng could only fire two shots, blasting apart the containment room door.
Then she ran through the corridor, trying to shake off the black shadow.
The shadow was no slouch either, sticking tightly to Xiao Huasheng.
"Stop following me!"
Xiao Huasheng fired a shot behind her in exasperation.
The bullet struck nothing but empty air.
The source of the gaze shifted above her head.
It was outrageously brazen.
She took a deep breath and calmed down.
"Don't let me catch you, or you'll be sorry!"
With that said.
She continued forward toward the end of the corridor, feeling utterly aggrieved.
What was this called?
If you didn't court death, you wouldn't die.
Escaping the Foundation was clearly impossible now.
So she changed her objective.
First, she would take out this stalking peeping Tom!
After being followed for another stretch of the way.
The veins on Xiao Huasheng's forehead bulged as she twisted her pretty face into a distorted smile.
Angela's voice sounded at just the right moment.
[That skull might be able to help you. It can give you a status effect that blocks all surrounding gazes. I've already persuaded it to use this function of its that it has never used before.]
Hearing Angela say that.
Xiao Huasheng immediately placed both hands on her head and shouted.
"Ah! Come out! Double War God!"
In the pitch-black space, a flash of light appeared.
At her shout, a blue-haired figure was summoned by Xiao Huasheng with a bewildered expression.
Angela stared blankly at Xiao Huasheng, her eyes full of disbelief.
"Manager? Do you think I have any combat ability?"
The beautiful blue-haired angel looked at Xiao Huasheng and asked her.
Seeing that Angela had come out instead, Xiao Huasheng was dumbfounded as well.
"I didn't mean to summon you."
Angela helplessly closed her eyes and spoke slowly.
"Manager, I need to remind you that when you think of a certain Abnormality or employee, that person will be released."
"Could it be that you were so lonely that you started missing me after being away from me for a while?"
Angela spoke teasingly, a faint smile on her face.
Xiao Huasheng hurriedly explained, "No, no! I was really thinking about that skull. I really wasn't thinking about you."
"You really weren't thinking about me?" she asked again.
"No!"
Xiao Huasheng answered firmly.
"Oh my, if you weren't missing me, then I'm even sadder," Angela said.
"Ah..." Angel was utterly bewildered.
She pinched the red-haired angel's cheek, then placed her hand against her own chest and gently replied, "Now, as long as you think of it, I can return to Lobotomy Corporation. Then you can release One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds."
With a swish.
Another flash of light appeared.
Angela vanished before Xiao Huasheng's eyes.
Clearly, Angela had deliberately demonstrated one of Lobotomy Corporation's special uses for Xiao Huasheng.
Besides providing energy, it had other uses as well.
At this moment, Xiao Huasheng took a deep breath. She stopped thinking about Angela and instead frantically thought about that skull.
"Doo-doo-doo-da!"
She shouted again, and in the blink of an eye, the skull wearing a crown of thorns appeared before Xiao Huasheng.
Just as Angela had said, One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds immediately gave this angel, who had the potential to change the suffering of the world, a BUFF.
As the light flashed, Xiao Huasheng immediately noticed that the surrounding gazes had vanished, along with that shadowy figure.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
She was about to send One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds back.
But at that moment, One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds spoke to Xiao Huasheng. "I can sense very heavy sins here. If you can bring me before these sins, I would be grateful."
Hearing this, Xiao Huasheng cautiously asked.
"Does this count as a side quest?"
One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds merely stared at Xiao Huasheng with its hollow eye sockets.
In the end, Xiao Huasheng could only nod and say, "All right, I promise you..."
As One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds returned to Lobotomy Corporation.
Xiao Huasheng continued her escape.
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Xiao Huasheng teleported forward about the distance of seven containment rooms and noticed something unusual.
All the doors were closed. At the same time.
Every containment room's fingerprint lock displayed nothing but black and white.
But one of the fingerprint lock screens displayed a single large character.
[Come]
It nearly filled the entire screen.
The anomaly made Xiao Huasheng raise an eyebrow. It was probably Entity-513's doing.
It seemed to be calling her over.
After thinking about it, she really had nothing else to do, so she stood before the door.
Something unexpected happened.
The containment room door actually opened on its own, revealing the environment inside.
Within an area surrounded by pure white walls, an old computer with its screen lit up was locked behind iron bars.
A strange feeling spread through her heart.
There really were plenty of oddities in the heavy containment zone.
"..."
After hesitating in silence for a moment, Xiao Huasheng stepped into the room.
Creak.
The containment room door slowly closed, as though no one had ever entered.