Spider-Type Monster, Special Contamination

"Dark Wisdom: Deep Dark Prison!"

Su Ziyu linked his fingers together. As if he had known she would appear, he completed the spell at once. The shadows on the floor and walls began to spread, seeming to come alive as they swiftly twisted and transformed into pitch-black pillars that shot upward in a crisscrossing pattern, blocking the black shadow's attack.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Black pillars rose one after another, piercing through both floor and ceiling. The noise gradually died down as they formed a square cage, pinning a little girl inside.

The little girl merely paused for a moment before moving again. Her body twisted unnaturally, easily evading the black pillars' suppression. Moreover, every pillar she touched bent and warped, eventually dissolving into dark matter.

"Giggle, giggle, giggle..."

Her silver-bell laughter echoed through the small building, her tone tinged with madness and excitement.

She leaped up again, clinging to the wall like an octopus and scurrying across it. It was practically a violation of physics. Su Ziyu condensed black spears and hurled them at her, but each time, he seemed to be a step too slow, and the girl dodged them.

The girl ran vertically along the wall, then lightly sprang onto the ceiling behind Su Ziyu. Like a spider, she pressed all four limbs against it, twisting her head one hundred and eighty degrees to look at him as giggling laughter emerged from her throat.

"My toy!"

She dropped at once, reaching out with both hands in an attempt to seize Su Ziyu's head.

As the girl drew closer and closer, Su Ziyu's expression remained calm. He lightly raised a hand and softly said:

"Dark Wisdom: Bound Dungeon!"

This time, darkness stirred across a far wider area. Outside the short three-story building, the shadows seemed to come alive all at once, spreading and wrapping around it with claws and fangs bared. Some Twisting Lines squeezed inward through every gap. Apart from where Su Ziyu stood, every other part was covered in a tide-like layer of black matter.

The girl was also entangled by the black matter. It felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, and she could not bear it, falling from midair. Twisting Lines bound her tightly and densely, leaving her unable to move.

At that moment, a small armed squad rushed over outside the Special Containment Facility. Every one of them radiated spirituality; they were all Beyonders.

Before they even reached the small building, the sight before them stunned them.

Dense lines, as fine as strands of hair, clung to the exterior walls. It looked as though the entire building had been wrapped into a giant rice dumpling.

Some extended outward from within, swaying in the wind like octopus tentacles.

Even Special Affairs Department agents turned pale at such a shocking sight. One pulled out a radio to report in, but before he could act, the Twisting Lines on the exterior wall reacted before he did. They flew toward him like snakes, wrapping around his head, arms, and neck, then dragged him away like a dead dog before completely absorbing him into that mass of black matter.

Hiss...

The remaining agents felt their scalps go numb. Abandoning any thought of reporting, they raised their multi-barrel heavy machine guns and opened fire frantically.

Rat-a-tat-tat!

Countless bullets poured out in a barrage, but they struck the black mass as if it were a tide. The openings they tore open were immediately covered by surrounding Twisting Lines and sealed shut again.

"Ah! What the hell is inside there?!"

Several agents panicked. They glanced at each other and saw profound terror in one another's eyes.

They wanted to throw down their guns and run, but the small building behind them seemed to have turned into a man-eating monster. Twisting Lines shot out, wrapping around their necks and limbs and dragging them inside step by step.

One of them gripped his radio tightly and, through the agonizing pain, reported the situation.

"Something has happened at the Special Containment Facility!"

"Aah!"

The fingers gripping the radio snapped one by one. Then, like earthworms, the Twisting Lines crazily burrowed into the breaks in his wounds. The piercing pain made the agent's eyes roll back. Tide-like Twisting Lines pressed down upon him, and bright red blood gushed out, staining some of the Twisting Lines crimson.

It was as if tiny mouths had opened upon the Twisting Lines, and the blood gradually seeped away and vanished...

Naturally, everything happening outside was transmitted into Su Ziyu's mind. It seemed the guards at this psychiatric hospital had already reacted.

However, Su Ziyu was not worried. Bound Dungeon was an enhanced version of Deep Dark Prison. It summoned Twisting Lines, symbols of distortion and change, to seal off the area. It could temporarily conceal aura and location, even blocking the surveillance of Beyonders below the Morning Star Tier!

That would allow Su Ziyu to handle what came next without worry.

The Twisting Lines wrapped the girl into a dumpling. She twisted her body into the shape of a pretzel, yet still could not break free from their restraints.

Su Ziyu controlled the Twisting Lines to suspend the girl, then summoned Deep Dark Prison to trap her as well.

The girl had a childish face, and silky black hair cascaded freely down her back, covering one eye. Her white dress was covered in dust. Though she looked filthy, it could not conceal her adorable face.

She clung to one of the cage's black pillars, her whole body hanging from it like a spider. Her eyes were red as she stared at Su Ziyu, continuously shouting:

"My toy! Give it back to me!"

Su Ziyu shrugged. Seeing that she was trapped, he was in no hurry to make a move and instead continued observing her.

This little girl was an S-class psychiatric patient detained in the Special Containment Facility. Her name was Ruan Xiaoqi, and she was a Beyonder who had undergone an animal-type Awakening.

It was also called Spider-Type. Her specific ability was to mimic spiders, allowing her to manipulate the number of bones in her body to the fullest extent and control her limbs freely, with the additional abilities to twist and splice them together.

Logically, such a powerful Beyonder should have been taken in by the Special Affairs Department and made into an agent to cleanse evil. However, this little girl suffered from severe mental illness, and because her ability was so unusual, she had been detained here instead.

Some of this information had come to Su Ziyu through hearsay, while the rest he had learned after coming into contact with the little girl.

Yes, Su Ziyu had met her before.

When Ruan Xiaoqi first arrived, she had not been this insane. During activities held at the hospital, Su Ziyu had even taken the initiative to speak with her. But later, her mental state worsened and worsened until she was ultimately locked inside this Special Containment Facility.

"Xiaoqi, do you still remember me?"

Su Ziyu looked at the girl's dirty little face and asked softly.

"My toy! Give it back to me!"

Bloodshot veins filled Ruan Xiaoqi's exposed eye. Her pale arms gripped the black pillar, and her teeth clenched and ground together with an angry sound. She kept releasing dry, hoarse roars, looking like a lioness.

Su Ziyu activated the All-Seeing True Eye and looked closely.

Ruan Xiaoqi's spirit body immediately became two layers. The pale white layer representing her Mental Body had already turned more than halfway black. Before long, she would likely lose her reason completely and become a madwoman.

"So it really was contamination?"

Su Ziyu had long been mentally prepared for this, but what he could not understand was why Ruan Xiaoqi had suffered such severe contamination at such a young age.

Jealousy? Or murder out of vengeance?