The Overlooked Fifth Rule

Meng Chengcheng didn't know whether she was lucky or unlucky.

On the lucky side, her team had been assigned a mission far beyond their abilities. Both the experienced Pastor and their powerful captain had died.

On the unlucky side, the mysterious being possessing Liu Xiaohu had agreed to help her slaughter their way through the park, then found an excuse to leave the moment they finished every attraction.

And she had happily used him and shaken him off at just the right time.

"I survived!"

As Meng Chengcheng walked out of the amusement park gates and confirmed that her Game Coin had been taken back, she let out a long breath.

When a Medium came close to death, their soul was tempered. After surviving this ordeal, she felt herself taking another step forward. Perhaps she would soon advance to Intermediate Medium, the "Grinder."

But first, she had another problem to solve.

Meng Chengcheng looked at the eerie rabbit on the ground, its mouth full of blood as it giggled nonstop, and hailed a taxi.

"Driver, Guangming Hospital in Nanshan District."

The P.E.A.C.D. base was located at a top-tier hospital in Cihang City's Nanshan District. That was only a cover, of course. The real base was the enormous Shelter beneath the hospital.

Metal detection, blood sampling, fingerprint verification, a full-body infrared scan.

After passing through all those procedures, Meng Chengcheng finally entered the base.

Highly classified and heavily guarded—that was P.E.A.C.D. Meng Chengcheng had heard that nuclear warheads were hidden inside the base. If anomalous creatures ever overran it, the entire facility would immediately self-destruct.

As she passed through a fully enclosed white corridor, a languid, bubbly woman's voice rang out.

"Chengcheng, you're back."

An off-the-shoulder T-shirt, a pleated skirt with an outrageously short hem, an astonishingly full bust, and a