"Are you afraid?"
"Yes."
"Then why aren't you running?"
"Why should I run? Can't I just kill it?"
As Chen Yuntian watched Bai Xiao charge into the flames with his long saber, he remembered their first encounter during an anomaly event. In that level three anomaly event, Bai Xiao and his younger sister had been the only survivors in the entire building.
To survive that long night, Bai Xiao had tried everything, struggling desperately on the brink of death. But after the investigators intervened, Bai Xiao had chosen not to leave. Instead, he followed them back into the building.
The somewhat inexperienced Bai Xiao of that day overlapped with the Bai Xiao swinging his saber amid the flames now. He had never changed.
Hanhai belonged to the living. The ones who should flee, the ones who should be afraid, were the ghosts lurking in the shadows!
Chen Yuntian never voiced the order to retreat. Rather than lowering his raised hand, he swept it forward. "Back Bai Xiao up!"
Not one of the investigators under his command stepped back. These ordinary people charged toward the sea of fire without a trace of hesitation on their faces.
Investigators were the Investigation Bureau's cannon fodder. Team Four Leader was right: they were little more than toys before ghosts and monsters. Yet the vast majority of the bureau's information on anomaly events had been brought out by these very people at the cost of their lives.
"Come back! You're no match for him!" Team Four Leader was frantic. He had been barely clinging to life, and every step felt as though his body would fall apart. The flames had destroyed almost everything he had, and he needed help to escape safely.
The investigators charged into the sea of fire, one after another. They were