Apartment 2001.
The living room fell silent in an instant. A man and a cat stared nervously at each other, eyes wide.
"No, I must be hallucinating. Could it be that old condition acting up again?" Lü Xiao Dao closed the door and backed out. He rubbed his eyes, forced the corners of his mouth upward, and entered again.
What greeted him was a dark shape-a slipper.
Bam!
It struck him squarely in the forehead.
Lü Xiao Dao reeled, dizzy and dazed. Just as he was about to fight back, the seemingly elegant cat suddenly bared her claws and took control of the burly man who had been kneeling on one knee.
[Ugliness]
Alice manipulated her threads of spiritual qi, making Wang Han use his sequence talent as she lunged to attack.
Lü Xiao Dao's eyes stung. The sight of Wang Han triggered an instinctive wave of nausea, as though he had eaten the cilantro he hated most. Every cell in his body recoiled.
Suddenly, his pupils blurred, flickering with gray, mosaic-like squares.
Talent sequence 9-045, [Mosaic], could automatically block out anything he did not want to see.
Of course, this was a high-level sequence talent, with potential far beyond that. But Lü Xiao Dao had never received systematic training, so he had no idea how to develop it.
Hum!
In an instant, Wang Han became a mass of mosaic squares before his eyes.
The unease in his heart and the goosebumps on his arms vanished. He swiftly raised his dagger in front of him, blocking his opponent's palm strike before his thoughts could catch up.
Bam!
The tremendous force slammed Lü Xiao Dao into the wall. Before he could catch his breath, a pair of large hands clamped around his throat, pinning him firmly against it.
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