"Whoosh."
Something whistled through the air.
A long saber wreathed in black mist came crashing toward Lin Yi.
Two more whistles rang out from the other two directions.
"Crack."
Lin Yi had nowhere to dodge.
His body was cleaved into three pieces.
"Ah!"
A scream came from the convoy.
Lin Yi resurrected naked, his expression grim.
Black mist churned all around him now, so he was not afraid of anyone seeing his embarrassing state.
Without so much as looking at the three Weirds behind him, he sprinted toward the gravestones.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft."
A mound of earth beside him trembled.
Another Weird crawled out.
Without a word, it slashed at Lin Yi.
"Sequence: Divine Thief."
Lin Yi snatched away its saber, tossed it aside carelessly, and kept running.
He could not use an Anomaly at all without paying its price.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."
The Weirds ran extremely fast.
Divine Thief activated three times in succession.
Lin Yi felt his mind go hazy for just a moment.
But he sent another three sabers flying far away.
The Weirds that had lost their sabers did not retrieve them. Instead, they swung fists trailing mist and smashed them viciously toward Lin Yi.
Lin Yi rolled on the spot.
The three gravestones were right before him.
Thud.
A heavy punch struck him square in the back.
His entire body pitched straight into the ground.
The other three Weirds descended on him in turn.
They pounded him into pulp.
"Damn it."
Bloody mist surged, and Lin Yi revived again.
Bam, bam, bam.
Before he could even emerge from the red mist, he was pounded into pulp.
"Damn it!"
Irritation filled Lin Yi.
Ordinary Weirds would have turned and left once they saw he was dead.
Clearly, that Intelligent Weird could control these armored Weirds.
It had even resorted to the utterly shameless tactic of camping his corpse.
"I really capsized in a gutter today."
This time, Lin Yi dropped into a crouch the instant he revived.
The Blood Blade flashed in his hand.
The legs of two Weirds were cleanly severed.
And he paid with another life.
Along with another Weird crawling back out of a grave.
Only ten meters remained between him and the three enormous gravestones, yet the distance seemed like a heavenly barrier.
No matter what tricks Lin Yi tried, he was beaten to death the moment he revived.
As for the Weirds whose legs he had cut off...
Amid churning black mist, they recovered completely in less than a second.
To think I'd still end up capsizing in a gutter.
Lin Yi felt helpless. In this situation, no matter how many lives he had, they would not be enough against this gang of attackers.
After he died, probably no one in the entire convoy would survive either...
He fought desperately to the bitter end, only to meet death over and over.
Weirds governed by rules could not be killed, no matter how he struggled...
Despair enveloped him.
But in the very next moment...
A singing voice seemed to tear through the darkness, pouring new light into him.
"I love you walking dark alleys alone..."
"I love the way you refuse to kneel..."
In an instant, Lin Yi felt his sequence break through its shackles.
Divine Thief Sequence 1 instantly advanced to Divine Thief Sequence 2: Thief!
"Otherworldly Walking!"
The instant Lin Yi revived, he activated his newly acquired skill.
Fists whistled through the air and smashed into the bloody mist, yet not a single drop of blood splashed out.
At that moment, though Lin Yi was clearly walking through the Graveyard, he seemed to have been separated into another world.
No attack of any kind could harm him.
It was as though, as though he were on a different layer...
"Is this the power of Sequence 2?!"
Lin Yi was overjoyed. Powerful, far too powerful. Whether for escape or assassination, Otherworldly Walking was an unbeatable tool!
As though remembering something, he turned to look.
At some point, the modified pickup had arrived nearby.
On its roof, a figure dressed in white was singing at the top of her lungs.
It was precisely Bai Xiaoyu's singing that had temporarily granted him the abilities of Sequence 2!
Lin Yi took only one look before sprinting toward the three gravestones.
His mental power was not enough to sustain Otherworldly Walking for very long.
"Rrrip."
Space blurred for an instant, and Lin Yi appeared before the three gravestones.
The Intelligent Weird was still nowhere to be found.
Lin Yi could only resort to his own crude method.
The Blood Dagger flashed red, and one of his arms fell clean off.
But a new arm soon grew.
Lin Yi placed the severed arm before the first gravestone.
Despite the lure of fresh blood, there was no reaction.
Next came the second gravestone.
Then the third gravestone.
Only when he placed it before the third gravestone...
A black contribution number popped up before his eyes.
"Heh. Go on, keep hiding!"
Lin Yi sneered.
Sequence: Thief activated.
In an instant, all the grave soil inside the burial pit was transferred to one side.
The second new ability of Divine Thief Sequence 2.
Group Transfer.
Group Transfer could directly transfer everything within an area, making it more convenient to use.
The instant the grave soil was moved away...
A Weird with an enormous head came into view.
He had not used this ability to excavate the graves directly because he only had the mental power of Sequence 1.
He had been afraid he would pass out before finding the Intelligent Weird.
The big-headed Weird before him sat atop a pitch-black coffin.
Its limbs were short, only about ten centimeters long.
But its head was a full two meters long and wide.
At that moment, it and Lin Yi stared at each other.
Lin Yi could even make out the terror in its enormous eyes.
"Die!"
Lin Yi roared furiously.
He lunged, driving the Blood Dagger viciously into its enormous head and churning it wildly.
As expected, it had no ability to attack.
It could not even move.
Its stubby limbs flailed constantly.
Shrill, agonized screams poured from its mouth.
"Aaaah!!!!"
Its screams echoed through the Graveyard.
As though alive, the Blood Dagger continuously devoured black mist from the Big-Headed Anomaly.
As the Blood Dagger gulped down the black mist, the Big-Headed Anomaly shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Blood Dagger absorbed it extremely quickly. In less than five seconds, the Big-Headed Anomaly had vanished into nothing.
Only a pitch-black skull remained atop the coffin.
Lin Yi casually picked it up.
Divine Thief Sequence activated.
Sequence 2 Divine Thief fetched him a set of clothes directly from an immense distance.
"Thud, thud, thud."
Heavy footsteps rapidly approached.
Lin Yi glanced at the armored Weirds, with no intention whatsoever of fighting.
These rule-bound Weird things could not be killed anyway. It would be a complete waste of time.
"Otherworldly Walking."
Lin Yi activated Otherworldly Walking again and rushed toward the convoy.
But before he had taken two steps, he dropped straight out of the Otherworldly Walking state.
Looking up, he saw that Bai Xiaoyu had gone limp at some point and was about to fall off the roof.
"What an intoxicating feeling."
Lin Yi sighed, unable to resist savoring the power of Sequence 2.
But he still dashed toward Bai Xiaoyu.
He caught her soft body in both arms and shoved her straight into the modified pickup's passenger seat.
"Th-thank you."
Seeing Bai Xiaoyu, Xiao Zhao let out a deep sigh of relief from the driver's seat.
"Back to the convoy. We need to leave right now."
Lin Yi glanced at the contribution values above their heads and vaulted onto the roof without another word.
They had now dealt with the Intelligent Weird.
If they remained in the Graveyard, they might face even greater trouble.
Vroom!
The modified pickup started with a roar.
It drove toward the convoy.
With the Big-Headed Anomaly dead, the black mist had also dispersed.
The modified pickup soon rejoined the convoy.
Lin Yi darted into the Doomsday Tinplate Car, picked up the radio, and shouted, "Elder Qi, the Intelligent Weird is dealt with! Let's get out of here!"
"All right. I've already noticed the Weirds behind us going berserk. We need to get through the Graveyard quickly," Elder Qi said gravely.
Without the Intelligent Weird's control, the Weirds behind them were already rushing toward the convoy.
Vroom, vroom, vroom.
The Apocalypse Heavy Truck took the lead.
The Sequence Transcendents held the armored Weirds back.
Even with the Intelligent Weird dead, they were still not out of danger!
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