Lies, lies, and absolute strength

For some inexplicable reason, she fulfilled a small part of her dream in this place.

The wonderful feeling of being perfectly at ease made Ye Jiang stay on the cloud chair for a long time. She just sat there, looking at the scenery outside, enjoying the tranquility and comfort of the moment, until she finally got up after a very long time.

As she stood up, the chair made of clouds gently disintegrated and disappeared into who-knows-where.

Inside the Toy Mall, a man dodging toys glanced up and noticed that the mall's Sky- themed dome... had moved. The clouds had moved...

He was shocked and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

How can clouds move?

Isn't that just paint decoration?!

Having been inside the building for many years, this was the first time the man had discovered that the clouds on the mall's dome above his head could actually move!

This is a ghost!

Are the strange things in Toy Mall not just about the toys themselves?

He couldn't help but think.

He rubbed his eyes repeatedly, staring intently upwards, but the clouds above remained motionless; the earlier change seemed to be merely his imagination.

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Someone who knew him saw him staring blankly at the sky and came over to pat him on the shoulder to scare him, but the man didn't move and was completely unmoved. The fright he was experiencing at that moment was much greater than the little scare from the pat on the shoulder!

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"... Stop messing around, I think I've discovered something incredible."

What is that?

The man pointed to the ceiling, his lips trembling, and said, "The mall's dome... might be... alive."

"... After enduring all these years, have you finally gone mad?"

"... roll!"

The man stared at the unchanging Sky, his pupils trembling.

He so desperately hoped it was just his imagination!

But is it really just an illusion?

At the same time, Ye Jiang discovered the elevator on the wall, opened it, and went inside.

The elevator display showed that she was currently on the 100th floor of some building. She couldn't see the people from the Ability Control Bureau around her; she had to find them.

The people from the Ability Control Bureau may have been thrown onto other floors when they entered.

But on which floor?

Ye Jiang entered the elevator, looked at the 100 elevator buttons on the wall, thought for a moment, and then selected button "1".

Chapter 110 Lies, Lies, and Absolute Strength.

The elevator stopped at the 12th floor. After a brief pause, the elevator doors opened, and two men walked in.

Uninterested in Ye Jiang inside the elevator, the two men who entered glanced at the elevator buttons, saw that the button for the first floor was lit, and pressed the close button. Ye Jiang, who was lost in thought, raised her eyes, but before she could observe the situation outside the elevator, the doors closed and the elevator continued to descend.

The two men in the elevator were arguing about something.

"I really saw it."

"I already told you you were mistaken. I stared at it like an idiot for so long, my head was about to fall off, and what did I get? It's still the same dome as before, where did it move? Stop talking, I'm starting to think you're playing a trick on me."

Why would I mess with you? Do you think I'm that kind of boring person?

I didn't realize it before, but now I think maybe I didn't understand you well enough.

"..."

"Something's wrong with this shopping mall, it's really moving..."

"Shut up."

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The argument ended abruptly with one side losing, and the elevator fell silent.

Ye Jiang, her eyelids drooping listlessly, stared at the two men in the elevator. She wasn't interested in what they were arguing about; it was all rambling and she couldn't understand it. What interested her was them as people.

These were two unfamiliar faces, neither members of the Bureau of the Ability Control Bureau's exploration team nor members of the Logistics Team who failed to leave; they were two faces she had never seen before.

In addition to accompanying the Ability Control Bureau in exploring the door, Ye Jiang was also asked to rescue and bring out any missing members of the Logistics Team if they encountered them inside the door, to the best of her ability.

But these two men were not on the Logistics Team roster.

There were other people inside the door.

Ye Jiang had no idea about polite eye contact. She was puzzled, so she stared at the two men blatantly. After the two men stopped arguing, they finally noticed her behind them and her overly direct gaze. They turned around, glared at her, and opened their mouths to curse, but before they could say anything, the elevator reached its destination and stopped.

The two men paused, watching the elevator doors slowly open. They pursed their lips, gave Ye Jiang a warning look, and then left.

Ye Jiang ignored their warnings and followed them out.

As the three stepped out of the elevator, a giant frog toy, over a meter tall, happened to pass by. The toy clearly had its own movement pattern, but for some reason, it suddenly stopped, turned its body, and its large eyes stared intently in the direction of the three.

The two men in front were startled, and one of them blurted out, "Oh no, it's a mission..."

He swallowed back what he was about to say.

The spring on the back of the big-headed frog suddenly started spinning at high speed. The malfunction of the spring caused a problem, and the toy's big head began to swing from side to side, making a clicking sound.

The two men stared, mouths agape, utterly bewildered.

This was not the situation they had anticipated.

The big-headed frog swung its head, faster and faster, until it left afterimages. The two men watched, their expressions shifting from bewilderment to terror. What was going on?

They've lived in the building for several years, so they're considered long-time residents, but they've never encountered a toy that's acted so strangely.

The two looked at each other, and saw one word in each other's eyes—

Run!

Life in the building taught them that when it comes to toys, they shouldn't be too curious, or it will surely lead to trouble!

Just like staged accidents, as long as you're not curious, you won't get falsely accused.

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The man jumped up and ran, dashing out like the wind, but he only went a short distance before suddenly braking.

A toy in front of them suddenly turned and blocked their way.

That was close! We almost crashed into it!

The two men's hearts raced; they were somewhat shaken.

But their heartbeats didn't slow down after avoiding the toy danger. As soon as they stopped, they saw another toy turn and come towards them. No, not just one. Looking around, all the toys in their field of vision were coming towards them, surrounding them!

They surged towards the elevator, then stopped a short distance away, watching them—no, the toys weren't looking at them, but rather at the... elevator behind them?

It looks like an elevator.

Then, as if some kind of virus was contagious among the toys, the malfunction spread rapidly from the initial faulty toy to the other toys. Soon, all the toys that had gathered together began to shake malfunctioning!

The two men were completely terrified, frozen in place in their fleeing posture.

They couldn't escape either; their path was blocked by the gathered toys, leaving them no way out!

Click click click!

Click click click!

The sound of a clockwork toy spinning rapidly echoed through the building. At first, it only happened downstairs, but gradually the upstairs also started making unusual noises, and soon the entire building was booming.

Why is there noise coming from upstairs?!

The two men looked up like startled birds and saw countless toys peeking out from the upstairs railing, densely packed around it, their toy eyes fixed on the elevator doors on the first floor.

What's going on?!

What on earth is going on?!

Forget about the clouds in the dome now, this is the real eeriness!

The two men were terrified.

The other people in the building also gradually noticed this unusual situation, hiding in a corner and watching nervously. What was going on?

Even the most senior person in the building had never seen anything like this before, and tension flickered in their eyes.

Everyone was frightened by the toys, except for Ye Jiang.

Ye Jiang was currently looking around at the environment outside the elevator. Because she had just stepped out of the elevator, the toys seemed to be looking at the elevator doors as if they were... looking at her.

The thought of being stared at by all the toys in the building is enough to give me nightmares.

But Ye Jiang wouldn't.

Perhaps because of her monster identity, Ye Jiang has a very high tolerance for strange creatures and phenomena. When she was human, she could accept special Polluted, so seeing a group of toys behaving strangely didn't stir much emotion in her heart.

She was intently observing her surroundings, completely absorbed.

This appears to be a shopping mall, a very beautiful shopping mall.

She slowly turned her head, checking in all directions.

The toys' winding-up sounds grew louder and louder, so loud that they disturbed Ye Jiang. Only then did she lower her gaze and focus on the toys.

It was just a casual glance, but in that instant of eye contact, all the toys in the building suddenly stopped, and then began to vibrate more and more frequently. It was as if they had finally received the favor of the most important person. Under the intense excitement, their bodies could only react by instinctively trembling. The entire mall echoed with clicking sounds, like a grand and stirring sonata.

However, Ye Jiang didn't pay attention to the toys for long. She only looked at them for a few seconds before turning her gaze to one direction in the mall, where she saw a familiar figure— Yu Hai, the captain of the exploration team of the Ability Control Bureau and A-Rank superhuman.

They've found him.

She thought to herself.

As soon as she looked away, the toys paused for a moment, then shook even more violently, as if they were determined to attract her attention with even greater force.

But Ye Jiang never looked at the toys again.

The toys' shaking movements gradually subsided, their frequency decreasing, like the soaring climax of a sonata giving way to a mournful and melancholic finale.

The sound gradually faded until, at a certain point, it returned to normal completely.

The toys began to disperse, starting from the outermost layer, drifting aimlessly throughout the mall.