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She said, "I went upstairs and saw three monsters. They were three children who wouldn't let me in. I was angry, so I punched them, and they agreed. They kept following me. I felt that although they were mentally unstable, they seemed good at finding people, so I sent them to help me find people, and they agreed. They went upstairs, and the Pollution disappeared... Oh, I forgot to tell them to stop releasing Pollution."

But it's not a big problem. If they release more Pollution, she can just stop them with her fists.

Problems that can be solved with fists aren't really problems.

Yu Hai: "..."

That sounds weird. It sounds like she's talking about three mischievous human children, not three world-destroying monsters. What do you mean they didn't want to? She hit them, and then they agreed?

The Healer... smashed... the monster?

Three?

What does it mean to ask someone who's good at finding people to help you find them, and then criticize them for being slow-witted? Is that something a human being would say?

Yu Hai was lost in thought, his mind completely blank.

He looked at the Healer in front of him, secretly surprised. The Ability Control Bureau believed that the Healer's strength surpassed that of an S-Rank Polluted, making him an unimaginably powerful individual. However, they might have underestimated the Healer's strength.

Too low, too low.

Perhaps Healer could even put up a fight against a monster.

The Healer used the analogy of three children to describe the monster on the second floor. In an instant, Yu Hai thought of a monster combination in the Monster Archives: Monsters 3, 5, and 7. They strangely descended upon human children and often appeared at the same time, making them very conspicuous.

The Healer may have fought and even defeated these three monsters, which is why they were willing to work for her?

Yu Hai couldn't imagine that scene; he was just an ordinary mortal, and such a thing was far too much for him. He couldn't help but look at the Blood Moon symbol on the Healer's hand, at the Blood Moon symbol belonging to a human ability user, and felt a little more at ease.

If it weren't for the Blood Moon symbol, and if the members of the Ability Control Bureau hadn't explicitly seen the Healer activate the Blood Moon System, he would almost have mistaken the Healer for a non-human being.

The Healer is a human.

Having figured this out, Yu Hai was suddenly filled with emotion. Such a powerful being was human, one of their own!

Yu Hai's eyes shone brightly. "Healer, the three monsters you mentioned might be 357 from the Monster Archives. They've never clashed with humans; they can be considered pacifists."

Ye Jiang: "..."

A group of pacifists who constantly talk about the end of the world?

A group of pacifists urging her to join the world-destroying team?

Ye Jiang looked at Yu Hai with a strange expression; she thought the Ability Control Bureau might not understand monsters very well.

However, this isn't a big problem. The little monsters can't really destroy the world; they can't even defeat her, so they can only talk big.

Thinking this, Ye Jiang didn't correct the member of the Ability Control Bureau's mistaken idea, and listened as Yu Hai continued, "We only knew that these three monsters weren't particularly violent, but we didn't know they were actually quite friendly to humans and would even agree to help you find people."

I heard the Healer is on good terms with monster number 2, and now he's made a pact with 357 to find someone. Could this be considered a talent? A talent that makes monsters befriend him...? Wait, he seems to have overlooked something—

"Healer, you asked Monster 357 to help you find someone, could it be...?"

"Yes, they are members of your exploration team," Ye Jiang.

Yu Hai: "..."

ah.

He's starting to worry about his teammates.

I wonder if the monsters will still treat his teammates the same way...

He dared not gamble on the monster's friendliness.

Let's hurry upstairs and find our teammates before the monsters arrive!

Yu Hai's mood instantly became urgent as he went upstairs.

"Healer, let's go upstairs!"

Ye Jiang: "... Hmm."

Ye Jiang and Yu Hai started climbing the building seriously. Oh, no, only Yu Hai was serious; Ye Jiang was just accompanying him. She didn't need to do any tasks. Every time they reached a new floor Yu Hai would do his task while she wandered around aimlessly, looking for anything interesting and searching for the source of the abundant energy scattered throughout the building. The latter was her main objective, but unfortunately, she didn't find it; she didn't find a single clue.

There was no sense of time passing inside the building, and Ye Jiang had no idea how long she had been inside. She only knew that she had followed Yu Hai up to the 5th floor. After reaching the 5th floor, there was a place called the Experience Exchange Room. It was a place built by the people in the building to help them climb the stairs smoothly. It was said that there was such a place on every floor above the fifth floor, and everyone's purpose was to go home.

That day, Ye Jiang followed Yu Hai into the experience exchange room on the 5th floor, and as soon as she entered, she heard people talking.

"Everyone's saying the wind-up toys seem to have changed, becoming much gentler. What do you think?"

"It's gotten milder. I was stuck on the third floor for a long time because the toy quests there were really hard. I saw a lot of people fail and get eaten by the toys, which scared me so much that I didn't dare to do anything. But then a lot of people came up from the first floor. They didn't know how scary the third floor was, and they naively asked the toys for quests. Guess what? The quests the toys gave were all very simple, completely different from before! I did them too, and the fact is, I'm on the fifth floor now."

This isn't an illusion; wind-up toys have changed. They seem to have hidden their terrifying side and no longer show it. Now they can even be described as cute, which is really strange.

Ye Jiang thought to herself that the wind-up toys in the building had different styles. She was a little curious, so she chose a corner to sit down and listen. Yu Hai took this information very seriously and listened with a serious expression.

The group of people in the experience exchange room chatted about the anomalies they had observed in the toys, listing a series of visible changes in their behavior, before finally shifting the topic to something else.

"Although the task has become relatively simple, climbing the building is still not easy. I'm so envious of Chen Hong; he's already climbed 90 floors, and he's less than 10 floors away from escaping this predicament."

"How did he do that? How could he climb so fast? A-Rank ability users are amazing!"

"It's not entirely because of the ability levels. I heard that quite a few people in the building have reached A-Rank abilities, but the ranking Ability System is isolated from the outside world and hasn't been updated, so it's unknown to others. Aside from the dangerous element of toys, this place is really great."

"What's so good about it? Being confined like this, I'd rather go home than improve my abilities. My parents must think I died in an accident; I'm their only child."

"I still have to go home."

"So how exactly did Chen Hong do that? He hasn't come downstairs to the experience exchange room in ages..."

In the corner, Yu Hai looked surprised. Were there many A-Rank ability users in this building?

This is absolutely... amazing!

This shopping mall truly deserves to be called the Third Miracle!

It's perfect for training people with superpowers.

However, there are two prerequisites: finding a way for the toys to be freely accessible, and controlling the risks associated with them.

Yu Hai's eyes hardened; he was determined to accomplish these two things, for the sake of humanity!

As Ye Jiang was listening to the gossip, she suddenly felt a shadow fall on her. Looking up, she saw Yu Hai standing in front of her. This elite from the Ability Control Bureau said to her, "Healer, you can stay here for a while, I'm going to do a mission!"

Ye Jiang's eyes flickered, and she asked him, "Aren't you going to rest for a bit?"

Yu Hai's eyes blazed with excitement. "There's no time to rest, I must get moving!"

The Ability Control Bureau is waiting for his good news! Humanity is waiting for his good news!

He left after saying that.

Ye Jiang: "..."

What is he burning?

Ye Jiang was full of questions. After seeing him walk out, she ignored him and continued listening to the gossip. A few more people came into the experience exchange room and joined the discussion about Chen Hong. It was called a discussion, but it was really just an expression of envy. They wished they could replace Chen Hong himself. If you were to ask who the most popular person here was, it would have to be Chen Hong. He was really too special. Apart from him, everyone else in the building was below the 80th floor. Even those who had been there for ten or twenty years hadn't climbed as high as him.

Ye Jiang sat and listened for a while, but when she didn't hear anything interesting, she got up and left out out of boredom.

She wandered around the building, but found nothing interesting, so she fixed her gaze on the elevator.

Yu Hai spent more time on the fifth floor than on the previous floors, which made her feel bored.

I want to go upstairs alone.

She walked slowly to the covered bridge, and was about to go to the elevator when the elevator doors opened. A refined-looking man appeared in the elevator. He paused for a moment when he saw her, hesitated, and walked towards her, quietly observing her.

"..."

"..."

Ye Jiang: "?"

Is this person looking at her?

A commotion arose in the mall behind us, and people ran towards us, shouting:

"Chen Hong is here! Chen Hong has come to the 5th floor! He's here to deliver scriptures to us..."

Before he could say the word "verify," he saw Chen Hong shrug, revealing a pink envelope in his hand.

Like love letters from an old era.

He handed the item to the girl in front of him. "Excuse me—may I accept this?"

Chen Hong, who hadn't been downstairs for a long time, came down to deliver a love letter to a girl.

"..."

What's this?

Suddenly, a pink envelope appeared in front of her. Ye Jiang had never seen this before, so she didn't reach out to take it, but just looked down at it.

No one noticed that the elevator doors opened again, and a young man appeared inside. Two people stood on the walkway in front of them: a young girl and a refined-looking man. The man was reaching out to the girl, with a pink envelope between them.

With a whoosh, a chilling aura emanated from the young man, instantly spreading throughout the entire floor.

Suddenly, all the toys in the building paused, then began to move with strange clicking sounds. The toys that the residents had claimed had become cute and gentle all popped up blood-red task boxes: [Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!]