Pitter-patter.

The white shoes stopped at the edge of the bed, unmoving.

Up close, the white shoes were shaped like ankle boots, uniformly grayish-white with small wrinkles and black-gray edges. The surface was unadorned, save for traces of light yellow wood shavings.

Li Cheng颐 and Yserin lay prone under the bed, motionless and silent.

To avoid trouble, he even held his breath briefly.

Time trickled by.

The owner of the white shoes remained still, standing by the bed, seemingly unsure of what to do.

But as he remained still, Yserin slowly began to move.

She gently reached out and patted Li Cheng颐.

"Brother, I'll try first, then you go!"

She spoke in a low voice, close to Li Cheng颐's ear.

"Okay!" Li Cheng颐 gestured that it was no problem.

Then, he watched Yserin pluck another strand of hair from her head. The golden hair shone with a pure luster as she rolled it up and gently tossed it outward.

Whoosh!

Almost the instant it was thrown, the golden hair seemed to be grabbed by something white and disappeared.

"What the hell!?" Yserin was startled. "Where's my hair!?"

Before she could recover,

Plop.

Suddenly, something fell to the ground near the white-shoed man's feet.

It was a round object.

It had some black hair and wore a white theatrical hat with slightly swaying white short wings on either side.

It was a human head!!

The head of a man with eyes that looked like they were painted with purple-red eyeshadow, his pupils jet black!

And that wasn't all.

Immediately afterward, similar heads rained down from above.

Plop, plop, plop, plop!

All the heads rolled and bounced on the floor.

Surprisingly, all the heads looked the same!

All of them were the heads of men with jet-black eyes and purple-red eye circles!

All their eyes were fixed on the space under the bed, on Li Cheng颐 and Yserin.

"You dare steal my things? I'll kill you!!!"

Yserin's skin began to turn from snow-white to scorched black. Burn marks began to appear on her face.

Her eyes streamed with blood tears, and her body suddenly transformed into a black shadow, darting out from under the bed.

Ah!!!!

A piercing scream instantly echoed throughout the room.

Vibration.

Stinging pain.

Powerlessness.

Three sensations simultaneously flooded Li Cheng颐's mind.

This was the feeling even while he was behind, not directly attacked by Yserin.

Then he saw black hands suddenly grasp the men's heads amidst the screams.

All the heads disappeared the instant they were touched.

But at the same time, Yserin's scream abruptly stopped, as if something was choking her.

"Yserin!" Li Cheng颐's eyes narrowed, and he burst out from under the bed.

Coming out, he finally stood on the floor of the room.

Only then did he see what was happening.

The strange man in white clothes and a white hat was continuously growing heads from his neck.

The heads spewed out of his neck like marbles or rubber balls.

Some fell to the ground, others hit the walls and bounced back.

The surrounding air was filled with floating men's heads.

They were all smiling.

Smiling like they were looking at prey, at food, eerie and horrifying.

Yserin was being held by the neck by the man, unable to make a sound.

In an instant, various solutions flashed through Li Cheng颐's mind.

Radiant Flash wouldn't work, as it might injure Yserin.

Nor would the Radiant Force Field. The range was too large.

Then...

In an instant, his body was covered in black armor.

Countless segments of Mao Feilian flower petals appeared, condensed, and transformed into Flowery Scale Armor, which he donned.

Whoosh!!

He immediately clawed at the man's arm.

With his current base strength of three tons, plus the amplification of the Flowery Scale Armor, his current explosive force could reach more than ten tons.

The black claws landed on the man's forearm in the blink of an eye.

Plop.

Strangely, the arm felt light and airy, snapping off in the blink of an eye.

It was like cutting through a soft, hollow piece of Play-Doh.

And that wasn't all.

The entire white-clothed man, his entire body, began to hiss and release air like a punctured balloon.

In the blink of an eye, he became flatter and smaller.

In less than two seconds, his entire body collapsed to the ground, and along with all the surrounding heads, they all burst into white foam and dissipated.

Huff... huff...

Yserin stood in place, returning to her original form, but with a clear bruise on her once snow-white neck.

"Brother, run!!" She grabbed Li Cheng颐 and quickly dove back under the bed.

The two worked together to quickly crawl back under the bed, heading towards the other side.

In their haste,

Li Cheng颐 heard the creak of a door opening in the strange room behind them.

It seemed that someone had returned from outside.

"That thing! It's the Faceless Scholar!! I knew I shouldn't have come out today!" Yserin moved her hands quickly forward, crawling towards the end of the bed. A look of terror appeared on her face.

But strangely, the bed, which wasn't usually that long, seemed to take a long time to crawl under.

Li Cheng颐's heart tightened, and he turned to look back.

He saw that the white-shoed man had already returned to normal, squatting by the bed and watching them with a smile.

Plop!!

In the blink of an eye, the heads on the man's neck split from the middle, a line of blood appearing, and instantly split into two.

Not in two halves, but bizarrely growing into two complete, identical human heads.

Then,

The two heads continued to split, becoming four.

Then eight, sixteen, thirty-two...

In just a few seconds, the heads on the white-clothed man's neck grew like multiplying cells, like a sudden blooming of human-head flowers.

They quickly grew into a large mass.

The dense heads were like a bunch of grapes, weighing down his neck.

All the heads looked the same, all their eyes fixed on the crawling pair.

"What the hell is this thing!?" Li Cheng颐 felt like he was going to vomit up last night's dinner.

He barely managed to turn around and unleashed a Radiant Flash in that direction.

Boom!!!

Brilliant golden light suddenly exploded under the bed, instantly hitting the strange man and exploding on the middle of the mass of heads on his neck.

Under the enormous impact, the strange man was finally pushed back a little.

Li Cheng颐 and Yserin also seemed to have escaped some kind of restraint, and the distance under the bed no longer seemed to lengthen.

The two crawled out from under the bed in the blink of an eye, returning to the original room.

Bang!!

Li Cheng颐 grabbed the iron bed and flipped it over.

The entire bed was lifted high and thrown against the wall, then quickly slid down.

Everything was quiet.

"Brother... next time you encounter that guy, don't make a sound, he'll develop secondary immunity!!" A trace of black still lingered on Yserin's cheeks.

"What do you mean!?" Li Cheng颐 was stunned.

"I didn't recognize him at first, but when he grabbed my neck, I realized that guy, I call him the Faceless Scholar. He's a monster that appeared a few years ago," Yserin said, panting.

"All the attacks I've ever encountered, they work on him at first. But only the first time, the second time, they're completely useless."

"That powerful!?" Li Cheng颐 was a little shaken.

"That's why I told you to run. That guy is very troublesome. He's one of those undead individuals from the Black Sea. If you go against him, you'll only suffer," Yserin explained.

"That's really dangerous," Li Cheng颐 nodded with a frown. "Why is he called the Faceless Scholar?"

"Because he doesn't have a face. That face just now was stolen by him. As for scholar, it's because he has a lot of books," Yserin replied.

"Okay... then why did he attack us?" Li Cheng颐 asked again.

"I don't know," Yserin shook her head. "Maybe, in his eyes, it wasn't an attack? Just saying hello?" she guessed.

"...That's actually possible," Li Cheng颐 looked at the overturned bed. "Can I still exchange this thing?" He raised his hand and gestured to the Heart of Greed in his hand.

The packaging of this thing was like a can of fish, and the appearance was not good.

"Don't rush, wait a few minutes," Yserin said seriously.

"By the way, I haven't seen your main body in a long time, where is she?" Li Cheng颐 suddenly asked.

"I've grown up," Yserin said matter-of-factly.

"And then?"

"She definitely can't beat me now," Black Yserin continued.

"...So?" Li Cheng颐 was speechless.

"So she's here," Black Yserin patted her chest. "Instead of saying she's the main body, it's better to say I am. She's just the me who wants to forget everything."

"Okay," Li Cheng颐 understood. This guy had probably merged with the previous her.

The white-clothed her was just a self that escaped reality, and the current her was the real her.

No wonder she had suddenly grown a little.

To say she grew by eating, hadn't she been eating all these years? Why hadn't she grown bigger all these years, but suddenly she's bigger now?

After waiting for about a few minutes.

"It should be okay now, brother," she said seriously.

"I'll do it."

Li Cheng颐 walked over and pulled the iron bed back to its original position.

Fortunately, he hadn't made the bed here, otherwise it would definitely be a mess now.

"Again." Yserin took the lead in crawling under the bed.

Li Cheng颐 followed closely behind.

The two lay side by side under the bed again, looking towards the other end.

It was dark over there, obviously having left the Faceless Scholar.

"Hey, Yserin, why can your hair be exchanged for things on the other side? Can mine?" Li Cheng颐 suddenly remembered this question.

"Ah, that's very simple," Yserin smiled, a little smug, "Only my hair can, brother yours can't ~ ~"

"Why?"

"Because my original hair was burned off, it's gone, this is the golden hair I made with real gold later," she said triumphantly.

"Real gold?" Li Cheng颐 was surprised.

"Moreover, ordinary real gold requires very little, it requires special, um... Anyway, I'm not very clear, they only want the gold after I wear it on my body for a period of time," Yserin replied.

"Can I bring gold in from outside?" Li Cheng颐 asked.

"I guess not. That sister did it before, but no one wanted it," Yserin shook her head.

Li Cheng颐 was thoughtful.

"What about silver?"