嗞!!

The piercing screech of friction mingled with a spray of sparks.

The Back Figure stood motionless, its right arm trembling violently. Its dress sleeves tore away first.

Then came the tough skin beneath.

At first, the skin was hard, but as the specially designed row of small lights on the chainsaw shone upon it.

The Back Figure’s skin slowly faded and disappeared.

Soon, after several minutes.

Chi!

Li Cheng Yi had cut off a complete forearm.

He weighed the forearm in his hand with satisfaction, then carefully placed it in the freezer.

Then, carrying the chainsaw, he continued toward the Back Figure.

Half an hour later.

Chi!

Inside the glass room, Li Cheng Yi and the middle-aged woman reappeared.

He carried the freezer in one hand and the bone mirror in the other, looking as if he hadn’t quite had his fill.

“Boss, did it work!?” Longmendiao rushed forward the moment he walked out of the glass room.

“It worked… the Back Figure is completely gone.” Li Cheng Yi nodded. “It’s just that she turned her head too slowly at the end, so I used the Black Sea Ritual to help her speed up. Without that, we might not have made it in time.”

“…” The others were speechless.

This originally terrifying Back Figure, in the boss's mouth, was just like an ordinary dead angle, nothing special about it.

The others watched as he put the chainsaw back and placed the freezer on the ground.

“Boss is the best, as expected!!” Longmendiao was the first to step forward, eager to flatter him.

“Stop with the crap, Da Xiong, come here.” Li Cheng Yi beckoned to Da Xiong.

“What’s up? Brother Yi?” Da Xiong approached, puzzled.

“Look.” Li Cheng Yi opened the freezer, grabbed a spray can, and sprayed randomly inside.

Immediately, a series of neatly arranged female body parts appeared inside the black freezer.

“Here are the hands, here are the legs. This is the ear, the hair, the torso. I couldn't pry off the head, but I've cut everything else. Take it and preserve it carefully, experiment slowly.”

Li Cheng Yi instructed.

“…” Da Xiong’s face stiffened as he looked at the various limbs arranged neatly in the box, unsure what to say for a moment.

“Is this real or fake?” Cai Hong Tang, looking bewildered, walked over and pinched a hand.

Pa!

The hand suddenly grabbed her arm.

Ah!!

She screamed, terrified, and ran away.

The Back Figure’s hand was tossed aside, caught by Li Cheng Yi.

“Be careful, I spent a full half-hour cutting it all up.” He said helplessly.

Xiao Zong squatted on the side, a little curious, and reached out to pinch it.

“Boss, what about the head? Couldn’t you bring the head back?”

“I tried, I cut off her neck, but the head still floated in the air, like it was fixed there. You can’t really treat her like a living person.” Li Cheng Yi replied.

“Can I have a leg, then?” Xiao Zong asked.

“No problem.” Li Cheng Yi was quite generous.

This Back Figure, once cut open, didn't have any internal organs or anything. She was less like a person and more like a building block.

Or a model.

A model carrying a dead angle.

Soon, everything in the freezer was divided up.

The display effect of the spray also disappeared. After confirming that the Back Figure dead angle was really gone, they sent people in to rescue the surviving middle-aged woman.

The dead angle was resolved.

Everyone's mood lightened.

When they took the elevator back upstairs, Da Xiong deliberately stayed behind with Cai Hong Tang.

“What’s wrong with you these past few days? Are you in a bad mood?” Da Xiong had clearly noticed that Cai Hong Tang hadn’s been herself lately.

“No, I’m fine.” Cai Hong Tang smiled. “I’m doing great. What makes you think I’m in a bad mood?”

“You can’t fool me.” Da Xiong reached out and took her hand. “You’ve been different ever since we came back from Sutan. You used to be fearless.”

“How can anyone be afraid of nothing?” Cai Hong Tang’s smile faded, replaced by a complicated expression.

“We’re constantly facing dead angles, we could disappear and die in them at any time. What did you see in Sutan that could scare you this much? If you’re not afraid of death, what else is there to fear?” Da Xiong said seriously.

“I…” Cai Hong Tang didn’t know how to answer.

She remembered being played with and surrounded by sand pirates, like a dog, constantly cut and bled, wanting to bite, but unable to even get close to them.

That powerlessness, that despair, the shame…

“I just think that the old me was nothing but arrogant.” Cai Hong Tang said softly.

Da Xiong seemed to understand. He stopped, turned around, and suddenly hugged Cai Hong Tang tightly.

“Tangtang… don’t be like this.”

“…”

“Actually… I’ve always thought of you as a brother.”

“!!??!”

Cai Hong Tang’s expression froze, then slowly began to twist, becoming ferocious.

“What did you just say!!?”

“Uh… this…” Da Xiong blinked and took off, running away.

“Da Xiong!!! You stop right there!!! Open your dog eyes and take a good look at how big I am!!” Cai Hong Tang’s face flushed red. Having experienced her own poverty and the other’s generosity, she immediately exploded and chased after him.

Hiss.

A purple glow flashed, and she had transformed into her enhanced state.

“You motherfucker, stop right there!! Open your goddamn eyes and see how big my chest is!!”

Cai Hong Tang chased Da Xiong, who had also transformed, all the way, soon disappearing at the street corner outside the company.

In the distance, they could still hear Cai Hong Tang’s roar and Da Xiong’s laughter.

“Da Xiong still has a way. Sister Tang finally went back to normal.” Longmendiao sighed, standing next to Li Cheng Yi.

“It’s good that she’s back to normal. She thought everyone couldn’t tell, tried so hard to hide it, but… everyone knew.” Li Cheng Yi said.

He patted Longmendiao on the shoulder.

“Right, I have some things to do these days, and I might not show my face for a while. Let them know that if they need anything, they can just leave a message on my phone.”

“Got it, Boss.” Longmendiao nodded solemnly.

“I heard your combat skills have improved a lot?”

“Boss, you heard about that too?” Longmendiao smiled a little embarrassedly. “Actually, it’s mostly because my physical fitness has improved a lot. Plus, I had another enhancement shot a few days ago.”

“Take care of your body. If you feel something is wrong, you can come to me. I have restorative Flower Utterances.” Li Cheng Yi said.

“Definitely, thanks, Brother Yi.”

Clearly, Cai Hong Tang wasn’t the only one stimulated by the trip to Sutan.

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A week later.

The Hand-Holding Dead Angle.

Li Cheng Yi and Y瑟琳 lay side by side under the bed, quietly looking up.

They had been in this position for several hours, but without any luck.

Over the past week, Da Xiong and Xiao Zong in the Fate Garden team had both been entangled in new dead angles, and Cai Hong Tang was doing her best to help them investigate.

Because they had Crescent Moon and Flower Scale Armor Flower Utterances.

When dealing with dead angles, everyone was quite relaxed. Li Cheng Yi didn't need to flash over to help at all.

Except for Xin Dela, who was secretly doing something mysterious, everyone in the team was improving extremely quickly.

Physical fitness improved, five senses improved, and Da Xiong designed a special training program for everyone.

There was also a professional team to serve everyone. Cai Hong Tang even hired some cyborgs with an evaluation level of three or four to train and fight with everyone.

Everyone was desperately improving themselves, and if they were injured, with Da Xiong and Li Cheng Yi around, they could always ensure safety.

In this environment, Cai Hong Tang was the first team member to defeat a level three cyborg in a one-on-one fight without using Flower Utterances.

Neither side used external equipment or weapons, and Cai Hong Tang only relied on her Flower Scale Armor.

This kind of challenge severely tested individual qualities, skills, and experience.

Longmendiao was the second, closely following behind, and had also defeated level three cyborgs several times.

At this time, they were much stronger than Li Cheng Yi, who had just obtained the Flower Scale Armor.

You must know that level four was the limit of commercialized cyborg suits.

So level three was quite powerful among the ordinary population. Stronger than Song Ran beside Xin Dela by a large margin, only slightly weaker than Zhou Yan from Utopia.

With the team members all developing in a good direction, Li Cheng Yi was relieved.

So he began to concentrate on following 伊瑟琳 to crawl under the bed every day to try his luck.

Whoosh...

A faint cold wind gradually blew in from the other side of the bed.

The darkness slowly lit up, and a snowy white world came into view.

“Not again…” 伊瑟琳 sighed.

“Don’t worry, as long as we keep going, we should run into it sooner or later.” Li Cheng Yi comforted.

“Ugh, I feel like we’ve seen dozens or even hundreds of them, and a lot of them have appeared repeatedly, but why hasn’t the Faceless Scholar shown his face? It’s so annoying. My teacher has started scolding me for not focusing on my studies lately!” 伊瑟琳 complained.

“You should go back to study first, I can actually do this alone.” Li Cheng Yi comforted.

“But…”

“It’s okay, your teacher is doing it for your own good, go back.” Li Cheng Yi said.

“Brother… are you sure it’s okay? You must remember that with my current abilities, I can only stay there for fifteen minutes! After the dead angle rotates, you might not be able to get back!” 伊瑟琳 said worriedly.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be fine! I’m a grown man.”

After receiving Li Cheng Yi’s constant assurances, 伊瑟琳 finally left, reluctantly.

Leaving only Li Cheng Yi alone, lying under the bed, waiting for the Faceless Scholar’s dead angle.

Looking at the snowy, endless white expanse outside, with a giant table more than ten meters long in the middle.

He sighed and continued to wait motionless.

Time passed slowly.

In the blink of an eye, another hour passed.

Darkness enveloped again.

A few minutes later, the darkness receded.

A ground covered with black wooden planks slowly lit up.

After the floor came the walls.

The walls were also made of thick black wooden planks, somewhat familiar.

This was a square wooden room.

A bed, a set of wooden tables and chairs, and a set of copper oil lamps in the corner were all the furniture.

Bright, quiet white light shone in from the window, a little hazy.

The mosquito net hanging on the opposite bed was lifted, with no one on it.

Although the room was very quiet, Li Cheng Yi immediately recalled that this was the Faceless Scholar’s bedroom!!

“Finally, found it!!”

He was overjoyed, took a deep breath, and quickly crawled out from under the bed, entering the room.

Only fifteen minutes, he had to hurry! Once he was entangled by the Faceless Scholar, whether he killed or ran, it would seriously affect the goal, so he planned to Shadow Flash the entire time.

(End of chapter)