Chapter 614: The Man Who Makes Those "People" Tremble
Eerie, piercing screams echoed throughout the entire corridor.
These negative emotions, laced with venomous resentment, drifted back and forth within this space, like floodwaters unable to find an outlet, repeatedly battering the eardrums of everyone present.
These shrill cries continuously scoured the space.
They seemed to have some effect on the space itself as well.
Chen Ye's expression shifted slightly. He was just about to step back and position himself in front of the others to protect them.
But then his gaze sharpened.
Because...
The entire fifth floor now held only himself!
Iron Lion, the Pink-haired Girl, Ding Dong—they were all... gone!
Just moments ago, they were thinking of moving together, but in the blink of an eye.
Everyone had vanished.
A flicker of shock ran through Chen Ye's heart as a bad premonition washed over him.
Sun Xixi and the others were fine, at least—they were strong enough.
But Xu Lina and Gong Yong, if they encountered an Anomaly alone...
Even the lowest-grade Anomaly would cause them trouble.
Meanwhile, inside the building.
First floor!
Gong Yong's eyes went wide. His companions from just moments ago...
They had vanished in the midst of that one, ear-splitting scream.
"Chen Ye! Iron Lion, Xixi, Dantai Bie—stop messing around..."
Gong Yong's voice trembled slightly.
Second floor!
Xu Lina's tail, resembling a scorpion's stinger, swayed restlessly behind her head.
Her hands had already drawn the two pistols strapped to the outside of her thighs.
Her eyes continuously swept the surroundings, trying to find traces of her companions.
But clearly...
She couldn't see anything.
Xu Lina's first thought was "Run!"
Xu Lina fully agreed with one of Chen Ye's principles: when encountering an Anomaly, whether you could beat it or not, the first thing to do was run.
Run as far away as possible.
Because you never knew what abilities the Anomaly you faced might have.
Besides, her own abilities were hardly strong.
Even the lowest-grade Anomaly could put her in danger.
But Xu Lina noticed that the fire door leading to the stairwell had somehow been locked.
A cold sweat dripped down her temple.
Inside that open room, something seemed to be emerging.
There was a sound of something scraping against the floor.
Third floor!
Iron Lion and Mad Lion, two heads side by side, looked around in confusion.
"Yezi, Xixi, Lina... where did you all go?"
The surroundings were empty.
His previous teammates weren't there.
As if they had never been there at all.
Iron Lion glanced at Mad Lion and muttered, "Did we run into a ghostly walking in circles?"
Mad Lion let out a ferocious grin. "Ghostly walking in circles or not, just smash straight through it—none of that ghostly nonsense works!"
Mad Lion twisted his neck, his voice cruel. "It's been too long since I stretched my limbs!"
"The only reason I haven't advanced to Sequence 4 is the lack of fighting!"
"I hope the ghostly thing here lets me have some fun!"
Mad Lion's bloodshot eyes gleamed with wild excitement as he strode toward the open door.
As for the locked fire door behind him, it was utterly irrelevant to him.
His four arms crackled as he cracked his knuckles, "cracking" sounds filling the air.
A wave of violent energy surged forward.
Fourth floor!
Dantai Bie warily watched the open door ahead, making no move for now.
There was neither excitement nor fear on his face.
He simply watched.
The unique perception of the Wandering Immortal Sequence allowed him to sense that this place... couldn't trap him!
If he wanted, he could leave at any moment.
But he wanted to see what exactly was pulling the strings.
What was really happening here.
Fifth floor!
Ding Dong was also startled at first.
Everyone disappearing at once made her slightly nervous.
But she quickly calmed down.
She was a clever woman, a calm woman, one who could always find a sliver of hope on a chaotic battlefield.
She adjusted her breathing, bringing her whole body into optimal condition.
It felt as though ocean waves were surging inside her.
This was the energy of the Fist Master Sequence roaring within her.
She checked the fire door behind her.
It was clearly locked.
Ding Dong had a suspicion that everyone might be facing the same problem she was.
There were seven floors here, and exactly seven Superhumans.
Perhaps each person had a floor to themselves.
But what had actually happened here?
Maybe she could only find out by seeing it for herself.
Still, this Anomaly probably wasn't strong!
After all, this was only the outskirts of Xi City.
Sixth floor!
A Fire Dragon coiled around the young girl, illuminating her entire figure.
Her pink hair drifted without any wind.
The girl's eyes glowed faintly, as if something was burning inside them.
If an ordinary person looked directly into those eyes, their pupils would likely catch fire.
At this moment, the girl was like a war goddess from myth and legend—inviolable.
The Fire Dragon let out a ferocious roar toward the passage ahead.
Explosive flames burst forth.
The intense pressure directly scattered the previously eerie and terrifying atmosphere.
The temperature of the entire corridor rose significantly.
Even in Xi City, winter temperatures only hovered around twenty-something degrees Celsius.
But now, in this corridor.
The average temperature was at least over forty degrees.
This was the power of a Mid Sequence, Sequence 4.
As for that open door!
"Bang!"
It closed!
That's right, it closed.
It just closed, plain and simple.
It seemed the thing inside that room was terrified of the Pink-haired Girl.
Earlier, Chu Che had mentioned that the Anomalies on the outskirts of Xi City were the weakest, and the closer you got to the city center, the stronger they became.
But... she hadn't expected that she only made a single opening move.
And the Anomaly in that room actually shut the door.
Was it that weak?
After all, she was Sequence 4.
Some Anomalies had intelligence no less than humans.
The girl paused for a second, then let out a cold laugh as she strode over on her long legs.
The Fire Dragon circled above as the girl walked alongside it, like a deity.
The girl stopped in front of the door.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
The knocking echoed through the silent corridor.
"Hey, open up—I know you're in there!"
"Don't think hiding inside and staying quiet will get you off the hook..."
"Open up..."
"Hurry up and open!"
Seventh floor.
The entire floor was already flooded with wildly spreading Smoke Breath Mist.
Countless surging shadows lurked within the mist, peering into this living world from the haze.
If the Pink-haired Girl had completely driven away all sorts of Monsters and Demons,
Then Chen Ye had made the already eerie and terrifying atmosphere even darker and more frightening.
Even the open door was besieged.
Countless streams of Smoke Breath surged forward, as if trying to flood into the room to see what was inside.
Although Chen Ye was always ready to flee,
That was just a backup plan.
It didn't mean he wouldn't choose to fight when danger came.
These two choices weren't mutually exclusive.
Just as he said when he took on the role of temporary captain—fight if you can win, run if you can't.
The first iron rule for encountering Anomalies: fleeing is always the best option.
Chen Ye kept this rule close to his heart. The longer you survived in this apocalypse, the more you understood how correct it was.
There used to be people who doubted this rule.
But two years into the apocalypse, no one questioned its truth anymore.
Even though it was clear that there couldn't possibly be a high-level Anomaly here,
Chen Ye remained vigilant and cautious.
After all, you only had one life.
After the Blood Moon Blessing, the Smoke Breath Mist in Chen Ye's hands wasn't his strongest ability.
But it was certainly the most versatile.
"You... you are... the Blood Moon Lord???"
"How is that possible?"
"How could it be?"
From within that open room came these strange words.
Then...
"Bang!"
That door, too, slammed shut.
It was tightly sealed.
As if the "person" inside that door had encountered something utterly terrifying.