It's a doll!
To be precise, it's a sunny doll!
Fang Xin found this doll incredibly familiar.
There was such a sunny doll hanging in the car when Aili's parents had their accident.
There was also such a sunny doll hanging in the car when Fang Xin's parents had their accident.
Now, Aili's twin sister had given Fang Xin another sunny doll.
Fang Xin looked at Red-Eyed Aili not far away.
She was also staring back at Fang Xin.
And as she flickered away,
the swirling mist parted to make way.
Fang Xin and Red-Eyed Aili could clearly see each other.
At this moment, Red-Eyed Aili took out a door from her spatial ring and placed it behind her.
That door slowly opened.
Behind it was pitch black.
"Dare to disrespect a god! You shall surely suffer divine punishment!"
After speaking, Red-Eyed Aili stepped into the door.
The Three-Headed Dog shook its head and charged into the door as well.
Its massive body squeezed in with sheer force.
Before leaving, it turned back and glared fiercely at Fang Xin.
"Lecher! Next time we meet! I'll chop off your Niu Zi!"
"Chop off your Niu Zi!"
The door closed.
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As the door closed, Fang Xin caught a glimpse of the scene inside.
It was a dark canyon with black rock walls.
Blue ghost fires flickered intermittently within the canyon,
as if specters were patrolling the valley.
And at the very end of the entire valley,
a massive, pitch-black hall was vaguely visible in the distance, standing there.
That dark hall seemed like a netherworld eye nailed to the canyon, scrutinizing the vast land.
Just one look would send shivers down one's spine, an uneasy feeling would involuntarily arise, and goosebumps would appear on the skin.
After the door closed, it vanished without a trace.
The thick fog lingering there also slowly dissipated.
Fang Xin's hand trembled.
The sunny doll he was holding began to spontaneously combust.
Fang Xin quickly threw the sunny doll away.
A gasp came from not far away.
The goblins that had been attacking the cars behind them began to shrivel, and with a series of popping sounds, they deflated like inflatable dolls, turning into mere skins, and then spontaneously combusted, burning to ashes in the blink of an eye.
Fang Xin tugged at the back of his shirt; the aftershock of the Three-Headed Dog's attack had scalded him, and his back still ached a bit.
Today, he had both foreseen the future and rewound to the past. If Fang Xin were to use Rewind again now, he would surely be debilitated afterwards.
During the recent battle, the hair on Hua Cheng's head had been singed by the flames spewed by the Three-Headed Dog. His scalp had a strange smell, and his hair was burnt into a yellow, curly shape.
Patting his hair, Hua Cheng looked in the direction where the door had been.
"Damn it, that Three-Headed Dog is really tough. I broke four or five of its ribs and made its nose and ears bleed, but it still looked fine! And it got away! A Xin, did you get anything out of that pretty Little Girl?"
"From Nili Hall!"
Hua Cheng, who was patting his hair, froze. "Nili Hall's?"
After speaking, as if realizing something, Hua Cheng quickly ran towards the car behind them.
Several people in the car were injured.
Ma Hu was still lying in the back seat, with Hua Cheng's talisman pasted on his face.
As Hua Cheng abruptly pulled open the car door, the talisman swayed back and forth with the wind from the opening.
Hua Cheng inspected closely.
"Damn it!"
Fang Xin also came closer to check.
He was dead.
Ma Hu's eyes had no whites, they were completely black, exactly as Fang Xin had seen them in the previous battle.
A strange smile was still on his face.
He looked very peaceful.
The other people in the car were also stunned by this scene; they had been so focused on fighting that they hadn't paid attention to Ma Hu.
"Why did he die?" Fang Xin asked, bewildered.
Hua Cheng pulled off the talisman and stuffed it into his spatial ring. "I can't say for sure, but it's probably a very sinister innate skill. A part of his soul was stripped away and held in someone else's hand, meaning his life was in someone else's hands. Now that he was captured by us, to prevent him from revealing secrets, they could only kill him to silence him!
Did he say anything before he died?" Hua Cheng turned to look at the other people who had been in the car.
Shi Tailang scratched his head. "He seemed to be muttering something?"
The others also seemed to have some recollection.
Li Bao'er drank Wahaha like a little rabbit. "He seemed to say, 'Huoluo Huoluo Aqi Ke, Anaqi Ke!'"
"It sounded something like that!" Shi Tailang slapped his head.
"Sixth Brother, what does that mean?" Fang Xin asked.
Hua Cheng scratched his head, scattering burnt hair fragments. "It should be some kind of incantation. Don't ask me what it means, I don't know! All information about Nili Hall has been suppressed; the classified level involved is very high.
However, the fact that Nili Hall has infiltrated our ranks needs to be reported to the higher-ups!
I originally thought only the Eternal Night Army was playing infiltration, but now it seems the Eternal Night Army and Nili Hall have likely connected."
"Is anyone going to pay attention to me?"
A voice came.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Ren Ling huddled in a corner of the car, looking pitifully at everyone.
"Let's finish the mission first! All of us together!" Hua Cheng said.
Su Ben led his people over quickly, with several injuries on his body. A large piece of flesh on his back seemed to have been torn away by sharp claws, revealing his white bones, and even his beating heart could be seen through the gaps in his ribs.
"So heavily injured?" Hua Cheng went to meet him.
Su Ben lit a cigarette, and while letting his healing-type teammate treat his wounds, he grimaced and cursed, "Damn it, that bastard didn't play fair, and I was careless and didn't dodge, that's how I got hit!"
"What about casualties?"
Fang Xin said, "No casualties here!"
Su Ben took a deep drag from his cigarette. "Damn it, only two of my squad are left alive! How did Ma Hu die?"
Hua Cheng patted Su Ben's arm. "I'll follow and escort you from behind! Get in the car! I'll tell you about Ma Hu in the car!"
The few of them got into the car one after another.
The rest of the journey was very smooth, unimpeded all the way.
Two hours later, after passing through numerous checkpoints,
a massive building emerged on the horizon.
It looked like a huge sphere.
There were also several buildings next to the spherical structure.
A sign on one side of the entrance had several characters written on it. Perhaps due to years of weathering and erosion, the handwriting was somewhat yellowed and blurred, but the words on the sign were still legible.
"No. 33 Taixu Research Base."
When they arrived, they saw a middle-aged man wearing thick glasses eagerly awaiting them in the distance.
"Dad!" Ren Ling excitedly ran towards the middle-aged man after seeing him.
After handing over the mission to the person in charge here, the person in charge invited Fang Xin and the others to dine.
Ren Ling, now seeing her father, was energized. She had been quiet for most of the latter part of the journey, but now with her backing, and her petty nature at play,
she immediately hugged her father Ren Wenzhong's arm, and tears streamed down her face. "Dad! I was beaten!"
Ren Wenzhong saw his daughter crying and noticed that her face was somewhat swollen. "Did you encounter danger on the way? Come, there are Awakened with healing abilities here; they can reduce the swelling for you."
Unexpectedly, Ren Ling wiped away her tears. "Dad! I wasn't beaten by the enemy, I was beaten by the people who escorted me!"
"What?" Ren Wenzhong's brows immediately furrowed upon hearing this. "You mean those people from the Ninth Division hit you?"
"Yes! That one named Fang Xin ordered it, and that one named Li Bao'er did it! Dad, you must stand up for me!"
Ren Wenzhong examined his daughter's facial injuries. "Unacceptable! These people are too much! Not injured by the enemy, but by their own people instead!"
Seeing her father so angry, Ren Ling wiped away another tear. "Dad, especially that Fang Xin, you don't know how arrogant he is. He even said that I could report him to his superior, and he wasn't afraid at all!"
Ren Wenzhong gritted his teeth. "Let's go! I'll take you to our Dean! We'll go find them and get some justice! Even if your Ninth Division is full of talented people, isn't it going too far to lay hands on the person you're supposed to be escorting?"
The father and daughter hurried to the Dean's office.
After knocking, they quickly walked in.
The Dean of the research base took off his reading glasses and smiled. "Wenzhong, you've come? You've picked up your daughter? Her name is Ren Ling, right?"
"This is Director Li, say 'Grandpa Li'!"
"Grandpa Li!" Ren Ling called out, choked with sobs.
Director Li was stunned for a moment. "This... what's going on?"
Ren Wenzhong said angrily, "Director Li, are you going to do something about this? My daughter wasn't injured by the enemy on the way here, but she was beaten by people from the Ninth Division. Look, her face is swollen like this, and there's such a big bump on her head!"
After Director Li stepped forward and examined her, he said, "Ren Ling, Grandpa asks you, why did they hit you?"
Ren Ling wiped her tears, crying pitifully. "Their attitude was very bad. They disliked that I was slow in packing my things, so they hit me!"
"Who hit you?"
"The one named Li Bao'er did the hitting, and the one who ordered it was named Fang Xin!"
Director Li comforted him, "Wenzhong, please sit down first. I'll find someone to verify this!"
Saying that, he made a phone call and shortly after received a reply, saying that she was indeed hit, but it was because Ren Ling had been abusive and made a scene first.
Ren Wenzhong stood up. "Dean, did you hear that? This is too lawless! Even if my daughter's words were a bit harsh, they shouldn't have hit someone like this! Today, an explanation must be given!"
Director Li gestured. "Hitting someone like this because of an argument is indeed excessive. I happen to know Dean Xu of Sky Shield Academy. I'll give him a call and tell him about this matter. Don't worry, we will definitely give you an explanation!"
The call connected, and Director Li said with a smile, "Brother Boshan, it's me, Li Hanlin!"
"Hanlin, what made you think of calling me?"
"Brother Boshan, indeed I only call when I need something. I know this, and I know that our Ninth Division is full of talented people, all of them prodigies. It's understandable for prodigies to have personalities, but Brother Boshan, isn't it sometimes not so good for personalities to be too flamboyant?"
Xu Boshan heard this and said, "What happened? Was the person not escorted over?"
"It's like this, the person was indeed escorted over, but there was a bit of an argument during the escort, and the Ninth Division team members hit the person being escorted. I checked, and the beating wasn't light. Now the child's father is asking for an explanation!"
Xu Boshan slammed the table and said angrily, "What?! That's too much! This is too much! Even if there was an argument! They still can't hit an escortee! This really shows no discipline at all!
Tell me, who did it! I'll go and discipline them right away! And give the father and daughter an explanation!"
Li Hanlin felt that the matter was settled upon hearing Xu Boshan's anger. "The one who did the hitting is named Li Bao'er! The one who ordered it is named Fang Xin!"
"Who?"
