07:23:35.

In this hellish new city, less than one-tenth of the original human population has survived. The exteriors of the buildings are covered with skeletons, interspersed with broken churches and statues, a testament to a bloody and violent history.

The dim light was the only thing that isolated them from the mutated creatures outside, and it served no purpose other than witnessing more death.

"Have you seen that guy from Yingzhou?" He Yu looked very relaxed, walking casually, but his body was covered in blood. "I've been looking for him for a long time, but I haven't even seen a piece of rotten flesh."

"I don't know, I just came out of the theater not long ago."

At this moment, the two of them were walking along a quiet, dimly lit path not far from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The crude searchlights in the depths of the foliage shone with a bluish-white light, and were mostly blocked. At first glance, it looked almost like the dead end that the protagonists of a horror movie must have.

It's obvious without much thought that these broken lights were temporary installations, and most likely they were installed after the explosion in Weeks' lab, where mutated creatures ran rampant.

When Angel was asked by the planning team how to set up the scene, he was so drunk that he couldn't even speak a complete sentence. Outsiders thought there was some major conspiracy—but actually, this idiot just wanted to create some atmosphere, and Lilith was just planning to watch some horror stories.

Bamke certainly didn't show any dissatisfaction because of Joey's death, at least not yet. It was just a fictional life within a forbidden object. This place was an unobservable second world, so it was common for some consumables to die.

He really thought so, well, even though this Dongxia man killed the child without batting an eye, as casually as picking a flower while passing by. But what could he do? They were teammates after all, Eoubs' operatives.

So it's not time to completely break ties yet.

He Yu was very curious about what the people in the castle were like now; they were probably in a chaotic mess trying to find a solution.

They walked along the cobblestone path, the patterns carved on the surrounding walls menacing, encroaching on the road and buildings. Strange statues could be seen flashing by in the shadows, their style extremely bizarre and eerie, not at all like human sculptures, but rather like the face of darkness itself.

This was originally a stage filled with suspense and terror, yet as stable as the world itself. But now, a loophole has appeared in one part, and the lives of ordinary people have slipped out of control, plummeting into the unknown, as if falling into an abyss.

For some reason, Bamke recalled what had happened a dozen minutes earlier. He Yu walked out from behind them, stepping on the bones scattered on the ground, his smile as bright as a lit firework, full of aggression and mockery.

Like a huge and dazzling explosion.

The former suddenly reached out to stop himself, looked around, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"We've got a job, you foreigner."

Bamke paused for a moment, as he had not sensed any life force other than the two of them. At that moment, the lights in front of him suddenly flickered and went out.

He Yu clicked his tongue, and at the same time, the lights behind them went out, plunging the surroundings into darkness.

Those things had clearly been watching them for a while.

The moment the lights went out, scarlet shadows immediately crawled out of the darkness. They moved on all fours, acting in groups—roughly fifteen to twenty in number, and looked almost exactly like humans, which was quite terrifying.

They vary in size, some exceeding two meters in length, others as small as infants. They move swiftly, some still crawling, while others walk upright like normal people, swarming towards them.

These creatures were similar to the ones he had encountered in the dungeon at the beginning, but they were clearly more perfect. They were extremely fast, and the one in front leaped up and pounced on the two of them.

He Yu simply picked up Bamke's axe and chopped it into its head.

The thing's bones were just as hard as human bones, incredibly fragile in the face of a sharp blade, but it seemed to have lost the ability to feel pain, and instead of stopping, it continued to charge at him.

He picked up the axe tip and forcefully chopped off half of its head, even destroying its eyes, but he still didn't stop.

He Yu was somewhat helpless, so he could only kick the thing to the ground and step forward to cut off its head.

The headless body continued to twitch, and the mouth covered in bone spurs kept opening and closing, trying to bite something.

At the same time, a forearm that twisted like a snake suddenly coiled up from behind. He Yu bent down and dodged it. He moved very lightly, and with that posture, he slashed back, the line swaying in the air in a glowing arc, cutting the monster behind him in two.

The body, now broken in two, lay on the ground. The left half seemed unaware that it was dead, crawling on the ground with one hand, still trying to attack something.

"If you don't like it, here you go." Without even looking at it, he swung the axe away as if he were going to chop Bamke in half as well.

The latter took it steadily and kept walking forward. Suddenly, a monster hidden in the grass leaped out, its bone claws whistling through the air.

He chopped the arm into several pieces in less than two seconds, and calmly replied, "Thank you."

Ten minutes later, they stood covered in blood amidst a pile of mutilated corpses.

Even now, those creatures are still convulsing, and many of their limbs, mutilated corpses, are writhing on the ground, still trying to grab something, to attack something. This desire seems to have penetrated to the bone, and in the end, they even began to devour their own kind.

Bamke shook his head and reached out to hold onto the tree trunk. At this moment, he was looking at an extremely bizarre and disgusting scene of devouring, which made him want to vomit after looking at it for a while.

He took a breath, quickly gripped his weapon again, and walked over, intending to completely eliminate those morbid and deformed things.

He Yu stared at the man for a while, thinking that he was indeed a cautious colleague. Apart from showing extraordinary physical abilities, he didn't reveal anything else.

I really didn't find anything forbidden in his body. Seeing the hidden ability was like eating live maggots. Sometimes it was ridiculously useless. Next time I'll just make 659 spit it out.

He thought to himself, if it were a good forbidden object, he could find a way to kill it. He had to admit that these people were really smart, much more intelligent than the ones he had met in the villa.

Bamke had no idea what he was planning. He just silently slashed at the pile of shredded flesh, but no matter what he did, there were still some small, wriggling pieces left. He didn't know what to do with them, so he just left them there.

In the end, He Yu handled the problem perfectly, even though his method seemed rather disgusting and exaggerated. But what could he do? He was just a helpful person.

He picked up all those things and ate them, for which he was scolded by 659 for quite a while.