The moment Chi Bofei died, the spatial force field surrounding this area vanished instantly.

Chu Xiaoman, who was engrossed in hacking at the invisible wall, missed with her sword and fell headfirst into the air. Before she could even get excited, she heard the voice from the command center through her earpiece.

"Trainee No. 66, Chu Xiaoman, report your location. Remain where you are and await further instructions. An instructor will be on your way shortly..."

Chu Xiaoman finally heard the voice from the command center through her earpiece and couldn't hold back her tears any longer: "Come quickly! Chi Bofei has gone mad! Wang Zheng can't hold on much longer! Come quickly!"

"The instructors are on their way. What's the situation with Wang Zheng? We can't get in touch with him!"

Although Chu Xiaoman's face was streaked with tears, she was still quick-witted: "We were dealing with a Shadow Panther when we successfully hunted it. Then Chi Bofei appeared. He's really gone mad. He's slashing at anyone he sees and we can't communicate with him. Wang Zheng stayed behind to cover our retreat and deal with him. His imaging equipment must have been destroyed by Chi Bofei."

Inside the command center, Wang Zheng's first-person perspective ended after he killed the last Fang Wolf. They didn't know Wang Zheng's current condition, and could only comfort Chu Xiaoman, telling her to stay put and wait for rescue.

As the spatial force field disappeared, Wang Zheng looked at the corpses on the ground, racking his brains about how to report to the command center.

He had considered sparing Chi Bofei's life first and then extracting some information from him. However, considering Chi Bofei's crazed and ferocious appearance, he was worried that he might not get any information out of him, and he was also concerned that Chi Bofei could simply teleport away. Therefore, he decided to just kill him and end it all.

More importantly, based on what Chi Bofei said, Wang Zheng roughly deduced why he was so hostile towards him.

Chi Bofei felt that he was the chosen one. He had experienced the apocalypse of Blue Star before. After being reborn, he discovered that Wang Zheng was someone who did not exist in his memory. However, he did not think that there was anything wrong with him. On the contrary, he felt that Wang Zheng's existence was a mistake. Therefore, if he wanted to continue to be the savior of Blue Star, he had to correct and erase the mistake of Wang Zheng.

Regardless of whether what Chi Bofei said is true or false, Wang Zheng himself has something to hide.

He thought about it carefully. If he hadn't transmigrated, the original owner of this body might not have been able to awaken naturally. Moreover, given his current state, it's uncertain whether he could have awakened naturally. If he hadn't awakened naturally, the original owner would still be in his senior year of high school and wouldn't have been able to meet Chi Bofei.

So it's easier to just kill him directly, to avoid revealing more information about yourself.

As Wang Zheng was summarizing and thinking, he suddenly saw a cloud of black smoke fly out of Chi Bofei's corpse, slowly condensing into a cloak-like shape, rippling as the breeze blew by.

At the top of the cloak were a pair of blood-red eyes—let's just call them eyes for now, since the entire body was pitch black except for these two blood-red spots, and they were staring intently at Wang Zheng.

Wang Zheng was greatly shocked, but dared not make any rash moves. This black mist was born from Chi Bofei's corpse, and it was strangely powerful, clearly not belonging to the category of alien beasts. Could this be Chi Bofei's soul? Could he really be reborn again?

Just as Wang Zheng was lost in thought, the black mist seemed to have found its target and slowly drifted towards him.

There's really no need for that. What does this mean? Does he really think he's the chosen one, and even after death he'll try to possess someone else's body?

In an instant, Wang Zheng's mind was filled with all sorts of strange scenes from novels he had read in his previous life. He quickly turned around, took off running, and the black mist followed him, drifting faster and faster.

But running is nowhere near as fast as flying, and there are obstacles on the ground.

Wang Zheng kept rolling and dodging, or using trees as cover, but the strange black mist seemed to be made of gas, and it passed right through the trees.

Seeing that his speed was obviously slower than the black mist, Wang Zheng casually took out a hammer from his storage space and threw it, hoping to slow down the black mist's progress. However, to Wang Zheng's surprise, the hammer passed right through the black mist, and the black mist was not affected at all.

Wang Zheng instinctively turned and ran, but it was too late. The time he wasted turning around and throwing the hammer had allowed the black mist to catch up completely.

One of his arms was completely enveloped by the black mist. Wang Zheng felt a piercing pain coming from his arm, and when he looked down, his skin was being decomposed and dissolved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was as if countless tiny mosquitoes in the black mist were relentlessly biting and devouring his flesh and blood.

Meanwhile, Wang Zheng's stamina value on his data panel was also rapidly declining, instantly dropping below 300.

"Damn it, what the hell is this thing?" Wang Zheng cursed, unable to bear the excruciating pain.

He had fought Chi Bofei for so long before, and his stamina never dropped below 300 points. Now that he was dead, this inhuman thing flew out and caused him even more damage. What's even more terrifying is that his spiritual energy is also decreasing at the same time.

This is the biggest crisis Wang Zheng has encountered since coming into this world; it has clearly reached a critical juncture of life and death.

Wang Zheng is starting to panic.

When are humans most afraid?

It's a time to face the unknown!

This strange black mist is now unknown to Wang Zheng. He can no longer feel his forearm, and the black mist is spreading out as if trying to envelop Wang Zheng's entire body.

Left with no other option, Wang Zheng decided to try anything, starting with his own thorny heart.

It worked; the black mist clearly paused for a moment the instant it was activated.

But then it continued to loom over Wang Zheng.

Now only one last hope remained. For the first time, Wang Zheng prayed fervently and shouted, "The Holy Light will grant me strength!"

Suddenly, a holy beam of light enveloped Wang Zheng. Upon contact with the black mist, the mist began to dissolve. It seemed to have suffered great damage, and immediately stopped binding Wang Zheng's body, flying away into the distance.

"Damn it, now you think you can escape?" Wang Zheng suddenly perked up and swung a beam of holy light at the black mist.

The tables have turned, and now it's the turn of this black mist to be enveloped by the pillar of light. Wang Zheng didn't even rush to heal his arm injury. Streams of holy light kept enveloping the black mist, which was no longer as arrogant and domineering as before. It kept churning and rolling, trying to shrink itself into a ball and minimize the area illuminated by the light.

The black mist shrank smaller and smaller until Wang Zheng seemed to hear an extremely shrill roar before it completely disappeared, leaving only a black crystal on the ground, proving that what had just happened was not an illusion.

Wang Zheng finally breathed a sigh of relief; he never wanted to experience that feeling of surviving a disaster again.

After the black mist dissipated, the spiritual energy limit in his data panel increased to 799 points. Wang Zheng carefully picked up the crystal on the ground and put it into his storage space.