The system screamed as it rushed out, yelling, "Artemisia! Wait!"

Ai Cao paused on the trigger, but she still pulled it—only shifting the muzzle an inch, not actually blowing the former star commander's head apart.

But it also shattered half of his hair.

"You'd better give me a reason to stop me." The excited expression on Ai Cao's face gradually cooled.

"If you kill him now, it will only transfer the male lead's role to another man in this world!" the system quickly said. "But he can already serve as the host for the new protagonist!"

"Mother's body?"

The system quickly changed its tune: "Father body, father body!"

Ai Cao glanced at the trembling former star commander, who was shaking like a leaf, and then smashed one of his kneecaps. The once arrogant man lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"Is this okay?" said Artemisia.

The system whispered, "Alright, alright. You're really doing a great job by sparing his life..."

Standing next to Ai Cao, Nana and the approaching little robot stared at each other for a few seconds before Nana asked Ai Cao, "Ai Cao, are you planning to let him go?"

“For now.” Ai Cao raised the corners of her mouth slightly. She calmly looked at the man struggling and convulsing in front of her and said with a smile, “I’m going to spare his life for now.”

Nana and the robot did not object to her actions.

Nana stepped forward and packed the man up—she tied his hands and feet together, packing him up like a giant rice dumpling.

The robot surveyed the Golden Hall.

Apart from them and the man beside them, there was no trace of human presence in this golden hall.

There were some, but they were just lying on the ground... corpses scattered haphazardly across the seats and corners of the hall.

The robot slowly walked onto the display stand. She stood in front of the "Bone of Adam," and the camera on her head slowly extended out.

“Confirmed to be ‘Adam’s Bone’,” the robot said. She turned around, the metal on the lower half of her face shifting slightly. “Pleasure doing business with you.”

"It's a pleasure to work with you," said Ai Cao.

As they were talking, the lights above the booth suddenly dimmed. Nana's expression changed slightly, and she said in a low voice, "I'll go call Xia Moli."

But Xia Moli had already arrived. With a solemn expression, she too removed her disguise and stood before them in her true form.

Ai Cao asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

“…You can’t feel it,” Xia Moli said in a low voice. “There’s a terrifying spiritual force enveloping this place.”

Ai Cao thought for a moment and said, "After all, my mental strength is only D."

"That's good." Xia Moli breathed a sigh of relief. Her expression relaxed considerably, and her tone became much lighter: "I forgot about this—I'll slowly remove the mental protection that's been protecting you now. If you feel uncomfortable, just tell me."

The mugwort nodded.

Xia Moli gradually withdrew the mental protective barrier she had erected. Ai Cao, however, felt almost nothing about it.

Xia Moli suppressed a laugh: "If the person hiding in the shadows saw you like this, they'd probably be so angry they'd vomit blood."

Ai Cao scratched her head and laughed.

The atmosphere around them immediately became more relaxed.

The mugwort plant could probably guess who was hiding in the shadows.

The creator of "Adam's Bone," the culprit who brought Xia Moli here—the seemingly innocent but actually cunning research director.

Although the system didn't mention that the research director's mental strength was also very high, since he could create mercenaries with high mental strength, his own strength was probably not bad either.

Otherwise, he might have been killed by the mercenary's mental power.

Ai Cao thought to herself.

Xia Moli said in a low voice, "Now I'm trying to capture the other person's mental energy in order to pinpoint their location..."

She closed her eyes. A terrifying mental force, far exceeding the limits of this world, poured forth from her body. Her mental force permeated every tiny corner of the entire hall.

There was no relevant mental energy response in the hall. So she extended her mental energy to even more subtle areas—

"Found it." Xia Moli suddenly opened her eyes. Her hand grasped at the air.

A sharp, explosive sound echoed throughout the golden hall.

She looked at the tiny, translucent worm struggling in her hand.