The city, as if struck by the moon, fell silent the moment Gu Li and the others stepped in, and the lingering alien spirits vanished as if they had evaporated into thin air.

He Shiyi, who was supposed to be making a scene near the Presidential Palace to attract attention, has also disappeared.

Gu Li stopped running quickly on the road, listened for a moment, and looked solemnly at the two people beside her.

Can you hear me?

Lancer casually ran his fingers through his hair, his eyes scanning the corner behind him: "Tch, sneaky little tricks. After all these years, Shirley still prefers this kind of method."

Eric paused slightly, then swung his silver cane out, seemingly hitting something in mid-air. The thing let out a painful scream, and specks of liquid scattered on the ground.

Then the thing disappeared again.

Gu Li twitched her nose and looked around again, but found no trace of anyone else. She thought of the lower species that had silently surrounded the entire city around Bellamy.

She suddenly realized, "Could it be that Shirley's ability is related to concealing his presence?"

It was indeed her preconceived notion that all the lower species outside the city were mutated from the city's residents.

Even if all the residents of the city were to transform into lower-level species, they still wouldn't be able to surround the entire city.

The quantity is incorrect.

Gu Li looked at Eric and said with certainty, "This was something he planned from the beginning. Sherley is luring us into a trap, waiting for us to come to him on our own initiative."

Eric chuckled softly.

“That’s right, Shirley’s ability is to conceal, and his ability is to make anomalies disappear.”

Gu Li raised the corners of her lips: "So that's how it is. If Shirley could hide so many low-level creatures without anyone noticing, he wouldn't need to come to Bellamy to carry out his plan."

"So his ability is to confuse other people's senses, so that if we can't feel it, those things naturally won't exist."

As she finished speaking, an invisible force field spread out from the three of them, and the damp, ancient streets around them gradually disappeared, revealing a dense mass of alien creatures before their eyes.

Gu Li looked at the endless horde of alien species and twitched his lips: "What a grand welcoming ceremony."

Not far from the three of them, the Presidential Palace, which had been some distance away just moments before, suddenly appeared before them. With a loud cracking sound, the roof of the side building of the Presidential Palace was pierced through by a giant hand.

From the moment that hand appeared, sacred chanting automatically began to echo in Gu Li's ears, accompanied by the moonlight streaming down from the sky.

The enormous figure that gradually rose from the house was draped in a veil of divinity; this time, it was no longer a statue pieced together from limbs.

The snow-white body was draped in a layer of white silk, and countless dark lines meandered across the exposed skin.

Gu Li touched her chin, feeling the oppressive aura emanating from afar that seemed to pin her to the spot, and said with a wry smile, "At least now we know she's whole."

"Shelly wouldn't be so bored as to tattoo his goddess."

Lancer scooped up Gu Li with his tentacles and threw her away: "Ha! Thanks for the lame joke, I feel much worse now."

Using the momentum, Gu Li jumped out of the encirclement of the lower-level creatures and landed on the rooftop next to her. She swept her fingertips across the pendant at her waist, and a longsword appeared in her hand.

She spun around in mid-air, changing direction. The blood that was leaping from the back of her hand and the longsword flew out at the same time, severing all the twisted limbs that were chasing after her.

Eric looked back and said, "I'll leave this to you."

His lips twitched: "Stagnation."

All the lower-level creatures around him stopped moving. Eric vanished from his spot in an instant and left with Gu Li towards the Presidential Palace.

Lancer, left standing there, clicked his tongue: "I knew it. It's always the same. So, in your eyes, I'm just a little brother who cleans up the battlefield, is that it?"

He looked up, sighed, and opened his arms. His body was instantly engulfed by the lower species. Amidst the distant hymns and sounds of collapse, his thick wrists, adorned with a shimmering blue halo, pierced through countless alien species and appeared.

Then a huge, soft body rose from the ground, and on its bloated, massive head, countless eyes slowly opened, locking onto the surrounding low-level species that finally felt fear.

He laughed and swung his hand, instantly piercing through the low-level creature that was trying to escape at the street corner.

"Since we're here, let's enjoy ourselves!"

"I have no choice but to give you newbies a free lesson so you'll know what real fear is."

He paused for a moment after he finished speaking, then added, "Ah, although you will probably cease to exist after today."

The thick tentacles, too large for one person to encircle, possessed a contrasting softness and flexibility. It was hard to believe that fluorescent blue circles would naturally appear on living beings, causing every lower species it touched to stiffen and then melt.

Lancer leaped out from the pile of flesh and blood that almost covered the ground, transformed into human form, and stood on the roof, tucking his slightly messy, super-powered hair behind his head with one hand.

His gaze swept over the low-level creature that was still struggling on the ground with only half its body remaining, and then turned his attention back to the direction of the presidential palace.

A gigantic human figure, as white as the Virgin Mary, stood still, its eyes still closed, with several people scattered in front of it.

Lancer picked at his ear and said, "It's so damn noisy."

This music.

Gu Li and Eric saw He Shiyi and others in front of the Presidential Palace. The other members of the 11th Army who were in charge of mobile phone information in the city were ordered to withdraw from the battlefield.

The vast square was now empty except for the five members of the Gu Li group who had come on a mission, and Stephen, who stood in their way.

Gu Li patted his head and said expressionlessly, "It's so noisy."

Her gaze swept disdainfully over the body that Nicholas had used when he descended to earth.

"It's already conspicuous enough that such a huge body broke through the roof, isn't it a bit impolite to play background music in my head as well?"

She whispered to He Shiyi.

Stephen, who stood alone in front of the group without saying a word, suddenly stretched out a hand towards them, and a sharp wind that could almost cut their faces came towards them.

Gu Li's eyes sharpened, and he spread his wings, which had just been repaired by Cecil, and flew to the side, picking up Cecil along the way.

Cecil sighed. "Silent and then suddenly attacking, is Stephen going through menopause or something? Is he irritable? Easily angered?"

He Shiyi looked in the direction of the man in black, his eyes serious as he turned to the side and gripped the long, black sword at his waist.

He parted his thin lips slightly: "Long time no see, teacher."

Gu Li's movement, which was suspended in mid-air, froze for a moment, and he almost fell.

teacher? ! ! !

Cecil: "Teacher?!?"

Gu Li: "...Why are you so surprised too?"

Cecil landed on the ground and looked in the direction of the man in black, looking genuinely bewildered: "I feel like I'm being ostracized. It's not written in the initiation handbook that Stephen is Teacher He."

What is this "membership handbook"?!

Gu Li: Who is the person being ostracized?