Fishing village.

Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and Shen Qingzhu walked in silence on the road in the village, and the atmosphere was a bit depressing.

"Fatty." After an unknown amount of time, Cao Yuan took the initiative to break the silence. He turned to look at Baili Fatty beside him and said seriously, "You went a little too far just now."

Baili Pangpang lowered his head and walked at the back, like a child who had made a mistake.

"I know... I don't want to quarrel with Qingyu." Baili Pangpang kicked a stone under his feet and said with some annoyance, "But just now... I don't know why, I suddenly got angry while talking to him."

clang--!

The stone flew to the eaves of the house next door, bounced lightly, and fell into the doghouse next to the house.

“Woof woof woof——!”

Rapid and fierce dog barking sounds came from the doghouse. A gray local dog suddenly rushed out of the small hole, barking wildly and rushing towards Baili Pangpang.

Baili Pangpang frowned and looked at it, a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes. He took out a dagger from his pocket and just as he raised his hand, he suddenly froze in place.

He looked at the local dog running towards him from a distance, then looked at the dagger in his hand. His expression seemed confused and struggling... In the end, he put away the dagger, lightly pointed his fingertips at the local dog, and a flash of light turned into a thin green rope, which instantly tied one of the local dog's hind legs to a stone beside it.

The local dog tied with a green rope staggered and fell to the ground, but its limbs were still scratching the ground frantically, and it kept roaring at Baili Pangpang and others.

Shen Qingzhu saw everything that Baili Pangpang did just now.

He frowned and stared at Baili Pangpang, as if he was thinking about something...

"I..." Baili Pangpang opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. He put his hands on his head, leaned against the wall, and slowly squatted down.

"Are you okay?" Cao Yuan squatted down in front of him.

"I don't know." Baili Pangpang said with some annoyance, "I seem to be... a little bit wrong."

“Woof woof woof——!”

The barking of the local dog echoed in the road, making people's eardrums hurt. Cao Yuan frowned slightly and continued to comfort:

"Anyway, after this matter is over, you have to apologize to Qingyu..."

Cao Yuan's voice was suppressed by the barking. Baili Pangpang said blankly: "What did you say? I can't hear you."

Cao Yuan took a deep breath and spoke again: "I said this incident is over..."

“Woof woof woof——!”

"grass!!"

A hint of anger appeared in Cao Yuan's eyes, and he suddenly stood up from the ground. His bloodshot eyes stared at the bound local dog in the distance, and his right hand instantly rested on the hilt of the straight knife at his waist.

He exerted a little force with his palm and was about to draw his sword!

Click——!

A hand quickly pressed on the hilt of the knife, pushing the knife back into the sheath.

Cao Yuan turned his head, and when he saw Shen Qingzhu beside him with his angry eyes, he was suddenly stunned.

"You can't draw your sword." Shen Qingzhu's expression was more serious than ever before. "Cao Yuan, you absolutely cannot draw your sword!"

"Why?"

Shen Qingzhu opened his mouth and was about to say something, but the two of them glanced into the distance and their pupils shrank slightly.

The local dog that was tied to the stone with a green rope had red eyes. It stopped roaring and began to bite its own hind legs madly, as if it was completely unaware of the pain. Its sharp teeth tore at the flesh and blood, and it exerted so much force that it actually bit off the tied hind leg!

Blood flowed down its body onto the ground. The dog, which had regained its freedom, slowly turned its head. Its ferocious mouth, which was covered with its own blood and flesh, opened into a ferocious arc, like a vicious dog from hell, and bared its fangs at the three people.

“Woof woof woof——!”

It used its three remaining legs to stagger and rush towards Baili Pangpang madly, its eyes full of rage and madness.

"Is it crazy?" Baili Pangpang witnessed this scene and spoke in shock.

Even though it had lost a leg, the dog's speed did not slow down at all. It was like a mad dog that had lost its sense of pain. It bared its bloody fangs and started barking at the three people again.

At this moment, a gray shadow fell from the sky and swooped down precisely towards the high-speed moving mad dog.

It was a bird covered in wounds.

Shen Qingzhu recognized this bird. This morning when they were at the village gate, they witnessed a flock of birds killing each other, and this bird was the final winner.

The bird's eyes were also scarlet. It let out a sharp and piercing cry, folded its wings, and swooped down from the sky, like a gray lightning, and suddenly pierced into the mad dog's right eye.

Blood splattered.

The mad dog's roar became more shrill. It shook its head frantically, trying to shake the bird off its head, but the bird showed no fear and pecked at its other eye again and again.

A dog and a bird were fighting each other like crazy.

Baili Pangpang and the other two were stunned.

"There is something here that can affect the reason and emotions of living things." Shen Qingzhu saw this scene and became more certain of his judgment. He turned to look at Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang and said seriously, "Humans are also within its range of influence."

“So, I was also…” Baili Pangpang seemed to understand something.

"Well, you lost control of your emotions just now, you must have been affected." Shen Qingzhu nodded slightly, then looked at Cao Yuan and said, "Cao Yuan, you have been affected too."

Cao Yuan looked down at his right hand which was resting on the hilt of the knife and fell silent.

At that moment just now, he did have the urge to draw his knife and kill the dog.

With their skills, it would not be difficult to deal with this mad dog on the roadside. They could kick it dozens of meters away with just one kick... But just now, he had the intention to kill it.

He wanted to draw his sword to liberate the forbidden area and kill the mad dog.

"I..." Cao Yuan muttered to himself.

"If humans are also within the influence of this power, the one who needs to be most careful among us is you, Cao Yuan." Shen Qingzhu looked into Cao Yuan's eyes and said seriously, "The rest of us are fine. If we really can't keep our sanity, we can ask Pang Pang to use forbidden objects to block our actions and prevent us from doing something irreparable, but you are different.

Your [Black King Slash] is already very easy to get out of control and go berserk. If you draw your sword and enter the Black King state, the two combined will make it impossible for you to stay rational. Add to that your terrifying rampage forbidden ruins... even if Fatty and I were combined, we might not be able to suppress you."

On the road ahead, the fight between the bird and the mad dog was coming to an end. The mad dog bit off the bird's head and stumbled forward a few steps, as if it wanted to bite Baili Pangpang. But after a few steps, it collapsed to the ground, blood gushing out of its body, and it lost its breath after a while.

Cao Yuan watched the scene silently, took a deep breath, took off the straight knife from his waist, and handed it to Shen Qingzhu.

"Brother, I'll give you my knife for safekeeping."