"……Really?"

Little Xigeor stared at Li Yun with her big watery eyes, looking expectantly.

Li Yun smiled slightly: "Of course, I am..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Yun was suddenly startled, because he found that a strange weak energy had appeared in his body out of nowhere!

...No way?

Takes effect so quickly?

Li Yun had a strange look on his face. After a moment's thought, he gently raised his hand and recited a spell compiled by researchers in the archives.

“Huh~”

In an instant, a strong wind blew up from the ground and turned into streams of air surrounding his body.

Seeing this scene, little Xigor next to him was full of excitement, as if she finally confirmed that Li Yun was really a wizard.

As a result, the "magic power" that emerged out of thin air in Li Yun's body began to surge wildly.

In just a few seconds, this magical power grew to a level close to level five.

This is because Li Yun's image as an adult is extremely tall in Xiao Xigor's heart. She thinks that since Li Yun is also a wizard, his magic level and magic power reserves must be much stronger than hers.

Therefore, Xiao Xigor tried her best to imagine the scene of Li Yun releasing magic.

But unfortunately, a child's imagination has its limits after all. Without knowing the concepts of stars, galaxies, and the universe, the strongest magician she can imagine is only at the fifth level.

Of course, even this level is still incredible in this world.

Li Yun sensed the 'weak' magic power that emerged out of thin air in his body, and felt that he could create a storm that could destroy a city and set off a tsunami hundreds of meters high with just a thought.

...As expected of a reality bender!

If it were someone else, as long as he gained Xiao Xigor's trust, he could skip the early accumulation and reach the top in one step.

Li Yun sighed in his heart, holding Xigeer's hand and smiling, "Let's go!"

"Um!"

Little Xigor nodded heavily, then held Li Yun's big hand tightly, and walked out of the holding room with him happily.

…

…

On the other hand, Li Yun's clone wiped out three anomalies with entities along the way, and with the cooperation of the elite containment team "Cyber ​​Hand" and Dr. Schmidt, contained two anomalies that could not be eliminated.

After dealing with a total of five anomalies, Li Yun and his team finally found Ron's body.

At this time, the place where Ron fought the Crimson Demon had been destroyed by some force.

The walls and floor of the entire corridor were shattered, revealing a huge gap with a diameter of more than five meters.

Through the gap, one can see the wide hall in the center of Base No. 3 that connects the nine floors above and below, as well as other containment personnel who are struggling to fight against many anomalies in the hall.

"Want to help them?"

Li Yun asked softly while looking at the battlefield below.

Dr. Schmidt shook his head and said decisively, "Find 2-043 Crimson Demon first. If we can't deal with him, there will be more and more anomalies that break out of containment."

Li Yun nodded and turned to look behind him.

The six members of Cyber ​​Hand squatted silently in front of Ron's charred remains.

The leading captain took out a data chip from his mutilated head, then stood up calmly, looked at Li Yun and said: "Let's go, there is no problem here."

“…”

Li Yun glanced at them and sighed in his heart.

Regardless of his stance, he still admired this group of people.

It should be said that in this world full of anomalies, all mortals who dare to face madness are worthy of admiration.

Even though their approach was not perfect in Li Yun's mind...

Li Yun took a step forward, and Dr. Schmidt beside him said quickly: "Wait, don't be in a hurry, go to the containment room 2-043 first. There is a brain wave suppressor made of mind-isolating alloy. Only by wearing it can you get close to the Crimson Demon."

Hearing Dr. Schmidt's words, Li Yun nodded and said, "No problem, you guys go change your equipment first, I'll go find the Crimson Demon."

"Wait!" Dr. Schmidt frowned, "You want to act alone?"

Li Yun smiled and said, "Why, even now, you still don't trust me?"

Dr. Schmidt hesitated for a moment and said through gritted teeth: "It's not impossible to act separately, but I want to go with you!"

Li Yun was surprised and asked, "Aren't you afraid of the mind-distorting power of the Crimson Demon?"

Dr. Schmidt said calmly, "Of course I am afraid, but don't worry, with the Crimson Demon's understanding of the company, he would never dare to use his mind-bending power to control any senior executive above the director level in the base."

Li Yun said thoughtfully: "Do you also have abnormal effects?"

Dr. Schmidt smiled and did not answer directly. Instead, he changed the subject and said, "So, you just need to protect my personal safety. This shouldn't be a problem for you, right, Destroyer?"

“…”

Li Yun curled his lips, turned around and walked forward.

Dr. Schmidt breathed a sigh of relief, whispered a few words to the six people, and then quickly followed Li Yun.

Not long after, a violent tremor was heard from the hall outside the corridor.

Li Yun frowned and raised his hand to slap the wall.

"boom!!"

The hard alloy steel wall burst instantly, revealing a huge gap.

Looking down through the gap, I saw that most of the containment personnel who were fighting the anomaly were dead, and only a black-haired man was left standing among the corpses and blood, holding a purple long knife and looking forward with an indifferent expression.

If Li Yun remembered correctly, this black-haired man was a member of the previous 'Purple Fire' team.

As for the many corpses lying beside him, except for some corpses with tragic deaths due to abnormal causes, the rest of the corpses were basically kept intact for the time being, with only a purple knife scar on the forehead and chest near the heart.

It was obvious that they were all killed by this member of the Purple Fire Squad.

Upon discovering this, Dr. Schmidt couldn't help but frown.

But soon, he made a judgment and said decisively: "Li, go down, the Crimson Demon is nearby!"

Li Yun raised his eyebrows: "...Oh?"

Dr. Schmidt quickly explained, "His name is Lu Ying, the deputy captain of the Purple Fire Squad. He possesses the anomaly numbered 1-141, which is the long sword in his hand. Based on my understanding of Captain Lu, he would never attack his companions if they were not controlled by the Crimson Demon."

Li Yun asked back: "Couldn't it be that he is being manipulated?"

Dr. Schmidt said without hesitation: "Impossible, he and 1-141 are in a symbiotic state, there is absolutely no way he can be controlled by the Crimson Devil."

【1-141】Hmm…

Li Yun glanced at the purple long knife in Lu Ying's hand, then raised his hand, grabbed Dr. Schmidt's collar, and jumped into the hall.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, Li Yun stood up on the broken ground and put down Dr. Schmidt, who was wrapped in the life field next to him.

The black-haired man behind them immediately looked at the two of them warily. Purple veins like blood vessels appeared on the metal sword in his hand, and deep purple flames seemed to flow through them.

"Captain Lu!"

Dr. Schmidt hurried forward, and when he turned around, he revealed a familiar face that made Lu Ying breathe a sigh of relief.

"Dr. Schmidt, what's going on?"

Lu Ying clenched the purple sword in his hand, glanced at Li Yun's back and asked.

Dr. Schmidt quickly explained: "An extension of the Pandora Project, the Pandora Team, you should be aware of this proposal, right?"

Lu Ying frowned and asked, "Is the emergency effective?"

Dr. Schmidt nodded and said, "That's right..."

Before he could finish his words, a deafening noise suddenly came from the front.

At the same time, there came a large wave of scorching golden-red fire.

Feeling the scorching heat brought by the fire wave, Lu Ying's expression darkened. He immediately stretched out his left hand, pushed Dr. Schmidt behind him, then raised the purple long sword in his right arm and slashed at the fire wave in front.

At this moment, the oncoming fire wave seemed to hit an invisible barrier and was bounced back by the barrier.

At the same time, the scorching heat rapidly decreased, and the raging flames turned into tiny streams of flames, madly converging forward, and finally condensed into a fireball the size of a soybean in the palm of a big hand.

Lu Ying looked ahead with a slightly surprised expression, and saw that Li Yun, who had just dropped from the sky, had appeared five meters in front of him, holding the red light spot formed by the flame in his palm, and under his feet was a skeleton with flames burning all over.

"We'll talk about the past later."

Li Yun glanced at the two and said, "Tell me first, what the hell is going on with this thing..."

As he spoke, Li Yun clenched his five fingers, and a dazzling red light instantly exploded in his palm, and then gradually disappeared in the exciting energy.

Lu Ying stared at Li Yun in a daze, while Dr. Schmidt beside him spoke quickly: "3-040, Nirvana Skeleton, his ability is nothing to you. At most, he is a skeleton that can play with fire. The only trouble is that it will self-destruct, and after self-destruction, it will be randomly reborn in any birch forest on Earth."

“That’s really troublesome.”

Li Yun nodded, glanced at the struggling skeleton at his feet and said, "What will happen if I kill him?"

Dr. Schmidt said quickly: "Same, it will be reborn like after the self-destruction."

...That doesn't mean he's invincible?

But that's the nature of the inhabitants. Even the weakest inhabitants may possess immortality comparable to that of gods.

As Li Yun thought about this, he took out an ice-blue long sword from the storage space.

In an instant, the icy force spread from the blade to the surroundings, revealing white ice marks.

Li Yun swung the knife, and countless white ice marks instantly wrapped around from all directions, freezing the struggling skeleton and the blazing flames on its body.

However, the flame of this skeleton seems to have some characteristics.

Even if it is completely frozen, it still continues to burn in the ice sculpture.

Seeing this, Li Yun frowned, lifted his foot and moved away from the ice sculpture skull, glanced at Dr. Schmidt and said, "I calculated that this layer of ice can only seal it for two days at most. After two days, it will be up to you."

Dr. Schmidt nodded without hesitation: "No problem, that's enough!"

Before he finished speaking, Dr. Schmidt's eyes blurred. Li Yun, who was originally in front of him, suddenly teleported behind him. He raised his right hand and blocked a vine that shot out from the shadow for him.

"clang--"

The sound like the collision of metal echoed in the hall.

Dr. Schmidt was startled and turned around to look.

Lu Ying next to him pulled him behind him, holding the purple long sword across his body, and looked in the direction where the vines were coming from with a vigilant look.

Li Yun grabbed the tip of the vine with his backhand, and his five fingers were embedded in the vine like iron clamps. Regardless of the vine's crazy struggle, he looked at the shadow in front of him and said lightly: "Long time no see."

"Yeah, long time no see."

The crimson demon emerged and bowed to Li Yun gracefully. Then he stood up, smiled, and said, "You have finally escaped!"