As an experienced warrior, Jiang Baimian's first reaction was not fear, but to lean against the wall to avoid the front.

At the same time, she raised her arm, aiming the "Grim Reaper" individual combat rocket launcher at the darkness pouring out from behind the door and the bloody palm propping against the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Baimian's left shoulder shook slightly, neutralizing the expected recoil.

A rocket flew out, heading straight for the target.

Bombardment!

In the sound of the explosion, the dense darkness did not shake at all, completely swallowing the blooming red flower.

The bloody pale palm sometimes retracted and sometimes extended forward, alternately supporting the ground with another one to assist the body in crawling.

They were also unaffected by the violent explosion, and there was no sign of damage on the surface.

And the body they were connected to was hidden in the dense darkness, with only a vague outline, sometimes resembling a human, sometimes bizarre.

Seeing that the bombardment had failed, Jiang Baimian immediately threw away the "Grim Reaper" individual combat rocket launcher, advancing instead of retreating, and extended her left palm towards the unknown monster whose elbows were alternately moving forward, seemingly possessing human consciousness.

In the zizzing sound, one silver-white arc after another jumped out, forming a ball, crackling and smashing into the dense darkness.

The entire corridor suddenly became as bright as day, but it could not penetrate the terrifying darkness hiding the unknown monster.

It was like a black hole mentioned in many books of the Old World, where even light was swallowed and could not escape.

While countless electric lights still lingered in Jiang Baimian's eyes, her body had already turned without hesitation.

She ran wildly, trying to distance herself from the heavily crawling monster in the darkness.

This was a corridor with no forks on either side. Jiang Baimian didn't have to worry about getting lost, just run in the opposite direction of the enemy.

As she ran, she locked onto the terrifying creature chasing behind her and used "Spatial Illusion" on "it"!

She wanted to make the other party mistake the road and crash into the rooms on both sides of the corridor, in order to help herself escape the predicament.

However, the unknown monster with bloody palms extending from the darkness and constantly alternating elbows continued to crawl firmly along the corridor, closing in.

My ability is useless against "him"? Jiang Baimian ran, taking out the grey-green camouflage doll with mirrors embedded in its face.

Using this prop, she used "Stimulus Mismatch" on herself, changing her reaction to a similar scene to the feeling of being suddenly burned by flames.

Her body suddenly shivered, and adrenaline surged.

Deng deng deng! Jiang Baimian's running speed seemed to exceed human limits.

Her goal was the crossroads at the end of the corridor.

...

Shang Jianyao, who was in the wilderness, was also facing the dense darkness that surged like a tide.

At the edge of the darkness, two bloody pale palms supported the ground, continuously alternating with the elbows, allowing the vaguely visible figure behind to continuously approach the target.

Shang Jianyao, who was seeking novelty and strangeness, struck a pose, raised his right hand, and snapped his fingers.

At the same time, he spoke leisurely:

"Loss of limb movement."

The alternating bloody palms paused for a moment, then continued to move the body forward.

"Crap!" Shang Jianyao, who was cowardly and timid, cursed and fully activated the military exoskeleton device.

A grenade was launched, a metal projectile wrapped in electric light arrived first, a condensed and clear red laser almost instantly crossed the distance between Shang Jianyao and the darkness, and yellow bullets rained down.

This was the doctrine of firepower supremacy advocated by Pudu Chan Master.

However, most of these were swallowed by the darkness. Although the remaining ones hit the bloody palms and the figure connected to them, they only produced a certain sound and did not cause substantial damage.

"Monster!" The honest Shang Jianyao jumped up, turned around in mid-air, and ran away wildly.

In the banging sound, he took out the blue and white megaphone and amplified his voice:

"As the saying goes, it is better to resolve enmity than to create it. I advise you not to be ignorant of good and evil, stop quickly, or you will bear the consequences!"

This was "Thought Guidance."

Whether the monster in the darkness simply didn't understand Shang Jianyao's words or could greatly resist this kind of influence, "he" also only paused for a moment before continuing to alternate his elbows and crawl heavily.

And the blood left by "him" along the way was swallowed by the following darkness.

Amidst the slight tremors of the earth, Shang Jianyao, wearing the military exoskeleton device, ran faster and faster.

It was unknown which "he" made the decision, extending his right palm and pressing it down hard.

Boom!

The ground in front of the bloody palm suddenly collapsed, forming a huge sinkhole.

The monster in the darkness couldn't stop and fell in.

"Am I so strong?" The honest Shang Jianyao was surprised to observe his right palm.

How could his "Matter Interference" be so strong that it could cause the ground to collapse out of thin air?

His initial plan was just to create some obstacles and delay the other party's speed.

While Shang Jianyao was surprised, the darkness continued to surge forward, engulfing the sinkhole.

The bloody pale palm reappeared at the edge of the darkness, supporting the ground, driving the elbows, and alternating forward.

Shang Jianyao, who turned his head to observe, happened to see this scene, and once again took big strides as if his butt was on fire, running wildly.

"This is too much!" Shang Jianyao raised the blue and white megaphone and threatened in the manner of "Thought Guidance," "I'm telling you, I know a lot of people, I have a lot of friends, if you dare to chase after me, I'll get them to gang up on you! It's not too late to give up now, let's all listen to lectures and recite Buddha's name together, isn't that better than now?"

The darkness surging behind him, the monster moving forward by alternating his elbows, didn't change at all, maintaining the previous chasing speed, and vaguely showing a tendency to get faster and faster.

The reckless Shang Jianyao suddenly became ruthless:

"Fine!

"I'll see if ganging up works now!"

As he spoke, several figures split from his upper body, one calm and rational, one cowardly and timid, one compassionate, and one filled with righteous indignation.

Some of them reached into the void, seemingly summoning friends, some held the "Six Senses Beads," their eyes becoming deep, and some held the "Life Angel" necklace, preparing to lock onto the target.

"Consciousness Deprivation!"

Pudu Chan Master issued a solemn and grand voice.

A greenish-blue light rose from the "Six Senses Beads," and the monster in the darkness paused its hands supporting the ground.

But soon "he" returned to normal, and became manic, crawling very fast, as if Shang Jianyao had something in his hand that "he" had longed for for a long time.

"Sudden Cardiac Arrest!"

Shang Jianyao, filled with righteous indignation, followed by using the "Life Angel" necklace, but the monster with bloody pale hands didn't stop at all.

"Will you ever be done!" The honest Shang Jianyao scolded loudly, feeling guilty.

The monster was about to catch up with him, and the darkness was about to engulf the world.

Just then, the cowardly and timid Shang Jianyao pulled a figure out of the void.

It was Xiao Chong, wearing yellow clothes and carrying a red schoolbag.

In another direction, the calm and rational Shang Jianyao also found a helper.

He was Du Heng, wearing a black robe and with disheveled hair.

As soon as "they" appeared, the darkness that was surging and about to engulf Shang Jianyao solidified, and the monster crawling on the ground by alternating elbows stopped.

In an instant, the two were like a castle made of sand, falling apart and crumbling under the pounding of the waves.

The entire wilderness then virtualized, like a dream, like a bubble.

Shang Jianyao suddenly opened his eyes and sat up in bed.

He unhurriedly opened his arms, tilted his body halfway, and said piously:

"Everywhere is illusion, why bother being serious?"

Jiang Baimian, who was on the same bed, shook her head and asked thoughtfully:

"You had a dream too?

"Unknowingly fell asleep?"

She still remembered that she was originally researching that island of fear within the "Sea of Origins."

--This rental house only had one bed in each of the two rooms. Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao could only use guns and other items to separate the bed.

For humans who often travel in the wilderness, this was not something to worry about too much. The wilderness didn't even have these conditions, so Jiang Baimian faced it calmly, only a little "worried" that Long Yuehong in the other room wouldn't be able to sleep.

"Otherwise?" The honest Shang Jianyao asked rhetorically.

Jiang Baimian didn't mind the honest Shang Jianyao's attitude, and continued to ask:

"Also a dream of being chased by a monster in the darkness?

"Very similar to the description of that Hunter's Guild mission?"

Pa, Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and hit his left palm:

"I was just saying why it felt a bit familiar!"

Jiang Baimian raised her right hand and rubbed her forehead:

"But I don't have a headache, nausea, or fatigue, and I can fall asleep again at any time.

"You also woke up while running?"

"No." Shang Jianyao shook his head, "I summoned Teacher Du Heng and Xiao Chong with the mentality of giving it a try. The monster in the darkness seemed to be scared away because of this. So it was a dream, no wonder I could summon them, and Teacher Du Heng and Xiao Chong didn't have infighting..."

This was the reckless Shang Jianyao who had just figured out the situation.

"That works too?" Jiang Baimian began to suspect that the reason she was able to escape the nightmare and remain unaffected was because Shang Jianyao had scared the "monster in the darkness" out of this area.