These monsters looked very... unique.

They retained the overall structure of humans, with tattered rags hanging on their bodies, vaguely recognizable as shirts, coats, and kimonos.

Their legs stood crookedly on the ground,

and both arms were raised high above their heads.

The flesh on the inside of their arms pinched their ears,

extending forward and backward like rubber mud, wrapping around their entire face tightly.

Their wrists touched above their heads, with the backs of their hands facing each other, like a folded Venus flytrap.

At first glance, there were more than a dozen of these "things."

They staggered through the mist, approaching the Fujimura family's house.

The backs of their hands, raised above their heads, collided with each other with each step, making crisp, uniform snapping sounds like Venus flytraps.

A dangerous premonition flashed in Li Ang's mind. Standing in the corridor, he released the Mind Enchantment School's Level 0 ability, [Daze], toward the flytrap-like monster in the lead.

Spiritual energy was unleashed, and the leading monster paused abruptly,

but quickly resumed its steps as if nothing had happened, moving forward slowly but surely.

Wang Congshan also arrived in the corridor at this time, saw the monsters, and instinctively blurted out, "What are these things?"

"They can't afford houses, so they have to live as vegetables in the wild."

Li Ang casually quipped, stuffing the certificate in his backpack, "Let's go, let's get out of here first."

The flytrap monsters staggered as they walked, moving slower than ordinary people.

Li Ang rushed out of the house first, came to the eaves, suddenly turned around, squatted slightly, and placed his palms on his knees.

Wang Congshan instantly understood, stuffed her pistol into her pocket, stepped on Li Ang's palm, leaped up, climbed onto the roof of the Fujimura family's house, and then turned around and reached her hand under the eaves, pulling Li Ang up.

The two were very familiar with climbing walls. They had climbed over walls in elementary and middle school to buy snacks, get takeout, and even to tease cats and dogs.

The two jumped onto the roof and looked down, only to find that the mist had spread to the surrounding blocks.

Within sight, hundreds of flytrap-like monsters wandered around. As if they could sense the two players' location, they approached from the surrounding streets.

"Where did these things pop out from?"

Wang Congshan clicked her tongue. "I didn't see them at all on the way here."

"Maybe it's a Silent Hill-like setting? Once a certain time limit is exceeded, you enter another layer of the world."

Li Ang said casually, "I specifically noticed just now that there are no clocks in the Fujimura family's house.

The nails on the wall where the clock should have been hanging are empty.

Either the clock was taken away, or the setting is like this. The system doesn't want us to have a clear judgment of time—if we delay going to the Hiratsuka family's residence for too long, it will trigger the flytrap monsters as punishment."

"Time-wise... it's been about 45 minutes since we entered the script mission."

Wang Congshan said in a deep voice, "According to the teaching manual of the Special Affairs Bureau training session,

I have been paying attention to my pulse and heartbeat, with an error of about plus or minus five minutes."

"So, 40 to 50 minutes,"

Li Ang nodded. Just as he was about to speak, a chill suddenly ran down the back of his neck. He subconsciously lowered his body, lowered his head, and pressed Wang Congshan's head down as well. "Be careful!"

Clang—

The sound of something cutting through the air suddenly rang out across the street. A sharp bone spur stained with blood rapidly swept over the heads of the two, and the wind it stirred gently lifted Wang Congshan's bangs.

Li Ang breathed out half a breath and looked in the direction from which the bone spur had flown.

He saw a flytrap monster arching its back, turning its palm sideways, and aiming the base of its wrist, which was blooming like a flower, at the two players—the sharp bone spur that had flown over should have come from the bones inside its arm.

Because half of the bone was missing, its left arm looked a little limp.

What is this? Zombies versus plants?

If this script world was based on a comic, several question marks would definitely have appeared above Li Ang's head.

He had been using the Mind Prophecy School's Level 1 ability, [Combat Premonition], to increase his insight and perception,

which allowed him to sense some fatal dangers in advance, and also to roughly sense the type of enemy.

The flytrap monsters below were obviously not living people,

but they were not purely flesh and blood creatures, or incorporeal vengeful spirits or demons.

Rather, they were in a peculiar state that was somewhere in between, seeming dead and alive, neither dead nor alive.

Snap, snap.

More flytrap monsters continued to clap their hands, approaching the Fujimura family's house.

They seemed to have reached the effective range of the bone spur ammunition, stood still,

and, like the flytrap monster just now, turned their palms sideways, the skin at the base of their wrists blooming open, aiming at the two players.

"Go!"

Wang Congshan pulled Li Ang's shoulder, and the two retreated, avoiding a barrage of bone spur ammunition.

It was unknown what mechanism was in the arms of these flytrap monsters, but the bone spurs they fired were as powerful as modern firearms.

The concrete outer wall of the Fujimura family's house was bombarded by the bone spurs, causing debris to fly.

A large number of bone spurs were embedded in the wall, blowing tiles off.

"Get on the roof."

Wang Congshan didn't hesitate to pull Li Ang onto the roof, bent down, aimed slightly with her pistol, and pulled the trigger at a flytrap monster.

Bang!

The pistol, fitted with a silencer, still made a clear gunshot sound in the village sky.

The magic-breaking bullet spun and hit the flytrap monster, causing it to retreat several steps. The left arm that was covering its head exploded, and a large chunk of its head caved in, revealing a black and red inner filling.

This injury would not be enough for ten lives for ordinary people,

but the flytrap monster just staggered for a while, then regained its footing, put down its severed left arm, and continued to aim at the two players on the roof with its right arm.

"The magic-breaking bullets are effective, but there are too many monsters."

Wang Congshan calmly assessed the situation and glanced back at the back of the street—similar flytrap monsters were also distributed in the back blocks.

The two players seemed to have fallen into an ocean of enemies.

Li Ang frowned slightly, raised his arm, and released spiritual energy toward the bottom.

Mind Creation School Level 0 ability, [Burning Finger], deals fire damage to one enemy.

Whoosh!

Another flytrap monster below inexplicably burst into bright flames.

However, the flames, which were enough to burn ordinary people into severe burns, only caused the rags on the flytrap monster's body to burn to ashes, and the surface skin to become charred and cracked.

It failed to stop its bodily functions.

"Is it resistant to spiritual energy flames, or is it not a conventional vengeful spirit..."

Li Ang's eyes flickered, and he quickly made a judgment, "Let's go from the roof, directly to the Hiratsuka family's residence."