Ci——

A compressed alloy canister sprayed pale blue styptic gel onto her injured left shoulder.

The cool gel solidified rapidly upon contact with air, encasing the wound and staunching the bleeding.

Wang Congshan wordlessly returned the styptic gel to her tactical belt, switched the gun to her left hand, and stared intently at the doorway.

Like the other rooms in the unfinished building, this room lacked even the most basic wooden door. The entrance was covered only by a semi-transparent, garbage bag-like pink plastic sheet.

At that moment, the dust-covered sheet that Wang Congshan had just lifted was slowly falling back, drifting back into its original position.

With a fractured right clavicle and extensive tearing of the rotator cuff muscles, she had less than a tenth of her original strength.

Wang Congshan calmly assessed her current situation and retrieved the powdered fire extinguisher again. She twisted the nozzle and sprayed the pink plastic sheet at the doorway.

This time, the nozzle was twisted at a different angle, and the extinguisher sprayed a more viscous, concentrated stream.

It plastered the bottom edge of the plastic sheet, temporarily fusing it to the doorframe, forming a thin plastic door.

Wang Congshan expressionlessly retracted the fire extinguisher, faced the doorway, and moved backward step by step, slowly retreating toward the open-air balcony.

An indescribable emotion welled up in her heart.

Her heart pounded fiercely.

A stinging, burning sensation spread through every limb.

Even after several routine missions, the feeling remained both strange and familiar.

The fear of death, the dread of the unknown, the uneasy reverence for fate, and...

An uncontrollable excitement.

Wang Congshan's jaw muscles tensed involuntarily. Inside her ears, still ringing from the noise, she seemed to hear the roar of blood rushing through her veins.

So this was what it felt like to walk on the edge of death, to risk perishing at any moment due to carelessness or lack of skill.

So this was the kind of life Li Ang had been living all along.

Wang Congshan's lips curved upward slightly. Her injured right arm slowly rose, hovering in front of her forehead.

Crack.

Her sturdy tactical boots crunched a piece of gravel, crushing it.

The next second, a sharp pain shot through Wang Congshan's right forearm.

The right forearm of her Mobile Task Force uniform felt as if it had been clamped in iron pliers.

Armor burst open, fabric tore, fragile skin ripped, and blood splattered.

The bite of a canine.

The thought flashed clearly through Wang Congshan's mind.

Through the spraying blood, she could see two rows of deep canine teeth marks on her right arm.

It was an invisible, giant hound,

Without any warning, it passed through the sealed plastic door and bit down on Wang Congshan's right arm, snapping the bone with a crack.

Excruciating pain surged through her brain, but Wang Congshan felt an unprecedented calm.

Her left hand wielding the gun swung upward violently, the muzzle stopping abruptly in mid-air, meeting the sensation of animal fur—probably a giant canine creature the size of a Shire horse, standing taller than a person even on all fours.

Bang.

Wang Congshan's left index finger squeezed the trigger hard.

The pressure on her right arm vanished instantly.

But before it disappeared, Wang Congshan clearly saw the enchanted bullet shoot out, fly a short distance, and disappear.

It hit.

Without hesitation, Wang Congshan fired randomly forward,

At the same time, she stomped on the ground and retreated violently, flashing onto the balcony.

She released the assault rifle, letting it hang in front of her by its sling.

Her left hand grabbed the scaffolding outside the balcony, and with the spring in her legs, she leaped up nimbly, climbing rapidly.

The wind howled past her ears, and the scene below shrank quickly.

Wang Congshan climbed rapidly through the jungle of scaffolding with one hand, and out of the corner of her eye, she could see the drones in the distance, as well as the armored vehicles and Mobile Task Force surrounding the unfinished building.

Li Ang and the others should be in that tactical command vehicle...

The thought flashed through her mind.

Wang Congshan's face hardened.

Now was not the time to tell them she was okay.

She climbed quickly along the scaffolding, all the way to the open-air roof on the thirteenth floor.

This area had not been completed when the building was abandoned. The ground was covered with large amounts of rusted rebar, like the dried-up blood vessels of a dead giant.

Arrived at the roof.

Wang Congshan jumped out of the scaffolding and landed in the center of the rebar jungle. Her left hand took out the styptic gel again and sprayed it lightly on her severely injured right arm.

However, the injury to her right hand was simply too appalling.

The pale, sharp bone shards pressed against the skin, causing the skin to bulge into sharp angles.

Large amounts of blood poured into the pale blue transparent gel, staining it blood red and seeping out little by little.

Intense pain surged through her body, and even the pain-relieving ingredients in the styptic gel could not suppress it.

Wang Congshan slowly exhaled a turbid breath into her breathing mask, and cold sweat that had seeped out of her forehead at some point dripped down her eyelashes.

The weight of her body pressed on the rebar network, causing the rebar jungle of questionable quality to tremble slightly.

‘That transparent giant hound undoubtedly possesses a phasing ability,

It can pass through the door I temporarily constructed with the plastic sheet and fire extinguisher spray.

It is essentially intangible in its normal state.

That's why I didn't hurt it when I fired randomly in the stairwell earlier.’

Wang Congshan took out several gum-like, gray-brown lozenges from her tactical belt and threw them around the corners of the rebar pointing upward.

She leaned her back against a rebar and slowly sat down.

‘The hound's attack power is very high. It can bite through the embedded alloy armor plate on the outside of the Mobile Task Force uniform, and it has a certain degree of intelligence. It will prioritize attacking the prey's injured weak point.

Which is my right hand holding the gun.

But its defense power does not exceed the upper limit of enchanted bullets—when I pressed the muzzle against its fur and pulled the trigger, the force biting my arm disappeared.

The hound returned to its intangible, phased state to prevent being hit by enchanted bullets continuously.

It knows the weapon in my hand can hurt it.’

Wang Congshan slowly lowered her right hand and calmly scanned the deserted floor. ‘The most critical issue is that the invisible hound only has a substantial, transparent form at the moment of attack.

But this entity also has limitations—the dusty floor of that room on the third floor didn't show any canine footprints, even though I heard the faint sound of four feet landing.

It's impossible to use powder or blood to mark it in its phased or solid state, forcing it to manifest.

Furthermore, in its phased state, even my enchanted bullets cannot hit the invisible hound.

In other words, when I can hit it, it must have attacked me first.

If I were to fight a guerrilla war in the building,

Adopting a strategy of trading injuries, I would definitely lose first…’

Her brain worked rapidly.

Blood seeping from the gaps in the gel dripped slowly along the rebar.

Wang Congshan leaned against the rebar, her head lowered, her entire face hidden beneath the full-coverage mask.

‘In this situation, what should I do…’

She was as still as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

Time passed, second by second, and blood dripped from the rebar she was leaning against.

Squeak—

A slight vibration suddenly came from the rebar below.

Wang Congshan suddenly opened her eyes, hooked her left pinky finger, pulled out a lighter-like miniature device from her sleeve, and pressed its button.

Detonating the miniature bombs she had planted around her earlier.

At the same time, her left hand grabbed the assault rifle and pulled the trigger heavily in the direction of the vibrating rebar.

The muzzle flashed.

A heavy thud sounded in front of her.

The system's task completion notification rang in her ears. Wang Congshan slumped sideways in relief and struggled to take out a flare gun to fire a signal—only then did the cameras of the drone swarm in the distance see that

The palm of her right hand, which she had placed under her body, had been pierced by a broken piece of rebar.

Whoosh—

A gust of strong wind swept over.

Li Ang instantly appeared on the roof of the unfinished building, his hand breaking through the styptic gel on Wang Congshan's right hand and pressing down on her mangled right arm.

Biological Motherboard effect activated.

Bone shards melted, bones grew, muscles healed, skin regenerated.

Li Ang frowned slightly, "Completed it?"

"Completed it."

Wang Congshan chuckled. With Li Ang's help, she stood up, shook her sore right hand, and fired at the spot where the rebar had exploded.

The remaining bullets poured out.

Most of them passed through the gaps in the rebar jungle and struck the concrete floor.

A small portion seemed to hit some invisible object, disappearing in mid-air.

"As expected,"

Wang Congshan nodded, put down her gun, and walked down the unfinished building with Li Ang.

As the two of them walked out, the Mobile Task Force members, who had received instructions, filed into the unfinished building to sweep the battlefield and clear the traces.

Xing Hechou, who had walked out of the tactical command vehicle, was already waiting at the entrance.

Seeing the two of them come out, he asked with some confusion, "The mission is completed?

What was that just now..."

He had just watched all the battle footage from the tactical command vehicle, relying on the drone's camera.

But until the end, he still couldn't understand what had happened.

Wang Congshan, who was sitting in the rebar jungle on the roof and bowing her head in slumber, seemed to have foreseen the appearance of the invisible hound, detonated the explosives in the hound's location, and shot it to death.

However, Wang Congshan, who had no transcendent power system at all on the player panel, shouldn't have such special abilities.

"Those just now were all traps."

Wang Congshan smiled slightly, tilted her head, and spoke in a relaxed tone, like an ordinary student in a school classroom being called to the podium by the teacher to analyze a problem, "Escaping to the top floor of the unfinished building via the scaffolding,

Planting miniature bombs,

Pretending to be lost in thought with excessive blood loss,

Leaning back against the rebar to sit down,

And most importantly, deliberately piercing my own right hand with broken rebar.

All, all of these actions, were actually components of the trap designed for the invisible hound."