Dense, green fire rained down, covering almost half the street. Wherever it touched, reinforced concrete melted effortlessly, dripping onto the ground like wax.

There was no way to avoid it. The casual clothes worn by Ash suddenly burst open, revealing a layer of thick, gray dust clinging to his skin.

The dust slid off like quicksand, spreading rapidly across the surrounding ground. It grew swiftly in the wind, instantly constructing a sealed pyramid that encased Ash and the vehicle.

The corrosive, poisonous fire rain, capable of melting steel, landed on the dust pyramid, sizzling and dissolving countless pits. But the gray dust was created as quickly as it was destroyed, appearing endless, showing no sign of exhaustion.

The black-robed figure, or rather, the player known as [Grievance Demon], sneered upon seeing this, and lightly waved his bone-white palm.

The torrential fire rain suddenly froze, suspended in mid-air. The next second, countless flames shot towards the pyramid.

Bang bang bang bang!

Dust flew everywhere from the impact of the flames. Through the breaches that were blasted open, one could vaguely see Ash inside, clad in heavy, simple gray armor, propping himself up on the ground with one hand.

Grievance Demon clenched his bone-white palm tightly. This time, the fiery raindrops clung to the surface of the pyramid like leeches, completely enveloping it until, after a brief delay, they exploded.

Green flames soared into the sky, turning Ash's pyramid into a bright torch, illuminating the entire street.

Grievance Demon stared at the raging pillar of fire, his figure abruptly retreating to the side, so fast that he left afterimages.

A thick, long, ghostly blue beam shot out from inside the pyramid, piercing through the outer shell of ash and striking the spot where Grievance Demon had been standing.

The beam, which failed to hit Grievance Demon, slammed into a reinforced concrete high-rise a hundred meters away, easily melting a hole the size of a water tank and piercing through the entire building.

Grievance Demon glanced at the high-rise. He wasn't too frightened, but instead said with interest, "So this is the little toy your Special Affairs Bureau developed..."

The word "toy" hadn't even left his lips when another beam came blasting over. Grievance Demon's robe billowed wildly as he dodged swiftly, drawing a bizarre trajectory in the air, barely avoiding the second blast.

The green fire rain gradually died down, revealing the dilapidated pyramid below, and Ash standing next to the car, holding a giant sniper rifle of extremely sci-fi design.

The Special Affairs Bureau's Mobile Task Force operative held the gun with one hand, while the other had turned into gray dust, merging with the stock of the giant sniper rifle.

This sniper rifle was also a prototype weapon created by the Special Affairs Bureau's research department using knowledge from the script world, only installed on the vehicles of a few elite Mobile Task Force operatives.

The laser gun was extremely powerful, powered by a battery. After each shot, some of the melted parts had to be replaced, requiring at least three hours of precision repairs, plus one hour for energy recharge.

Ash was able to fire another shot in such a short time entirely due to a skill called [Cinders and Ashes].

The skill's special effect was to turn his body into ash, which could not only ignore a certain amount of physical damage, but also create various shapes of cold weapons.

When necessary, it could also be combined with firearms to enhance their damage with his own ash.

The only side effect of this skill was that it would burn a lot of body fat, causing a significant drop in weight—something many female colleagues were quite envious of.

"Interesting."

Grievance Demon said indifferently, "Too bad, it seems you can't hold on much longer."

Before the words were finished, Chu Yin, sitting in the back seat of the vehicle, tapped a few times on the tablet computer with lightning speed.

Immediately, honeycomb-shaped missile bays extended from the sides of the Special Affairs Bureau's vehicle, with a total of eight 'Sleeve Arrow' light missiles hanging on both sides of the missile bays, each 635 centimeters long.

The Sleeve Arrow missiles, which adopted a canard aerodynamic layout, responded extremely quickly. Almost instantly, four missiles were fired, heading towards the airborne Grievance Demon under the guidance of the missile's internal television guidance system.

Grievance Demon retreated violently, moving nimbly like a bird in the air. However, the four Sleeve Arrow missiles, spitting out ghostly blue flames, chased relentlessly, determined to shoot him down.

Grievance Demon swept along the high-rise walls towards the sky, hastily creating some distance. He flipped his palm, and a demonic wind howled, sweeping countless blue-faced skulls toward the Sleeve Arrows, detonating all four rockets.

The shockwave shattered the windows of the high-rise, and the flashing lights and loud noises were deafening.

The black-robed figure looked down, only to see the vehicle roaring, having already drifted around the street corner and speeding away in a cloud of smoke.

"Hmph."

Grievance Demon sneered. He was about to chase after them, but he heard a faint, sharp chirping in the air.

His friend, the lepidopteran larva named Gulu Lu Gu, was sending him a cry for help.

Without hesitation, Grievance Demon swung his black robe, turned around, and broke through the glass wall of the building. He bypassed the gray-white office corridor of the office building, swept up countless paper documents, and sped toward the Rehabilitation Hospital.

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On the fifth floor of the Rehabilitation Hospital, the fat, green caterpillar was shivering while holding a silver mirror-shaped [Lunar Phase Locator].

The fifth-floor corridor was densely covered with about finger-thick, glistening white threads, covered with countless tiny, sticky droplets.

These threads were extremely tough and strong. Neither explosive shockwaves nor chopping with knives or axes could tear them. The sticky droplets attached to them could even ignore flames.

However, Gulu Lu Gu shrank its body, shaking its head hard, and spewed out countless threads under its body, reinforcing the floor.

On the Lunar Phase Locator in its arms, two small dots representing itself and its teammate Grievance Demon were clearly displayed, while below it, two red dots symbolizing the enemies were still lingering.

Li Ang, wearing a cape of justice, dug his fingers deeply into the wall, quickly climbing on the outer wall of the hospital building, hanging outside the fifth-floor corridor window that was heavily blocked by threads.

Behind him, Liu Wu'dai was closely following, leaping and climbing on the air conditioner's outdoor unit.

Li Ang maximized his spiritual sense, easily seeing the caterpillar curled up in the center of the corridor.

A bug can be a player? Does this thing even have a brain?

Li Ang's mind raced, but his body had already taken action, activating the [Phase Boots] effect and rushing into the dense threads.

He easily passed through all the threads, but instead of swinging the [Venomous Strike] dagger at Gulu Lu Gu, he dropped all the Molotov cocktails next to it, lowered his body, and descended to the fourth floor before ending the effect.

The fifth-floor corridor was blocked tightly by threads. Rushing in to attack would inevitably result in being pierced by the ubiquitous threads when the effect ended.

After descending to the fourth floor, Li Ang did not check whether the Molotov cocktails had killed the caterpillar. Instead, he took out the damaged triangular bone spear, pointed the shaft upward, and stabbed toward the caterpillar's position.

Who says you can't kill someone without a spearhead?