Watching as Pei Yan was devoured into a large image and vanished from his line of sight, Wang Yiyi, holding a telescope, was startled. She turned her head in horror towards Du Guangyuan and asked, "Have they entered the Jiezhi Space?"
Du Guangyuan shook his head and looked at Ye Jiumu, who exercised this ability, with interest and said with a smile, "I've met this young man. If I were to say, I still owe him a favor. This is a very rare space-like ability but as far as I know, it won't be able to trap the enemy for long. Stay calm, don't worry."
As time passed little by little, just as Du Guangyuan's face also turned grim, a halo appeared above the battlefield, and a disheveled Pei Yan fell from above. Along with him fell the unconscious Liang Qian and Xia Yu, whose arm was bleeding nonstop.
The last to jump out of the halo was Wenlin, looking muddy and disheartened. As soon as he landed, he turned around and looked at Pei Yan, who was kneeling on one knee and coughing blood, and shouted loudly, "I've sealed him with my ability, but the energy inside him is his origin. My sealing effect is halved and won't last long. Everyone, quickly help me capture him!"
The three people in the abandoned factory also heard this roar. They exchanged glances. Wasn't this situation enough? If anything happens to this man, they feared they would be engulfed by Mr. Mu's wrath upon returning.
Just as the three hesitated, a mournful wail echoed throughout, snapping Wang Yiyi out of her daze. She hurriedly raised the telescope to look and saw Wang Wenze in the battlefield holding the unconscious Liang Qian, crying heartbrokenly. Finally, with eyes red, he looked up at Pei Yan, gritting his teeth and said, "Why! Why hurt her! I clearly considered you a brother!"
"Brother Wang, I didn't want to either, but she was really too..." Pei Yan sighed as he slowly stood up from the ground. The face covered by the mask made it impossible to see his expression, but the tone of sadness and unwillingness was evident in his voice.
"Bullshit!" Wang Wenze shouted angrily, interrupting Pei Yan's words. A dense fog erupted from his body, soon engulfing half of the battlefield along with Pei Yan's body.
"Not good! Stop watching, it's time to act!" Du Guangyuan lightly commanded, retracting the camera into his storage ring, and was the first to rush out of the house. Seeing the situation was unfavorable, the other two quickly followed.
In the dense fog, Liang Qian pushed away Wang Wenze, who was hugging her tightly, rubbed her sore shoulders, and complained, "Wasn't this acting a bit overdone, too melodramatic?"
"No way, it's all written like this in novels, and besides, I believe if someone really hurt you like this, Brother Wang would definitely rage like this." Pei Yan responded with a smile.
Seeing Liang Qian's blushing face with a shy expression, Wang Wenze secretly gave Pei Yan a thumbs up. No wonder he was his brother!
"Oh my, my dear little ancestors, stop dawdling there and quickly enter the Jiezhi Space. They've already charged out! Move it!" Jiang Feiyang urged repeatedly, rolling his eyes upon seeing the scene.
"Oh! Oh!" Aware of the situation, several people hurriedly jumped into the Jiezhi Space. Every time someone leaped into the Jiezhi Space, Jiang Feiyang took out an identical doll and threw it to the ground. As the ability's restriction was lifted, an identical companion appeared before Pei Yan.
At this time, Du Guangyuan and the other two had already reached outside the dense fog and were just about to rush into the battle circle when suddenly a blue light flashed inside the fog. With rich combat experience and sensing something was wrong, he promptly pulled the two women behind him to the side. Just as they dodged, an electromagnetic beam shot out swiftly past their sides.
Before Du Guangyuan and the others could curse, a bloody head, trailing blood, described a beautiful arc in the air and rolled out from the fog, landing at their feet.
"Is there a need to be so ruthless, Old Du? See if it's the real thing!" Wang Yiyi stared at the head, feeling a lingering fear.
Without needing her to say, Du Guangyuan still crouched down to check, first setting the head upright to look at its appearance, confirming it was indeed the captain Wenlin, responsible for sealing. He pinched the facial skin inside and out to carefully check, and it was indeed a real human head. Still unwilling to believe it, he finally dipped his hand in the blood on the ground and tasted it—undoubtedly human blood!
He nodded at Wang Yiyi and was about to take the head back as proof for the organization, when a series of explosions erupted from the mist. In the blink of an eye, Pei Yan, covered in blood, flew horizontally out of the fog. Seeing this, Du Guangyuan had to give up his attempt to store the head in his ring and hurriedly stood up to catch Pei Yan.
At this time, the fog surrounding the scene was also blown away by the shock waves triggered by the continuous explosions, revealing the scene within. Wang Yiyi stared intently and saw a headless corpse sprawled on the ground. Liang Qian, previously unconscious, had now lost half a leg to sweeping bullets, while the roaring Wang Wenze had a massive hole in his chest from an electromagnetic cannon, his eyes lifeless as he collapsed not far from Liang Qian's body.
"Pei Yan, you bastard! I'm going to kill you!" Xia Yu, whose thigh was pierced by a metal spear, pulled out the spear, letting the blood gush like a fountain dye her leg red, yet she still dragged the spear along, ignoring everything else, and charged forward.
Seeing this, Wang Yiyi rushed up to stop her. Facing the berserk Xia Yu's downward swinging spear, she only felt her arms bearing a force of ten thousand pounds. With a muffled grunt, she knelt on one knee on the ground, and just as the opponent was about to take the opportunity to spear her to death, she quickly activated her ability. With a gentle breeze blowing, Wang Yiyi herself suddenly disappeared from the spot. With a loud bang, Xia Yu's spear missed and left a deep dent in the ground.
Wang Yiyi, who was flung far away, trembled as she looked back at her companions, saying, "She's truly an Esper. There's no disguising it! Should we kill her?"
"Screw off!" Pei Yan, helped to his feet by Du Guangyuan, shoved him aside and grabbed Wang Yiyi's collar, roaring, "You finally decided to show up! Don't think I didn't know you were hiding in that rundown house watching the show all along. I've fulfilled my part of the promise! Now if you kill one more person before me, then we're done for good!"
Wang Yiyi and Du Guangyuan exchanged a glance, nodding at each other. They had already pushed Pei Yan to the brink of madness today. If they continued to press him further, it would only backfire. With this in mind, she urgently smiled at Pei Yan, whose only remaining red eye glared at her, and said, "Fine, fine! Let me go! We promise not to harm anyone on the field anymore, and we'll leave immediately!"
"Wishful thinking! Pei Yan, I want your damned life!" In the distance, Xia Yu used her spear as a pole, leaping into the air, and swung the spear horizontally at Pei Yan.
Staring intently at Pei Yan, who had already removed his mask, Wang Yiyi saw the other party reveal a complex mix of helplessness, pain, and self-mockery, all fused into one complex, twisted expression. His right hand raised slightly as a metal spear naturally formed and shot out swiftly.
The spear pierced through Xia Yu's belly mid-air, the momentum carrying her body away into the distance.
"Let's go, let's leave this place quickly."
Hearing Pei Yan's utterly exhausted and weary voice, Wang Yiyi quickly agreed, "Alright!"