Chapter 247: Persistent Dismemberment

No matter how wildly outsiders imagined Lu Xin’s cleanup operation against the Red Cloaked Apostle or how excited they became, their speculations weren’t quite accurate. Because right now, Lu Xin wasn’t displaying the intense fervor they pictured; he actually felt somewhat bored.

He simply stood quietly atop the building, looking down.

From the perspective of ordinary people, they would see a massive, dark-red shadow coalescing in the air beside the Donghai Grand Hotel, like a giant vortex. Inside this vortex, however, a black shadow was darting up and down. Wherever it passed, cracks appeared in the massive vortex, causing it to break apart.

This disintegration happened so quickly it looked as if the enormous Red Cloaked Apostle was collapsing violently.

Instant dismemberment.

“Kchkchkch…”

As its form collapsed, the red-cloaked monster seemed to regain some awareness. Each part of its enormous body appeared drawn to the others. As they crashed loudly onto the ground, they began turning transparent, then swelled, intertwined, and re-fused. The half-fallen body was slowly starting to rise again.

“Automatic repair ability?”

Standing on the rooftop, Lu Xin looked down at the mental monster below, contemplating seriously.

He watched this mental monster, instantly dismembered by Father’s power but now reassembling due to some core force, seemingly preparing to stand again. An answer formed in his mind. Just like when Sister had polluted it earlier and it quickly recovered, even repelling her, this was a phenomenon of repulsion and repair based on its immense psychic power.

Unfortunately…

Gazing at the massive monster slowly rising below, a smile appeared on Lu Xin’s face.

His shadow spread down from the high-rise building, exceptionally vast, directly enveloping the mental monster.

When a person stands in the right position, their shadow can stretch infinitely.

Therefore, it was perfectly reasonable for an ordinary person’s shadow to cover a large monster over a hundred meters tall.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

The sound of chopping bones echoed relentlessly.

Under the cover of the black shadow, such sounds emanated from every part of the Red Cloaked Apostle.

To Lu Xin, it really sounded like chopping bones. But in reality, it was more like the sound of an extremely aggressive force eroding and destroying crucial points of flesh connection. Like tendons and bones being forcibly broken and severed. The vibrations were so complex and dense they manifested as sound.

This sound turned the area below into something resembling a slaughterhouse.

The Red Cloaked Apostle’s severed arms automatically joined together, bracing against the ground as if trying to stand up.

But the next moment, its five fingers disintegrated, causing its massive body to sway slightly.

Immediately after, the arm, reconnected from two halves, suddenly broke into four sections.

Its left leg returned to its original position, supporting the ground, but its waist was instantly severed by the black shadow.

The right leg, kneeling on the ground, instantly broke into three pieces.

The other arm…

…Oh, it didn’t have another arm. That one had already been snatched by Sister.

For every part that re-fused and reconnected, more parts were severed.

This created a strange scene below the building. The massive mental monster constantly tried to rise but was continuously cut down. Its huge body became smaller and gooier bit by bit, collapsing again and again…

Dismemberment isn’t scary. What’s scary is persistent dismemberment.

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Lu Xin stood indifferently on the rooftop, looking down at the struggling mental monster below, his expression desolate.

But from the black shadow he cast, strangely excited laughter could be heard.

It was the satisfied laughter of someone who loved cooking, faced with a large pile of ingredients waiting to be processed.

“Brother is amazing…”

Sister greedily hugged one of the Red Cloaked Apostle’s arms, then eyed a leg, shouting as she pulled hard to tear it away.

Excited and happy, like fighting over a toy.

“So barbaric…”

On a nearby rooftop, Mom also stood quietly under the Red Moon, watching with a very happy smile.

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“Altered Person cleanup in progress.”

At the same time, outside the three-kilometer radius centered on the Donghai Grand Hotel, more and more Ability Users were conducting cleanup operations in the special pollution zones that had appeared in various corners of the city, spreading chaos.

“These monsters’ mental powers will merge, so don’t just focus on killing people.”

Watchdog’s tall figure walked through a brightly lit mall, speaking slowly and heavily, “To deal with these mental monsters, you either directly cleanse the distorted mental power from these Altered Persons, or you eliminate both the person and their mental power together.”

As he spoke, a monster resembling a skinned monkey suddenly climbed onto his head. The monkey’s chest then split open, and a thick proboscis shot out from inside, aiming straight for Watchdog’s head.

Watchdog didn’t turn around. He just took off the cowboy hat he wore, revealing a bald head.

“Swish!”

The proboscis, covered in barbs and sharp teeth, struck his head. Before it could bite down, it found that his bald head had suddenly split open, revealing dense, sharp teeth inside.

His head had actually transformed into a massive mouth splitting open sideways, clamping down on the monster’s proboscis instead.

“Screech…”

The blood monkey panicked, desperately trying to escape, but it was pulled in by the mouth, completely dragged into Watchdog’s body.

Watchdog put his cowboy hat back on, his body seeming slightly larger now.

Licking his lips, he shared a new piece of advice, “Also, they don’t taste bad. You could give it a try…”

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In a certain plaza, already surrounded by monsters and panicked crowds, a man in a coarse cloth casual jacket sat silently. His hands were clasped, slowly pressed against his chin. His eyes were closed as if he had quietly fallen asleep.

Then, centered on him, some kind of force field began to spread.

One after another, people or monsters charging towards him suddenly fell silent.

It was like a death field; anything that got close would collapse, without even time to react.

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“Don’t be scared, young fellas! Just do as this old man says, and you’ll be fine…”

At the intersection of another main road.

The girl in black tactical gear spoke condescendingly to the somewhat nervous Special Task Force soldiers beside her.

Then she slowly raised her arms.

Everyone near her felt faint sparks flickering around them.

It seemed as if the world around them had turned into the kind of display screen with overlapping, shifting images.

The next moment, after a daze, they opened their eyes and were shocked to find the world around them completely changed.

The people who had been frantically running, chasing, and exhibiting various bizarre transformations were gone.

Replacing them was a group of shambling zombies, some still with safety bolts on their heads.

“Open fire. Use the special bullets, but try to conserve them…”

“Cleaning up like this puts less psychological pressure on you, maybe it’s even a bit stress-relieving…”

A voice spoke from behind. Someone subconsciously turned around and screamed in fright.

The high school student-like girl was gone. Speaking to them was a kindly-looking uncle.

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“Pak” “Pak” “Pak”

Gecko, clad in a black trench coat, moved along the wall of a residential building.

He held a gun in each hand, wielding them with stylish and fluid movements. Each shot fired was a plasma bullet flashing with dazzling blue light.

When these bullets hit a mental monster, they immediately unleashed astonishing electrical arcs, completely engulfing the creature.

After a short while, all that remained was a thoroughly charred corpse.

“So dangerous, so dangerous…”

“Ah, I’m going to die…”

“Huh? I’m not the one dying? It’s him…”

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Gecko shouted while firing even faster, simultaneously wailing into the channel:

“Linda! My dear Linda! I’m already risking my life for our future!”

“So, given that I could die at any moment, can you grant me one last wish…”

“What’s the deal with your kid who’s almost thirty?”

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“A kid is a kid. Are you saying you don’t want me to raise him?”

Tie Cui’s cold voice came through the channel, “Also, if you’ve finished dealing with the Altered Persons in your assigned area, you should consider heading to the Donghai Grand Hotel to assist Mr. Lone Soldier with his mission. According to the mission briefing I have, the main executor for the S-rank mission to eliminate the Sea Country ability user’s mental entity is Mr. Lone Soldier, and both you and Doll are members of his squad…”

“…You’re even the vice-captain?”

“Tsk, and Doll is just a regular team member.”

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“Cooperate with Mr. Lone Soldier?”

Hearing Tie Cui’s words, Gecko became noticeably more serious. “I have experience with this.”

“Be extremely careful…”

Tie Cui hadn’t expected him to agree so readily and felt a surge of nervousness. But after her warning, she heard no reply for a long time.

After a while, she couldn’t help but ask softly, “Where are you?”

“I’ve already cleared the mobs. I’m resting in place now.”

Gecko stated seriously, “Last time I was on a mission with Captain Mr. Lone Soldier, this is exactly how I cooperated with him.”

Tie Cui: “…”

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“Doll, you don’t need to act right now. Yes, just sit there and keep watching Mr. Lone Soldier…”

Chen Jing soothed Doll.

At this moment, she was sitting in the car compartment, quietly watching the direction of the Donghai Grand Hotel through the glass of the back door.

Because of the glass, and because no one dared to stare intently at Doll’s face, nobody knew if she could actually see anything. They could only notice that her face was almost pressed against the glass, watching seriously, tilting her head from time to time.

Chen Jing sighed softly and reported to Mr. Su and the others, “The cleanup of the mental monsters is going smoothly. Although there are many of them, most have relatively low psychic power levels. Even the highest is less than a thousand. Plus, our containment efforts were quite effective, so we’re very confident they won’t break through the three-kilometer perimeter.”

“The only thing worth worrying about…”

She glanced towards the Donghai Grand Hotel.

That was where Mr. Lone Soldier was currently clearing the Red Cloaked Apostle. She didn’t know how one could possibly eliminate a mental monster with a magnitude in the tens of thousands.

“Don’t worry about the Red Cloaked Apostle.”

Professor Bai glanced at Doll beside him. “If Mr. Lone Soldier were in danger, Doll wouldn’t be this quiet right now.”

Mr. Su sighed, “I really wish I could see exactly how he’s doing it…”

Minister Shen immediately grew tense, stating firmly, “Absolutely not.”

“Alright…”

Mr. Su had no choice but to agree. After a moment’s thought, something occurred to him, and a cold smile appeared on his face. “Then connect me to that Elder Ye from the Sea Country. Let me see his face. I want to ask this old gentleman properly…”

“Does he really think Qinggang is made of paper?!”