"So, were you intentionally captured too?" Raven asked in confusion.
Li Yuan shrugged. "In a way, that shadow-playing guy is quite formidable. I couldn't defeat him head-on."
"But it wasn't easy for him to capture me either. I sensed that something of mine was on him."
"To find out what it was, I voluntarily showed up and let him catch me."
"Otherwise, with my tens of thousands of fish descendants, I could have kept him company for eternity."
Just then, footsteps echoed from the other end of the corridor.
A blonde woman walked down the opposite hallway. "Well, well, looks like everyone's here?"
Raven blinked. "Wait, were you also intentionally captured?"
"What do you mean intentionally captured?" The Queen Bee tilted her head. "I just couldn't beat them, that's all."
Raven and the others exchanged glances. "Then how did you get out?"
The Queen Bee flashed a seductive smile. "Sorry, all the men responsible for observing and recording my information fell in love with me at first sight. When they heard that those guys were going to execute me, they voluntarily let me go and then started fighting among themselves."
The Queen Bee glanced at the charred body on the ground. "This coal-like thing, could it be Spider?"
Wang Haonan nodded. "Yes, it is. Impressive that you recognized him."
The Queen Bee sighed with regret. "What a pity. I was planning to turn him into one of my royal bees, but he died so quickly."
Li Yuan nodded in agreement. "I had the same idea. These people have potential. I want to convert them into deep divers. I feel like it will produce some unexpected results."
As they spoke, the elevator suddenly started moving.
All four of them turned their gaze to the elevator as its doors slowly opened.
A muscular man stepped out of the elevator and then froze in place.
"What the heck?"
The muscular man blinked as he looked at the four monsters in front of him.
What's going on?
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Inside the fissure space.
Chen Ye was observing the outside world when he saw the appearance of the muscular man. He subconsciously manipulated the man's lifeline.
Unexpectedly, the lifeline of that muscular man was too fragile. With just a light touch, it shattered instantly.
At the same time, a spinning electric fan suddenly flew over and chopped off the muscular man's head.
Like a saw decapitating someone, blood splattered everywhere.
A spark landed on Chen Ye's hand. "So fragile?"
The electric fan continued flying forward after beheading the man.
Suddenly, a group of Nine-Tailed Fox soldiers appeared in the distance of the corridor!
"Target spotted!"
Seeing this group of Nine-Tailed Fox soldiers, Chen Ye grabbed their lifelines, but only lightly flicked them.
Buzz!
The electric fan flew past the group of people, but didn't hit anyone.
"Oh, these people are quite resilient."
Chen Ye's comment about resilience was literal; even after he flicked them lightly, their lifelines didn't break, which was indeed resilient.
Thinking about it, Chen Ye grabbed their lifelines with one hand and played them like strings with the other hand in a rhythmic manner.
Buzz!
The electric fan flew by again, and the group of Nine-Tailed Fox soldiers suddenly fell to the ground!
"Lie down!"
As Chen Ye's fingers played, it was like playing a musical instrument. The lifelines swayed and fluctuated, and the electric fan turned its head and flew back again!
Slap!
At that moment, one person's lifeline snapped.
At the same time, the electric fan directly plunged into that person's body!
Pfft!
"Ahh!"
Chen Ye chuckled lightly and continued playing the lifelines of the others.
This whole scene was quite comical; to the outsiders, it looked like those people were repeatedly jumping on the brink of death.
The killing electric fan kept circling around them, sometimes slashing horizontally, sometimes vertically, while the group of people sometimes crouched down, sometimes leaned sideways.
These actions resembled a wall in a variety show.
Until the lifelines of these people couldn't bear it anymore, and Chen Ye broke them all with a flick, the electric fan bloodily massacred the crowd!
Watching the bloody scene in front of them, the few of them looked at each other.
"What was that thing again?"
"One of 009's garbage clones."
"Speaking of garbage clones..."
"When I came, I happened to see those Nine-Tailed Foxes researching these stones, so I grabbed them." Wang Haonan opened his hands and revealed twelve stones.
"What are these?"
"One of 009's garbage clones, but they're quite useful."
"Have you seen 'Jackie Chan Adventures'?"
"No."
Wang Haonan threw three stones to Li Yuan. "Ox, Strength; Horse, Healing; Rooster, Gravity."
Li Yuan reached out and grabbed the three stones, and a terrifying power instantly merged into his limbs and bones.
"This thing is interesting."
Wang Haonan then looked at the Queen Bee and threw three stones at her as well.
"Dog, Immortality; Snake, Invisibility; Sheep, Soul Projection."
The Queen Bee paused for a moment. "Are you giving me all the life-saving ones? Do you think I'm that fragile, darling?"
"I think these suit you better." With that, Wang Haonan turned to Raven.
Raven obediently stretched out her hands. "And what about me? What do I get?"
Wang Haonan placed three stones in her hands. "Rabbit, Speed; Dragon, Flames; Pig, Electric Eyes."
"What did you keep for yourself?"
Wang Haonan held up three stones in his hand. "The three most useless ones."
"Rat, Tranquility in Motion; Monkey, Infinite Transformation; Tiger, Balance of Yin and Yang."
"Is that okay?"
Subconsciously, the others felt that Wang Haonan was the weakest among them.
But what they didn't know was that Wang Haonan had evolved.
Now, he possessed abilities at the conceptual level.
The secondary potion he took was Mirror Demon.
As the name suggests, Mirror Demon allows him to shuttle through any reflective surface or object with refractive properties.
And when he shuttles through these reflective bodies, he remains unaffected by the outside world, even if it were collapsing.
In the mirror world, he wouldn't be attacked by the outside world nor influenced by it.
And when someone's figure appears in the mirror, Wang Haonan can attack them.
It's like the saying goes: you can't hurt me, but I can hurt your loved ones.
And Wang Haonan's own invisibility ability still exists, so he can still kill people while hiding in the mirror.
Truly making enemies defenseless and perplexed.
The only downside is that this ability relies on light refraction.
Without light, Wang Haonan couldn't use his abilities.
Wang Haonan clenched the three stones in his hand.
"That's enough."
"With this mission completed, it's time for me to go."
Wang Haonan's mission wasn't to save them; he came to kill 009.
Saving Li Yuan was just a coincidence.
Don't think that Wang Haonan is foolish; he's the only one who can understand Chen Ye's commands.
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