Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1119: Rising Stars
When the unfamiliar voice suddenly appeared behind them, everyone was startled, but none of them turned around.

It wasn't that they didn't want to turn back, but their bodies were stiff, all their joints felt like they were stuck, and they could only stand there blankly.

Reason told them that they were not being controlled by the superpowers of the person behind them, but rather by their own inner fear. Every pore on their body opened up, and fine cold sweat, stirred by the slightest breeze, caused a chill that cleared their minds, as distinct as the icy blade on their necks.

The strange desire emanating from the air made them feel as heavy as mountains, and the flow of their magical power became viscous and slow, as if invisible threads were binding their magical power to the earth, causing the flow to slow down even more under this invisible pull.

"It's me, the one wearing a mask. Don't be nervous," a hoarse voice said from behind.

The biker frowned, but still didn't dare turn around. His eyes darted to the edge of his field of vision, where he couldn't see behind him, and he asked with all his might, "What exactly are you doing now...?"

He couldn't ask specific questions because he had no idea what Xia Shou's current situation was, but he was 100% certain that something extraordinary must have happened to Xia Shou to cause such a dramatic change in his demeanor.

“I’m still a little unfamiliar with the power I’m using, but that’s alright. Also, the plan has changed. You’ll all come at me together later. Just go all out. I might move your spatial positions at a crucial moment, so be prepared to teleport during the battle,” Xia Shou said.

The initial sense of oppression gradually subsided under the constant adjustment of rational thinking. Using self-hypnosis techniques, the hypnotist took the lead in adjusting her mindset, slowly turned her head, and looked at Xia Shou behind her.

When she saw the person standing behind her clearly, a chill ran from her tailbone straight to the top of her head. She opened her eyes wide, and in her dilated pupils, she saw a figure several heads taller than herself. She began to doubt what Xia Shou had just said.

Is the person standing in front of me right now really the one who just put on the mask?
Are you kidding me! You could say that apart from the mask on his face, he has no other similar features.

Oh, it's not just the mask that's the same; the tattered strips of cloth he's wearing seem to be fragments of his original clothes that have been torn apart. Apart from these two things, it's really hard to tell that it's the same person.

"Don't forget, you'll be going up with that girl later." A deep, hoarse voice came from behind the mask.

As soon as he finished speaking, the tall figure vanished from the hypnotist's sight in an instant, and the branches and leaves of the bushes next to him were smashed into dust and fluttered down.

As the oppressive feeling dissipated, the others gradually calmed down and turned to look at the empty space behind them.

Meanwhile, Su Yue and Su Weiyu were advancing towards their target mountain.

Suddenly, the two stopped in their tracks and turned to look at the same grove of trees. One of them drew his goose-feather knife with perfect coordination, while the other slowly drew his boy-cutting sword.

The two sisters possessed a unique bloodline and physique that granted them far greater sensory acuity than ordinary people. Su Weiyu, being a martial artist, further enhanced this sensitivity through training, making her extremely perceptive to external stimuli.

While Su Yue only sensed something rapidly approaching, Su Weiyu could already discern the size, weight, and manner of movement of the approaching object.

Soon, the commotion in the woods became loud enough for ordinary people to hear, indicating that the other party had no intention of concealing themselves and was heading straight this way without any intention of taking a detour.

The next second, the bushes parted, and a tall figure rushed into their field of vision. Su Yue almost instinctively swung her knife, but the other person easily dodged it by sidestepping. Su Weiyu's blade froze in mid-air just as it was about to slice into the other person's neck. "A-Shou?"

"Brother Xia Shou?!"

Both of them were very surprised to see Xia Shou's current appearance.

"Is this really okay?" Su Yue looked at Xia Shou's body and asked uncertainly.

"It'll definitely be fine while I'm still using this body, but once I leave this body, it'll most likely be finished. However, this person was prepared for this before finalizing the deal," Xia Shou said, looking at his palm.

"You've already started your suicide mission, haven't you?" Su Weiyu asked. "I just noticed that the depth of the Origin Sea suddenly decreased a little, so I figured we should have restarted. But I can't tell Ayue, so I'm waiting for you to come over."

I didn't expect you to dodge that attack just now. It seems these horns have greatly improved your skills. What do you think of these horns compared to the Scorpion Ridge?

"If we only consider the improvement on the panel, it is much greater than that of the Scorpion Ridge."

However, the scorpion spine is a parasitic abnormal organism, and its habits promote the transformation of the parasitic host into the form desired by the scorpion spine.

But this pair of corners is more like the erosion of desire. You feel that to some extent, an obsession will awaken deep in your subconscious, a bit like the horsehair worm in a mantis's body, urging you to complete a certain task.

Although this phenomenon also exists with Scorpion Ridge, according to the data, as long as you are the most suitable candidate for Scorpion Ridge, Scorpion Ridge will not abandon you.

Well… if we use Ōtakemaru as an example, Scorpion Spine would choose the most suitable person to become Ōtakemaru. Ōtakemaru is just a title, while the people chosen by the opposite side are all puppets of the real Ōtakemaru. This Ōtakemaru is not a name, but a entity.

After saying that, Xia Shou casually added, "Moreover, the Scorpion Spine is beyond the limit, and you can choose whether to increase the abnormality level. The opposite side is a fundamental transformation of the physical body, with no room for maneuver."

Moreover, it does not have the function of establishing complex conditioned reflexes; it simply adds a series of comprehensive qualities such as nerve reflexes and physical strength.

This kind of thing, if handed over, can only be sealed away as a forbidden object; it has no potential for experimental research. After all, the scorpion's spine can exist as a tool, while these two horns only twist people into abnormal beings.

"It seems we'll have to kill this body of yours in the end, otherwise, once you remove the mask and leave this body, it will essentially lose its will and become a demon," Su Weiyu said thoughtfully.
“That’s right,” Xia Shou nodded, then looked at Su Yue, “Xiao Yue, you don’t need to use 33,000 HP anymore, go with the others.”

"I'll tell you about Angang Heiyue's capabilities now. Your task is to defeat Angang Heiyue until it adapts to its transformation phase; leave everything else to me."

(End of this chapter)