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Chapter 334 The Bell Tolls, the Black Chrysalis, the Surprise Attack (Second Update, Requesting Monthly Tickets)
A minute and a half ago, at the edge of the island.

Everyone was having a great time, but Ruri Urushihara stood alone on the empty beach, the waves lapping against her shoes and wetting the sand on the soles.

Drones hovered overhead, projecting live footage from all around the island.

Ruri Urushihara let the projected images surround her, one hand on her hip, a playful smile playing on her lips, her gaze intently observing the battlefield in the four corners of the island.

But the next second, she suddenly heard a noise nearby, which interrupted her focused thoughts.

It sounded like a deep, resonant chime.

That's right... the sound of bells.

"Whoa, what the hell is that noise?" Thinking to herself, Ruri Urushihara raised her delicate eyebrows.

She suddenly looked up and saw that there was no cover near the beach, only a frighteningly tall rocky mountain.

The faint sound of bells we just heard came from behind that rocky mountain.

"Is someone hiding there? It seems like they're after me."

She remained vigilant, her clear, glassy eyes fixed intently on the rocky mountain.

Knowing full well that there might be danger, she did not leave the beach immediately.

Because Ruri Urushihara was confident that with her reaction speed, she could quickly activate her ability within a fraction of a second of spotting an enemy and teleport herself into an independent space.

If necessary, Ruri Urushihara could even use her powers to send back one of the Rainbow Wing members who was on an extermination mission on the island, so that member could deal with the uninvited guest.

In this way, you can give the other party a big surprise.

Moreover, no matter how much she leans towards functionality, she is still a Calamity-level ability user. Her abilities may be somewhat off-target, but her physical attributes have not suffered.

If they were just ordinary light-devouring bees, she could easily take down hundreds of them with her fists and feet; if she encountered a slightly weaker, more approachable near-disaster-level superhuman, she could also defeat him using the mechanisms of her superpower.

After all, as long as she gets close to the other person and leaves a mark on them, Ruri Urushihara can pull them into an independent space in an instant.

The moment someone is pulled into an independent space, they will briefly lose consciousness and become a vegetable, completely at the mercy of others, just like when Gu Qiye was first sent into the independent space.

During the time the other party was distracted, it was enough for Urushihara Ruri to tear him to pieces a hundred times.

To this end, she also left all sorts of small toys in her separate space, which could be used to deal with enemies of different levels, from handmade knives and pencil sharpeners to rifles, submachine guns, and even rocket launchers—everything imaginable.

During an undercover operation, Ruri Urushihara once used seduction to get close to a Cataclysmic-level ability user from an enemy country. The moment she put her arm around his neck on a social stage, she left a mark on him and then sent him into a separate space.

There, while the man was still unconscious, she laid a pile of TNT bombs on the ground, then picked up a rocket launcher and pulled the trigger on his head.

As for Ruri Urushihara herself, she left the independent space gracefully before the rocket landed. When she returned to the independent space to check on it not long after, she only saw a skeleton kneeling on the ground, with black ash all over the ground.

It is precisely because she has accumulated so much combat experience, witnessed so many cases, and even has the experience of dealing with a catastrophe-level superhuman in her mind that Ruri Urushihara has full confidence in her own strength.

In Ruri Urushihara's own definition of herself, she is by no means what the outside world says, merely a tool that can only be used to save people. On the contrary, she can be a perfect assassin who hides her skill in the details.

At this moment, Ruri Urushihara crossed her arms and silently gazed at the rocky mountain, waiting for the other party to reveal themselves. In just a moment, she would be able to roughly estimate the other party's strength and then take appropriate action.

But to Ruri Urushihara's utter surprise, the other party didn't even give her a fraction of a second.

After the eerie chime rang, she looked up. Then the whole world was suddenly covered by a layer of mercury-silver, and then Urushihara Ruri's body suddenly froze in place, even her expression was frozen on her face.

In fact, not only her, but even the drones above her head stopped operating.

The beach, the crabs, the sea, the fish swimming in the sea—everything in the world seemed to freeze at the moment it was stained with this silvery liquid.

At this moment, the world is completely silent.

Time stood still, as if by magic.

Immediately afterwards, a dark figure appeared from the top of the rocky mountain and then plummeted straight down. He wore a black trench coat and a dark red mask, traversing the silent, still world as he fell at high speed.

It's like a tyrant who rules over time, while dragging a large black ribbon behind him.

The instant he landed on the beach, those dark ribbons tightly bound all the floating drones above Ruri Urushihara's head, pulled them to the ground, and smashed them to pieces.

Immediately afterwards, he used straps to bind Urushihara Ruri's body from top to bottom. At that moment, the silvery color that had enveloped the world suddenly faded away, and Urushihara Ruri's pupils regained their color.

Amidst the rushing sound of the tide, the waves surged toward the beach, wetting the sand beneath her feet.

"What's going on... what is this...?"

Ruri Urushihara snapped out of her daze, raised an eyebrow, and looked down sharply. She then realized that her limbs were tightly bound by black restraints, one after another, leaving her no room to break free.

She was slightly taken aback, but even stranger things were yet to come.

Ruri Urushihara looked ahead and saw rows of drones smashed to the ground, their gears spitting out arcs of electricity. But just half a second ago, those drones were hovering perfectly intact above her head. "How did he do that?" This question popped into Ruri Urushihara's mind.

A hint of undisguised surprise flashed in her dark eyes. In less than a fraction of a second, almost without any interval, the other party appeared beside her, tied her body, and took care of all the drones above her head.

This also means that if this uninvited guest wanted to kill her, he would have done so in that very instant.

"No, even Gu Qiye, the fastest in Rainbow Wings, doesn't have this speed." Thinking this, cold sweat beaded on Urushihara Ruri's forehead, and another chilling thought flashed through her mind again: "Could it be a time-manipulation ability?"

She then thought, "The last person confirmed to have time-related abilities was Ghost Bell, but shouldn't he have been killed by that emotionless girl? Could there be a second time-related ability user hidden in the world? But how do you explain that bell ringing just now?"

Her thoughts drifted to this point, and she gasped, catching a glimpse of a shadow behind her out of the corner of her eye. By then, it was too late to make out the person's face.

In this situation, even a moment's hesitation could lead to her being strangled.

Ruri Urushihara judged in her heart that this was definitely a formidable opponent.

So, she subconsciously released her supernatural power, partly to send Oda Hideaki and Alexandra to this beach so they could deal with this uninvited guest, and partly to send herself into an independent space to escape danger.

Whoever attacked me should regret not dealing with me immediately, Ruri Urushihara thought.

But strangely, the next second she was stunned to find that no matter how she activated her superpower, her body remained unmoved. Looking down, she saw that the black restraints suddenly emitted a faint light, suppressing the restless superpower genes in her body.

Everything gradually calmed down.

Despite the deafening roars echoing from all directions around the island, Ruri Urushihara's mind remained blank.

The approaching scent of death urged her brain to work, and a conclusion slowly formed:
"No way... He suppressed my superpowers?"

Ruri Urushihara's pupils contracted slightly, and the composed smile on her lips vanished completely. At that moment, the black strap slid past her ear, removed the headphones she was wearing, and then violently shredded them.

She didn't even have the chance to call for help from others through her earpiece.

Then, a deep and mocking voice suddenly came from behind her:
"One second you must have been thinking, 'What could get so close to me so fast and destroy the drone above my head?' And the next second you must have been thinking, 'Why can't I use my powers? Does it have some special ability that targets people with powers?' Am I right?"

Ruri Urushihara was taken aback.

She recognized the voice from the videos she had seen before.

Only at this moment did she realize that the black straps binding her seemed familiar.

So she slowly uttered the name:

"Black... pupa?"

The other party responded enthusiastically: "Surprise! You probably didn't expect this, did you? This lady who is good at disguises, in a mere 0.00001 seconds, a mysterious figure will appear behind you and tie you up tightly. Hmm... this is really a bit R18."

"You stole the Ghost Bell's power?" Recalling the sound of the bell just now, Ruri Urushihara's thoughts became completely clear.

“Yes.” Black Chrysalis nodded. “Who else has this ability besides him?”

He had jumped off Yagubalu's back on his own initiative. During the jump, he wrapped his entire body in restraints, entered camouflage mode, and transformed into a transparent pupa, landing precisely on a rocky hill near the beach.

The black pupa had been observing Urushihara Ruri for a long time, and the two were about two hundred meters apart.

Immediately afterwards, he used the supernatural power of the "Ghost Bell" stored in the restraints to quietly create a huge clock tower behind the rocky mountain, and then set the hour hand to 12 o'clock.

The moment the bell rang, he activated his "time stop" ability.

1.5 seconds—that's the maximum time the degraded clock tower can pause.

In those mere 1.5 seconds, he plummeted from the rocky mountain, using his astonishing supernatural power to restrain Ruri Urushihara's body with restraint straps while simultaneously binding all the drones with restraint straps and smashing them to pieces as he fell.

The reason why Agubaru was not discovered by Ruri Urushihara of the Rainbow Wing when he passed the edge of the island was because Caesar was standing on Agubaru, holding up that ochre-red umbrella.

That's right, it's the most common kind of strange tale from the Oddities Envoy—"The Umbrella of Concealment." Caesar used this umbrella with incredible skill, because once the canopy was open, no one could see what was underneath.

Under the protection of the Hidden Umbrella, Yagubalu silently approached the deserted island, carrying Black Chrysalis, Ghost Bell, Su Wei, Mu Long, and Caesar.

The people at Rainbow Wing were completely unaware of this.

At that moment, Kuroyo covered Urushihara Ruri's mouth with a restraint strap and whispered it close to her ear.

“Behave yourself, Miss Urushihara Ruri,” he said. “I’m very gentlemanly when it comes to ladies. I just need you to stay here quietly for a while… Don’t worry, I won’t kill you for now. Instead, I’ll take you off the island. After all, I have so many questions to ask you, so many that they’re giving me a headache. I can’t possibly sort them all out in a short time.”

He paused for a moment: "For example... the Salvation Society; and for example, your good brother, the leader of the White Raven Brigade—'Qi Yuanli'."

The moment she heard the name "Urushihara Ruri" from the black chrysalis, Urushihara Ruri's body stiffened slightly.

After a moment, she lowered her head, a subtle light flickering in her dark eyes.

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