They say I'm a world-destroying anomaly.

Chapter 72 Skeleton Giant Wolf

Space-based orbital pulse towers, renowned interstellar space-destroying weapons.

This is a heavy weapon that, when fully charged, can shatter small celestial bodies with a single strike.

Even a planet like Chengming Star, struck by a pulsar, would suffer widespread and devastating damage to its surface, with the resulting chain reaction enough to wipe out more than 90 percent of life on the planet's surface.

To be honest, if we're being precise, it was somewhat wasteful for Hu Zhou to issue the order to launch a space-based orbital pulse at the Arbiter when the Arbiter was already trapped in a tight net.

But if he couldn't witness the arbiter vanish into thin air, Hu Zhou felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Not only him, but also Chief Copper and the group of worker bee team members thought so.

Anyway, when writing the report, just add a sentence like "The goal of this decision is to ensure the elimination of the Purge Bureau's cadres and decision-makers," and the reviewers above will definitely understand.

However, at this moment, that's not what anyone is thinking about.

Instead, it was the words the adjudicator uttered in his last moments, captured in space by special equipment from the Chengmingxing branch.

"Why am I here?!"

The tone, a mixture of sorrow, incomprehension, despair, and confusion, sent chills down everyone's spine.

In fact, no one, including Kober and Hu Zhou, knew why the Arbitrator and Bai Ji chose to attack Cheng Mingxing.

Even if Chengming Star lost a large number of personnel due to the issues with Golun Star and Yuanguang Star System, it shouldn't be something you two Purge Bureau agents can do to cause trouble, right?

Do the Purge agents, the interstellar fugitives who give them so much trouble, not even have this simple judgment?

The arbitrator's desperate roar seems to reflect another fact: even he himself doesn't know why he made such a completely irrational decision.

It was as if their minds had been bewitched by evil spirits, or as if they were being manipulated like puppets.

This is just too bizarre.

Hu Zhou shook his head a few times to suppress the thoughts surging in his mind.

The Arbiter is dead, but there is still a White Princess stubbornly resisting on the Clear Star. She has not yet reached the point where she has time to think about this and that.

Compared to the adjudicator, Shirohime brought even more pressure to the Chengming Star Branch.

The Abnormality Management Bureau's database contains information about the two Purge Bureau operators, Arbitrator and Shirohime, including their specific abilities, personality profiles, and so on.

This information was extracted from the numerous bloody crimes they had committed, and was summarized and analyzed by specialists to help the Bureau personnel better combat them.

For example, the Dreamweaver Ark that just targeted the Arbiter created a battle illusion through illusions and weakened him through long-range rays and missiles to prevent him from making a desperate move before his death and causing unnecessary casualties.

As for Bai Ji, her hidden spaceship was no longer a secret from the Bureau's perspective.

Hu Zhou deliberately "leaked" her spaceship into the atmosphere of Chengming Star, dividing the battlefield into two sides.

Meanwhile, the Chengmingxing branch activated a high-powered exclusive signal jamming device to cut off Bai Ji's communication with the Arbitrator.

This is one of the reasons why the Arbiter never received any communication from Shirahime.

Another reason is that as soon as Bai Ji's starship landed, Hu Zhou dispatched elite ground troops to surround her in layers.

Let's rewind to the point when the two sides first started fighting.

"Where's that old man Kopper?! Tell him to come out and face his death!"

The scruffy puppy that Bai Ji had been holding in her arms had completely changed. It was now a giant skeletal wolf, tens of meters long, standing proudly in the encirclement, howling at the sky.

"howl""

Two pale blue soul flames flickered within its empty eye sockets, a faint phosphorescence flowed between its ribs, its pale skeleton was covered with strange patterns, and fine bone spurs grew at its spinal joints.

Its two front claws are exceptionally thick, and the claws reflect a luster that no color in the universe can describe. This is the [Cracked Mark] characteristic that Shiro Hime transplanted onto the white bone puppet.

In the initial clashes, the mobile armed fortresses in the branch office, renowned for their defensive capabilities, were as fragile as paper under the claws of this giant skeletal wolf, easily torn apart.

In just one encounter, the ground troops suffered heavy losses.

No one could have predicted that Shirahime would stitch the [Crack] into her bone puppet.

Hu Zhou had mixed feelings about this.

The good news is that the critical-level anomaly [Crack] has fallen into the encirclement of the Chengming Star Branch along with Bai Ji, and has not been transferred back to the Purification Bureau.

The worry is that Shirohime, who can control the [Stripping Scar], will inevitably pose a huge threat to ground troops.

It would be difficult to win her over without paying a certain price.

As Hu Zhou had predicted, Bai Ji continued to put up a stubborn resistance on the ground, relying on her ability to "Scratches".

Hu Zhou quickly changed his strategy, deploying a large number of unmanned devices to the battlefield, using their sheer numbers to reinforce the encirclement with high-intensity firepower.

By holding Bai Ji back through a protracted war of attrition, Hu Zhou can free up his energy to focus on creating the Arbiter.

But when Hu Zhou turned his attention back to the ground battlefield after the Arbiter died, he found that Bai Ji's condition was not quite right.

Behind her, the unarmed soldiers torn apart by the giant skeletal wolf were piling up to form a mountain of parts, but the beast showed no intention of continuing its attack.

"Yes, why—why—"

Bai Ji's painted skin trembled violently, and the patterns on it became blurry.

Just now, in a fleeting moment, she heard the dying cry of the Arbiter.

As if waking from a dream, she finally remembered everything that had happened on Fog Mountain Star, and the real orders given by the Director of the Purge Bureau.

"Why am I here? I shouldn't be here!"

A jumble of confused memories swirled in her mind, and Shirahime even forgot that she was in danger.

"Everyone, fire! Focus fire!"

Although he didn't know why Bai Ji was in such a state of chaos, Hu Zhou wouldn't let this opportunity pass him by.

Countless cannons, trailing trails of flame, rained down on the center of the wasteland, their firepower enough to carve a crater a kilometer deep into the wasteland.

Bai Ji was in a state of mental derangement, but the giant skeletal wolf beneath her feet was writhing restlessly, sensing the approaching danger.

Waiting in vain for its master's command, and seeing that it was about to be buried by artillery fire at any moment, the skeletal giant wolf roared wildly, and illusory phantoms appeared on its front paws, heavily drawing two intersecting marks in front of it.

"Not good!" Hu Zhou's expression changed.

Hu Zhou realized something was wrong, but it was too late to stop it.

A shattered spatial shadow appeared in front of the giant wolf, directly cleaving through space.

Carrying Bai Ji on its back, it darted into the spatial rift and disappeared without a trace.