Sequence Beyond: My Wife is a Mysterious Boss

There are no fancy techniques.

There were no complicated tactics.

Ah Ya simply raised his leg, and then—swept it across!

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

A dull, heart-stopping bang.

The three metal soldiers at the very front were like being hit head-on by a high-speed train traveling at 300 km/h.

Their prized iron-clad defenses crumbled like a cardboard box bought from Pinduoduo in the face of this kick.

The chest cavity instantly caved in and shattered.

Three steel bodies, each weighing several hundred kilograms, flew backward like cannonballs, crashing down on a large area behind them, instantly turning into rolling gourds.

But it's not over yet.

Aya took a step, and the ground cracked.

He grabbed a giant axe swung by a tin soldier with one hand, exerting force with all five fingers.

Click!

He snapped the solid steel axe handle in half as easily as breaking a chocolate bar.

He thrust it in with his backhand!

The severed handle pierced through the monster's steel head, pinning it to the wall like a specimen.

This scene was too brutal.

It's like a max-level character accidentally wandering into a newbie village, where they're engaged in a one-sided massacre.

In less than two minutes.

The corridor was filled with twisted and deformed scrap metal.

Those monsters that made Xie Qingtang feel despair were as fragile as a joke in front of Aya.

"Huff... huff..."

The gunfire stopped.

The bearded man and his henchmen remained in the trigger-pull position, their chins nearly hitting their feet.

They looked at the gun in their hands, which looked like a fire poker, and then at Aya, who was casually twisting off the head of a tin soldier and kicking it around like a ball.

A tremendous sense of absurdity arose spontaneously.

We're all human, so how can there be such a huge difference? This doesn't make sense!

This guy's strength is probably not much worse than our own sect leader's.

Definitely Sequence 9 combat power!

"hey-hey......"

Although Buck was also stunned, he reacted quickly, immediately puffing out his chest with a smug expression as if he himself had just been the one who had slaughtered everyone.

"Did you see that? Did you all see that?!"

Buck nudged the bearded man next to him with his elbow, a smug look on his face:

"This is Advisor Bai! This is our strategist! You should be grateful to be working with such a powerful figure! Open your minds!"

Xie Qingtang stood beside the pile of corpses, her hand holding the knife trembling slightly.

She watched the silent figure cleaning up the battlefield, then turned back to look at Lin Bai, who sat calmly in the storage room.

An unprecedented sense of frustration welled up inside me.

"Come back."

Lin Bai's voice remained languid.

Aya shook the black oil off her hands and turned back to Lin Bai's side.

Just then, the bearded man seemed to have discovered something, and mustered his courage to run out and rummage through a mangled corpse.

"Advisor Bai...Advisor Bai!"

The bearded man, panting, ran back to the storage room, clutching a piece of metal with a cold, eerie luster, and handed it to Lin Bai with both hands.

"This fell from that monster's heart... It feels a little different."

Lin Bai opened his eyes and took the metal piece.

My fingertips trembled slightly the moment I held it.

Heavy, cold, and rough.

The feel of this touch... is so real.

It was completely different from everything around it, which, although realistic, had a vague sense of "illusion".

This piece of sheet metal looks like a real rock that suddenly appeared out of place in a 4K high-definition scene, creating a strong sense of incongruity.

"What is this?" Buck asked curiously as he approached.

Lin Bai wasn't sure either.

Parchment is bound by fate and cannot be used as an encyclopedia for the time being.

It was the bearded man who offered a guess: "This should be an extraordinary material."

"Huh?!" everyone exclaimed.

"I had heard before that the Ghost Realm produces high-value extraordinary materials, but I didn't expect it to be true."

But the surprise lasted only a second.

The light in the bearded man's eyes dimmed quickly, and he sighed heavily: "Sigh... what's the use of being valuable? Whether we can even get out of here alive is a question."

"If you're about to lose your life, even the best materials will just be burial goods."

Upon hearing this, the glimmer of hope that had just been ignited was instantly extinguished.

Yes.

The monsters are evolving, while their ammunition, stamina, and spirit are dwindling.

If it weren't for Aya's intervention just now, they would be mincemeat by now.

The bell has only rung six times, and the monster's strength is already this outrageous. If it rings twice more, even Ah Ya might not be able to withstand it...

This is a dead end.

......

In the corner, Xie Qingtang slid down against the wall.

She lowered her head, staring intently at a small glass bottle clutched tightly in her hand.

The bottle was half-filled with a deep blue liquid, its turbid surface seemingly dotted with countless tiny points of light, radiating an eerie and captivating glow.

That was her last trump card.

It was also her last hope.

But now, this trump card has become a death warrant.

Lin Bai's gaze shifted from the sheet metal to her hand, and a thought crossed his mind.

This is... a magic potion?

The parchment mentioned that Xie Qingtang had already prepared the Sequence 9 "Assassin" potion.

"Are you planning to drink the potion and become an extraordinary being?" Lin Bai asked knowingly.

Xie Qingtang subconsciously shrank the bottle closer to her chest, turned to look at Lin Bai, and said in a hoarse voice as if she had swallowed a handful of sand:

"Sequence 9: Assassin. This is something I acquired by spending all my savings and even incurring debts for half my life."

Lin Bai raised an eyebrow, as expected.

"Since there's good stuff, why not drink it?"

Lin Bai crouched down, his gaze level with hers, his eyes revealing three parts sincerity and seven parts confusion. "What are you waiting for?"

He was genuinely puzzled.

This girl is holding the potion like it's poison; what is she afraid of?

Xie Qingtang looked at Lin Bai's note, which was filled with doubt, and suddenly let out a bitter laugh.

That smile was filled with bitterness.

"Drink it? If I drink it now, I'll be corrupted by the potion's power in five minutes at most, turning into one of those monsters outside."

Lin Bai was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

Xie Qingtang took a deep breath, her eyes darkening.

"Potions aren't drinks; you can't just drink them whenever you want."

"Every potion contains the mad will of its corresponding sequence. To control it, one must perform the corresponding 'ascension ritual' to anchor humanity and suppress madness."

She held up the bottle, looking at the deep blue liquid, her eyes filled with resentment:

"The requirements for the Assassin's Potion advancement ceremony are: in an absolutely dark and absolutely quiet environment, maintain absolute inner peace, take the potion, and in the process, not generate the slightest murderous intent."

At this point, Xie Qingtang looked around, her gaze sweeping over every desperate face.

"Absolute peace..."

Xie Qingtang closed her eyes, a hint of despair flashing across them:

"I can't do this outside, let alone in a godforsaken place like this."

Lin Bai's expression turned somewhat strange after hearing this.

A promotion ceremony? Is there some kind of ritual involved?

He recalled the process by which he obtained [Sequence 9: The Fraudster].

It seems like... he just casually gulped it down?

What sense of ceremony is there?

He silently noted this information down in his mind, intending to question the parchment thoroughly later.

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