You call me a calamity? But I am Hyper Zetton!

The receiver was dangling upside down in mid-air, pulled by the tangled telephone cord.

"Hello, this is the East City Police Station. How can I help you?"

"Feed? Feed? Is anyone there?"

The living room was empty.

……

Urban villages.

This is where Wu Bai discovered the traces of the calamity during the day.

There were three Calamities hiding in this area. He reported two of them and kept one for himself as food for tonight.

The night was dark.

Wu Bai, wrapped in a large black robe, walked up the moldy, blackened cement steps.

He quickly stopped at the door of room 421 on the fourth floor.

Wu Bai raised his hand, his knuckles just touching the door panel.

"Boom..." Without warning, the security door exploded instantly.

A giant hand formed by the forced twisting and compression of hundreds of pale white skeletons.

It slammed heavily into Wu Bai's crossed arms as he tried to block.

The immense impact sent him flying backward like a cannonball.

It crashed through the stairwell railing and fell from the fourth floor, landing in a car parked downstairs.

"Boom..."

The wall upstairs was violently smashed through, and smoke and dust filled the air as a terrifying creature, over two meters tall, slowly emerged.

Its skin was a sickly grayish-white, like a bloated corpse that had been soaked in water for a long time.

Every inch of skin was covered with faces contorted in pain.

Its right arm is a thick, giant bone arm, while its left arm has been transformed into a sharp bone knife.

【Calamity Sequence 044: The Multifaceted Tyrant】

The multifaceted tyrant stood on the edge of the fourth floor, his cloudy, yellowish eyes fixed on the badly damaged car below.

Suddenly, countless tentacles shot out from the wreckage of the car.

Accompanied by a tooth-grinding metallic tearing sound, a giant cocoon exuding a terrifying aura slowly rose.

The multifaceted tyrant's pupils contracted sharply, and the faces on its body that had been wailing all now simultaneously showed expressions of terror.

But it did not retreat.

With a roar, he jumped directly from the fourth floor, his feet shattering the ground.

Immediately afterwards, it straightened up and roared as it charged toward Wu Baifa, like a humanoid tank that had gone out of control.

Wu Bai snorted coldly: "You're courting death."

Countless tentacles shot out instantly, their surfaces vaguely covered in green slime.

The multifaceted tyrant raised his left arm and used a bone knife to slash wildly.

One of the tentacles was severed.

The two tentacles were severed.

But there were just too many tentacles, densely packed and endless.

In just a few seconds, its attack was thwarted, its limbs were tightly bound by more than a dozen tentacles, and it was suspended in mid-air.

The green slime on its tentacles made a piercing "sizzling" sound the moment it touched its skin.

That's strong acid corroding flesh.

This is precisely the strong acid corrosion ability that Wu Bai obtained after devouring the Calamity Sequence 142·Crimson Thorn.

"roar……"

The multifaceted tyrant roared in agony and struggled desperately, but to no avail.

It looked like Wu Bai was about to strike.

Suddenly, a small pebble flew softly by, hit one of his tentacles, and then bounced to the ground.

"Let go of my brother! Let go of my brother! You bad person!"

Wu Bai paused, then turned to look.

Under a streetlamp not far away, a little girl in a dirty school uniform was running towards them, crying and shouting.

Her face was covered in tears, and she was still clutching another stone tightly in her hand.

Wu Bai raised an eyebrow, and one of his tentacles changed direction, shooting straight at the little girl.

"don't want……"

The trapped, multifaceted tyrant let out a desperate roar.

Exhausted, it somehow managed to break free from the restraints of one of its tentacles and tried to lunge towards the other side.

But the remaining tentacles immediately pressed it back into place.

On the other side, the tentacles had already wrapped around the little girl's waist and lifted her up in front of Wu Bai.

"You big bad guy, let my brother go!" The little girl was suspended in mid-air, crying and pounding her little fists on the tentacles.

The multifaceted tyrant breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no corrosive slime on the tentacle.

He then shouted at the top of his lungs, "I'll let you eat, as long as you release my sister, I'll let you eat, I won't resist."

Wu Bai remained silent for a moment, then manipulated his tentacles to gently place the little girl in front of the multifaceted tyrant.

"He's not your brother. Your brother has been possessed by a monster; he's now a man-eating monster."

The little girl kicked her legs wildly in the air and cried even harder: "He is my brother, he is my brother."

The multifaceted tyrant gave up all struggle, lowering its ferocious head and speaking in a humble tone.

"Let her go...please let her go, if you want to eat someone else, eat me instead."

Wu Bai frowned.

A calamity, a human being.

Or are they siblings?

This made him hesitate to take a bite.

He saw himself and Wu Minmin reflected in them.

If one day I am surrounded and killed by powerful humans, will that silly girl do the same?

Even if all they have is a single stone, they'll rush forward crying to protect themselves.

Suddenly, Wu Bai paused slightly, turned his head to look in one direction, where several figures were rushing towards him.

He sighed.

"What kind of situation is this?"

Then, he turned and quickly disappeared into the night with one man and one calamity.

……

An unfinished building somewhere.

In the drafty, unfinished house, Wu Bai threw the two people onto the ground.

"elder brother."

The moment the little girl landed, she stumbled and lunged at the multifaceted tyrant.

The multifaceted tyrant seemed afraid that his current appearance would frighten her.

The grayish-white skin on its body quickly faded, the bones shrank back, and within seconds it returned to its human form.

He was a thin-looking young man with a pale face, about the same age as Wu Bai.

The little girl ran headfirst into the young man's arms and clung tightly to his waist.

"Weiwei, don't be afraid, I'm here."

The young man knelt on the ground, hugged the small body in his arms tightly, and gently patted her back.

Wu Bai, standing to the side, looked completely bewildered.

He did not revert to human form because he didn't want to reveal his identity since the black robe was gone.

He looked at the brother and sister, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

He himself is a human soul, and although his body has become Hyper Zetton, it is perfectly reasonable for him to be kind to his sister.

But what exactly is this purebred calamity?

"Tell me," Wu Bai broke the silence, his voice unreadable. "What exactly is going on? Why are a human and a calamity depending on each other for survival?"

I heard a sound.

The little girl immediately scrambled out of the young man's arms, spread her arms, and stood in front of him, staring warily at Wu Bai.

The young man gritted his teeth, forced himself to stand up, and reached out to pull the little girl behind him.

"My name is Ji An, and this is my younger sister, Ji Weiwei."

Wu Bai nodded: "And then? Why would the calamity treat a human as its younger sister?"

"Because...she saved my life."

Ji An leaned against the rough cement wall, his gaze becoming somewhat unfocused, as if lost in memories.

"A year ago, when I was very weak, I encountered a group of bounty hunters who specialized in hunting down calamities."

"I was beaten half to death, and I ran for my life, finally crawling into a garbage dump next to a stinking ditch."

Ji An looked down at his younger sister behind him, his eyes softening.

"It was raining heavily that night, and I thought I was going to die, but then I smelled something... the smell of living people."

"At that time, all I wanted was to eat meat and drink blood. I saw a little girl rummaging through the trash can, and she noticed me too."

Ji An gave a wry smile.

"I wanted to pounce on her and bite her throat, but I didn't even have the strength to move a finger."

"I watched her walk over, thinking she would scream, run, notify the Zan'e Si, or throw stones at me, this monster."

But she didn't.

She pulled half a dirty steamed bun from her bosom.

"That was the only food she found after searching all day."

She broke the steamed bun into pieces and fed them to me little by little.

She cried as she stuffed the food into her mouth, saying, "Big dog, don't die, it will make the pain go away."

"I ate that steamed bun, which is human food and has no nutritional value for calamity."

"But I think it's the most delicious thing in the world."

Ji An took a deep breath, his voice trembling slightly.

That night, to take care of me, she covered me with her only tattered cotton-padded coat.

"When I woke up the next morning, her wound had healed a bit, but she had fainted next to me because she was cold and hungry, and her body was burning hot."

"Seeing her curled up in a ball, I suddenly didn't want to eat her anymore."

"I carried her to the clinic, grabbed the medicine, and saved her life."

"From that day on, I vowed that as long as I have a breath left, I will never let anyone hurt her."

A long period of deathly silence fell over the unfinished building.

Wu Bai watched the brother and sister in silence.

The story of that half-eaten steamed bun reminded him of Wu Minmin.

That silly girl, when her family was poor, always put the only braised pork in her own bowl.

Then he grinned foolishly and said he was on a diet, even though his stomach was growling the whole time.

This world is a mess.

Monsters may not be heartless, but humans may not be righteous.

Wu Bai gave them a deep look, then turned and walked towards the stairwell, clearly intending to let the brother and sister go.

Upon seeing this, Ji An's expression changed, and he suddenly called out, "Could you wait a moment?"

Wu Bai paused slightly, but did not turn around.

"Is there anything else?"

Ji An gritted his teeth, released his sister's hand, and took a big step forward.

With a "thud," he knelt heavily on the ground, his forehead pressed against the dusty cement floor.

"You are Calamity Sequence 001, Hyper Zetton, right?"

"I can sense... that you are different from those lowly monsters who only know how to kill."

"You have reason, you are the 'King'."

He raised his head, his eyes filled with desperate hope and pleading: "If you don't mind... I'd like to acknowledge you as my boss."

"I'm not afraid of death, nor am I afraid of dirty or tiring work. Whether it's killing or seizing territory, I can do it."

"I just want to follow behind you and fight for a way for Weiwei to survive in this world."