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"despair."

The strange footsteps stopped at the corner.

One...

Perhaps it should be said that a foot peeked out from behind the wall.

Her ankles were so thin they looked like they could snap at any moment, and her insteps were stretched too perfectly...

They almost all bend at a 90-degree angle, perpendicular to the ground.

Like a ballet dancer, she tiptoed.

"despair."

So that's how those footsteps were made.

The leg connected to that foot was also eerily thin, almost as if it had been stretched out using a special effect.

It tiptoed and spun half a circle in place before finally emerging completely from the corner.

"despair."

With another thud, both feet landed, one barefoot, the toes twisted and supporting the weight with the tiny, pitiful tip of the foot, while the other foot wore a black and red ballet shoe.

He could barely be considered a person.

Its limbs were exceptionally long, and it wore a ballet dress in the style of a little swan. Its back was straight and its swan neck was elegant. On its face, which had no facial features, was a piece of... bloodstained dough that had been torn off from somewhere.

As for the attack methods...

Its two arms bend backward at the elbows, resembling folded wings when not extended, and its fingers are extremely long, as long as a half-meter-long blade when closed!

"Holy shit!"

Glasses had just come out carrying a bucket of "corpse-dissolving water" when he was so nearsighted that he didn't even notice that there was a non-human being over there.

I took several steps forward before I realized what was happening, and I was so startled I almost dropped the bucket.

"What the hell is this thing?!"

The words had barely left his mouth!

"Tap, tap, tap, tap!"

It tiptoed and spun gracefully, its arms crossing and spreading from below as it spun, instantly becoming a deadly afterimage as it headed straight for the glasses closest to it!

"Get out of the way!"

In a swift movement, Chi Lian kicked the glasses away at the same time:

"Clang!"

The two knives blocked the ballerina's two gleaming hands.

"That's pretty powerful!"

Chi Lian's tiger's mouth was a little numb. After pushing the ballerina monster away, she retreated to the middle of the crowd and distanced herself from it.

The monster didn't immediately give chase. It just stood there, tilting its head to examine the blood-soaked dough, which had only three oval-shaped holes, looking both adorable and eerie.

Everyone pointed their guns at it.

"Focus fire!"

Sixth Master gave the order.

In an instant, bullets rained down on the eerie ballerina.

But this guy just deftly switched his feet, left and right, and occasionally bent his waist almost backward, without even pausing his arm movements, and the bullets flew past him, hitting the ground or the wall.

That's nothing compared to what's to come.

When everyone's firepower subsided, it suddenly leaped into the air and quickly crisscrossed between the two walls of the corridor, rapidly approaching!

The corridor was not wide, and the formation quickly became chaotic due to its bouncing.

We can't just fire indiscriminately!

Commanding via the team channel:

"Those with weak melee capabilities and poor mobility, retreat to the 'Garden.' Klaus, put the door back on!"

"Boss, I..."

Klaus was about to speak when he was interrupted by Ren Yi's words, "Sean, you should go too," and had no choice but to lead the retreat.

In a short time.

Only Renyi, Ivan, Chilian, Butcher, and Camilla remained in the corridor.

Meanwhile, the strange ballerina, resembling a bat, hung upside down from the ceiling, offering no obstruction whatsoever.

"Why do I feel like... it's playing us?"

Chi Lian was both excited and a little annoyed.

"Give the order, Commander Ren?"

"Ivan, the Butcher, suppress him head-on."

"Alright!"

Two heavy trucks charged toward the monster from the left and right.

The monster's slender legs crossed lightly:

"Clang, clang!"

The toes of their feet touched Ivan's shield and the back of the butcher's knife at the same time, and the enormous force made the two of them pause simultaneously!

"...The target movement...does not conform to conventional biomechanics, and its quality is unknown."

The sharp blade sprang out again from the ribs of the black umbrella, piercing straight into the abdomen of the ballerina monster.

The monster seemed to have no intention of launching a strong attack or engaging in a head-on confrontation. Upon seeing this, it immediately lightly touched the ground with its toes, leaped up, and landed a little further away.

"Why is it so slippery?"

Chi Lian watched for a while; she was least adept at dealing with this kind of enemy.

"What it cares about most is its 'face'."

Arbitrarily and certainly authentic.

Many of its seemingly cumbersome movements are all to prevent the skin on its face, which doesn't belong to it, from falling off.

Upon hearing this, the others thought about it for a moment and realized it was indeed true.

"Then let's give it a try!"

As Chi Lian spoke, she had already moved.

She simply and unadornedly swung her twin swords upwards and downwards.

as predicted.

As the monster crossed its arms in front of its face to block the attack, it also tilted its neck back and did a backbend, as if afraid of being touched even a little bit.

"Clang!"

good chance!

Almost simultaneously, Renyi's figure darted out from behind Chilian and flashed to the side of the monster. [Raven] drew a silver afterimage and stabbed straight below the monster's ribs!

"Pfft!"

The stab was solid, and dark red liquid flowed out along the blood groove.

This is not over yet!

[Snake Shadow] activated, and the short sword instantly extended to two meters, impaling the poor monster on it.

"Ugh!!!"

The mouthless monster's skull resonated, and it abandoned all pretense of elegance, leaping up and kicking at Chi Lian and Ren Yi respectively. Using the recoil from their blocking, it bounced off and fled around the corner.

It turned the corner.

But when everyone chased it around the corner, it was nowhere to be seen, only a trail of blood on the ground.

"That's strange?"

"Oh no..."

He muttered a curse under his breath.

"Let's go back!"

We've only just turned the corner, it shouldn't be too late...

"Click-clack...click-clack..."

In just a few seconds, when they turned around, the corridor they came back to was no longer the same one!

Before me was a more spacious hexagonal hall, with at least four or five similar corridors on each side, much like the hub of this floor.

The monster they were chasing lay dead in the hall, with a large pool of blood beneath it.

"Is it dead?"

Ivan asked warily, holding up the "Thoughts" book.

Sudden.

"Smack."

All the lights went out again, just like they had in that observation room.

"Squeak..."

The sound of door hinges turning came from one of the corridors.

Then came that familiar sound of toes touching the ground!

"despair."

"Tap tap tap..."

"Tap tap tap tap tap..."

They approach from afar, and increase in speed, constantly stimulating people's nerves.

"Everyone, listen to me."

In the darkness, a relatively calm voice rang out.

"Those in the 'garden,' don't move! We...find our own way, spread out, and run!"

Renzi made the first move.

At the same time, Raven was drawn, and without hesitation, it slashed a wound on its left arm, then turned and rushed into a corridor without looking back.