After AFK for five years, I returned to be number one in the entire server.

On the way back, two plainclothes officers at the Monthly Rank who had been secretly protecting Lin Ye appeared and took him to Xu Ang's dormitory, where everyone was gathered together for safety.

The students in the boys' dormitory have been evacuated. In the cramped room, besides Qin Wei, Pei Xiao, and Lin Ye, there are six other monthly-level members of the Tian Shu Combat Department.

Qin Wei was at a desk, talking to the branch office.

A member of the operations team squatted in front of Xu Ang's corpse, muttering to himself, "We have too little information about the Bone-Eating ability. We know nothing about its type, triggering conditions, or how it works."

"Deducing from the results, bypassing magnetic field detection, and even avoiding surveillance and the naked eye, the other party's ability is quite bizarre," said another member named Lu Ming.

Zhou Ping's voice came through everyone's earpieces: "The risk of being picked off one by one if we split up is too high, which is why we've brought you all together."

Before the words were even finished, a member of the operations team standing by the door suddenly fell forward without warning.

All eyes turned to him at the same time. Lu Ming was the first to move, squatting down and turning his body over, pressing his fingers against the side of his neck.

A few seconds later, he spoke: "No pulse."

The atmosphere in the room changed instantly. Someone called out "Fang Rong," but there was no response. The member who had fallen to the ground had his eyes half-open and his pupils dilated.

"All personnel on alert!"

With Pei Xiao added, all six Moon-level members simultaneously activated their magnetic fields, covering the entire dormitory with multiple magnetic fields.

Song Lin activated his ability "Gray Tide," and a thin layer of gray mist filled the air. Any enemy who came into contact with this mist would be rapidly eroded and weakened.

The others also used their abilities to deal with the hidden threat.

They surrounded Qin Wei, who was unable to fight, and warily looked around.

"Command center, Fang Rong is dead, right in front of us," Lu Ming reported gravely.

"Leave that room," Zhou Ping quickly gave the instruction.

boom!

The dormitory door slammed shut, and the members of the operations team froze, hesitant to approach.

"Go through the balcony!" a member shouted.

This is the fourth floor, which isn't high for a monthly-level player. Even if you take an ordinary person down, it won't be difficult.

The room was only a few meters from the balcony. They had only taken a step or two when they heard a muffled thud behind them.

Another person has fallen.

"Song Lin!"

As the gray tide dissipated, Song Lin lay on the ground, in the same condition as Fang Rong, without any signs of struggle or resistance.

Fear spread through the crowd; they didn't know where the enemy was or what methods they had used.

"Run!" Lu Ming roared.

The group continued moving toward the balcony. Han Zheng walked in the middle, spreading his five fingers, and an invisible sound wave emanated from his palm, covering the entire dormitory.

The "echo wall," combined with his biomagnetic field, enables highly precise detection.

The vibration of every speck of dust in the air was captured, and the outlines of Fang Rong and Song Lin's bodies, now fallen, were clearly imprinted in his mind.

His lips trembled: "There is no tenth person in the room."

His body suddenly froze, as if someone had pressed the pause button, and he collapsed.

At that moment, one of the members' rationality completely crumbled. He stretched out his palms to the sides, and scorching chains of fire shot out from his palms, exploding in a crimson light in the dim room, causing the temperature to soar instantly.

The fire chains shot aimlessly in all directions, embedding themselves in walls, burning through concrete, and sending fragments flying.

With his swing, the iron pipes of the bed frame were cut in two, and the wardrobe, desk, and computer were all destroyed.

The fire chains were still flailing wildly in mid-air when his right leg suddenly lost its strength, and his body tilted to one side, never to rise again.

In the few seconds of the retreat, one person after another fell down, and now only Qin Wei, Pei Xiao and Lin Ye are still standing.

The combat team members lay scattered on the ground, some not even intact, their bodies mutilated by their comrades, pieces scattered here and there.

Pei Xiao looked inside the room; he knew the other person was still there, and he clenched his fists tightly.

Collapse.

He raised his right hand, and the magnetic field exploded outward from him.

The entire dormitory room began to crumble.

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the wall surface, spreading rapidly in all directions from one point. Where the cracks passed, the concrete began to crumble and large sections of it fell off.

The cracks in the ceiling widened inch by inch, and pieces fell down, hitting the already unrecognizable floor.

The window glass developed radial cracks from the inside, so dense that the original color of the glass was no longer visible, and the entire piece shattered into powder that scattered downwards.

Within the area covered by the collapse, no intact matter exists; every inch of space and everything is disintegrating.

If there are other people in the room, he cannot remain unaffected.

Qin Wei fell to the ground and leaned against the French windows, looking at everything around her and at the crumbling room.

She knew it was useless; there was still no indication that anyone in the room had been destroyed. The opponent's abilities were too mysterious for them to handle.

Qin Wei looked up at Lin Ye standing on the balcony; he could escape this place with just one jump.

"Go now, hurry to the branch office, that's the only place that can protect you now."

Lin didn't move, because he saw a figure walking towards him. The person reached out, fingers spread, and grabbed at his head.

Lin also grasped that hand.

The other person's expression changed slightly, showing some surprise: "You can see me?"

The smile on his lips slowly froze, because not only his wrists, but also his arms, torso, and legs were all locked up, making it impossible for him to move freely.

He narrowed his eyes: "Who are you?"

Instead of an answer, he was subjected to a twisting and deforming of himself, being squeezed by a tremendous force.

Strangely, even though his body was twisted like a pretzel, he showed no signs of dying.

"We will meet again."

The next second, the bone-corroding substance completely turned into dust and dissipated into the air.

Four kilometers away, in Jinlan District.

In a room, a young man in his early twenties opened his eyes. His face was very pale, but a sickly smile appeared on his lips.

Shi Gu stretched, his ability being a mental clone that could ignore physical attacks and most detection methods.

Ordinary biomagnetic fields had no effect on him; he didn't know what kind of ability the other party had to detect him.

"interesting."

"We've gained a lot from this trip; it's time to go back and report on our mission."

Just as he was about to leave, he stopped because he sensed that there were other people in the room.

He turned around and saw a man who looked about eighteen or nineteen years old standing there, wearing an ordinary coat.

It is Lin Ye.

The sinister smile vanished, and his spiritual clone dissipated four kilometers away. No one should know the location of his true body.

"I'm curious, how did you find me? And since you could find me, why are you only making your move now?"