A bizarre resurrection: I, Yang Jian, am bound by a contract with the school beauty!

The scene was immediately copied.

On the ghastly green screen, everyone's eyes were focused on those two pairs of feet.

"Steps..."

The young analyst uttered two words.

"Steps?"

The commander-in-chief beside him frowned. "What's wrong with the steps?"

"Location! It's where they're standing!"

The analyst's voice rose sharply with excitement, "Look!"

"The person who was attacked had his feet on the third step down from the platform they were on!"

"And everyone behind him."

"Everyone's still stuck on the first and second steps; no one's stepped onto the third!"

This statement came out.

The entire command center fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone stood frozen in place, as if struck by lightning!

Yup!

Why do they only look for the reasons in the old man?

But they overlooked their environment!

That old man is the guardian!

His duty is to protect!

Therefore, his attacks must not be indiscriminate, but have specific triggering conditions!

And this step.

It's that invisible... death line!

"Quickly! Transmit this information to them immediately using our prompts!"

The white-haired old man suddenly realized what was happening and roared with all his might.

"Tell them! Don't step down that step! The old man's attack range is just that line!"

"As long as they don't cross that line, they'll be safe!"

……

On the spiral staircase deep within the mysterious lake.

The man with the missing arm.

He was enduring unimaginable pain, struggling to get up from the ground.

at this time,

The player next to him suddenly trembled.

The air in front of him suddenly vibrated, and a faint, almost imperceptible mental fluctuation was transmitted directly into his mind.

This is intelligence coming from the real world!

Upon receiving the intelligence, a look of astonishment flashed across the player's face.

Then it turned into surprise and lingering fear!

Steps!

It turned out to be steps!

"They're steps!"

"You were standing too close to the front, that's why he attacked you!"

I've heard that...

The man ignored the excruciating pain in his body.

They retreated backwards.

They retreated back to that invisible "death line".

as predicted!

After he retreated.

That terrifying feeling, like a thorn in my back, as if I could be completely wiped out at any moment, vanished without a trace in an instant.

Not far ahead.

The hunched old man remained standing quietly, like a statue.

It was as if that attack had nothing to do with him.

in the dark.

The survivors could not see each other's expressions.

But they could all sense the relief of surviving a disaster from the heavy breathing around them.

I now know the rules of the sure-kill move.

they,

So they survived for the time being.

……

at the same time.

At the deepest part of the eerie lake, beside that black coffin.

Dramatic changes in the external environment.

This also triggered a chain reaction.

That awakening will originating from the depths of the black coffin, which Yang Jian had just forcibly suppressed.

Under the impact of that external force of "erasure," it was as if injected with a stimulant, and suddenly broke free from its restraints!

Om-!

The black coffin trembled.

An even colder and more terrifying aura than before seeped out from the cracks in the coffin!

"Yang Jian, what's going on?!"

Qin Taotao's face turned deathly pale.

She could clearly sense that Yang Jian's supernatural suppression was being forcibly dismantled by an even more tyrannical force!

"Suppression... failed."

Yang Jian's expression was more solemn than ever before.

He slowly withdrew his ghostly hand and the wood-chopping knife, his cold, ghostly eyes piercing through the endless darkness and murky lake water.

I looked up at the spiral staircase.

"An external force has intervened."

His voice was deep and hoarse.

"A very high-level 'erasure' type of supernatural phenomenon forcibly erased the supernatural suppression I had imposed on the entire lake."

He used a word,

"wipe".

This made Qin Taotao's heart sink.

The fact that Yang Jian would use this word speaks volumes about the strangeness and domineering nature of that power.

"Could it be...him?"

In Yang Jian's mind.

The image of the male corpse, wielding a machete, that he and the ghosts from the opera troupe had dismembered in the eerie hotel, reappeared.

That male corpse was the guardian.

So.

In this eerie lake.

It is not impossible that there exists another guardian, perhaps even older and more powerful.

……

Above the spiral staircase.

After confirming the old man's attack rules.

Although everyone is safe for the time being,

But they found themselves in an even deeper predicament.

The old man was like an insurmountable barrier, firmly blocking their only path to the bottom of the lake.

Going down means death.

But if they don't go down, where can they go?

Should we return it to the lake?

Leaving aside whether they have the strength to return the way they came, even if they did, what good would it do?

The whole world.

Everyone is waiting for the outcome at the bottom of the lake.

"Um... how did Mr. Yang Jian and Miss Qin Taotao get down there?"

in the dark,

Someone raised a crucial question.

Yes!

If this old man attacks anyone who tries to go down the steps, how did Yang Jian and Qin Taotao manage to get through here unharmed?

Does this rule not apply to them?

Or……

When they passed through here, the terrifying guardian was not here at all?

No one can answer this.

But this problem.

But it rekindled a faint hope in everyone's hearts.

They can't do it.

That doesn't mean Yang Jian is incapable.

Now they,

They have completely lost the ability to influence the situation.

With no way forward and no way back, all they could do was wait.

All hope.

All hopes are pinned on that Kyushu man who has already penetrated to the very heart of the storm!

……

The bottom of the mysterious lake.

Yang Jian stood quietly, his pupil-less ghost eyes scanning the surrounding environment.

The guardian above.

They blocked all escape routes and reinforcements.

The black coffin before us is rapidly reviving.

That terrifying aura that froze the soul had become so intense that it was almost tangible.

And Qin Taotao beside her,

Although she has been promoted to Rank A, her role in this level of confrontation is negligible.

even,

It will become a burden.