What?! My anime figures have all come true!

"Well--!"

As the hooded man unleashed a beast-like roar, Chen Xiao felt his body, which was being pressed down by his knees, suddenly become heavier, or rather, more solid!

Immediately afterwards, an immense force far exceeding that of ordinary people suddenly erupted from beneath him!

"What?!"

As if lifted up by a hydraulic press, Chen Xiao's suppression instantly failed. Not only could he not hold onto the hooded man's arm, but he was also thrown away by the man.

He fell heavily onto the stone brick ground a few steps away, letting out a muffled groan from the pain.

"I...want...you...to...die!"

The hooded man struggled to his feet from the mud, his body covered in foul-smelling mud and suspicious filth.

"How did this guy suddenly become so strong?"

Chen Xiao rubbed his numb buttocks and slowly stood up.

Upon closer observation of the changes in the hooded man, he quickly realized something was amiss. Although his appearance hadn't changed, the color scheme of his body and the surrounding environment had become drastically different.

It's like when a real person goes into a game; no matter how realistic the game is, the difference between the real person and the game is still immediately obvious.

This is the current state of hooded men.

He and this space are no longer on the same level!

"whispering sound!"

Chen Xiao gritted his teeth and rushed forward again to test how much the other party had changed.

Snapped--!

His outstretched fist was easily caught.

"Forehead……"

Chen Xiao glanced at his fist being clenched, then at the hooded man.

His eyes were bloodshot, burning with a fury that seemed to want to incinerate everything. His gaze no longer seemed to be looking at a person, but at a piece of trash that had to be completely crushed.

Ordinary people who haven't awakened their powers can't be compared to extraordinary individuals who have awakened their superpowers...

Chen Xiao: Sigh! Is it possible to reconcile?

"die!"

Without a word, the hooded man delivered a heavy uppercut to Chen Xiao's abdomen!

"Ugh—!"

Chen Xiao's body instantly arched like a shrimp, his eyes bulged out, his mouth opened wide, and a sharp, intense pain shot from his stomach to his head, almost suffocating him.

He instinctively wanted to vomit, but this was a dream, and his stomach was empty. Only an overwhelming feeling of nausea and a suffocating sensation from spasms churned in his chest.

"Useless! Trash! Maggots!!"

The hooded man cursed furiously, but seeing Chen Xiao's pained expression, a twisted sense of pleasure slightly overshadowed his humiliated rage.

"I didn't want my true form to completely enter the dream, but you damned bug dared to resist! Huh?! And you made me suffer... this kind of humiliation!"

He bent down, his mud-covered hands like iron clamps, and suddenly grabbed Chen Xiao's neck!

"Well--!"

Chen Xiao's throat was tightly locked, and his breathing stopped instantly.

He instinctively tried to pry the other person's fingers open with both hands, but the fingers were as if cast in steel and wouldn't budge.

"Hehehehe... Give up! How could a body imitated by a spiritual consciousness possibly compare to a real human body! Your quality is on a completely different level!"

The hooded man revealed a vicious smile again, but this time it was less mocking and more murderous.

"If you cooperate with my game, I might let you live a little longer in this world, but for now... you'll just have to be crushed by me!"

"Heh...heh..."

As the air in the lungs is completely deprived, the edges of vision begin to darken and shrink.

Chen Xiao's struggles grew weaker and weaker, his consciousness sinking like a stone thrown into the deep sea.

Am I... going to die?

This thought flashed through my consciousness, which was about to be swallowed by darkness.

However, the revolving scroll of memories recalling Chen Xiao's past and present lives did not appear as he had envisioned.

There were no old red-brick houses in my hometown, no hardworking parents, no Lin Qi's complicated gaze, no noisy university dormitory...

Instead, he was bombarded with cold images, like a broken projector forcibly shoved into his mind.

The door to his villa was sealed with a cold tape, and several men in work clothes were roughly moving the furniture inside.

His prized display case of figurines was pried open, and all the exquisite figurines were haphazardly swept into a huge black garbage bag, mixed with discarded model materials.

Dust filled the air, and sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating their empty, lifeless eyes inside the bag.

Although they are the most exquisitely crafted figures, the value of a figure lies not in the figure itself, but in the IP of the work it represents.

However, in this world, no one knows of their existence except themselves, and there are no works related to them.

Value is naturally out of the question.

So once Chen Xiao dies, the proof of their existence in this world will soon disappear, as if they had never come into this world at all.

"No... How can I do something like this..."

Chen Xiao let out a roar as his last remaining consciousness was awakened.

But the vision of the 'future' did not stop because of his impotent rage.

The black garbage bag was transported out of Shanghai and arrived at an unknown place, where it was eventually carelessly dumped in a dimly lit corner of a secondhand warehouse.

As time passed, a thick layer of dust gradually settled on the bag. The once gleaming female figurines inside gradually lost their luster, their colors turned grayish, and fine cracks spread across their exquisite paintwork...

They are silently weathering and decaying.

The once lively and vibrant eyes have been completely frozen into cheap, lifeless plastic objects, even the faintest glimmer of light has disappeared.

I don't know how much time passed after that.

A middle-aged man with a cigarette dangling from his mouth and an impatient expression dragged the heavy garbage bag along, cursing, toward a huge garbage compactor that reeked of a foul stench.

"A bunch of unwanted junk, taking up so much space!"

He gave it a hard flick, and the bag arced through the air before landing precisely in the "abyss" filled with rotting food and sewage.

The bag opened, and the last thing Chen Xiao saw was half of Mahiru's figure's face before it sank into the filthy slime. Those amber eyes, once filled with tenderness and love, were now filled with endless darkness and death.

They will never be able to rise again!

"No--!!!"

A soul-wrenching pain and overwhelming fear were a hundred times, a thousand times more intense than the pain of suffocation!

It exploded in the depths of Chen Xiao's dying spirit!

"I absolutely will not allow this to happen!!!!"

This thought erupted like a volcano, instantly igniting something dormant within Chen Xiao!

Om-!

The next moment, a blinding white light burst out from Chen Xiao's body without warning!

"W-What...what did you do?!"

The hooded man was startled by the sudden bright light and instinctively closed his eyes, his grip on Chen Xiao's neck loosening slightly.

"What the hell is that light?! Holy crap! It's superpower awakening?! You...you're some kind of novel protagonist?! Activating cheat codes before you die?! Don't activate them! Don't activate them! Just die right now!!"

Overwhelmed with shock and rage, the hooded man's murderous intent surged to its peak!

Then, he suddenly opened his eyes, which were watering from the bright light, and his arm muscles bulged as he was about to crush Chen Xiao's throat with all his might!

puff!

A crisp tearing sound rang out.

There was no violent collision, no clanging of metal, just like a red-hot knife cutting through solidified butter.

The hooded man felt a brief, cold numbness in his wrist.

Then, he saw a familiar hand...

It was spinning in mid-air, carrying a cloud of dark red blood mist that was also somewhat illusory under the white light, before flying out of his sight and landing on the muddy ground not far away, its fingers still clenched in a spasm-like position.

The fracture surface is as smooth as a mirror.

Then, a belated, excruciating pain swept through the hooded man's brain like a tsunami!

"Aaaaaaahh ...

A piercing, inhuman scream erupted from the hooded man's torn throat. He staggered backward, his left hand clutching his bleeding, severed right wrist, the madness in his eyes completely replaced by boundless fear and excruciating pain.

"Ugh...cough cough! Cough cough cough..."

Chen Xiao, who had almost lost consciousness, was put down. He coughed violently, clutching his neck, and the light around him disappeared. Fortunately, the stinging sensation from the stone floor after he fell heavily to the ground brought him back to his senses.

"...Are we...saved?"

Chen Xiao struggled to lift his head, while the hooded man opposite him also suppressed his pain, his face contorted as he looked ahead.

The object that had severed the hooded man's hand was now standing between the two men.

It was a long, jet-black sword.

This was clearly not the superpower of the bug he had almost strangled to death. You know, the activation of superpowers is generally related to a person's consciousness. Given that Chen Xiao was almost driven to mental death by his own strangulation, it was impossible for him to activate it!

In other words...

There is a third party in this space besides them!

"Who? Who could it be... How could anyone... Cough cough! How could anyone trespass here! Ugh cough cough... This is my territory!"

The excruciating pain from his severed hand made the hooded man's speech somewhat incoherent.

After all, if it were a spiritual entity, he could withstand it and get through it, just like when Chen Xiao punched him and made him bite off his tongue.

But now he is his original body entering the dream!

Having your hand cut off is a double torment, both mentally and physically!

However, no matter how much the hooded man shouted, no one appeared around him.

Immediately afterwards, the two, who were struggling to breathe, suddenly fell silent, trying to hear the strange sound they were vaguely hearing.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh————！！！！

That was the sound of the wind whipping the trench coat around!

"It's up there!"

The two of them, realizing what was happening, both looked up.

A pale and slender figure plummeted vertically from the sky in a spread-eagle position, the sound as dramatic as an entrance theme music emanating from her long black trench coat.

Immediately, the two felt a gust of wind, carrying a biting chill, descend from the sky, dispersing the pervasive smell of blood.

The girl landed in a classic superhero pose, separating Chen Xiao from the hooded man. The moment she looked up, the azure flames in her eyes bloomed like flowers.

"black Rock Shooter?"