I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

Without exchanging a word, they quickly surveyed their surroundings and headed straight for the man on the operating table.

"stop."

Lu Yuan stood in front of the operating table, his eyes cold. "This is the Night Watch's territory."

Lu Yuan didn't know who the visitor was, but he decisively invoked the name of the Night Watch.

The gray-clad leader stopped, his eyes behind his goggles showing no emotion.

He slowly raised the exaggeratedly designed steam-powered pistol, its dark muzzle pointing directly at Lu Yuan's forehead.

"Get out of the way."

The voice, filtered through the gas mask, became muffled: "Obstruct the Ascension Society's asset recovery, die."

There was no room for negotiation; the gloved finger had already begun to pull the trigger.

At this distance, no one can dodge a bullet.

Click.

Lu Yuan remained expressionless, his thumb rapidly moving the pointer of the 'Timekeeping' indicator.

[Ability 1: Reverse Movement & Acceleration (Activated)]

[Rationality deducted... -1... -1...]

Reason began to run out, and the hands on the pocket watch started to tick.

The colors in Lu Yuan's field of vision began to fade, and the world was gradually replaced by gray and white.

Raindrops outside the room hung suspended in mid-air.

The flames spitting from the gun resembled an orange flower that was slowly blooming.

The spinning brass bullet was clearly visible to Lu Yuan; he could even see the flame reflected off the bullet.

"Too slow."

Lu Yuan looked at the world slowing down before him, took a step to the left, and dodged the incoming bullet.

At the same time, he caught a glimpse of something unusual outside the window out of the corner of his eye.

Several dark shadows pierced through the rain and shot into the house—those were alchemical crossbow bolts.

The arrowheads gleamed with demon-dispelling runes as they hurtled toward the throats of the gray-clad men.

That was support from the surrounding sentries.

"Can I kill him? No..."

During this time, which was slowed down several times, Lu Yuan keenly noticed a detail.

Those men in gray didn't react in time.

But the muscles beneath their coats were bulging abnormally, and a few faint sparks even appeared at their joints.

Their bodies actually took measures to cope with this "certain death" situation.

'Click'

To conserve his wits, Lu Yuan decisively closed the watch cover the instant he dodged the bullet.

boom!

The bullet, originally aimed at his forehead, shattered the medicine cabinet behind him, sending shards of glass flying everywhere.

The crossbow bolts that came through the broken window also struck the gray-clad man hard.

when!when!when!

There was no dull thud of metal piercing flesh, but rather a crisp, metallic clang.

The alchemical crossbow bolt, powerful enough to pierce rock, was deflected.

The powerful impact only tore their coats, revealing their metallic skin underneath.

"Weapons are prohibited in the Night Watch area!"

The two sentries were shocked by the enemy's defenses.

But he still broke through the window immediately, and after a warning, his longsword, gleaming coldly, slashed at the enemy's weak joints.

"Full-body armor? They're all cyborgs?!"

Lu Yuan frowned, but he didn't panic at all.

He immediately rolled over and hid behind the solid wood counter, raised his hand and fired two shots. The enchanted revolver burst out with explosive flames and accurately hit the leader's eye patch.

boom!boom!

The blindfold shattered, and the leader's head was thrown backward by the impact.

But the next moment he shook his head and looked casually at where Lu Yuan was.

"Damn, are all these people tanks?"

Looking at the group of guys who were stubbornly enduring bullets, Lu Yuan couldn't help but complain in his heart.

But then I glanced at the sanity bar in the lower right corner of my vision.

[Sanity: 68/73 (Total)] (Note that +III sanity represents experience, while the value without a level represents the total value, the maximum experience, which equals the maximum usable sanity.)

That last wave only consumed 5 points.

I'm still relatively well-off, but a revolver won't be enough to deal with this bunch of canned goods.

Defense is less effective than acceleration, and offense is too expensive to use.

We can only postpone it for now.

However, the battle inside the clinic gave Lu Yuan no time to react, and the situation quickly turned one-sided.

Although the two sentries were agile, they were unable to maneuver effectively in the cramped clinic, facing a group of cyborgs who looked like cans.

"what!"

A sentry let out a muffled groan as a tactical dagger slashed open his abdomen, splattering blood everywhere.

With one teammate gone, another Night Watchman was also punched and sent flying, crashing heavily into the wall.

He tried several times but was unable to stand up.

The gray-clad leader had a cold look in his eyes, as if he were shooing away flies.

He then reloaded a red high-explosive round and locked the gun muzzle on Lu Yuan behind the counter once again.

"Get out here right now, or die!"

The leader issued a final warning.

Lu Yuan then pressed the 'Timekeeping' button again, ready to flee at any moment.

Just then.

A series of slow footsteps suddenly sounded at the door.

The voice wasn't loud, but it carried a suffocating sense of oppression, causing the gray-clad man, who was about to pull the trigger, to freeze for a moment.

"I think I did say that firing indiscriminately is prohibited in this neighborhood."

Accompanied by that hoarse, aged voice, a somewhat hunched figure blocked the wind and rain from the doorway.

Old Morgan walked in, wearing a somewhat worn black trench coat, with a half-smoked cigarette dangling from his mouth and a gloomy face.

He didn't even glance at the dark gun barrels, but looked at the sentry lying on the ground and Lu Yuan hiding behind the counter.

A flash of anger crossed his cloudy eyes.

"Put down the junk you're holding."

Old Morgan spat out the cigarette from his mouth, his voice deep and thunderous.

"Otherwise... I'll spare your life."

The gray-clad leader clearly recognized the face, a hint of apprehension flashing in his eyes behind his goggles.

But more than anything, it's a kind of arrogant arrogance born of a sense of impunity.

"Captain Morgan."

The man in gray said coldly, "This is an internal matter of the Empire's 'Ascension Society'."

"We are recovering the escaped assets, and under the Imperial Special Act, the Night's Watch has no right to interfere."

He pointed to the man on the operating table, then to Lu Yuan.

"We're taking the people with us. And this meddlesome doctor, we need to take him back for questioning too; he saw something he shouldn't have."

Old Morgan glanced at the unconscious man on the operating table, then at Lu Yuan who was unharmed, and snapped his fingers.

"You can take the assets with you."

His tone left no room for argument, "But the doctor is a man of the Night Watch."

"So there's no room for negotiation?"

The man in gray suddenly raised his gun, pointing it directly at old Morgan. "Old man, the Empire isn't what it was twenty years ago. The Ascension Society is doing things its job, and you dare to stop them? We only call you captain because you've lived a long time!"

Old Morgan laughed.

"Just because I'm old doesn't mean any Tom, Dick, or Harry will dare to take advantage of me!"

The moment the words fell.

On Morgan's exposed neck and the back of his hands, the originally withered skin suddenly shone with a dark silver sheen!

A terrifying, invisible pressure instantly swept over the entire clinic.