Sir! Don't close the net!

"You're a member of the wasteland's enforcement agency, [Plague], right?"

As the distance between them shortened, the plague doctor's figure in Li Yili's eyes was no longer illusory and mysterious.

After comparing them briefly in her mind, Li Yili noticed that the plague doctor in front of her was much slimmer than the plague doctor whose crotch she had ripped apart before, and his black leather robe also had a belt around his waist.

"Although I don't think the executive department that would be placed in the Triassic Circle would know everything."

Li Yili's right foot landed heavily between the Plague Doctor's feet. The tattered raincoat she wore fluttered in the thick smog. The hazy light, affected by the smog, fell down, and the long, distorted shadow of the Plague Doctor, whose face had turned more than ninety degrees, enveloped him.

"But could you talk to me for a bit?"

Li Yili smiled, raised his hand and clenched it, and a blood-soaked cane was already inserted between his fingers and firmly locked in place.

"You like talking like this? I like it too, but before that..."

Li Yili stretched out her left hand and suddenly grabbed the beak of the Plague Doctor's Raven Mask, throwing it violently. With a sickening tearing sound, a slender figure, accompanied by a gust of wind, ripped through the thick fog and crashed heavily into the metal structure on the side of the church. The fog billowed, and huge metal rods fell down.

Won?

Carly was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened. She was about to cheer when the woman's voice rang out, freezing the look of surprise on Carly's face.

"He's quite a rough man, but I doubt anyone would send someone as impulsive as you on a mission."

Carly stiffly turned her head toward Li Yili.

The woman's voice came from Li Yili, or more precisely, from the "head" in Li Yili's hand.

The metal pole landed without making a sound, and the slender figure draped in a black leather robe swayed as she stood up.

She... has no head.

"I thought it was just a mask—"

Li Yili glanced at the headless body swaying towards him, then picked up the crow's head, whose neck was still dripping blood.

Its long, slender beak opened and closed slowly in four lobes. Hidden within its pink, almost dreamlike mouthparts were countless sharp teeth. If anything were inserted into it, it would likely be mangled and bloody within seconds.

"What a disgusting face! Are you trying to tempt me to stick my finger in there?" Li Yili tightened her grip, preparing to crush the disgusting crow-head in front of her.

"If you hand over that brat, I'll let you and the other two women go. As long as you don't break the wasteland's laws, you'll probably never see me again in your life."

Her head was already visibly deformed, but the woman's voice remained calm and composed.

"I refuse! I can do whatever I want!"

"Is that so? I never intended to let you stowaways go from the very beginning."

"boom--"

Fragments of bone and flesh splattered on Li Yili's face, and in her slightly widened eyes, she saw her arm, which looked as if it had been run over by a road roller.

The joints of his fingers were completely shattered and bent in different directions, wobbling as if they would fall off at any moment; the bones in his forearm were broken, tearing through the muscles and piercing the skin.

The crow's head slipped off, but was caught steadily by a pair of hands.

The headless body wobbled as it roughly lifted the crow's head and shoved it onto its neck. Accompanied by surging pink flesh and a series of chilling writhing sounds, the crow's head turned left and right.

Li Yili narrowed her eyes slightly. Black, viscous liquid seeped from her yellow raincoat and spread along her crushed arm. The shredded flesh and blood regained their vitality in the liquid, wriggling and squeezing the broken bones back in. Her fingers, which had been crooked due to broken joints, snapped back into place with a crack.

The sensation in my fingers returned as my arm healed.

"She even used anesthesia. As a nanny, I give her a hundred points."

Li Yili shook her repaired arm, arched her body slightly, and suddenly leaped backward, retreating from the smog.

"What a pity? I was just about to blow your head off," the Plague Doctor tilted his head, "but you didn't even flinch at that level of injury. A normal person should have gone into shock from the pain by now. Are you a monster?"

"You actually backed out? Oh, oh, oh—I knew I had to take over—" Rebecca, whose limbs had already turned into werewolves, swung her arms up and down, stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, eager to try. "Don't worry, this time I won't give her a chance to use the lamp."

You'd better—

Before Li Yili could finish speaking, she felt a gust of wind rise from one side, and Rebecca, draped in a long robe, swept past the Plague Doctor. The Plague Doctor's right hand, which had been holding a lantern, fell silently to the ground.

"How about that—now you can't cheat!" Rebecca turned around and waved her arm triumphantly.

Li Yili frowned slightly, while Carly, who was hiding far away, was taken aback and subconsciously rubbed her ears.

Rebecca seemed to be saying something very loudly, but it was as if she was performing a pantomime, making no sound at all.

"You're finished now!"

Rebecca laughed as she lunged at the Plague Doctor, who had his back to her, her sharp claws falling through the thick fog without even causing a ripple.

But before Rebecca's claws landed on the Plague Doctor's neck, Rebecca's arm, like Li Yili's arm, was torn apart, flesh and blood splattering everywhere, and pale bone spurs were brutally torn through the skin and rose from the wolf fur.

"Ugh—"

Rebecca, who had never been so badly injured, let out a wail and fell to the ground with a thud, rolling out of the smog. Before the werewolf could speak, her beautiful face was completely contorted with pain, tears and saliva mixed together.

He did not go into shock due to pain, but he appeared to have lost the ability to move.

"Incredible, this guy may not be very bright, but he's actually quite physically strong."

Li Yili glanced at Rebecca, who was still convulsing on the ground.

The Plague Doctor hadn't made any move, yet without warning, his and Rebecca's arms were crushed. Most importantly, it was just physical damage, not caused by any mysterious force.

The only certainty is that the attack was predicated on being shrouded in smog.

The smog was silently encroaching on the church, and the plague doctor simply stood in the smog, as if waiting for the entire church to be consumed by it.

Chapter Twelve: The heroes of justice will not turn a blind eye to such atrocities.

"This is a bit troublesome."

"I haven't even figured out how you launched the attack yet. Your dog broke its paw and lost its ability to move. That's fine, but the key point is that this self-destructive operation didn't bring me any new intelligence."

Li Yili raised her hand and patted her forehead, quite frankly stating her current predicament.

The Plague Doctor bent down and picked up the arm from the ground, reattaching it just as he had reattached his head.

"Want to surrender? Although I will not accept the surrender of stowaways like you, you will all die here, including you, you wandering lady in the wasteland night. No matter where you escape to, you will die this night."

"No one can set foot in the wasteland at night."

Carly's expression froze as her hand was already raised. The undisguised killing intent shattered her illusion of begging for mercy and being spared.

Even Ralph and his men were killed, so it was impossible for her, an insignificant vagrant, to be spared.

Carly couldn't help but breathe heavily, her pupils dilating and contracting repeatedly. Memories of hiding in the sewers and trembling with fear overlapped with Rebecca's wails.

Ultimately, Rebecca's piercing screams and the absurdity unfolding before her eyes snapped Carly's nerves of reason.

Carly clutched her head and screamed in despair toward the Plague Doctor.

"Why?! Why can't we be out at night?! It wasn't like this before! No, no, no—even before that, we agreed the wasteland was a land of freedom! After all—you're out in the wasteland at night too!"

"what?"

The plague doctor tilted his head, and his man-made round goggles curved like a biological organ, with red dots flowing around the edges.

"Because we made this rule!"

"What we say goes."

"They're just a bunch of homeless people piled up like garbage, yet they think they can be compared to us."

"The length of the chain we put around your necks."

"It's the freedom you're allowed to have, understand?"

Carly plopped down on the ground, while Aditi bit her lip and stared silently at the Plague Doctor, her brown eyes devoid of any light.

Li Yili swung her arms up and down, then looked at the Plague Doctor who seemed to be enjoying Carly's despair. "What a terrible hobby. Making rules at will, breaking them at will. What do you think you are? The rulers of this world?"

"Can't I?"

Before the Plague Doctor could finish speaking, Li Yili had already crashed into the smog and appeared in front of him, her knee slamming into the Plague Doctor's groin.

"Yes, but heroes of justice will not turn a blind eye to such atrocities!"

"A righteous hero would not use a knee strike on a woman's crotch."

The plague doctor gripped his cane.

Li Yili's eyes flickered. The plague doctor was holding a lantern in his other hand. He was already close. Whether she used the lantern or her cane to defend herself, she could not block his knee strike.

If you use a cane to block, break the cane with your knee, then continue to charge at full speed into the Plague Doctor's groin. If you use a lantern to block, smash the lantern into the Plague Doctor's groin as well!

But the Plague Doctor didn't use his cane to block it. Instead, like a gentleman announcing his arrival, he tapped his cane on the ground. There was still no sound, but Li Yili could clearly feel that her knee was shattered.

However, it only felt like his knee was broken, without any pain. He even wanted to complain that it felt like a wafer biscuit hidden in his pocket had crumbled.

Because she felt no pain, Li Yili's movements weren't interrupted like Rebecca's. Her knee slammed hard into the Plague Doctor's groin, showing no mercy.

The attack sent the Plague Doctor's feet flying off the ground, his waist and hips arching backward, his slender body almost folding in half.

Li Yili stared coldly at the plague doctor's goggles-like eyes in front of her. The red light in the goggles had almost disappeared, as if the thing inside had already left.

"You know I won't stop."

"I know you won't stop."

The shadows silently enveloped Li Yili and the plague doctor, and the huge metal pipes silently pierced through the smog.

"Dying under a pipe with a beautiful lady would be a very romantic thing."

The light in the Plague Doctor's goggles-like eyes vanished completely, and his raven-shaped head slumped heavily onto Li Yili's shoulder. The pipes all collapsed, the exquisite floorboards silently cracked, and rubble mixed with a bit of haze fell at Carly's feet.

Carly opened her mouth, but the corners of her lips unconsciously turned up.

"Dead...both of them...dead..."

Whether it's the Plague Doctor or Li Yili, just knowing of their existence makes it impossible for her to live a normal life. The terror and abnormality she feels lead her to the conclusion that she hopes Li Yili and the Plague Doctor will disappear from this world together.

But before she could fully feel safe, another figure appeared in the center of the church doors.

The same raven mask, the same cane, the same lantern, only taller, and the leather robe was stretched taut by very prominent muscles.

"What a terrifying man. He didn't show any fear until the very end. Is it because even such an attack couldn't kill you? But judging from your regeneration speed just now, you're just a god-given person with strong recovery ability."

The plague doctor stood in front of the jumbled steel pipes, picked up a tattered piece of raincoat with his cane, threw it aside with a cold laugh, glanced at the slender body lying motionless beside the jumbled steel pipes, and then his gaze fell on the yellow figure whose body was jumbled and divided by the steel pipes.

"Did you know that those favored by the gods all have a fatal weakness, which is their head, or more precisely, their brain? If there is a problem with their brain that affects their mental thinking, then no matter how strong they are, it will be useless."

The plague doctor raised his cane and pointed it at Li Yili's head.

"You're not the first person to disregard our rules, nor are you the first to pay the price. Although I will eventually take action against you, I don't dislike your instinctive action of pushing the lady away from danger. This isn't meant to be sarcastic."