Sir! Don't close the net!

"Then, again—oh oh—"

The plague doctor recoiled as if struck by lightning, his arms trembled violently, his entire body convulsed, and his cane slipped from his hand and crashed to the ground with a thud.

"What... happened..."

The plague doctor turned around with difficulty, only to find a body that had fallen like a corpse beside a jumble of steel pipes, out of control, standing behind him and delivering a vicious knee strike to his groin.

Chapter Thirteen: This is how humans fight!

Accompanied by eerie sounds of flesh tearing apart, a slender figure, pierced by a jumble of metal pipes, rose into the air amidst the billowing smog. Countless terrifying holes nearly tore the figure apart, but in the next moment, something rose up and repaired those holes.

"Ughhhhhh—"

The plague doctor, clutching his crotch, struggled to raise his head, and through his goggles-like eyes, he saw a figure in a tattered yellow raincoat.

“Your true form doesn’t seem to be here,” Li Yili said, raising her hand to her neck and twisting it from side to side. “Although I don’t know if it’s a link or possession, you can control these disgusting crow doctors in this damn industrial smog.”

"You—cough—"

Before the Plague Doctor could finish speaking, a foot was already raised and struck his groin again.

"You bastard... You were like nothing happened even after your head was ripped off and your arm was torn off. I thought you couldn't feel pain. But you were kicked in the crotch and you're no different from a normal person. Let me think... Ah~ right, you can probably actively block out pain, but only if you consciously block it out."

Li Yili tilted her head to the side, and the foot that was kicking the plague doctor in the crotch pulled back before striking again.

"Hmph ahhhhh—"

The plague doctor was struck as if by lightning; his tall, strong body trembled violently.

"Moreover, if you want to withdraw your consciousness, it seems that you need to concentrate on the process of withdrawing. Of course, it is also possible that you are a pervert who likes to be treated like this."

"You piece of trash—ugh—"

The venomous insults were instantly drowned out by a shrill scream. The unimaginable pain that felt like his scalp was exploding destroyed his normal thinking. Not only could he not cut off the senses in his crotch area, but his brain was almost blank due to the pain. All his remaining attention was dragged to his crotch area by the abnormal pain.

"It doesn't seem like that~ I don't know how it caused pure physical destruction, I don't know how many indestructible bodies, lanterns that have no effect on the abilities of the chosen ones, you really are like an incurable plague."

"However, no matter how unsolvable the ability is, as long as it is manipulated by people and has a clear goal, it will have a flaw that cannot be remedied no matter what. Unfortunately, you will be in so much pain today that you will go into shock. Of course, before you go into shock, please spill everything you know."

"Shut up—you Chosen Ones are nothing but a bunch of inferior products!"

Plague Doctor's fingers dug into the ground

It suddenly raised its head, its slender beak opened, revealing its disgusting mouthparts, with sharp, tiny teeth opening and closing repeatedly.

"I am human! A being far superior to you! Don't use your inferior thinking to judge the noble fighting style of humans!"

"Humanity's noble way of fighting?" Li Yili tilted her head.

As omnipresent as order, with attack methods of unknown origin, an immortal agent, an arrogant attitude, a tone as if everything is under control, and...

After their defenses were breached, they displayed a series of ugly behaviors.

That was clearly a good opportunity to withdraw my consciousness, but I chose to yell and shout instead.

"It's actually a human fighting style... Ha—"

Li Yili, with her hands behind her back, slowly walked around behind the plague doctor and suddenly kicked him in the crotch.

"This is how humans fight!"

"Wow—"

"Aim only at vital points when fighting!"

"Cough—"

"Will you talk or not! You bastard, will you talk or not!"

At first came humiliation, then confusion, and then despair. Despite the face being like an artificially made mask, Carly saw a series of changes in expression.

After being kicked for a full twenty minutes, the Plague Doctor lay motionless on the ground like a dead frog, with white foam constantly flowing from his four-part beak.

"Damn it—this guy is so stubborn. He's the first person who's gone to this point and still won't say a word!"

Li Yili kicked the Plague Doctor hard in the groin with a shooting motion. The force was so great that the Plague Doctor's tall body was lifted into the air, spinning and flying out, accompanied by surging haze, and crashed heavily into the metal structure at the top of the church.

Carly opened her mouth.

The Plague is the executive department in charge of the Triple Circle, so they're probably very stubborn. But it seems that Li Yili didn't ask the Plague Doctor a single question from beginning to end; she just kept shouting, "Are you going to talk or not?" and "Aren't you going to talk?"

Even if the plague doctor couldn't endure Li Yili's torture, he didn't know what to say.

Despite her complaints, Carly did feel relieved because she still couldn't understand how the Plague Doctor launched his attack. She only saw that the Plague Doctor didn't make any move, yet Rebecca and Li Yili's arms shattered in a horrific way, and Rebecca's screams constantly reminded her that it wasn't an illusion but the real thing.

If such an injury were to be inflicted on her, she would probably actually go into shock from the pain.

This plague doctor has already been kicked in the crotch and his pants are ripped open. No matter how he launched the attack, he is no longer able to launch an attack.

Carly glanced at Li Yili, who was still standing there, and carefully moved towards Rebecca, who was lying motionless on the ground. "Um, you didn't..."

Before Carly could finish speaking, Rebecca suddenly sat up, the grotesque pain and ferocious fangs startling Carly into a daze.

werewolf...man?

Carly swallowed hard. When Rebecca's wolf-like ears perked up on her head, she was only surprised because Rebecca's general appearance was still human. The unusual sight of her wolf ears even made Carly feel that it was cute and she wanted to touch it.

But what appeared before her now was a wolf that walked upright like a human.

What she found even more unbelievable was that her arm, which had been so badly shattered that it could only be cut off, had actually recovered to its original, intact state.

"Damn it—they actually launched a sneak attack!"

Rebecca looked around, her gaze settling on the slightly slender plague doctor standing behind Li Yili, and she roared as she charged forward.

Li Yili rolled her eyes, "Bang—"

Rebecca, who had previously seemed to have lost her mind and was determined to carry out the killing to the end, suddenly rolled to the side like a frightened bird. She patted her body with her paws for a while before looking at Li Yili with some resentment.

“This body is now under my control,” Li Yili raised her finger and bent it towards Rebecca, “but I’m not sure if it can regenerate like before under my control.”

"Tch—you should have said so earlier," Rebecca scoffed, sitting down on the spot, her tail swishing wildly behind her. "So, is this considered over?"

"That's right, it's been resolved, although I'd like to say that..."

Li Yili stretched out her hand, looking at the smog flowing between her fingers, her eyes slightly narrowed.

"But it's not over yet."

And most importantly, the plague doctor he just exposed revealed some rather ominous information.

Those favored by the gods far surpass humans in terms of their level of existence, as that plague doctor just said.

【I am human! A being far superior to you!】

This "human" likely refers to humans in the true sense of the word.

Chapter Fourteen: Am I begging you? Hurry up!

Li Yili paced back and forth in front of the plague doctor he controlled, arms crossed, sometimes looking up and chanting, sometimes shaking his head and sighing. Finally, he stopped with a snap in front of the plague doctor he controlled, leaned forward slightly, paused for a while, and then reached out and lifted the plague doctor's leather robe, pulling the black leather pants under the robe up to the black Martin boots with a snap.

The hazy smog gave her long, slender, snow-white legs an ethereal, otherworldly quality, while the raven-mask-shaped head above added to this ethereal effect.

The atmosphere became even more eerie, and even Carly swallowed hard in the strange ambiance.

If you had taken a couple of puffs in the past, you would most likely have fallen into an abyss in every sense of the word.

"Oh~"

Li Yili raised her head meaningfully, pulled her leather pants back up, and turned to face Carly. "Carly, right?"

Upon hearing Li Yili call her name, Carly immediately stood up in a panic and nodded vigorously in Li Yili's direction.

"Where is the factory for the Triassic Ring? Never mind, just lead the way."

"Hey? Are we going out? Isn't it safe now?!"

Upon hearing that she was to leave the church for the factory in the Triple Circle, Carly's expression immediately changed. She crossed her arms and shook her head vigorously, her face full of resistance, and finally even pleaded in a low voice.

"How about we stay inside the church and I lead the way when it gets light?"

"If you feel safe, then what are you afraid of?"

"If you feel unsafe, then please tell me..."

Li Yili paused, then spread her arms to the sides, her head, hidden by the yellow raincoat, lowered slightly.

Is there any point in staying in this church where there is no divine protection?

As she crouched in the corner, Aditi's eyes widened slightly. Her brown eyes reflected the hands that were raising their large, worn-out yellow raincoats. Her face was obscured, but in the thick smog, Li Yili appeared like an ancient deity welcoming lost believers.

Carly felt a chill run down her spine and subconsciously looked around. The church, already swallowed by smog, shattered her illusions. The refuge she had envisioned was nothing more than an empty shell for which she craved security.

But this empty shell had long been eroded and swallowed up by what she feared most.

"But, but that person in the enforcement department has already been... you've taken him down..."

Carly looked pleadingly at the figure standing in the thick smog.

“Are you an idiot? That guy was just like this one, an empty shell,” Rebecca said, swinging her arms as she stood behind the Plague Doctor, who was standing motionless in place. She yanked down the Plague Doctor’s pants and then yanked them up again. “He’s definitely unconscious now, but how long can he stay unconscious? And do you really think the Execution Department [Plague] only has this one person?”

"After all... the fog hasn't even lifted yet, so why do you feel like everything's fine?"

Rebecca's sharp finishing blow pierced Carly's chest.

Li Yili's surprised look made Rebecca's forehead veins bulge.

"what--"

"No, this is a bit unexpected. Why don't you take a couple more breaths of this smog?"

"Never!"

Carly bit her lip, her eyes flickering for a moment before she supported her left arm and forced a smile. "If I lead the way for you, can you...can you guarantee my safety?"

"Am I begging you? Get moving."

In the hazy smog, beneath the blurred raincoat, a pale smile spread out like a crescent moon, and immense fear shattered Carly's last shred of hope in an instant.

When she unwittingly left the sewers seeking unknown help, she had already lost her sense of safety.

Driven by the will to survive, Carly, tears streaming down her face, screamed and stumbled past Li Yili as she staggered out of the church and ran wildly through the smog-filled streets, heading towards the nearest San Die Quan factory.

"Couldn't you have spoken in a more tactful way?" Abel waved his hand to clear the surrounding haze and stood in front of Li Yili. "Look how scared she is."

“Who told her to try to get what she can’t get from a guy like me?” Li Yili grinned, his gaze shifting down to Aditi, who was standing in front of him.

"You want to say something?"