What?! My anime figurines have all come true!

The previously arrogant hooded man immediately widened his eyes and then let out a sound like Tom the cat screaming in agony.

"Ha! Just bite your tongue and kill yourself!"

Chen Xiao gave a cold laugh.

Don't ask him why he has such strong close-combat abilities.

Which protagonist in urban fantasy novels isn't a fighting expert?

Before learning that this world had an extraordinary background, Chen Xiao strictly adhered to the template of a protagonist in an urban novel, and naturally had some knowledge of martial arts.

However, the smile on Chen Xiao's face quickly faded.

Because the hooded man's tongue wasn't bitten off by his attack, and not even any blood came out.

What happened...?

Could it be that his body in the dream wasn't real?

"You...you...smack your lips (a piece of trash)..."

The pain from biting his tongue was so intense that the hooded man could barely stand.

Upon seeing this, Chen Xiao hesitated for only a moment before making a judgment.

Take advantage of his illness to kill him!

"Get out of this world!"

Chen Xiao roared and charged forward, unleashing a series of fighting moves at the hooded man, leaving him completely disoriented.

Finally, let's finish with a throw!

"Go away!"

Chen Xiao grabbed the hooded man's body, spun him around twice, and then threw him into the duck pen in the distance, making him fall face-first into the poop.

And it was literally eating feces!

"Ha! Go ahead and curse me again! Try saying another one! Does duck poop taste good?!"

Click click click click...

The hooded man slowly crawled up from the duck pen, clenching his fists. The extreme humiliation and anger almost set his brain ablaze, and he didn't even spit out the 'yellow and white stuff' in his mouth immediately.

"Aaaaaaaahh ...

I've been hunting geese all my life, and today I've been pecked by one!

"Hey……"

Chen Xiao looked at the hooded man, who was in a terrible state, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.

Now it's my turn to goad you!

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! I'm going to kill you!!!"

The hooded man's face was contorted with rage, and he charged at Chen Xiao like a maddened beast.

"Hush...huh..."

Chen Xiao took a deep breath, then quickly grabbed the fist that the other party was swinging, and with a quick arm grab and turn, he slammed the hooded man's head into the mud.

Finally, I used my knee to press down on his back, completing the pinpoint!

All in one go!

"That way you won't be able to move!"

Chen Xiao breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Although he performed the move very stylishly, he was actually drenched in sweat.

That was truly an extraordinary performance under extreme conditions.

"You...deserve...to...die...!"

But Chen Xiao was clearly celebrating too soon.

He was starting to lose control of the hooded man's body.

Holy crap! This boss actually has two phases!

Chapter Eight: Hero Saves the Beauty, But I Am the Beauty

"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 punch 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!

"Well--!"

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 spirit possibly compare to a real human body? You and I are on completely different levels!"

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 to death by me!"

"Ho...ho..."

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 his 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 this be..."

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 traced an arc before landing precisely in the "abyss" filled with rotten 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!

"Do not--!!!"

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 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 is that light?! Holy crap! Is it superpower awakening?! You...you're some kind of novel protagonist?! Giving up cheat codes before you die?! Don't! Don't! Just die right now!!"