"Thud, thud, thud!"
The gloomy dark clouds gradually took on a blood-red hue. The swaying trees around her trembled wildly, constantly retreating in the eyes of the sprinting Ye Shiyu, resembling wailing ghosts.
Ahead, amidst the obscure gloom, the edge of the shrine was faintly visible.
And besides the shrine's courtyard wall, she also saw a figure holding a walkie-talkie.
"I don't see anyone here... Alright, Xiong Yan, just co quickly. It seems Sakayori Mina's side is also..."
'Is that a killer from the Sakura family?'
Thinking this, Ye Shiyu's pace grew even faster.
"Thud, thud, thud!"
"Wait, soone is coming!"
The approaching footsteps prompted the speaking man to quickly turn his head.
In the darkness, his panicked and helpless expression was illuminated by the feather pendant hanging from his neck...
The pendant did not originally emit light, but at this mont, an abyssal purple glow lit up before him, casting a reflection.
The instant the purple light flared, the man's eyes imdiately grew hollow, and he stood frozen like a wooden puppet.
At this mont, his walkie-talkie was still emitting sound.
"Xiao Chen! Xiao Chen! What happened to you?"
Seeing this, Ye Shiyu coldly snatched the walkie-talkie, turned off the microphone, and asked the hypnotized man before her,
"Where is Yan Huan?"
"I... I don't know... I am looking for him too..."
"Tch!"
Ye Shiyu clicked her tongue with an ugly expression and glanced at the weapon tucked at his waist, the humanity in her heart increasingly crumbling.
'Since the target of these killers is Xiao Huan, then I might as well...'
"..."
After a brief mont of thought, when she raised her eyes again, Ye Shiyu's gaze no longer looked as if she were viewing a human being.
"I command you..."
Just as Ye Shiyu was about to speak, a gentle breeze blew from behind, lifting a strand of her black hair ends.
In an instant, Ye Shiyu broke out in goosebumps all over her body.
'Danger!'
She did not even turn her head before the mobile phone in her hand lit up with a purple glow.
"Hum!!"
The mont she turned around, the mobile phone was instantly raised in a zero-fra activation.
However, what entered her vision was only a flash of silver light and blood-red long hair.
"Bang!"
Ye Shiyu had not even managed to react. The blade flashed like lightning, and the mobile phone in her hand was cleanly sliced into two halves.
The sharp edge brushed precisely past Ye Shiyu's palm but did not touch her skin in the slightest.
"Hiss!!"
Instead, the sudden explosion caused by the severed mobile phone battery burned Ye Shiyu's palm, making her quickly retract her hand.
Ye Shiyu gasped in shock and subconsciously wanted to fight back.
However, her previously invincible martial arts seed to have been completely seen through.
Before she could even raise her hand, the person holding the sword forcefully stepped forward, breaking right through Ye Shiyu's center guard.
In mid-air, the silver light drew a semicircle in the void, indicating that the sword grip had shifted from a standard hold to a reverse grip.
"Whoosh!"
Just as Ye Shiyu's gaze caught up to where the silver light stopped, the reversed poml struck her abdon like lightning.
"Thud!"
With a muffled sound, Ye Shiyu instantly stumbled back several steps. She forcefully suppressed the urge to vomit, but unable to avoid the excruciating pain, she clutched her stomach and collapsed to the ground.
"Cough, cough... Cough, cough..."
'I couldn't even withstand a single move?!'
'Who exactly is this person...'
'If the Sakura family sent a killer like this...'
'Xiao Huan!'
Ye Shiyu trembled all over, raising her eyes in disbelief to look at the person before her.
The next second, she was surprised to find that it was an acquaintance.
Her red long hair was tied into a ponytail, and her usually listless eyes were now as terrifying as an evil spirit.
It was as if in the very next mont, she would suck the marrow from her bones and devour her entirely.
It was Tong Yingying.
"It's you?"
Seeing that the person looking up at her was actually Ye Shiyu, Tong Yingying frowned, and her fierce aura withdrew slightly.
She glanced at her companion, who had collapsed to the ground the mont the mobile phone was slashed and exploded, and felt a twinge of suspicion.
Tong Yingying knew Yan Huan was in danger, so she had personally brought a sword to find him.
On the way, she heard her subordinate's anxious shouts over the walkie-talkie with no response. Thinking sothing had happened, she ca over to help.
She never expected that the one who successfully attacked her subordinate was Yan Huan's... sworn older sister?
Tong Yingying narrowed her eyes to examine Ye Shiyu. She vaguely felt as though a terrifying spider was crawling in the darkness before her.
Furthermore, when this girl raised her mobile phone just now, she actually felt an uncomfortable, sinister chill...
That was definitely not an illusion, because Tong Yingying had never felt such a sensation before.
"..."
'Why does Yan Huan always attract these weird girls?'
'Last ti it was that peeping tom from the Sakura family, and this ti it's this sworn older sister who knows so superficial martial arts and seems to harbor ulterior motives toward him.'
'It's a good thing he has a normal person like
by his side, otherwise, that silly boy would suffer imasurable losses.'
"Aren't you Xiao Huan's boss? How could you... Who exactly are you?"
Ye Shiyu's forehead was slightly sweating. She looked at Tong Yingying with lingering fear, filled with disbelief.
However, upon hearing this, Tong Yingying rely gave her a detached glance.
"None of your business."
"You..."
"Also, do not think that just because you are Yan Huan's sworn older sister, you have any right to ddle in his private affairs. Stop having such pointless possessiveness."
Tong Yingying held no scabbard, only the bare blade, as if corresponding with her sharp, imposing aura at this mont.
As she spoke, Tong Yingying raised a hand to rub the pearl necklace hanging around her neck, a gift from Yan Huan, and cast a sidelong glance at Ye Shiyu, speaking flatly,
"You should know, when he and I first t, a sworn older sister like you was still stuck in so unknown corner!"
"..."
These words made Ye Shiyu freeze. She wanted to stand up and retort, but found that her stomach was in excruciating pain.
"Bang!"
Right at this mont, a loud noise erupted from the distant woods.
It was a gunshot!!
That sound jolted Ye Shiyu out of her frustration, and she quickly looked up.
But before her eyes, Tong Yingying was already nowhere to be seen.
"Xiao Chen! Xiao Chen! What happened to you?"
In the forest, another Feather Gang man nad Xiong Yan, who also wore a feather pendant around his neck, looked at the unresponsive walkie-talkie, his expression involuntarily growing tense.
"Fuck! Just how many subordinates does that rat have around him? Even Li and Xiao Chen..."
In reality, there were a total of three groups of people in this forest.
They were Yan Huan and the several Modifier Hosts.
Tong Yingying and the nurous subordinates she brought to hunt down that rat.
The killers from the Sakura family, totaling only three people.
Aside from the leader who encountered Yan Huan, of the other two, one was knocked unconscious by a single punch from Spencer, and the other was subdued by Tong Yingying's group.
But because it was too dark and communication was poor, the Modifier Hosts and Tong Yingying's group were unaware of each other's existence, both assuming the other party were killers from the Sakura family.
The person An Le initially took down with her tentacles was Li.
The one Ye Shiyu had just knocked down using hypnosis was Xiao Chen.
Both were Tong Yingying's subordinates.
"Gurgle..."
Just as the man held the walkie-talkie, intending to report the situation to Tong Yingying, a sudden gust of bloody wind howled from behind.
Xiong Yan's eyes shrank, and he subconsciously rolled to the ground, drawing a gun from his waist.
"Boom!"
Looking back, a large crater had instantly appeared where he had just been standing...
It looked as if it had been whipped into existence by so invisible object.
Xiong Yan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, fine cold sweat instantly beading on his forehead.
Turning his head, he saw An Le suspended in mid-air like a Teru Teru Bozu doll, her hair disheveled.
Setting aside her eerie posture, she had just learned that Yan Huan might be hard by the killers...
Her eyes were hollow, resembling a pair of spectral flas in the dark night. It was unspeakably terrifying.
"Ahhhhh! Are you... a human or a ghost?!!"
That single glance nearly made the gang mber wet his pants in fear.
Primarily, to a normal person oblivious to the existence of Modifiers, the visual impact of the scene before him was simply too overwhelming.
"Gurgle..."
"Killer..."
An Le assud the person in front of her was a killer from the Sakura family, so she imdiately controlled her tentacles to take him down.
Feeling the surging bloody scent around him, Xiong Yan's legs went weak with fear, but his thumb still pushed off the safety as he instantly aid the gun at An Le.
"Watch out!!"
Little Finger instantly appeared, calling out a warning.
"Bang!!"
At the exact mont the gun fired, An Le raised a tentacle to shield herself.
"Pfft!"
As ntioned before, every ti a tentacle was severed, aside from causing imnse pain, the regrown tentacle would beco even harder and more powerful.
This ti, forcefully taking a handgun bullet, the tentacle only suffered a small puncture and was not pierced through.
Although the handgun's caliber played a role, it was obvious that An Le's tentacles were no longer as soft as they were at the beginning.
"A gun... The people hunting Xiao Huan have guns..."
With the tentacle injured, excruciating pain imdiately surged through her otherwise numb body.
An Le paid it no mind, looking around the dark jungle in a panic as images of Xiao Huan being pierced by bullets inevitably surfaced in her mind.
"No... Xiao Huan... where exactly are you..."
"Gurgle..."
That tool of fear for Yan Huan's safety bred deep desire, its intensity comparable to a Modifier exposing itself before Yan Huan.
Little Finger, sitting on her shoulder, felt the desire within An Le's body rising exponentially and was instantly terrified.
"An... An Le! Stop, stop, stop! You can't keep going like this! Evolving twice in one day, you... you will..."
"I will what?"
Hearing this, An Le imdiately turned her head to look at Little Finger.
Her eyes stared dead at Little Finger, forcing all the words it wanted to say back into its stomach.
"You... you will..."
Looking at Little Finger before her, An Le smiled helplessly.
In reality, she knew everything; she just wanted to silence the noisy Little Finger at this mont.
After leaving Little Finger speechless, she turned her head back.
Yet the next second, Little Finger beside her gritted its teeth and, throwing caution to the wind, hastily blurted out,
"You will die, don't you understand!!"
"..."
Hearing Little Finger's voice, An Le paused slightly and cast another glance at it.
She stayed silent for a second, the smile on her face fading a little.
Blinking, she still did not pause,
"I know."
Those words were like a clap of thunder, leaving Little Finger completely dumbfounded.
"You... you know? But..."
"But... what if sothing happens to Xiao Huan? They have guns, and their skills are so good. Xiao Huan doesn't have any superpowers. If anything bad happens to him... I..."
"But..."
Little Finger didn't even flick its tongue anymore. Looking at the agonized expression on An Le's face, it couldn't help but feel burning anxiety.
One step further, and it would evolve again.
After evolving, it would enter the Modifier's high-tier state!
As the phase prior to a Modifier's final form, the high-tier state would trigger a qualitative change, granting it abilities on the level of "reshaping the world into a more suitable form."
But when that ti ca, the side effects would undoubtedly undergo a qualitative change as well.
Right now, due to An Le's overwhelming, tsunami-like desires, its level was already leaps and bounds above the other Modifiers.
If they continued like this, An Le would absolutely be unable to endure the side effects!
"I can endure it, Little Finger."
However, An Le suddenly spoke up, interrupting Little Finger's thoughts.
Little Finger grew completely furious. It hurriedly flew to An Le's side, wrapping its tail tightly around her neck in an attempt to restrain her.
"So what if you can endure it?! Stop right now!!"
But Little Finger was rely a Modifier; it could not stop An Le's desires from affecting it.
The next second, the surrounding tentacles seed to receive nourishnt from her desire, and the invisible aura expanded once more.
The Modifier's original maximum effective range of 15 ters began to grow...
15 ters, 20 ters, 30 ters, 40 ters, 50 ters!!
"Gurgle!!"
As the tentacles' reach expanded, their vitality was further enhanced.
And as the range broadened, she finally sensed the presence of other people at the very edge, roughly 50 ters away.
That person seed to be fighting soone else. An Le could even hear his furious roar,
"Yan Huan!!"
'It's Xiao Huan!!'
At this mont, An Le—whose left eye had completely morphed into a serpentine slit and whose side profile was gradually being covered in white scales—suddenly looked up toward that direction.
She intended to completely dispatch the person in front of her, and then hurry over to save Xiao Huan!
"Gurgle!!"
Nine—no, twelve tentacles writhed madly, their invisible bloody scent converging into a tsunami.
Below, Xiong Yan tried to raise his gun again, but the next second, he was utterly engulfed by the tentacles.
"Rumble!"
Unable to let out even a single scream, he was swallowed by waves of pleasure and completely lost consciousness.
Having casually dealt with this man, An Le imdiately turned around to leave.
"Stop it! Stop! Did you hear !!"
Around her neck, Little Finger squeezed tightly and shook her frantically, trying to halt the continued surge of her desire.
But this was ultimately a futile effort.
It was only a Modifier; it could not override its Host's decisions.
"Whoosh!"
Yet, at this exact mont, an intense jolt of pain suddenly struck.
"Ugh!!"
An Le's small face instantly scrunched up, and she quickly turned to look behind her.
She saw that the tentacle which had engulfed the man was already severed, revealing the foaming figure of the man below.
"What the hell are you?"
A terrifying female voice suddenly rang in her ears.
An Le imdiately looked back, only to see a cold-faced red-haired woman standing on a tree branch, gripping a Daito.
At this mont, Tong Yingying clearly saw the bizarre spectacle of a young girl suspended in mid-air, entangled by tentacles, with more continuously sprouting around her.
'She...'
'Can see my tentacles?'
"..."
An Le stared at Tong Yingying in astonishnt. Even Little Finger, wrapped around her neck, imdiately lifted its head.
The mont she saw the white snake, Tong Yingying's expression changed.
"You're that talking snake I t at the bar the other night!?"
An Le's gaze instantly shot over, causing Little Finger's expression to stiffen.
"Uh..."
"Little Finger, how does Xiao Huan's boss know you?"
"Well... this... I originally wasn't planning to choose you as my Host. She was my originally intended Host..."
Flustered under An Le's scrutiny, Little Finger dodged her gaze and mumbled this explanation.
'So...'
'Even for a superpower, I was rely a backup.'
"I see..."
An Le's eyes dimd slightly, and she pursed her lips as she spoke.
Just then, Little Finger caught a glimpse of Tong Yingying out of the corner of its eye, and suddenly struck by a flash of inspiration, its expression turned evil.
It cast a sidelong glance and scoffed disdainfully at Tong Yingying,
"Old maid!! What are you looking at? We're going to snatch Yan Huan away right now and fuck him to death!! Stop us if you have what it takes!!"
"Eh?"
An Le cast an incredulous look at Little Finger, but it just kept laughing an evil "Jie-jie-jie
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