Aries Hong Jiu laughed heartily as the stone shackles on his body shook violently. In the next second, he shattered them with sheer brute force!
“Does this thing have your name on it? Don’t go claiming everything you see as your own just to make yourself look good!”
Li Gui’s cold, stern expression turned extremely ugly. He raised his hand and made a grasping motion in the air!
The surrounding sand and stone instantly gathered, forming a massive stone giant that charged toward Hong Jiu. At the same time, Li Gui barked back:
“Bullshit!”
“With your strength, do you really think you have the ability to handle an S-rank Containment Object at such close range?!”
“This object has already been contained by Dawn City. Its sequence number was identified through the Book of Answers. It’s currently in a sealed state. Otherwise, do you think you’d even be worthy of holding it like that?”
Hong Jiu didn’t get angry at Li Gui’s shouting. Instead, he held the object up, examining it from all angles.
It was a sphere wrapped in a special material. On its surface, liquid mercury flowed in a strange, shifting pattern, looking almost like a living thing.
Embedded in its surface were numerous silver and gold dials, likely serving as a specialized seal.
“Heh, it’s packed up quite nicely,” Hong Jiu said, tossing the sphere slightly in his hand and grinning.
“I don’t care about all that. It looked like this when I found it!”
“A tiny place like Dawn City will only invite disaster by holding onto something like this. The Rangers will take over the karma of this object!”
As he spoke, the fire rings on Hong Jiu’s wrists flared. He threw a punch forward, and the stone giant Li Gui had created exploded instantly.
Burning fragments flew in every direction like bullets, forcing the nearby Scavengers to scramble for cover.
“Heh, how soft,” Hong Jiu sneered, looking at Li Gui. “What’s the matter? Getting old? Your body and your abilities just can’t keep it up anymore, can they?”
“Get lost. You’re no match for me, and I didn’t come here to take your life.”
Li Gui’s face turned ashen. After that brief exchange, he could tell he was likely outmatched by Aries.
However, he couldn't just back down. He manipulated the stones in the corridor to dance wildly, turning them into stone whips that lashed out at Hong Jiu in a frenzy.
While fighting, he took a moment to shout toward Wan Qianhong:
“District Head Wan, please act now! We cannot let the Rangers take what belongs to Dawn City!”
When he had spoken to Wan Qianhong earlier, he had acted like a superior elder, calling her ‘Little Wan.’ Now that he needed reinforcements, he addressed her as ‘District Head Wan.’
Wan Qianhong’s face twitched for a moment. She had just seen the mass grave and knew of the horrific crimes committed beneath this mine, as well as the aberration potion research involving the Inner City.
And now, one of Dawn City’s ultimate treasures had appeared here. The implications... she didn’t even dare to think too deeply about them.
But regardless, the object could not fall into the hands of outsiders. Without much hesitation, she immediately applied a blood augmentation to Li Gui.
Instantly, Hong Jiu felt the pressure from Li Gui—who had been relatively weak before—increase significantly. He looked toward Wan Qianhong with a hint of curiosity.
“Heh, a rare ability. Not bad.”
Holding the sealed Containment Object in one hand while trading blows with the empowered Li Gui with the other, Hong Jiu still had the leisure to chat and joke. His absolute superiority in strength was clear.
As he looked toward Wan Qianhong, he happened to spot Bai Feifei in the crowd.
His eyes lit up immediately, and he spoke up:
“Oh? My little brother is here too? What a coincidence!”
“Haha! Didn’t that ‘society’ of yours say you had much loftier ideals? Surely you didn’t come here to fight us for a Containment Object.”
“By the way, according to what you said, what is your purpose here? Could it be that there’s a corpse of an Evil God of the Old Days down here?!”
Bai Feifei was bewildered.
She didn’t understand why this violent powerhouse, who was in the middle of a fight, would suddenly start talking to her.
This was so random! And... so arrogant!
But more importantly, she didn’t understand a word he was saying.
What corpse of an Evil God?
What lofty ideals of an organization?
These things sounded so mysterious; how could they have anything to do with her?
Without a doubt, this was more trouble caused by the Evil God when he was using her body earlier.
She instinctively lowered her head to avoid Aries Hong Jiu’s gaze and whispered in her mind:
“What is he talking about? How should I respond?”
“Did you say something to him before?”
Hong Jiu had been obsessing over the “Masked Hermit Society” that Xu Mo had made up on the spot.
However, Xu Mo didn’t respond to Bai Feifei. He wasn’t in the mood to teach her how to talk nonsense right now.
His eyes were fixed entirely on the object in Aries Hong Jiu’s hand, and he couldn’t help but mutter to himself.
“Damn... the luck this time is really something else. To think this thing is here too!”
“The problem is... fuck!”
Although the sequence object was currently sealed and the others didn't know what was inside, Xu Mo, as an Old-Timer, obviously knew.
——Sequence S-079, Crown of Time Lag!
An S-rank Containment Object was a prize at any stage of the game! Let alone in the early game.
In his previous playthroughs, entering this coal mine didn’t always mean finding it. Sometimes, the object simply wasn’t in the mine at all.
It was a probability-based trigger.
Finding it so easily this time was indeed lucky, but the problem was that they had come down far too early and were completely unprepared!
With Bai Feifei’s current strength, how could she possibly snatch this thing from among these people?
“Tsk... how can I find a way to get my hands on that?” Xu Mo felt a metaphorical headache coming on.
A thief never leaves empty-handed. Since he had seen it, how could he not take it?
If he didn't pick up something good when he went out, he considered it a loss!
Bai Feifei didn’t know what the Evil God was muttering about. Seeing that he was ignoring her, she gritted her teeth and simply ignored Hong Jiu’s words to focus on the situation at hand.
By now, the other Rangers had rushed through the wall Aries had smashed.
These wolves of the wasteland had cold expressions and didn't waste words. After entering the battlefield, they looked around and simply started attacking anyone they saw!
They didn’t care if someone was from the East District or the Inner City Action Team.
As far as they were concerned, their boss was fighting the other boss, so they would fight the others.
It had to be said that they were truly soldiers led by Aries; their temperaments and logic were identical.
Bai Feifei reacted immediately. Seeing several Rangers charging toward her, she grabbed Ye Yu’s arm and pulled.
“Watch out! It’s starting!”
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