The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

"Yes, four days!"

A team member next to him spoke up in a hoarse voice, his face showing lingering fear: "Not long after the explosion, our area was suddenly shrouded in a strange black mist, and the space became extremely chaotic and distorted."

“We tried to break out according to the plan, but no matter which way we went, it felt like we were going in circles or stumbling into more dangerous places. Our sense of time was completely messed up, and communication was completely cut off... The compressed rations and water we brought had long been exhausted.”

Yang Yuxin's voice was filled with deep exhaustion as she added, "We even tried to forcefully attack the spatial nodes, but the structure of this eerie space is exceptionally stable, and attacks would attract even more parasitic anomalies. Captain Shen, is this the survivor you found in your arms?"

Yang Yuxin's words confirmed Shen Ge's previous guess. Similar to the multiple strange spaces he had experienced in Australia, the environment here had not changed, but the flow of time was completely different.

The time flow rate of his heart ventricle may be relatively "normal", but this is only relative to the experiences of Yang Yuxin and others. Perhaps several days or even dozens of days have passed in "reality" at this time!

Shen Ge briefly explained his situation and mentioned that he had destroyed the heart chamber of a strange space. Upon hearing this, Yang Yuxin and her teammates finally showed joy on their tired faces.

Shen Ge's gaze fell on the team members' chapped lips. He raised his hand, opened the strange space, and took out two boxes of supplies.

"We'll talk about the rest later. While there are no strange attacks right now, you should all get some rest." Shen Ge opened the supply box, which was full of various emergency foods and bottled water.

The team members were stunned for a moment, then their eyes burst with indescribable joy!

Food and water!

After struggling in despair for four days, this was a lifeline!

"Thank you, Captain Shen!" They didn't have time to ask how Shen Ge produced these supplies. They immediately tore open the packaging and wolfed them down to replenish their energy and water, their movements so fast they almost choked.

Yang Yuxin quickly drank a few sips of water and carefully distributed the remaining food to her teammates.

"Don't worry about saving, I have plenty here. Even if you live here for a year or two, you won't go hungry," Shen Ge kindly reminded Yang Yuxin, seeing her saving food and sharing it with her teammates.

Look at this! This is what a top-tier leader in the Special Affairs Department looks like!

No wonder the Special Operations Department "rumors" that if someone gets lost in the strange space, as long as they can meet Shen Ge and follow orders, even a pig can be led out.

After Shen Ge finished speaking, he looked around.

With the destruction of the heart ventricle, the "activation" of the entire building became even more violent and unstable, like a dying beast struggling for its life.

The walls and ceiling undulated like waves, and the number of white fungal carpets and activated debris gushing out of the cracks surged, accompanied by a cacophony of roars.

The little girl in his arms seemed to breathe even weaker. Shen Ge looked down at her pale face and subtly adjusted the invisible barrier, trying to protect her from further harm.

Yang Yuxin and her teammates replenished their food and water and rested for more than half an hour. Under the strong sense of security brought by Shen Ge, their spirits were significantly boosted, and their fighting spirit was rekindled in their tired eyes.

"Captain Shen, we're ready!" Yang Yuxin wiped the water from the corner of her mouth, her eyes fixed firmly on Shen Ge. The team members quickly organized their equipment, reformed their defensive formation, and protected Shen Ge in a relatively safe center position. Even though they all knew who the real pillar was.

"Let's go!" Shen Ge said succinctly, holding the weak-breathing girl firmly in one arm. An invisible barrier kept her under constant protection, while several dark red, rotting tentacles extended from the red mist armor on his other arm, like venomous snakes sensing danger, slowly swaying and probing the way in front of the group.

Following past practice, Shen Ge would definitely spread out the entire Ghost Domain, forming a huge transparent dome with the invisible Ghost Domain.

However, the situation in this strange space was very strange. Since entering this place, the strange energy in his body had been constantly flowing away. However, because he had broken through to the seventh level, his strange energy was so strong that he could ignore this loss. Therefore, Shen Ge was able to maintain a strange domain.

After reaching the seventh rank, Shen Ge has grown from having two ghost domains to being able to open three ghost domains and maintain them for a certain period of time. However, similar to using the Red Mist Armor to protect the little girl, Shen Ge's ghost energy also carries a certain degree of ghost energy erosion, even stronger than that of the Red Mist Armor.

Aside from precisely controlling the maintenance of the invisible barrier, he currently has no better way to protect the critically ill little girl.

As for why Shen Ge insisted on expending his energy to rescue the little girl in such a dangerous environment, perhaps it was because he saw the sacrifices made by her parents and thought of his own mother falling into the sea with his mutated father to save him; or perhaps it was because he wanted to maintain that faint flame of hope in a world of despair and darkness... But no matter what, since he had taken on this task, Shen Ge would do his best to fulfill his promise.

The team set off again, following the route planned by Shen Ge based on Xiao Qi's plan and referencing some of the exploration experience from Yang Yuxin's team.

The scene inside the building was even more distorted and terrifying than before.

The destruction of the heart ventricle did not seem to directly end this multi-layered, bizarre space; instead, it seemed to have stirred up a hornet's nest, provoking its dying, frantic counterattack.

The walls and ceiling convulsed and undulated violently as if suffering from epilepsy, and the dark red fleshy tubes resembled giant intestinal walls, oozing a viscous, foul-smelling liquid.

The white fungal carpet covering the ground was no longer a relatively flat "carpet," but had turned into a constantly churning, bubbling "swamp." Every step made a chilling "plop" sound, as if one might sink in and be swallowed at any moment.

"Pfft! Pfft pfft pfft!"

More eerie white maggots surged out from under the fungal carpet and from the cracks in the walls. They no longer simply swelled into giant worms; their forms became even more deformed and terrifying.

Some grew multiple pairs of slender segmented limbs, crawling like the wind; some had mouthparts split open into chrysanthemum shapes, spewing acid and black mist; and some even devoured and merged with each other, forming even larger, fleshy monsters covered in bone spurs and mucus.

"Three o'clock! Swarm!" a team member shouted a warning.

"The ceiling has collapsed!" another team member exclaimed.

Shen Ge didn't even need to turn around; the invisible, eerie domain surrounding the group instantly split as if it possessed its own consciousness. One part transformed into a rapidly spinning, invisible storm, precisely shredding the swarm of insects attacking the group. Dark green fluids and bits of flesh were repelled like a torrential downpour by the invisible force field. The other part formed invisible giant hands, some instantly opening above everyone's heads to forcefully hold back and crush the massive concrete blocks and steel teeth that were falling, encased in writhing flesh, or directly squashing the larger parasitic monsters!
These scenes left the Phantom Warriors dumbfounded. Only now did they realize the true gap between themselves and the world's number one Phantom Agent, a gap that no amount of Phantom Energy equipment could bridge!

"Keep formation and follow me!" Shen Ge's voice remained calm, clearly reaching everyone's ears amidst the monster's roars and the buildings' groans.

His steps were firm, and with each step he took, the churning fleshy fungus carpet beneath his feet was instantly flattened by the powerful eerie energy, forming a brief safe passage.

Yang Yuxin's team was responsible for clearing out any stragglers that managed to break through the red mist defense from the flanks and rear. They worked together seamlessly, their blades flashing and energy beams intertwining. Although exhausted, under the protection of Shen Ge's unbreakable "shield," they unleashed a combat power far exceeding their own limits.

However, environmental erosion is not limited to the physical level.

The eerie black mist that permeated the air was like countless tiny, malicious mental tentacles, frantically trying to burrow into everyone's mind.

"Ugh..." A young team member suddenly groaned and staggered. The scene before him began to distort, and the corpses of the slain monsters seemed to transform into the remains of his fallen comrades, staring at him with empty eyes, silently questioning him.

"Dad...Mom?" Another team member's eyes glazed over for a moment. He seemed to see his missing parents, covered in blood, waving to him for help at the end of the passage.

"Don't come any closer! It's all fake! Concentrate!" Yang Yuxin shouted sharply, feeling dizzy and nauseous, as if countless whispers were roaring in her ears, trying to break her will. She bit her tongue hard, the sharp pain bringing a sliver of clarity.

Just then, a gentle yet incredibly resilient force, like a warm tide, swept across the entire team in an instant—it was Shen Ge's Ghost Domain!
Those chaotic illusions, whispers, and mental shocks melted away as quickly as ice and snow under the sun in the face of this pure and powerful seventh-order ghost energy.

The team members felt their minds clear instantly; the fear and illusions from before vanished, leaving only awe of Shen Ge's power and a firm resolve for the future.

"What's wrong with me?" The team members who were hallucinating were still shaken, completely unaware that in that brief moment, they had almost been consumed by the food corrupted by the ghostly energy.

"Be careful, this eerie black mist has extremely strong corrosive power. Activate the corrosion defense device on your combat suit and convert the oxygen," Shen Ge warned.

Only then did everyone realize how dangerous it had just been, and they quickly switched to the defensive mode of their supernatural combat suits as instructed by Shen Ge.

However, this oxygen conversion mode can only be maintained for a few hours before it needs to be shut down for recharging; in other words, they need to find an outlet within a few hours.

The team struggled through the bloody hell, clearly following the map and instinctively heading downwards, trying to find an exit to the bottom.

However, when they turned a corner covered with huge fleshy tumors and pushed open a twisted and deformed metal door that looked like the gaping maw of a monster, the sight before them stunned everyone.

There was no ground floor lobby or street exit as expected.

They were actually standing on the rooftop!

A fierce wind, carrying a heavy, fishy smell and an eerie aura, suddenly swept in, causing everyone's clothes to flutter wildly. However, this was not the rooftop under the familiar city night sky.

Before them stretched an endless, thick, ink-like black void. There were no stars, no moon, only suffocating silence and cold. The office building they stood on floated alone in this dark void, like a small boat that could capsize at any moment in a raging storm.

The building itself emitted a faint, morbid glow, illuminating the surrounding, churning, lifelike, dark "seawater."

The seawater was not a liquid, but rather an "existence" composed of countless twisted black shadows, churning mist, and subtle, chilling shrieks.

It kept pounding on the building's base, and with each "wave," the entire building groaned and trembled under the strain, as if it would be completely swallowed up at any moment.

"This...weren't we going downhill? How did we end up on the rooftop?" A team member's voice was hoarse, filled with disbelief and fear.

"Is this... still our world?" Another team member looked down into the bottomless dark void, his face ashen.

Yang Yuxin also felt a chill creep up her spine. She looked at Shen Ge and said, "Captain Shen, this... something's not right. You blew up a ghost energy heart chamber. Logically, if the core that maintains the ghost space is destroyed, this place should continue to collapse. How come it looks like a more complex multi-layered ghost space has formed?"

Shen Ge stood on the edge of the rooftop, his crimson armor emitting a steady, dark red glow in the darkness, like a lighthouse. His brows were furrowed, his gaze sweeping over the eerie "dark ocean" and the isolated buildings, his doubts reaching their peak.

“Something is definitely not right.” Shen Ge’s voice was low and heavy. “I have destroyed the heart ventricle. Logically speaking, the multiple strange spaces that depend on it should collapse immediately. But here… the space has not only not collapsed, but it has also shown a strange ‘stable’ state. The building itself seems to have become the only ‘entity’ in this dark ocean, an ‘island’ that has been forcibly separated.”

This was a situation he had never encountered before.

In Australia, in any previous encounters with multiple bizarre spatial realms, the destruction of the core meant the end of the space. But here, the destruction seems to have reinforced some kind of prison? Or perhaps the "heart" they destroyed wasn't the true, unique "core" of this bizarre space?
If this is the method of that "Crow," it can only be said to be more bizarre and troublesome than he had anticipated.

"Little Seven, rescan the spatial structure and analyze the energy flow. Look for any possible 'exits' or 'weak points'!" Shen Ge ordered.

At the same time, his eerie eyes, like invisible radar, peered into the depths of the surrounding dark void.

"Master, the structure of the Ghost Space is extremely abnormal... Ghost energy flow... A high concentration of ghost energy aggregation reaction has been detected, right in the central area of ​​the rooftop!" Xiao Qi reported.

Shen Ge suddenly turned his head, his gaze shooting like lightning towards the empty area in the center of the rooftop. He saw that the originally empty cement ground had been covered with a thick layer of dark red fleshy fungus, like the pulsating ventricle of a heart.

The center of the fungal carpet is rising and coalescing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
“Gurgle…Gurgle…”

Amidst the nauseating churning of slime, a colossal column of flesh, formed from countless intertwined and fused white worms, was rapidly taking shape. (End of Chapter)