Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

The perspective returns to Wei Changshou's special care ward.

In that suffocating silence, the sound of the lock turning was like a countdown to death.

"Click".

A very slight metallic crackling sound jolted Han Xiao and Xu Suyuan, who were already on edge.

Immediately afterwards, the previously closed door was kicked open by a tremendous force!

"Bang--!"

The door slammed heavily against the wall, knocking off several pieces of plaster.

A member of the "Blackstone" team, dressed in a black tactical uniform, used the door frame as cover to peek out half of his shoulder.

His right hand was raised high, and a stun grenade with its pin pulled was about to be released.

This is the most standard indoor infiltration tactic—first establish control, then clear the area.

In the confined space of this hospital ward, once a stun grenade explodes, the intense light of millions of candela and the deafening sound of 170 decibels would be enough to instantly cause the people inside to lose all their senses and balance, turning them into lambs to the slaughter.

However, they were not facing ordinary thugs, but two avengers who had crawled back from hell.

Just as the team member's arm muscles tensed, about to exert force—

"Buzz!"

Xu Suyuan's eyes widened suddenly, and the dark silver light in her eyes surged to its extreme, like two burning will-o'-the-wisps.

That was an instinct she had honed through numerous brushes with death; it required no thought whatsoever.

Void Imprisonment!

The mental energy, like an invisible spider web, instantly crossed space and tightly wrapped around the team member's wrist and forearm.

The feeling was like an arm that was swinging at full speed suddenly plunging into a quagmire.

"What?!"

The team members outside the door were terrified.

He clearly felt a fatal lag in his movements. What should have been a sharp, low throw turned into a powerless slide due to the sudden stiffness of his wrist.

The deadly stun grenade failed to reach the depths of the ward as intended, and instead awkwardly slipped out of my hand.

But this is not enough.

If it explodes at the entrance, it will still affect the interior.

At that very moment, Han Xiao made a move.

His pupils contracted to pinpoints, and the metal cylinder tumbling in the air seemed to be playing in slow motion in his eyes.

He can "see" its trajectory and feel the kinetic energy vector it carries.

Get out of here!

!

Han Xiao roared silently in his heart, his mental power like an invisible hand slamming hard onto the shock bomb.

[Kinetic deflection]!

The stun grenades, which should have fallen obliquely to the ground under the influence of gravity, drew an acute-angled zigzag in the air.

It defied the laws of physics and was forcefully "pulled" up by a domineering force, flying back into the corridor in an almost vertical upward arc with a slight backward throw!

"Fxxk!!"

A terrified scream came from outside the door.

next second.

"boom--!!!"

A blinding white light exploded in mid-air in the corridor outside the door, followed by a terrifyingly loud bang that could shatter eardrums.

The narrow corridor instantly became the eye of a storm of light and sound.

The bombardier who had just leaned out was the first to be hit.

Before he could even close his eyes, his retina was instantly burned by the intense light, and the enormous sound pressure slammed into his brainstem like a heavy hammer.

Before he could even scream, he staggered backward like a kite with a broken string, clutching his ears in pain as blood seeped from between his fingers.

The two teammates behind him who were providing cover were also stunned by the sudden backlash and lost their sense of direction.

In the ward.

Although Han Xiao and Xu Suyuan were on the edge of the blast radius and were shielded by a wall, the stun grenade's bright light and loud bang still penetrated the door frame, causing a significant impact on them.

"Hmm!"

Xu Suyuan groaned, her body swayed, her vision went white, and her ears were filled with a sharp buzzing sound.

Han Xiao wasn't much better off, but he was prepared.

In the instant the deflection stun grenade struck, he had already relied on the muscle memory of a special forces soldier to quickly turn to the side and lower his head, using his arm to protect his head, while opening his mouth wide to equalize the ear pressure.

"recover!"

Han Xiao bit the tip of his tongue, using the intense pain to forcefully dispel the dizziness in his brain.

This is a survival rule he learned in the army—the best time to counterattack is before the enemy has recovered from the chaos.

He endured the tinnitus and blurred vision, and relying on the memory of the location he had just locked onto, he suddenly leaned out from behind the bed.

The slingshot in his hand was already fully drawn.

That dark steel ball embodies his burning desire for revenge.

"collapse!"

The sound of the rubber band snapping back was drowned out by the echoing sounds in the corridor.

The steel ball shot through the air. This time, Han Xiao didn't need to deflect much, because the target was just a few meters away and was completely frozen in place.

"puff!"

That was the dull thud of a steel ball piercing the eye socket and then shattering the brain.

The bombardier, who was still convulsing at the doorway, suddenly straightened up before collapsing completely and becoming a corpse.

"Seal off the gate!!"

Han Xiao roared, though he couldn't hear his own voice, but he knew Xu Suyuan would understand.

Xu Suyuan shook her head vigorously, forcibly regaining focus from the dizziness.

Looking at the corpse at the door and the shadowy figure lurking behind it, she unleashed her power once more.

[Void Imprisonment] - Area Coverage!

The small space by the door instantly became incredibly sticky.

Outside the door, several team members who were less affected and were in the distance in the corridor were preparing to step over their comrades' corpses and force their way in when they felt as if they had hit an invisible wall of air, and their movements instantly became as slow as a tortoise crawl.

"Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

The action team leader's roar echoed from the depths of the corridor.

The first wave of attacks was forcefully repelled thanks to the inexplicable coordination of the two "abnormal" individuals.

On the hospital bed, Wei Changshou was so shocked by the loud noise that his face turned ashen, and he curled up in pain.

Looking at the two still standing figures before him, a hint of horror and...desire finally appeared in his cloudy old eyes.

Is this... really a power that humans can possess?

But Han Xiao did not relax at all.

He leaned against the wall, breathing heavily, looking through the doorway at the beam of a flashlight swaying outside.

This is just the beginning.

There are at least a dozen people outside, and their mental and physical strength are being rapidly depleted.

------

Temporary command center on the third floor of the main building.

On the screen, the brief confrontation at the entrance of the special care ward has just ended.

"Wonderful."

Zhong Heng, who had been lounging on the sofa, clapped his hands lightly a few times. "Faced with a surprise attack, they instantly countered and even deflected the stun grenade back at the attacker. Is this the kind of real-world teamwork between superhuman abilities? Although it's still a rough, individual-level application, the sheer speed of their reaction and their mastery of the rules are truly breathtaking."

"It's a real pity that Young Master Wang couldn't come in person tonight because of the new drug development at Huiguang Pharmaceuticals," Zhong Heng said, taking a sip of his wine. "Otherwise, he would have been very happy to see this scene."