The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

On a street in the center of Dayun City, Liu Musheng suddenly waved his hands.

The curtain of wind and fire tightened instantly.

The giant net, woven from invisible flames and transparent wind blades, completely blocked all escape routes for the eighth-tier Lustful Corpse, which was transformed from the Fireworks Branch Chairman Wang.

It tried to rush upwards, and a large amount of black gas-like energy burst out from its body, like a wild beast trapped in a cage making its last struggle.

The energy struck the curtain, producing a piercing hissing sound, but the curtain remained completely still.

Then, as the curtain of wind and fire shrank to a certain extent, the corpse that Chairman Wang had transformed into could only roll and roar wildly in the center of the curtain.

The moment its body touched the edge of the curtain—yes, just a moment—that part of its body began to vaporize.

The curtain of wind and fire shrank smaller and smaller, and the creature trapped inside disappeared piece by piece.

Finally, only its cloudy, sticky, inhuman eyes remained, staring intently at Liu Musheng outside the curtain, the middle-aged man's calm face reflected in its pupils.

Then, even those eyes disappeared.

The moment the curtain closed completely, the eighth-tier lustful corpse species vanished without a trace.

There was no ash, no residue, no trace of its existence.

Liu Musheng withdrew his hands, and the curtain of wind and fire silently dissipated into the air.

He didn't glance at that spot again, turned around, a gentle breeze swirling around him, and chased after the other eighth-tier corpse creature as it fled through the air.

The black trench coat drew a clean arc in the air and disappeared into the city skyline in a moment.

. . .

At this time, at Dayun No.1 Middle School, Grade 11 (1) class.

In the classroom, some students gathered in twos and threes to chat, their topics ranging from where to go on the weekend to whether there were any good TV shows recently, and then from TV shows to celebrities.

Some students, bored out of their minds, leaned against the windows, looking at the unusually deserted streets outside.

"No way, there haven't been any celebrities visiting our Da Yun lately." A girl with a ponytail rolled her eyes, strongly disagreeing with the statement made by the girl behind her.

"But in the neighboring province, there's a press conference for a new movie starring Liu Xuefei. I heard Liu Xuefei herself will be there!"

"What? Not worse than Liu Xuefei, even prettier than Liu Xuefei? How is that possible? My Feifei is the most beautiful in the universe, isn't she?"

"Xiao Qiu, you saw it too? And bodyguards in black trench coats? Really?"

"Don't believe it, don't believe it, no picture, no truth."

Several girls wearing the uniforms of Dayun No.1 Middle School were sitting together, chatting away.

then.

"Holy crap! There's a monster in Dafabet Shopping Mall! So many people are dead!" A boy's surprised voice suddenly rang out from the back of the classroom.

"And there are superpowered individuals!" His voice rose another notch.

The boy was scrolling through his phone, his thumb rapidly swiping across the screen, when suddenly it stopped on a video.

The video title read in large print: "Just now! A monster is indiscriminately killing people in Dafabet Shopping Mall!"

The video's cover image vaguely shows two blurry black figures and a scene of devastation.

He clicked on it and looked at it for less than five seconds before exclaiming.

His deskmate immediately looked at him: "Really?! Let me see!"

The phone was snatched away, and my deskmate stared at the screen for a few seconds before exclaiming even louder, "Holy crap! Is it AI?!"

As soon as he shouted, a few more heads crowded around.

The boy at the very front was also scrolling through his phone. Suddenly, he held up his screen, his voice louder than the previous two combined: "Holy crap, I saw it too! Let me see!"

"Blue flames! So cool!" Someone noticed the figure in the video that was emitting blue light.

"There really are superpowered people!" The other person's voice was somewhat dazed.

"Quickly search for a content creator named 'Flowering Fortune Steel Wool,' he filmed the clearest footage! Holy crap, he was only tens of meters away from those two monsters, he's incredibly brave!"

"Wow, it really exists!"

"Look! So many videos from different perspectives, they're not AI! Monsters and superpowered individuals really exist in the world!"

"Nb!!!" The shout was so loud that the whole classroom heard it.

"What's wrong with that guy with the sword? Why is he being hammered?" Someone noticed Gongsun Baizhan's disheveled state.

"The one who uses blue flames is still the coolest!" Someone stood up for Wang Qi.

"Damn, there really are monsters in this world. It seems I can no longer hide my identity." A boy wearing black-rimmed glasses leaned back in his chair, crossed his arms, and made a mysterious expression.

"And then what? Doesn't matter? Will you take action?"

"Well, well—you have to give me 50 V first, then I can break the seal and reclaim my own supreme power."

"hehe."

More and more students were drawn over, and the back row of the classroom was crowded together, with a cacophony of voices rising and falling, like a pot boiling over.

The girls who were chatting earlier also took out their phones and typed "flowers bloom and wealth arrives" into the search bar.

The first video that pops up is it.

Click in.

In the video, the Dafa Shopping Mall was in a mess, with broken glass everywhere, counters overturned, and ceiling lights hanging halfway down, flickering on and off.

Cries, screams, and calls for help came in from off-screen, creating a cacophony of ear-piercing noise that made one's heart clench just by listening to it.

In the center of the scene, two men in black trench coats are fighting two monsters emanating black energy—one with a ghostly blue flame burning in his hand, and the other wielding a longsword.

"It's really true," one of the girls murmured, her eyes glued to the screen. "There really are monsters and superpowered people in this world..."

At this moment, the girl with the high ponytail who had been called Xiao Qiu suddenly froze.

Her eyes were fixed on the two figures in the video, as if confirming something impossible.

Her eyes widened for a moment, her pupils contracted slightly, and then she poked her deskmate next to her with her finger.

"...Xiaoxiao, look at these two people."

Her voice wasn't loud, but she spoke very quickly, as if she had something stuck in her throat that she couldn't hold back.

The girl next to her, called Xiaoxiao, looked up and followed Xiaoqiu's finger to the screen, momentarily puzzled: "What's wrong with these two? They're fighting a monster. They do seem to have superpowers. This doesn't look like special effects."

"No, Xiaoxiao, look at their clothes!"

Xiaoxiao was taken aback, her gaze shifting from the blue flames to the two men in black trench coats.

They wore black trench coats, simple and clean in style, without any unnecessary decorations—except for the badge on their chest that was not very clear in the video.

"Their black trench coats... and the ones we saw this morning..."

Xiaoxiao's voice gradually lowered, her pupils reflecting the white light of the phone screen.

Not only that, Xiao Qiu interrupted her, her fingers rapidly manipulating the screen: pause, rewind, zoom in.

Then, the image froze at a peculiar angle, just enough to vaguely make out the faces of Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan.

Look closely!

Xiaoxiao's eyes widened, and her mouth opened and closed.

"It's them!!!"

Xiao Qiu nodded seriously: "They're not bodyguards...they have superpowers. Then..."

Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxiao exchanged a glance, both seeing the same thing in each other's eyes: if those people in black trench coats all had superpowers, then wouldn't the person wearing sunglasses, with long white hair, whom they called "celebrity sister" be...?

Just then, the student in front of them turned around and said, "Xiaoqiu, Xiaoxiao, have you seen it? That video!"

Both of them nodded. Xiao Qiu turned her phone screen forward, the image still frozen at that angle: "These two people with superpowers are one of the bodyguards we saw this morning."

The student in front of me was stunned: "Huh? Really??"

"real!"

. . . . . .

Meanwhile, in the air above the city center of Dayun, a figure emitting black smoke was moving at high speed.

Behind it, an even more composed and sharp aura was approaching from afar, and the distance between the two was gradually decreasing.

The black figure moved at high speed while cursing in a sticky, nauseating voice: "Damn it!!! That piece of trash only lasted less than half a minute!!!"

"And you, you're a piece of trash too!" Its voice grew even sharper, as if roaring at something inside its body, "After all these years in Dayun City, you still haven't figured out the strength of the head of the Dayun City Anomaly Investigation Bureau!"

"I was planning to have a good feast on Earth this time, but now look what happened!" Its voice was filled with a twisted, almost hysterical rage. "Forget about a grand meal, I'm probably going to die here!!!"

"You're all useless!!!"

At this moment, a deep human voice came from him. It was Li Liebiao's voice, but this voice was completely different from Li Liebiao's usual tone. It was less arrogant and more humble.

"Yes, yes, yes! My lord, I'm a good-for-nothing!"

"But I have an idea, and I would like to ask you to listen to it, sir!"