I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

Lin Yan carefully packed everything away, then patted his chest.

Seeing that everyone looked so sad, he turned to Lao Zhao and joked, trying to lighten the mood.

"Captain Zhao, if this knife gets chipped or dull, I won't have to pay for it, right?"

Upon hearing this, several emotional operators nearby turned their heads away, almost bursting into tears.

In their view, Lin Yan's joking around at this critical moment was simply an attempt to ease everyone's tension.

He was just putting on a brave face!

How tender, how tragic!

"Brother Lin, he's a real man..." Xiao Zhou said, his voice choked with emotion.

Shen Qinglan's brows were furrowed at this moment.

She suddenly realized that she couldn't understand Lin Yan at all.

She thought Lin Yan would resist or be afraid, but his calm demeanor made her start to doubt herself.

Is it...

Has he really changed?

Lin Yan turned and walked out of the tent.

"Team Leader Zhao."

Lin Yan didn't turn his head, leaving behind a solitary and aloof figure:

"I'm gone."

Then.

Under the solemn gaze of everyone.

Lin Yan, wearing an ordinary windbreaker and carrying a patchwork of gear, walked into that dead zone.

Watching Lin Yan disappear into the thick fog, Old Zhao was the first to recover:

"What the hell are you all standing there for?! Second Squad, immediately organize a second wave, bring all the heavy weapons in the bureau, and be ready to provide support at the edge of the containment zone!"

After saying that, he turned and stared at Shen Qinglan:

"Deputy Team Leader Shen, I hope you have already submitted the highest-level request for assistance to the Provincial Bureau."

"If the provincial bureau's support isn't in place, if Lin Yan were to die inside today..."

Old Zhao took a step closer, let out a cold laugh, his voice extremely low, yet everyone present could hear it clearly:

"Look around you. You just parachuted in and you're already stepping on our brothers' lives to gain credit."

"If Lin Yan doesn't get out, how many people in the Jiangcheng Folklore Bureau do you think will still recognize you as the team leader?"

Shen Qinglan looked around and saw pairs of cold, even hostile, eyes.

She finally realized that she had just angered everyone.

……

Lin Yan found a car, drove through the heavy blockade, and stopped in front of the heavy machinery factory.

Just in case, Lin Yan put on the headphones that Saya had given him.

As soon as I stepped through the gate, a cloud of red mist rushed towards me.

Strangely, with each step Lin Yan took forward, the red mist seemed to have eyes and automatically moved aside.

The dark green sewage underfoot also silently receded to both sides.

Even the heavy metal drumbeats that were powerful enough to shatter internal organs automatically slowed down when they reached his ears.

If the tactical operators outside saw this scene, they would probably be dumbfounded.

But Lin Yan knew very well that this was not a miracle at all.

This was just the three aunties in his matchmaking group giving him, his sugar daddy, a respectable face.

Just then, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the headphones.

"elder brother……"

It was Chu Chu; her voice sounded very weak, as if she were enduring pain.

Lin Yan frowned:

"Chuchu? Didn't I tell you to stay home? Your physical body can't withstand the tearing force of the rules here, can it?"

"Chuchu knows..."

Chu Chu said with a hint of grievance, but then laughed strangely.

"But when Chu Chu saw her brother walk in alone, she was insanely jealous. How could Chu Chu let her brother go to see those three old women alone?"

"So, Chuchu tore off a small piece of her core code, so she could be with her brother forever!"

"It hurt so much when it was torn, but the thought of being able to press my ear tightly against my brother's makes me so happy~"

Lin Yan immediately felt goosebumps rise on his back.

Ever since Chu Chu became the luckiest person, she has become much more normal, to the point that Lin Yan almost forgot that she was no pushover either.

Even someone as battle-hardened as Lin Yan found it hard to keep up with this crazy energy.

"Stop talking nonsense. You risked being shredded to come in here, what did you find?" Lin Yan lowered his voice.

"Chuchu realized that her brother might be being deceived."

Chu Chu instantly turned cold.

"When that internet celebrity was live streaming, there was a kind of power of rules gathering around him. Chu Chu guessed that this was the method they used to catalyze Chen Shu before."

"This power is now rapidly dissipating. Chu Chu tracked the data flow and discovered that most of the traffic was being absorbed by the mermaid's sewage."

Lin Yan paused slightly. Absorbing traffic?

"Chu Chu forgot where she heard it, but it seemed to be that the physical body is a container for carrying immense faith power in the eyes of some high-level monsters."

Chu Chu explained.

"That mermaid usually acts so aloof in the group, and hates to be associated with humans, but she's acting very strangely tonight."

"Chu Chu felt... she wasn't tormenting him at all, she was just possessively protecting her food!"

"Brother, although Chu Chu doesn't know what she's planning, she definitely wants to keep that body to herself and keep it a secret from everyone."

"Brother, why don't you expose her and ruin her reputation?"

Chu Chu's voice became sweet again.

"Brother only needs Chuchu. Those wicked women who deceived him deserve to die!"

Lin Yan suddenly realized.

No wonder the mermaid suddenly manifested the power of rules from Ah Feng; perhaps it really is related to what Chu Chu said.

and……

Lin Yan suddenly remembered a detail from a live stream.

The moment the mermaid manifested the rules coincided with the moment when Ah Feng was about to be crushed by the nun's chariot.

Chu Chu's information gave Lin Yan a sense of security.

He strode to the center of the factory.

The scene before me is like a living scroll of hell.

Ah Feng was hanging upside down in mid-air by several blood-red threads. His body was pale and swollen from being soaked in sewage, and black blood was still flowing from his ears.

His mind had long since collapsed, and his limbs hung limply, as if their tendons and bones had been removed.

Around Ah Feng, three terrifying auras were locked in a fierce struggle.

A massive phantom of a water elemental floated on the left, a heavy metal chariot roared on the right, and a red dress hung upside down from the beam directly above.

As Lin Yan stepped into the factory, these three terrifying entities, capable of destroying half of Jiangcheng, all tacitly stopped their actions at the same time.

Three distinct gazes simultaneously fell upon Lin Yan.

The nun was the first to lose her composure. She looked down at Lin Yan from her high position, her voice coming from the chariot's stereo, making everyone's eardrums ache.

"I thought that rich guy in the group who was throwing money around had three heads and six arms! You think you can just barge into my territory dressed in rags? You've got some nerve!"

The nun looked Lin Yan up and down, then snorted coldly.

"But she is indeed quite good-looking. When I get tired of these junks, it wouldn't be bad for you to DJ for me."

"Giggle~"

As soon as the nun finished speaking, a burst of laughter came from above.

A thin line of blood dangled down, gently tracing Lin Yan's face, and then lifted Lin Yan's chin.

The senior in red was still hanging upside down on the beam, saying rather plaintively:

"Sister, you're so rude. Be careful you don't scare our little brother."

The blood vessels, as if alive, wandered and probed along Lin Yan's neck.