Tonight, Alice joins the hunt.

As soon as the little monk roared, Zheng Zha's fists, wreathed in crimson flames, slashed through the muscular giant's arms like scalding knives cutting into butter, before smashing into his upper body! Blood-red flames erupted immediately, instantly reducing the formidable man to ashes!

[What terrifying power! A mere spell I casually concocted allowed me to instantly kill an enemy I would have previously struggled to defeat. I was truly wrong about you, Alice Margotrovid!]

This unexpected victory surprised Zheng Zha slightly. In that brief moment of hesitation, a scalpel stabbed down like a venomous snake. He instinctively took a deep step and froze, then used a dagger from his sleeve to block it.

The air exploded with a sonic boom due to the collision of the two sharp blades.

Just then, the voice of the Supreme God entered the minds of both teams' reincarnation members.

—The Central Continent team successfully eliminated one member of the Indian Continent team's Reincarnation team. The Central Continent team scores one point! The Indian Continent team scores one point!

Zheng Zha instinctively tilted his head, and an invisible yet tangible ripple suddenly spread around his eye sockets. He saw several steel needles imprisoned an inch in front of his eyes by the shield provided by Alice. This unexpected tracking attack should have pierced his brain.

The one who fired the steel needle was a man in a white robe. Seeing that his attack was ineffective, a hint of panic naturally appeared in his eyes. The next moment, a ball of fire exploded a foot in front of him. A transparent circular shield shattered abruptly, and the bullet grazed the man's shoulder, instantly tearing away a large chunk of flesh.

The midnight sniping attempt failed. The opposing team also had personnel capable of releasing protective gear.

Zheng Zha suddenly felt a sharp pain between his eyebrows, and then saw a white-clad woman with her eyes closed, protected by the Indian team, scream in agony as dark red blood gushed from beneath her pale eyelids. The blond man dressed as a doctor suddenly roared, his body swelling into a dark gray werewolf!

[Mental protection... Margot Royd even prepared this?]

The next moment, the little monk also spurred the giant snake, joining forces with the werewolf to pounce on him. The wolf and the snake sealed off all escape routes, and a vicious gust of wind poured down like hundreds or thousands of sharp blades!

This should have been a decisive blow that guaranteed victory, but in Zheng Zha's eyes, it conveyed a sense of desolation, like a cornered beast struggling in its death throes.

Sure enough, just as they were about to reach Zheng Zha, Zhang Jie's barrage of attacks and dozens of agile and incredibly strong Undying Tomb Guardians arrived in time, firmly sealing off this seemingly inevitable attack in front of Zheng Zha!

More tomb guards poured out of the entrance...

"How is this possible! How could your Central Continent Team be this strong!" The little monk's roar was a mixture of shock and rage. At least fifteen tomb guardians surrounded the multi-headed serpent he controlled, and in the blink of an eye, they hacked at it, blood splattering everywhere. He easily strangled and crushed two of the multi-headed serpents, but the next moment, five more tomb guardians poured out of the entrance.

How many tomb guards did Margot Royd actually control? Zheng Zha was too lazy to think about such things anymore. He only saw the second sniper bullet from Zero Strike hit the little monk in the chest, then be blocked again by a transparent barrier. Meanwhile, the other half of the Steel Needle Man and the other two Reincarnation Team members were huddled together, struggling against the siege of several tomb guards.

Is it possible to create multiple shields? Or...?

Zheng Zha only had one thought flash through his mind before he stopped thinking. He immediately lunged forward, cooperating with the tomb guards to launch an attack on the werewolves!

"This isn't fair! God! The Central Continent Team is clearly a newly awakened team! This isn't fair!" the little monk screamed. "God!!!"

Before the words were even finished, the two hypnotized Indian team rookies were hacked to pieces by the tomb guardians. This also brought the next hint from the main god.

—The Central Continent team successfully eliminated one of the Indian Continent team's Reincarnation members. The Central Continent team scores two points! The Indian Continent team scores two points!

—The Central Continent team successfully eliminated one of the Indian Continent team's Reincarnation members. The Central Continent team is up by three points! The Indian Continent team is down by three points!

The situation is settled.

Even in the midst of battle, Zheng Zha couldn't help but feel a sense of relief. He suddenly noticed that the bearded man in full metal armor that Alice had mentioned hadn't made any significant movements from the beginning; he had only been trembling incessantly, with countless bursts of blood and sparks erupting from his body...

The fourth score notification came soon after.

Alice withdrew her gaze. Just moments before, she had sensed the complex electrical signals constantly emanating from the Indian team member's body at close range. She then immediately confirmed the direction of the cyborg's enhancements.

Cyborgs… this kind of enhancement only works in certain special environments. Perhaps in an armory, or perhaps in some bizarre situation where ordinary people cannot move. But in any case, it absolutely does not include [in front of Alice Margotrovid].

She simply disrupted the high-speed electronic signals, and the guy died from short circuits and tissue collapse.

[I really miss the technological level of those first-generation anti-mystical forces from outsiders. They were quite difficult to deal with at first sight.]

Hmm... Is the reactor still intact? It's just a low-level fission reactor... Oh well, it's better than nothing.

Alice once equipped her two most trusted dolls with the most advanced reactors she could create. While their output was far less than the artificial star at the Underworld Temple, it was at least equivalent to the output of a typical early nuclear power plant…

"Unfortunately, even with AI, artificial intelligence is still not truly human..." Her gaze then shifted to the rear of the battlefield, to the Indian team rookie she had been targeting with ninety percent of her mental energy from the very beginning. Although she didn't know why she had only adopted passive mental defenses from the start instead of actively retaliating, the deduction from the Supreme God was undeniable.

[Very well, let's first reduce its wings, and then face it head-on.]

Alice thought to herself.

However, in the next moment, the Indiana team rookie's form shattered like a mirror.

She wasn't there in the first place!

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Give Up, You Can't Compare to Me in Beauty

Xiao Honglu possesses an extraordinary talent, likely due to some kind of congenital overdevelopment of his nervous system. His thinking ability far surpasses that of ordinary people; he can often discern trends in changing situations from subtle details, thus enabling him to plan and respond in advance.

He had already revealed part of this ability, but in reality, he had kept another part hidden. That was another symptom caused by the overdevelopment of his brain nerves—he could sense the signs of a person's death.

Like a layer of black smoke shrouding the body, Xiao Honglu could see a black aura on the dying, or those about to perish, that only he could perceive. Since he acquired this ability, the number of deaths he had witnessed through his eyes was countless. Even after arriving in the world of reincarnation, this ability still accompanied him.

[This is terrible... The deathly atmosphere is so thick I can barely see what's happening inside the room. Is the battle outside going badly?]

In his eyes, everyone present exuded an aura of death so thick it seemed they were about to be sent to the morgue. The bodies of the Americans and their servants were like damp, burning wood; it wouldn't be surprising if they died at any moment.

Xiao Honglu hated this feeling.

The failed strategy was a heavy blow to him. Although it was entirely an accident, and others wouldn't say much because of his age of twelve, Xiao Honglu knew that his status in the Zhongzhou team had begun to decline.

Higher than newcomers, lower than veterans... The overall position may not have changed, but if there is a scoring system, it will definitely be much lower than before.

[Fine, there will be other chances to salvage the situation later. But at least this time... we must seize the opportunity!]

His restless state of mind caused the tomb guards, whose command had been handed over to him, to become agitated as well.

“Hey! Friends! Relax, relax…” several Americans shouted in terror as two tomb guards 'protecting' them moved their scimitars, the rusted blades nearly slicing through their necks.

"What happened? They just went out, right?" Qi Tengyi hugged the Sun Sutra tightly. This refined-looking man, who was 1.8 meters tall and spoke with an undisguised sense of apprehension in his Northeastern accent.

"No, it's nothing." Xiao Honglu rubbed his hair and gave him an apologetic look. "I was just a little nervous."

"Ha, so you can get nervous too." Qi Teng forced a smile, but hugged the scriptures in his hands even tighter. "I thought someone as smart as you wouldn't be afraid of anything."

After they met, Zheng Zha semi-forcibly took the book from Evelyn's hands. He then handed it to Qi Teng so that he could recite the incantation at the appropriate time. The other book was hidden away in case of any accidents.

He should have taken both books with him.

Qi Teng still couldn't understand why Zheng Zha would entrust him with the two scriptures in this world after the betrayal of the newcomer who destroyed the Buddhist scriptures in the Ju-on 2 world. Based on his understanding of Zheng Zha, Zheng Zha should have hidden both scriptures in his own ring rather than entrusting them to a so-called veteran like himself, who wasn't much different from a newcomer. Because that guy was just that insecure and liked to shoulder everything himself.

So, what is the reason for this...? Is it because of trust, or something else...?

His gaze swept over the tomb guards standing beside him. A vague idea quietly surfaced in his mind.

However, at that moment, the score notification for the Central Continent team suddenly rang in his mind. And after only a moment of surprise, the score notification sounded twice more in succession.

His eyes, which had been filled with worry just seconds before, were instantly filled with joy, and Xiao Honglu, who was standing next to him, also showed an excited expression!

"We won!?" Qi Teng blurted out. If it weren't for the presence of other characters from the storyline, he would have almost said the word "God".

And in the next instant, he saw light. A pure and beautiful light.

He saw a woman dressed in white appear not far away at the other end of the corridor. Not only him, but Xiao Honglu, Zhang Heng, Qin Zhuiyu, Gao Hongliang... even O'Connor and the others, as well as the manipulated tomb guards, all saw that graceful figure.

It was a woman, a woman whose beauty defied description by any words. The instant one saw her, all the beauties, stunners, supermodels, and dream girls in everyone's memory were instantly relegated to the irretrievable trash can. The brain froze; only this one figure existed in the entire field of vision.

Her presence crushed and shattered everything around her. An unparalleled ethereal sanctity invaded the senses of every human and non-human being. Like an angel in the eyes of Christians, a bodhisattva in the hearts of Buddhists, if beauty and holiness exist in this world, then this must be her countenance.

This walking 'beauty and holiness' suddenly smiled at the crowd...

The next moment, everything went black before Qi Teng and the others' eyes. The sound of the talisman exploding and the excruciating pain piercing their foreheads and brains came in quick succession. The air was instantly filled with a strong smell of blood, and the white figure had vanished.

"Qi Tengyi!" Xiao Honglu screamed. He was the first to recover and the first to notice what had happened.

Just now, those Americans, the dozen or so local guides they hired, and even the undead tomb guards Alice entrusted to him... their heads all exploded into hundreds or thousands of pieces like smashed watermelons! Large amounts of blood gushed from their severed necks, drenching Evelyn and the others who were still in a daze!

Evelyn screamed, but fainted from extreme fear half a second later. O'Connell and Jonathan, who were beside her, appeared relatively calm, but their hands and feet were visibly trembling.

As for Zhang Heng and the other two newcomers, they had fainted from the very beginning, dark red blood trickling from their lips, nostrils, corners of their eyes, and earlobes. Although there were no points deductions, and their chests were rising and falling slightly, it was hard to say whether they could even be considered alive.

Everyone who did not carry the mental defense amulet made by Alice died, and even the tomb guardians who had already died faced a second death.

More importantly... Qi Tengyi lost the scripture he was holding in his arms. That scripture, which was closely related to the battle and even crucial to the future of the Central Continent Team.

Author's Note:

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Should we feed them something?

Chapter Twenty-Eight: RUA!

Ah, this is getting interesting. Since they chose to avoid me rather than assist the Indiana team's enemies in a direct confrontation, they must have a more important objective.

Did she find supplies? Is she confident she can defeat us without anyone's help? Or... is she the type who doesn't need teammates?

When Alice realized that the enemy before her was merely an illusion, a sense of frustration washed over her. She knew she had missed her best opportunity. All she could do now was try to mitigate the damage as much as possible.

Zheng Zha and his team are unable to defeat the remaining Indian troops on their own; they must help them clear away necessary obstacles.

Therefore... let's adopt the strategy with the least consumption...

Her fingers trembled a few times, and the puppets connected to the tomb guardians reflected a dim, flowing light.

"Zheng Zha, back up. It's going to explode."

Alice's whispers converged into a directional microcurrent, precisely projecting onto the right auditory nerve of a muscle warrior four milliseconds later.

"What?" Zheng Zha instinctively took a defensive stance. He and two tomb guardians had just worked together to suppress the Indian team's werewolf and successfully severed one of its arms. "What did you say, an explosion?"

His body reacted before his actions; with his genetic lock unlocked, his internal energy strengthened and operated autonomously, forming a colorless, flexible protective shield around his body.

The explosion occurred one millisecond later.

Alice detonated ninety percent of the Tomb Guardians surrounding the Indiana team's Reincarnation members. She transformed the curse that kept these undead creatures running into a blade aimed at the living in the surrounding area. Zheng Zha, standing closest, only saw a dark gray wind erupt from the Tomb Guardians' shells, obscuring everything in his view.

A silence.

When Zheng Zha regained his vision, he found that one of the hydra's heads had shriveled up like a piece of dead wood. The werewolf, on the other hand, looked like a hot dog thrown into an oven, with most of its body tissue turned into charcoal.

They weren't dead yet, but it was hard to say how much longer they would live. Meanwhile, the man with the steel needles and the others lay motionless on the ground, two of them gradually turning into the withered appearance of tomb guards.

The score notification from the main god then appeared.

"Margot Lloyd! You almost killed me too!" Zheng Zha roared, brandishing his fist in a show of defiance.

However, in his temporary life vision, the humanoid blob representing Alice had left the tomb entrance and was moving at high speed into the tomb.

"They're handed over to you. Try to keep one alive."

Hey! Can't you just be straightforward?!

Zheng Zha turned around angrily and continued to deal with the wolves and snakes that weren't quite dead yet. Behind him, Zhang Jie and Zero Point's barrage of comments continued unabated.

"Fine... I'll settle the score with you later." He roared, mustered his strength, and charged at the enemies again.